Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this final episode in his imagination series, Paul will help you to dream bigger and better

than ever as you enter a new year.

Pretend with me that in your living room on the wall is a huge red magic button.

That if you press that magic button, it would change something in your life forever. What would you change? If you had that kind of

control over the future, how different would your story be? Is there something in your life that is so

disappointed you that you are having trouble living in the middle of your own

story. Is there something in your life that you have always wanted to experience or do that has

always seemed to elude you? Is there a dream that you have held onto that now seems elusive and unrealistic? You don't know why you held so tightly onto this dream. Is there somewhere in your life where, if you were honest, if you could really be candid, you would have to say that you're disappointed with God.

Is there a place where you've doubted God's presence, God's faithfulness, and God's love?

Why would you ever doubt God?

Why would you ever question his faithfulness?

Why would you ever consider whether or not he was good?

Could it be that you are disappointed with God,

not because he hasn't kept his promises to you,

but because he hasn't been willing to deliver that dream

that you've held so tightly onto.

By the cries of birds, by the lies I've heard, by my own talk, by the way I walk, by the claws of beasts, by the laws of priests, by the glutton's feasts, by the word beliefs By the planet's arc, by the falling

dark, by the state of the art, by the beat of my heart, by dark finance, by the

marketing dance, by the poverty trance, by the faithful glands.

Hey! Sarah was a very beautiful lady. Sarah was a very beautiful lady.

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