Hey, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the podcast. Today is Wednesday, February 27th.

Today is Mom Strong International Day here at the podcast. It's the day when I take you guys through the Bible study

that we've been doing. For the entire month of February, we have focused on God's love, his incredible love,

how the world has really stolen the love that God has and kind of warped it and twisted it and regurgitated it and gave it back to us.

And today, we're going to talk about how God's love looks like in the middle of discipline. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

So you guys, wow. Thank you so much for continuing to leave reviews for this podcast. I told you before that sometimes when we're in here recording,

it can feel like we're just, you know, it's just me and the wall and the microphone and it's just such a blessing to be able to hear from you,

to hear that this podcast is affecting you and actually having an impact in your life. That's why we're doing this.

That's why Mom Strong International exists. We are really hoping that you will get off the bench and onto the battlefield.

And moreover than that, that you will begin to prioritize the word of God in your life because you realize that you can't pass on what you don't possess.

And so as we study through this idea of love and how God has seen it and how God has seen fit to show us his love in sending Jesus,

we're going to continue to point you back to the word of God so that you can find yourself in a place where you can pass on the legacy of knowing that you can pass on.

The legacy of knowing and studying the word of God to your children and to a generation that is in desperate need of having someone say, hey, this is the way walk in it. Follow me as I follow Christ. It's so important for us to be able to do that.

I thought it'd be fun. I like to at least read one of your reviews and they are left all the time now. We just so appreciate it.

But I love this last one that was sent recently. This is from Jackie. She said, stop what you're doing immediately and subscribe to this podcast. So Jackie, thanks for that.

She said a few months ago, I stumbled upon the Heidi St. John podcast and have been continually blessed by it ever since as a mom to four children ages three to 18.

I find every episode touches on a need that I have as a mom. Heidi's sound in her biblical teaching and advice and she speaks directly to hot button topics that every post modern mother needs while working in the evening and mentoring and older teen from my church, we listen together and often continue to discuss the topic as our shift presses on.

We have grown to love quoting Heidi's go to phrases off the bench, right? And I have since purchased her book becoming mom strong. So thank you so much Jackie for leaving that review.

You guys can leave reviews at the podcast by simply clicking on the gear shift next to my name. You can either leave a rating or writer of you, either one of them incredibly helpful. Thank you so much for doing that.

So we are in the last week of our study on love God's unconditional unsurpassable love that he has for us. It's a love for the ages and that I hope that you guys have loved it and I hope that it is blessing and encouraging you if you're not taking advantage of the kids strong section of the mom strong international Bible study I want to encourage you to do that also you guys you can become a leader.

Did you know that you can become a leader with mom strong international if you go to mom strong international dot com just click on the leadership link and we will have you thought an application there to become a leader and then you can host your own mom strong international study group in your house.

You can do it at your church. You can get a church license if you're a women's ministry leader. It really is our hope to see women in the word of God every day so they are able to grow and mature in the word of God that really should be our goal right we want to prioritize the study of God's word so that we can learn it.

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