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Dave and Ann Wilson discuss the struggle between trusting what we see versus trusting what God says.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylife.com\/fl2021-09-20.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> So when you\u2019re the Detroit Lions chaplain for 33 seasons\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> As you were.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u2014you go through a few hard seasons. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes; you\u2019ve been through\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Why are you laughing right now? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Because I\u2019ve walked through\u2014 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> You went through them too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I know I did, and we\u2019ve experienced more hard than easy, <em>but<\/em> in comparison\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I was just going to say I mean those are hard seasons but it\u2019s football.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> It\u2019s not life and honestly, if you win a Superbowl or not, it\u2019s a great thing, I guess\u2014I would think for somebody, but life isn\u2019t dependent on it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I\u2019m Ann Wilson.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And I\u2019m Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> app.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> You talk about tough seasons, 2020 was one of the hardest seasons\/hardest years anybody\u2019s ever gone through.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes, and I think we\u2019re still recovering from that year and some years beyond that, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> So one of the big questions is how do you deal with pain and hardship in your life? So we were asked to speak on the <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em>\u00ae Virtual Cruise. Because there wasn\u2019t a boat on the water because of Covid, we actually did a cruise virtually. Which you talk about a new way to do a cruise, it actually worked. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThousands of people joined us on this boat that was fake, [Laughter] and listened to messages just like they would if they were on the boat. So when we were asked to speak on that, my first thought is \u201cLet\u2019s give a happy message. Let\u2019s give a fun message about marriage.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Because that\u2019s generally who we are. We talk about some hard topics, but we still like to bring joy into it. But we have lived through some really hard times in our marriage and our lives as well as all of our listeners have. So I think that this message will be very relevant.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes. So we decided let\u2019s go and talk about: \u201cHow do you find God in the middle of a storm?\u201d because this year has felt like a storm. Hopefully, this is really going to help some people.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s a reminder of: God is with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Previously recorded]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> You know this has been quite the year. I remember 35 years ago we moved to Detroit. Ann was pregnant. We rented this little house. We\u2019re moving all our stuff in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> My parents are in town. I\u2019m still kind of sick because it\u2019s the beginning of my pregnancy and Dave suddenly, on the move in day, he says \u201cHey, I have to leave.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> It\u2019s actually the next morning. She doesn\u2019t remember but\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I don\u2019t remember.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u2014we were stressed out, frantic. We were sort of fighting\u2014any of you been fighting this year? Yes, I mean it\u2019s Saturday morning. I have to get in the car, drive an hour. I don\u2019t know where I\u2019m going in Michigan\u2014Dearborn, Michigan\u2014because Bill Bright, the founder and president of Cru, is going to be there, and I\u2019m supposed to meet him. I have to go. She\u2019s like \u201cYou can\u2019t leave. What do you mean? We still have boxes.\u201d She walks out in the garage pregnant; we are yelling at each other. Can you imagine what the neighbors think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I wasn\u2019t yelling. I never yell. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> No, she never yells. She was yelling, and I was yelling back. Her parents are still in the house and I\u2019m so mad. I don\u2019t want to do this, but I have to do this. I\u2019m just yelling at her. I get in the car and I\u2019m so mad. I put it in reverse, and I just slam on the accelerator, back up as fast as I can, and she starts yelling and flopping her arms.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Waving my hands like\u2014I\u2019m saying, and he doesn\u2019t\u2019 know what I\u2019m saying\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> She\u2019s yelling. I think she\u2019s still mad at me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I\u2019m yelling \u201cStop! Stop! Stop!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I\u2019m literally like \u201cYeah, whatever,\u201d and all of a sudden, [Clap] I run right into a pickup that was sitting in our driveway.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> My parents\u2019 pickup. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> [Laughter] Because we used it to move. I mean I hit it probably going 20 mph. As soon as I hit it, I realized she was trying to yell stop. She wasn\u2019t yelling at me. [Laughter] It was just this embarrassing, crazy moment. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe thought of that because we thought 2020 has been a year of getting hit by the pickup. [Laughter] I mean hasn\u2019t it really been\u2014it\u2019s been\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Crazy\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I mean we\u2019re on a virtual cruise right now. Who would have ever thought we couldn\u2019t get on a boat and go out because of a pandemic? But here we are, and it\u2019s been a hard year.