Katie Davis Majors is a wife, adoptive and bio mom, New York Times Bestselling Author, founder of Amazima Ministries in Uganda, and author of the brand new book, “Safe All Along: Trading Our Fears and Anxieties for God’s Unshakable Peace“. Our prayer is that you would come away from this episode feeling equipped and encouraged to walk in God’s peace no matter what chaos life brings.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT ON THIS EPISODE:
~Katie’s newest book, Safe All Along: Trading Our Fears and Anxieties for God’s Unshakable Peace, what led her to write it, and what readers can expect
~What it looks like to live in the peace Jesus promised us in an increasingly chaotic world, when we don’t feel it at first
~A powerful story from Katie’s own life that taught her that God sees the big picture we can’t see and is looking out for us in ways we can’t fathom
~How nearsighted our perspective is in this life, and how different God’s is
~Going beyond just intellectually knowing that He sees us or will keep us safe to actually walking and living as if we know it is true
~Keeping our eyes on God’s unchanging character as opposed to our life circumstances
~Understanding that surrendering every part of our lives to God’s loving hands is a safe thing to do
~Attachment parenting and what this practice shows us for our relationship with God
~A helpful practice for when you’re beginning to feel anxious
~Refusing to clean things up and fix them on our own before coming to Him with them; bringing all our raw and messy straight to Him for Him to care for them
~Understanding that if we just stuff our worries, they are all still there, they are just hidden (and why that doesn’t help!)
~The fact that we cannot see the face of God if we do not sometimes wrestle with Him over things; why it’s ok to ask God questions (as the Psalmist does repeatedly!) and how our faith is built when we do
~Remembering that God will not drop anything we give to Him, but instead can be trusted with all of it
~The faith-builder it is to be in hard places and be forced to trust God with them
~God’s presence as better in the first place than our understanding the reasons for what it happening in our lives and what is going on behind the scenes
~God Himself as the gift
~Several practical, relevant practices that equip and help us to live in God’s peace – rest, lament, being in the Word, prayer, community, service, and more
~The growing, healing power of lament (and why it is ok and good to bring our hurts and laments to God)
~How it is possible and ok for sadness and praise to exist at the same time
~And more!
RESOURCES MENTIONED
Kisses From Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
Daring to Hope: Finding God’s Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful
Safe All Along: Trading Our Fears and Anxieties for God’s Unshakable Peace
INSPIRING QUOTES TO REMEMBER:
“How often have I panicked and felt totally anxious and totally afraid, when we were actually safe all along and God knew we would be okay and safe? So often our perspective in this life is so nearsighted. But God’s view is from up above, where He can see all the ways He is and will care for us and keep us safe.”
“I didn’t want to just intellectually know that He saw me and would keep me safe, I wanted to actually walk and live as if I know it is true.”
“In order to really trust Him, I’m going to have to surrender these really big things – my hopes, my dreams, my kids, etc., – to the Lord. But doing that is safe. He is a safe place for the issues of my life.”
“So often we want to clean things up before we bring them to God, we want to do our part to take care of it as best we can before we bring them to the Lord. But I’m learning to bring all the messy and raw straight to Him first. He can and does take care of them so much better than I can.”
“So often I have spent so much mental energy worrying about something that I can’t just give it to Jesus, and that’s it. I then need to replace those things I’ve been worrying about with truth from Scripture, or else I will try to take it all back.”
“The Psalmist brings God sorrow, grief, anger, and questions. He is bringing his true heart to God and thereby trusting that God can handle it. And he was referred to as a man after God’s own heart. It is ok to bring our honest questions to God. When we do that, we are able to see His character to be tried and true again and again.”
“We can be sad and praise God at the same time. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. We can bring our laments and hurts and grief to God, have Him bandage our wounds, and then grow in our trust in Him when He does. He doesn’t want us to deal with our pain on our own and then come to Him after we’ve done what we can. He wants to be in the sadness with us.”
“If we were never in difficult situations, we would never be forced to truly trust God and thereby have our faith be built. We can look at our difficult situations, our fears, our anxieties, and our hardships as things that bring us closer to the Lord and reveal to us new facets of His character that we would not be searching for if we were not in a difficult place.”
“He Himself is the gift. When we shift our minds from focusing on a good end goal to instead more of Him, that is a gift we can have no matter what is going on and what He is doing. In His kindness, He allows things in our lives that we would never choose for ourselves that draw us closer to Him and His comfort.”
WHERE YOU CAN FIND KATIE ONLINE
Website – Katie Davis Majors
Instagram – @katieinuganda_
Ministry – Amazima Ministries
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