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363. Lost in Tokyo

The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count

Release Date: 12/26/2025

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🎙️ Faith Fail Fridays: Lost in Tokyo

📖 Scripture

Proverbs 3:5–6 (NIV)
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”

📌 Episode Summary

In this Faith Fail Fridays episode, Rob Skinner shares a memorable (and slightly terrifying) moment from his time in Japan—when a simple sunrise run before preaching turned into getting completely lost in rural Tokyo just minutes before his sermon.

What started as a confident shortcut became a humbling reminder of how easily we can lose our way when we rely on our own understanding instead of God’s direction. Through humor, honesty, and Scripture, Rob draws a powerful spiritual lesson about trust, humility, and slowing down long enough to ask God for guidance.

🔑 Key Takeaways

  • Faith fails often happen when confidence replaces dependence on God

  • Being lost spiritually usually starts with assuming we “know the way”

  • God hasn’t abandoned us—we’ve just stopped asking for direction

  • God is always ready to straighten paths when we turn back to Him

  • Even detours can become lessons that strengthen faith and humility

🔥 Faith Fail Story Highlights

  • A sunrise run before preaching in Japan goes wrong

  • A “shortcut” through a golf course leads to being lost for hours

  • Asking for directions at a 7-Eleven—and hearing the word “far”

  • Sprinting back just in time to preach while the church worried

  • A powerful reminder that preparation includes spiritual direction

🎯 10X Takeaway

A short detour becomes a long disaster when we stop trusting God’s direction.

🙌 Call to Action

If this episode encouraged you, share it with a friend who needs a reminder to slow down, ask God for direction, and trust Him with their path.

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🎧 About the Podcast

The Rob Skinner Podcast exists to help you:

  • Live a no-regrets life

  • Make this life count

  • Multiply disciples, leaders, and churches

Have a great day—and make this life count.