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes; it\u2019s been really hard. I was thinking about it: the things that have happened in 2020. You guys probably have your own list. We lost our dog. We lost my mom in January.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Not to Covid.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> My dad was in the hospital when she passed. We\u2019ve just had a rough year.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes. I actually made a list of just one words that\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> One word.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong>\u00a0 One word. [Laughter] A whole list of them that every one of us that has lived through this year, when you hear the word, it\u2019s got an emotion.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes, it\u2019s words that we won\u2019t forget.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes. So here they are. I mean there\u2019s just\u2014we could do this all day. We\u2019re not going to but just think about this: Covid.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Ventilators.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Breonna.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Protests.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Cancelled.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Stimulus.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Arbery.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Protests.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Unemployment.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Floyd.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Riots.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Statues.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Fires.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Division.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> BLM.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Anger.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Protests.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Hate.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Masks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann and Dave:<\/strong> Karens. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> We all know some Karens, right? NBA\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Baseball\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Politics.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Debates.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Football.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> [Laughter] I like that you get all the sport words.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I\u2019m glad we have football.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Election.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Spikes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Vaccine.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And here\u2019s what I think a lot of us are asking, \u201cGod\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014where are you?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u201cWhat are you doing? Why aren\u2019t you here?\u201d What\u2019s really interesting for me is I decided at the beginning of 2020 I was going to walk through, daily, the Book of Psalms. I had no idea that in February and in March we\u2019d be in a lockdown in a pandemic but as you read through the book of Psalms, it\u2019s really a great book.\u2014150 Psalms, many of them are laments, much like we just said, \u201cGod, where are you? Why is this happening? Why aren\u2019t you meeting me here right now?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> And God\u2019s in it. We\u2019re saying it\u2019s been hard, but there\u2019s been good too, hasn\u2019t there? But a lot of us are thinking those questions\/we\u2019re asking those questions and it\u2019s been a hard year.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> One of the interesting things I think that happens when you become a Christ follower is there\u2019s sort of this belief that if I add Jesus to my life, life will be easier.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> And my marriage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes, our marriage will be better. I mean it\u2019s just like everything goes better with Jesus. Wasn\u2019t that a commercial back in the day? Everything goes better with Coke\u00ae. It\u2019s like \u201cIf I just have Jesus in my life, everything will be easier,\u201d and yet here we are, and we have Christ in our life, many of us, and it\u2019s still hard, isn\u2019t it? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat we decided to do with you tonight is walk through a story of a man in the Old Testament, a man named Elijah. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re very familiar with him, but he was a prophet in the Old Testament in the books of 1 &amp; 2 Kings. He was a prophet to a king, a king named King Ahab. If you know anything about King Ahab, here\u2019s what you know: he was called the most evil king of Israel. Now, this is in a list of 19 kings over 200 years who were all evil, and yet this king, Ahab, is called the most evil. So he was just a nasty evil, evil dude and Elijah is a prophet, so he\u2019s going to speak the words of God wherever God sends him. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, guess what we\u2019re going to find out? We\u2019re going to find out that God sends Elijah to King Ahab to give him a not very popular message. It\u2019s pretty crazy, but there\u2019s a message that I think is in this story for us as married couples in the middle of a pandemic when we\u2019re hurting. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo we\u2019re going to just sort of read you through this story. Here\u2019s what\u2019s interesting: as he goes to speak to King Ahab, you\u2019ve got to know something about King Ahab. He worships a god named Baal. It\u2019s not a god at all; it\u2019s a false god. Baal is the god of fertility and rain, alright, and he\u2019s also\u2014King Ahab is married to an interesting woman. What\u2019s her name?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> You guys all know the name; it\u2019s Jezebel. It shows the power that we have in our marriages and as wives because Jezebel, I feel like, she really led Ahab into this direction of worshiping these idols.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And I will just say this to you, especially if you\u2019re parents, teach your children to marry the right people.