How to Step Into the Next Season w/ Ashley Earwood

If you’ve been feeling like something is shifting… you’re probably right.

In this episode of Project Sisterhood, Chrissy sits down with her longtime friend Ashley Earwood for a rich conversation about seasons, transitions, and stepping into the next chapter with courage.

We talk about how God prepares women, how to recognize when you’re being stretched, and why embracing your season gives you hope — especially when it’s uncomfortable.

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Chrissy Cole

Chrissy’s parents moved to the U.S. from the Philippines in the late 70′s. She saw her parents both come to know the Lord at a young age. She and her family poured their lives into the local church and were changed by God. Chrissy attended Evangel University in Springfield, MO and earned a B.A. in Communications with an emphasis in Public Relations.

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Speaker 1
I know this is not biblical, so please don't pull this as a clip. And if you're listening to this as a clip, I'm gonna, like cut you off now. Like, but the thought that goes through my head is, you say humble yourself before the Lord humiliates you. And I'm like, I don't think it's God's heart to humiliate us.

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Speaker 1
But that's what it feels like when we're humbled. This is a Project sisterhood podcast for all things women. Whether you for purpose, for ministry, motherhood, or the marketplace, we have crucial and genuine conversations that transcend your season yet impact your true identity as a woman. From light hearted and laughable to honest, deep matters of the heart, your soul will be encouraged.

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Speaker 1
We hope you and all women of every age and every stage by life and freedom in Jesus. Hey ladies. Welcome back to the Project Sisterhood Podcast. I'm your host, Chrissy Cole, and I'm excited to talk all things friendship and ministry and seasons with a good friend of mine that has actually been a friend of mine for nearly 20 years.

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Speaker 1
Over 20 years, I.

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Speaker 2
Think over 20 years.

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Speaker 1
Oh my goodness, isn't that crazy? Okay, tell everybody who you are. I had totally introduced you with all the labels and the titles of who you are, what ministry you run. But I want the ladies to know before you introduce yourself that you are a consistent, responsible, fun, intelligent, brilliant. Oh, my friend of mine, since college.

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Speaker 1
But tell everybody who you are, how you got here and what you do.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. You're so kind. I'll pay you later. Yeah. So my name is Ashley Yearwood. My husband and I pastor a church in Lodi, California called Bear Creek Community Church. We've been out here on the West Coast for about ten years. We met in college. We were college sweethearts. That's where you and I met. So you got to watch us fall in love.

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Speaker 1
At the Angel University. Shout out.

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Speaker 2
Shout out to the crusade.

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Speaker 1
Oh, no.

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Speaker 2
Oh, the crusaders.

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Speaker 1
Are not anymore. Was it not politically correct? Is probably not okay.

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Speaker 2
Okay.

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Speaker 1
We're not crusaders anymore. Just kidding.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, but we we met in college. We we have three crazy kids. Like wonderful, crazy kids. And I'm into that season of parenting where they're all kind of in the middle years. And so it's just very emotionally taxing. It's requiring a lot of emotional output to have three pre-teen and teenagers. But it's also really fun and really great.

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Speaker 2
It's so nice to be in the season where you get to see fruit.

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Speaker 1
Yeah.

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Speaker 2
From all your years of investment in your kids lives. Yeah. So that's super fun. And at the church, I, I work full time at our church alongside being a pastor's wife as well. And so I'm on our senior leadership team. I lead our women's ministry. I oversee all of our communications and weekend experience and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2
So that's where you and I met? Yeah. Communications major.

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Speaker 1
Communications major.

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Speaker 2
I'm still using my degree, I love it.

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Speaker 1
I if you do church ministry, you are absolutely thing automatic.

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Speaker 2
Yep.

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Speaker 1
I love thinking back on our time at Evangel University. You were a cheerleader?

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Speaker 1
She was also very smart and responsible. And we were wall mates, and I think I annoyed you a little bit. I think I was afraid I was annoying people because I was a little bit like bouncing off the walls. And I really cared about my, social life. And I had a lot of energy and, I think a little bit of A.D.D..

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Speaker 1
So with people all around you, do.

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Speaker 2
You really, legitimately think you had.

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Speaker 1
I might have. Okay. My suspicion is that everybody is, to a degree, in a world that is so distracted. I think we're becoming more active. So I do think, okay, I've taken some of those Instagram tests. Are you do you have ADHD and do you procrastinate? Do you like do you think overthink and blah blah blah? I'm just like, oh my gosh, I have A.D.D..

