It's always so encouraging to listen to Lisa Harper. I'm 54, never married, with no kids. I've always wanted to be a wife and mother more than anything. None of my lifelong dreams have come true. Not one. So many times, I've begged and pleaded with God to help me understand why other women deserve love and happiness, but I don't. I still don't understand it, but I'm trusting God to help me to find ways to be joyful in spite of everything.
Your beautiful Wendi inside and out. In particular how you keep faith in God. There is still time for God to make the desires of your heart to come true! I am praying with you that God will give you more than you could ask for or imagine in Jesus name. Amen ❤️
Wow, I have 15 years of infertility, plus a failed international adoption capped off with a hysterectomy in my story. I’m 50-mumble and this is the FIRST time I have heard a redemptive conversation about infertility, motherhood, divorce, and singleness that I have heard from Christian women. Wow, thanks for this! What a gift! 💙💜💚
I just love the respect and recognition we all get to share for Mama J. Lisa is always a favorite and she pulls you in with her knowledge and wisdom for the word. Such a feel-good teacher!!!!
This episode spoke to my heart like no other one has. The words Lisa spoke summed up my life, and I’ve never heard anyone else talk about it. I found out at 16 that I had been born without a uterus, and my whole future I had planned out in my head came crashing down. I’m 52 now, and God is still healing the pain that has come with accepting a different path for my life. I know God has a divine plan and purpose for that pain, and I will continue to look for those I can be a spiritual mother to. I pray for all of you who are feeling any kind of perceived inadequacies. 💜💜💜
I wasn’t able to have children and ended up having hysterectomy at an early age. Thank you for this episode. This is probably one of the best episodes I’ve listened too. Thank you all for speaking to my heart.
I am also a 'misfit' in Church, being a single mother with a special needed son. For weeks we walked the hallways in Church without ever be 'seen'. I was in search of God, not saved yet, but no-one in Church ever came alongside of me/us, invited to join any church group event or Bible study. I always felt so alone 😔 Then, something terrible happened and I did not go to that church again. By God's grace I was brought to a place where I was saved and my son as well. Still, our life is often 'lonely', not meeting the standard . Thankfully God embraces the 'misfits', especially chosen for their somewhat challenging role. Jesus was a 'misfit', HE KNOWS ❤
Hope you and your son are doing well. How are you both doing now? Are you going to church? It can be intimidating to join a bible study, but we do need to make the first move to step into a womens group. Hugs to you, keep your eyes on Jesus and praying for you tonight for Jesus to place someone in our life who understands parenting a special loved child, God gave you. ❤you matter, you're important and needed. Hugs sister!!
Lisa Harper has a great Bible Study on the Gospel of Luke: Gut-Level Compassion. She shares how Jesus was an outlier and addresses how much He loved(s) all the outliers and outcasts and how the outrageous mercy of God has been extended to us all. Look it up!
Three things: Jae's new haircut is fabulous and Lisa Harper is hilarious. This show has been a blessing to me lately. Thank you ladies for your vulnerability and wisdom.
I’m 37 and single, this helped me a lot. I’ve had a lot of trauma as a child and I shut myself away. Until recently God helped me start to heal,it’s been painful opening loads of cans of worms. But Jesus has been with me each step of the way.I’ve been judged by family,friends and the church in why I’m not married. I felt like I wasn’t praying enough.The shame is something I lived with for so long thinking there is something wrong with me if God hasn’t made it happen for me. Stopped going to church. I realise God has different plans for each of us and he executes them in his timing. I won’t compare myself to anyone else’s life . I will run my own race set by God. Thank you ladies🙏🏾❤️🩹
This was such a blessing! My husband and I have had 1 child together and since I've had her we've said that's all we need. But people around us (my first lady especially) keep wanting us to have more but realistically no one else is gonna take care of these children for me. It's so frustrating when people try and tell me that I NEED another kid or I'm gonna regret it later on.
I totally understand! My husband and I have a 3yr old (going on 4) son and everyone is always asking or telling us we need to give him a sibling or now is the time to have another. Apart of me do want another child, but like you said, no one else is going to help you raise them. The village is not the same. Til this day my husband and I have not had a night away from our child (not complaining) but things/times are not like they use to be.
Lord Jesus, you specialize in fulfilling the desires of our hearts and we thank you and love you for knowing us intimately and satisfying us individually.
