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[Music] Welcome to Call to Freedom with Barbar Carmac. This is Jimmy Lakey and I'm delighted that you are joining us for this half hour. You can reach Call to Freedom at box 370367 Denver, Colorado 80237 or by going to the website at www.freedomstreet.org. If you want to leave a message or order a word-powered daily reading Bible guide or a Freedom Street Express newsletter, you can call us toll-free at 1-877-917-7256 and leave your name and address including your zip code. If you want to talk to Barbara right now, she is expecting your call. You may call that same toll-free number 1-877-917-7256 to speak to her. And now, let's join Barbara in the studio. Welcome to Call to Freedom. I'm so glad you joined us today. We hope you are enjoying a day that the Lord has made just for you. And if you're just about to go to bed, he is going to give you wonderful visions in the night. You're not going to have nightmares. You're not going to have places in this night that you're going to be fearful. No, you're going to be at peace the whole time you're asleep. Whether you sleep four hours or eight hours, God knows. God knows exactly what's best for you. I have a prayer for you today. Oh, Father, guide our listeners in your truth and teach them for you are God, their Savior, and their hope is in you all day long, all day long. So we thank you, Father, that you are with Him, surrounding them with your love, your grace, your mercy when they stumble. Yes, your mercy is there all the time. I praise you and thank you for our Lord Jesus who has done everything for us. There's not one thing that needs to be done. He's done it all. It is finished. Thank you, Father, and we give you all the praise and all the glory. Praise the Lord. We're going to do the Mount Kimberly is here in the studio with me, but we're going to do the Monday Bible slogan. Again, you're used to this one every Monday. This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. I have what it says. I have. I do what it tells me to do. This is my Bible. It has given me new life. It is the Word of God. You are blessed. It is for in Him you live and move and have your being. And I'm so glad that you're here again, Kimberly. Me too. I never know how long I'm staying and I love that it is the Lord that guides my schedule. He guides my calendar. Well, and then you had a little issue with the little maybe sound in your engine. Something from my mini van. Something that didn't sound normal. So, Matthew got right on it and he got on you too. Kimberly, I don't want you coming back until you've checked that. Tomorrow you have an appointment. So that means that you're going to be here another. I will be here tomorrow also. And I love that. I love this time with you. I love the fellowship. I just love that we both love who our God is, what He has done for us and who we are to Him. Yes. Oh, and we had such a good time Saturday. I'm so glad you were there with our wonderful wonderful lovely group. Oh, yes. Just love our friends so much. I did. We just have such a wonderful fellowship and we're like-minded. So there's no controversies. And if there aren't questions, they are probably answered by various people who have a little bit different take on things. Right. But there's much wisdom. That's right. Much wisdom. And I appreciate so much your praise and worship. Kimberly and them joining in on some of the beautiful choruses. Oh, Lord, your beautiful, your face is all I seek. That's the truth. We seek Him. And we seek His ways on this earth. Yes. We want His will to be done. And the quiche was wonderful. Oh, even at the caught. This quiche has cottage cheese. Thank you, Shari. If you're listening, it was wonderful. Delicious again. But it has cottage cheese and chili peppers and cheese, more cheese and butter and 10 eggs and all. It was just delicious. Yes. We ate well. We fellowshiped well. We worshiped. It was a good, good day. We had about 10 or 12 desserts. My goodness. When I say on the air, bring your favorite side dish, salad or dessert. Those desserts overwhelm. Well, you know, I think Jesus has a sweet tooth. So where His brothers and sisters, we have sweet tooth. Sweet teeth. Sweet. We have a tendency toward sweets. Yes. Oh, well, we were reading in first Peter together and really enjoying that. And so we just we want to read some scripture and just put the word of God out there today. That's right. In first Peter one and it's in verse two, kind of in the middle. Holy Spirit has set you apart to be God's holy ones, obedient followers of Jesus Christ, who have been gloriously sprinkled with His blood. May God's delightful grace and peace cascade over you many times over, celebrate with praises the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has shown us His extravagant mercy. Would you like to continue reading or well, this is it's a lot of words that maybe some people don't fully understand. And so I just wanted to say that when we are told that we're set apart as God's holy ones. And we long to obey and be followers of Jesus Christ Jesus is the one who showed us how to walk in all the fruits of the Spirit. Yes. How to walk in love toward one another and to stay joyful and to have peace and patience with one another instead of just going with our feelings, which sometimes become enraged instead of going with all our thoughts that are swirling and keep us in anxiety and keep us worried. And so we want to be able to follow that to find that place of peace and be gentle and kind to each other. We want that because that makes the whole world a better place. And when we when we watch something like the Olympics that just took place, we don't the competition is fun. But we don't love it when people start an altercation. That's not the most fun to see the fights when they actually reconcile and when they shake hands and when they tell each other, good job. You know, it is so much more fulfilling to see that to watch that happen. And that's what we want across the globe. That's right across the globe. And here it, you know, in his fountain of mercy has given us a new life. We we should never never never never forget that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. That's right because we are reborn. It goes on. Oh, and we're reading from the Passion. We are reborn to experience a living energetic hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. We are reborn because of God's mercy on us. Yes. His mercy because we were sinners. And some of us were were sinners. Is there a worse, worse? Yeah. Yeah. God doesn't see those sins as we do though. A sin is a sin to God. Right. Yeah. And when they say when the scriptures talk about blood being sprinkled, we need to remember that those sacrifices were given in order to see that some life has to be taken in order to cover our sin. And when we are sprinkled with that blood, a life has been given. Yeah. That there's a cost there. It costs our sin costs something. That's right. And when we're sprinkled with his blood, with Jesus blood, that has covered every sin. He's taken it all by dying, giving his life for us to be covered. That's right. In the Old Testament, it was just so different. The law and the people each family had to bring a sacrifice to the priests where they would slaughter the sacrifice. And the blood of the sacrifice would cover their sins for a year. Then they do it all over again. And I heard CREFLA one day say, and some of them when they left the temple and they left Jerusalem, they committed a sin before they even got home. Sure. I mean, doesn't that happen to us? Oh, absolutely. We can have the best intentions and turn right around and be triggered. That's humanity gets triggered. Yes. And so in the Old Testament, it was a, the blood sacrifices of animals was a covering for sin. In the New Testament, Jesus blood purged us from sin. Washed it. Washed it away. No. And he's continuing. You know, first John 1, 9 says, if we confess our sins. I know when I've sinned, I've known when I've opened my mouth and I said something, "Draw a Tory." So if we confess those sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us those sins and continue to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Kimberly, it's a process. Yes. It's a journey. And it's continual forgiveness. That's right. Forgiven. Forgiven. Forgiven. He says he speaks a better word over us and that word is forgiven. So good. This is so good. And you never get too old. It's just, I'm energized by this wonderful hope that we have in Jesus Christ. Yes. So we're reborn into a perfect inheritance that can never perish. It never is defiled. It is never diminished. It is promised and preserved forever in the heavenly realm for you. This reminds me of Romans 8 that talks about nothing being able to