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Quiet Contentment :: Sadie Robertson Huff + Korie Robertson
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In episode two of our Summer Recap Series, Shelley Giglio sits down with Sadie Robertson Huff and Korie Robertson for an honest and encouraging conversation about faith, family, purpose, and becoming who God created you to be. Together, they reflect on everything from Passion Conference moments to vulnerability, contentment, spiritual discipline, and trusting God’s timing. This conversation is full of wisdom, personal stories, and reminders that God is faithful to guide every step of our lives.
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Hey, it's Christian Stanfill from Passion, and we are so excited to hit the road this summer with our friends Taya and Levi Lusko. These nights of worship are going to be so special, and we believe God has something unique in store for each city and each of us. Head over to passionmusic.com to get your tickets, and we'll see you soon.
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Hey, Grove girls, it's Signa Coleman here, and we're back with another episode of our summer recap series series on the Grove Podcast. We're continuing today with episode two of five. This summer, Shelley Giglio sits down with Sadie Rob Huff and her mom, Corey Robertson, for a heartfelt conversation recorded during one of the Grove's very first virtual gatherings. Together, they talk about faith, vulnerability, contentment, and what it looks like to become exactly who God created you to be. From stories about Passion Conference to honest moments about identity, purpose, and trusting God timing, this episode is full of wisdom and encouragement for every single season. We're so grateful you're here. So let's get started.
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C
So beautiful. I'm not gonna know tomorrow if I'm actually sick or if I'm just hoarse from singing, like, screaming. Were you guys screaming?
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D
It was so good.
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C
Thank you, God, for your presence. You guys can have a seat in the room, and if you're at home, you have a seat, too. That'd be awesome. In fact, I think I'll have a seat also. How does that feel? So tonight, we have an incredible opportunity to just continue our worship by having a conversation. And many of you who know me know that I love this so much. I. I enjoy teaching, but I really love conversating. And actually, it's amazing how much truth can come in a conversation, isn't it? If your intent is for truth to be told, then truth gets told. And I love this moment to do that. So I want you to welcome to this stage, even though they're not actually on this stage, Sadie Robertson Huff and her mom, Corey Robertson. So can you say hi? Yes.
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D
Girls.
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E
Hi there.
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Hey.
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C
Hey. Literally, my people, I feel like our setup here is like a little curve. So basically, you're also in the living room with me in a very, very similar chair, which is pretty awesome. So welcome tonight to the Grove. We are so glad you guys are here. Hey, Sadie. Yesterday, Sadie, you had this little announcement, and unfortunately, I knew before it was coming, so I didn't cry quite as hard. But I did cry the second time as well. Tell us your amazing news.
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D
That's awesome. Yes. For those who haven't Seen, Christian and I are expecting a little baby, and we are so excited.
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E
Yes. My baby's having a baby.
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C
That's gotta be the strangest feeling in the world, Corey. Fortunately, you've experienced it once before, and so you know that that's an amazing thing. And you probably are actually. You have two grandbabies, and you have one coming, and so that's pretty exciting. You're building, like, a whole clan, which I love, and they're just all so special, and you're such a great grandmother to them. So amazing.
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E
Aw, thank you so much. It really is the best. All you moms of littles just know that, like, one day you'll get to be a grandmother, and it makes it all worth it. It's so much fun.
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C
I've often said about you guys that you're a couple of my favorite people, and we got a chance to meet several years ago. And, Sadie, you and your mom have been at Passion many, many times, but last year, actually, that actually happened this year, December 31, leading into what is now 2020, very famously, you actually stood on a stage at Mercedes Benz Stadium with us and communicated truth from Scripture. And it was one of the most beautiful and powerful things I know your mom experienced standing beside her. But also for me, just watching your life flourish in such a beautiful way, talk about that moment and what it meant to you.
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D
Yeah, it was wild. And it is wild to think that that was 2020. That's crazy that that happened this year. Yeah, it was unbelievable, because I have been going to Passion for years, and honestly, my life has been so impacted by the Passion Conference. My family's life has been so impacted by the Passion Conference. My husband's life has. And so, you know, for me to even be in the room every year at Passion is such an honor to me, and I love it. So I literally look forward to it every single year. Like, it's the Christmas after Christmas. And so to be asked to speak and share, man, I mean, it literally brought me to my knees every single day for a year from the time that y' all asked me to speak. And because I just knew it had to be God's words, I knew I wasn't capable of that moment. It honestly terrified me. But I also knew that, you know, God is so good and he's so faithful, and he told Moses he would give him the words to say, so I knew he would give me them, too. And I knew that was what was going to truly impact people. It's not my own, but his. And so going up there, it was so cool because I was so nervous in my own body, but I was so confident in my spirit and what I knew God had given me to say. And I remember walking up there and I looked at Christian and I said, oh, no, I'm starting to cry. He's like, you can't do that right now. I'm like, I know. And so I get up there, and, man, God just took over. And just seeing the response and how that word truly impacted so many people that they realized that, you know, love really is found in God. God is love, follow love, follow God was just an amazing revelation for young people to have that they're already loved by God. All they had to do is love him back. And so I think just that. Hitting people right where they were at, especially in college, it was just an honor to get to share that word.
