You're listening to the God Center Mom Podcast with me, Heather McFadian, and today I'm

chatting with my good friend Peggy Banks about pain that's not wasted.

And just to know that whatever your story is, you know, that God can change it, he can

transform it so that others would see his power and glory in and through your life.

So that's been a great privilege for me.

It's a great privilege to introduce women even now all over the world to see that their

life matters to God and they are just as important to him as any woman is.

We might be leading another kind of ministry.

They have a ministry and they have influence right in their own community and their own

circle of friends and family.

And so every woman is valued and has opportunities to find hope and healing in the person of Jesus

Christ.

No matter where we are, whatever pain, whatever hard thing, whatever broken place, you're

bringing today wherever you are listening.

I'm so glad you're here.

I'm so glad that you have decided to take this time to find that hope and that healing

and it can only come through Jesus and that we need that hope and that healing when we're

in the middle of pain.

I'm going through the book of James with our church.

The first chapter we're focusing in on and James tells us to consider it all joy when

we encounter trials knowing that the testing of our faith produces endurance and that

endurance will have its perfect results so that you can be perfect and complete lacking

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