stand in the way of the love of God for us. Not height, not depth, not angel, not demon, not life, not death. Nothing stands in the way of his love for us. It is permanent. It never parishes. It's never defiled. So when Jesus paid that price, he paid it for all eternity. So the sins that we did commit in our past, the sins we might commit today or in the future are all covered. Yes. We just need to remember it was a heavy price. Yes, it was. We need to remember that. That's what causes us to be chosen. When we hook into the actual compassion back toward God, having compassion for Him, we want compassion from Him all the time. We ask God for mercy. Lord, have mercy in our situations. But He desires His bride to have compassion and empathy for what He also has suffered. That's right. In the Old Testament, if someone committed a sin unto death, then it usually was a sin that was manifested either in his body or his family or something else. And we're still carrying that Old Testament law. When we see a brother or sister for instance, I'm going to say, and he is attacked by cancer, a spirit of cancer or a spirit of arthritis or a spirit of diabetes. Well, what did he do? He did something wrong to get him to where he is. That can be a tendency to think that way. That is. Yes. For most people who have lived under that law, they somehow find guilt in that person. And that's why that disease has come upon them. Well, Kimberly, I used to believe like that. And I did for so long until your precious dad was attacked by cancer and John Wells was the most saintly, godly man I had ever known. So boy, did that get that out of my mind? I mean forever and ever and ever. And he told me when Jesus was asked in the instance of a blind man in front of him, who sinned his parents or him that he was born blind. And Jesus said it doesn't work that way. Yes. Being able to realize it doesn't work that way. But this was allowed this happened to for God to be glorified for God's glory to be seen. That's right. And that's what we want. We want to see God's glory. And I you know you brought up daddy passing away from cancer. That was a hard hit for sure. However, I can truly say I have seen the glory of God as a result of that loss. It was a huge loss in my life and who I became and how I learned to trust the Lord, how I learned to look at God as my father. And he became the one who provided everything for me. That glory was far greater than having a human dad. Even as wonderful as my human dad was. So being able to see the miracles that came from that loss. Keep your eyes open. If you've experienced loss recently, keep your eyes open. You will see glorious things. That's right. Praise the Lord. Let's see. We were looking in 1 Peter chapter 1 and being reborn. That being chosen ones being set apart to be God's holy ones. It cost me to think of the 10 virgins. Isn't that something how one scripture can help you hip hop to another scripture and then another scripture. And I've seen you sit at the table in our kitchen for an hour. Kimberly, we're going to be on radio. And I still sit there. It's my favorite book. And it's your favorite time in the day. I believe our favorite times of the day should not be shopping or even our work. And we have worked a lot in our lives. But it should be that time that we've set apart with God inviting him into our life. He loves shopping with us. You know, and he loves the work that we do. He's picked out a lot of outfits for me. You know, and I said, oh, I don't know if I like, well, I think I'll try that on and pretty soon. Yeah. It's my favorite outfits. We're never alone. Are we? No, never. So in Matthew 25, it starts out with the parable of the 10 virgins. And let me just read it at the time of my, at the time my coming draws near this is Jesus talking. Heaven's kingdom realm can be compared to 10 maidens who took their oil oil lamps and went outside to meet the bridegroom and his bride. These were just bridesmaids. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. Five of them were foolish and ill prepared for they took no extra oil for their lamps. Five of them were wise and sensible for they took flasks of olive oil with their lamps. When the bridegroom didn't come when they expected they all grew drowsy and fell asleep. Then suddenly in the middle of the night they were awakened by the shout get up the bridegroom is here. Come out and have an encounter with him. So all the girls got up and trimmed their lamps. But the foolish ones were running out of oil. So they said to the five wise ones share your oil with us because our lamps are going out. We can't they replied we don't have enough for all of us. You'll have to go buy some for yourselves. While the five girls were out buying oil the bridegroom appeared. Those who were ready and waiting were escorted inside with him and the wedding party to enjoy the feast and then the door was locked. Later the five foolish girls came running up to the door and pleaded Lord Lord let us come in and he called back. Go away. I do not know you. I can assure you I don't even know you this is this is interesting to read this because it pulls on my compassion strings. I start thinking wait wait what are you really are going to leave people out and I know there are going to be those who are not. Wanting to even choose to be in the presence of the Lord the Bible tells us that there will be those who do not choose him in the end what I really like to look at here is being unprepared the unprepared ones are the ones who don't include God at all in their day. That's where their oil is lacking they're not reading a word they're not filling themselves up on the kingdom thoughts it's just thoughts of this world and and having parties and going here and there and going to work and having hobbies but never applying yourself to filling your spirit not feeding your spirit what it needs. We're not just flesh beings in this world we're also spirit beings and both beings need to be fed so so we want to feed that spirit being now I also am reading on here and realizing okay they run out of oil they have no oil and they look to the wise ones and say give us some of your oil the wise ones are wise because they know they are not the source. That's what it boils down to none of us are the source. We can't be the source for one another our God is our source and his word is our source and the words that he has spoken our life to us they are a feast that is better to us than any feast this world can offer. Now what the passion says here Kimberly is go away I don't know no is the word it's an intimacy with Jesus in fact in Matthew 7 he says many will say to me on that day Lord did we not prophesy in your name in your name cast out demons and in your name perform many miracles and then I will declare to them I never knew you yeah and that's the same here in in Matthew 25. I don't know you depart from me so there's going to be a hunger you were saying Saturday I pray today that we will hunger and thirst for more of Jesus. Yes well the knowing is an intimate knowing the Hebrew word for no and I believe the Greek one as well it it actually hints at the knowing the husband how he knows his wife intimately. So when you know someone intimately you know their thoughts and you know their emotions you know what can make them feel bad and you know what can make them feel good and you know what their favorite candy bar is and you know what their favorite drink is and you know how to make them smile. Yes you also know how to push their buttons. Yes when your husband comes home from a long day of work and you're just meeting him with lots of questions and what did you do today and did you get me this the milk I asked you for and that kind of thing we've got a settle in to what he's going through he just needs a moment maybe half hour an hour just to relax and take a breath. Can I get you a drink and you know his favorite drink if you're married to him and so we need to be more cognizant of the person the other person's feelings. Yes what they're going through. Right so that kind of knowing and that's what we want to build I don't know how else to build that except to stay in the word of God and so as I continue to read and ask him and if the if the Bible doesn't make a lot of sense to you if you're listening to the Bible. If you're listening today and if the Bible is just kind of Greek to you like trying to read Greek then ask the Lord ask Holy Spirit to make it clear because he will he wants to he's just looking for people to ask and he's the source it's not up to us to figure it out you know if we try and figure it out in our own effort then we can have pride about that we'll look at how much knowledge I have gained I know all of this. No the knowledge he wants you to have is more intimate knowing he wants to let