Finding Strength Through Trials: A Conversation with Jackie Dighans

Jackie Dighans, a beloved daughter of God Most High, brings her passion for faith and empowerment to the forefront. With a certificate in Biblical Studies and a calling as a Covenant Life Coach, she dedicates herself to guiding leaders towards triumph. She will delve into the power of uncovering limiting beliefs, empowering listeners to live victoriously from a place of true rest. Don't miss this invaluable opportunity to glean wisdom and inspiration from Jackie's profound insights, including her journey as a homeschooling mother of 10 children, and her calling to become a coach, author, and speaker. Tune in and experience the transformative power of faith in action!

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Jackie Dighans - LIVE on Marlena Teach Jesus

[00:00:00] Welcome to the Marlena Teach Jesus Podcast. Today you're in for a treat as we introduce Marlena Hollis, a prophetic Christian ministry speaker, coach, and author who is dedicated to uplifting you in your faith journey. Marlena is here to inspire you, encourage your growth, and help you connect with a community of believers who share your heart for God. Get ready to explore meaningful insights and find your place to call home in this vibrant faith community. Let's jump in. 

Marlena Hollis: Hello this morning. Thank you guys all for joining us on our Marlena Teach Jesus, podcast. If you have not subscribed to the Marlena Teach Jesus YouTube channel, I'm asking you, please do that. We are trying to just grow that audience. It reaches very globally. We know that there are people in this earth that need to hear a message of hope. So, I get the beautiful [00:01:00] opportunity to bring amazing people on here and let them share their unique giftings, callings, message, and I just give them opportunity to share.

And so between the two of us, and Holy Spirit leading the way and leading the conversation, we get to bring that to you. So if you have jumped on today, I'm going to ask you, would you please share this specific podcast because we have got a lady that is on today. She is a new friend of mine named miss Jackie Dingans, and she is going to bring a message of hope and encouragement.

I've probably butchered her last name, but everybody butchers my first name. So at least it's not your first name, Jackie, you're in the back room and can hear me. She's going to come on. I'm going to have her share a little bit more about herself. She is an author. She is a speaker. She is a lover of King Jesus, and that is what is most important in giving her life just to serve him, to love his people and to live this life on this earth to glorify the King of [00:02:00] Kings, Lord of Lords. 

So I'm going to bring her on right now and let us know where you're watching from in the comments, because that encourages us as we share today's conversation. So welcome, welcome, Jackie. How are you? 

Jackie Dighans: I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me. It's a blessing to be with.

Marlena Hollis: I'm excited to have you. And I am going to let you share a little bit about yourself, but first of all, tell us where you are actually coming from today. Where are you? Where do you live? 

Jackie Dighans: I live in southeastern Montana, so we're not the mountainous areas, we're the plains, and we do have some, I think they call them buttes, it's very colorful, rocky hills here, close to the Badlands area. We love it here. I mostly grew up here, and I'm thankful to be able to share from here today.

Marlena Hollis: We're grateful for these type of platforms that we get to meet each other on because what are [00:03:00] the chances that, you and I would have met, had it not been for the social platforms and just that networking? God uses what he uses to get us connected with the right people so that his message can be shared.

And you have a unique message, a unique story, which we will get into, but tell us just a little bit about Jackie, tell me about you. What's your family look like and brag on them a little bit. 

Jackie Dighans: Thank you. So first of all, I'm a daughter of God. I love God. My life doesn't work without him. So I'm thankful to be able to share all that he's done in my life, walked me through, helped me with, all the things. 

I have been married for 31 years now and my husband is amazing. We've been through all the ups and downs of life, like most of us have in all different ways.

But he has an entrepreneur spirit. So we've always run business. [00:04:00] And also we have 10 children and yes, they're all ours. No twins all biological. And just felt that at one point when I was overwhelmed with three kids, God said, what about a large family? And I asked my husband and we decided we would take it one at a time.

Didn't know the end number but just continued to take steps forward, and have 10 children now. It's been an amazing journey and a journey about God's goodness and his faithfulness all the way through. So I'm thankful. . Also as I homeschooled for almost 20 years and then got put in school.

