It Is Best to Rest, Part 2
Insight for Living Daily Broadcast
Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When you're disappointed with your life, how do you surrender your hopes and dreams to God? |
| 0:12.2 | Can he truly be trusted to fulfill them? |
| 0:14.6 | These are honest questions that deserve credible answers. |
| 0:18.1 | And today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall |
| 0:21.0 | points to several Bible verses that describe a counterintuitive response. |
| 0:25.7 | God's ways are not our ways. We want control and he wants us to surrender. In biblical terms, it's called Resting in Christ. |
| 0:35.6 | This is message number seven in our biographical series on Jesus. |
| 0:39.6 | Chuck titled today's message, |
| 0:41.4 | it is best to rest. |
| 0:43.0 | Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place. Our Father, we acknowledge that and we bow |
| 0:59.0 | before you in recognition of your presence, your right to rule your authority over our lives. We pause from a week that has been for many of us virtually non-stop and perhaps |
| 1:20.9 | for some hectic a lot of loose ends, a number of irons in the fire facing us tomorrow |
| 1:29.2 | in the week ahead. |
| 1:32.3 | But in this day, this day sandwiched between what was and what will be, we come before you for strength, for direction, for |
| 1:49.9 | forgiveness, for reassurance, hope, peace, joy, and dozens of other things that only you can give. |
| 2:07.0 | We haven't them in ourselves. |
| 2:10.0 | And so we ask for you, our father, to take precedence over all the affairs of our lives, |
| 2:20.0 | all of the circumstances |
| 2:32.0 | and find within us a hearing ear and an open heart and a ready will that all of our service might be for the glory of Christ. |
| 2:39.0 | It is in his name we pray. |
| 2:42.0 | Amen. |
| 2:42.8 | You're listening to Insight for Living. To dig deeper into the Bible with Chuck Swindall, |
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