you know more about who he really is and you're not going to learn that in your own studying in your own intellect with your own logic that's not going to happen so these these five foolish virgins that asked for the oil from the wise ones the wise ones were wise because they knew they're not the source. So the foolish ones instead of going to the sort who's the source he's in he's in there he's arrived the bridegroom is the source they didn't go to him they didn't go to him that's what makes them foolish they were foolish because they did not go to the source and ask the source for oil you know we think that we've got to go out and find it ourselves that we need to clean up our lives we need to get rid of the addiction we need to make sure that we have no sin that we watch our mouth that we're we're not saying words that would would be derogatory. It's really not us it's him I've never heard anything like that after 70 years of going to church and listening to sermons Kimberly I've always received a message from whoever was speaking that the word is not the word. Speaking that the five foolish if not going to hell they are predestined to be outside the door punishment yes to punishment when they could have just I don't know knocked on the door and said Jesus we need your oil we need your help the white humbling yes it is a humbling so the foolish ones are prideful the wise ones are humble yeah and that's how that works out in the kingdom of heaven when we humble ourselves and go to the Lord and say you know what I can't even make sense of these words in my Bible as I'm flipping these pages they don't make sense to me but I want them to because I really want to know you when we have a heart like that that's humble hill start opening our eyes and our understanding he is so generous and so kind now some of you listening may say well I've heard that those five foolish virgins go to hell it doesn't say that you know no I know but a lot of people say that they know and I say Jesus went to hell he went to hell this is before Jesus died he's telling this story and it's about the last days and it's right before the crucifixion but he went to hell for people such as the five in case they went to hell the the gahana he went down there to bring captivity captive bring them home to his father God right yeah so it's just such a blessing wow blessing I I've also been reading in a Matthew well just all yeah I've been stuck in Matthew for a while I enjoy it and in Matthew 20 there's a the parable of the vine the vineyard the owner of the vineyard at the end of that parable in verse 16 this is chapter 20 in Matthew it says now you can understand what I meant when I said the first will end up last and the last will end up being first everyone is invited but few are the chosen and I think we've had a tendency as Christians to think okay all are invited but that means that you know not everybody's going to accept the invitation so like you said they're going to end up in hell only a few are chosen for heaven I'm not sure that's what this means maybe it is what that means but we can't know because we're not God we're human beings in this temporal realm and our understanding is limited so instead of judging that and saying okay there's only a few of us that are going to end up being with the Lord instead of saying it that way say well maybe there are few a few that are chosen to be in his throne room at all times and the others might be in the outer courts I mean he built a temple that has a holy of holies it's got a holy place it has outer courts it has a gathering place outside of that you know it doesn't mean that there's just this one place that all of the chosen get to go to and the rest of it is hell judgment it doesn't mean judgment right it's like I am the potter you are the clay I choose which ones are going to be used for the great dinners the China that is set out and some of you are going to be the daily little clay pots yeah and it's okay with me if I'm a clay pot oh me too really is just so long as I can be near Jesus it's don't you believe it's our heart intent yes it really truly comes down to that it does it comes down to what is in our hearts for him and I believe that he is really wanting us to know him in a way that the tugs on our emotions in our compassion can we have compassion for God he's put up with so much in us and he's paid such a huge price for us so are we able to see that price and say you know what some of this suffering that I'm going through here it's worth it to know you I just want to know you more and when we come to that place of humility in our lives I think maybe that might be where the chosen ones are that everyone is invited to enter but few are chosen that's beautiful well this has been a wonderful teaching I hope you've enjoyed it I hope you go to math you 25 and just read a little bit of it and God bless you so much we love you we know God loves you and we want to say for the very last take joy thank you for listening to call to freedom with Barbara Carmack you may get in touch with Barbara at call to freedom box 370 367 Denver Colorado 80237 or you may leave your message at 1 877 917 7256 call to freedom is a listener supported radio ministry Barbara and her power partners invite you to come on board with us and become a network of hands holding up call to freedom ministry power partners support call to freedom with prayer and monthly financial support you will be blessed supernaturally we invite you to visit call to freedom's website www.freedomstreet.org where you can hear Barbara's daily radio broadcast 24 hours a day or order materials you may share your phrase reports and heart prize by mailing them to call to freedom box 370 367 Denver Colorado 80237 or you may email us at Barbara Carmack at freedom street dot or until next time remember Jesus loves you Barbara loves you and take joy [music]
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[Music] Welcome to Call to Freedom with Barbar Carmac. This is Jimmy Lakey and I'm delighted that you are joining us for this half hour. You can reach Call to Freedom at box 370367 Denver, Colorado 80237 or by going to the website at www.freedomstreet.org. If you want to leave a message or order a word-powered daily reading Bible guide or a Freedom Street Express newsletter, you can call us toll-free at 1-877-917-7256 and leave your name and address including your zip code. If you want to talk to Barbara right now, she is expecting your call. You may call that same toll-free number 1-877-917-7256 to speak to her. And now, let's join Barbara in the studio. Welcome to Call to Freedom. I'm so glad you joined us today. We hope you are enjoying a day that the Lord has made just for you. And if you're just about to go to bed, he is going to give you wonderful visions in the night. You're not going to have nightmares. You're not going to have places in this night that you're going to be fearful. No, you're going to be at peace the whole time you're asleep. Whether you sleep four hours or eight hours, God knows. God knows exactly what's best for you. I have a prayer for you today. Oh, Father, guide our listeners in your truth and teach them for you are God, their Savior, and their hope is in you all day long, all day long. So we thank you, Father, that you are with Him, surrounding them with your love, your grace, your mercy when they stumble. Yes, your mercy is there all the time. I praise you and thank you for our Lord Jesus who has done everything for us. There's not one thing that needs to be done. He's done it all. It is finished. Thank you, Father, and we give you all the praise and all the glory. Praise the Lord. We're going to do the Mount Kimberly is here in the studio with me, but we're going to do the Monday Bible slogan. Again, you're used to this one every Monday. This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. I have what it says. I have. I do what it tells me to do. This is my Bible. It has given me new life. It is the Word of God. You are blessed. It is for in Him you live and move and have your being. And I'm so glad that you're here again, Kimberly. Me too. I never know how long I'm staying and I love that it is the Lord that guides my schedule. He guides my calendar. Well, and then you had a little issue with the little maybe sound in your engine. Something from my mini van. Something that didn't sound normal. So, Matthew got right on it and he got on you too. Kimberly, I don't want you coming back until you've checked that. Tomorrow you have an appointment. So that means that you're going to be here another. I will be here tomorrow also. And I love that. I love this time with you. I love the fellowship. I just love that we both love who our God is, what He has done for us and who we are to Him. Yes. Oh, and we had such a good