What Scripture Has Come Alive In Your Life?

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What scripture has come alive in your life? I love this. I mean, you didn't just read it. You lived it. Like I It's exactly what it said.

It came alive in this situation where I desperately needed it, or maybe it was a situation you were being convicted in. You know. God took it off the page and He put it in your real world. We would love to hear how He did that for you. 866-3487-884, the number to call in and share, because you know how I love your stories.

I just love them. Eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four. What scripture? Doesn't just come alive in your life like it it came off the page right before your very eyes. You know, maybe you were in a Psalm 23 valley or.

Proverbs 3, when you didn't know which way to go, or Romans 8:28, when something seemed painfully final, but it just all of a sudden began to make sense. How did that show up in your life? Maybe it was an Isaiah 40, 31 moment, like you were done. You had no more strength, but all of a sudden, oh man, you rose up on those eagle wings. How did that feel?

Man, I would love to hear, because I always do. It's those stories that make a difference in this show. 866. The number to call in at 866-348-7884. It's just me today, so I need your calls because you don't want to hear me for an hour.

We would love to hear your version of something that, man, I'll tell you one that I have lived time and time and time again. I've seen it. It's right, 2 Corinthians 1, verses 3 and 4, the God of all comfort. It's comforted us, right?

So that we could comfort others with the comfort that he comforted us with. I mean, I'll never forget. I was crushed by the Jeep back in. you know, before I got on the radio and um There I was with my leg in all sorts of pieces. And a friend sent me this scripture.

And said, you know, someday you'll comfort people that had similar car accidents. And I wasn't even out of the hospital before people said, would you come and. Talk to my son. He was in this horrible motorcycle accident, and he wants to know how to put this together. Um The God of all comfort, I cannot tell you the times I've seen use this and God use this in people's lives.

Maybe you had a cancer situation and the next thing you know, you're helping people with cancer. I know that time and again, these stories are absolutely mind-blowing. 866-3487884. Maybe it was the oil of joy from Isaiah 61. You saw that in a situation where you were mourning, or your faith became substance, like Hebrews 11.

You know, you got the scripture. Maybe it's. You know? Psalms twenty three. And You know, all of a sudden, those that rod and that staff comforted you somehow.

You know, what did that feel like? Again, you don't have to go into all the details if you don't want to. Just kind of tell us the scripture and share that with somebody who may need that scripture. When you could be the God of all comfort with that scripture that you had, as somebody goes into that situation, oh, do they need a word from God? And this stuff is real, and it comes off the page, and you see it, and you're never the same because you know that, man, this stuff is like I can count on these words that come out of Scripture.

Again, we need your calls. I'm hoping, I'm praying. I certainly am. 866. Three, four, eight.

Seven eight eight four. Maybe it was just you were reading the scripture. And all of a sudden, you realize what it was actually saying. A good example of that from me. Um was in Song of Psalm Solomon chapter two, verse eight.

I I was reading this. Essentially, this is the way these verses read, and you don't expect them to jump come jumping off the page at you until all of a sudden they did. And what the way those verses read, it says, The voice of my beloved, behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains. skipping upon the hill. My beloved is like a roe or a young stag, right?

He stands behind our wall, he looks through the lattice. And so, as I was reading those verses, I thought, you know, what in the world is this? And all of a sudden, I just realized, oh, my goodness. Jesus was like me when I was a teenager stalking Susan Siemens. Like, I had to be on the street just to hope that she'd come out her door.

I was gazing through the lattice trying to see Susan Siemens. I said, oh man, that's Jesus. And now I have a very special. I know you've lived some of these scriptures too. Let me tell you, Robbie, I was so encouraged by your show.

I had to bust in the studio. You're hosting today. I actually had some meetings that changed, shifted gears. And I was ready to go until you started going Song of Solomon on me. I didn't know what would happen, but I do have Nehemiah.

Chapter 2, verse 4, just wonderful verse that I've never seen in my whole life. And the true commentaries that you hear, you help me with a lot of those. You inspire a lot of those. They are those verses that just hit you. They smack you.