So I put the last seven kids into the public school system. They've been in for the last six years. And he led me on a journey of Bible school for two years, becoming a coach, author, speaker. So I'm [00:05:00] thankful for all the opportunities. 

Marlena Hollis: You know what always stood out to me, because when we talked before and you said how God asked you even in the middle of what you felt overwhelmed and he, you were obviously having a conversation with him about being overwhelmed. Then, you turn around and he says what about a larger family? And, so he was directing you into, a real purposeful moment in yours and your husband's life, even while you were sitting overwhelmed with what you had. 

Talk about just that conversation that you had with the Lord, because I think that's relatable because I think so many of us know that God wants us to do bigger things, or there's other areas that he wants us to dig deeper into, but we can be overwhelmed even with what's in our hands, and hard to say yes to even bigger when he's asking while we're still overwhelmed. So share about that a little bit. 

Jackie Dighans: Wow. During about that same time, [00:06:00] I had a sister that was ill with cancer and she had three kids. And so I watched her as we both had three kids, she actually passed on. And I think that was part of the journey.

God, I realized that I did have life and I did get to be a parent and have a husband and a family and all the things. And so that was the first realization of what a privilege and a blessing it is to live and have life and be able to raise children. So at that, I was also seeking joy with my kids.

I remember being aware that I wasn't enjoying the parenthood journey. And so I was seeking joy. And isn't that funny that God says, how about more to find joy? And I [00:07:00] met a gal that had six kids and she was joyful and I wondered how and why. She shared with me what a blessing they were, also gave me a book or encouraged me to read a book, about a mom that had 10 children.

And so after that, it was just like, God, I just want to do it your way and just keep growing toward him and in obedience to him. Cause that's where true joy and full life comes from. When we'll just let go of our own wants and desires, our own agenda in life, and follow him. 

Marlena Hollis: That's so good. And you said you just took it one day at a time. You didn't let overwhelm rule you any longer. You just took it one day at a time. And that's a real key to just living a joyful life. I believe is to take life one day at a time, cause it's the, even Jesus instructed. He said, don't give thought [00:08:00] for tomorrow. Don't give your mind over into to getting troubled about tomorrow.

It's sufficient is tomorrow's woes. We don't want to take on those in this 24 hours. We just got 24 hours right here to deal with, to handle, and to steward the way that God would to just start with glorifying him. Share with us then a little bit about your ability to even parent 10 beautiful children.

And yet you still did things like you've written a book, and you are a speaker, and you are a guest speaker at different places. So sometimes it seems overwhelming as a mother to take on any extra task because you're Got so much already on your plate, but you still had things within you as Jackie, because we don't want to lose our identity of who we are as a person, as a daughter, and as a wife, just to all put it into the motherhood [00:09:00] category.

And so God still had things for you to do. So how did you manage to get that to happen and to say yes to writing a book and more than one book? 

Jackie Dighans: Yes. So I remember when I had six kids. I was holding the baby, the other ones were running around with little instruments. The older couple were playing them actually, and I remember tears streaming down my face. "God, I don't know how to do this. I need your help. How do I manage this family, this home, train the kids, all the things." And it's when I looked up on my wall and a friend had given me a verse a few months before, she had just got to, it wasn't even anything that she picked out for me, except for God picked it out.

And it said, it was from Psalm 127, "unless the Lord built the house, those who build it, labor in vain." [00:10:00] And I'm like, "God, I do not want to end this in vain. I don't want to do it my own way. I'm asking you to help me build this house. You build it and you show me how to walk with you." And that's when I started yielding in my own home with my own kids, asking him every step of the way, "What do I do next? How do I discipline this one? How do I manage the chores?" And really leaning in to listen and do what I heard, even if it seemed like, I don't know if this is actually God. But God honors the heart of obedience. And so I knew that as I took steps with him, he would direct me as I went, if he wanted me to do something different, I was willing to shift.

