even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Cooperating with Your Destiny: Pastor Ed King on Unlocking God’s Purpose for Your Life
About this episode
Pastor Ed King of Redemption Church in Knoxville, Tennessee joins Daily Faith to unpack one of the most misunderstood principles in Scripture — that God's blessing is never meant to stop with us. Drawing from Genesis 12, Ed traces the call of Abraham to show that being "blessed to be a blessing" is the foundational economy of the Kingdom: "We're not blessed just so that we can consume it upon ourselves… we're blessed so that we can do good things, so that we can touch a world in need." Ed digs into the Greek root of "doing good" in Acts 10:38, revealing that the word translated good is rooted in philanthropy — meaning Jesus himself was a benefactor who went about seeing needs and answering them. He also unpacks Ephesians 6:8, the principle of seed time and harvest, and the first miracle at Cana as a financial rescue, arguing that money takes the personality of the individual and is a Kingdom tool for change. The conversation builds to a powerful insight from Ed's book Cooperating With Your Destiny: surrendering your life to God's purpose — losing it, in Jesus' words — is the very moment you find it. Discover how to unlock your God-given destiny by visiting RedemptionChurch.com or PowerOfTheWord.com.
Part of our Giving collection of conversations.
Quotes worth sharing
“And the Holy Ghost spoke to me and he says, that's your son, clear as I'm talking to you. And I went into the door, into the place, and picked this wee boy up, covered in his own waste, naked from the waist down, his crib just covered in waste. And I said, I don't know who you are, but I'm not gonna quit until I find how I can get you.”
“She says, anything I've lived from that point forward is blessing. And that was one of the greatest gifts I've ever received in my life — that an orphan could understand her call and be bigger than I was as far as reaching out to people in need.”
“Once we lose our life, we really find it. Once we give up on the things that we protect and the things that we think are so important, and we sell out to the kingdom of God, that's when we really begin to live.”
What's Discussed
Pastor Ed King of Redemption Church, Knoxville, Tennessee, explores the biblical principle that God's people are blessed to be a blessing, rooted in God's call to Abraham in Genesis 12. He examines Acts 10:38, noting that the Greek word for "good" in "went about doing good" derives from philanthropy, identifying Jesus as a Kingdom benefactor. Ed references Ephesians 6:8 and the seed-time-and-harvest principle, and reframes the wedding at Cana as a financial miracle. The conversation culminates in the core thesis of his book, Cooperating With Your Destiny: surrendering self-preservation and saying yes to God's calling is when believers truly begin to live and find their Kingdom purpose.
- Abraham's Call: Blessed to Be a Blessing
- Jesus as Kingdom Philanthropist in Acts 10:38
- Wedding at Cana as a Financial Miracle
- Ephesians 6:8 and the Law of Reciprocal Good
- Losing Your Life to Find Your Destiny
- Cooperating With Your Destiny — Ed King's Book
Scripture in this episode
knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hey, welcome to Daily Faith Today. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am delighted that you have — maybe just by chance — come past our way. God has a word for you. He speaks in these days, and we are living in incredible days. I was watching this morning on the news how CNN in particular has found our president's wrath — he's quite mad at CNN — when they destroyed the nuclear capabilities of Iran, these huge bombs that they had, MOP bombs.
Philip:The first thing that CNN said was, it didn't really work. It's just like the devil to minimize what God's doing. And what the devil in your situation will come along and say is, it's not gonna work. I've got news for you. God is working things out in your life according to his purpose and will, and there is nothing that can stop him from accomplishing his work. I come from Scotland, in case you wonder where my accent's from. We tend to be a wee bit Calvinistic in that I believe that God is sovereign over all things. And I like what dear friend Arthur Burt said to me many years ago — Philip, you can't fix the fixer. And I want to encourage you today that God is working on your behalf in your circumstance.
