December 19, 2025 • 25 mins
What if the past could sharpen how you read today’s news and how you hear the voice guiding your next step. We open with a fast, vivid tour of December 19 in American history—Revolutionary grit, Valley Forge endurance, political flashpoints—and then shift to a bold claim about a prime‑time media gambit that forced major networks to air what they didn’t want to amplify. Agree or not, the strategy lesson is clear: attention can be engineered, and framing is everything.
From there we take a breath and look at our love of spectacle. Flagpole sitters, goldfish swallowers, phone‑booth stuffers, wardrobe malfunctions, and the grand misfire of Prohibition: they’re funny, cringey, and revealing. Trends rise on thrill and collapse under consequence. The thread running through it all is the same human hunger—for meaning, for belonging, for a story bigger than a viral moment.
So we turn to Proverbs 3:5‑6. Trust with your whole heart. Don’t lean on your own limited angle. Submit every path, big and small. I open up about illness, lost income, and the questions that follow when your habits get healthier but your bank account doesn’t. A simple reminder reframed the week: study and faithfulness are never wasted; they are preparation for someone else’s breakthrough. We close with a practical filter for discernment—God’s voice steadies, encourages, enlightens, and convicts; the other voice rushes, confuses, and condemns—so you can navigate headlines and heartlines with the same calm center.
If this mix of history, media savvy, cultural honesty, and Scripture helped you catch your breath, share it with a friend, hit follow, and leave a quick review. Tell me: what moment challenged you most, and what truth are you choosing to walk out this week?
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SPEAKER_00 (00:31):
Hey guys, this is B Rob.
It's the Food for ThoughtFaithcast.
And I am your host today.
And I hope you are having a verygood day today.
It's going to be a good one.
(00:51):
Just chill for a second.
I'm trying to find something,but I can't find it.
I don't know what I did with it.
Oh, here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
We're going to do something alittle new today to start it
off.
We're going to do today inAmerican history.
Now, today is 1219 of the year2025.
(01:15):
Here are some of the mostnotable events from American
history that occurred on thisexact day in the Revolutionary
War era.
1776 was the year Thomas Painepublished the first essay in his
series, The American Crisis,opening with the iconic line:
(01:38):
These are the times that trymen's souls.
This pamphlet boosted moraleamong Continental Army soldiers
and patriots during a low pointin the revolution.
So, on this day in 1777, GeneralGeorge Washington led his
(02:01):
Continental Army into the winterquarters of Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania.
The harsh conditions theretested the troops severely, but
training under Baron von Steubenhelped transform them into a
more disciplined force.
(02:21):
All right, all right.
So let's get down to the 18thand 19th century.
On this day, December 12th, in1732, Benjamin Franklin began
publishing Poor Richard'salmanac under the pseudonym
Richard Sanders.
Filled with proverbs promotingthrift and industry, it became
(02:45):
one of the colonial Americans'most popular publications.
That was in 1732 on December12th.
So fast forward to the 20thcentury, in 1972, the crew of
the Apollo 17, a final manmission to the moon, splashed
(03:07):
down safely in the PacificOcean, marking the end of NASA's
Apollo program.
All right, on this day in 1974,Nelson Rockefeller was sworn in
as a vice president of theUnited States, filling the
(03:29):
vacancy left by Gerald Ford'sascension to the presidency
after Richard Nixon'sresignation.
Yeah, we don't want to get intothat one.
Yeah, that's that's a that's adeep rabbit hole right there.
All right, fast forward to 1998.
(03:51):
History that happened on thisspecific day, December 19th,
1998.
The U.S.
House of Representativesimpeached President Bill Clinton
on charges of perjury andobstruction to justice, making
him the second president in U.S.
history to be impeached.
He was later acquitted by theSenate.
(04:15):
So to give a wrap-up, December19th has seen moments of
hardship, inspiration, andpolitical drama throughout U.S.
history.
As of today in 2025, as oftoday, right now, a key ongoing
story involves the anticipatedrelease of Jeffrey
(04:39):
Epstein-related files by theDepartment of Justice following
recent congressionallegislation.
Now that is today in Americanhistory, December 19th, 2025.
I hope you guys enjoyed thatlittle sediment.
(05:01):
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
Speaking of history, we just sawhistory in the making.