time Saturday. I'm so glad you were there with our wonderful wonderful lovely group. Oh, yes. Just love our friends so much. I did. We just have such a wonderful fellowship and we're like-minded. So there's no controversies. And if there aren't questions, they are probably answered by various people who have a little bit different take on things. Right. But there's much wisdom. That's right. Much wisdom. And I appreciate so much your praise and worship. Kimberly and them joining in on some of the beautiful choruses. Oh, Lord, your beautiful, your face is all I seek. That's the truth. We seek Him. And we seek His ways on this earth. Yes. We want His will to be done. And the quiche was wonderful. Oh, even at the caught. This quiche has cottage cheese. Thank you, Shari. If you're listening, it was wonderful. Delicious again. But it has cottage cheese and chili peppers and cheese, more cheese and butter and 10 eggs and all. It was just delicious. Yes. We ate well. We fellowshiped well. We worshiped. It was a good, good day. We had about 10 or 12 desserts. My goodness. When I say on the air, bring your favorite side dish, salad or dessert. Those desserts overwhelm. Well, you know, I think Jesus has a sweet tooth. So where His brothers and sisters, we have sweet tooth. Sweet teeth. Sweet. We have a tendency toward sweets. Yes. Oh, well, we were reading in first Peter together and really enjoying that. And so we just we want to read some scripture and just put the word of God out there today. That's right. In first Peter one and it's in verse two, kind of in the middle. Holy Spirit has set you apart to be God's holy ones, obedient followers of Jesus Christ, who have been gloriously sprinkled with His blood. May God's delightful grace and peace cascade over you many times over, celebrate with praises the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has shown us His extravagant mercy. Would you like to continue reading or well, this is it's a lot of words that maybe some people don't fully understand. And so I just wanted to say that when we are told that we're set apart as God's holy ones. And we long to obey and be followers of Jesus Christ Jesus is the one who showed us how to walk in all the fruits of the Spirit. Yes. How to walk in love toward one another and to stay joyful and to have peace and patience with one another instead of just going with our feelings, which sometimes become enraged instead of going with all our thoughts that are swirling and keep us in anxiety and keep us worried. And so we want to be able to follow that to find that place of peace and be gentle and kind to each other. We want that because that makes the whole world a better place. And when we when we watch something like the Olympics that just took place, we don't the competition is fun. But we don't love it when people start an altercation. That's not the most fun to see the fights when they actually reconcile and when they shake hands and when they tell each other, good job. You know, it is so much more fulfilling to see that to watch that happen. And that's what we want across the globe. That's right across the globe. And here it, you know, in his fountain of mercy has given us a new life. We we should never never never never forget that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. That's right because we are reborn. It goes on. Oh, and we're reading from the Passion. We are reborn to experience a living energetic hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. We are reborn because of God's mercy on us. Yes. His mercy because we were sinners. And some of us were were sinners. Is there a worse, worse? Yeah. Yeah. God doesn't see those sins as we do though. A sin is a sin to God. Right. Yeah. And when they say when the scriptures talk about blood being sprinkled, we need to remember that those sacrifices were given in order to see that some life has to be taken in order to cover our sin. And when we are sprinkled with that blood, a life has been given. Yeah. That there's a cost there. It costs our sin costs something. That's right. And when we're sprinkled with his blood, with Jesus blood, that has covered every sin. He's taken it all by dying, giving his life for us to be covered. That's right. In the Old Testament, it was just so different. The law and the people each family had to bring a sacrifice to the priests where they would slaughter the sacrifice. And the blood of the sacrifice would cover their sins for a year. Then they do it all over again. And I heard CREFLA one day say, and some of them when they left the temple and they left Jerusalem, they committed a sin before they even got home. Sure. I mean, doesn't that happen to us? Oh, absolutely. We can have the best intentions and turn right around and be triggered. That's humanity gets triggered. Yes. And so in the Old Testament, it was a, the blood sacrifices of animals was a covering for sin. In the New Testament, Jesus blood purged us from sin. Washed it. Washed it away. No. And he's continuing. You know, first John 1, 9 says, if we confess our sins. I know when I've sinned, I've known when I've opened my mouth and I said something, "Draw a Tory." So if we confess those sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us those sins and continue to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Kimberly, it's a process. Yes. It's a journey. And it's continual forgiveness. That's right. Forgiven. Forgiven. Forgiven. He says he speaks a better word over us and that word is forgiven. So good. This is so good. And you never get too old. It's just, I'm energized by this wonderful hope that we have in Jesus Christ. Yes. So we're reborn into a perfect inheritance that can never perish. It never is defiled. It is never diminished. It is promised and preserved forever in the heavenly realm for you. This reminds me of Romans 8 that talks about nothing being able to stand in the way of the love of God for us. Not height, not depth, not angel, not demon, not life, not death. Nothing stands in the way of his love for us. It is permanent. It never parishes. It's never defiled. So when Jesus paid that price, he paid it for all eternity. So the sins that we did commit in our past, the sins we might commit today or in the future are all covered. Yes. We just need to remember it was a heavy price. Yes, it was. We need to remember that. That's what causes us to be chosen. When we hook into the actual compassion back toward God, having compassion for Him, we want compassion from Him all the time. We ask God for mercy. Lord, have mercy in our situations. But He desires His bride to have compassion and empathy for what He also has suffered. That's right. In the Old Testament, if someone committed a sin unto death, then it usually was a sin that was manifested either in his body or his family or something else. And we're still carrying that Old Testament law. When we see a brother or sister for instance, I'm going to say, and he is attacked by cancer, a spirit of cancer or a spirit of arthritis or a spirit of diabetes. Well, what did he do? He did something wrong to get him to where he is. That can be a tendency to think that way. That is. Yes. For most people who have lived under that law, they somehow find guilt in that person. And that's why that disease has come upon them. Well, Kimberly, I used to believe like that. And I did for so long until your precious dad was attacked by cancer and John Wells was the most saintly, godly man I had ever known. So boy, did that get that out of my mind? I mean forever and ever and ever. And he told me when Jesus was asked in the instance of a blind man in front of him, who sinned his parents or him that he was born blind. And Jesus said it doesn't work that way. Yes. Being able to realize it doesn't work that way. But this was allowed this happened to for God to be glorified for God's glory to be seen. That's right. And that's what we want. We want to see God's glory. And I you know you brought up daddy passing away from cancer. That was a hard hit for sure. However, I can truly say I have seen the glory of God as a result of that loss. It was a huge loss in my life and who I became and how I learned to trust the Lord, how I learned to look at God as my father. And he became the one who provided everything for me. That glory was far greater than having a human dad. Even as wonderful as my human dad was. So being able to see the miracles that came from that loss. Keep your eyes open. If you've experienced loss recently, keep your eyes open. You will see glorious things. That's right. Praise the Lord. Let's see. We were looking in 1 Peter chapter 1 and being reborn. That being chosen ones being set apart to be God's holy ones. It cost me to think of the 10 virgins. Isn't that something how one scripture can help you hip hop to another scripture and then another scripture. And I've seen you sit at the table in our kitchen for an hour. Kimberly, we're going to be on radio. And I still sit there. It's my favorite book. And it's your favorite time in the day. I believe our favorite times of the day should not be shopping or even our work. And we have worked a lot in our lives. But it should be that time that we've set apart with God inviting him into our life. He loves shopping with us. You know, and he loves the work that we do. He's picked out a lot of outfits for me. You know, and I said, oh, I don't know if I like, well, I think I'll try that on and pretty soon. Yeah. It's my favorite outfits. We're never alone. Are we? No, never. So in Matthew 25, it starts out with the parable of the 10 virgins. And let me just read it at the time of my, at the time my coming draws near this is Jesus talking. Heaven's kingdom realm can be compared to 10 maidens who took their oil oil lamps and went outside to meet the bridegroom and his bride. These were just bridesmaids. