Hey friends. You're listening to the Go and Tell Gals podcast, and I'm your host, Jess Connelly.

On each episode, I'll have a guest who will give us a peek into what it looks like

for her to run on mission in her everyday life. Our prayer is that it leaves you

encouraged and spurred on to go and tell the good news right where you're at.

Hello, friends. This is a New Year edition of the Go and Tell Gals podcast. I can barely believe that the day this comes out, it will already be 2019. I'm recording it at the tail end of 2018, but here's what I want to do. A lot of times when we meet with our go teams, which is our

coaching and community groups for women who are taking steps in their individual missions,

we ask these questions at the beginning of our time together. How are you feeling? I mean,

where are you at right now? What's going on in your heart? How are you feeling? It's the

beginning of 2019. Are you excited? Are you hopeful? Are you elated? Are you joyful? Are you thankful?

Are you scared? Are you nervous? Are you already stressed out? How are you feeling? I would ask another question and honestly, I would

conjecture that this is actually a deeply spiritual question. It's not selfish at all, but how do you

want to feel? I've been thinking a lot about our desires and how they're God-given and how often sometimes

that's where we meet Jesus in intimacy is just telling him how we want to feel and asking him to

help us get there. So how do you want to feel right now at the beginning of 2019? How do you want to

feel at the end of 2019? Are you a goals gal? Are you already thinking about what you

want to get done this year or what you want to accomplish? Do you write that kind of stuff off and think

it's not for you? How do you feel? How do you want to feel here at the start of the year?

Then if we want to be really daring and really

honest and really bold, which I believe we do in our Go teams, we ask another question, which is

how willing are you to grow and how willing are you to change to feel how you want to feel?

That is a scary question for me, if I'm being honest. And sometimes

the most honest thing I can say is I'm not really willing to grow right now. I need a minute or I need

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