Habits of Hope: Cultivating a Deeper Life with God
Are you looking to build rhythms of daily life that strengthen your faith and bring you closer to God? Habits of Hope is your guide for developing spiritual habits that nurture your soul and deepen your connection with God. Hosted by Ginger Harrington and co-host Larissa Traquair, each episode explores how small, consistent choices can lead to significant spiritual growth.
At Habits of Hope, we believe that cultivating a life rooted in hope comes through daily rhythms that help us trust God’s faithfulness, even in difficult seasons. Whether you're looking to refresh your spiritual practices or find encouragement during hard times, this podcast provides practical tools and biblical wisdom to help you grow spiritually.
In this podcast, we will help you:
- Feel more connected to God in your daily life through practical spiritual habits.
- Overcome stagnation in your faith by fostering consistent spiritual growth.
- Trust God’s faithfulness, even during life’s hardest moments.
- Establish and maintain daily rhythms of prayer, reflection, and scripture.
- Navigate life's stresses with spiritual and emotional encouragement rooted in faith.
- Reconnect with God when you feel spiritually empty or distant.
- Build a consistent and meaningful prayer life with simple, actionable strategies.
- Overcome doubt and find renewed hope in your faith journey.
- Release unhealthy comparisons and trust in God’s unique timing for your life.
- Discover purpose and meaning in everyday life through small, intentional habits of faith.
Each episode offers inspiring conversations, stories, and actionable steps to help you live a life of faith, hope, and purpose. If you're ready to build habits that foster a deeper connection with God, then you're in the right place. Let’s get started—because a deeper life begins now.
Habits of Hope: Cultivating a Deeper Life with God
70. How to Stop Letting Your Work Define Your Worth (A Biblical Perspective)
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Have you ever noticed how easily your work can start defining your worth?
At some point many of us begin asking our work to answer identity questions it was never meant to answer.
In this episode of the Habits of Hope Podcast, Ginger Harrington shares a message about the difference between working for your worth and working from your worth.
Originally prepared for the Texas Christian Writers Conference, this conversation explores how Scripture invites us to live in a different order:
✨ Beloved before performance
✨ Worth before work
✨ Faithfulness over results
Takeaways:
• It’s easy to let response or results determine our sense of worth.
• We often begin asking our work to answer identity questions it was never meant to answer.
• “I have to” language reveals pressure and insecurity.
• “I get to” language reflects stewardship and identity.
• Jesus’ identity was declared before His ministry began.
• Faithfulness is our responsibility; increase belongs to God.
• Releasing outcomes restores joy and freedom in our work.
• When worth is settled, excellence becomes worship.
When our worth is settled in Christ, our work becomes worship instead of striving.
Read the full article at GingerHarrington.com
📚 Mentioned in this episode
Living in Christ’s Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God — Dallas Willard
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Free download: Worth & Work: 15 Habits of Hope for Your Work
The Worth & Work Series on Habits of Hope:
- 28. Redefining Success: Trusting God with Our Work
- 29. Commit Your Work to God: How to Align Your Work to God’s Purpose
- 31. How to Build the Habit of Trusting God with Our Work
🎧 Listen now and be encouraged to write, work, and live from your worth—not for it.
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