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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crosswalk devotional.

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Speaker 1: We're glad to have you listening with us.

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Speaker 2: Today's topic is how you can trust God to do

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Speaker 2: what he says he will do. We'll return with the

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Speaker 2: devotional after brief message.

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Speaker 1: From our sponsors.

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Speaker 2: God will do what he says. Written and read by

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Speaker 2: Whitney Hoppler. What I have said that I will bring

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Speaker 2: about what I have planned that I will do Isaiah

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Speaker 2: forty six eleven NIV. Years ago, I faced a lot

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Speaker 2: of competition for a particular job I wanted. It was

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Speaker 2: so competitive that I wonder whether or not I should

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Speaker 2: even try. But after I prayed about whether I should

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Speaker 2: go for it, I got a strong sense of peace

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Speaker 2: and confidence about doing so. It was a long process.

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Speaker 2: I had to develop a complex creative presentation and go

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Speaker 2: through several interviews with various groups of people. Along the way,

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Speaker 2: I doubted whether or not I could really get the job.

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Speaker 2: I put myself through a lot of unnecessary stress worrying

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Speaker 2: about the outcome. Finally, though, I turned my worries into prayers.

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Speaker 2: After praying regularly about the job, I sensed that God

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Speaker 2: would make a way for me to get it. Sure enough,

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Speaker 2: God did open the door to that job for me.

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Speaker 2: If I would have trusted that God would bring that

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Speaker 2: about after I prayed the first time, I would have

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Speaker 2: saved myself all that stress I didn't actually have to

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Speaker 2: go through while waiting In Isai at forty six eleven,

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Speaker 2: God assures us that he really will do what he

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Speaker 2: says he'll do in our lives. If God has spoken

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Speaker 2: a truth over your life, such as that he loves you,

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Speaker 2: that he'll never leave you, or that he'll meet all

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Speaker 2: of your needs, you can really help on God doing that.

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Speaker 2: It's something you can be sure God will do. If

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Speaker 2: God planned it, he is currently doing the work behind

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Speaker 2: the scenes to make it happen. Just because you can't

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Speaker 2: see the result yet because it's not yet God's timing

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Speaker 2: for it to happen doesn't mean God has abandoned his

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Speaker 2: work on it for you. This verse has real authority

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Speaker 2: behind it. God tells us clearly that he will bring

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Speaker 2: about what he says and that he will do what

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Speaker 2: he has planned. The focus is entirely on God's power,

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Speaker 2: and God has unlimited power to do whatever he chooses

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Speaker 2: to do. We never have to worry that God won't

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Speaker 2: be able to keep his promises.

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Speaker 1: To us.

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Speaker 2: No matter what, God always keeps his promises. We can

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Speaker 2: also be sure that none of our mistakes will ruin

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Speaker 2: God's work in our lives. God tells us in Romans

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Speaker 2: eight twenty eight that all things will work together for

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Speaker 2: our good. God can take all of our broken pieces

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Speaker 2: and incorporate them into the plans He established for us

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Speaker 2: before we were even born. No matter what, God will

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Speaker 2: continue to work to accomplish good purposes for our lives.

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Speaker 2: Jesus is the ultimate proof that what God says in

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Speaker 2: Isaiah forty six eleven is true. Thousands of years before

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Speaker 2: Jesus was born, God said he would send savior. But

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Speaker 2: as people waited for that to happen, generation after generation passed,

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Speaker 2: people started to doubt that God would really do what

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Speaker 2: he said he would do at just the right time. Though,

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Speaker 2: God brought about just what he had planned and said

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Speaker 2: he would do. Jesus came to earth at exactly the

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Speaker 2: best time in history to save our world from sin.

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Speaker 2: Since God was faithful to fulfill the massive promise of

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Speaker 2: sending us a savior, you can trust God to fulfill

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Speaker 2: the promises He has made to you. Personally, you can

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Speaker 2: stop exhausting yourself trying to force doors open, or worrying

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Speaker 2: that you've been forgotten, You can breathe. God always tells

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Speaker 2: the truth. If God said it, it's coming. If you

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Speaker 2: planned it, it's happening. Your job isn't to make it happen.

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Speaker 2: Your job is to trust the one who is already

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Speaker 2: doing it. Intersecting faith in life, as you consider how

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Speaker 2: you can trust God to do what he says he

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Speaker 2: will do, reflect on these questions, What's one promise you're

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Speaker 2: currently waiting for God to fulfill? In what ways are

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Speaker 2: you currently tempted to doubt God's promises while you wait?

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Speaker 2: And how can you remind yourself of God's faithfulness regularly

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Speaker 2: looking back? When has God about a plan in your

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Speaker 2: life that you once thought was impossible? Are you exhausted

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Speaker 2: from trying to force a result in your own strength

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Speaker 2: rather than trusting God's time? When you think about how

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Speaker 2: God always tells the truth and how he never fails,

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Speaker 2: how does that change your level of peace? Further reading

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Speaker 2: numbers twenty three, nineteen, Joshua twenty one, forty five, Philippians one, sixth,

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Speaker 2: Psalm thirty three, eleven, Hebrews ten twenty three. Thanks for

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