Hey everyone it's Leslie Lutie host of the Set-A-Part-Ger.

Hey everyone it's Leslie Lutie hosted the Set-A-Part-Girl podcast biblical encouragement for women of all ages.

Today we're going to talk about another great woman of the Christian faith, Catherine Booth.

I've been so impacted in studying her life and reading some of her writings and

one of the things that really has impacted me about her is that she just simply

would not settle for mediocrity.

She was constantly giving everything she could possibly give

to live a poured out life for Jesus Christ.

And she had such incredible boldness to speak truth even when it was

difficult for her. She was truly a spiritual athlete and she's been a huge

inspiration to me. If you don't know much about Catherine Booth, she was the co-founder of the Salvation Army,

which is probably the largest Christian organization for reaching the poor and the vulnerable

that has ever been in all of history. It's really

incredible to study the history of the Salvation Army. They were very

evangelistic and they were very, very outreach-oriented to the poor and the needy.

And so one of the things that impacts me so much about Catherine Booth is that she never

settled for mediocrity, like I said.

And I remember one time giving an exhortation online about how important it is to

keep prayer and time with God as one of the highest priorities of our lives even if it means

getting less sleep or skipping certain social and

leisure activities in order to make him our highest priority. Now that seems like

a simple principle and a lot of people responded enthusiastically to this reminder but some people really balked at it and I remember one woman who commented

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