Speaker 1: I hate to be a cornball, but am I leisure time?
Speaker 1: I like to go to sleep.
Speaker 2: At some point I'm going to have to give a
Speaker 2: dolls and give a bunch of things.
Speaker 1: If God is allowed on this and it is meant
Speaker 1: to humble you, you gotta eat that, like you gotta find
Speaker 1: a way to eat that.
Speaker 3: That is so adamant that he's right. And I'm very stubborn,
Speaker 3: So I'm like, you are not right. You ask I answer.
Speaker 1: I am going through some of the questions that have
Speaker 1: come in from mind your Business. I'm going to try
Speaker 1: and get through as many of them as possible, but
Speaker 1: I have to tell you I still have a lot
Speaker 1: to work through, so we may have to run this back.
Speaker 1: If you want me to answer your question, send me
Speaker 1: your question to podcasts at.
Speaker 4: Womanivolv dot com.
Speaker 1: You can write it up, or you can send me
Speaker 1: a video like these ladies did, and we will answer
Speaker 1: your question. Some of these are from HEYU. We had
Speaker 1: a lot of women at Hey you who sent me
Speaker 1: their question, So I'm going to try and get through
Speaker 1: some of the ones that came through Hey You. Hi.
Speaker 4: My name is Crystal so pastor Sarah.
Speaker 5: I wanted to know what is your morning routine.
Speaker 1: This is such an interesting question because my morning routine. Child,
Speaker 1: these mornings don't They're not even the same mornings as
Speaker 1: they usually are. Okay, every day is different, but on
Speaker 1: a regular morning, I wake up around six am.
Speaker 4: I get up.
Speaker 1: I have a little time to myself, whether that's worshiping, praying,
Speaker 1: setting my attention for the day, looking at my calendar,
Speaker 1: determining whether or not I need to make any changes
Speaker 1: to what's on my calendar. If I have a chance,
Speaker 1: I do a little bit of scrolling. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I check in on the socials. Most of the time,
Speaker 1: it's after I've checked all of those boxes, Because you know,
Speaker 1: it's a little time for me. I like to do
Speaker 1: something that gets me little joy. I wake up my daughters.
Speaker 1: I drag them out of the bed. Well really, it's
Speaker 1: just Ella that I drag out of the bed, and
Speaker 1: then and then McKenzie is usually up. I make them breakfast,
Speaker 1: We do school runs, We pray in the car, we
Speaker 1: listen to music. After I get back from taking them
Speaker 1: to school, I work out. I beget whooped. After I
Speaker 1: work out, I shower. Then I sit down at my
Speaker 1: desk and I go through meetings. I edit my books,
Speaker 1: I prepare for podcast content, I look at deals, I
Speaker 1: respond to emails. It all depends on what is happening
Speaker 1: any given day. After I've gone through my work things,
Speaker 1: I pick the girls up. Most of the time they
Speaker 1: get out at different schedules, so pt and I will
Speaker 1: take turns. We pick them up, we come home, we
Speaker 1: have dinner, we do bad things. It's pretty regular. All
Speaker 1: of that to say, like it's pretty normal. Then there
Speaker 1: are days that I'm at four a m. When we
Speaker 1: shot the Woman Involved campaign for twenty twenty four, I'm
Speaker 1: up at four, I'm in here and makeup. We're taking
Speaker 1: a plane to go shoot in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 1: There are some mornings where I'm up doing my makeup
Speaker 1: because after I drop them off, I have to shoot
Speaker 1: some content. There are some days where my husband takes
Speaker 1: into school and I'm in my bonnet until twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1: And so my morning routine can be different from day
Speaker 1: to day. But that long answer is pretty which And
Speaker 1: you said morning routine, and here I am talking about dinner.
Speaker 1: But anyways, that's usually my morning routine. When I am
Speaker 1: in town and in a rhythm that is honestly good
Speaker 1: for me and good for the girls.
Speaker 4: My name is Guy Green.
Speaker 5: My question for you, Pastor Sarah, would be, how do
Speaker 5: you manage to stay so grounded with everything that is
Speaker 5: going on around and into your world? How do you
Speaker 5: keep it together the way that you do? Let me
Speaker 5: just say this, I love you in the way that
Speaker 5: you do it. I appreciate the fact that you are
Speaker 5: so authentically you, and I thank God for having created
Speaker 5: and sent you to all of us. We won't be selfish,
Speaker 5: but just to let you know, I've already made you
Speaker 5: my best think. I hope you can accept that love you.
