Hey there, I'm Christine, and I'm so excited to welcome you to the Equipment in Power

Podcast.

Now my prayer is that our time together each week encourages you, awakens you to the

purposes of God in your life, and activates you to follow Jesus wholeheartedly as you

live on mission for him.

Hey podcast listeners, Christine's new book Don't Look Back is Coming Soon, and at the

end of today's episode, you can hear a snippet of that audiobook.

So stay tuned at the end of the teaching to hear Christine share just how much God loves

and cares about you, yes, you as his child.

I know it will encourage you.

Okay, let's dive in to today's message.

Hey everyone, I am so grateful that you have joined me today.

Now listen, in the world in which we live full of chaos and full of adversity and full

of trials and suffering and pain and injustice, all of us need to know how we can grasp a

moment of peace and joy and hope in the midst of adversity.

And I love this.

We are reading from the book of Philippians a very, very famous passage of scripture if

you've walked with Jesus for any amount of time.

But in Philippians chapter four, and I remember Paul is in a Roman prison and he doesn't

know whether he is going to be executed and he doesn't know whether he is going to be

set free.

So imagine the anxiety and the stress of being in a situation where you do not even know

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