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Speaker 1
I'm not.

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Speaker 2
Sure. I think that you just live in the moment really well.

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Speaker 1
Okay. I'm going to.

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Speaker 2
Reframe that.

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Speaker 1
For you. Love. That is okay. Therapy session. Yes.

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Speaker 2
Oh yeah. Because I will say and you've obviously I'm sure you've grown since our years in college. You all have praise the Lord because I would hate it. I would hate to be that same girl that I was 20 years ago. Not hates. Let's speak kindly of her. But you know.

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Speaker 1
Because I'm.

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Speaker 2
So grateful for the growth.

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Speaker 1
Yes. How about.

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Speaker 2
That? Yes. In the last 20 years.

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Speaker 1
Same. Same, but I did.

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Speaker 2
Yes. You're right. I was a little annoyed by you when I could hear you at 2 a.m., and I had, you know, an 8 a.m. class. But you were so in the moment. And so you're so good at just being present with people and so I think that's more what it is. And I will say, like observing you back then and even now, I always say this about you, friend, you are one of the most talented people I know.

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Speaker 2
Like God just gave you that. It was, you know, you're a top ten talent person, which on the outside looking in I go, oh, bless her heart, you're good for you. And I'm so glad that you use them for the Lord. But, you know, on the inside it does come from a place of jealousy. And because, like, you're so darn gifted friend.

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Speaker 2
And so I think a lot of us watch you and just go, man, how how does she do it? You know? Because it you make it look effortless. And I know that I know that's I know you work hard. And I know that you do it from a place of ministry and of glorifying the Lord, but,

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Speaker 2
But he really has gifted you beautifully. And so maybe some of that annoyance was actually jealousy.

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Speaker 1
That's so funny. Hey, you know what? Why don't we, just call it even? Because I'll pay you for what you just said. You reminded me of my sister Maureen, and she was also a cheerleader. But she also had her life put together. You know? And I know, again, you're not perfect. You didn't pretend to be perfect, but you did in class as, were you ever.

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Speaker 1
And, I know you weren't just fast. Just as a leader on our campus, it's like you could be trusted. You can be trusted. Your steadfast, and responsible. And so, as somebody who is a little wilder.

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Speaker 2
Than.

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Speaker 1
College, it was just like, oh, man, I need a little bit more of my sister and Ashley. Yeah. In me and also the thing about her as an older sister, she was also so kind and nurturing. So I think even in the kindness of your eyes, when you look at people, it's just. And your smile. So bright, it's like there's a kindness about you, even with the type A personality that you have.

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Speaker 1
So yeah, well, we're just going to pay to the comments. This is what sisterhood is about. Let's edify, edify, build our sisters up. So anyways, it's so funny coming here to Northern Kentucky right now. We both live in Northern California. You're from Florida? I was from the Midwest. Your husband's from the East Coast like.

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Speaker 2
And never would have thought. We never.

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Speaker 1
Would have thought.

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Speaker 2
In ministry.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, amazing. And Northern California and now we get to build the kingdom together. And, I'm just so excited for women to know who you are, and, I kind of want to hear your heart when I have my friends on here. Yes, I will be your your biggest cheerleader, and I will be your PR person. But I just want to hear from your heart and what God has, burden in you for women.

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Speaker 1
And how you're moving in this season of your life.

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Speaker 2
That's a great question. I think I have found myself and Christy the last few times I've gotten up to speak something that just seems to be overflow of my heart right now is the importance of knowing the season that we're in. And so a lot of the women that I meet with, a lot of the challenges that I see that that Christian women are facing, many times it points back to the fact that they're unaware of what season that they're in.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. And you and I both know, like, God works in seasons. And so that's just something that keeps coming out of my mouth because I think so many of our frustrations, so many of our unmet expectations, so many of our maybe even like challenges with one another, with our schedules, with our, with what, what God's called us to do come down to knowing the season that we're in.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, there's so much contentment in that. And so, that's something that I'm even working through right now is going, let me let me put it like this. My friends at the beginning of this year gave me a beautiful painting. She's a painter. She's an artist. You met her the other day in the coffee shop. Okay.

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Speaker 1
Yeah.

