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Embracing Authentic Love: Planting Seeds of Hope and Navigating Life's Challenges with Faith
How do you genuinely live out love and hope in a world often driven by superficiality and despair?" This episode invites listeners on a heartfelt journey through the transformative power of authentic love and hope, inspired by Romans 12:9. We unravel how clinging to what is good and rejecting evil can reflect God’s work in our lives, without slipping into pridefulness. Personal stories from our community showcase how embracing God’s love can plant powerful seeds of hope within us, encouraging a reflection on personal growth and divine guidance.
Inspiring action through obedience, this episode tackles the challenges of living out God's love in tangible ways. We discuss responding to divine calls—be it praying for others or shedding unfulfilling relationships and mindsets. Through personal accounts of overcoming abandonment issues, we highlight the profound lessons of obedience and discipline. God’s love isn’t reserved for the flawless but for those who accept it wholeheartedly, imperfections and all. Let His grace guide you to wisdom and understanding, as we explore how to let go of the old to make way for future greatness.
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Speaker 2:Good morning y'all. It's Thursday morning in December and we're in week two. Living out God's love is what we're talking about, but our theme for the month of December is hope. And my apologies, we've lost our connection to the folks on LinkedIn, but if you're watching this, because I've just dropped the YouTube link YouTube live link I'm sorry y'all. Sometimes technology is technology. So I just wanted to do a quick shout out to those who watch a lot of folks. I have a lot of folks that watch the replay, so I thank y'all who watch the replay and also to those who listen on the audio platforms. Thank you so much for supporting me and my channel and I always tell folks or ask folks if they could please like and share the video so somebody else can get blessed. And just sometimes, you know, liking just lets me know that y'all, y'all getting something out of it, and I'm just not talking to me and my friend, dr Tracy. Good morning, dr Tracy.
Speaker 2:So today is going to be a little bit scattered because I'm I'm experiencing this as I'm teaching. You know how I tell you like anytime I'm coming on here, I'm teaching from experience. I'm not, you know, I'm not like just flipping through the Bible or trying to figure out, like, what's the theme for the month. You know trying to make tickle you in any way, but I do experience these things and that's and that's part of why I believe I'm able to be more relatable. Hopefully you feel the same way, that I'm able to be more relatable to you, because not only am I experiencing it, but these are some of the things that you're also experiencing as well. And for those of you who are not in the season, maybe you kind of overcome and this is like yeah, I've already been there, done that and you're so matured in Christ, god bless you. But for the rest of us who are learning and growing, y'all, we're going to get there.
Speaker 2:So, lord, we just thank you for today. I thank you so much for all that you have already done, thank you for bringing us to the month of December and thank you for this seed of hope and joy and peace that you planted in our hearts, in our lives, this morning, so that we can get refilled, renewed this morning and we can go about our day. I thank you for every person under the sound of my voice who's going to listen to your word this morning. I pray that they will be able to discern the message for them through your power, through you, holy Spirit, so that they're not going to listen to do what I say, but they're going to listen and respond according to your will for their lives. So I thank you, god, for everything, and I thank you for blessing us with this platform and all of the amazing things that have happened through this ministry this entire year. Thank you, god, amen, all right.
Speaker 2:So I want to share a couple of things with you. Today, we're talking about living out God's love and obviously I have a scripture I actually have two and I'm going to Amen. Thank you, dr Tracy. We are works in progress, okay, and I want to drop a couple of scriptures, but before I do that, actually let me grab the first scripture, and I'm just going to drop this in a chat, because it's really short. Really doesn't make any sense to share my screen, and why am I saying all this y'all? Because I have people who listen on the audio versions. They won't know what I'm doing because they can't see the screen, so I got to say what I'm doing, okay, all right.
Speaker 2:So the first scripture is going to come from Romans 12, verse nine, and obviously it's the A Shelley version and it said I'm going to drop it in chat. And it says the verse says let love be genuine. Let it be for real. Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil. Hold fast to what is good. Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil. Hold fast to what is good. Let love be genuine. And this, to me, is kind of this is going to be our little jumping off point for this morning.
