Livin Lively with Laine

Laine Lawson Craft delivers hope, sound spiritual solutions, and applications that help us turn our hurts to healing. No one gets through this life without being hurt. However, far too many of us are not enjoying life because of broken hearts and shattered dreams. No matter what hurts we may be facing or the trauma that we may have experienced, you can find hope here. You will love this power-packed podcast, as the episodes shine a light on people who have turned their tremendous hurts to find triumphant healings. Everyone is invited to join the conversation. Connect and discover, despite the hurts and tragedies that you have faced, learn how healing is possible so that we can enjoy today and own tomorrow together.

You Can Prevent and Survive Cancer 05/23/2022

You Can Prevent and Survive Cancer Have you had cancer or does anyone you love suffer from cancer? Today, Ginny Brant shares her powerful healing story and ways that we can prevent and survive cancer starting today! Ginny shares, "I was on a mission to not get cancer because there was so much of it in my family. And it was four months after my mother died of breast cancer that providentially, as my sister would say, I found a lump in my breast. I had just done the Cooper River Bridge run with my husband. I walked briskly, but the point is, at the end of it that night, my ring got caught in my nighty in the middle of the night, and that's when I found the lump. So I immediately looked into it, but I wasn't too concerned about it. I had been here once before, and they weren't anything to worry about. But I went to the doctor, and the first bad news was, yeah, this is cancer. And then the next week, more test results came back. They told me it's not just cancer. It's aggressive. And then, the third week after the results of the MRI came back; they gave me the news that brought me to my knees. They said it's not only aggressive; it appears to be in your lymph nodes and different places in your body. Wow. I don't understand. Because I went for a second opinion in Chicago by Cancer Treatment Centers of America. And the first thing that doctors went through with me was the risk factors for this aggressive breast cancer. There were eight of them. I didn't have one of them. So since my mother had died from breast cancer, they did extensive genetic testing that showed nothing." This started Ginny's search for how she could've prevented cancer and how she would beat cancer! Here are her top three revelations that she shares will help prevent and increase your successful survival of cancer: Emotions: Your emotions can draw illness. These unresolved emotions, things like in my case for 15 years, I took care of ailing parents, a father with dementia, and a mother with breast cancer. The point is, we were in a grief cycle we couldn't get out of. I've discovered that long-term grief, long-term anger, or any long-term negative emotion can suppress your immune system. So 15 years of not being able to stop grief put my body in a position where it couldn't heal normally and regenerate. It suppressed the immune system that God had given me. Toxins and heavy metals: My doctor tested me, and I had heavy metals because of the chemo. I was introduced to the infrared sauna company. I thought they would test heavy metals, which I already knew, and how we keep track of my progress. They pointed me to 15 out of 20 chemicals in that chemical profile, that red high zone in my body and many of them work endocrine-disrupting hormones, or what we call Xenoestrogens that mimic estrogen in the body. I had an estrogen-based and aggressive cancer. So when I showed the results to my doctors at the cancer center, they said, " Oh, this is definitely one of the causes of your cancer. Healthy Gut- Having a healthy gut lining protects you from cancer. It protects you from brain disease, heart disease, and even severe symptoms of COVID 19. The research is clear that 70 to 80% of your immune cells are in that gut lining. And so we must keep it nourished adequately with fruits and vegetables and plants and fermented foods. Ginny shared that she was very intentional. She was very different. She said, "You know, I just asked God to guide me as I was doing my research, and you know, like He clearly pulled back the curtain on cancer for me, and I never would know everything that was going on in my body, but I saw the main things that would give me something to work with so that I could respond well after receiving the worst chemo known to mankind. I could restore my body back to full health. And why is that? Because God created our bodies to heal on an everyday basis. It is a miracle, and when we start to remove all the things that are suppressing that, then our body can get back to healing and regenerating as God created it to do." You don't want to miss Ginny's complete story and steps. She shares her powerful testimony and tips with us this week. You can listen to her right here on the Livin’ Lively with Laine Podcast. (link the podcast here is the link: I am here for you. Please don't hesitate to contact me. You can email me, call me at 1-833-PRAY-W-ME, or reply to this blog and we can pray together! Connect with Ginny Connect with Laine Links & Resources DOWNLOAD FREE: /episode/index/show/9b9ac137-1a5a-4044-aa8c-e001304d7bc2/id/23150945