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Speaker 2
She's a beautiful artist. She prophetically paints, and she gave me this painting to put in my office. And it's Jesus on the storm, walking on the water, the boat in the background. And she was like, every time I walked by this painting, she's like, I wasn't sure if I needed to sell it. I wasn't sure why I painted it, who it was for.

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Speaker 2
She was like, the Lord told me it was for you. And the minute I opened that painting, I was like, this is the season that I'm in.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, this is it. Okay.

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Speaker 2
God's calling me out of the boat. Yeah. He's calling me to trust in him. He's calling me to greater faith. Like there's a stepping out season that I'm in right now. But it's been surprising to me that it actually has felt and looked more like pulling back. So as the Lord is growing my capacity as I'm getting opportunity to do different things that stretch me, that are scary, that require more faith, that require more trust, it actually looks like me cutting things out.

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Speaker 1
Wow.

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Speaker 2
And pulling back from things that maybe didn't serve me, that served me in the boat, but don't serve me on the water. And so I'm I'm just having more and more conversations with women about what do you need to pull back from, what do you need to prune in your life? What season are you in so that you can actually be present just like you are?

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Speaker 2
You're so good at being present, in what God's doing in your life? Because I think we're always looking for the next season. We always want to be in harvest season. Yeah, and sometimes we're in pruning, and if we don't know, then we can't actually learn what he's trying to teach us.

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Speaker 1
So. Good. That's very good. So what is pulling back look like?

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Speaker 2
I think for me it's been pulling back emotionally from things that maybe got like on the surface, it might not look to people like I'm pulling back, even though in my heart I am. So things that got my attention, things in my home, things with my kids, even just ministries that I'm maybe pulling back from or trying to replace myself or, you know, build up other teams.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. There's, there's a cutting out of how I spend my time, you know, all of those things, whether it's mental, emotional, or actual physical responsibilities, there's just a shifting and a refocusing.

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Speaker 1
As you shift and reframe, refocus, all that. Has there been any pushback? Yeah. Anything kind of keeping you from moving in that direction? Because a life of faith, right, is never without fear. You know, sometimes we talk about being fear less, but it's more like, having more, more love, you know, or more of something else, you know, because I think that fear is present.

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Speaker 1
Absolutely. You know, so what kind of opposition have you for a.

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Speaker 2
Well, for sure. Fear. Like constantly overcoming fear and insecurity so many of us do when the Lord is asking us to step out or trust him and new things. I think one specific instance is, I've tried to to step out in building some other people up to take over some things that I'm stepping away from. Yeah. And I don't know that I've actually handled it the right way.

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Speaker 2
I think I got ahead of myself a couple times just trying to, again, like, act in my own strength.

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Speaker 1
Yeah.

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Speaker 2
And my own knowledge. Rather than waiting on his timing. Yeah. And so I've had to have some conversations where I've had to kind of like, I think I try to get two steps forward and I had to pull one step back.

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Speaker 1
Yeah.

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Speaker 2
And so not that that's opposition, but it's certainly been a stall. Yeah. Certainly been something that I've had to kind of like work through and overcome and maybe backpedal a little bit. But it's been a really good learning process. Yeah. For me at the same time.

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Speaker 1
So good. I do believe that when God has called us into another season, it will require faith. But in every shift there's a growth opportunity. Right? And I know that there have been seasons of my life where the Lord has just pointed out things that he wants to forever or completely remove, removed from my heart, from my mindset.

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Speaker 1
And it's humbling because you you think that you arrived and once season has been kind of got in this rhythm and, it feels like life is kind of going in, like, like a machine. It's a well-oiled machine. Yeah. And then things start to break down a little bit, and it's like, oh, those tools aren't going to work.

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Speaker 1
Those nuts and bolts aren't going to work for you to go into the next right. And it's humbling because then I have to pick up a new tool, and then I have to remove that rusty tool or that tool or screw or whatever. So, man, well, it's just.

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Speaker 2
A I think it's a constant reminder of making sure that we're not doing things in our own strength. Yeah, but we have to be doing it in the Lord's strength, no matter if it's in the home, in the workplace, in the ministry. Like, that's that's been the, the learning curve for me because you referenced earlier, like me being responsible me to be more type A, and so a lot of that can lean towards perfectionism, which I think a lot of ladies struggle with or maybe lean into.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. And to, to actually be in a season where you go, no, I've, I've grown that muscle. I've overcome that. Praise the Lord. Yeah. And the Lord helps me now see growth opportunities.

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Speaker 1
Yeah.

