Fighting Against Fear / CHRISTINE CAINE PART 2

a ministry also unexpectedly came out of this he started to pray with people who are also going through their cancer journey as well as you said that your empathy group yeah I would some a different person because of all of that and that's what adversity does it it's certainly you know when I was sitting in those waiting rooms and knowing and and again I want to preface that no one wants cancer but if you're going to get a cancer the one I had was the one to get because it's just you know of course there's always risk always but it's 80 plus percent highly curable through surgery which is what happened in my case but i sat in waiting rooms with people whose worst stage for short other so but I mean there is no medical chance they're gonna get you know healed the the doctors have given up there's no chemotherapy there's no radiotherapy there's no surgery that's that was what I was gonna say i sat next to mothers that had their kids on but I mean I just wept I was like I just I was thinking what would I do I have two daughters how do you even navigate that I thought god I couldn't even cope with my own self dying you know like my own like you can as a Christian in my 50s I've seen enough of the faithfulness of God that even if this is what was good at how I was going to go home I had a place to be able to process that I thought if I had my child I don't know the great I mean of course God you never know what grace you need until you're in that moment but I would just sit there like bawling like really do I don't know what else to say I was like boiling going the grace and the faith of those parents to have to navigate that and so it has even changed how I preach I know that like definitely that I'm in my prayer time beforehand I'm very conscious that Christine you are gonna go out today no matter where I am whether it's to speak to 30 people or an arena full of people or a television program I'm thinking there is some other that's just got the news that one of her children has either died or been diagnosed with cancer there's you know someone else whose marriage is just I mean just the fact that I'm going through going Chris you're not speaking to the front row of people that want to impress you with your you know want you to impress them with your latest revelation you want to help the person on the back row that barely got into that Pew today and it's barely gonna make it and if they don't hear from God in this next 40 minutes they're not going to make it through the day and it has entirely changed you know or maybe not changed as much as made me aware all over again why I do what I do and who I want to help with what I do I want to read a quote from your book says what if we got up every day believing God for the best knowing we might possibly encounter the worst and I you know I said how much this touched me because I think of things at times in my life where yeah things bad things have happened and you almost end the enemy as you said wants you to sit in the worst and not see it for the best and as he talked about your story if there's anybody who could say and sit in that worse and say yeah God why me you went through the laundry list of things that you've gone through but also working with 8:21 seeing women and men who have been trafficked how do you minister that to them yeah literally because you've got a look and this is what it all cut my whole faith comes down to this and I often say you know some of the people we've got in our care our children 18 months old 4 years old 8 years old and Nick and I always go if I can't look an eight-year-old girl in it eyes after what she's gone through the level of sex trauma I like just the horror that she's gone through if I can't with authenticity look her in the eyes and go baby girl I know what has happened is hell on earth but Jesus can can heal you and give you a future beyond your past if I didn't really believe that to my bones I need to get out of doing what I'm doing and the fact is because I know what he has done in my own home my own life I actually can it is challenged to my core at times like you know we recently had a and a 10 month old baby girl with a broken pelvis coming to our care and your mind doesn't even want to go with them what happened to that baby and still when I lie in bed at night do I really believe that the grace of God with a lot of you know with a lot of psychological help with a lot of obviously medical physical emotional spiritual help and ultimately supernatural power of God do I believe that that child has a future and I can say yes I really can because I've seen the miracle-working power of God which again how one could have a faith that doesn't allow for the supernatural I don't know because if that was my only hope I would give up today like that is the but then I couldn't write that sentence with any but with any kind of courage or conviction but I have friends and dear friends in life and ministry who have lost their children I'll never forget my friend Laura when I was in Australia and she called me with a call that I would never want to ever get because I can hear her way or her 18 year old son was killed you know two hours before in a car accident and that's when I took that call and just heard the grief of a mother she's she and a husband pastor a huge huge church in Texas but when I look at their family today and I see their hope beyond the trauma so the reality of that scream I don't think I really don't think I'll ever forget that till