UNREACHED
In Revelation 7, John shares his vision of heaven with members from every tribe, tongue, people and language standing in the throne room before the Lamb.
Yet today there are still over 7,000 unreached people groups around the world.
For the last six years, my family and friends have been on a journey to find, vet and fund the task remaining.
Come journey with us to the ends of the earth as we share the supernatural stories of God at work through the men and women he has called to reach the UNREACHED.
UNREACHED
God's Glory Through Trials: Embracing Suffering in Ministry with Jason Kuhlman
We are back with more amazing stories from our friend Jason Kuhlman (STUMO). We'll introduce you to "1040 Emma," whose unyielding dedication to college students in Tokyo exemplifies how passion and perseverance can overcome cultural barriers. Hear about the establishment of a long-term ministry at Texas State University, creating a legacy of faith and persistence that continues to inspire.
In a tale that truly showcases divine timing, we'll recount an incredible story involving a rural farmer and a book his grandfather received 40 years ago. This narrative not only underscores the importance of being faithful in the moment but also the profound impact of God's plan, often revealed only through time and steadfast belief. You'll be moved by tales of perseverance in ministry, where even the smallest acts of faithfulness can bear fruit long after they were sown, illustrating the vast and often unseen workings of God.
How do we find joy amidst suffering and persecution? Reflect with us on the theology of enduring life's toughest trials with unwavering faith. Through personal stories and biblical reflections, we contrast American Christianity's discomfort with unpopularity against the biblical call to embrace suffering. Finally, we'll explore the powerful concept of understanding God's glory through suffering, urging you to reflect on your role in His mission and the transformative impact of seeing His glory in all aspects of life. Tune in for a deeply inspiring episode that will encourage you to remain steadfast in faith, trusting in God's grand design.
Stick around to hear an inspiring worship song from Clint Hudson and Austin Ridge Worship about God's use of suffering in our lives.
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In Revelation 7, john shares his vision of heaven with members from every tribe, tongue, people and language standing in the throne room before the Lamb. Yet today there are still over 7,000 unreached people groups around the world. For the last six years, my family and friends have been on a journey to find, vet and fund the task remaining. Come journey with us to the ends of the earth as we share the supernatural stories of God at work for the men and women he has called to reach the unreached. Hello friends, welcome back to the Unreached podcast.
Speaker 1:Dustin Elliott here again, as promised, with Jason Kuhlman. If you're like me, you probably were just floored listening to him tell the story of going from college campuses in Texas to the mission field and college campuses in China. The hunger, the thirst. How welcome they were to receive the word, how interested they were. The incredible story of the young man and talking about the five-course meal and somebody prepared that meal. Well, somebody prepared this too, and it just unlocked him right and then rerouted back to the States.
Speaker 1:The emotional turmoil, spiritual warfare, the whole components, all the things that you and your team went through. But that was a few years ago and since then God has blessed you and your wife with two more children. We've got to walk through issues in growing families together, as we both experienced some loss in that regard. We've got to walk through your re-immersion into the college campuses here, your team from China getting immersed in a new college campus that y'all launched into with that team. How interesting that has to be for them. And so let's just trace the path of several of these folks since they've been back. I think some have actually gone back to the mission field since and then a couple couple people that you've been able to actually stay in touch with in china yeah as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's been a lot of life that's happened since you know, that day, you know, probably you know two of the people are back in the 1040 window doing missions full-time from the team, from the team okay and uh, and they went back about a year after and they've been in tokyo, japan, you know, obviously in the heart of the 1040, one of the most unreached countries in the world. A lot of cultural dynamics there as a result, you know, has hindered the gospel there, but they're now married with two kids and the wife, and she's a hero of the faith for me. She graduated from tcu. She went to another closed country in east asia.
Speaker 2:When you talk about the 1040 window, the countries that are left are hard. There's a reason that they're unreached, right and so. But she went and lived in this other closed country right when she graduated from college and one of the guys that I was recruiting to go with me to china. He started dating her and married her. She worked in this really hard country. Then she moved to japan and then she started dating the guy that was on my team. She came to China with me and then, after we came back to the States, she said, man, I, my heartbeat is just for the 1040. And so her and her husband moved back to Japan and continue to serve college students in Tokyo to this day.
Speaker 2:She's a hero of the faith for me. I call her 1040 Emma, because she's decided that she's just going to be there, no matter what.
Speaker 1:God bless her.
