Resting In God In 2021

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This is the Truth Network Podcast. On Finishing Well, we help you make godly choices about Medicare, long-term care. Resting in God in 2021. I'm thinking it's far from sleeping. So, yes, today's show is Resting in God in 2021, and my guess is it's far from sleeping.

So, you may wonder, Bob, you know, we have Bob Young, my dear friend, with me this morning to help us think about 2021. So, I love that song by Beyoncé, I Feel Your Halo. I just, I can't help but wonder if, you know, it's sung by Beyoncé, but it was written by Ryan Tedder, Evan Bogart, and Beyoncé, they all three wrote it.

And so, I wonder if they know what they wrote. Because when it says, I know you're my saving grace, you know, that just sounds a lot like Jesus to me, you know? And if you listen to the song from that perspective, you're just going to go, wow, like double out. Do you get a sense of that, Bob?

Well, I'm not sure. I don't know the guy that wrote it, and I don't know if he wrote it as a Christian song, but it sure transfers very well. Well, I think that's the beautiful thing about human love, is it's a picture of God's love. And so, what they're trying to explain is something that really I hope they've had a chance to experience.

But the way I see it, I'm just really hoping and praying that you're like me, that yesterday, right, you had a chance to be with friends and family. And if you can picture with me for a minute, Moses, okay? Now, Moses knew God, because he'd seen him in the burning bush, and he'd had that experience. Because it says, if you look closely there, when Moses talked to the burning bush, that there was the angel, the Lord was in that bush. So he not only knew the fire, he knew the bush. So when the mountain was on fire, when they came into Sinai, right? So here's this fire on the mountain, it's on the top of the mountains.

It is the Shekinah glory, right? And they see this. And they're— Pretty scary stuff. They're scared, but Moses isn't. But there's a cloud that Moses goes through on the way to get to the Shekinah. And so what a cool thing it is that Moses is surrounded by this cloud on his way up to the Shekinah. And so I'm hoping that yesterday you felt this at some point in time, and you had some sense of this cloud of God's love surrounded by the people that you loved the most. Or I hope at least maybe it was virtual. I don't know how it happened, but in my case I was very, very—I felt like I was possibly the luckiest man in the world, because I had all my grandkids, which was really, really cool, right there with me. But with them were my children, and we were just having this experience. So my youngest daughter, Mariah—I have to tell you this story, and by the way, this video's available if you go to ChristianCarGuy.com.

You can see it. It's titled by this, Resting in God in 2021. So this video has everything to do with today's subject. So here is my daughter Mariah. She's 21. She is buying her nephews, which, you know, Cash is four, and Leo is just—yeah, he's two, but—or Cash is really going to be four in a matter of months. So Cash is on his knees now in the video, but what happened is Mariah bought them a set of boxing gloves and these masks. And so Leo, the younger one, has this mask that looks like the Incredible Hulk, and he felt like he was the Incredible Hulk when he put that mask on, and he's got the blue boxing gloves. Now, my older grandson Cash—which these are Dilmores, and so fighting's in our blood, I'm just saying—he's got the red gloves, and he's got the Spider-Man mask, right? So this isn't 20 seconds after the—you know, it's not like they've had these for a couple hours now. This is like, you know, Robbie, my son, put them on their hands. And immediately he said, oh, this is brilliant because, man, I'm so sick of them using their fists that this is going to be a lot safer. So the second he put them on their hands, Cash is down on his knees, and Leo hulks out, and he comes over, just plummets. I mean, there's a couple really good shots that he gets on Cash. There was not much of an exchange.

It was more of a receiving. So again, you can go to christiancarguy.com and see. It's called The Battle of the Century. It's also on YouTube.

I post it on my channel. But anyway, the idea there is that, you know, Cash is a lot bigger and a lot stronger than his brother. But he wasn't the Hulk. He wasn't the Hulk. And when he was on his knees, you know, he thought he could do this resting, okay?

Well, 2021, as I'm just telling you, you're going to have to stand up. I don't have the after video. After I said to Cash, I said, Cash, I think you might be better off if you stand up, you know, because you're taking an awful beating over here.

