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The Truth In Love podcast will present God's timeless truth through the lens of His amazing love. We will do this not only through stories of people who have experienced His peace, love, strength, and wisdom through tough circumstances, but also by endeavoring to give the Bible’s answer to life’s great questions, like: Who is God, what's my purpose, who am I, how can I know God, what is heaven and hell, what is truth, and why is the Bible's truth better than my own version of truth? These are legitimate questions folks ask, and we as Christians should have the answers! God has a magnificent plan for every person. We are thrilled to be part of discovering and sharing what His Word reveals to bring hope, peace and great love into the hearts of all humanity. Join us every Tuesday morning at 5:00 a.m. CST for The Truth in Love podcast, with your host Kimberly Faith
Welcome to the Truth in Love podcast with your host, Kimberly Faith. We seek to present God's timeless truth through the lens of his remarkable love. Welcome back. Podcast 6, the Beatitudes, living your best life. And we're on part 4, which we've titled embracing real strength for a victorious life.
Kimberly Faith:And I've got my my guest, my father, John McLarty, back. Good morning.
John McLarty:Great being here.
Kimberly Faith:So last time, we we ended off the last podcast with, just kind of this this idea that we had Jesus had laid the foundation for, the abundant life with having us assimilate an attitude of our complete dependence upon God and then also just developing a complete horror for the tragedy of sin in our lives and for the lives of the of the whole world and and just the terrible consequences of it. And that producing the abundant life because, godly repentance leads us into the comfort of god's presence, which then in turn produces, our desire to be more, engaged in in the work that he's given us. And so at the end of that podcast, we we kinda posed this question, what is the best source of strength, in order to have your best life? Because sustaining those two attitudes is impossible without, without help.
John McLarty:Supernatural help.
Kimberly Faith:That's right. And so, so, dad, what do you think is the the typical source we run to to even even in our Christian life to help sustain ourselves?
John McLarty:Well, typically, we run to our own mind. We have a problem, and we think we're we're going to fix it. But I think the clear answer here is that our strength comes from God. And as the apostle Paul said, I can do all things through Christ's strength. But it's amazing as Christians, we know that, but we don't practice it.
Kimberly Faith:Exactly. Exactly. And Jesus said, in this beatitude
John McLarty:we should.
Kimberly Faith:Right. And in this beatitude, Jesus says, okay. Look. We know I know y'all have a problem with your brains here. We I know that you guys are not gonna naturally do this, but if you'll do this one thing, it will bring you into the strength, that I have
John McLarty:for you.
Kimberly Faith:And so, the next beatitude, Matthew chapter 5 verse 5, Jesus says, blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. What if you were to describe what does meek mean, what do you think well, what do you think most people think meek means?
John McLarty:I think the most of the world most would think meek is is not a good trait. It's kinda wimpy. Meek.
Kimberly Faith:Mhmm. Spineless. Spineless. Weak knead, cowardly.
John McLarty:Won't stand up for yourself.
Kimberly Faith:Right. Right. And and so a couple a couple things. We have to go if we go back to the with the Greek, because this was written in Greek. And and what is meekness?
Kimberly Faith:Well, the ancient Greek word for meek is pros, and I'm probably saying it wrong, but p r a u s, just in case I'm not pronouncing it correctly. You know, there's not really one English word that does justice to this word. But, it it conveys the idea of one who is powerful, but has allowed someone greater to control their life. It's strength under control. You know?
Kimberly Faith:It that's
John McLarty:Very good.
Kimberly Faith:That's the best succinct definition. And, so Jesus is is saying this attitude that, yeah, you, you know, you have, first of all, some of your own strength, but you mentioned I can do all things through Christ. What is that strength in Christ that we have that we can harness if we'll just submit? That's the same power that raised Jesus from the dead. You know?
Kimberly Faith:That's a that's a magnificent power. Do you think that people do you think that most of the Christians, including ourselves, are are tapping into that power?
John McLarty:I I don't I clearly not, and it's a struggle in our lives, but it's trusting in him. I think of also waiting on him to provide a clear path Mhmm. And having a heart to follow him. Yes. And, I think we read the verse before out of, Proverbs.
