1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Welcome to the Crosswalk devotional. 2 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 2: We're glad to have you listening with us. Today's topic 3 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:20,119 Speaker 2: is about entering a season of change. Will return with 4 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 2: the devotional after a brief message from our sponsors, When 5 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 2: you were Entering a Season of Change, written and read 6 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 2: by Hannah Benson. 7 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: Now, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 8 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, 9 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: and before you were born, I consecrated you. I appointed 10 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: you a prophet to the nations. Then I said, oh, 11 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: Lord God, behold, I do not know how to speak, 12 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: for I am only a youth. But the Lord Lord 13 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: said to me, do not say I am only a youth. 14 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 1: For to all whom I send you, you shall go, 15 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: and whatever I command you you shall speak. Do not 16 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 1: be afraid of them, for I am with you to 17 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: deliver you, declares the Lord Jeremiah one four through eight ESV. 18 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: I remember when I graduated from high school. I was 19 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: homeschooled my entire life, So when it was time for 20 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: me to graduate, we joined with a bunch of other 21 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: homeschooling families and their high school graduating seniors so we 22 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: could walk across the stage and receive the diplomas from 23 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 1: our parents. I don't know how to describe that moment. 24 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: I was leaving my childhood behind, stepping into adulthood, and 25 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: yet on the other hand, almost nothing would change. Instead 26 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: of going to college, I would get a job, but 27 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: I still planned to live at home. Yet I felt 28 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: this sense of apprehensive excitement. What did the future hold? 29 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: I had so many dreams for the future. I knew 30 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: God had called me to write for him, but what 31 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: would that look like? What about the passion burning within 32 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: me since I was a little girl to somehow be 33 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: involved in the film industry making movies for Jesus? Can 34 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: you relate whether you're graduating this year or simply stepping 35 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:19,279 Speaker 1: into a new season. Change can be both scary and exciting. 36 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: As a new graduate, I felt, in some ways like 37 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: the prophet Jeremiah when God called him inadequate. I'm pretty 38 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: sure I used the I'm only a youth line or 39 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: something similar, as I prayed in the years leading up 40 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: to my high school graduation. We can all feel small 41 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: at times. I think people thought when I graduated that 42 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: I had my life figured out, or more figured out 43 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 1: than most. I knew God wanted me to write books, 44 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: and that I wasn't going to college at least at 45 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: that point. While I couldn't deny the feeling the writing 46 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: books was only a portion of what God wanted me 47 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: to do, I didn't know what else he wanted me 48 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: to do. The truth is, from the time I was young, 49 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: I wanted to change the world world for Jesus, but 50 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 1: I didn't know how. I felt so small. How could 51 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: I reach the world for Jesus from home? Over time, 52 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: God showed me that I didn't need to figure out 53 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: the how, but to surrender it to him. More important 54 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: than me knowing the where, when, why, and how of 55 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: it all, God want in my heart to be available 56 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: and for me to serve him where he had me. 57 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: I'd always sense travel of some kind might be in 58 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: my future, but working regularly from home didn't feel like 59 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: it could leave a significant impact on the world. I 60 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: didn't figure it out overnight. I would still say I 61 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: don't have it all figured out, do we? Ever? From 62 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: the time I graduated until now, God has given me 63 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: a fuller idea of what he wants me to pursue 64 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: in the season. But it took time, and I'm sure 65 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: He will continue showing me things he wants me to do. 66 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: I found when we stopped fighting God to hold on 67 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: to a life we imagine for ourselves. God opens our 68 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: hands to receive the life He has planned for us. 69 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: In case you thought Jeremiah was the only one, look 70 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: at the Great Commission in Matthew twenty eight nineteen. Yes, 71 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:11,839 Speaker 1: b go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing 72 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: them in the name of the Father and of the 73 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe 74 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: all that I've commanded you. And behold, I am with 75 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 1: you always to the end of the age. If God 76 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 1: calls us to go somewhere, we go. But even if 77 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 1: he calls us to stay. Loving God, loving others, and 78 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 1: sharing His words starts exactly where we are, intersecting faith 79 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: in life. God doesn't want us to be afraid. Like Jeremiah, 80 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: we too are called by God. He knew us before 81 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: we were formed in the womb Psalm one thirty nine 82 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: thirteen through sixteen. He consecrated us and appointed us for 83 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:53,919 Speaker 1: his plan two Timothy one nine, Ephesians two ten. He 84 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: has a purpose for our lives. We also may argue 85 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: with God and say I am only filling the blod. 86 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: But God often doesn't call whom the world expects Verse 87 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: Corinthians one twenty six through twenty nine. And God is 88 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: able to make all grace abound to you, so that 89 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you 90 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: may abound in every good work. Second Corinthians nine eight, esv. 91 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: He keeps sampson strength Judges sixteen. He gave Moses words 92 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 1: Exodus four ten through twelve. He gives us exactly what 93 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,160 Speaker 1: we need for the task. He is placed in front 94 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: of us when we say I'm only fill in the blank. 95 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: We're looky what's in front of us, But we often forget. 96 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: While we can't always see the full picture, God can. 97 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: God's all sufficiency tewod Corinthians nine eight isn't dependent on 98 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 1: where we live, our age, or any of our circumstances. 99 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 1: We are merely called to be obedient and allow the 100 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: Lord to use us where we are. What is the 101 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:02,919 Speaker 1: only you are worried about? Give it to Jesus. But 102 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 1: he said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, 103 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 1: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I 104 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so 105 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: that the power of Christ may rest upon me tewod 106 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: Corinthians twelve nine ESV. Allow that to soak in His 107 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: grace is sufficient to equip us for every good work 108 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: that He has called us to. You don't need to 109 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: have the next ten years figured out. You just need 110 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: to trust that the God who holds your future is 111 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 1: with you in this one. Pray with me, Dear Lord, 112 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: thank you for calling me and knowing me says before 113 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: I was born. Forgive me for the times I let 114 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: my only excuses stop me from trusting you. I trust 115 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: that your grace is sufficient for the season I am 116 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 1: in right now wherever I am. Help me to be 117 00:06:54,640 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: obedient to your call and trust your timing Jesus' name, Amen, 118 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to today's devotional. 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