And yeah, as soon as he stood up, it was no contest, because Cash has the longer arms and whatever. But when Leo was giving it to him when he was on his knees, it was a picture of what we're talking about. But for me, I was in that cloud, Bob. I was in the cloud of, like, how fun is all this? To have, you know, the laughing and all the stuff. And I can see through the other videos of the thing, you can see the look on my face. I don't know, you know, that was just, I was delighting in all that I'm sure that God was delighting in. So the question is, how about you? Where were you in the cloud, right?

In the cloud of the Shekinah glory, right? And it's a really, really beautiful thing, Bob. We were both, excuse me, we were lucky enough to have both of our sons spend the night. And they woke up at the house and all three dogs were at the house and both of our living sons were there. And we got to do the old-fashioned, just the tight, you know, family group. And it was such a blessing to have everybody there and we opened up presents and we, you know, had dogs running around and just, it was just a great thing. I mean, everything had been kind of downsized this year. We usually have 60 people at the house, Christmas, Christmas Eve, and Thanksgiving both.

And I used to complain about that a little bit. Oh Lord, we got 60 people coming. I got to cook and we got, you know, the Lord's got to cook and I got to do this and I got to get ready and set up tables and set up chairs. But I really, really, really missed the chaos and the kids and everybody getting together and so forth to finish up yesterday morning with all of, you know, us four right there.

It was just a great experience. And one other moment during the week, we have these Christmas cookies. I wish I had brought you some. I just slipped my mind. But, excuse me, Lori, Jeremy, and I went in the kitchen and we rolled out the cookies. Lori rolled the cookies. Jeremy rolled them into sugar and placed them in the pan. And I'm the, I'm the it's done guy.

Oh really? You put the finishing touch. The finishing touch.

Because if you overdo it, it gets a little chewy and if you underdo it, they're a little doughy. So there's a very fine line of perfection. And they got to be perfect, you know. But these are cookies that my mom made with me and my brothers. The lady that kept me when I was two years old, they were named after her.

Her name was Annie Walker in Keene, North Carolina. And she made those cookies so they were called Annie cookies. And they were just a part of her life. And that was a big thing just for us three, you know, because I'd made them with mom. Me and Robin made them together.

Lori and I've made them since we've been together. And for to have one of the boys in there working with us on the cookies, that kind of brought it full circle for me too. Now I know that you've experienced that cloud. And you got to share it because we're delighted to hear how God's cloud of love is on that mountain for you. You had a chance to climb up a little bit yesterday. What did that feel like?

We would love to for your call 866-348-7884. We're gonna have that and so much more climbing a mountain when we come back. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Resting in God in 2021 is far from sleeping, I can tell you. So what, you know, again, with that idea of the cloud of the Shekinah glory that was on the mountain, you know, you're surrounded. You're absolutely surrounded by love in so many different ways. And the thing I was just really, really experiencing last night when the festivities had ended is like, man, how lucky am I just to just to have the friends that because, you know, we had Bob and Jerry and I had a party last week on the and I had a party with the masculine journey. Guys and all these different people God just put in my life and we just we just celebrated this year.

Like, I just feel like, man, I was surrounded by God's love. So, you know, in in in the book of I think it's John 14. Anyway, you know, the vine and the branches, Jesus says very clearly, you're supposed to abide with me. Right. And that's a really clear statement. You would think, but I've always wondered, what is exactly what does that mean to abide? So you're supposed to, you know, take your habitation with him and I get that. So what does that exactly feel like and what's going on with that?

And so as I was looking towards 2021, you know, clearly, I'm sure you're like me that you would like to abide. Well, very interestingly, that word. In Hebrew, the Shekinah, not kidding you. Wow. Now, the glory is a different word, which has to do with the fire, but the Shekinah is to rest. Right.

It's to just. Rest. And so it's an interesting thing that Moses went up the mountain. And he was at rest while all the rest of the people were terrified. Right. And so whether you know it or not, you if you're a Christian and you believe in Christ, you have that Shekinah glory, that place you meet with God.

