Living the Reclaimed Life

Life With God Vs. Life From God ~ Denisha Workizer Ep. 47

December 30, 2021 Denisha Season 1 Episode 47
Living the Reclaimed Life
Life With God Vs. Life From God ~ Denisha Workizer Ep. 47
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What does it look like for God to be WITH us going into a New Year? Is there a difference between living life WITH God and life FROM God? Have you ever found yourself seeking the blessings of God but not God himself? 

In this episode, I am sharing one of the most life-changing moments in my life. A day that was so excruciating for my heart, that I walked away from God. Yet... Everything changes when we realize that even in the hardest moments, God is with us.

Because we live differently when we know He is WITH us. Let's enter into 2022 with a heart that is postured to fully live (the good, the bad, the hard, the easy) WITH God. 

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47-Life-With-God Vs. Life From God

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

god, mary, day, life, cookie, treasure, angel, mom, thought, baby, shepherds, joseph, months, sat, reclaimed, bible, verse, lord, fear, knew

SPEAKERS Denisha Workizer

Welcome to Living the Reclaim life Podcast. I'm Denisha We're glad you're here for conversations that revive hope, inspire healing and encourage you to live a vibrant life with Christ. So grab a cup of coffee as we chat with today's guest. Here, we just came out of Christmas. How are you? We celebrated Emmanuel and continue to celebrate Emmanuel, God with us. And I don't know about you, but in the busyness and the hustle, I don't always take the time to stop and experience what it means for God to be with me. Now me pausing to linger in that truth, it doesn't change the reality that he is with me. But friends, I will tell you that pausing in that truth definitely changes me. And in today's episode, I'm going to share about a time when realizing that God was with me, really changed my perspective. And I'll share that as the episode continues. But I know this month, I really needed to focus on a manual. And I didn't always have the time before Christmas, if I'm honest. So I thought we could take some time heading into the new year. You know, this is our last podcast of 2021, which seems crazy. But what better way to head into a new year than to take a few moments and posture, our hearts to focus on the fact that he is with us. Because friends, we live differently when we know that God is with us. So I pray that you enjoy this episode, we are going to talk about life from God. And I have a really fun story to tell you about life from God. 

So first, let me tell you life from God is when we live our lives wanting what we can get from God, but we miss God himself. So my five year old, he's the youngest. He's a baby in our family. And, and he's just so snuggly, and just so great, right. And I know how fast as time goes. So with him, I really tried to cherish every moment with him. So one day, he comes home from school, and he climbs up in my lap, and he wraps his little arms around me. And he snuggles his head right here in my neck. And moms and dads like that's like the greatest feeling in the world, right? And they're those big puppy dog eyes looking at you. And he says something, he says mama, can I have a cookie? And I was like, Baby, if you ask me for a convertible Mustang, right? Like, we'll probably try to make it happen for you. And so he was so snugly in in and I thought yes, you can have a cookie and, and I had these visions of how our afternoon was going to play out play out, right, I had these visions of sitting at the counter and dipping our milk and our cookies and talking together about his day in kindergarten. It's gonna be like the greatest afternoon ever, right? So just as I, you know, I have these thoughts and I get up from the couch and I go to move towards the kitchen and he is off like a flash. He goes and he gets this cookie and he runs upstairs without me. See, he didn't want to be with me at that time. He wanted what he could get from me. And although it brings me great joy to give him everything or not everything but a lot that He desires. When he gets something he desires. It brings me joy, right. But there's nothing that takes the place of being with him. And so that is a great explanation of life from God. Because he's snuggling on the couch and talking about our day that would have been with our would have been being with him grabbing a cookie and making a beeline for the upstairs without me. That's from See he came and he got what he got what he want from me. And that was the cookie, right? So let's define life from God this way. life from God is when we live our lives wanting the blessings of God, but we miss God Himself. Have you ever found yourself doing that with God. You know, it's a sad moment for a mom to realize that you're chopped liver in competition with a cookie. But it's a sobering moment to realize that as a follower of Christ, that we can do the same. We try to get blessings from God without getting God Himself. And I think that there's probably a little bit of from an all of us. Sometimes we get the cookie, right we get what we asked for from God, but sometimes we don't. And so the question that we're going to look at this morning is what what is our response when God doesn't do what we want him to do? How do we risk bond when our career goes sideways, or when our children that we poured everything into makes decisions that we disagree with, what is our response when God