June 30, 2025 • 18 mins
Right Thinking with Steve Coplon.
This week's show is called "And This Too Shall Pass." Tune in and hear Steve offer words of encouragement that will help each of us maintain a healthy perspective as we go through our daily lives and experience difficult situations that make us angry and bring on stress. God has a plan.
In this episode of Right Thinking with Steve Copeland, titled "And This Too Shall Pass," I delve into maintaining a healthy perspective during life’s challenges. Building on feedback from previous shows, I aim to provide encouragement through shared struggles, emphasizing the bigger plan God has for us. I reflect on my personal journey and the importance of authenticity in my mission with the Right Thinking Foundation, enhancing our understanding of joy amidst trials.
I explore the phrase "this too shall pass," its historical roots, and its relevance to our lives. Through biblical insights from Matthew and Philippians, I encourage listeners to let go of worries, reconnect with spiritual priorities, and recognize the fleeting nature of struggles compared to eternal promises. I also highlight Psalm 91’s call for refuge in God’s love and share inspiration from the song "Waymaker." My goal is for listeners to leave with renewed faith and gratitude, recognizing that divine peace is always within reach.
https://www.talknetworkradio.com/hosts/right-thinking
This week's show is called "And This Too Shall Pass." Tune in and hear Steve offer words of encouragement that will help each of us maintain a healthy perspective as we go through our daily lives and experience difficult situations that make us angry and bring on stress. God has a plan.
In this episode of Right Thinking with Steve Copeland, titled "And This Too Shall Pass," I delve into maintaining a healthy perspective during life’s challenges. Building on feedback from previous shows, I aim to provide encouragement through shared struggles, emphasizing the bigger plan God has for us. I reflect on my personal journey and the importance of authenticity in my mission with the Right Thinking Foundation, enhancing our understanding of joy amidst trials.
I explore the phrase "this too shall pass," its historical roots, and its relevance to our lives. Through biblical insights from Matthew and Philippians, I encourage listeners to let go of worries, reconnect with spiritual priorities, and recognize the fleeting nature of struggles compared to eternal promises. I also highlight Psalm 91’s call for refuge in God’s love and share inspiration from the song "Waymaker." My goal is for listeners to leave with renewed faith and gratitude, recognizing that divine peace is always within reach.
https://www.talknetworkradio.com/hosts/right-thinking
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
There must be lies.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Starning wrider somewhere.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Got to be bersed.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Why I am high to the sky. Four of you.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Good morning, welcome to Right Thinking with Steve Copeland. I'm
your host, Steve Copeland, and thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Let's have a great day every morning.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Everybody glad to be with you. Well.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Today is episode number four thirty seven. Right Thinking with
Steve Copeland is very pleased to announce that this week's
show is called and This too shall pass. Tune in
and near Steve offer words of encouragement that will help
each of us maintain a healthy perspective as we go
through our daily lives and experience difficult situations that make
(01:04):
us angry and bring on stress. God has a plan,
you know. The last couple of weeks, I've done two
shows This is Not Our Home and finally Surrendering, and
a whole lot of people have reached out to me
and really like the direction that I've been going. But
it's very interesting to me. I've got friends and high places,
(01:28):
and I've got friends and load places. What else would
you expect from a guy that is in and out
of prisons and board meetings and executive positions? And just
normal things. You know, I just wanted to speak straight
from my heart today and.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Explain what it is that I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I'll eventually do a show that I want to title
back to my Basics, but I'll just give you a
little clue in myself. I've been trying to share my
life as much as I can, being as transparent as
I can with all the love I have for people
and my love for the Lord, and as I face
(02:11):
all the difficulties that I freely share. I share those
difficulties just so that I can hope to pick people
up when they're going through tough times. They can say, well,
you know, I picked up a pointer from Steve the
other day that helps me change my attitude, have a
better attitude about what I'm going through, to not give up,
and to just keep the good fight going and all
(02:33):
that good stuff. But you know, life's a whole lot
more than just fighting battles and difficulties and struggling. Life's
got tremendous amounts of happiness and real joy in it.