Philip:That old chorus — he works in ways we cannot see, he will make a way for me. And in your family situation, in your health situation, in whatever circumstance you are facing, I want you to know that God is making a way where there is no way. He did it through the Red Sea. He did it across the flooded Jordan. He does it in the wilderness. He makes fish pick up gold coins to pay taxes, because he is the waymaker. And I just wanna encourage you today in your heart that God has not finished with you. That story hasn't been told. The fat lady hasn't sung yet, because God in his sovereignty is gonna work on your behalf according to the counsel of his will, not your will — his wisdom, not your wisdom.
Philip:And I want you to know that if you can help us by sharing, you can hit the share button on your device. You can hit the little bell that reminds you when Daily Faith comes on the air. And we bring to you some of the great ministries in America today, and today is no different. One of the great churches — I live in the Knoxville area, just north of Knoxville — but in Knoxville, Tennessee, there's a tremendous church called Redemption Church. I love its name. I love what it stands for. And I love the pastor. Ed King is with us today, and he's gonna speak a word for your circumstance.
Philip:God is always on the way with something into your life. And I would encourage you that the day you've watched this program and you've switched on — you may have never seen or heard of us before — God has a word and an answer for your situation. And I just know that God's gonna bless you by watching us today. Daily Faith is on YouTube, so if you go there — YouTube slash Daily Faith, really simple — you can watch us there. All of our shows are there. I believe they're archived there. I know they're archived on DailyFaith.tv. That's our home base for all things — what we do in this ministry, our mission works, the television ministry, our travel ministry, everything we do. You can find something on DailyFaith.tv, so that's an easy way.
Philip:You can also watch us in Tampa, Florida, on WCLF every Thursday at six o'clock in the evening — six thirty, sorry — in West Palm Beach. Hello, Mr. President. And Monday it's 7:00 PM on WFGC-WRXY in Fort Myers, Florida. One of the great churches I've ever preached in is First Assembly in Fort Myers. My dear friend Dan Betzer was the pastor, a great man of God, a dear friend. And also in Tulsa, KWHB, Saturdays and Sundays both at two o'clock in the afternoon.
Philip:Hey Tulsa, we love you guys so very much. And you can watch us on Integra Network, on Journey Network, on WGGS Network, in South Carolina, Louisiana, and also in Georgia. So whenever you're watching us, God has arranged our meeting, because there's a word on his way from his heart into your spirit. I can't wait for you to meet my friend Ed King. He is going to bless you today. Stay tuned. Welcome to Daily Faith.
Philip:Hey, welcome to Daily Faith Today. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am so pleased that you have joined with us today. God has a word for you. We live and exist by every word that proceeds — that is a continuation, a description, a continuous flow of information from heaven to you. And I believe that God is going to speak to your heart through our program. Ed King is our guest. He pastors a tremendous church here in Knoxville, one of the great churches of our city — Redemption Church. And he is with us, and I think he's gonna have a word to share with you today in the name of Jesus.
Philip:As you know, or those that watch us regularly, we have a mission work that started 35 years ago. Talk about a word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. My dad called me one day and says, there are babies dying. And I said, what on earth are you talking about? I had no interest in orphanages or any such thing. I was on all the TV programs, and we'd sold one of our books that sold 300,000 copies, made 25 recording albums. I was living all the stuff I dreamed about as a young boy when I came to America. We had succeeded — a great ministry, a great lifestyle, God blessed us tremendously. And here was my dad calling me from Scotland, aggravating me about babies in orphanages. And I put him off.
Philip:He was sick. He'd just had cancer surgery. A big melanoma had been cut out of his back, and the wound had burst — like a divot with a three iron had been taken out of his back. It was terrible. We hadn't got the pathology back to see if it had spread. And here he was talking to me about these orphans. After a week of fighting with him, he called me. He said, well, if you won't go with me, I'm gonna go by myself. And if I die on the way, it's your fault. And that's how I was dragged reluctantly into a world. My goodness, it's amazing how a moment — I'm writing a book just now called Moments.
