Women World Leaders' Podcast

Julie T. Jenkins
Women World Leaders' Podcast

Experience God’s extravagant love and your exquisite purpose through a weekly trio of podcasts that focus on teaching, inspiration, and encouragement. Our prayer is that as your intimacy with God grows, your love for one another will flourish, enabling you to live out a courageous purpose driven life, fueled by the Word, led by the Spirit, and propelled forward into your God given destiny through fearless faith! Join us as we gather around a trio of podcasts. From His heart to yours, we are Women World Leaders!

  1. 28 OCT

    577. Inside Out, with Julie Harwick

    True holiness is a matter of the heart.  Although we can fool ourselves and others by presenting a squeaky clean image, God calls us to concern ourselves with what’s going on inside, rather than what we look like on the outside.  Enjoy this important teaching from Julie Harwick.   **** Welcome to Women World Leaders podcast. I’m your host, Julie Harwick. Thank you for joining me today as we celebrate God’s grace in our lives, in this ministry and around the world. They say you can’t judge a book by its’ cover. I always thought that it was a pretty valid statement, but the truth of that statement proved itself on a much deeper level when I observed the unmasking of someone I thought I knew very well.   My husband and I had recently re-connected with a friend we hadn’t seen since our wedding.  He was about to get married himself, so we had the opportunity to get to know his new wife from the start of their marriage.  She seemed incredibly sweet and appeared to worship the ground he walked on.  She was open about the fact that her past had included drug addiction and a failed marriage to another addict, but she seemed as far removed from that life as anyone could be.  She brought three daughters to the marriage and though they were older than our kids, the youngest got along really well with our girls.  We vacationed together. They stayed with our kids when we went on a cruise for our 20th anniversary.  They joined our church, and she enthusiastically jumped in and began to develop a women’s ministry.  She had her first child at a very young age and was already a grandmother.  I was so impressed to hear her talk about selecting the perfect bible study that she could do with her grandson when he was in her care.  She seemed like a spiritual giant who was constantly pouring herself into her family, friends and anyone in need.  After many years of such stellar behavior, there were some surprising developments.  She was abruptly asked to step down from her leadership role in women’s ministry.  Initially, that action really disturbed me, but I was about to discover the reason why.  Her husband began to confide in mine that she was not so sweet and supportive of him when no one else was around. Anytime they experienced conflict, she became verbally abusive and unreasonable.  She accused him of being a narcissist, so he volunteered to go to marriage counseling.  The counselor sensed much deeper problems and advised them to both be evaluated for any mental illnesses.  He was given a clean bill of health, while she was diagnosed with multiple illnesses and prescribed numerous medications .  Things improved for a while, but she soon decided that she didn’t need the medications and tried again to convince him that he was the problem.  She had always been generous with family and friends, buying them gifts and helping out with expenses, but soon she began spending unbelievable amounts of money on a daily basis. She ran up large credit card balances and every time he tried to close one out, she simply opened another.  She had no explanation for purchasing a hundred dollars’ worth of Starbucks gift cards day after day. He wanted to fight for their marriage, but she seemed set on destroying him financially and became more and more adversarial toward him with each passing day.  They ended up in divorce court and she took as much as she possibly could from him, leaving him in deep debt.  Although she left the marriage with a settlement that would’ve taken care of her for decades, the money was all gone within two years.  Not long afterward, we discovered that she had been arrested for writing bad checks. As the story unfolded, each revelation of who she really was came like a punch to the gut.  I thought I knew this woman.  I trusted her with my children.  I looked up to her as someone I’d like to emulate.  I thought she was far better to her husband than I was

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Experience God’s extravagant love and your exquisite purpose through a weekly trio of podcasts that focus on teaching, inspiration, and encouragement. Our prayer is that as your intimacy with God grows, your love for one another will flourish, enabling you to live out a courageous purpose driven life, fueled by the Word, led by the Spirit, and propelled forward into your God given destiny through fearless faith! Join us as we gather around a trio of podcasts. From His heart to yours, we are Women World Leaders!

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