Speaker 5: Thanks so much for being you.
Speaker 1: You know, it's really interesting the way that my story
Speaker 1: has unfolded. It has made me so reliant upon God
Speaker 1: that staying grounded is.
Speaker 4: A requirement. It's a requirement in order to show up.
Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for making space for me
Speaker 1: in your heart and on your journey, for adopting me
Speaker 1: as your best friend. I did not know how much I,
Speaker 1: you know, would need or you know it's hard because
Speaker 1: people are like you should need, you should need, you
Speaker 1: should need. I think that's true, and I getn't start
Speaker 1: it because I needed something, but there's just such relief
Speaker 1: in knowing that there is a space for my voice
Speaker 1: in the world that it just it never gets old
Speaker 1: to me to hear that.
Speaker 4: You know, it's resonating with you all.
Speaker 1: But I.
Speaker 4: Guess I don't drink the kool aid, you know.
Speaker 1: I try to be intentional no matter how much success
Speaker 1: or titles or accolades are added to my name, that
Speaker 1: I remember that at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: don't really ask for any of this. God gave it
Speaker 1: to me as a gift, and so I don't want
Speaker 1: to feel entitled to it or that as some kind
Speaker 1: of way masterminded my way into it. I am very
Speaker 1: clear on what my limitations are and where God picks up,
Speaker 1: and so I stay grounded by constantly showing up in
Speaker 1: a space of authenticity instead of showing up as someone
Speaker 1: who should act a certain way because they're a New
Speaker 1: York Times bestselling author or because they've you know, been
Speaker 1: times one hundred now they've done tours, or like whatever.
Speaker 1: Like I didn't have a role in playing in any
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 4: I just said yes, and I'm reminded of that.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's part of what I keep in
Speaker 1: the forefront of my mind, and I also try to
Speaker 1: be intentional, like as jazzy as I can get, as
Speaker 1: fancy as I can get, you know, hair, makeup, bust
Speaker 1: down clothes, all the things.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 4: I also try to show up like this on purpose.
Speaker 1: Too, because anyone with that much makeup and that much
Speaker 1: hair on their head ought to be able to look good. So,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not remarkable that I can get jazzy,
Speaker 1: but you know, to hold space for what I look
Speaker 1: like when I'm running around with my kids and trying
Speaker 1: to get things done. But also like, hey, I can
Speaker 1: show up and pop off right quick.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 1: I think that's the beauty of womanhood is that I
Speaker 1: don't have to pick one or the other. I can
Speaker 1: be all of those things at the same time, because
Speaker 1: neither of them fully define me. It takes the totality
Speaker 1: of who I am to even scratch the surface of
Speaker 1: how I.
Speaker 4: Should be defined.
Speaker 1: And so I am grateful for the skin that I'm in.
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for the opportunities God has given me, and
Speaker 1: I try to honor these opportunities with my humility and authenticity.
Speaker 1: And you know, I pray God never has to pull
Speaker 1: my coattail and just remind me to, you know, sit down,
Speaker 1: be humble. But I'm also prepared for that as well.
Speaker 1: It's funny something happened recently and I think that.
Speaker 4: When I was I was really worried.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of anxiety, and I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out, like what are you afraid of?
Speaker 4: What are you afraid of? And I think ultimately it
Speaker 4: wasn't my pride trying to.
Speaker 1: Protect myself from failure, from the idea of embarrassment and
Speaker 1: being humiliated. And at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: had to say, if God allows this to happen, if
Speaker 1: God allows for the moment that could be embarrassing and
Speaker 1: could be humiliating to you go viral on the internet.
Speaker 1: If God is allowing this and it is meant to
Speaker 1: humble you, you got to eat that, like you gotta find
Speaker 1: a way to eat that. And if it changes the
Speaker 1: way people look at you and people are making fun
Speaker 1: of you, like you gotta be okay with that, because
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I can survive what
Speaker 1: God allows if I can continue to stay connected to God.
Speaker 1: And I don't want my need to avoid failure, avoid embarrassment,
Speaker 1: avoid humility to keep me.
