Trusting God to Fill the Gap: Rodeo Stars Tyson Durfey (w/ wife Shea Fisher) and Cody Custer
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Life can be a long, difficult ride and there are times that fill us with despair, especially when giving our best isn’t enough to help us change our circumstances. While we wrestle with fear and uncertainty, God works quietly in the background, filling the gaps in our efforts, carefully nudging us forward so we can keep going. Our guests have held onto their faith as they’ve traveled the winding roads of Western sports: world champion rodeo athlete Tyson Durfey and his wife, country music artist Shea Fisher, and former champion bull rider Cody Custer.
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Interview Quotes:
“I go in 100 percent with whatever I decide to go after. I picked up the Bible, and it grabbed hold of my heart. It was just that transition, and it was truly amazing for me.” - Tyson Durfey
“When you hear the word of the Lord that vivid and that audible, it shakes you to your core, it really does.” - Tyson Durfey
“Where you don't see the way, God sees the way.” - Tyson Durfey
“It's important to remember that if you can't do it, God will fill in the gap.” - Tyson Durfey
“I don't know if everything happens for a reason, but I believe there's a reason in the middle of what happens.” - Cody Custer
“I don't believe that God ever takes His hand off any of us, no matter what we're doing, no matter what's going on in our lives.” - Cody Custer
”I think people get too wrapped up in circumstances and forget [success is] not the end all.” - Cody Custer
“I learned a lot more from my boy than I ever thought I did.” - Cody Custer
“[Jesus Calling] is just a book with words until the Spirit hits it, and then it's life.” - Cody Custer
“Everybody grieves their own way. Grieve how you grieve. There's no there's no cookie cutter way to grieve.” - Cody Custer
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| 0:00.0 | Everything that happens happens for a reason and sometimes you have to be put through the |
| 0:06.3 | fire so you can be refined. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | Our guests both have had rich legacies in the world of Western sports |
| 0:15.5 | and know the highs of winning, but also have felt the sting of defeat and how God walked |
| 0:20.4 | them through it all. World Champion rodeo athlete Tyson Durfee and his wife, country music artist Shay Fisher, |
| 0:27.2 | and former champion bull rider Cody Custer. |
| 0:30.6 | When cowboy Tyson Durfee met Australian country music artist Shay Fisher, |
| 0:35.0 | he knew Shay was the woman he was supposed to marry, |
| 0:37.5 | but Tyson didn't know how much Shay's love for him and for God |
| 0:41.3 | would ultimately change his life. |
| 0:43.0 | Over the years as Tyson and Shay grew in their marriage and their spiritual walk, |
| 0:47.0 | they relied on God to carry them through some of their toughest moments, |
| 0:51.0 | especially when they couldn't see their way forward. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm Tyson Durfee. |
| 0:55.9 | First and foremost, I'm a Christian. |
| 0:58.0 | Other than that, I'm a world champion rodeo athlete. |
| 1:00.8 | I'm a husband. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm a father, and I'm a husband I'm a father and I'm a cowboy and I am |
| 1:05.0 | And I am Shay Fisher Dorothy. I am Tyson's wife. I'm partly Australian. I guess now I live in the US so I've been here now for 10 years born and raised in Australia. |
| 1:15.6 | I grew up in a rodeo family but then I branched into music so I moved to Nashville in |
| 1:21.2 | 2009 and then we had met this handsome cowboy and it brought me to |
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