John McLarty:If we'll acknowledge him in all of our ways, it will direct our paths.
Kimberly Faith:Which requires us to humble ourselves.
John McLarty:Yes. As a humbling. Yes.
Kimberly Faith:I, when I think of meekness, I think of an experience that I had, that, you know, when you talk about strength under control
John McLarty:Mhmm.
Kimberly Faith:I, when I was in law school, I clerked for a an attorney, and, he had been a a pilot in in Vietnam. And he'd landed his his, aircraft on an aircraft carrier and the tail hook broke. And he, ended up Wow. Yeah. He ended up his plane went off the off the crate carrier.
Kimberly Faith:He survived, but he was paralyzed from the waist down. His copilot didn't survive. But he he so he went back and went went to law school and had a very, very, a thriving practice, and he loved horses. And he had, he had an Arabian stallion named Corabi Del Rey, and he knew that I was kind of a little bit of a horse crazy person. And, one day he had
John McLarty:that ride.
Kimberly Faith:Yeah. One day he asked me, he said, would you like to go out and and, you know, my horse needs this this this very expensive horse needs to be exercised. Would you like to do that? Of course, I was like, oh my lord. This horse is worth
John McLarty:more than than that.
Kimberly Faith:Yeah. This horse is worth more than more than my life. You know? It it it was a very expensive horse. I was like, of course.
Kimberly Faith:You know? Well, if you know anything about horses, you know, a stallion, you know, of course, he was the reason he had this horse was an investment. It was to to breed him. And, so, I got out there and and, I'll never forget the first time I rode him. It was it was this tremendous you could just feel I could feel the power of this horse underneath
John McLarty:me. Imagine.
Kimberly Faith:It was crazy. And and and and when you when you thought about that little tiny bit was really the only thing between me and disaster. It wasn't because of my power or my strength. This horse had all the power that was necessary to to do lots of things. You get on a track, run a race.
Kimberly Faith:You know?
John McLarty:Could've brushed you into a fence.
Kimberly Faith:It could've done a lot. Yeah. Could've done a lot of things, but he had been broken. Mhmm. He had been broken to ride.
Kimberly Faith:And when we think about our own, you know, we talked about in the last one, mourning the effects of sin. If we have been broken by not just our own, you know, our own circumstances and our own, but broken in a way that is good. This horse wasn't torn up, broken in a way that was bad. Yeah.
John McLarty:He was Yielded. Yielded. Yielded.
Kimberly Faith:Yes. But he we call that broken to ride, you know, which is a kind of a great you know, we've broken our own will and submitted ourselves to god's will. And just like, you know, when when I would get Corabi del Rey out on the road to ride with him, well, I knew the spots of danger. He would have played in the you know, he would have run down the middle of the road, you know, if if he didn't because he wasn't he didn't know. But because he had been allowed he had allowed himself to to be under my control, he was able to go see a lot more than he would have seen had he been left in his pasture.
John McLarty:And that's He had more freedom.
Kimberly Faith:He had more
John McLarty:a good example?
Kimberly Faith:Yes. Perfect. Yes. And and so this is not you know, let's just dispel a notion that Jesus is talking about that we're supposed to be spineless cowards. No.
Kimberly Faith:That's not it at all. We are set free to basically live the greatest adventure of our lifetime. You know?
John McLarty:Exactly. It's a good analogy. So Perfect.
Kimberly Faith:And and I think, you know, kinda going back to that these these all tie in together, but when we're set free from sin, we are set free in Christ. And and you and you think about, you know, what is Jesus has a great adventure planned for us. And do we feel like we're living it?
John McLarty:You know, Sam, I'm just thinking that sin is an enslavement.
Kimberly Faith:Yes.
John McLarty:We when we described our salvation experience Mhmm. We thought freedom was just doing whatever you wanted, and that was actually an enslavement. Right. And we weren't truly free till Christ set us free.
Kimberly Faith:Exactly. And and freedom, you know you know, it it's kinda like, you know, the politicians use words and they redefine things and but freedom, you know, we all serve somebody. And when when like that old Bob Dylan song. Right?