And so in that space, as I just continued to walk out, [00:11:00] hearing him, obeying him, then by the time I got up to 10 children and we went through all sorts of other trials and things in the meantime, then I'm ready to, go to the next step because I had learned being peaceful in that place of chaos and of oh no ten children and all the different needs and things so 

Marlena Hollis: You know Shirlene Grady is watching us and she's a minister that ministers with me and she caught what you said. And I did as well. She said, "willing to shift". That is so good, Jackie, because, you are, cause now, you and I've talked on and off like they're social media and we've talked face to face. And your disposition is just very calm and peaceful. And so I think your willingness to shift, it's demonstrated in peace with you.

Like you keep and maintain your peace because you are willing [00:12:00] to shift. I love that. Talk to our audience about what do you mean when you say, that when God says do, or God says move or grow or whatever, those, directions are. How you're willing to shift. What does willing to shift mean? 

Jackie Dighans: The thing that's coming to mind now is just that, what are we letting move us in life? A lot of times we let all of the circumstances, the kid's behavior, the argument with our husband, the financial struggles, we get all moved and we let go of our peace. Yeah. 

In Acts, it talks about us moving and living and having our being in him. So it's in him that I live and move and have my being.

And that's the way we can just then willingly shift when we've let go of our own agendas in life, our own will. But I want [00:13:00] it this way. Do we really want it this way? I found out I was making a mess, wanting it my way. Yeah. So just laying down our own wills and picking up is just going, "God, you lead, I'm following". However that looks, whatever he's saying, just being willing to follow him and move with him.

Marlena Hollis: Yeah. I minister a lot of about peace and you said a key word that our audience gravitates to a lot about the subject of peace. But I tell you, I think everyone needs peace because if not, Jesus wouldn't have had the conversation he did with his disciples. And he said, "my peace I give to you, not the peace as the world has given".

Yes, there is a peace that the world gives. There's world peace that we fight for, we have armies that are, looking for world peace, which we know that even will not ever happen without his peace. And so you maintain this inner [00:14:00] peace and you've discovered that is the important key to fulfilling all of the assignments that God has on your life, is maintaining that beautiful peace, that gift of peace that Jesus has given you. And again you do radiate with that, and I think even as my audience, our audience today, cause you've got folks that are watching that know you and support and love you they know that piece off of you is something that feels really special.

An atmosphere when you walk in and just sense that about you, we want to lean in and listen to you, Jackie, because you do resonate peace within our own hearts. So thank you for that. So give us a little bit more of just what God is sharing with Jackie right now. What is a word that God is just speaking to you that you feel is ripe and ready to share with an audience. 

Jackie Dighans: Yeah. Thank you. One thing on, on the side of peace is that I look at it from the Word and I don't know the reference, but [00:15:00] Google's a friend, so I'm thankful for that. But it says "he is our peace". So if we have Jesus we have peace. And so that's where we grasp a hold of the things that he says are ours, like the fruits of the spirit.

They're ours. It's just a matter of whether or not we're willing to walk in it and yield our flesh. As I was learning to be patient with my children, because I had a season where I would yell and be frustrated at every spill and every broken dish and all the things. And I realized that I had to change something or, I was going to be upset all the time with that many children and all the needs.

And it was there that God showed me," Jackie, do you love a clean house? [00:16:00] And that not having the nuisance of having to deal with a mess to clean up, more than your kids? Are you going to yell at them and show them that you love a clean house more?" And I'm like, Oh my, wait, it hit me.

I'm like, no, I don't want to show them that. And I was a mom homeschooling, so they were mostly seeing me. And so I was like, how am I being? And we can ask ourselves, how are we being in this process of life? Trying to get where we want to go, that end result. It's the process, the daily that matters more because that will get us to the end we want. If we're paying attention to the daily, how are we being each moment?[00:17:00] 

Marlena Hollis: That's good. 

Jackie Dighans: Yeah. It's amazing. Like God is so good to, to show us that truth, walking moment by moment with him.

Marlena Hollis: That's so good. And what would you say to the mom that is homeschooling? My kids are the youngest is 15 and she is homeschooling, but mine aren't young anymore. I don't have any young ones. And so sometimes I think that we don't share enough with the ones that still do have the littles at home.

