The Seminary of Suffering | Arise With Amber (EP204)

In this episode of Arise, Amber shares her message she gave at the Testify Conference at Choctaw Road Baptist Church. It’s a message of hope and encouragement through seasons of suffering.
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  • @samanthareedy
    @samanthareedy4 ай бұрын

    This message really touched my heart. Thank you, Amber, for speaking God's truth and teaching of His love and grace.

  • @nancyinnevada2785
    @nancyinnevada27854 ай бұрын

    PRAISE THE LORD EVERY DAY 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @ellenwelch8267
    @ellenwelch82674 ай бұрын

    I love you Amber , though I have never met you in person, we are connected in that moment we have both had in having to give our precious sons back to God and how it forever changed us!! I thank God every day for using that suffering for good and drawing me near Him. Thank you for these wonderful encouraging words ♥️ BTW, I still remember saying out loud that “I don’t think I can live with this pain for the rest of my life” It has now been 31 years since I buried my son… and God is still enough.

  • @jennienorthcutt6868
    @jennienorthcutt68684 ай бұрын

    Thank you Amber ❤

  • @kimberlyfasulo
    @kimberlyfasulo4 ай бұрын

    Amber you are doing the lords work, and everything you say resonates with me and so many others. Thanks for helping me find that desire to grow closer to the lord. God bless you

  • @mhelen7360
    @mhelen73604 ай бұрын

    Thank you, Amber, for sharing your message from the Testify conference. As usual, it was full of the hope and joy of a life lived with Jesus no matter the circumstances. I'm sure it's not easy to share your testimony, and I appreciate your vulnerability. It's what makes your words so powerful and believable.

  • @1029tbarton
    @1029tbarton4 ай бұрын

    Your teachings just get more and more amazing. Jesus touches each of us through the Word you share with us. God bless you Amber. I believe you will hear those words "Well done, good and faithful servant". ❤️🙏🏼🤗

  • @janconnolly6987
    @janconnolly69874 ай бұрын

    “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His kindness endures forever” (Psalm 106:1) Without Him, we can do nothing! Blessings all.

  • @terrireed2631
    @terrireed26314 ай бұрын

    How amazing our God is! Our Comforter!

  • @bobbijohamilton7488
    @bobbijohamilton74884 ай бұрын

    💞 Thank You So Very Much Amber for coming to our church, Choctaw Road Baptist Church🎉💘🥰💘🎉,.. your message was so, so good, I cried too, so moving & so inspiring💘🙏💘.. Love, Hugs & Prayers of Blessings for you & your Beautiful Family.. Looking forward to hearing Granger here in September, GOD BLESS Y'ALL💘🙏💘.. 💞 💞Your Sister In Christ💞

  • @SarahEB413
    @SarahEB4134 ай бұрын

    This was so heartfelt and a wonderful message Amber! May the good Lord continue to bless you and Granger and the kids ❤

  • @leeS04
    @leeS044 ай бұрын

    Amber, God Bless you and your family. Well done, Wonderful devotion. I read Grangers book and cried and smiled.🙏🙏🙏👍👍

  • @jeaninelucas1659
    @jeaninelucas16594 ай бұрын

    Love your messages so incouraging

  • @ajproverbsthreefive
    @ajproverbsthreefive4 ай бұрын

    I pretty much cried through your whole message. That quote by Oswald Chambers 😭💔 Our story for His Glory! Thank you for sharing about what He's done for you! 🙌🏻💓

  • @bowed305
    @bowed3054 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I'm glad we have a way to "tag" along with you. Love the reminder that we don't have to endure our suffering forever. We just have to do it today. Thank Him for breaking our hearts. Not a normal way to think in our world, but it's definitely an appropriate one. We want the crown, but we don't want the cross. So many great things said in these few minutes. I thank you for sharing the gift you've been given with us.

  • @1CathyHendrix
    @1CathyHendrix4 ай бұрын

    Wonderful!! The Lord has placed you in the perfect position to bring the message of joy and salvation to so many. You are so kind and caring. Your love for Jesus and your fellow man just shines! Thank you for taking us along! I don't know if you have heard, but there was a terrible wreck in WI that claimed the lives of 9 people. One victim was a truck driver, and the other 8 were members of a Mennonite community from Burks Garden, Va. That is a little over an hour north of where I live. A 2-year-old in the van survived. There are several articles online about this wreck. It was just awful. I feel we all need to pray for this community and the truck driver's family. Burks Garden is a special place. In my travels I have never saw anything like it anywhere else. The geography alone is just amazing. May God comfort and bless this community with his love and peace. Hope you and your family have a great week ahead and God bless!

