WEBVTT NOTE This file was exported by MacCaption version 7.0.11 to comply with the WebVTT specification dated March 23, 2013. 00:00:00.734 --> 00:00:02.936 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% male announcer: The following program is sponsored by friends 00:00:02.936 --> 00:00:04.571 align:start line:85% position:44% size:78% of Life Outreach International. 00:00:06.874 --> 00:00:10.010 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% announcer: Coming up, author and podcast host Tasha Calvert 00:00:10.010 --> 00:00:12.779 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% challenges your perceptions of holiness. 00:00:12.779 --> 00:00:15.549 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Tasha Calvert: I think the biggest hurdle for most of us, 00:00:15.549 --> 00:00:20.654 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% honestly, is just wrapping our minds around the possibility 00:00:20.654 --> 00:00:22.656 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% that we could be holy. 00:00:22.656 --> 00:00:24.424 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% You know, we are in Christ. 00:00:24.424 --> 00:00:27.694 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% If we have surrendered our lives to him, he's declared us 00:00:27.694 --> 00:00:29.062 align:start line:69% position:50% size:21% as holy. 00:00:29.062 --> 00:00:31.899 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And so it's really arrogant for us to say, no, no, no, no, no, 00:00:31.899 --> 00:00:33.500 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% I, I, I can't be that. 00:00:33.500 --> 00:00:35.168 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% I, I don't live up to that. 00:00:35.602 --> 00:00:45.612 align:end line:10% position:89% size:8% ♪♪♪ 00:00:45.612 --> 00:00:53.754 align:end line:10% position:89% size:8% ♪♪♪ 00:00:53.754 --> 00:00:55.122 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% Randy Robison: Welcome to "Life Today." 00:00:55.122 --> 00:00:56.456 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% I'm Randy Robison. 00:00:56.456 --> 00:00:57.824 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% Blynda, how are you today? 00:00:57.824 --> 00:00:59.159 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% Blynda Lane: I'm really, really happy to be here. 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:00.494 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% Randy: I have a question for you. 00:01:00.494 --> 00:01:01.862 align:start line:69% position:50% size:31% Blynda: Yes. 00:01:01.862 --> 00:01:04.064 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Randy: So there's this scripture in 1 Peter, and he's 00:01:04.064 --> 00:01:06.633 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% actually echoing, I think Leviticus, you know, but he's 00:01:06.633 --> 00:01:10.604 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% saying, you know, telling people that they should be holy as God 00:01:10.604 --> 00:01:11.972 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% is holy, right? 00:01:11.972 --> 00:01:14.808 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% And have you ever read that and thought, 00:01:14.808 --> 00:01:16.176 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% "Not a chance." 00:01:16.176 --> 00:01:18.145 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% Blynda: There's no way, I can't attain that at all. 00:01:18.145 --> 00:01:20.580 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Randy: Why would he tell us that, especially if it 00:01:20.580 --> 00:01:21.915 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% wasn't possible. 00:01:21.915 --> 00:01:23.283 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% Makes me go, it's possible. 00:01:23.283 --> 00:01:24.851 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% I just don't know how or what it means. 00:01:24.851 --> 00:01:28.789 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Blynda: In the Christian life we can strive a lot, and 00:01:28.789 --> 00:01:31.892 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% yet the way we can be the holiest is when 00:01:31.892 --> 00:01:35.195 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% we're surrendered. 00:01:35.195 --> 00:01:36.530 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% Randy: We better talk about this. 00:01:36.530 --> 00:01:37.898 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% Blynda: I know. 00:01:37.898 --> 00:01:39.499 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% I think we're gonna, and you know what, we have a really 00:01:39.499 --> 00:01:42.769 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% awesome person who's gonna help us talk about this, the "Set 00:01:42.769 --> 00:01:44.771 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% Apart for More." 00:01:44.771 --> 00:01:47.808 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% Tasha Calvert, thank you so much for joining us today. 00:01:47.808 --> 00:01:50.143 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Tasha: I'm so excited to have this conversation with you. 00:01:50.143 --> 00:01:51.511 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Randy: We're glad to have you, you know, Prestonwood 00:01:51.511 --> 00:01:54.848 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Baptist, good friends of the ministry, Jack Graham, and 00:01:54.848 --> 00:01:56.450 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% you're on staff over there full time as well. 00:01:56.450 --> 00:01:59.553 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% Tasha: I am, yes, the women's minister there. 00:01:59.553 --> 00:02:01.888 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Blynda: Yeah, you said backstage for almost a decade. 00:02:01.888 --> 00:02:03.757 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% That's amazing. 00:02:03.757 --> 00:02:05.125 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% Tasha: That is good. 00:02:05.125 --> 00:02:06.593 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Randy: I'm guessing this is a question that comes up a 00:02:06.593 --> 00:02:08.362 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% lot, like, what does that really mean? 00:02:08.362 --> 00:02:09.696 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% What--holiness? 00:02:09.696 --> 00:02:12.833 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Tasha: Absolutely, and I hope it continues to come up a 00:02:12.833 --> 00:02:15.602 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% lot because one thing I would say is, 00:02:15.602 --> 00:02:19.806 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% I feel like it does not get the prominence it deserves. 00:02:19.806 --> 00:02:23.176 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Like when we look at Scripture, even the cover of your Bible 00:02:23.176 --> 00:02:25.212 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% usually says Holy Bible. 00:02:25.212 --> 00:02:27.914 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% We serve a holy God, we sing about holiness. 