Speaker 2:So I was on our SOAR, like our end of year kind of check-in yesterday and I was sharing some of the things that I asked everyone the question what did you accomplish this year? What did you accomplish this year? So, with the seeds we planted, with all the vision boards and all the conversations, all the things that we set out to do, what did you accomplish this year? Year? And it truly was the first time that I had an opportunity to just kind of step back a little bit and really think about not only what I I mean when I say like what I accomplished.
Speaker 2:I obviously it's not from a sense of pride, and I even shared this out the definition between the difference between being proud of what you do and being prideful. Being proud, you know, is when you understand that really it's God's work and him working through you. And being prideful is when you take you know you're claiming it all for yourself. You manifested the whole thing like it's all about you, right? So it was a moment of us being proud of our accomplishments but also recognizing that God had worked some things out. And so, as we shared and I'm going to actually share some of those accomplishments with you in the hope that, one, you'll feel encouraged, but two, you'll know what we've been up to, okay, but as one of the ladies shared her accomplishments, the one thing that she shared, that she was considering an accomplishment, was that she recognized and she received God's love for her, and she said these things.
Speaker 2:Now, again, I don't share my teaching with anybody. I don't plan my week with a group and we sit down and say the theme's going to be X. I don't do that. The Lord gives me the theme, he gives me the scriptures, I, you know, I set up this, I set up the things, the operational things, and then we go right, that's it. It's just him. And literally what? What this, this, this lady said was kind of where we were landing this morning. So it was another awesome confirmation, but it was the fact that she was. She was saying that part of one of her accomplishments was just receiving that God loves her.
Speaker 2:There was this song. I gave this teaching at a church. It's probably been a year or so now and I remember ending. It was a woman's conference and I ended my sermon with this very simple song that we all probably know Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me. So Little ones to him belong, they are weak, but he is strong. Yes, jesus loves me. And it was so powerful that at the end of her and she's quite accomplished at the end of her accomplishment on the job, you know, in business, in her family, it was the biggest accomplishment. What she saw as the biggest accomplishment was her relationship with God and just receiving that he loves her, and that, to me, is powerful. It kind of brings us to where we are.
Speaker 2:We talk about what does living out God's love looks like? So when I bring back Romans 12, 9, again, where it talks about let love be genuine or let it be real, let it be for real. For four weeks now I've been talking about, you know, doing our own self-evaluation, removing people, places and things. That means people or broken relationships, you know. You know, making exactly my soul makes her boast in the Lord. Yes, he's been amazing this year, and we can't. It's like the thing is like you can't help but boast in the Lord. Yes, he's been amazing this year and we can't. It's like the thing is like you can't help but boast in what he's doing and it's okay. Again, you, you, you have to be able to, you have to be able to do that Like who's going to tell you you can't boast on what I was doing, that's crazy, that's crazy. But um, so, uh, so, just to go back, we were, you know, we think about again.
Speaker 2:Let love be genuine. It's the self-evaluation that I was telling you guys that I personally have been going through, but I didn't start it like a week ago. I've been going through the self-evaluation for months and it's been purification and crushing and all the things where God was showing me things that I had to in order to build up my relationship with him and for where we're going next year, where we're going in my career, in my home, in my life and I know I'm saying these things because it relates to you as well, where you're trying to go. Maybe you're trying to get healthier, you're trying to come out of debt, you're trying to get promoted, maybe you're just trying to find peace, maybe you want to walk in a stronger, anointing your purpose, all the things right. Whatever it is that you're trying to get to, that you do have to come to a point where you start to evaluate the things in your life, the people, the places and the things. The people, that means the relationships, the places, like maybe there are places that you go in. You know stuff that you're doing where you really don't belong there anymore, stuff that you're doing where you really don't belong there anymore.
Speaker 2:Some of us have outgrown some of the situations that you might be. You might've outgrown relationships that you know again. You know the. You know you don't need to be around the woman, that all she does is gossiping, talk about people all day long. Right, you might've outgrown those situations. You might've outgrown the job or the role you're in. So there have been changes that way and things. It's like you know you might have outgrown the mindset, the mindset that we had, the mindset I had. Listen, I'll be quite honest, even the part of the mindset I had last night at seven o'clock, I don't have it 7 pm Eastern. I don't have that at 7 am. I have shifted again right, eastern. I don't have that at 7 am. I have shifted again right. So, living out God's love and as he starts to work through us, as he starts to show us the different areas of our lives that we really need to make adjustments, but of all of these things, it's really just receiving how much he truly loves us.
