S3:E40 - Don't keep God in the emergency room of your life

But I want to talk about incorporating God into the everyday moments of your life.

And for me, this has always been kind of a block where it's like, I believe in God, but I trust in my own abilities.

And I believe in God and he can come in and fix my problems.

And when I really need something, I'm going to come to him.

But for the most part, I'm not going to check in.

I'm going to lean on my own understandings.

And even as I'm saying this, I know that there are so many of you who are listening to this podcast episode right now being like, open.

That's me.

Because there's so many things that we do naturally or we feel like we have the skill set for.

And I've really been learning lately to incorporate God into not only obviously the big things and when I need him and he's my father and he's going to provide for me and obviously he wants to do that, but...

How much more does he want to come into every single aspect of our life and even the things that we know how to do or feel capable in our own strength? And I think about it like a regular relationship where it's like we're only going to the person when we really need something or we need help or something needs to be fixed.

And they're like... don't you want me to like come with you for any other stuff like isn't there anything else that you want to do with me like is there any other situation that maybe you want company for or you want guidance in like i'll come with you for those things too even the fun things like bring me along and i just feel i feel that from god uh lately with me being like Ash, I know you know I'm here, but you can invite me into other things.

And I have had three instances in this last week that have been really crazy in reminding me of this and really opening my mind to the fact that God doesn't want to just be in the big stuff.

So I'm going to start with the scripture.

Philippians 4, what verse are we in? I want to say 6.

Oh, my glass is on.

So Philippians 4 verse 6, it says, don't worry about anything, but in everything through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your request to God.

Don't worry about anything, but in everything through prayer and petition with Thanksgiving, present your request to God.

And the first time I read this verse, I was like, oh, don't worry about anything.

Don't worry about anything.

Like I got real life worries.

Like I got real life things happening in my life that are present, that are weighing down on me.

We all do.

But I think that what Paul, who's writing this first, like, first of all, I think he's writing this from a prison cell.

So when he's saying, don't worry about anything, he's not like sitting in the lap of luxury at all.