EP. 68: Hope that Overcomes (with Joyce Dinkins)

God Hears Her Podcast

Our Daily Bread Ministries

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

4.9 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

How do you experience hope? Maybe you’re hopeful for something? Or you have a strong hope in who God says He is? Or maybe you feel hopeless and are starting to wonder what hope even is! On this episode of God Hears Her, Eryn and Elisa talk to Joyce Dinkins, a woman that comes from a generation of people hoping for better circumstances. Joyce exemplifies this godly attribute of hope and talks about it with a wisdom that comes from God’s Spirit.

About Our Guest:

Joyce Dinkins is the executive editor for the Our Daily Bread Voices Collection. She has an incredible passion for inclusion and equity. Her career emphasis is amplifying the voices of diverse authors, African American and others, in the literary world. She has invested several decades as an editor serving at several Christian publishers across the United States.

Notes and Quotes:

“My dad’s dad was born a slave, and that affected everything.”
“I had access to freedom in my home; but I never forgot, and I still don’t forget where my parents came from, where my grandparents came from.”
“People seeing me weren’t necessarily seeing what they were looking at.”
“Hope to me is the truth.”
“My parents taught me at an early age to not take abuse from anyone.”
“They were capable, after all they had been through, to love their enemies.”
“Love will allow us to overcome.”
“Literacy is the right to vote, fair housing, the right to pursue education, etcetera.”
“See us, hear us, express our stories.”
“Go open that book [the Bible].”
“Cry out to God.”

Links/Books/Resources Mentioned in Show:

God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
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Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon.
Visit the Our Daily Bread Voices Collection
Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy

Transcript

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0:00.0	My dad had this way of saying, you're not seeing what you're looking at, because people will look at us and, based on appearances, completely miss who we are, whom God has intended us to become, what our gifts are, what our experiences are.
0:18.6	And that's true for all of us. So my parents emphasized the importance of our heritage, our legacy,
0:27.0	and all the intricate details of that.
0:30.5	And at the same time, they were always pointing to the possibilities.
0:41.2	Music pointing to the possibilities. You're listening to God Hears Her, a podcast for women, where we explore the stunning
0:46.0	truth that God hears you, he sees you, and he loves you because you are his.
0:50.9	Find out how these realities free you today on God Hears Her. Welcome to God Hears Her. I'm
0:58.1	Erin Eddy. And I'm Elisa Morgan. What do you think of when you hear the word hope? Maybe you're
1:05.4	hopeful for something, or maybe you have a strong hope in who God says he is, or maybe you feel hopeless, or maybe you have a strong hope in who God says he is.
1:13.3	Or maybe you feel hopeless.
1:17.9	Or maybe you're starting to think to yourself, what is hope?
1:24.3	Well, today we're talking to a woman that comes from a generation of people hoping for better circumstances.
1:25.8	A woman who exemplifies this godly attribute and talks about it with a
1:30.6	wisdom that we know comes directly from the spirit. That lovely woman is Joyce Dinkins.
1:37.7	Joyce is an executive editor for our Daily Bread Ministry's Voices Collection. She has an incredible
1:43.4	passion for inclusion and equity. Her
1:45.9	career emphasis is amplifying the voices of diverse authors, African, American, and others in the
1:52.2	literary world. She has invested several decades as an editor serving at several Christian
1:58.3	publishers across the United States.
2:08.0	We're so excited to hear about Joyce's experiences with being a hopeful woman on this episode of God Hears Her.
2:09.4	Joyce, we are really honored to have you with us today.
2:13.7	You know, I love our conversations on God Hears Her, but I'm especially excited about this one with you because we've known each other for a bit of time and never enough.
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