On this two-part episode, we talk with John Michael Caldwell, TCK from Uruguay. John Michael and his wife, Nicole, have served in ministry for many years.

Join part 1 of our conversation as we talk about the practice of surrender - how it starts with identity, deals with control, and ends with encountering more of the presence and person of Jesus. John Michael shares from his own experiences of having to surrender things to the Lord - both good things and harmful things. You’ll hear personal stories and incredible insight into how to take brave steps of surrender.

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HOST: Michelle Ellis

SONG: Sunscreen by Vic Davi

SHOW NOTES:
9:45 | 1 Peter 5:6 - “So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor.”
9:45 | James 4:10 - “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.”
11:19 | Lord (I Don’t Know) by Newsboys
11:57 | Psalm 46:10 - “Be still, and know that I am God…”
12:00 | Proverbs 3:5-6 - “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”
15:51 | 2 Corinthians 3:18 - “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
16:03 | Philippians 4:7 - “And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
27:13 | John 21

KEY QUOTES:
11:31 | “It's okay to admit, ‘I don't know. I don't understand.’ Sometimes surrendering to that idea and just trusting God and saying to the Lord, ‘hey, however I am, whoever I am, whatever I am, God, here I am. And I'm just laying it all down before you and I'm gonna trust you.’”
13:44 | “…being a TCK is an incredible privilege, but it's also just a season. It wasn't what I was meant to do forever.”
14:42 | “Surrendering that MK/TCK identity really opened up the door for God to teach me things that I really wouldn't have learned otherwise.”
15:18 | “I realized that as I surrender to God's will there are pressures that just naturally come off. Pressures that I put on myself and pressures that other people put on me.”
16:09 | “ I don't know what's next. I don't know all the answers, but I know who's got the answers. I know who's with me throughout every step of the way.”
18:15 | “I discovered early on that the moment I surrendered to Jesus is the moment that I truly lived.”
26:04 | “If I surrender my identity to Jesus, then that means He needs to shape it for me every day. I'm not in charge of who I am. He is. He is going to help me discover that and He's going to teach me what I need to know. If I am really trying to discover God's will for my life and God's call for my life and the purpose of why I'm here, I have to surrender to what God is asking me to do.”
31:26 | “God will teach us about ourselves through our emotions, but He's always working something bigger in spite of them.”

COMMON TERMS:
TCK - third culture kid
MK - missionary kid
LAC - Latin America Caribbean