Give Your Dreams to God: Morgan Harper Nichols & Kel Mitchell
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Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We spend so much time trying to choose a path for our futures, and it’s easy to get wrapped up in what *we* want versus what *God* wants. Artist, musician, writer, and creator Morgan Harper Nichols struggled to find her purpose, her identity, and her place to belong. By pushing herself to go deeper into connection and following God’s nudges to use her artistic gifts, Morgan found hope in showing up for others, and she realized the true definition of “grace.” Actor and producer Kel Mitchell spent most of his childhood in the Nickelodeon spotlight on shows like All That and Kenan & Kel. As he suffered through mistakes in his young adulthood, Kel realized he needed to discover who he was outside of television—and that instead of leading his own way, he needed to let God show him the way forward. Kel came back to his spiritual roots, where Jesus showed him his true calling: youth ministry. Today, Kel reminds us that we can never be too busy for God, because it’s only when we hand over our time and our plans that we see our lives begin to fall into place.
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When Dream Are Far From Reach, Trust God’s Vision: Matthew Barnett and Richard Cowdrey
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Interview Quotes:
“What does it mean to serve and to love and to give to others while also simultaneously feeling like you're not enough?” - Morgan Harper Nichols
“But all along, [my purpose] was just about how I can be present to other people with what I have, with what I've been given, even though I don't feel good enough.” - Morgan Harper Nichols
“We're still being called to go deeper. We're still being called to come out on the water and to not be afraid of engaging with what's bigger than us.” - Morgan Harper Nichols
“One single word can really, really impact someone in a way that matters in their life, whether they tell you or not. Connection happens through the imperfections and it happens through the broken places.” - Morgan Harper Nichols
“I decided to say, ‘Hey, I'll figure this out on my own. I'll figure this out.’ And when I did that, it put me on the wrong path a lot of times.” - Kel Mitchell
“As Christians, there are troubles you're going to go through, because we live in a sinful world. But at that same time, you have to know that God knows the way of getting you out of trouble.” - Kel Mitchell
“It's awesome to be an ambassador of Christ and lead [kids] to the Lord as they see the light within you.” - Kel Mitchell
“I feel like you have to learn and you have to go through those setbacks so you can have an amazing and beautiful, divine comeback.” - Kel Mitchell
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| 0:00.0 | Over and over I found in my life that when I sort of surrender my plan, while simultaneously |
| 0:08.0 | saying faithful to wherever I am, that's when things start to really flourish and really unexpected in beautiful ways. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | Surrendering our plans and aspirations to try to follow God's map for our life can seem challenging. |
| 0:23.0 | Our guests this week give us some firsthand experience |
| 0:26.0 | on the joys they experienced when they handed their dreams over to God. |
| 0:30.0 | Artist and writer Morgan Harper Nichols, |
| 0:32.0 | and actor producer producer Kel Mitchell. |
| 0:35.0 | First up Morgan Harper Nichols is a woman with numerous creative outlets, singing, writing, and creating |
| 0:44.8 | inspirational pieces of art that have gone viral. |
| 0:48.2 | Morgan reflects on the mountains and valleys the broader to where she is now, including the |
| 0:51.8 | start of the project that has impacted her more than she ever |
| 0:54.4 | imagined, sharing the stories of strangers through visual art. |
| 0:58.8 | Morgan dives into how connection happens through imperfections, and that she felt God calling her to go deeper and to |
| 1:04.7 | engage in something bigger than herself. My name is Morgan Harper Nichols. I am an |
| 1:10.9 | artist and a writer. I live in Southern California. I am really inspired by people's stories and I write and I share a lot of art and I enjoy connecting with people. |
| 1:31.4 | I was a preacher skin of a pretty small church and I saw my parents from the very |
| 1:39.8 | beginning they were just very hands-on and present with people and growing up I saw a lot of my |
| 1:47.1 | parents just setting the table for people, and just inviting people |
| 1:52.8 | into our house, our home, whether they went to the church or not. |
| 1:56.9 | And it was just, I guess, very early on, |
| 2:01.0 | the concept of faith and who Jesus was was very intertwined with daily life and |
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