What God Really Wants | Jennie Allen and Stasi Eldredge
The Jennie Allen Podcast
Jennie Allen
4.9 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
God isn't after perfect behavior - He's after your heart.
In this conversation, Jennie is joined by bestselling author Stacy Eldredge to talk about healing, identity, and what it really means to experience the love of God. Together they unpack why so many of us struggle to believe we're truly loved, how childhood wounds shape the way we see ourselves and God, and why healing begins when we invite Him into our story.
They also discuss Stacy's new book, The Ladder of Love, exploring how we move from simply knowing about God to deeply experiencing Him, and why intimacy with Jesus is the invitation at the center of the Christian life.
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| 0:00.0 | We are called to crucify our flesh every day, but we're not called to crucify our heart. |
| 0:06.3 | Our heart is meant to come alive in the love of God and live from it. |
| 0:10.9 | Love him with it. |
| 0:11.8 | Love others. |
| 0:12.9 | Yes, our heart is critical in the kingdom. |
| 0:29.0 | Well, guys, I am so excited today to have my friend Stacey Eldridge on the podcast. |
| 0:31.4 | And I know all of you probably know her. |
| 0:37.0 | If you do not know her, I will say the best place to start, well, there's two great places. One of the places is |
| 0:40.5 | captivated. Is that right? Captivated. That's right. I was like, I don't know that that's right. |
| 0:45.5 | Well, there's a podcast captivated. So it's confusing. Okay. Thank you. Because that was the second |
| 0:50.3 | thing I was going to say. Then the second place you want to go is captivated the podcast. |
| 1:01.4 | So these two resources are so instrumental in so many people's lives, including my own. And I mean, honestly, Stacey, I feel like so many women that I minister to will just talk about |
| 1:08.5 | reading that book and how it was an absolute turning point for them. |
| 1:12.5 | I know that it's been a minute since you wrote that book, but it does just keep ministering to |
| 1:17.5 | people, doesn't it? It does. And it is, it is so beautiful, however green it is. I love it. |
| 1:23.7 | And now that I'm older, it's really fun. I just talked with this one woman who said, it really was |
| 1:27.9 | profound to me. And she's like, you know, mid-30s. I read it in middle school. I know. I think that's a |
| 1:36.6 | great time to read it because ultimately the message of the book is that we are the beloved of God, |
| 1:42.6 | that God delights in us. And I think that is such a message |
| 1:46.9 | that is missed in the church. And so, yeah, talk a little bit first just about that message |
| 1:53.3 | because it has defined so much of your ministry. I mean, I also go back and I have questions |
| 1:57.5 | about you and John because he wrote Sacred Romance. So you both were learning this together. We were. Yeah, really on a tandem trajectory. So captivating, |
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