POLISHED JEMS: Recent Episodes
Jacinta Martin
A conversation series where we will dive deeper into how you can develop, rebuild and rediscover your shine with the nine fruits of God's Spirit.
In season 1 episode 32, Jacinta Martin shares three tips for us to start growing in our Christian journey. First, learning gentleness from God and how to apply it to ourselves and others, Jacinta reveals biblical evidence to help us heal and rebuild.
In season 1 episode 31, Jacinta Martin looks at the power of sound and three ways the fruit of gentleness plays an important role. Looking through the biblical references regarding sound, Jacinta helps us see how we can be gentle with ourselves and others.
In season 1 episode 30, Jacinta Martin and Marquita Young inform us of how we can be gentle with other people's secrets as well as our own. By examining these two ways, Marquita provides biblical evidence that we can use to help us keep information confidential and even recognize when we can't.
In season 1 episode 29, Jacinta Martin and Marquita Young reveals God's gentleness through their contentment by the examples of their personal experiences. Also, Marquita provides seven questions for us to ask God to show about ourselves regarding our contentment and His gentleness.
In season 1 episode 28, Jacinta Martin asks us a question that helped her examine her heart regarding obedience to God. It was that question used by Holy Spirit to show her how our acts of service we do as instructed by God need to be rooted in love so we may heal and rebuild kindness in our lives.
In season 1 episode 27, Jacinta Martin shares her recent encounter of kindness shown in her life and five ways that we can demonstrate it daily in our lives and to those around us.
In season 1 episode 26, Jacinta Martin and Marquita Young provides six tips for how we can give and receive correction with love and kindness. Breaking down how we can more effectively use and take correction, Jacinta and Marquita shows us how important it is to our growth process in our lives.
In season 1 episode 25, Marquita Young asks us to examine how kindness benefits us as well as others. There are times when God will ask us to show compassion in situations that seem the most difficult. Marquita provides evidence that our blessing is within the instruction God gives during that time and offers a prayer we can say to help encourage ourselves to follow Him even when we don't fully understand.
In season 1 episode 24, Jacinta Martin shares how we can protect our "yes." By sharing her experience of not wanting to miss promises or opportunities of God, she gave her yes to everything and everyone. Using the three tips that Holy Spirit gave her, Jacinta shows how we can use them to help avoid burnout.
In season 1, episode 23, Jacinta Martin shares three ways to rebuild this area when we heal from anger. Through some helpful questions that we can ask ourselves and tips from the bible, we can learn to heal from anger and gain back our self-control in the process.
In season 1 episode 22 of POLISHED JEMS, our host Jacinta Martin interviews a special guest, Nakeisa Jackson about self-control and the way God taught her how to walk out this fruit through gaining the fruit of temperance.
Nakeisa Jackson is an author, speaker, and ministry leader of Flow Connection Ministries. She also coaches women on how to develop their relationship with God through coaching, blogs, her podcast, YouTube Channel, and events. She is currently living in Atlanta, GA with her husband and children. To find out more about Nakeisa, visit her website: www.flowconnectionministries.com
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In season 1 episode 21, Marquita Young explains self-control by examining what we speak in our lives and the lives of others. By controlling what we say can help change things in our life for the better.
In season 1 episode 20, Jacinta Martin and Marquita Young shares seven bible verses to help us evaluate self-control in the world in which we live. Through three different areas, Marquita Young allows us to look at self-control and how to apply it.
In season 1 episode 19, Jacinta Martin shares with us her revelation from Holy Spirit regarding the connections in her life. She shares the three ways to discover how God demonstrates his goodness through our divine relationships.
In season 1 episode 18, Marquita Young shares with us God's goodness in the midst of asking God to help her identify her purpose. On the journey to discover what she was created to do, Marquita shares five questions that we can ask ourselves to help gain more clarity if we are walking in the purpose that God created for us.
In season 1 episode 17, Jacinta Martin reveals how to rebuild our belief in God's goodness by sharing eight thoughts to meditate on throughout our day. By shifting our focus from our circumstances to these eight principles, we can open our hearts to receive and accept the good things of God.
In season 1 episode 16, Jacinta Martin speaks with Marquita Young about her testimony of how she experienced the goodness of the Lord through uncertain situations. Through her story we can see how much God truly loves and cares for us.
In season 1, episode 15 Jacinta Martin shares with you her moment of having to confront her lack of patience and share a 3 step strategy for how to gain your patience back while drawing closer to God.
