{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dialog","title":"1.24 / Trusting God when you can't control the outcome","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4832,"description":"It was 96 degrees in Texas in March, and Nick's wife was 36 miles into a 50-mile ultramarathon when he pulled her out of the race. That night she was in the hospital.\nNick says he never felt fear. He told every doctor she would walk out the front door of that hospital, and she did. We set prosperity aside this week, and my co-host Nick Surface and I talk about trusting God when the outcome isn't yours to control.\nWhy do we always imagine the worst?\nWe picture a horrible outcome, tell ourselves we couldn't handle it, then treat it as the most likely one. The question I come back to is: what am I going to do right now?\nDo you need certainty to have faith?\nNo. In 1 Samuel 14, Jonathan tells his armor-bearer, \"Perhaps the Lord will help us.\" Fear is a negative expectation of the future. Faith is a positive one.\nHow do you start?\nSeek God with your whole heart, get your heart in neutral, and start small: lions and bears before giants.\nScriptures\nPsalm 121 · Joshua 1:9 · James 1:2 · Psalm 139 · Hebrews 11:1 · 1 Samuel 14:6-7 · Ephesians 2:10 · Jeremiah 29:13\nPeople and ideas\nThe Stoics · Steve Prefontaine · Tony Robbins · Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God · Josh's dad: faith is divine risk\nChapters\n0:00 Cold open and show intro\n0:52 A change of plans\n2:02 A 50-mile ultramarathon on a 96-degree day\n5:31 The hospital and a doctor who stepped in\n6:30 What happened in the hospital\n7:34 \"God knew the whole time\"\n8:17 Psalm 121 on the way to the ER\n10:36 Be strong and courageous (Joshua 1:9)\n13:48 \"This was a training moment\"\n14:57 Count it all joy (James 1:2)\n17:29 Grace, gratitude and joy in the Greek\n19:05 The antidote to anxiety is gratitude\n20:14 Psalm 139: God's hand on your life\n24:47 Grace you can't earn, faith you live by\n27:14 Joy is a knowing, not a feeling\n29:02 Psalm 103 and an eternal perspective\n33:44 Fear is a future-focused emotion\n34:55 Waiting for the other shoe to drop\n39:36 What a bad training run teaches about fear\n42:10 Why the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7YsfA4gq5VzjhvmKvDET1pQqT0OM6yxv1laklKclR7g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZWZh/MTRmZDEzOWRjZGQz/Y2M2NThkNzYwOTJj/ODA4MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}