Speaker 2:So at the end of last night, when I was thinking about some of the accomplishments, I'm going to just share with you that this ministry, this little ministry, has done some of the things, and I'll say that because I know Dr Tracy is on here, because she's also part of the heavy lifters, if you will. I said this before. I have lots of people who will ping me and tell me their ideas and what they think, that, where they think, what they think that I should do and what God I have. It's not one, it's many, but that is normal. That comes with this, this anointing, that comes with this job, if you will. That comes with ministry. People are always going to show, but you have to stay focused on what God gives you and by staying focused all year. Some of the incredible achievements that we have include this.
Speaker 2:So, just on our three praying sisters alone, which we launched earlier this spring, ok, and this is examples of how we're living out God's love. We're living out God's love through praying for each other and that three praying sisters phone line. There were over 400 or so callers on that line. There were times that we were on that line and all that. I mean we heard the dings but no one said anything, you know. So we had people who were showing up to just listen to us pray, but they weren't participating, but we were still actively praying. He gave us a shift even in the way that we managed. The three praying sisters gave us themes so that we were more focused on what we were praying for and who we were praying for, right. So he even brought that along.
Speaker 2:But out of that, that's living out his love. That's a tough assignment, y'all. That's a commitment. That's people giving up their time, treasure, talent, right. That's that these, these ladies, are studying and preparing their hearts, their souls and their minds before they get there. But that is an example of how they were living out God's love. And again, I'm sharing some of these with the hope. Thank you, lord, that you will.
Speaker 2:If you're looking for ways to, if you're saying I want to get to know the Lord more and I want a better relationship, then you serve. That's how you do it, right. You serve In his heart. His concern is the people, the people around us, the people he puts in our lives. Right, so that's one thing. So the other thing is that the other thing I wanted to share is that the teaching. So these Thursday teaching, there's been 50 teachings. There has been 50 teachings just on Thursday alone. There's been 50 teachings. On Saturday We've had over 100 live prayers. Right, this is just me sharing some of the things, how we've been six major live events where we've been coaching, teaching, vision boarding, all the things to try to give folks the tools and encouragement so they can move to the next step.
Speaker 2:Right, so we're living out God's love by actually doing the work. It's one thing to say you're assigned, you're anointed, but it's another thing to do the work. If he puts you on the job and in your heart, he tells you to go pray for that person, he's not telling you to go gossip, tell the person the Lord told me to tell you. He's not telling you that he's just asking you to pray. He will take care of the rest and a lot of times, y'all, when he puts someone on our heart and the Holy Spirit he tells you to pray for so-and-so. It's more of a test of your obedience If you can't pray for someone who you think is below you. Right, just being honest, right, especially some of us you know, overly educated, and bishops, you know, and the mother of the board and all you know, these Christians with titles If you can't, you know, and the mother of the board and all you know, these Christians with titles, if you can't, you know, follow a simple instruction and follow simple obedience. That's a testament to where you are in your walk with him. So, living out God's love means like when he gives you something that you think is below you, you still going to do it. We were able to bless a whole school this year, right, and again, that was through an act of obedience and yielding to Jesus and listening to what he says, right? So these are again examples of living out God's love. So here's a lesson that I learned yesterday when it comes to living out his love. Also, and I want to again, when I say living out his love. My intention is not to tell you that if somebody hurts you because, again, this was, this is something.
Speaker 2:I have my personal journey. I have abandonment issues. I've always had a hard time. I will just ghost you but I have had. You know, amen, thank you. Thank you, dr Tracy. I have always had trouble. I will distance and remove myself, but I have a hard time just removing people out, period. I just always had that.
Speaker 2:But I had seen this coming and literally I needed God to do some things in my life to prepare me for Remember, I told you, I've been praying self-evaluation, lord. What did I miss? What did I do? What do I need to improve? How could I be? I want to be. Listen, I'm 2025, is my year, like that's? That's how, literally, how I talk. On the job too, I you know this has been an incredible, successful year and you know, lord, I can't wait for what's coming next year, but prepare me for more.
