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    Everyday Encouragement: Timeless Truths for Today Volume 1 Transcriptions Podcast Episodes 1-28
    Everyday Encouragement: Timeless Truths for Today Volume 1 Transcriptions Podcast Episodes 1-28
    Everyday Encouragement: Timeless Truths for Today Volume 1 Transcriptions Podcast Episodes 1-28
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    Everyday Encouragement: Timeless Truths for Today Volume 1 Transcriptions Podcast Episodes 1-28

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    Everyday Encouragement: Timeless Truths for Today is a weekly podcast that in 20 or minutes or less, provides Bible-based "snippets of encouragement" to today's busy listeners. Transcripts of the podcast's first 28 episodes have been reformatted for this e-book.

    The author, Jennye Guy, has always enjoyed taking the Bible's people, circumstances, and narratives and transforming them into current conditions and stories to show their relevance to us and our situations today. While technologies, systems, establishments, and cultures have changed over the centuries, people have not. And what seems new is old.
    For example, siblings and families still fight today, sometimes with disastrous results. Just ask Cain and his brother Abel. Their sibling rivalry led to the first crime. Ask King David how he handled a rebellion against him from one of his sons. Despite warnings to become economically prepared, sometimes wives today still become widows and are left to fend for themselves. Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth can tell us all about that scenario.
    Jennye used to entertain coworkers and friends with her interpretations whenever they mentioned a challenging circumstance that seemed to be similar to a struggle of someone in the Bible. Nothing was written or recorded at the time as publishing was the last thing on her mind. What was present, and always stood out, was that in each situation shared with her there was a situation in the Bible that paralleled: Something old to encourage someone new. And it was in these moments that the seeds for the Everyday Encouragement podcast were planted.

    Hopefully, readers will hear their own voices as they read and consider applying the ideas in these podcast transcriptions in their daily devotion or meditation time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJennye Guy
    Release dateApr 20, 2018
    ISBN9780989509862
    Everyday Encouragement: Timeless Truths for Today Volume 1 Transcriptions Podcast Episodes 1-28

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      Everyday Encouragement - Jennye Guy

      INTRODUCTION

      I have always enjoyed taking the Bible's people, circumstances and narratives and transforming them into current conditions and stories to show their relevance to us and our situations today. While technologies, systems, establishments and cultures have changed over the centuries, people have not. And what seems new is old.

      For example, siblings and families still fight today, sometimes with disastrous results. Just ask Cain and his brother Abel. Their sibling rivalry led to the first crime. Ask King David how he handled a rebellion against him from one of his sons. Despite warnings to become economically prepared, sometimes wives today still become widows and are left to fend for themselves. Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth can tell us all about that scenario.

      I used to entertain coworkers and friends with my interpretations whenever they mentioned a challenging circumstance that seemed to be similar to a struggle of someone in the Bible. Nothing was written or recorded at the time as publishing was the last thing on my mind. What was present, and always stood out, was that in each situation shared with me there was a situation in the Bible that paralleled: Something old to encourage someone new. And it was in these moments that the seeds for Everyday Encouragement were planted.

      Everyday Encouragement: Timeless Truths for Today is a weekly podcast that in 20 or minutes or less, provides Bible-based snippets of encouragement to today's busy listeners.

      Here are the transcripts of the podcast's first 28 episodes, reformatted for this ebook. The texts are as I recorded them. Several of the entries contain lengthy scripture passages which I read during the podcast episodes. Those passages are included in Appendices at the end of the book.

      Hopefully, you will hear your own voice as you read and apply them in your daily devotion or meditation time.

      That's it for this introduction. I pray the episodes from Everyday Encouragement: Timeless Truths for Today will encourage you too.

      Jennye Guy

      http://www.jguypublisher.com

      everydayencouragement@jguypublisher.com

      ~ ~ ~ ~

      EPISODE 001

      THE WAY TO SUCCESS

      We all want to be successful. That's a fact of life. But, does success seem to be eluding you?

      Well, if you're like me, you've read lots of books about how to be successful in life. Seems like it's a constant search to find the ONE method or the ONE system that will guarantee good results. Do this and you'll get that. Or Try this and you'll see that.

      The problem I've run into is that I don't stick with one method or one way very long. I don't know what the reasons are for my lack of follow-through. Maybe it's because I grow disillusioned with the method very quickly. Or maybe it's because I feel that the system is too much of a stretch for me to use. Perhaps I just don't have the confidence in either the method's creator or myself to believe that if I follow the steps, the results will really be what I want.

      So, off I go on yet another search for the way to success.

      While reading Psalm 1 the other day, the words struck me in a different way. I realized that here was the success system I've been searching for.

      Let me read Psalm 1 for you from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. See if you can identify the success system that it lays out.

      "Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked,

      Or take the path that sinners tread,

      Or sit in the seat of scoffers;

      But their delight is in the law of the Lord,

      And on his law they meditate day and night.

