Overcomers Are Defined and Refined by God: Priscilla Shirer & Jeremy Ray Taylor
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Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 29 August 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In our world, it’s easy to let others define our worth. After all, we interact with people and get feedback on our performance all day long at work, at school, in communities online and off. We feel great when other people compliment us or “like” our posts—but what happens when people don’t like what we’re doing? What happens when we try to chase that affirmation from people and fail to live up to their ever-changing standards? This week, we talk with two actors in the spotlight—Priscilla Shirer and Jeremy Ray Taylor—who try diligently to remember God defines their worth, not the world, and that our days are so much better when we live for His glory and not our own.
Links, Products and Resources Mentioned:
Sarah Young, author of Jesus Calling
Jesus Calling weekly Prayer Call
Jesus Calling Interview with Tony Evans
Jesus Calling Interview with country singer Josh Turner and NASCAR driver Michael McDowell
Priscilla Shirer
Overcomer Movie (official website)
Overcomer Movie (IMDB)
Overcomer Movie trailer (YouTube)
NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner
Interview Quotes:
“Sometimes we are wishing away the very things about our uniqueness that are designed to be used for a purpose we can't even comprehend.” - Priscilla Shirer
“Each and every one of us have to decide who or what we're gonna give permission to identify us, to label us, to name us.” - Priscilla Shirer
“Who you are in God can still anchor you even when there is chaos swirling around you.” - Priscilla Shirer
“What [defines] you? Who have you given that authority to? And in the end, it better be God, because everything else is up one day and gone tomorrow. But what God says about you remains, no matter what happens in this life.” - Priscilla Shirer
“I've just enjoyed the creative outlet of doing something different, and yet the same, in the sense that it's an opportunity to still share the love of Jesus just in a different way.” - Priscilla Shirer
“That's what overcoming is. It's having a peace that literally passes your understanding. You literally don't understand how you have peace in the midst of the storm that you are suffering and struggling through.” - Priscilla Shirer
“Life on a farm definitely has prepared me for acting. It definitely built a work ethic, I’d say.” - Jeremy Ray Taylor
“I recognized [him] and I was like, “Oh gosh, that’s Harrison Ford,” and he's just a normal guy, too. That was one crazy thing that I realized is that everybody [in Hollywood] is just normal.” - Jeremy Ray Taylor
“The more we're around people [in the film industry], the more we love it, and the more we're just able to love on people.” - Tracy Taylor
“For us, staying connected to God, that’s important as a conversation. And it’s just trying to keep that focus, to keep that the center of what you do and where you are.” - Tracy Taylor
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| 0:00.0 | Your behaviors don't define you, your past doesn't define you, what other people have called |
| 0:07.0 | 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 |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast |
| 0:20.3 | Today's guests are two people who were surprised by the circumstances that led |
| 0:24.6 | them to star in feature films. Now they work to share God's love in a bigger way |
| 0:29.7 | than they ever could have imagined, while remembering that their identity is found only in Christ. |
| 0:34.8 | Author and Speaker Priscilla Shire and actor Jeremy Ray Taylor. |
| 0:39.8 | First up, as the daughter of Tony Evans for decades, Priscilla Shire has seen the powerful |
| 0:45.2 | way God's love can be communicated through words. |
| 0:48.7 | She followed in her father's footsteps when she started her own ministry, talking to women and writing books that spoke to their |
| 0:54.4 | arts. |
| 0:55.4 | Today, Priscilla tells us how God can use our unique traits to bring him glory, and what she hopes |
| 1:00.8 | people will learn about God's kingdom from her new movie called Overcomer. |
| 1:06.0 | My name is Priscilla Shire with Going Beyond Ministries, and I've had the privilege of being |
| 1:10.1 | in ministry for about 20 years now, specifically women's ministry and it's been just |
| 1:15.6 | amazing to go on this adventure with the Lord. It certainly wasn't full-time ministry was not even |
| 1:20.8 | 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 |
| 1:35.9 | sort of opened up that opportunity via books in Bible studies and then film is |
| 1:40.8 | something that the Lord has brought sort of into my life as well. |
| 1:43.8 | Shock of all shocks. |
| 1:45.2 | You could have never told me that I'd be in a movie, but here we are on the third one. |
| 1:49.9 | 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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