Philip:And we walked into that orphanage. Literally, I didn't want to go. I walked in the first time and the smell of human waste — I dropped the box I was carrying and ran back outside. And he came out and he says, don't offend these people, go in. I says, no. I says, here's your orphanage, off you go. And he grabbed me. He says, you gotta come in and see this. And we went around the bottom, the first floor, and I says, let's go. We've seen enough. We've given them some stuff. I'll give him money, just let me leave. And he says, there's up, up. I said, don't, let's not go upstairs. We've seen it — it's all the same. And he climbed up the stairs to the top and he turned left, and there's a door that said Salon Five on it. And he opened that door and I'm saying, dad, don't do this.
Philip:And I walked in behind him and he stopped, and I walked past him, and there's a big wall with window panes in it. And in behind the wall was like 30 kids screaming, rocking in the cribs. And I'm thinking, oh God, please let me leave. Let me go. And as I'm saying that, I saw a wee face — a wee face in the middle of all this mess. And the Holy Ghost spoke to me and he says, that's your son, clear as I'm talking to you. And I went into the door, into the place, and picked this wee boy up, covered in his own waste, naked from the waist down, his crib just covered in waste. And I said, I don't know who you are, but I'm not gonna quit until I find how I can get you.
Philip:It took me a year. They had no toilets — just coffee cans with the edge cut with those old-fashioned can openers. And that changed my life. And ever since then, 30-odd years, 35, 36 years, that's what we've done as a family. We've rescued those kids. And most recently we have an amazing place in Moldova called Vara Village. When a young person leaves the orphanage at 16, they have nowhere to go. Traffickers come and offer them bogus jobs and they end up being sold. One girl can make $300,000 a year for the trafficker.
Philip:And this beautiful village that we have — we've bought and built, and it was built but not finished, and we finished it — these kids come to us basically with the clothes on their back. And they come to us and we share the gospel, let them have an education. Now some are doctors and lawyers and police officers and all kinds of things. The French Embassy has two of our young girls working there as interpreters, Romanian to the French language. And every summertime they spend the whole summer going out in youth camps. And they go to villages that have never heard of the gospel. And these orphans have become missionaries.
Philip:And right now I've got two granddaughters in a town called Ungheni, in a place that we are buying right this minute. We've signed the contracts, we've made the first payment, we're believing God for the second payment even now. And my granddaughters — 16 and 13 — are sleeping on the floor of one of the unfinished houses in this place. And they're sharing the gospel with kids that have never heard of the gospel. My son Andrew took them over there and he brought back a video of them in the new place. Watch this.
Andrew:Hey, this is Andrew from the Orphan's Hands. Right now I am standing in our newest project that we're believing God for — Promise House. And Promise House will help kids ages four to 16. And our hope is that we can save all kids that don't have a place to go, a place of safety. And also when they come here, they'll learn about the love of Jesus through family. Our kids from Vara will be able to come on weekends and pour into them and hang out with them and basically become big brothers and big sisters to these younger kids as well.
Andrew:We walked around the property and looked at the area that we're gonna make a camp. And so our kids from Vara will host summer camps and impact kids all throughout this region. We learned recently — Nadia just had a meeting with Child Protection Services — and there's over 70 villages tied to this city that need help. They don't have a great assistance program for young children. And so Promise House will become a key part and an impact point to help kids. So we ask you to pray for us. It's a big challenge, something that we've prayed about. God led us to this property. There's two homes that are gonna help over 50 kids.
Andrew:We're asking you to pray for what we're doing here in Ungheni. And hopefully, you know, one day you'll be able to stand here and see the kids and the lives that your giving has impacted. So we thank you very much for what you're doing on a continual basis and supporting this ministry. God bless you.