Speaker 4: From staying connected to God. So I surrendered.
Speaker 1: Come on surrender, I surrendered to what that moment was
Speaker 1: trying to teach me, and ultimately the licesnon I learned
Speaker 1: on the other side of that surrender is I can
Speaker 1: withstand not being able to defend myself and really trust
Speaker 1: that God will defend me, so all that helps evolve.
Speaker 6: My name is Karen DePaul, and my question is how
Speaker 6: do you rest? Because a lot of times in ministry
Speaker 6: and women that can do it all, we are told
Speaker 6: to do it all, But how do you actually rest
Speaker 6: and feel rested rejuvenated enough to keep going.
Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you that I have this mastered,
Speaker 1: but the truth is I am learning. It's actually one
Speaker 1: of the things that I was studying for my message
Speaker 1: that I preached in Dallas. I was accosted by Tewod
Speaker 1: Corinthians three, where Paul talks about where the spirit of
Speaker 1: the Lord is, there is liberty, and he talks about
Speaker 1: how the scribes at the time were viewing the law
Speaker 1: through veiled through veiled faces. I think it is and
Speaker 1: that when they turn to the Lord, though, the veil
Speaker 1: is removed. And I was thinking about that because I
Speaker 1: felt a lot of pressure to stay on top of
Speaker 1: all of my responsibilities and all of the things that
Speaker 1: God has entrusted me with, and it was very much
Speaker 1: so not giving freedom. It was very much so giving stress.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to tap into that freedom. And so
Speaker 1: I turned to God, right, I turned intentionally to the
Speaker 1: presence of God, just to experience the presence, not to
Speaker 1: ask for anything, not to give a list of the
Speaker 1: things that are going wrong, or my hopes or my dreams,
Speaker 1: but to just experience a glory to glory transaction where
Speaker 1: His glory is so captivating that it changes my spirit
Speaker 1: and His image is imprinted onto my spirit, and now
Speaker 1: I possess glory. And so in a very deep spiritual way,
Speaker 1: that brought me rest because it allowed me to as
Speaker 1: my husband would call the plane, and as I lifted
Speaker 1: the altitude some of the things that were weighing me
Speaker 1: down and bogging me down, I was able to look
Speaker 1: at from a place of peace and from a place
Speaker 1: of adequacy and a place of strength and fortitude. So
Speaker 1: that's one way that I find rest when I can
Speaker 1: actually find rest. But I have made it my mission
Speaker 1: starting this school year actually to really ask my husband
Speaker 1: for more help with the girls, especially during the school year.
Speaker 1: When the school year first started, context is, you know,
Speaker 1: Ella started school during the pandemic, and then they were
Speaker 1: both homeschooled, and so when we first started sending them
Speaker 1: to a more traditional school environment, I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to make them breakfast every morning, I'm going to
Speaker 1: take them to school every morning. I'm going to pick
Speaker 1: them up every single day. And I was doing that.
Speaker 1: I was waking up at five am so that I
Speaker 1: could still work out, and that was fine, except for
Speaker 1: on the weekends, Like I don't have the weekends down.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm speaking at a conference on a Saturday, or
Speaker 1: I'm at church on Sunday, or I'm doing both of
Speaker 1: those things in the weekend, and I would look up
Speaker 1: and there would be like, you know, forty four days
Speaker 1: of I'm up at seven and going down at eleven pm.
Speaker 1: And I was tired and resentful, and yet I wasn't
Speaker 1: asking for any help, and so I was robbing myself
Speaker 1: of the very thing that I needed. So on a
Speaker 1: practical level, I have been willing to let go of
Speaker 1: my I don't want to say my expectations, but my
Speaker 1: vision for who I need to be as a mother
Speaker 1: or a business owner or a daughter or a wife,
Speaker 1: and to lean into opportunities where I can get help
Speaker 1: and support from those who have asked whether or not
Speaker 1: they can help or support me, And so that has
Speaker 1: been helpful for me and resting. I started getting my
Speaker 1: nails done after the pandemic, which you know, I was
Speaker 1: not a get your nailed done girly, but I do
Speaker 1: enjoy when my nails look pretty. And I used to
Speaker 1: say that if I have time to sit down and
Speaker 1: get my nails done, I would rather rest, and sometimes
Speaker 1: that is absolutely true. But as of lately, I you know,
Speaker 1: I have found pocketsive rest in enjoying how I am
Speaker 1: showing up in the world in a way that is
Speaker 1: a reflection of who I want to be and not
Speaker 1: how I feel, because something like right now you ought
Speaker 1: to be able to tell, like the girl is in
Speaker 1: need of rest because I am showing up.