00:02:27.914 --> 00:02:31.852 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And yet when I would get in a room with a bunch of women and 00:02:31.852 --> 00:02:34.955 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% say, "How many of you would describe a friend as holy?" 00:02:34.955 --> 00:02:38.625 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Everybody kind of looks around, and then if I were to take it a 00:02:38.625 --> 00:02:41.495 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% step further and say, "How many of you would describe yourself 00:02:41.495 --> 00:02:46.299 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% as holy?" I mean, that airspace was not being ventured into. 00:02:46.299 --> 00:02:50.370 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And so I, like you, kind of did a deep dive in Scripture and 00:02:50.370 --> 00:02:55.142 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% said, okay, why would God call us to something if he wasn't 00:02:55.142 --> 00:02:57.477 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% expecting that we could do this? 00:02:57.477 --> 00:03:01.882 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And so, you know, as with most things that the Lord does, he 00:03:01.882 --> 00:03:03.450 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% took me through this book, the 00:03:03.450 --> 00:03:06.286 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% message of this book first and kind of dealt with that in my 00:03:06.286 --> 00:03:10.123 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% own life, but I became so passionate about what it looks 00:03:10.123 --> 00:03:14.694 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% like to live surrendered to God and just how empowering and 00:03:14.694 --> 00:03:20.600 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% enlivening that is, that it just became kind of the drum that I 00:03:20.600 --> 00:03:24.337 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% beat for the women of our church and now more broadly, just 00:03:24.337 --> 00:03:25.906 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% people that will read this book. 00:03:25.906 --> 00:03:27.574 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% So I'm really excited about it. 00:03:27.574 --> 00:03:29.943 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Blynda: Isn't it so true in the Christian life, it feels 00:03:29.943 --> 00:03:32.045 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% like things are sometimes opposite. 00:03:32.045 --> 00:03:35.415 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Like when you surrender the most is when you live in the most 00:03:35.415 --> 00:03:37.551 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% freedom, and you would think that's opposite, to surrender 00:03:37.551 --> 00:03:41.254 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% something, but so when we're surrendering to him to live this 00:03:41.254 --> 00:03:44.724 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% holy life, that's probably when so much in your life really 00:03:44.724 --> 00:03:46.059 align:start line:69% position:48% size:43% became more free. 00:03:46.059 --> 00:03:48.795 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% Tasha: Oh, 100% and it's so scary because I think we 00:03:48.795 --> 00:03:52.766 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% think we have way more control over our life and our 00:03:52.766 --> 00:03:55.368 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% sanctification than we actually do. 00:03:55.368 --> 00:03:57.938 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% And so surrender really is the key. 00:03:57.938 --> 00:04:01.741 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% I think the biggest hurdle for most of us, honestly, is just 00:04:01.741 --> 00:04:06.813 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% wrapping our minds around the possibility that we could be 00:04:06.813 --> 00:04:11.251 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% holy, you know, because we attribute holiness to God, and 00:04:11.251 --> 00:04:12.619 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% that's right. 00:04:12.619 --> 00:04:14.888 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% He has declared us holy. 00:04:14.888 --> 00:04:18.458 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% If we are in Christ, if we have surrendered our lives to him, 00:04:18.458 --> 00:04:22.262 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% he's declared us as holy, and so it's really arrogant for us to 00:04:22.262 --> 00:04:25.465 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% say, no, no, no, no, no, I, I, I can't be that. 00:04:25.465 --> 00:04:27.100 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% I, I don't live up to that. 00:04:27.100 --> 00:04:32.706 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And so really this book is kind of my own wrestling through how 00:04:32.706 --> 00:04:36.143 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% do I embrace what God has called me to be? 00:04:36.143 --> 00:04:39.246 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% How do I agree with his scripture, and then what are 00:04:39.246 --> 00:04:42.682 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% some practical ways--like, I don't want to live in the, you 00:04:42.682 --> 00:04:44.217 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% know, hypothetical. 00:04:44.217 --> 00:04:50.423 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% How practically do I join him and allow him to produce 00:04:50.423 --> 00:04:51.825 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% holiness in me? 00:04:51.825 --> 00:04:54.561 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% And so that's kind of what we talk about. 00:04:54.561 --> 00:04:57.831 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Randy: I'm guessing, and you correct me if I'm wrong. 00:04:57.831 --> 00:05:00.967 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% I'm guessing that part of the reason you get the resistance 00:05:00.967 --> 00:05:02.569 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% to, you know, "Do you know someone who's holy," or "Am I 00:05:02.569 --> 00:05:06.406 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% holy, certainly not," is because we don't understand the term 00:05:06.406 --> 00:05:09.910 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% properly, what would you say are some of the biggest 00:05:09.910 --> 00:05:13.280 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% misconceptions we have about the idea of holiness? 00:05:13.280 --> 00:05:16.183 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Tasha: I think we're really big even in Christian 00:05:16.183 --> 00:05:22.255 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% spaces at looking at the things that God produces in us, and we 00:05:22.255 --> 00:05:25.559 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% see what comes out outward, and so we just try and mimic that. 00:05:25.559 --> 00:05:28.195 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% Like a holy person never misses church. 00:05:28.195 --> 00:05:31.998 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% A holy person never says a bad word when they stump their toe. 00:05:31.998 --> 00:05:38.104 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% A holy person, you know, never has thoughts that are not holy. 00:05:38.104 --> 00:05:41.575 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% And really, that's the misunderstanding because it 00:05:41.575 --> 00:05:44.344 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% keeps that onus on us. 00:05:44.344 --> 00:05:49.182 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And we, I mean, there's part of us that's right to be reticent 00:05:49.182 --> 00:05:52.852 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% in embracing holiness because guess what, we're sinners. 00:05:52.852 --> 00:05:56.456 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% Like, we are not gonna drift towards holiness. 00:05:56.456 --> 00:06:02.829 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% So I think what we have to do is recognize that God is the one 00:06:02.829 --> 00:06:05.899 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% that is going to produce that holiness in us. 00:06:05.899 --> 00:06:09.569 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And so I've kind of come up with a four-part framework in the 00:06:09.569 --> 00:06:13.740 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% book, and I think that has really been helpful to me and 00:06:13.740 --> 00:06:17.577 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% others in trying to wrap our minds around what it might look 00:06:17.577 --> 00:06:19.879 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% like to embark on a journey of holiness. 