Or maybe it’s glimpsed in the halting but ultimately humble obedience of Naaman, the military commander who suffered with leprosy, as he obeyed the prophet Elisha and bathed seven times in the Jordan River to be healed. She put her hand into the Hand of God with astonishing trust, and her barrel of meal and cruse of oil did not dry up but provided food to sustain her and her son through the famine. What does it mean to “put your hand into the Hand of God?” Perhaps it means exercising the faith of the widow of Zarephath, who used up the last of her meager resources to feed the prophet Elijah. But if you “put your hand into the Hand of God,” I know that, as the poem promises, His guidance “shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.” “Put Your Hand into the Hand of God” Your next steps may well be into the unknown-and indeed, there will be many such thresholds in your life, when much ahead is uncharted. How proud we are of you all!Īnd now, we celebrate the commencement of the rest of your lives. We applaud each of you, and acknowledge that many will have overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to get to this university and persevere to the end of your degree. You are here today because you had the determination and diligence to achieve something tremendous. So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night.Īnd He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day." That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.’ “And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’Īnd he replied: ‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. With our heads and hearts contemplating the magnitude of this moment, I would like to share some words written by the poet Minnie Louise Haskins: Before you stretches a great unknown, an adventure which, I’m sure, inspires equal-parts excitement and trepidation. You came here to grow and learn and work towards the achievement of this very day-I congratulate you on completing the hard-fought climb to this new threshold you stand on now. Now, let’s turn to you -though in many regards I’m also speaking very much to myself. My inadequacies, weaknesses, and lack are painfully clear to me, but I have faith in the patience of my Father, the grace of Jesus Christ, and the tutoring of the Holy Spirit. I am keenly aware that I will need to grow in every conceivable good way to become the servant the Saviour needs me to be. To be an apostle is to be a special witness of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I am going to need them desperately over the next few weeks, months, and indeed years. ![]() But they are also, in this moment, very much for me. God, who is over all, and to whom yesterday’s call is no surprise (however much of a surprise it is to me and certainly to all who know me well) directed me to these messages for you. ![]() I realise now, in the most extraordinary way, that never have I prepared remarks for others that so perfectly fit a moment in my own life. I slept very little last night, as you can well imagine. ![]() Streaming video, study guide, and conversation cards also available.My dear friends, it is a pleasure to be with you here in this beautiful place, and an honor to speak to you on such a significant day in your lives.Īs I prepared thoughts to share with you, of course I never imagined that I would be sharing them on the day when I would be named the newest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. This guide is designed for use with the Get Out of Your Head Video Study (9780310116394), sold separately. Session-by-session helps to guide your group through the study.Walk-through for using each piece of the study: Videos, Study Guide, and Conversation Card Deck.The vision for Get Out of Your Head.Tips for leading your group, and much more. This Get Out of Your Head Leader’s Guide includes: It helps you as the leader to effectively point your group to the overarching theme of each lesson and point them to the themes of each study. This guide serves as a tool to prepare you in leading this Get Out of Your Head study and to encourage you along the way. And from there, the possibilities are endless. But when we submit our minds to Christ, the promises of goodness of God flood our lives in remarkable ways. Our enemy is determined to get in our heads to make us feel helpless, overwhelmed, and incapable of making a difference for the kingdom of God. In Get Out of Your Head, a six-session video-based Bible study, Jennie inspires and equips us to transform our emotions, our outlook, and even our circumstances by taking control of our thoughts.
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