Maturing as Friends of God – The Work of Perseverance

Jonathan David & Melissa Helser Podcast

Jonathan Helser

Christianity, Helser, Music, Cagelessbirds, Worship, Aplacefortheheart, Religion & Spirituality, 18inchjourney

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In our previous episode, Melissa taught from 2 Corinthians 9 on living generous lives without reluctance or compulsion. In this episode she opens up James 1, unpacking the way perseverance produces maturity in us, and how the discipline of the Lord brings us true wisdom and discernment as we walk with him.

This message was originally recorded in 2022 at Bethel Music Worship School.

Six years ago, we finished building the Art Barn, a space that become such a gift to our campus: the home of our video, design, and marketing departments, and a multi-purpose hub for so many things that happen in our schools, retreats, and summer camps.

Out of all that happens in this space, one of the most special things is the hours of worship we have poured out on Jesus in this place. It has truly become holy ground for our students to encounter the Lord. It has also become a sacred space for us to capture hours of worship on film that we have been able to share with people all over the world through YouTube and music streaming. Over these years we have been using a very basic audio system and it has been our dream to upgrade the sound and recording system. We are launching a campaign to raise $30,000 to upgrade all the audio in this space! If you are interested in partnering with us to reach this goal, we invite you to head to http://cagelessbirds.com/donate

Thank you!

To learn more about our ministry, go to www.jonathanhelser.com, www.18inchjourney.com, or www.cagelessbirds.com.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, I'm Chris Miller and I'm Mary Hall and you're listening to the
0:05.2	Jonathan and Melissa Helster podcast. Today we're going to continue the theme of
0:10.0	exploring what it means to mature as a friend of God. In our previous episode
0:15.1	we explored Second Corinthians 9 and what it looks like to give cheerfully
0:20.1	without reluctance or compulsion. Today we're going to focus on James 1 and
0:25.4	the pressure system of perseverance. In this message Melissa will talk about how
0:30.6	perseverance produces maturity in us and how the discipline of the Lord brings us
0:36.1	true wisdom and the discernment we need as we walk with him in our lives. Today
0:41.3	we want to bless you with these words from James 1. Perseverance must finish
0:46.7	its work so that you may be mature and complete not lacking anything. If any of
0:53.1	you lacks wisdom he should ask God who gives generously to all without finding
0:57.8	fault and it will be given to him. I want to talk about another part of
1:04.6	maturity. It's so important that we learn to move when things don't go our way
1:11.8	say our way. When things get hard that we mature beyond saying why God? That we
1:22.1	mature and are saying who do you want to be for me in this moment? Who am I
1:28.7	becoming? We have to mature beyond the why God. Why? Why? Why? Why? Right? I love
1:38.9	that my kid cadence Zion is 20 years old. If he was still asking the why
1:43.8	question like he did when he was six that drove me literally insane why do you
1:48.5	do that? Why do you have to do that? Why do you do that? Why? Why? Why? Right? Now he
1:52.8	knows me. He's more mature. He trusts me. He doesn't ask those questions like
2:00.1	that anymore. We must move. Write it down. I must move beyond why God? To who do
2:09.2	you want to be for me in this moment? James 1, 2, 3, 4, we all love this
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