Be Strong and Courageous - I Will Not Settle!: Confronting the Spirit of Cynicism, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
Living on the Edge
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🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
If you or someone you care about is feeling hopeless, overwhelmed by challenges, or questioning the value of life, do not miss this program. Chip wraps up his impactful talk on the destructive power of cynicism. Dive into Psalm 107 to uncover valuable insights that grow hope and resilience during tough times. Discover what it means to embrace a life of purpose and meaning.
Main Points
Declarative statement: I will not settle.Four scenes the Spirit of God gave David:
- God wants to rescue the wanderers, those who are lost and without purpose. --Psalm 107:4-9
- God longs to rescue those in bondage. --Psalm 107:10-16
- God longs to rescue what the Scripture would call rebellious fools. --Psalm 107:17-22
- God longs to rescue us from the storms of life. --Psalm 107:23-32
Final warning. --Psalm 107:43
God’s Word to you and to me: He is powerful, He’s in control, and He has given you and me the job to be bold and courageous in one of the most strategic times in world history.
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
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| 0:00.0 | If you or someone you know would characterize their life as hopeless, life's not worth living, |
| 0:10.1 | I just can't go on, then you need to get this message to them or you need to listen to it yourself. |
| 0:17.3 | There is hope, and there's a way to find it. |
| 0:22.0 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip England. |
| 0:26.8 | Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry focused on helping |
| 0:31.5 | Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:34.2 | Today we conclude our newest series, Be Strong and Courageous. |
| 0:38.3 | We pray that the lessons from these eight Psalms that Chip has taught have strengthened your faith |
| 0:42.3 | and helped you overcome your biggest fears. |
| 0:45.3 | And to help others learn as you have, would you take a minute after this message and share this series with a friend? |
| 0:50.3 | Now you can do that through the Chipping Grramap or by sending them the free MP3s |
| 0:55.1 | that you'll find at Living on the Edge.org. Okay, go to Psalm 107 in your Bible as we join |
| 1:02.1 | Chip for the conclusion of his talk, I will not settle, confronting the spirit of cynicism. |
| 1:08.5 | I have some good friends that work in the addiction arena, and they tell me, you really |
| 1:15.1 | can't help people until they come to the end of themselves. |
| 1:18.7 | I mean, they will con you, they will lie to you, they will promise anything, but if you |
| 1:23.7 | get with anyone in a celibate recovery or a 12-step or some sort of counseling program where lives really change, |
| 1:31.6 | everyone knows until you get to the point where you stop denying, stop lying, stop lying, stop manipulating, and just realize, |
| 1:40.0 | I am helpless and I am hopeless to change. |
| 1:46.0 | If that's you or if that's someone you know, |
| 1:53.0 | there is a God in heaven and there is a Jesus who is a Savior that longs to forgive and to restore and to break the chains and to help you. |
| 2:07.4 | All you have to do is ask and then find a community of his people and get real and get honest. |
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