Summer of Mentorship 2018 Jan Greenwood Wk 3

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🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

No matter the battleground . . . Marriage challenges. Child struggles. Health trials. Overwhelming circumstances. How do you maneuver the daily attacks that rob your joy and peace?

This week’s mentor is Jan Greenwood, author and pastor of equipping at Gateway Church in Southlake, TX. In 2009, Jan was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer. After the first battle, she experienced years of healing. Then four days shy of her 6 year recovery anniversary, cancer resurged in her body.

In this episode, Jan shares what God’s taught her about waging war. And how the football term #squareup impacted her battle strategies differently from the first and second time she fought cancer. Jan shares what it means for her to rest and let God fight for her. And encourages each of us to get a word and direction from the Lord for our unique situations.

Here are a few of my favorite quotes from this episode:

This time my mindset has had to become one of agreement and not one of opposition. And squaring up is not about being steadfast in the Word of God, but its really about can I square up in such a manner that I can look at Jesus and trust Him.

I’m not very brave and not very strong. When I’m weak there’s a strength that shines through. And when I’m afraid, He makes me courageous.

I know how to fight but I don’t know how to rest.

What we chat about:

How God spoke to Jan at the news of cancer’s resurgence.
How Jan found comfort in her son’s football word “square up”.
The difference between how Jan has fought cancer the first time and the second time.
What “square up” means for her in this season.
The story behind the hashtag Jan uses: #bravestronggirl.
How her battle with cancer impacts her mothering.
Jan’s desire to get women to war together instead against each other.
The revelation to choose life and not succumb to death.
What rest looks like in Jan’s every day.
How you need your own word and direction from God.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, oh, welcome back to the God Center Mom podcast. I'm your host, Heather McFadian. And this is the place where we remind you through mentorship, friendship and discipleship that you don't mom alone.
0:16.0	You're listening to week three of the summer of mentorship featuring mentor Jan Greenwood.
0:22.0	I have been in a season of learning about the power of my weakness and what happens if I will really trust God to be my defender.
0:35.0	What if I do nothing? What if I sit while God was surely I would die?
0:42.0	And it's been such an amazing revelation to me to understand that, you know, really I'm not all that. And that life and death isn't God's hands, not mine.
0:53.0	And that if I am weak and tired and weary, which surely I have been, God is okay if I sit down and he will war for me.
1:05.0	Jan is a mentor to many. She's spoken truth into my own life and I can't wait to share her with you. She's a speaker and author of Pastor of Equipping Over at Gateway Church in South Lake Texas.
1:16.0	And today she's vulnerable sharing her own story. A story filled with battles against cancer and God showing up faithful and giving her different strategies and different seasons.
1:28.0	I think what it delivers to us is an inspiration to seek God's face no matter what we're facing, whether it's with our kids, our marriages, and our career, and our health that he has a word for us.
1:40.0	And he has a way he wants to work in our lives if we seek him.
1:45.0	Praying with the Holy Spirit, me too, right where you are and gives you the hope that you need today. Let's get right to it. Here we go.
1:53.0	Hey, Jan, welcome to the God Center Mom podcast. Hi Heather. How are you? I'm so excited.
1:59.0	I'm too.
2:01.0	Y'all if you knew, if you knew, if you knew this conversation has been a long time coming for me, I've really been looking forward to having you on the show, Jan.
2:11.0	So sweet. Thank you so much for the invitation. And if they only knew how technically challenged I was, they'd know how patient you were. So thanks for your patience.
2:21.0	Worth it. So just thankful. I love having wise women who've walked life who seek God on the show to guide us. There's a lot of gals out there who don't have wise women in their lives.
2:38.0	So to get to share you with the world is pretty fun for me.
2:43.0	So before we get into all of the wisdom and the goodness and this is still goodness, I would love for you to introduce everyone to your family.
2:53.0	Oh, my sweet family. Yeah.
2:55.0	Well, my husband, his name is Mark and we've been married for 33 years and he's a little miracle himself. He recently had a heart attack survived and has no long term heart damage.
3:08.0	So I just have a fresh sweetness for him and thank God for saving his life. So he's my high school sweetheart. We've been together a really long time.
3:18.0	And then I have four children. My oldest is my daughter Ashley. She's going to be 26 next week. I can't believe it.
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