A Significant Life is a Surrendered Life- Kelley Brown's Story :: [ Episode 337]
StoryTellers Live
StoryTellers Live
4.9 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to season 9 of the StoryTellers Live podcast! 👏🏻 We are so excited to kick off another year full of faith-filled stories highlighting God's unlimited power, trustworthy sovereignty, overwhelming goodness, and unconditional love. And, as tradition holds, we are thrilled to launch this season with the story that was shared at our 2025 "Stories of Hope" fundraising luncheon.
Kelley Brown, founding member of the StoryTellers Live ministry and current Board Member, shares her journey of searching for significance and meaning in all the wrong places, only to come away disheartened and disappointed. After chasing accomplishments and achievements and striving for beauty and influence, the Lord gently spoke to Kelley about real significance being found in the simple act of surrendering.
FUN FACT: If you love the StoryTellers Live podcast, you have Kelley to thank, as she is the one who began this arm of the ministry years ago!
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VERSE OF THE WEEK:
"Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship." Romans 12:1
CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK:
Where are you finding your significance? True significance comes from faithfulness in the small moments.
Listen to our Season 8 recap episode!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And I just said, Lord, please use me. |
| 0:05.6 | Like, however, you need to use me, whatever that looks like, whatever the risks or the cost. |
| 0:10.9 | I just want you to use me. |
| 0:12.5 | And I remember laying down all of my conceptions, my ideas, my plans for the future, |
| 0:17.6 | what I thought he was calling me to do. |
| 0:19.3 | I just laid it all down and said, |
| 0:27.3 | I'm yours. Lord, I am completely yours. Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast where everyday women are gathering in homes across the country to share stories of the hope found in Jesus. I'm |
| 0:32.5 | Katie Dine. I'm Robin Cowan. And I'm Lindy Walker, and we are your podcast host. |
| 0:44.9 | Welcome to Season 9. I cannot believe we are sitting here kicking off season 9 of the Storytellers Live podcast. We were just talking about what all we think of together. I know. We've all |
| 0:50.2 | sit kids to college. You've become a grandmother. Yes. There have been weddings. We have |
| 0:55.3 | been waiting. Yes. So many things. We walk through a lot of life. That's a lot of life in eight years. |
| 1:00.2 | It sure is. And a lot of life within the ministry as well. And we're still here. And we're still here. And if you're new to the Storyteller's Live podcast, welcome. We're so glad you found us. We're so glad you're here. And if you're curious about |
| 1:12.3 | who we are, even what we've been through in the last year and last season, we did a season eight |
| 1:17.5 | recap. We've been actually on two weeks of silence on the podcast. If you're a Patreon member, |
| 1:23.3 | you might have been listening to some bonus stories over there, but during those actual three |
| 1:27.6 | weeks of rest, we go into prayer for the ministry because we learned a few years ago, |
| 1:32.3 | it's not good to try to do this on our own. |
| 1:34.8 | So we want the Lord's guidance and his favor and his blessing on the ministry, and especially |
| 1:40.1 | on our communities and our storytellers. |
| 1:42.4 | As Robin said, if you're just now finding us, go on our |
| 1:46.1 | website at storytellerslive.org and you can learn all about the storytellers live ministry. Our story is on |
| 1:52.2 | there. The storytellers live story is on there and how we got started. All of our communities are on there |
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