Episode 309 - Experiencing God's Strength in Your Weakness with Emily Jensen

The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Davey Blackburn and Aubrey Sampson

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

How do we begin to experience the strength of God in the middle of our weaknesses? How can we allow the Creator of all to enter into our greatest place of need? For author and podcaster Emily Jensen, walking through her son's medical challenges revealed weaknesses in her spirit that were unlike any she had faced before. The missed milestones, the extensive plans for intervention, and her own grief in the midst of it all revealed to her a need for God's strength where she felt the weakest. It was learning to navigate the waters of parenting a child with special needs that led her to a greater reliance on the Heavenly Father's power in her life. Through co-hosting the Risen Motherhood podcast and her recent book, He is Strong: Devotions for When You Feel Weak, Emily explores what it looks like to truly lean into the supernatural strength we all need when it comes to all the ways we experience brokenness this side of heaven. In this honest conversation, Eric sits down with Emily to talk about the different kinds of weaknesses we can face, the challenges of parenting a child with special needs and how the gospel applies to all of our weaknesses. If you've ever found yourself at the end of your own strength, this episode will serve as an encouragement that it is in that place that God's power is most magnified in your life. Website: https://emilyajensen.com https://www.risenmotherhood.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilyajensen/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyAJens Book: He is Strong: Devotions for When You Feel Weak https://a.co/d/gkOMney Has a recent loss, trauma or tragedy upended your world? Let us guide you through those early days: https://www.nothingiswasted.com/everythingchanges Do you need resources to help guide you in your specific pain point? Our Curated Pathways are designed to give you everything we offer in one place when it comes to your unique journey: https://www.nothingiswasted.com/pathways Life is difficult and pain is real. Join Davey as he helps you move through your pain and on to a life of purpose and meaning in a LIVE Zoom call. https://www.nothingiswasted.com/starthere

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0:00.0	Hi friend I don't know what brought you to nothing as wasted ministries but if I had to guess it was probably your own pain story in fact maybe you recently found us in the work that we do because you're going through some kind of
0:14.4	trauma, tragedy, or major life transition. Maybe you've recently gotten the phone
0:19.3	call with the unexpected diagnosis or you've lost a loved one or you found out about your spouse's sexual betrayal.
0:26.0	Maybe your grief is extremely fresh and right now you're wondering what do I even do?
0:32.0	How do I move forward? What what am I supposed to do right now
0:36.1	Listen I've been there and we know how the early days after loss or receiving the diagnosis or getting that unexpected news or
0:44.8	learning about a betray or whatever it is you're facing we know that life in those
0:48.0	moments can be extremely disorienting and difficult. It's hard to think about anything but how to survive from minute to minute in this, you know, I almost hate this term, but in this new normal.
1:02.0	We want to help you as you enter into life that
1:06.4	especially when it takes this different direction than what you've ever
1:10.5	imagined now we have a course called Pain to Purpose Course,
1:14.4	and we know that it's so helpful for those
1:15.9	who have had a handful of months to already process their pain,
1:19.2	but we knew we needed something for those
1:21.4	who have just found themselves in the middle of it,
1:24.4	like their lives have just flipped upside down.
1:27.2	And so we've created this new four session mini course called When Everything Changes, navigating the Early Days of Lost, Trauma, and Tragedy.
1:36.2	Now in this course you'll hear from me as well as our Nothing Is Wasted podcast co-hosts,
1:40.2	Aubrey Sampson, and our community director Amy Sylvester and we're going to be
1:44.4	talking about practical ways to support yourself during this season. We'll talk about
1:49.4	how to lament and what you need in order to take the first steps forward after your life is forever changed.
1:56.0	Now the sessions are intentionally concise because when you're processing trauma or grief it can be very difficult to engage with a whole lot of
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