Is the gospel affecting your thoughts day by day? Here's Carrie Gall. Before we can speak the good news of the gospel to others,

we have to begin by speaking it to ourselves, daily, continually, because our lives, and you know this, our lives are tremendously impacted

by the conversation that goes on between our ears every day.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, June 10th, 2014.

Music Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Well, I want to welcome back to Revive Our Hearts today, our guest teacher for this week,

who is my longtime friend and partner in ministry, Carrie Gall.

Carrie, it's so great to serve with you in this

ministry. God's used you in many ways. You've taught Bible studies in our community, in our ministry,

and you're part of our biblical correspondence department. Carrie's also a wife. She's a mom.

She's a grandmom. And you're loving hearing her heart this week as we're

talking about this whole matter of what it means to be approved, something we're always seeking for

and something as Carrie is sharing with us this week that we have and can find in Christ,

what it means to be approved. So open your ears, open your hearts, open your

Bibles, and let's dig in and ask the Lord to speak to our hearts today about what it means to be

approved in Christ. Carrie, thank you so much. Thank you, Nancy. So if you have your Bibles,

open with me to First Thessalonians 2 and verse 4. We're going to dig into that

passage a little bit more today. We began in our program yesterday by using the visual

illustration of an empty cup to symbolize the way that we as women often seek to have our

need for approval met through the relationships that

we have, whether it's with our friends, our spouses, our children, our coworkers, sometimes

even distant acquaintances like those on Facebook and Twitter, we're always asking, am I approved,

am I worthy, will you approve me? We saw in First Thessalonians 2-4 that those of us who have placed our faith in Jesus Christ have already received the divine stamp of approval engraved across our lives, not because of our own works, what we have or have not done, but because of Jesus works,

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