Guest Bio: Deb Hopper spent the first 25 years of her professional career serving in the church and working in the corporate world. After 10 years as the women’s pastor at Seacoast Church, she now pursues family ministry and is founder/CEO of a non-profit organization serving single moms called SEEN Moms. Married for 30 years to Gibson Hopper, she has three daughters, two sons-in-love, and eleven grandchildren.

Show Summary: When was the last time you reached a moment where the only thing you could do was surrender your circumstance to the Lord? Deb Hopper was a single mom with two daughters when a good friend of hers sat her down and told her about a method of praying that would help her surrender her stresses to God. She knew God would answer in His way and in His timing, but she fully placed her needs into His hands. Join Deb as she shares her story with God Hears Her hosts Vivian Mabuni and Eryn Eddy Adkins during this God Hears Her conversation.

Notes and Quotes:

• “I used the [Ask, Seek, Knock] principle to reach up to God out of the pit, to trust Him, and believe He could help me in the most complex areas of my life, and the most simplest of things.” —Deb Hopper

• “I don’t think we talk about answered prayers enough. But in reality, He does move. He does answer prayers. And if we don’t talk about them in our natural, everyday life, then why would people pray?” —Deb Hopper

• “But once I took that first step, God provided the obvious answer for me.” —Deb Hopper

• “We need God’s light to shine on our answers. We need to go to His Word. We need to ask, ‘Does this line up with what God says? Is this true?’ ” —Deb Hopper

• “[God] has the plan. And if you’re faithful to do the next right thing, He doesn’t waste a minute of it.” —Deb Hopper

• “Acknowledging God in the promotion, in a child being born, in the marriage, we are acknowledging that we didn’t do it on our own. It was God with us, guiding us, and showing us.” —Deb Hopper

Verses:

• Matthew 7:7

• 1 Samuel 7:3-12

Links:

• SEEN moms: https://www.seenmoms.org/

• God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/

• God Hears Her email sign-up: https://www.godhearsher.org/sign-upsfmc

• Subscribe on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast

• Eryn’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eryneddy/

• Vivian’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vivmabuni/

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Guest Bio: Emily E. Ryan is a minister’s wife, mother of four, and junior high English teacher who first dedicated her writing life to the Lord when she was a child. She quickly learned, however, that writing about Jesus could only come after walking with Him through hard times. In this season of life—full of teens, tweens, and all the beautiful noise and chaos that comes with them—she is familiar with the struggle to find those rare, quiet moments and claim them for Jesus. She writes about this struggle in her upcoming book Guilt-Free Quiet Times, where she encourages women with practical creativity to ditch guilt and embrace grace in their devotional time with the Lord. Emily and her family live in the great state of Texas, but you can find her online at emilyeryan.com or through her Guideposts devotions in ’ Mornings with Jesus.

Show Summary: What comes to mind when you think of spending time with the Lord? Do you picture your favorite comfy chair with your Bible and a steaming mug of coffee? Or do you see yourself frantically running around the house apologizing to God while you chase a toddler who has interrupted your quiet time. . . .again. Emily E. Ryan wants to help women reimagine their quiet time with the Lord by lifting up the guilt we sometimes feel. The stigma of ‘quiet time’ doesn’t have to be silent time spent in your house with the Lord. Join hosts, Vivian Mabuni and Eryn Eddy Adkins, as they learn how to have guilt-free quiet time during this God Hears Her conversation.

Notes and Quotes:

• “God shows Himself to us whenever we ask for our spiritual eyes to be opened.” —Emily E. Ryan

• “God promised something good from this, so I’m going to start looking for that.” —Emily E. Ryan

• “God is not calling us into this perfect, little checklist quiet time, He’s calling us into a deeper, intimate relationship with Him.” —Emily E. Ryan

• The Lord has given us so much more choice into how we approach our spiritual disciples than we realize.” —Emily E. Ryan

• “Whenever we have conviction, it always leads to a solution. If the Holy Spirit convicts your heart, then He’s doing so to lead you closer.” —Emily E. Ryan

• “The highs and lows are going to happen regardless. It’s where they are leading you in the end. Are they leading you to the Lord, and is your faith growing?” —Emily E. Ryan

Verses:

• Romans 8:28

• Matthew 14:13-14

• 2 Peter 1:8

Links:

• Emily’s website

• Emily’s book

• God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/

• God Hears Her email sign-up: https://www.godhearsher.org/sign-upsfmc

• Subscribe on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast

• Eryn’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eryneddy/

• Vivian’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vivmabuni/

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Guest Bio: Dorothy Littell Greco is the author of Making Marriage Beautiful and Marriage in the Middle. Her work has appeared in Christianity Today, Missio Alliance, MomCo (formerly MOPS) , The Common Good, RELEVANT magazine, and many other publications. She also works as a professional photojournalist. Dorothy and her husband, Christopher, live near Boston, Massachusetts.

Show Summary: When we get married, we tend to have bright ideas and big dreams for what our marriage will look like within our lifetime. We quickly realize that relationships form stronger through hard work and hard times. Dorothy Littell Greco has found that habits formed at the beginning of your marriage can helpfully impact marriage in your midlife while things around you are constantly changing. Join hosts, Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy Adkins as they learn more about marriage in the middle with guest Dorothy Littell Greco during this God Hears Her conversation.

Notes and Quotes:

• “A sense in my spirit told me, ‘You need to forgive him, and there’s no guarantee that anything is going to come as a result of you forgiving him.’” —Dorothy Littell Greco

• “Owning and being present is such a hard discipline to do, because oftentimes the thing we want to do is to be comforted and [it] makes us feel better about a certain circumstance.” —Dorothy Littell Greco

• “We have to be willing to invite other people into the broken places if we want to grow, and if we want to be accountable . . . we want to want real health over the appearance of health.” —Dorothy Littell Greco

• To me, sanctification is about spending the entirety of our lives figuring out how to be more and more like Jesus. And when we’re more and more like Jesus, it’s going to benefit everybody.” —Dorothy Littell Greco

• “A great question to ask each other is, ‘What do you need from me in this season?’” —Dorothy Littell Greco

Verses:

• 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

• Matthew 22:37-40

Links:

• Dorothy’s Book: https://www.dorothygreco.com/books/

• God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/

• God Hears Her email sign-up: https://www.godhearsher.org/sign-upsfmc

• Subscribe on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast

• Eryn’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eryneddy/

• Vivian’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vivmabuni/

• Dorothy’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dorothylgreco/

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