Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Dr. Douglas Weiss
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00034A
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00:09 Welcome to Celebrating Life in Recovery.
00:11 I'm Cheri your host. 00:13 Do you ever wish that you could be different? 00:15 Normal maybe, but just can't seem to get there? 00:17 Well you're not alone, come join us as we look 00:20 at how we can take control of the 00:21 things that are controlling you. 00:48 In my devotions this morning, 00:50 I was reading a portion of the Pursuit of Holiness 00:53 by Jerry Bridges. 00:54 And the first story he tells, 00:56 had me laughing out loud. 00:57 Okay, picture this. 00:58 Your in your devotions, it's just incredible, 01:02 you're quiet with God, and all of the 01:05 sudden the phone rings. 01:06 And it's loud, it's like a shrilling sound. 01:08 And you pick up the phone and it's one of those 01:10 people I think that God puts on the 01:12 planet to test us. 01:14 And he's arrogant, he's angry, he's rude, 01:16 and by the time you get off the phone, 01:19 you're just thinking poof. 01:20 You are resentful, you're enraged, 01:24 everything that you had worked at this 01:27 morning is gone. 01:28 I no longer feel peaceful, I no longer feel anything, 01:31 I just have to get myself together, 01:33 grab my jacket, get outside. 01:34 I'm outside, and it's cold, 01:35 and I'm like trying to figure out where is that 01:38 feeling that I had this morning? 01:40 You know where is it, where's that kind of 01:42 calm and holy feeling. 01:44 I'm connected with God because it's gone, 01:47 it's gone. 01:48 Having laughing out loud about this, 01:50 is most of you that watch the show know that my 01:53 computer was just stolen from the airport and so I 01:55 had one of those moments then. 01:57 I was prepared for these shows. 01:59 I was in devotions everyday. 02:00 I was so connected with God, 02:02 you would have thought I was Mother Teresa. 02:04 I was just like, I felt the Holy Spirit 02:07 was just on me. 02:08 You know I get to the airport and I'm just 02:10 feeling good and then somebody steal's your 02:12 computer and I'm looking for a gun. 02:14 How do I shoot that guy? 02:16 Does he know that everything 02:17 I own is on that computer? 02:19 My daughter's wedding pictures. 02:21 All the outlines for these shows. 02:22 Every ministry trip that I just so loved is on there. 02:25 And some jerk stole it. 02:28 But it's all gone. 02:29 It's like during those times, 02:31 it's like everything that is in you comes out. 02:36 You know all the stuff you thought you dealt with, 02:38 do you know what I mean? 02:39 Cause you know that anger doesn't just 02:41 fall off somewhere. 02:42 It's in there. 02:43 It just comes to the surface. 02:45 And so we are going to look at this show, 02:46 this show is going to be amazing because we are 02:48 going to look at how do you get a grip. 02:52 So how do you get a grip? 02:54 And I brought somebody on this show, 02:55 that is absolutely changed my life in some of 02:59 the stuff that he has put out there and so 03:02 we are going to come back. 03:03 I'm going to introduce you to Dr. Douglas Weiss. 03:05 He is amazing, what he is going to share 03:07 with you is amazing. 03:08 But do me a favor, grab a pen and paper, 03:11 cause some of this stuff is going to come by and 03:14 you are not going to be able to really sit with it 03:16 until after the show. 03:17 I promise you if you sit with this teaching, 03:20 it will change your life. 03:21 So come back, stay tuned! |
Revised 2014-12-17