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:23.216 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And so it's kind of four part, and it starts by saying that 00:06:23.216 --> 00:06:27.420 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% holiness is a sacred otherness that originates from God. 00:06:27.420 --> 00:06:30.457 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And I think that's the part we're all most comfortable with. 00:06:30.457 --> 00:06:35.395 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% But then the second part is, it is empowered and entrusted to us 00:06:35.395 --> 00:06:36.730 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% by his Spirit. 00:06:36.730 --> 00:06:42.502 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And that's the really important part for us as believers. 00:06:42.502 --> 00:06:45.872 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% We have been given a holy helper, and that's the 00:06:45.872 --> 00:06:47.207 align:start line:69% position:50% size:31% Holy Spirit. 00:06:47.207 --> 00:06:52.112 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And so holiness is possible for us because his Spirit lives 00:06:52.112 --> 00:06:53.446 align:start line:69% position:50% size:16% in us. 00:06:53.446 --> 00:06:56.316 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Now that's good news for us as believers, but it's also kind of 00:06:56.316 --> 00:06:58.518 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% good news for people who don't know Jesus, 00:06:58.518 --> 00:07:02.689 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% because I can't expect somebody who does not know Jesus 00:07:02.689 --> 00:07:04.024 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% to be holy. 00:07:04.024 --> 00:07:05.992 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% Yeah, there's just, it's not possible. 00:07:05.992 --> 00:07:08.962 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Now, I would hope that they would come to know Jesus, but 00:07:08.962 --> 00:07:10.363 align:start line:69% position:47% size:63% this is for the believer. 00:07:10.363 --> 00:07:14.434 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And then the third part is it manifests in our character, and 00:07:14.434 --> 00:07:18.271 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% I chose the word character because I think it was a big 00:07:18.271 --> 00:07:23.076 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% enough word to encompass really all of the ways that God 00:07:23.076 --> 00:07:24.477 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% transforms us. 00:07:24.477 --> 00:07:26.012 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% And that's such good news. 00:07:26.012 --> 00:07:28.948 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Like, God isn't just gonna pick and choose some things and give 00:07:28.948 --> 00:07:30.283 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% you one or two things. 00:07:30.283 --> 00:07:34.387 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% Like, when he comes in and produces holiness in us, it 00:07:34.387 --> 00:07:36.890 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% changes everything. 00:07:36.890 --> 00:07:40.160 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% And then the fourth part is that it is strengthened in 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:41.828 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% Christian community. 00:07:41.828 --> 00:07:47.100 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And I think that seems kind of obvious, but, you know, we're 00:07:47.100 --> 00:07:50.036 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% looking around at culture right now and realizing that people 00:07:50.036 --> 00:07:52.605 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% are more isolated than they've ever been. 00:07:52.605 --> 00:07:54.507 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% They're lonelier than they've ever been. 00:07:54.507 --> 00:07:58.545 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% They're more anxious than they've ever been, and so 00:07:58.545 --> 00:08:04.117 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% understanding that God designed us for more and that holiness is 00:08:04.117 --> 00:08:08.722 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% something that is going to be strengthened, buoyed when we are 00:08:08.722 --> 00:08:12.692 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% in relationship with other people, I think that is just 00:08:12.692 --> 00:08:16.129 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% such a beautiful gift, especially to the church in this 00:08:16.129 --> 00:08:17.464 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% cultural moment. 00:08:17.464 --> 00:08:19.332 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% Blynda: I think about like iron, it says iron sharpens 00:08:19.332 --> 00:08:23.169 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% iron, and we know that sin left in the dark, that's where shame 00:08:23.169 --> 00:08:28.074 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% is, that so when you are in community and you can maybe help 00:08:28.074 --> 00:08:32.278 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% bring some of these struggles to the light, now the people around 00:08:32.278 --> 00:08:34.781 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% you are bringing you to a different level, so I can see 00:08:34.781 --> 00:08:40.720 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% how important that aspect of living holy is by also who you 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:42.856 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% surround yourself with. 00:08:42.856 --> 00:08:46.359 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% So earlier you said something about practical things that we 00:08:46.359 --> 00:08:47.727 align:start line:69% position:48% size:18% can do. 00:08:47.727 --> 00:08:50.363 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Can you talk about some of the practical ways if somebody is 00:08:50.363 --> 00:08:53.933 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% watching and they're like, okay, I mean, I know it's not a set of 00:08:53.933 --> 00:08:57.337 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% to do's, it's not a checkoff list, it's not that, but what 00:08:57.337 --> 00:09:02.308 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% are some things though also that I could be kind of sharpening in 00:09:02.308 --> 00:09:03.643 align:start line:69% position:50% size:21% my life? 00:09:03.643 --> 00:09:06.212 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Tasha: Yeah, I kind of like to posture it as like a 00:09:06.212 --> 00:09:11.017 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% cooperation with the Holy Spirit, and we know how to 00:09:11.017 --> 00:09:15.188 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% cooperate because God's Word is kind of our rule book, but I 00:09:15.188 --> 00:09:17.023 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% have four daughters. 00:09:17.023 --> 00:09:19.125 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Blynda, I was telling you about that, and Randy, you won't 00:09:19.125 --> 00:09:20.460 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% relate to this but. 00:09:20.460 --> 00:09:21.795 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% Randy: I have two daughters. 00:09:21.795 --> 00:09:24.030 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% Tasha: Okay, well, but did you give birth? 00:09:24.030 --> 00:09:25.498 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% That's what it is. 00:09:25.498 --> 00:09:26.866 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% Randy: Pretty close to it. 00:09:26.866 --> 00:09:34.174 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Blynda: Oh, I think your wife, I'm sorry, she did that. 00:09:34.174 --> 00:09:36.776 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Tasha: So when I would go into the hospital, I have two 00:09:36.776 --> 00:09:39.712 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% granddaughters too, and my daughters have been way more 00:09:39.712 --> 00:09:43.082 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% empowered, you know, like, okay, I'm gonna do this by myself, I 00:09:43.082 --> 00:09:45.385 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% guess, bite down on leather or something. 