Um the maestro president TrumpDon, the Don.
He masterful he he pulled offone of the most massively
(05:23):
orchestrated mother of all headfakes.
What I mean by that is about onthe 17th, he addressed the
nation at nine o'clock PMEastern Time.
Okay.
(05:51):
I don't remember.
I'm gonna say seventy-two hoursbefore, okay.
Seventy-two hours before givingpeople like Tuckle Carlson and
other folks knowingly orunknowingly getting them to leak
to say that a war was comingwith Venezuela.
(06:19):
Okay.
So imagine this.
The same mainstream news channelor outlets that have not
followed him since his firstterm.
(06:40):
They don't give him any media,um, they do not show when he
speaks, they do not show hisrallies, they do not, with the
exception of maybe some FoxNews, you gotta go to like
Newsmax or somewhere else.
Um, you gotta go to the WhiteHouse channel, YouTube channel
(07:00):
to watch a lot of this stuff,and a lot of people do.
So imagine this Trump on thechessboard.
He said, Okay, I'm gonna addressthe nation.
He says, Hey Tucker, you andyour friends go out there and
tell everybody I'm gonnaannounce a war with Venezuela.
(07:21):
So all the mainstream media getwind of this, so they are
biting, they're just bite,they're just chomping at the
bit, just chomping at the bitbecause that's what they want is
war.
That's what they want.
So they're they're uh they'regonna tune in, they're gonna
(07:43):
show.
And when they do, and when theydo, and when they actually show
this address, Trump goes hard inthe paint for 20 minutes.
You heard it on my podcast, mylast podcast, and says
everything that they don't wantpeople to hear.
(08:04):
Everything that he's done,everything that the people has
voted for for the last 11months, and trust me, they had
to air it because it was only 20minutes, they couldn't cut it
short.
He went hard in the paint.
I don't even think he breathedfor 20 minutes.
He just steadily gave them fact.
(08:28):
That's an incredible thing.
I mean, he cleverly trickedevery major news network into
airing a concert comprehensiverecap of his impressing,
impressive first year ofaccomplishments.
During prime time at nineo'clock, in front of Christmas
(08:55):
decorations, telling everybody,God bless you and Merry
Christmas.
He told the Americans the truth.
Illegal aliens were stealingtheir hard-earned tax dollars.
Trump is truly a king of trolls,and he is one of the most, if
(09:17):
not the best, ever to occupy theOval Office, and that is a fact.
He is a media mastermanipulator.
Genius.
(09:38):
Hey guys, it's B Rob.
It is the Food for Thought FaithCast.
And this is, we're gonna dotoday, we're gonna do moments of
stupid American culturalhistory.
So American pop culture andhistory are full of
cringeworthy, ridiculous, andoutright dumb moments that make
(10:00):
us collectively face palm.
Face palm.
Here are some of the standoutexamples of fads, mishaps, and
cultural blunders that rangefrom hilariously absurd to
embarrassingly misguided.
Ridiculous fabs that swept thenation.
(10:22):
Back in the 1920s, we hadsomething called flagpole
sitting.
People competed to sit atop offlagpoles for days and weeks.
Alvin shipwreck Kelly oncelasted 49 days.
It was a bizarre endurance stuntborn from the roaring twenties
(10:42):
obsession with spectacle.
But it faded as quickly as itcame in.
All right, in the 1930s, we gotgoldfish swallowing.
In the 1930s, college kidskicked off this gross out trend
by swallowing live goldfishsparking campus competitions and
(11:06):
national outrage over animalcruelty.
Wow.
It peaked with one Harvardstudent downing forty-two in
nineteen thirty-nine beforedying out amid backlash.
What in the world?
(11:27):
Next one in the nineteen fiftieswas phone booth stuffing,
inspired by South Africanstudents cramming into booths.
Americans tried to beat recordsup to twenty-five people in one
booth.
It was peak silly collegeantics, pointless, and very
(11:49):
uncomfortable.
Of course, in 1975, we had thepet rock.
We already talked about that.
Um in the 2000s, we have lowrise jeans and whale tails,
pants so low they expose thongstraps, which are whale tails.
(12:10):
I guess I don't know, become astaple thanks to celebs like
Paris Hilton looking back itspeak, early 2000.
Excess and discomfort.
All right.