But for me to get back to my basics, and
I don't, I might not ever do it show and
get back to my basis because this actually might be it.
(02:54):
I just want to get back to what it is
that I'm all about. It keeps me so just knowing
that God has taken care of me and that I
don't need to worry about anything. And that's kind of
what I want to talk about today. So everything that
I'm involved in, with the way I approach life, how
I make a living, why I found it right thinking foundation,
(03:16):
why I do right thinking with Steve Coplan. It's kind
of going to come out in the next couple of minutes.
I hope that you'll know. I'm kind of all over
the place. But one of the things I realize is
is that different strokes for different folks. I have one
person tell me, I love what you did when you
went in all that detail with your karate with Bill
Bill Wallace on your birthday back in nineteen twenty, nineteen
(03:41):
seventy four.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
He said, I.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Really enjoyed listening to that because I can see how
important it was to you and how you just had
had gone through so much to get to that moment.
But another person said, oh, I liked it, but I
think you went on for too long. You know, I
can't please everybody, but all I really want to do
is in courage everybody and offer something every now and
then that will help you. These are the things that
(04:05):
I do to keep myself focused. And so the last
couple of weeks, those two shows that I did, This
is not our Home. That puts things into perspective that
you know, as much as we're struggling and going through
difficult times, and when the lower story says that maybe
our blessings come and rain drops and things like that,
(04:26):
go back and listen to that show or listen per song.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It's just fabulous.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And then finally surrendering, when you just finally just just
stop and just just completely know that it's bigger than
you and you just give it up to the Lord. Well,
all that leads to what I've been trying to do
when I've been given a description of what it is
to feel the spirit, to have the spirit of the
(04:52):
Lord in you, and to dwell in this place.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Look, I'm not a.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
A I'm not a Ordain pastor or minister or anything.
I've just done a lot of study in my whole life,
and I studied war religions in college. I've always been
involved in and studying with with rabbis at the Temple
and the elders and Bible studies, and you know, it's
(05:19):
it's where my heart is. It's where my priority is
to is to try to get closer to the Lord.
I've done a lot of quoting about my you know,
my my prayer is to Dear Lord, just use me
an instrument to carry out your will. But I hear
some people say, well, Steve, you're on the right track,
But some of the stuff you're saying, you know, it
could actually be explained differently or go deeper. Well, I'm
(05:42):
here to just tell everybody that I'm just trying to
be myself and and just do the best I can
and have all of us understand a couple basic things
that one, you know, there is a God. He sent
his son here named Jesus, to die on the cross
for our sins and gave us a chance to experience
(06:03):
eternity with the Lord. And I think that's what is
called the Plan of Salvation. I mean, that's that's that's
really what it's about, is that God loves us so
much that he wanted away for us to get back
from the separation that we had from God and go
back to the Garden of Eden where it got kind
of crazy. And and this is basically, He gives us
(06:24):
a life. We die, we can go on and be
with Him for eternity. And so when we think about
this life that we have and all of our difficulties,
if we're knowing that God created us for his purposes
and and this life that we have is to serve Him,
(06:44):
to please him, That's that's why I'm here. And and
for all of you that say, Steve, you know I'm not.
I don't really want to listen to preaching and all
that stuff, that's fine. Just keep your positive attitude. But
but remember this. Sometimes when you get to where you
just can't get through your daily life because of stress
(07:06):
and things that are bothering you think there's no way out,
just remember that Steve told you one day there is,
and it's just to just to not worry about it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And I like to.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Tell people that their scripture that talks about how God
God created us, this is a beautiful scripture.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Matthew six twenty five, thirty four.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It was on the cirmle on the mount when when
Jesus was there and everybody was worrying about all their
basic needs food and clothing, and the message that he
gave was you know, doesn't God feed the birds and
the flowers, doesn't he provide for even them. Well, you
certainly don't need to worry, because you know that you
(07:49):
were created in God's image and God's certainly going to
take care of you. And then and then there's there
there's some other scripture here that is really really important here,
and that that is Philippians four six through seven. It's
just some very practical advice that wants to tell us
that through prayer and supplication, that means when we're really
(08:14):
really going to God when facing our anxieties, remember don't
scumb to worrying, bring them to God and He will
help you through it. And there's there's some real serious
things that come back to the title of today's show,
and this too shall pass. Before I give you the
scripture for this two shall pass, you know, I researched
(08:36):
the phrase is hue, this too shall pass. It's not
actually a Bible phrase, but a lot of people think
it is because there's a lot of a lot of
Bible verses that speak to it. But you know, so
many people use that phrase and it goes back to
ancient Persia and and ancient Judaism roots that talk about
(08:57):
these things. Some people attribute to that phrase to Solomon,
but some people asked was out of Maya Angelo phrase? Well.
