Victoria Duerstock is a wife, mom, speaker, and author who is passionate about home design, hospitality, and God’s Word. She comes on the show today to share her passion for inspiring women with how they can partner with God to cultivate peace in their homes.
What We Chat about in Today’s Episode:
~Victoria’s new book, Guard Your Heart & Home: Pursuing Peace in Your Living Space, what led her to write it, and what readers can expect
~Using our homes missionally
~Marriage and motherhood as huge sanctifiers for us
~The opportunity godly homes have right now to shine forth the difference Christ makes in a world that is in disarray and in desperate need of peace
~Starting points for cultivating peace in our homes
~Prayer as the most important starting point, even when it doesn’t make us feel like we’re accomplishing anything
~Why merely decluttering won’t bring the peace to our homes that we hope or think it will; it has to all start with heart-change and the Lord bringing peace to our hearts
~Peace as a fruit of the Spirit; making the choice to walk by the Spirit in peace
~The problem with trying to appear perfect in our homes
~Refusing to allow our stuff to become more important than my people
~How the idol of instant gratification steals our peace
~The spiritual side of home decorating
~Practical tips for home decorating in a peaceful way
~Changing up how a room is used
~How to be able to declutter and yet also be able to honor items we are sentimental about
~And more!
Resources Mentioned
Offer for a free audiobook and 30 day trial membership from Audible: www.audibletrial.com/HomeandHearth
Previous episode with Victoria
Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork by Dan Sullivan
Inspiring Quotes to Remember:
“The world around us is in disarray and in desperate need of peace. Godly homes right now then have the opportunity to shine forth the difference Christ makes, and the peace He can bring.”
“If we are not being diligent and disciplined with time spent reading and studying the Word, then we are not growing closer to the Lord and consequently are not growing closer to our spouse as we could.”
“In the moment, sometimes it feels better to go and do something instead of praying, because we wrongly think prayer isn’t an action. But it is. And it’s the most important starting action for whatever it is we’re facing.”
“Prayer should be such a priority for us. We musn’t believe the lie that it isn’ t an action. When we have a really big view of God and a smaller, more accurate view of ourselves, we’ll begin to realize just how much we have to depend on Him and not ourselves.”
“Everything that happens in our homes is an outflowing of what’s in our hearts. We have to focus on the heart of the matter.”
“We can’t be truly seen and known in our homes and with our families if we are going around trying to appear perfect,”
“If we would purpose more to think about how we would feel in the longtime if we did something for instant gratification instead of just focusing on how we feel in the here and now, we would have so much more peace.”
“A good, strong marriage requires hard work.”
“There’s so much growth that can happen in a marriage when we allow the other person to be who they are and who God created them to be.”
Where You Can Find Victoria Online:
Website – Victoria Duerstock, End Game Press
Instagram – @vduerstock
Facebook – Victoria Duerstock, Author
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