God is closer than you think with Pastor Joshua Ryan Butler
Susie Larson Live
Faith Radio
4.8 • 837 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Do you ever question whether God is on your side? It can be hard to believe when you're reeling from the pain of life. Pastor Joshua Ryan Butler shares from his book, "God Is on Your Side: How Jesus Is For You When Everything Seems Against You."
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Here's the podcast from Susie Larson Live. Enjoy the conversation. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome to Susie Larson Live. Always so honored to get to spend this time with you. |
| 0:25.9 | In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk. |
| 0:31.8 | The deep in your understanding of God's Word and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. |
| 0:37.8 | Well, here's a question for you, and I really love you to answer. Do you believe God is for you |
| 0:41.9 | and with you and working out his best plans for you in this particular season you're in? |
| 0:47.5 | It's easy to believe that when life's going well, but how about when everything's going wrong? |
| 0:51.9 | Do you hold fast to those truths when you're betrayed? |
| 0:55.0 | When God allows you to go through a prolonged season of suffering and trial? Or it seems like |
| 1:00.3 | the mountains stand in your way will never move despite how you fast and pray? How do you keep a faith |
| 1:06.1 | perspective then? How do you believe the best about God then? Joshua Ryan Butler joins me today. We're going to |
| 1:12.2 | draw from his book, God is on your side, how Jesus is for you when everything seems against you. |
| 1:17.8 | And just reading a bit about his story, he is no stranger to suffering. He's not writing this book |
| 1:21.9 | in theory. He's writing it from experiencing God in the valley of his own suffering. He writes |
| 1:27.1 | this, Jesus approaches you not to take |
| 1:29.6 | something from you, but to give himself to you, not with self-serving avarice, but with life-giving love. |
| 1:36.9 | He does more than look at you, he sees you. I love that. All of you, your story, your gifts, |
| 1:42.8 | your desires, your wounds, your trophies, and your |
| 1:45.0 | scars. God sees all that lies beneath the tip of your iceberg. His spirit's searching beneath the |
| 1:50.3 | surface, like deep calling to the deep of your ocean floor. God cares about the whole you, |
| 1:55.9 | body and soul. That is just a healing balm to read, isn't it? Again, Joshua Ryan Butler's my guest today. His book is |
| 2:01.9 | God is on your side, how Jesus is for you and everything seems against you. Got a handful of copies |
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