Michael A. Youssef

Michael A. Youssef - Fear of Faith

August 2, 2025 | S25 E31 | 28:35

Dr. Michael A. Youssef passionately proclaims uncompromising truth from God's Word to people around the world through the ministries of Leading The Way. Join him for sound Biblical teaching each week.

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Dr. michael youssef: when our children were little,
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Many years ago now,
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We, like a lot of parents,
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Sought to get them some swimming lessons.
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Well, because simply we want them to feel--
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To be drown-proof.
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And then i remember those times vividly when the instructor
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Would push them under the surface of the water.
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I would have easily thought, this guy or this lady are cruel,
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They're harsh, they're thoughtless.
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How can they do that to my kid?
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And yet, the very reason why the instructor puts them under,
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Then let them come up sputtering all over the place,
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Is actually to help them learn to be safe,
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To give them confidence in their swimming pool
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Or any body of water for that matter.
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And i remember learning something back then
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In my early fatherhood.
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Very often our lord jesus, in his wisdom that passes ours,
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Allow his children whom he dearly loves
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To go under the surface
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Until there's nothing but bubbles coming out.
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Oh, but this is not because he's cruel,
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Not because he doesn't care, not because he's punishing us.
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No, and a million no.
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This is actually god's grace and love at work.
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This god's grace and love in action.
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Very often our lord in his wisdom allows his child
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To go way under the surface.
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Why?
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Because that's part of the training program.
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Because that's part of growing us up to know him
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And love him more.
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This is his way of teaching us to trust him
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With all of our hearts.
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This is part of helping us to develop confidence
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In our instructor.
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Please, you have to understand, god's ultimate program
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For his beloved children is to reach high level
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Of maturity in their relationship with him.
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Did you get that?
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Why?
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Because we're going to reign and rule with him.
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Now i can stand here for hours and testify to you regarding
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The amazing love of jesus that i've experienced
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During those training sessions.
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Some were longer than others.
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But the biggest one was when i was 19 years of age,
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And that became a pivotal for my life,
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For the rest of my life, my adult life and ministry.
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Nineteen years of age, i'm standing before a man
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Who was the most--one of the most powerful
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Two or three men in that whole country.
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And he was renowned for making people disappear without trace.
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And i'm standing in front of him.
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He looked at this 19-year-old young man
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And he said, "you know that i can make you disappear
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Without a trace, and i'm going to do that
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In the next five minutes."
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Now, my heart was pounding so hard my body
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Was moving, literally.
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My mouth was so dry like it had been stuffed
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With sand or cotton.
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I thought god has completely rejected me at that point.
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I felt god has totally misled me.
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I thought that god is angry with me and it's all over.
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And yet within two minutes, it felt like eternity,
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But within two minutes, god interfered.
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God came to this terrified young man
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With my terrified thoughts.
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Within two minutes of feeling of sinking underwater,
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God intervened.
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Not only that he saved me, but he blessed me.
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To be sure, that was the hugest pivotal event in my life.
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But that became an anchor in which i can look back now
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For almost 60 years and take courage.
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It wasn't the last time-- it wasn't the last time
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That i felt sinking, that sinking feeling,
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That terrifying feeling.
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But each subsequent training session,
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My sense of panic got shorter and shorter and shorter
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As i've experienced more and more confidence
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In my heavenly father,
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Confidence that he wants the best for me as he sees it.
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I believe this is our precious lord's lesson in this fifth,
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Number five, sign in john's gospel.
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Just a reminder for those of you who might be visiting,
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We are in the middle of a series of messages
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On the evidence of the exclusivity of jesus.
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The evidence of the exclusivity of jesus.
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Beloved, let me tell you something.
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There's none like jesus.
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None beside jesus.
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No one can be compared with jesus.
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He is jesus the only,
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For we have been seeing the evidence.
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First of all we saw a series of eight
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On the exclusivity of jesus.
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And now we're looking at the evidence regarding
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The exclusivity of the god-man, jesus the christ.
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John particularly chooses seven
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Of all the many miracles that jesus performed.
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He chooses seven, and he doesn't even call them miracles,
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He called them signs, semeion in the greek.
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He called them signs.
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These are evidence.
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This is the highlight of his power over nature,
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His power over creation, his power over human infirmity,
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And so on.
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In mark's gospel, chapter 6, verse 45,
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It says that jesus asked the disciples
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To get on the boat and to go ahead of him.
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Oh beloved, listen to me.
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This was not happenstance.
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This was not an unforeseen circumstances.
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This was not bad luck.
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No, no, no, no.
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Our lord planned it all.
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What they call the sea of galilee,
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It's really just a lake.
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And those of you who have been there,
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You would know what i'm talking about.
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It's a lake.
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It's about 6 mile wide and it's about 13 mile long.
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That's it.
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It is 600 feet below sea level.
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It's like a bowl, literally bowl-shaped depression
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Surrounded by precipitous hills.
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Jesus said to the disciples in a sense
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That while i dismiss the crowd
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After feeding them with a little boy's lunch,
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When i dismiss the crowd
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Then i will meet you in capernaum
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And he sent the disciples in the boat.
