266-Thankfulness During Political (or Marital) Upheaval

Delight Your Marriage

Belah Rose

Sexuality, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Christianity

4.7 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

So, today's a pretty important day. And you may listen to this in the future which will be relevant.

More than ever, our land is divided and we have strong convictions on right and wrong. In Jesus' day political issues based on power, oppression, greed, and con... plagued everyone he interacted with. They were impacted at a personal level.

Jesus' sights were different than those experiencing political suffering. He taught us how to love from our hearts. He brought enemies together to pursue God's kingdom over an earthly kingdom.

I don't know what is going to happen in this election. I know I voted according to my convictions.

More importantly, I know that if the other side wins, God is still my King. He is bigger than me. His timeline is far bigger than the number of years I am on this earth.

So, if the next 4 years needs to look different than I hoped, I will not take that out on God.

Because He knows better than I do. Instead, I will pray for those who I might consider enemies right now. I will also live in thanksgiving. It is a command far too often in the Bible for me to ignore.

I encourage you to not let your heart be troubled.

I encourage you to look like Jesus in this time.

Remember when Peter cut off the ear of the soldier coming to take Jesus to kill him (some might say "self-defense")---Jesus rebuked Peter and healed the soldier.

I don't know what God is up to necessarily, but I trust Him. And I will be faithful to His teachings even now.

If suffering is going on in your marriage, this exact message applies to you. Having hope, faith, and love--even now. It's a choice. A hard one. But the right one.

Blessings,

Belah

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Delight Your Marriage podcast. You're joining me, Bella Rose, as I dive deep into the beauty, power, and truths about intimacy.
0:11.6	Learn not only the practicals, but the heart behind what making love is all about. Delight your marriage.
0:21.2	Hi there. Welcome, welcome. Thank you so much for joining me. This is Bella, and I am releasing
0:28.1	this on Election Day 2020 in the U.S. So I want to talk about Thanksgiving because the day of the U.S. Thanksgiving is coming up soon,
0:41.2	but I actually see Thanksgiving all the time in the Bible.
0:46.5	And depending on what happens this election, I think, you know, 50% of the country is going to have a challenge.
0:59.3	And maybe more than that, even those that got what they wanted, it's challenging nonetheless.
1:07.1	So I want to talk about that and what this all has to do with your marriage and
1:12.3	with your intimacy. So let's go ahead and pray. Father, I just thank you, Lord, that you are a big God.
1:23.0	They're so much bigger than us. Father, I pray that wherever this person is, that you would be present with
1:31.2	them, you would remind them that you have the world under control, that you are not worried,
1:40.0	you are not anxious, you are not concerned. Lord, I pray for our ability to trust you, even right now, even in this time.
1:52.8	In Jesus' name.
1:54.4	Amen. All right. Well, let's just first talk about the election as I'm recording this before I know what happened. I'm very excited to share the journey I've gone through around it. Number one is I have strong opinions
2:24.3	around who I have prayed for and voted for and donated money to. I really have felt a strong conviction around it. I'm not going to share who
2:39.4	I voted for because that won't help our conversation. But where I've come to have peace is that
2:48.5	Jesus walked the earth in an extremely politically volatile time.
2:57.7	In fact, there were absolute enemies in that time period because the Jewish people were the
3:05.2	oppressed people and the those that, you know, the Roman Empire was
3:12.6	the power that required money, the taxpayers were taking more than what they even should
3:21.7	have. And the other thing that we have to remember is this power,
3:29.2	this Roman Empire was doing horrific things. Even when Jesus was born, remember King Herod
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