Faith to Witness 99

Here’s the gist, human. When Jesus takes the time to tell a story, he stops the general conversation to focus on an element that teaches us more about following him. When Jesus pauses to share a parable, does his pause hold something more than a little moral weight, does his focus transcend our finite understanding of, let’s say, an attribute like “justice”? Does his nature overtake our nature through his metaphorical story? Does what appears to be a simple lesson become a powerful principle that runs through our bones? An enduring principle that prompts us to spiritually grow through his nature?

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

Matthew 20:13-15

13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Join us. E184. 

Season 3 When I am Jealous of a Just God (parable of the workers in the vineyard)

Faith to Witness 99, motivating us to hear God and share the Shepherd. 

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Here’s the gist, human. When was the last time you felt the kind of sorrow that overtook your soul? A flooding sorrow that filled every crevice of your heart, a rising pressure, the suffocating weight of sadness, a tragic suffering for what has come or is about to come, a fear that engulfs your spirit, a non-negotiable reckoning within your gut, so deep, such a feeling of hopelessness, an ending, a loss, a terminal feeling in a heart that hope has vacated, a churning stomach nauseous with defeat, a thousand veins in shock, paralyzed, pumping sadness through your core, a human tragedy that only you must feel, that your spirit has completely lost its way, confusing north with south, east with west, an all-consuming fire that is frantic, breathless, spiritless. When you feel this sorrow, no matter how unending that grief-laden moment, that time is, someone had it worse. 
Someone who was bound to the cross.
Matthew 26:38
Gethsemane
38 Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

Jesus was taken up by his Heavenly Father. The intimacy with which we hold on to this promise is overwhelming. Like the sorrow in the soul of Jesus in that garden. 

It is crazy to think that in the beginning man walked with God in his garden. Then his Son, the Son of man, pleaded for a different destiny, but accepted his Father’s Will in a garden. This would be called redemption.

Join us. E183. From Sorrowed Soul to Ascended Savior (the power of grieving our sin nature to rise with Jesus)

Faith to Witness 99, motivating us to hear God and share the Shepherd. 

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Here’s the gist, human. There are countless scenes in the Bible when someone stopped and laid down a personal affirmation of God’s promise, the Messiah’s purpose, an affirmation of God’s nature, his promises. Moses. Joshua. Daniel. Martha. The woman at the well. The people Jesus healed. The apostle Paul. People who had come face to face with the truth. And proclaimed it. Affirmation of what we believe can do all kinds of things: change our direction, our minds, our decisions. In that moment when we find ourselves turning away, or choosing to sit in our own self-pride, our own pride infested self-talk, or perhaps a paralyzing spiritual stupor. As if we couldn’t remember one of God’s promises, as if we couldn’t recall one phrase that Jesus said, or muster even a mental comma to gain spiritual clarity. 

But God knows us. In all of this earthy-ness we live in, he can tame our wild will for his purpose. By leaving our self-talk trail to live within his divine determination to make his home in our mind and heart. 

Join us. E182. Spiritual Affirmations Change Your Self-Talk (the power of what God has promised us)

Faith to Witness 99, motivating us to hear God and share the Shepherd. 

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In Romans 12:2 Paul says, 

2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Faith to Witness 99 Season 3 Episode 

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Here’s the gist, human. If we spend our daily life ruled by the answers we need from God, our prayers can give in to a self-guided perspective. How lonely. We were not created to be alone. God walked with Adam and Eve in the garden. Until. 

A deep prayer life is not complicated. It is contemplative. Prayer is God’s answer before the answer before the answer. His call to come sit with him. Listen to his Word, reflect, respond, and sit in his presence. If the Word became flesh, and Jesus became our Savior then we should bring that Word into our prayer life. Imagine prayer like walking along the road to Emmaus with Jesus and the two men (believers) after he was resurrected, but before he ascended. The moments of silence when all you hear is his footsteps beside you. I want that.

Psalm 71

17 Since my youth, God, you have taught me,
  and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.
18 Even when I am old and gray,
  do not forsake me, my God,
till I declare your power to the next generation,
  your mighty acts to all who are to come.

Join us. E181. When Prayer is Sitting in God’s Presence (the silent footsteps of Jesus beside you)

Faith to Witness 99, motivating us to hear God and share the Shepherd. 

Join us. E181. 

Faith to Witness 99 Season 3 Episode 181 When Prayer is Sitting in God’s Presence (the silent footsteps of Jesus beside you)

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Here’s the gist, human. I find myself growing beyond spiritual ultimatums like “I am at peace” as if peace in God is a static condition. For me peace is a tributary of God’s nature, his spirit running through my heart. And I have to listen for it.

Moving water takes its cue from its Creator. God navigates our choices, our mental roadblocks, our psychological debris from the past, our grief, our fear of failure, our fear of anything, everything. It’s pretty clear. Rivers shape landscapes. This is why God turns our attention to it. So we can more deeply understand how he moves. 

John 7:38

38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.

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Faith to Witness 99 Season 3 Episode 180 Is God’s Peace Running Through You? (peace like a river kind of thing)

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