In this riveting episode of the Flatline, Rick Hughes takes us on a motivational journey through his experiences speaking across private and public schools, highlighting the importance of people and system testing. Listeners will uncover the spiritual value of life’s trials and adversities, as Rick explains through scriptural references how these challenges serve as a testimony to God’s grace and mercy. Dive into the conversation and learn why divine solutions are the only answers to overcoming obstacles and transforming afflictions into opportunities for growth and understanding.
Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you’ll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I’m your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, please stay with me. Only about 30 minutes of motivation, a lot of inspiration, a whole lot of education, and absolutely no manipulation because we don’t con people. We’re not soliciting money. We’re not trying to sell you a book. We’re just going to ask you to listen as I try to verify and identify God’s plan for your life. And if that happens, you can orient and adjust to the plan if you choose to do so. It’s your life. God gives you one shot at it, and I hope you make those good decisions. Because remember, bad decisions limit future options. Our website is rickhughesministries.org. rickhughesministries.org. You can go there and you can hear any of these radio shows under the concept FLOTLINE, F-L-O-T. That’s the name of our radio show. The FLOTLINE stands for the Forward Line of Troops. And that’s an analogy for 10 unique problem-solving devices that God gives us so that we can understand the mechanics to the Christian life. A lot of people don’t talk about mechanics from the pulpit today, but they get all emotional about stuff. But if you don’t understand the mechanics to the Christian life, You’re never going to glorify God to the maximum in your own personal life. So I hope you’ll visit our website. Feel free to order any of the books that we offer there. They’re all free. And you can even have some of them read to you by our announcer who reads them online. Thank you for giving me a few minutes of your time this morning. During the years 1971 to 2022, that’s a lot of years, I traveled many, many miles across the southeast speaking in private schools and public schools. The public schools eventually stopped allowing speakers to talk about God in the assembly programs, so the open doors for me were mostly in the private schools of various states. Many times the administration of that school would request that I do some special assemblies for the faculty. They called that in-service training. They were mostly done after school or either on days that the students had off. One particular public school that I spoke in, I remember this one particularly, asked me to hold five assemblies every day because they couldn’t put all the kids in the auditorium at one time. There would be trouble. So they broke them down to five different classes, so I had to give the same message on Monday five times, the same message on Tuesday five times, the same message on Wednesday five times, but always to a different group. And then after school, meet with the teachers for an hour. So that was 25 assemblies with students that week and five faculty sessions. In order for me to teach biblical principles to the staff of that school and other schools that I spoke in, I developed a series entitled, Test Teachers Often Fail. The idea was that teachers are always giving tests to the students, but they also are facing tests in their own life on a daily basis. The two areas of testing that I covered with the faculty and staff of those schools were people testing and system testing. People testing and system testing. Both areas of great concern because of the inconvenience they create. But there was a way that those faculty members could pass these particular tests and not let them create stress-related sins like anger, frustration, or depression. So if you’ve made the decision to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you’re going to be facing similar testing in your life. No one wants to live under conflict, but you may be surprised to learn why believers like you and I must go through various trials. The psalmist put it this way in Psalm 119, verse 71. Listen carefully. It’s good for me that I’ve been afflicted. so that I might learn thy statutes. In this passage, the writer or the psalmist admitted that through the affliction he went through, he realized more and more the value of God’s laws. As children of God, you and me, both we are under constant molding by the Holy Spirit and by the scriptures on a daily basis if we stay in fellowship and study our Bible. So when the Heavenly Father allows testing or conflict to enter into our area of operation, I said our area of operation, that’s your personal life, and it’s always to teach us something about ourselves so that we might live a life pleasing to God. Because our lives are a testimony to His grace and a testimony to His mercy and forgiveness. So if God allows adversity into your life, and I know some of you are having it right now, he also will provide the solutions. So remember this unique saying my pastor used to always tell me. He used to say, human solutions are no solutions, divine solutions are the only solutions. One of the biggest areas of testing in the Christian life is people testing. Our Lord had to deal a lot with this when he called his disciples. because they sure had a lot of things to learn. He had 12 men that made a lot of mistakes. One of those men betrayed him. You know him as Judas, the betrayer. One of those men denied him, that’s Peter, when he said, I never knew him, never heard of him.
