#526 – Brenda Palmer – The Journey of Yes: How Obedience Changes Everything
The Sister Circle Podcast
Chrystal Evans Hurst
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with author and speaker Brenda Palmer to talk about her new book, The Journey of Yes: The Everyday Adventure of Radical Obedience. Brenda shares what it’s like to really say “yes” to God, especially when the outcome is uncertain. We talk about her unexpected journey into ministry, how she wrestles with insecurity, and why she’s learning to trust God even when life feels unstable. Brenda gets real about the cost of obedience, the pressure of the platform, and the beauty of simply following God’s lead.
If you’ve ever found yourself in a season of transition, wondering what’s next, or struggling to believe you’re enough for what God’s calling you to do, this conversation is for you. I pray it encourages you to lean in, trust God, and keep walking in faith.
Highlights from Today’s Episode
- Navigating an unexpected calling
- Battling insecurity with obedience
- Trusting God without clarity
Related Resources
- Connect with Brenda Palmer on Instagram, YouTube, or her website
- Grab a copy of Brenda’s book: The Journey of Yes: The Everyday Adventure of Radical Obedience
- How to Hear God’s Voice: How To Hear God’s Voice
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. Thanks for listening to the Sister Circle podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | My name is Crystal Evanshurst, and I'm your host. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast that's designed to help you live your life well and to make it a life you love. Listen, you get to choose. |
| 0:22.0 | Y'all, I'm all about all the conversations and I try to show you that. |
| 0:34.6 | Different ages, different races, different cultures, different conversations. |
| 0:38.1 | Today I get to have a wonderful conversation with a young woman named Brenda Palmer who not only is a podcaster and she's a church girl, but she is a preacher. |
| 0:46.9 | And while in our conversation, she's not necessarily going to be preaching, she is showing up and talking some good on today. |
| 0:53.8 | If you've ever been a person who wants to say yes to God and maybe you're afraid, |
| 0:57.4 | or maybe you are wondering if you should because is he going to take you where you want to go? |
| 1:02.1 | Oh my goodness, this conversation about radical obedience and saying yes to God |
| 1:06.4 | is going to change the way you think about God, about your life and about yourself. |
| 1:11.1 | Let's jump into it. |
| 1:12.2 | This conversation with Brenda Palmer is going to be amazing. |
| 1:15.5 | So you have written a book from start to finish. |
| 1:20.2 | How long did it take you? |
| 1:22.5 | Ooh, maybe like a year, like a complete year. |
| 1:44.7 | I think when you sign and they're like, oh, it'll take a year. I'm like, no, not a year. Absolutely. A year with some, can we push this back? Absolutely. It definitely took a year. And really, it was really hard. I don't know why, but it was hard. We don't know why? |
| 1:45.4 | You don't know why? |
| 1:48.9 | I guess I didn't expect it to be hard. |
| 1:54.2 | I think I can say one of the reasons I think it was hard is because my book is about obedience. |
| 1:55.4 | And I think I was in the middle of regretting some steps of obedience that I had taken |
| 2:00.5 | all the while trying to find |
| 2:02.6 | language to inspire people to be obedient. |
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