But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Faith for Transition: Derek Draughon on Moving from Glory to Glory
About this episode
Derek Draughon — pastor, evangelist, and corporate jet pilot — joins Philip Cameron for a conversation that cuts straight to the heart of one of life's most disorienting experiences: seasons of transition. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 3:18, Derek unpacks what it means to move "from glory to glory," arguing that God won't let you graduate to the next level until you've made where you are glorious. "Your next is better than your now," he says, "but your now needs to be what God called it to be." Derek weaves together Scripture, personal testimony, and real-world aviation experience to illustrate how faith operates in uncertainty. Referencing Hebrews 11:1 and Romans 10:17, he challenges viewers to pursue the kind of faith Jesus marveled at — not the "little faith" he rebuked, but the extraordinary faith he commended. The Matthew 14 account of the disciples in the storm becomes a vivid picture of trusting God when every circumstance screams otherwise. Philip shares his own testimony of emerging from a season of darkness and despair, crediting Derek's words on social media as a lifeline. Derek closes with a direct prayer over viewers in transition and an invitation to expand — not retreat — when everything feels like Jell-O. Pastors looking to bring men's ministry to their church can connect with Derek at youtube.com/@fuelcast or www.fuelcast.tv.
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Quotes worth sharing
“We move from glory to glory. We have to make the level we're at glorious. We don't just leave it because it was a dump. Your next is better than your now, but your now needs to be what God called it to be.”
“I want Jesus to look at me and say, 'I've never seen this kind of faith.' And if we're going to transition to our next, then we've got to have that kind of faith. We've got to be at that level of faith to move forward.”
“The world around you is made of Jell-O. Everything's wobbling and shaking, and you don't know who you are, and you don't know if anyone likes you anymore, and you don't know if your wife loves you. It's all Jell-O. And the devil's there, and he's shaking the Jell-O. Let me tell you something. God has a rhema for you today. You are not going to fail. You are not going to fall. He's going to see you through, and the latter will be greater.”
What's Discussed
Pastor and corporate pilot Derek Draughon brings a message of "faith for transition" rooted in 2 Corinthians 3:18 — the biblical call to move from glory to glory. He argues that God requires believers to make their current season glorious before He releases them to the next, summarized in his signature phrase: "Your next is better than your now." Drawing on Hebrews 11:1, Romans 10:17, and the Matthew 14 storm narrative, Derek challenges viewers to pursue extraordinary, active faith rather than waiting to see before they believe. An aviation analogy — responding instantly when an engine fails at 300 feet — illustrates how trained, decisive faith determines outcomes in crisis. Philip testifies that Derek's words pulled him out of a season of deep despair twelve years ago, underscoring the episode's core theme: in transition, expand rather than retreat. Derek closes with a live prayer over viewers in uncertain seasons.
- Derek Draughon's Dual Calling: Pilot and Evangelist
- Faith for Transition and 2 Corinthians 3:18
- Your Next Is Better Than Your Now
- The Tipping Point: When to Step Into the New
- Hebrews 11 and the Levels of Faith
- Adam Naming Eve: Declaring Faith Under Pressure
- Engine Failure at 300 Feet: Decisive Faith in Crisis
- Prayer Over Viewers in Transition
Scripture in this episode
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Welcome to Daily Faith Today. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am absolutely thrilled to have you with us. We got a great guest on today's program. Every time Derek Grahn comes with me, he always brings something with him. Let me tell you, when you interact with people in your life, have a thought, have a word from the Lord that you can share with them. Because many times, your word, your encouragement, your gentle voice can be the thing that keeps men and women going. In fact, there's a scripture — I don't recall the reference to it — but the old King James version says, 'Your words confirm the feeble knees.' And the translation of that is, your words keep men on their feet.
Philip:And my daily prayer in my life is that something I say, something I reach out to someone and just have a wee word with them, and that word that I share keeps them on their feet, keeps them strengthened, keeps them encouraged. And Derek Grahn has been that in my life for many years, and he is a great man of God. He pastored for years in the Mobile area, and he now has a program called Fuelcast.tv. I think it's Fuelcast.tv — I'll get him to tell you. But it's just wonderful to have him with the program today, and I'm glad to have you with us as well.
