Finding God When You Need Him Most - Experiencing God When You Feel Like a Nobody, Going Nowhere, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 22 November 2024
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Summary
Do you feel lonely, depressed or maybe just numb? Kinda bland, like you’re a nobody going nowhere? And down deep, you don’t think anyone cares about you? If so, join Chip as he shares how you can experience God when you feel like a nobody going nowhere.
Main PointsFive things to remember: When you feel like a nobody, going nowhere
Psalm 139- God knows you! (vs. 1-6) You are understood by God
- God is pursuing you! (vs. 7-12) You are chosen/wanted by God
- God made you! (vs. 13-16a) You are awesome/precious in God's sight
- God has a plan just for you! (vs. 16b-18) You are indispensible to God.
- God’s world is warped with wickedness! (vs. 19-24) You have a choice to make.
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.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you feel lonely, depressed, or maybe just numb, kind of bland, like you're a nobody going nowhere? |
| 0:09.2 | If you have thoughts like that or have a friend who has that type of thinking, you're not going to want to miss today's program. |
| 0:16.8 | Stay with me. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are a discipleship-driven ministry on a mission to encourage Christians everywhere to live like Christians. |
| 0:32.6 | You know, if we're honest, we've all struggled with those thoughts and feelings, Chip just described. So today as we continue our series, Finding God When You Need Him Most, |
| 0:41.3 | Chip will explore what it means for our identity to be rooted in Christ. |
| 0:45.3 | And no matter what others may say or what we may feel, |
| 0:49.3 | how we can focus on who Jesus declares we are. |
| 0:52.3 | So with that, go in your Bible to Psalm 139. |
| 0:57.1 | How do you experience God when you feel like a nobody who's going nowhere? God's got a plan. |
| 1:05.4 | 1988, I had a two-year span of feeling like a nobody going nowhere. I made a five-year commitment to be |
| 1:13.5 | a country Bible church. And I finished my schooling. We started out with about 35 people and God |
| 1:18.9 | blessed and the church grew. But in year number six, my commitment was over and okay, God, |
| 1:24.1 | what do you want to do with my life? And I loved it. And the people were awesome and they love me and they love my family and it couldn't have been a better place to live except I went to seminary after going through more school than I wanted to to be a missionary and then God switched my path and said no I want you to pastor. That didn't go well. But being a pastor in a rural area of 4,500 people with no stoplight, this is that life of impact I dreamed about. |
| 1:56.7 | One day I remember in my car in a half mile radius, I counted 16 churches in a half mile radius. |
| 2:04.2 | I thought, people want to hear about God in Kaufman, Texas. |
| 2:06.8 | There's plenty of people to tell them, why do you have me here? |
| 2:12.7 | And I just felt like, you know, when God went through sort of the roll-a-decks of eternity and everybody's |
| 2:18.0 | names popped up when he got to the eyes he just sort of skipped down to the jays and i just felt |
| 2:24.0 | stranded great people i wanted to be on the cutting edge i had these i had these dreams in my heart |
| 2:31.0 | that i thought were from god now i was doubting i thought maybe they're not in god's dreams all. They're just me. And then I went from there to thinking, well, maybe I'm not |
| 2:37.5 | competent. Maybe this is it. Maybe I just don't have the wherewithal that it's needed to make an |
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