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He didn't say go and drown in the boat, right?
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He said go and meet me in capernaum.
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Barely halfway through, barely halfway through, they got caught
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In one of these famous frightful storms.
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Most of us know what it's like when in one of those seasons
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Of life when you feel security, serenity,
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And suddenly it gives way to storm.
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I think most of us have experienced
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And know what it is like in our lives
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When we be smooth sailing and then we get beset
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By unexpected waves and winds.
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Oh, beloved friends, listen to me.
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God is not the author of the storms, but he allows them.
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He is sovereign.
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In his sovereign will, he allows them
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So that they may be for learning purposes.
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So that we may grow in our trust of him
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And confidence in him.
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Here in chapter 6 of john's gospel,
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The storm is not of the disciples' making, right?
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They had nothing to do with it.
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In fact, they faced it because they were obedient to jesus.
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He told them to get in the boats and meet me
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On the other side, right?
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Right?
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Listen to me.
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Jesus never promised us.
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He never once, go and look at it anywhere in the scripture.
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And if you find it, please let me know.
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He never promised the journey to heaven is:
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♪ row, row, row your boat ♪
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♪ gently down the stream ♪♪
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No, no, no.
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That's for kids, okay?
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Listen to me.
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Storms come into our lives unplanned and unwelcome.
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Storms rise unsought and unexpected.
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The question is, did jesus know that the storm
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Would rise halfway through the journey?
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Did jesus know?
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Here they are in the midst of the tempest,
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Not of their own making.
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Oh my goodness, how many times i've experienced
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These unexpected storms in my life, and so did you.
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I know that.
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How many of my friends at times, i saw them experiencing storms
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Are totally unexpected, unwanted, and unwelcomed,
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Whether it is a loss of job or a loss of promotion that rightly
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Belongs to them, or a loss of loved ones, or loss of health,
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Or loss of any kind.
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Did jesus know about these storms coming into our lives?
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Of course he does.
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He's a sovereign god.
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Here in this incident, while the disciples did not know
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Where jesus was, and yet he was up there in the mountain,
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And his eyes on them.
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They did not see him, but he saw them.
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They were in the hollows of his hand, not the lake.
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Oh, my friend, don't ever forget, don't ever forget
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His eyes are on you,
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His hands surrounding you.
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His grace is engulfing you.
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His love is all over you until he takes you
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All the way safely home.
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Paul said, "nothing will separate us
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From the love of god."
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Scripture said: "the eyes of the lord run to and fro throughout
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The whole earth to show himself strong
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On behalf of those who are his."
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Jesus did not show up in bethany immediately as soon as he heard
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That lazarus is seriously ill and dying.
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He waited several days.
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Please, please, please, please don't miss this.
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Don't miss this.
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Remember, jesus always, always, always
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Has a purpose in his delay.
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His delay is not without purpose.
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His delay is not arbitrary.
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His delay is not capricious.
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Here, he doesn't come to the disciples immediately,
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But he came on the fourth watch.
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Do you know what that is?
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That's between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m.
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Some people say this is 3 to 6.
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That's the fourth watch.
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Meanwhile, the heavy wind kept on battering the boat
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And the disciples.
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Please listen carefully.
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Listen carefully.
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At least four of these disciples were veteran seamen.
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They are experts.
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They were making their living off that lake.
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They were not a bunch of amateurs or people
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That don't have experience with the water and the sea.
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These veteran seamen, they knew enough,
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They've seen enough to know that this is not your normal storm.
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That's not your average storm.
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No doubt they wondered, where is the lord?
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Where is the lord?
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When you're in trouble, does he still care for us?
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He used the very treacherous waters as his riding vehicle.
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He uses the very threatening waves
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As his mode of transportation.
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He used the dreadful wind as his personal ride.
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Suddenly they looked through that bleak darkness
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And the foam of the water,
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And they saw a figure
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Who was majestically coming toward them.
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Oh, but our precious lord used the very storm
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To bless our lives.
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And while the disciples were panicking, they saw jesus.
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They saw jesus.
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Perhaps it was not the way they expected him.
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It's not the way they expect him.
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You know, often though in me, in my life,
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And i know in many of us, you know,
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We know exactly how god should intervene, right?
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We know exactly how he should answer our prayers.
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We know exactly how he should respond to our needs, right?
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But he doesn't.
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He does it his way.
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But he comes to us.
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He comes to us, which is by far much better,
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Much better way than our expectations.
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One last thing i need to share with you
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That is of vital importance.
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I have to confess to you upfront, this is one of my most
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Moving, i would say favorite, but the whole bible is my
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Favorite, but is one of those things in the gospels that
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Probably gets to me and you probably saw that in my reading.
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It stands out in my mind.
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"it is i. it is i."
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Can you say that?
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"do not be afraid."
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How comforting is that? how comforting is that?
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"it is i. do not be afraid."
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Before jesus took them out of the storm,
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He took the storm out of their lives.