We've had some iconic wardrobemalfunctions.
Janet Jackson's Super BowlNipplegate in 2004.
(12:32):
During the halftime show, JustinTibberleg ripped off part of
Jackson's outfit, exposing herbreast and nipple for a second,
dubbed a wardrobe malfunction.
It sparked massive outrage, FCCfines and live TV delays, but
(12:52):
Jackson bore most of the blamewhile Timberlake's career took
off and soared.
Hmm.
President Lyndon B.
Johnson lifting his beagle bythe ears in 1964.
LBJ hoisted his dogs, him andher, by their ears in photos,
(13:16):
claiming it was fine.
Animal lovers were horrified,turned it into a PR disaster and
symbol of tone-deaf leadership.
All right, I don't know what thesignificance of that was, but it
was there, so I read it.
And then Ashley Simpson had alip sync fail on Saturday night
(13:40):
live in 2004.
Her backing track played thewrong song mid-performance,
exposing blatant lip syncing.
She awkwardly jogged off stage,tanking her credibility in one
viral moment.
All right, so here are somecultural blunders and failures.
(14:06):
The prohibition error ofnineteen twenty to nineteen
thirty-three banning alcohol wasmeant to curb crime and
immortality, but it backfiredspectacularly, fueling
bootlegging, speak easies,organized crime, hello, al
Capone, da-da-da, and widespreadspread hypocrisy.
(14:30):
Even Congress had secretbootleggers.
Imagine that.
It was repealed after provingunenforceably
encounterproductive to what wasgoing on.
So we have that, and then umbasically a lot of moments that
(14:52):
highlight how American cultureloves access, spectacle, and
trends that often age poorly.
It's kind of biblical, huh?
Many started as fun orwell-intentioned, but turned
into embarrassing footnotes forhistory.
Do you have a favorite one?
(15:13):
Or a most cringeworthy one?
I don't.
I think they're all equallydumb.
But I mean, we've we've uh cometo that point in our lives,
right?
How much can we store in ourbrains?
How much can we store on ourcomputers?
(15:33):
How much can we store on ourhard drives?
How much can we store in thecloud?
This is B Rob, and this isstupid American Cultural
History.
(15:57):
I'm back with you, and we'regonna do something out of one of
my favorite books of the Bible,which is Proverbs.
Did y'all hear that error, MissPlain?
Wonder if it's spraying somechemicals on our heads.
(16:19):
I don't know.
Anyway, let me get back.
Uh Proverbs 3.
This is Proverbs 3, book 3,verses 5 and 6.
Trust in the Lord with all yourheart, and lean not on your own
understandings.
In all your ways, submit to him,and he will make your path
(16:40):
straight.
Once again, that's Proverbs.
That's uh Proverbs 3, verses 5and 6.
And this is one of the mostquoted, one of the most famous
Bible verses of all time,because they speak to anyone
facing uncertainty.
They really offer a cleardirection for how to live with
(17:03):
faith, especially when lifefeels heavy, down, confusing.
Um, the book of Proverbs is acollection of wisdom sayings
meant to guide people towardsthe life that honors God.
This passage teaches that trustisn't partial or occasional.
(17:27):
Trusting God has to be done withall your heart, and that means
relying on Him completely, evenwhen circumstances do not make
sense.
Most certainly whencircumstances do not make sense.
The warning to lean not on yourown understanding reminds us
(17:51):
that our perspective is very,very limited.
What seems wise to us at anyparticular moment might not lead
to the best outcome.
Do you guys agree?
I would think so.
Submitting to God in all yourways is about inviting his
(18:14):
guidance into every minute,every part, every being of our
life, not just the bigdecisions.
We don't just go to a cardealership and say, Yeah, I like
the car, I like the numbers, weneed to go pray on it.
You should have already prayedon it.
You should be praying on itright then, right there, at that
(18:35):
particular time.
Because when we do this, when wedo that, the promise is that God
will make our path straight.
That doesn't mean the path willalways be easy, right?
(18:57):
But it shows that God will leadus in the right direction and
remove whatever would cause usto stray.
Basically, meaning you don'thave to figure anything out on
your own.
(19:17):
When you give God your fulltrust and follow his lead, he'll
guide you towards the best.
I give you a good example, okay?
B Rob's been down lately.
Yeah, B-rob gets down too.
