We’re chatting with Jada Edwards on the podcast today! Jada is the Creative Arts Director at One Community Church, which she calls her first baby. She is also the mother of 2 adopted kids, Joah and Chloe. She loves Jesus, the church, teaching, motherhood and wants MORE time alone to just think. She’s a creative who loves the opportunity to dream. Jada also shares the difference between soul care and self care. Soul care is feeding on God’s word and feeling satisfied. True restoration comes from time with God. Jada is currently teaching on the importance of the church. She reminds us that Jesus is the head of the church and established it for a purpose. We gather together at our Father’s house where we find community and fellowship with other believers. This is what the first church did and we should follow their example. Jada is so relatable and funny. Her practical wisdom will bless you as you listen!

Mentions: Jada’s powerful one-liners!

• “Privacy Please!” Try using this in your house when you need time in the bathroom without little fingers poking under the door.
• “Table for One” Try stepping away for a late night date with yourself at a local coffee shop or restaurant. Time to think, time to meet with Jesus and the bonus is you’ll agree with yourself on what to order!
• “Not optional” We make priority for the things are not optional, like feeding our children. Gathering with believers is not optional.

Truth:

• Acts 2:43, “A deep sense of awe came over them all, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders. 44 And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had. 45 They sold their property and possessions and shared the money with those in need. 46 They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord’s Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity— 47 all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved.”
• Ephesians 3:10, “His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms.”
• Galatians 6:9, “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up,”

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I wish we could wave a magic wand and make everything work out like we want. We live in a day when walking out the front door takes all the courage we can muster. What will today hold? Everything feels out of sorts, confusing and scary. We can all use more trust, but who or what are we trusting in? Here’s what I know about motherhood: I want my kids to trust me.  I want them to know that I am always working for their good, always seeking their best interest, always there when they need me. Can you hear God saying the same things to us? God wants us to trust him in all these same ways and more. Today, Rebecca shares scriptures that remind us that our great God and Father is worthy of our trust. There is nothing and no one else that is truly capable of bringing about good in all situations. When you are afraid, you can trust God. When you misplace your comfort in what this world offers then choose instead to trust God. If you fill your heart and mind with God’s truth, then more trust will overflow from it.

Mentions:

• Mom Hack: Mr Clean Magic Eraser
• Quote: God is not like us, seeing the needs of others and scrolling to the next post, declining the call, denying relief.  Remove the lie from your mind that God does not listen, speak or act when asked.  He is alive at all times.  Answering every prayer.  Sometimes a yes, others times a no, many times a wait.  And all three are answers.  All three are governed by wisdom, for our good, always.  (Holier Than Thou, p61)

Truth:

• Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him by Jackie Hill Perry
• 1 Peter 2:22
• Isaiah 40:25-26
• Mark 4:35-38
• 1 Peter 5:7
• Proverbs 29:25
• Romans 8:28, 31-32
• Isaiah 26:3

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As we open this season and talk about all things more, we have to start it out right. We have to build this season on where we really find our more because if we start anywhere other than God, we will all be left disappointed. Today we’re talking about gospel indicatives and gospel imperatives. Gospel indicatives are what is true about you. Gospel imperatives are what you do in light of that truth.  All Mamas love a good to-do list. The problem comes when nothing gets checked off the list because we need more energy, more time and more patience. Before you can follow the gospel imperatives, you need to remind yourself of who you are in Christ and why his power is what we need to more of in our daily lives. If you want more God, ask Him to open your eyes to see Him. Stop trying to do things for him and rest in what he has done for you.

Mentions:

• Sandwich Cutter and Decruster on Amazon
• Gospel by JD Greear
• The Gospel Primer by Milton Vincent, Quote by John Bunyan: Run, John, run, the law demands but gives me neither feet nor hands. Better news the gospel brings that bids me fly and gives me wings. 

Truth:

• Ephesians 3:20-21, “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”
• Ephesians 1:4-8, “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8 that he lavished on us.”
• Ephesians 1:18-21, “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.”
• Ephesians 2:4-10, “But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
• Ephesians 3:16-19, “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

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