Living with Unexplainable Joy with Dr. Gary Oliver

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Gary Oliver is a modern day Job. Though he holds some titles (theologian, psychologist, therapist), he is a Christ follower at heart, leading men and women into deeper walks with Jesus through Going Deeper Retreats.

This episode is like free admission into a mastermind on life’s secrets to finding joy, coming from a man who’s lived through unbelievable loss and heartache.

In the span of four years, Gary lost his entire nuclear family and half of his current family. If that weren’t enough, he battled 7 cancer surgeries during that time, lost 90% of his tongue, was told he’d never speak again, eat from a feeding tube, and was even told he had less than 3 months to live by one of the nation’s top cancer doctors. That was 13 years ago.

What Gary discovered after years of serving God all over the world, writing books, and speaking to millions of men, was that God’s sovereign joy, in the moment, is what truly matters. He joins us this week to reveal beautiful, hard-earned lessons, to experience God’s joy every day, no matter our circumstances.

Two of Gary’s quotes from this episode:
⁃ “I don’t [seek God] to get something, but to obey.”
⁃ “God’s promises are always more powerful than Satan’s pessimism.”

In this episode, Gary talks about: 

How he had to answer the questions, “Have I failed God?” and “Why would He do this to me?”
How to seek God and experience His joy even when you’re raising little kids!
The four lessons he learned about sovereign joy that we can practice, beginning today
Insights on what a rule of life is, how to practice gratitude, and the best book of the Bible for everyday reading

Show Notes:
To learn more about Going Deeper Retreats for both men and women, click here.
https://www.goingdeeper.org/

Listen to Dr. Oliver’s message called Sovereign Joy by clicking here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS8V0JXxfQ8

Gentlemen, apply now for The Leader's Heart Men's Cohort, Feb. 26-29, 2023: https://www.famousathome.com/theleadersheart

The MyKidsEQ Coaching Cohort launches March 4! Get first 8 weeks of KidsEQAcademy curriculum. Sign up here:
https://www.famousathome.com/offers/7izP4Puk/checkout

Ladies, sign up for Tender & Fierce Group Coaching Cohort with Christi! Begins April 1, 2024:
https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce

Transcript

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0:00.0	And what did I do? Did I commit some great dark sin? Have I failed them in some ways? Because one thing we've talked about before is that Satan is always trustworthy.
0:14.6	Satan is reliable when count on him to distort, deceive, depress, and discourage us.
0:24.8	So God continued to say, son, I can't not be faithful.
0:30.6	And yeah, this doesn't make sense to you.
0:33.9	But right now, I'm trusting you with a sovereign opportunity to practice what you've spent
0:41.2	your life.
0:41.7	Gary, either I'm faithful or I'm not.
0:47.2	And I said, I've leased for faithful.
0:50.3	I've written, I've spoken, yeah, but now you're going to have a whole different level.
0:57.2	I'm trusting you with a whole different level of opportunity.
1:01.5	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
1:07.2	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
1:16.8	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast. Today, got a credible interview with my dear friend,
1:24.1	Dr. Gary Oliver. You know, this is a man who I have been wanting to have
1:28.3	on the podcast for a very long time and we finally got our schedules worked out to make it
1:32.7	happen.
1:33.1	But he is a mentor.
1:34.6	He's a friend.
1:35.8	Can't even begin to tell you the years and the conversations and the deep friendship
1:42.2	and the cultivating of just our spiritual lives together has just been
1:48.6	beautiful. And I've been wanting to introduce him to you, our podcast family, for a very long time.
1:54.4	And today we get to do that. And so he is, he's got all kinds of accolades. He's got all kinds of things throughout the years.
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