Flight Training Podcast

06 Gloves from God

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Special Thanks for This Episode:

Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline, 1998

Richard Foster, Freedom of Simplicity, 1981

Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®. Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Music used under Creative Commons. Something Elated by Broke For Free. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Something_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Something_EP_-_05_Something_Elated

This Episode Show Notes

Episode 06

What’s something on your mind that you need? Probably assuming you will buy it?

Matthew 7:7-11

7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

Here’s what Richard Foster talks about trying for one week in his book Freedom of Simplicity…

So the challenge is to:

  • Pick something you planned on purchasing
  • Pray for it for a week
  • If at the end of the week you haven’t received it, consider if you need it. If so, purchase it.
  • If you receive it, then give the money you would have spent to the poor.

    • A word of caution, this is not a test of God:

    Matthew 4:7

    Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.”

    The yes or no does not prove God, but it should have an effect on you:

    • Slow down impulse buy.
    • Open door for God to provide
    • If we do not receive it, leads to some good reflections
    • If we do receive it, overflow with thankfulness and a new perspective on our Provider

      • >>If you think, ‘I don’t have anything I need to purchase.’ You can take an ulterior challenge of giving away five things to five individuals.

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