Apr 25, 2022
Kimberly Hobbs
Welcome to empowering lives with purpose. And I'm your host
Kimberly Hobbs. I'm the founder of Women world leaders. Ladies, we
are so blessed that you decide to join us today. Thank you and I
would love to welcome our guest today which is Justino page she is
from Richmond, Texas. Welcome Justina.
Justina Page
It is my delight to be here. Kimberly. Thank you.
Kimberly Hobbs
Wow. Well, we are truly honored to have you here. You are an
amazing woman of God. And ladies, you are in for a treat today just
to talk and hear about hope from this woman is wow, what she's been
through. Just wait till you hear the story. And again, we are just
honored to be able to share today Justina. So God's word says they
overcame him by the blood of the Lamb. When by the word of their
testimony, that's revelation 1211. Ladies, it's so important that
when God gives us these stories of our lives, that we share them
with the world, there is so much power in these testimonies, God's
word says so inside and we are just grateful to be able to share
these times and on empowering lives with purpose. That is what we
do. So God says that we are His masterpiece that we are created a
new in Christ Jesus to do the very good things that he planned for
us long ago. Ladies, each of our lives has meaning each of our
lives has purpose. God planned good things for you very long ago.
And despite some of the things that can happen in our lives,
there's purpose and we cannot give up hope in the midst of the
storms that we're going through. And so we are going to talk about
that a little bit today and I'm going to share about Justine on who
she is before we get started on talking about hope. Justina Paige,
is an international speaker and a national storyteller who speaks
with boldness and refreshing honesty and touches the hearts of her
audiences. Just Dina is a woman of faith whose faith was tested by
fire seriously tested by fire. She now inspires audiences with a
powerful message of hope and triumph. She is the author of the
award winning book the circle of fire, which tells the story of how
Justine this life was changed forever. She is the author of 17
other literary works. And from the ashes of fire, A New Hope has
emerged and Justine this life. She is the founder and executive
director of the Amis house of faith, a nonprofit organization
established to provide provide post burn support to children as
well as families that are affected by burn trauma. She's a
podcaster, a lyricist, and a supporting actress in the award
winning faith based movie. We are stronger. And also the TV series
Breaking strongholds. Wow. You are a superstar for Christ Justyna
you are also a survivor honey. And today's story is about hope.
It's a story of survival. And Justina it's your heartbeat of
survival. Many of us can relate ladies to tragedies in our lives,
and how sometimes our hope is squashed in those tragedies. But we
don't have hope. If we don't have hope we don't have anything
right. Nothing to hold on to. So just Steena share with us a little
bit about your story and how your hope was squashed.
Justina Page
I'll be glad to share. Kimberly, first of all, I came to the Lord
on the college campus, met my husband, who was the Bible study
teacher, he became my friend. He became my teacher. He asked me to
marry him. And then we moved to Houston, Texas, and we started
getting busy. We had six months. Life was good. I was over the
children's ministry. He was a deacon in the church. And I remember
going to a big window in my home because everyone said I was such a
woman of faith. And I asked God a question and I will like, Lord,
if something happened in my life, would I be able to stand? And I
wanted to know what I was made up. I advise, don't ask God, those
kinds of questions. Just believe you can do that. Anyway. I asked
that question. It was two weeks later, I woke up to explosions.
TVs, Poppins, complete darkness, not the stuff you hear in
Hollywood see on TV in Hollywood, you can't see a thing in the
heat. My skin just melting off of me. And my husband just threw me
out just a natural reaction. And my boys were homeschooled. So they
knew to go to the window. We had the point inside the house, we had
the point outside of the house. Anyway, the whole house in full
flourishing, I tried to go back in and save the children. And I
could not I got trapped, the longest story. And up it was I
personally was burned over 55% of my body. My other twin son was
burned severely. We lost amis, tragically at the very end, and we
lost everything we had.
Kimberly Hobbs
Oh, my goodness, I can't even imagine. I mean, your whole house
went up in flames. And you watched it. And tragically, you lost
your son through that time. I just can't imagine. So. At that
moment, your hope was shattered. You saw everything disappear
before your eyes, not to mention the pain and trauma that you are
in. You are in.