No words are sufficient enough to say how grateful I am for you ladies. It’s a beautiful cold Sunday morning here in Naples, Fl., and I’m in my kitchen making oatmeal cereal…and I’m listening to you Wisdom Cheerleaders. I’m a woman in my late 40s. I’ve been married for almost 14 years and unfortunately, I have no children (long story). I have no biological family of my own and I’ve also grew up in Foster Homes. Gosh, I have a long story and it’s been taped up and heavily bandaided. As I’m approaching this inevitable next stage in my life, I afraid of leaving this world without never getting the opportunity to tell my story. As much as I’m grateful for where I am and what I have, I am not satisfied and unhappy because I am not myself. I wish I could be privately connected with at least on of you ladies and share a bit of my heart. No matter what, I’m so, so happy I’ve found you all and I’m honored to listen to your wisdom. THANK YOU 🙏 💞
Lisa Harper I've never heard of you before today but you have said SO MUCH that has touched my heart in a very personal way. Thank you so much for being so light hearted and transparent. I love you😊😊
When you just prayed a prayer regarding this same topic, crying my eyes out and then God gives you this video as to say I hear you my daughter, I hear you. His love, keeps me in awe. Thank you Lord for these ladies. God bless you all🙏🏾
I truly love Lisa Harper,, she is so real and relatable. I'm 54 with no husband or kids. I use to think God was punishing me for my past by not giving me children but I now know God only does good. I have gone through so much trauma in my life and feel all alone in this world. I lost my mom and it's been 25 years since she's been gone and it still hurts to see a mom with her child..
God loves you, in Jesus you are righteos, all your mistakes were forgiven, so if God don't judge you, then you don't hold yourself back (Hebrews 10:39), you are new creation in Christ, be filled with the Holy Spirit, will guide you and manifest all his fruits, in Jesus's name! God bless you
I loved this episode! I totally needed this. I have this sad feeling inside that I'm not made for being a mother, and that I could never be a mom, I have trouble picturing myself having children and being a mom, I love kids so much, I have a niece and 2 nephews and they're so precious to me. I have these nightmares very often of myself getting pregnant and then not being accepted by anyone and having no support. And It breaks my heart I get so scared that my life wont at all be what I want it to be :( This episode helped me to feel better and that I know god is good and he has a plan for me, and he will bring me a miracle one day, I just have to be positive
Right around 37:00, that whole piece of Lisa speaking, brought tears to my eyes. I became a mother at age 20. And I have always had people, even 12 yeas later, in my ear "what you need to do is. . ." And I tried to listen, but it felt so wrong and it all went wrong. And now that I have stood up and I now know that I have Jesus backing me, I am actively pursuing my dreams and being a mom. It is so hard, but it feels right. I always felt so inadequate in both lanes, but this really solidified it for me. This whole video. SO GOOD. SO, SO GOOD. Grateful to God that you ladies came together on these subjects
" Knowing Jesus as your Savior, but not as your Liberator"...... had me in tears. So many people feel they are not enough because of stereotypes, but God has called us to live Free and on His time line alone. Thank you for this ladies! This video just popped up on my feed and I know that was clearly the Holy Spirit. I really needed to hear all of this today and I related so much.
Thank You for this episode & each lady’s transparency. These topics are soooo needed in church! I’m 46 & not married with no kids & heartbroken 😔. I’m praying to God daily to heal my heart!!
Don't be heartbroken because you're single. Being single is better than married to the wrong person, like I have for 30 heart breaking miserable years.
@@bygrace24 you spoke a word this morning & I appreciate you pointing out how you can be married & still miserable. During my moments of sadness I tend to forget about the alternatives. Thank you for sharing! 🙏🏾
Yes!!! I dealt with that, I worked outside of the home for the first 6 yrs of my kids' lives and then decided to work from home and stay with them. I felt pressure from my working mom friends who felt I was selling out for women's rights and women's freedom to work and be a mom, etc. Like I was taking a step backwards for strong women everywhere because I wanted to be home baking with my kids, but out there is just not where my heart was.
As a 32 year old woman who has never married and has no kids, I want to say thank you. I have experienced a lot of the situations and things talked about in the video and it was so refreshing to hear women of faith speak well about a topic that can be either mishandled or highly glossed over. Thank you for giving me a voice.
This is probably my favourite podcast so far. Great enjoyment listening to "The Real" Lisa Harper with her pertinent, helpful, creative, refreshing and amusing expressions. She leaves any superficial, phony, blabber of repetitive nonsense exposed and in the dust. Thank you.
