God of the Last Minute
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Many times in Scripture, God did a miracle at what seemed like the last minute. But how do you respond when God doesn't answer a prayer for your child the way you'd hoped? John and Danny offer a word of encouragement for parents who are struggling to have hope. Featuring Sheila Erwin.
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| 0:00.0 | I love the assurance that scripture gives us that no matter how dark things are God is |
| 0:08.6 | still there. |
| 0:09.6 | Certainly we see that in the Old Testament. I'm thinking about people like Joseph, |
| 0:14.8 | who suffered time and again. |
| 0:16.9 | And there were long times of circumstantial discouragement |
| 0:20.9 | that I'm sure he was just feeling like God where are you but God |
| 0:24.3 | was always stepping in doing miraculous things and at the end of Genesis you see |
| 0:29.4 | Joseph was blessed he was mightily blessed by God. New Testament is full of great illustrations as well. |
| 0:36.5 | The point is God steps in. Well, I'm John Fuller joined in the studio by Dr. Danny Werta, |
| 0:41.9 | who leads our focus on the family parenting team and |
| 0:44.4 | Danny I don't know if you have a favorite Bible story or Bible character who is kind of rescued |
| 0:49.5 | at the last minute anything or anybody come to mind? Well, I have many and I'll say Shadrack Meiagov, that's my favorite, where they are facing the fiery |
| 0:59.6 | furnace, everything's stacked up against them and they say you know if God comes here and |
| 1:05.8 | rescues us great if he shows up to do this and if not I still believe in God and |
| 1:10.9 | he's my all and all in his answer the fiery furnace there you see an extra |
| 1:17.5 | inside of that furnace an angel with them and the protection that they had. |
| 1:22.6 | That story amazes me. |
| 1:23.8 | I would have loved to have witnessed that. |
| 1:25.7 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:27.1 | Well, there are so many moments through scripture. |
| 1:28.8 | Let's go ahead and turn now to something a little more recent, |
| 1:31.1 | which is why we talked to Sheila Irwin. |
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