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes, really.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Because who you marry really determines your life. You don\u2019t know this about my story, but I almost married a Jezebel. [Laughter] I mean that was not her name. I won\u2019t tell you her name but for four years I dated her, and I thought I was going to marry her. But as I came to Christ, I began to realize \u201cshe\u2019s serving a different god.\u201d If I would have married her, I\u2019m telling you right now, we\u2019re not sitting here today. I\u2019m a divorced man not in ministry and I didn\u2019t make that decision. I would just encourage you to\u2014and by the way, I hope you\u2019re not watching this going \u201cI\u2019m married to Jezebel.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> That\u2019s what I was going to say, and it doesn\u2019t mean that God can\u2019t transform us and change us. And right now you shouldn\u2019t be looking at your spouse saying, \u201cThat is you.\u201d We\u2019re not saying that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Alright, let\u2019s read the story.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> By the way, 1 Kings 17. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u201cNow Elijah said to Ahab, \u2018As the\u00a0Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain\u00a0in the next few years except at my word.\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> So what\u2019s really interesting is picture yourself being Elijah and God says you\u2019ve got to go give this message to the king and notice what he just said: there\u2019s not going to be rain for the next years. The god that Ahab serves is the god of rain. So God\u2019s telling you, if you\u2019re Elijah, you got to go tell him there\u2019s going to be no rain. You\u2019re going to challenge his very god. Now, some of you know, later\u2014we\u2019re not going to talk about this story but there\u2019s a showdown later, a couple of chapters later, at Mt. Carmel between the God of Elijah and the god of Ahab. Find out who it is. But at this moment, all Elijah knows is I have to go tell the king who believes that his god is going to bring rain that your god is not going to bring rain.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> And they were not following God at that time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: \u201cThen the word of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0came to Elijah: \u2018Leave here, turn eastward and hide\u00a0in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan.\u00a0You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens\u00a0to supply you with food there.\u2019 So he did what the\u00a0Lord\u00a0had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.\u00a0The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning\u00a0and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: And so what\u2019s really interesting, I think, about this is he ends up in this Kerith Valley which you don\u2019t know this, but you know what Kerith means? Cut off\u2014it means death valley. So you think \u201cOkay, if I follow God and do what he calls me to do and obey Him, it\u2019s all going to go good.\u201d No, we end up in death valley but\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: He\u2019s hiding.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: But yet in death valley what happens is he provides food and water. He takes care of them. It\u2019s almost like \u201cOh, yes, this is how it is when you obey God, and you do everything He says. It may be tough at times, but God will meet you right there,\u201d right? That\u2019s how it goes. He\u2019s always going to take care of you and provide for you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then you get the next verse that says sometime later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Which is like \u201cOh my goodness, here it is. If you obey God, your life will be blessed.\u201d Well, Elijah\u2019s obeying God and yet he has no water. You know what he said was going to happen: there\u2019s going to be no rain. There\u2019s no rain and it affects him as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, it\u2019s this perspective if I follow God, everything will go right but here\u2019s the truth: even when we follow God sometimes, there\u2019s pain. Even when we obey God and do everything He\u2019s asking us to do, things don\u2019t always go the way we hope or we want. Here is Elijah doing the right thing and life is really hard. Sometimes you and I struggle because we think \u201cWhy am I struggling in my marriage?\u201d \u201cWhy are we struggling in our job or in our health when we\u2019re doing everything God has asked us to and life can sometimes be hard. Why does that happen? Where is God in that moment?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat\u2019s really interesting is you find out in this story that God is right there. But in the moment\/in the valley, often, we don\u2019t believe that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: I feel like we didn\u2019t. I remember when we were really struggling\u2014and maybe some of you have experienced this too\u2014when we\u2019re really struggling in our marriage, I felt like God wasn\u2019t even hearing me. Like \u201cLord, do you see us? Do you hear us? We\u2019re praying for help.\u201d I felt like\u2014I felt like it was kind of a call out to nothing. I knew He heard me, but we didn\u2019t see it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: I remember when I came to Christ it was my junior year in college. What\u2019s really interesting in my life at that time is everything was going almost as I could have dreamed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: Like perfectly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: Yes; I\u2019m playing college football. I actually had hair. I didn\u2019t realize I sort of had a comb over going. I\u2019m playing college football on a scholarship. I had just led the nation in passing percentage my sophomore year. I\u2019m a preseason All-American pick going into my junior year and right before my junior year, I was empty. Even though I\u2019ve done everything I thought I could do and accomplished success, I was empty. I come to Christ\u2014that\u2019s a whole nother story, but now I\u2019m a Christ follower and here\u2019s what I thought: this year, football, school will be the best year ever.