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It isn't lost on me that many of us struggle with habits we'd like to break, things we can't seem to let go of and relationship troubles we can't get over. Why as Christian's can't we heal from that? What is holding us back or keeping us from breakthrough? 

 Heather is a familiar face on the podcast and for good reason. She shares authentically about her struggles but points us towards trusting Jesus with it all. Her Spirit led approach is something that isn't talked about enough. 

Heather O’Brien is a Spirit-led healing coach, Bible teacher, and host of the Heal With God Podcast, ranked in the top 2% globally. She helps Christians who love Jesus but still feel emotionally stuck learn how to hear God clearly and heal with Him deeply.

Conversation Highlights:

• God doesn’t just give us the words to say but he also tells us how to say it, if we will only ask
• Before we start implementing what to do, we have to seek the Holy Spirit on what He wants to do first
• You can’t do all the deep heart work in one day, it’s a journey with Jesus every day
• Don’t just pray at the problem - go deeper with the Holy Spirit
• What beliefs underneath are leading us to the habits we want to break free from?
• We have to break agreements made within our hearts to be healed and set free
• It’s the Spirit of God that shows us what agreements are made deep inside our hearts
• If fear is keeping you from beginning the healing process, finding a Christian coach, friend, pastor, etc to walk with you is so important
• God’s Word changes things!
• Reading God’s Word, praying and listening to the Lord gives us a more Spirit led life
• God loves to tell you the ‘How’ for right now - He has the future in His hands but He wants to give you peace and contentment for what’s happening right now too

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Healing is never as instant or easy as we think it should be. Maybe it's our culture or just the way life seems to push us to the next thing constantly, but healing seems to be a checklist item instead of a journey. 

This healing and closeness to God is something that we need some guidance on. Because of our broken world it's not our go to response to run to Jesus. So how do we become people who run to Jesus? What does it look like to heal and grow closer to the Lord? Stasi my new friend wrote a wonderful book on this and was so gracious to share some of it with us on the podcast! 

Stasi Eldredge is a New York Times bestselling author, and her books have sold nearly 3 million copies and changed women's lives all over the world. A teacher and conference speaker, Stasi is the cofounder of Wild at Heart, a ministry devoted to helping people discover the heart of God, recover their own hearts in God's love, and learn to live in God's Kingdom. Her passion is to see lives transformed by the beauty of the gospel. She and her husband, John, make their home in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Conversation Highlights:

• Too often we think we need to clean up before we come to Jesus but that isn’t true
• God’s invitation is to come close and ever closer to Him all along the way
• We can’t just know about God, we need to know Him intimately
• Facts can only get you so far, and that isn’t enough - we need to have a heart-to-heart intimacy with Jesus
• God meets us in the midst of our life, even if it’s messy, He is there
• God wants to address the ways we’ve been hurt, He is still about healing the brokenhearted
• He wants to reframe how our view of Him has been warped by the pain and the wounds we have experienced in our lives
• Intimacy grows over time - respond to the invitation from God to meet with Him
• God has the right to shape us, purify us and form us
• Whatever you are doing through the service of love to God is worship
• We need reminded of God’s love for us, every single day!

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There are times in our lives when the truth just doesn't feel true. Have you ever been there? You know the truth, you've heard the truth and you even believe the truth... but it still doesn't feel true. It's such a hard mental battle to be in, but it's a battle that can be won! 

This week's guest knows all about this battle, especially as she walked the hard road of living with an eating disorder for many years. Grace now shares on this topic to young women who are in the same place she used to be. Grace McCready is a writer and speaker who is passionate about encouraging young women through personal stories and scriptural truths. She is the author of Real Recovery & The Ring by Spring Ruse, and she blogs at Tizzie's Tidbits of Truth. She is also a full-time writer/editor for a Christian ministry.