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. Five of them were foolish and ill prepared for they took no extra oil for their lamps. Five of them were wise and sensible for they took flasks of olive oil with their lamps. When the bridegroom didn't come when they expected they all grew drowsy and fell asleep. Then suddenly in the middle of the night they were awakened by the shout get up the bridegroom is here. Come out and have an encounter with him. So all the girls got up and trimmed their lamps. But the foolish ones were running out of oil. So they said to the five wise ones share your oil with us because our lamps are going out. We can't they replied we don't have enough for all of us. You'll have to go buy some for yourselves. While the five girls were out buying oil the bridegroom appeared. Those who were ready and waiting were escorted inside with him and the wedding party to enjoy the feast and then the door was locked. Later the five foolish girls came running up to the door and pleaded Lord Lord let us come in and he called back. Go away. I do not know you. I can assure you I don't even know you this is this is interesting to read this because it pulls on my compassion strings. I start thinking wait wait what are you really are going to leave people out and I know there are going to be those who are not. Wanting to even choose to be in the presence of the Lord the Bible tells us that there will be those who do not choose him in the end what I really like to look at here is being unprepared the unprepared ones are the ones who don't include God at all in their day. That's where their oil is lacking they're not reading a word they're not filling themselves up on the kingdom thoughts it's just thoughts of this world and and having parties and going here and there and going to work and having hobbies but never applying yourself to filling your spirit not feeding your spirit what it needs. We're not just flesh beings in this world we're also spirit beings and both beings need to be fed so so we want to feed that spirit being now I also am reading on here and realizing okay they run out of oil they have no oil and they look to the wise ones and say give us some of your oil the wise ones are wise because they know they are not the source. That's what it boils down to none of us are the source. We can't be the source for one another our God is our source and his word is our source and the words that he has spoken our life to us they are a feast that is better to us than any feast this world can offer. Now what the passion says here Kimberly is go away I don't know no is the word it's an intimacy with Jesus in fact in Matthew 7 he says many will say to me on that day Lord did we not prophesy in your name in your name cast out demons and in your name perform many miracles and then I will declare to them I never knew you yeah and that's the same here in in Matthew 25. I don't know you depart from me so there's going to be a hunger you were saying Saturday I pray today that we will hunger and thirst for more of Jesus. Yes well the knowing is an intimate knowing the Hebrew word for no and I believe the Greek one as well it it actually hints at the knowing the husband how he knows his wife intimately. So when you know someone intimately you know their thoughts and you know their emotions you know what can make them feel bad and you know what can make them feel good and you know what their favorite candy bar is and you know what their favorite drink is and you know how to make them smile. Yes you also know how to push their buttons. Yes when your husband comes home from a long day of work and you're just meeting him with lots of questions and what did you do today and did you get me this the milk I asked you for and that kind of thing we've got a settle in to what he's going through he just needs a moment maybe half hour an hour just to relax and take a breath. Can I get you a drink and you know his favorite drink if you're married to him and so we need to be more cognizant of the person the other person's feelings. Yes what they're going through. Right so that kind of knowing and that's what we want to build I don't know how else to build that except to stay in the word of God and so as I continue to read and ask him and if the if the Bible doesn't make a lot of sense to you if you're listening to the Bible. If you're listening today and if the Bible is just kind of Greek to you like trying to read Greek then ask the Lord ask Holy Spirit to make it clear because he will he wants to he's just looking for people to ask and he's the source it's not up to us to figure it out you know if we try and figure it out in our own effort then we can have pride about that we'll look at how much knowledge I have gained I know all of this. No the knowledge he wants you to have is more intimate knowing he wants to let you know more about who he really is and you're not going to learn that in your own studying in your own intellect with your own logic that's not going to happen so these these five foolish virgins that asked for the oil from the wise ones the wise ones were wise because they knew they're not the source. So the foolish ones instead of going to the sort who's the source he's in he's in there he's arrived the bridegroom is the source they didn't go to him they didn't go to him that's what makes them foolish they were foolish because they did not go to the source and ask the source for oil you know we think that we've got to go out and find it ourselves that we need to clean up our lives we need to get rid of the addiction we need to make sure that we have no sin that we watch our mouth that we're we're not saying words that would would be derogatory. It's really not us it's him I've never heard anything like that after 70 years of going to church and listening to sermons Kimberly I've always received a message from whoever was speaking that the word is not the word. Speaking that the five foolish if not going to hell they are predestined to be outside the door punishment yes to punishment when they could have just I don't know knocked on the door and said Jesus we need your oil we need your help the white humbling yes it is a humbling so the foolish ones are prideful the wise ones are humble yeah and that's how that works out in the kingdom of heaven when we humble ourselves and go to the Lord and say you know what I can't even make sense of these words in my Bible as I'm flipping these pages they don't make sense to me but I want them to because I really want to know you when we have a heart like that that's humble hill start opening our eyes and our understanding he is so generous and so kind now some of you listening may say well I've heard that those five foolish virgins go to hell it doesn't say that you know no I know but a lot of people say that they know and I say Jesus went to hell he went to hell this is before Jesus died he's telling this story and it's about the last days and it's right before the crucifixion but he went to hell for people such as the five in case they went to hell the the gahana he went down there to bring captivity captive bring them home to his father God right yeah so it's just such a blessing wow blessing I I've also been reading in a Matthew well just all yeah I've been stuck in Matthew for a while I enjoy it and in Matthew 20 there's a the parable of the vine the vineyard the owner of the vineyard at the end of that parable in verse 16 this is chapter 20 in Matthew it says now you can understand what I meant when I said the first will end up last and the last will end up being first everyone is invited but few are the chosen and I think we've had a tendency as Christians to think okay all are invited but that means that you know not everybody's going to accept the