Philip:It is an amazing thing to watch your son. He was the boy in the orphanage. He was the child that I picked up and said, I don't know what it's gonna take, but I'm gonna rescue you and make you my son. And now my son is there with my grandkids. It's miraculous. And I just love the fact that God can use a family to change so many lives. Those two new homes — one is finished, it needs repainting, they've got this horrible pink color, only the Lord knows where they got their taste from — but when they repaint the house and furnish it, one's finished. Then the second house is about 85% complete at this moment. And we need a miracle.
Philip:By the 1st of July, we are believing God for $150,000 for the next payment. We're doing this in three installments, and we are halfway to the $150,000. You can help us today. You can make a tremendous miracle happen. And once we get those funds, we are able to open one of these houses. But it takes about 300 people giving a dollar a day to operate one of these homes. And you can change your life. If I were to take you there and stand you outside these new homes, in this great big barn that's gonna be refinished into accommodation for kids — if I could take you there and say, look, I can open two houses, save 50 kids, reach hundreds of kids all year long in this barn area that we're gonna make into a youth camp — you can do all that for a dollar a day, $30 a month.
Philip:I know that there isn't one of you that couldn't say, I could find that. I could believe God for that. If the Lord can make 300 people think that thought, then we can open another house — on the way to two houses, 50 little kids between the age of four and 16. The reason why we're doing this: a young girl was presented to us in our village at Vara, in Chisinau, now 14 years of age, from a horrendous family. We can't take kids in under 16, but we took the risk of running afoul of the government because this girl came from such terrible circumstances. Her name's Maria. And we took her in, and they found we had her, and they made us put her back.
Philip:And the young woman standing next to Andrew in that video had to drive her back to the village and put her back in the home that she'd escaped from. Ten days later she was gang raped and ended up in a mental home. Nadia said to me, she says, I will never do that again. I'll never do that again. And so that's why we've opened this new place in Ungheni, so we can get younger kids and rescue younger kids. They live through horrendous abuse. And if we can get them into our family and share the gospel, we can change their life.
Philip:We need you to help us. You can give a one-time gift to help us buy the place. You can give a dollar a day to help us open the place. And you can send your gift to PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. And you can also go to DailyFaith.tv — there's a giving page on there. And also if you dial 833 and then dial the name Daily Faith into your phone, a real live person will pick up the phone and receive your gift. Be a part of the answer. I know it's difficult days we're living in, but God will always be close to those who realize that they're blessed to be a blessing. And I know God will honor you in your giving. He's the father of the fatherless. These are his kids that we are called to help. Let the Lord speak to you.
Philip:I'm honored today to have with me Ed King. He's a great man of God. He's taken the city by the scruff of the neck and has a tremendous church called Redemption in Knoxville. Ed, I'm so delighted to have you with us on Daily Faith. Thank you so much for your time.
Ed King:Well, it's a joy to be with you, brother Philip. And to see all the things that you're doing — your ministry is doing — I've been to Moldova, I've been to that part of the world, and I know the needs are great. And I commend you for what you're doing, and it's a joy to be with you today.
Philip:Thank you. Thank you. Unless you understand the economy of God in the blessing — it's in blessing that we are blessed — and we've learned as a family over these last 35 years. I can hardly believe it's been that long. That when I walked up those stairs and saw that wee boy in the orphanage, I was looking at the unlocked blessings of God. And the millions of dollars that we've given and spent and built in Moldova — and also we've had a home in Ukraine for nine years, long before the war, a home in Odessa — until you understand the economy of God, it's in blessing that you are blessed.
Abraham's Call: Blessed to Be a Blessing
Ed King:Well, the father of our faith is Abraham. We're told to follow the faith of Abraham all through the New Testament. And initially when Abraham was called, there's a whole set of events that took place there. But we find in Genesis 12, when God called Abraham out, he said, I'm gonna do certain things for you and I'm gonna bless you and I'm gonna make you a blessing. And so often we are inundated with the I'm going to. And I agree with a lot of the things about God blessing us. I agree with that teaching. He wants to bless our life for sure. But sometimes we're so inundated with that teaching that we forget that the blessing on us is not just to consume it upon ourselves, but we are blessed to be a blessing.
