Show Summary: What is an object in your life that you care deeply about? Maybe it’s your wedding ring or a family scrapbook filled with photos of the people you love or a shirt you wore on one of the best days of your life. How would you handle losing that special thing? Over the summer, a family barn filled with countless treasures belonging to Eryn Eddy Adkins’ family unexpectedly burned down during a storm. Join host Elisa Morgan as she asks Eryn how she’s depending on God after their devastating loss. You do not want to miss this bonus episode of the God Hears Her podcast!
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“I’m going to reveal how much this matters to me in my tears.” —Eryn Eddy Adkins
“How beautiful it is to know that there is tragedy and still go toward it. And I think that there is something to take from that when you’re in community.” —Eryn Eddy Adkins
“I needed to wrestle with those feelings right away, because I really just wanted to understand Him. I wanted to understand what plan He had for my parents and what He has for my family.” —Eryn Eddy Adkins
“I am so resolved in knowing that the Lord is fully in every detail.” —Eryn Eddy Adkins
“When tragedy strikes, God asks us to be faithful, to trust Him. To not look like some cut out version of Christianity that we’ve made up, but to simply look for Him.” —Elisa Morgan
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Guest Bio: Adrienne “Adie” Camp is a South African singer, author, and former lead vocalist of the Christian rock band The Benjamin Gate. After moving to the U.S., she released two solo albums and co-authored In Unison with her husband and fellow musician, Jeremy Camp. Married since 2003, they share a passion for family and encouraging others. Adrienne is also the author of the children’s book “Even Me” and the Bible study “As for Me: Life Through the Lens of the Psalms”, published through Lifeway. A homeschool mom and mother of three incredible kids—Bella, Arie, and Egan—she is currently working on her master’s degree in Biblical Studies and Theology from Denver Seminary. She has a deep heart for seeing the love of Jesus reach the nations, and continues to inspire through her multifaceted career, blending artistry, authorship, and ministry.
Show Summary: When was the last time you cried out to God or thanked Him for something good in your life? Adrienne Camp found that the Psalms set an example for talking to God during every moment of our lives. Join host Vivian Mabuni as she explores life through the Psalms with Adrienne Camp during this God Hears Her conversation.
Notes and Quotes:
“No matter what is going on around me, I am going to set my heart to seek the Lord.” —Adrienne Camp
“In our culture, there are so many opinions and so many polarizing things, but I think the heart of it is that we can’t lose sight of who Jesus is and who He has called us to be as a church.” —Adrienne Camp
“I think God wants us to cry out to Him. He wants us to feel the brokenness because it allows us to long for the real thing, and that’s Him.” —Adrienne Camp
“If you think about it, a lament is actually a cry of faith because it’s a call of asking God to show His character strong. In a sense, it’s a declaration of faith that says, “I know who you are. I know what You can provide for me so provide it for me! Why are you delaying?” It’s a declaration of faith for God and His character.” —Adrienne Camp
“When we honestly and genuinely engage God with what we’re really feeling, God meets us. And it doesn’t necessarily mean that our circumstances change, but the Spirit carries us and God meets us in those places.” —Adrienne Camp
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Guest Bio: As an atheist transformed by the Word of God, Mariel Davenport knows the power of seeking God through Scripture. She is passionate about equipping ladies of all ages to tend their souls with the Word through her TEND method. As a trained Bible teacher with Precepts Ministries and Community Bible Study and a mentor for Florish Writers and Hope Writers, Mariel currently has a Bible study contract with Our Daily Bread Publishers. Married for over 25 years to her college sweetheart, and a retired homeschool mom of two grown sons, Mariel enjoys salsa from her garden as she pursues the Gardener who tends her soul.
Show Summary: What has been your experience in your personal Bible study time? Do you often follow a study or just open your Bible? Soon after she gave her life to Christ, Mariel Davenport found herself focusing on Bible studies more than the actual Word of God. As she turned her attention back to Scripture and spent time in her salsa garden, she developed a method of Bible study called the TEND method, based on her gardening habits. Join hosts Elisa Morgan and Vivian Mabuni as they learn Mariel’s testimony and the TEND method during this insightful God Hears Her conversation.