Speaker 4: How I am. This is the way the Good Lord
Speaker 4: made me.
Speaker 1: And you know, if I do not get rest soon,
Speaker 1: it's fin to get real, Like it's finna get really,
Speaker 1: she don't care because when I need rest, I am
Speaker 1: the first person who's willing to sacrifice and suffer as
Speaker 1: opposed to see I ain't even speak right, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean?
Speaker 4: She need a nap.
Speaker 1: As opposed to letting the people in my world experience
Speaker 1: some disappointment, I would rather disappoint myself, be ran over,
Speaker 1: broke down, bitter and angry than telling someone, Hey I
Speaker 1: can't do it, or hey can you get somebody else
Speaker 1: to do it? So I am learning to discover rest
Speaker 1: by uncommitting myself and allowing that, you know, new commitment
Speaker 1: to taking care of myself to be communicated with love
Speaker 1: and intentionality. Like I tell my girls like I love
Speaker 1: taking you to school, mommy also needs rest and letting
Speaker 1: two things live in the same in the same space.
Speaker 7: Hi, I'm tell us what is something that you like
Speaker 7: to do on your leisure time? Like or places that
Speaker 7: you might like to travel. Where's your favorite place to travel?
Speaker 1: I hate to be a cornball, but in my leisure time,
Speaker 1: I like to go to sleep. If I have enough time,
Speaker 1: I go to sleep. Outside of that, I like to
Speaker 1: play in my wings. I like to organize my wig closet.
Speaker 1: I like to read. I am an avid reader. I
Speaker 1: love a good book. I love going to the movies.
Speaker 1: Like I know everyone's streaming things, but I like going
Speaker 1: to the movies I like popcorn with peanut eminems and
Speaker 1: sitting up and watching literally anything. It could be a thriller,
Speaker 1: it could be a chick flick, it could be some
Speaker 1: shoot them ups. Like whatever it is, I enjoy going
Speaker 1: to the movies. I would say working out, but that's
Speaker 1: not true. But I do like how I feel after
Speaker 1: I work out, and I could be liaising. What is
Speaker 1: it when you're leisuring? I could be leisuring instead, but
Speaker 1: I'm working out, and so I must enjoy something about
Speaker 1: working out.
Speaker 4: I like eating.
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 4: Can that be.
Speaker 1: Something that you're doing your leisure time? I love a
Speaker 1: good snack, So nothing fun if if my time is
Speaker 1: for real, for real kicksback like I have no projects,
Speaker 1: no pressure. I enjoy crocheting. I have a blanket that
Speaker 1: I need to finish, but I ended up having a
Speaker 1: lot of other projects slammed on my plate, and so
Speaker 1: when I really get to kickback, I'm going to finish
Speaker 1: crocheing my blanket.
Speaker 3: Hi, my name is Whitney, and I just want to
Speaker 3: know pastor's pastor, Sarah Jax Roberts, how can I be
Speaker 3: a part of your team?
Speaker 1: I never thought I would see the day where someone
Speaker 1: was asking me how they could be a part of
Speaker 1: my team. And I have actually gotten this question quite
Speaker 1: a bit. I don't know if it seems like we
Speaker 1: do a lot from the outside looking in, but I
Speaker 1: assure you from the inside looking out, we push out
Speaker 1: a lot of content. We also plan really large events.