Conversation Highlights:

• Learning to accept how God created our bodies is important
• How do we put God back in his rightful place in our lives and not put things above him?
• John 8:32 - the truth sets us free in every area of our lives
• When we stop to remember what is true about who God says we are, we can recognize lies easier
• Eating disorders are rooted in lies from the devil and we need to treat them with seriousness
• Recovery requires replacing these lies with God’s truth, not just managing symptoms
• Recovery is a slow, daily choice, not a single “lightbulb moment” - it involves rewriting expectations & consistently applying truth, even when it doesn’t “feel” true
• Daily exposure to truth found in scripture rewires the mind
• Write down the lies you’re believing and the truth from scripture that combats that lie and read them over and over
• Take the pressure off of yourself that your healing and recovery have to look a certain way - continue to lean into God’s Word and search for what he says about it

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Order Grace's Book: The Ring By Spring Ruse

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We have a couple options when it comes to sharing our story. We can keep it inside or we can tell others about how God has saved us. Our testimonies change other people's lives whether we believe it or not. It says in scripture that "they will know us by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony." (Rev 12:11). We need to be brave enough to share what God has done in our lives because on the other side of our obedience could be someone's freedom. That's something to chew on huh? 

This week's guest has taken that verse and ran with it! Caitlin is so bold about he faith and how Jesus saved her life that if gives me chills every time I hear her share! She went through some very dark times... BUT GOD!! Now she tells anyone who will listen about how Jesus can save them! 

Caitlin Hawk is an author, speaker, fitness and soccer coach and REALTOR® based in Knoxville, Tennessee. After experiencing radical personal transformation through identity renewal in Christ, Caitlin now equips others to walk free—mind, body, soul and spirit. Her heart is to see the body of Christ released from addiction, bondage and false beliefs through truth and Scripture. Caitlin is a wife and mom of two daughters and spends much of her free time cheering from the sidelines of soccer fields.

Conversation Highlights:

• When we are vulnerable with our testimony it allows others the freedom to be vulnerable as well
• It’s okay to let people know how dark your past was so they can see how powerful Jesus is
• The only way to overcome addiction, identity issues, etc is to know who you are as a new creation in Christ
• Calling yourself an overcomer is establishing who you are in Christ and walking in it
• If you understand who you are in Christ and what Jesus says over you, you will realize that you may be struggling with a stronghold right now but that is not your identity
• Renew your mind to what scripture says about you every single day - consistency is key!
• We have to be humble enough to say we are struggling - until there is vulnerability and an open heart that says “I’m not okay”, healing won’t come because Jesus won’t force healing on you
• Find a person who is set apart to shepherd others into a deeper relationship with Christ for support
• Discovering your Spiritual Gifting is an important part of stepping into who God has made you to be - find a church that encourages that and believes in the giftings of the Spirit
• Remember what God has brought you through, he will not abandon you, helps grow your confidence in Christ

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There are conversations that feel too taboo to talk about and for some reason disabilities seem to be one of those. We are going to take that away this week as we chat with one of the most influential women I know, who happens to also be disabled. 

Nadia Mossburg a disability rights advocate, former Senior Policy Adviser at the U.S. Department of Labor and a woman who has lived with cerebral palsy for 56 years. Her debut devotional, Divinely Disabled: A 30-Day Devotional to Discovering God's Heart for the Disability Community, grew out of nearly four decades of walking with Christ and wrestling deeply with what Scripture actually says about disability, design and divine purpose.

Her passion for reaching others for the disability community is inspiring. She shares the faithfulness and goodness of God any chance she gets and I'm honored she could do that on the podcast this week. 

Conversation Highlights:

• We need to redefine disability as a divine masterpiece, not an accident
• God’s purpose is found through disability, not in spite of it
• Our joy as Christians can bubble over into our daily lives, impacting others in ways we don’t even realize
• Wherever you are, you are on assignment from God to reach those around you for him
• God’s plan unfolds by taking the next right step, even when it feels overwhelming
• Don’t be afraid to have honest conversations with God
• Disability is an aspect of God’s creativity and workmanship

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Have you ever wondered how your yes to the Lord could make any kind of big impact on others? Maybe you've disqualified yourself by thinking you couldn't do anything big for God. That's just not true. God has something specific for each and every one of us when it comes to kingdom impact. Your yes to God matters for more than just you, it matters for others! There are people on the other side of your obedience waiting for you to step into what God is calling you to do.