invitation so like you said they're going to end up in hell only a few are chosen for heaven I'm not sure that's what this means maybe it is what that means but we can't know because we're not God we're human beings in this temporal realm and our understanding is limited so instead of judging that and saying okay there's only a few of us that are going to end up being with the Lord instead of saying it that way say well maybe there are few a few that are chosen to be in his throne room at all times and the others might be in the outer courts I mean he built a temple that has a holy of holies it's got a holy place it has outer courts it has a gathering place outside of that you know it doesn't mean that there's just this one place that all of the chosen get to go to and the rest of it is hell judgment it doesn't mean judgment right it's like I am the potter you are the clay I choose which ones are going to be used for the great dinners the China that is set out and some of you are going to be the daily little clay pots yeah and it's okay with me if I'm a clay pot oh me too really is just so long as I can be near Jesus it's don't you believe it's our heart intent yes it really truly comes down to that it does it comes down to what is in our hearts for him and I believe that he is really wanting us to know him in a way that the tugs on our emotions in our compassion can we have compassion for God he's put up with so much in us and he's paid such a huge price for us so are we able to see that price and say you know what some of this suffering that I'm going through here it's worth it to know you I just want to know you more and when we come to that place of humility in our lives I think maybe that might be where the chosen ones are that everyone is invited to enter but few are chosen that's beautiful well this has been a wonderful teaching I hope you've enjoyed it I hope you go to math you 25 and just read a little bit of it and God bless you so much we love you we know God loves you and we want to say for the very last take joy thank you for listening to call to freedom with Barbara Carmack you may get in touch with Barbara at call to freedom box 370 367 Denver Colorado 80237 or you may leave your message at 1 877 917 7256 call to freedom is a listener supported radio ministry Barbara and her power partners invite you to come on board with us and become a network of hands holding up call to freedom ministry power partners support call to freedom with prayer and monthly financial support you will be blessed supernaturally we invite you to visit call to freedom's website www.freedomstreet.org where you can hear Barbara's daily radio broadcast 24 hours a day or order materials you may share your phrase reports and heart prize by mailing them to call to freedom box 370 367 Denver Colorado 80237 or you may email us at Barbara Carmack at freedom street dot or until next time remember Jesus loves you Barbara loves you and take joy [music]
[Music] Welcome to Call to Freedom with Barber Carmac. This is Jimmy Lakey and I'm delighted that you are joining us for this half hour. You can reach Call to Freedom at box 370-367 Denver, Colorado 802-37 or by going to the website at www.freedomstreet.org. If you want to leave a message or order a word-powered daily reading Bible guide or a Freedom Street Express newsletter, you can call us toll-free at 1-877-917-7256 and leave your name and address including your zip code. If you want to talk to Barbara right now, she is expecting your call. You may call that same toll-free number 1-877-917-7256 to speak to her. And now, let's join Barbara in the studio. Welcome to Call to Freedom. Oh, I'm so glad you joined us today and I do say us because Kimberly is actually in the studio with me today. It's so good to be here. You know we do pretty well when I'm in Oklahoma and we're just talking over my device but it's much better to be able to see each other and kind of take some cues with our eyes. Yes, that's right. And see somebody across the table. Yes, I want you to know today as you're listening that love is a choice. We have so many choices in life and we're going to talk about that too again today. And it's a choice. Love is a commitment. Love is an action and love is a gift from God. May the Spirit of God give you wisdom to follow your heart in the way of love today. Find nothing that you are going to be judging today except accepting them. Wow, that is so difficult, Kimberly. It really is. We grow up with criticisms and judgments. We look at a person, "Oh, that dress is too short." Or you know, talk about what they're wearing or their makeup or what, something. We're always kind of looking up and down people to see what they're like. If they're like us and then we accept them. If not, we throw them in the gutter. Well, not anymore. Not anymore. But in the world, you see that a lot. In the world, there's a lot of comparison. Yes, for sure. And it's easy to take that on as Christians to have that in our church and even wonder. Is our church healthy? Do we have the same kind of numbers as the church down the street or the church in the next state? You know, in its comparison, a lot of comparisons. Catching those little foxes and bringing them to the Lord is learning how to love. Yes, it sure is. Before we get into it, oh, we were talking all morning long and wondering what we were going to talk about. I have no notes at all. Kimberly has no notes. We just have our Bibles in front of us. I'd like to remind you the meeting is this Saturday, August the 10th. And we're going to have music and Bible study at 10 o'clock. And if you would like to come, you can call me at 1-877-917-7256. We always seem to have room for more. So I'm just inviting you. We're going to have a great time. Lensch on the patio. If you would like to help with the entree, which we have no idea we're going to have yet, you can bring a side dish of a cool summer salad or a wonderful dessert would be great. We'll share with you as you share with us. It's always a fun time sharing. So again, call me at 1-877-917-7256. God bless you and hope to see you there. Oh, it's going to be good. I love that fellowship. And you know this morning as we were fellowshiping and talking, it's so encouraging to be around people, others who really love God and want to hear His Word and know more about Him. So yes, come gather, gather with us on Saturday so we can enjoy one another in that. Today we were reading in Hebrews, we were reading in Psalm. I think as we were talking, I mentioned to you that back October 7th, my heart just broke to hear the news of what was happening to Israel. So sad, so hard to hear what was happening. And there are many Psalms and major prophets, the minor prophets and the Old Testament that talk about this day of gloom and doom this day. And often it's referred to as the day of the Lord. And as the day of the Lord comes, there's darkness, there's destruction, there's a twisting, it's hard to read these chapters. What I have found, I've kind of been on a search, it's been a treasure hunt for me, that every single one of them have some kind of little interruption in all of the dark gloom and doom words, the dark news. And in that news, there's people, the godly people, the people of God, His holy ones, they're rising up, they celebrate, they celebrate and they're trusting God, they're trusting that He will replace that evil with good. They're singing about His ability to do that. And I've found that as I continue to find these little gems in myself, I'm realizing those little thoughts that come up about other people that you're talking about or comparisons, or just waking up in a panic, waking up stressed out because you didn't get something done the day before. And it's the first thing on your mind. And when that happens, those are little foxes that are robbing us of being the true people, God created us to be. So look for these in the Psalms when you're reading through Psalms, when you're reading through the minor prophets, the major prophets, and you're reading these chapters, we did this with Isaiah 24, a number of weeks back, we were reading through all of the reports of the destruction that's happening. And then there's these people that rise up and they're singing songs to God, songs of victory, songs of triumph. He is the triumphant one. He knows what he's doing. It's getting our minds off of our human tendencies and onto the one that we want to choose in the spirit realm. What makes it hard for us is as humans, we want to be able to see it. We want it to make sense. And our senses are five senses. It's seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching. If we can't do that, then we don't believe it. We put more belief in our senses than we do in our spirit that knows there's something better. That's right. Something