John McLarty:You gotta serve somebody. Somebody.
Kimberly Faith:It may be the devil, it may be the law, but you wanna serve somebody. Right? But, you know, it's it's interesting that when when Jesus sets us free, that freedom that we have in him, it it allows us to spread our wings and go so far. If you had told me, you know, 15 years ago that I'd be doing a podcast and, I mean, doing all these things that God has set me free to do, I would have said there's no way. There's no way I would have
John McLarty:Beyond what you could have imagined.
Kimberly Faith:Exactly. And it's and it's just this amazing freedom. I don't feel burdened by following God's commandments. I feel free. You know?
Kimberly Faith:I don't feel for, burdened by
John McLarty:I'm excited.
Kimberly Faith:It very excited. My life is very exciting, and it's and it's not and I again, that has nothing to do with me. Right. It's all to do with Christ. You know?
Kimberly Faith:It's it's interesting that, you know, Jesus said, he who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters abroad. And he also said in in this is Matthew, in the book of Matthew chapter 10, he says, behold, I send you out a sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore, be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. A dove is gentle, a serpent knows when to strike. We have to strike the balance between those things in order to to reach our fellow man.
Kimberly Faith:In the first two and this is I'm I'm jumping around a little bit, but I wanna kinda get this, point. The first two beatitudes really develop our relationship with God. Right? That's strengthening our relationship with God. Meekness is about how to develop our ability to minister to our fellow man.
Kimberly Faith:And to develop that, really, Jesus is kind of the title of his podcast, truth and love. We need to, you know, be like a serpent, no one to strike, but when a dove like like a dove and know how to present that in love. Right? And and it's not like we get to choose to stay in the world and stay and be on God's side. That's what I put those 2 verses together because I felt like they're both
John McLarty:Right.
Kimberly Faith:Important in this idea of meekness.
John McLarty:First of
Kimberly Faith:all, we're choosing the side we're on. And second of all, Jesus says, here, let me show you how to how to deal with your fellow man in this thing called meekness because I'm gonna give you the strength that I have, the intuition that I have, the love that I have, so you're not doing this on your own. And I'm gonna teach you how to be as gentle as a dove, but wise as a serpent. Does that make sense?
John McLarty:Needed. And then when you when when you strike, it's in the power of God, and it's very targeted.
Kimberly Faith:Yes. Yes. And Very precise. It's very precise. And, you know, the the thing that God keeps bringing back to my attention in this whole series is that it's like a wake up call.
Kimberly Faith:You know? We do need to choose what side we're on. And and what when we when we are applying these attitudes to our life that Jesus said, bless us, right, then the the greatest blessing is being in in the battle. The the greatest blessing is being is work is the work that we're doing. It's not I mean, I like to go to the beach.
Kimberly Faith:Don't get me wrong. But that's not the greatest blessing in my life. If I have a choice, I'd rather be really doing what we're doing right now because that's how God takes our when when we are operating in that strength, you know, wouldn't you rather be operating in strength than in weakness?
John McLarty:Yes. Yeah. I'm just thinking of an example, and there would be a lot of analogies, so I'll just I'll let the listeners come up with their own, but I just have this thought of the US military in its full capacity. Mhmm. The US military is could could defeat any foe, but we don't necessarily.
John McLarty:Right. But when we decide we're going to do something, like take out a target Mhmm. We do it. Right. And we're we're the best Yeah.
John McLarty:And we get it done. Right. So you have that power of God Mhmm. Available. But, Christians, you know, we're not just to go overwhelming people with, you know, just
Kimberly Faith:With our power.
John McLarty:With with our our our in our own wisdom.
Kimberly Faith:Right. Right. And and it that also, when we talk about, the beatitude of mercy, that's actually gonna come back into play because, you know, we don't know what's in the hearts and souls of people. And if you think about our import most important mission isn't being right. Our most important mission isn't isn't that that that what we perceive as a victory.