Speaker 2:So, in order to prepare me for more, he had to work on my mindset and one of the glitches, if you will, that I had was not being willing to let go of dead things, dead relationship, dead attitudes, like the way I thought about my finance, the way I thought about what obedience truly looks like. I've been. You know, I'm just telling you I've been disobedient in some things because I was like nobody want to hear from me. Why do I need to do that? I've been disobedient in some things. So part of my self-evaluation and what the Lord started to show me was, in order for you to get ready for what's coming, you have to be disciplined. Then he started to show me all of the different things and what discipline means and breaking that out for where we're going and how we need that.
Speaker 2:So living out God's love still means that I have to hearken to his voice. When he gives correction. I literally read I think it's Hebrews 12. I believe it was Hebrews 12. And I read that out. Y'all go back. It was a Saturday teaching where I talked about discipline and what it meant. What God's word says that he corrects his sons and daughters. He corrects us. So we're in a season where we're being prepared for what's coming, which is greatness right that we're declaring that victory for ourselves in every area. But we have to hearken to his voice. We have to listen to what he's saying and it's through his love. It's living out. You know when he's saying, you know when he's teaching us these things. It's not to hurt or harm us.
Speaker 2:Sometimes we really think that you know God's not going to give me what I want because he don't love me. That's not true. That's not true. Let love be genuine. Let love be real. So the love that we have for him is mirrored back y'all. And I just want you to, just even today, as you're going through your day, maybe just take a moment and just receive that God truly loves you, hot mess and all mistakes and all. He truly, truly loves you. I mean, sometimes, when I think and I look on the blessings in my life, when I look on his grace and how he's moved he's literally moving I say this prayer Lord, demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit through me, right, because he's in us. Right, demonstrate your power through me. Give me wisdom and understanding and show me the mysteries. Glorify yourself through me, because he's got to we're on earth. Right, he's got to work through people, right, so glorify yourself through me. But it's because of his love, it's his grace that allows that to happen. But we have to receive how much he loves us, mess, as we all, you know, we see folks, pastors, you know prophetess, all the things, right, all the title folks, and you look at some of them and you're like, how you know? How are they? You know, how is this thing? Why is this still? Why it looks like God's still blessing someone when they're not perfect. Well, he already knows their story. He knows they're not perfect. Well, he already knows their story. He knows they're not perfect.
Speaker 2:Jesus is in the business of using busted things to make things beautiful. He was a carpenter. Carpenters, carve, create that's what they do. Right, when Jesus came to be a carpenter, it was for a specific reason. It's what they do. Carpenters take literally nothing and they whittle it and they purify things. They break things down right Through, you know, with wood, and they create these immensely beautiful creations. Right, right, that's what they do, if you think about it that way. So he is taking you, broken as you are, and he's carving you and shaping you. And that carving and shaping sometimes it hurts. It means that you do have to let go of people, places and things so that when he's done, you're this beautiful, you're in your full purpose, you're exactly who he meant for you to be right, and when you are walking in God's love, when you're walking in the grace he's given you, when you are walking out your real assignment, nothing on the face of this earth can come against you. Trust me, people will try, but his love is real. So that's what I wanted to share.
Speaker 2:I told you I'm going to be a little bit scattered this morning because this is a tough one. It's a lesson that we're all learning. I'm just going to grab Dr True Tracy's notes real quick If I can. Hopefully I can show it here on the screen if I don't lose it. And she was saying this little line has blessed me tremendously. This is the prayer prayer group prayer phone line. I joined the ministry in 2023.
Speaker 2:God refocused me on him. God burned and trimmed off some things in my life that were not serving his purpose, and that is absent. And and and and. Hold on. She says. And then God gave me all the desires of my heart. That's what I'm talking about. Thank you, dr Tracy, for wrapping it. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:He had to trim off some stuff and it wasn't easy. Trust me, I'm not saying any of this is easy because some of the old habits that I had. It was easier to walk that way. It was easier to watch any show I wanted. You know what I'm saying. It was easier to go anywhere I wanted. It was easier to go along with the crowd. It's much lonelier to be on this side, but it's so much more fulfilled.