Got their little people still at home and just, they're in the middle of that. And what would you say to just encourage that one, that they're homeschooling , they may be even in the homestead movement. I say there's a homestead movement going where we're getting back to, healthy foods, cause we want things good for our family. 

What would you say to our audience that has that scenario going in there, [00:18:00] feeling overwhelmed, or even that working mom who wants to homeschool and she's not able to do that. And maybe that's not where she's really called to, but she needs to have peace about that, that she's doing right by her family. What would you say to encourage them today? 

Jackie Dighans: Yeah definitely don't do things out of fear, do things , out of obedience. So when I homeschooled, I knew I was supposed to be doing that. And then when I switched them to the public school, I knew that God said to move them. So there's not a right way for everyone or a wrong way.

It's what God's saying to you, and for your family, for that time. And to always be open again, to shift when he tells us to. And if we're in a spot, what I started doing with my children is calling them a blessing. I get to be with them. I [00:19:00] get to do this. It is actually a privilege, and I think I realized that most when I saw my sister pass on and have to leave her children behind. I saw just what a privilege life is and that we get to be parents and we get to have a husband or whatever space we're in, being thankful there. 

And then just realizing we are that example for our kids of how we're being in life and it does matter those small things, but not to condemn ourselves if we haven't been walking that way. Yeah. Because there's no condemnation in Christ, but we can take steps toward it and ask our kids to forgive us.

I've said that so many times as our family dynamics have changed with kids leaving. Now [00:20:00] we just have five in the home. And I've said, Hey guys, I'm sorry. I couldn't take care of this for the last 10 years, because it was too busy, or too focusing on other things. But now we are going to start focusing on this and paying more attention to this area of our lives, and clean it up or, however it is, but just being honest with them about places we've been. 

And asking their forgiveness, even for allowing them to, if we've allowed them to be disobedient, because maybe we weren't taking care of it for a season. I've had so many times where I'm like, it was me that allowed them to do this for this. So I just tell them that I'm sorry for allowing this and I'm going to start paying more attention to it and just, being very honest and real with [00:21:00] them.

Marlena Hollis: Yeah, that is so good, Jackie. I love that. That's how we operate in our home. We operate with honesty. We are open and we are forgiving and we're not, we bite the pride. Because trust me, it's not always where we want to say, "Hey, look, I'm the one, it was me, I'm totally sorry", as a parent. Because, I think parents, we think that we've got to be perfect, but that creates a measuring stick that sets them up for a religious mindset to measure. 

And that's always going to cause them actually to sin, because you can't measure up to it. The word says you can't measure up to the laws and standards. That's why Christ came and fulfilled it. So when we demonstrate that on the earth to them that, "Hey guys, I'm in process too". I think as parents and even as people in the faith, I think that even in our churches, I think that we [00:22:00] forget that everyone is created the same way, and we are all in sanctification process. 

That we're all in growth. We're all in motion of just becoming and being who he has called us and said we are, which is his. We're just in process of walking in the fullness of who he says we are. And so I love that you're so transparent in your home and with your family.

And that's what you're demonstrating to your children. Cause I know it can be challenging when you have the age gap as well. I've got a pretty good age gap with my girls. I've got one that's, my oldest, they're seven and a half years difference between her and my youngest. And then we've got the one that's just in between, but that age difference can also be that the timeframe when I had my first child, I'm spiritually more mature and should be today than I even was then.

I'm a better [00:23:00] parent now than I was then. So what would you say to someone who just is experiencing that? They've got the older children who had one type of parenting and even they've become Christians. There's some that, they became Christians, not always raising the first ones as Christians.

And now they have this guilt sense because the other children or their last child or whatever, or even they are now Christians live in a different type of life. Talk to that. 

Jackie Dighans: Yeah, I say rejoice in it, rejoice in the growth, rejoice in the transformation and change that you've seen. Because like you said, we should be different parents from the older to the younger.

