Who’s in Control?
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
4.8 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Do you put your trust in earthly things like money, relationships, and personal ability—or in God? In this message, Nate Heitzig examines what James 4:13-17 has to say about submitting our ambitions and best-laid plans to God's will and timing as we place our confidence in Him.
I. You Can’t Control the Future (vv. 13-14, 16)
II. You Must Control Yourself (v. 17)
III. Let God Control It All (v. 15)
Talk with God: Meditate on Philippians 4:6-7. Ask the Lord to fill you with His peace, "which surpasses all understanding” (v. 7).
Talk with others: Encourage a fellow believer by reminding them that God is in control, no matter what struggle they’re facing.
Talk with kids: How does knowing Jesus give us hope that He will make things all right one day?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. |
| 0:03.0 | We're so glad you've joined us today. |
| 0:05.0 | While many books, articles, and social media posts offer advice on adulting in our daily lives, |
| 0:10.0 | there's only one resource to help us become spiritually mature believers. |
| 0:15.0 | God's Word. |
| 0:16.0 | This study in the book of James with Pastor Skip will encourage you to embrace discipline and difficulty to glorify God and demonstrate your faith to others. |
| 0:25.5 | Osuna Campus in the house. |
| 0:28.0 | How are you guys doing today? |
| 0:30.1 | Come on, it's a good day to be in church. |
| 0:33.1 | What a special time that was praying together |
| 0:35.6 | as a church family to come and bring our cares and |
| 0:38.3 | concerns before the Lord. Hey, if that's something you enjoy you like that, that's actually something |
| 0:42.4 | we do. I think they might have mentioned it. Every Wednesday night, we actually do that. We have a time |
| 0:47.3 | of worship, Bible study, and we have an opportunity for you to come and get your request prayed for. |
| 0:53.1 | So if that's something you enjoyed, I find those |
| 0:55.3 | Wednesdays is such a nice respite from a week on Hump Day to be able to come and be able to just |
| 1:01.7 | focus on Jesus. So we invite you out to that. Hey, pull out your Bibles. If you've got your Bible, |
| 1:07.7 | hold it up in the air. Come on. Let's see those beautiful Bibles. If you don't have one, you should have one in the chair in front of you. |
| 1:13.9 | Download the Bible app on your phone, or you can follow along on the screens as well. |
| 1:19.2 | We're going to be in Chapter 4, James Chapter 4 today, closing out Chapter 4. |
| 1:24.9 | And then next week, Pastor Skip is going to be back in the pulpit to begin chapter |
| 1:29.9 | five and i just got to say i was looking ahead at chapter five and i'm just so thankful that i |
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