Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Fran McKain
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR000122C
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00:01 The following program discusses sensitive issues
00:03 related to addicted behavior. 00:05 Parents are cautioned that some material 00:06 may be too candid for younger children. 00:16 Welcome back. 00:18 You know, Fran, I just have to say 00:19 I was just blessed having you on the program, 00:21 but before we went on break I asked you a question 00:23 and the question is why work so hard? 00:25 This is a ton of work and you were fine, 00:28 in everybody's eyes you are okay, in your eyes? 00:31 Yeah, even in my own. 00:33 Except that there was a thirst inside 00:37 like it was feeling empty. 00:39 And also I was beginning to realize it, 00:45 that there were people who needed something 00:47 that God had apparently put me 00:49 in a position to do something about 00:51 and I wasn't able to give it because I didn't have it. 00:56 An example was, I'm working with a friend 00:59 who came out of the gay lifestyle. 01:01 We're working on writing her story 01:02 and of course, that means 01:04 she has got to share very deeply. 01:06 And she at one point stopped to me 01:09 and said that, she didn't feel safe with me 01:12 because I was invulnerable. 01:15 Wow. 01:16 She didn't even say a need for you, 01:18 that you don't have a need to, you don't have a-- 01:20 Yeah, and so it's not safe to talk to me. 01:22 Well, to me that was just like how can God even use me 01:25 if that's the case? 01:27 Something had to change. That's powerful. 01:31 And at the same time that that was happening 01:33 you were dealing with you know, what is this mean 01:37 and what are you trying show me, 01:38 what is this whole thing about 01:40 approval and-- and vulnerability. 01:43 Yeah, and the deeper He takes me 01:44 into this the more I'm realizing 01:46 how much need I really have. 01:48 So anything else you said that was one? 01:52 Yeah, God is clearly communicating to me about this. 01:55 Like, He gave me-- 01:58 I don't really had a couple dreams in my life 01:59 that would-- sure it came from Him. 02:01 But one was this dream about 02:04 this beautiful white tropical flower 02:05 and I watched it open up and I looked inside 02:08 and it's filled with this putrid mess. 02:12 And it was clear to me that He was saying, 02:15 we got work to do. 02:16 Wow, that's powerful. 02:18 Because you even said that and with the Pharisees 02:21 you were like while whitewashed tombs with dead man's bones 02:26 and I really believe that sometimes 02:28 we look at Pharisees as a-- as incredibly 02:32 just bad folks or damaged folks or arrogant or whatever. 02:36 But I think that they were doing the best they could, 02:39 learning, doing the right thing all of that kind of stuff 02:43 and I'm seeing them in a whole different way. 02:45 What if they just didn't know how to connect 02:48 and they didn't-- like Fran said 02:50 they didn't understand what the blood of Christ 02:52 actually meant in their own life. 02:54 And so if you have an approval addiction, workaholism 02:57 that you've been trying to perform your whole life, 02:59 take it to God because He says, 03:02 "Absolutely you don't have to work so hard." 03:04 And remember that He is crazy about you, me too. 03:08 See you next time and I pray that this program blessed you, 03:11 because I know that it blessed me. 03:13 Addiction is addiction is addiction 03:14 and God wants us free. |
Revised 2015-02-05