Episode 6 – The BE-Attitudes: Living Your Best Life Part 4: Embracing Real Strength For A Victorious Life

Kimberly Faith: Welcome to the Truth in Love podcast with your host, Kimberly Faith. We seek to present God’s timeless truth through the lens of his remarkable love.

Welcome back. Podcast 6, the Beatitudes, living your best life. And we’re on part 4, which we’ve titled embracing real strength for a victorious life. And I’ve got my guest, my father, John McLarty, back. Good morning.

John McLarty: Great being here.

Kimberly Faith: So last time, we ended off the last podcast with, just kind of this idea that Jesus had laid the foundation for the abundant life with having us assimilate an attitude of our complete dependence upon God and then also just developing a complete horror for the tragedy of sin in our lives and for the lives of the of the whole world and just the terrible consequences of it. And that producing the abundant life because, godly repentance leads us into the comfort of god’s presence, which then in turn produces our desire to be more engaged in in the work that he’s given us. And so at the end of that podcast, we kind of posed this question, what is the best source of strength, in order to have your best life? Because sustaining those two attitudes is impossible without help.

John McLarty:  Supernatural help.

Kimberly Faith: That’s right. And so, dad, what do you think is the typical source we run to even in our Christian life to help sustain ourselves?

John McLarty: Well, typically, we run to our own mind. We have a problem, and we think we’re going to fix it. But I think the clear answer here is that our strength comes from God. And as the apostle Paul said, I can do all things through Christ’s strength. But it’s amazing as Christians, we know that, but we don’t practice it.

Kimberly Faith: Exactly. Exactly. And Jesus said, in this beatitude

John McLarty: we should

Kimberly Faith: Right. And in this beatitude, Jesus says, okay. Look. We know I know y’all have a problem with your brains here. We I know that you guys are not going to naturally do this, but if you’ll do this one thing, it will bring you into the strength, that I have for you.

Kimberly Faith: And so, the next beatitude, Matthew chapter 5 verse 5, Jesus says, blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. What if you were to describe what does meek mean, what do you think? Well, what do you think most people think meek means?

John McLarty: I think the most of the world most would think meek is is not a good trait. It’s kind of wimpy. Meek.

Kimberly Faith: Mhmm. Spineless.

John McLarty: Spineless.

Kimberly Faith: Weak knead, cowardly.

John McLarty: Won’t stand up for yourself.

Kimberly Faith: Right. Right. And so a couple a couple things. We have to go if we go back to the with the Greek, because this was written in Greek. And what is meekness?

Well, the ancient Greek word for meek is pros, and I’m probably saying it wrong, but p-r-a-u-s, just in case I’m not pronouncing it correctly. You know, there’s not really one English word that does justice to this word. But, it conveys the idea of one who is powerful, but has allowed someone greater to control their life. It’s strength under control. You know?

John McLarty: Very good.

Kimberly Faith: That’s the best succinct definition. And, so Jesus is is saying this attitude that, yeah, you, you know, you have, first of all, some of your own strength, but you mentioned I can do all things through Christ. What is that strength in Christ that we have that we can harness if we’ll just submit? That’s the same power that raised Jesus from the dead. You know.

That’s a that’s a magnificent power. Do you think that people do you think that most of the Christians, including ourselves, are tapping into that power?

John McLarty: I don’t I clearly not, and it’s a struggle in our lives, but it’s trusting in him. I think of also waiting on him to provide a clear path and having a heart to follow him. And, I think we read the verse before out of, Proverbs. “If we’ll acknowledge him in all of our ways, it will direct our paths.”

Kimberly Faith: Which requires us to humble ourselves.

John McLarty: Yes. As a humbling. Yes.

Kimberly Faith: I, when I think of meekness, I think of an experience that I had, that, you know, when you talk about strength under control

John McLarty: Mhmm.

Kimberly Faith: When I was in law school, I clerked for a an attorney, and, he had been a a pilot in in Vietnam. And he’d landed his aircraft on an aircraft carrier and the tail hook broke. And he, ended up Wow. Yeah. He ended up his plane went off the off the crate carrier.

He survived, but he was paralyzed from the waist down. His copilot didn’t survive. But he so he went back and went to law school and had a very, very, a thriving practice, and he loved horses. And he had, he had an Arabian stallion named Corabi Del Rey, and he knew that I was kind of a little bit of a horse crazy person. And, one day he had

John McLarty: that ride.

