Ep 229 Hope in God (Sometimes We Forget Who Our God Is) with Julie Sunne

We all have a story to tell and when we tell it, we can encourage someone else who may need to know and trust God a little bit more.

Julie Sunne expected certain things from God and when they didn't happen, she realized she didn't really know this God she was raised to believe in. Married 36 years, a mother of 4, Julie experienced 5 miscarriages and 4 live births in a stretch of 8 years. Their third child and only girl, Rachel, was diagnosed as intellecturally disabled and will need to be cared for her entire life. Rachel, age 26 but developmentally only age 3, continues to teach Julie about trusting and knowing God in his entierty. 

Julie's book points our minds and hearts to God and you'll want to get one for yourself and anyone you know who is struggling with hope. She's giving away a copy this week so be sure to comment here or on social media for your name to be entered. 

SOMETIMES I FORGET: 60 REMINDERS OF HOPE FOR YOUR HARD DAYS, a concise and helpful devotional to direct our minds and hearts to the nature of God. As Julie says, we don't just wish for something, we hope in God who is immutable and never-changing. 

In the pages of this book, you will discover:

--more about who God is

--how God relates to us as His children

--why we can believe God’s promises

--truths to remember

--a simple, yet meaningful way to pray through the valleys

Life will throw you curveballs, but in the character of God lies hope. Because of who God is, you can trust
Him in your most desperate moments.

 

Some gems from our conversation:

• When God didn't answer my prayers, I just felt that his blessings pertained to other people, not me. 
• I had to learn that my expectations of God were not always his plan for me and thereby, not his best for me as well. 
• The main cure for "forgetting Who God is" is to read the Word of God which reminds us who we can trust. 
• We will never completely understand the ways of God so we have to get to a point where we surrender ourselves completely to God.
• We can't just take one attribute of God without all the rest as one nature, perfect and unchanging, loving and almighty. 
• My legacy is to trust my hard places to the Lord and surrender my understanding to His. 

 

Follow Julie at juliesunne.com.