How do you discern God’s will for your life and then surrender it back to Him?
Emily Karc has a passion to minister to the hearts of hurting women. Originally, her vision was to become a writer and a speaker, maybe even the next Lysa Terkurst. But God was writing a different story for Emily, and that’s what today’s episode is all about!
IF YOU’VE ever wondered how to discern God’s Will for your life, THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU!
Emily reached out to me in the fall about being a guest on the podcast. That timing didn’t work for me, so I told her we could circle back in January to discuss her dream. In that short time God expanded her vision and her heart to serve women who are victims of sex trafficking—something that wasn’t even on her radar just a few months prior.
We’ll talk about what that shift has been like for her and how her experience might shed some light for other dreamers. In addition, you’ll learn:
How surrendering our desires gives space for God to reveal even more of His heart for us and our dreams,
What God has to teach us in our striving and how we can release the outcomes to Him, and
The difference between creating with God rather than for God.
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It has always been Emily's dream to use her story of God's redemptive work in her life to make a positive impact on the lives of others, by being the one for the one, wherever God takes her. It is her honor to write and speak on the truths of God's Word to inspire, motivate and challenge women from all different backgrounds to ditch the shame and own their belovedness in Christ Jesus, no matter their past mistakes.
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Dear Mama: One Mama’s Journey of Learning to Live Beloved by Emily Karc
Scripture:
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
John 4:7-15 (NIV)
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
~ Romans 5:6-8 (NIV)
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