Right. And I'm sitting here thinking, how do I take a. Forty five minute or two hour sermon Or message like you've done just there. A lot of study has gone into all that with you. And how do I share it with our listeners in the form of a true true commentary?

And that's just a real powerful verse where it says Nehemiah has been praying and fasting and weeping for his country for three months or four months. Finally, he's in the king's presence and the king says, Here's a blank check. What do you want? Literally, the verse says, Tell me what you request. And the next words in verse 4 of Nehemiah 2 change everything.

Instead of ripping his list out, Instead of just jumping right in, okay, here's what I want. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Nehemiah says And I prayed to the God in heaven. No. And I just thought, wow.

Not only was prayer his Last resort. It was his first response. Here he is in the presence of the most powerful earthly king. King Artaxerxes. The stepson of Queen Esther, whose influence and favor had followed her all the way to this moment.

But he's. recognizing the prayer of the Great Omnipotent. Omniscient Eternal king, and he stops in that moment and prays a little pocket prayer, you know, just a little arrow prayer. and supernatural things happen. Through of all people a government worker In the whole book of Nehemiah, Just power pack 13 chapters of revival.

Because of the power of prayer.

So that verse is really. touched me because think about all the things in my life and your life. They just want a little prayer. Just God did something. And all the effort you put into everything you put it into, and then you stop, wait a second.

There's a God in heaven, and I haven't talked to him about this. And I'm not out of roaming minutes. I'm not out of what in the world.

So you call, you know, you stop doing email and use an email, and boom.

So, I know listeners have verses that have hit them, and I hope they'll call in and share those because I'm already kind of blown away. I just love that 2 Corinthians passage you shared. I just. Wow. Man, it's just it's come to life in your life, my life.

But we want to hear yours because your stories that you encourage so many, like Stu just encouraged me. Like, I'm man, yeah. Exactly. 866-348-7884-866-3484. Three, four, eight.

Seven eight eight four And and the th that's the thing, the book The Bible. It isn't A story of Exceptions. It's the whole book is examples of what we get to see and live. And you know this story. One that just always just rocks my world: is like you, a lot of times you're going to go on the air.

What do you do? Pray. Right? Like before, I d I want to know is this what you want me to talk about today, God?

Well, there's a prayer outside our studio, Psalm 19, 14. Let the words of my mouth, the meditations of my heart, be pleasing your sight. That's a prayer we want to walk in here with. Saying, we pray before we go on the air when we have a guest in here. Of course.

And even when we don't, we pray. We grab Grayson or Nick or whoever our producer is and we pray with them just to commit the time to the Lord and pray for you guys, the listeners. You have to put up with us for a whole hour. I don't know if you remember this, but we did the Association of Christian Counselors Conference. Tim Clinton was having this big thing.

It was in Nashville, at the same place where we all often have the NRP. And you guys wanted me to interview 100 counselors over the weekend. Because at that time he was starting a new program, Tim Clinton was. Yep, I remember. And I prayed, and I was like, God.

What do I do? And he said, 2 Corinthians chapter 1, the God of all comfort.

So every single counselor, I asked him, How does that work out in your life? And what I heard was a hundred testimonies of how exactly that particular scripture. Texted you.

So you got plenty of time during the break. Call 866-348-7884. Think of the people you can encourage. You feel the Holy Spirit, He's grabbing you. 866-348-7884.

Welcome back to True Talk Live. Today's question is: What scripture has come alive in your life? Like with your very eyes, you've seen it. You've experienced it. You've lived it.

We would love to hear it. 866-348-7884. The number call in and share. 866-348-7884. So Stu, this is fun stuff.

Well, there's nothing funner and really there's nothing More rich and meaningful. than discussing This This uh Word of God. This is God's revelation. This is, you know, we're getting a text from God every time we open the Bible. And this is the whole point of why we're here, the Truth Network.

We exist to proclaim the Word of God, to put on the best communicators of truth we can find. that will faithfully do that. And some of these guys are preaching, and they might just preach on one verse. And when you just stop and just take in scripture. There's so much power in that.