Philip:We started years ago — 37 years ago — I adopted a wee boy in Romania. And I had no idea, they say the big doors swing on small hinges, and I had no idea that when I adopted that boy, that God was going to give me a task to reach out for years now — 36, 37 years we've been doing this — caring for young people that have no one else to care for them and love them. And in the last quarter century, we've been having incredible results in the country of Moldova. You may hear Moldova in the news because it's right next door to Ukraine. We also have a home — we've had a home in Ukraine long before the war broke out. Long before Ukraine became known by everybody, we were there, reaching kids that were at threat of being trafficked. And so we've got a great place in a country called Moldova. The capital is called Chișinău. We've got a place called Vatra Village.
Philip:It is a village of homes where young kids come. We'll find them on the streets, we'll find them in the orphanages from poor families. And they're the ones that are most at risk from being trafficked. They're offered bogus jobs. Every girl you see right now in this video is worth $300,000 a year to the trafficker. Can you believe that? Every girl. Three girls will make them a million dollars a year. And we bring them to our village in Vatra Village and put them back in school, share the gospel with them. And the most unbelievable stuff has happened in their lives. These kids become sons and daughters instead of orphans. And then from being sons and daughters, they become missionaries.
Philip:And all through the summertime, they have camps. And now as autumn comes in, they identify people who are in need, and we bring them wood, and we bring them school supplies, and we bring them food. And these orphans that no one wanted have become the Orphan's Hands — that's the name of the ministry. And they are reaching out in love with the gospel, bringing clothes. My wife, Chrissy, is about 50 feet away from me right now, and every few months we send a container of clothes and supplies over to Moldova. And our kids use these as attractants to bring people to hear the gospel, and the results they are having are absolutely incredible. Just the other day, some new kids came to our place at Vatra Village in Moldova.
Philip:And we were there with cameras to catch them coming. You're going to love this video. Watch this.
Today, million people have walked through our doors, and it will change the course of their entire lives. They've come here to learn, to grow, to discover their gifts, and become the people they were created to be. And because of you, they now have the chance. Your support gives them more than education. It gives them hope and the future they once couldn't imagine. One day, they will look back and realize that their lives changed because someone chose to believe in them. And that someone is you.
Thank you for the opportunity to have a future. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Philip:Oh, I love watching those videos. Those kids come, many with just the clothes on their back. And my wife prepares here in Tennessee, Rubbermaid tubs. And when they come to our home, we have a welcome home party. And boy, what a celebration that is. And they get to open these tubs, and in those tubs is a whole wardrobe. All the stuff they need. Makeup for the girls, a nice watch for the boys, clothes. And we are saying to them, 'You're not despised and rejected by us. We love you, and we care for you.' And the result and the impact on that moment are forever on their minds and on their hearts.
Philip:And the amazing thing is that these kids come back, and once they go through our ministry, and they get on their feet, and we keep them until they graduate, and they get themselves a job, and then we house them in an apartment, and they can always come home to Vatra and get food, and we're always there to support them. And to watch them get married and have babies, and bring their babies back, and testify, and tell the new kids that are coming in — it is the most amazing thing I've ever witnessed. I've been ministering for decades. 57 years I came to America with my dad, and I've seen missions of every kind. I've never seen anything like this. This is not a feeding program. This is not a bowl of rice once a day. This is an adoption. We take them in, and we are responsible for their medication.
Philip:Most have never seen an eye doctor or a dentist in their lives. And we care for them in every minute part of their life. Pay for their education. And tell them, 'We'll stay with you until you can stand on your own two feet.' And to a girl that is at risk, offered a bogus job by someone — they go to Italy to a restaurant, or Germany, or wherever, or in Moldova to care for kids — and then they get in that car, and they're gone forever. 30 to 50 times a day they're used.
Philip:And we are taking young people in — you just saw — we're taking young people in all the time. We're opening two new homes right now. And we need people to partner with us and give a monthly gift. A dollar a day, $30 a month, won't change your life as far as finances. My goodness, the price of stuff — you can't even buy a gallon of gas these days, it's so expensive. But you can change a life. If I could take you to meet these kids and say, 'You can change this girl's life forever.' Who she marries, her education, her babies, their babies. Change the whole thing from being an orphan in an alcoholic, abusive home, and we can share the gospel with them and transform their lives by the power of God for $1 a day. I know many of you would say, 'Philip, I can do that.' And I'm asking you to pray about doing exactly that right now.