better than our senses. Amen. It's always, especially with David, when he wrote in the Psalms. And I think it's Psalm 40 here that says, "Why are you cast down, oh my soul, put your hope in God." And when you wake up in the morning and you say, "This is the day that the Lord has made, and I will rejoice and be glad in it." That sets the stage for your day. And when you get up and you, "Oh, another day, what do I have to do today? What's going to keep me from really being happy today?" Only you can make that choice. You really can. You can make a choice to make it a good day or a bad day. It was years ago, many, many years ago, when I was still really in the thick of homeschooling and my kids weren't very independent yet. And so it was just a lot, a lot on my plate every day. And I remember not just homeschooling my four children, but also others that would come. We kind of co-opped in my home with others. It felt very overwhelming. I just remember thinking to myself, "If I start out every day feeling stressed and anxious, that's not going to help." And I want to change that. I want to change what's happening when I wake up. So I started just saying, "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lord, that you work everything for good. Thank you that you will take care of all things that come before me. You took care of all things that were happening yesterday. Yes. And I just say, "Thank you." And I did it so often that now my automatic... I'm sharing a miracle right now. I'm not sharing what I did to make something happen. The Lord blessed it. Yes. And now... And you're thankfulness. He moved mountains. Yes, he did. He moved the mountain. Yes. And now, miraculously, I wake up and the first thing that happens is my mouth forms the words "Thank you" before I'm even cognitive. And then I just start giggling because I realized I just said "Thank you." And I wasn't even fully awake. Yes. Once we make that choice and that decision, Holy Spirit helps us in so many ways. Today, you were talking about this little lady that just really got on your nerves. I mean, she was cantankerous. In fact, she hit Matthew with her cane. And Matthew is a person you love. Yes. And you were saying, "Lord, somehow get rid of her or help her to..." I was just triggered. And in the position that I was in... She was in choir. Yes. Well, okay. So she's been... She has a minister's license. She's been through ministry school many decades ago. And she's older than you to put this in context. Okay. So she's had a lot of experience and she talks about how she travels. She ministers to others. She prays all the time, sometimes all night long. And so when you put all of that together, when I put all that together in my mind, then I am presumptuous. I will presume that this person knows better. She knows better. Her actions are going to... Her actions toward me and my husband and the way that she felt like she was goading us to do what she wanted done. And sometimes that was playing a certain song, leading us... leading us differently. The position that I was in, I was not the leader of choir, but the leader was out. And so I was holding his position for him. And he's so kind and full of mercy that I refused to give in to my impatience, to my tendency to even be snarky. And say something, just spit it right back out. I refused to do it. But even though I was being kind in front of her and in front of the choir and at church, at home I would get home. And I would feel so triggered. And I would cry out to the Lord and say, "What? Am I going to do?" And I would go through all these gymnastics in my mind of what I need to say. What I need to say to her. What I need to say to other leadership around her. But we all do it. You can have these gymnastics happening over your financial situation, over other relationships, over your physical health. What should I be doing? Should I be eating differently? Should I be exercising more? Why do we have to say things in reply to someone's actions that we don't agree with? It's a human behavior, though. Everybody needs to snap back or say something to regulatory. So the miracle that happened was me going to my face over and over and over again. Just going to the Lord and saying, "All right, bless her and change me. I want to be changed." Didn't it come to a point where it was, "Okay, God, it's between you and me. No other person is involved here any longer." Yeah, no other person. Because the more I prayed, the more I realized this isn't, I'm praying an impossible prayer. I'm praying for you to change the way I think. And it happens all the time. It happens all the time. It's automatic thoughts, automatic responses. And I'm asking you to change that. See, and so many people, Kimberly, they say, "Change that person or change this person." Or, "You can't get along with them." So, Father, God, you change them. And we're headed in the wrong direction, Kimberly. What you were asking God to do was change you. From all the negative, as you were saying, triggers that brought you to a point that you were thinking negatively towards this person, a child of God. Well, it's very human. It's very human to think those thoughts. And I was asking him to, I have a t-shirt. It says, "I no longer live." I don't want to live in my humanity anymore. But Christ lived in me. And less of me and more of him. And that was my prayer, less of me, less of me, and more of you, more of you. And as I was, you all know if you've been listening to me, I like to talk to people in traffic. And when I'm talking to them, I bless them with the fruit of the Spirit. And I bless them with generosity and patience and making room for others. We're all just trying to help each other get where we need to go. It didn't start like that, though, Kimberly. This is a process. This is a lifelong training of Holy Spirit in our lives. And it comes down to him not changing the people around me, but him changing me. Right. Cooperate with all these people that I'm going to be involved. So years ago, it was me being frustrated with all these people around me. And, "Oh, you don't know how to drive." "Oh, where did you learn how to drive?" You have a blinker. Yes. It's on the left of your steering wheel. Yes. You all can relate. I'm going to see this lady every week in choir. What am I going to do about this? Yeah. And I'm going to drive with these people every day in rush hour traffic. You know, so what am I going to do about this? And so that is what we get to decide. See, it's a choice. Like you were saying, we choose. Love is a choice. We choose that. We either choose to hang on to the humanistic part of us. Or to let that go and become. Become who we were intended to be. And that takes faith. Yes, I do. We have to believe that we were made for more than our irritation and frustration. We were made for more than our worry and anxiety. We were made for more than our own plans and our own goals and dreams. There's another dream that's much higher than our dreams. Someone with thoughts that are higher than our thoughts. And we're made to be his perfect partner. His best friend. Yeah, it's easy to love people who love us. That's pretty easy to love people. But people who don't love us. Can we extend to them that same wonderful loving kindness that we give to the ones that we do love? That's where we need the miracle. That's right. That's right. Kimberly, that's right. And so it is a miracle that I wake up and say thank you. It is a miracle that I don't get triggered in traffic anymore. That I just say, oh, I have room for you. I can make room for you. And even if you're cutting me off, I can say, that's fine. There's plenty of room right there for you. It's a great example of it. It was last night in the Olympics. I was watching a little bit, the 1500. And no American had even meddled in it for 100 years. I mean, this was not a sport that Americans win in. That's right. They're all European or African that can run that far. And I saw these two. One's name was Kerr and the other was a Norwegian. And I'm not going to even try to pronounce his name. They have been fighting and feuding for years. One was a gold medal and then the next Olympic, the other one was a gold medal. So just going off on each other all the time. And even right before the contest last night, well, it happened that this wonderful American, only 23 years old, Cole Hawker, he was just kind of lopping along, you know, for the 1500. And all of a sudden, at the end, he said, I wanted to find a little channel because these two were dominating the front. And I wanted to get a just a little channel, even if it was just a little bit on the rail, that I could just squeeze in there. He said, yeah, and it happened right near the end. And it happened and I spread it toward the end. He got the gold. While these two