It's so rich. And look what it does. And another great question. Is why is it the Bible is so rich? Why is it that when you and I have a conversation and a verse comes up, like sit at dinner with someone and say, hey, Hey, what do you think of this Bible verse?

Hey, hey, hey, and you just start. What's your favorite Bible verse? And get them to start talking. This is why I date the word Doc Carson so profound, what he does. He finds your birthday.

links it to a verse that's the same date as your birth date. What's powerful about that is it's God's Word.

So suddenly, you're talking about something that's way out of our league, way out of our comprehension, way out of our, you know, that's a power level. We're powering up because it's God's powerful word.

So that's the nature of this.

So, any discussion surrounding that is going to be. Sensational and it's going to be life-changing. That's why I just, that verse hit my heart. I had to, I had to rush in here and share it rather than pick up the phone. I love what Nehemiah, you know, again, I love the passion for the Word of God.

And I always tell, you know, when you found something that just spoke to your heart. And then it's interesting, he lights you up. And then I hear all this stuff from people that go to Wednesday and the Word, right? They say, Stu, oh man, you should have heard Stu today.

Well, I could have told you ahead of time. He's fired up about Nehemiah. And so, what's another insight since I got you here? And I know I'm going to lose you in a second. What's another insight from Nehemiah that just God's put on your heart recently?

Well, it's just, you know, you get to chat verse 14. of chapter 4. Yeah. They're under attack and they're under scrutiny and they're being jeered at, and these armies are threatening violence against them. Oh, yeah.

And you got all these people that have, you know, for the first time in over a century, they've been able to come back and rebuild the walls. You know, Zerubbabel had started. Ezra picked up with the temple, but now they're back to rebuild the walls. It's a supernatural way they got there. And Nehemiah says to them, with all this chaos, all these attacks, And they're like, he says, first of all, arm up, get your sword and your trial in one hand, the trial in the other hand.

You're working. We're going to have these folks guard. We're going to work. We're going to pray. We're going to work.

And we're going to fight. But he says these words in the middle of all that in verse 14 of chapter 4. He says. Do not be afraid of them. Remember, Our God is an awesome and great God.

I mean, just like that, he points out. Just the greatness of God. I'm not going to tell you this about that verse that you're quoting right there. that I just learned recently. What he actually To give the form There's a a a Jewish prayer that always starts out of Deuteronomy 10, where it says that God is a great that he is mighty and he's awesome and it's it's a threefold thing.

And Nehemiah happened after Jeremiah, and it happened after Daniel. That's right.

Well, in Jeremiah, when he was talking about buying the land or whatever, he prays a prayer to God and he leaves out one of those that is very conspicuous. He doesn't mention that God is awesome.

So he says. He he he's mighty and and he says he's great. But he doesn't say awesome. And then Daniel, almost at the same time, because Daniel's written about the same time as Jeremiah. He's not too far from him.

He says, oh, God is great. And God's awesome, but I don't know about this mighty stuff. Wow. Wow. I'm not saying he said that, but the thing of it is, both prophets were completely honest with what they were witnessing at the time, and they left those verses out.

So when Nehemiah comes back and he puts the threefold deal on him again, when he says they're great, that God is great and mighty and awesome, he's reestablishing that, which actually, you know, it's a beautiful thing to pray in every prayer. Absolutely. And it's not the people around you, it's not the problems that assail you. It is the great mighty God who is with you, who is above you, who is in you in the power of the Holy Spirit.

So, how big is your God? And over and over again in Nehemiah, God shows himself mighty. And it's about do I believe in the big God? And that's going to determine whether I'm a complainer and a blamer. In a taker, or am I a giver of thanks?

Am I expressing gratitude? Am I a giver? Is my heart focused on my great God? And am I. Emboldening others in that great God?

And am I Witnessing the goodness of God, which is what we're doing today with these callers. Oh, there are. I'm going to get out of the way, Robbie, because we've got some great verses coming in. I'm going to hang up and listen. How's that sound?

Dr. Date, the word Karst himself is. Oh, my soul.

So we've got to find out. That guy right there. Doc! What you got for me? His ears were burning.