      They are like trees planted by streams of water,

      Which yield their fruit in its season,

      And their leaves do not wither.

      In all that they do, they prosper.

      The wicked are not so,

      But are like chaff that the wind drives away.

      Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

      Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

      For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,

      But the way of the wicked will perish."

      Did you catch it? Did you find the success system?

      Here it is in verse two: But their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night.

      Now today, we might tend to dismiss this verse because of the word law. But that's where we miss the Psalm's guarantee of success, I think.

      Yes, the law here refers to the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. And today, we tend to say that because of Jesus Christ and his death and resurrection, we're no longer under the law but under grace. That's true. We are under grace and not the law. But, in my opinion, I think we are too quick to overlook or even dismiss what Psalm 1 is trying to tell us because of relying on grace and dismissing the law.

      In fact, Jesus, himself, spoke about the law. He said that we weren't supposed to think that he came to abolish the law or the prophets. Rather, he was the fulfillment of the law.

      What did he mean by that?

      Simply this. That as we look at Jesus' life and follow what he taught, then we will be automatically living what the law had been trying to teach us was the way to live.

      For example, as we forgive others, rather than seeking payback or revenge, then we're living out the law of the Lord.

      As we honor our parents, then we're also honoring God--which is also part of the law.

      What about doing unto others as you would have them do unto you? Well, if we treat others as we wish to be treated, then we won't lie on them, or steal from them, or be so envious of what they have that we seek to take those things from them rather than working to get our own.

      If we treat others as we wish to be treated, then we will be living as Jesus taught. We will be living the law of the Lord.

      There's another word in Psalm 1 that is key to our being able to live the law of the Lord. That word is meditate.

      We tend to think of meditation as a silent activity, where we take a word or a thought or a concept and turn it over and over and over silently--in our minds.

      But in the Hebrew from which Psalm 1 comes, meditate means to murmur; to mutter; to growl; to sigh; to moan; to roar; to muse; to speak; to whisper. In other words, meditation is vocally active. We voice our thoughts in a variety of ways.

      If we meditate day and night as Psalm 1 tells us to do, then we will be constantly putting God's law, His Word, deep down inside us. We will be doing what Paul instructed when he wrote, Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly....

      So, I guess Psalm 1's success formula can be summed up as: We should get the law of the Lord--that is, God's Word--down deep in us. So deep that it is embedded within our very being. So deep that we automatically do what it says to do as we go about our daily tasks.

      Psalm 1 says we shall prosper in all that we do if we follow its teaching. That sounds like The Way to Success to me.

      ~ ~ ~ ~

      EPISODE 002

      GOD SEES ME

      Do you ever feel like you're all alone? That no one understands what you're going through? That even your closest friends don't--or can't--appreciate what is happening in your life right now? Maybe you feel that even God, Himself, doesn't see or care about what is happening to you ... Or else why would He allow this situation to occur? To continue?

      I can't answer the question about why God allows some things and doesn't allow others. But I can relate to that emotion of feeling alone, of feeling like no one understands, or even cares.

      God has many names and I recently found one that speaks directly to those times when we feel alone ... forgotten ... forsaken.

      That name is El Roi. It means The God Who Sees Me.

      As I was thinking about that particular name and what it means for God to actually see me-- Jennye--a scripture about not ever being out of God's presence came to mind. I looked for the verse and found it was in Psalm 139. Written by David, this psalm talks about how God is everywhere. He knows everything. And His power isn't limited.

      David was comforted when he thought about the great God of the universe being concerned about him. Fortunately for us, he put his feelings of comfort into words that speak to us today.

      I'd like to read part of Psalm 139 for you. Here it is:

      "You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.

      You know when I sit and when I rise;

      You perceive my thoughts from afar.

      You discern my going out and my lying down;

      You are familiar with all my ways.

      Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.

      You hem me in behind and before,

      And you lay your hand upon me.

      Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

      Too lofty for me to attain.

      Where can I go from your Spirit?

      Where can I flee from your presence?

      If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

      If I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

      If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

      If I settle on the far side of the sea,

      Even there your hand will guide me,

      Your right hand will hold me fast.

      If I say, Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,

      Even the darkness will not be dark to you;

      The night will shine like the day, for the darkness is as light to you.

      For you created my inmost being;

      You knit me together in my mother's womb.

      I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

      Your works are wonderful,

      I know that full well.

      My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place,

      When I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

      Your eyes saw my unformed body;

      All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

      How precious to me are your thoughts, God!

      How vast is the sum of them!

      Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand

      When I awake, I am still with you."

      This psalm pretty much says it all: There isn't a place we can go where God isn't there with us. There isn't a situation in which we may find ourselves that God doesn't know about.

      Are you lying in your hospital bed, tired of being sick, tired of being poked and prodded and tested, tired of being told that yet another surgery is needed? God sees you and He knows you're too weary and hurt to pray.

      Are you worried about that child who ran away, again, but this time she's been gone longer than before? Are you afraid that she may have gotten herself

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