That's right.
When we feel hopeless, ladies, God, God's word tells us why. Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God, I will praise him again, my Savior and my god, Psalm 4211. Justina God stepped in, he stepped inside of your life at that time. And you told me on our conversations, before that, you started to learn that it wasn't about you. through all that pain, which is understandable, your focus is on all of your grief, all of what you're going through. That's all you can see. And I'm sure there's ladies out there that are real relating to this right now. Because when you're going through something so tragic, and I can't even I can't even fathom what the loss of your son the pain on your body, the pain of your children that you're taking care of. Because of the burns. You're focused on you. But you told me you learned something through that time, which was life revolved around God's world, and not your will. And it all hinges on his will for our lives. Just you know what gave you hope and brought you from pain to that point, because it's kind of difficult to even understand or wrap your head around how you can even get from saying that life doesn't revolve around you. Can you share with us about that?
Justina Page
Absolutely. I'll never forget it. I was in a car in front of my
best friend's house for my first fellowship. After a year of
recovery. I saw women walking in with their little children, who
happened to be at the age where I lost my son, Amos went into a
complete temper tantrum with God, why me? Why me? Oh, God, why me?
Why they have their children. Why don't I have mine? And I'll never
forget what he spoke to me. And he told me this, this is not about
you. And I was like, Well, it sure involved a lot of me for it not
to be about me. Could you please expand on that, please? And he let
me know that. We mistakenly feel like Jesus revolves around on
nothing. But it doesn't work that way. We revolve around and all
things work together for good, ugly things, bad things, tragic
things. He's working them for our booth in his for his glory. And
the one thing that I learned that is powerful, and it guides me to
this day, is that instead of asking God, why He gave me a better
question to ask, and that's what now because even if you know why,
it's not going to change a thing, but if you know what now you can
make a step out of grief, out of disturbance, and you can step
toward that hope in that peace that you so need
Kimberly Hobbs
Thats right. And that's maybe that's you ladies maybe right now
you're going through something so tragic that you can't even talk
about it. But what will get you through that? And we're gonna go
into that a little bit right now because on God's Word says, show
me the right path Oh Lord, point out the road for me to follow,
lead me by your truth and teach me for you are the God who saves
me. All day long I put my hope in you that Psalm 25, four through
five ladies, we need to put our hope in God, we can't look around
us and think that the world is going to solve our problems where we
are. We need to look to God who gives us the hope that we need to
sustain us to get us through. So let's talk right now about the
fruit of hope. Justyna you said to me in our conversations, you
were talking about this fruit of hope, Justina recovered hope,
ladies, so much can be produced from a spirit of hope. All we need
is just that glimmer of hope. And it gives us something to hold on
to right? So just can you be transparent with the ladies about what
you did in your life from the ashes of tragedy to where he has
brought you now. And hopefully you can bring some of these other
ladies that are listening. That mean may need some help at this
moment?
Justina Page
Sure. First of all I want to start off with hope is the heartbeat
of survival. When any medical emergency happens, if you call the
paramedics, the first thing they're going to do is check for a
pulse. And we have to have some kind of spiritual pulse. They don't
you when the medic show up, it doesn't mean that you're totally
well. They just want to make sure you're alive. Or check out
challenge is to keep our communication lines open with God to not
shut down to not and I did that I got depressed. I got discouraged.
I got even angry. But
Kimberly Hobbs
Rightfully so, you went through a lot. Oh my goodness.
Justina Page
Yeah. But, um unrightfully because God's character doesn't change
with our tragedies. He's the same today. Yesterday, it'll be the
same tomorrow. He's still a Good Good Father, even when we're
having a tragic bad day. So we just need a pulse. We just need an
ember of hope, just a flicker, something to hold on to anything you
can grab on, that you know about your God. Hold on to that. And
then you'll get better and better and better and better.