His ears were itching like crazy, scratching him. I could not miss being part of this. I turn on truth from. Yeah. Talk live, and I hear my two favorite men.

Oh, my word, talking about the word of God, Psalm 21. Oh! Psalm 11. Oh! Delight in the law of the Lord.

Delight yourself in the law of the Lord, and you don't do it Christmas and Easter. You don't do it once a month. You don't do it once a week. You do it once a week. Daily, night and day.

Stock, what a blessing. The impact. Oh, my God. You're encouraging a lot of people. You know, the cool thing is, your feature is never going to get old.

It's funny how it keeps growing. People keep asking me year after year, month after month. I got a text yesterday from the head scholar at the Museum of the Bible, who I gave one of your date word calendars to. I gave one for him and one for his wife. He's already sent one of them to a close friend, another scholar, who's already sent him a huge note saying this is the best thing I've ever seen.

Who in the world would think about a date with the word of God? These guys are eating it up, Doc. I'm just telling you, Doc, do you still remember the little people, even though you're like big time now? Will you still remember little guys like us, sir? I don't even know how we're on the phone with this guy.

I don't know how I'm on the phone with you. Thank you for letting me even have a little part. Praise the Lord. Isn't it awesome to get God's word out there? And it is.

It's so transforming. Your words were found, and I did eat them, and they became the joy and the delight to my soul. Oh, yeah. Jeremiah 15:16. And I had breakfast this morning.

Well, I started my breakfast. This morning before the food got there with a young man who. He's new to the faith. He says, Man, I'm just not really reading the Bible as much. I'm still kind of figuring that out.

So I opened to Psalm 1. Brilliant. I opened the fir the first word in the longest book of the Bible is Happy! Yeah, Robbie can deep dive that in the Hebrew, and Doc Carson can deep dive everyone in the Hebrew of happy, but the whole point is this. Whatever follows that word is what everybody wants.

And Dr. Jeremiah just wrote a book called Happiness. How to be happy according to God. And that's basically Psalm 1. The very first word is happy.

And he goes on to talk about this blessed or happy same word Jesus uses in the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5 through 8, is happy. And he goes on to talk about someone who is. Whose happiness is found in. God and what God says, because God is speaking. Eternal value into us every moment we expose ourselves to hearing the word, reading the word, studying the word, memorizing the word, meditating on the word.

You can only think about one thought any second of any day.

So, are you thinking about God's Word? Are you being conformed to this world or being transformed by His Word? And that's why I need date the word. I wake up every morning with a date the word, right? It hits my email box.

And if you're a pastor, Stew, you get one special one on Sunday. I'm telling you. Oh, a long one. And he texts me, too. I'm like, where's this?

This is amazing. Like, Lord, did you hear that prayer? Whamo, Dr. Carson, light me up. Very faithful, Doc.

I'm so glad to have you on. You need to get to those baseball players. Oh, you got some steak to cook. He's cooking steak. He's ministering college baseball players.

And be careful when a very large man walks in the room and says, What's your birthday? Watch out because he's going to weaponize you with a word of God. The sword of the spirit is on display in that moment. Thank you guys. God bless you.

I appreciate you calling in. Thank you. Hey, we love you. Yes, sir. Keep doing it, man.

We got more callers. I'm going to jump off and listen, Robbie. Thank you, man. Thank you. Keep spreading God's word.

All right, we got Mike. He's in Dayton, Ohio.

So, Mike. I know that stuff's coming alive for you. What scripture? Whoa, I gotta go to a break and drive out the time I got mic.

So while we're waiting on that, you could be calling. Because I know something fired you up. 866-348-7884. 866-348-7884. How's the scripture come alive for you?

Welcome back to True Talk Live. Today's question, which we'd really, really, really love to hear your story. What scripture, what scripture has come alive in your life? Like, you didn't just read it. You lived it.

You experienced it.

However that worked. We would love to hear it. 866-348-7884-866-34 TRUTH. I All of a sudden, something painful happened, and it started to make sense. And Romans 8:28 came alive.

What is that for you? We got Mike is in Dayton, Ohio. Mike. Welcome to Truth Talk Live. Am I on?

You are on. You are with us.

