Loving The Fight Marriage Podcast

Episode 158 | Call on God and He Will Answer

• Travis Rosinger and Dawn Rosinger

Share episode

Talking to an old friend can be so helpful and needed, especially when you are feeling disconnected from others or troubled by something difficult in your life. Why is that someone who knows us so well can soothe our pain or bring hope as they provide encouragement about who we are and what we are capable of? Why? It's because they know us so well, maybe better than anyone else. God is the same way. He knows you better than anyone. He made you. Just like you can call or text an old friend and they will be there for you, you can also do the same with God . He is always available and always ready to hear from you and speak words of love to your soul, words of encouragement and life.

Join hosts Travis and Dawn Rosinger as they remind us all about the availability of God in a world that offers almost everything instantly along with filling your schedule with an overwhelming amount of possible activities. Distractions abound but God is the one source where you can draw your attention to bringing peace, faith and joy. This episode will remind you of the importance of connecting with God!

Travis and Dawn Rosinger are the Loving The Fight Marriage Podcast Hosts and Authors of the books, Verbalosity - 7 Steps to a Verbally Generous and More Fulfilling Marriage and their newest book, Gripping -  What Matters Most | A Life and Relationships That Hold on to You

For more information about Travis and Dawn Rosinger go to Loving The Fight

Dawn Rosinger:

Well, hey, welcome back to the loving the fight marriage podcast. My name is Don and I'm sitting here with my husband and my co-host, travis.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, I'm here and we do want to welcome all of you that listen on a regular basis, but those of you that have never listened to me for we are so glad you're tuning in today- I know we are living Minnesota so we talk about the weather quite often, but something just crazy unique happened just two days ago.

Dawn Rosinger:

We hit a record high in the month of October. So October 1st, what did it hit? 90 degrees. 90 degrees, that does not happen.

Travis Rosinger:

That actually broke a record. It hasn't happened since 1880. I mean, we're talking like 140 years, and you know it was starting to get cool. And then instantly summer came back. Summer part two.

Dawn Rosinger:

You know what we call that? What we call that bonus days, bonus play days like recess days where we could be outside. I went for a nice long walk tonight. It was just beautiful outside and we've been running every morning. Still, it hasn't been cold, actually, it's been been warm. I've been just wearing a short safe shirt.

Travis Rosinger:

It's been incredible. Yeah, it's like summer at 530 in the morning when we go running, and today over my lunch break I ate, you know, in our lunch area, but then I went out to my car and I just sat there for like 40 minutes in this like 88 degree weather. I love that feeling. It was amazing.

Dawn Rosinger:

So something really cool happened today. I was on my walk and I realized that I had pre-ordered a book on Audible well over a month ago and it was. It came out October 3rd. I was like no way, today is the day it came out, that's true.

Dawn Rosinger:

And so I quickly I already had my AirPods in and I began to listen to this book. And now it's called Mindshift by Irwin McManus and it's such a good book and, honestly, the subtitles it doesn't take a genius to think like one. I'm like that's so cool and the whole first. You know, an introduction in the first chapter was just all on relationships and it's just such a good book and I know that's something that we try to do in our life, charles, we are trying to grow ourselves in many areas, but we like to listen to podcasts, obviously, read God's word, but we like books. We like to listen to books or read books. I know you're going through a really good one.

Travis Rosinger:

Oh man, yeah, you know it's. I think we're both just addicted to learning. You have to learn right and it's like the gym for your mind. It's like a workout, and it's so good to hear from people like Irwin McManus. But yes, I'm reading a book right now. I believe it's by James Clear or Jim Clear, and it's called Atomic Habits. It's been out for a few years but, wow, is it rocking my world, just causing me to put our lifestyle, in the way that we live, under a microscope, and I'm like I'm loving the things that he's talking about. I'm like, oh, these are so cool. Like here are some things that we've been doing our whole lives married life together, and then here are some things we're not doing. We better hit the brakes and add them to our lives Right?

Dawn Rosinger:

It was interesting the other day you were talking about goals because we're big goal setters and you said in this book they talked about goals are good, but that shouldn't be the thing that's driving you. It should be the daily habits that are getting you, or the daily processes that are getting you, and then you will achieve your goals. Yeah, he was talking about those processes.

Travis Rosinger:

He was talking about systems that you you know, if you're not achieving your goals, it's your systems that are broken or not in place, and I love what he talked about too. That again, this is this is James Clear, but he was basically saying look, you don't want your goals to be the end result, because once you achieve your goal, then you'll lose all your motivation. Yeah, and what kind of person do you want to become?

Travis Rosinger:

Well, yeah, or do you want to be, and I was like, whoa, that's what I need. To be focused, you know, who do I want to be? And then have goals that that kind of helped me be that person, and then I, at the end of the goal, I'm still that person, and so you still have more of a motivation. Love that concept.