Speaker 1: I you know, create a lot of projects and as
Speaker 1: a result, those projects require slating and marketing and intentionality
Speaker 1: when it comes to organization of those projects and execution
Speaker 1: of how they get into the hands of people. We
Speaker 1: do a lot of on the production. Okay, So how
Speaker 1: can you be a part of my team? It depends
Speaker 1: on what your skills and talents are, and also what
Speaker 1: you need financially if you are in a position where
Speaker 1: you need full time work. We do have some full
Speaker 1: time positions, but they are more administrative and then high
Speaker 1: level executive roles. So I am in the market, I
Speaker 1: guess you could say right now for a high level
Speaker 1: director of content, executive director of content, someone who has
Speaker 1: experience in creating content for you know, a company that
Speaker 1: has I don't this is okay, I'm gonna speak it
Speaker 1: because faith right like, I want someone who was like
Speaker 1: Netflix level executive director of content, someone who has enough
Speaker 1: experience to help me navigate the gifts and talents that
Speaker 1: God has given me through these team members, and to
Speaker 1: help blossom and grow them for wherever God's going to
Speaker 1: place them, whether they're going to be with me to
Speaker 1: the wheels fall off or they are going to move
Speaker 1: on to another space. I want to be able to
Speaker 1: not have my team be capped out. Well, because I'm
Speaker 1: capped out with my experience, I don't know a lot
Speaker 1: about the best way to tap into the trends and
Speaker 1: how do we create things that continue to be relative
Speaker 1: and relatable and cost efficient. And so that's my high
Speaker 1: level goal right now. And then we have some entry
Speaker 1: level positions and some I guess mid level positions. As
Speaker 1: for mid level positions for marketing and creatives. Primarily we
Speaker 1: need writers right now for the content that we currently
Speaker 1: create and for the content that we want to continue
Speaker 1: to produce. So email info at womanevolve dot com and
Speaker 1: let me know, send me your resume and we will
Speaker 1: see what we can do. Or or email pop at
Speaker 1: womanevolved dot com that's People Operations and let us know
Speaker 1: what you're looking for. If you have a volunteer spirit
Speaker 1: on you to the point that it does not get
Speaker 1: me intro legally because there are employment laws.
Speaker 4: We are also looking for people who.
Speaker 1: Just want to serve because we're trying to build a
Speaker 1: baby and we ain't got no crib, we ain't got
Speaker 1: a stroller or nothing. Just so you guys like you
Speaker 1: know our YouTube is monetized. I try to monetize things
Speaker 1: on social media as well. We're constantly giving back and
Speaker 1: God is creating pathways where people are constantly pouring back
Speaker 1: into what we do. And obviously we are good stewards
Speaker 1: over the resources that we receive for conference to make
Speaker 1: sure that we are able to facilitate an experience where
Speaker 1: you have all of the information you need, all of
Speaker 1: the support that you need, and an experience that feels
Speaker 1: well executed and well thought out. So we're doing all
Speaker 1: that we can to generate the type of income that
Speaker 1: would allow us to make the strategic hires for Woman
Speaker 1: Evall to continue to become all that God has decided
Speaker 1: she will be. So you don't have to work for free,
Speaker 1: but you may have to work for faith, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: My name's Alexis Anderson.
Speaker 4: My question is.
Speaker 8: Pastor Sarah, how did you begin the ministry of, you know,
Speaker 8: just encouraging women. I'm in the mental health field, and
Speaker 8: I just want to know how you did it so
Speaker 8: I can help to encourage other women that are maybe
Speaker 8: struggling with things that they don't want to talk about.
Speaker 1: So I started my ministry of encouraging women by first
Speaker 1: serving someone else's vision. I wasn't sure the impact that
Speaker 1: one woman's yes could have on you know, multitudes of
Speaker 1: women until I started serving at the women's ministry at
Speaker 1: the Potter's House of Dallas. At the time, I wasn't speaking.
Speaker 1: I was writing, which is what I prefer to do,
Speaker 1: and I was working behind the scenes. And there was
Speaker 1: this program called God's Leading Ladies and there were maybe
Speaker 1: one hundred women who would come every other Saturday. They
Speaker 1: would connect with other women and then they would basically
Speaker 1: learn like how do we position ourselves to become God's
Speaker 1: Leading Ladies? So how do we position ourselves professionally, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, financially.
Speaker 1: And it was this course program that I was just
Speaker 1: responsible for facilitating who was going to be speaking, maybe
Speaker 1: working at the calendar, ordering the lunches, you know, reserving rooms.
Speaker 1: It was very much so administrative, and yet I could
Speaker 1: not deny that watching these women from week to week
Speaker 1: made me want to become one of them. And I
Speaker 1: felt like, if I can create an environment for them
Speaker 1: to do it, then maybe I could have access to
Speaker 1: it as well. And so I will say that my
Speaker 1: ministry began then because I was minister means to serve.
