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Let us get back to stewarding our platforms for His glory.

2 Timothy 1:14 it says, “by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.”  In this podcast, we will cover all of the things God has entrusted us with as christians and how to stay focused on what matters most by guarding those good deposits and stewarding them well with the power of the Holy Spirit and through sanctification all for the Glory of His Kingdom. This is the Entrusted By Him Podcast. 

I am your host Courtney Centers, I am a daughter to the King, a wife to my best friend and a mother to the most precious boys, and I am so glad you are here friend. 

Did you know we all have platforms? They are given to us from the Lord, we are called to steward them through Him with the power of the Holy Spirit then for Him & His kingdom, not ours. We aren’t given entrustments from Him to steward on our own, we are called to steward them with the help of the Holy Spirit and guard them from the stain on the world the enemy tries to devour us with. Let us guard these good deposits by letting the Holy Spirit lead and intervene all while keeping our eyes on eternity for the perfect plan of His kingdom. Let us pray together for everyones desires & stewardship in their entrustments to align with His heart, let sanctification take it’s place, and to steward their platforms for His glory.

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Waiting on the Lord when he tells us to “Be Still” can be very challenging for us as we are naturally sinners and want to not be patient and gentle in the waiting. 
We need to have the “Lord, Here I am, and I am quiet” attitude in the abiding of the Lord, because he is sovereign and ultimately the one in control. We need to have a Psalm 46:10 attitude. His eternal plan for the world and his children is SO RICH, that when we choose to not be patient in the due time, we tend to take matters in our own hands because we are in a rush to get what we want, we forget to slow down and see the entrustments in front of us that were supposed to be tended to along the way. 

We were never called to hustle in the things God created us for, but we were called to obey in the things God created us for. He even calls us to wait in the gifts he places in our lives.

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I really felt God calling me to talk on this topic from a different angle this week - cause here is the thing we can be called to be teachers or shepherds but we are also called to be students and I never want anyone listening to this podcast and think I have arrived … cause there's no way - no one has. So with that being said this episode is going to be a little harder to talk about - but I know God’s plan is so much richer and fuller than my own. 

As I mentioned in the last episode I was studying the book of Jonah - we are talking all about faith in this episode - WHEN THINGS GET REAL, IS YOUR FAITH REAL? 

In the book of Matthew there is a cross reference to the Book of Jonah - 

Matthew 8:26-

He said to them, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith? ”  He is asking “Why do you doubt God’s power, God’s sovereignty” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

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BIBLE VERSES MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE ON surrender:

1 Peter 5:6-10

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

John 15:1-7 

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. …

Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Jesus is ENOUGH, He has always been enough, and he always will be enough. So in that we can rest and surrender everything to him. 

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Discernment is a Gift that we are entrusted with as christians. 

What does “being entrusted” really mean? You are a manager of something God has gifted you with. SO, as a result of being a christian we have been given the gift of discerning God’s voice. How we retain the discernment and what we do with what has been discerned matters now and it matters for ETERNITY. 

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

2 Timothy 2:7

Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

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“Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.”

—C.H. Spurgeon

"You can't live off of yesterday's water"
—Gretchen Saffles 
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Salvation in Christianity, or deliverance or redemption, is the "saving [of] human beings from death and separation from God" by Christ's death and resurrection. 

In Acts 16:31 it says: 

They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”

In Acts 4:12 it says: 

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.

So we see what a gift our salvation is, we talked about in the last episode the gift of the gospel….well the gospel is what led us to this gift of salvation. It can be put in simpler terms ….The bottom line is that Jesus did for us something that we could never do for ourselves.  — “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast.” (Eph. 2:8-9)

Something else we have to remember is because this was a gift given to us by God, it is now an opportunity for a relationship with him. To know him intimately. A relationship to grow, build, and receive the ability of discernment. How do we do this? How do we grow and build a relationship with the Lord? In practical terms, time, effort, an abiding attitude, submission, surrender, faith, ultimately trusting him, putting him OVER every single thing & person, studying his word is how you will get to know his character, his love for you, his will for you but not just for you but for the ultimate plan of His kingdom. Will you understand everything? NO, but you can in James he tells us we can ask for Wisdom for the glory of the Lord, not just for our own personal gain in knowledge. We are called to be women of God, and that means falling so in love with Him that we know his word inside and out. THAT IS NURTURING our salvation. 

