Fight! Episodes

In this episode, Val Brown interviews author Barbara Isaac Croce about her book 'A Journey into Hope: An Interactive Journal for Women.' They discuss the importance of processing thoughts and emotions and training the heart to look at life from a "Hope in God" perspective. Barbara shares the Biblical pattern for training the soul found in Psalm 42:11. The Psalmist acknowledges the current state of his soul--despairing and disturbed--then he directs his heart to God, to trust in Him, and to worship Him as his Help, his God to whom he can run. “What you focus on, grows. That’s the truth. If you focus on all the darkness in your life, that’s all your eyes will see—because we’re trained. This is how God made us: He made us to become what we look at. If you look at God the whole time and His goodness and His character, that’s what will grow in your life. And that’s a matter of perspective. And so we train ourselves; we train our hearts to look a certain way. There’s no magic…Hope is …

Do you have an impossible circumstance in your life? I do. Lift up your eyes to God and see your circumstances become small in His presence. That's what happens! Seeing Him creates a sense of safety and a knowing that we're welcome to pour out our hearts before Him. Before Him, we are positioned for His miraculous to come to us; the God who sees us and hears us longs to meet us at the point of our need. In this episode, we discuss Matthew 14:1-21. Herein, we find Jesus telling His 12 disciples, to feed the hungry crowd of about 5,000 men and a multitude of women and children He had been teaching--fulling knowing the only food amongst them was five loaves of bread and two fish! Learn how offering God the little we do have miraculously becomes more than enough. We, like those first disciples of Jesus, are called to live from the miraculous supply from Heaven; we and those around us NEED the God of the miraculous. Lifting up our eyes positions us for the miraculous. …

When I feel anxious or afraid in The Storms of Life, God gives me peace, strength & courage to help me fight what comes against me. "Sometimes God calms the storm, and sometimes He calms His child."