Speaker 1: So I was serving even then. And then when I
Speaker 1: began to kind of go on my own journey of
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what it meant for me to
Speaker 1: accept my past and maximize my present and got into
Speaker 1: my decision making, its started a blog. And from that
Speaker 1: blog I noticed that women were gravitating towards the message.
Speaker 1: They were feeling a little less alone, a lot more known,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think they were growing a lot
Speaker 1: more grown. And that was enough for me. I was speaking,
Speaker 1: I was telling my story, I was blogging, and then
Speaker 1: people kept telling me you should have a conference. You
Speaker 1: should have people were leaving comments, you should have a conference,
Speaker 1: you'd have conference. I'm like, I'm not going to have
Speaker 1: a conference that so people can come hear me speak, like,
Speaker 1: I will not just host a conference. Because I was
Speaker 1: gaining a following or popularity, and so It wasn't until
Speaker 1: God gave me a revelation about Eve, the very first Woman,
Speaker 1: that I said, you know what, like to me, this
Speaker 1: is something worth building a conference on. So while many
Speaker 1: people felt like it was the next step for me,
Speaker 1: it took me a few years to come to a
Speaker 1: space where I really sought the Lord and asked the
Speaker 1: Lord to give me something worth speaking about. And I
Speaker 1: don't even know how I would know that I was
Speaker 1: speaking at it. Oh, I know I was speaking out
Speaker 1: of women's You guys read most maybe you didn't. While
Speaker 1: many of you read Woman Evolved, some of you haven't.
Speaker 1: But I was at a women's conference and they had
Speaker 1: on these shirts with the women in the Bible and
Speaker 1: then Ruth, Mary, Ruth, Mary Esther and Sarah and Uh.
Speaker 1: I was like, I know why they don't have Eve
Speaker 1: on that shirt. And I started this journal, like let
Speaker 1: me go look at her life. And the more I
Speaker 1: studied her, the more I saw her, and I felt
Speaker 1: like every woman could connect with the First Woman in
Speaker 1: some way. If you're not an Eve, then maybe you
Speaker 1: know an Eve, someone who knows better but didn't do better.
Speaker 1: And if you aren't even some way, can you please
Speaker 1: teach the rest of us because were out here struggling,
Speaker 1: and so I took a step of faith and I said,
Speaker 1: I'm going to host this event and we're going to
Speaker 1: see what happened. And I'm going to start a podcast
Speaker 1: and we're going to see what happens. I started all
Speaker 1: of those things at the same time. It's one thing
Speaker 1: to think about starting something. It's another to think about
Speaker 1: sustaining it. I know a lot more now than I
Speaker 1: did then, and I don't know that I would have
Speaker 1: done anything differently, but I've certainly got a lot of
Speaker 1: lessons from starting it that way. But I say that
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, God gave me something
Speaker 1: to say, and I use what was available to me,
Speaker 1: through my platform, through my skill set to create an
Speaker 1: environment for it to come out. So if you are
Speaker 1: feeling the tug of moving into ministry and helping other women,
Speaker 1: then I say start with what you have, Start with
Speaker 1: what's in your hand right now, and the women who
Speaker 1: are currently connected to you recognize that ministry takes on
Speaker 1: many different forms that it doesn't necessarily have to look
Speaker 1: the way that you see it in order to be effective.
Speaker 1: Ministry is helping your friend with her project. It is
Speaker 1: showing up to support her or him. No talking about
Speaker 1: women's ministry, but you know, help the fellas out too.
Speaker 1: But maybe it is preaching, maybe it is getting on
Speaker 1: your Instagram live. Try all that you can to not
Speaker 1: make it about numbers, because that hijacks the efficiency and
Speaker 1: effectiveness of just wanting to serve one person. And if
Speaker 1: you're just willing to serve that one, then that's all
Speaker 1: that matters. And from there God will do whatever it
Speaker 1: is God has already ordained to do. And be obedient
Speaker 1: to what you sense in the spirit and trust God
Speaker 1: with the rest. One of the things that I have
Speaker 1: learned about being in women's ministry is not only are
Speaker 1: we prefixated with whether or not our past will define us,
Speaker 1: whether or not we can navigate the shame and uncertainty
Speaker 1: of having to rebuild our lives after pain and trauma.
