Episode #54// Wholehearted: You Can Let Go with Alexandra Hoover

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This conversation with Alexandra Hoover is so life-giving. We discuss what it means to let go of offense, which is rooted in pride and making an idol of our pain. She pulls no punches as she tells us how God led her on a journey of learning to forgive, which is a part of living a life of full surrender to Him. If you’re struggling with letting go of past hurts and holding on to pain, this episode is for you!

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Alexandra Hoover is an accomplished and best-selling author, ministry leader, sought-after national speaker, and Bible teacher whose diverse roles showcase her unique blend of gifts and experiences. With a passion for inspiring others through her writing and teaching, she brings a profound depth of insight and compassion to her work. Alexandra's commitment to faith and her dynamic leadership make her a guiding light for those seeking spiritual growth and understanding.

She has the privilege of serving on staff at her local Church in Charleston, SC, and spends her days loving on her family and stewarding the gifts placed before her.

MEMORABLE QUOTES

Surrender [is] the really stingy, painful, dying to self kind where you are continuously being renewed by God's word, by God's character.

When I hear loving God wholeheartedly, I'm like, it means dying to myself completely as the Lord helps me to do that.

All of life is worship. 

The longer we walk in our faith, the more susceptible we are to being complacent in our faith.

I forgot to take myself to him every day to say like, "God clean what needs to be cleaned, redeem what needs to be restored."

We should be growing in our spiritual habits.

We are not equipped to handle when people let us down or hurt us, and so our pain becomes an identity and the symptom of that, like the fruit of the root, is one of them is rejection.

Hurt is going to come, but it doesn't have to hold us hostage.

The point of contention in every human being's life is a personal letdown.

When we are able to walk in full humility and awareness of what God has done, we are willing to forgive.

My choice to live offended is a choice I have to make every day, whether I'm going to or not.

When God begins to reveal to us these places of our lives that are really just incredibly wounded, He wants nothing more in that moment to comfort you.

Jesus was saying..."I want complete healing for you."

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