Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a short practical podcast that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, how-toes, and fantastic interviews for the listener on the go. I'm Lisa Whittle,

and I welcome you to just a few minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be time well spent.

Here we go, week five of six weeks to a permanent priority shift. I have to tell you, even though this is

technically a series, every week God has had something to say to me. Hope that's been the case for you

as well. Today's topic, consecration. What does it mean to be consecrated to God and why is this

an important part of the six weeks process? Well, let's talk about it.

You may not know this, but my full given name is not Lisa, it is Elizabeth. And another fun fact

is that it is Elizabeth spelled with an S rather than a Z. I've always sort of

love my name. It's a family name, and I'm so thankful I don't have a name I was mad at my mother

for which I know can sometimes be the case. When we were naming our own kids, I really thought

through every single thing I could about ways they could potentially hate their names, and I tried to

avoid that. Sometimes that happens, though. But the name Elizabeth means consecrated to God.

I have to tell you that growing up, though I liked my name, I didn't understand the meaning of my name.

So it was the one and only thing about my name that I actually didn't like.

I don't know if it was big for you at all when you were growing up, finding out sort of what your

name meant. But in our family, at least name meanings were big. And it seemed like my friends

also thought it was a big deal to find out what their names meant. And they all had names, or it seemed

like they had names that meant cool things like cheerful or beautiful or some kind of word

that a six-year-old could wrap their brain around to understand what it meant and to also know

enough to know that I wanted my name to mean something like that too.

Consecrated to God felt stuffy and formal and honestly way too intense for someone who was six

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