doesn't do what we want him to do? And I'd like to suggest to you that our response depends on where we put our treasure. And our hope that this morning is that through this process through kind of walking through the things that we will see, instead of God being a means to which we acquire our treasure, that He becomes our treasure. And there's a drastic difference between those two things. And we're going to take a look at two examples this morning. One is a biblical example. And one is an everyday life example. And what you're going to see is that one of these examples, live their life with God. And one of these examples, live life from God for a season. And so as we do that, let's look at our first example this morning. In the first century, if you were a Jewish woman, you would have grown up in a culture where blessings and security came from being married and having children. So you were blessed. If you're married, you were blessed if you had children. So when you had a good man had children, you gain status and security. And that was true for Mary, the mother of Jesus. So if those things are true, if those things is what made you blessed back in that day, then Mary was well on her way, she was engaged to Mary Joseph. And now when we think of engagement, we think of a ring, right? And we think of a promise to be married. But see back in those days, and that culture of engagement was as legally binding as a marriage itself. So in order to get out of being engaged, you actually had to have a divorce. So let's turn the turn of me and your Bible into Luke chapter one, and we're gonna start there. So Mary, at this point, she could have been as young as 15 to 16 years old. And the Bible tells us that she was engaged to a righteous man, Joseph, she didn't just have a guy, she had a really good guy. Therefore, she had security. And the white picket fence life was within her grasp. And if you've seen a white picket fence, every steak is right in place, just as her life was, everything was an order. So we're gonna read starting in verse 26, and we're gonna see that Mary's life was about to change as she knew it. So Luke chapter one, starting in 20, verse 26, in the six months of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledge to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, Greetings you who are highly favored the Lord is with you. Mary was greatly troubled that his words and wondered what kind of greeting might this be. But the angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son and you are to call him Jesus, He will be great and he will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of David and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever. His kingdom will never end. Verse 34. How will this be Mary asked the angels since I am a virgin, the angel answer the Holy Spirit will come on you in the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth, your relative is going to have a child in her old age. And she who was said to be unable to conceive, as in her six month for no word from God will ever fail. Verse 38, I am the LORD servant, Mary answered me your word to me be fulfilled. And then the angel left her. In verse 38, the angel delivers this message and then he left her. But at that moment, Mary lost the white picket fence life as she knew it. All of those blessings of love and security were now uncertain for her. When the angel departed from her, can you imagine what she would have been thinking? He said, Do not fear, but boy, we wouldn't have been we wouldn't blame her at all. If she had been afraid. That was a really powerful message that he delivered to her. So let's step into Mary's shoes for a few moments. And let's get a sense of what that news that day meant for her, the angel said she was highly favored, as we hear how all of this plays out. I don't know about you, but what I would consider highly favored, it may not quite align with that. Imagine the fears that she must have had at the realization of an unplanned pregnancy. She loses a picket from her fence, when she knows who her son is going to be. This is not just any baby. Mary was very well versed with the Old Testament, she knew of the prophecies of the coming Messiah. And she just got told that this baby will be hers. She would not have a normal firstborn son who would carry on the family line and take care of her in her old age. She wasn't going to have that either. She could be rejected from her family. I mean, what her family believed that she was carrying the Messiah. And what about her community? Nazareth had about 1800 people in it, it was a small town, can you imagine the gossip that would have went out this scandal that would have followed her for having a baby without being married. And now with that, not only would people talk, but there was an actual consequence for adultery, and that was stoning. She could have been killed. There was a lot at stake. And there was a very real possibility that Joseph would divorce her. So there was a lot going on. At that time, that message was pretty heavy, huh? You know, when Joseph found out, he actually did decide that he was going to leave her quietly, because he was a righteous man. So he didn't want to bring shame to her publicly, he was going to divorce her quietly. But then an angel shows up to Joseph the same angel that appeared to marry and tells him it's okay, the baby inside of her is conceived by the Holy Spirit, it's okay. And so, anytime that an angel has to show up to tell a guy to stay with his girl, there's a pretty strong indication that he