Though We May Feel Alone, God Will Never Forsake Us: Angela Braniff and Jennifer Greenberg
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Whether or not we see Him, whether or not we feel Him, God is always near, walking beside us no matter where we go. YouTuber and mother of eight Angela Braniff shares how she checked all the boxes to gain a “perfect” life, until she realized Jesus’ life was about far more than giving her what the world considered “perfect.” By warily trusting God’s plan, and learning that she didn’t have to please others, Angela stepped out in faith and discovered a life more fulfilling than she’d ever imagined for herself. Jennifer Greenberg was a victim of abuse for twenty-one years, and in her darkest moments, she cried out to God, wanting to know if He was there. When she clearly heard God say that He would never forsake her, it all changed for Jennifer. She learned to trust God with her anger, moving forward into freedom and healing.
Links, Products and Resources Mentioned:
Jesus Calling devotional
Jesus Calling Prayer Call
Angela Braniff, founder of the popular YouTube channel This Gathered Nest
Love Without Borders book
Jennifer Greenberg
BibleGateway.com (Hebrews 13:5)
Not Forsaken book
PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
HGTV Show Restored by the Fords (Leanne & Steve Ford)
Work in Progress book
Interview Quotes:
“I just thought that if I did all the right things, then my life would turn out how everyone told me, and it would be happy and fulfilled and everything would be great.” - Angela Braniff
“I cried out to God and said, ‘I need you to give me Your eyes. Break my heart for what breaks Yours. If there's more to this life, I need You to show me.’” - Angela Braniff
“They will grow up and have questions, things I can't answer, things I can, and wounds that I, in my humanness, no matter how much I love them as their mother, cannot fix or heal. But the one thing I can do is point them to Jesus, who loves them and who can heal those wounds for them.” - Angela Braniff, on her adoptive children
“Trust that the plan He has is just so much better than any plans we could have ever made for ourselves.” - Angela Braniff
“I knew that no matter what happened, God would never forsake me. He would never abandon me.” - Jennifer Greenberg
"When you grow up with abuse, that is your normal. And so when you start to leave that environment, you're going to come to new realizations for how dysfunctional your past environment was." - Jennifer Greenberg
“I was able to come to a place in my life where I realized that the reason I was angry at my abuser was because I was angry at evil...I realized that I could trust God to be angry for me.” - Jennier Greenberg
“I realized at one point that sometimes we talk about clinging to faith in God, but really, it's God who clings to us.” - Jennifer Greenberg
”Not only do we have a Savior who redeems us from our sins, we have a Savior who can relate with us in an extraordinarily personal and profound way.” - Jennifer Greenberg
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| 0:00.0 | Be sure to join us for the weekly Jesus Calling prayer call at our regular time on Tuesdays at 5 a.m. Pacific |
| 0:06.6 | time, 7 a.m. Central and 8 a.m. Eastern. On May 7th, we'll have a special prayer call at the same times in observance of the National Day of Prayer. |
| 0:16.0 | To find out how to participate, visit Jesus Calling.com slash Prayer-Call. |
| 0:22.0 | My adoptive... slash prayer dash call. |
| 0:27.7 | My adoptive children have taught me so many things. It's really, it's been such a transformative experience for me. |
| 0:31.9 | I feel like I'm not even the same person. They've |
| 0:35.3 | opened my eyes to trauma, to poverty, but I think that their bravery is really |
| 0:41.9 | what has always stuck out to me. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. |
| 0:48.0 | Our episode this week features two women whose experiences reflect God's presence |
| 0:52.0 | in their lives |
| 0:52.7 | through times of pain, doubt, and not knowing which way to turn. |
| 0:55.7 | Youtuber and adoption advocate Angela Braniff, |
| 0:58.5 | an author, an abuse survivor, Jennifer Greenberg. |
| 1:09.0 | First up, Angela Braniff is the founder of the popular YouTube channel The Gathered Nest. As Angela was growing up, she put a lot of pressure on herself to always do the right thing, and found safety |
| 1:14.2 | and security in checking off the boxes toward achieving an idyllic life. |
| 1:18.3 | One unexpected day, she found herself looking deeply at the life she had constructed and |
| 1:22.4 | what it was all for. |
| 1:23.9 | She began to earnestly pray that God would break her heart for what breaks his. |
| 1:28.2 | Through this process, she opened up the floodgates to have God move in her life in a new and |
| 1:32.1 | surprising way, one that would bring its share of both heartache and joy. |
| 1:36.0 | I am Angela Braniff, and I'm a mom of eight children through both birth and adoption. I'm married to my high school sweetheart |
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