Everybody gets down.
(19:40):
Not every minute of the day isfull of love and happiness, even
though we try very hard.
Um, I feel like I'm not doinganything.
I feel like days where I'm notgoing anywhere.
I um had a big year 25spiritually, but financially I'm
(20:02):
poorer than I've ever been in mylife.
Financially.
But I don't like to say the wordpoor because I'm not poor,
because money doesn't makepeople rich.
So what I'm saying is I quitplaying bars and quit.
(20:31):
A lot of different thingssmoking cigarettes.
A lot of things happened in 25that I've been praying for for
years.
And now I sit here.
I'm 50 pounds lighter.
I don't drink.
(20:51):
I don't smoke cigarettes.
All these things happen.
But I feel worthless.
Even though I do a podcast everyday, even though I read my Bible
constantly, I'm reading booksconstantly.
And I felt down.
(21:14):
Um, right now we we don't haveany money because I was in the
hospital and in the bed most ofthe month of November.
Um those that know me know Iwent through three or four
different jobs till I found thisleaf filter job and started
doing really good in Septemberand October, but then got sick
(21:39):
and I was out in November.
And now the leads are like two aweek because I'm at the bottom
of a totem pole.
So I'm not making any moneyright now.
I don't know how we're gonna payour bills for December, and
we're definitely not doingChristmas, but we don't we don't
really participate in the paganpart of that anyway.
(22:01):
But anyway, I was feeling downin the dumps.
I know how to make a short storylong, don't I?
Right?
I don't I don't know how to makea long story short, but I can
make one long.
I can make a short story long,that's for sure.
And yesterday I was scrollingthrough Facebook and a meme
(22:22):
popped up, and it said, Studyingthe Bible is never wasted time.
God is going to use you to reachsomeone.
That person matters to God, andhe is preparing you to answer
their questions.
Keep studying and growing.
And you know, that was a thatwas a really big thing.
(22:48):
That was a really big thing, andI I needed to see that at that
point.
Um, I have to keep remindingmyself that when I become closer
with my walk with God, that I'mgonna be attacked.
(23:09):
So I have to keep reminding, andI'm gonna leave you guys with
this.
I have to keep reminding myselfthat God's voice stills you,
leads you, reassures you,enlightens you, encourages you,
comforts you, calms you, andconvicts you.
But on the other side, you'vegot this other voice of Satan
(23:34):
that rushes you, pushes you,frightens you, confuses you,
discourages you, worries you,obsesses you, and condemns you.
But God's voice stills you,leads you, reassures you,
enlightens you, encourages you,comforts you, calms you, and
(23:58):
convicts you.
God is never early and he'snever late.
He's always right on time, andhis plans for you are great.
God is a God of love, God is aGod of order, God is a God of
forgiveness.
Most of all, God is God of love.
(24:21):
If the voice you are hearingdoesn't sound like that, then
that voice is not from God.
God is love.
My name's B Rob.
This is the Food for ThoughtFaith Cast.
I love you.
(24:41):
God loves you.
Thank you for tuning in.
Hey guys, this is B Rob.
It's the Food for ThoughtFaithcast.
And I am your host today.
And I hope you are having a verygood day today.
It's going to be a good one.
(00:51):
Just chill for a second.
I'm trying to find something,but I can't find it.
I don't know what I did with it.
Oh, here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
We're going to do something alittle new today to start it
off.
We're going to do today inAmerican history.
Now, today is 1219 of the year2025.
(01:15):
Here are some of the mostnotable events from American
history that occurred on thisexact day in the Revolutionary
War era.
1776 was the year Thomas Painepublished the first essay in his
series, The American Crisis,opening with the iconic line:
(01:38):
These are the times that trymen's souls.
This pamphlet boosted moraleamong Continental Army soldiers
and patriots during a low pointin the revolution.
So, on this day in 1777, GeneralGeorge Washington led his
(02:01):
Continental Army into the winterquarters of Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania.
The harsh conditions theretested the troops severely, but
training under Baron von Steubenhelped transform them into a
more disciplined force.
(02:21):
All right, all right.
So let's get down to the 18thand 19th century.
On this day, December 12th, in1732, Benjamin Franklin began
publishing Poor Richard'salmanac under the pseudonym
Richard Sanders.