Philip:You can contact me, really simple. The Orphan's Hands — P.O. Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee. P.O. Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee. Really easy to remember. Bill Clinton was the president — never mind. And 37716. And you can just write a check out to the ministry, The Orphan's Hands. And you can also contact us by calling us. 833-DAILYFAITH, so simple. 833 and just dial DAILYFAITH on the keypad of your phone, and a real live person will pick up that phone.
Philip:You can also go — one more address we'll give you — is dailyfaith.tv. That's like our home base for this program. All the shows are there. They're cataloged there. You can look through them, and it's a tremendous resource for you. And so if you'd like to help us by sponsoring one of these kids, one of these homes, for a dollar a day, you can change a life for eternity. We've got two new homes for little kids between the age of four and 16. One of them is almost opened, and we're working on the second one. And so we're looking for a one-time gift. You can help us — $100 gift or $1,000, whatever the Lord speaks to you. Help us reach out. The Bible says when you give to the poor, you lend to the Lord, and by doing so, you are aligning yourself with the heart of God.
Philip:He is the father of the fatherless. And the Bible says when you care for them, he'll be close to you in your day of trouble. And these kids are important to God. I hope they're important to you. I am delighted to have with me a great friend, a dear friend of many, many years, and God has used him in my life to bless me, and uplift me, and keep me on my feet, to be quite honest with you. And he is a great man of God. He is the host of a program called Fuel Cast TV. It's primarily aimed for men, and if you have a husband or a son that you're interested in hooking them up and getting involved in the kingdom, you need to find this thing. If you would, it's really simple — www.fuelcast.tv. And I'm delighted to have Derek with me today. Derek, thank you for coming to be with us on Daily Faith. How are you doing, my friend?
Derek Grahn:I'm good. It's always a pleasure of mine to be on your program.
Philip:Well, I love it. That Vatra Village is beautiful.
Derek Grahn:Oh, it's amazing. We just had a church come — it's beautiful. There's a large church, Elevate Life Church in Frisco, Texas, tens of thousands of people, and they sent a team of 21 people over two weeks ago. And Christy and Melody —
Philip:My wife and my daughter — went to host them. And the missions pastor was there, and he contacted Andrew, and he says, 'In all of our life' — and they are involved in big missions all over the world —
Derek Grahn:They said, 'We have never seen anything like this in all of our lives.' It's beautiful.
Philip:And then so I want you to come. You need to come to —
Derek Grahn:I need to. Here's the thing. To me, that is God's proof that you guys are not snowing people over, that you really are doing what you say you do.
Philip:I hope. And I know that because I've seen the backside of it.
Derek Grahn:And I mean, I just think it's the best. I mean, it just blows me away every time.
Philip:Well, I would love you to come —
Derek Grahn:I need to — and be there.
Philip:Take Courtney with you, and I promise you, it will change your world — because of what these kids — I mean —
Derek Grahn:They convict you.
Philip:They convict me — of how the dedication is for the Lord Jesus. You are in an amazing season of life right now. You're continuing ministry, but your passion has been, for a long time, flying planes, and the Lord has opened doors for you to become a preacher pilot — which I think is a great thing. And I'm jealous of you sometimes when you send those pictures to me of you up in that plane. I'm thinking, 'That just isn't fair. Here I'm earthbound, and he's up above the clouds.' Tell us what you're doing right now.
Derek Draughon's Dual Calling: Pilot and Evangelist
Derek Grahn:Well, I have moved into corporate aviation. And I'm flying a Citation, a private jet. Right now I'm right seat, but my captain is saying I'm going to be left seat in the near future.
Philip:Oh, that's so exciting.
Derek Grahn:But it's just God. And I'll tell you a quick thing, and then I'll get into what's on my heart. But my dad had been praying for my job and my ministry — so the job meaning the flying — and the ministry meaning the evangelism side. And he called me one day and said that the Lord just stopped him and said, 'They're both ministry.'