Abraham Lincoln even used it when he was running for
president against Stephen Douglason in eighteen fifty nine in a
speece that he gave at the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society.
(09:19):
And basically, I'll just read part of what the last
part of his speech. This comes right out of his speech.
It is said, an Eastern monarch once charged his wise
men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view,
and which should be true and appropriate in all times
(09:39):
and situations. They presented him the words, and this too
shall pass away, how much it expresses, how chastening in
the hour of pride, how consoling in the depths of affliction,
And this too shall pass away. And yet let us
hope it is not quite true. Let us hope rather
(10:00):
that by the best cultivation of the physical world beneath
and around us, and the intellectual and moral world within us,
we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness,
whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while
the earth endures shall not pass away what I'm really
(10:24):
trying to take you into, and I think I've almost
got it put out there today, and this too shall pass.
Lincoln was a very very deep man with his God,
and he's referring to the same spiritual realm and eternity
that I've just been talking about the last couple of weeks,
(10:47):
just trying to slowly get you introduced into it. I'll
say this, people that understand what I'm saying and that
do their very best to dwell there, they don't have
a hard time at all, just not letting very much
bother them because they've got their full priorities straight. I
like to say an expression that I've used many times
(11:10):
when I've talked about financial troubles, that you've got to
work yourself out of. Fortunately for us and the times
that we live in, there's no longer a debtor's prison.
So look, if you're buried in debt and don't see
any way out and just think that that you'll never
be able to get out of it, I tell people,
don't be jumping off for bridges. You know they're not
(11:30):
going to put you in prison for that. They will
if you go Rob and Steele and break the law.
But there's ways that you can work it out. That's
what my whole financial literacy curriculums and programs are all about,
is to just get on top of things, rebuild your credit.
I mean, I have all kinds of ways to do that.
I've been trying to deal in the spiritual plane the
(11:51):
last couple of weeks. Let me read you two pieces
of scripture that really speak to what I'm trying to say.
This comes from Second Corinthians, after four verses seventeen through eighteen.
Now this is the new King James version, which is
a little maybe a little harder to understand that I'm
going to follow it up with a simpler version. For
our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is
(12:14):
working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight
of glory. While we do not look at the things
which are seen, but are the things which are not seen?