Speaker 2:She's learned three languages, loves people like you wouldn't believe, and her husband is equally as passionate and gifted for the kingdom, and so they're still serving the Lord over there. Two of the couples that were with us are at Texas State. One of them is the campus director and he was really the initiator of that team becoming a long-term team at Texas State. When we got to Texas state and the Lord started doing what the Lord was doing, he said man, I'm seeing these, these guys and girls, come to know the Lord and, in good conscience, I can't just step away from that. And so I said well, man, you know, what do you think we should do about it? And he said well, I'm going to, I'm going to move to San Marcos. He said I'm either going to work for Stumo and work for Stumo, or I'm just going to do it. And so he did, and I hired him as the director of Texas state.
Speaker 2:Uh, two of the other couples, or one of the other couples that was on that team, is still there as well, is still there as well. And it's hard because I want to trace down each one and the amazing stories for each of them, but there's so many stories about how the Lord has used them, crazy connections, crazy relationships that they built on the college campus there's so many, I literally don't even know them all just like when jesus says, hey, unless a colonel falls to the wheat, to the ground and dies, it'll remain a single seed. These, these people, died, you know, not physically. They died to their ambitions, they died to their reputation, they died to, uh, the financial security that they thought that they probably were going to have coming out of schools like University of Texas. And they just continue to bear fruit in their life.
Speaker 1:So I love that you got the ministry going at Texas State. Probably a wise call by you to hire the guy and not send him out to start his own thing. Right, yeah, you got good people. It's good to hold on to them. It's a lot harder to bring on new people and train them up a lot more expensive too.
Speaker 1:That's something we deal with in corporate america all the time you know the cost to retain versus the cost to attract, and so I'm really anxious to hear the story of um. I know you stayed connected to a few of the folks that you met and got to work with in China that were nationals that are still there, and we'll just say C to not reveal a full name, but tell us about C.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's probably, you know, he probably became my closest friend while I was in China. Probably, you know, he probably became my closest friend while I was in China. You know, before our team moved, my wife and I got there a couple of weeks ahead of them and so I said, yeah, I'm just going to go to the college campus and I'm just going to explore and, just, you know, be able to have some working model of like what, what it is that we're doing, so I can help coach them. And I walk onto this college campus and there's this guy and he's standing by himself and I thought to myself, you know, I think it was the Holy spirit. He was like, hey, dude, you should go talk to this guy. So I just go up and I say, hey, man, you, you know, you're a college student here. And he's like, yes, you know, I'm a college student. And uh, he's like, well, you know, like, what are you doing here? And uh, I was like, oh, you know, you know, I'm here checking out the college campus. Uh, we, we took some business Chinese on the college campuses, which is, you know, allowed us to to have student visas and be able to communicate. You know, be on the campus and he said well, let me take you around, you know, let me show you everything. And again to the hospitable nature of that culture, he did. He took me around, he showed me the gym, he showed me, you know, the cafeteria, he showed me where the classes were going to be, et cetera.
Speaker 2:Over our eight months in China, he became an amazing friend and probably four months in, I've been sharing the gospel with him several times. And he said, yeah, I want to follow Jesus. And he said, well, I don't know what that's going to mean for me. You know, I'm dating a girl that's not religious. And he said, but I do want to follow him. And so he did. And then he went and told his girlfriend. He said, hey, you know, follow him. And so he did. And then he went and told his girlfriend. He said, hey, you know, I know that you're not religious, but I've decided to follow Jesus. And she said, well, if he's worth following for you, he's worth me exploring. And then she started following Jesus. And about that time is when we had to leave the country. But C was so faithful, loyal, but we've kept up through the years and he now is married to that woman and they love Jesus together and they're raising a family in China with the hope of the gospel and I think for me that's what it's all about and I get into this a lot with.
Speaker 2:We obviously fundraise for our ministry. Obviously, a lot of the probably people listening if you're in missions do the same. People listening if you're in missions do the same.
Speaker 2:I always want the stories to be very compelling, that the gospel is going forward. But at the end of the day, the stories that I tell are always the same. It's literally the same story. A guy didn't know Jesuselt loved, cared for, investigated Jesus, decided to follow Jesus, found hope, peace, joy, contentment and is still following Jesus. And that's it. And that's all I do, and that's all we do, and we just try and do it on the college campus with young people.
