The most surprising thing in the Bible is not a miracle.

It is not a sea that parted. It is not a bush that burned without being consumed. It is not the stone that rolled away from the tomb.

It is a single sentence — spoken early, into the leaves of a garden, to a man who was hiding from Him behind a tree.

Where art thou?

He is looking for them. Before they can find their way back to Him — before they even fully know they are lost — He is already looking for them. And that one sentence is what the next sixty-five books of scripture will spend themselves unfolding.

In this season finale of Paths to Glory, we set the testimonies aside and sit with one question. Not — how do we find God. But — how is it that God has always been the One who found us first?

From a garden in Genesis to a bush in the back side of a desert, from a boy tending sheep in Bethlehem to a well outside a town called Sychar, from a tax collector called down out of a tree to a thief who could do nothing but turn his head on a cross, from a Palestinian father watching a dusty road every day to a promise in the sixty-fifth chapter of Isaiah that says before they call, I will answer — every page of scripture is the story of a God who moved first.

Because He always moves first.

And He is moving still.

For you.

If you have been rehearsing a speech on the way home — He is not going to let you finish it.

If you have been afraid of what the Father is going to say when you get there — He is not going to say what you are afraid He is going to say.

If you have been a long way off for a long time — He has seen you already.

He came first.

He is still coming first.

Come home.

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The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV.

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Some testimonies are about one search. This one is about two.

This week on Paths to Glory, we replay an episode from Season 3 — a story that has quietly become one of the ones our listeners return to more than almost any other.

It is the testimony of a little boy born on a Hawaiian island and given up for adoption almost as soon as he arrived. Raised in the islands by a Puerto Rican father and a part-Apache mother, he grew up loved — and grew up with two questions he could not stop asking. Who was he? And where had he come from?

The search that would eventually take him through ancestry records, court petitions, and a phone call that opened forty years of silence — that search would not begin until much later. Long before it did, a very different chapter unfolded. A Navy uniform. A ship at sea. Two arrests in the space of two weeks. A Bible handed to him by a shipmate whose name he barely remembers. And a series of encounters he did not go looking for — a preacher in a shopping mall, a cleaning lady who prayed over his bed, and a dimly lit room on a warship where the presence of God overwhelmed him so completely he fled it.

He came back.

And what happened after he came back — on that same ship, in the years that followed, in the church he now pastors — is why we felt led to bring this testimony back today.

Two searches. One answer. Not in the order any of us would have written it.

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The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV.

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Some testimonies you produce and move on from. Others follow you for years.

This week on Paths to Glory, we replay one of the most impactful stories we have ever brought to this podcast — an episode from Season 4 called Bonus Time.

It is the story of a little girl who answered the door when two strangers came knocking, asking if any of the kids in the house wanted to come to church. It is the story of the twelve-year-old who was filled with the Holy Ghost on an ordinary Wednesday night, and baptized in the name of Jesus Christ on her thirteenth birthday, with no parents watching and no photos taken. It is the story of the woman that little girl became — a high achiever with a master's degree and a hidden seventeen-year addiction almost nobody around her ever knew about. It is the story of a brother who rode that same church bus, and of the two very different ways their lives ended up.

And it is the story of one Sunday morning at an altar when everything — quietly, finally, completely — broke.

We felt led to replay it today.

If you are the reason — you will know.

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The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV.

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