Kimberly Faith: Yeah. One day he asked me, he said, would you like to go out and, you know, my horse needs this this this very expensive horse needs to be exercised. Would you like to do that? Of course, I was like, oh my lord. This horse is worth

John McLarty: more than that.

Kimberly Faith: Yeah. This horse is worth more than more than my life. You know? It it it was a very expensive horse. I was like, of course.

You know? Well, if you know anything about horses, you know, a stallion, you know, of course, he was the reason he had this horse was an investment. It was to breed him. And, so, I got out there and, I’ll never forget the first time I rode him. It was this tremendous you could just feel I could feel the power of this horse underneath

John McLarty: me. Imagine.

Kimberly Faith: It was crazy. And when you when you thought about that little tiny bit was really the only thing between me and disaster. It wasn’t because of my power or my strength. This horse had all the power that was necessary to do lots of things. You get on a track, run a race. You know.

John McLarty: Could’ve brushed you into a fence.

Kimberly Faith: It could’ve done a lot. Yeah. Could’ve done a lot of things, but he had been broken. He had been broken to ride.

And when we think about our own, you know, we talked about in the last one, mourning the effects of sin. If we have been broken by not just our own, you know, our own circumstances, but broken in a way that is good. This horse wasn’t torn up, broken in a way that was bad. Yeah.

John McLarty: He was Yielded. Yielded. Yielded.

Kimberly Faith: Yes. But he we call that broken to ride, you know, which is a kind of a great you know, we’ve broken our own will and submitted ourselves to god’s will. And just like, you know, when I would get Corabi del Rey out on the road to ride with him, well, I knew the spots of danger. He would have played in the you know, he would have run down the middle of the road, you know, if he didn’t because he didn’t know. But because he had been allowed he had allowed himself to be under my control, he was able to go see a lot more than he would have seen had he been left in his pasture.

John McLarty: And that’s He had more freedom.

Kimberly Faith: He had more

John McLarty: a good example?

Kimberly Faith: Yes. Perfect. Yes. And so this is not you know, let’s just dispel a notion that Jesus is talking about that we’re supposed to be spineless cowards. No. That’s not it at all. We are set free to basically live the greatest adventure of our lifetime. You know.

John McLarty: Exactly. It’s a good analogy. Perfect.

Kimberly Faith: I think, you know, kind of going back to that these these all tie in together, but when we’re set free from sin, we are set free in Christ. And you think about, you know, what is Jesus has a great adventure planned for us. And do we feel like we’re living it?

John McLarty: You know, sin, I’m just thinking that sin is an enslavement.

Kimberly Faith: Yes.

John McLarty: We when we described our salvation experience We thought freedom was just doing whatever you wanted, and that was actually an enslavement. And we weren’t truly free till Christ set us free.

Kimberly Faith: Exactly. And freedom, you know you know, it’s kind of like, you know, the politicians use words and they redefine things and but freedom, you know, we all serve somebody. And when when like that old Bob Dylan song. Right?

John McLarty: You gotta serve somebody.

Kimberly Faith: It may be the devil, it may be the law, but you got to serve somebody. Right? But, you know, it’s interesting that when Jesus sets us free, that freedom that we have in him, it allows us to spread our wings and go so far. If you had told me, you know, 15 years ago that I’d be doing a podcast and, I mean, doing all these things that God has set me free to do, I would have said there’s no way. There’s no way I would have

John McLarty: Beyond what you could have imagined.

Kimberly Faith: Exactly. And it’s and it’s just this amazing freedom. I don’t feel burdened by following God’s commandments. I feel free. You know?

I don’t feel for, burdened by

John McLarty: exciting.

Kimberly Faith: It very exciting. My life is very exciting, and it’s and it’s not and I again, that has nothing to do with me. Right. It’s all to do with Christ. You know?

It’s interesting that, you know, Jesus said, he who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters abroad. And he also said in in this is Matthew, in the book of Matthew chapter 10, he says, behold, I send you out a sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore, be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. A dove is gentle, a serpent knows when to strike. We have to strike the balance between those things in order to reach our fellow man.

In the first two and this is, I’m jumping around a little bit, but I want to kinda get this, point. The first two beatitudes really develop our relationship with God. Right. That’s strengthening our relationship with God. Meekness is about how to develop our ability to minister to our fellow man.