That wasn't something that Becky was looking for when she went on a mission trip to Sierra Leone in 2006 but it's where God asked her to say yes. A yes that mattered to more than just her. A yes that would change the lives of thousands of people!

Becky Murray is the founder of One By One, a Christian ministry dedicated to ending human trafficking. Her journey began after meeting a young girl on the streets of Sierra Leone who thought Becky had bought her shoes in exchange for sex — an encounter that compelled her to abandon plans to become a lawyer. Today, One By One works across Kenya, Pakistan, Uganda, bringing freedom to many lives. Ten years ago, Becky launched the Dignity Project, which provides reusable sanitary pads and trafficking prevention education to girls, and has reached 50,000 girls. Becky has spoken at the Houses of Parliament and the White House on human trafficking-related issues. She is the longest-serving female presenter on TBN UK, and is the author of Embrace The Journey.

Conversation Highlights:

• No human should ever be bought or sold
• One-By-One has reached more than 53K kids around the world
• Trafficking is a global issue, it’s not limited to specific regions and it exploits vulnerability
• Period poverty - girls miss school due to lack of sanitary products, making them vulnerable to false job offers aka trafficking
• We need to pray every day, “God show me who my neighbor is today” so we can have eyes to see where God is wanting us to make an impact for the kingdom
• Prevention is better than a cure - if we can stop children from going into trafficking we can help save them completely but there is still protection for those who have been in it
• The Holy Spirit can speak to our hearts as gentle as a butterfly but can pierce our hearts like a sword to get us into action
• If we had the talents, skills or finance to do everything God is asking us to do, we would be tempted to take the credit
• The only thing the Holy Spirit is looking for is the person who says “I’m available to do what you ask”, because that enables him to be able to do everything we can’t do

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Becky's Website (One-by-One)

One-By-One on YouTube

One-By-One on IG

The Dignity Project

Churches Against Trafficking

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We all experience tragic circumstances in our lives. When you're in the middle of that, it's hard to see where God is or feel him near. Those of us who are sons and daughters of the One True God can hold on to the hope of the cross, but that doesn't make the hurt go away. How do we get through it or help others through that? 

This week we see just that in the story told by Novelist Johanna Rojas Vann. Where Wilted Flowers Bloom has quickly become one of my all time favorite novels.

I cried. I laughed. I had moments where I had to set it down because the Lord began speaking to me. This is one of those novels you just have to read for yourself. Share it with a friend! 

Conversation Highlights:

• Joy and grief can coexist
• God can heal even the most tragic of circumstances we walk through
• Our sorrow and grief don’t go away, they stay with us in some capacity our entire lives
• Healing from deep grief is a process, not an instant answer to prayer
• Pain and sorrow will always be a part of our lives because this was never how things were intended to be
• Because of our faith, we can have hope and hold on to God, that keeps us above the waves of grief
• No matter what tragic thing you’ve walked through, see it through the lens of the hope of Christ
• Our burdens are too heavy for us to carry, we must bring them to Jesus and lay them down
• God is gentle, he is our shepherd who loves us gently even in our pain
• Tips on how to come alongside someone walking through grief

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There are times in our lives, probably more than we wish to admit where God doesn't feel as close as he once did. We look around and wonder what off ramp we exited on, because he feels like he's no where in sight. It can be hard to know what to do when you can't feel God's presence. I have been there and it's an incredibly hard place to be. 

My wonderful friend Monika has been there too. That's why she wrote her debut book on the topic! God is ever with us and she wants us to be able to remember that in our every day lives. Monika Kirkland is a Christian writer, podcaster, wife and mother of four. She is passionate about encouraging and equipping women to cultivate intimacy with Christ and experience the transformative power of the gospel from the inside out. 