Okay, great. Hey, um,. Proverbs 3, 5, and 6. trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he'll make your path straight.

I really I probably quoted that verse to myself. I would say 450,000 times in my lifetime. Since I was twelve all the way till I'm sixty years old. um situations in my life I said, okay, God, why are you putting me in this situation? And why am I here?

a lot of times I ask God those questions. And it seems like every time God uh God anoints the uh the time. uh in my life um I never could not he never failed me all through my life, all the way from twelve when I became a Christian to I was sixty years old. And I just lived by that verse. I just leaned out of my own understanding in some ways.

I said to God, okay, today's the day that you've made. All right, guide me through the day. That doesn't mean you shut off your brain and you don't use your common sense. It means you trust you lean not on your own understanding, and you trust God. to direct your path.

And that little spirit in you. that tells you to go one direction or the other. you know that conscience, it helps you to go that right direction. And by going that right direction, you want to talk about happiness like Stu was talking about. Oh, Marion.

Uh it's it's just You just enjoy life because you're going in the direction that God wants you to go. Yeah, you could even translate that word to light. Um You know, that that that that person in Psalm 1 That dude is delighted. And so I don't know how many times I've heard you discuss this very verse and discuss something that happened in your life. And you were more than just happy.

You were delighted. And I like that idea of that light that comes on. And if you were sitting across from Stu here five minutes ago, he was more than happy. He was delighted. You can hear it across the phone line to Doc.

You know, he was more than happy. You know, because again, the Word of God does that for us. It just does because we've experienced it in that trust. And the other thing I know about you, Mike, is that I'm going to guess that there's been two or three times today you've seen that happen. You've seen something happen that you quoted that verse, right?

Right. I quoted the verse this morning and I prayed to God: All right, direct my path. I mean, just not I I just got my coffee and I walk out the door and this guy is talk talk I I said the guy hold the door open for me. And I said, thank you, man, thank you. I was talking to somebody else in the in the in Speedway.

And he says, Oh, you're welcome. You're welcome. And I says he says, What do you do? And I says, Oh, I'm a carpenter. I make cabbage and stuff.

And I says, What do you do? And he says, I'm um Yeah. I'm a self-contractor. I help people move. And I said, oh, that's cool.

Well, you got a card? And he says, no, not yet. I just started it and I work with a couple couple places here and there. I said, okay. But you know what's more important about what jobs we do?

I says, where are you going when you go to heaven? I know you're pretty sure you know where you're going right now, but do you know if you're going to go to heaven or not? And that was my question to him. And uh he started crying. And that was the question.

And uh God led me to him. And he brought out a little pendant and he says, My mother gave me this, and it says John 3:16 on it. And uh he said for God's and he read it to me. And I said, Yeah. Have you made that commitment to God?

And he goes, Yeah, I did, but I need to get back to him. And I went, wow. I said, okay. And then his friend come over. And we prayed together and I says, Today's the day.

You know, that where you go the direction that God wants you to go. Don't worry about the past. The past is gone. Today is the day that you start following God and you go where you want to go. You know, I at the time I was.

But I cried the word of God, the second God touched his heart, he cried, right? And it tells you he was tender. And it tells you Uh that You struck a nerve, but and I love the way you followed up on it and You know, clearly prayer is going to be the thing that That that changes everything. But you know, I don't know if you've heard the ad. that um focused on the family is doing right now is talking about Jesus was the king of awkward.

I don't know if you've heard that, but but you know, he says, you know, the woman at the well, you know, you know You know, when he asks her if he's married, it's so you've heard that ad. It's hilarious.

Well, I was thinking about you asking the guy, like, well, you know, have you given your art, you know, like that, that question's awkward. Um but but when you when you Not leaning on your own understanding of what awkward is, and you're leaning on God's, and God's saying, Hey, Ask him this question, right? And there it is. And it makes a huge difference. And I've been with Doc, I don't know how many times, and you're sitting at a restaurant and you know it's coming, and it's going to be awkward, okay?

