Marian Jordan Ellis from This Redeemed Life is a wife, mom, author, and Bible study teacher who is passionate about helping women grow in their Bible literacy and love for God’s Word. Our prayer is that you come away from this conversation fired up about truth and your pursuit of it.
What We Chat about in Today’s Episode:
~Marian’s radical conversion story – how Jesus found Marian in a bar following a hard childhood and her life was changed
~Marian’s Bible study on Ephesians, “For His Glory: Living as God’s Masterpiece” – what to expect in it and some of the lies she tackles throughout
~God’s tenderness mixed with truth
~Why Marian is so passionate to equip women to know Jesus more deeply and live a Spirit-filled life; how she encourages women to do this
~How our ability to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit and His leading is dependent on our actually spending time with the Lord
~What we learn about our identity in Christ from the truths of the gospel in Ephesians 1
~How understanding our identity in Christ leads to our understanding the armor of God and ability to stand firm
~How being in God’s Word leads to our loving Him more and having His opinion of us matter far more than anyone else’s
~Standing firm in the face of spiritual warfare
~Discernment as our greatest weapon; understanding that spiritual warfare will take us out if we do not know truth for ourselves
~The work of the Holy Spirit to make our speech and reactions gentle towards those with whom we disagree
~Busting away the myth of “my truth”
~And more!
Resources Mentioned
Offer for a free audiobook and 30 day trial membership from Audible: www.audibletrial.com/HomeandHearth
Marian’s Bible study on Ephesians, “For His Glory: Living as God’s Masterpiece”
The Glorious Pursuit by Gary Thomas
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Inspiring Quotes to Remember:
“God’s delays are not His denials.”
“I realized that one more hookup with a guy would not fill the hole in my heart, one more martini wasn’t going to do that, I could only find that need met in God.”
“I realized the gospel wasn’t about being perfect, it was about realizing my need for deliverance and turning to Christ.”
“God’s tenderness is mixed with truth all throughout Scripture. He is tender to us in our sin, but He does not want us to return to it. He calls us out of the darkness and into the light because He is a good God, a good Parent, who wants what is best for us.”
“God loves us, but He hates the sin that hurts us. He wouldn’t be a good God if He just looked at our sin and rebellion and said it was fine.”
“I don’t want women to just know information. I want them to know how to live this thing out. Jesus didn’t just die to give us heaven one day, He died to make it possible to live a transformed life now. And if we do not know the Lord and know His truth and have discernment, the enemy will use what we do not know against us.”
“We are given the gift of the Holy Spirit the moment we are saved. But the rest of this life is learning how to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit instead of in our flesh. Only when we admit that we can’t do things on our own will we then turn to the power of the Holy Spirit to do in us what we can’t do ourselves.”
“If I want to walk by the Spirit, every day I have to spend time with the Lord, I have to abide in Christ.”
“When we want to live the Spirit-filled life, we have to actually allow the Holy Spirit to lead us, to interrupt our days and our plans, to heed His nudges to make changes to our to-do lists for the day.”
Where You Can Find Marian Online:
Website – This Redeemed Life
Instagram – @thisredeemedlife
Facebook – This Redeemed Life
Podcast – This Redeemed Life
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