Conversation Highlights:

• The rest we are longing for isn’t found in a quick fix, it’s only found in Christ alone
• We can’t always get rid of the things that cause us stress but we can invite God into it and learn how to live from a place of rest
• It’s common to just go through the motions of our faith
• The majority of our faith is lived out in the in-between times, not just at church or Bible study, but what we consider the mundane daily activities we do
• We will miss out on the joy that comes with walking in intimacy with Christ if we don’t recognize his closeness
• Prayer is one of the most accessible yet underutilized parts our faith
• Sometimes we wait until we get to our breaking point to cry out to God, we don’t have to wait - he’s already there with us
• God cares about the little things in your life, and he deeply cares about you
• The in between small moments in life is where your faith truly grows
• Remember the truth that God is right there with you

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Monika's Website

Monika's Podcast - Inner Revival

Monika on IG

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Have you ever prayed for something just to receive the answer and think, "what on earth was I thinking??" Sometimes living in God's yes is harder than we expect. What do we do with these mixed emotions that no one seems to be able to help us sort through?

Melissa Miller is a family girl, writer, and Reboot Retreat facilitator living in Tennessee. She is a contributor to sites such as Mother.ly, Her View from Home, and the YouVersion Bible app. Melissa has been married for over twenty years, has five children, and is an advocate for vulnerable children in foster care. Having experienced an unconventional adoption as a teen and later adopting a sibling set from foster care, she has a heart to help kids from hard places find belonging. Melissa loves playing pickleball and thinks “just one more chapter” is a perfectly reasonable bedtime strategy.

Conversation Highlights:

• Don’t be afraid to ask God for what’s on your heart
• Keep an eye out for the things that God is already doing in your life
• We may expect God to move in one way but he has a better way planned
• Remember what God has promised and cling to that instead of your expectations
• Let God be the hero and author of your story, your job is to respond to him and obey along the way
• Change fatigue, when there are lots of changes happening at once and your nervous system is having a hard time keeping up
• We can beat ourselves up with the saying, “But I prayed for this”, but we need to name & validate how we feel. It doesn’t mean we’re not grateful, it means we’re adjusting
• Just because it’s a big God story doesn’t mean it isn’t hard
• Which season are you in? Blooming, Building, Balancing or Bittersweet?
• What worked in the last season probably won’t work for this new season
• My feelings are real but not forever

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I had the opportunity to talk to one of the women who was in the film, Rachelle Star, the founder of Scarlet Hope. That was the ministry highlighted in the film. Rachelle's story of obedience to reach those who others overlook is absolutely inspiring! 

Rachelle Starr is first and foremost a lover of Jesus. In 2007, Rachelle founded the nonprofit, Scarlet Hope, when God called her to share His hope and love with exploited and trafficked women. Scarlet Hope has since expanded across ten cities in the United States and has trained thousands to launch similar nonprofits worldwide under Rachelle’s leadership. Rachelle is an entrepreneur at heart and enjoys developing innovative ways to reach and disciple women, wherever they are. As a speaker, coach, and author of Outrageous Obedience, Rachelle has shared her story on numerous platforms to inspire women to live an outrageous life for Jesus. When Rachelle’s not sharing the gospel in a strip club, you will find her spending time with her husband, Josh, and two boys, baking tasty treats, or playing card games.

This conversation was such an inspiration to me personally. Even after years of following the Lord faithfully there is always more waiting for us.

I highly encourage you to watch this film. You can download it directly off the website (linked below) or you can buy the DVD (linked below). There is also a FREE 6 week Bible Study created to go with this film and again... I can't encourage you enough to do it! Find some friends or your Bible Study group, watch the movie and then do the study. God will do a mighty work in your life through this film if you allow Him to. 

Conversation Highlights:

• Scarlet Hope offers hope in the form of home cooked meals that open doors to conversations about Christ
• When the heart of someone changes, real internal change occurs
• Simply listening to others, not trying to fix their wounds or their problems, can make such an impact on their life
• Ask questions that are genuinely curious, because the Holy Spirit will show up in that moment & reveal things to others
• Looking back and remembering what God has done in the past continues to grow our faith
• Every step you take, God is right there - especially when you are being obedient to the Holy Spirit
• After you’ve grown your obedience muscle with the Lord, no matter what he calls you to next, you’ll be more inclined to do it because you’ve seen His faithfulness before
• Before the first step of obedience, you have to be convicted by the Holy Spirit to pursue it

Connect with Rachelle and watch the film!

Rachelle's Website

Scarlet Hope Website

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He Calls Me Daughter Website

Purchase the Film for Direct Download

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