Kimberly Faith:I I like to ask people this all the time. What is the most powerful thing that ever happens on this planet? And a lot of people say, well, you know, I guess it's the ocean waves or a tsunami or they can't believe physical examples. But the fact is the most powerful thing that ever happens on this earth is when one person decides to give their heart to Christ. Salvation.
Kimberly Faith:Yes. Because God God can make the tsunami. God can cause an earthquake.
John McLarty:Just exercising the truth and love
Kimberly Faith:and seeing
John McLarty:the power of God
Kimberly Faith:That's right.
John McLarty:To change somebody's life.
Kimberly Faith:To change somebody's life eternally. And and God doesn't force people to receive the gift of salvation. But when we when we harness the strength that comes through humility, then and and and saying, god, not my will, but your will. And even Jesus said that. Jesus said, father, not my will, but your will be done.
Kimberly Faith:I mean, this is the god who created everything. Jesus created everything. He's telling he's submitting himself to the father. And when we do that and look. He purchased salvation.
Kimberly Faith:I mean, he prayed that prayer in the garden of Gethsemane, you know, because he was struggling with this idea that he was gonna be separated from from his father.
John McLarty:He is the perfect example because he he came across mainly as humble
Kimberly Faith:Right.
John McLarty:Meek Right. Kind, gentle. But at certain times when the, you know, the obvious power of God was needed, he just Right. Here.
Kimberly Faith:Here. Let me climb the stone.
John McLarty:Show you this.
Kimberly Faith:Let me walk on water. Right. Oh, and by the way, you guys who are selling stuff in my house, I'll appreciate that. Let me make a whip, and I'm a whip your hineys. So it's it's Strength under
John McLarty:control. Strength under control and Strength
Kimberly Faith:under control and the wisdom to know when
John McLarty:to applied at the right time.
Kimberly Faith:Yeah. Yeah. And and, you know, when it's it's kind of funny. I I I love it when when, you know, you you see when I used to play competitive volleyball and you get the perfect set. Right?
Kimberly Faith:You get the perfect set, and then you have the perfect approach and the ball slams straight down. I mean, that that's just so, like, satisfying, you know, and nobody blocks you, of course, or the perfect block. Right? It's kinda like when we submit ourselves to the will of God, then and and we and that takes acknowledging that his way better than our way. Right?
Kimberly Faith:Then we get to live in this perfect play. It's a perfect set all the time, and there's just nothing better than that.
John McLarty:It's fulfilling.
Kimberly Faith:It's fulfilling.
John McLarty:To be a part of God's work. Right. So fulfilling.
Kimberly Faith:And and he, you know, we get to we get to see the power of Christ at work. You know, the apostle Paul prayed for the Ephesians. He said that the eyes of your understanding this is Ephesians 1 17 to 20. That the eyes of your understanding be enlightened that you might know what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe according to the working of his mighty power, which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at the right hand in the heavenly places. See, Paul was praying.
Kimberly Faith:Hey, lord. Get I prayed that these Ephesians have their understanding enlightened and and to know this power, this great power.
John McLarty:So it's exciting that we might know it. We might experience it.
Kimberly Faith:Experience it.
John McLarty:And we've seen it, and it's it's mainly in salvation of a soul Right. Or some other great, you know, tragedy that was unfolding and God provided the solution.
Kimberly Faith:The stories I could tell. I mean, a lot of stories I I experienced, I can't tell because they've happened to people who who, you know, in my office. Sure. And so they're confident confidential things. But, I'll just I'll just give you, an example.
Kimberly Faith:You know? I think about the the we when did we we just released our 34th or 35th song in the last, what, 10 years? No. It's been less than 10 years. I think 2015 is when we started writing music.
Kimberly Faith:Maybe it was 14. I don't even know. But I think about how, you know, God laid it on my heart one day to write music, and I laughed about that. Kinda like Sarah laughed when Abraham said she was gonna have a kid when she was 90. Mhmm.
Kimberly Faith:Or God said, you know, she's gonna have a child when she was in her nineties. That's the way I felt about writing music. I was like, god. That's pretty funny. I don't read music.
Kimberly Faith:I don't know anything about music. You know? I don't not a musician. But then I I just God gave me a song. And I I wrote that first song, and it was like, yeah.