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: Because God will bless you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: Because I\u2019ve got God now and I\u2019m following Him. Here\u2019s a preseason All-American; I start that season. Guess how I end up? In a hospital bed. I rip up this knee\/tear it. I can\u2019t finish the season. I\u2019m laying in a hospital bed in Muncy, Indiana because I went to the incredible Harvard of the Midwest, Ball State University. I\u2019m sure y\u2019all know that; but I was in Ball Memorial hospital, literally by myself after surgery, looking at the ceiling, and I\u2019ll never forget this\u2014just looking up and going \u201cSo this is what you do? My life was better last year without you in my life than you in my life now. I don\u2019t even know if I can play football again. I don\u2019t know what the future is. Where are you? What are you doing?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI felt abandoned by God, which I know many of us feel when we\u2019re in the valley. It\u2019s like \u201cGod, you\u2019re supposed to make my better; my life is worse.\u201d Here\u2019s what a lot of people do; they walk away. I thank God I didn\u2019t walk away but at that moment I didn\u2019t really understand: is God here? Now, I can look back 2020 and say, \u201cHe was right there.\u201d In fact, He was doing something in my life even in that hospital room that I couldn\u2019t see in the moment, but I can look back now and almost it\u2019s as if He was preparing me through this pain for something greater. And the same thing can be true in your marriage. I mean the most difficult years of our marriage\u2014 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: \u2014when we felt like God had sort of abandoned us. He\u2019s not answering our prayers. We look back on now and so those years were incredible years of building something strong in us that would help us last to now in our 40th year of marriage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: I love the quote by A. W. Tozer. He said, \u201cIt\u2019s doubtful that God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.\u201d And I know that can sound like \u201cOh, that sounds terrible because I thought God loved us so much,\u201d and yet God does love us. He loves our marriages. He sees us. He knows the pain we\u2019re in, and yet that very pain can transform us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: Here\u2019s the amazing thing about Elijah. As we thought about this message, we were going to end it right there and go to some life\u2019s truth, which we\u2019re going to get to in a minute, but we weren\u2019t going to read the rest of the story. But look what happens in the rest of the story because he\u2019s in a valley. The brook is dried up. He doesn\u2019t\u2019 have water now and so he\u2019s struggling to say \u201cOkay, God, where are you?\u201d and then watch what God does.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: \u201cThen the word of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0came to him:\u00a0\u2018Go at once to Zarephath\u00a0in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow\u00a0there to supply you with food.\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: Which by the way, I\u2019ll make a comment here. Often God meets us through people. Don\u2019t miss that. We\u2019re always thinking God\u2014often He places people. Here is a widow that Elijah doesn\u2019t know, and God uses a woman\/a stranger, literally, to be the face of God to Elijah to provide for him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: \u201cSo he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, \u2018Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: And by the way, here\u2019s another great principle when you\u2019re struggling, ask for help.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: That\u2019s really hard sometimes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: I mean you don\u2019t want to ask for help. You sort of don\u2019t even want to tell anybody you\u2019re struggling. Some of you are struggling right now and that\u2019s okay. Ask for help. Here\u2019s Elijah, prophet of God, he asked a widow a stranger for help. It sounds like a simple little thing but that\u2019s where a miracle begins.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: \u201cAs she was going to get it, he called, \u2018And bring me, please, a piece of bread.\u2019\u00a0'As surely as the\u00a0Lord\u00a0your God lives,\u2019 she replied, \u2018I don\u2019t have any bread\u2014only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil\u00a0in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it\u2014and die.\u2019\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTalk about losing hope.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: I mean notice, she\u2019s given up.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: She knows this is the last bit of food that she has.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: And often, you think \u201cI\u2019m not going to ask somebody that\u2019s lost hope,\u201d and yet look what God does, pretty cool.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: \u201cElijah said to her, \u2018Don\u2019t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: \u201cThe jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.\u201d\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: And I think, again, we need to stop for a second. I think there\u2019s a really important truth right here. God is saying through this widow, actually, to Elijah, are you going to trust what you see or are you going to trust what I say?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: It\u2019s really good.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: And it\u2019s true in this story. I think it\u2019s true for you and me today. If we look at what we see, it\u2019s easy to lose hope.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: Especially today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: Oh, my goodness, there are no signs on the horizon that things are going to turn, right? So if we only look at what we see, if the only thing you and I do\u2014and I\u2019ve done this way too many times is pick up my phone in the morning and read the New York Times, or any news, and read of spikes and things going on in the world, I start to lose hope. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo if I look at what I see, we\u2019re in trouble; but if I look at what He says\u2014in fact, we\u2019ve learned instead of opening up the news in the morning, open up the Word of God and look at what God says. Because right here, there\u2019s a question looming. Is Elijah\/is this widow going to trust what God says, \u201cI will provide. I\u2019m here. I\u2019m with you.\u201d or are they going to look at what they see? I think that\u2019s a principle we live with every single day. Am I going to look at what\u2019s happening in our marriage\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: That\u2019s what I was going to say.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: \u2014and think we\u2019re not going to make it? Or am I going to look at \u201cWait, wait, wait, God\u2019s still here. God\u2019s got a plan for us? I know the signs don\u2019t look good but there\u2019s a God that\u2019s with us that we can trust.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: It\u2019s kind of like we say, \u201cGod, are you seeing my husband? Are you seeing my wife? I don\u2019t have a lot of hope.\u201d Even what our kids are going through\u2014the hopelessness or maybe depression that our kids are going through and it\u2019s easy to lose hope.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: And look at how this story ends, and again, I can\u2019t believe we almost skipped this part. I get to read this part.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: It says, \u201cSo she went away\u201d\u2014so this is the widow\u2014\"she went away and did as Elijah had told her.\u201d So guess what? She\u2019s trusting, not what she sees but what He said\/what God says. She did as Elijah told her. \u201cSo there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah.\u201d I mean it\u2019s this really pretty remarkable, not pretty, spectacular\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: Miraculous.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: \u2014miracle that takes place in the middle of this thing. I know you\u2019re thinking \u201cThat\u2019s the way God\u2019s going to always take care of me.\u201d It doesn\u2019t always work out that way but here\u2019s the thing: they trusted God even in the middle of the valley, in the middle of a drought, and God shows up in a pretty spectacular way. That isn\u2019t the way it always goes but here\u2019s the truth. God always works even when we don\u2019t think He\u2019s working.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: That was us on the Love Like You Mean It Virtual Cruise 2021.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: That last part: will we trust what we see or what God says? Like that\u2019s pretty big and it\u2019s not easy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: No, I mean it\u2019s so easy, like the woman, when Elijah said, \u201cThis is what God\u2019s going to do,\u201d it\u2019s like I don\u2019t see that. All I see is darkness. I see a valley, and yet God comes through Elijah and says there\u2019s a reality that you can\u2019t see that you\u2019re going to have to trust. It\u2019s the Word of God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: And I think that\u2019s key because what I end up doing when I get in those situations that feel like I\u2019m out of control, I start conjuring up a plan: what are we going to do? What am I going to do? And sometimes it\u2019s easy to not go instantly into God\u2019s Word, and His Word is so powerful.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: Yes, and I would just add\u2014we\u2019re going to talk about his as we finish this message, but you\u2019ve got to be in His Word. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn: Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave: Because it\u2019s so easy to keep your eyes almost looking around rather than looking in His Word, and His Word is His truth, and it reminds you He\u2019s actually right here, right now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> It\u2019s hard to function without hope. Anytime you lose hope whether it\u2019s in your marriage, in your job, circumstances, relationships, the events of life, we feel helpless. Dave and Ann Wilson have been pointing us to the place where hope can be reignited, and that is God\u2019s Word. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve been listening today to part one of a message from Dave and Ann Wilson. A message that actually was presented on the 2021 <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em> Virtual Cruise. Because of Covid we were not able to go cruising last year with our <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em> cruise. We did that virtually, and Dave and Ann spoke on that cruise. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDave and Ann are going to be speaking again on the 2022 <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em> cruise. Which this time is not virtual; it\u2019s in real life. We\u2019ll be gathering together, leaving from Port Canaveral on February 6<sup>th<\/sup>, and sailing for eight days and seven nights. It\u2019s going to be a great cruise line up with not only Dave and Ann but Dr. Juli Slattery, Ron Deal. The Kendrick brothers are going to be there. We\u2019re going to be previewing their newest movie that\u2019s coming out in theaters next year a great line up of speakers and artists for the 2022 <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em> Marriage Cruise.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tRight now, we\u2019re at about 70% capacity, and so this is kind of last call for those of you who are interested in joining us on the cruise. We have a special offer going now through October 4<sup>th<\/sup> where you can save some money and join us on the cruise. Go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com, for more information about the cruise; or if you have any questions, call us at 1-800-FL-TODAY. The cruise is such a great getaway for couples to relax, refresh your marriage, and grow closer to one another and closer to Christ. Again, find out more, go to FamilyLifeToday.com; or call 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to hear part two of Dave and Ann Wilson\u2019s message about how to find strength in the storms in your marriage. We\u2019ll hear from them about the benefits that come our way in the midst of suffering when we\u2019re in the valley. I know it doesn\u2019t feel like it at the time but there are benefits there. God\u2019s Word tells us that. So I hope you can be with us tomorrow. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. 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