Where's your trust? Is it in something that will disappoint you? Here's Mary Cassian.

The message of the Bible is that if we put our confidence in the Lord, we will never be let down.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Adorned.

For October 27, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

Do you need to be more confident?

I think a lot of women feel like they have room to grow in that area.

The tension is there's a kind of confidence that you and I don't want to be

characterized by. You see, conventional wisdom would say we need more self-love, self-affirmation,

self-assurance, assertiveness in order to become confident women. But is self-centered confidence really the solution? Our guest today is here to

tell us there's a better way. And God's word, as always, shows us that better way. Mary Cassian is no

stranger to revive our hearts. In fact, she's been a dear personal friend and a significant influence in my life

since before Reviver Hearts began. Mary is a wife. She's a mom. She's a grandma. She's an author

and a speaker. She and I worked together on two books that are part of the core curriculum of

Revive Our Hearts, True Woman 101 and True Woman 201. And a couple of years ago,

she talked with us about her book, The Right Kind of Strong, and now Mary's newest book is titled

The Right Kind of Confident. Recently, Dana spoke with Mary about what true confidence looks like.

Let's listen. Mary, oh, I think it's

just really interesting that we're talking about confidence today because just three days ago,

I called you. And I didn't call you as a coworker, as a co-laborer. I called you as a friend.

In fact, I called on behalf of a number of friends who have been really concerned about you

because you've been going through some really tough stuff. The kinds of things that would

leave a lot of women quite wrecked and emotional. But when I got off the phone with you, I actually

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