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🗓️ 28 April 2023
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Feminine Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks so much for joining me today. |
0:10.5 | Today I'm going to talk to you about a verse that I remember Doug's mother sometimes quoting. |
0:17.5 | When you ask her how she was doing in the midst of some chaos or other, she would say faint, |
0:24.0 | yet pursuing. And the context of this comes from Judges 8.4. And Gideon came to Jordan and passed over |
0:31.9 | he and the 300 men that were with him. Faint, yet pursuing them. Gideon and his men were pursuing |
0:38.9 | Midianites and they were exhausted and hungry and no one would give them bread along the way. |
0:45.1 | But they just didn't give up. They pursued the Midianites despite their fatigue and hunger. |
0:51.0 | And they eventually destroyed them. On their way back, they dealt with those who wouldn't give |
0:55.8 | them bread. But that's not my point here. That's the context of this verse that the 300 men |
1:03.7 | and Gideon were faint, yet pursuing. Another example of this kind of perseverance is in |
1:10.2 | Louis's The Horse and his Boy. When Shasta was running from the lion to the hermit's house, |
1:16.1 | he was trying to get the king loon to warn him that rabidash and his troops were on the way |
1:21.3 | planning a surprise attack. Though totally spent when he reached the hermitage, the old hermit told |
1:27.6 | him that he must keep running straight ahead, always straight ahead if he would reach king loon |
1:33.4 | in time. And thus Shasta saved the day. In situations like this though, our situations are no |
1:40.4 | doubt far less dramatic than these. There are always two enemies. The enemy you are pursuing |
1:48.0 | and the impulse within to give up. Growing fate is not a sin, but making it your master is a sin. |
1:56.4 | Pursuing is the courageous thing in this case, pushing past the physical or mental or spiritual |
2:03.0 | fatigue to get where you're supposed to be. That's the goal. We are to be pursuing our enemies to |
2:09.4 | defeat them and this means obedience to Christ. Who are the Midianites you need to slay? |
2:16.8 | Which enemies are you pursuing? Is it fear, cowardice, envy, selfishness, laziness, loneliness? |
2:26.8 | These are all very good targets. Or what circumstances are you trying to overcome? |
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