I've heard often heard people say God won't put any more on you than you can handle.

If you will call on him, ask for his help, and then take his direction, he would bring you through, whatever.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast.

Today's guests remind us that no matter the challenges we face,

with God's help, we can survive life's toughest moments,

music legend Gloria Gaynor and author Jeff Huxford.

First up, it's hard to think of an anthem more iconic than Gloria Gaynor's 1978 blockbuster

hit, I Will Survive.

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

coupled with her strong faith in God fueled Gloria to keep going through both

the hard and

author and, um, well, I was Gloria Gaynor, performing artist, singer, and writer, and author, and, um,

well, I was gonna say psychologist, but that wouldn't be fair. I only went to school for it.

I've never practiced. But this is my life and I love it.

I grew up in Newark, New Jersey and my month we were poor quite poor but as I often say

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.

And my mother wasn't a really great cook and with the meager means that she had, she managed

to pull together meals that would bring in our friends and they would leave

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.

She couldn't sometimes afford even the baking powder to make the bread rise, so she would make it a flatbread and

she'd make it an animal shapes so it would be fun for us and we just sit around the

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