Meet Cecilia McGaw, author of Fighting for Identity: The True Story of How an Undocumented Young Girl Found Genuine Belonging. Cecilia shares with us how God uprooted lies from her childhood and replaced them with His truth which changed everything.

Her book says it best on page 10: "It is only through the power of God and His Word that I have learned to battle against the lies I believed. It's because of God's grace that I am able to revisit the deep waters of my childhood memories....I've come to learn that the inadequacies I felt for most of my life have nothing to do with my worth and everything to do with not having a full understanding of who I was created to be and the goodness of my Creator."

Cecilia met Jesus in Isaiah 55:8 - 9:

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts." (KJV)

A special thank you to Lauren Burns with the Redeemed Podcast who connected me with Cecilia. You can listen to Cecilia's episode here.

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Nancy Bruscher, host of the "Ordinary People Extraordinary Things" Podcast, talks with us about the power of our stories. If the word "evangelism" scares you or even induces guilt, then this episode is for you!

Nancy is a wife, mother and business owner of Generations to Generations, where she helps people preserve their own stories.

“I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord, the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel that He has granted them according to His compassion, according to the abundance of His steadfast love.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭63‬:‭7‬ ‭(ESV)‬‬

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Special guest, Lauren Burns, host of Redeemed Podcast, shares her story of being kidnapped by her father at age 7 and taken to Jordan. In 1993, NBC made a movie about her childhood called Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story.

You will be on the edge of your seat hearing Lauren tell this action packed and emotional story of her miraculous rescue that only God could orchestrate.

"But Zion said, 'The LORD has forsaken me and the LORD has forgotten me.' Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are continually before Me." Isaiah 49:14-16

Lauren's story so beautifully illustrates God's enormous love for us all that He gave everything to rescue us.

Other Scripture references:

Daniel 10:12

Psalm 103

Colossians 1:13

John 10:27-28

Isaiah 43:13

Connect with Lauren:

Website: laurenburns.org

Instagram: @laurenburnsredeemed

Facebook: @laurenbredeemed

YouTube: @laurenburnsredeemed

Spotify: Redeemed Podcast

Apple: Redeemed Podcast

Thank you to Project of Love for the beautiful music!

Learn more at projectoflove.com.

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