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Speaker 2
Rather than beating myself up going, oh, man. Okay, I learned and I won't do that again.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Even the word or the phrase growth opportunity, opportunities frustrates me a little bit. Does it? Yeah. Because I'm just like, the shame in me wants to, Yeah, it wants me to not see it as an opportunity, but more as a failure. And then I, I can I can go there. If shame is a filter by which we see this world, we don't see things as a growth opportunity.

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Speaker 1
And then we can we can have the temptation of getting stuck. Because like our growth opportunity just reminds me that I didn't I'm not where I thought I was. So it's a humbling process and I'm like do it now. It doesn't always feel good to be humbled.

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Speaker 2
But like I don't think it ever get.

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Speaker 1
To be humbled. And you know, I'll talk a big game of you know, humble yourself for us. The Lord's gonna, you know or I know, I know, this is not biblical, so please don't pull this as a clip. And if you're listening to this as a clip, I'm gonna, like, cut you off now. Like. But the thought that goes through my head is, you say humble yourself before the Lord humiliates you.

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Speaker 1
And I'm like, I don't think it's God's heart to humiliate us. But that's what it feels like when we're humbled. And then that in and of itself is another growth opportunity, you know, because it's the things that we talked to our staff about, you know, when we, we say, hey, we want you to fail, we want you to fail forward.

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Speaker 1
This is another growth opportunity. And it's like I and I know it doesn't always feel good.

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Speaker 2
No, but.

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Speaker 1
We need to get comfortable with, with those opportunities and see them and remove any filters that are keeping us from having hope, keeping us from moving forward. Because that's what it is. A door that the Lord gives us to a new season is an opportunity.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. No. Well, the Lord's looking for humility, like we always are, saying to to our teams, like Apollo, he says as he's like, I want to be small. He's like, let's let's constantly remind ourselves that that we're small in light of a big god. How do you.

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Speaker 2
How do you stay humble and not fall into that, like false humility or that like packaged? You know.

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Speaker 1
Pride.

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Speaker 2
That masquerades as humility? How do you balance that?

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Speaker 1
The great question I'm asking you, the questions because now I have to think through that.

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Speaker 2
I'm really curious because you come off as really confident, but you have a humility about you.

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Speaker 1
I remember about five years ago when I kind of experienced something similar to what you're experiencing. I mean, we all experienced it, but probably one of the most significant monumental men in ministry, probably because I was moving into another decade. Our church was decade of life going into my 40s and then, another decade for our church. I felt like the Lord was saying, you need.

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Speaker 1
And I remember somebody preaching this to us. You need an impartation of desperation. Because we grow to a point. And then as much as we say don't think that you've arrived, you think that you have or you feel like you've got to a good place, a comfortable place and then the Lord like things in my body were breaking down.

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Speaker 1
Things in my marriage were breaking down. Different things were breaking down. And the Lord, used, guest speaker, actually, who came to our church and was like, you need a impartation of desperation. And so I think if I can just stay desperate, if I could just stay in his presence, then I'll see who he is and my need for him.

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Speaker 1
When we see the Lord rightly, we see ourselves, right? Yeah. And when we see him up on the throne and the the throne room magnified, which only comes by way of spending time in the throne room. Right. We see how much we need him. And I was actually praying this over our church yesterday. It's like some of us magnify our problems.

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Speaker 1
We magnify, we magnify the things of this earth. If it's not our problems, we magnify our own significance. Absolutely. And when you come into the throne room, or in another non spiritual way of saying that when you seek the Lord and you spend time in prayer, spend time in prayer without just asking for things, when you just spend time.

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Speaker 2
Communion.

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Speaker 1
Seeking his face. Yeah, being in communion with him and just getting bored in his presence. You see how small you actually are and, and and how he has to be magnified. He has to be magnified in order for us to get our eyes off ourselves, eyes off the things of this world. And so I think the key for me has been coming back to my first love and spending time in his presence.

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Speaker 1
Which prayer rooms in our church have been significant and so helpful? Before we started prayers rooms in our church, we actually had a sisterhood group that met for almost a year, and Tuesday mornings we would sit and we would pray and it would just sometimes be just two of us. One of them, what? The gal who was with me most every week was our prayer team leader, and it was just those simple because in his presence and not just saying thing to other bene and learning to get bored in his presence.

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Speaker 2
I love that phrase I have heard that I love.

