Weathering The Storm Part 3

Imperfectly Human: A Transparent Walk With Mr. Daley

David and Terrence touch on 3 questions that you need to ask yourself in order to weather your personal storms!
1. How do I change my perception of the storm?
2. How do I remind myself of God’s authority over the storm and the authority that he has given to me?
3. What is the storm trying to remove in me?

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Weathering The Storm Part 3

[00:00:00] David: [00:00:00] Imperfectly human is number 32 in feed spots, top 90 Christian podcast. But we'd like to be number one. Here's what you can do to help go to your favorite streaming platforms. Yeah. The one that you listen to this podcast on and hit that subscribe button, then use the social icons on that platform to share it with your friends and family and everyone that, you know, We appreciate your support and we'll see you at the top.

Welcome back to week three of the imperfectly human per podcast series on, uh, you see, I was you.

I did that.

Yeah. Welcome back to week three of our series on weathering the storm. Uh, this week, we're going to be talking about the application. So how did you weather the storm? What do you need to do to continue to survive that storm? Before we get into where we want to shout out our listeners on Apple podcasts, Google [00:01:00] podcasts, breaker cheering in Amazon music Audible Pandora.

Um, What's that one. Y'all you guys go over this? I don't feel well. I don't think we were on Sirius XM, Sirius XM fam or whatever.

Terrence: [00:01:25] Well, it is,

David: [00:01:30] but yeah, no shout out to everyone and shout out to them, to you guys on YouTube. We appreciate you watching and tuning in weekly. Um, we hope you enjoy this series. Um, and as we said, we're going to dive right into the application. So, uh, you know, what's her send me, let me, let me go first and I'm bringing it up.

So, um, the first one, so yeah. First part. So the application, so how do we weather the storm well first things first. So [00:02:00] how do, how do I change my perception of the storm?

Terrence: [00:02:06] Alright, so

David: [00:02:07] now I'm gonna let you go. Yeah, I'm gonna let you go.

Terrence: [00:02:10] Okay. So. When you break down perception, perception is all about sight. And so it's what you see, but also from past experiences, what you observe and then you anticipate.

So in order to change your position of the storm, you have to one have a background that's rooted, not in your own experience, but in God's word. And then your sight has to change, which you can see to then what God is trying to show you. And I think if you can change those to what you remember behind you, but like what's informing instead of you informing your sight, [00:03:00] you let God's word inform your sight.

And instead of you looking at what you can see tangibly say like, Lord, show me what this is. Supposed to teach me, show me, change in me or whatever, because I felt, I knew how to use my eyes, but I don't. So you then show me what this is supposed to do, not to me, but through me and for me.

David: [00:03:33] So that's kind of how that's good.

That's good. So I think, um, what kind of, what kind of hit me when you were saying that was, um, something some myself and my wife were watching, um, Uh, YouTube. Uh, um, and she was just talking about her therapy. She was cause she [00:04:00] talking about, she was being transparent about being in therapy because she suffered from, um, anxiety and panic attacks.

And, um, so when it would come, she would start to feel overwhelmed and then the adrenaline would start to go and she would start to feel. The fight or flight response kicking in. Um, and her therapist said to her, remind, you know, remind yourself that you are not in any physical danger and. By breathing and slowing down and taking a breath and in and breathing, you start to remind your body that actually there is no physical danger anywhere around me, calm down, stop the adrenaline, slow it all down and take control back.

And it's kinda this, it kinda made me think of [00:05:00] that. And, um, when we're in the midst of the storm, We need to stop panicking. It's kind of again, it's like they say when, um, Oh, um, I'm going to come back to this. I'm gonna come back to this man. I've got this from um I've got this from a show called in contempt.

I'm gonna come back to this, but yeah, it's that kind of stop panicking. Stop panicking and slow down and breathe and calm down and realize that the storm is not there to destroy you. The storm is there to change you. Now, when we start to realize that it's not, if we, once we start to, to, once we stop the panicking.

That perception shift can happen a lot [00:06:00] easier because panicking, we panic because we feel we're in danger. We panic because like we said, we don't want the devastation to be exposed, but sometimes it's a bit like, um, it's a bit like when you see, I used to watch extreme, extreme makeover home edition. And they go rebuild the house for people and you see the trail of destruction.

And then all of a sudden, two days later, three days later, you see this beautiful, remodeled house. That was way better than what was there before. But the pain had to come. The destruction had to come. Then the devastation had to happen. The storm had to pass through and tear down what was so ropey and weak so that something stronger and new could be built.

And that's [00:07:00] sometimes that's what we have to remember that this storm is not there to, you know, yes, the storm will leave a trail of destruction or devastation, but that devastation will clear away and make way for something strong and new. And, um, the thing that I was going to come back to was, um, They say when, um, people are drowning, they were talking to this lifeguard and they were like, Oh, so describe it.

And they say most lifeguards drown. Um, not when they're trying to save people because the people panicking. When the lifeguard gets there, they push the life guard down involuntarily. So this isn't on purpose, it's involuntary and they pushed the lifeguard down, trying to keep themselves from drowning and they have to try and get, they have to approach them from behind and help them [00:08:00] calm down so that they can shift that perception.

Of their danger so that they can see that they are no longer in danger, but. They're going to make it, they got help. And again, that's us. If we can stop flailing around and waving around arms around like a crazy person and see that in the eye of the storm, in the midst of it, once we get into the center of it, we are in the calmest part.

We are in the presence of God and we have help to survive and weather that storm. And that storm too will pass.

Terrence: [00:08:37] Y...