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Does our actions have anything to do with the suffering experienced? Is it all random, or is there a cause? Today, Hannah Staubs interviews Watermark staff member, Emily Hope to answer this question. Although in suffering our circumstances continually change, a study of God’s character can comfort us because his character does not change.   Additional Scriptures in the Podcast:  John 16:33, “In this world you will have trouble, but take heart. I have overcome the world. Psalm 16:2, “I have no good apart from you.”   Grab a NEW Join The Journey Journal for 2024: https://a.co/d/7rt0H3g  Got kids? Check out the NEW Join The Journey Jr. Journal for 2024: https://a.co/d/eYBgvUM  You can also check out the Join The Journey Jr. Podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/join-the-journey-junior/id1660089898

Oftentimes we want to have everything gifted out. We want to know what to say and when to say it. But what happens when our words and our actions don’t change our circumstances? In today’s podcast, Watermark Institute Fellow Hannah Staubs interviews Krista McCoy to talk all things Job 34.  Additional Scripture used in today’s podcast: Job 31-33  John 4 - woman at the well John 8 - adulteress woman  Psalm 34:18   Grab a Join The Journey Journal through the book of Psalms: https://a.co/d/7rt0H3g  Got kids? Check out the NEW Join The Journey Jr. Journal for 2024: https://a.co/d/iEnIRRz  You can also check out the Join The Journey Jr. Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/join-the-journey-junior/id1660089898

What does it look like to give advice to someone who’s older than you? How can younger believers lead up in an appropriate way? In today’s podcast, Watermark Institute Fellow Hannah Staubs interviews Nathan Chou to talk all things Job 33.  Additional Scripture used in today’s podcast: 1 John 3:18 - love   Grab a Join The Journey Journal through the book of Psalms: https://a.co/d/7rt0H3g  Got kids? Check out the NEW Join The Journey Jr. Journal for 2024: https://a.co/d/iEnIRRz  You can also check out the Join The Journey Jr. Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/join-the-journey-junior/id1660089898

Where should we find our identity? Does God use young people to give good advice?  On today’s podcast, Watermark Institute Fellow Hannah Staubs interviews Carsen Saugier to talk all things Job 32.   Additional Scripture used in today’s podcast: 1 Timothy 4:12 - Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young   Grab a Join The Journey Journal through the book of Psalms: https://a.co/d/7rt0H3g  Got kids? Check out the NEW Join The Journey Jr. Journal for 2024: https://a.co/d/iEnIRRz  You can also check out the Join The Journey Jr. Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/join-the-journey-junior/id1660089898

In Job 31, Emma Dotter & Brent Buuemi ask the question: “How to keep up spiritual morale in dry season.” Brent compares suffering to having our face pressed against stained glass. Oftentimes we see the shattered glass and not the full picture. Brent & Emma talk to both types of listeners: those who have experienced severe suffering, and some maybe haven’t. Brent encourages us to solidify our beliefs before the trial that we experience so that when we are in the trial we are ready.   Additional Scripture in this Podcast:  Colossians 4:2, “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving…” Proverbs 19:3 “When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord.”  John 16:33, “In this world, you will have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world.”  2 Timothy 3:12, “Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,”  1 Peter 4:12, “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange was happening to you.”  Daniel 3:18, “But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”  Matthew 11:28-30, “Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”  Hebrews 12:1, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses…” Hebrews 4:15, “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin…”   Grab a NEW Join The Journey Journal for 2024: https://a.co/d/7rt0H3g  Got kids? Check out the NEW Join The Journey Jr. Journal for 2024: https://a.co/d/eYBgvUM  You can also check out the Join The Journey Jr. Podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/join-the-journey-junior/id1660089898

Suffering is designed by the enemy to destroy our faith, but God’s design for suffering is to strengthen our faith. So how do we have this perspective of suffering? In today’s podcast, Emma Dotter is joined by a faithful Watermark Member George Dalton to unpack this question. George leaves us with this thought, “I welcome the scalpel of the Spirit to continue to cut away the ugly dross in my heart so I can see God and be an effective tool in His hand.”   Additional Scriptures in this Podcast: Romans 5:3-5, “Not only that, we rejoice in our suffering, knowing that suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, produces hope…” Isaiah 48:10, “Behold I have refined you, not as silver, I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.”  1 Corinthians 10:13, “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability…” The book of James: the whole book reminds us of how to respond to suffering.  Matthew 5:8, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”   Grab a NEW Join The Journey Journal for 2024: https://a.co/d/7rt0H3g  Got kids? Check out the NEW Join The Journey Jr. Journal for 2024: https://a.co/d/eYBgvUM  You can also check out the Join The Journey Jr. Podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/join-the-journey-junior/id1660089898