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The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast

Confidence in God: Foundation of Confidence

The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast

The Elisabeth Elliot Foundation

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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0:00.0

There is nothing worth living for unless it is worth dying for.

0:10.6

My grandmother lived a life devoted to Jesus, and today her talks have been made available

0:16.0

in their original form.

0:18.1

So you too can be built up through the insights and mysteries God revealed to her throughout

0:23.7

her ministry.

0:25.4

Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliott.

0:33.2

I mentioned last night I'm sintering my remarks around confidence in God.

0:39.6

Nobody is going to be willing to trust somebody else in whom he has not confidence, nor are

0:47.1

we going to obey.

0:49.2

So to me it is of paramount importance that we have very clearly defined in our own minds

0:58.1

where our confidence lies.

1:01.2

Does it lie in results, circumstances, events, answers to prayer, our own spirituality?

1:11.4

Many years ago I had the great privilege of visiting a beautiful sheep farm up in the

1:15.7

northern mountains of Wales, a place called Shana Mouthui.

1:21.2

And a very beautiful misty summer morning I stood in the bedroom window of the farmhouse

1:28.7

of the shepherd and his wife while his wife explained to me what the shepherd was doing.

1:32.8

As we looked out the window we could see what looked like a rug just sliding slowly down

1:38.1

this velvety green mountain side.

1:40.1

Well the rug of course was a huge flock of sheep and I could see them in the distance moving

1:45.5

down and as they got down to close to where the shepherd was he was on horseback with

1:50.0

his black and white dog Mac.

1:52.9

I could see Mac circling wildly around the left side of the flock and then suddenly he

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