She Sheds Real Light

It's October and before long people will be putting on masks to hide their true identity.  In this episode we talk about wearing masks and hiding behind them, not allowing everyone else to see the true and real us.

We encourage you to get comfortable and take your mask off.  We live in a world where we are always taking off one mask just to put on another.  It's easier to hide and pretend we are someone that we aren't than just being who we really are.

Have you ever walked through valley's in life?  In those valley's all you can think about is making it to the mountain top.  In the valley's we get to experience growth.  It's not easy and it's never fun but it is worth the life lesson.  God uses those valley's to teach us valuable lessons.  We also learn in these season's that He truly is God over it all.  The control is all in His hands, not ours.

The view from the mountain top is gorgeous while the view from the valley is cold and dark; it's painful.  We want to encourage you to give praise while you're on the mountain top and never forget the valley you were pulled from.

Life is hard, learning is difficult and times are tough but with each thing we face in life, God is there with us surrounding us on all sides just like a mountain surrounds the valley.  

Grab your coffee, notebook and pen and listen along as we share our hearts and the importance of the high's and the low's of life.

Have you ever had someone tell you that you're too much or you are extra?  Maybe they've even told you that you aren't enough.  We are so guilty of allowing these lies to pierce our hearts and fill our minds.  

We get honest and talk about the things that sometimes bother us when it comes to not feeling like we are enough for our kids, jobs etc.  At some point in our lives we haven't felt qualified or like we are enough for the job and unfortunately motherhood, marriage, jobs, etc bring a lot of those moments for us.

We want to tell you today that you ARE enough because your Heavenly Father is enough!  We are enough because He is enough.  You are enough because He made you in His image!  You are enough because He loves you as you are.  

We hope that you'll really listen to this one and realize that while we aren't for everyone, we are for some and those some are pretty special people!

Join us as we gather with Sarah Coates, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and owner of 180 Counseling to five North Carolina locations where their mission is to help others turn their lives around.  As well at Host of the Turn Your Life Around Podcast. We discuss the stigma of mental health and everything that goes along with it.

It is okay to have Jesus and a Therapist too!  We know that's not a popular opinion but that's okay because we know that God has designed us the way that we are and we know that it is okay to seek help when needed. On this episode we encourage you to open up to the idea of requesting help when needed. Seeking help is not a sin!

Tune in as we talk about a lot of different things including what led Sarah to Counseling and what her passion and mission is!

**TRIGGER WARNING** This episode talks about mental health/suicide.

Today we focus on the importance of being still with God.  No distractions, no music, no scripture reading, no prayer.  Just take the time to sit and be with Him.  It's in these moments that He comes in the stillness and speaks to our hearts.

We often fill our schedules so we don't have the time to be still, being still means we think about the things we don't want to think about. Being still means we have no room to fidget around to distract us from the reality of our circumstances.

When God is quiet, you need to be quieter.  When we don't hear from Him, it's not because He's not talking, it's that we need to get a little quieter so that we can hear from Him.  What He has to say may not be what we want to hear, it may not sound how we expected it to sound, but the importance of it is He has something to say to us and we don't want to miss out on that.  

Have you taken the time to just sit with God?  If not, we challenge to you to be still.     

***TRIGGER WARNING*** Today’s episode briefly discusses the topic of suicide. 

As a child I remember hiding under the covers because I was terrified of what I couldn't see.  I had just watched a scary movie, heard a scary story or had a scary thought.  The outcome of all of these things were that I was wide awake, alert and terrified of what may be coming for me.  

Today's episode we talk about staying awake to the thing's that God is showing us and staying awake and aware that Jesus is coming back.  We need to open our eyes so that we don't miss the thing's that God is trying to show us.  

When you are in a toxic environment taking in toxic things, you often pollute your mind mentally and spiritually.  The same goes for when our hearts aren't in the right place in our walk with Christ.  

We can't attend church on Sunday's, worship praising and praying and leave it there when we leave.  We have to worship, praise and pray the other 6 days of the week. 

We talk about the importance of the environment of which your heart and mind are in.  Often times we forget that in order to continue growing in our relationship with God that we have to let go of our past and who we used to be.  We are made new!

 

What do we need right now?  This is a question I am sure most of you have asked since March of this year when everything we once knew quickly was taken from us overnight.  The answer is as simple as this, we need Jesus!  But this world also needs love.  Maybe you've heard the song, what the world needs now, is love sweet love, it's an oldie but I will say it sings so much truth.  This world needs so much love right now and every day going forward.

We are called to love others.  To show love in everything we do.  We discuss the importance of the things we are taking in, if we are taking in the wrong things, we can quickly become dehydrated causing us to become depleted.  We can only put out what we have taken in.  This is also why it is so important that we are fueling ourselves with the right things.

Grab a notebook and a pen because we caught ourselves taking notes for our own selves and know this episode carries a good bit of information that benefits us all.  God always speaks to our hearts through every episode we were record and we walk away with a word we needed spoken to our hearts.

We are so excited for our first Guest of Season 2!  Today, we introduce to you all the way from Southern Mississippi Rebecca George.  She's a Pastor's wife, Speaker, Writer, Podcast Host of Do The Thing Movement and Interview Coach.

Y'all are going to love her, we had an instant sistership!  Is that even a thing?  If not, we just made it one! Together on today's episode our mission is sharing the importance of investing in the next generation.  The next generation is the younger women and teenage girls in the church.  Why do we have to invest you may ask?  Because we need to pass on what a God fearing christian woman looks like so it can continue for generations to come.

We share our vision of leading other women to Christ and coming together in unity with one another because we all play a roll in the Kingdom of God.  It literally takes an army and each of us have a purpose.  Just as important as it is to be a mentor, it's important to be a mentee as well.  We all need at least that one person whose there along with us helping us when we need Godly advice and counsel.  

We only have the potential to reach so many, so today we share a good bit of information with you on what this looks like and how to do it.  Get your notebooks out because Rebecca shares so much information that you'll want to apply to your lives!

Something about this title sounds off, right?  You're probably used to hearing the phrase, you can't sit with us!  

We aren't called to exclude people by limiting our circle.  We are called to love other's as God loves them, even if they don't look like us, smell like us or believe like us.  We can love one another and still disagree with the way they're living their lives.  

On this episode we discuss the importance of inviting God into our homes but also inviting others into our homes.  Let's open our doors more than normal and invite people in to break bread with us, exactly like Jesus did.  Even Jesus broke bread with people who would eventually betray Him.

Part of our message to you in this episode is that you are always welcome at our table!!