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Looking for our worth in things of this world can seem like the built in human response in life. Finding ourselves in friends, careers, relationships & finances can seem like the right thing to do, but it leaves us empty and still not knowing who we are. It can even make us question our faith in God.

Wouldn't living a life of unshakable faith be a wonderful feeling? Knowing with no doubt in your mind that you belong to God and He loves you unconditionally! That knowing can be your reality, the way you live your life. That was the case for the guest on the podcast today, Inah. She is a wonderful friend of mine who started off looking in all the wrong places to find out who she was, until God met her in amazing ways and she said yes to him. Yes to his leading, yes to the calling on her life even when she had no idea where it would lead.

Inah recently graduated from Huntington University completing her degree in cross-cultural studies and TESOL. She also just spent 7 months on the Arabian Peninsula teaching English and learning Arabic. She is young woman who has a heart to serve the Lord and is unashamed to share about what that looks like in every day life. It's not always easy and she shares the struggles she has had along the way, including questioning her faith while over seas on mission!

Her faith is inspiring. We all need to know that it's okay to ask hard questions of God, because he has all the right answers.

Key Takeaways:

• Find your life in Jesus, don’t let the enemy overtake you when you feel weak
• Finding validation in friends, jobs, success will always let you don’t
• It can be hard to start sharing what God is doing in your life, but it builds your faith and others each time you share
• All we have to do is say yes, and Jesus takes care of the rest
• We don’t have to know what things will look like in our future, we need to keep trusting Jesus and following Him
• Asking questions to make your faith your own is important

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Overwhelm feels inescapable. Having a heart that isn't weighed down with the weight and responsibilities that are on our shoulders seems impossible.

That is precisely why I talked with my new friend Kara about her newly released devotional, An Untroubled Heart: Calming Anxiety and Finding God's Peace. Her heart is for us experience God in a real and intimate way that changes how we live our everyday lives. She wants us to realized the trust of Psalms 147: 3-5, seeing God as the personal yet powerful God that he is. Our Father in heaven who cares about every big or little thing that happens in our lives and longs for us to run to him for peace. And that's exactly what we talk about on today's episode.

Kara is a writer, wife, and new adoptive mom living in Los Angeles, California. Kara writes prayers and devotionals on her social media and has also written devotionals for Her True Worth, a women’s online ministry. Kara has her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Arizona State University and her master’s degree in counseling from Loyola University Chicago. After walking through a personal medical crisis and the loss of both of her parents to cancer, her life radically changed, and her complete dependency on God for strength and peace became a non-negotiable. Her hope is to encourage women in their faith, pointing them to their Great Comforter and Greatest Companion.

Key Takeaways:

• We can be honest with God about our emotions because He is personal yet powerful
• There is so much freedom in being vulnerable with the Lord
• Continually being in God’s word gives us peace and a strength that shifts our perspective
• We must remain persistent in going to God in prayer, being in His word and being aware that we need to be with Him
• God gives us the gift of peace that doesn’t make sense in our humanness, but is perfect in His power

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Joy & celebration can feel like it's for other people but not for you, right? I get it, I've been there before and so has the guest on the podcast today. Nicole has actually been studying this very thing from a personal and Christian family therapist point of view for years and her insight is life changing.

Nicole Zasowski is a licensed marriage and family therapist and the author of “What If It’s Wonderful?” and “From Lost to Found.” As an old soul who wears her heart proudly on her sleeve, she enjoys writing and speaking on topics that merge her professional knowledge, faith and personal experience. Nicole lives in Connecticut with her husband and their three young children.

Daring Joy takes a fresh approach to studying six familiar women in the Bible—Eve, Sarah, Miriam, Mary the mother of Jesus, Elizabeth and Mary Magdalene—understanding their stories in relationship to the human experience and God’s heart for our joy. It helps us get real life examples of what joy looks like in our lives and what it doesn't look like.

Here is a link to the conversation Nicole and I had last year on the podcast about her book What If It's Wonderful.

Key Takeaways:

• We can be hesitant to embrace joy when we experience a lot of loss
• Joy is the most vulnerable emotion we experience because when you hold something with joy it is automatically accompanied by the possibility of loss
• It can feel safer to not hold joy at all than to risk pain
• We can live a lifestyle of joy & celebration even when our circumstances don’t match up with that
• Sometimes when we are hesitant to celebrate, it’s because we’ve made it about ourselves and not God

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