was considering leaving, right? Mary's life completely changed at the delivery of Gabriel's message. She was getting ready to be married to live a normal life, but her life would never be the same again. And in fact, Mary's life was disrupted time and time again. Let's look at a few things here. She had to travel in adverse circumstances, right? Nine months pregnant with you know, with Joseph to go back to meet the census. She delivered her baby and a stable. Later, she flees in the middle of the night in secrecy so that King Herod wouldn't try to kill her son. She will eventually watch her son grow to be 30 years old. But he won't get married or have a traditional life like she had probably hoped and imagined he will die on a cross as the savior of the world. This was a pretty intense message. I can imagine that it was not the life that Mary had imagined. And things don't go always as we planned them do we do their life doesn't always work out the way we planned either, does it? So what is our response, when things don't go the way that we want them to? Let's take a look at our second example this morning. And this person had an opportunity just as Mary did to live life from God or live life with God, a 23 year old woman who was thriving in her relationship with God. She had close friends. She had a great career. She was a newlywed, you would say that she was blessed things were going very well for her until she faced a situation that made her question everything that she knew about God. And this woman was me 16 years ago. And let me explain. So it was a Friday afternoon. And I was at work. It was a really busy time. And I got a phone call from my mom. And my mom said, Hey, listen. Monday afternoon, I'm going to have open heart surgery. And she said, I'd really like you to be there. This was her second time having one and she said I'd really like you to be there with me. And things were so busy at work. If I worked retail and it was Mother's Day. It was just crazy. And so I thought yes, you know, I'll push everything aside and I will I'll be there for you. Definitely I understand. And so Sunday afternoon, I was I drove up to Phoenix. And as I was driving, I mentioned that I had a thriving relationship with God. When I drove up to Phoenix that day, I felt as if God was in the car with me, I worshiped the whole way I was the weirdo on i 10 beaten my steering wheel. And nobody can hear the music but me and I sing really well that day too. When Nobody's in the car, I hit every single key, you can just take my word for that. And so I was, you know, rocking out to worship music, and I was praying all the way down and drove up to Phoenix. And I just felt like I was so close to God. And so I was like, alright, God, we're gonna do this, we're gonna hang out with mom tonight. And then we're gonna go out and you know, do the surgery thing tomorrow. So, alright, let's let's go. So I arrived at her apartment, and my mom and I had a great night together. You know, she processed her fears with me. You know, she'd been down this road before. So she knew how hard the recovery time was. So she processed her fears. And we laughed, and we ate way too much sugar. And it was pretty much like an adult slumber party. And so we talked, we read the Bible, we talked about Jesus, we giggled, and then we went to sleep. Well, the next day, we went to the hospital, and in that afternoon, she was scheduled for her surgery. So when she went in my family, which at the time was my husband, and my sister and her two kids, we were in the waiting room. And so we had been waiting for five hours for a long time to wait in that little bitty waiting room. So we kept waiting anxiously, we were the only family in there, we were waiting for the door to open and somebody to tell us what was going on. And I can still remember the smell of the waiting room. It was kind of a combination of bleach and hand sanitizer. And I remember what the chairs felt like that day. I remember that there was a television up in the corner of the room that was just background noise to my own thoughts. And then the door opened, after five hours, the door opened, and it was the surgeon and he came in and he said everything's okay. He said here, here's what's going on. He said her heart is really weak. And he said, so what we need right now is we need her heart to strengthen. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to do what I can do today, but we can't finish the full procedure that we had planned. So in six months, we'll bring her back in, and we'll revisit that. But for now I'm going to do what I can do. And the biggest problem is that her heart is weak, and we need it to strengthen. So we thought, okay, you know, surgeon left, and he said was going to be a couple more hours that we were waiting there. So I was sitting there and all of a sudden fear just overtook me. And I thought, well, things aren't going as smooth as I had planned here, you know, supposed to be in and out, you know. And now there was a problem. And so I sat there and I thought I need help. Well, the only place I knew to go for Hope was I went to the chapel, right? And I went and I sat down in the pew and I prayed for a little bit. And then I grabbed the Bible that was in front of me. And I did the flick open and point because ever done that. It's not a method of Bible study I recommend. But in this moment, I was desperate, right. I think we've all probably done that. So I flicked open the Bible, close my eyes and pointed. And I remember it was about halfway down about two thirds, maybe down the left