Today on Summit Life with Jiddy Greer.

Some things God does just to prepare you for himself.

God wants your heart to belong fully to him, to love him, to trust him.

God calls you first to himself, only secondarily to a task.

And that means by the way that what God is doing in you is just as significant as what he is doing through you. Welcome to Summit Life, the Bible Teaching Ministry of J.D. Greer, lead pastor of the Summit Church in

Raleigh, North Carolina. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vittevich.

Okay, well, I'm sure we've all had moments and even seasons when we

wondered why God works the way that he does, why he answered a prayer there but was

silent here and then out of the blue seemed to randomly perform a miracle.

Today, Pastor Jady explains that God really does have a method to what might look like madness

to us. It's another lesson from our study in the book of

acts. If you missed any of the messages in this series be sure to listen at jadegrier

dot com. Now let's join pastor jadee as he teaches from Acts chapter 9 verses 19 through 31.

Hope you see is one of the most powerful forces on the planet and hope enables you to endure some things

that you are not able to endure without it no matter how strong your character is or

how how strong the support group that you have around you is.

If you are not a Christian this weekend,

my hope for you is that you will learn a little bit

about why those who are around you who are Christians,

maybe they're sitting next to you this weekend,

why it is that they seem to be able to go through certain things differently than you are able to go through

them, and for you not to look at them and admire them, but for you to ask yourself some questions about do I have

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