Kimberly Faith:I knew it was from God. It was like, wow. You know? That was all God. And then another song came.
John McLarty:And I remember when when Lynn, my wife, your mom, heard that first song, she said, is that you singing? Yeah.
Kimberly Faith:Right. Well, when we recorded it because I really didn't think it was good enough to record. You know? And and, then the Lord worked it out to record it, and then mom's like, wow. That's really good.
Kimberly Faith:Is that really you singing? And and then, of course, mom, inspired the song pray and get out of the way. Right. You know? And and now I look back and and the people we've been able to engage in the songwriting process that, you know, I met a I met a lady in the woods hiking out.
Kimberly Faith:Now I went at night on a trail. You know? We're out there hiking. She records 3 songs with me. We have
John McLarty:I remember that. Yeah. Her voice was a perfect match
Kimberly Faith:Oh.
John McLarty:For those songs.
Kimberly Faith:For those songs. Yeah. Right? We've had Hannah record and and and, my little sister who, you know, just we just I didn't have a clue she had so much talent. We've had a kid who grew up on a mission field in Ecuador, you know, in in Panama, play the cello and record.
Kimberly Faith:I mean, this is a miracle. This is the power of humility, which is actually a song that the Lord gave me years ago. It's so true. I am strong on my knees. That's that's the power in humility.
Kimberly Faith:You know? And so
John McLarty:This was the prayer for the Ephesians is that they could see the mighty power
Kimberly Faith:Exactly.
John McLarty:The same power that rose, Christ rose from the dead.
Kimberly Faith:Right. And and don't you think that this this this idea of meekness allows us to experience the outer limits of God's power in our life? I mean, doesn't that I don't know. What do you think about that thought?
John McLarty:Yeah. We get to be a part of his glorious purpose, and he is the outer limits. He's the lord of lords Exactly. King of kings, and we can be a part of what he's wanting to do. Yeah.
John McLarty:You can't get more excited than that.
Kimberly Faith:But it's so exciting. It's like, you know, people, you know, put great, like, let great football players, you know, on a on a pedestal and say, man, if I could just be like him. Right? Well, God says, guess what? I'm giving you the power that raised Jesus from the dead.
Kimberly Faith:You can be like him. And gee and we're commanded to be like Christ. Right? And, you know, we're not gonna save anybody, because meaning, we're not gonna we're not gonna do the same thing Jesus came to do, but he's given us the power to bring other people into that appropriation of the gift of salvation. So it's it's very exciting.
Kimberly Faith:This this life of this abundant life is very exciting. Jesus like, look. I'm giving you some things here in this beatitudes, and all you get to do is if you'll do these, if you'll develop these attitudes in yourself, you're gonna have a great life, the greatest ever.
John McLarty:There's not a that being yielded in, in, I mean, the world sometimes kind of gets things correct because they follow patterns of God. I'm thinking about sports.
Kimberly Faith:Mhmm.
John McLarty:Most athletes would train. They they think they've got their will and their discipline. But when you think about a lot of teams, it takes a quarterback yielded to a great coach to really exercise their greatest talents.
Kimberly Faith:Right.
John McLarty:Right. Or a team doing their best, they're yielded.
Kimberly Faith:Right. The quarterback can't do anything in that.
John McLarty:He does that all best
Kimberly Faith:of mine. Right. And it's and it's the same thing. You know? We we've we've become a part of the family of God.
Kimberly Faith:Jesus is our head. And when we're submitted Submitted. Our head, then then we're empowered to act. We're not rogue. We're not that lone wolf.
John McLarty:And kinda like the coach up up, you know, on the sidelines or up in the box seeing the whole field.
Kimberly Faith:Right.
John McLarty:They they know how to instruct the quarterback
Kimberly Faith:Right. Right. To
John McLarty:call in the place.
Kimberly Faith:Because they're seeing the bird's eye view. Right. And and and God is, you know, God is on omniscient. Mhmm. He knows everything.