We should be. And lots of times it's looked down on, especially by the older kids. They're like, what? You're letting them do that? But we should be a different parent actually. If we're not, we might want to look at that because we [00:24:00] should be growing, and changing, and learning, and doing things different as we grow closer to the Lord. 

So I just say, rejoice and be thankful and tell your kids how thankful you are that you've learned from that. And it's not a negative thing that the older ones had a more new you parent, just a new parent. It's actually right where God wanted them and you were the right ones for that season of life and for being grown just at that time in your family.

Yeah, I just, I celebrate it. Personally, because it's beautiful to see the changes God brings to our families and to our personal lives. 

Marlena Hollis: I like that you, to say that they were born specifically when God said, they're here on purpose for that time that they came [00:25:00] into being.

And so it's not a negative thing. It is something to celebrate. To celebrate that they got to be your first born child or your second or third, whatever position that is. It's always to be a celebrated space in place because God ordained for them to be on the earth at that specific time. So that's that is such a great perspective.

You've got a very wonderful viewpoint on things. I believe that, you are a mother of many mothers, not just of your own children. I just see you really speaking into so many other mothers just mentoring them and even being so transparent to talk about, the hard, and how God helped you even in your heart.

Now I know you have some books and I imagine that's part of your story is in some of these books that you have. Share with us about your books. 

Jackie Dighans: Thank you for that opportunity. Yeah. So I have covered [00:26:00] living in triumph while going through trials and the theme verse in this one is James 1:2-4, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because it's knowing that the testing of your faith will produce patience, making you mature and complete, lacking nothing."

Will we not wallow down and wish the trials away? Will we stop doing that and choose growth in them? It doesn't mean we have to like them, but they're going to keep coming. So what if my motto became, I don't want to go through the same thing or a similar thing the same way again? I want to be stronger and go through it in a more mature way. 

And less pain, maybe because of the growth that I've had. And so I just share my story. It's not only for [00:27:00] moms, it's just the story of believing the word and walking in it. Yeah. In the growth in trials. Yeah. That one comes with a study guide covered on a deeper level that you can go deeper into the scriptures and questions that I ask in the book and do it personally or with a group. So those, yeah. 

Marlena Hollis: How can we get those specific books? 

Jackie Dighans: I love the study material. I have a website, livingcoveredbyhim.com. 

Marlena Hollis: Okay, I'm going to go put that in. So you continue to talk about your book. Livingcoveredbyhim.com. 

Jackie Dighans: Yep. Thank you. The other book is "What If You Believed?" It's 31 beliefs, or verses, to act on from the living word to bring about life change. And it's a devotional style. And I just share [00:28:00] here, I share a verse and then I ask you questions. 

I share a little testimony from my life about how God led me to apply the verse and just really help people see how they can choose to live by the word, choose to believe it over the circumstances that are happening in life. And so this book also is on my website and, is amazing for groups to go through as well. I actually take a small group of women through this now that others could join that as well. It's a once a month group.

But I wanted to share one thing if there's time. 

Marlena Hollis: Yes. 

Jackie Dighans: This cover is a picture of, God gave me a vision. When I was pregnant with my 10th baby, actually I wasn't pregnant with her at that time. My husband was out of town with work more than he was home because he had gone through a breakdown [00:29:00] depression season.

We had shut down a business that he had worked really hard in and he had just become overwhelmed and stressed and all the things. And I was on my floor because my kids were new to the public school system then, it was just a very trying time when he was gone. And my youngest was, I believe she was three, and then I had like high schoolers. I had seven of them at home. 

And I remember sitting on my floor going, God, I feel like I don't have anything physical to hold on to anymore. And it was like I had let go of the need for people to be okay, like with my dad passing, my sister and then my husband out of town. It was like God was like breaking my reliance on them, in the unhealthy way. Of course, we're thankful [00:30:00] for the people in our lives. 

Then also just, I never was much of a materialistic type person. And then especially as another glass would break or, things were constantly getting marked on or something. I just let go of, the need to be okay. Oh, if this breaks, I melt down kind of idea.

