Your behaviors don't define you, your past doesn't define you, what other people have called

you, doesn't define you. Even what you call yourself, that doesn't define you. Only the person who made you has the right to give you your label and the right to determine your significance

Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast

Today's guests are two people who were surprised by the circumstances that led

them to star in feature films. Now they work to share God's love in a bigger way

than they ever could have imagined, while remembering that their identity is found only in Christ.

Author and Speaker Priscilla Shire and actor Jeremy Ray Taylor.

First up, as the daughter of Tony Evans for decades, Priscilla Shire has seen the powerful

way God's love can be communicated through words.

She followed in her father's footsteps when she started her own ministry, talking to women and writing books that spoke to their

arts.

Today, Priscilla tells us how God can use our unique traits to bring him glory, and what she hopes

people will learn about God's kingdom from her new movie called Overcomer.

My name is Priscilla Shire with Going Beyond Ministries, and I've had the privilege of being

in ministry for about 20 years now, specifically women's ministry and it's been just

amazing to go on this adventure with the Lord. It certainly wasn't full-time ministry was not even

near the plan I had for my life. It's not what I thought I'd be doing, but here we are 20 years later in a ministry where I've had the privilege to most of the time stand on a platform and share God's word and his truths with his women and with people and then in writing the Lord

sort of opened up that opportunity via books in Bible studies and then film is

something that the Lord has brought sort of into my life as well.

Shock of all shocks.

You could have never told me that I'd be in a movie, but here we are on the third one.

And it's been such a gift to be able to be a part of telling his story on such a broad stage and use the medium of film.

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