Chased By God: Lisa Whittle and Lisa Delgado

Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith

Jesus Calling

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🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Our guests today share stories of the hope and transformation that has happened in their lives as they were pursued by God and daily started following Him. From a young age, Lisa Delgado experienced trauma and abuse in her life. As she grew older, she pushed away from her family’s strict religious upbringing, but always knew something was missing. Struggling with depression and darkness, Lisa shares a pivotal moment where a friend’s kindness and compassion showed her something that would change her life forever. Lisa Whittle isthe daughter of a pastor, Lisa wasn’t interested in a life of ministry until she found herself being pursued by God for that very thing. Lisa has dedicated her life to writing and speaking about the truth of Jesus Christ and shares the joys and challenges of what happens when you let God lead you to the places He would have you go.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we speak with two women who tell stories of hope and
0:08.3	transformation that have happened in their lives as they were pursued by God and daily started following him.
0:15.1	From a young age, Lisa Delgado experienced trauma and abuse in her life.
0:20.1	As she grew older, she pushed away from her family's strict religious upbringing, but always knew something
0:25.2	was missing.
0:26.2	Struggling with depression and darkness, Lisa shares a pivotal moment where a friend's kindness
0:31.2	and compassion showed her something that would change her life forever.
0:37.1	Hello, my name is Lisa Renee Delgado.
0:41.1	I was born and raised here in Phoenix, Arizona and my upbringing as a child, it was pretty, pretty rough. My mother was a single parent and she had four children and we were all separated.
1:09.3	We didn't necessarily have our own home. She had, we had babysitters, kind of like foster parents, temporary foster parents, because we would stay in each home for maybe up to two weeks to a few months at a time.
1:27.1	One of my biggest dreams as a child
1:30.0	was having our own home and having my mom with us. It was really hard though because like I said
1:39.3	she was a single parent and she didn't have any support. So it was pretty rough. There was a lot of abuse,
1:50.0	emotional, physical. And in. emotional and when she would come when we would see her we you know I would just
1:59.6	think is this the day this today we're gonna go go home with my mom but it didn't happen and it didn't
2:05.9	happen until I was 12.
2:09.6	And that's when we finally got our own home.
2:12.4	My mother was, I never forget she was so excited because
2:18.0	she actually bought her own home and and we were so happy because you know we had our mom back and
2:26.7	and we had our own home and we had our own bedroom you know we didn't have to share with anyone and we'd have to worry about
2:37.2	sleeping with one eye open because someone might come in and
2:50.0	and molest us and so you know we pretty much lived a life of fear. Very fearful. In my early years as an adult, well before then as a teenager I became very rebellious and my mom remarried and and she endured she
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