side of the page. And it was Psalm 27. And it was verse 14 That my finger was touching. And I'll never forget the words to the song I had it memorized that day on. And it was wait on the Lord, be of good courage, for he shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say on the Lord. I was like, We are golden. Right? Like we I just opened the Bible and it said strengthen and heart and wait. And I had been waiting for five hours. So I was doing a really good job at that. So I thought okay, all right. We're good. Like God has just confirmed that he's, we're good. He's gonna strengthen her heart. And so I went back to the waiting room with my family. And I marched in with so much confidence and faith that it was like oozing out of me. And I sat down, I said, God's gonna strengthen her heart. And I got the look right. It was looking at me like, Okay, if you say so. Well, that's good. All right. And so we waited a couple more hours, and I sat there as far as I was concerned, the outcome of this day was in cement, it was concrete. It was everything was going to be fine. And so we went back about two hours later, the doctor came in and said, she's in recovery. Everything's great. Why don't you guys go get some rest, and it's about midnight at that point. So we did, we went back to my mom's house and went to sleep and we got up the next morning. And all of a sudden we heard the phone ring about six o'clock. We heard the phone rang and I answered it, and it was the nurse and her voice, which I can still hear in my head if I think about what she sounded like. She said, we're losing her. And you need to get to the hospital as soon as you can. And like At that moment, time had stopped for me. Time totally stopped. I don't remember getting dressed. I don't remember getting into the car. I just remember my husband driving down the 60 towards the hospital. And I sat in the car beside him. And I don't know if I said anything else. But all I can remember thinking is it cannot be today, I will not lose her today. Today is not the day. And that's what just kept repeating and I don't like flashes, right. I remember saying that in the car. And the next thing I knew, we got to the hospital. And we found out that she had indeed passed away. That was the hardest day of my life. It seemed surreal, to be honest with you. And that day, not only did my mom die, but by my choice. My relationship with God died as well. I felt as though he tricked me I felt as though he had pulled me close. You know that ride to Phoenix worshiping in the car feeling like he was tangibly with me. I felt like he'd pulled me close to him and then was ready to push me off a cliff. I didn't get what I wanted. See, what I wanted was to see my mom heals. And I didn't get that. What I wanted was to avoid pain. And I didn't get that either. What I wanted was not to be a 23 year old woman who had lost her mother. And all of those hopes vanished that day. It was hard. You know, when I prayed in the chapel that day i i said i was in fear I was. But what I was really looking for was control. I was looking for something to control in a situation that I had no control over. I wasn't looking to be with God, in my circumstance. In my fear in my struggle. I wasn't looking to sit and have cookies and milk. And you know process the day with him. I wasn't looking for that. I didn't want that. I wanted to get my cookie from him, which was my mom being healed. What God could do for me that day had become my treasure. And when I didn't want I didn't get what I wanted. I walked away from him. I had stopped going to church stopped reading my Bible stopped praying. And he stopped being the focus of my desire. I found it easy to walk away from him because even though I didn't realize it in the moment, I didn't want him I wasn't saying God comfort me in this I was saying heal her is what I wanted. I was living from God in that season. So 16 years ago, I made a conscious decision that I was done with God. But I want to explain one thing I did not doubt his existence. In that time. I knew that God was real. I knew that Jesus was the Son of God and that He died for my sins. I knew those things that did not change. The reality of God did not change for me. But I chose to be done with God, I chose that I didn't want him in that moment. So I want to ask you, what is your response? When God doesn't do what you want him to do? Have you ever found yourself seeing the blessings of God more desirable than God himself? Maybe the blessings that we desire is our health. Maybe the blessings we desire is love, or the perfect marriage, or the job or material things. Now want to make sure you understand there's nothing wrong with asking God for what you need. In fact, Jesus calls us to do that. And scripture reminds us that all that we have is from God. But here's the difference. And this is very important. Here is the difference. A life from God has a tendency to over emphasize that one aspect of our relationship with Him. And that is him being our provider. It puts a higher value on receiving God's gifts than it does in relationship with him. So there's a difference. It's okay to ask for what you need. It's okay to have an expectation of that. But there's the difference. And see, Mary gave us a beautiful example of life with when I said there were two examples this morning one that lived life from God and one that live life with God on the front and she was the width. See in the Christmas story. There's a beautiful story to be proclaimed and that is life with God. Mary was an example of that. See, Mary's