Relax and Surrender: Reshaping Our View of Successful Christians
Rush
Gather Ministries
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
How would you describe successful Christians? Doing more for the Kingdom? Having many daily spiritual habits? It's time to reshape our view as we relax and surrender.
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Rush Podcast is a production of Gather Ministries (https://www.gatherministries.com/), a non-profit organization led by Jennifer & Justin Camp. Through our five ministries, we equip men and women to encounter God in the every-day lives they're living. From Loop for Women, an email devotional focused on beauty & prayer, to WiRE for Men, an email devotional that helps men see life with God as the greatest adventure of all time, we hope we have something that matters to you.
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Jennifer is the author of the best-selling book Breathing Eden: Conversations with God on Light, Fresh Air, and New Things. You can find it at https://bit.ly/Breathing-Eden.
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WiRE is written by Justin Camp, author of Invention: Break Free from the Culture Hell-Bent on Holding You Back, Odyssey: Encounter the God of Heaven and Escape the Surly Bonds of this World, and Rescue: When God's Cavalry Arrives to Deliver You from Quiet Desperation. You can find them at https://bit.ly/WiRE-Series-for-Men or wherever books are sold.
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About your hosts:
Justin Camp is a writer and storyteller with a heart for adventure. He created the WiRE devotional for men with modern, busy men in mind and writes books, articles, and devotionals aimed at equipping & encouraging men of all ages. He is a co-founder of Gather Ministries, a nonprofit he runs with his wife, Jennifer, and before he decided to spend his days with a pen and his favorite journal always nearby, he was a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley and a lawyer on Wall Street. Justin, Jennifer, and their three children live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jennifer Camp, co-founder of Gather Ministries, grew up in an almond orchard in Northern California. A former high school English teacher, she loves to write and encourage people to go deeper into their own stories and into their identities in Christ. Jennifer is the Amazon bestselling author of Breathing Eden: On Light, Fresh Air, and New Things and Loop: What Women Need to Know. She also writes at jenniferjcamp.com and is bringing a poetry collection into the world in early 2024.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Love me or not? Follow me or not? Trust my plans or not? What do you choose? I know you're |
| 0:18.0 | every coming and going, your habits and temptations, your desires and dreams. I know what |
| 0:28.0 | will bring you joy. What is good for your heart? I help you discover these things, but because I |
| 0:37.2 | love you, I mainly guide and let you figure it out yourself. |
| 0:59.0 | Rush podcast, Holy Spirit in modern life. |
| 1:11.8 | Ephesians 1, 15-19, the Passion. Because of this, since I first heard about your strong faith in |
| 1:22.5 | the Lord Jesus Christ and your tender love toward all His devoted ones, my heart is always full |
| 1:31.0 | and overflowing with thanks to God for you as I constantly remember you in my prayers. I pray that |
| 1:38.8 | the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to you the riches of the Spirit |
| 1:46.2 | of wisdom and the Spirit of Revelation to know Him through your deepening intimacy with Him. I pray |
| 1:53.8 | that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until |
| 2:01.4 | you experience the full revelation of the hope of His calling. That is the wealth of God's glorious |
| 2:09.0 | inheritance that He finds in us His holy ones. I pray that you will continually experience the |
| 2:16.3 | immeasurable greatness of God's power, made available to you through faith. Then your lives will |
| 2:23.1 | be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you. This is a muddy power that was |
| 2:30.6 | released when God raised Christ from the dead and exalted him to the place of highest honor and |
| 2:37.3 | supreme authority in the heavenly realm. Holy Spirit in us, this is what we heard for you. |
| 3:01.5 | Fear me, but do not be afraid of me. I hold this whole world your life in my hands, but I practice |
| 3:15.9 | surrendering it to. I love you. I love my plans for you. So I leave my hands open. I am fully |
| 3:28.1 | in charge, completely in control. Yet I let you choose your own fate. Love me or not. Follow me |
| 3:40.8 | or not. Trust my plans or not. What do you choose? I know your every coming and going, your habits |
| 3:53.4 | and temptations, your desires and dreams. I know what will bring you joy, what is good for your heart. |
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