 Hi and welcome to this special broadcast directly from our studios at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Ovita, Florida. My name is Edgar Nazardio and today I have a special treat for all the women who are listening but before that I want to take a moment to invite you to our 2016 Women's Conference under the title Seeking the Glory of God with guest speakers Susan J. Heck and Martha Peace. Now stay tuned because at the end of the broadcast we will let you know how to register for this conference. All the ladies who will attend this year will definitely have a time of fellowship, joyful worship and biblical teaching. And speaking of biblical teaching this year we have the blessing to have two very special women who are very well known for their biblical teaching among women worldwide and their love for God's word. I'm speaking about sisters Susan J. Heck and Martha Peace. Today we have the opportunity to have with us live the via phone Martha Peace. Thanks for taking the time to join us on this broadcast Martha. Well you're welcome Edgar, I'm glad to be here. Martha thank you for joining us once again in this very special broadcast. We're very excited and thankful to continue to cover the topics of our upcoming Women's Conference. Now last time we talked and we looked at the second session you're going to be talking and that was a very very interesting and hot topic. The title is Modesty More Than a Change of Clothes and you gave our listeners reasons on why this is one topic that should be discussed and taught amongst Christian women today. I'd like to move to the third session that you'll be speaking on in our Women's Conference and the title of the third session is The Goodness of God. Martha being that you travel quite a bit and also knowing that you are very active as a counselor in your church and with women worldwide what led you to want to speak about the goodness of God in your last session? Well I've been a biblical counselor to women for over 27 years and some of them not many not many at all but I would describe as just deeply emotionally disturbed and they were very different in their backgrounds their life but they had two things in common one was they were not persuaded of the goodness of God and they were not grateful to God and so after counseling for a lot of years I saw a pattern in some of their lives. One of the topics that has particularly interested me is the goodness of God and so one day I set out to do some research and I looked up every word in the Bible that had the word good or goodness and came up with different biblical principles and I'm writing a book now that on Bible doctrine and one of the chapters is going to be on the goodness of God but I was very struck with King David's take on the goodness of God when you read the Psalms he just it comes up over and over again for example in Psalm 100 in verse 5 it says for the Lord is good his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations and then when I got to the New Testament and um I was also very taken by our Lord Jesus he is the good shepherd his sheep follow him he knows their names it it just um the the whole topic is just wondrous if we think about the creation and God's goodness and uh but people tend to not when when things don't go their way they tend to be very self-centered very man-centered instead of having a high view of God and God-centered and so this is a topic that is um we all need to be persuaded of the goodness of God and that's easy to say oh praise God he's good when our lives are going well and things are going well but then when there is a trial and God is testing us testing our faith and molding our character into more and more Christ likeness that's when even through our tears we can say as David said uh God is good and we need to be fully persuaded of that thank you so much for making that point Martha what are the type of things that are hindering Christian women in their view of God and his goodness a lot of Christians do not maybe they're in a church where they're not taught very well but they have too much of a man-centered view of God instead of seeing God as their high king in heaven I remember as a new believer I was age 33 when the Lord saved me and I read the Bible for the first time and I had I was a nurse I worked in pediatrics for several years worked in a pediatric intensive care unit at a large hospital and even as a new Christian I began to wonder why does God let little children suffer and die and then I as I got reading through the Bible and I got to the book of Romans and I got to chapter nine and it is very strong and clear on the sovereignty of God and um he hardens some people's hearts and then he grants faith to to some people and um it is he who has made us and not we ourselves and it just settled the issue for me this is God's creation and whether we like it or not we have a privilege to honor him to worship him and to for those of us that are born again we will spend eternity with him and there will be no more pain and and no more sorrow and so we've we have to humble ourselves and submit to his care over us I just love how Daniel talks about God he talks about him as the high king of heaven and so many Christians unfortunately are just man-centered and self-focused and see God as someone here to serve them instead of bowing before him and submitting to his care over our lives thank you so much Martha for sharing with all of our women listeners a little bit of the great teaching that is to come you're welcome Edgar thank you and for all the women who are out there who are listening let me encourage you to register today and don't risk being left out since we do have a limited amount of seating once again come and join us in our 2016 woman's conference under the title Seeking the Glory of God with guest speaker Susan Jayhack and Martha Peace this woman's conference will be hosted at Cornerstone Baptist Church this coming 15th and 16th of July all of our ladies will enjoy a time of fellowship joyful worship and biblical teaching so take advantage and register today online by visiting www.seekinghisglory.net I'll repeat that again www.seekinghisglory.net or if you have questions feel free to give us a call here in our studios at 407 971 7 6 8 5 407 971 7 6 8 5 thank you for listening and we look forward to seeing you at our 2016 woman's conference God bless you