00:09:45.385 --> 00:09:46.753 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% I don't know. 00:09:46.753 --> 00:09:48.087 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% I was the complete opposite. 00:09:48.087 --> 00:09:49.456 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% Blynda: Give me the drugs. 00:09:49.456 --> 00:09:52.025 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Tasha: Yes, I went into the hospital and I would look at 00:09:52.025 --> 00:09:54.360 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% the nurse and say, okay, so nice to meet you. 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:55.695 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% Here to have the baby. 00:09:55.695 --> 00:09:58.264 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% Listen, totally ready to cooperate. 00:09:58.264 --> 00:10:00.033 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% So if you tell me to push, 00:10:00.033 --> 00:10:01.601 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% I'll push to the best of my ability. 00:10:01.601 --> 00:10:04.137 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% If you tell me to breathe, I will breathe to the best of 00:10:04.137 --> 00:10:05.472 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% my ability. 00:10:05.472 --> 00:10:07.974 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Whatever it is that you think would be helpful, to the best of 00:10:07.974 --> 00:10:09.876 align:start line:69% position:47% size:63% my ability, I will do it. 00:10:09.876 --> 00:10:15.048 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% But at the end of the day it is your job to get this baby out. 00:10:15.048 --> 00:10:17.550 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% And that is really how I always thought about it. 00:10:17.550 --> 00:10:22.288 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Like I am here to cooperate, but I do not feel like I've got what 00:10:22.288 --> 00:10:24.624 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% it takes to do this thing. 00:10:24.624 --> 00:10:25.992 align:start line:69% position:50% size:21% Exactly. 00:10:25.992 --> 00:10:29.229 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% And that really is kind of our posture with holiness. 00:10:29.229 --> 00:10:33.900 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% It's looking at God every morning and saying, okay, I know 00:10:33.900 --> 00:10:35.335 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% you have a purpose for me. 00:10:35.335 --> 00:10:39.772 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% I know you have set me apart for something more than I can ask, 00:10:39.772 --> 00:10:43.877 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% dream, or imagine, and I am going to do my best to 00:10:43.877 --> 00:10:46.713 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% cooperate, but at the end of the day, if I do anything 00:10:46.713 --> 00:10:50.283 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% worthwhile, if any holiness is produced in me, it's because 00:10:50.283 --> 00:10:54.454 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% your Spirit has enabled and enlivened that in me. 00:10:54.454 --> 00:10:58.525 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And I think even just having that mindset as we go into the 00:10:58.525 --> 00:11:00.560 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% day is so helpful. 00:11:00.560 --> 00:11:03.263 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% So a spirit of cooperation is part one. 00:11:03.263 --> 00:11:04.597 align:start line:69% position:47% size:53% Blynda: It's so good. 00:11:04.597 --> 00:11:05.965 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Randy: It is, and it's all the way through Scripture. 00:11:05.965 --> 00:11:09.035 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% If you start looking for it, you see that God, as my dad says, 00:11:09.035 --> 00:11:12.605 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% would use imperfect people to accomplish his perfect will. 00:11:12.605 --> 00:11:15.074 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% You know, and there are times where God just did something, 00:11:15.074 --> 00:11:18.044 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% you know, with Paul on, you know, Saul to Paul kind 00:11:18.044 --> 00:11:19.379 align:start line:69% position:48% size:23% of thing. 00:11:19.379 --> 00:11:21.414 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% But there was the cooperation aspect I think is huge, and when 00:11:21.414 --> 00:11:25.251 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% you look at what Jesus told people was, "Believe in me, 00:11:25.251 --> 00:11:28.755 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% believe in me," so when you were talking a minute ago about how, 00:11:28.755 --> 00:11:30.690 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% yes, we're all sinners, we're not just gonna drift 00:11:30.690 --> 00:11:37.697 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% towards holiness, at the same time, if we are born again, 00:11:37.697 --> 00:11:40.533 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% we have a new identity, we have a new heart. 00:11:40.533 --> 00:11:42.535 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% It's not as the Old Testament would describe as, you know, 00:11:42.535 --> 00:11:44.504 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% wicked and corrupt because that's why we get a new 00:11:44.504 --> 00:11:45.838 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% one, right? 00:11:45.838 --> 00:11:47.206 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% That's the whole point. 00:11:47.206 --> 00:11:52.612 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% How much of just enabling the ability to step into holiness is 00:11:52.612 --> 00:11:55.848 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% believing what God says about us and our identity? 00:11:55.848 --> 00:11:59.085 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Tasha: For us to fully embrace our identity as someone 00:11:59.085 --> 00:12:04.057 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% holy, we have to believe that God has the ability to bestow 00:12:04.057 --> 00:12:05.391 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% that upon us. 00:12:05.391 --> 00:12:07.727 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I mean, I think of the Old Testament, you know, in the Old 00:12:07.727 --> 00:12:12.031 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Testament, the Bible is all to be, you know, all of it is 00:12:12.031 --> 00:12:15.535 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% useful for our instruction, but there are some differences. 00:12:15.535 --> 00:12:18.404 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% In the Old Testament, we kind of have this orientation where 00:12:18.404 --> 00:12:22.976 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% God's dealing with Israel as a community. 00:12:22.976 --> 00:12:29.916 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And so he shows up in different places and it's very personal 00:12:29.916 --> 00:12:31.284 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% when he does. 00:12:31.284 --> 00:12:34.287 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And I think of two places in particular where he's speaking 00:12:34.287 --> 00:12:39.425 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% to Joshua, and then one where he's speaking to Moses. 