She Sheds Real Light

Today we have Rachel Camarota on the podcast.  Rachel is the Founder of Axios and Director of First Priority.  She has an amazing testimony that will touch your heart in more ways than one.  We are so thankful for the opportunity to gather around a table with her and hear her heart and passion!

She shares how she beat the odds from the many obstacles she faced in her life and how God has blossomed her into something amazing, doing work for the Lord daily.

We talk about filtering our minds from the things it's exposed to.

Grab your tissues and chocolate, this is a long one!  You'll either cry from laughing or cry because her testimony is that powerful.  We did a little bit of both!!

How do you find hope in the unknown? 

We are currently living through a pandemic.  A time where fear, anxiety, frustration, depression, anger and so many other emotions are taking over our minds. Some have lost their jobs while others are having to re-route their plans for a wedding or arrival of a baby.  Some are even mourning the loss from this disease.

It is okay to feel different emotions but in this episode we encourage you to seek out God in this time of need.  To have a hope even when we have no idea of what's to come.  The one thing we do know is that our God supplies our every need and we never go without.

We encourage you to focus on all of the positive in all of the negative surrounding us, while taking this time to focus on what God wants you to eliminate from your life once all of this settles down.

Have you ever felt stuck?  You knew God had spoken a promise to you but you didn't have all the answers or even know when the promise would happen?

We talk about that very thing.  Sharing about times we've missed the point of now because we are too worried about the when of the promise.

We encourage you to rest in the waters and really focus on what God is trying to teach you in the now.

Today's episodes speaks truth over the power in the tongue.

Before we speak, we need to stop, think and ask ourselves, is it ...

T - True
H - Helpful
I - Inspiring
N - Necessary
K - Kind

If our words are not meeting the acrostic, we don't need to speak them. Our tongues have the power to bring harm or good.  

We encourage you to pause and think before speaking!

Grief and loss of any form is something hard for us to walk in.  The season of grief can bring a lot of sorrow but in return we can find joy even when we may not see it at first.  

We discuss the 5 stages of healing: 

1. Denial  
2. Anger
3. Bargaining 
4. Depression 
5. Acceptance

We share how we have coped through each of these areas in our own lives and talk about how God will always carry you through.

If you are struggling with loss of any kind and need someone to talk to please don’t hesitate to reach out.  We are here to build one another up.

We discuss why we are so consumed with other's opinions of us.  

Sharing about times in our lives that we allowed someone’s opinion to bother us more than it should have. 

There’s only one opinion that holds truth and that’s God’s opinion. We can find out everything He thinks about us in the word. 

Don’t be opinionated! 

We are so excited to have our second guest on the Podcast!  

Priscilla lives in Michigan, she is a worship and events director at her home church as well as a passionate advocate through the court for abused girls.

She shares how a broken past doesn't stop you from living in God's full potential for your life.  We all deserve to live in our full potential and in order to do so we have to allow God to stand in the gaps for us.

She also talks about our heart posture.  Pushing aside our hurts while we are in the room with the same people who hurt us.

On this episode we talk about the importance of our foundations and what we are building them on.  

The base of our foundation should always be Christ because He is our firm foundation and Rock of Salvation.

Is your foundation built on Christ or is it built on worldly pleasures?

We discuss having a plan of action put in place because when we plan, we are prepared and have more stability.

Crystal even shares a funny, yet familiar story that will be sure to make you laugh.

Join us for the final episode in our Three C Series as we talk about contentment.

We share our personal opinions on discontentment and how we think it stems from our worldly desires.

We discuss how happiness and joy is the key to contentment and how being happy with what you already have brings contentment.  

What is the ringleader of your discontentment?

What is your heart check and mindset telling you?

Welcome to the second episode in our Three C Series as we talk about competition.

Crystal shares how competitive she can be and how we start learning about competition at a very young age.

We discuss how the root of competition stems from jealousy.  

Also sharing the importance of how we miss out on the opportunities that God places in front of us when we are trying to run everyone else's race instead of our own.  

We have to stop chasing other people's success.