Surrender To God - James 4:7
The Anna Szabo Show
Biblical faith requires strength from us. Don’t be strong in your own power, be strong in Christ. To be strong during hard times, you must surrender your own power, admit that you are weak, and ask God for help because in your weakness His strength is displayed and perfected.
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Do Not Fear - Isaiah 41:10
The Anna Szabo Show
In this Biblical devotional for Christian women today, I’ll help you examine YOUR fears and show you how confronting them courageously allows God to not only work IN you but also THROUGH you spiritually. This original and authentic Biblical devotional "Do Not Fear - Isaiah 41:10" will encourage and empower you with God’s truth as we apply it practically to real-life experiences of fear and anxiety we all go through as His disciples and daughters.
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Have No Fear of Sudden Disaster - Proverbs 3:25
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In today’s Biblical devotional for Christian women, we will ponder Proverbs 3:25-26 and its practical application in our daily lives: “Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin, for the Lord will be at your side and will keep your foot from being trapped.” I will share with you an example from my life of how I stay mentally strong in the midst of a global pandemic, nationwide unemployment, and an economic crisis.
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Guard Your Heart - Proverbs 4:23
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In today’s Biblical devotional for Christian women, we will ponder Proverbs 4:23 and its practical application in our daily lives. I will share with you how I personally guard my heart and how I realized the deadly implications of leaving my heart unguarded, defenseless, unprotected, and exposed.
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Keep Your Foot from Evil - Proverbs 4:27
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Examine Proverbs 4:27 “Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.” What do you need to avoid pursuing God in your life?
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Let Your Eyes Look Straight Ahead - Proverbs 4:25
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Ponder Proverbs 4:25 with me: how to fix your gaze directly before you and not let distractions rob you of your purpose; how to do what God called you to do, stay focused, and let your eyes look straight ahead AnnaSzabo.com/proverbs-425
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Pray without Ceasing - 1 Thessalonians 5:17
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In this Biblical devotional for Christian women today, we will ponder 1 Thessalonians 5:17 and how to pray without ceasing. At the end of my message, I will pray for you to lift you up to God and ask for His peace, protection, provision, and promotion in your life. I will share with you how and why I pray unceasingly in all situations.
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Honor Your Father and Mother - Exodus 20:12
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Ponder this Biblical devotional for Christian women on the topic of Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and mother.” How do we do it? I explain with some helpful real-life examples.
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Trust in the Lord - Proverbs 3:5
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Learn how to trust in the Lord with all your heart, as Proverbs 3:5 instructs Christian women. Discover how to lean on Him, not your own understanding. Hear my testimony: https://onlinediscipleshipforwomen.com/trust-in-the-lord-proverbs-3-5
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Take Every Thought Captive - 2 Corinthians 10:5
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“Take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” - 2 Corinthians 10:5
info_outlineHave you ever doubted if God is good? I have, many time. I want to share with you my 8 objections to God's goodness, why I still believe God is good, and the 5 reasons why God allows suffering. Access episode notes at https://onlinediscipleshipforwomen.com/god-is-good/
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Let me share with you my eight reasons for why God is not great.
I experienced severe childhood abuse
How can a good God allow a little innocent girl to be abused, beaten, yelled at daily, neglected, unloved, abandoned, and blamed for being born? How can God be good and allow her to be dressed up by her crazy mother as a boy and be called a boy’s name? How can a good God allow her to suffer? Why does God allow suffering?
I was hated by my mother who wished me death
How can a good God allow a mother to tell her daughter straight in the eye regularly: “I hate you and I just want you dead!” Can God possibly be called “good” when He allowed a little, precious, defenseless Russian girl to be threatened by her mother with suicide, describing in detail how the mother would hang herself on the kitchen chandelier and write a letter that it was the child’s fault? Why does God allow evil?