00:12:39.425 --> 00:12:42.662 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% And he shows up, one of them, you know, both of them are 00:12:42.662 --> 00:12:45.665 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% theophany of sorts and a theophany just for the listener 00:12:45.665 --> 00:12:48.735 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% out there is just a physical manifestation of the presence 00:12:48.735 --> 00:12:50.103 align:start line:69% position:48% size:18% of God. 00:12:50.103 --> 00:12:53.239 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% And so it can look different, but he shows up and he tells 00:12:53.239 --> 00:12:57.543 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Moses and Joshua that they are standing on holy ground. 00:12:57.543 --> 00:12:59.646 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% Now, here's the cool thing about that. 00:12:59.646 --> 00:13:03.082 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% Minutes before that holy ground was dirt. 00:13:03.082 --> 00:13:07.520 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% What makes it holy is its proximity to God. 00:13:07.520 --> 00:13:12.859 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And so when we enter into relationship, we have to enter 00:13:12.859 --> 00:13:18.765 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% into the affirmation and belief that God can do with us because 00:13:18.765 --> 00:13:20.967 align:start line:69% position:47% size:53% of who he is with us. 00:13:20.967 --> 00:13:25.171 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And so, yeah, belief, belief is certainly foundational to it. 00:13:25.171 --> 00:13:26.539 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% Absolutely. 00:13:26.539 --> 00:13:29.742 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Blynda: There's these two things that exist at the same 00:13:29.742 --> 00:13:35.782 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% time, this belief and then this striving to be good and to be 00:13:35.782 --> 00:13:39.218 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% holy, and yet what I hear you saying that I think brings so 00:13:39.218 --> 00:13:43.523 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% much freedom to the viewer is this is where we camp 00:13:43.523 --> 00:13:44.891 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% out, right? 00:13:44.891 --> 00:13:49.962 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% We cooperate, yes, but it's the Holy Spirit doing the work in us 00:13:49.962 --> 00:13:51.330 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% which is so beautiful. 00:13:51.330 --> 00:13:54.934 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% But you do talk about some secret weapons, some holy 00:13:54.934 --> 00:13:59.005 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% habits, and I think those are important because we still do 00:13:59.005 --> 00:14:00.339 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% have the role to play. 00:14:00.339 --> 00:14:03.109 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% We have the cooperation part, and sometimes for me the 00:14:03.109 --> 00:14:09.315 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% cooperation part is, okay, I don't want to derail myself. 00:14:09.315 --> 00:14:11.918 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% I don't want to get off course. 00:14:11.918 --> 00:14:14.520 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% I want to always have my heart malleable. 00:14:14.520 --> 00:14:17.323 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% So what are some of those secret weapon holy habits? 00:14:17.323 --> 00:14:20.093 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% Tasha: So two foundations that I think are the 00:14:20.093 --> 00:14:21.427 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% best place to start. 00:14:21.427 --> 00:14:24.363 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% In fact, I call them building blocks within the book, and it's 00:14:24.363 --> 00:14:26.866 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% God's Word and God's people. 00:14:26.866 --> 00:14:31.437 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And so I think though, that's a really good place to start as we 00:14:31.437 --> 00:14:34.807 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% try and foster this spirit of cooperation with God. 00:14:34.807 --> 00:14:39.178 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% And God's Word really is just that we need to be people who 00:14:39.178 --> 00:14:42.582 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% are listening for what God says from his Word. 00:14:42.582 --> 00:14:45.918 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% You know, for years, I grew up in a pastor's home. 00:14:45.918 --> 00:14:52.625 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I really have never veered far from my faith, from the church, 00:14:52.625 --> 00:14:57.897 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% but I will tell you, it took me an unusually long amount of time 00:14:57.897 --> 00:15:02.869 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% to really understand that I could hear from God's Word 00:15:02.869 --> 00:15:04.237 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% by myself. 00:15:04.237 --> 00:15:07.373 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% That I could sit in a chair all by myself with my Bible and my 00:15:07.373 --> 00:15:10.843 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% cup of coffee, and God could speak directly to me. 00:15:10.843 --> 00:15:15.181 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% For so many decades I was so faithful, but I was listening to 00:15:15.181 --> 00:15:19.619 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% the pastor and the Bible teacher and the young marrieds minister 00:15:19.619 --> 00:15:23.122 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% and whomever else, dependent on them. 00:15:23.122 --> 00:15:27.593 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% God's Word is the primary way that he speaks to us. 00:15:27.593 --> 00:15:30.797 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% So, if you're wondering, "I would love to cooperate. 00:15:30.797 --> 00:15:32.732 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% I don't know what God's telling me," 00:15:32.732 --> 00:15:37.336 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% my next question to you would be, what does your reading in 00:15:37.336 --> 00:15:38.704 align:start line:69% position:47% size:53% God's Word look like? 00:15:38.704 --> 00:15:42.108 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% Like, what does your time in God's Word look like? 00:15:42.108 --> 00:15:46.012 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% That's gonna be an easy place to start cooperating, and he will 00:15:46.012 --> 00:15:50.817 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% be so faithful, surprisingly faithful to meet you on the 00:15:50.817 --> 00:15:52.185 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% pages of Scripture. 00:15:52.185 --> 00:15:55.121 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% But I want to caution everybody. 00:15:55.121 --> 00:15:58.891 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Because we have to understand that God's Word is a book 00:15:58.891 --> 00:16:00.226 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% about him. 00:16:00.226 --> 00:16:01.794 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% It will help us know him better. 