BONUS: Can I Practice the Presence of Jesus? With Joni Eareckson Tada
4:13 Podcast with Jennifer Rothschild
Jennifer Rothschild
5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
“Suffering has a way of heaving you beyond the shallows of life where your faith feels ankle-deep. It casts you out into the fathomless depths of God.”
These profound words were written by an incredible woman and one of my heroes of the faith, Joni Eareckson Tada, who I’m super pumped to have on the podcast today because if anybody knows about the “I Can” life of Philippians 4:13 … it’s Joni.
If you haven’t heard of her, she survived a diving accident when she was a teenager that left her totally paralyzed. That incident changed her life forever, but for the past several decades, God has used her to help others in similar situations and inspire countless people around the world.
And today she’s going to inspire you and our entire 4:13 family.
Because on this very special BONUS episode, Joni talks about how you can experience the nearness of God in your life—something she does every day using the principles taught by Brother Lawrence in his ancient book, The Practice of the Presence of God.
Both Joni and Brother Lawrence discovered the secret to peace and joy regardless of their circumstances, and my friend, you can too!
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| 0:00.0 | Most of us are satisfied with just waiting in the shallows of knowing God. |
| 0:08.0 | We skate the surface. We know a little bit of the Bible, we do a little bit of prayer, we know a little bit of a theology and that sees us through. |
| 0:17.0 | But I think what happens is that often God allows affliction, suffering, disappointment, grief, loss, whatever it is. |
| 0:26.4 | And that suffering is his way of throwing us out into the depths of God where we cannot touch bottom. We cannot make it. We cannot |
| 0:36.1 | do it on our own. We need Christ desperately. Brother Lawrence lived through the drudgeries of monastery kitchen duty in the |
| 0:49.8 | 1600s. Johnny Eric Santata was in a diving accident that left her totally paralyzed when she was just a teenager. |
| 1:00.0 | So what did these two have in common? |
| 1:03.1 | Well, on this very special bonus episode of the 413, |
| 1:07.8 | Johnny is going to introduce you to Brother Lawrence |
| 1:11.6 | and she's going to show you how in both of their lives |
| 1:14.3 | they found the secret to peace, joy, and practicing the presence of God. Johnny is |
| 1:21.7 | so special to me and my life is so much better because of her |
| 1:25.8 | influence so I cannot wait to tell you about that and I can't wait for you to |
| 1:31.7 | hear from this inspiring brilliant and wise woman. |
| 1:36.0 | So Casey, let's do this thing. |
| 1:38.8 | Let's go. |
| 1:39.9 | Welcome to a bonus episode of the 413 podcast |
| 1:44.4 | where practical encouragement and biblical wisdom |
| 1:48.0 | set you up to live the I-Can life |
| 1:51.4 | because you can do all things through Christ who gives you supernatural |
| 1:56.7 | strength. Now welcome your host, our girl, the one sitting next to me right here, shoved in the closet. |
| 2:05.6 | Jennifer Ruppchild. |
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