Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Rich Kollenberg, Susan Kollenberg,
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR000051C
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00:13 Welcome back!
00:14 It is amazing to me the way God has to step into 00:18 our lives, and some of our lives are so messed up. 00:20 If you're not one of them just stay with us on this segment 00:24 because what I think is amazing is I went through book. 00:28 I do devotions every morning and I grab different books. 00:31 One of the books, that I grab this morning, talked about 00:35 there is a statue, 4 statues in Florence Italy. 00:39 The statues are statues that Michelangelo started to 00:45 carve out of this incredible marble. 00:48 He was going to put it in a tomb area for a tombstone 00:53 for a pope that had requested that was dying. 00:56 So he was doing these statues and Michelangelo says 01:00 I can look at a piece of marble and see the man 01:04 or the woman, or the angel or whatever it is trying 01:07 to escape that marble, and he said I just help them come out. 01:10 Well he started to do these 4 pieces, 01:12 and they are big pieces. 01:13 One is a man, one is a woman, one is an Angel, 01:17 and I can't remember what the other one was. 01:18 So he starts carving them and then the pope decides 01:21 I don't need them. 01:22 And he is like, are you kidding me, 01:25 and so he just leaves them. 01:26 They are on display and they are called captives, 01:30 They are captive in this stone. 01:33 I really believe for all of us, in our addictions, 01:37 in our lives, and the junk and dysfunctions. 01:40 We are coming from places, maybe not as much as Susan 01:44 and Rich where you came from, where you were stepping 01:48 into Meth addiction, this crazy subculture, and where 01:52 your body is so incredibly trashed, but some of us 01:55 are from dysfunctional homes where we don't know what 01:58 it is like to be normal. 01:59 I don't know what it's like to be loved and we were 02:02 so created to be loved, so not to be loved we get a 02:05 little tweaked so we are like those statues. 02:07 We are like those men and women Michelangelo was trying 02:10 to carve out, as we are held captive in our junk. 02:13 God, He is the Potter, right? 02:16 He says trust Me with this, let Me set you up and 02:21 let Me step in as the Sculpture, as the Potter, 02:25 and let Me get you out of there. 02:28 Some of it is easy, but some of it is actually not, 02:32 it's a little more subtle. 02:33 So as He gets to those areas I can't even see, some people 02:36 call them our blind spots, but our blind spots will 02:39 keep us out of recovery. 02:41 So some people calls them our blind spots and as He 02:43 gets to those areas He starts carving that, 02:45 or He starts molding and moving that Clay around. 02:48 It is that those areas are a little bit harder and 02:52 God says, you don't do anything really. 02:55 You are the stone, you are the Clay, I am the Potter, 03:01 I'm the Sculpture. 03:03 It's easier for God when we say that, I don't know 03:05 what to do, I don't know how to get out of this anger. 03:07 I don't know how to get out of this bitterness. 03:09 God says, good because I know how. 03:13 Literally trusting God as the Sculpture, trusting God 03:17 as the Potter, that He knows who you are and knows 03:20 exactly how incredible you are. 03:22 He says I will step into your life and I will get 03:26 all those things carved out, I will get all 03:28 those impurities pushed out, and when you are done, 03:32 oh man, man. 03:35 I read another book that God says I am particularly 03:38 fond of that one, because I think all of heaven says, 03:41 I'm particularly fond of that one. 03:42 I love you, I love the way you laugh, I love the way 03:46 you think about things, I love the way you love on 03:49 the person next to you. 03:51 The only way we actually find out that about ourselves is 03:54 to let God, and as God to step in and teach us. 03:58 When Susan and Richard were talking about their daily 04:02 walk, their daily turning it over to God, to learn how 04:07 to eat and drink and to sleep. 04:10 I didn't know and tell me if you knew this. 04:13 I didn't know that when you sleep you literally 04:18 refresher your brain, and if you lack sleep, fatigue 04:22 itself stops blood flow to your brain at a certain 04:26 level that trashes it. 04:27 The next day we wake up and we're try to think straight. 04:30 When somebody says I'm in a mental fog, you are 04:34 in a mental fog, it is true. 04:37 So God says, not only am I going to step into your 04:40 life and literally bring you out so that you know 04:43 yourself who you are, so you know and understand 04:47 all the incredible giftings you have. 04:49 God doesn't just want you to stop be in an addict, 04:52 He wants you to start being you because He loves you. 04:56 Do you know what I mean? 04:57 I'm going show you all that kind of stuff and trust Me. 04:59 You don't half to do anything, I will finish the work 05:02 that I start in you. 05:03 I am faithful, I am trustworthy, I know exactly who 05:08 you are and I can't wait for you to know that. 05:11 If you are out there and you are struggling, 05:13 trust God is absolutely amazing. 05:16 I'll just want to say thank you for joining us. 05:18 I hope you heard everything. 05:20 I don't care if you're hard-core Meth addict with no 05:22 brain cells left, God says it's not too far gone for Me. 05:26 I'm God and I can bring you back to a place of 05:28 restoration and I long to do that. 05:31 I want you to know I was thrilled that you were here. 05:35 Until next time, always remember that God is crazy 05:38 about you and me too! |
Revised 2014-12-17