And God showed me the vision of the dock and it was like one that was waving with the water and I was on it. And, I said, God, it feels like I'm, I don't have anything physical to hold onto anymore. And he said, "that's exactly where I want you". And then he said, "I'm going to ask you to step off the dock".

And I looked around and I was like it feels like I'm going to fall where I'm at. So I may as well just obey and step off. And as I did, and this is a vision, It felt more solid [00:31:00] there as I stepped off onto the water. And it was because I was on my rock, my firm foundation, living in Christ, not trying to have one foot in the world and one on with him, as a lot of times we live in that teetering, it feels like we're wavering and unstable, but it actually is firmer as we, as believers step out of this world, as far as not relying on it in any way, not relying on the checkbooks, the financial state of our lives people, things, whatever it is, but we're just living in him, on our rock, our firm foundation. 

And so that was a beautiful picture of just wow, God, you are enough. You will hold me up. It's not all the other things. It's not having my [00:32:00] husband home. It's not how, it's not the way my kids are acting that make me okay. It's just being in Christ and living with him in this world.

Marlena Hollis: It's so good. Living in Christ. That is the position that keeps you stable, keeps you living in peace. And that's what causes you to live a life that's full. It's understanding that living in Christ and understanding that He wants you there. That's his greatest desire is that we would live and move and have our being in him.

It's what the Word says for us to do, but it's sometimes, we push back and we resist. We resist the moments when he asked us to step off of what appears to even be slightly solid. Like that dock wasn't solid. It was every wave. It had movement. It wasn't stable. It rocked you. [00:33:00] Every way, the rock is the firm and when a wave hits the rock, still firm.

Yeah. That's that is so beautiful. I really believe that those who are listening to this, Jackie, they're really gaining that sense of okay. I'm going to be okay. I've got to get my position corrected. Sometimes, we just have to do that. We have to get our position back. The word tells us that we are seated with him in heavenly places.

We are seated with Christ and in Christ, but he didn't ask us to remove out of our seat. We just sometimes stand up and begin to move our position. And he's just calling, I believe those who are listening to just take your seat, take back that seat that belongs to you. Jesus gave you that seat. It cost him a lot.

It cost him his blood, his life. Cost the [00:34:00] father, his son to be brought here to even just watching and seeing the traumatic experiences. That's a loss. And yet he gave that to us so that we can live in that in Christ space seated with him. So someone today, God is just saying to you, "Hey, have a seat. Sit with me in peace, sit with me, enjoy. Have a seat and just be my daughter, be my son, be mine. And let me father you, let me take care of you. Let me tend to what you're having a need of". 

So Jackie, you have anything, the Spirit is just leading you to say about that? 

Jackie Dighans: Yeah, I do. Yeah. Just the thought of you mentioned some of it with just have a seat and sit in peace. Sit in joy, sit in my love. We can live being [00:35:00] loved. We can live heaven to earth. That's what it is. We come to the earth as believers full. We're complete in him. 

Often we're trying to look for love in the world, and from our family, and from the things we have, but that's not filling. And that's not, as believers were to bring that fullness to the earth, to walk in it and not be searching for it from anywhere else. Just living in him and starting from a place of love, joy, peace. That's who we are. It's part of our identity. 

Marlena Hollis: It is. That's so good. I want to remind you guys that are listening, that you can get in touch with Jackie through her website.

 We'll get it in the comment section after this livingcoveredbyhim.com. So please follow this lady, get on her mailing list. [00:36:00] Begin to just hear what she has to say. If you're needing just a refreshing sense of peace of your life and just that calm as a mother, as a wife and even just as a daughter, a son, listen to this lady's story, get her information.

Let her share with you because I believe that in this world that God deposits in each of us something divine that isn't to be housed just for ourselves. It's to be shared with the body and that's living out what the word tells us to do. We are divinely connected on purpose so that we all function well, we function on purpose in the right way.

And so get connected with this lady and let what the divine deposit of the Holy Spirit inside of her speak to your life. And just, it'll get you equipped. I feel someone just needs that. They need to be equipped with the peace and that love and the knowledge of who they are in Christ. [00:37:00] Jackie can help you with that.