It's in your heart. Believe it or not, you scare the dickens out of people a lot of times when they see you resting in a place of tremendous fear. It scares them. They weren't scared of those. You know, they didn't make the golden calf for nothing after he went up there for 40 days. They were scared. Right.

They felt this disconnected, huh? Right. But, you know, Moses was up there for 40 days and 40 nights without any food or water. Now, I don't know about you, but I've always heard you can't live but like two weeks for that water.

So perhaps he had living water just saying. So I was thinking about it this morning. How many times would you say that Moses fasted for 40 days and 40 nights? You surprised me this morning when you shared that. God shocked me.

I didn't see this one coming. I just did a little search to buy 40 days and 40 nights and they were all started coming up. What Moses? Dude, man, you are like the king of fasting. Just so you'll know, if you take a quick reading of Deuteronomy 9 and 10, Moses goes on to show you he did it four times. Four times he went 40 days and 40 nights. And to give you the quick review, obviously the first time that we know about when he went up to the Shekinah, right?

Seemed like once would have been enough. Yeah, well, he got the Ten Commandments, but when he came down the mountain, shenanigans, right? So he busted those babies. And right after that was his next go-round at 40 days and 40 nights, trying to keep God from killing the people. So he fasted again, like ka-ching, 40 days and 40 nights.

And then again, the shenanigans at Meribah, you might remember that they tested the Lord and all that stuff. 40 days and 40 nights again for Moses. But my favorite of his 40-day and 40-night fasts, that he was resting in God.

Have you ever had a 40-day prayer? I mean, just think about this with me a minute. So my favorite one is when he actually asked God, can I see your face? And the way that that story goes, if you look at it closely—and I've read it, I don't know how many times, I could read it another, I don't know how many times, because it's so cool, because Moses is the guy that got put in the cleft in the rock, and you know the Lord went by him. But if you look closely, before the Lord walks by him, something really, really cool happens.

That the Lord descended in a cloud. Okay? Now, you may know that when he comes back again, you know where he's coming in? He's coming in a cloud. Okay?

Yes. And so Moses saw this, man. I mean, he was the guy that wasn't afraid, went up the mountain, wanted to see this, and the Lord comes down right now.

He's in for another 40 days and 40 nights. Do you think he would say that was a blast? To be surrounded by—like, I just take what I had yesterday and multiply that by, like, oh my goodness, do you think Jesus felt his halo? I mean, do you think Moses felt Jesus' halo? Do you think he could tell it was his saving grace? You know, can you just imagine?

I'm just blown away by this. And so here he is on his fourth fast. Now, he got something on his first fast. You know, he got to save the—to get the Ten Commandments. On the second one, he got to save the Israelites, and on the third one, he got to save the Israelites. But the fourth one, God gave him the whole shebang. But he gave him as much as Moses could take, because he couldn't see his face and live. So I never knew there was—he fasted but once. I didn't either.

I can't wrap my head around the other three. Seems like after one time, it would have—I don't know. It must have been a great experience for him to go back. But once again, I posted all this at my website. Deuteronomy 9-9 and 9-11 are the first time. Deuteronomy 9-18 is the second time. Deuteronomy 9-25 is the third time. And Deuteronomy 10-10 is the fourth time.

And so—and Moses is telling his story. Like, you hard-headed rascals. Like, look what you've put me through. Now, you may be surrounded by hard-headed rascals.

I don't know if you're like Moses, but there's a few stiff-necked people out there in all sorts of different walks of life that I think could use our prayers. I'm just saying. And I don't know about you, but based on my food intake over the holidays—now, I'm not talking about 40 days a night. Maybe I could work up to it. I don't know.

But I know one thing. I'm having trouble with four hours. So how about if you felt some halo this Christmas? I can't believe nobody's calling. This has been a fun time. I'm so glad you're listening. But we want to hear your story, your ideas.

