SJP #021: Lisa Lloyd: Being Faithful with the Gifts & Talents God’s Given YOU!
Jul 23, 2017
Simply Joyful Podcast — Lisa Lloyd: being Faithful with the Gifts & Talents God's Given YOU!
The need to feel appreciated and needed is quite common for most of us, but especially for moms. We pour ourselves out to our families all day. We often joke that our job is a thankless job.
Today on the podcast, we are talking to Lisa Lloyd about her new book, Chasing Famous. She talks about how it’s in our “human nature to want to be loved, affirmed, and accepted.” In other words, it’s normal. Yet, we often look for all these things in all the wrong places. Ultimately, God is the one who we should be running to for our approval. He loves us and created us to shine for His glory. He equipped each one of us to tell a story with our lives using the gifts that He’s given us — making Him “famous” in all we do. (bold that!)
I know you are going to be so encouraged by this episode. We went totally off topic from what we had planned. I think you are going to be so blessed that we did, too! We had even prayed before hand that God would lead the conversation…and He did. Get ready to be encouraged!
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Highlights from the Show:
- Lisa shares about the inspiration behind Chasing Famous. Lisa shares how it came about the anxious feelings before a audition and feeling God telling her that he wanted to make HIM famous.
- God showed me that it wasn’t just in my acting, but in my everyday life that I could make Him famous. —Lisa Lloyd
- We have to ask ourselves how can life be less about me and more about Him and therefore about other people.—Lisa Lloyd
- I wrote this book not because I have it figured out, but because God gave me a lot of material. Cause he was really working hard on me. — Lisa Lloyd
- You look in the rearview mirror of life and you say “Man, I’m glad God did that to me. (But please, let's not do that again.)” — Lisa Lloyd
- I ask Lisa to share about some rejection (since she is an actress) and how she’s learned to deal with it.
- It doesn’t really get easier, I’ve just learned that I need to trust God. — Lisa Lloyd
- I ask Lisa to go more in depth on a story from her book where she and her friend tried out for the same part in a play—her friend ultimately got the part and Lisa only got a side part.
- When we compare ourselves with others, often we’re saying to the Lord “You’ve got it all wrong.” —Lisa Lloyd
- You need to be faithful to make Him famous where you’re at right now. — Lisa Lloyd
- Lisa and I chat about how social media has brought on a whole new level of comparison and competitiveness.
- Lisa shares a way that she has found to fight the comparison and competitiveness of the social media world.
- Lisa shares her “God story”—and man is it a good one!
- Our stories are testimonies of when we allow God to move in our lives. Because Satan wants us to feel shame. —Kristi Clover
- It’s so important for the the Church (big “C”) to share the screw-up stories. There are so many christians that are struggling, and the enemy wants you to think you can or need to keep it secret. But there are broken people just like them in the Church too. What if the church was the place people ran to? What if they ran to the church because the church was safe? —Lisa Lloyd
- We as mom and dads are the picture of Jesus until our kids decide to have a relationship with him. —Kristi Clover
- Even as moms we can use our gifts to impact the kingdom, even if it doesn’t look how we thought it would look. —Kristi Clover (get more on this subject on episode 8 with Wendy Speake!)
- I ask Lisa how believers can discover their unique gifts that has been given to them and how to best use them.
- Sometimes you just have to pay attention. —Lisa Lloyd
- I have big dreams and big goals—instead of getting discouraged on how big it is, I focus on the one thing I can start today. — Kristi Clover
- I ask Lisa to share about when God asks us to do really hard things that kind of go against what we really want to do ourselves.
- Trusting that my obedience despite the sacrifice is bringing a smile to God’s face—to bring glory to him.
—Lisa Lloyd - Do you need to be accountable to someone? As sinners saved by grace, accountability is so important. As mentioned at the end of this episode, here are some great books and posts for digging into the word and growing your faith:
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