Speaker 2:And it's like donors are like, yeah, you know, but like what else? Like how many people come to your weekly meeting? And it's like, dude, all I got is the same story over and over and over again for 17 years. But when you do that for 17 years, those stories you know, those kids become parents and those, their kids now follow Jesus and it's generational, you know those, those kids become parents, and those, their kids now follow jesus. And it's generational, you know, and, and so I guess maybe that's some encouragement to any missionary that's out there that feels like it's slow or it should be moving faster, you know, is it's like hey, no, you keep sailing that ship in the same direction, year after year for a lifetime. You keep building relationships, telling people about Jesus, and one day you'll look up and you'll say, man, I cannot believe what the Lord did. But if you look up in six months you're probably thinking to yourself not much happened. And that's just the reality of the gospel. We're plotters.
Speaker 1:How do you put some context or perspective around the concept of you're not going to be the only step on their journey? Right, so you got to plant seeds, you got to see some fruit and then you had to leave. Right, and even in the context of our neighbor in our neighborhood in Texas or someone we meet at work, and just an interaction where something difficult happens and you get to just talk with them, pray with them, invite them to church, invite them to a Bible study or a life group or let them see something different, but, like you may not be there for all the steps you weren't there for the previous steps, You're not going to be there for possibly years and all of their lives, and then, like, maybe at some point in the future, there's a reconnecting point and it's like listen to what's gone on in my life since then. Yeah, right, how do you process that for us? Yeah, you know, being faithful to your step in that journey, yeah, totally.
Speaker 2:And the Apostle Paul, you know, talks about that. You know there was a lot of dissension early on through hey, who are you really a disciple of? And Paul planted the seed, apollos watered it, but only God can make it grow. And you don't know where you're at in that journey and what you're coming into and bringing this back to China. I remember one of the components of one of our partner missionary groups is that they gather information for groups that put together data of what's left to be done in the Great Commission, and so they are given names of people, groups, and they're like, hey, we don't know where these people are, we don't know if there's any believers, we don't know, you know anything. And so I was designated, uh, the luohu people of china, and they're, you, you know, in the Kunming province and in the mountains and kind of hard to get to. And uh, and they didn't know if there was any believers there or not. And they just said, hey, you know, go find them. And so we go and we're up in the mountains, off grid.
Speaker 1:So you've been part of one of these search teams. Yeah, yeah, that is awesome. By the way the crab trees talked about it, the rimstads have talked about it on the podcast and these groups that go out before and they kind of survey and they ask questions and they get to know and they ladle in and map it out.
Speaker 2:You've done that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's amazing, you know. But you know it's a faith journey because you don't know if you're going to find them or not. You, you are given a general area and it's like, hey, just go find them. And so you're praying a lot, you're asking the Lord to guide you and anyway, we, we, we went in, uh, and we came across this older man and and uh, and we said, yeah, you know, we're looking for Luohu people. And he said, well, you know, there's a, there's a man that lives about five kilometers, that way that he's Luohu and, uh, I can point you and walk with you. I mean, this guy's like probably 85 and he's like I'll just walk with you.
Speaker 2:Again, hospitable culture oh and so he walks us there and I meet this guy, he's, he's farming, uh, in the middle of the mountains. And you know, here these westerners are walking up. Probably never, you know, had a Westerner just roll up on your house in the middle of nowhere. And he comes out and, uh, and we say, hey, you know, I've I've. I said I've been looking for you. And I said you're a little, are you low? And he's like, yeah, I'm low. And uh, he said you've been looking for me. He said why have you been looking for me? And uh, I said, uh, man, I have a story. I have a story that I think that you will really want to hear. And he said you'll be my guest tonight, you'll stay with me. And again, you know, this is a rural farmer, not wealthy. Um, he says, hey, you're going, gonna stay with me.
Speaker 2:And that night they made a feast and over that feast he's like tell me the story. And so I start talking about jesus and who he is, and how he came for the luo, who people and how he came for this man, and he said hey, let me stop you for a second. And he goes upstairs and he brings down like a book that's wrapped in like a handkerchief. And he said, hey, is this what's in this book? Okay? And I said, yeah, that's what's in that book.
Speaker 2:And he said 40 years ago a man stopped by our house and gave us this book to my grandfather and I've always wondered what was in this book. Come on. So to that point of what you're asking is it's like you don't know what God is doing. You don't know all the different roads that are going to converge into one moment. You don't know if you're going to plant the seed, you don't know if you're going to water it, you don't know if you're going to get to see it grow. But I think to your point is it's being faithful with the moment and then saying, man, what is God doing here, and do I press?