the day I die and I never want to hear it again so the greatest anguish and yet seeing hope come out of that and redemption come out of that it will never minimize the pain of that but I could tell you not just dozens probably hundreds of those kind of stories in 30 years and certainly through a 21 I could tell you multiplied hundreds of those stories that we have case records of where I go you know what though I see the other side and seeing the other side of some helps me endure the pain and the trauma of the majority and it helps me get up tomorrow and the fact that here's the bottom line the fact that I really don't think we're gonna fix this world and so I don't I truly believe that that sky is going to split that Jesus is going to come back there will be a new heaven there will be a new earth that ultimate hope is what allows me to get through everyday with the inevitable disappointments the inevitable pain the inevitable some things that I look at and go that's just not fair I don't have that traffic I just got off I don't know why every day that continues to happen so I wouldn't be able to navigate that if all there was was here and now and all there was was today I couldn't reconcile the injustice on the planet today or the pain or the suffering but this eternal hope um is what keeps me going and I think sometimes as the church we don't talk enough about it that we are really a people that live between the two advents of Christ the fact is that he came once but he is coming again and if there was not the hope of him coming again I would lose hope in what I'm doing now I think part of the miracle is a 21 is 10 years old this year the fact that we have aftercare workers that started with us that are still with us today that's what astounds the world like what do you mean they're still there and they haven't burnt out and they're Christine how are you still full of hope 10 years later when you know I've seen the worst of the worst and it's because it's not really I think sometimes if we try to get caught up in the work of justice and and try to do things in our own strength it they'll wonder there's a 95% burnout rate because in your own strength there is no way you can keep doing this there is no way you can keep hoping because it is that hopeless it literally is but its Christ in you the hope of glory so the fact is that if I wasn't firmly rooted and grounded in my faith in Christ and in my hope I'm him coming back I wouldn't be able to get out of it and do this every day but the fact that I do believe it you know I walked into the interview and you're like Chris are you always like this I'm like ah yes yes because it's like I keep myself pumped up on the right fuel which is you know before I even came into this interview I've already listened to two podcasts and man I keep I'm very careful about what goes in because I see enough of the hopelessness just in the work that I do every day so I don't need to add to it through the cynicism on social media the negativity of the news I mean really how many times do you need to listen to the same you so I caught in a day once you've seen it all once pretty much it's the same old beggar tivity all day so I'm very aware and cognizant of what's going on in the world but I do not meditate on it and day and I I don't listen to the naysayers I try to keep sarcasm to a minimum offer just what what I'm filling my mind with and I'm filling myself with hope and truth and faith and love and I think it's the only way we could survive in this world because man it is so divisive it is so chaotic it is so volatile and I think it would be true to say in in many cases it is so hopeless it is so hopeless that I want to speak hope and so a lot of people go Chris you know why you're not engaging in a whole lot of the social media stuff and you're not giving your opinion about I'm like you know what at their if they we don't need another voice in there we need the Word of God we don't need the the opinion of Christine and there's everyone's opinions out there and it's very clear if it's not going to speak hope into a conversation if it's not going to speak faith into a conversation if it's not going to speak love into a conversation then I don't want to say and I think pretty much the last 15 months that have been very volatile in the social media space you go well what's good Wow Christine's been tweeting a lot of Bible verses I'm like when this season's all over in about two years when people are looking back at what they tweeted I think a lot of people are gonna be going I wish I didn't at least I'm gonna go well there was a lot of Buck geo did a lot of Bible verses it's like I like to my staff it's got to be full of faith and it's got to be Scripture and it's got to be you're really gonna get me to you know vent god hears me venting a lot there's no doubt about that but if it's not gonna add Faith Hope and love then it's not going to remain anyway and the greatest of these is love if it's not fueled in love and I think in the times in which we live we've got to make sure we do that because if we don't give it if I don't give hope to a traffic victim well really what why am i doing it why am i pulling her out of that pit if I'm not equipping her to stay out of it yeah and hope is ultimately what's going to get and I hope in a future that is that is way better than any past that he or she has been involved in

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Length: 11min 24sec (684 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 11 2018