Maybe you've tried fasting for three weeks. I'd love to hear. So that's, by the way, it's almost five—yeah, it's a long time, four-and-a-half-week vacation. We'll be right back.

You're listening to The Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Resting in God in 2021. And when I hear that, I hope it doesn't fade away. I can always remember that when Moses came down from the mountain that time, you may recall, that last time, after he saw the presence of the Lord, they had to mask his face because it had such a glow, right? Because he'd been with God like that.

But in Moses' case, they put the mask on because he didn't want everybody to know it was fading because he hasn't spent that 40 days, however that worked. Well, the times in my life that I felt the most surrounded by God and the most of his presence was my times of really, really bad times. And he was always there. And that's the time I felt the most surrounded in my life. I had high moments and stuff since then, but just in the really, really, really tough times when I had nothing else, he was there. He held me up and dragged me through, stood me up and gave me strength that I didn't know I had. And that's the times that really ring true for me where he was just there and I was in that halo. Yeah, you can feel it.

You can certainly feel it. Well, I need to tell you that coming at one o'clock, we have Amy Cabo and her show, The Cure. It's on one o'clock Eastern time for those who are Truth Network affiliates at Curiot. It's going to be one o'clock Eastern time for their show. And she is going to be doing a show on her own Christmas experience, missions, things that she's been thinking.

And according to her husband, Boris, it's going to be quite the show. So you don't want to miss that. It's a chance to call into another live show on the Truth Network today at one. But as you think about Moses, right, that in order for him to have the experience he had, he couldn't stay down like my grandson Cash. He had to stand up.

He had to walk up the mountain. You know, he had to get to higher ground, which is Cash's problem. So I had a request from my wonderful, wonderful producer that we would play the audio of Cash and Leo duking it out. So here we're going to we're going to try this off the YouTube video that's posted at ChristianCarguy.com. So, yeah, that was a similarity in the person that you heard laughing the loudest, by the way, would be the one who gave him the boxing.

It's very, very funny if you get a chance to see it. And I didn't realize that that it was protective gear there. That's exactly what it was.

It wasn't so many ways in the mask and all that stuff. But we have a caller. We're going to share their cloud experience. We have an alt from.

Wow, Christian Carguy Theater. How fun. Happy New Year, Anne.

Happy New Year nearly for you guys. This has been so much fun listening to you and your experiences. And I've had a lot of those in the past, too.

But Cash and Leo must have been such a riot. But I just it reminded me of the time where I was actually a working actress after I'd given my life to the Lord in New York City in 1974, making a lot of commercials and moved to L.A. And I just thought God told me at the beginning to put me to have a 40 day juice fast. And I was it was an amazing experience. And I have a funny feeling he started telling me to do that this year, too, at the beginning of the year. So it's so interesting that you're talking about this morning. But I was so diligent to do this juice fast and I was reading Chronicles of Narnia. He had me read the whole seven book, you know, at that time. But on day 27, day 27, I got a Duncan Hine Blueberry Muffin commercial. And I was on the set and, you know, doing a Duncan Hine Blueberry Muffin commercial. And I ate everything that wasn't tied down. I mean, I was just gluttonous.

And you know, not to mention the muffin. And I felt so guilty. And I went to this great restaurant that night called Good Earth. And I was just so guilty. And there was a pastor there and some of his friends. And I confessed what I had done.

And he said, Ann, just start again tomorrow. And and I did, you know, and it was I finished the 40 day fast. But God's sense of humor, you know, but it was it was incredible. And I've been thinking, you know, not that I need to lose weight after this move, but I really want to I really want to seek God. I really want power prayers. And there were power prayers and power answers after that 40 day fast. So this is kind of a confirmation for me, too. Yeah, it's it's an amazing thing, Bob. And Ann both.

Yeah. Well, I need it today. Today, in 1993, the day after Christmas, my mom passed. And seven years ago today is the day that Rob did the show with you, my son. And two weeks later, he passed. So I've got some emotions I'm dwelling on today.