For the things which are seen are temporary, but the
things which are not seen are eternal. Let me give
you the message version of the same scripture. So we're
(12:37):
not giving up. How could we? Even though on the
outside it often looks like things are falling apart on
us or the inside. When God is making new life,
not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These
hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times,
the lavish celebration prepared for us. There's far more here
(13:02):
that meets the eye. The things we see now are
here today, gone tomorrow, but the things we can't see
now will last forever. Today was my attempt to try
to come back and straighten out a couple of things
that I've said that a few of my close friends
and people that have spoken to me have tried to
(13:23):
tell me about more than maybe I could do. All
I'm trying to do is let people know that I'm
using myself as an example throughout as we go through
extremely difficult times. There's ways that we can learn to
just stay calm, avoid stress, not be angry, and just
(13:43):
know there's things far, far bigger than us that I'm
speaking to. And so, you know, there's a song I
forget the guy's name, Farrell Pharrell, Don't Worry, Be Happy. Well,
I'm not going to quot in that song. It's it's
I think it's so. I think it's a good song,
but I don't think it goes deep enough. Part of
(14:06):
my daily prayer for maybe twenty years now has come
right out of song ninety one, and I want to
I want to be the person that I'm going to
speak to now that's referencing song ninety one, and there
there are promises and once you believe fully that we
have the gift of salvation, that was because God put
(14:29):
his son here on the cross so that we could
be free of our sin and be with him eternally
forever in heaven. I want to be the person that's
being talked about here in song ninety one. Whoever dwells
in the shelter of the Most High will rest in
the shadow of the Almighty. I say to the Lord,
(14:50):
he is my refuge and my fortress, my God in
whom I trust, And to go all the way to
the last verses of the song, because he loves me,
says the Lord. I will rescue him. I will protect him,
for he acknowledges my name. He will call on me
and I will answer him. I will be with him
(15:12):
in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him with
long life. I will satisfy him and show him my salvation. Well,
that's a song that I'm given to each one of
you Psalm ninety one, because that's the way it is
when you love God, when you trust God, when you
want to dwell in the spirit, be filled with the spirit,
(15:36):
and live in the Kingdom of God. We'll do another
talk on the Kingdom of God to go deeper into
what that really is. But I want to leave you
with this very simple song. It's called Waymaker, and it
was a song by Leland in twenty nineteen. And the
song was written by Osanachi Kaylu Korum and Michael Anthony
(16:01):
Okulo and it's held by so TCSO Music Integrity Music. Okay,
I'm just going to give you parts of this. Sometimes
I'm careful not to read too much of songs that
are copyrighted, but I hope that if I read too
much that they'll never come after me for a copyright violation.
So I'm going to read a little more of this
because it's so beautiful. Way Maker, you are here moving
(16:26):
in our miss. I worship you. I worship you, and
you are way Maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in
the darkness, my God. That is who you are. It
goes on to say, even when I don't see it,
You're working even when I don't feel it, You're working.
You never stop, You never stop working. You never stop. Jesus,
(16:48):
you are way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in
the darkness.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
My God, that is who you are. I know you are.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I'm here to try to use my life to help
other people. Just face their life and just love the
Lord and just love your family and treat every stranger
with kindness. Please just don't stress on things that are difficult,
if you know, just take a different point of view
(17:19):
with people that are irritating you. And just if you
can't do something that's okay, just take it nice and slow.
But don't worry about anything so much. And just remember
we've been given the greatest gift there is from our God,
and that's the Salvation Plan with his son Jesus Christ.
(17:39):
And you don't need to worry about a thing. Just
go to the Lord and just know that many things
are just bigger than you are. And just be thankful
for every day that He has given us and ask him, Lord,
what can I do for you today? Well, I hope
you understand my message, and I just want to say
to you God, bless each one of us, and remember
(18:01):
that this physical.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Life that we have.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You know there's gonna be issues, there's gonna be difficulties,
but don't let them bother you. Just do the best
you can. There's not a debtors prison anymore. Do right
by everyone, but turn to the Lord God and he's
there for you. The promises are there. They're in Psalm
ninety one. They're in the song Waymaker by Leland, sung
(18:25):
by Leland. There's a lot of people to sing. It's
a beautiful video. God bless each one of you and
to have a great week.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Thanks for listening to Right Thinking with Steve Copland. I'll
look forward to being with you again next week, and
remember it, don't quit.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Plan ahead. It will get better.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
God bless you and have a great week.
