Jackie Hill Perry: Discipline Yourself to Trust God Over Your Idols | Better Together on TBN

I have to take those you know my therapist can only do so much like she she helps me to process and bring it up and then I got to go to the Lord right and be like okay hear this this is I've been walking on in this way for 30 some years now I need tools right I need resources and more than that I need power and I need courage temptation is it intensified when God is refining us and so you know whether it's suffering or hardship or relationships all the things you want something to make you feel comfortable you want something to make you feel secure and I think we have a choice and I think maturity and wisdom is a part of this but there's this tension of okay do I go to my typical Idols to help me feel safe or do I lean into what God is trying to teach me and allow him to be my crutch right and I I that's really really really hard to do but I think until we develop the discipline of trusting God instead of looking to Idols to soften the suffering we won't be as pure as we could be you know because it's not like just because you're suffering you're automatically made holy you're made Holy by leaning into and trusting God in light of what he's revealing about himself in the suffering right you know so much yeah and let's just get practical I mean some of the Idols are things that aren't that dangerous on the outside I mean or not necessarily evil in and of themselves exactly it's not just porn and alcohol and drugs and gambling that could be Ministry it could be Ministry it could be the shopping app like spending money that's not in my budget it could be toxic relationships you know it could be binge watching Netflix because I don't feel like coping and dealing and the stuff that God is bringing to the surface I don't want to deal with it so I'm just gonna numb and watch TV till 3am I'm gonna be on my phone a lot more often instead of being present and tuning into the holy spirit because I don't want to hear it right and and so I think sometimes really identifying what those crutches are it helps us take that step towards healing because then when we remove them we actually have to face it we have to face ourselves I think one way to trust God more than trusting our Idols is to interrogate the need that compelled you toward constructing the idol in the first place for example in Exodus when Israel builds the golden calf what they say is they want a god a calf that will go before them meaning they wanted a God that would guide them they wanted to guide that would or a God that would protect them and those are really morally acceptable needs they're acknowledging their vulnerability and their weaknesses yet they had a God who had already shown up and a pillar of cloud by day and a fire by night so he was already revealing himself as a God who was able to meet their needs in the way that they were trusting the idol to meet it for them and so that's really what we do is we say what am I expecting of this Idol what is it that I want from it let me go to the scriptures and see how God has that need that that able to supply it in himself and that's where we are able to exchange our trust in the name of repentance and trust God to be who he says that he is how difficult it is to be alone with yourself for just a few minutes just a few minutes without distraction just you and the Lord I love that Jesus was so deliberate about withdrawing to lonely places like he knew the limitations of his human body like God has no limitations but his human body had limitations and he needed to withdraw and get away and be with God and allow the Lord to pour into him and I just it challenges me like if I really want to pursue Purity and Holiness and become a better person become more like Jesus am I even allowing God to speak yeah absolutely am I giving him time like what does that look like in my day-to-day life I'd love to hear from you guys practically yeah like what are some ways that you have found to pursue Holiness practically like what does that look like day in Day Out I love that you brought up rest um quietness um I remember it being kind of an epiphany to me when I realized God instituted rest before the fall um you see rest before the end of Genesis 2. so we're we're still in this edinic situation yeah and he creates rest models dress and I thought oh it's not an accommodation for human weakness it's part of his plan for us all along and I am a horrible rester because I've always been a doer I justify Myself by doing and so I so identify with the Israelite kind of preoccupation with we've got to do everything right and then God will be pleased because that has been the kind of my heresy that I've believed uh somewhere in my heart so much of my life and so gosh I guess it's been almost 15 years ago now I deliberately moved out into the country because if I have distractions the distractions will become Idols or or I medicate by running hard and being with people and so I thought I need to actually be deliberate about removing myself and being in a place that's quiet because that's not my my natural inclination and I have now moved even further out into the country and we have this little tiny Farm out five acres on a hill but I will feel my spirit settle and it's when I'm quiet I think we forget Jesus ministry took place at three miles an hour because he walked everywhere he went there was time for reflection but it but that's a discipline for me it is not natural for me but when I'm quiet sin will bubble to the surface fear will bubble the surface all those things and I'll go oh that actually was motivating me foreign I think our need for rest is a reminder of our human limitations and our need for God our need for his power and his filling and his strength I think a lot of times we go to so many other things in this world to fill us up we go go go go go go go go until we can't go anymore I think rest is an act of dependency on Jesus it reminds us that we're human and we've got limitations and we need his strength so even in the process of resting we're relying on him we're trusting him we're showing him that we need him and we want him in our life and so think about what that looks like for you are you going and going and going in your own strength or are you stopping to be filled by the only one who can truly fill you up I think one thing that's helped me become more pure that people don't write in their sanctification dissertations is therapy yeah um therapy has helped me to become not more independent but dependent but also training me on how to be independent of my circumstances meaning like showing me you know these are the sins that you acquired because of sins against you so these are the ways that you respond to fear or feeling out of control or you know feeling abandonment or rejection and I have to take those you know my therapist can only do so much like she she helps me to process and bring it up and then I got to go to the Lord right and be like okay hear this this is I've been walking on in this way for 30 some years now I need tools right I need resources and more than that I need power and I need courage right it is terrifying yeah so lay aside the things that are so natural and normal to you it is so much easier to default to what's familiar over what's healthy even if it's harmful yourself and your relationships my my counselor because I amen amen amen my counselor said one of the hardest things about change is that your all of your relationships are based on a certain dance step and let's just say you've been doing the foxtrot even if it's sinful everybody knows that Rhythm when you switch to the walls to become more pure you step on everybody's toes which also caused them to bang into each other and so sometimes people will go please just go back to because it was working that way and you're like well it was working but it but it wasn't God honoring but it was working some people like you unhealed the more I listen to the Lord in a prophet says lean not on your own understanding but trust in the Lord the more I trust in the Lord he is always faithful when I feel like I can't find secure footing when I stand in the promises of God all of a sudden I'm not wobbly anymore for me it has been experienced the more I trust in God the more I lean into the Lord the more I realize why why would I listen to something that's fleeting or to someone who usually has a bias in their opinion why wouldn't I go to the author of Life himself to God who loves me unconditionally so I think the more you trust the Lord the more you'll find him to be trustworthy and then it's like the gurus just get deeper and deeper then you go oh my goodness I'm not going to listen to anybody else first I'll listen to their opinion later but I'm running I'm running to my Creator redeemer first because he loves me and he's for me at TBN our mission is to use every available means to reach as many individuals and families as possible with the 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Length: 10min 12sec (612 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 18 2023