It just is. It's just revealed. And here he goes, you know, well, when's your birthday? And I'm like, okay, here it comes, you know, and usually that's not the awkward part. You know, it's all of a sudden when he starts getting in the Bible verse part, but still absolutely.

Leaning not on his own understanding, or if you go to lunch with Nikita Koloff anytime, I assure you that that it or Stew, and and you know, all these folks, when you watch them and you pay attention, like, man. That that They they are not leaning on their own understanding. When they're jumping on, they're out there like that, Mike, and I am so blessed to have people like that in my life to continue to challenge me. To live that life of not leaning on my understanding. Man, I appreciate your your your verse.

I know it, and I really appreciate your call. Yeah, I just one more. If you really look at all the characters of the planet, When they start leaning on their own, on their own, doing their own thing instead of doing what God wants them to do. You're talking to Noah about the flood, right? Oh, yeah, they all got in trouble.

I mean, everyone, Jonah and the whale. I mean, they start, I don't want to go there, God. You know, I want to do what I want to do, you know? And they all got in trouble. Yeah.

Every time I've done that too, I've not leaned on God and done it my own way. It's Sometimes it doesn't work out as well as I should. You know what I mean? Um You know, it it And, you know, God, but God just comes back and gives you a big hug and says, that's all right. We'll try again.

And yeah, that's beautiful. Thank you, Mike. As always, very encouraging. Very wonderful stuff. God bless you.

God bless. All right, bye-bye. 866-3487884866-348 Seven, eight, eight, four, like. You know, that's scripture. It came alive in a s in a season?

Or maybe it was convicting. Like, I can't tell you how many times I was reading it just recently, right? Where I decided to go look. At the verse in the Old Testament, you know, where it says, Love your neighbor as yourself. And when I looked at it in Leviticus, there were two.

Other ideas before it ever got to love your neighbor as yourself. And it said, you know. That you're not supposed to avenge yourself and you're not supposed to carry a grudge. And the second I read it, man, the Holy Spirit just grabbed me and said, Yeah? How can you love your neighbor as yourself if you're carrying a grudge?

In other words, it it leaped off the page, not just in the idea, but faces started appearing to me of people that I was carrying grudges. And I was like, yeah. And that idea of carrying that was: I was literally building a case. It was a seed that I had planted in my own heart. And every time that something happened, I would feed that seed by saying, see, that's the reason I don't like that guy.

You know, or see, that's the reason why I'm doing it. What I was doing. Was the opposite of loving my neighbor as myself. And again, the scripture just jumped off the page at me, and it was like, there you go, Robbie. Have a look here.

866-348-7884. You may know this, but they use the brass. From the women's mirrors to make the labor where the rabbis would, or the priests, would wash their hands so that they could actually look at their face before they went into the temple.

So they get an idea.

Well, scripture is like that. It's like a lot of times it shows us stuff that, man, we need to see in order to be convicted. And I would, you know, you had something like that: 866. The number to call because we need your stories. They're beautiful.

866-348-7884. How about. Maybe an entire story, like the prodigal son, right, in Luke 15. That Um You know, I love there were so many things about that story that just Speak to my heart. You know, repentance, prior to me really understanding the story, always sounded like a difficult like that isn't something that doesn't sound like a lot of fun, repentance.

But as I really began to think about the prodigal son, he's sitting there eating pig pods, you know, the the the stuff they feed the pigs. And all of a sudden... It says he came to his senses, right?

Now, how many times in my life have I sitting there eating pig pods, right? And I'm even talking about holding a grudge right this minute. I'm sitting there eating pig pods, and then they're going into my soul about somebody they don't like. And then all of a sudden, you come to your senses like through reading the scripture. And when that happens, Right?

You go from eating... Pig pods, like you come running to the father, and when he sees you a long way off, right? That story. Man, I mean, he is going to grab you, he's going to hug you, and what are you going to be eating shortly thereafter? He's going to kill the fatted calf.

And you are going to be eating steak, not pig pods, okay? You're going to be eating steak. That's repentance. Like you go from the stuff that you're just, like Mike said, you've leaned on your own understanding and you're off doing whatever that you think is best. And the next thing you know, man, God helps you come to your senses.