Speaker 2:And if I didn't yield to him, if I didn't have my heart, heart, posture is how do I serve him? And if I didn't do that, then I'm telling you I wouldn't see any of the blessings and any of the success. And I am. And again, for those of y'all who've had an incredibly successful year, say it and thank God, because, hiding the fact that you had a great year, a successful year, who is that going to, please? I tell people all the time because they know I'm at the end of it. Thanks be to God, I had the most successful year and I thank God for the victory that's coming next year and all the elevation. I'm always praising him. So please don't swallow your testimony because somebody else wasn't as successful as you are. Maybe your success encourages someone else. It is how we respond to it, right? It's that when we're successful, we don't use it to belittle other people. We don't use it to judge someone else.
Speaker 2:If we can, if God tells you to, then he'll show you how to uplift the folks around you. Right, if he gives you a specific word, pray first and God will. If it truly is a word for someone, he's going to give them a heart to receive. But he's also going to. He's going to challenge you as well, because, as the word says, let love be genuine, let it be for real. So, lord, we thank you for just reminding us this morning that your love for us is for real, that all of us busted up chipped vessels, every single one of us have fallen short, but we thank you, god, that the love that you have for us is so tremendous that we cannot even understand it. Well, we're receiving that love this morning.
Speaker 2:I thank you for every person under the sound of my voice, whether they're going through something or they've just come out of something, that you remind them of the power of the love, the love that you have for us, especially giving us hope in this season, lord God, as we're closing out a tremendously successful year. You know, I even thank you, lord, because there were doors that were closed, there were people that were lost, there was a lot of hurt and pain, but even then, you have still provided for us, those who have been left behind because we've lost family members. You have still provided a way out for us. For those who are still waiting to hear from you, we are still shouting hallelujah and thanking you, lord, because you are providing a way out for them as well. For those who are preparing now closing this season, lord maybe they're waiting to see if the blessing is going to come through in the next couple of weeks I say thank you, god, for your love, that you're going to bless them, and for the no's. We even thank you for the no's when we prayed for the thing and you said no because you knew why. You understand the much bigger picture.
Speaker 2:I thank you for preparing our hearts for discipline in 2025. So we'll stay focused on what it is that you've assigned for each and every one of us. We won't fall into the trap of just having our ears tickled. Lord. God, we'll always come back to you, holy Spirit, and you will put us on the right track.
Speaker 2:Lord, I ask that you will cover and protect every person under the sound of my voice, if there was anything that was intended to hurt or harm them in any way. The sound of my voice. If there was anything that was intended to hurt or harm them in any way, any spiritual deceit or chaos, any lies or confusion, that it is destroyed now. And I thank you for the peace that you have given us. I thank you for your love that covers us. I thank you for all and every success, for every person under the sound of my voice. I thank you for declaring victory, as you said at the very beginning, as you gave me plain as day that the angel of the Lord has already gone ahead before us and declared victory. So you have declared victory over this year for us, and we're taking that into the next year as well.
Speaker 2:I thank you for the victory in everything, all the testimonies that we'll have at the end of this year of your greatness and your goodness and your love. All of these things, oh God, are possible only because of your son, jesus, whom we serve. We belong to you, jesus, we love you, we honor you and we adore you. So I thank you for every person, lord, god, who's waiting right now for a word that you will hearken to their prayers. You'll hear them and you will release help in this moment. Thank you, jesus, for all that you have done. We stand in agreement with what heaven says about us, that we are victors in Christ. Amen, amen, y'all Right, amen.
Speaker 2:So that is it, like I said, I'm sorry it was a little bit scattered. I am literally living it out as we speak, and so I will be back next Thursday. Please don't forget to like the video, if you could. If you have a prayer request, you can drop it in the comments section. Y'all, I promise we pray, I promise we do it. But again, I just want to just take just a quick moment and just say thank y'all. All right, that's it for me. I love y'all. Jesus loves you more and I'll be back on. Actually, I'll be back on Saturday. I gotta stop skipping my days. I'll be back on Saturday. You can catch up on all the faith field. They're much shorter teachings on Saturdays, but you'll see them. If you're following this channel, you'll be able to get the notification on the YouTube streets. All right, love y'all, take care Bye.