Kimberly Hobbs
Amen. Look for that glimmer of hope, ladies, and you can find it
and you could find it. In the Lord Jesus Christ. You could find it
in His Word, you know, turn to his word when you are hurting so bad
and nothing around you seems to be satisfying your soul. That hope
will come when you open up God's word and let that pour into your
life. I love all the time to just share scripture and the place
you're in now Justina didn't just happen, you didn't go from I
mean, I'm I'm looking at your arms and the burns. Visually ladies,
if you can see Justine is covered with scarring from burns. And
where you were then in all of that time and pain and suffering, we
can't even imagine. But God brought you to a place it didn't just
happened. But you were reassured that eternity is real through
Jesus Christ, right? That's right. It didn't just poof you know, it
happened and all of a sudden, oh, God is here and he's gonna solve
all my problems. He brought you to a place the Bible says, Listen,
ladies, this is a great verse. When you're in the midst of pain and
you can't think about anything else except dwell on your pain, you
don't have hope. You have nothing and you're just wallowing in that
pity and that depression that you get into this is what the Bible
says. Think clearly. Exercise self control. Look forward to the
gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is
revealed to the world First Peter 113. Ladies there is hope in
Jesus Christ there is hope he gives us something to hold on to and
God gave gave you hope, just Steena. And now you're serving Him.
This is years later, as you have moved through all of the pain that
you had to deal with day after day after day, month after month,
year after year, he moved you to a place that he is now using you
to reveal hope to the world. You're the author of 18 books, the big
one circle of fire that you have written has impacted lives because
of its content. But God gave you something to hold on to. He gave
you that hope. He knew that he was going to use this story. And you
were going to write about it and share with the world that glimmer
of hope that he gave you. So can you talk about these books that
you're writing and circle of fear? Or of circle of fire? Yes,
sure.
Justina Page
And I want to say first that God cares. He's touched with the
feeling of our infirmities, he is our comfort. And then in
Ecclesiastes, this says God makes everything beautiful in his time.
And in time, God walked me right up to the book. Personally, I
wasn't thinking about writing books, I had started a nonprofit,
that was my work, I was excited, I was going all over the states,
trying to prevent tragedies like mine, and then on the backside,
help those who experienced the tragedies. But people begin to say
you need to share your wisdom. I'm like, I don't have time to share
my wisdom. There's like, well, if you write the book, the proceeds
can go to your nonprofit. And guess what, Kim? I found time, I'm
like, That's a great idea. And so I wrote that first book. And I
think the reason why the book did well, first of all, it was
transparent. And it was honest, I didn't just share my glory side
of the story. I shared the trouble, and just showed how God can get
you through it. And after that books kept coming, of course, I've
always written but it was a season to publish. So that's what
transpired with the books.
Kimberly Hobbs
Wow, so then you just started writing for the Lord. And he used you
in such a powerful way, ladies, as the Bible said that God is
working in you giving you the desire and the power to do what
pleases Him. I love sharing this verse Philippians 213, God is
working in all of us, right? And he started working in Justina she
didn't think she was a writer. She was like, why me God, you know,
but he gave her that desire and that power to do what pleases him
just like that scripture says Philippians 213. And ladies, he could
do the same for you. And now she is able to use what the devil
meant for harm. And that tragic fire. God, as she said, in her
scripture that she uses, had works everything together for good for
those who love him and are called according to His purpose, right?
We know Justine, that he called you, with your life, and we are so
grateful. And now you speak all over, you share your story. And we
are so thankful that you decided to come on today and share your
story with us, ladies, it's our hope that by listening that God
touches your heart two, we all just, you know, we need those
glimmers of hope, when we have tragedy or storms that hit our life.
And sometimes it's hard to come out of that world that we get stuck
in, when we can get depressed or when we are, you know, just weary
from the storm that has hit us. And I just want to encourage you
that we have many tools that women were leaders because we want to
encourage you. We want to encourage you in your walk with Jesus, to
look up to look to His scriptures follow after Him because that's
where your hope lies. Your hope lies in Jesus Christ. One of the
books that we had put out a few years ago by women world leaders,
it's tears to triumph. It's releasing pain to receive God's
restoration. Ladies, there are so many stories of hope in here.
This is an amazing tool that you can use to give you some glimmers
of hope through other women's stories of sharing what they have
overcome tears to triumph. It's available through our website at
women world leaders.com And you can also get it on Amazon this book
I went to number one best seller and also international best seller
so we are So grateful for the lives that it's impacting. And
ladies, I also want to share about our voice of Truth magazine.
