“I Will Survive” – Believing God Can Get You Through: Gloria Gaynor and Jeff Huxford
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Our journey of faith can be a long, slow process, or one where a single life event can jar us into discovering our true relationship with God. Singer Gloria Gaynor, the voice behind one of the world’s most powerful anthems, “I Will Survive,” knows what it’s like to be moved into a space where she needed to know about “this Jesus” she had heard about all her life and if she really believed who He said He was. Former physician Jeff Huxford also knows, all too well, what it was like to have a “comfortable” faith, until a devastating accident turned his world upside down and caused him to reassess everything. Through both their stories, we’ll see how they arrived at a place of deep trust in Jesus—when everything else was going awry in their lives—and how God’s grace, mercy and faithfulness helped them survive their toughest moments.
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Interview Quotes:
“Children don't know they're poor, as long as they're loved. So we didn't know we were poor, because we were very much loved.” - Gloria Gaynor
“I just wanted somebody to hear me sing. I didn't care about accolades or applause, I just wanted somebody to hear me sing.” - Gloria Gaynor
“So I was just leaving [my problems] up to Him. I was fully assured that God would do something, I just didn't know what.” - Gloria Gaynor
“I like songs that are meaningful, that have lyrics, that touch people's hearts, and that have good melodies.” - Gloria Gaynor
“My pastor AR Bernard says, ‘If you want to be successful in life, find out what God is doing and get in on it.’” - Gloria Gaynor
“He is so faithful. It is incredible how He is always there for you.” - Gloria Gaynor
“When God has a timetable, and you run out ahead of God, you end up out there by yourself.” - Gloria Gaynor
“Hold on. Stay on the path. Keep the faith, and know that He won't let go.” - Gloria Gaynor
“My head went through the open window, slammed against the concrete pole, and I suffered a traumatic brain injury.“ Jeff Huxford
“After a brain injury, the [affected] person essentially becomes a new person. Who they were before is a thing of the past.” - Jeff Huxford
“My faith was based more on the don'ts rather than the do's.” - Jeff Huxford
“I like the way Jesus Calling seems to make you slow down, rest, and think about what Jesus is trying to tell you right now.” - Jeff Huxford
“I grew up believing that it makes you uncomfortable, don't do it. But the truth is, there's a lot of things in the Bible that God calls us to do. And it's not always going to be comfortable, because He knows that when we do things that are uncomfortable, that's when we grow, and our faith gets stronger.” - Jeff Huxford
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| 0:00.0 | I've heard often heard people say God won't put any more on you than you can handle. |
| 0:06.6 | If you will call on him, ask for his help, and then take his direction, he would bring you through, whatever. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | Today's guests remind us that no matter the challenges we face, |
| 0:22.0 | with God's help, we can survive life's toughest moments, |
| 0:26.0 | music legend Gloria Gaynor and author Jeff Huxford. |
| 0:30.5 | First up, it's hard to think of an anthem more iconic than Gloria Gaynor's 1978 blockbuster |
| 0:36.4 | hit, I Will Survive. |
| 0:38.8 | And while those lyrics have come to mean many things to fans all over the world, today we learn how the words of I will survive |
| 0:45.3 | coupled with her strong faith in God fueled Gloria to keep going through both |
| 0:49.7 | the hard and |
| 0:55.0 | author and, um, well, I was Gloria Gaynor, performing artist, singer, and writer, and author, and, um, |
| 1:00.0 | well, I was gonna say psychologist, but that wouldn't be fair. I only went to school for it. |
| 1:05.0 | I've never practiced. But this is my life and I love it. |
| 1:11.0 | I grew up in Newark, New Jersey and my month we were poor quite poor but as I often say |
| 1:18.9 | children don't know they're poor as long as they're loved so we didn't know we were |
| 1:22.4 | poor because we were very much loved. |
| 1:24.8 | And my mother wasn't a really great cook and with the meager means that she had, she managed |
| 1:31.2 | to pull together meals that would bring in our friends and they would leave |
| 1:36.0 | their fresh cuts of steak and lamb chops and chicken and all that to come and have some stew with us that my mother had done. |
| 1:48.5 | She couldn't sometimes afford even the baking powder to make the bread rise, so she would make it a flatbread and |
| 1:55.1 | she'd make it an animal shapes so it would be fun for us and we just sit around the |
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