136. Friendship Transforms (with Amy Boucher Pye)

God Hears Her Podcast

Our Daily Bread Ministries

Society & Culture, Bible, Womensministry, Womensbiblestudy, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Women, Female

4.9 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Guest Bio: Amy Boucher Pye is an author, speaker, retreat leader, and spiritual director. She’s the author of six books, including Transforming Love: How Friendship with Jesus Changes Us and 7 Ways to Pray. She writes for Our Daily Bread and other devotional publications and has an MA in Christian spirituality from the University of London. She lives with her family in north London.

Show Summary: Have you ever heard the phrase, you become like the people you spend the most time with? Friendships are really important, but if we’re not careful, we may become close with people who influence us in a negative way. Do you have close friends that uplift and encourage you? Do you feel like you have a friendship with Jesus? Author Amy Boucher Pye wants to help us learn how to have a close friendship with God to experience the transforming power of His love. Join Elisa Morgan and Eryn Adkins as they learn how to have a close friendship with Jesus.

Notes and Quotes:

“God works through… our desires, and He transforms us through the Holy Spirit.” —Amy Boucher Pye
“God is so gentle, He corrects us even when we get it wrong.” —Amy Boucher Pye
“[Jesus] wants to slake your thirst, and He will.” —Amy Boucher Pye
“Jesus is with us now, here, too and He takes us on this journey of change and transformation.” —Amy Boucher Pye
“We go and grab for the things that are physical to remedy something that is an eternal experience.” —Eryn Adkins
“You may have turned away from God, but He is right there.” —Elisa Morgan
“Love can be very uncomfortable.” —Eryn Adkins
“God has put these desires in us and He wants us to be fully who we are so that we can love the world, so that He can love the world through us.” —Amy Boucher Pye

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Links:

Transforming Love by Amy Boucher Pye: https://amyboucherpye.com/books/transforming-love-how-friendship-with-jesus-changes-us/
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0:00.0	God has put these desires in us and he wants us to be fully who we are so that we can love the world, that he can love the world through us.
0:10.2	And it's, he takes our desires and through the Holy Spirit, he transforms us, he changes us to be more fully ourselves and more fully his child who will love the world.
0:28.4	You're listening to God Hears Her, a podcast for women, where we explore the stunning
0:33.2	truth that God hears you, he sees you, and he loves you because you are his. Find out how these
0:38.9	realities free you today on God Here's Her. Welcome to God Hears Her. I'm Alyssa Morgan.
0:45.9	And I'm Aaron Atkins. Have you ever heard the phrase, you become who you hang out with?
0:51.8	Apparently, we adapt to the people we spend the most time with. So
0:55.5	friendship is not only important for our well-being, but it's also important for changing and
1:00.3	influencing our own character. Thankfully, today's guest has some great insight into how
1:07.1	we could be friends with Jesus. Friendship with him transforms us in the best way.
1:13.7	I mean, after all, we want to be more like him. Amy Boucher Pie has been with us before.
1:19.1	If you go all the way back to episode 12, you can learn more about Amy before we catch up with
1:23.8	her today. Let's learn what's new with Amy as we get into this conversation on
1:28.4	God hears her. I think the new thing is that I'm a spiritual director. Yeah. And what is that?
1:35.8	Yeah, because it's a really old-fashioned term. I don't direct anybody. I don't tell them how to live,
1:41.5	but I accompany people on their walk with God, noticing where God is
1:46.4	present in their lives. It's really a huge privilege. Would you share with us how you got to that
1:51.9	point? Well, I think it's partly how I'm wired because I love to find out about people. I'm a bit
1:58.5	nosy, and I also love to see how God is working in their lives.
2:03.1	So I did a master's in Christian spirituality, which was really good and really hard. And I learned
2:09.1	about all these church fathers and mothers. But it was very academic. And that was in back, like, I don't know, 2016.
2:17.0	And then, and people already said, well, why do you need to do more? You're already like a spiritual director. People already come to you. And I said, well, I want to be equipped. So then I did a year-long program of a much more applied thing, of learning how to listen, how to notice where God is working in somebody's life,
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