treasure was not in what she could get from God, her treasure, her blessings, her security, Mary's treasure was God himself. See when your treasure is God Himself, nobody can take it away from you. No matter what troubles you go through as a believer, nobody can take your treasure from you because it is him. And he is always with you. Mary wasn't trying to get anything from God. But instead she gave up her wants and her desires to be with him. And literally, I mean, God, Jesus was called Emmanuelle, which is God with us. And through him, we all have the guarantee that he will be with us as well. So I want to reflect on the day that Jesus was born. Because there's something really profound that happens with Mary here. And so let's look in Luke chapter two. We're gonna start reading in verse 15. So Jesus has been born. And starting in verse 15, it says, When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherd said to one another, let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about. So they hurried off, and they found Mary and Joseph and the baby who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him they spread the word concerning what had happened, or what had been told about them about this child's and all who heard it were amazed and what the shepherd said to them. First 19 But Mary treasured up all of these things and pondered them in her heart. Says she treasured up all of these things. When I first read that I thought, yeah, she she's treasuring the events of the day, she's treasuring the experience of having her son. Yeah, I get that, you know, because it's Christmas time right now. And when we drive by homes, we see the the shiny manger scene, and you have Mary and Joseph looking down with such pride at their new baby. And you see the shepherds and the Wiseman all coming around them. And it just looks it's just beautiful moment. And we might even have one on our mantle, but want to step back for a moment. And let's enter Mary shoes. Okay. Want you to imagine traveling nine months on a three, nine months pregnant on a three day trip to go back to your hometown. So they find a stable with a dirt floor where animals resided. And she gives birth to a baby with just her and her husband there. And this baby is born and they wrap him in strips of cloth, and there's no bassinet, there's no crib. So they placed him in a cement feeding trough right where animals like ate and drank. And they, they put him in there. Now when you have a baby, you look forward to family coming and visiting with you. Right you look forward to family joining you and and treasuring your child. So there was no family there with Mary and Joseph. In fact, the first visitors they had were the shepherds. And now when people came to visit me and my baby, and now I might be a little weird about this, but I would make them wash their hands before they held the baby. But Mary didn't, couldn't do that. And not only could she not do that, but these were shepherds. These were not clean people. These were people who were out in the fields, so that here they come and they are her first guests. And so let me tell you what she was not treasuring in that moment, was the events of the day. It would be understandable at this point, if Mary had abandoned all of her hope and been overcome by fear. She could have yelled at the shepherds. She could have said, Hey, I'm not up for visitors. I just gave birth in a stable go. Right? She could have yelled what I yelled. She could have said I'm not doing this. Not today. Not this way. This is not what I imagined. But she didn't. It says that she treasured it all. That's amazing. Because Mary knew where her treasure was. She had Gabriel's words to cling to that said, The Lord is with you in ways that Mary never could have imagined all generations since have proclaimed her to be blessed. Now there's another part to that verse that we read is that she treasured these things and pondered them in her heart. And now that word ponder conveys the full depth of an experience and a conflict. So not to say that it was easy for her not to say that she just went, Oh, you know, I'm going to treasure these things. This was a rough day, but I'm going to treasure these things. There was a conflict involved in that there was an experience that she was taking an all in and going, Okay, this was hard. But this is amazing, but her treasure was in life with God. And Mary is a beautiful example of life with God because she had her treasure in the right place. So let me take you back to the hospital, the day that my mom passed. See, all that I wanted was for my mom to be healed. And I thought that was the point of that passage. I felt like God had broken a promise to me. I allowed six months to go by. I hadn't gone to church, I hadn't prayed I hadn't read my Bible. People at work knew not to talk about God or my mom, that that was a wound, you did not want to poke because that was raw. And that was painful. And I remember, I worked in retail, and I remember, people would come in with their mothers and go shopping, it was Mother's Day, can I just say that. And they would come in and go shopping for their moms, and I could not help them. Like it was so painful for me, I couldn't help them. Not that I didn't like them. I was just jealous of them. And so I would let somebody else help them. You know, there were times that I wasn't sure if I was who I was mourning more. My mom, or the closeness that I had with God. So it was a huge void in my life because I was close to him. Then one day at work, a friend of mine, who was