Philip:Both ministry, absolutely. We pray it that way.
Derek Grahn:And what that did to me is that puts me at the airport after he said that to me. I see a young man carrying a Bible, and I go over and talk to him, and he had gotten saved the Sunday before, and his whole family got baptized down on the beach, and he began to share with me about that, and I gave him my number. I said, 'I'm here for you if you need anything.'
Philip:Beautiful. Because this is not just flying, this is ministry. And now I try to do that everywhere I go. But let me just — even if I'm on the flying side, I want to minister — but let me say this. If there are pastors watching today, Derek has an amazing ministry to men. He attracts guys — I mean, guys, you know what I mean? And so apart from what you do, you are available to go and speak in churches and do whole weekends of ministry. You've been a pastor for decades, but this new season's allowing you to become more on the evangelistic field and going to churches and talking.
Derek Grahn:Yes.
Philip:And listen to me, Pastor, one of the greatest needs today in the world is ministry to men. In this country, in this society, men have been emasculated. And the church is run by women — I don't mean run on the oversight of it, but the women do the function of the church because guys don't know where they fit in. And Derek has some unique ministry about this, and you need to get in contact with him. I'll be putting his address up. But to get him in for a weekend to come and speak to the men in your church — a Saturday with the guys and the minister of the church — he will impact your church for the kingdom of God.
Faith for Transition and 2 Corinthians 3:18
Derek Grahn:Thank you.
Philip:It's — I'm going to tell you what's on my heart today.
Derek Grahn:Yeah. And this comes from where I've been in the past year, but it's faith for transition. Because I feel like so many people go into a transition season and have no faith for it. And I'll tell you where this comes from — and I've preached this a couple different places — but 2 Corinthians 3:18, the writer says, 'But we all, with opened face beholding as in the glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.'
Derek Grahn:And when I think about transition, I feel like people are watching today because the world — everything is transitioning right now. Everything's moving. Everything's changing.
Philip:Like never before.
Derek Grahn:Exactly. And I feel like they need to hear this because — I preached this a few weeks ago at a church, and at the close of the service, I just said, 'Okay, if you're in transition, come to the altar.' The entire church came to the altar. Everybody in the building ended up at the altar. But what I want to get across is that we move from glory to glory. We have to make the level we're at glorious. We don't just leave it because it was a dump.
Philip:Well, I've never — the Word says we move from glory to glory. I've preached that, and I've never heard that before. You leave glory to go to glory.
Derek Grahn:Yes. To go to another level of glory. Sometimes God won't allow you to graduate until you make where you are glory. Yes, you've got to make it what God called it to be. And the way I always preach this is, your next is better than your now. Not that your now is bad, but what God's got for us is another level of glory. Even as pastors, when we transition the church to a new phase, we're moving from glory to glory. We're not just trying to dump the old and get to the new. Your next is better than your now, but your now needs to be what God called it to be.
Your Next Is Better Than Your Now
Derek Grahn:And my heart with this kind of comes out of Matthew 14, where Jesus tells the disciples to get in the boat and go ahead of him. And we know a storm blows up, and when the storm blows up, they're thinking, 'Man, where did he send us? This is a mistake.' But no, when we move to the next level, there's always going to be the pushback from the enemy.
Philip:Sure. But we don't let that — you know one of my favorite things you ever taught me? You called it the tipping point. And when you told me this, you said, 'You pray about it, you get words about it, you talk to people about it, but when the tipping point comes, when the scale tips — you go.' And I wrote that down in my notes. I've got it saved, and when I'm in my transition moments, when the tipping point hits, I don't look back. And that's what you taught me, so that was very good for me.
Derek Grahn:Wow. I'm glad I taught you something because the Lord knows you've taught me a whole bunch. Well, faith for transition comes from the fact — usually when I preach this, my first point is, now faith is. And Hebrews 11 tells us it's confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Everybody in the world today wants to see it before they get it. That's not faith. Faith is confidence in what we don't see.
