Chelsea Roberson takes the seat this week to share her incredible story of how her grandfathers faith shaped her's and her life, the way God has called her to release control, and how to trust God where He has us. You will be so encouraged by her testimony and leave knowing that what God is doing in your life is for YOUR good and HIS glory.

Main Takeaways:

• God is so sweet to gently correct us when we try to take control of things.
• I knew at a very young age that Jesus was always with me.
• We need to remember God is with us even when we're in the trenches.
• When the Lord shows up when our lives are most messy, those are some of the most special moments.
• Scriptures: John 10:10 // Gal 2:20 

Connect with Chelsea:

IG - @heychelsearoberson

We're headed into week two of the HEAR HER STORY series! This series was stirred up in Chelsey's heart when God continued to nudge her with Revelation 12:11, We conquer him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimonies." There is nothing more powerful than sharing how we've seen the work of the cross +  the redemption of Christ in our lives. Chelsey's prayer is that God will use series will stir your heart to share your story, rest in the truth that God IS writing your story, and there is VICTORY over the darkness!

Megan Jenkins takes the seat this week to share her incredible story of how God drew her in after coming from a family that had no relationship with Jesus, how she saw powerful redemption in her marriage, and that when we make Jesus priority over everything - we see Him everywhere!  You will be blessed, sharpened, and spurred on by her love for Jesus!

Connect with Megan

• Website - His Kids Company 
• Instagram - @hiskidscompany
• Youtube - linked here!

This week kicks off the HEAR HER STORY series! This series was stirred up in Chelsey's heart when God continued to nudge her with Revelation 12:11, We conquer him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimonies." There is nothing more powerful than how sharing how we've seen the work of the cross + the power the redemption of Christ has been in our lives. Chelsey's prayer is this series will stir you up to share your story, rest in the truth that God IS writing your story, and there is VICTORY over the darkness!

Hailey Everett takes the seat first to share her incredible story of healing from depression + anxiety, redemption through the work of Jesus, and walking in HIS freedom that He has for ALL of us. You will be blessed and encouraged by the mark of Jesus on her life and she invites you to step into a life with Christ, too. 

Connect with Hailey:

• Instagram - @haileyleverett

Today wraps up the Mini Summer Series on Taking Teachable Moments and Turning Them Into Gospel Truths! What a 5 weeks it has been unpacking the most simple moments that God has used to point us to the gospel. He is just so good!! Today we end our series in Matthew 11:1 being challenged to look at the way we live. Do we live a life that shines for Jesus? Are we putting actions behind our words? Let's bring our hearts before the Lord and grow in His grace together today!

Matthew 11:1

• When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.

Connect with Chelsey:

Instagram - @chelseydematteis

Website - www.chelseydematteis.com

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Week 4 of the Minis Summer Series is live! We're taking another teachable moment and turning it into gospel truth. Chelsey shares how God used a rain storm to reveal that she often lived her life like so. Rainy, stormy, and joyless. Through the last 8 months the Lord has brought her to a place of being joy filled and instead of being the girl to allow rain the forecast to ruin her days, weeks, and months - He's led her to being a woman who delights in where God has her + she'll grab an umbrella with joy in her heart, and live in the moment He's placed her. 

• Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord,  and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. Psalm 37:3-5

Connect with Chelsey:

Instagram - @chelseydematteis

Website - www.chelseydematteis.com

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This week Chelsey continues the series for week 3 of the "Teachable Moments Turned Into Gospel Truths". She's talking all about our reactions - (the good, the bad, and the ugly)! Then she unpacks how the way we react causes people to respond back to us and how the level of our reactions can affect our witness positively and negatively.

Scripture reference John 4

• 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

Connect with Chelsey:

Instagram - @chelseydematteis

Website - www.chelseydematteis.com

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You made it to week 2 of the mini summer series!! You'll leave this episode with your heart feeling encouraged, equipped, and commissioned to live with your eyes wide open looking for GOSPEL truth in all your moments. This week come hear how the Lord used a moment of discipline as the perfect opportunity to share about the Holy Spirit! 

• When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. John 16:13
• Conviction is a GIFT from God. It is how Jesus dwells within us! God uses the Holy Spirit to direct and protect His people!
• In a moment that leads to discipline, think how you can turn that into teaching a gospel truth.

Connect with Chelsey:

Instagram - @chelseydematteis

Website - www.chelseydematteis.com

52-week Devotional Book - More of Him, Less of Me: Living a Christ-centered Life in a Me-centered World

Taking Teachable Moments and Turning Them Into Gospel Truths

This is mini summer series will leave your heart feeling encouraged, equipped, and commissioned to live with your eyes wide open each day looking for GOSPEL truth in all your moments. Come hear how Jesus used Chelsey's son learning to ride a bike without training wheels to show her that even when we can't see God's hand in our life, we can trust that He is always behind us + beside us. 

• Psalm 139:5 - You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
• Psalm 91:1-2 - He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

Connect with Chelsey:

Instagram - @chelseydematteis

Website - www.chelseydematteis.com

52-week Devotional Book - More of Him, Less of Me: Living a Christ-centered Life in a Me-centered World 

Today Chelsey talks about different seasons of discipleship + what a gift it is to love and serve the next generation. You'll also leave this episode knowing why and how our life is marked by the community we are doing life with. At the end of this episode Chelsey prays you'll feel challenged to take an inventory of your community, invite an older woman to speak wisdom into your life, and extend the invitation to someone in the next generation to hangout with you! 

Matthew 28:16-20

• 16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17 And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[b] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Connect:

www.chelseydematteis.com

IG: @livingwithlesspodcast

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This week kicks off a 3 part series you won't want to miss! Chelsey begins by sharing what the Lord has stripped away from her, how it happened, and that He's replaced with something that offers LIFE, LIGHT, and TRUE JOY. This is a special series you won't want to miss and one that you will want to share because we all can have found ourselves in these season. 

Scripture Reference:

• Romans 11:36 // 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
• Ephesians 3:12 // 12 In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.

Connect with Chelsey:

Instagram: @livingwithlesspodcast

Buy her book: click here!