Owning The Person God Meant You To Be: Kierra Sheard-Kelly and Shannon Bream
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Finding our God-given purpose is just the first step—it’s truly owning who He meant us to be that makes a difference, because follow through and commitment mean everything. However, earthly obstacles can get in our way of fully believing in and accepting ourselves. That’s why we need Christ so desperately, to help us understand our own value. Gospel singer Kierra Sheard-Kelly has waded through her fair share of negativity and body-shaming, and pursuing a career in the spotlight meant that there were scores of mean comments thrown her way. Kierra decided that she’d fortify herself by rooting her heart and her feelings in the word of God, which centered her and helped her embrace how God shaped her. Now, she’s living her faith boldly and proudly, encouraging others to stand out. Fox News anchor Shannon Bream started out as a lawyer, but felt a deep pull to the world of journalism, and sacrificed endlessly to work her way in. After being told by one television exec that she wasn’t good for TV, and that she’d never make it in the business, Shannon took a good hard look at her skills and her purpose, dug her heels in, and trusted that God would open the doors needed, and eventually she was led to a series of opportunities that got her where she is today. Now, she’s sharing stories about women in the Bible who sat at God’s feet, and is highlighting how passionately Christ cared for His relationships with women—placing them in positions where they can maximize their influence.
Links, Products, and Resources Mentioned:
Past interview: Mike Weaver
Upcoming interview: Darryl Strawberry
Big, Bold, and Beautiful: Owning the Woman God Made You to Be
Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
Interview Quotes:
“I literally have gotten so many answers from my advisors. And that can be my friends, my loved ones, my sibling, anybody that I feel like God has said yes to. And they've contributed so much to the path of my life.” - Kierra Sheard-Kelly
“I live my faith, bold and proud, by owning who I am, owning what God is doing in my life.” - Kierra Sheard-Kelly
“Because you know Jesus, it doesn't make you small, it doesn't make you weird, it doesn't make you abnormal, it actually puts you in a secure place, in a sure place,” - Kierra Sheard-Kelly
“There's a glory that rests on your life, and heaven is rejoicing when you live it out and when you own it.” - Kierra Sheard-Kelly
“Even if you don't speak the same language, you can have the same heart and be a part of the body of Christ.” - Shannon Bream
“Your job cannot be your God, it can't be what drives your life.” - Shannon Bream
“Jesus treated women as equals. They were studying with Him at His feet, which was not common in those days.” - Shannon Bream
“The God who intervened in all of these situations centuries ago is the same God today. I'm struck by the fact that these frustrations and troubles and challenges the women had, many of them are very common to today. Family troubles, sibling rivalries, chronic illness, financial trouble, widowhood, infertility, betrayal.” - Shannon Bream
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| 0:00.0 | Be okay with embracing who you are, loving who you are, and making the |
| 0:04.9 | separations that are necessary for your emotional health. What about you being |
| 0:09.2 | the apple of God's eye? That is what's the important part of it all. That's why I |
| 0:15.0 | live it out loud. Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Whenever we have that |
| 0:20.4 | feeling that we don't quite belong or that others don't accept us for who we are, |
| 0:24.2 | we can look to examples from the Bible of strong people of faith who owned who |
| 0:28.7 | they were in God's eyes and went on to do great things in His name, even when |
| 0:32.6 | others may have thought they were weird or different. God offers us the |
| 0:36.3 | ultimate experience of acceptance as He assures us in Romans 8, 38, and 39. |
| 0:41.2 | Nothing can separate us from the Father's love. Our guests today have had to |
| 0:46.4 | look rejection and humiliation in the face and choose to believe that God had |
| 0:50.1 | more for them, even when other people didn't believe in them. We're talking |
| 0:53.9 | with gospel music sensation Kira Sheard Kelly and the chief legal correspondent |
| 0:58.3 | for Fox News, Shannon Breen. |
| 1:04.1 | First up, Kira Sheard Kelly is a gospel singer and songwriter, author, actress, |
| 1:09.0 | and entrepreneur. Growing up in a house where music was a second language, it wasn't |
| 1:13.4 | surprising when Kira reached her teen years that she would follow in the footsteps |
| 1:17.0 | of her famous mother and aunts who made up the legendary Clark sisters. But it |
| 1:21.1 | would take a little longer for Kira to really find out who she was, apart from |
| 1:25.0 | the hit songs, apart from what others thought of her, and truly embrace the |
| 1:28.8 | person she was uniquely meant to be. Hello, I am Kira Sheard Kelly, the author of |
| 1:35.1 | Big Bode and Beautiful, owning the woman God made you to me. |
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