Your Calling is Real, Even if they Don’t See it
In this deeply personal episode of She is Courageous, Rachel speaks candidly about the ache and tension of knowing you’re called by God—but feeling unseen, unwanted, or excluded by people around you. Drawing from her own journey in ministry, she explores how rejection from others doesn’t invalidate God’s calling and emphasizes that obedience sometimes requires stepping out of comfort zones and traditional “safe” roles.
Rachel challenges women to distinguish comfort from calling and encourages listeners not to shrink back, even when the cost is misunderstanding or isolation. She reminds us that boldness isn’t arrogance—it’s faith in action.
Show Notes
Key Topics:
Wrestling with God’s call when others don’t see it
Feeling uninvited to the table of ministry
The difference between comfort and calling
Women in ministry beyond “safe zones”
Rejection vs. God’s redirection
Boldness as humility and obedience
Encouragement not to shrink back
Scripture References:
Hebrews 10:39 - “But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.”
Galatians 1:10 - “For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.”
Hebrews 11:16 - “But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.”
Isaiah 43:1 - “But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.’”
Zephaniah 3:17 - “The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”
Romans 8:16-17 - “The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.”
Ephesians 2:1 - “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
1 John 3:1 - “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.”