This magazine comes out quarterly now. It's beautiful. It's done
with excellence. There are authors, writers from all over the world
that God has gathered together and put into one magazine with their
writings. And these writings are inspirational, they do give you
hope. They're full of scriptures full of inspirational stories, all
just for you, and it's for free. The way that you can receive voice
of truth in the mail is if you are a US resident, you just go to
our website, women world leaders.com. And look up the voice of
Truth magazine. And if you scroll down, there's a place for you to
subscribe for free. And then if you are outside of the United
States, this is available digitally, ladies. So we would encourage
you to go to our website. Again, I keep saying that, women world
leaders.com. And look up voice of truth. And you can read it online
digitally as well. It is filled with beautiful pictures, lots of
photography, but amazing God stories that are sure to uplift you.
So I would like to ask you, just Steena as we are getting ready to
close out, can you please share with the ladies? Just something
from your heart to encourage them think about the lady right now
that is tuned in that is going through a horrific tragedy in her
life right now. Can you give her that hope to cling to?
Justina Page
Absolutely. So here's the thing. We mistakenly think that bad
things happen to bad people, and only good things will happen to
good people and that we're good. Well, here's the thing. It's a
thing called life. And it just happens. And what our challenge is,
is to deal with it with our Lord and Savior. As it happens. He's
for us. He's with us. He never leaves us. And he knows what he's
doing. trust his character. Don't worry about a situation. Don't
let the enemy make your situation. The Lord Jesus is Lord.
Kimberly Hobbs
Amen. Jesus is Lord. Thank you so much and Justina again, we are
just so, so grateful to have you with us maybe share a little bit
about your movie that they can tune into. I thought that was so
interesting. And Justine is an actress and share a little bit about
that.
Justina Page
Absolutely. Sure, so there's a movie that my first movie that was
in, it's called we are stronger. It was through reflective media
production. And it is a faith based film that deals with PTSD and
hope that's in Christ. So how you can find hope. And it was any
PTSD, not just military, but it was the story of a bit that it came
home and how it affected his family and all. It's powerful. You can
find it on Pure Flix, you can find it on Amazon Prime. You can also
now find it on YouTube. And it got picked up about by 26. Array big
countries. Yes, wow is translated over there. So we thought that
was just the power of God, God just having to wait in that area,
because the message is about Jesus. So on April 30, we are super
excited. The TV series Breaking strongholds will launch and it will
launch first on YouTube TV. So if you go to reflective media.org,
you can learn all that information. You can maybe even host a watch
party, which is free. Just gather a bunch of friends. So we have
people watching it together all over the world. So super excited
about that. And that deals with this first season is dealing with
teenage suicide. And yeah, it's some powerful stuff. And it's just
a great TV series. I mean, I know I'm in it, but just standing back
and looking. Whoa, this is really good. Yeah.
Kimberly Hobbs
Wow. Wow. And that just makes me so happy just knowing that we have
some content for some of our teen viewers that is faith based.
Exactly.
Justina Page
Wow. And that's why we chose YouTube TV, because that's where that
that demographic is right there in the millions. So we want to put
it where everyone can get Get to it. Free.
Kimberly Hobbs
Amen, so that's April of 2022. And what is the title of it?
Justina Page
Breaking Strongholds
Kimberly Hobbs
Breaking strongholds - what content. Oh, my goodness. Yes. We know
we know there are strongholds that need to be broken, right? Oh, my
goodness. And so Justina also share with us how, if any of our
viewers would like to reach out to you with questions or you know,
further information, how can they reach you Justina?
Justina Page
The easiest way to reach me is simply my email.
Justina@Justinapage.com. Or my website, www.Justinapage.com.
Kimberly Hobbs
Wow. Well, you are a treasure and I am so grateful that God turned
this whole mess into a message and you are beautiful inside and out
just Cena. You wear those beautiful scars with Jesus all over. I
mean, your smile is contagious. It just shines. And I am just so
proud of you just going beyond and sharing your story. And we are
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Justina Page
Oh God, it was my honor.
Kimberly Hobbs
Ah, amen. Amen. God bless you all and till next week, have a
blessed week.