Wow great episode I can totally relate as a single mother , Thank you thank you 🙏🏻 Love you Lisa Harper 🤗 Happy Belated Birthday Lisa May God bless you with Health, Happiness, And many many more beautiful years 😍❤️
We're so happy to hear that this episode blessed you today! For more encouragement, check out these teachings from Joyce: bit.ly/2yqf1E1 and bit.ly/2yrv4lk. Another great resource would be this prayer for children from Joyce: bit.ly/2vFGUEW. We hope these resources can be a blessing and encouragement to you in this season! -Team JMM
Lord this was such a blessing. We as lovers of Christ need to know what God has for us is what God has for us! Don’t put yourself in a box! This has me in tears thank you ladies for being obedient to the call!
Wow so good, and so pleasantly surprised by an episode today. I just binge watched all episodes over the past few weeks and was so sad that I'm caught up now, lol. My husband and I were married for 7 years before we had a baby, not because we couldn't, but just because we weren't even sure we wanted to be parents and we got married very young. I remember the pressure family and friends were always putting on us asking when were we going to have a baby and even some who called us selfish for even considering not having one at all. Such a personal decision, I wish people would be more respectful and sensitive about that.
So true, why do people feel entitled to pressure others to have children? It's very odd and I suspect some of it comes from jealousy at seeing a young couple just enjoying themselves without the responsibility of a child.
This was my favorite episode, you all were so open and honest about your struggles that it gave me hope in my life as a single divorced mom of a toddler trying to heal from past mistakes and learn to love myself and my baby girl and not care about people's judgements. It was comforting to hear the struggles of motherhood and not having it all together like society expects us to be
@@joycemeyer This was definitely a great episode and what Lisa stated about attending church and feeling like you are invisible. I was a single mom and the same thing can be said about the single mom and being invisible! This needs to be addressed so much on both spectrums. Women are left out of different categories and second class compared to our counterpart. Please make this available to more women. I didn't realize Joyce had a podcast that is on for us to listen to. Lisa has made us see the humanness of our being a follower of our Jesus.
We are praying for you! We encourage you to stay full of hope and expectation as you wait on the Lord’s timing. Check out bit.ly/2w29T9j and bit.ly/2NrF714. We hope they can be a blessing to you. -Team JMM
Great show. Please it will be a blessing to have a talk show on surrogacy, donor conception etc from a Christian perspective because these are realities of our time.
@@joycemeyer Lisa thank you for being so transparent..im dealing with feeling not good enough because everybody around me or married been married for years & yet i must not be someones good thing ..never married.i feel like i failed
Lisa is one of the most treasured women i know. Joyce meyer has been my mentor through her fabulous books. You know i too had a horrific childhood, i was also attracted to the wrong men. I have ended up now unable to work through illness, im still broken however, i dont give up, i cant give up. You know if i could spend just one day with these ladies, especially Lisa as we are the same age, i believe that she could change my life, just imagine that!!
This podcast has always been a blessing to me every time I listen to every single one of these ladies. I bless y'all in the name of Jesus; I know one day I will be invited to this show and share my testimony.
Wow!! This messages was powerful to know that God’s timing for motherhood is perfect. Thanks ladies for your vulnerability and honesty, God bless ya all. 🙏🙏
I just love every single one of you. I grew up very legalistic but just knew that I couldnt be that way. God allowed me to go thru alot in my life to get rid of my judgementalness. Every woman is out here doing what she can to hold on and try to survive and I wish more Christian's would wrap their arms around them instead of turning their nose up. God loves us all, above every rule and commandment is love. Love is the greatest. Our world wouldnt be recognizable if we led by love
Jesus is my liberator & He's the king on the white horse; I've listened to Lisa for years yet get new revelation every time. Blessings to ya'll ladies 🙏.
Last night I was thinking about this video & ladies sharing the heart tugs when not a mom at church where mom's are celebrated & you're asked if you are. Thinking about the moms who only happy mother's day wishes are from strangers or the precious little ones giving out flowers. Each person carries around their own wounds, needs, wants & Jesus is our healer.