There must be lies.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Starning wrider somewhere.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Got to be bersed.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Why I am high to the sky. Four of you.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Good morning, welcome to Right Thinking with Steve Copeland. I'm
your host, Steve Copeland, and thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Let's have a great day every morning.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Everybody glad to be with you. Well.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Today is episode number four thirty seven. Right Thinking with
Steve Copeland is very pleased to announce that this week's
show is called and This too shall pass. Tune in
and near Steve offer words of encouragement that will help
each of us maintain a healthy perspective as we go
through our daily lives and experience difficult situations that make
(01:04):
us angry and bring on stress. God has a plan,
you know. The last couple of weeks, I've done two
shows This is Not Our Home and finally Surrendering, and
a whole lot of people have reached out to me
and really like the direction that I've been going. But
it's very interesting to me. I've got friends and high places,
(01:28):
and I've got friends and load places. What else would
you expect from a guy that is in and out
of prisons and board meetings and executive positions? And just
normal things. You know, I just wanted to speak straight
from my heart today and.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Explain what it is that I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I'll eventually do a show that I want to title
back to my Basics, but I'll just give you a
little clue in myself. I've been trying to share my
life as much as I can, being as transparent as
I can with all the love I have for people
and my love for the Lord, and as I face
(02:11):
all the difficulties that I freely share. I share those
difficulties just so that I can hope to pick people
up when they're going through tough times. They can say, well,
you know, I picked up a pointer from Steve the
other day that helps me change my attitude, have a
better attitude about what I'm going through, to not give up,
and to just keep the good fight going and all
(02:33):
that good stuff. But you know, life's a whole lot
more than just fighting battles and difficulties and struggling. Life's
got tremendous amounts of happiness and real joy in it.
But for me to get back to my basics, and
I don't, I might not ever do it show and
get back to my basis because this actually might be it.
(02:54):
I just want to get back to what it is
that I'm all about. It keeps me so just knowing
that God has taken care of me and that I
don't need to worry about anything. And that's kind of
what I want to talk about today. So everything that
I'm involved in, with the way I approach life, how
I make a living, why I found it right thinking foundation,
(03:16):
why I do right thinking with Steve Coplan. It's kind
of going to come out in the next couple of minutes.
I hope that you'll know. I'm kind of all over
the place. But one of the things I realize is
is that different strokes for different folks. I have one
person tell me, I love what you did when you
went in all that detail with your karate with Bill
Bill Wallace on your birthday back in nineteen twenty, nineteen
(03:41):
seventy four.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
He said, I.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Really enjoyed listening to that because I can see how
important it was to you and how you just had
had gone through so much to get to that moment.
But another person said, oh, I liked it, but I
think you went on for too long. You know, I
can't please everybody, but all I really want to do
is in courage everybody and offer something every now and
then that will help you. These are the things that
(04:05):
I do to keep myself focused. And so the last
couple of weeks, those two shows that I did, This
is not our Home. That puts things into perspective that
you know, as much as we're struggling and going through
difficult times, and when the lower story says that maybe
our blessings come and rain drops and things like that,
(04:26):
go back and listen to that show or listen per song.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It's just fabulous.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And then finally surrendering, when you just finally just just
stop and just just completely know that it's bigger than
you and you just give it up to the Lord. Well,
all that leads to what I've been trying to do
when I've been given a description of what it is
to feel the spirit, to have the spirit of the
(04:52):
Lord in you, and to dwell in this place.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Look, I'm not a.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
A I'm not a Ordain pastor or minister or anything.
I've just done a lot of study in my whole life,
and I studied war religions in college. I've always been
involved in and studying with with rabbis at the Temple
and the elders and Bible studies, and you know, it's
(05:19):
it's where my heart is. It's where my priority is
to is to try to get closer to the Lord.
I've done a lot of quoting about my you know,
my my prayer is to Dear Lord, just use me
an instrument to carry out your will. But I hear
some people say, well, Steve, you're on the right track,
But some of the stuff you're saying, you know, it
could actually be explained differently or go deeper. Well, I'm
(05:42):
here to just tell everybody that I'm just trying to
be myself and and just do the best I can
and have all of us understand a couple basic things
that one, you know, there is a God. He sent
his son here named Jesus, to die on the cross
for our sins and gave us a chance to experience
(06:03):
eternity with the Lord. And I think that's what is
called the Plan of Salvation. I mean, that's that's that's
really what it's about, is that God loves us so
much that he wanted away for us to get back
from the separation that we had from God and go
back to the Garden of Eden where it got kind
of crazy. And and this is basically, He gives us
(06:24):
a life. We die, we can go on and be
with Him for eternity. And so when we think about
this life that we have and all of our difficulties,
if we're knowing that God created us for his purposes
and and this life that we have is to serve Him,
(06:44):
to please him, That's that's why I'm here. And and
for all of you that say, Steve, you know I'm not.