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I was fatherless and rejected for that
How can a good God allow a precious child be fatherless, be called “fatherless,” be rejected even by her own grandma for being fatherless, and wait every day, month after month, year after year for her father to show up on her birthday in January, pop out of the white thick Russian snow with a teddy bear and a box of chocolates and love her? Can a good God allow such unimaginable pain? It’s pure evil. Why does God allow evil?
I was brainwashed by my mother who addicted me to sex and alcohol
Can a good God allow an innocent girl to be used by her mother for her sexual needs and get addicted to sex through brainwashing and identity hijacking by her insane mother? How can a good God allow something so terrible to happen? Why so much suffering? Why does God allow suffering?
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I was raped twice
How can a good God allow a teen girl to be sexually violated by multiple men multiple times? Just how and why? Why does God allow evil?
I was impregnated as a teen and had a miscarriage
How can a good God allow a teen student to go through an unexpected pregnancy and experience miscarriage? Why? Why does God allow evil?
I was lured to a foreign country and enslaved
How can a good God allow a young woman with big dreams and good heart to be lured into a marriage with a foreigner who abused her, enslaved her, kept her in captivity, and eventually nearly killed her? How can a good God allow her to become homeless, hopeless, and helpless in a foreign country, without speaking the language?
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My list of the records of wrongs by God goes on. I promise you. Why does God allow suffering? There’s a lot I don’t understand.
But here’s the biggest one…
I was manipulated by a cruel Narcissist into a suicidal depression and almost died
How can a good God allow His faithful servant, a woman dedicated to Him wholeheartedly, be taken advantage of by Satan himself? How can God be good and allow her such a cruel brush with death? Why does God allow evil? God is not great. Right?
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Here’s the truth: we don’t know what “good” means.
What is “good?”
Is God Good?
To answer this question, we must first define “good.”
The Dictionary has two completely different definitions of “good.” We must explore them both in order to continue discerning whether or not He is good.
Good is that which is morally right; righteousness.
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Good is whatever is morally right? Hmmm…
Let’s see: what IS morally right?
Is it morally right for a man to sleep with multiple women?
Whatever your opinion, there are cultures that define “morally righteous” completely oppositely of what you think: some defend polygamy even today in the United States of America, some despise polygamous lifestyle and defend monogamy.
Here’s another one: is childhood labor morally righteous?
Whatever your opinion, there are cultures that defend the point of view completely opposite of yours. I grew up working really hard, I mean dangerous physical labor that caused my spine to look like a letter “S.” Some cultures use children for heavy labor and some don’t. Which perspective is “righteous?”
Are children-brides ok?
Is it ok to force girls to marry old men and give birth at 10 years old?
Some cultures defend it as “morally righteous” and some fight against this very concept.
So, WHO defines what is “morally righteous?”
It’s extremely subjective.
And what IS “morally righteous?”
You see, we define “good” when it comes to God by our own measure of what is “morally righteous.”
Yet, the standards for “moral righteousness” are extremely subjective and not universally defendable.
So, the entire argument about whether or not what God allows to happen is “morally righteous” is a failed argument because there are no universally agreed-upon standards for moral righteousness among humans.
In other words, until we as humans evolve to the point of consciousness where we all and each of us collectively, undoubtedly agree regarding what is “morally righteous” when it comes to the standards by which we judge God, we can’t answer the question about His goodness logically.
There’s another definition of “good.”
Good means having the qualities required for a particular role.
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To judge if our creator is “good” from the perspective of this definition, we need to know for sure what qualities are required for the role of being God, the sovereign king of the entire universe, omnipresent, everlasting, and all-knowing.
Do you know what qualities are required to be God?
If you do, how do you know?
Who coined the definition of the qualities required to be God?
Who would be judging whether or not God has the qualities required to be God?
These all are self-defeating questions.
Because you and I aren’t omnipresent, ever-lasting, and all-knowing, we don’t know at least two things:
- What qualities are required to play the role of God
- Whether or not God has the qualities required to play the role of God
Well, if we don’t know at least these two fundamental basics, we can’t discern.
So, we can’t know if He is good.
We aren’t equipped or qualified to judge God.