Filled with proverbs promotingthrift and industry, it became
(02:45):
one of the colonial Americans'most popular publications.
That was in 1732 on December12th.
So fast forward to the 20thcentury, in 1972, the crew of
the Apollo 17, a final manmission to the moon, splashed
(03:07):
down safely in the PacificOcean, marking the end of NASA's
Apollo program.
All right, on this day in 1974,Nelson Rockefeller was sworn in
as a vice president of theUnited States, filling the
(03:29):
vacancy left by Gerald Ford'sascension to the presidency
after Richard Nixon'sresignation.
Yeah, we don't want to get intothat one.
Yeah, that's that's a that's adeep rabbit hole right there.
All right, fast forward to 1998.
(03:51):
History that happened on thisspecific day, December 19th,
1998.
The U.S.
House of Representativesimpeached President Bill Clinton
on charges of perjury andobstruction to justice, making
him the second president in U.S.
history to be impeached.
He was later acquitted by theSenate.
(04:15):
So to give a wrap-up, December19th has seen moments of
hardship, inspiration, andpolitical drama throughout U.S.
history.
As of today in 2025, as oftoday, right now, a key ongoing
story involves the anticipatedrelease of Jeffrey
(04:39):
Epstein-related files by theDepartment of Justice following
recent congressionallegislation.
Now that is today in Americanhistory, December 19th, 2025.
I hope you guys enjoyed thatlittle sediment.
(05:01):
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
Speaking of history, we just sawhistory in the making.
Um the maestro president TrumpDon, the Don.
He masterful he he pulled offone of the most massively
(05:23):
orchestrated mother of all headfakes.
What I mean by that is about onthe 17th, he addressed the
nation at nine o'clock PMEastern Time.
Okay.
(05:51):
I don't remember.
I'm gonna say seventy-two hoursbefore, okay.
Seventy-two hours before givingpeople like Tuckle Carlson and
other folks knowingly orunknowingly getting them to leak
to say that a war was comingwith Venezuela.
(06:19):
Okay.
So imagine this.
The same mainstream news channelor outlets that have not
followed him since his firstterm.
(06:40):
They don't give him any media,um, they do not show when he
speaks, they do not show hisrallies, they do not, with the
exception of maybe some FoxNews, you gotta go to like
Newsmax or somewhere else.
Um, you gotta go to the WhiteHouse channel, YouTube channel
(07:00):
to watch a lot of this stuff,and a lot of people do.
So imagine this Trump on thechessboard.
He said, Okay, I'm gonna addressthe nation.
He says, Hey Tucker, you andyour friends go out there and
tell everybody I'm gonnaannounce a war with Venezuela.
(07:21):
So all the mainstream media getwind of this, so they are
biting, they're just bite,they're just chomping at the
bit, just chomping at the bitbecause that's what they want is
war.
That's what they want.
So they're they're uh they'regonna tune in, they're gonna
(07:43):
show.
And when they do, and when theydo, and when they actually show
this address, Trump goes hard inthe paint for 20 minutes.
You heard it on my podcast, mylast podcast, and says
everything that they don't wantpeople to hear.
(08:04):
Everything that he's done,everything that the people has
voted for for the last 11months, and trust me, they had
to air it because it was only 20minutes, they couldn't cut it
short.
He went hard in the paint.
I don't even think he breathedfor 20 minutes.
He just steadily gave them fact.
(08:28):
That's an incredible thing.
I mean, he cleverly trickedevery major news network into
airing a concert comprehensiverecap of his impressing,
impressive first year ofaccomplishments.
During prime time at nineo'clock, in front of Christmas
(08:55):
decorations, telling everybody,God bless you and Merry
Christmas.
He told the Americans the truth.
Illegal aliens were stealingtheir hard-earned tax dollars.
Trump is truly a king of trolls,and he is one of the most, if
(09:17):
not the best, ever to occupy theOval Office, and that is a fact.
He is a media mastermanipulator.
Genius.
(09:38):
Hey guys, it's B Rob.
It is the Food for Thought FaithCast.
And this is, we're gonna dotoday, we're gonna do moments of
stupid American culturalhistory.
So American pop culture andhistory are full of
cringeworthy, ridiculous, andoutright dumb moments that make
(10:00):
us collectively face palm.
Face palm.