Speaker 2:in or do I say, hey, that's just a seed I'm going to plant and then I'm going to hope that the Lord brings fruition to that? I mean, that's a 40-year experience between those gaps and, honestly, I forgot the story until we just started talking about it. But I think that is how it works every day with your neighbor, with your coworkers, with your kids, with your parents whose kids play on your kids' athletic team. It's like, hey, I don't have to be everything for everyone. I'm going to set out to share the gospel and I am available to be that. I'm available to see someone come to know the Lord. I'm going to be available to help them mature in their faith. But I'm also not expecting that that is always going to happen, right, because if you are, you also just get really discouraged in ministry.
Speaker 1:The scoreboard can't be the outcome.
Speaker 2:No doubt.
Speaker 1:No, just your faithfulness. That's right. And goodness gracious man, tears are in my eyes and I've got goosebumps. It reminds me of another story that was told on the pod, where you know the missionary group. They go to the people group. They realize that none of them are gifted in translation. They're so worried about who's going to translate into this language. And they get involved and they meet a guy like this guy and he's like well, you don't need to translate, because 30 years ago this couple from Finland came here and they spent 10 years and they translated the Bible. So then they looked them up, called them and they're like hey, we're here with this people group. And they just broke down crying.
Speaker 1:And they're like we just that was a season in our life. We weren't the right people to stay there. We had to go for reasons out and we've been praying for three decades that somebody would show back up to finish that work. And there you are. Totally Like those stories, jason. That is just so good. I'm glad that one came out that goes in your book. Don't forget that one when you write your book.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a story about a man who went to be a missionary and he gave years of his life to it and he said man, you know, the Lord's just not working here. You know spiritual oppression, spiritual warfare in his own life, felt isolated and he's like man, god's just not doing anything here, comes back to the States, deconstructs his faith, basically says man, you know, I was a byproduct of evangelical America, should have never been a missionary. Someone came to him and said, hey, do you know what happened after you left? He's like no, he's like hey, one of the young kids came to know the Lord. He grew up, he led the whole tribe to Christ.
Speaker 2:And I think about that all the time. Of just how many missionaries and how many we don't even have to say missionaries how many believers are just discouraged hey, what I'm doing doesn't matter. I wish I could do more, I wish God would do more. Is God even working? And it's like man we are Viewing With such limited perspective that you can have no idea what a lifetime of faithfulness can produce, and I think that's just how God works.
Speaker 1:We're reading AW Tozer Knowledge of the Holy in D Group right now. So we just got out of Screwtape Letters and we're in the seven holies and we're in. And if you've never read that book, that's another one I would put on your list. It was written 70, 75 years ago. It's an incredibly applicable sort of day.
Speaker 1:But basically he walks through the attributes of God but he starts out the book by just making a point and shining light on how we've minimized God in our culture and just how great and grand and huge and awesome and powerful God is.
Speaker 1:And to live in the fear of the Lord is something that gets a little lost, I think, in just the weekly sermon routines of a lot of churches and the weekly kind of daily routine of American Western life. We need to regain that. I mean we've got a worship pastor sitting next to us that puts his hands up and puts his heart into songs and brings up the body to worship the king and get their hearts ready to receive the word, and I'm grateful for Clint and Amber and everyone on our team here. We do a beautiful, beautiful job. Regain that awe, yeah Right. Recapture that just majesty of the author and creator of the universe, the man who prepared the meal Yep, and is preparing a feast in heaven for all of these folks who are downstream of all of the faithfulness of the various missionaries and folks in the marketplace and everyday Christ followers that are just out there doing life and participating in their role and reaching the unreached.
Speaker 2:I think that that's it. You know the awe of the Lord and you know maybe this is my own journey with the Lord, so it might not be for everyone. But I think another piece is the theology of suffering and persecution and, like as a believer, you know the word says everyone who wishes to live a godly life will be persecuted. And I think in American Christianity it can become hey, if you're not liked, you're too extreme. Hey, what does the word say about suffering when you go through hard times, when you go through disappointment? What does the word say about persecution in your own life? And what role does that have on the mission field? And what role does that have in the marketplace? And what role does that have in our view as we engage this world? And, and largely speaking I would say, the greatest sermons are going to be the sermons that our lives preach when we're going through the worst times.