Dawn Rosinger:

Another good book that I am almost finished with is trust by Dr Henry Cloud. That's another newer book and it's so good, just about trust. You know, just thinking about your past and how trust is like the bedrock of so many relationships and how do you build trust. And he has all these scenarios and these stories and he's a psychologist, a doctor, a doctor. He's amazing. So such a good book.

Dawn Rosinger:

Again, we just like books, we like learning, another way to kind of keep us sharp, so just something that we do throughout our week. We make sure that it's a part of our week. Well, have you guys ever been in the middle of a church service where all of a sudden, you stop and you're like man, they are speaking right to me and you hear something, or something grips your heart and it stays with you forever. Well, that's happened to me so many times. That happens to me almost weekly at our church. I love our church and our pastor, but I remember the first time this happened to me where something, just honestly, it stayed with me for the rest of my life, and it was when I was eight years old and I was sitting in church and all of a sudden the pastor walked out and he began to share his message for the week. But he had an old phone, an actual phone with the dial, and he began to dial on this rotary phone and he just said J-E-R-333.

Travis Rosinger:

As he dialed it, as he dialed it.

Dawn Rosinger:

And so I remember looking and watching him do this and then all of a sudden he picked up the phone. You know it was on his ear and he's like Hi God, it's me, joe. And he went on to have this conversation with God. Now you can imagine, as an eight-year-old girl, what this did to me. I was like no way, he just called God. Like he called God. That's pretty cool. God answered and what he went on to tell us that day what J-E-R-333 is. It's an, actually it's a Bible verse, jeremiah 33-3. And it says this. It says Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. And I was just. That is actually my life verse. It's something I grabbed onto as a kid. As an eight-year-old I'm like, oh, my word, at any moment I can call God, I can talk to God. And he made a comment about you know, back there, you know back then, when we had those phones, you'd get that busy signal, right. You know that. Eh, eh, eh, eh.

Travis Rosinger:

Oh, I remember that. So annoying.

Dawn Rosinger:

That noise, but he's like God. You never get that busy signal with God ever, and I know that's such a simple little principle or truth, but I think there's days that we forget that God is just really that close, like God wants to have a relationship with you. He wants to have a relationship with me. He wants to know you know the good things in our life. He wants to know the bad things in our life. He wants us to take time to just listen too, like we don't always have to do the talking.

Dawn Rosinger:

God can actually speak to us and I just feel like that's just such an important story to remember and it's even more relevant to today, because we carry this thing called what our cell phones are, on all the time. They're either in our hand, they're in our pocket, they're always within arm's reach, and so when you think about this verse, call it to me, and then we have our cell phone, like, honestly, the imagery in that particular verse, I'm like I look at that, I'm like, literally, god is with us all the time, just like our cell phone is with us. But at the same time, we can look at the cell phone like man. Did we call God today? Did we take the time to spend and just communicate and build that relationship with God? Or did we just scroll through Facebook or text other people? But God's just that close.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, if we were just as dedicated to God as we are to our cell phones, whatever it is, social media texting, scrolling through different internet websites or whatever. Man, if we just did that, if we just connected with God, stayed, that connected our life spiritually would be so much better off.

Dawn Rosinger:

Yeah, absolutely, they wouldn't be such a mess. And it's just such a great reminder to know that God is near, that God loves us and when we think about our marriage, god wants to know he wants to make sure that we're having that time with Him, that we're spending being intimate with Him, because, honestly, ultimately, it's going to help our marriage.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, I think it's important to really think through the fact that God wants us to call and God can handle the heavy things in our lives, in our marriages, whatever it is, god can handle it, and so I think we forget. I love that you talked about the word intimacy, don, because intimacy is so, so valuable when it comes to God.

Travis Rosinger:

I mean think of the first marriage, adam and Eve. They have this deep intimacy with God. The Bible says that God would come and walk with them in the garden with Adam and Eve, the three of them together. He would walk with this husband and wife in the cool of the day, the Bible says. But then they sinned, and then they were separated. They were embarrassed. When God came, they covered themselves with fig leaves.

Travis Rosinger:

And so now, suddenly, this intimacy, there was this wedge between them, and so we need to get rid of that wedge. And Jesus did that. He removed the sin. And so now the Bible says we can come boldly before God and we can worship God. He asks us to come boldly to Him. He does, and so we want to do that. And so you sharing that, don. It really makes me think of an event in my life that wasn't like hey, god, I'm crying out to you because this is something good. I was crying out to God because, like God, I don't know what to do. This is a terrible situation. And it was when I was working at a job, and you remember this story, don. But I was working at this company and there was an individual there that essentially, was terrorizing everybody at the company.

