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The Discipline of Waiting: Rachel Hayes' Story :: [Episode 99]

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StoryTellers Live

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9611 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Self-proclaimed type "AA" personality, Rachel, from Austin, Texas, shares her  journey of learning how to trust God when His plan didn't line up with hers.

Today's episode is sponsored by our partner, Neverthirst. Neverthirst is bringing clean and living water to unreached areas in Asia & Africa - visit neverthirstwater.org

To Purchase "Discover Your Story" Bible Study, visit storytellerslive.org/shop

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast where everyday people share real and personal stories of encounters with God.

0:10.3

I'm your host Robin and I am here with Katie and Lindy and today we have Rachel from Austin, Texas.

0:16.7

And this story is unique because Rachel actually is a listener of the podcast and reached out

0:21.2

wanting to share her story. And so I called her, we talked, and it just was so fitting for right now.

0:26.5

Yes, it was. You know, one of the things that a lot of you have been asking for are stories about

0:30.6

learning how to trust God in the middle of waiting for answers. I think we're all in the midst

0:35.2

of that right now. And we entitled her story called

0:38.4

Waiting on God because she talks about, you know, learning how to trust him in the midst of

0:43.6

some trials that she walked through in her life and really just trusting his plan when it didn't

0:48.2

line up with hers. Yes. So here is Rachel's story. Before we get to Rachel's story, Lindy has a story for us from Neverthirst.

0:58.0

Katie and Robin, I want to introduce you to Shari.

1:01.2

She is a mother living in Nepal trying to take care of her family, just like all of us.

1:05.7

And every single day, Shari used to have to wake up, grab her water jar, and walk two hours to collect water.

1:12.5

Not just an average walk, but through the jungle, fearing wild elephants and other animals.

1:18.5

And sometimes she would have to do this task four or five times in a day.

1:22.8

Wow. That's amazing.

1:23.9

But Never Thirst partnered with her community and piped in a water tap near her house.

1:28.6

And now Shari says that her life is more comfortable and now it only takes her two to three

1:33.4

minutes to get water. You can see Shari's picture on our social media today. And we want y'all

1:38.2

to partner with us and help women like Shari with the gift of clean water. Visit neverthirst.org backslash storytellers to join

1:46.7

Neverthirsts giving community. Well, hi, my name is Rachel. I am a native Texan who moved to Boise,

1:55.3

Idaho when I was about four years old. I was raised in church, but I didn't necessarily grasp the idea of having a relationship

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