MomLife Ministries Podcast

Wholeheartedly Showing Up, Holding Steady to Jesus

September 09, 2024 Melanie Hill and Christy Crosby Season 2 Episode 2

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Wholehearted—Loving God: Heart, Soul, Mind, & Strength

What does it mean to live wholehearted? It means showing up just as we are and being willing to release some things like busyness, distractions, avoidance, and control in order to receive better things from the Lord like purpose, rest, wisdom, and discernment. It’s also about learning to walk this road of life and faith and motherhood together—accepting, loving, and nourishing one another’s work in progress toward Christ. Living wholeheartedly doesn’t happen by accident, but through purposeful ways in which we show up in our everyday lives.

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Discussion questions for today's episode:

  • What’s messy and what’s lovely about your current season of life?
  • Read Mark 12:29-31. How are these words encouraging [or challenging] to you?
  • A car has four wheels; the goal is to keep them full, balanced, and aligned. If you imagine your heart, soul, mind, and strength as the four parts that make up the whole of who you are that keep you going—is there any area that feels a little (or a lot) deflated, out of balance, and/or alignment?
  • Spend some time in prayer. Ask the Lord to help you see how you can more fully submit your days to him. Ask him to help you think creatively about how you can create space for margin and rest as well as space to spend time with him so that you can point the motivations, desires, and affections of your heart toward him.

Recommended resources for Wholehearted series: momlife.org/wholehearted.

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Editing: Angela Edwards
Music: "Another Successful Day" BoDleasons

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