Fear and Panic Don't Have to be Your Story with Christy Boulware 05/09/2022

What to do when your dreams are shattered with Amy Joob 04/18/2022

Do You Need Help for Anxiety and Your tweens with Caris Snider 04/04/2022

Do You Need Help for Anxiety and Your tweens with Caris Snider Many times our tweens, teens, and young adults suffer from anxiety. Sometimes we don't know what to do. Caris Snider, an anxiety survivor herself, has written all about anxiety and now for girl and boy tweens too! Tweens are around the age of 8 years old to 12 years old. Older teens and young adults who face anxiety would greatly benefit from Caris's first book, Anxiety Elephants 31 Day Devotional! Maybe you aren't sure if your child is suffering from anxiety. Here are some symptoms: stomach ache, headaches, fidgety, distraction during school or sports, crying, or getting angry. These are real symptoms, and we need to dig a little deeper to help them overcome anxiety. How do we help our children with anxiety? Here are a few suggestions: Open up a conversation while distracted, so they are more likely to open up. Start conversations with specific questions about today. For example, "How was your lunch?" instead of "How was your day?" We want the most information we can get. Discuss some of the more complex issues with your tween, teen, and young adults to prepare and not be caught off guard, giving them a firm foundation. These keys can help you equip them for anxiety- why wait? In Anxiety Elephants for Tweens, you get a scripture, devotion, and a stomp step to help stomp out anxiety each day. There is also a Prayer and journaling page so that they can write down their struggles or what they learned- or even draw something- or rewrite the scripture. Once you determine that your intuition may be correct, here are a few more positive steps to help them. Admit and acknowledge they are anxious so you know that you need the next steps. If your child had asthma, you would go to a doctor and even get medicine. So first, make an appointment with your child's doctor and make sure there is no underlying condition. Rule out any physical problems. Then make an appointment for a counselor to help guide your anxious tweens to healing. Connect with Caris LINKS & RESOURCES DOWNLOAD FREE: SOCIAL /episode/index/show/9b9ac137-1a5a-4044-aa8c-e001304d7bc2/id/22662749