Here are some of the standoutexamples of fads, mishaps, and
cultural blunders that rangefrom hilariously absurd to
embarrassingly misguided.
Ridiculous fabs that swept thenation.
(10:22):
Back in the 1920s, we hadsomething called flagpole
sitting.
People competed to sit atop offlagpoles for days and weeks.
Alvin shipwreck Kelly oncelasted 49 days.
It was a bizarre endurance stuntborn from the roaring twenties
(10:42):
obsession with spectacle.
But it faded as quickly as itcame in.
All right, in the 1930s, we gotgoldfish swallowing.
In the 1930s, college kidskicked off this gross out trend
by swallowing live goldfishsparking campus competitions and
(11:06):
national outrage over animalcruelty.
Wow.
It peaked with one Harvardstudent downing forty-two in
nineteen thirty-nine beforedying out amid backlash.
What in the world?
(11:27):
Next one in the nineteen fiftieswas phone booth stuffing,
inspired by South Africanstudents cramming into booths.
Americans tried to beat recordsup to twenty-five people in one
booth.
It was peak silly collegeantics, pointless, and very
(11:49):
uncomfortable.
Of course, in 1975, we had thepet rock.
We already talked about that.
Um in the 2000s, we have lowrise jeans and whale tails,
pants so low they expose thongstraps, which are whale tails.
(12:10):
I guess I don't know, become astaple thanks to celebs like
Paris Hilton looking back itspeak, early 2000.
Excess and discomfort.
All right.
We've had some iconic wardrobemalfunctions.
Janet Jackson's Super BowlNipplegate in 2004.
(12:32):
During the halftime show, JustinTibberleg ripped off part of
Jackson's outfit, exposing herbreast and nipple for a second,
dubbed a wardrobe malfunction.
It sparked massive outrage, FCCfines and live TV delays, but
(12:52):
Jackson bore most of the blamewhile Timberlake's career took
off and soared.
Hmm.
President Lyndon B.
Johnson lifting his beagle bythe ears in 1964.
LBJ hoisted his dogs, him andher, by their ears in photos,
(13:16):
claiming it was fine.
Animal lovers were horrified,turned it into a PR disaster and
symbol of tone-deaf leadership.
All right, I don't know what thesignificance of that was, but it
was there, so I read it.
And then Ashley Simpson had alip sync fail on Saturday night
(13:40):
live in 2004.
Her backing track played thewrong song mid-performance,
exposing blatant lip syncing.
She awkwardly jogged off stage,tanking her credibility in one
viral moment.
All right, so here are somecultural blunders and failures.
(14:06):
The prohibition error ofnineteen twenty to nineteen
thirty-three banning alcohol wasmeant to curb crime and
immortality, but it backfiredspectacularly, fueling
bootlegging, speak easies,organized crime, hello, al
Capone, da-da-da, and widespreadspread hypocrisy.
(14:30):
Even Congress had secretbootleggers.
Imagine that.
It was repealed after provingunenforceably
encounterproductive to what wasgoing on.
So we have that, and then umbasically a lot of moments that
(14:52):
highlight how American cultureloves access, spectacle, and
trends that often age poorly.
It's kind of biblical, huh?
Many started as fun orwell-intentioned, but turned
into embarrassing footnotes forhistory.
Do you have a favorite one?
(15:13):
Or a most cringeworthy one?
I don't.
I think they're all equallydumb.
But I mean, we've we've uh cometo that point in our lives,
right?
How much can we store in ourbrains?
How much can we store on ourcomputers?
(15:33):
How much can we store on ourhard drives?
How much can we store in thecloud?
This is B Rob, and this isstupid American Cultural
History.
(15:57):
I'm back with you, and we'regonna do something out of one of
my favorite books of the Bible,which is Proverbs.
Did y'all hear that error, MissPlain?
Wonder if it's spraying somechemicals on our heads.
(16:19):
I don't know.
Anyway, let me get back.
Uh Proverbs 3.
This is Proverbs 3, book 3,verses 5 and 6.
Trust in the Lord with all yourheart, and lean not on your own
understandings.
In all your ways, submit to him,and he will make your path
(16:40):
straight.
Once again, that's Proverbs.
That's uh Proverbs 3, verses 5and 6.
