How Do I Know God's Will? | Historical Books | 1 Samuel 10:1-16

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

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Is God working in my mundane life? How can I be sure that God's plan is good? What is God's will for my life? In today's episode, Keith shares how 1 Samuel 10:1-16 reminds us that God still works miracles through our mundane lives. If you're listening on Spotify, comment below one takeaway from today's episode! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 1 Samuel 10:1-16

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.1	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Keith Simon.
0:13.1	Have you ever been told news that you just had a hard time believing?
0:16.4	Maybe the news was too good or too unexpected or just too weird.
0:22.8	Well, I think it's safe to say that when the prophet Samuel told Saul that he was Israel's first king, Saul would have had a hard time believing
0:29.2	that news. I mean, Israel didn't even have a king. And if they were to get a king, why should Saul think
0:35.5	it would be him? God is so patient and gracious to us.
0:40.3	He takes time to confirm to Saul that he heard right. He truly was the first
0:45.6	anointed king of Israel. But the way God confirms it to Saul isn't through some sort of miracle,
0:52.0	but instead through very mundane ordinary circumstances.
0:56.5	Before I share that story with you from 1 Samuel 10, can I share another story with you?
1:01.9	A crazy story that was written up in Reader's Digest in the late 1940s.
1:06.8	It's about how God used very ordinary circumstances to reunite a husband and wife after World
1:12.7	War II.
1:14.1	On January 10th, 1948, just a couple years after the conclusion of World War II, Marcel Sternberger
1:20.5	got on a train in a Brooklyn subway.
1:23.0	It was a train he'd never been on before, because he normally took a different train,
1:27.4	but he had changed his
1:28.3	schedule to visit a sick friend that morning so now he was boarding a new train to get back to work
1:34.1	and the train he got on was packed with people there were no seats available but just as he was
1:40.3	getting ready to give up a man jumped up and ran off the train, realizing he was about to
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