Insights
🙏 “Apart from you Jesus I can’t do anything good. I’m desperate for you.”
🙏 “I do want to make much of is the grace of Jesus Christ because I mean every single day something like that happens and it reminds me that apart from Jesus apart from the infilling of his holy spirit that makes me a woman propelled apart from him.”
😡 Lisa Harper confronts a woman who questions her faith, highlighting the need for empathy and understanding in religious discussions.
💔 Jesus’ question to the paralytic, “Do you want to get well?”, challenges the assumption that everyone wants to be healed and raises the importance of personal desire for change and growth.
🚶♂️ The necessity of neediness among God’s people: “It is necessary for us in humility to say I can’t make it by myself. Apart from you Jesus.”
🌱 “Great leadership grows in humility.”
😇 “She said Lisa my husband and I trust that God is Sovereign and we trust that he has ordered the steps of our family to include Elijah.”
🙏 In a moment of realization, the woman sensed God’s presence and heard Him say, “Molly, I am right here.”
😇 “The best Propel leaders will grow out of humility out of a continual cognizance of I can’t do this apart from Jesus.”
Summary
TLDR: The key idea of the video is that true leadership and personal growth come from humility and reliance on Jesus.
- 🎙️ A speaker discusses her dependence on Jesus and her struggle with a new spiritual gift, while sharing humorous anecdotes about coffee mishaps and parenting as a single adoptive mom.
1.1 The speaker discusses her dependence on Jesus and her struggle with a new spiritual gift called “projectile perspiration” due to being in the season of “shmenopause.”
1.2 I woke up early, realized I had very few coffee beans left, and decided to make them last by French Pressing them.
1.3 The speaker accidentally spilled coffee on some papers on the kitchen island, only to realize that the papers were actually her baby.
1.4 A single adoptive mom accidentally ruins her homeschool lesson while considering buying a margarita machine.
- 📺 The speaker shares a story about encountering a rude Starbucks employee who spills coffee in her lap.
2.1 The speaker shares a story about going to the mall to teach a lesson on capitalism, but also stopping at Starbucks where the barista seemed angry.
2.2 The speaker encounters a rude employee at a drive-thru who spills coffee in her lap.
- 📚 The speaker shares personal stories and discusses the importance of relying on Jesus’ grace, bringing a physical Bible for comfort, and Jesus’ encounter with a man in need of healing.
3.1 The speaker shares a personal story about her daughter learning English and incorporating new words into a song.
3.2 The speaker discusses her struggles with sin and the reminder of her need for Jesus’ grace in her daily life.
3.3 Bring a physical Bible with you because relying solely on a digital version is like a guy in short shorts, and having a tangible Bible can provide comfort during difficult seasons.
3.4 Jesus encounters a man who has been an invalid for 38 years and asks him if he wants to be healed.
- 🙏 A paraplegic woman encounters ignorant people who believe they can pray for her physical healing, but she believes prayers for patience and heart posture are more important; speaker discusses stories of faith in healing.
4.1 A woman named Eva, who is paraplegic, encounters ignorant people who believe they can pray for her to be healed, but she knows that Jesus can physically heal her if he chooses to.
4.2 The speaker shares that while she believes God could heal her paralysis, she would prefer prayers for her patience and heart posture rather than the movement of her legs, and she recalls a confrontational encounter with someone who questioned her faith.
4.3 The speaker discusses a woman who didn’t want to get well, but despite this, she believes that Jesus will heal her, and this is similar to a story of a man at a sheep pool who believed he would be healed if he got in the water when it stirred.
- 🙏 Jesus asks if we truly desire healing and freedom, illustrating the importance of humility and dependence on God, prioritizing his own opinion over others and calling sinners.
5.1 Jesus encounters a paralytic who has been sick for 38 years and asks him if he wants to get well, posing the same question to the audience about whether they truly desire healing and freedom in their lives.
5.2 The necessity of humility among God’s people is illustrated by the story of the man who couldn’t make it to the pool by himself and had to rely on Jesus, emphasizing that our lives should reflect our belief in the gospel and our dependence on God.
5.3 Jesus prioritizes his own opinion over the opinions of others, and he came to call sinners, not the righteous.
- 🌱 True leadership grows in humility, as Jesus teaches, and the speaker shares her personal journey of overcoming abusive relationships and finding restoration through adoption.
6.1 True leadership grows in humility, as Jesus teaches that spiritual leaders who pat themselves on the back without recognizing their need for Him are missing the point, and the speaker connects the greatest fruit in her ministry to her own weakness and God’s grace.
6.2 I was protected from abusive men and had unhealthy relationships until my 40s, which resulted in me missing out on motherhood.
6.3 Sin has consequences, but God can restore what was lost, as seen in the speaker’s personal experience of not having children but later adopting.
- 👶 A woman named Molly introduced her baby Elijah, who has Down syndrome, to the speaker, and they discovered they are the same age, highlighting the unexpected blessings and trust in God’s plan during a difficult season.
7.1 A woman named Molly introduced her baby Elijah, who has Down syndrome, to the speaker, and they discovered they are the same age.
7.2 She didn’t plan on getting pregnant again, but she and her husband trusted that God had a plan for their family, even though it has been a difficult season.
- 📚 A woman shares her struggles, but trusts in God’s sovereignty; the speaker’s accidental message in a book leads to a revelation; a personal story about attending a Christian Women’s event; a prayer for a reminder of God’s presence is answered; humility and reliance on Jesus are key for leadership success.
8.1 A woman shared her financial struggles and lack of sleep due to her child’s medical conditions, but expressed trust in God’s sovereignty, and the conference went well.
8.2 The speaker accidentally wrote a word in someone’s book, but turned it into a positive message, and later the person came back and revealed that they had been struggling with trusting God’s sovereignty.
8.3 The speaker shares a personal story about a woman who was struggling emotionally and didn’t want to attend a Christian Women’s event, but her husband convinced her it would be good for her soul, so she agreed to go alone without engaging in small talk.
8.4 The speaker prayed to God for a reminder that He is still in control and sees her, as she was feeling invisible and her prayers were not being heard.
8.5 A woman was surprised to find that the verse written in her book by the speaker was the same verse she had chosen as her life verse 20 years ago, leading her to feel God’s presence.
8.6 Humility is essential for effective leadership and relying on Jesus is necessary for success.