00:16:01.794 --> 00:16:04.931 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% And if we keep that in mind, remembering that holiness is 00:16:04.931 --> 00:16:09.035 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% something he defines, holiness is who he is. 00:16:09.035 --> 00:16:14.774 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% When we go to Scripture, we get a better picture of who he is 00:16:14.774 --> 00:16:16.609 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% and what holiness looks like. 00:16:16.609 --> 00:16:23.449 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And as we read Scripture, it reads us and it helps us to look 00:16:23.449 --> 00:16:24.784 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% more like him. 00:16:24.784 --> 00:16:28.287 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Randy: So what would you say sort of the personal payoff 00:16:28.287 --> 00:16:31.858 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% if I can use that term, the fruit, you know, of saying, 00:16:31.858 --> 00:16:34.727 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% "Okay, God, I'm gonna believe that even though I'm dirt, if I 00:16:34.727 --> 00:16:37.296 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% get close to you, I can be holy ground," right? 00:16:37.296 --> 00:16:39.332 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% What has that done for you personally? 00:16:39.332 --> 00:16:41.400 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Tasha: I'm so glad you asked that question because I 00:16:41.400 --> 00:16:44.604 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% will tell you part of what sparked this whole journey to 00:16:44.604 --> 00:16:48.608 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% write this is that having been a believer all of my life, having 00:16:48.608 --> 00:16:52.945 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% checked all the boxes, serving, going to church, doing all 00:16:52.945 --> 00:16:58.184 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% the things, I didn't feel like my faith was super effective. 00:16:58.184 --> 00:17:02.555 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And, you know, at some point you wanna do what's right, but, you 00:17:02.555 --> 00:17:05.958 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% know, you kind of start to think, why am I spending so much 00:17:05.958 --> 00:17:10.229 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% energy on something that really is not giving me the confidence, 00:17:10.229 --> 00:17:15.001 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% the peace, the fulfillment that I need? 00:17:15.001 --> 00:17:23.676 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And so what it has done for me is totally transform who I am 00:17:23.676 --> 00:17:25.478 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% and how I live. 00:17:25.478 --> 00:17:29.181 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And what that means is all those things that I knew were in 00:17:29.181 --> 00:17:32.351 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% there, that I knew I was supposed to be feeling, the 00:17:32.351 --> 00:17:37.223 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% peace of God that passes understanding, the love of God, 00:17:37.223 --> 00:17:42.528 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% despite anything that I might feel personal shame about, 00:17:42.528 --> 00:17:46.866 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% the power of God, that, you know, that same Spirit that 00:17:46.866 --> 00:17:50.436 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% raised him from the dead, that's in me, and yet I so often 00:17:50.436 --> 00:17:52.972 align:start line:69% position:48% size:43% felt ineffective. 00:17:52.972 --> 00:17:58.177 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% When I began to transform myself, to put myself at his 00:17:58.177 --> 00:18:05.251 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% feet and listen to his Word and let him move in me, 00:18:05.251 --> 00:18:08.287 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% those things became alive. 00:18:08.287 --> 00:18:09.855 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% Now, do I still have problems? 00:18:09.855 --> 00:18:12.425 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% A hundred percent. 00:18:12.425 --> 00:18:14.260 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% Are there still things that rattle me? 00:18:14.260 --> 00:18:21.667 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Yes, but there is such beauty in knowing that I can trust God, 00:18:21.667 --> 00:18:24.437 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% knowing that he has been faithful, knowing that he's not 00:18:24.437 --> 00:18:29.976 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% gonna leave me or forsake me, and others see that. 00:18:29.976 --> 00:18:32.645 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% Others see that, and you know what? 00:18:32.645 --> 00:18:35.014 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% You see that in other people too. 00:18:35.014 --> 00:18:39.719 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And so there's just something so beautiful about actually seeing 00:18:39.719 --> 00:18:44.623 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% the promises of God take root in your heart and transform you 00:18:44.623 --> 00:18:45.992 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% from the inside out. 00:18:45.992 --> 00:18:47.326 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% Randy: No doubt. 00:18:47.326 --> 00:18:49.195 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I love it, and you know we were talking about the first half of 00:18:49.195 --> 00:18:53.366 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% your title, "Set Apart for More," but the for more, 00:18:53.366 --> 00:18:57.169 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% that's--there's so much fun in the "for more," yeah, 00:18:57.169 --> 00:18:58.504 align:start line:69% position:47% size:53% and that's beautiful. 00:18:58.504 --> 00:19:01.774 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% All right, so I would love for you watching right now to get 00:19:01.774 --> 00:19:03.843 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% the book, and you can get it where you get books, but we will 00:19:03.843 --> 00:19:07.713 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% send it to you when you do a little more with us. 00:19:07.713 --> 00:19:10.750 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% Scripture says we were set apart for good works. 00:19:10.750 --> 00:19:13.452 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% That's one of the--part of the more, I believe, and we have 00:19:13.452 --> 00:19:17.623 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% some opportunities right now before us, specifically Mission 00:19:17.623 --> 00:19:19.859 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Feeding, and this is the last week we'll be talking to you 00:19:19.859 --> 00:19:23.729 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% about this on the air, but this is an opportunity to be set 00:19:23.729 --> 00:19:27.099 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% apart and do something more, and that is to bless somebody in 00:19:27.099 --> 00:19:32.104 align:start line:63% position:50% size:41% word and in deed with God's love. 00:19:32.104 --> 00:19:36.175 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% It will impact you even as it impacts those who are in need. 00:19:36.175 --> 00:19:38.411 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I think you'll see a little bit of that right now, watch this 00:19:38.411 --> 00:19:39.745 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% and you'll understand. 00:19:41.981 --> 00:19:44.450 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% announcer: This is a clinic for mothers whose children are 00:19:44.450 --> 00:19:46.952 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% suffering from the effects of malnutrition. 00:19:46.952 --> 00:19:50.990 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Kiera Pretorius, daughter of Isak Pretorius, is seeing for 00:19:50.990 --> 00:19:54.693 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% the first time Angolan children struggling to survive the 00:19:54.693 --> 00:19:58.898 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% consequences of not having enough food to keep them alive. 00:19:58.898 --> 00:20:00.266 align:start line:53% position:50% size:56% Isak Pretorius: So you can see the signs. 