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Speaker 1
Oh I recommend books typically on this podcast. But Bob saw The Secret of the Secret Place was so key for me. In fact, that year of being in the prayer room with my friend Sarah, who's our prayer team lead, and we went through a chapter a week, before we spent time in the present. So it's just two pages of reading, and then we would take about five minutes to read, and then we would be in the presence, and then we'd come together.

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Speaker 1
The last five minutes would be like, why did God speak to you? So building for our friendship, it was so necessary to do it in private because we can talk about praying, we can go to the prayer meetings and we are looking for the hype. If I'm being honest, I love the hype moments, I love the hype moments.

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Speaker 1
But when we are bored and is present and we're doing it privately, nothing's being streamed. Nothing is public. It's sacred.

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Speaker 2
That's well, that's where the discipleship happens. Like where we have a weekly prayer service as well, and it's an hour and a half every Wednesday night. And, you know, unsurprising. It's our lowest attended service of the week, which is sad, but but a real indicator of where people's hearts are, because we do want the hype. We want to come on a Sunday morning.

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Speaker 2
We want the worship, we want the teaching, but to actually be forced to.

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Speaker 1
Sit and pray. Yeah, like.

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Speaker 2
A lot of people don't want to engage in that because it is it's heart. It's a reflection of your heart. It's a reflection of where you're at in communion with the Lord. And so we're constantly inviting people to that space to go. If you can learn to pray here, if you can learn that discipline, this is what you need to carry on privately.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. Because if you can't learn to pray here corporately and publicly, you're never going to be able to do it privately. And that's and that's where the depth happens. That's where the intimacy happens. When you're in that private communion. And so we're in a season where we're trying to teach people how to pray and the benefit and the power of prayer.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. I wonder if you say what we used to say at our church when we were in Springfield, Missouri. We both went to James River. Yeah. And they. What is it? Remember he used to always say the most important gathering of the week? Wednesday nights?

00;23;19;07 - 00;23;20;03
Speaker 2
I think we do.

00;23;20;03 - 00;23;47;26
Speaker 1
We did. We adopted that too, because we have once a month we have our presence nine. Most important service of the month. Yeah. But now we have our prayer rooms every week. Morning, noon and night. But I, I, I've held on to that because the principle is not that you have to do it every week, but the principle is that prayer is the most powerful thing that you can do, that, we're nothing without communion with the Lord.

00;23;47;26 - 00;24;17;18
Speaker 1
We're nothing apart from him. So, I do love that. Now, we don't look like that church at all, but, grateful for that. Found that principle. Absolutely. Built in us. Okay, well, let me let me switch gears, to I love about seasons prayer. And I'm sure the season that you're in really opening it for I'm own personal a deeper level of prayer and dependance on Lord.

00;24;17;20 - 00;24;28;03
Speaker 1
What does that look like for the ministry that you oversee? I mean, I know you oversee a lot of ministries, but as far as women's ministry is concerned.

00;24;28;05 - 00;24;43;03
Speaker 2
Yeah, we're, we're really in a season of discipleship with our church in our body. We have so many people coming right now that, our new believers that are biblically illiterate, I just don't have any framework for scripture.

00;24;43;03 - 00;24;43;16
Speaker 1
Yeah.

00;24;43;16 - 00;24;49;06
Speaker 2
And so, we're really just trying to teach people how to pray and how to read their Bible.

00;24;49;08 - 00;24;51;27
Speaker 1
Like, yes, basics. Yes.

00;24;51;29 - 00;25;10;24
Speaker 2
Which that's that's all you need. Like, everything else is great, but, like, if we can teach you how to pray and read your Bible, that's the best place to start. Yeah. And so that's really the season that I'm in right now, even with our women, is, we have a mentorship program. We have small groups. We have things like that.

00;25;10;24 - 00;25;34;00
Speaker 2
But I'm actually feeling this real pull to pull away from big events and big gatherings right now in this season, because, those are really great and the Lord can meet us there. But it's only one night, and I really want to teach women how to be in community and to be in discipleship and to be in their word.

00;25;34;06 - 00;25;57;11
Speaker 2
Daily. Yeah. Weekly. Yeah. Monthly. You know, to develop those relationships that are going to carry you past a really great Friday night. And so right now we just kicked off, reading through the New Testament this fall as a women's ministry. And so we've got groups throughout the city, we've got virtual groups we're trying to get every lady have in a group.

