A Resource to Ask For, Part 1

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

When you're out of answers and can't hang on, Chip reminds you: God is with you in your darkest circumstances, offering a resource to help.

The principle = “Don’t ask why, ask what.”

Three “what” questions survivors ask:

1. What can I control when my world falls apart?

2. What must I do to make it through today?

3. What hope do I have for tomorrow?

The answer = God’s sovereignty + goodness = He will take my worst circumstances and use them for my best if I will trust Him and not bail out of His spiritual maturity process.

I. The problem: sometimes we get “stuck” in our pain.

II. The solution: God promises help for those who are “stuck.” -Jas. 1:5-8

God’s offer = supernatural WISDOM
Our responsibility = to ASK
God’s attitude when we come = OPEN & GENEROUS

III. The one condition: We receive God’s wisdom only when we “ask in faith, without any doubting.”

Conclusion: Four things you must do to get unstuck

1. Admit you’re stuck

2. Admit you can’t do it on your own

3. Ask God for supernatural wisdom

4. Be willing to do whatever God’s wisdom demands of you

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0:00.0	Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:04.0	When you feel like there's no hope, when you feel like there's nowhere to turn,
0:09.0	where there's no answers, no explanations, what do you do?
0:13.0	Where's God when you feel stuck paralyzed by fear?
0:16.0	That's today. Stay with me.
0:18.0	When crisis strikes without warning, even the most devoted believers can find themselves paralyzed.
0:26.2	We know what we should do, but we're stuck, frozen, unable to move forward.
0:31.6	I'm Dave Drewie, and today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram offers biblical wisdom to survive whatever you're facing.
0:38.6	Maybe it's a devastating loss, a financial collapse, or a relationship in ruins.
0:43.8	We want to follow God, but honestly, we don't know how.
0:48.0	In today's study of James Chapter 1, Chip describes a supernatural resource that shows you precisely
0:54.1	what to do, when to do it, and how to take the next step, even when you're stuck.
0:59.7	And a bit later, Chip will describe one of the largest match opportunities in the history of living on the edge,
1:05.7	so that you can double the impact of your generous year-end support.
1:09.7	But right now, let's continue the series called
1:11.9	The Art of Survival in an Age of Chaos. I want to tell you about a man that I got to know very,
1:17.4	very well. We became very close friends. He was a fabulous athlete. And we got to know each other,
1:23.8	and then I heard his story. Jerry was a phenomenal athlete who had a future in football.
1:31.3	I mean, millions of dollars in his future, absolute unbelievable. He was walking downtown with his
1:38.5	girlfriend and on a downtown street, two guys came out of a bar and they were fighting and one of them pulled
1:46.4	out a knife. And Jerry instinctively stepped in to try and break up the fight to save one of them. It
1:53.3	looked very, very bad. And as he pulled them apart and got them way, he said, all I heard was a loud
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