00:20:00.266 --> 00:20:02.868 align:start line:53% position:46% size:68% I mean, you can see how his ribs are just sticking out. 00:20:02.868 --> 00:20:05.237 align:start line:53% position:47% size:63% You see how, I mean, look how little his arms are. 00:20:05.237 --> 00:20:08.774 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% I mean, his arms are like the size of my thumb, you know. 00:20:08.774 --> 00:20:11.077 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% Kiera Pretorius: And it's just skin, by itself. 00:20:11.077 --> 00:20:13.546 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Isak: No, it's just skin and bone really, because 00:20:13.546 --> 00:20:16.715 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% that's the state at which it's nutrition is at. 00:20:16.715 --> 00:20:21.921 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% It's so weak and so malnourished that literally the body starts 00:20:21.921 --> 00:20:23.255 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% to shut down. 00:20:23.255 --> 00:20:25.157 align:start line:79% position:48% size:48% Kiera: Do you think he'll recover? 00:20:25.157 --> 00:20:28.427 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% Isak: Chances are that he will survive, that we will be 00:20:28.427 --> 00:20:32.665 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% able to save his life, but there are so many children in this 00:20:32.665 --> 00:20:37.837 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% state that don't leave clinics like this. 00:20:37.837 --> 00:20:39.805 align:start line:85% position:48% size:33% You just did. 00:20:39.805 --> 00:20:41.140 align:start line:85% position:50% size:45% I'm normal to cry. 00:20:41.140 --> 00:20:42.508 align:start line:85% position:50% size:25% It's okay. 00:20:46.445 --> 00:20:48.781 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% Kiera: I've grown up knowing many of these stories 00:20:48.781 --> 00:20:52.451 align:start line:79% position:47% size:63% and seeing the photos and hearing, you know, the 00:20:52.451 --> 00:20:57.323 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% heart-wrenching stories of young mothers with their young 00:20:57.323 --> 00:21:01.827 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% children that want to do the best for them, but genuinely 00:21:01.827 --> 00:21:03.696 align:start line:85% position:50% size:75% just don't have the resources. 00:21:03.696 --> 00:21:08.400 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% Every time I see or hear these stories and being here today, it 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:11.504 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% affects me and it deeply hurts my heart. 00:21:11.504 --> 00:21:15.474 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% So I'm asking you to not let it become normal to you. 00:21:15.474 --> 00:21:17.076 align:start line:85% position:48% size:33% Don't let it. 00:21:17.076 --> 00:21:21.013 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% Don't let it become something you become immune to. 00:21:21.013 --> 00:21:26.218 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% Isak: I ask you to hear that appeal from a 19-year-old girl 00:21:26.218 --> 00:21:32.158 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% who knows what happens if you look away. 00:21:32.158 --> 00:21:39.198 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% who knows what happens when this starts to become normal, 00:21:39.198 --> 00:21:42.134 align:start line:85% position:45% size:73% when we shut our hearts down, 00:21:42.134 --> 00:21:45.404 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% when we try to think through this with our heads instead of 00:21:45.404 --> 00:21:49.675 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% just listening to our hearts, and so I'm asking you today to 00:21:49.675 --> 00:21:54.513 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% listen to your heart, listen to the heart of Kiera, listen to my 00:21:54.513 --> 00:21:57.016 align:start line:85% position:50% size:70% heart, listen to your heart. 00:21:57.016 --> 00:22:00.286 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% Because our heart's cry is the same as this mother's, and I 00:22:00.286 --> 00:22:02.254 align:start line:85% position:47% size:53% believe yours is too. 00:22:02.254 --> 00:22:06.358 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% And that is to do everything that we can do to save this 00:22:06.358 --> 00:22:07.726 align:start line:85% position:48% size:28% little boy. 00:22:07.726 --> 00:22:12.665 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% Everything that we can do to give this mother what she needs 00:22:12.665 --> 00:22:15.701 align:start line:85% position:50% size:35% for her child. 00:22:15.701 --> 00:22:18.037 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% Randy: You know, Blynda, it is an interesting 00:22:18.037 --> 00:22:23.609 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% thing about that story because it's tender, but when I was with 00:22:23.609 --> 00:22:28.047 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Kiera out in the field and with Isak, you know, Kiera grew up 00:22:28.047 --> 00:22:31.183 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% seeing Isak travel and go to these countries, but when she 00:22:31.183 --> 00:22:34.787 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% saw for herself with her own eyes 00:22:34.787 --> 00:22:39.091 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% the children, the mothers, it's different when you're there 00:22:39.091 --> 00:22:41.961 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% because you really do, you get it. 00:22:41.961 --> 00:22:43.596 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% Blynda: You could see it in her eyes. 00:22:43.596 --> 00:22:44.930 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% Randy: You could see it. 00:22:44.930 --> 00:22:46.298 align:start line:69% position:46% size:68% Blynda: You could see pain. 00:22:46.298 --> 00:22:49.001 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% She really felt the pain of it. 00:22:49.001 --> 00:22:52.171 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I'm one of those people that sometimes maybe would look away 00:22:52.171 --> 00:22:56.709 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% because it's so painful to look, and maybe if I didn't really sit 00:22:56.709 --> 00:22:59.578 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% in it, maybe it wasn't really happening, and I just wanna 00:22:59.578 --> 00:23:03.115 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% encourage someone out there who maybe even had the feeling to 00:23:03.115 --> 00:23:05.951 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% turn the channel because it is, it's painful to see, and I wanna 00:23:05.951 --> 00:23:11.490 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% encourage you, sit in it for a minute, sit in it and really 00:23:11.490 --> 00:23:14.493 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% think and pray and look at what's happening with these 00:23:14.493 --> 00:23:17.763 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% children and with these families and in these villages because 00:23:17.763 --> 00:23:20.766 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% it's real, it's happening right this minute as we're watching, 00:23:20.766 --> 00:23:24.737 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% it's happening right now, and instead of turning away or 00:23:24.737 --> 00:23:28.107 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% making it feel like it's not really existing or even making 00:23:28.107 --> 00:23:31.343 align:start line:58% position:47% size:63% it become normal, that would be even even worse. 