I couldn't shake the feeling that God just was saying,

hey, it's never the easy road, but I'm calling you to live a life of faith and

to step out of your comfort zone and to dare to take me at my word.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Maybe you've discovered yourself so

aware of your apparent weaknesses that you couldn't imagine how your weaknesses

could be strengths. Throw in things like financial difficulties and unexpected

diagnosis or loss of someone close to you, and it's easy to think that life is

nothing more than differentiates a failure. Moments like these invite us to hear

Jesus' words to Paul in 2 Corinthians 129. My grace is sufficient for you, for my

power is made perfect in weakness.

Our guests this week, no weakness in its various forms. Natalie Grant faced big

hurdles to becoming a successful award-winning Christian musician only to find

herself battling thyroid cancer in her forties. Would cancer take away her

ability to sing, and if it did, was that really what defined her?

Author and speaker Mary Morance is grateful for what her childhood and rural West

Virginia taught her and carried on the ethic passed on to her from the hard working

login community where her father made ends meet. In writing her story, Mary hopes

that others will find themselves in some of the struggles she had and that they

may also find their weakness might be their biggest strength. First up, we'll

hear from Natalie Grant. Well hi friends, I'm Natalie Grant and I am a songwriter

and a recording artist, also an author, and I have a nonprofit organization that

fights human trafficking. But when I think about who I am, I guess most is just

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