#43 This is Not The End

Trust gets real when life stops cooperating. In this episode, we hold two prayers side by side that most of us would never think to pair: David’s calm confidence in 2 Samuel 7:28, “Your covenant is trustworthy,” and Jesus’ gut-level surrender in Luke 22:42, “Not my will but yours be done.” Together, they show a faith that holds up in both the praise and the pit. 

We talk about the power of God in a way that actually meets real life: God’s power is seen in what he says and also in what he allows. If you’ve been wrestling, doubting, or asking why something painful landed in your story, this is for you.

If you needed biblical encouragement, Christian perspective on suffering, and a reminder that this is not the end, press play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs steadiness today, and leave a review so more listeners can find Life Out Loud.

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Welcome And Quick Listener Ask

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Ciao and welcome to Life Out Loud. I am your host, Desiree Melfi Bozo. We are going to use this space to share experiences and help you find lasting, unshakable, unwavering, unmassable with joy and gratitude. We're going to be throwing around encouragement a little bit like confetti and giving you support to live your very best life. Ciao friends, welcome back to the Life Out Loud podcast. I am thrilled that you are here.

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Uh, if you start listening to this, get to the end of this, and realize, hey, there's somebody who uh should hear this right now, go ahead and pass it along. Also hit the subscribe button on the platform you're listening to this on. Always a blessing to me when you do. We are gonna dive in. We're gonna take two scriptures today, one from the old testament, the other from the new testament, and we are gonna hold them up together. If you're if you're watching on YouTube, you can see how I'm holding them up together. Um, we're gonna talk through uh 2 Samuel 7, 28, hey King David, and we are gonna talk through Luke 22, 42. Hey Jesus. Uh so lately I feel like a lot of the scriptures on this podcast, we've talked about trusting God. And so we're gonna spend more time there. It's worthy of our time, it's what keeps coming up. And if that is what keeps coming up, then the Lord wants me to record this, apparently. So we're gonna do it. If you are listening to this uh April 2026, I hope it's a blessing to you. If you're listening to it in the future, well, here you go. A little bit more on truth and scripture and the word of God. So let's dive in.

Two Prayers Held Side By Side

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2nd Samuel chapter 7, verse 28 is part of David's prayer. Okay. So we know I've talked about King David before. Um, I cannot wait to get to heaven and have coffee with David. I have many questions for David. Many, many questions, actually. Also, I hope heaven has coffee. I don't know if it does. That's probably weird. We won't need coffee. We'll be all jazzed up on like the spirit of God, but uh coffee would be cool too, I guess. I don't know. All right, anyway, David was an ordinary shepherd. He was chosen by God about a thousand years before Jesus showed up uh in that manger. Couple highlights and uh low light or two from David's life. We know he defeated Goliath. Okay. Uh, we know he served King Saul. We know he fled, fled, fled, he fleed Saul. He fled from King Saul, either way, is good uh language. Uh, when things went south between the two of them. He spent years in the wilderness, and in that time, always trusting God, his trust never wavered. David eventually became king of Israel. Uh, he had a situationship with uh Bathsheba and her husband Uriah. Um, so that happened low light in his life, and he he sinned, he repented. Uh, and about 20 years later, after perhaps the greatest heartache of David's life, because of his own ca his own doing, um, roughly 20 years after this, we have God's promise to David, the Davidic covenant. It was a covenant that God made with him, and we have David's prayer. And that's where we're gonna pick up in 2 Samuel verse 7. Uh, this is toward the end of David's prayer. The verse reads, Sovereign Lord, you are God. Your covenant is trustworthy, and you have promised these things to your servant. So I want to hold this beauty of David's words up against um Jesus' prayer in Luke 22, verse 42. We read this a couple weeks ago. Jesus, Jevas, Jesus, King Jesus, is in uh is on the Mount of Olives. Okay, and he says, Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me, yet not my will but yours be done. Now, we know that every word in this book, and I'm pointing, you're watching on YouTube, pointing to my Bible, uh, we know that every word in this book is absolutely true. Okay, we know every word written in scripture is the truth. We know God's word is sovereign, which me, which means it's absolute. It has the most power and authority over anything in this world. So having that knowledge of that, I

What God Allows And Why

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want to talk about God's power. Okay, so God's power is seen in what he says and also in what he allows to happen. Okay. I don't know when you're listening to this, but perhaps this has found you in a place where something has happened. And maybe you're questioning God, or maybe you're doubting God, or maybe you're in this place where you're wrestling, right? I think a Jacob wrestling by the water. There is nothing that happens in this world, good and bad, that God doesn't allow. We're gonna dive into that because I know that just triggered a lot of people. So hang tight, okay. David's word is spoken from a beautiful, dare I say, Instagram-worthy place, right? This beautiful prayer that God gave David. Let's post it on our pretty highlight reels. Meanwhile, Jesus, Luke 22, his words are spoken from the most incredible, horrific suffering that would never ever make it onto our highlight reels. David trusts trusts God's word. And Jesus trusts God's word so much that he submits to God's will, even if he knows it's one of the most, it is the most horrific thing he's going to go through. Both of these places, the praise and the pit, reveal the absolute unmatched power of God. And I want to show you a little bit why, because I think in dissecting these and diving into them, we get some truth that we can hang on to for our lives.