were feuding, going back and forth, fighting each other, he found a way. And so many times we're fighting. We're fighting when Kimberly, we should be thanking God and love the other way. There's another way. There's another way. There's another way. Yes, there is another way. And that is to put our focus on our Lord, on who we were actually made for. And become. I was just saying that becoming, we used to use as English people and human beings, there used to be a phrase, well, that's not very becoming on you. Or that is so becoming on you. We used to hear that becoming as a compliment and adjective. And we don't hear that very much anymore. And I was thinking in traffic, someone, there were two people that were racing each other and cutting others off. And that was just, you know, yesterday. Thank you for praying, for traveling. Mercy's over me yesterday. And you go the two lane road through the panhandle of Oklahoma to Raton pass and then up north. Well, and there's no traffic on the two lane. That's why I like to take it. It's completely, it's completely isolated. Oh, there's these guys were racing. They were on 25. Yes. And that's what caused me to say, oh, that's not very becoming. And it was so funny to me that it came out of my mouth that way, because I don't talk like that. Oh, no, you don't. But it came out of my mouth and I realized, oh, that must be from a Holy Spirit. Oh, that is from the Holy Spirit. Because as I started thinking about it, he was asking me to pray over them that they would become more like him. Become who they were meant to be. So then I'm talking and praying and confessing these things over them. But I can only do that because I've spent the time doing it for myself. Yes. Putting myself down on the floor and submitting and surrendering over and over whether it's with this personality and choir that was so hard for me or through the renovation that we've just been through with all the contractors and all the things that were seemingly going wrong, did I want to make the thing the focus or did I want to make the person the focus? And time and time again, I kept building bridges with these people and making peace and knowing that I've got a relationship with them now. Even though there were lots of mistakes, there were things that happened that were really difficult, really hard, but it wasn't about having a perfect kitchen. It was about the people I met. And whether or not they felt loved, whether or not they felt accepted. And I very much let them feel accepted. And I would tip them and write encouraging notes to them and leave them texts of gratitude and that I knew was building bridges, but it came with me seeing something that went wrong, seeing something that was installed improperly and going to my face and saying, "Well, Lord, what do you want to do about this?" And thinking over and over, "Oh, I should have communicated better. Oh, I should have..." See, you get on that hamster wheel. Oh, yeah, you do. And you think, "Oh, I could have done that differently. Next time I see them, maybe I should ask this, or maybe I should say that." And when you get into that, that's the humanity in you wanting to take over and fix it and control it. Now, you were saying that afternoon or that day they came and worked on this project without you being there. You were trusting them. You had a lot of piano lessons that day. And when you got back, then you saw the end product, which was... Oh, it happened on four different occasions. One was a wall that got built to the wrong place. Oh, yes. And then one was cabinets that were put in the wrong place, and so they had to be torn back out. And then one, or they were panels that had to be taken back out. And then one was our countertops, and they put a seam in just a very ugly place, an ugly seam in an ugly place. It happened over and over and over, where it got installed. I came back and I looked at it, and then you start thinking, "Well, maybe I should never leave." I felt like a prisoner to my home. You know, maybe I should never leave, keep checking on them, keep checking. Well, who wants to live like that? That feels like a prisoner. That's bondage, and wanting to control everything. No, and that's exhausting. That is so exhausting. That's not the point of our life. That's right. We're not supposed to be in control. The Lord is in control, and He has wonderful things in store for us. Yes, He does. So continuing to submit myself and surrender myself, my humanity, to the things of the Spirit, and realize, "Okay, that's not very becoming. I need it this way." Well, why do I need it that way? Why do I need it? Yes. It's like the Scripture that I was giving to you today, Kimberly, that God has given me for this year, and it's Psalm 62 verse 1. So I trust in you and wait on you as long as it takes. This is from the Passion translation. As long as it takes for you to deliver me. As long as it takes. And sometimes, Kimberly, well, I know it's a lifelong. It's a lifelong living for Him and being and adjusting to His ways. He is at work in us both to will and work for His good pleasure, not for ours. For His knowing that the end result is going to be better than I ever dreamed. Yes. Sometimes we don't want to go that direction because our dream or our idea of what life should look like. Or what we have wanted it to look like is so precious to us that to let go of it causes great grief. And for some people, being stuck in grief is something they can't handle. That's right. And when we realize that grief is an emotion that our Lord deals with on a daily basis. He promised that he would be with every one of us. Each and every one. That is currently 8 billion creatures on this planet. 8 billion. When he said that he would promise, he promised to be with us, he doesn't break his promises. So he is with each one now. Are each one of them living a life that is holy and beautiful and a really great time for the Lord to spend with them? No, how many are in dark, dark places? You know, when you think of the abuses and the addictions and the human trafficking and the things that go on in this world, it is so heartbreaking and the Lord Himself has yielded Himself and surrendered Himself to be with everyone. There is not a place that is so dark that He has not gone to. That's right. For God so loved, each individual in this world, you know, we say the whole world and we think of a globe or something. No, God so loved each individual. Yes. Can you imagine the grief for someone who is love, God is love, and God is light for Him to be surrendered and yielding to these horrible dark things. It has to be the most grief anyone could ever imagine. So is it really so hard to let go of a dream and to yield ourselves to Him when He has got a really fantastic plan? Now a dream, we were talking a little bit about familiar spirits today too. Well, we got into a lot of subjects and we don't have very much longer. I hope you're coming back with me tomorrow. If you let me. And that dream can get so disjointed that it can be a familiar spirit that goes with us. That is not God's plan for us at all. And we go for it and we go for it and we hit our little like there and used to say our go card against the wall over and over and over again. I've got to have it. I've got to have it. I've got to have it. Do you really? Are you yielding yourself really? Yeah, and that's what that felt like, you know, five years ago I think I started letting the listeners know that there had been something that happened in my family. And my family shattered. You know, my husband moved out and my older ones were just moving all different directions. And it was really hard because the familiar to me was having a family that was together. So letting go of that dream and surrendering to what God wanted was the answer. And he did a miracle. And I want to talk about that more tomorrow. Oh, that sounds great. Well, thank you for being with me in the studio. That is so cool. And I hope that you have listening, have enjoyed our conversation here. We're going to have more to talk to you about, oh, God's love for you. He loves you so much. And he wants his wonderful will to be yours. And God bless you. And the last thing we want to say here today is take joy. Take joy. [Music] Thank you for listening to Call to Freedom with Barbara Carmack. You may get in touch with Barbara at Call to Freedom. Box 370-367. Denver, Colorado, 80237. Or you may leave your message at 1-877-917-7256. Call to Freedom is a listener supported radio ministry. Barbara and her power partners invite you to come on board with us and become a network of hands holding up Call to Freedom Ministry. Power partner support Call to Freedom with Prayer and Monthly Financial Support. You will be blessed supernaturally. 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