You run back to the Father, He's running a long way off. You'll be eating steak. 866-348-7884. 866-348-8488-848. 348-7884.

You know how much I love your stories. Please call us. It would mean the world to me. Truth, talk, life. What scripture has come alive in your life?

You read it? And oh my goodness. three years later or whatever happens All of a sudden, you see it, and you go, Oh my goodness, that's exactly what he said. That's exactly the understanding. You didn't just read it, you lived it.

We would love those stories. Oh, would we? 866-348-7884, the number to call in and share. Eight. Yep, just dial it.

Share. You don't have to give us all the details. Just tell us a scripture. I would love to hear it. 866-348.

Seven. 884. You know, one of the first ones that happened to me in my life. Was James one, right? Consider it pure joy.

And, you know, when various trials and uh I I remember y that, um It it That I had a God had told me to keep journals, and I had started doing that as a young Christian. And so when I was diagnosed with cancer, you know, I started writing all this stuff in my journal. And then You know, shortly after I finished my last chemotherapy treatment in 1996, you may know the story. I was crushed between two cars. And Um It wasn't long thereafter.

I was reading the journal. I wrote all this stuff out in my journal. And for whatever reason, I was in the book of James, like reading, you know, like a disciple would. And I come across this verse. And, you know, it maybe been a month or two since the Jeep accident.

And all of a sudden, that scripture leaped. I mean, it leaped into my heart because it was various trials. In 1996, I can assure you, my wife would tell you that she said, If Robbie went by a hospital, it sucked him into it somehow. But nonetheless. When I realized all the ways that God had blessed me through these horrible, what a lot of people would consider horrible experiences, cancer, chemotherapy, horrible car accidents, et cetera.

But oh my oh, it was like like This idea of it was pure joy because It grew my faith. It grew my understanding of the love of God. It was in so many ways, it looked like it was absolutely horrible, but it was pure joy. And I look back on it, believe me, with this idea that James 1 has come to life. I mean, and come to life in so many different ways because.

You know, it did all those things it talks about in Romans, that it produced perseverance and... All those, you know. attributes that the scripture is full of and so i know you you've got stuff like The peace that transforms all understanding, right? And you've had that situation like, oh man, how in the world could this be? Right?

Right in the middle of. you know Well, I'll give you one that just happened.

Well, before I say that, let me give you the number one more time because I would love to hear your stories. 866. 3487884, 866-348-7884. We just got a few mornings left. Again, the Holy Spirit's prompting you.

You want to be not leaning on your own understanding, but following Him and calling 866-348-7884.

So You know, just Saturday I was um You may know I hosted a radio show called Kingdom Pursuits.

Well, unlike Christian Cargai's show, you know, that show has always got guests on it. And I line up the guests early on in the week and I follow up and make sure that they're going to be here and whatever. And I'd lined up actually two. I guess. For Kingdom Pursuits and thought I was all set.

And when I come into the office Saturday morning, you know, early to begin to prepare for my shows. I've got this email. Followed by another email saying that, you know, things happened. We can't make it. I've got uh an hour-long radio show with no guest.

Um And no topic, right? And fascinatingly, I don't know why. I can think back two or three years ago, I would have been. Losing my, I talk about there would have been no peace and no transcendental understanding. But I was just, I got really helped me with this idea of Psalm 91 and being in a secret place.

And I just went to that place of prayer that Stu talked about: the pocket prayer to say, Okay, Lord, here we are. And I trust you. You want something to happen in this show. And just give me a name or some idea and whatever. And I just began to pray and meditate: like, God, who would you like to come on Saturday?

And he gave me Andy Thomas's name, and I didn't know what he was wanting to talk about. You know, I just said, okay, Andy Thomas, I'll call Andy.

So I called Andy, told him, oh man, I got a situation that I had these guests back out on Kingdom Pursuits. He goes, You know what, Robbie? I was thinking I was going to go somewhere. God just told me to stay put that and he was so delighted to come on. And he had a topic on patriotism that was just absolutely beautiful.

And I think about How much struggle I I would have gone through had I had I not You know, just focused on God in that moment and being in prayer in that moment, it does the peace that transforms all understanding.

