On this episode, we talk with TCK to Guatemala, Abigail Marsiglio.
Join our conversation as we talk about God’s faithfulness even in difficult seasons and times where He feels silent or like we’re being stretched. You’ll hear Abigail share transparently about what she’s learned about God through anxiety, parenthood, and the guilt of not being able to juggle everything as she’d like. This episode is chock full of wisdom, hope and encouragement.
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HOST: Michelle Ellis
SONG: Sunscreen by Vic Davi
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SHOW NOTES:
8:53 | 1 Kings 19:1-9 - Elijah and Jezebel
12:31 | Philippians 4:6-7 - “Do not be anxious about anything…”
12:24, 19:08 | 2 Timothy 1:7 - “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
20:15 | 2 Corinthians 5:7 - “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
20:40 | 2 Corinthians 10:5 - “…and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”
30:04, 32:01 | Esther 4:14 - “… And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
39:54 | Romans 8:18 - “Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.”
40:46 | Fruit Takes Time by SEU Worship
KEY QUOTES:
5:55 | “There are days where I really have to lean on the Lord and just ask him to give me strength for today. And […] it's simple like that, ‘Lord, I just need strength for today.' And God has been faithful to do that for me.”
6:18 | “I've just been feeling like a lot of stress and anxiety and worries, and the Lord has been so good to just be that soft still whisper and just gently remind me He's still there. He's still ever present. He hasn't left.”
6:44 | “He said, ‘in order to […] to feel the power of God, we have to be in the presence of God. And […] in order to be in the presence of God, you have to be in close proximity.’”
15:46 | “That's the hard part because sometimes it's in the waiting that we feel like God's quiet, but He's not. He's still moving. He's still on the move. He's still working.”
19:26 | “[God] gave us a mind that can be sound and can reason, but we have to lean on the biblical truth to then fight what the enemy's telling us.”
25:48 | “When God created us, He already knew every failure we were gonna make and yet He still created us. Isn't that wild to think that the Lord loved us enough and wanted us in this world that despite [every future mistake and failure] I still am going to create [him/her] because[he/she] is worth it. And I'm gonna use [him/her] for My power, My glory, and My kingdom.”
31:03 | “We serve a God who is a redeeming God… though we make mistakes and though we sometimes do go down the wrong path, God is such a gracious God to us back and still use that.”
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COMMON TERMS:
TCK - third culture kid
MK - missionary kid
LAC - Latin America Caribbean