I met hello and welcome to Amen podcast. I'm look at Lonnie your host and in today's episode, we will talk about how God is changing you in your situation all for his glory and your good. So friend, how is your life changing right now? Maybe you're starting a new job or there's a big move coming up. Maybe a relationship just started or a relationship ended.

Well, about a year ago, we were in what seemed like a pretty bad situation and God changed it into something really, really good. Well, now it feels like it's almost becoming a bad situation again. And while that may feel overwhelming at times, the truth is the comfort is that God is always up to something good because he is our unchanging God.

So you may be asking yourself, what is Jesus's genealogy? Have anything to do with this? Well, stick around and you'll find out totally. There's a situation that we're in that's heavy and we've been thinking about it and we're like, God, what are you doing?

Changing your clothes can be a very vulnerable and uncomfortable thing. When I was in fifth grade, I went to a camp. I didn't change my underwear once for a whole week. I got home. My family was making fun of me. Like, what are you doing? You stink? What's going on?

And I didn't change because I was ashamed. I was afraid that someone was going to walk into the bathroom stall at this camp and see me exposed and vulnerable.

God is changing you and it's an uncomfortable process. It's a vulnerable process. It's exposing areas of your life that you don't want to see. You don't want others to see.

But regardless of that, God is doing something in you that you can't do without his help. I'm not a morning person. Most of the people in my family are not morning people.

Usually you're not a morning person because you've been taught not to be a morning person through other people's actions. And I wake up and I'm so grumpy, like until like noon almost every day.

And I'm working on getting better at it. And yesterday I was very grumpy. I was like, let's just get out of the house and go to the beach. Maybe I'll, it'll help me change my perspective.

And we go and nothing happened. I was just still grumpy sitting on the beach. My kids are playing in the water. And I had to take Lucy for a little drive because she falls asleep in the car whenever we drive her around that time.

And so she falls asleep. I come back and I was reading my daily Bible plan. And I get to this part where Jacob.

He is thinking about changing his situation by leaving the area that he's in because the area that he's in. There's a famine. No food. God says, stay there. Don't go to Egypt. Egypt is a picture of the world.

What God was saying to Jacob is, trust me. Stay where you are. I'm going to change the situation.

Don't go to the world. Don't turn to what they're telling you to do. The world's going to tell you change you change your situation by making more money by dating someone else by doing some type of cosmetic surgery, by changing your gender, by whatever.

And then you change it back. And people think, if I change my world, if I change the thing around me, if I change how the world sees me, then I will internally change. That's not how we change.

He says, don't turn to the world. Don't turn to Egypt. Stay where you are. I'm going to change you. And then through changing you, I'm going to change your situation.

Through Jacob learning to trust God, when it seemed crazy, it changed Jacob.

As I'm reading that, I look up. I see my beautiful, gorgeous Hawaiian beauty of a wife in the water with my kids, my kids are splashing. They're having a great time.

There's no place in the world they'd rather be than in that water. We have the whole beach to ourselves. And instantly,

we're in about our future. We're in about what our life is going to look like with this podcast and we're in about everything.

And so all that changes in our realize, I'm blessed. And God is telling me to stay exactly where I am and let him do it.

Favorite one of my favorite rappers, not Clyde. He has a song called Rest and he says, I did my best and God did the rest. And we can rest in that.

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