Yesterday I appeared on Life Today with James Robison (you can go HERE to watch the whole interview) to talk about Plan B
They also produced this great little video entitled “Are You Absolutely Confident” using clips from my interview on the show. Just thought I would share it with you.
It’s embarrassing how often I jump to the conclusion that God has abandoned me when my life isn’t turning out the way I had hoped. I wonder how many times I miss out on incredible opportunities because in the middle of my fear I don’t make decisions based on the reality that God is with me?
Dude.. what was up with the hair? It kept changing the side the part was on!!
I think they did a great job with the video segment. I will have to find the whole interview and give it a watch.
Great question about what would we do if we were absolutely confident. It makes me ask this one:
Is there anyone that is ABSOLUTELY confident that God is ALWAYS with them?
Ah.. I’m a long way from there.
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LOL on the hair, first thing i noticed, leave it to Tony to mention it
Being challenged in the follicle department, hair is something that I notice.. not that I am envious or anything
… I just want to celebrate other’s good fortune.
Who am I kidding.. I am going out today and getting a Pete (Adam Lambert) wig.
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It was a bit long there. Maybe I could sell you some of mine.
Okay I have stuggled with this a little bit ever since you proposed this question. I have ususally said I am completely confident that God is with me 100% of the time. Yes, a bold statement.
However with so many people saying this is so hard for them to wrap their head around I was starting to wonder if I truly believe he is with me or do I just lay all blame and lack of confidence in my human abilities.
Now I am realizing that I am viewing the “always with me” part as God walking along beside me instead of walking in me as the new creation I am.
I would like to reword that question to “Are You Absolutely Confident God is IN You?”
Now that makes me shutter. I am capable of so much more that I give my self credit for.
Great statement Niki. I love that question.
Pete, got a chance to watch it last night on TV. Good stuff. I believe you were a real blessing to others!
Great video.
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To answer your question, no.
Great interview. The crowd shots showed you were connecting with them and I have little doubt you connected with the viewers of the program.
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Ha! God had an amazing opportunity to prove that He was with us yesterday…I wrote a whole blog about it! However, at the end of the very long day, I was reminded of just how much I had to be thankful for…and saw just how closely God was IN us! Ended up being awesome!
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Your statement “God has abandoned me when my life isn’t turning out the way I had hoped” has run so true so many times in my life. What’s funny is, a few years back my family and I walked through a VERY tough time, and the most encouraging thing through it all was when my wife said “I’m really really glad that this happened, cause now I see God and know that he’s there,” when we weren’t quite sure before.
I think we need to embrace the tough times, cause when everything is peachy keen, that’s generally when we all come way more self reliant and forget that He’s even there.
Can’t wait to watch this video Pete, and we wish you well on the book. Go get em!
So true Daniel.
“It’s embarrassing how often I jump to the conclusion that God has abandoned me when my life isn’t turning out the way I had hoped. I wonder how many times I miss out on incredible opportunities because in the middle of my fear I don’t make decisions based on the reality that God is with me?”…
that definitely hits home! Needed to hear that right this moment, especially in our present journey, in this new city…My wife and I have to remind ourselves day in and day out…”why are we surprised God provided a way…again!”. As if somehow he won’t be there next time. The joys of being human! LOL
Thanks for sharing this blog Pete!
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Glad to know I’m not alone Jesse!
Here are the links to the entire program:
Flash: http://lifetoday.tv/swf/2010/06/100603.htm
Quicktime: http://lifetoday.tv/qt/2010/06/100603.htm
mp3: http://salemnet.vo.llnwd.net/o29/lifetoday/mp3/2010/06/100603.mp3
Sweet. Thanks so much Randy.
Great interview. Thanks for being real. I can hear the heart of a pastor when you speak and I admire that greatly.
Now to finish this not so well… Was it just me or my tv or is your hair going gray? Which there is nothing wrong with this. I just wish I had hair
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It’s going very gray. Especially on this sides.
great hair
So the question I have been struggling w/this week is this… all of my prayers have been answered. Many of my dreams have come true/are coming true… the things that I have asked for.
Except something isn’t 100% right and I can’t put my finger on exactly what it is.
Like, did I ask for what I wanted instead of what GOD wanted for me? Were my dreams too small? Does God have bigger dreams for me?
AND if that is the case, knowing that God has allowed this to occur… how can I be 100% faithful in where I am out of worship to my God who allowed it to occur???
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I will definitely check out the interview. Love James and Betty. And Pete, dude, just have to say, love your hair, haha!!!!
I’ve never doubted that God is with me. I’ve never doubted that God loves me. I have often doubted that God overlooked me. (twisted, I know). However, I was whining to him a few years back about this very thing, that for whatever reasons He wasn’t giving me what I thought I needed and deserved. His Spirit gently, but with a most certain disciplinarian voice said, “I never promised you those things.”
I wanted more of what God could give…and not more of God.
Life changing moment in my car that night.
Well said and great video.
…. I think I gotta buy your book.
Great video by the way.
“It’s embarrassing how often I jump to the conclusion that God has abandoned me when my life isn’t turning out the way I had hoped.”
Dude, that’s what my whole last 8 months have been like. It was aweful. It literally turned me into a walking dead-man.
I’m even more embarrassed by how much better my faith “feels” when things begin to turn around. Sometimes when I think I’m as stong as ever, I find out that I’m really big giant flake, or flip-flop, or wishy-washy…..or whatever.
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Pete – I finished Plan B this week and will post review on Amazon over the weekend. Hey – really good book. I’d encourage everyone to read it, irrespective of whether they’re living through a Plan B in their life.
The key takeaway I took from it Pete is that God so desperately wants to have an intimate relationship with us and He wants to be the “author of our life” (to use Mark Batterson’s quote you mention in the book). And sometimes He’ll take stuff away from us in order to achieve that.
I loved this line Pete on p188: “He’s not interested in our having a ‘good life’. He’s interested in an intimate relationship with us. He’s interested in our spiritual transformation.”
Well done mate – you should write some more books.
Have a blessed weekend at Crosspoint and with your family.
Ian
I’m fully convinced that He is with me and will never leave me or forsake me because I believe that He will do what He says. Faith is key..
The most dangerous part of teetering on this is the fact that it is Satan who is placing doubts in our head about the presence of God. And when we believe in what Satan is telling us versus what God promises, the walls of protection start to crumble and the enemy floods us.
Be careful little eyes what you see…
I felt the Lord guidance to write on this further and I’d like to share some scripture. Enjoy brethren: http://seriousthings.com/2010/06/05/be-careful-little-eyes-what-you-see.aspx
I was wondering, if you used the hair as a metaphor for the constant movement between having faith and having doubt…
As for the question – I have a counter question “If there wasnt the perspective of dualities- Good and Bad, trust and doubt etc.. would there ever be a concept of separation from the Divine?”