Well, guard your heart and mind. I mean, it just did. And I, and I lived it. I lived it and and you know things like this are happening for each of us, Is an example to show us that as we read these words, as we study these words, as we meditate, as Stu said, as we. expound and tell others how God came You know what's happening is just what Mike described in our trust, right?

Trust, trust in the Lord with all your heart. And, and, He he's making it to where you go, oh.

Well, I don't understand it right this minute. All things work together for good. And and man, this just does not look like It could possibly be good. Or, or, you know, all these things. And even this recent.

um, car accident that I had. And many of you know that right at the end of March, um. My wife and I, a car slammed into us, going about 60 miles an hour. Immediately we were both in the hospital for a week and Um You know, your life changes immediately and, you know, my back was broken. It was it was a serious thing.

But Yeah. Oh. I just have no way of explaining how that worked for good in my life in so many ways of honestly teaching me humility because I couldn't drive until about a week ago. And so I had to ask for rides all over the place. The humility in that was just asking for help here.

Or my daughter would tell you, My dad won't do anything. Without asked for help for nothing, right? And I couldn't do anything but ask for help. And so every time something like this happens in my life, it's almost my opportunity for God to teach me a little bit more humility along these lines. But one of the most amazing things always is the love that's poured out.

Um Through All friends and listeners, and things that came to me from angles that just I didn't expect. And all of it, in its own way, is God showing you that He loves you. And Oh my goodness, did he show me he loved me through so many people's cares, through their prayers, through all that stuff? And especially, you know, on a personal level, my family. Right.

My daughters literally did not leave the hospital. They would take turns because their mother was there. And so, you know, they she was on the floor below me at Baptist Hospital, and one daughter would spend the night the first night with their mother, and the other daughter would be up there in my room, and then they would switch back and forth. You know, my son came to and th the th the Uh you know what it did f For us to love on each other for that week, you know, and then, you know, afterwards for rides or whatever else just brought us closer together. And, you know, Tammy and I both looked at each other and went, you know, to have this result that we've seen pour out.

It was painful and all that stuff. But oh my goodness. You know, all things work together for unbelievable good. Um In that idea that love never fails. And we see this time and time and time again.

And Things that we think, like, man, you do not want to go through that. You know, you don't want to have this happen and you don't want to have that happen. But again, God is, God is. He's right there, and you know, no temptation is going to seize you except that which is common to man. And every time he's going to make a way to escape, and that way to escape.

It's like Stu talked about. It's a place of prayer. It's that like a place of running to him, like the prodigal did. Like, man, these pig pods, they're not tasting very good.

So, you know, I just have another minute or two. We would love for you, 866, to jump in here real quick. Just give us a verse if you want. 866-348-7884. Of course, Psalm 3418.

If some of these things are hurting, you know, you'll think like, right, I didn't experience that.

Well, Psalm 34, 18 says he's near to the brokenhearted, right? And so, you know, maybe you're not seeing that right now. And I understand. it's a lot of stuff going on. You know, you lose a dear loved one.

The grief comes at you, it comes at you, it comes at you. Um Yeah. But I've seen it time and again that that's Where God can come near to you in other ways that he otherwise you know, only at the point that Hannah really got down on the temple and prayed that prayer where she was so desperate. God showed up in a miraculous, miraculous way. Um in that point of of of pain.

that was for her, you know, more than I can possibly imagine. But uh just studying Hannah's prayer and if You know, you know, I love Hebrew if you know me well. And man, the Hebrew that goes into Hannah's prayer is one of the most magnificent ways of forming letters to show a prayer that I've ever seen. Her prayer is very unique in the way that it's written out by the letters that apparently Samuel used to write his mother's prayer. I don't know.

But man, you have to really just see the heartbroken place that she was at and how God was coming to meet her, as it says in Psalm 34, 18, that. And and She not only prayed, but then she also offered God that which she was wanting. It was an amazing thing. Again, so grateful for scriptures, so grateful that we get to live seeing this come to life in your life. I appreciate you listening so much today.

We've got a wonderful show coming.