369: God’s Presence, Your Passion

The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Talk Radio

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Hi, friend. Welcome back to the Encouraging Word Podcast. Today’s episode is for anyone who knows what it’s like to lose everything, who knows what it’s like to feel far from God. Listen to this promise found in Psalm 139: “Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.” God is not far from you, my friend. He is with you.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, Max Lakato here. Our father is good, even when life isn't.
0:06.8	Perhaps that's tough to hear when the world bottoms out on you. The diagnosis comes, the depression
0:14.1	doesn't end. You lose your job or worse. You lose a loved one. How do you find hope and strength to keep going?
0:23.5	In my book, Never Give Up, you will see that with God's help, you will get through this.
0:29.7	Don't give up.
0:30.6	God is using this myth for good.
0:33.7	Learn more about never give up at maxlocato.com slash never give up.
0:43.0	Access more.
0:47.7	Hello, friend. This is Max Lakato. Thanks for tuning in. It's an honor to be with you. As we study God's word together,
0:57.4	may our time uplift and encourage you. If you could use some hope, I pray you find it here today. Melanie says that her son Cooper was born with a smile on his face.
1:21.3	The dimple never left his cheek.
1:24.4	He made friends with everybody.
1:27.2	Neighbors, classmates, of course, parents, grandparents.
1:33.5	He loved to laugh.
1:36.7	He loved to love.
1:38.8	His father, JJ, confesses partiality when he says he was the perfect child. And Cooper was born to the
1:47.6	perfect family, farm-dwelling, fun-loving, God-seeking, Christ-hungry family. JJ and Melanie poured
1:56.8	their lives into the hearts of their four children.
2:06.4	And JJ especially enjoyed spending time with Cooper, his only son.
2:13.1	That's why the two were riding in the dune buggy that day on July 17, 2009.
2:15.4	They intended to cut the grass together.
2:21.3	The lawnmower needed a spark plug, and when Melanie offered to drive to town to get one,
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