And to develop that, really, Jesus is kind of the title of his podcast, truth and love. We need to, you know, be like a serpent, no one to strike, but when a dove like a dove and know how to present that in love. Right? And it’s not like we get to choose to stay in the world and stay and be on God’s side. That’s what I put those 2 verses together because I felt like they’re both

John McLarty: Right.

Kimberly Faith: Important in this idea of meekness. First of all, we’re choosing the side we’re on. And second of all, Jesus says, here, let me show you how to how to deal with your fellow man in this thing called meekness because I’m going to give you the strength that I have, the intuition that I have, the love that I have, so you’re not doing this on your own. And I’m going to teach you how to be as gentle as a dove, but wise as a serpent. Does that make sense?

John McLarty: Needed. And then when you when you strike, it’s in the power of God, and it’s very targeted.

Kimberly Faith: Yes. Yes.

John McLarty: And Very precise.

Kimberly Faith: It’s very precise. And, you know, the thing that God keeps bringing back to my attention in this whole series is that it’s like a wakeup call. You know, we do need to choose what side we’re on. And what when we when we are applying these attitudes to our life that Jesus said, bless us, right, then the greatest blessing is being in in the battle. The greatest blessing is being is work is the work that we’re doing. It’s not I mean, I like to go to the beach.

Don’t get me wrong. But that’s not the greatest blessing in my life. If I have a choice, I’d rather be really doing what we’re doing right now because that’s how God takes our when when we are operating in that strength, you know, wouldn’t you rather be operating in strength than in weakness?

John McLarty: Yes. Yeah. I’m just thinking of an example, and there would be a lot of analogies, so I’ll just I’ll let the listeners come up with their own, but I just have this thought of the US military in its full capacity. The US military is could defeat any foe, but we don’t necessarily. But when we decide we’re going to do something, like take out a target We do it. Right. And we’re we’re the best Yeah.

And we get it done. Right. So you have that power of God Mhmm. Available. But, Christians, you know, we’re not just to go overwhelming people with, you know, just

Kimberly Faith: With our power.

John McLarty: in our own wisdom.

Kimberly Faith: Right. Right. And it that also, when we talk about, the beatitude of mercy, that’s actually going to come back into play because, you know, we don’t know what’s in the hearts and souls of people. And if you think about our import most important mission isn’t being right. Our most important mission isn’t that what we perceive as a victory.

I like to ask people this all the time. What is the most powerful thing that ever happens on this planet? And a lot of people say, well, you know, I guess it’s the ocean waves or a tsunami or they can’t believe physical examples. But the fact is the most powerful thing that ever happens on this earth is when one person decides to give their heart to Christ.

John McLarty: Salvation. Yes.

Kimberly Faith: Because God can make the tsunami. God can cause an earthquake.

John McLarty: Just exercising the truth and love

Kimberly Faith: and seeing

John McLarty: the power of God

Kimberly Faith: That’s right.

John McLarty: To change somebody’s life.

Kimberly Faith: To change somebody’s life eternally. And God doesn’t force people to receive the gift of salvation. But when we when we harness the strength that comes through humility, then and saying, god, not my will, but your will. And even Jesus said that. Jesus said, father, not my will, but your will be done.

I mean, this is the God who created everything. Jesus created everything. He’s telling he’s submitting himself to the father. And when we do that and look. He purchased salvation. I mean, he prayed that prayer in the garden of Gethsemane, you know, because he was struggling with this idea that he was going to be separated from his father.

John McLarty: He is the perfect example because he he came across mainly as humble

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: Meek Right. Kind, gentle. But at certain times when the, you know, the obvious power of God was needed, he just here.

Kimberly Faith: Here. Let me climb the stone.

John McLarty: Show you this.

Kimberly Faith: Let me walk on water. Right. Oh, and by the way, you guys who are selling stuff in my house, I’ll appreciate that. Let me make a whip, and I’m a whip your hineys. So it’s it’s Strength under

John McLarty: control. Strength under control

Kimberly Faith: Strength under control and the wisdom to know when

John McLarty: and applied at the right time.

Kimberly Faith: Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, when it’s kind of funny. I I love it when, you know, you see when I used to play competitive volleyball and you get the perfect set. Right.

You get the perfect set, and then you have the perfect approach and the ball slams straight down. I mean, that that’s just so, like, satisfying, you know, and nobody blocks you, of course, or the perfect block. Right? It’s kind of like when we submit ourselves to the will of God, then and we and that takes acknowledging that his way better than our way. Right?