I don't really want to listen to preaching and all
that stuff, that's fine. Just keep your positive attitude. But
but remember this. Sometimes when you get to where you
just can't get through your daily life because of stress
(07:06):
and things that are bothering you think there's no way out,
just remember that Steve told you one day there is,
and it's just to just to not worry about it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And I like to.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Tell people that their scripture that talks about how God
God created us, this is a beautiful scripture.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Matthew six twenty five, thirty four.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It was on the cirmle on the mount when when
Jesus was there and everybody was worrying about all their
basic needs food and clothing, and the message that he
gave was you know, doesn't God feed the birds and
the flowers, doesn't he provide for even them. Well, you
certainly don't need to worry, because you know that you
(07:49):
were created in God's image and God's certainly going to
take care of you. And then and then there's there
there's some other scripture here that is really really important here,
and that that is Philippians four six through seven. It's
just some very practical advice that wants to tell us
that through prayer and supplication, that means when we're really
(08:14):
really going to God when facing our anxieties, remember don't
scumb to worrying, bring them to God and He will
help you through it. And there's there's some real serious
things that come back to the title of today's show,
and this too shall pass. Before I give you the
scripture for this two shall pass, you know, I researched
(08:36):
the phrase is hue, this too shall pass. It's not
actually a Bible phrase, but a lot of people think
it is because there's a lot of a lot of
Bible verses that speak to it. But you know, so
many people use that phrase and it goes back to
ancient Persia and and ancient Judaism roots that talk about
(08:57):
these things. Some people attribute to that phrase to Solomon,
but some people asked was out of Maya Angelo phrase? Well.
Abraham Lincoln even used it when he was running for
president against Stephen Douglason in eighteen fifty nine in a
speece that he gave at the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society.
(09:19):
And basically, I'll just read part of what the last
part of his speech. This comes right out of his speech.
It is said, an Eastern monarch once charged his wise
men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view,
and which should be true and appropriate in all times
(09:39):
and situations. They presented him the words, and this too
shall pass away, how much it expresses, how chastening in
the hour of pride, how consoling in the depths of affliction,
And this too shall pass away. And yet let us
hope it is not quite true. Let us hope rather
(10:00):
that by the best cultivation of the physical world beneath
and around us, and the intellectual and moral world within us,
we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness,
whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while
the earth endures shall not pass away what I'm really
(10:24):
trying to take you into, and I think I've almost
got it put out there today, and this too shall pass.
Lincoln was a very very deep man with his God,
and he's referring to the same spiritual realm and eternity
that I've just been talking about the last couple of weeks,
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just trying to slowly get you introduced into it. I'll
say this, people that understand what I'm saying and that
do their very best to dwell there, they don't have
a hard time at all, just not letting very much
bother them because they've got their full priorities straight. I
like to say an expression that I've used many times
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when I've talked about financial troubles, that you've got to
work yourself out of. Fortunately for us and the times
that we live in, there's no longer a debtor's prison.
So look, if you're buried in debt and don't see
any way out and just think that that you'll never
be able to get out of it, I tell people,
don't be jumping off for bridges. You know they're not
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going to put you in prison for that. They will
if you go Rob and Steele and break the law.
But there's ways that you can work it out. That's
what my whole financial literacy curriculums and programs are all about,
is to just get on top of things, rebuild your credit.
I mean, I have all kinds of ways to do that.
I've been trying to deal in the spiritual plane the
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last couple of weeks. Let me read you two pieces
of scripture that really speak to what I'm trying to say.
This comes from Second Corinthians, after four verses seventeen through eighteen.
Now this is the new King James version, which is
a little maybe a little harder to understand that I'm
going to follow it up with a simpler version. For
our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is
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working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight
of glory. While we do not look at the things
which are seen, but are the things which are not seen?
