What If Being Still Is The Bravest Choice

About this episode

The episode explores the contrast between striving through willpower and embracing willingness and surrender with God.

Striving can look like faithfulness on the outside while it quietly drains you on the inside. We sit with a sharper question: are we living by willpower and control, or are we being invited into willingness and surrender with God? We open with grace guidelines, prayer, and a guided contemplation that leads us into the “inner room,” that secret place where Psalm 91 becomes personal. As the group shares what they notice, the theme gets practical fast: the Judge shows up, comparison creeps in a...

People in this episode

Host: Donald E. Coleman

Topics covered

• faithfulness
• surrender
• inner peace
• guided contemplation
• comparison
• willpower

Keywords

• faithfulness
• surrender
• guided contemplation
• Psalm 91
• inner room
• comparison
• willpower

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Psalm 91

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