How Sharing Your Story Helps Others Persevere with Jen Smith
The Faith Breathed Hope podcast
Release Date: 03/17/2026
The Faith Breathed Hope podcast
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info_outlineIn this episode I speak with Wife, Mom, Author, Speaker, and Founder of Launch Your Rocket, Jen Smith on How Sharing Your Story Helps Others Persevere. Listen as Jen shares on loss, gain, and reimagining your purpose. She relays how God will use your circumstances to bear fruit as you are faithful to share your story with others. Jen believes that when you give and love others to reach those unaware that you will see God's love as abundance in your own life.
Find Jenn : the website and Instagram
Scripture:
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Jeremiah 29:11
2 Corinthians 9:7
Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Luke 6:38
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Proverbs 3:27
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.
James 1:22
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
Mark 5:19
Jesus did not let him, but said, “Go home to your own people and tell themhow much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”
Psalm 107:2
Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story— those he redeemed from the hand of the foe,
Additional Scripture: 1 Timothy 6:17-19, Proverbs 19:17, Mark 12:41-44, Proverbs 11:24-25, Isaiah 1:19, Luke 8:39, Psalm 66:16, 1 Peter 3:15-16
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