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The topic of the Holy Spirit is one that feels like most churches and people aren't discussing in fear of stepping on toes and upsetting people. The thing is... the Holy Spirit is our helper, He is THE PROMISED PRESENCE OF THE LORD.... whether that steps on toes or not we should be talking about Him!

No matter what your stance is on the Holy Spirit, I hope we can all agree that He is a promised gift, the very presence of God who comes to live inside of us after we accept the free gift of salvation which only comes from the blood of Jesus Christ spilled for our sins. The third person of the trinity, the Holy Spirit, is how we experience God. He is within us!!

Jenny Randle is an Emmy® award-winning editor who went on a journey to discover what it really means to live on purpose. From a video editor in the heart of Hollywood to becoming an ordained minister, her creative ventures have reached millions. She has cohosted a fun and top-ranked podcast, Shut the Should Up, authored Courageous Creative, Getting to Know God’s Voice, andDream Come True, and coauthored Flash Theology. Her most recent book, The Promised Presence, is a bible study through Luke and Acts focused on the Holy Spirit’s power and authority.

Key Takeaways:

• Find out who the Holy Spirit is by studying the Bible, laying down all other misconceptions & see what He has to say about it
• Miracles extend the message of Christ, making people ask who He is and drawing them in
• Father, Son & Holy Spirit are co-equal & co-eternal
• The Holy Spirit is a HE not an IT, He is the present presence of God
• We need to be aware of the Holy Spirit and how He is present and working in our lives
• Holy Spirit provides sustaining grace and power even in desperation
• He is good, sovereign & healer- whether or not we’ve experienced our healing instantaneously or not, we can know that one day we will be healed

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This is one of those episodes that requires a download and set to repeat. Wives, for Father's Day you can give your husband something that changes his life.. and it's not one of those cheesy t-shirts you've seen online. It's understanding how to communicate with him better, helping him understand what spiritual leadership actually is, letting him off the hook of being the perfect husband and dad and giving him the gift of affirmation & acceptance.

Doesn't that sound great? Stop the nagging, stop the guilt & shame game and begin to grow in your relationship with your husband beyond the surface level. That is what today's episode is all about. Vince Miller, who has been on the podcast previously, is helping us wives understand what it means to truly understand how our husbands think and how to communicate well with them to help them grow closer to the Lord and to connect with us as their wives. It's GOLD!! Every wife needs to hear this!!

Today’s guest is Vince Miller—Christian author, speaker, and founder of Resolute. With over 30 years in ministry, Vince has written 36 books focused on discipleship and spiritual leadership. He’s the creator of Project23, a bold initiative to teach through the entire Bible verse-by-verse. You’ve seen his work on RightNow Media, YouVersion, and Faithlife TV. Vince is passionate about calling men and women to follow Jesus with boldness, clarity, and conviction.

I can't tell you enough how much the conversation changed my understanding of my husband but also gave me the knowing that I needed to be able to help him be who God has created him to be and support him in love.

This is an episode you need to share with ALL of your friends!Seriously... if you want to see your friends relationships and marriages grow in connection... SEND THEM THIS EPISODE!!

Key Takeaways:

• Men often process emotions slower & struggle to articulate due to lack of teaching & modeling
• Wives can help by saying “I feel” statements and drawing out men’s emotions patiently
• “ABT” = Ain’t Been Taught - Men often aren’t taught how to emotionally process things
• Spiritual leadership means leading others to Christ, not trying to be the perfect leader oneself
• Wives can affirm their husband’s worth beyond specific skills
• Affirmation and encouragement are crucial for men to overcome feelings of inadequacy in unfamiliar areas

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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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As humans we live in a fallen world, which means we will face hardship, trials, disease, illness.... you name it. When we are walking that path it can be difficult to keep our eyes focused on Jesus. Seeing God's goodness and keeping our Fatih can feel impossible when one thing after another seems to be coming at us. I've experienced it and can testify to that! But like my guest today, I can also testify to God's goodness even in the midst of those trials and difficulties.

Ashton Draper is a wife and mother to four children in Northeast Indiana. She has a bachelor’s degree in American Sign Language interpreting from Troy University. She currently homeschools her children while taking care of the home and picking up occasional interpreting assignments. She loves the show Friends and playing games with family on the weekends. She is passionate about being vulnerable with her story in order to encourage other believers in their own stories. She wrote a book called, Big Yellow House: God’s Goodness Revealed: Growing Through Hardship in Marriage and Health while on the Path to Adoption.

Key Takeaways:

• Your story can encourage others going through hard things
• God can make good from all the hard things happening in our lives
• God is faithful to help us persevere through all the valleys of life
• Don’t rely on your feelings, rely on the truth of scripture
• Don’t be ashamed to ask for help
• When you have tangible moments with the Lord, stop and look back, leaning on them to get you through the current trial, if you don’t have those moments, borrow from others

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THIS IS OUR 500th EPISODE OF THE PODCAST!!!!

How exciting to watch God move in this amazing way! Thank you for being a part of this journey!

As a special treat, I invited my own kiddos on to the podcast to get a little inside scoop for all of us momma's out here just trying to do our best. I wanted to hear from them what they really need from me, their mom, so that you, a mom, can get a glimpse into what your own kids need!

As anticipated... their responses were funny yet sincere and very much unprompted!! The way kids see things are so differently and taking a little time to have our eyes opened to their perspective can give us so much insight as to how to meet them where they are. I pray that this conversation encourages you, challenges you, and reminds you that even the smallest acts of faith and love are seen—by your children, and by God. You are doing a great job mom!! Don't give up!

Key Takeaways

• As mom's listening well is one of the most important things we can do
• We don't have to have all of the answers
• Mom's that take time to be with the Lord are more likely to pass that on to their children
• Being there for our kids no matter what shows them our love for them, and cuddles are always a good idea
• When we mom's talk with our kids about their struggles, it's less about giving them all the answers and more about helping them understand why something happened, talking through their emotions & knowing how to do better next time
• Our kids really do know that we have feelings, they just don't always say something about it

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Beauty can come from the brokenness in our lives. Beauty from ashes, we hear in scripture. Today we are going to talk about God's extravagant grace for us and how we can find that in scripture.

I can’t wait for you to hear this week’s episode! I had the joy of sitting down with Kara Diehl, the heart behind Gracelets—a faith-based jewelry company with a mission that goes so much deeper than pretty accessories.

Kara’s story is powerful. For years, she struggled to believe that God truly loved her. But out of that pain, God birthed something beautiful: Gracelets. Each one is intentionally designed to help women share the truth of God’s Word—with themselves and with others.

We talk about how God took Kara’s past hurts and used them to bring healing, not only to her, but to women around the world through these sweet little gracelets that carry big messages of hope. Wearable scripture that can remind us of God's promises!

This episode is for the woman who needs reminded that her story isn’t over. That God’s love is real. And that He can use anything for His glory.

If you’ve ever doubted His love or struggled to share your faith, Kara’s story will meet you right where you are.

Key Takeaways:

• God woos us with His love, mercy and grace and we can respond by trusting Him
• As we read God’s word the Spirit he knit together inside of us is filled by the Holy Spirit which gives us true life
• Scripture gives us an opportunity for healing that only God offers
• We can begin to trust God in little increments and those grow over time
• God’s word never returns void, pray it, believe it and trust Him

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