God Stories with Cassie

I sat down with my husbands aunt who shared her story of faith and how God has been faithful to her through small and big moments. She moved to the U.S. from Brazil when she was 22 knowing no English. She has faced loss, depression and hardship as well as many miraculous moments including how God saw her through the hard times. She has such a servants heart and is truly living out her desires of b...

Courtney Doyle is my first friend to be on God Stories this year and her second time on the show. In this conversation she shares her story in the middle of currently walking through the grief of losing both parents within 67 days. She shares powerful ways God has spoken to them in this midst of great pain and how He has been there all along. This was holy ground sitting with Courtney in her attic...

What a gift it is to sit down with Karina and hear her God story. What He has done is nothing short of a miracle. Growing up in an abusive home, then God leading her and her mom and brother to rescue and then leading her family to restoration and reconciliation is truly amazing. They all got to really taste and see the Lord’s goodness and Karina got to really know her friend Jesus that she sang ab...

Happy New Year friends!!! Checking in with some encouragement. You are so loved!!! God is with you. Keep going. Cheering you on always…

Alicia met God and already cultivated a relationship of dependence on Him starting at age 4. She knew Him as Father. Not long after He gave her a heart for the fatherless. She learned about the one child law at age 9, started learning Mandarin by age 11 and started traveling to Taiwan and China at age 15. She moved to Taiwan at age 22 to tell the fatherless they have a Father. The Lord gave her th...

About a year ago Rachel went to be with the Lord. Before she passed, she said “yes!” to sharing her God story on my podcast. Unfortunately she passed before we were able to record. My mom, one of Rachel’s good friends, had the idea to have some of the closest people to Rachel share on her behalf about Rachel and her story. Tarsha, Ginny and my mom, Terri share what they loved about Rachel, how she...

Courtney described her relationship with God as “surface level” until she really needed him after having her twin boys at 26 weeks. Through that experience she grew in relationship and dependence on Him and really began to trust Him. Courtney shared how “sometimes God requires of us to be in a painful place but He is going to be there with us.” She believes that if God has ordained something then...

Tarsha shared her story of growing up in church and learning God’s ways in a deeper way as she started taking some classes and going through some really hard trials. She sought the Lord and sought His wisdom and He was faithful in teaching her and so kind to bless her in new ways after hardship like divorce. She is passionate about living her life in God’s ways now and encourages us to do the same...

Kia grew up going to a church where any belief about God was encouraged. She described feeling a hole in heart where nothing could truly answer the questions she had and satisfy her soul. The Christians she encountered were mostly showing her judgement rather than love which wasn’t leading her to God at all. The Lord was so kind in drawing her in over the years and the walls she had built up slowl...

Tiffany Embers-Holubec shares her story of a rough childhood starting as a pre-teen knowing of her moms affairs and how that ultimately led to the death of her dad and later her mom. She shares how suicide is a permanent solution to temporary problems and is never the answer. Tiffany’s pain led to her making her own bad decisions that caused more pain. God radically saved her life and did gorgeous...

It’s been almost 4 months since I’ve released an episode and I’m so excited to be back with you. I recorded this in January while on bed rest. God gave me a message about “focal points”. I talk about who or what is our focal point and how can we make God our focal point and the benefits/importance of that. God is alive and present with us at all times. He adores us and we can trust Him. ✨ ✨God S...

I greatly enjoyed my conversation with Regina this month! I first heard Regina share her story at a Story Tellers Live gathering and loved getting to hear more in our conversation together. Regina shares about the importance of having a good tribe. That we are better together. She said, “Not just being in proximity but building intimacy and relationship over time. That is what being in community a...

Jocelyn had her first real encounter with the Lord while in Bible College where God spoke to her about her identity. Before that she didn’t feel seen or heard. After hearing God, she stopped caring what other people thought of her. She now knows the only One that really matters sees her and loves her. He led her to start a business, Risen Customs where she gets to spread God’s word. Check it out!...

This is a very personal one for me! I share words my dad wrote on his phone for me after I told him he should write down all of the amazing stories he had. Personal stories from his life. I also share a couple of clips from a recording I took at the beginning of August of my mamaw talking. Little did I know she would pass 3 weeks later. I also share the words I spoke at her funeral. I was so close...

Courtney and I met through my mom and I was instantly eager to hear more of her story. She has amazing stories. We started this conversation talking about how she was first introduced to Jesus through a special woman named Havana. Courtney talked about when it all came together for her and she understood the gospel and gave her life to Christ. She shares about how her family lost everything in hur...

I first saw Mrs. Rhonda Williams on stage powerfully and beautifully singing at Second Baptist Church. Years later she became the Director of Women’s Ministry. I met with her a few times while my son attended pre-school there and she poured into me. I loved getting to know her more. In this episode she shared how she married her husband at 18 and the struggles they faced. She talked about having a...

Chardae is a warrior woman who adores the Lord and knows Him as her all in all. Chardae learned intimacy with the Father at an early age and even more so as she faced really hard circumstances. She learned how not to blame God for man’s mistakes and how not to be bitter towards man as well. We talk about hardship, speaking in tongues, knowing God in all areas and how to invite Him in to our broken...

It was such an incredible blessing for me to sit across the table from Aaron and his wife, Alicia Um to hear his God story in their home. Aaron grew up in South Korea until his family relocated to Spain when he was 17. There he met his now wife of 33 years. He shares with us the hardship they faced with strong cultural differences and people fighting to keep them apart. Aaron’s family was very tra...

To listen to Hannah’s story is to hear God’s faithfulness. Her last words of this conversation are “He is faithful”. That sums up her story. What an incredible one it is. Hannah had a need for acceptance and in her words, had a “massive hole” in her heart. She was always wanting more and more and nothing would fill the empty hole. She found herself facing addiction to alcohol. Hannah said that she...

Rebecca grew up with no stability in her home and craved that love and security which she finally found at the age of 15 when she met her Father God and gave her life to Him. She shares how God healed her heart and then gave her the Godly family she didn’t have growing up. Rebecca shares about their miscarriages, dreams she has received from God and how He has redeemed her story. ✨God Stories wit...

Alix visited America for the very first time in 2001. She was supposed to be in the twin towers the morning of 9/11. God had other plans for her and her tour guide overslept. Alix saw the second plane hit the building with her own eyes. You don’t want to miss her story. But what happened after that for her is especially special! Her encounter with Jesus changed the very trajectory of her life. Ali...

Kelli Lomax shares her story of healing and how once God healed her, He then used her as a healing agent to other people as she says in our conversation. We talked a lot about how He led Kelli to inviting people of different faiths and cultures into her home and genuinely loving and caring about people. We talked about loving your neighbor, why to do that and how to do that well. Her story is beau...

Alicia Searl went from being a homeschool mom for years to now being a published writer with 3 girls in Elementary, Middle and High School. She shares her story of motherhood and writing. Alicia struggled with infertility, postpartum depression, and unexpected pregnancy. She started writing to help herself get through struggles of motherhood. At some point she felt God calling her to share her wri...

Kara Potts grew up in an Air Force, Jesus loving family that she was adopted into. She moved around her whole life until her and her husband started having children. Kara shares about living on mission and what it means to “go beyond”. She also shares how she was content and so happy with her life and how it had been pretty easy until 2018. She shares “the storms” that happened that year and how b...

Doreen Mellor joins us from the U.K. sharing her story of forgiveness towards her dad who she didn’t spend much time with growing up. She said he was more absent than present. The story of reconciliation had us both in tears. She gives encouragement for us all and shares how God became her rock. Doreen also shares how the Lord led her and her husband to help plant churches in a different town from...