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“I was tending to my salsa garden that summer, and I really felt like the Lord was reminding me that is how He tends to me. It's just little by little by little. It can just be slow and methodical and intentional.” —Mariel Davenport
“If we can lean in and look at just a few verses at a time and ask ‘what is this teaching about God?’ it is amazing how He [the Holy Spirit] will illuminate that to us.” —Mariel Davenport
“We serve a triune God. He Himself is community, and He created us for community.” —Mariel Davenport
“God is pursuing the heart of every single one of us if we would just come to Him. Even in my skepticism, anger, and pride, God was still willing to reveal Himself to me when I got into His Word. He saw my need and met me right there.” —Mariel Davenport
“I really think that the more we say 'I don’t know what I’m doing,’ the more He’ll say, ‘That’s exactly where you need to be.’ Because it is in our weakness that His power is made perfect.” —Mariel Davenport
“Our need of Jesus is really the whole point.” —Mariel Davenport
“Be careful that you don’t believe the lies that you can’t understand Scripture. No matter who you are, if the Holy Spirit lives in you then you can, by the power and grace of God, understand His Word. Don’t let culture and the distractions tell you otherwise, because God is faithful to His Word and He will accomplish what He set out to do with it.” —Mariel Davenport
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Mark 13 – Jesus talking about His second coming; being on guard and awake.
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Show Summary: What do you think of when you hear someone talking about their calling or their purpose? We tend to think of calling as our specific job or the talents the Lord has blessed us with, but hosts Elisa Morgan, Eryn Eddy Adkins, and Vivian Mabuni challenge this thinking by diving into Scripture. What if the Lord has an everyday calling and purpose for each of us? Explore what this means from Mark 1:16-20 during this God Hears Her conversation.
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“Every call has two steps. There’s a call to something and there’s a call from something. First, we’re called to God and to a relationship.” —Elisa Morgan
“He came to me with a question, and it was ‘are you tired?’ And I was very tired. He knew I needed to be asked a question, not told what to do. He knew that He needed to show curiosity to me for me to open up.” —Eryn Eddy Adkins
“The only reason I think they [the disciples] could have ever responded to a role was because they were called to a relationship. It is the overwhelming presence and power of presence that called them.” —Elisa Morgan
"When you’re all in, then there’s this relationship, this intimacy with God that can’t be manufactured or bought or mustered up.” —Vivian Mabuni
“The core pieces of ‘a call’ is a call to a relationship with an undeniably powerful God who wants what is good for us and a call for a role where He uniquely places us in opportunities, vocations where we can use our gifts for His good. And then to accomplish those things, we need to leave some things behind. There’s a call from certain things.” —Elisa Morgan
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Matthew 11:28 (the message version)
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Guest Bio: Jess Connolly is a woman who wants to leave her generation more in awe of God than she found it. She is passionate about family, God's Word, and seeing women take their place in the Kingdom. She's an author, a church leader, and a coach. Her books include You Are the Girl for the Job, Breaking Free from Body Shame, and her newest release, Tired of Being Tired. Jess is the founder of Go + Tell Gals and helped start She Reads Truth. She and her husband, Nick, planted Bright City Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where they live with their four children.
Show Summary: It can be easy to struggle with body image, feeling like we’re not enough, or feeling exhausted by our day-to-day life. Jess Connolly wants to recharge you and share how to shake off the shame! Join hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy Adkins as they learn how to break free from shame during this God Hears Her conversation.
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“I had this really strong understanding early on that the Gospel is the best thing about me. That people that had tidier lives still needed God, that the messy parts of my life did not disqualify me from His love, from ministry, from calling, from any of those things.” —Jess Connolly
“I’m thankful for the victory and the vision that pain afforded me.” —Jess Connolly
“If John says, ‘if the Son has set you free, you are free indeed,’ how much of that do I get to experience here on earth? How much of that do I get to experience as it pertains to my body?” —Jess Connolly
“If You created our bodies as good, do we spend the rest of our lives trying to make them good, or can we spend the rest of our lives agreeing that they’re good? If so, what would that look like? What would it look like to stop trying to make my body good and instead just come into alignment with the truth that it already is? That’s what breaking body shame is about for me.” —Jess Connolly
“For many of us, we don’t know where we end and where He begins. We don’t know what we’re responsible for and what He’s responsible for. We’ve somehow bought this lie that we graduate from needing Him—but I don’t want to get over that. I still want to be a girl that acknowledges that I need God.” —Jess Connolly
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John 20:11-18 – Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene
Luke 8:2 – Jesus healing Mary Magdalene
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Show Summary: How long have you been listening to the God Hears Her podcast? Today, we are so excited to celebrate 200 episodes with you! Join producers Jade Gustman and Mary Jo Clark as they talk to hosts Elisa Morgan, Eryn Eddy Adkins, and Vivian Mabuni about what it’s like to work on God Hears Her and how they all came to be working on the podcast. You don’t want to miss this fun and special God Hears Her conversation!