In season 1, episode 14, Jacinta Martin and Marquita Young ask us to examine our patience. Are you striving to be as patient with others as God is patient with you? In this podcast, they break down the scripture Psalms 86:15 and provide questions we can use to see where our patience currently is and how to exercise it better in our everyday life.
In season 1, episode 13, Jacinta Martin shares her story of impatiently desiring to see transformation in her life to where she also missed what God had done for her. With these three tips, Jacinta shows us how God helped her begin rebuilding patience and provides practical ways for you to do the same.
In episode 12 of season 1, Jacinta Martin and Marquita Young, asks us to examine how we are waiting on God. Marquita walks us through her struggles with waiting for God to show up for her. While also asking us to review how we wait on God. Jacinta and Marquita hope that sharing their experience with impatience and growth in patience will help our listeners to strengthen the fruit of patience for themselves.
In episode 11 of Season 1, Jacinta Martin shares what happened in her personal life that allowed her to learn more about the power of forgiveness along with steps on how you can begin the process. Are you ready to rebuild by forgiving yourself and others to make room for love?
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In this episode 10 of Season 1, Jacinta Martin shares how to love God's way from the perspective of agape love. Learning to love unconditionally is not something that comes natural to us but with the help of God we can develop and grow in this area of love. Jacinta shares what is agape love along with examples of the type of relationship it can be and 3 questions to ask God about how to create a deeper agape love with him.
In this episode, Jacinta Martin and Marquita Young discuss the ten commandments. The Bible says loving God is keeping his commandments. How could we honestly say we love God if we didn’t know if we are living out his commandments? A good deal of people may find it hard to keep the commandments but God desires to see us making an effort and repenting for our transgressions (sins) daily.
In this episode, Jacinta Martin and Marquita Young and ask us to examine our hearts regarding the question, are you loving others where they are in their growth? Loving others where they are is not always easy due to we all grow at different rates, but God loves to help us overcome the obstacles that come to keep us stagnant.
In this episode of Polished Jems, our host Jacinta Martin interviews special guest Rena Laster about maintaining joy in our lives which is taken from her blog, Joy Bells Ringing In My Soul. As a transformational life coach, Rena shares ten affirmations to help speak joy over your life. She imparts wisdom and hope as others are motivated to make the necessary changes in their lives to produce fruit and fulfill God’s purpose for their life.
Follow Rena Laster on Facebook at All Things Canady, her blog renacanadylaster.wordpress.com and check her radio show, All Things Canady, on Wednesdays at 2 pm on the Light.live online or in the app store.
In this episode, our host, Jacinta Martin, asks us to examine the question, Have you ever experienced circumstantial joy? Along with defining circumstantial joy and sharing tips that you can take toward achieving rebuilding your joy.
In this episode, Jacinta Martin and Marquita Young reflect on the year 2020 into 2021. Nobody expected to have so many ups and downs and twists and turns so it’s time to reflect on the joys of the past year. It’s time to sit and think about all that you have accomplished and all the things you look forward to accomplishing this year. It’s also time to ponder the trials and tribulations and the lessons you have learned or should have learned from them, so you won’t repeat them in the days ahead. Last, focus on the fruit of the spirit, which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Galatians 5:22-23 (NLT)
In this episode, Jacinta Martin and Marquita Young look deeper into the ways to get and maintain your joy! We know that joy can be hard to find because we don't always consciously try to seek after it. Often, we will take the time to pinpoint what or who hurt us and what's not going right. We will search out the negative in most cases before trying to figure out what or who brings joy or what can replace our sadness with joy.
In this episode, Jacinta Martin and Marquita Young explore why we should not put all of our faith in people and where our faith should lie. Along with providing tips for how to exercise your faith when it comes to interacting with people. When you are in a season of rebuilding, knowing who and what to put trust in matters most. Have you experienced the letdown that comes with putting your faith in people? If so, join us for our conversation series on faithfulness!
In this episode, join Jacinta Martin as she shares with you how to rebuild your faith. Many of us have faced some challenging situations, but it seems as 2020 has produced a whirlwind of multiple storms. Over time going through numerous things all at once can cause our souls to be weighted down to the point of almost feeling crushed. Where we sometimes began to feel weary, so let's dive deeper into the question, “How can we rebuild our faith?”
Introducing POLISHED JEMS, where we will discuss how to use the nine fruits of God's Spirit as tools to help rebuild and rediscover our shine in the areas of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.