Dawn Rosinger:

Yeah, they were known for being super kind.

Travis Rosinger:

They were just rude to everybody and just the head boss was afraid of this person. Yet the head boss could let them go and but he didn't have the guts to deal with it. And so I was there and this person was harming everybody around me and just being mean and awful even to me, and so I didn't know what to do. So I just told you, I remember coming home and I'm just like I got to pray, I got to pray, I got to call on God, I got to go for it, I got to pray, and so that's what I did Every lunch break, every day, for like an hour I just went and left my work and I just prayed and I pounded on the windows of heaven.

Travis Rosinger:

I basically picked up my God's cell phone and I just called God and I said God, you've got to intervene, you've got to do something. And at the end of about three, four weeks, out of nowhere I still can't believe this, certainly not saying it was my prayers, but I do think it was because God was listening to my agony. But out of nowhere, this person, this employee that was causing so much disunity, so many problems, suddenly their spouse, who had been working at their place of employment for 20 years, suddenly got transferred to two hours away, and so this employee came to work and resigned and said I can't work here anymore, I've got to move. Two hours away.

Dawn Rosinger:

And it's like no one God not only removed her from the job, but literally from the city.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, like from everybody's lives. And I didn't have to be mean to her. I wasn't awful, I was still able to love her and be friendly, but and I didn't have to do anything, god did it. I cried out to him in agony. I'm like God, you got to intervene and it took a little while, but man, that was really fast If you think about it.

Dawn Rosinger:

It's so cool to do what we get to do on a weekly basis because there's people that will tell us things that they have prayed for. Or we get to pray with people all the time and cry out to God with them on their behalf, and there's a multiple times they'll come back to us and say you're not gonna believe it, I just got that job. Or you're not gonna believe it, you know, I don't have to have that surgery. You're not gonna believe it. My sister, just you know, put herself through treatment Like amazing things that we hear as people are crying out to God, and the reason I wanted to share that story with you guys today is simply because of this Cause there are maybe people that are listening where your marriage could be just in a tough spot and you don't know what to do.

Dawn Rosinger:

And I just wanna encourage you do what it says in Jeremiah 33, call out to God, grab on him. He's near, he'll answer you. Take your you know your concerns, your worries, your fears to God and know that he's listening to you. It's so cool. We serve a real, living God in heaven. He's not a golden calf, he's alive and he's well. He wants to have a relationship with you, he's listening to you and he's fighting on our behalf. And so just remember that if you're at a tough spot in your marriage or maybe you're not even at a tough spot, maybe it's just been a while and you haven't had that relationship with God, or maybe it's been kind of put on the bookshelf and you haven't just picked up your phone lately. Honestly, just pick it up, take the time today and just pick it up and God's there, waiting, listening, ready to have that relationship with you.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, and I think it's so much like you know, a mom and dad with their kids and we forget this that at any moment, don you and I, our kids, our four kids, reached out to us and said we need this, we need that, we're desperate, we're in a jam. Will you help us out?

Dawn Rosinger:

I mean, what are we gonna do? Oh, we're gonna do whatever we can to help. We're gonna clear out our bank account.

Travis Rosinger:

We're gonna go work at their house for 80 hours straight.

Dawn Rosinger:

Whatever they need, yeah.

Travis Rosinger:

We're gonna drive them across the country, we're gonna do whatever they need. And so what are we doing? Yeah, we're existing, we're living, we're loving life, we're spending time with our family, but we're also waiting. We're on call. At any moment we will jump into action, and that is exactly the way that God is. I think we all forget. You know, like, oh, I've got to pray and it takes discipline and you know I'm just really busy. But what we forget is there is the God of the universe. He created everything you see and know, and the Bible says that he's omnipotent, he's all powerful, he can handle everything and anything that you have going on in your life, and he's literally just hanging on your every word, waiting for you to cry out to him and ask for help.

Dawn Rosinger:

And that is such good news and the reason he's there. He loves us, he loves you more than you can ever imagine. I think of how much I love my kids and my grandkids, and God loves us even more than that. So we just wanna encourage you today. If it has been a day, maybe you're in a rough spot, call to God or maybe, again, like I said, maybe it's been a while since you've just taken that time. Just stop and call to God. It's okay. You don't have to feel bad for the past, but just moving forward, make sure that he's a huge part of your day and a part of your marriage.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, and you're going to see a difference right away, and I would look for that difference. That's the faith. Believe and know that God is gonna intervene, he's gonna hear you and your present and future will immediately begin to change.

Dawn Rosinger:

Well, with that, we wanna thank you for listening to this episode of the Loving the Fight Marriage Podcast. Remember, you can do it. You got this. Keep loving the fight. We'll see you next time, See you.