Ed King:We are blessed to help others and to reach out and touch lives through the life that God's given us. And so just like Abraham — according to the Book of Galatians, it says that we're blessed with faithful Abraham, and the blessings of Abraham have come on us through Christ Jesus. And so if we just bring that and break that on down, just like Abraham was blessed to be a blessing, so are we. We're not blessed just so that we can consume it upon ourselves, or just so we can have more or bigger or shinier or newer. We're blessed so that we can do good things, so that we can touch a world in need, so we can reach out and help the hurting, touch those that can't maybe help themselves, because we're blessed by God to touch this world for the Lord Jesus Christ and to change lives wherever we can find them and wherever we can touch them.
Ed King:And so we're blessed to be a blessing. And I'm really thrilled about what you're doing, and I'm glad to be able to partner with you. We're a partner with you. We help because we see what you're doing. We know that it is valid and it's important, and those lives that are touched — maybe nobody else would be there if you weren't there.
Philip:Yesterday we had Tim Hill, who was the most recent head of the Church of God — he now is the Bishop of Tennessee for the Church of God. And he said a tremendous word: when the disciples were going to the temple and this man was sitting at the gate Beautiful, he was begging for alms, and they said, silver and gold we can't give you, but such as we have, give we unto thee. You can't give anything out unless you have it yourself. It comes out of the reservoir of your own spirit. And when it comes out of the abundance of your own heart, then you can be a blessing. So getting yourself filled with the blessing of God and the purpose of God is the key. Our family couldn't do what we do if we weren't filled with blessing, if we weren't committed to the vision and the purpose of God ourselves.
Philip:So now here I am in a situation where my children and my grandchildren behind me are going to the mission field and are part of the thing. And they would never have that in their mindset if they didn't see it was their granddad's and their dad's focus all of my life.
Ed King:Well, there are principles in the scripture. We know over and over we see the principle of seedtime and harvest. Jesus said the main law of the kingdom is whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. That's the principle that we know and live by. The Bible tells us about Jesus, who's our greatest example — he went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. And sometimes we get that a little bit misinterpreted. We see he went about doing good and healing, and we think that the good was the healing. But even though healing is good, he made a distinction there. He said he went about doing good and healing. So there are two things that are going on there.
Jesus as Kingdom Philanthropist in Acts 10:38
Ed King:And the doing good — that word good actually comes from the Greek word philanthropy. So he was a benefactor. He helped people. He went about seeing needs and he answered the needs. It has to do with money, it has to do with resources. So many things that we see in the miracles of Jesus — even the very first miracle that he did when he turned the water to wine. We don't necessarily see that as a financial miracle. But in that Jewish tradition where he was, they were about to lose face because they had run out of the things that were necessary for the wedding feast. They were in trouble. And Jesus came to the rescue and helped them with not just the wine, but he helped them with a financial miracle, a real need. He put them over the top.
Wedding at Cana as a Financial Miracle
Ed King:And so in our life, money takes the personality of the individual. A good person does good things with money. A bad person does bad things with money. Money is neutral, and God gives it to us, and he wants us to do what we can to change the world in a positive way for Jesus Christ. Nora and I — my wife — we have a philosophy of life and we live this as much as we can all the time. In Ephesians 6:8, it says basically whatsoever good thing you do for someone else, God will do for you. And so it's just a better way to live. And when you reach out and you help the hurting, you reach into these lives that you're changing — that maybe nobody else would touch, maybe nobody else would go — but when you reach into those lives and you change those lives, really and truly.
Ephesians 6:8 and the Law of Reciprocal Good
Ed King:Now I haven't asked you this question, but I know the answer before I even ask it. You're more blessed sometimes than even the person you've helped.