The Tipping Point: When to Step Into the New
Derek Grahn:This is what the ancients were commended for. It goes on in verse six, 'And without faith, it's impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.' Romans 10:17, 'Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.' And I think I've talked about this on your show before, but I know when Jesus was walking around, he talked to some people, and he said, 'Y'all don't have any faith.' Man, I would not want Jesus to say that to me.
Derek Grahn:But he says to some, 'You have no faith.' He tells others, 'Y'all have little faith.' I wouldn't want him to say that to me. He tells others, 'You have big faith.' But there was one guy that he looked at, and he said, 'I've never seen this much faith.' I want Jesus to look at me and say, 'I've never seen this kind of faith.' And if we're going to transition to our next, then we've got to have that kind of faith. We've got to be at that level of faith to move forward.
Philip:And don't you have to be willing to let go of where you are? I found in my life, in the transition points of my life, I've had to let go, and it took almost as much faith to let go when something you've built and you've created out of nothing, and you are about to leave and lose. You either can make it a losing moment or a winning moment. And that decision of your life, that tipping-point moment, determines whether you're going to survive the next step. And by surviving that losing moment — and I know someone's watching just now, and you're thinking, 'My Lord, the world's falling down around my ears, and I don't think I'll ever smile again or be happy.' Let me tell you something. Thus sayeth the Lord, you're going through a season, and God's going to bring you out the other side with victory like you've never had before. You're only in a season, but he's changing you from glory to glory.
Hebrews 11 and the Levels of Faith
Derek Grahn:Amen. You're about to go to the next level. Amen. And in that transition, it seems like everything's against you.
Philip:Always. Oh, my goodness.
Derek Grahn:But it's not. God's for you. God's not against you. The wind was blowing against them. The waves are coming against the boat. But they are continuing the road. That is the truth.
Philip:And I met you — even though it seems like everything's against us, it's not — let me testify. I met you in the worst moments and seasons of my life, 12 years ago. Darkness, despair. And I didn't even have faith. And maybe I'm going to testify to encourage you — I didn't even have faith to read my Bible. I sat in a dark room, with horrendous thoughts going through my mind. And one day, I was flicking through Facebook, and you wrote something that jumped out of that screen to me, and I started looking for other things you'd said.
Philip:And so God uses, in your season of transition, in your moments when everything is jelly — everything. The world around you is made of Jell-O. Everything's wobbling and shaking, and you don't know who you are, and you don't know if anyone likes you anymore, and you don't know if your wife loves you. It's all Jell-O. And the devil's there, and he's shaking the Jell-O. Let me tell you something. God has a rhema for you today. You are not going to fail. You are not going to fall. He's going to see you through, and the latter will be greater. And here we are now, 12 years later, doing more, reaching further than we've ever dreamed possible. Because you kept me on my feet. Praise God.
Derek Grahn:Isn't that amazing? And here's what we have to look at. Adam and Eve get thrown out of the garden. What if God puts a flaming sword to not let them back in? They're evicted from their house. Everything that was — can you imagine how nice the garden was? Walking with the Lord every day in the cool of the day. All this goodness, and then you're thrown out. And what does Adam do? Rather than flipping out, he turns to his wife, and he says, 'I'm going to call you Eve, because you are going to be the mother of all living things.'
Adam Naming Eve: Declaring Faith Under Pressure
Derek Grahn:And most people think she was named Eve way before that, but she wasn't. Even at the point of eating the fruit, it says the woman gave him the fruit. He had not named her yet. But when they're being evicted, he turns and he says, 'I'm going to call you Eve because you're going to be the mother of all living things.' And it's just like I was getting my multi-engine add-on a couple of weeks ago, and they put me with a test instructor, and we're taking off. And at 300 feet AGL, he reaches over and kills my critical engine. Now, I could have just froze up. But I didn't. I made the decision because they had trained me on what to do when you lose your critical engine. And I banked into the good engine, and I rode it into the good engine, and I threw the checklist at him and said, 'Give me the air restart.' I made that decision quickly.
Derek Grahn:And when we're in these transition moments, we don't have time to sit around and not make a decision. We have to go to the Lord. We have to get a word from him. We've got to turn to whoever's walking through it with us and say, 'Let me tell you something. You're going to be the mother of all living things. This is going to work out. Our best days are ahead. Our next is better than our now. We are going to get through this.' And Adam made that decision quickly, just like I had to in that airplane. And when we got back on the ground, the guy told me, he said, 'I could not believe how quick you responded to that.' And I said, 'Well, that's who I am. I got ADHD.' It's what I do.