  • @sda3abn
    @sda3abn4 ай бұрын

    “you have to remember Jesus had a wilderness, He had a Gethsemane, and He had a Judas … “

  • @MrsAlmaTrumble
    @MrsAlmaTrumble4 ай бұрын

    Happy Sunday! Whether joyous or sad, share your emotions with the Lord, knowing He resides in your heart. Have a Beautiful and Blessed day and week ahead. See you next video. Stay safe and healthy. God Bless.

  • @Anna-kf8br
    @Anna-kf8br4 ай бұрын

    You are so encouraging. I think I will be watching this again and taking notes. Thank you for sharing!

  • @user-qu4qb7dm1n
    @user-qu4qb7dm1n4 ай бұрын

    You too have a gift of speaking publicly. I can feel your emotions, I can see you. Keep on girl. Cause ur one part that causes me to smile each day. So God bless you and ur family

  • @AmberEmilySmith

    @AmberEmilySmith

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you ❤

  • @naomisimank3340
    @naomisimank33404 ай бұрын

    Precious message of hope and the power of living by faith every single day. Thank you God, for your gift of Jesus 🤍

  • @juliepeterson5162
    @juliepeterson51624 ай бұрын

    Amber thanks so very much for this message ❤

  • @tammyfarrell8653
    @tammyfarrell86534 ай бұрын

    Amber, your message brought me to tears. I so needed to hear everything you said about grieving , hurting and suffering. I am running every day, and I know my Lord will not forsake me . I’m so thankful to have found you when I did , my heart was broken in 2019 also ! God bless you and your beautiful family.🙏 May the Lord continue to bless the Arise family,✝️🦋❤️

  • @pennyconnell69
    @pennyconnell694 ай бұрын

    Amber this is a beautiful message ! Thank you !

  • @vickersat206
    @vickersat2064 ай бұрын

    That was a beautiful message Amber. You are a blessing! And may God bless us all 🙏🏻

  • @michellelee6767
    @michellelee67674 ай бұрын

    So powerful and moving. Will listen to this over and over. Thank you for being the hands and feet, Amber ❤

  • @beccacarson116
    @beccacarson1164 ай бұрын

    Walking through a deep season of despair and sickness. This was such an encouraging word for me Amber. Thank you.

  • @kelseyDOD
    @kelseyDOD4 ай бұрын

    I am always inspired hearing your family’s testimony of overcoming suffering, I found the smiths and arise with amber at the end of 2021 during the depth of my deepest suffering season, and your words and wisdom have brought so much peace to my heart as I learned the truth of Gods Word, because He used YOU and your family to be a living testimony of His Grace and Love. 15:13 was my favorite part because I also learned that I couldn’t do this life in my own strength, I love 2 Corinthians 12: 9 and had never heard it before (or maybe I had but it never meant anything) until 2021 and my season of suffering.

  • @shariarkema243
    @shariarkema2434 ай бұрын

    Thank you, Amber!❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @FaithandLove..923
    @FaithandLove..9234 ай бұрын

    Beautiful Message.. Thank -you..❤

  • @lorileichtman9999
    @lorileichtman99994 ай бұрын

    Thank you Amber this was a blessing to hear I needed this.

  • @stephaniem805
    @stephaniem8054 ай бұрын

    Wow, thank you so much Amber for posting this video. The message was incredible. I've struggled with God my whole life and feel like I'm searching and searching yet I'm not sure what I'm searching for. Def have a lot of death and darkness in my life. Desperately wanting to find light for sure

  • @mariposavioleta9007
    @mariposavioleta90074 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this message! The last part about how it may not be here on this earth that we're healed is especially good for many to hear. Not everyone will receive physical healing here on this earth (unlike what the false teachings of the prosperity gospel teaches) but it's the spiritual healing and dependence on God that far outweighs everything. I say this knowing this from personal experience as a woman born with physical disabilities and suffering but so thankful for it because of Jesus and what He has done in my life. Both 2 Corinthians 12:9 as you first mentioned in the beginning and Romans 8:18 "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us." have been some of the verses that have brought me comfort knowing that what is coming yet is greater than all my suffering since birth. As you said that doesn't always mean I'm happy in the moment but I do find joy in knowing that He is with me, I am not alone and He will not forsake me.