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WHAT IS THE GOSPEL? - The word Gospel means “Good News” 

The gospel is profound but simple. The Gospel is the telling of our brokenness (Genesis 3) through our sins and God’s goodness and mercy, and this gracious gift he gives through his only son, Jesus that results in an “in awe” response. We are saved by grace only through faith and that means rest in that and in the grave Jesus Christ showed us on the Cross when he was crucified for our sins so that we could have a relationship with God. 

Ephesians 2:8-10 - who we are is this

Notes here - We have all sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God - Romans 3:23 and for this the wages of our sin is death as it says in Romans 6:23 

And so with the sin from the beginning and then the fall, God wanted to buy us back away from the death of sin and so he sent his ONLY son to live here on earth a perfect life to die for us on the cross for our sins to be fully written off. He paid the bill for us. 

Jesus was tempted in every struggle like we are and he chose righteousness and chose holiness, he lived sinlessly. He was tempted but still chose to resist it all for the sake of us that we would have a relationship with God and a seat at the table of Eternal life in Heaven. 

LET'S look at Ephesians 2:8-10 this is the gift of God of Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our salvation to be possible.

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What does the Bible say about Stewardship?
According to scripture, God created Earth for mankind and we are now stewards of His creation. This means it is our responsibility to look after and take care of this world. We should accept this responsibility and appreciate God's gift of creation for being our home. Our stewardship of creation involves the caretaking of the environment and animals as well as our families and communities. Charles Bugg defines stewardship in the Holman Bible Dictionary as "Utilizing and managing all resources God provides for the glory of God and the betterment of His creation."

121 - https://www.biblestudytools.com/search/?s=bibles&q=stewardship&t=niv&c=all

BIBLE VERSES MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE ON STEWARDSHIP:

1 CORINTHIANS 4:1-5

 This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. 2 Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. 3 I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. 4 My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. 5 Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.

NOTES - We are called to stewardship - everything FROM God, we are called to steward faithfully. FAITHFULLY - that means we are instructed to take this seriously - He also says we are not to compare each other in these entrustments, not to judge in our stewardship … Comparisons in these matters are pointless. So Maybe your conscience is clear, but that doesn’t prove we are right. It is the Lord himself who will examine us and decide.  we are called to not make judgments about anyone ahead of time—before the Lord returns. Because HE is the only one who can say “Well Done” 

Stewardship matters for Eternal life.

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The LORD has called us to steward the things well that he has deposited in our lives. This is EVERY good deposit God has put in your life. That is what you are entrusted with. So my hope is that we steward it well for His Glory, not for your own performance level. God isn't after our performance, but he gives us wisdom when we seek him to be entrusted well.

SOME VERSES THAT SHOW US WE ARE ENTRUSTED WITH PRECIOUS GIFTS BY GOD -

• 2 Timothy 1:13-14  
  • 13 Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 14 By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.
• Genesis 2:15
  • The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. - He gave work as a gift and called man to take care of it - that is an ENTRUSTMENT
• Romans 12:6
  • But since we have special gifts which differ in accordance with the diversified work graciously entrusted to us, if it is prophecy, let the prophet speak in exact proportion to his faith;
• Ephesians 3:2
  • assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was entrusted to me [to share with you] for your benefit;

I am praying over you guys and hoping that God has shown you at least a piece of the importance of his entrustments to us, they are all around us and you may not even know it. So I want to pray over you……. 

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Well here it is all laid out for you! PART 2! 
2018 was one of the hardest years of my life and I am so thankful to get to pour it all out right here on this podcast to show everyone how GOOD God is ALL THE TIME, through it all!
He is with us through it all all the time.

Verses referenced 2 Timothy 1:14 (from the dream where Jesus visits me in my sleep) 

I can't believe how God has used this story already and I can't wait to see all the people he touches in the future with it. I know his plan is good and I just want that for your life too. 

Depression & Anxiety are some of Satan's best friends, and we don't need them or want them hanging around, so I encourage you to seek wise counsel just like God calls us to in Proverbs.
Proverbs 11:14 says:
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

There is Hope in Jesus sister, seek him.

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