Notes and Quotes:
“Especially as a woman, when He invites you through a door of opportunity to lead, you go through it. But you keep your foot in the door for the next woman behind you.” —Elisa Morgan
“We’ve had a lot of identity conversations on this show, which have just been an absolute blessing for me because it reminds me to recenter myself with who’s defining me, and that’s God. It's not my job, it's not my body, it's not my children, it’s not my status of being single or married.” —Mary Jo Clark
“Faith builds faith. When I’m listening to these stories of faith, it has built mine.” —Eryn Eddy Adkins
“God knows. He sees. He hears. We say it all the time in the podcast, but it’s true! We belong to Him. None of our thumbprints are the same. None of our stories are the same. What an honor to be able to have that moment to hear these stories and to recognize God at work. God is a 360-degree God. He shows Himself faithful. It [these stories] helps me to build a framework for when life gets challenging.” —Vivian Mabuni
“The Lord is not going to abandon me. The Lord has put me here—specifically here—for a reason. I will grow and I will change and I will heal, and it will be a constant journey, but knowing that the Lord is still hearing me—He’s always here, and He’s always leading us.” —Jade Gustman
“My spiritual growth has been impacted by the permission I have been given through these women’s stories.” —Mary Jo Clark
“Even if I still feel unqualified at the end, God brought me through something that was an opportunity to grow and to build muscles. Just because you’re not qualified doesn’t mean that God isn’t calling you.” —Mary Jo Clark
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Guest Bio: Rachel Britton is a British-born author, speaker, and blogger. Her passion is to help women become comfortable and confident in their conversation with God. Rachel has lived in the United States since 1995. Her career began in newspaper and magazine publishing in London. She worked for BBC Worldwide before moving to the USA. Rachel is a contributing author in a number of traditionally published books, Guidepost publications, and online material with Bible Study Tools. Her most recent book, “Pray Naturally,” released January 7, 2025, with Our Daily Bread Publishing. Rachel is the creator and writer of an Amazon Alexa skill app—“Alexa, say a prayer”—which receives approximately 1,500 requests per day. Rachel holds a master’s in religion from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She is Director of reNEW ~ spiritual retreat for writers and speakers held annually in the northeast which she operates through her nonprofit organization, Rachel Britton Ministries. Rachel is married with three young adult children spread over too many time zones. She loves to escape to the mountains of Colorado to write, hike, and ski. She blogs on prayer regularly at her online home, rachelbritton.com.
Show Summary: When you’re facing a big challenge or transition in your life, is it hard to pray? Often, we forget about God in the stress and anxiety of whatever life throws at us, but He is right there waiting for you to talk to Him. Rachel Britton felt hopeless when she and her husband moved to the United States from Britain. As she faced the biggest transition of her life, she remembered God and cried out to Him. Now, Rachel encourages women to pray naturally with God through whatever they face. Join hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy Adkins as they learn how to pray naturally with Rachel during this God Hears Her conversation.