And this is one of the mostquoted, one of the most famous
Bible verses of all time,because they speak to anyone
facing uncertainty.
They really offer a cleardirection for how to live with
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faith, especially when lifefeels heavy, down, confusing.
Um, the book of Proverbs is acollection of wisdom sayings
meant to guide people towardsthe life that honors God.
This passage teaches that trustisn't partial or occasional.
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Trusting God has to be done withall your heart, and that means
relying on Him completely, evenwhen circumstances do not make
sense.
Most certainly whencircumstances do not make sense.
The warning to lean not on yourown understanding reminds us
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that our perspective is very,very limited.
What seems wise to us at anyparticular moment might not lead
to the best outcome.
Do you guys agree?
I would think so.
Submitting to God in all yourways is about inviting his
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guidance into every minute,every part, every being of our
life, not just the bigdecisions.
We don't just go to a cardealership and say, Yeah, I like
the car, I like the numbers, weneed to go pray on it.
You should have already prayedon it.
You should be praying on itright then, right there, at that
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particular time.
Because when we do this, when wedo that, the promise is that God
will make our path straight.
That doesn't mean the path willalways be easy, right?
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But it shows that God will leadus in the right direction and
remove whatever would cause usto stray.
Basically, meaning you don'thave to figure anything out on
your own.
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When you give God your fulltrust and follow his lead, he'll
guide you towards the best.
I give you a good example, okay?
B Rob's been down lately.
Yeah, B-rob gets down too.
Everybody gets down.
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Not every minute of the day isfull of love and happiness, even
though we try very hard.
Um, I feel like I'm not doinganything.
I feel like days where I'm notgoing anywhere.
I um had a big year 25spiritually, but financially I'm
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poorer than I've ever been in mylife.
Financially.
But I don't like to say the wordpoor because I'm not poor,
because money doesn't makepeople rich.
So what I'm saying is I quitplaying bars and quit.
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A lot of different thingssmoking cigarettes.
A lot of things happened in 25that I've been praying for for
years.
And now I sit here.
I'm 50 pounds lighter.
I don't drink.
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I don't smoke cigarettes.
All these things happen.
But I feel worthless.
Even though I do a podcast everyday, even though I read my Bible
constantly, I'm reading booksconstantly.
And I felt down.
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Um, right now we we don't haveany money because I was in the
hospital and in the bed most ofthe month of November.
Um those that know me know Iwent through three or four
different jobs till I found thisleaf filter job and started
doing really good in Septemberand October, but then got sick
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and I was out in November.
And now the leads are like two aweek because I'm at the bottom
of a totem pole.
So I'm not making any moneyright now.
I don't know how we're gonna payour bills for December, and
we're definitely not doingChristmas, but we don't we don't
really participate in the paganpart of that anyway.
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But anyway, I was feeling downin the dumps.
I know how to make a short storylong, don't I?
Right?
I don't I don't know how to makea long story short, but I can
make one long.
I can make a short story long,that's for sure.
And yesterday I was scrollingthrough Facebook and a meme
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popped up, and it said, Studyingthe Bible is never wasted time.
God is going to use you to reachsomeone.
That person matters to God, andhe is preparing you to answer
their questions.
Keep studying and growing.
And you know, that was a thatwas a really big thing.
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That was a really big thing, andI I needed to see that at that
point.
Um, I have to keep remindingmyself that when I become closer
with my walk with God, that I'mgonna be attacked.
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So I have to keep reminding, andI'm gonna leave you guys with
this.
I have to keep reminding myselfthat God's voice stills you,
leads you, reassures you,enlightens you, encourages you,
comforts you, calms you, andconvicts you.
But on the other side, you'vegot this other voice of Satan
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that rushes you, pushes you,frightens you, confuses you,
discourages you, worries you,obsesses you, and condemns you.
But God's voice stills you,leads you, reassures you,
enlightens you, encourages you,comforts you, calms you, and
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convicts you.
God is never early and he'snever late.
He's always right on time, andhis plans for you are great.
God is a God of love, God is aGod of order, God is a God of
forgiveness.
Most of all, God is God of love.
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If the voice you are hearingdoesn't sound like that, then
that voice is not from God.
God is love.
My name's B Rob.
This is the Food for ThoughtFaith Cast.
I love you.
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God loves you.
Thank you for tuning in.
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