00;25;57;11 - 00;26;07;11
Speaker 2
Yes, reading the Bible, beautiful. And so we'll meet, we'll talk about it. We're following the, Bible recap, with how well she's so great.

00;26;07;14 - 00;26;09;29
Speaker 1
But it's not that big blue book. Yes. I love.

00;26;09;29 - 00;26;17;12
Speaker 2
It. Yeah. So it's on the Bible app, I love it. I'm. I'm such a fan. Because I just want getting. I just want women in the word.

00;26;17;13 - 00;26;18;00
Speaker 1
Yeah.

00;26;18;00 - 00;26;29;10
Speaker 2
And so we're trying to focus right now on we have it three P's people, prayer and pages. And we say that is a great starting point, like be in community, learn how to talk to God. Yeah. And then get in his word.

00;26;29;13 - 00;26;36;10
Speaker 1
That's beautiful. I love that because you've pulled back not just personally, but you've even pull back within your ministry.

00;26;36;10 - 00;26;36;22
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00;26;36;22 - 00;27;00;22
Speaker 1
And that's really commendable, fearless leadership, I must say. Beautiful. And I'm so glad that you are leading women. Well, I know a few of your women from Bear Creek. Shout out to the. Yeah, Bear Creek women, who've come through here. Like, if they were in downtown Sacramento or taking people to the airport. You can see, their hunger for the Lord.

00;27;00;22 - 00;27;22;25
Speaker 1
And, knowing that you're part of their spiritual cover is just it makes me so proud to be your friend. So proud of the church. You know, like, I mean, so many bad things are said about the church, but I'm like, man, way too many healthy, beautiful, pure hearted leaders, that I only have hope for the church.

00;27;22;28 - 00;27;45;19
Speaker 1
And the ones I don't want you guys that early. Maybe some of the other ones that, And maybe we're kind of like, maybe we like what they're doing. Yeah. You know, I don't know what it is. Oh, Jesus. I'm just so grateful. I'm grateful for you. I'm grateful for Paul. And, we're going to have to get to you guys back here with me, Caleb, to do a crossover man of Faith and project.

00;27;45;19 - 00;27;53;02
Speaker 2
That would be so fun. I think we'd have to keep the guys in line, though. Yeah, because they, I don't know. I think Caleb and Paul both like to.

00;27;53;04 - 00;27;54;26
Speaker 1
Stir the stinkin pot.

00;27;54;27 - 00;27;55;12
Speaker 2
They do.

00;27;55;12 - 00;28;11;12
Speaker 1
We we acknowledge that. And if you guys know our husbands listeners out there, they are podcasters. But we love them. Yes, we do, and we love them and we honor them. But, you know, I wouldn't be the leader. And I know you believe us. We wouldn't be the leaders that we are without, great men of faith.

00;28;11;13 - 00;28;14;28
Speaker 1
So we that'll that episode will be coming soon.

00;28;14;28 - 00;28;16;26
Speaker 2
But thanks. Thanks for having me.

00;28;16;29 - 00;28;37;11
Speaker 1
Oh my gosh, I love I loved our time of year together. I love what you're doing. Oh my gosh, this is such a love fest. I feel like this is the most love because we really, we really know one another like we've years. Can I real quick story? Yeah. I remember driving to your wedding. It was also a mess of a trip.

00;28;37;13 - 00;28;43;17
Speaker 1
Not really. I mean, we just didn't plan a place to stay, so we just stayed in the car. And that was fun.

00;28;43;17 - 00;28;52;27
Speaker 2
But. So it was, like, special. And that's the kind of friend that you are, that you'll, you know, sleep in a van in a Walmart parking lot to make you remember my wedding.

00;28;52;29 - 00;29;22;04
Speaker 1
It was so great. So worth it to celebrate you, too. But I love you, honor you and your husband and all that you guys are doing. So thanks for. And, we'll see you again, all right? All right. Well, thanks for joining us for this beautiful episode of the Project Sisterhood podcast. Make sure that you, subscribe on YouTube, follow us on Instagram, and if there are any other topics that you want to be talking you want us to be talking about, or you want us to dive into, can you send us a DM that would really help us out?

00;29;22;05 - 00;29;37;14
Speaker 1
Also, mark your calendars for our project. Sister had Sisters Night in October, I believe it is the third, Friday of the month. So we'll see you at census night. See you on Sunday. Love y'all. Stay cool.