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“I realized that God had taken me from all the things that distracted me from Him. He moved me across the Atlantic, and it was like He stood in front of me and said, ‘Rachel, would you now take notice of me?’ I didn’t see it as punishment; I saw it as love. Love that He cared so much about me that He would take me away from the things that kept me from Him.” —Rachel Britton
“God knows what is going on in our minds and our hearts, and He honors that and He hears and He helps us. In those times spent with Him, that's when we grow in our faith, and He grows us so that those fears start to get less.” —Rachel Britton
“He knows what we’re thinking anyhow. He knows what's in our hearts anyhow, so we can bring it to Him, however it sounds.” —Rachel Britton
“We have to hold onto those times when God has come through for us. If He’s done it before, He’ll do it again.” —Rachel Britton
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Exodus 2 - Moses being hidden as a baby
Joshua 2 – Rahab hiding the spies
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Guest Bio: Dawn Mann Sanders (MDiv, Bethel Seminary) is an associate minister at First Baptist Church of Glenarden (FBCG), where she serves as the director of the sermon-based life groups ministry. Her passion is expository teaching and sharing the wonderful insights God has shown her in His Word. She does this through writing weekly discussion guides for life groups as well as teaching several in-depth Bible studies. Dawn has written and taught extensively on overcoming adversity and creating a new life, both at FBCG and on her personal blog.
Show Summary: When was the last time you faced loss? We will all, unfortunately, be touched by grief at some point in our lives, and we learn that it is often an ebb and flow—grief is not linear no matter how much healing you’ve done. After several miscarriages and then the sudden and unexpectant loss of her husband, Dawn Mann Sanders got to know grief well. In her suffering, Dawn experienced intense anger towards God as she wondered, What now, Lord? Join hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy Adkins as they hear Dawn’s journey of finding herself secure in God’s care after facing so much grief.
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“God, how do I know that I’m Christian when I am this angry? And He told me, ‘You know I’m going to heal you.’ ” —Dawn Mann Sanders
“Its okay to be angry at God and with God. It’s okay. God can handle it—look at Job! God can handle our anger. He can handle our pride.” —Dawn Mann Sanders
“I couldn’t pray for myself, but I could pray for other people, and that helped me stay connected to God.” —Dawn Mann Sanders
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Genesis 1:1-8 – God separating light and dark, water and sky
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Guest Bio: Heather Kolb is the Associate Director of Product Development and a neuroscience professional for Pure Desire. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a Master’s degree in Criminal Behavior, and is a certified Pastoral Sex Addiction Professional (PSAP) through the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP). Heather has been trained in the Multidimensional Partner Trauma Model (MPTM) through The Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists (APSATS). She worked several years as a college professor prior to joining Pure Desire. She is also a speaker and contributing author to Digital Natives: Raising an Online Generation, Unraveled: Managing Love, Sex, and Relationships, Betrayal & Beyond, and Authentically You.
Show Summary: When was a moment in your life when you felt betrayed? Heather Kolb was in the thick of parenting young children when she found out her husband was being dishonest with her and battling sexual addictions. Scared and heartbroken, Heather stepped away from the church and managed things on her own until she found Pure Desire Ministries. Join hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy Adkins as they hear from Heather about her story and discover how we can recover from patterns of addiction during this God Hears Her conversation.
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“My life felt out of control, and yet I had been doing all the things that I had been taught to do in the church. I had been praying and reading my Bible and waiting for God to deliver me from this unbearable situation, and [what I had prayed for] happened, but it didn’t happen the way that I prayed for it to.” —Heather Kolb
“There are parts of my story that I wish I had answers to and I don’t have any closure on. But I do know that God held me through—even when making bold decisions that other people disagreed with.” —Eryn Eddy Adkins
“What are those core messages, the negative core beliefs that you have about yourself?” —Heather Kolb
“When discovery or disclosure [of a sexual addiction] happens, you are walking into the middle of a story.” —Heather Kolb
"The best way to find healing for yourself—not even for the marriage, because that decision might come later—is to find safety and stability and reclaim your identity in Christ by joining a group of other women who are walking a similar road of healing.” —Heather Kolb
“I kept silent, I quietly left the church, I didn’t tell anyone. That piece of it really left a hole in my heart for a lot of years because I couldn’t trust anyone.” —Heather Kolb
“[A safe group of women] is going to be the thing that helps you to build safety and stability, not only for your marriage but for you—as a person and as a daughter of Christ—to find who you are in the midst of this messiness.” —Heather Kolb
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Guest Bio: Ashley and her husband, Jon, discovered Pure Desire during the devastation and erosion of their marriage due to a pornography addiction. After four years of providing Pure Desire groups for men, women, and youth at their local church, restoration has taken place. As the Associate Director of Women’s Groups for Pure Desire, Ashley provides leadership and training to their Regional Group Advisors (RGAs) throughout the country. She has been instrumental in training new leaders to advance the message of hope and healing in the church and community. Ashley is a contributing author to Betrayal and Beyond; Unraveled: Managing Love, Sex, and Relationships; and Authentically You.
