Psalm 73:25-26

Whom have I in heaven but You?

And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.

My flesh and my heart fail;

But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

In this episode, I will share the true story of how the episode scheduled for last week ended up in podcast prison. It’s true, it was pulled by the “authorities” hours before it was to be released. I’ll tell you all about it.

I will also read a Psalm written by Asaph. Learning about him made these words even more meaningful to me. I hope the same for you.

I will read and sing from:

Psalm 73

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Psalm 61:3-4 

For You have been a shelter for me,

A strong tower from the enemy.

I will abide in Your tabernacle forever;

I will trust in the shelter of Your wings.

What do we do when things are out of our control? Whether health issues, finances, circumstances in the lives of those we love, or people who are hard to love, we all face things outside of our control.

And what do we do with what is happening in the world, with the violence, victims, and uncertainty? We grieve, we intercede, and still we trust. 

In this episode, we will look at the wingspan of God as a reminder of Who our trust is in through it all. 

"I will trust in the shelter of Your wings."

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Ephesians 1:3

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.

I read this verse in multiple versions and three words stayed the same: “every spiritual blessing.”

In this episode, I will share a real-time quest to find spiritual blessings in the midst of a very loud morning here in my corner of earth. The crashing and scraping outside my window made the perfect metaphor for my often very loud thoughts, so I recorded it for you. You may be tempted to grab your hard hat. 

I will read to you from:

Psalm 19:1-14

Psalm 8:3-9

2 Corinthians 4:16 - 5:1

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Ephesians 3:18-19 

And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

This is the last episode in the "We Take Our Turns" series. 

You can’t always trust the diagnosis, the twists and turns of health, or the health of loved ones. There will be rain when the forecast is sunny, and there will be sunshine when the forecast is cloudy.

If I can boil down the hope from these pages, thoughts and verses, it is that you would trust His Heart at every turn. All the way to the day when every tear will be wiped away. 

I will close this episode and series with a song called “Heaven” from Revelation 21:1-4.

Thank you for listening along! 

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The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, 

“Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 

John 1:29  

In the last episode, I shared a real-life story of how I learned to come to the cross. There, even in the face of condemnation and shame, I found a place of refuge and acceptance.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized there was a backstory to this story.

In this episode, I’ll let you know part-one and how Pastor Jon Courson painted a verbal scene that made a thousand lights flip on for me. I am hoping those lights will spark for you too.

This verbal scene helped me see the Lamb of God in a new way. Still to this day, when I think of Jesus as the Lamb of God, my attention is arrested.

I will end with a song about the greatest Love your human heart will ever know. 

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There is therefore now no condemnation 

for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:1 

The voice of the accuser isn’t polite and shows no pity. Often the “evening wolves” visit when we are most vulnerable. 

In this episode, I will share a real-life story of how I was helped during nighttimes of ongoing condemnation and shame. The help I learned has stayed with me and is a weapon when fear, doubt, and shame try to invade — and they do try. 

What are evening wolves? You will have to listen. Charles Spurgeon gave me new language for these unwelcome beasts. 

Condemnation tricks us into thinking the remedy has to do with us. Good news awaits. 

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Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

We were created so the scent of a pine tree or the song of a bird can transport us back to a place, a truth or a feeling. 

Jesus said, “Look at the birds” so when we do, we might remember how much He values us. Jesus said, “Do this in remembrance of Me” so when we see the bread and the cup, we would remember Him with affection. 

In this episode, you will hear how the scent of ripe blackberries connected my friend back to her mother’s beautiful heart. What a treasure God gave us, that sights, sounds and scents can remind us of those we love.

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A friend loves at all times.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV

He isn’t always in the quick rescue. 

Instead, like the deepest of friends, 

He gets soaked in the storm with you. 

In this episode, I will look at God as the Friend Who loves at all times.

He braves the storm with us. He draws near when our heart breaks. Even when we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we can fear no evil. He is with us. 

He meets us in the hardest of times and quiets our fear. Yet, we will fear again and He will find us again, because He never left us in the first place. We still feel all the emotions, but deep inside we can trust He is there — at all times. 

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Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the LORD with all your heart,

and do not lean on your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge him,

and he will make straight your paths.

LEAN: In its simplest meaning, it refers to leaning on things for support.

Matthew Henry wrote-

We must trust in the Lord with all our hearts, believing he is able and wise to do what is best. Those who know themselves, find their own understandings a broken reed, which, if they lean upon, will fail.

It’s not so much that we fail, it’s that our own understanding fails us — like a broken reed can’t hold us up.

In this episode, I confess I leaned too hard on a thing (again) and fell right down with it. Don’t worry, I was also picked up (again). 

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Ephesians 3:17 TLB

And I pray that Christ will be 

more and more at home in your hearts, 

living within you as you trust in him. 

May your roots go down deep 

into the soil of God’s marvelous love

I was eighteen when I asked Jesus into my wreck of a heart. And He didn’t hesitate.

(I tell the story in episode 86, "Two Birthdays") 

He still doesn’t hesitate when we welcome Him into any part of our lives. Even the most messy parts. It glorifies Him when He does for us what we can’t do for ourselves. 

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