Welcome to The Nothing is Wasted Podcast. Conversations designed to help you as you live,

learn and lead through pain. And now the host of The Nothing is Wasted Podcast,

Davey Blackburn.

Hello, welcome to The Nothing is Wasted Podcast. I'm Davey your host.

And I am your co-host, Aubrey Samson.

Aubrey, we are in the last episode of this adoption series. I'm really excited about it because this guest is,

I mean, hopefully some of our listeners have heard of him. He's fairly well-known, Sam Collier.

Yeah, he's a great preacher. I feel like a lot of our listeners will have, or at least now,

they're going to be inspired to, right?

Yeah, well, absolutely. But maybe even as he kind of unfolds a story a little bit,

some people might be, oh yeah, I remember that, or I've seen that, or whatever.

But it's a really cool story about adoption. And just very unique the way his adoption story unfolded

in the sense of how he met his biological mom specifically. And he says something in this episode

that, man, when he said that, I was like, wow, that is so profound. And it's so helpful for all of us to understand this.

But he said something about the other side, on the other side of surrender is blessing or the miraculous

or God comes through when you surrender to him. But there's like this faith step process

that, it's like a prerequisite, an act of faith. And I was just thinking about that in terms of,

I mean, that is just such a true statement, but it's also very, it's very unnerving to think about.

I think it's a hard statement, right? And we can tend to go, oh, well, that's legalism or something, right?

Like what you're saying is I have to, I don't know, I have to earn God's favor, I have to,

but I don't think that's it always saying. I think it's not about God's love for you or God's acceptance for you.

It's that on the other side of obedience, on the other side of surrender, there's fruitfulness, right?

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