Then we get to live in this perfect play. It’s a perfect set all the time, and there’s just nothing better than that.

John McLarty: It’s fulfilling.

Kimberly Faith: It’s fulfilling.

John McLarty: To be a part of God’s work. Right. So fulfilling.

Kimberly Faith: And he, you know, we get to we get to see the power of Christ at work. You know, the apostle Paul prayed for the Ephesians. He said that the eyes of your understanding this is Ephesians 1 17 to 20. That the eyes of your understanding be enlightened that you might know what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe according to the working of his mighty power, which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at the right hand in the heavenly places. See, Paul was praying.

Hey, Lord, I prayed that these Ephesians have their understanding enlightened and to know this power, this great power.

John McLarty: So it’s exciting that we might know it. We might experience it.

Kimberly Faith: Experience it.

John McLarty: And we’ve seen it, and it’s mainly in salvation of a soul, right. Or some other great, you know, tragedy that was unfolding and God provided the solution.

Kimberly Faith: The stories I could tell. I mean, a lot of stories I experienced, I can’t tell because they’ve happened to people who, you know, in my office. Sure. And so they’re confident confidential things. But, I’ll just I’ll just give you, an example.

You know? I think about the the we when did we we just released our 34th or 35th song in the last, what, 10 years? No. It’s been less than 10 years. I think 2015 is when we started writing music.

Maybe it was 14. I don’t even know. But I think about how, you know, God laid it on my heart one day to write music, and I laughed about that. Kinda like Sarah laughed when Abraham said she was going to have a kid when she was 90.  Or God said, you know, she’s going to have a child when she was in her nineties. That’s the way I felt about writing music. I was like, “God, that’s pretty funny.” I don’t read music. I don’t know anything about music. You know? I don’t not a musician. But then God gave me a song. And I wrote that first song, and it was like, yeah. I knew it was from God. It was like, wow. You know. That was all God. And then another song came.

John McLarty: And I remember when Lynn, my wife, your mom, heard that first song, she said, is that you singing?

Kimberly Faith: Yeah. Right. Well, when we recorded it because I really didn’t think it was good enough to record. You know. And, then the Lord worked it out to record it, and then mom’s like, wow. That’s really good. Is that really you singing? And then, of course, mom, inspired the song pray and get out of the way. You know. And now I look back and the people we’ve been able to engage in the songwriting process that, you know, I met a lady in the woods hiking out. Now I went at night on a trail. We’re out there hiking. She records 3 songs with me. We have

John McLarty: I remember that. Yeah. Her voice was a perfect match

Kimberly Faith: Oh.

John McLarty: For those songs.

Kimberly Faith: For those songs. Yeah. Right. We’ve had Hannah record and, my little sister who, you know, just we just I didn’t have a clue she had so much talent. We’ve had a kid who grew up on a mission field in Ecuador, you know, in Panama, play the cello and record. I mean, this is a miracle. This is the power of humility, which is actually a song that the Lord gave me years ago. It’s so true. I am strong on my knees. That’s the power in humility. You know. And so

John McLarty: This was the prayer for the Ephesians is that they could see the mighty power

Kimberly Faith: Exactly.

John McLarty: The same power that rose, Christ rose from the dead.

Kimberly Faith: Right. And don’t you think that this idea of meekness allows us to experience the outer limits of God’s power in our life? I mean, doesn’t that I don’t know. What do you think about that thought?

John McLarty: Yeah. We get to be a part of his glorious purpose, and he is the outer limits. He’s the Lord of Lords Exactly. King of kings, and we can be a part of what he’s wanting to do. Yeah. You can’t get more excited than that.

Kimberly Faith: But it’s so exciting. It’s like, you know, people, you know, put great, like, let great football players, you know, on a on a pedestal and say, man, if I could just be like him. Right? Well, God says, guess what? I’m giving you the power that raised Jesus from the dead. You can be like him. And gee and we’re commanded to be like Christ. Right. And, you know, we’re not going to save anybody, because meaning, we’re not going to we’re not going to do the same thing Jesus came to do, but he’s given us the power to bring other people into that appropriation of the gift of salvation. So it’s  very exciting.

This this life of this abundant life is very exciting. Jesus like, look. I’m giving you some things here in this beatitudes, and all you get to do is if you’ll do these, if you’ll develop these attitudes in yourself, you’re going to have a great life, the greatest ever.

