Episode 26: Mother Teresa needed grace too - Brokenness to Life - Teresa's story
Release Date: 04/22/2019
Prayer Series: Church Neighborhood Prayer Walk
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This episode was curated for the neighborhood around our church. These scriptures include ones to pray over the community but also to the workers God is calling to labor in these fields.
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Prayer Series: The Battle in Depression, Anxiety, and Physical Sufferings
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Depression, mental illness, & physical suffering our ever present right now. These scriptures are meant to ignite our prayers in faith and illuminate God’s words about how he cares, interacts, and feels about his children suffering. Psalm 46:1-3, Rom 8:38-39, Psalm 139:7-12, Psalm 57:1, Matthew 11:28-30, Psalm 91:1-6, 1 Peter 5:6-11, Psalm 143, John 14:1, 16-19, 27, John 16:33, Romans 8:24-28, Jeremiah 29:11-13, Isaiah 40:28-31, Isaiah 43:1-3a, Philippians 4:6-8, 1 Peter 1:6, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
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Prayer Series: The Battle for My Kids - Raising up the Next Generation
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This episode is a set of scriptures that I desire to pray over my own children. More than anything, I want them to know God and walk with God. Oh that we could see a new generation with hearts set on the Lord!
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Prayer Series: Battle for Children - Rescue the oppressed and bring justice
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Plead for God to rescue oppressed children you know specifically or in mass ways around our city, nation, and world.
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Prayer Series: The Battle for Souls - Salvation for our friends and neighbors
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This episode was inspired after asking God how to pray for my friends that do not know the truth about Jesus. Jesus is fully God (part of the Trinity), fully man, and has existed for all eternity. He alone brings salvation! Scriptures include:
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Prayer Series: The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. Help!
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James 5:16 "Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective."
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Season 3 – If my people who are called by my name… Could this be the beginning of new stories?
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What if a group of people started crying out to God to move, according to His word, in the lives of the people around them? What if we started crying out to God to free the captives of false religion, abuse, human trafficking, idolatry, depression, injustice, and the list goes on? What if the Church unified over praying scriptures and jointly asking God to do the same things in our day?
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Provision in the Waves of Grief and in the Midst of Loss - Kate's Story
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We are closing out season 2 with an interview with my cousin Kate. If you listened last week, you heard her mother, Judy share her story. Kate shares how Jesus redeemed her from an early age and taught her to trust in him no matter the circumstances. Her faith was put to the test when her husband, Doug, suddenly passed away, leaving her as a single mom of a 20 month old. Kate shares how God showed his love and grace through very tangible means over the last 11 years.
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Judy's Story - My Hope is Built on Nothing Less
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Today we get to hear from my aunt, Judy. She is 79 years old and has been one of my heroes of the Christian faith. How often to we get to hear the stories of one who has walked with Jesus for 70 years? Judy shares how God’s word and grace have sustained her and enabled her to live a life of blessing even through a stroke that paralyzed her from the waist down 20 years ago.
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Jesus Redeems it All! - Jana Rae's story
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Jana Rae speaks about the power and grace of God protecting her and carrying her through her younger years of running from God. She started following God as a single mom and later married a man that cared deeply for her and her daughter but was not a follower of Jesus. Fast forward.. and this past December, Jana Rae got to see 32 years of prayer answered seeing her husband step into a relationship with God.
info_outlineToday we hear Teresa's story! Teresa is such a sweet loving gal and God is using her to bring love to the people (and animals) around her.
Named after Mother Teresa, Teresa shares how she felt the weight of living above the line her whole life. She shares of her many spiritual influences as a kid that held her together when her family broke apart and her dad jumped ship to live a homosexual lifestyle.
We hear how she was trying so hard to be on God’s good side and how she came to understand grace.
Towards the end, Teresa bravely shares about sexual abuse she endured and the slow healing process that God has been orchestrating for her.
We cannot work hard enough to earn God’s favor. We cannot win by trying our hardest to be loving, joyful, peaceful, kind, patient, and good enough for Him to love us. He loves us because he made us! And he has made a way for us to have peace with Him – through his Son Jesus.
Teresa has learned this and embraced the grace that He offers. I hope you are encouraged to hear how God has redeemed the hard parts of her story and is continuing to redeem.