Philip:Absolutely. It is more blessed to give than to receive. In that video, there's something about that. In that video you saw that young girl standing next to Andrew. Her name is Nadia. I rescued her from an orphanage 17 years ago. And her hand is deformed. She has a thumb but no fingers — her fingers did not develop in the womb. And she had a horrendous time in an orphanage of 700 kids. I mean, she was abused because she was a freak — that's what they called her. And one day I sat and spoke to her. I didn't speak Romanian and she didn't speak English. It was like charades. But I was able to communicate with her that God could use her for his glory. And I'll never forget the light coming on inside her eyes. I mean, it was a physical moment.
Philip:And that girl today leads the ministry in Moldova. She is fearless. She goes into Ukraine in the war zones, brings food, delivers stuff, has no fear. And one day — in fact, we just got out before they closed Moldova down for COVID — I said to Nadia at the airport, go back to Vara Village, lock down, and go nowhere. So I flew from Moldova to Istanbul, and I switched on my phone and here's pictures of her out delivering food in villages — video of her with plastic bags, knocking on people's doors and feeding people. And I called her. I says, what did I tell you? Don't go out, stay indoors. We didn't know how bad it was. And she says, dad, I died in an orphanage a long time ago.
Philip:She says, anything I've lived from that point forward is blessing. And that was one of the greatest gifts I've ever received in my life — that an orphan could understand her call and be bigger than I was as far as reaching out to people in need. And if you're asking me to quantify one blessing that has enriched me beyond anything else, it was an orphan girl walking around a village giving out food to people that were terrified behind doors, that let me know that the truth of what my heart was had been communicated into her heart. Blessed to be a blessing.
Ed King:Well, you know, I'm reminded of some things as you talk. You were talking about she had already died in an orphanage. You mentioned coming to the States in '69. In '69 I was in the Republic of Vietnam. I was not having the best time in the world.
Losing Your Life to Find Your Destiny
Philip:Oh my goodness. I didn't know that.
Ed King:Yeah. But saying that to say there's a story — it's a gentleman that I know, there was a movie made about the whole story, a big battle, Ia Drang Valley battle. And if you read the story from some of these men that reminisce and rehearse the events, there was a man that had been wounded, he had gone through a lot of things, and he had come to the place in this particular battle where he'd determined, I'll not get out of here alive. It's over, it's done. And so once he realized he's not gonna make it, he took his position behind the machine gun and began to fight back. And sometimes in the kingdom of God it's very similar to that. Once we lose our life, we really find it. Once we give up on the things that we protect and the things that we think are so important, and we sell out to the kingdom of God, that's when we really begin to live.
Ed King:That's when life really begins. And so often we're trying to protect so much, when just to surrender — it's like you, when you went to that orphanage with your father. I can't do this, I'll give money, but I can't stay. That was your thought. But once you decide, okay, you give your life up for another cause, that's when you really find your life. That's what the Bible tells us. If a man will lose his life for my sake, then he will find it. We find our purpose. We find our reason for living. We find out what it's all about. We find the joys that we can find in no other way. We find it because we give Jesus that first place, and we say yes to him and his calling and his purpose.
Ed King:And as you've done this with the orphanage and so much that's been touched there, as you've sold out, lives are changed. And the only thing really that we're gonna take with us when we're finished on this earth are relationships. That's the only thing.
Philip:Well, I mean, it's finding your destiny. You've in fact written a book that I would like folk to get ahold of. It's called Cooperating With Your Destiny. And what you're saying in as many words is that once you know what your destiny is, it's easy to sell your life, it's easy to commit to it, because that's when joy comes. And now in our situation, when your kids are coming behind you and picking the baton up and running — and I hear my son speaking constantly about how we can expand and what more we can do — it's because through my destiny, they found their destiny. And I urge, if you're watching today and you love your pastor, get him this book. You need to invest in someone's life today.
