Today’s Trent TV episode examines a common interpersonal problem with no easy or resolving answers. Despite a storehouse of available help, salve, solution, and artillery, troubles and defeats continue to mount for most. How in the world can this be?
“We certainly see in John 5 with the man hanging out at the healing pool for four decades that not everyone wants to get well or get on with real life,” Trent Ling concludes. “Surely, for genuine and enduring change to occur, several factors must line up and be tested and approved by God. Short of that, nothing is really sustainable. To heal or not to heal? Such will sadly and always be a lingering, gnawing question.”
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Mila awesome sentiment and I share it! I know I can be a mule at times and very difficult to teach. The fact anyone is willing to go up against that and reach out to me normally tames any kicking and screaming feeling. Why do they even bother? We are building each other up to eventually do the greatest thing ever:
Ephesians 2:19-21
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.
Chad it is encouraging to see you on here and I hope to see you out there more and more!
love you!!!
My dilemma is always want to give people the benefit of the doubt. Maybe if you tone down your voice he won’t get offended; maybe you need to give him some time, he will speak and confess. Maybe if I remind her again, she will change. Let me bring this up to her attention, hopefully she’ll understand and will accept my help; knowing I will be insulted and rejected… but I can’t just sit there watching her being dealt with by God. If I can do it for her or take her place, that will be easier than watching her suffering because of her refusal to listen and get the understanding – this one is the dilemma I’m facing almost daily.
These conditions are simply dilemmas. In our number, we have be taught extremely well, and given much. What more can be provided when our hearts are calloused with pride to refuse to renew our own lives? If there is humility, then amen one can be taught even the elementary teachings again, but it is sad that this has been the case, Heb 5:12.
For me, just the little I have received from my faithful brothers and sisters lately are all reminders of how I should be in the faith, actually care about people, the very thing disciples do and were called to do. Good food brother.
Love you,
Chad
For all the years I’m getting trained, rebuked, corrected, and taught in the Kingdom, one of the things making me survive is that I refuse to get fragile when accepting correction and rebuke for they are meant to build me up, definitely not because I’m strong or having it together. It is like when I had my small operation last year, I knew I had to toughen it up for in the end I knew that it was my chance to get healed, though I had the option to run away and end up who knows where. It is my appeal and hope for everyone as well.
Amen Trent!
After listening to the message “Die” I am convinced not to work so hard in “keeping it together” as a Disciple and just let the Lord intervene in my life so I can be healed.
If I am willing to go under the Lord’s scalpel all the time, He will remove the dead material in my heart that I am still carrying. In fact, He is requiring me to go through constant surgery! Deuteronomy 10:16 states “Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer.”
In every surgical intervention He will circumcise, prune, and carve my heart and give me the mobility my spiritual life needs.