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It's Time to Shift Our Focus

Release Date: 06/08/2021

Kairos Moments

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What do you do when you've heard from God, you move forward with it, but you hit a roadblock? It requires us to shift our focus!

My guest on the show today is Abby McDonald. Abby is a writer and speaker whose passion is to help women find the hope of Christ in the middle of life’s messes. She is the author of Shift: Changing Our Focus to See the Presence of God, and her work has been featured on Proverbs 31 Ministries, (in)Courage, Crosswalk, and more. Abby lives with her husband and three children western Maryland.

TALKING POINTS:

The kind of expectant we should have.
How we practically fix our eyes on Jesus
What we do when we think we've heard God but hit a roadblock
3 ways we interpret God saying "no"
How to shift to seeing what is unseen

SCRIPTURE:

2 Corinthians 4:18

QUOTES:

“The problem is many of us live as though He’s not there. We walk around and do life like we’re orphans instead of like daughters and sons who have a helper.” (Abby)
“Not seeing God showing up in my life the way I expected...I started second guessing the voice of God in my life and if I was hearing Him.” (Abby)
“If I don’t ever have any situations where I need Him, He doesn’t even need to show up.” (Abby)

CONNECT w/ ABBY:

Website: abbymcdonald.org
Facebook: http://facebook.com/fearfullymademom
Instagram: http://instagram.com/abbymcd7

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