I can so identify with Lisa. I had a lot of verbal abuse growing up and am truly the woman at the well. I accepted Jesus when I was 24 and love Jesus and knew Jesus just not as my liberator. I couldn’t understand how Jesus could love some so broken and hurt. As Lisa, I didn’t like church because people didn’t seem accepting, but maybe that was my shame and guilt. I gave part of my testimony at my church a few weeks ago and I have to say God let me know I had to be very transparent and it would leave me vulnerable and at risk but the Holy Spirit was with me the entire time. Thank you Jesus 🙌🏻❤️
I have NEVER heard it discussed on these topics. I actually have left my church and only attend online because there was no group that I "fit" into at my current church. All the people my age were young couples and so they had bible study groups for "Young couples" or "College" Well...what about the people after college who are still single and OKAY with it? And I always felt like the men in the church would avoid me like the plague just because I was an unwed female. It actually led to alot of shame and feelings that I was a stumbling block by just being a female. I know not every church is this way because I grew up in a church where Men and Women were secure in the Lord. I went to a Christian University where the whole topic was always about weddings the alumni who fell in love with each other at the University and now they have 10 kids and a billionaire business. This podcast honestly liberated me to know that I was not alone.
You’re Not alone at all. I stopped going to Church for those same reasons. Being saved for 20 years, I’m grateful that now you can Church online to hear as many sermons as desired.
Wow! I have been listening to this podcast since the get-go and y'all ladies have grown spiritually so much and I have loved all the topics you cover. This podcast gives me life and hope! Thank you for all your hard work.
Yeeeeeeee, Lisa Harper🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸 great show even before I started watching I knew I would be blessed. Lisa Harper gives me hope , confidence to step out in life and be myself, and makes me laugh alot Enjoyed the show , ofcourse I expected to enjoy it 🙌❤️🥰🥳
A whole bunch of amazing women in different stages of life and still gathering and sharing the goodness of the Lord irregardless of their circumstances……the world needs more of this 🙏🙏
Oh wow, this podcast have just let me know that I have the spirit of a mother. I was a teacher for 5 years and a lot of my friends are younger than me. Those friends and the youth in church either call me their big sister or mother. Praise God for your life, ladies!
Amazing thank you ladies! God is good thank you for being who God has called you to be unashamedly- you’re all such a beautiful reflection of his grace. And Lisa I only came across you the other day and you blew me away. Seeing you on the panel was a joy. 😘
THANK U LORD FOR THESE 3 WOMAN SPEAKING FROM THEIR HEART CAUSE THE TRUTH ALWAYS SETS FREE THANK U LADIES GOD BLESS U ALL WITH SOME MORE EPISODES TO COME CAUSE THE BEST IS YET TO COME ❤🙏
I love love love this tv segment and would suggest a part II and III because some of these subjects are near and dear to women hearts! I am dealing in this area of struggle right now.
Oh my!! She's growing so fast!!! 😮❤️❤️❤️❤️ Well done Mummy Lisa! And Happy Birthday. I wish I could talk with you personally!! I love Lisa Harper!! Thank you ❤️❤️
It do good to hear that you're following what you have inner peace to do. That is as I've needed to learn . Really I never knew I could have or do & that is to have healthy boundaries in every area of my life. But iam seeking God to teach/show me where I am , by following Him, His way, where I've needed them, where I am to have them to walk my life with Him. I never knew. I've only known to be responsible for everyone's happiness, fix their problem, meet their need or I was a failure, I lived to meet everyone else's expectations so I've grown up to not give any thought to my need. If I did it meant I should be ashamed & was selfish. I even grew up to believe it was wrong to pray for myself so I never did. It wasn't until I was around 45 when my daughter had found Joyce, told me how to watch her & it was from them both I was told it was ok to pray for myself, infact necessary & God wanted me to talk to Him. I love Joyce,ball of the ministry, I love all of you who serve. I love my " God Family". This how I think, feel about all of you. I do pray & for all of you & God's ministry thru you. He knows how much I am grateful & love you. You are dearly loved, your sister Susie
I can so relate to your message Wendy Moore and several ladies that have replied to your replies. The wondering why being left behind and left out. I pray that one day there is something like this podcast only about how a single and single again woman manages and copes to navigate through life led by mostly single women. How people and friends keep asking, "well have you met someone?". Or the misunderstanding on why I don't have children. I'm 61 and I personally wasn't going to have children out of wedlock. I have prayed, fasted, locked myself away in prayer. To no avail. It definitely hurts a ton. And one feels {I know feelings are not facts} forgotten, not special enough, ugly, rejected. And I don't understand. What hang over is a million things racing through my head.