Show Summary: When was a time that you realized you were building an unhealthy pattern or routine? Sin can be sneaky; one choice can lead to a series of devastating habits that unravel good things in your life. Ashley Jameson felt a hurtful distance in her marriage that eventually led to her digging through her husband’s phone. As she did, she discovered that he was hiding a porn addiction. Have you experienced that? Do you have a loved one in that situation? Join hosts, Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy Adkins as they hear Ashley’s testimony and learn how to begin restoration after discovering a love or sex addiction. You don’t want to miss this powerful God Hears Her conversation.
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“It is all about Jesus, but somewhere along the line, people hurt us, so we stopped believing the truth and started believing lies. We started living through this filter that we weren’t supposed to be living through.” —Ashley Jameson
“We need to go back to the beginning to figure out what happened that made us stop believing what God says about us and understand our value in Christ.” —Ashley Jameson
“Bringing your mess to the church is something that is becoming more and more acceptable, but it still has so many challenges.” —Eryn Eddy Adkins
“I can’t expect perfection; I can’t idolize my husband. He is his own messy person with his own messy relationship with God.” —Ashley Jameson
“Give yourself space. Know that if both of you are willing to do the work, it will absolutely change. It will be radically different, and it won’t always hurt as much as it does now.” —Ashley Jameson
“When God says that He can transform you by the renewing of your mind, that is very real. You do not have to feel this way.” —Ashley Jameson
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Guest Bio: Ellen Wildman holds a BA in Bible and Ministry to Women from Moody Bible Institute and a MA in Biblical and Theological Studies from Denver Seminary. Through her writing, she seeks to create space for nuance, personality, and joy within theology, believing that Christian academia has room for everyone. Her first book, Single and Not Sorry, was an Amazon bestseller in Dating and Relationships for six weeks. Ellen lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her spicy cat, Rey.
Show Summary: When someone compliments you, how do you usually respond? During those moments, it’s easy to brush off the kind words or ignore the encouragement. When it comes to our body and appearance, we often have more negative thoughts than positive. This has led Ellen Wildman on a journey to discover how God views His creation and how that can impact the way we view our own bodies. Join host Eryn Eddy Adkins and Ellen as they talk about what the Bible says when it comes to our earthly bodies. You don’t want to miss this God Hears Her conversation about body image.
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“The biggest lie is that our body is disconnected from God and disconnected from our faith.” —Ellen Wildman
“Every part of me is made in God’s image, including my body.”—Ellen Wildman
“Sometimes God is calling me to rest in Him and it’s not by reading Scripture, but my giving me a visual of resting in His arms.” —Eryn Eddy Adkins
“I will never fully be able to accept my body outside of seeing it as God’s creation.” —Ellen Wildman
“The more I thought about being made in God’s image, the more I realized that it really affected every part of my life. It helps me to see my body as beloved and as good because it was made by God, designed by Him, and blessed by Him. It also helps me to give others more grace because I can see them as being made in God’s image.” —Ellen Wildman
“Even those who fit into the ‘ideal’ [image] are struggling with the same things.” —Ellen Wildman
“It’s not people that have created these [standards]. Maybe we perpetuate the standards a bit, but we haven’t created and maintained them. It’s really diet culture and the industry of always making us feel less-than. To me, that feels really unifying in that we can unify against them instead of against each other.” —Ellen Wildman
“The more I have worked on how I see my own body and how I feel at home in my own body has changed the way that I speak to others because I want them to feel this way too.” —Ellen Wildman
“The way we see our bodies is important, but it'’s not the most important thing.” —Ellen Wildman
“Reflecting God is an essential part of who I am. I am made in His image. His living, breathing handiwork.” —Ellen Wildman
“God created everything around me, but He only created humans in His image. We are the only thing that He created in His image. Why did He do that? What does He want me to do with that?” —Ellen Wildman
“The idea of being at home in your body helps us believe that we are worthy of self-discovery, and we are worthy of feeling at home in our bodies with God’s help.” —Ellen Wildman
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Luke 8:1-2 Mary Magdalene being healed by Jesus
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