Kimberly Faith:He's omnipotent. His power is without limits. You know? And when we put ourselves in the harness, so to speak, of his will, instead of the the harness of our own just being led by our own selfish desires, suddenly our life becomes bigger than us.
John McLarty:That's really exciting. That makes me wanna be more like that. Yeah. Because by being yielded to God, you bring in the power of God. You bring in the coaching, the perspective.
John McLarty:Right.
Kimberly Faith:It's And
John McLarty:great things can be done.
Kimberly Faith:Exactly. And then what what what's even, to me, more more exciting is that once we are be we've been coached by God and we're allowing ourselves to be coached by God, then we can do what Jesus said as discipleship, which is what we're doing right now. I mean, we're taking what God's taught us, and we're we're having to think about it. We're having to experience it. We're having to be able to describe what it's like, and then we get to teach it, which makes us even better at doing it.
Kimberly Faith:When I used to, coach club volleyball, one of the things that that it it was just so incredible for me was that as the more I coached, the better player I became.
John McLarty:Mhmm.
Kimberly Faith:And and so it's a double edged blessing for us.
John McLarty:Right.
Kimberly Faith:We get to both do God's will and become and and work through his power, but it also strengthens us. And so kind of going back to that original question, you know, what that we post here, what is the best source of strength to have your best life? Well, it's it's the power of God, but we can't have that
John McLarty:Without being meek.
Kimberly Faith:Without being meek.
John McLarty:Gilded.
Kimberly Faith:Which is totally yielded. Yeah. So and and that and that, of course, goes hand in hand with, the understanding that we don't have anything without God, which is the first beatitude. All these Poor
John McLarty:in spirit.
Kimberly Faith:Poor in spirit. Right. And, so it's it's interesting that the blessing that Jesus mentions is blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. Okay. So what does that mean?
Kimberly Faith:Does that is it talking about the this planet that we're we're we're walking on, that we're literally going to inherit it? We know that the scripture says that it's gonna pass away someday. Right? It's gonna there's gonna be a new heaven and a new earth. But have you ever met anybody that walks around like they own the house or own the courtroom?
Kimberly Faith:Or
John McLarty:Mhmm.
Kimberly Faith:Yeah. It's an attitude. Mhmm. It's an attitude that we we don't walk around with pride, but we walk in with confidence because we know we are we know in our inheritance is secure.
John McLarty:Yeah. I think there's passages where it talks about the inheritance in the kingdom. And, you know, as we are are serve God and are blessed by God, that blesses us and has eternal consequences in the kingdom. Mhmm. Just in being close to him.
John McLarty:And just think of the idea of meeting Christ and him saying good job, a good and faithful servant.
Kimberly Faith:Mhmm.
John McLarty:Yeah. Be varying degrees of that, but how that you know, to me, that's part of the inheritance.
Kimberly Faith:It is part of the inheritance.
John McLarty:Feeling like we've served him.
Kimberly Faith:And it's kinda like knowing like, when when Jesus said, whosoever believes on me shall have everlasting life. Okay? That's a present tense. We possess something that's everlasting today. And and when we have meekness, which infuses us with God's strength, we walk around we're we're both powerful and gentle, which is like Christ.
John McLarty:Yes. That's And You'd think those were a contradiction, but they're not in him.
Kimberly Faith:They're not because
John McLarty:He is like that.
Kimberly Faith:He was. He was the creator of everything. He is a sustainer of everything, but he made himself nothing, and he gave us everything. That is just profound, and we get to do that for people. We can be like Christ.
Kimberly Faith:Jesus said, he commanded us to love like he loves.
John McLarty:Mhmm.
Kimberly Faith:And that sounds like an impossibility unless it's in God's strength. Because in God's strength, we can love the way he loves because it's never about us. It's we're getting everything we need from above, so we can give everything we have
John McLarty:Right.
Kimberly Faith:To those that are here. And that's part of inherit we we have this attitude. I inherit everything I everything I could possibly imagine. I don't need anything from you, which means I can love you freely. I have the strength to love me freely.
Kimberly Faith:This kind of
John McLarty:My father owns the cattle on all the hills.
Kimberly Faith:Right. I
John McLarty:serve a mighty God. I'll never Gives us the confidence.
