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Are you spiritually fatigued and ready to embrace the reality of Psalm 37:4? Get ready to hear how you can delight in the Lord as Stephanie Rousselle shares her story behind Awaken Delight.
Welcome to Your Best Writing Life, an extension of the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference held in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of NC. I’m your host, Linda Goldfarb. Each week, I bring tips and strategies from writing and publishing industry experts to help you excel in your craft. It’s great to have you listening in. During this episode, we continue a new addition to Your Best Writing Life with The Story Behind the Stories series.
Today’s guest, Stephanie Rousselle, is a Bible teacher, speaker, host of the Gospel Spice podcast, and founder of Gospel Spice Ministries. She is the author of "Awaken Delight", a book that releases with IVP in July 2026. Born and raised in France, Stephanie is a former atheist whose life motto is now “God’s glory, our delight.” Having lived in four different countries on three continents, she currently resides with her family in Pennsylvania.
We all want to know the story behind Awaken Delight – give us some background
"Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart."
This is God's promise to you in Psalm 37:4. But many believers quietly assume it's just a poetic suggestion, or it doesn't really work here on earth.
In Awaken Delight, Stephanie Rousselle invites you to rediscover what Scripture actually means by delight in God. It's not emotional hype or religious performance, but a steady satisfaction rooted in who God is.
Through biblical theology and practical rhythms, you'll learn how delighting in God:
· reshapes suffering
· quiets restless striving
· anchors your identity in God's unshakable delight in you
Learning to delight in God is the quiet revolution that reshapes how we endure pain, love others, and understand our own hearts.
Awaken Delight is a theologically grounded spiritual formation book for thoughtful believers who feel spiritually fatigued and are ready to embrace the reality of Psalm 37:4.
· Delight in God is identity-shaping, not emotion-driven. Delight in God is not a fleeting emotion but a resilient identity.
· Delight in God is altogether trust, satisfaction in God, relational intimacy with Him.
· Delight in God is often expressed and grown through resilient joy under suffering.
· Delight in God is the missing engine behind resilience. It’s the antidote to burnout. It’s even the foundation for sustainable ministry.
· God’s delight in you is secure, not performance-dependent. God’s delight in you frees you from striving! That’s the beginning of delight.
· Jesus is the center of every endeavor to delight in God.
· You can build a delight-centered spiritual life.
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What Listeners Will Gain - We will dismantle the lies writers believe.
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We have 3 gifts for you:
1 - a 5-day email devotional to awaken your delight in God, rooted in His delight of you;
2 - a private podcast episode where Stephanie shares the lies she has overcome, as a writer, through delight in God;
3 - a "writer's prayer" ready to download and print.
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