The Moment Everything Changes: Hearing God in Poverty

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Moment Everything Changes: Hearing God in Poverty In this episode, Rachael Groll sits down with Amor Chung, who shares her powerful story of growing up in poverty in the Philippines and how God used the Compassion program to change her life. Amor opens up about the challenges her family faced and the moment everything shifted when she was sponsored through Compassion: receiving not only food and education but also hope and the assurance that she was deeply loved. Now an adult, Amor sponsors children herself, continuing the cycle of grace she once received. This conversation is a reminder that when we invest in a child’s life, we’re not just meeting physical needs: we’re planting seeds of faith, purpose, and lasting hope. ☆To Learn More About Sponsoring a Child, check out Compassion International here: ➤ ⁠Sponsor a Child⁠ ☆Go Deeper and Learn to Hear God’s Voice: Knowing Jesus Course ☆ This podcast devotional is a companion to Knowing God’s Voice, Grab Your Printed Copy Here! ☆To Learn More About Sponsoring a Child, check out Compassion International here: ➤ Sponsor a Child ☆Go on a trip with Rachael: Bible Study Live ☆Have a question for Rachael? Ask it here: Ask Rachael a Question ☆If you would like to give to Hearing Jesus and financially support the podcast, you can do so here ! ➤ Give Here ☆Facebook ➤https://www.facebook.com/SheHears.org/ ☆Instagram ➤ https://www.instagram.com/rachael.d.groll/ ☆Website ➤ Hearing Jesus Takeaways Amor grew up in a humble home in the Philippines. Her childhood was marked by poverty and hardship. The Compassion program provided her with food and education. She felt valued and loved at the Compassion Center. Amor's sponsors played a crucial role in her life. She learned about God's love through the Compassion program. Her family initially struggled to understand her faith journey. Amor now sponsors children through Compassion. Sponsorship creates a ripple effect in communities. Amor emphasizes the importance of sharing hope. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Amor's Journey 05:27 Childhood in Poverty 11:17 The Impact of Compassion Program 14:40 The Role of Sponsorship 19:29 Becoming a Sponsor and Giving Back 20:17 The Ripple Effect of Sponsorship 23:31 Closing Prayer and Call to Action ☆Get Ad-Free Episodes, Bonus Content, and more here: patreon.com/HearingJesusBible, Bible Study, Devotions, Devotional, Daily Devotional, Prayer, Jesus, God, Holy Spirit, Spiritual Growth, hearing God’s voice, Hearing God, Hearing Jesus, Praying, Pray, God’s Word, Scriptures Hearing Jesus, Knowing God's Voice, Female Prophets, Bible Study, Spiritual Growth, Christian Podcast, Faith Journey, Obedience, God's Communication, Personal Reflections, prophecy, faith, surrender, spiritual gifts, women's ministry, Christian podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey friends, I'm Rachel Grohl and I'm your host for the Hearing Jesus podcast, where I help you to know God and to make him known.
0:11.5	Well, friends, welcome back to the Hearing Jesus podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Grohl. And today I have my new friend Amor Chung joining me on the show to talk about some things that the Lord has done in her life
0:23.1	and continues to do in her life and I'm just so thankful to have her here to chat with. So Amor,
0:27.1	thank you so much for joining me today. Good morning, Rachel. Good morning, everyone. Thank you so
0:32.0	much for having me. It's always my pleasure to talk about what God has done in my life and how good he is. Oh, me too,
0:41.3	me too. And so, I thought it would be helpful for people just to learn a little bit about you.
0:48.0	And you come from the Philippines, right? And you are now here living in the States, but a lot had to happen to get from point A to
0:57.2	point B. And so I would love for you to just to share a little bit what life was like for you
1:02.8	growing up as a child. Yes. Absolutely. So I grew up in the Philippines, in one of the islands,
1:10.7	and I grew up in a very humble home.
1:13.8	My mother was a full-time homemaker.
1:16.0	She was so loving and so nurturing and very selfless.
1:20.5	And my father, he worked long hours as a taxi driver doing everything he could to provide for us.
1:28.2	My childhood home, well, it wasn't that much.
1:32.4	We lived in a squatters area.
1:35.2	Our house was built with scrap materials that my father salvaged here and there.
1:40.2	And then it stood on top of an open, of a big open sewer. And our neighborhood was right beside a public cemetery. And that was barely maintained, if at all. And one thing that I encourage people to know about Philippines is that it's composed of more than 7,000 islands. And it's a tropical country, so it rains a lot there.
2:03.7	And when it rains, the cemetery gets flooded and the sewer water overflows. And all of those
2:11.6	dirty water would enter our house, every single house in that neighborhood. I remember fearing the rain because we cannot get out of our house if we had to.
2:25.6	And unfortunately, hearing news of deaths in our neighborhood because of sanitary issues was all too familiar for us.
2:34.4	And eventually, we moved closer to the city hoping something would happen,
2:41.0	but honestly, not much has changed apart from the address.
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