Kimberly Faith:Exactly. The like, it's a confident attitude, because you don't walk around needing to be selfish because you already have everything you need in Christ. And, I'll never forget that. What kind of triggered that this particular thought for me, was I was teaching a study, a couple years ago, and there was this lady and real sweet lady, and and she, she said she's she was taught we're talking about the fruits of the spirit. And, she's, well, I try really hard when I go to Walmart to be patient and kind and, you know, tolerant, all these people around me, but I just it's just hard.
Kimberly Faith:I just can't do it. And the holy spirit just kinda took hold of me. It's like, that's right. You can't do it. And that's exactly the attitude we need to have.
Kimberly Faith:We can't do anything without Christ as opposed to I can do all things. We we gotta remember. It's going we have to submit every part of our life. And I I like to kind of as we wind down this this podcast, when when I think about what it means to live meek in my own life, it's it's part of that is I I have integrated this prayer, and it's I lord, I give you 100% of my desires, 100% of my resources. I give you 100% of my home, my car, my law practice, my children.
Kimberly Faith:Everything I have belongs to you. I want that attitude to pre prevalent throughout the day. I gave you my wisdom, whatever that looks like. Give it all to you. Oh, and by the way, God says everything I have belongs to you.
Kimberly Faith:My problems belong to you too. And I'm gonna I'm going to give those to you all day long because what that's gonna do is that's gonna put me in submission to you, and then your strength is gonna flow through me. Your wisdom is gonna flow through me, your love, and and the fruits of the spirit, basically, all the fruits of his spirit because we've unleashed ourselves from ourselves.
John McLarty:So through our meekness, we inherit the power of God Right. And the peep and being a part of his work.
Kimberly Faith:Right.
John McLarty:I think of just various missionaries. One comes to mind, I won't name names, but as missionaries, and we're all missionaries, but this missionary has yielded to God and has had the most exciting adventurous life. It's not boring. Right. It's not terrible.
John McLarty:So I'm having to serve God. But we have that we have that capability. We're all missionaries. We're all, ambassadors for Christ, whether we're in a foreign country or right here in in Missouri and Arkansas.
Kimberly Faith:Exactly. Well, as we as we kinda wrap up, you know, we we kind of answered this question, you know, and and discovered that that it is only the strength of God that's going to give us the ability to live in these attitudes, these beatitudes, these attitudes of blessing that Jesus was giving us. And and I think that kind of that kinda brings us to the next question for for the next next beatitude. And that's, what are you hungering and thirsting after?
John McLarty:What Perfect.
Kimberly Faith:You know, what is it that you desire the most in your life? And I think that question is a good question to consider to set us up for this next beatitude because if you really and and the way to answer this question is to consider what you spend most of your time doing.
John McLarty:What fulfills us?
Kimberly Faith:What what do you exactly. What do you think about the most that you would like to fill and that's what you're filling yourself with.
John McLarty:What
Kimberly Faith:are you what are you filling yourself with most of the hours of the day? What are you filling yourself with by what you read, what you listen to, who you talk to? What do you absorb into your soul the most, and is that giving you a satisfied life? So those are the questions we'll address in the next podcast. And, you have anything to say about that, dad?
John McLarty:Just, what do we hunger and thirst for?
Kimberly Faith:Right.
John McLarty:That's an intriguing question.
Kimberly Faith:Yes. And I think we have to answer that honestly Mhmm. To determine and again, back to the first beatitude when or the introduction of this this this series, Do you feel like you have a life that is so abundant? It's more abundantly than more abundant than you could have asked for or imagined. If the answer to that question is I don't, then seriously answer that question.
Kimberly Faith:What are you hungering and thirsting after the most? And we'll discuss what Jesus said about what's gonna give us a satisfied life, what it is that we hunger and thirst for the most that will give us the most satisfied life. And so we hope you will join us for the next podcast. You have been listening to the truth in love podcast with your host, Kimberly Faith. To discover more answers to the big questions in life, visit us atgofaithstrong.com.
Kimberly Faith:Hallelujah. He rescued me.