Cooperating With Your Destiny — Ed King's Book
Philip:And if you get in contact with Pastor Ed King, the address is real simple — RedemptionChurch.com or PowerOfTheWord.com. And I urge you to get that book, because the quicker you understand your destiny — the moment I picked up Andrew in that crib, I had no idea all the stuff that I've done was gonna take place. But when I said yes to my destiny, when I said yes to being blessed to be a blessing, all of these things unlocked. All the doors just started — click, click, click, click — into my future. So here I am, now over a third of a century later, blessed to be a blessing.
Philip:And Pastor Ed, thank you so much for being with us today. Always a blessing. You always bring a thought with you that blesses me, never mind anyone watching.
Ed King:Well, you're very kind, and it's certainly a joy to be with you and your viewers. We love you.
Philip:Thank you. You're a great blessing to me. Thank you so much for watching Daily Faith today. If you can help us with these new houses in Ungheni, pray for my granddaughters who are out there just now telling the love of Jesus. Thank you for watching Daily Faith. We'll see you again. God bless you. Bye-bye for today.
For over 25 years, the Cameron family has been changing the lives of orphans in Romania and Moldova — from providing running water, flushing toilets, and clean wells, to coal for heat, new windows, as well as food and clothing. They champion the physical needs of the orphans in these broken and desolate countries. Many of Moldova's orphans are saved from the horrors of trafficking through homes founded by the Camerons. And in the process, orphans become daughters and sons. They come to know their heavenly Father and are forever changed by the love of Jesus.
God help the Camerons lift these amazing young men and women out of darkness. Now no longer orphans, they wanna return and invade that very same darkness with the light of Jesus Christ. The Orphan's Hands equips these daughters and sons to become missionaries. Your monthly gift of $31 will allow us to rescue and take in more girls and boys, saving them from the hell of human trafficking. Your monthly partnership will allow us to care for those in the Orphan's Hands homes in Moldova and Ukraine. If you want to join Philip and Chrissy in taking care of these precious young people, please contact us today by calling 833-Daily-Faith. You can also give by going online to www.DailyFaith.tv or by writing to Post Office Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. So many lives depend on what we do. Thank you for loving the lost.
Common questions
What does Ed King mean when he says we're 'blessed to be a blessing'?
Ed King points to Abraham's calling in Genesis 12 as the model: God promised to bless Abraham, but the purpose of that blessing was always so Abraham could bless others. King argues that Christians today inherit those same blessings through Christ, but too often focus only on receiving them rather than using them to help the hurting, meet real needs, and change lives for Jesus.
How does Ed King interpret Jesus 'going about doing good and healing'?
King draws a distinction between the two phrases — 'doing good' and 'healing' — noting they are listed separately. He explains that 'doing good' comes from the Greek word for philanthropy, meaning Jesus was actively meeting practical and financial needs, not just performing miraculous healings. He uses the wedding at Cana as an example of Jesus solving a real financial and social crisis for a family.
What is the main idea behind Ed King's book 'Cooperating With Your Destiny'?
King's core argument is that once a person surrenders their self-protective instincts and says yes to God's calling, that's when they truly find their life and purpose. He draws on Jesus' teaching that losing your life for his sake is how you actually find it, and uses Philip's reluctant trip to the orphanage as a real-world illustration of how saying yes to destiny unlocks a chain of blessings and doors.
What Vietnam War story does Ed King use to illustrate surrendering to God's purpose?
King references a soldier in the Ia Drang Valley battle who, convinced he wouldn't survive, stopped trying to protect himself and threw himself fully into the fight. King uses this as a spiritual parallel: once we stop clinging to what we're trying to protect and fully surrender to the kingdom of God, that's when we really begin to live and find our true purpose.
What does Ed King say is the only thing we take with us when we leave this earth?
King says the only thing we truly take with us are relationships. He makes this point in the context of Philip's story about the orphans — the lives changed and the bonds formed through selfless giving are the lasting fruit, not material accumulation.
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