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Today on Bold Steps Weekend with Mark Jobe, you'll discover how God's bigger picture becomes clear when you begin to raise your passion level for Him. You'll learn how to rise in order to live your best life yet. As Pastor Mark begins this message by recapping last week's message, he'll be turning to the book of 1 Samuel chapter 16.

When things don’t go our way, we usually go away from God.  We don’t come to church.  We don’t read our Bibles.  We don’t pray.  We don’t get involved in the things of God.  When things don’t go our way, we usually pout, doubt, and we walk out. ...

The people we read about in Hebrews 11 had their faith “pinned down.” In other words, they didn’t have a faith that did not trust God when things looked like they weren’t going to go the way that they wanted them to go. Learn more about this on today’s Treasured Truth.

God may not do things the way we want Him to do them.  He may not do them when we want Him to do them.  But, He is always faithful and will do them according to His will and always with our best interests in mind.

Many of us become frustrated and defeated—ready to give up, give in, and go back, rather than to go on—simply because things did not go our way. We believed that it was going to happen a certain way, and it didn’t. So now, we’re ready to go back to where we know God does not want us to be.

When things don’t go our way, we should quit looking around us and start looking ahead.  We may find ourselves in the midst of a mess, but if we look ahead, we can be reminded of how God is going to take us where He plans for us to be.

There’s no doubt everyone one of us can think of a time when the Lord used a trial in our lives to teach us something of value. But in our most trying moments, it’s easy to forget that there are lessons to be learned. On today's Faith & Finance Live, host Rob West will welcome Chris Fabry to talk about learning through life’s...