When Your Suffering Is Too Much, Cling to This Truth
Rush
Gather Ministries
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes life can seem like it's too much to bear. But when you allow Jesus to carry your heavy burden, you realize this simple truth: Your life is just beginning.
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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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→ Loop for Women, a three-times-a-week email devotional anchored in prophetic prayer and designed to help you receive God's love, meditate on his beauty, and tend to your precious heart. Subscribe FREE at https://www.loopforwomen.com.
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.
→ WiRE for Men, a twice-a-week email devotional for men that tackles tough questions like "What does it mean to be a man today?" and "Why am I so angry?" and "How can I find true friendship?". Subscribe FREE at https://www.wireformen.com.
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 | There is more for you. It is time for you to reject indifference and be all in. It is |
| 0:14.3 | time to stop going through the motions of loving me and instead love me with your whole |
| 0:21.4 | heart. It is time to stop reading books about me and instead listen to my voice speak |
| 0:29.9 | into you in all moments in all things. It is time to talk less about me in church with |
| 0:39.5 | friends in social media posts and instead talk more to me with your own heart. |
| 0:59.9 | Rush podcast, Holy Spirit in modern life, Revelation 3, 20-22, the passion. Behold, I'm standing |
| 1:26.1 | at the door, knocking. If your heart is open to hear my voice and you open the door within, |
| 1:35.0 | I will come into you and feast with you and you will feast with me. And to the one who |
| 1:43.9 | conquers, I will give the privilege of sitting with me on my throne just as I conquered and |
| 1:51.5 | sat down with my father on his throne. The one whose heart is open, let him listen carefully |
| 2:01.0 | to what the Spirit is saying now to the churches. Holy Spirit in us, this is what we heard |
| 2:25.4 | for you. How many times do I say I love you? How many times? How many ways? I say it all day |
| 2:42.6 | everywhere you look. Every moment you breathe a breath. I am saying I love you. So turn |
| 2:52.0 | your heart so you can hear me. See me now. You want to see the kingdom of heaven. You want my |
| 3:04.0 | kingdom to calm down. You want earth to shine to be filled with my glory. You want my will to fill |
| 3:14.9 | the earth so you can see me and experience me everywhere. Then let me ask you this. Do you love |
| 3:25.7 | me? Do you want me? Because often you are indifferent to me. You look to me when you want |
| 3:37.4 | something. When you need something that you can't figure out how to get by yourself. And I am a good |
| 3:46.6 | father. I love it when you turn to me. I love it when you recognize you need me. But often your love |
| 3:58.3 | for me is fickle. I am easily forgotten. Often you think about yourself more than me. About what you |
| 4:08.8 | want. What you think you need more than me. This is what love looks like. I go everywhere to find you |
| 4:21.8 | over and over again. I cross deserts meeting you when you feel alone and forgotten and sad. I climb |
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