John McLarty: There’s not a that being yielded in, in, I mean, the world sometimes kind of gets things correct because they follow patterns of God. I’m thinking about sports.

Kimberly Faith: Mhmm.

John McLarty: Most athletes would train. They think they’ve got their will and their discipline. But when you think about a lot of teams, it takes a quarterback yielded to a great coach to really exercise their greatest talents.

Kimberly Faith: Right. Right.

John McLarty: Or a team doing their best, they’re yielded.

Kimberly Faith: Right. The quarterback can’t do anything in that.

John McLarty: He does that all best

Kimberly Faith: of mine. Right. And it’s and it’s the same thing. You know? We we’ve we’ve become a part of the family of God.

Jesus is our head. And when we’re submitted Submitted. Our head, then then we’re empowered to act. We’re not rogue. We’re not that lone wolf.

John McLarty: And kind of like the coach up, you know, on the sidelines or up in the box seeing the whole field.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: They know how to instruct the quarterback

Kimberly Faith: Right. Right.

John McLarty: To call in the play.

Kimberly Faith: Because they’re seeing the bird’s eye view. Right. And and God is, you know, God is on omniscient. He knows everything. He’s omnipotent. His power is without limits. You know? And when we put ourselves in the harness, so to speak, of his will, instead of the harness of our own just being led by our own selfish desires, suddenly our life becomes bigger than us.

John McLarty: That’s really exciting. That makes me want to be more like that. Yeah. Because by being yielded to God, you bring in the power of God. You bring in the coaching, the perspective.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: And great things can be done.

Kimberly Faith: Exactly. And then what what’s even, to me, more exciting is that once we are be we’ve been coached by God and we’re allowing ourselves to be coached by God, then we can do what Jesus said as discipleship, which is what we’re doing right now. I mean, we’re taking what God’s taught us, and we’re having to think about it. We’re having to experience it. We’re having to be able to describe what it’s like, and then we get to teach it, which makes us even better at doing it.

When I used to, coach club volleyball, one of the things that that it was just so incredible for me was that as the more I coached, the better player I became.

John McLarty: Mhmm.

Kimberly Faith: And so it’s a double edged blessing for us.

John McLarty: Right.

Kimberly Faith: We get to both do God’s will and work through his power, but it also strengthens us. And so kind of going back to that original question, you know, what that we post here, what is the best source of strength to have your best life? Well, it’s the power of God, but we can’t have that

John McLarty: Without being meek.

Kimberly Faith: Without being meek.

John McLarty: Gilded.

Kimberly Faith: Which is totally yielded. Yeah. So and that and that, of course, goes hand in hand with, the understanding that we don’t have anything without God, which is the first beatitude. All these

John McLarty: Poor in spirit.

Kimberly Faith: Poor in spirit. Right. And, so it’s  interesting that the blessing that Jesus mentions is blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. Okay. So what does that mean?

Is it talking about the this planet that we’re walking on, that we’re literally going to inherit it? We know that the scripture says that it’s going to pass away someday. Right? It’s going to there’s going to be a new heaven and a new earth. But have you ever met anybody that walks around like they own the house or own the courtroom?

John McLarty: Mhmm.

Kimberly Faith: Yeah. It’s an attitude. It’s an attitude that we don’t walk around with pride, but we walk in with confidence because we know our inheritance is secure.

John McLarty: Yeah. I think there’s passages where it talks about the inheritance in the kingdom. And, you know, as we serve God and are blessed by God, that blesses us and has eternal consequences in the kingdom.

Kimberly Faith: Mhmm.

John McLarty: Just in being close to him. And just think of the idea of meeting Christ and him saying good job, a good and faithful servant.

Kimberly Faith: Mhmm.

John McLarty: Yeah. Be varying degrees of that, but how that you know, to me, that’s part of the inheritance.

Kimberly Faith: It is part of the inheritance.

John McLarty: Feeling like we’ve served him.

Kimberly Faith: And it’s kind of like knowing like, when Jesus said, “whosoever believes on me shall have everlasting life.” Okay. That’s a present tense. We possess something that’s everlasting today. And when we have meekness, which infuses us with God’s strength, we walk around we’re both powerful and gentle, which is like Christ.

John McLarty: Yes. And You’d think those were a contradiction, but they’re not in Him.

Kimberly Faith: They’re not because

John McLarty: He is like that.