For the things which are seen are temporary, but the
things which are not seen are eternal. Let me give
you the message version of the same scripture. So we're
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not giving up. How could we? Even though on the
outside it often looks like things are falling apart on
us or the inside. When God is making new life,
not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These
hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times,
the lavish celebration prepared for us. There's far more here
(13:02):
that meets the eye. The things we see now are
here today, gone tomorrow, but the things we can't see
now will last forever. Today was my attempt to try
to come back and straighten out a couple of things
that I've said that a few of my close friends
and people that have spoken to me have tried to
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tell me about more than maybe I could do. All
I'm trying to do is let people know that I'm
using myself as an example throughout as we go through
extremely difficult times. There's ways that we can learn to
just stay calm, avoid stress, not be angry, and just
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know there's things far, far bigger than us that I'm
speaking to. And so, you know, there's a song I
forget the guy's name, Farrell Pharrell, Don't Worry, Be Happy. Well,
I'm not going to quot in that song. It's it's
I think it's so. I think it's a good song,
but I don't think it goes deep enough. Part of
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my daily prayer for maybe twenty years now has come
right out of song ninety one, and I want to
I want to be the person that I'm going to
speak to now that's referencing song ninety one, and there
there are promises and once you believe fully that we
have the gift of salvation, that was because God put
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his son here on the cross so that we could
be free of our sin and be with him eternally
forever in heaven. I want to be the person that's
being talked about here in song ninety one. Whoever dwells
in the shelter of the Most High will rest in
the shadow of the Almighty. I say to the Lord,
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he is my refuge and my fortress, my God in
whom I trust, And to go all the way to
the last verses of the song, because he loves me,
says the Lord. I will rescue him. I will protect him,
for he acknowledges my name. He will call on me
and I will answer him. I will be with him
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in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him with
long life. I will satisfy him and show him my salvation. Well,
that's a song that I'm given to each one of
you Psalm ninety one, because that's the way it is
when you love God, when you trust God, when you
want to dwell in the spirit, be filled with the spirit,
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and live in the Kingdom of God. We'll do another
talk on the Kingdom of God to go deeper into
what that really is. But I want to leave you
with this very simple song. It's called Waymaker, and it
was a song by Leland in twenty nineteen. And the
song was written by Osanachi Kaylu Korum and Michael Anthony
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Okulo and it's held by so TCSO Music Integrity Music. Okay,
I'm just going to give you parts of this. Sometimes
I'm careful not to read too much of songs that
are copyrighted, but I hope that if I read too
much that they'll never come after me for a copyright violation.
So I'm going to read a little more of this
because it's so beautiful. Way Maker, you are here moving
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in our miss. I worship you. I worship you, and
you are way Maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in
the darkness, my God. That is who you are. It
goes on to say, even when I don't see it,
You're working even when I don't feel it, You're working.
You never stop, You never stop working. You never stop. Jesus,
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you are way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in
the darkness.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
My God, that is who you are. I know you are.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I'm here to try to use my life to help
other people. Just face their life and just love the
Lord and just love your family and treat every stranger
with kindness. Please just don't stress on things that are difficult,
if you know, just take a different point of view
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with people that are irritating you. And just if you
can't do something that's okay, just take it nice and slow.
But don't worry about anything so much. And just remember
we've been given the greatest gift there is from our God,
and that's the Salvation Plan with his son Jesus Christ.
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And you don't need to worry about a thing. Just
go to the Lord and just know that many things
are just bigger than you are. And just be thankful
for every day that He has given us and ask him, Lord,
what can I do for you today? Well, I hope
you understand my message, and I just want to say
to you God, bless each one of us, and remember
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that this physical.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Life that we have.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You know there's gonna be issues, there's gonna be difficulties,
but don't let them bother you. Just do the best
you can. There's not a debtors prison anymore. Do right
by everyone, but turn to the Lord God and he's
there for you. The promises are there. They're in Psalm
ninety one. They're in the song Waymaker by Leland, sung
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by Leland. There's a lot of people to sing. It's
a beautiful video. God bless each one of you and
to have a great week.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Thanks for listening to Right Thinking with Steve Copland. I'll
look forward to being with you again next week, and
remember it, don't quit.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Plan ahead. It will get better.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
God bless you and have a great week.
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