very bold and courageous, went where nobody else would go. And my friend Angie, who's actually should be in the service came up to me. And she said, Hey, Dee, and I remember exactly where we were standing. We're in the office, and I'm here and she's over there. She looked at me, she goes, have you read the rest of that Psalm? Let me tell you, I gave her the look. I was like, oh, no, no, no, see, we don't go there with me. And she said, might want to read it and walked off, almost hissed at her. You know. I was upset. And I thought, Hmm, how dare she do that? You know? So I scowled at her at the time. And that night, I went home and I made dinner. And I went about my day. And it didn't bother me that she'd said that. I went about my day. And I looked up at my bookshelf. And I saw my Bible. I thought, Hmm, it's funny that that's Bible that I had poured over and written in. It was just sitting there collecting dust for six months. And at first, I resisted the urge to open it. I thought, no, no, I know how this goes. I know he'll pull me in and push me off a cliff. I know how this works. So I didn't. And I stood back, probably about an hour later. And I thought, Alright, fine. Read the rest of that Psalm. So I took my Bible off the shelf, and I opened it to Psalm 27. And I want to share that with you this morning. Psalm 27, the whole song is amazing. But we're gonna start in verse 10, it'll be up on the screen. First 10 says, When my mother and my father or my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take care of me. I would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, for he shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say on the Lord. Say it wasn't my mom's heart that he was going to strengthen. It was mine. And it wasn't about me getting him to do what I wanted him to do that would make my life okay. It was about being with him, no matter what happened in my life. When I came to realize that in the end, healing wasn't the point. God was the point. And I realized that see, he didn't pull me close to him to push me off a cliff. He pulled me close to him that day so that I could lean into him so that he could comfort me and bring me peace, during the hardest time of my life. That's the difference between with and from. And that night, I cried, I cried the ugly cry. Because I had seen the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living the goodness of life with God right here right now on Earth. I found that even though that I had walked away because I didn't get what I wanted from God, he had never left me. He'd never left me. And I think that it was a great lesson for me to only read that part of the Psalm. And then come back six months later, to what I read. Because I realized that he was with me. And if I had it to do over again, I would have done it differently, I would have, you know, I would have walked out that hard time in my life leaning on him and trusting on him in my circumstance. Because we live life differently. When we realize that God is with us, I would have done that differently. But I can see his plan, I can see how he pursued me, even when I shut him out. And I want to tell you that the same is true for you. Maybe you're experiencing life right now, and all is well. Well, God is with you. And maybe things are hard, and circumstances are out of your control. I want to tell you that God is with you. Maybe you've turned your back on God, because things didn't turn out the way you dreamed, or he didn't want to, or he didn't do what you wanted him to do. Or I'm here to tell you more than anything that God is with you. That he pursues you that he has never left you. He doesn't hold it against you. In fact, he pursues you. See with God, we can have a life with hope, and with love and with faith. No matter what he is Emanuelle He is God with us. Scripture tells us that the fullness of God is pleased to dwell in Jesus Christ, that He is the image of the invisible God. And in Jesus, we are given a clear and ravishing vision of who God is. His beauty, His love, His goodness, and his power. I know that sometimes it's a struggle, and each of us may find ourselves from time to time living life from God. But just know this, you know, just as I know, my son, buttered me up to get a cookie. Make no mistake, I know that the thing that he loves more than a cookie is me. The story of Jesus displays the beauty of life with God. So he puts his treasure in you too. That's amazing, right? That's amazing. We treasure him and he treasures us. And God is with you right here right now. In this moment. God will be with you when you walk out those doors today. Gotta be with you when you're driving to work in your car next week. God will be with you when it's easy, and God will be with you when it is hard. He will be with you in every moment. May you lean into him. He treasures you and when he becomes the treasure of your heart. It is then that you realize that he has been the treasure all along. Thanks for listening. I pray you found hope in today's conversation, and maybe even feel a little less alone in your story. Stay connected with us on Facebook and Instagram at reclaimed story. Want to learn more about living a reclaimed life and how you can be a part of our growing community of Reclaimers check out our website at reclaimed story.com all of those links and more will be in the show notes. And if you enjoyed this inspirational podcast Be sure to subscribe rate and review. That is a huge help and helping us reach more people to live the reclaimed life. Thank you so much for listening