That's what we do. All right. So Jackie, any last thing that you want to share with our audience before we close our broadcast today? 

Jackie Dighans: Sure. Thank you. God's just saying, let's rise up in the trials. Let's let them produce that love, joy, peace in us and become mature and complete like nothing in him.

That's what they're for. We've been ones that just wish them away. Oh no, another thing's happening. And we just get discouraged in it rather than really letting it do the work in our lives that it's meant to. And so I just encourage whoever out there, we're always walking through something, whether it's losing a loved one or losing our keys, there's all different spectrum of trials.

But , you out there just choose to grow through it. That's what it's meant to do, so that we can help others and be a light in this world. 

Marlena Hollis: That's [00:38:00] right. That is so beautiful. All right, guys, if you need special prayer for peace, I just want to give a call to that right now. And I'm going to ask Jackie to even pray over those of you who need your peace restored.

You just need to get your seat back and you need just to be wrapped in his love. You just need to sense that beautiful presence that God brings when he just wraps you in his love. This is your moment to just take time, take this very second. And just say to the Lord, I surrender. I surrender right now to receive this blessing that's going to come from this prayer from our sister Jackie today. So Jackie, pray over our audience today before we close. 

Jackie Dighans: So father, thank you so much for your love. We just received that love now, father. It's part of who we are. We are loved. We are the beloved. So may we live from that place of being loved by you. [00:39:00] And father, I just pray the peace, you are our peace, and this peace that surpasses all understanding will guard each heart and each mind to everyone listening here, father. I just see a shade of peace coming down over the mind now and over the heart.

 And it's covered by you, father, by your peace, and it's who we are. It's part of our identity in Christ. We are love. We are joy. We are peace, and all the fruits of the spirit. And so I just declare that we, as believers, come to this earth in the fullness to be that light that you've called us to be, father.

And so father, I just praise you for putting that [00:40:00] covering over us. Thank you father. We declare we are yours and you are ours. In Jesus' name. 

Marlena Hollis: Thank you, Jesus. Amen. Amen. I know those who are listening just sensed what I did, Jackie, just that anointing on your life as you were just praying, that I too sensed, just that covering of peace. So thank you so much for taking your time today and hanging out with us here. I'm going to share with our audience a little bit about the things that we have coming on, but you hang out in the back room because I want to chat with you afterwards. All right. 

All right, guys, we have just had Miss Jackie on here, and I know you've received such a blessing from her. Please do get her sign up on her email list. Connect with this lady on Facebook and [00:41:00] social media. 

Can I just tell you, when you are a called woman of God or minister in any capacity, male or female, we know that God has sent us. We know that we're sent. But It is not without its challenges and we are only connected through your connecting us, through those connections that God just opens up.

He chooses to use people to bring the right connections. I actually met Jackie through one of our guests from a couple weeks ago, Miss Natasha Sloan, and that's how I actually met Jackie. And can you see how that beautiful connection was, she and I just automatically flowed in the spirit because God does divine connections on purpose so that you get to hear this specific message from that beautiful vessel.

So connect with her. Love on her. Tell her just how awesome it was to have her on here today. She's going to read those comments and I guarantee you, she'll be commenting and [00:42:00] getting back with you guys as well. 

So I'm going to jump off here. We are going to see you again next week. But I may jump on and do a live devotion this week. You never know when I'm going to pop in just. I always want to be obedient to the spirit of the Lord and just share what he's put on our hearts to share with you and to just encourage you.

So love somebody today, share the love of Jesus, share this podcast, please. And thank you. And we appreciate all that you do to keep Marlena Hollis Ministries going. There is a donation tab on marlenahollisministries.com and your gift is tax deductible and would love to be able to have you be a regular partner with this ministry. Partners has its pluses and you will get to be with us in spaces that a lot of people may not get to.

You get to become a part of our inner core team. So love to have you. And we will catch you next time. You guys be blessed [00:43:00] and we will see you next time on Marlena Teach Jesus.

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