Nov 14, 2019
Episode Summary:
If you have ever felt like God didn’t or couldn’t love you, then
today is the perfect show for you. In this episode, I had the
opportunity to chat with Wendy Blight about her journey to
discovering how much God loves her, and how that has positively
impacted her outlook since that time. Wendy shares her most
harrowing life experience, and how that caused her to view God
initially, question God, and come to know God’s love in a new and
transforming way.
We all go through experiences that cause us to question, and
sometimes even question God. Such experiences can either cause us
to turn away from God in anger, or turn toward God to find His love
and comfort despite our circumstances. We often have a picture of
God that is quite different than who He really is, until we begin
to get to know God’s character.
Wendy shared what helped her get through life’s difficult
trials, and how He can change us if we let Him. Wendy discussed the
importance of answering the question “Who is on the throne of my
heart,” and how that impacts our attitudes and behaviors.
Wendy shared how we can know and truly receive God’s love, and
how much He desires that for each one of us.
Quotables from the episode:
- Many people question if God loves them, especially when it
seems God allowed things to happen to us that He could have
prevented. It’s hard to associate someone who supposedly loves you
and who is so powerful who allows bad things to happen. But the
truth is nothing separates us from the love of God.
- There are several universal questions people ask when going
through a dark time, “God are you real?” and “God do you care?
- Sometimes we grow up with a picture of God that isn’t
consistent with the God of the Bible. What we really need to know
is the character of God.
- Being in the word of God can give us a new lens and a new
perspective.
- Even when God allows things to happen, He is there, He cares,
He loves us, He weeps for us, and He is waiting for us on the other
side.
- We will be more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus. But to be a
conqueror, we have to go through the battle. But we make it through
that because of Him.
- He can take the most ugly, traumatic messes of our life and
make them beautiful with his healing, peace, love, and joy.
- An important question for us to ask is, “Who is on the throne
of my heart?” God wants to be on the throne of our heart. He wants
to be our everything. When we talk about what is on the throne of
our heart, it’s anything, like a recurring thought pattern, that
comes to you all the time and governs your day or governs your
life. Who or what am I looking to for my hope, and for my safety
and my security? That’s an indication that that thing holds a
higher place in your heart and in your life than God does.
- In such situations, it’s important to have Scriptures which can
interrupt those thought patterns, and speak those scriptures out
loud over our lives and our situation which cause us to look to
other things or other people. When we do it faithfully and
consistently, God will use it to change us.
- When you have the perspective of God sitting on the throne of
your heart, it helps you love everyone better. If we don’t truly
know how much God loves us, then we can’t give that kind of love
away. We love out of the overflow of our heart, so that means our
heart must first be filled up with the knowledge of how much He
loves us.
- The reason God loves you so much is because you are His: a
child of God. We are blood-bought children of the One True God.
That is our identity. When we carry the identity around that we are
lavishly loved by the God of the universe, and He lives inside of
us, that empowers us.
- No matter what you’re walking through right now, God is living
inside of you and He promises He will never leave us or forsake us.
Instead, He is living inside us to help equip us and teach us.
- Jesus came to save us, despite all our faults. If we were
perfect that would make His sacrifice for us worth nothing.
Scripture References:
- 1 John 3:1 “Consider the kind of extravagant
love the Father has lavished on us … He calls us children of God.
It’s true, we are His beloved children.”
- 1 John 5:12 “Whoever has the Son has life;
whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.”
- 1 John 4:4 “You, dear children are from God
and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater
than the one who is in the world.”
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Guest: Wendy Blight
Wendy is a wife, mother, author, Bible teacher, attorney, and
the Biblical Content Specialist for Proverbs 31 Ministry’s Online
Bible Studies. Her heart's desire is to help women fall in love
with God's Word. To learn it, pray it, and know with confidence
they can tackle any problem life presents through it. Wendy has
authored four books, Hidden Joy in a Dark Corner,
Living So That, I Know His Name, and her newest
book, I Am Loved: Living in the Fullness of God’s Love.
Wendy has been a featured guest on Oprah Radio, The 700 Club,
Family Life Today with Dr. Dennis Rainey, Revive Our Hearts with
Nancy Leigh DeMoss, and Building Relationships with Dr. Gary
Chapman. Wendy lives with her husband, Monty, in Charlotte, North
Carolina and loves most when her two children, Lauren (26) and Bo
(20), come home to visit and fill their home with lots of love and
laughter!
Hosted By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson
Audio Technical Support: Bryce Bengtson