Power Proven In Scripture’s Truth

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So the first thing about God's power is that it's his power is proven in the truth of his word, the scripture, Bible. What does it say? Those words. You are God and your covenant is trustworthy, your words are true. God's power is in his absolute faithfulness. God spoke, and creation responded. We see it over and over in scripture, but so eloquently in Genesis, God spoke and literally created everything. Everything happened on the command of his word. God promised things and life moved. We see it over and over in scripture. We get in our own way in this all the time, actually. Right? We take matters into our own hands rather than giving God room to prove himself faithful. And we have evidence that God will prove himself faithful. We have evidence time after time after time in Scripture. That's why it's imperative that we know these stories inside and out. So when life comes out of left field, out of nowhere, and throws us off course and thwarts every plan that we had and breaks us, threatens to, we can be fortified by the stories of the people who came before us and God's power in his in their lives. We have evidence in Abraham. God promised him land, descendants, and blessings. And there were points in Abraham's story where it looked like the end. We see it in David's life. God gave him a kingdom. God promised that to him. And we see it played out. God promised the world a savior, and he delivered that baby in the manger. We see it again in Revelation. I'm gonna fast forward us to the end of the uh end of the Bible in Revelation 22, verse 20. Yes, I am coming soon. Jesus is coming back. Spoiler alert. I don't know if you read the last chapter. He's coming back. We don't know when. Blink of an eye. Hope I've yeah, I'm gonna not go there. Uh blink of an eye. He's coming back. His word is true. So when we get disheartened, we can take comfort that the trials we face aren't the end. They never are. God rules all things, and nothing will ever stop what God has declared. Now, there is a very real enemy that wants you to believe that whatever you're going through, whatever the thing is that threatens to break you, whatever the thing is that has thrown you off course, Satan wants you to believe that that's the end. It is not the end. It is never the end because God is still on the throne. He hasn't come back yet. Last eye checked, and I check often. Look to the east. Moving on. Anyway, God's power is proven time and time again in scripture. Okay.

Submission That Looks Like Strength

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Second thing, God's power. Talk about this again. You're not gonna like me, but that's fine. We can do hard things. God's power is seen most clearly in submission to his will. There's the S word again. I know. Submission. Keep talking about it. It's fine. The world is gonna tell us, as women, that this is an awful word. It's gonna, it's gonna tell us how awful it is and never submit and give away your power. And okay. It's gonna say that we give away our power when we submit. That's the point. We aren't the ones that are supposed to hold the power anyway, right? It's God and then our godly husband serving the Lord as the head of our home, and then us as their helper, as their partner, as the one standing beside them in submission. Then your children. We've talked about it before. Who are we to desire the power when God is all powerful? He is our El Shaddai, He is our God Almighty, all-sufficient, more than enough. The world wants us to believe that we need all this power. No, God is the one to have the power. Our husbands are the ones to lead us when we pray, not my will but yours be done, like Jesus did in Gethsemane. To the world, that might look like weakness. But to those living in lockstep with the Holy Spirit, know that it's the most powerful thing that we can ever do. A humble, holy, dare I say, gritty obedience, full submission. Scripture shows us story after story of people who didn't submit. And as I talk through these, I hope your heart is poked and prodded. And I hope these are warnings for your life. Eve didn't submit, and it was the fall of mankind that was the consequence. Jonah literally ran in the opposite direction of God's assignment. God said, Go to Nineveh. He said, Nope. Moses. He was supposed to speak to the rock, and in his anger, he hid it. And I know, as I'm saying that, how completely random and weird that sounds. I get it. The Bible's a little bit weird. It's fine. Yeah, God told him to use his words to speak to the rock because there's power in our words. Whole nother message. He got mad and he hid it. Moses didn't enter the promised land. He only saw it with his eyes. Disobedience and non-submission. The one that breaks me is the rich young ruler in Mark 10. This man, and it chokes me off every time. He literally stood face to face with Jesus. And because he couldn't submit, he walked away. How many of us do that? Literally stand face to face, maybe not with Jesus specifically, but man, with something from heaven, a gift from heaven. Maybe it's your marriage, maybe it's your kids, maybe it's a job, maybe it's whatever, an opportunity. I don't know what the thing is for you. But how many of us stand face to face with a blessing from God? And because we get in our own way, we can't be obedient, we can't submit, we let it go. We squander it, we throw it away, and we walk the other direction because we know better. God's power is seen most clearly when we submit to his will. When we submit to God and his will, his power and glory become so incredibly evident in our lives. We begin encountering blessings that are beyond our wildest dreams. And this isn't prosperity gospel here, right? Power isn't always through our control. Sometimes it's through our absolute surrender. Mature faith, having that mature. Um I'm gonna use the word gritty again because that's just what keeps coming up. That gritty, mature faith is saying, Lord, whatever you choose, I submit to you. Whether it's beyond my wildest dreams or whether it's something I never dreamed of. Good and bad. So God's power is proven in the truth of scripture. It's seen in submission, last one.

