Preaching to the Choir | Navigating Faith
Mike Force Podcast
Mike Glover
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
1. The Map – God’s Word
• The Bible is like a topo map it shows the terrain ahead, the dangers, and the path to take.
• Psalm 119:105 – “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
• Without the map, we guess and wander. With it, we see the big picture.
2. The Compass – The Holy Spirit
• The compass always points to true north like the Spirit always points to God’s truth.
• John 16:13 – “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth.”
• Even if you drift or get turned around, the compass brings you back to the right bearing.
3. The Navigator – You
• The map and compass don’t walk for you, you must take the steps.
• Proverbs 3:5–6 – “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”
• God sets the course, but obedience is your job.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good on guys. Welcome back to preaching the choir. Mike Glover here. Not a preacher, not a pastor, just a dude talking about his experiences. I hope you're having a good Sunday. I am having a difficult Sunday morning because I have not slept. As you could tell by these little bags under my little eyes. I did not sleep and was up at 1.30 in the morning, |
| 0:23.6 | partially because there was a full moon. |
| 0:26.6 | And whenever there is full moons, I don't tend to sleep. |
| 0:30.6 | But also, all the cortisol and all the stress |
| 0:34.6 | that I'm dealing with in my life makes it difficult to sleep. |
| 0:41.5 | You deal with that? Is it hard for you to sleep? Not because of caffeine, not because you had a good |
| 0:50.4 | workout in the afternoon, but because of the things weighing on your heart and mind. |
| 0:56.3 | Well, welcome to the club. Maybe you got these two. Not the eyes, the backs. |
| 1:02.1 | Last night, I was on my back deck. Praying. Also thinking about what I was going to talk about today, no pressure, looking out, watching the loom reflect off the tin on these rooftops of these barns in my backyard and watching that loom bounce across these open fields of alfalfa and hay. |
| 1:28.3 | Looking out in the horizon and seeing the outline of the mountains |
| 1:31.3 | that are so beautiful here. |
| 1:33.3 | And it reminded me of Afghanistan, |
| 1:36.3 | my military experience in Afghanistan. |
| 1:39.3 | And that's not a post-traumatic reflection. |
| 1:43.3 | It's just the nature of a mirrored of experiences overseas and sometimes missing it. |
| 1:50.0 | I also made me think about some of the things that I went through in training. |
| 1:56.0 | When I was 17, I learned about land navigation. |
| 2:01.6 | Land navigation is an interesting skill set. |
| 2:04.6 | Like most skill sets that you learn, |
| 2:07.6 | you have to start off the concept or an idea, really theory. |
| 2:13.6 | And you learn through doctrine, a field manual, in the case of land nav. |
| 2:20.3 | So I learn about terrain features in a classroom, how to shoot an azimuth, how to read a topographical map. |
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