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Isn't that amazing?
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I mean, i would have wanted him to stop the storm first, right?
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But god knows what he's doing.
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Before he stopped the storm,
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He took the storm out of their life, first.
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He could have stopped the storm first.
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He could have silenced the wind first.
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He could have calmed the waves first, but he didn't.
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Why?
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The lord gave me an insight into this.
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Because he wanted to come to them first.
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He wanted them to see him first.
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Because he wanted them to trust him.
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He wanted them to receive him first.
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He wanted to talk to them first.
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He wanted to calm their hearts
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Before he can calm the storm.
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He wanted them to experience him first.
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He took that storm out of their heart.
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How many times before the storms
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In our life even abate, we feel jesus,
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We see jesus, we experience jesus.
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Temptation, anxiety, suffering, tragedy,
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Divorce, rejection, loss of loved ones,
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Maybe even facing death itself.
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Remember this. remember this.
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I'm getting ready to close.
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Remember this.
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Jesus's eye is on you.
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He is removing the storm out of your heart
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Before he can still the storm outside.
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You can be absolutely certain of one thing--one thing.
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While jesus never causes the storm,
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But whether it's caused by satan
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Or caused by foolishness of others
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Or caused by our own foolishness,
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He will use these storms to grow us up in trusting him.
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He will use these storms for you and for me
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To experience his amazing grace.
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He will use these storms to magnify his love
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And his mercy and his grace for you.
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He will use these storms to prepare you to reign
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And rule in the universe with him forever.
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To god be the glory. to god be the glory.
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Give him praise.
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Dr. youssef: most of us know what it's like when a season
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Of calm in our lives gives way to confusing events.
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Maureen: i would say jordan grew up in a very godly home,
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Where the gospel was always present.
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It permeated their entire family.
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Jordan: it was a huge privilege to grow up with the gospel
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Just always there and being taught it from a young age.
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Maureen: i just wanted to recreate jordan's childhood
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In a way for our kids, for them to know that god is number one
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In our lives.
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Jordan: i feel like everything was just perfect in our life.
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I mean, all one-sided, like, blessings.
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Maureen: and then in april, april 1st, actually, of 2011,
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I was diagnosed with ms.
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Jordan: what the doctor told us when he diagnosed her
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With ms was, "this is a disease
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Where your immune system attacks your nervous system.
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And the kind of normal path would be in 10 years,
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You'll be in a wheelchair."
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Our mind shifted to, okay, maureen's got this slow,
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Crippling disease.
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How do we beseech the lord for healing?
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It's easy as a parent to say, "oh, you pray and ask god,
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And god answers it, and then you see it."
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And so when you teach them to pray, and then they don't see it
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Answered the way they want it to, that's a--
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But there's a greater teaching moment of god's providence
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And his bigger plan and his bigger picture
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That we don't always see.
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Dr. youssef: god's ultimate program for his beloved children
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Is to reach high level of maturity in their relationship
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With him.
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Maureen: i found out i was pregnant in february of 2014.
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Jane, she was born in october.
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We came home from the hospital, everyone had like a job
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And was so excited to help with her.
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Jordan: jane was a bundle of energy.
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Maureen: always happy.
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Jordan: always happy, yeah.
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Super joyful. i mean, super joyful.
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Always wanted to be, you know, with someone.
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Maureen: jane spoke a lot at a young age.
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We always think of that as such a gift that we got to hear
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Her voice and to hear her talk.
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Jane died on a sunday.
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The friday before she died, the devotion we were doing over
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Breakfast was what happens to children when they die.
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Jordan: it took us a bit of time even just to, like, function.
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I mean, the body of christ was a huge help in ways
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That we, you know, could never repay.
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I mean, people showed up out of nowhere and came out
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Of the woodwork to help us.
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You know, all of a sudden, you know, her ms felt like,
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We thought that was like, you know, the ultimate thing
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That we had been dealt and we're working through.
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Now all of a sudden that seems like--
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Maureen: way on the back burner.
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Jordan: yeah, i mean, we would all be in wheelchairs
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If we could have jane.
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Maureen: we wanted to honor her life.
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And we just want to remember that and rejoice in that,
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That we were able to partake in that for that amount of time.
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Jordan: there's a reassuring.
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We know that as hard as this is for us,
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God has sacrificed his own son.
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You get a little bit better sense
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Of how big of a deal that is.
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There was like a reset of, "you don't see what i'm doing,
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You weren't here from the beginning,
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You don't know kind of how this is,
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How i'm orchestrating things.
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What you do know is that i love you.
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What you do know is that i sent my son for you.
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What you do know is that you're gonna live with me eternally.
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What you do know is you're gonna see your daughter again.
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What you do know is you can trust me.
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What you do know is you need to live by faith."
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And that was sort of, i mean, that's how we survived,
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I would say, the first few years.
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Maureen: walking by faith is just knowing,
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God, you have never left us or forsaken us,
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And you've always provided for us in every way.
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Dr. youssef: jesus will use these storms to prepare you
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To reign and rule in the universe with him forever.
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To god be the glory. to god be the glory.
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Give him praise. give him praise.
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Michael A. Youssef - Fear of Faith

August 2, 2025 | S25 E31 | 28:35

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