Philip:Your response determines your future. Sometimes our response creates more problems than the original problem. And so God wants you to — I just feel this so strongly, Derek. You're watching us today, and God's telling me to tell you something. Shut your mouth. Don't explain. Don't fight. The battle is not yours, it's the Lord's. Let God arise and let your enemies be scattered. He is in control. And if you think you can do this by yourself, you're going to mess it all up. But if you'll trust him — we have a minute and a half left. I really feel the Holy Ghost in this today. And just wrap this up for us. Someone's watching, they're going through this transition. Everything's Jell-O in the world. They don't know who to trust anymore. What am I going to do?
Engine Failure at 300 Feet: Decisive Faith in Crisis
Derek Grahn:Well, the biggest thing we do is we want to shut down, and we want to close in. And we want to go get in a dark room and hide. But this is the moment where we expand ourselves. Where we grow in the faith. We grow in the Word. We grow in our worship. And I just want to pray over who's watching right now. Can I do that?
Philip:Yes, please.
Derek Grahn:Father, I pray in the name of Jesus. God, I don't know who's in expansion, who is in a transition time, but Father, I pray that you speak to them, that they do as Philip said, and they close their mouth until you give them the word, you give them the prophetic utterance. And when you give them that, Father, let them open their mouth and declare it with faith. In the name of Jesus.
Prayer Over Viewers in Transition
Philip:In the name of Jesus. Amen. Wow. Derek, as always, you always bring a word from the Lord. I want you, if you're watching this today, if you're a pastor or if maybe your husband's kind of struggling along — go to youtube.com/@fuelcast. Can you see that? @fuelcast, up on the screen right now for you. Get in contact with Derek. He will never fail to bring a rhema word into your life. Thank you for watching. Thank you, Derek, for being with us. Come back soon.
Derek Grahn:Thank you so much. We'll see you again. God bless you. Bye-bye.
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 helped the Camerons lift these amazing young men and women out of darkness. Now, no longer orphans, they want to 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 the Ukraine. If you want to join Philip and Chrissy in taking care of these precious young people, please contact us today by calling 833-DAILYFAITH. 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 Derek mean by 'moving from glory to glory' during a transition?
Derek draws from 2 Corinthians 3:18 to explain that transitions aren't about escaping a bad situation — they're about moving from one level of glory to another. His key point is that God sometimes won't let you move forward until you've made where you currently are what He called it to be. As he puts it, 'Your next is better than your now, but your now needs to be what God called it to be.'
What is Derek's 'tipping point' concept and how does it apply to transitions?
Derek teaches that in a transition, you pray about it, receive words about it, and talk to trusted people — but there comes a moment when the scale tips and you simply go, without looking back. Philip credits this teaching as something he personally wrote down and returns to whenever he faces his own transition moments.
What does Derek say faith actually looks like when you're in a season of transition?
Derek anchors his teaching in Hebrews 11, emphasizing that faith is confidence in what you hope for and assurance about what you cannot yet see. He warns that wanting to see the outcome before stepping forward isn't faith at all, and says that to move to the next level, you need to be operating at the highest level of faith — the kind where Jesus himself would say, 'I've never seen this much faith.'
How does Derek use the story of Adam and Eve's eviction from the Garden to encourage people in hard transitions?
Derek points out that even as Adam and Eve were being thrown out of the garden, Adam didn't freeze or fall apart — he turned to his wife and named her Eve, declaring she would be 'the mother of all living things.' Derek uses this to argue that in transition moments, you have to make a decision quickly and speak life over your situation, just as Adam did, rather than shutting down in despair.
What practical advice does Derek give to someone who feels like everything is falling apart during a transition?
Derek says the natural instinct is to close in, hide, and go dark — but he argues that's exactly the wrong response. Instead, he says transition is the moment to expand: grow in faith, grow in the Word, and grow in worship. He also echoes Philip's counsel to stop trying to fight or explain your way through it, and instead trust God to handle the battle.
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