Pain Turned Into Promise

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God's power transforms pain to promise. The promise from 2 Samuel 7 is fulfilled in Luke 22. David received the promise of an eternal kingdom. Jesus carried the burden that was gonna establish it. David was told that a king was gonna come and Jesus was the king. He was the answer. 2 Samuel 7 is the Lord's covenant with David, the Davidic covenant. There's a commentary I read and I love it. It says, the covenants of the Old Testament. I love this. The covenants of the Old Testament are like neon signs pointing to something bigger and better. We were out at a restaurant this weekend and we were looking for the bathroom. And I looked over my shoulder and I showed my son. I said, Do you see that neon sign over there? And he looked, and once you saw it, it was like you couldn't unmiss it. And this place was filled with like TVs and stuff, and people, there was like a lot going on. But you looked in that direction, and all you could see was the neon sign pointing to the rest room because it was that um, it was that bold in the middle of chaos. These covenants of the Old Testament are pointing to something bold in the middle of all the chaos. Keeping on with the commentary, the covenant Jesus offers us is this we bring our nothing, and he gives us literally everything. I thought that was beautiful. That was a beautiful way to bolster what this Davidic covenant means for us today. Further evidence of the relationship is seen in uh scripture in Luke 1, 30 to 33. I'm gonna point us back here, way back to Luke 1, the birth of Jesus foretold. Luke 1, verse 30. But the angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary. You have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of God of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever. His kingdom will never end. We see it over and over and over. Suffering before glory, pain before promise. If you're going through something today and it looks like the end, if you're looking at something in your life and you're like, I never ever thought that this would be part of my story. If it looks like defeat, I want you to know. I need you to know. Nothing is wasted in the hands of God. And guess what? It's all in the hands of God. Romans 8 28. It doesn't say all is good. People quote it all the time. They're like, Glory to God, all is good. No, it's not. There are very real things in this world that are heartbreaking and horrific and heart-wrenching. There's diagnosis, diagnosis. There is death, there is despair, there is financial ruin, there is divorce, there are wayward children, there is addiction, there are so many things in this world that are not good. And may we never take the scripture and say, all is good. No, it's not. That's not what the scripture says. Romans 8 28 says, in all things, in everything, God works for the good of those who love him. In all things, God works for the good. My mom, oh, love her. She crossed, she for years, years, my whole life, she's cross-stitched. And you'd see the back of those cross stitches, and they were just ugly. They were a mishmash of things and stitches and yarn and or not yarn thread and all the things, but you'd flip it over and you'd flatten it out. And it was amazing. And that's what God does on this side of heaven. It's messy and it's ugly, but he's weaving it, he's weaving it, and he's weaving it. And on this side of heaven, we might not see the beautiful picture that he's painting on the other side, but he's doing it because he's good and he's sovereign and he's our all-sufficient God. The cross that looked like defeat opened the doors to an eternal kingdom.

Keep Moving Forward And Closing

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My loves, God's power is proven in the truth of scripture. It's why I encourage you to read it. Know the book. Know what it says. You have to know scripture. If you need a Bible, message me. I'll get one in your hands. I'll buy you one. I'll um, what's the word? Um, Amazon you won. I'll send you a Bible, get one in your hands. It's proven through the tr in the truth of scripture. God's power is seen, tangibly seen in our submission. We gotta act. We gotta submit. We gotta be obedient. That rests on our shoulders. And lastly, God's power transforms our pain into promise. He's working and he's weaving and he's moving and he's stitching and he's going thread, thread, thread, stitch after stitch after stitch. If you're facing the thing today, know that if you give him enough time, he will prove himself faithful. This isn't the end, it never is. There's a next step, and there's a next breath, and there's a next thing. You have to keep moving forward. I hope this was a blessing to you. I don't know who this was for. I don't know where this is gonna reach you and when. But I hope these words gave you some peace in your soul. I hope it gave you a minute where you can just sit and go, It's gonna be okay. Not without consequence, maybe, but it's gonna be okay. Didn't plan on this maybe, but it's gonna be okay. This isn't the end. It never is. God is still on that throne and He'll be there until the day he comes back. Friends, have an amazing day. I pray this was a bomb on your soul. Come back next time. We're gonna throw more encouragement and of course scripture around like confetti. Be careful if you get too close. You're definitely gonna get some audio. Cheers.

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