And I need to find that clown and and get submerged myself in it because I mean, I know he's there for me and he'll get me through the day. But I'm just feeling some stuff today. Yeah, I would think I did not know your mother passed away on the day after Christmas. After Christmas in 93.

A long time ago. But, you know, I try not to dwell on it, but I've just been eaten up today a little bit. And and, you know, it's my adversity.

And that's when God usually comes through and finds me and dust me off and stands me up and, you know, puts a microphone in front of me and gives me a chance to stand up and be strong. So many people had the great Christmas and and and they've always had great Christmases. But there's some there's some adversity in in most most people's life somewhere around Christmas time. And it's just it's good to be in here right now with Robbie. Oh, yeah.

The year that everybody's had, you know, and not able to surround themselves as completely as they usually do. I think that's a great, great, great, great point, Bob. And that, you know, maybe you're feeling something like Bob's feeling. Right. And and it does feel good to share with people that, you know, care about what you just said.

And so if you feel like calling us on that 866-348-7884, because I thought about that when I thought about the topic of the show. For a lot of people, I remember my first Christmas without my mom. I remember it.

My first Christmas without my dad, which was last year, actually. And and there are there are empty seats at the table. Yes, sir. But the good news is we won't be long and we'll be the table can be full. We'll see him again someday. Very quickly, probably.

And that's where I got the biggest part of my strength from is knowing as fast as everything is going. And and, you know, it won't be no time. We'll all be back together again and without covid and without things standing in our way. And and and God setting the table for us, you know, it's it's without the mask, without the mask. It's so applicable, though, because, you know, Moses had to wear a mask because the glory was fading. We all have masks on. We see through a mirror dimly. And so, you know, how cool is it that, you know, he gives us these glimpses, just a little peek behind the curtain, whatever that may look like in your life, you know, just for brief moments like Moses didn't spend all his time on the mountain. A lot of times he had serious shenanigans.

He was, you know, but he did he did climate those four times. So thank you. And God bless. I appreciate you calling in and sharing this.

Yeah, it's our last show at this year. So we thought we'd we'd we'd talk about that. Thanks. Thanks, Anne. Thank you, guys. Love you. You've got to do a poem now on clouds, you know, because that's what I thought was coming.

I think I have one. OK. Buried away. Thanks, Anne. God bless.

Bye bye. So I think that's really cool that Moses got to see Jesus descending on a cloud. And I really, really. Have you ever driven through a cloud? Oh, yeah. We used to ride the chairlift up at the ski slopes and sometimes it'd be raining at the bottom. And then all of a sudden you pop up out of the cloud, the sun shining up there. That's a that's a pretty amazing thing to experience. We took Sam Main's son on a sort of a on his 17th birthday, a pilot mountain.

And I've never you thought you're on another planet because it was all below that. But we've got other calls and we're going to have some fun. We're going to talk about the Jesus labor love a little bit. So stay tuned. We've got so much more Christian Car Guys show coming up. We need your call. Eight, six, six, three, four, eight, seven, eight, eight, four.

You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Resting in God in 2021. It's far from sleeping. You've got to stand up and walk up the mountain, right?

You've got to get to higher ground. And so, I mean, very fun. We got some calls. Bob, I'm very excited to hear, you know, about their story. So we got Angela is in Burlington. Good morning, Angela. Oh, we lost Angela.

So we have Sarah Linda is in Washington. Good morning, Sarah Linda. Good morning. And what a happy 12 days of Christmas and a happy new year ahead of us.

Yes. And I, I went through an operation on my eyelids. Just a couple weeks ago, so that I could see higher. My, my, I, I'm still quite, I'm quite bent over.

You know that that old chassis of mine is very slow and very, I have to be careful. But I, this year, it started with 20, it was 2020. And, you know, this is the time when we have, we have to look and see that it was John 2020. Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord, because they looked on, He showed them, He showed, the Lord showed them His hands and His side, because He had won the victory.

