- We're all gonna face different fears, right?
All of us have-- I, as a mom I always get--
I hear these stories about parenting and moms
and the fear that we carry as women
for our children in the future.
For me its always been this idea that I need to release
my kids because I don't want to be a helicopter mom, right?
They're still teenagers, but as they go into adulthood
I don't wanna be afraid about their decisions,
and, so I have to remind myself that--
that God's perfect love casts out fears,
so I have to remind myself, Lord your perfect love for me,
your perfect love for them.
If you took the wind out of my lungs today,
your love does not increase for my family.
God's love is as big and as bold
as it is ever gonna be right now,
and, so when I think that way, I think you've got them,
you've got them, you've got me, you've got them,
and I'm able to rest in that.
- Sometimes whether you get the answer you want
or the answer you don't want,
you discover God's faithfulness is the same.
I remember when our son Christian was three or four,
and I took him to doctor
cause I knew something was wrong,
and I couldn't, and they kept saying no, he's fine,
and I'm like, no there's something wrong,
and they ran some more tests, and then they said,
you know, we'll have the results by tomorrow morning,
and I said to my doctor, you know, what does it look like?
And he said I'd rather just wait,
and I said I'd rather you just told me right now,
and he said it looked like it could be leukemia,
and I'll never forget driving home,
and Christian said that night,
can I sleep in bed with you?
And I'm like yeah, do you want a pony--
(Laughter)
- But I was up all night long, just praying,
and bringing him before the throne of grace and mercy,
and the next day
when we got the results that he was just anemic
I was over the moon,
but I remember sharing that on a platform,
and this woman came up to me at the end,
and she said I got the other phone call.
And just as I'm about apologize she said no no no,
what you need to know is
whether you get the answer you pray for
or the answer you dread, God is present.
God is there, God is real,
and it was such a gift to me from this beautiful woman,
who was walking through a struggle with her son.
She said no, you need to know God's as faithful
when you get the bad phone call
as he is when you get the good one.
- And to be honest I think sometimes
I sense his presence more in the struggle.
Right, I don't know why that is.
- Well because you release the control,
its like you just don't have--
What else ya gonna do?
- Cause like, you're at the end of yourself.
- Right, isn't that where his strength
is magnified in our weaknesses,
so when we're at the end of our rope.
- His office is at the end of our rope. (laughs)
- And I don't know why people think
that certain Christians are exempt
from the attacks of the enemy.
- Do you know any of those people?
- No, I don't know any of those people.
- You get close enough to anybody you're gonna--
- You gonna realize that you are not exempt.
Everybody has a story regardless if you're on a platform
or you're in the pulpit, you know?
In the seats, its like, you're gonna have a story,
and, I mean, the Bible talks about it, it's like,
is no respect of person, I mean,
c'mon the same attacks that the enemy uses on you,
he's gonna use on somebody else, Right?
- And the story's never over, it only,
its over after we move on to heaven,
but the story continues, so the walk of faith continues
because that's the only way we can please God,
is the righteous walk by faith,
so how do you know you're righteous
unless your faith's called upon,
so it's gonna be a continual walking out,
in the victory that God has already provided for us,
but standing on the promises of God and his faithfulness.
- And I must, I feel like I am just--
The battles that I've fought
whether it was health battles or financial--
Any of them--
Marriage, you know, marriage is not easy either.
All right, so some of that, I know yours is easy.
- [DeeDee] Yours is perfect.
(Laughter)
- But I feel like I am--
I am a stronger woman,
Right?
I'm a stronger believer because I've had to fight.
(Laughter)
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