Kimberly Faith: He was. He was the creator of everything. He is a sustainer of everything, but he made himself nothing, and he gave us everything. That is just profound, and we get to do that for people. We can be like Christ. Jesus said, he commanded us to love like he loves.

John McLarty: Mhmm.

Kimberly Faith: And that sounds like an impossibility unless it’s in God’s strength. Because in God’s strength, we can love the way he loves because it’s never about us. We’re getting everything we need from above, so we can give everything we have

John McLarty: Right.

Kimberly Faith: To those that are here. And that’s part of inheret— We have this attitude, I inherit everything I could possibly imagine. I don’t need anything from you, which means I can love you freely. I have the strength to love me freely. This kind of…

John McLarty: My father owns the cattle on all the hills.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: I serve a mighty God. He gives us the confidence.

Kimberly Faith: Exactly. It’s a confident attitude, because you don’t walk around needing to be selfish because you already have everything you need in Christ. And, I’ll never forget that. What kind of triggered this particular thought for me, was I was teaching a study, a couple years ago, and there was this lady and real sweet lady, and she said  she was taught we’re talking about the fruits of the spirit. And, she says, “well, I try really hard when I go to Walmart to be patient and kind and, you know, tolerant, all these people around me, but it’s just hard. I just can’t do it.” And the holy spirit just kind of took hold of me. It’s like, that’s right. You can’t do it. And that’s exactly the attitude we need to have.

We can’t do anything without Christ as opposed to I can do all things. We got to remember. We have to submit every part of our life. And I like to kind of, as we wind down this this podcast, when I think about what it means to live meek in my own life, it’s part of that is I have integrated this prayer, and it’s “Lord, I give you 100% of my desires, 100% of my resources. I give you 100% of my home, my car, my law practice, my children. Everything I have belongs to you. I want that attitude to pre prevalent throughout the day. I gave you my wisdom, whatever that looks like. Give it all to you. Oh, and by the way, God, you say everything I have belongs to you.

My problems belong to you too. And I’m going to give those to you all day long because what that’s going to do is that’s going to put me in submission to you, and then your strength is going to flow through me. Your wisdom is going to flow through me, your love, and the fruits of the spirit, basically, all the fruits of his spirit because we’ve unleashed ourselves from ourselves.”

John McLarty: So through our meekness, we inherit the power of God, right. And being a part of his work.

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: I think of just various missionaries. One comes to mind, I won’t name names, but as missionaries, and we’re all missionaries, but this missionary has yielded to God and has had the most exciting adventurous life. It’s not boring. It’s not terrible.

So I’m having to serve God. But we have that we have that capability. We’re all missionaries. We’re all, ambassadors for Christ, whether we’re in a foreign country or right here in in Missouri and Arkansas.

Kimberly Faith: Exactly. Well, as we kind of wrap up, you know, we kind of answered this question, you know, and discovered that that it is only the strength of God that’s going to give us the ability to live in these attitudes, these beatitudes, these attitudes of blessing that Jesus was giving us. And I think that kind of that kind of brings us to the next question for the next beatitude. And that’s, what are you hungering and thirsting after?

John McLarty: Perfect question.

Kimberly Faith: What is it that you desire the most in your life? And I think that question is a good question to consider to set us up for this next beatitude because if you really and the way to answer this question is to consider what you spend most of your time doing.

John McLarty: What fulfills us?

Kimberly Faith: What do you think about the most that you would like to fill and what are you filling yourself with? What are you filling yourself with most of the hours of the day? What are you filling yourself with by what you read, what you listen to, who you talk to? What do you absorb into your soul the most, and is that giving you a satisfied life? So those are the questions we’ll address in the next podcast. And, you have anything to say about that, dad?

John McLarty: Just, what do we hunger and thirst for?

Kimberly Faith: Right.

John McLarty: That’s an intriguing question.

Kimberly Faith: Yes. And I think we have to answer that honestly to determine and again, back to the first beatitude or the introduction of this this series, Do you feel like you have a life that is so abundant? It’s more abundantly than you could have asked for or imagined. If the answer to that question is I don’t know, then seriously answer that question.

What are you hungering and thirsting after the most? And we’ll discuss what Jesus said about what’s going to give us a satisfied life. What it is that we hunger and thirst for the most that will give us the most satisfied life. And so we hope you will join us for the next podcast.

You have been listening to the truth in love podcast with your host, Kimberly Faith. To discover more answers to the big questions in life, visit us at gofaithstrong.com. Hallelujah. He rescued me.