Speaker 1:When you think biblically about the theology of suffering. Okay, so the first place I go is James one, you know, consider it pure joy when troubles of any kind come your way, for when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow right. When it's fully developed right, you're fully mature and complete, needing nothing To have a concept to live by, a concept of such heavenly focus that I can be joyful in the hardest times because God is refining me and preparing me and maturing me and building my endurance to get me ready for the seasons ahead, to know that that's part of what my story needs to go through and that I love him for taking me through. That is so counter-cultural, it is so counter-intuitive. It is not the American dream Totally. It's not even the version of China of you know, believing in self.
Speaker 1:There was a guy in my office last week, engineered Apple, from India, hindu, and he thinks we're going to talk about stock options and I first thing I go to is man, are you, are you Hindu? Are you practicing your faith? Tell me about you, know what God you're working with and how does it work for you, and tell me about you know family and it was an arranged marriage and he walked me through that conversation and and then he gets into the gods and he's like you know, our gods are kind of who you want them to be. Right, you know, if you're going through something, you kind of pick a god that suits that narrative for that time in your life and if you're looking to do something else, you find the God that's kind of dealing with that and you just form your gods to your need and I just think, man, that is so little g, that is so little g gods, man, that is so. There's no awe and power and creator in a God that you can form, in a God that's a vending machine that you can just go put a dollar in and hit a button and get out what you kind of need in that moment. And even taking the little G gods out of it and just looking at, looking to self, I mean you put all your faith and trust and hope in yourself or in your spouse or in the development and success of your kids or any other.
Speaker 1:Counterfeit God, false idol Shout out, tim Keller, right. Counterfeit gods you put it in any of those. We're going to let ourselves down. I let myself down all the time and I am steadfastly trying to get up and die to self and get in my Bible and do this rhythm the right way and constantly, daily, let myself down. Right, if I was relying on myself, this would be a lot different story over the last 10 years of my life. Right, and so I just contextually, with the listeners processing this he's just a better captain of your ship than you are, no doubt, and if you're allowing him to be, then you're therefore a better guide for those coming into your life as well than if they're relying on you.
Speaker 2:Even as you were talking, you know, I'm just, I was thinking about this story from China Again, the story that I forgot. But uh, you know, when we moved into our apartment, we moved into a building with probably 10,000 people and they're old and they're not, they're not greatly constructed, the apartments, not the people. Yeah, the apartments, uh, the people are greatly constructed. And uh, but you know, we had our, our newborn, in his room and you, you know, it was probably a 850 square foot apartment and I noticed that there was, there was like black Coming off of the air conditioner, like on the wallpaper, oh, and the bed covered the floor when that black led down. And so I pulled the bed back and there was just mold All through this floor, I mean just everywhere. And I, I pulled the bed back and there was just mold all through this floor, I mean just everywhere. And I mean we'd been letting our newborns sleep in this room.
Speaker 2:And I called my landlord and of course, you know, in America, you, your landlord's job is to help keep you happy, uh, but in China, you know, it's kind of your job as the tenant to make your landlord's life easier. I didn't know that and so I said, hey, there's mold growing all in the wall and on the floor of this room and our and our baby's in there. And she said, no, you know it's, it's fine. And uh, and I'm like you know, my, my Western mind is like no, it's, you know, it's not fine. You need, like you need, to make this right, but that's just not the worldview.
Speaker 2:And so I went and I got bleach and I went to a local AC place and I remember I ripped off the wallpaper and there was just mold all over the place and I'm just scrubbing this concrete wall and I'm literally saying to myself out loud my wife thinks I'm crazy, but I'm saying, consider it pure joy when you face trials of many kinds. And I remember telling that story to my team and I'm like, man, you know, I got this baby, I'm protecting, I'm trying to be protected, I'm trying to be a good dad here. You know, create a safe spot for him. I'm nervous about this mold and and the you know the Lord kind of does this.
Speaker 2:And and so many of our team members have come back to me and said, hey, that was one of the things from our time in China that I remember the most was when you said hey, I'm going to consider it pure joy to face trials of many kinds. And so I think to your point. You know, these moments are the moments that will define, and people are watching and they're wanting to know how are you engaging the world and do you really believe what, the, what the word says? And inside I was fuming, but at least externally, you know, I was trying to hold onto the word yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, emotions are not always straightforward. Yeah, they can be very complex, they can be multifaceted, but what we choose to, in fact, one of the things we love to say at the Ridge is respond. Respond to God, don't react to the person, but we choose to respond with and show externally. People are watching, we all have influence. We're not influencers in terms of a social media account, but we all have influence and people are watching how we handle situations, especially if you're presenting yourself as a follower of Christ man. I so appreciate you staying on and doing two episodes with us. I so appreciate the time.