Speaker 1: When we are not consumed with worrying about our past,
Speaker 1: we are worried about the future, worried about whether or
Speaker 1: not we can live up to whatever requirements.
Speaker 4: The future has for us.
Speaker 1: And I was really struck even when I was talking
Speaker 1: to my girls and I was interviewing them for the podcast,
Speaker 1: and I asked them, like, what is the thing that
Speaker 1: I think makes them maybe most nervous about the future.
Speaker 1: They both were talking about change and transition and ultimately
Speaker 1: what they may have to surrender in order to become
Speaker 1: I want to play a little bit of our conversation
Speaker 1: so that you can hear an eight year old and
Speaker 1: a fourteen year old echo the concerns that many of
Speaker 1: us have in our thirties, forties, fifties, and sixties.
Speaker 4: Hey twenties.
Speaker 2: Ooh, the scariest thing is like knowing that I'm gonna
Speaker 2: grow up and I'm gonna have changes.
Speaker 4: What kind of changes?
Speaker 2: Bike At some point, I'm going to have to give
Speaker 2: up dolls and give up all a bunch of things,
Speaker 2: give up my beautiful room and move to another room.
Speaker 2: It's just me growing up.
Speaker 1: And that makes you nervous. You're gonna be an amazing
Speaker 1: human you already are, and God's always gonna make sure
Speaker 1: you have everything for every stage. So like, even though
Speaker 1: you give things up, whatever you give up, God's gonna
Speaker 1: add back to you in a different way.
Speaker 4: Baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, like if you give up dolls because dolls
Speaker 1: give you so much joy, Like God'll be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry you had to give those dolls up.
Speaker 1: But what I'm gonna give you instead is deeper friendships
Speaker 1: or I'm gonna help you discover your gifts and talents.
Speaker 1: Like we never give anything up that God doesn't add
Speaker 1: back to us. It just may not be the exact
Speaker 1: same thing, right, So like when you were a baby,
Speaker 1: like you gave up your crib, right, but you like
Speaker 1: your big girl bit.
Speaker 4: Don't you.
Speaker 1: And Okay, when you were a baby, maybe you gave
Speaker 1: up your boy and pacifiers. But now you're able to
Speaker 1: do big girl things like you have sleepovers with your
Speaker 1: friends and you get to have play dates. Those are
Speaker 1: things you couldn't do as a baby. So like, no,
Speaker 1: you don't get to have a bottle and pacifier anymore,
Speaker 1: but now you get to do something that you couldn't
Speaker 1: do because you were able to let that thing go.
Speaker 2: And if I won't be able to let my well go,
Speaker 2: don't go.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe you hang on to a couple like I
Speaker 1: have all my barbies. Maybe you can still hang on
Speaker 1: to some.
Speaker 2: I'll hang on to them.
Speaker 3: The scariest thing about growing up is growing up. I
Speaker 3: know that sounds like weird, but me, I'm gonna overthink you.
Speaker 3: So I'm constantly thinking about my future, like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: I have tenness simons do tomorrow? Do I have time
Speaker 3: to finish them all tonight? Buy twelve pm by the
Speaker 3: time my screen time's go off of them. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: submit on every single assignment. Not that I'd have tennis
Speaker 3: simons to do tomorrow, but you know, I have to
Speaker 3: clarify that because I have a lot of missing sentence.
Speaker 3: But I'm telling my business, y'all. You are, I mean
Speaker 3: telling your business spelling and willingly. You know, I'm a teenager.
Speaker 3: I go through a lot. But anyways, because me, I'm
Speaker 3: always constantly thinking about my future. If I'm not thinking
Speaker 3: about tomorrow, I'm thinking about two weeks from now, where
Speaker 3: am I going to be in life? If I'm not
Speaker 3: thinking about two weeks from now, I'm thinking about four
Speaker 3: years in the future. What college am I going to?
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about do I want to get a PhD
Speaker 3: in psychology or do I want to be as part
Speaker 3: of the CSI like I think, Like I said, the
Speaker 3: scariest part about growing up is growing up just constantly
Speaker 3: worrying about the future, Like am I going to make
Speaker 3: it into NHS next year? Is it going to look
Speaker 3: good on my college dades. Am I going to ace
Speaker 3: my pre acat? Am I going to ace my pre
Speaker 3: essay team? Am I going to be ready to take
Speaker 3: the web next year?