And this is what we are to see this and this past year. And that cloud is that you're speaking of the cloud of witnesses, I was starting to write about that. But we see that and understand that the cloud is a cloud of witnesses that are stored in God's special arc within the safety of His grace toward the day that we shall embark, we will embark into the full day of God's new creation. We have that promise and seeing that He has won the victory. And though we have lost, not we have not lost, they have just are in the cloud. They've gone, you know, up the stairs into the cloud and they're, they're stored there and we shall be there, all of us, at one time. I may be quite soon, who knows, but in the, or in the twinkling of an eye, but it is the, it is God's victory that we should, and God has been showing us all through this year that His blessings are with us, that He has won the victory.

Yes, He has. Amen. Amen. Wonderful.

Yes. And that's really encouraging for all of us who, you know, are excited about that cloud of witnesses. Thank you, Sarah Linda. God bless.

You have a happy new year. Amen. And in our spirit and soul, we have the whole new creation as Christ is in us, the hope of glory. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless. Bye-bye. God bless.

All right. I need to tell you that, you know, with the Jesus labor of love, we would, you know, it's that time of year where we get like a lot of needs. I mean, I don't know how to put it other than that, but you know, it probably triples in the amount of applications that we get this time of year. And fortunately, you know, interestingly, God provides, as always, in all sorts of different ways, ways that never cease to amaze me. But we just need to share, you know, that we need your prayers, that God would meet these. And however He chooses to do that, sometimes He does that through people who volunteer, give away cars.

Some people volunteer services, some people send money, some people just make the way for other people to meet the need. However it comes, you know, we just obviously want Jesus to get the glory for that. And of course, that's all there at ChristianCarGuy.com. And we got Angela calling in, so we want to get to her. Angela is called back. So hopefully you're with us this time, Angela.

Yes, sir, I am. Well, what you got for us? Well, this Christmas has been really rough. This year marks the 20th year since my dad passed away. And then of course, you know, my mom passed away in 2018. And I've just really been thinking about my parents, both of my parents, a lot. And it's been hard.

I've missed them so much. And my cousin's father passed away in July. And so it's really been rough for her. Her husband, one of her husband's coworkers tested positive for COVID. So he had to go into quarantine last week. And she didn't even get to spend Christmas with her husband.

And I know that's been rough for her. But now, a little bit on the lighter side, I've been contemplating three holidays that need to be celebrated 365 days a year. They are Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. And for the next few minutes, I'd like to celebrate Thanksgiving.

I'm very thankful to the Lord for the Ministry of the Truth Network. And to Robbie and Bob in particular. A happy memory I have of my mom was when you had the car name generator. And I called in and described my mom's car. And the car name generator said her car should be named Betty. But Bob, you said you felt Iris was a better name for my mom's car. And so we had fun with the both names. And so we decided to call the car Iris Betty.

Compromise. That was a happy memory. And Bob, you said just a few minutes ago, God's setting the table for us. Yes, ma'am.

And then Robbie, you said without the masks. And I thought, oh, hallelujah. What a day that's going to be. And so thanks for the encouragement. Thank you. Thank you, Angela. We appreciate it so much. And we've got a happy memory we're going to play.

I'll leave you on the line. Because Beth Ann found that few minutes with Rob, a little longer version. And hopefully, go ahead and play it, Beth Ann, if you can. And when I look at my young Christian junkyard guy, Rob Young, he wows me. Because I know how God's worked in his life. And if you take a minute, that's about all we got, Rob, and share what God's been doing in your life. Well, I would say the other day I was hauling a car down 421 South. And the truck I was in started, the turbo went bad in it. So here I am broke down on the side of the road. I just picked up my first car. There was a lot of people waiting on me to get where I was going. And my trucks broke down. There's clouds of smoke.

Two fire engines are out there. And it's just this really big scene. And really, it reminded me of my life before my coming to Christ, how big of a wreck everything was. And I never really was able to accept God's will for my life. But once I came to know Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and accepted God's will for my life, I have been blessed with being able to acknowledge these beautiful things. And the trees are clapping and the mountains are singing, that is for sure. Yeah, it's just like that in our own life. As Jesus is put in there as the capstone, we begin to see things that just we've missed it before. This is the Truth Network.