00:23:31.343 --> 00:23:35.848 align:start line:58% position:47% size:53% Sit in it and ask the Lord, how can I help? 00:23:35.848 --> 00:23:38.050 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% Randy: Yeah, yeah, and I've had people say to me, look, I 00:23:38.050 --> 00:23:39.585 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% don't know how you do that. 00:23:39.585 --> 00:23:42.688 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% I don't know how you go to those places where literally we have 00:23:42.688 --> 00:23:44.790 align:start line:63% position:50% size:41% buried children. 00:23:44.790 --> 00:23:48.827 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% The day of working in a clinic or in some of these villages 00:23:48.827 --> 00:23:52.231 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% I've seen children's funerals, and it's hard, it's horrible, 00:23:52.231 --> 00:23:55.701 align:start line:58% position:46% size:68% it's terrible, it's tragic, to me it feels unjust. 00:23:55.701 --> 00:23:58.937 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% We are the solution, and when I say we, I don't mean just those 00:23:58.937 --> 00:24:01.740 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% of us on television and those of us in the field like Isak 00:24:01.740 --> 00:24:03.108 align:start line:63% position:50% size:25% and Kiera. 00:24:03.108 --> 00:24:07.946 align:start line:58% position:50% size:45% I mean you and I, this only happens, 00:24:07.946 --> 00:24:12.751 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% it only started because viewers like you responded to my parents 00:24:12.751 --> 00:24:14.086 align:start line:63% position:50% size:31% decades ago. 00:24:14.086 --> 00:24:17.990 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% Will you go online, go to the phone, make the best gift 00:24:17.990 --> 00:24:19.391 align:start line:63% position:50% size:21% you can? 00:24:19.391 --> 00:24:20.726 align:start line:63% position:48% size:38% We can do this. 00:24:20.726 --> 00:24:22.995 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% It's the last week you'll see this on the air during this 00:24:22.995 --> 00:24:26.799 align:start line:58% position:50% size:70% campaign, $30 will help feed three children for the next 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:28.500 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% several months, and I'm telling you, I've been there. 00:24:28.500 --> 00:24:29.868 align:start line:63% position:48% size:33% I've seen it. 00:24:29.868 --> 00:24:34.106 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% It works, it helps pull them out of debt, out of poverty, out of 00:24:34.106 --> 00:24:35.507 align:start line:63% position:48% size:28% that cycle. 00:24:35.507 --> 00:24:40.346 align:start line:58% position:47% size:63% People see and feel God's love and lives are saved. 00:24:40.346 --> 00:24:43.215 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% Will you go online, go to the phone, make the best gift 00:24:43.215 --> 00:24:44.583 align:start line:63% position:50% size:21% you can? 00:24:44.583 --> 00:24:47.152 align:start line:63% position:48% size:38% We can do this. 00:24:47.152 --> 00:24:50.122 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% announcer: Right now across the continent of Africa, children 00:24:50.122 --> 00:24:54.360 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% are suffering, facing severe malnutrition and even death, 00:24:54.360 --> 00:24:57.496 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% with food reserves critically depleted and many areas 00:24:57.496 --> 00:24:59.998 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% experiencing devastating famine, 00:24:59.998 --> 00:25:03.602 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% we urgently need to replenish supplies to keep feeding the 00:25:03.602 --> 00:25:08.140 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% 350,000 children who are counting on us every single day. 00:25:08.140 --> 00:25:11.810 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Through Life's Mission Feeding outreach, your gift of love can 00:25:11.810 --> 00:25:15.381 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% be an answer to a prayer for 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00:25:43.008 align:start line:69% position:22% size:56% as your loving Father. 00:25:43.008 --> 00:25:46.612 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% With your gift of $100 or more, you will receive the "Father's 00:25:46.612 --> 00:25:47.946 align:start line:10% position:50% size:35% Heart" bundle. 00:25:47.946 --> 00:25:50.649 align:start line:10% position:50% size:65% This stationary set paired with the devotional 00:25:50.649 --> 00:25:53.952 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% is a thoughtfully designed collection created to help you 00:25:53.952 --> 00:25:57.890 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% share encouragement, prayer, and the love of our Heavenly Father 00:25:57.890 --> 00:25:59.758 align:start line:10% position:50% size:65% with those you care about. 00:25:59.758 --> 00:26:03.429 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Finally, with your gift of $1,000 or more, which will help 00:26:03.429 --> 00:26:07.933 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% feed 100 children in desperate need, request Life's beautiful 00:26:07.933 --> 00:26:10.669 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% bronze sculpture, The Good Shepherd. 00:26:10.669 --> 00:26:12.671 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% This is the last week. 00:26:12.671 --> 00:26:16.275 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% Please call, write, or make your gift online. 00:26:17.409 --> 00:26:19.077 align:start line:53% position:47% size:53% Randy: We do need to hear from you now. 00:26:19.077 --> 00:26:20.446 align:start line:58% position:50% size:35% Let's do this. 00:26:20.446 --> 00:26:23.081 align:start line:53% position:50% size:81% We can continue feeding those kids, and I'm telling you it's a 00:26:23.081 --> 00:26:26.518 align:start line:53% position:50% size:81% blessing for them as well as for those of us who are part of it. 00:26:26.518 --> 00:26:29.455 align:start line:53% position:50% size:81% So pick up the phone, go online, make the best gift you can, and 00:26:29.455 --> 00:26:32.324 align:start line:53% position:45% size:73% don't forget today if you request Tasha Calvert's book, 00:26:32.324 --> 00:26:33.692 align:start line:58% position:47% size:53% we'd love to send it. 00:26:33.692 --> 00:26:35.027 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% I know it's gonna bless people. 00:26:35.027 --> 00:26:37.996 align:start line:53% position:50% size:81% Blynda: You have such an amazing way of presenting really 00:26:37.996 --> 00:26:40.866 align:start line:53% position:50% size:70% complex things that can be like holiness into something 00:26:40.866 --> 00:26:42.201 align:start line:58% position:48% size:43% really practical. 00:26:42.201 --> 00:26:44.837 align:start line:53% position:50% size:75% So I love that and I know people would want to hear more 00:26:44.837 --> 00:26:46.171 align:start line:58% position:48% size:23% from you. 00:26:46.171 --> 00:26:47.506 align:start line:53% position:48% size:48% Where can they hear more from you? 00:26:47.506 --> 00:26:48.874 align:start line:58% position:50% size:65% Tasha: Oh, that's so kind. 00:26:48.874 --> 00:26:52.811 align:start line:53% position:50% size:81% Well, obviously I serve my local church and we make our studies 00:26:52.811 --> 00:26:55.848 align:start line:53% position:50% size:75% available through Right Now Media or Prestonwood Women, so 00:26:55.848 --> 00:26:57.716 align:start line:53% position:47% size:58% we would invite anybody to check that out. 00:26:57.716 --> 00:27:01.687 align:start line:53% position:45% size:73% I have a podcast where I talk with people just about how to 00:27:01.687 --> 00:27:04.223 align:start line:53% position:50% size:75% take what we're learning in Scripture and how to live that 00:27:04.223 --> 00:27:07.259 align:start line:53% position:50% size:75% out on the daily, and it's called "Digging In" with Tasha 00:27:07.259 --> 00:27:10.329 align:start line:53% position:50% size:75% Calvert and so you can listen to that wherever 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