Abraham did not pass the test until the knife was raised over Isaac.
1. Get Radical Faith with Beatty Carmichael P087 focuses on going through challenging times as tests of faith. 2. Beatty Carmichael hosts the episode from his studio office and presents it as a teaching drawn from life experience. 3. The episode asks whether hard seasons are “trials of sin” or “tests of faith,” and Beatty says the difference matters for how a believer responds. 4. He revisits his earlier series “Infirmity and the Will of God” and says that series examined whether sickness comes from God, fate, or human action. 5. He says the biblical pattern he found was a direct link between sin and infirmity in six Old Testament examples, six New Testament examples, and modern cases. 6. He cites Exodus, Paul’s warning about communion, and James 5’s command to confess and repent as part of that pattern. 7. He says his book The Prayer of Freedom grew out of a “Freedom Guide” and became a “very simple book” and a “90 minute read.” 8. He describes its second section as a structured prayer process that helps people identify causes of discipline in their lives. 9. He gives a specific example involving his friend James, James’s sister, and a suspected poisoning in her village. 10. He says that after using “prayer number two” three times a day for three days, the sister was out of bed, eating, and had her headaches and stomach pain gone. 11. Beatty says the prayer works by severing legal rights that unholy spirits have in a person’s life. 12. He says one addiction recovery class of students made lists of problems, scored them from 0 to 10, and repeated the exercise after a 30-day period. 13. He reports that nearly nine out of ten completers saw a “100% cessation” or dropped to zero on the issues they listed. 14. He says the remaining symptoms for a few people dropped to about one third in intensity on average. 15. He tells a long business example where repeated turnover in sales hires showed him a pattern that he later understood as a test. 16. He says a later conversation with the Lord led him to put his own pay and everyone else’s pay back to full, after which profits swung by $20,000 a month. 17. Beatty’s tone is conversational, self-referential, and instructional, with many direct quotes from his own prayers and questions. 18. The teaching format mixes theology, story, and repeated “what would you do if…” scenarios to make the lesson concrete. 19. Listeners who like Bible teaching on suffering, repentance, and faith testing would likely stay with it. 20. Listeners wanting a short, strictly academic sermon without personal stories may skip it.
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