  • @hawkrose8403
    @hawkrose84033 ай бұрын

    Amber you are just so beautiful inside and out ❤

  • @MelissaKY
    @MelissaKY2 ай бұрын

    (((((Hugs))))) prayers and love. God bless you and your family. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @kendrawilson8131
    @kendrawilson81314 ай бұрын

    Amber, what a beautiful message!!! Thank you so much for sharing. I shared this with a mother who lost her 17 year old to drowning a month ago. :( We all need this reminder!!! Love you and Granger’s hearts!!! ❤

  • @kimshaw2426
    @kimshaw24264 ай бұрын

    Amber!!! That was beautiful! Thank you and PRAISE OUR MIGHTY CREATOR!!!

  • @laurieleis2725
    @laurieleis27254 ай бұрын

    This was an amazing sermon on suffering. I felt all the emotions and am encouraged by the fact that God is there in the sufferings of life.

  • @terrybialowas2641
    @terrybialowas26414 ай бұрын

    What a great message this week, thank you for sharing it.

  • @lilypopp9782
    @lilypopp97824 ай бұрын

    This was so good! ❤❤❤ Really moving and inspiring amber!

  • @AmberEmilySmith

    @AmberEmilySmith

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @donnafields2001
    @donnafields20014 ай бұрын

    You have know idea how this touched me!

  • @Elizabeth.Shafer
    @Elizabeth.Shafer4 ай бұрын

    So beautifully said. Thank you as always for allowing the lord to speak so clearly through you. ❤

  • @None979
    @None9794 ай бұрын

    Thank you Amber. Your obedience and growth in the Lord is always so encouraging to me. 💜

  • @AmberEmilySmith

    @AmberEmilySmith

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you!!

  • @RobinKazee
    @RobinKazee4 ай бұрын

    Amber Thank You for another Encouraging ARISE. I'm so Thankful that I know GOD as my personal Savior. I'm Fervently Praying for the Smith Family as you and Granger continue sharing GOD'S LOVE AND WORD. ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @bgrateful453
    @bgrateful4534 ай бұрын

    Beautiful, poignant, life-changing, run to Jesus's word, message!!! But God. 🦋 🦋 🦋 🚘 LiveLikeRiv ❤❤❤

  • @vickigifford5022
    @vickigifford50224 ай бұрын

    Thank you Amber!! ❤❤

  • @sandianaya5141
    @sandianaya51413 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @Jennymw
    @Jennymw4 ай бұрын

    Felt this beautiful message from you this morning with my whole heart. Love you, my sister in Christ. 🥹❤️‍🩹🙏🏻✝️

  • @Kaywem62
    @Kaywem624 ай бұрын

    Please pray for me and my Family

  • @denimdevotionsme
    @denimdevotionsme4 ай бұрын

    Beautiful, and much needed message. While I want comfort, He is that for me, even when my feet are to the fire.

  • @jennifergraham-oo6fr
    @jennifergraham-oo6fr4 ай бұрын

    🙏🏻❤️🦋!

  • @annacastillo1663
    @annacastillo16633 ай бұрын

  • @BrandiNicole87
    @BrandiNicole874 ай бұрын

    ❤❤

  • @bojos5
    @bojos53 ай бұрын

    ❤🙌🏼🌹

  • @bluestartears6405
    @bluestartears64053 ай бұрын

    Yes, I know the feeling of loss 2012. I lost my 25-year-old son to a heart attack and I lost my daughter to the same thing on the same month and day only 5years apart So yes I didn't have the faith I have today but through those years I understood that God was trying to tell me something. No, I didn't understand that at the time but he was trying to bring me to him. He is the Lord of my life now God holds me in his arms and is guiding me through the hards days I know these days have gotten a little easier cuz I have God❤ he helps me through it now. I'm so glad that he holds my heart. I can't do life without God being here for me ❤ I didn't have God long time ago but I finally found him again and he's forgiving me from my sins. Some days are hard still but with God on my side I can't go wrong. My heart hurts for you too Knowing that your son is gone too.He is a cute little guy I always loved watching him in his car 🚜God is holding you in his arms as well. I pray for you to stay strong.🙏 We will see our Lord and Savior someday we also will see our children again. And thank you for your sermon on the Lord, it's nice to have somebody to fellowship with and may God always bless you and your family ❤🙏❤️

  • @michelleowens2282
    @michelleowens22824 ай бұрын