God are You with Me in my Struggle with Misty Phillip 03/28/2022

God are You with Me in my Struggle with Misty Phillip God, are you with me in my struggle? That is what Misty Phillip asked God. Now she shares her experiences in today's Livin' Lively with Laine Podcast. I experienced many struggles from an early age. And then I thought when I became a believer that somehow life would be so much more amazing and that I wouldn't have struggles. And anybody who reads the Bible knows that Jesus said that we will have tribulation in this world, not we might have tribulation. And part of the Believers Walk is going through trials and tribulations, and it is those trials and tribulations that conform us to the image of Christ and make us more like him when we surrender and submit our lives to Him. It's hard, though, isn't it? I mean, amid the struggle, it is hard to go, Okay, God, you're curating something beautiful out of this. And that is why it is a struggle because I think any of us with a faith root system knows God is there. But sometimes we don't feel like do we? Yeah, it can definitely be a challenge. But for me, I know that when I was going through some really serious struggles as a young wife and a mother, the only thing that got me through those struggles was my lifeline to the Word of God. And it was those times that God really poured into me that then I was able to pour that back out on the pages of the struggle is real, but so is God. One particular season that I was referencing, as a new mom, I was on bed rest with my youngest son for almost my entire pregnancy. I had two boys that I was homeschooling, one of which had grand mal seizures as a baby and profound special needs. At the same time, we lived next door to my husband's parents, who both had brain tumors. So in that time, my husband lost his job. It was literally like one major thing after another. And that is just in a short couple years span. It was exhausting. And I was like, God, why not question him? Like, why is this happening? But what can I do? You know, being in His Word, searching for truth. And that's where I learned that we all have struggles, right? Sometimes they're small struggles, and sometimes they're big struggles. Your struggles are going to be different than my struggles. You know, other struggles I experienced in the past, I've lost babies, had a stillborn child with trisomy 18, experienced a lot of death and grief in my family. I was in rebellion as a young person and did all the wrong things before. God radically changed my life. But in seasons, I was truly walking in darkness, and God radically pulled me out of that. So all of those struggles, you may not have my struggles, but we all struggle at some level, whether it's tension within our family, a job loss, or the death of a loved one. And so, how we navigate those trials is what I think is so important. I think it's okay for us to take our questions to God and ask him why we can't get stuck in the why. We have to surrender and bow our knees to him and pick up that cross and follow Him. And it's not always easy. But when we do that, we can rest under his sovereign hand. As you're talking, we see these are just amazing stories of true struggles. I feel struggles are universal, and they all are equal. What may be a struggle for you might necessarily be a greater struggle for someone else. I mean, struggles or struggles is all I'm getting to. I don't think we need to have opinions or measurements of it. If someone's hurting, then that's my measurement. If you're hurting, if you're in grief, or if you're struggling over something that you could not prevent that, man, those are tough times. And you do wonder, as you said, why not? Why God, but why? Why? What am I going to do about it? God? Tell us how your devotion or your Bible study came about through these struggles. Yeah. So when my oldest son went to college, I had homeschooled my boys and thought I was going to homeschool my boys and then be a grandma. And I realized very quickly that if I didn't find something else to do with my time, I would drive my boys absolutely crazy. And so I began praying and asking God and seeking Him for the next step in my life. And when my son was in college, he had signed up for a bike race. It's called the Ms. 150. It goes from Houston to Austin. And he was working full time and going to school full time, and he wasn't getting those rides in. And so, as a good mom, I was like, come on, son. I'll go for a ride with you. Well, long story short, I wasn't wearing a helmet that day. And I had a terrible bike accident that I snapped both of my arms after over the end on my bike, and I didn't have that helmet. So I put my arms out, you know, to break my fall. And for the next year, I couldn't do anything as my arms healed. And God had me sit. And over that time, He just spoke his love over me. And then I realized I'm the older woman and that I needed to take the lessons that God was sharing with me and share them with others. So I went to my husband. And I said I feel like I'm called to write a Bible study, and he said I think you're right. And I said I think I should write about overcoming, and he said, maybe that's your life story, you absolutely do. So the first thing I did was I got into the Greek. And I started to look at every reference of the Word overcome in the Bible. And, in one sitting, God gave me the structure of the Bible study. We went to church the next day, and the pastor was preaching from Joshua about being strong and courageous. And my family knew the music that day was Susan Ashton, a contemporary Christian singer in the 90s, who, when I first got saved, that's all I listened to. And she has the song about the Spirit moving us that we can't go from one place to the other unless the Spirit moves us. And my family knew at that moment that God was anointing me to write this study. I can't even explain it to you. But they all looked at me. And they knew. I'm so glad because it took me three years to write that study. And things don't always work out the way we think or in the timing that we think they are. But it did launch at number one on Amazon. And I have won a Golden scroll award for it. And God has truly just blessed my meager efforts of taking people from Genesis to Revelation and showing them that God has not left us alone that he has promised to his overcomers. Here are a couple of keys that would help transform you today. So the first thing is you have to be in the Word. You have to be in the Word so that the Word is it gets inside of you so that you can use that Word as a weapon. That's what God says. It's the sword of the Spirit. And so every time Jesus was tempted, He spoke back to Satan with the Word of God. If we don't have that Word of God in us, we can't use it as a weapon. So that's first and foremost, we have to be in the Word. And then, second of all, praise is a weapon. When I am struggling, I crank my praise music up, go for a walk, and get out in God's creation. And then I would say a heart of gratitude. Like every day that we wake up is a gift from God. And so if we can thank him even amid our difficult situation. I think that he can work in ways when our heart is open and receptive. We have a heart have gratitude because we have to keep our eyes on eternity. Knowing that this is a temporary situation that we have here on earth and that if we can keep our eyes fixed on eternity, everything we go through here will pale in comparison to the amazing glory that we will receive. And heaven. One of the best features of my study is that you can have daily affirmations. And so I instead of having them, you know, say something worldly about themselves, like I'm empowered, and I can do these things. It's really about taking the scripture and applying it to your life. So I'll use that example. I can do all things, and not I can do all things. But I can do all things with the strength of Christ. And so it's just taking the scriptures and claiming those promises. And if you were in the struggle, I would encourage you to grab that studying some friends and go through it together. And it's powerful. I love to say healing is better, and we do it together. And I think that is so powerful. And I'm going to also touch quickly on the praise music very dear to my heart. I love to sing literally out my backyard many days with my Pandora way. There's something about when I'm down or upset, and I get some praise, music going. The joy of the Lord touches me. And I like to say mystery, and I'm sure you would do that. Anytime we get in the presence of God, whether it's his Word, whether, in prayer or praise, we don't leave the same, do we? That's right. We never leave the same. The Word is alive and active and being in his presence. Just a touch from Jesus can radically change everything. Connect with Misty Phillip LINKS & RESOURCES DOWNLOAD FREE: SOCIAL /episode/index/show/9b9ac137-1a5a-4044-aa8c-e001304d7bc2/id/22573844