Speaker 1:I would like to bring this back to Stumo, the organization. How does it operate? You brought up a question you get a lot which is I mean, what do you do? You just go hang out at the college campus and run into a kid and, hey, you know anything about Jesus. I mean, we don't know the framework of how this goes down. So give us the framework and the strategy. How do you engage with your team? How do you disciple your team? Give us a little glimpse into that.
Speaker 2:I would say that Stumo is just heavily engaged in the Great Commission through the building of leaders. In the beginning of Genesis, the first command that God gave to mankind was go and be fruitful and multiply. I would make the argument that that has always been the command that is consistent with the great commission, and so the first command that God gave mankind being go, be fruitful and multiply. What was he saying? Did he just want more people? It's like no Adam and Eve. They looked and walked like Jesus and he wanted more of them.
Speaker 2:And then sin entered the world and it distorted it.
Speaker 2:And so then you have Jesus coming back to restate that message hey, go and make disciples of all nations.
Speaker 2:What he's saying is I want more followers of me, and heaven in the book of revelation is going to be the culmination of people that live and came to know the Lord through that. And so to me, that's the most purposeful thing of your entire life, is getting that baseline of like hey, whether you are a marketplace leader, a ministry worker, a missionary, is seeing people come to know Jesus and help them mature is the most important thing. Now, with Stumo, that's what we do full-time as profession. You know, largely speaking, I would say majority of our ministry is spent with, in the early stages of people who don't follow Jesus, and or maybe they have some church background but they are navigating if they want that to be true of their life, and so we enter in, we throw our arm around him and we just say, hey, you know, if Jesus says that I came to give life, and life to the full, are you experiencing that, and what would it look like to follow him and experience that?
Speaker 1:So, understanding that framework, how, how do the listeners get involved? How do they engage with Stumo If they feel like they want to support, they want to partner, they want to learn more from the ministry, what do they do?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, uh, you know we have a website, stumoorg S-T-U-M-O, s-t-u-m-oorg. We have 300 people that work full-time on the college campuses, uh, on about 38 different college campuses across the United States. We probably have another couple hundred in on the mission field the mission field in the 1040 window, and so, if it's stirred your heart and you'd like to learn more about one of those campuses or about some of those staff, all those staff individually fundraise and so their salary is paid by individual donors that contribute to their monthly salary and to their ministry expenses that allows them to go out and work with those college students.
Speaker 1:Perfect For the listeners, who usually end in a prayer. We were just talking about some of the worship songs here at the Ridge, and you Won't Waste Suffering just is on top of mind right now, and so, rather than end in prayer for the second episode, we're just going to tee that up and share that song with you, and my prayer would be that it does stir something in your heart and you find a new way to engage in your role in the Great Commission. Thanks, jason, thank you guys.
Speaker 3:Sometimes faith is just an ember. Sometimes hope is just a glimmer In the darkest night. Lord, shine your light. When your plans call for surrender and then my doubt. It spreads like cancer. When I'm afraid, lord, give me songs of praise.
Speaker 4:You're not shaken by darkness or the pain that it causes. There is no measure to what you can do. So let my story bring glory to you. You work through everything. You won't waste suffering, and I'm at my weakest when pain takes hold and won't relinquish Through tear-stained eyes. Lord, give me sight to see. You're not shaken by darkness or the pain that it causes. There is no measure to what you can do. So let my story bring glory to you. You work through everything. You work through everything. You won't waste suffering. Every moment of every season, I can know that your glory is for my good when there's nothing and when there's plenty. I can trust that your glory is for my good In the valley or on the mountain. I can see that your glory is for my good From beginning to the ending. I will sing that your glory is for my good my God.
Speaker 3:So when questions arise, I'll be dependent.
Speaker 4:Though sorrows rage my joy, I'm lifted. When the hurt is deep, still, I will stay. You're not shaken by darkness, no, all the pain that it causes. There is no measure to what you can do. So let my story bring glory to you. You work through everything. You work through everything. You won't waste suffering.
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