38: Mo Isom | Sex, Jesus, and The Conversations The Church Forgot

Mo and I chat about how God created sex, how honesty about sexual sin defeats the enemies schemes, how God desires a pure heart, and privacy vs. darkness.

5:11 Mo begins by sharing how she came to know Jesus and an overview of what she wrote in her first book Wreck Your Life.

"I knew a lot about God, but I didn't know God and there's a big difference."

High School: "I didn't know who I was or whose I was. I didn't know how that whole Jesus component merged into the other 6 days of the week, so when identity issues came perfectionism began to bind me in a lot of ways."

Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. -Matthew 11:28

"His [God] invitation to me was just begin to give Me the glory. You've lived so focused on self....Look at the things I am doing and we'll go from there."

"I went from this incomplete perspective of God to God in a box..to still this incomplete view of God: I give You the glory and You give me the blessing."

"Suicide suddenly interrupted my story, especially the spiritual side, this faith walk layer. Suddenly this God I had been following and tip toeing with and figuring out and seeing all the goodness of, I felt like was a faros or had abandoned me or was not as good as I thought He was. Suddenly when things didn't feel so good or the circumstances didn't look so good in life I took off running.  I ran into depression, into anxiety, into promiscuity, into any sin sized  piece I could find to fill the God sized hole in my heart."

John 16:33 says, In this world you will face trouble, but take heart, have courage, I have overcome the world.

"When we know God. When we hunger and thirst for His Word. When we know the character and nature and complexity or who He reveals Himself to be to us , there is a vast difference in how we handle the hardships. There is a divine hope in  the valley."

"He will wreck your life to save your life and save your eternal story."

"I will use anything and everything to disrupt your lost journey and point you back home and lead you and intersect your heart and your life."

Be still and know that I am God -Psalm 46:10

25:10Mo shares what led her to write her 2nd book Sex, Jesus, and The Conversations The Church Forgot.

"Scripture says sin is defeated by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony, so I think people seeing they're not alone in something and hearing the radical truth of God all over it has been really neat to see the wave it has created."

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