
When the Ground Gives Way
God's divine power has already given us everything we need for life. No achievement can buy it. No reputation can earn it. It isn't reserved for the spiritually elite. We haven't been called to glory and virtue by accide

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Hosted by terryhartikka · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 155 episodes
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God's purpose for life's trials can bring us into our finest hour. Pastor Hartikka has spent over 40 years seeking to make sense out of the hard times. The trial is never about the trial. The Christian life is a journey that leads us to be the best that God has in store for us. Hard times are the canvas upon which He paints a life purpose of victory.
terryhartikka hosts Life Journeys, a religion show with 155 episodes published.

God's divine power has already given us everything we need for life. No achievement can buy it. No reputation can earn it. It isn't reserved for the spiritually elite. We haven't been called to glory and virtue by accide

People think, "I chose God, and yet I still blew it, still looked too long, still gave in again" — and they assume the choice must not have taken. Choosing God set a direction. Your struggle is the curriculum your choice

Heaping guilt on top of an unexplained weakness doesn’t produce holiness – just paranoia. Interrogating yourself for a verdict you were never meant to reach alone robs peace. Don’t let your failures become the facts that

God doesn't usually deliver us in our affliction by handing us an explanation. What He does instead is give us Himself. Some are called into deeper waters not because they've failed more, but because grace has entrusted

Nothing in your life is wasted. God births great glory through earthly trials. When He makes a man, a nation, or a kingdom, it’s formed and proven in the fire. Suffering is not about your sins but works to magnify Christ

You're still weak. You're worthless. That hollow ache of feeling useless in hardship holds a hidden treasure. It's like inhaling supernatural oxygen the moment grace meets us in our pain. Our suffering doesn't define us.

Before time itself had a name, before anything existed, your name was spoken. Your life was seen. God said, this one is mine. Stop pulling the gift apart to comprehend what was given to you in Christ Jesus before time be

Patience is freedom from the tyranny of my world's constant conflict. It’s peace by the supernatural strength of Christ in me…the kind that is only mined out of trials. They aren’t signs of failure, but doors into the po

Why am I here, and does it matter? God has crowned us frail creatures with glory and honor. But the crown was given, not earned, and the path to it runs through the valley. It’s exhausting to author our own worth, to kee

“Behold, all things have become new." It means: stop, look with intention, see what is actually in front of you. The categories by which you have known yourself - your history, shame, accumulated failures, your worst mom

To see Him clearly is to see what I am becoming, to live a life that matters. Primary faith—the faith from which all other faith flows—is simply this: believing in Jesus as the true source of everything my soul was made

We look at the last decade of the things we've broken and what’s broken us — and we use that wreckage to measure our identity. Before you were ever formed — your days were already written down. God said, “This one I’m ma

The character of God defines us not by our origins, not by our biology, not by our worst days or our hardest diagnoses, not by what any man or any darkness has spoken over us - but by what He declared over us before the

On the far side of losing every self-generated source of strength, meaning, and identity — a quiet, stubborn "nevertheless" appears, carrying a life that is simply given rather than earned. What cannot be taken from you

Covetousness runs deeper than mere desire — it is believing that what you have isn’t enough to be whole. Then busyness disguises the hunger for significance as sacrifice and thrives in the noise that misses God's presenc

God is not a restriction but a refuge — that He has offered Himself as your very life, your deepest peace, your truest identity. The heart behind the first commandment turns out to be the Father saying, I will be everyth

Grace is not reactive to your performance. It is the initiative of a love that, having decided you are worth pursuing, declines to be talked out of it by your worst days. Our suffering is not evidence against us. You do

Tribulation precedes restoration. Your suffering is not the ledger of your failure. It is the canvas upon which God is painting a masterpiece of the impossible. Condemnation takes the power of redemption out of God's han

You are not defined by your worst day. Suffering doesn’t disqualify you from glory. Take your cues from above rather than from within the noise of your fears and failures. The same heavens that opened over Jesus have ope

For every obscure, suffering, cave-dwelling saint who ever believed God in the dark: The cave is not a punishment. Sometimes it’s a seminary, the place where God forms what He cannot form in comfort. It can be a place of
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