Speaker 4: All right? Thank you appreciate that.
Speaker 1: That's a lot, because that's like tells me what it's
Speaker 1: like to live in your head with all those things whirling.
Speaker 1: What makes you come back to the present moment, Like
Speaker 1: when you're having oh I'm tired, I think it spot
Speaker 1: But when you're like having these moments where you're all
Speaker 1: over the place thinking about the future and stuff, what
Speaker 1: if anything brings you back to the present. I think
Speaker 1: there's certain people, and then there's also certain playlists, okay,
Speaker 1: and then I also think there's God. Because if I'm
Speaker 1: not thinking about my assignment that's due two weeks from now,
Speaker 1: I think I need to think about the assignment that's
Speaker 1: due tomorrow.
Speaker 4: That's my problem.
Speaker 3: Like I'm always procraesting, and I'm like, oh, I got
Speaker 3: two weeks until that two weeks turns into it's due tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I'm always like, I don't know I'm progressing. But anyways,
Speaker 3: certain playlists. I have my worship playlist, I got my
Speaker 3: on my other playlists.
Speaker 4: And you know what was you call all your other
Speaker 4: playlists on my other.
Speaker 3: Playlist I listen. I have like several different genres of
Speaker 3: music that I listen to. So it's like all my
Speaker 3: other playlists, my nineties R and B playlist, my nas
Speaker 3: hip hop playlist, it's we're playlist. You know what I'm
Speaker 3: saying that you say I know nothing about because I
Speaker 3: wasn't born in the nineties, but maybe just continuing that
Speaker 3: I was raised right. You know, there's Evelyn, my best friend.
Speaker 3: I love her so so, so so much. That's my bestie.
Speaker 3: And then you Pooky Bearer, that's my bestie. And then
Speaker 3: there's also Dad.
Speaker 1: That really revealed to me that we struggle with being
Speaker 1: present and in the moment. And so as we bring
Speaker 1: this special edition of the podcast to a close, I
Speaker 1: want to challenge you to be present in this moment,
Speaker 1: to exhale your worry, exhale your fear, to shake shame
Speaker 1: and anxiety out of your body, and to ask God
Speaker 1: to ground you in this moment, ground you in today
Speaker 1: that the Holy Spirit would open your eyes to the
Speaker 1: joy that is buried in this moment, the lessons that
Speaker 1: await you, the hope that is yet to be found
Speaker 1: that you would not straddle only between the past and
Speaker 1: the future, but that you would plant both feet firmly
Speaker 1: in this moment. And as you seek to do that,
Speaker 1: I believe that you were going to learn firsthand what
Speaker 1: it means to be a tree planted by the rivers
Speaker 1: of living water. Gone are the days where you are
Speaker 1: a leaf blowing in the wind of whatever misfortune or
Speaker 1: excitement has come your way. It's time for us to
Speaker 1: be planted. And so in order for us to plant,
Speaker 1: we have to surrender. And in the process of surrendering,
Speaker 1: we surrender time, path, expectations, relationships, and we say, God,
Speaker 1: help me to be planted wherever it is you want
Speaker 1: me to be, and to not miss the moment, the
Speaker 1: moment in what you tell me. I see you, I
Speaker 1: got you, I love you, your known, I have a
Speaker 1: plan for you. Just trust me. Don't worry about yesterday,
Speaker 1: don't worry about tomorrow. Trust me right now, in this moment,
Speaker 1: with all that you have. And that's the only way forward.
Speaker 1: Surrender is not giving up. It is giving in to
Speaker 1: his will, his way, his dream, his vision, his grace,
Speaker 1: his anointing, his power, showing up in you with strength.
Speaker 1: So take a moment and give in today and allow
Speaker 1: yourself to be human, allow yourself to be a kid,
Speaker 1: allow yourself to be stressed and tired, Allow yourself grace
Speaker 1: because we're all trying to figure this thing.
Speaker 4: Called life out.
Speaker 1: But with Jesus, we got the cheat code, the old
Speaker 1: time minche code.
Speaker 4: Trust Jesus, trust the Spirit. He's not done with you
Speaker 4: yet