When Faith Hurts and God Is Still Faithful
Before The Noise
Chad Prather
5.0 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
What happens when obedience costs more than you expected? In Acts 14, Paul and Barnabas preach boldly, face fierce opposition, reject false glory, and endure real suffering, yet the mission never stops. This episode walks through belief and backlash, praise and persecution, and the kind of resilient faith that gets back up after being knocked down. If you have ever wondered whether resistance means you missed God, this teaching will reframe hardship as part of faithfulness and remind you that God's presence is not proven by comfort, but by courage to keep obeying.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Before the Noise, the place where we slow down before the chaos kicks in every weekday. |
| 0:05.2 | Join us for more at BeforeThe Noise.com. Let's go. |
| 0:08.2 | And good morning, everybody. It is Wednesday. It is December 24th, 2025. Welcome to Before the Noise. |
| 0:18.5 | My name is Chad Prather, and I'm glad to be with you guys today. What a year we've had. |
| 0:22.7 | This is the final episode of everything for me this year for Before the Noise. I'm going to |
| 0:32.8 | take a little vacation after Christmas and pray and seek the Lord and rest and do all those things we should do |
| 0:42.3 | as we head into a new year. It's always a good time to have a little reset. I hope you guys are |
| 0:47.2 | ready for a great celebration in these next couple of days. I hope that you will choose to celebrate, |
| 0:54.1 | regardless of what your circumstances or situations are. |
| 0:57.2 | And regardless of whatever negativity comes into your life, choose to celebrate. |
| 1:01.7 | Bite that tongue. |
| 1:05.5 | I'm so glad to be with you guys. |
| 1:07.4 | I'm thankful for everything that you have been a part of in in this these last few |
| 1:13.3 | months particularly with the launch of this little project called before the noise and this is |
| 1:19.1 | something the Lord laid on my heart a couple of months ago and it is now evolved into something |
| 1:23.9 | very powerful very touching it's it's me, and I love seeing the messages |
| 1:28.3 | of people whose lives are being touched because of these simple messages as we work through |
| 1:33.3 | the scripture together. As I tell you every day, these are my devotional thoughts, and you're just |
| 1:37.7 | kind of walking along with me. So I'm very thankful for what God's up to in all of our lives, |
| 1:41.7 | and I hope that you can find in these days an opportunity for gratitude and Thanksgiving to what God is up to. He's up to in all of our lives. And I hope that you can find in these days an opportunity for |
| 1:45.5 | gratitude and Thanksgiving to what God is up to. He's up to a lot of stuff. And I'm looking |
| 1:50.1 | forward to next year, Lord willing, if we make it into it, there's a few things that I'd like to see |
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