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C
Well, we continue to hear such incredible feedback from that moment. And just to know that God is teaching us what it looks like to respond to Him. I love that what you said that day is so true and that he took the first step to love us and that he did it so beautifully and perfectly. And obviously, our love back to him won't be done exactly right. But we will have an opportunity to embrace the Creator in that way. And the invitation is on the table tonight for all of us. And it was powerful to watch you just usher that invitation in to people, you know, and to say, hey, this isn't for everybody but you. This is also for you. And it was. It was an amazing moment. Corey, what did it feel like to watch your daughter stand up there and do that moment?
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E
Oh, my goodness. So proud. I think that I've told the kids recently, I've realized more and more as they've gotten older just how our role as parents is not to do anything more than just help them to become who God created them to be. Because God already created. Created that in her. He planted that in her. And, like, I feel like I just kind of fed her and, like, you know, here she is.
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D
Do you think. Do you think you were more nervous than me?
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E
I was probably more nervous than her.
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I don't know.
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D
I think you were.
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But I. I have this video. I know you've seen it, Shelly, of her when she was, like, 5 years old on our coffee table. She used to stand on our coffee table and preach to us. And so, like, it's just seeing her up there on that stage, I was like, that's little Sadie standing on our coffee table. She was such. Just even as A little kid, just very, very in tune with God and his Word and wanted to ask every question you can possibly imagine, like, everything. Wanted to know everything. Single thing about God and heaven and the devil and all these things. And she had some kind of. She.
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C
Did you know all the answers?
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E
Watch that video. What's that?
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C
Did you know all the answers that she was.
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E
No, I was. I was trying to act like I did, but no. Yeah, go back and watch that video. I was like, her theology was pretty. Pretty good even then. Like, she was on even then. So it was pretty amazing to see.
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C
Yeah, that's awesome. You guys are so special. I think when I was around Sadie a lot, I learned early on where a lot of that fortitude and passion for God came from. And when I was around Corrie for an extended period of time, I. All of a sudden I understood that you, as her mom, had instilled in her a desire to know God. And I think you did it best, probably, by knowing him yourself and talk about that family legacy. Because I think when people look at your family, I mean, Sadie, we know that your grandmother is alive. We know that your great grandmother's alive. We see such strong women in your family. And we also see people that love Jesus in your family. And how do you fit into that family structure?
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E
Yeah, I think that we have been really fortunate. We have examples of really faithful Godly women, strong, kind women. And so I think that there's a big part of how we raised our kids and how they raise us is to just that living knowing you're part of something bigger than yourself. You know, I think it's really important that we put our. Put our kind of. We're put in our own place of like, okay, where are we in God's plan? Where are we in the plan of our family? And it somehow makes, like, all of our problems not so big whenever you kind of understand it that way. And so I think we were raised that way. And just seeing. I was thinking about, you know, like, knowing scripture and knowing God's word. And I feel like it was just kind of always around us. It was, you know, in the speech that my mom told me, in the things that my grandmother said to me and the things that people talked about. It wasn't like, oh, this is the verse and chapter that you need to know. It was just kind of part of our life and part of our conversation. So we were really fortunate to have that.
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D
I would say they're always living it out, but they were also teaching it. My mom and I were recently talking about this? Actually, no, my brother and I, me and John Luke were. Because we watched this movie with all of our friends, and at the end of it, like, all of our friends didn't like it. And me and Jen Link were like, really? And we both had some spiritual takeaway from the movie that made us like the movie. And they were like, I didn't get that at all. And we laughed. I was like, we're both like that.
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That's so funny.
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D
And then I remembered that every time we went to the movie with my grandmother, every single time, she would say, what did God teach you in that? And it wouldn't be a Christian movie. It would just be a movie we'd see. And she'd just say, what did God teach you in that? And then she'd say, what God taught me. And it would be some analogy to how the Lord taught her something through the movie. And so I think they always just taught us to have eyes, to see Jesus in whatever room we were in, whatever story we heard, whatever movie we saw. And it helped us become, you know, stronger in our fai and I think to be better preachers, because, you know, you'll watch a movie and be like, oh, man, I could take from that. And so they were just constantly showing that and teaching it as I went.
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C
I feel like I've watched you grow as a speaker, Preacher Sadie, so much. We laugh now about a moment that we shared together several years ago where you were doing just a very small bit of a talk in the midst of a really full night of artists and different things going on. And I happened to be standing backstage when he came off that time, and it was really kind of a God moment. It felt like God was teaching both of us something really special in that moment. Talk about that moment for a second and then talk about kind of where God has taken you from that moment to now.
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D
It's wild. My hand literally shakes when I think about that moment, because that was the most nervous I think I've ever been in my life. And it was because, you know, God totally. I mean, he always goes before you. You know, we know that. But then whenever you realize that he went before you, you're like, wow, you really went before me. Like, he went so far before me that I think I was just catching up to his plan at that moment. I didn't really realize that. Wait, I'm, like, speaking in front of people. I'm, in a way, preaching. I didn't even think like that. I was just like, oh, I'm encouraging people for 10 minutes while they move the stage. And this is so cool. And I love talking about David and Goliath, but I wasn't really thinking how significant that was and what God was going to do with that. It was kind of just a yes for that moment at Winter Jam. And then I remember somebody told me, they said, hey, you know, Louie and Shelly Giglio are coming tonight. And I was like, what? Because I had watched Louie growing up, and I had seen several of his sermons that really spoke to me a lot. They would play them at our church sometimes. And so I just thought, wow, this is so cool that I'm going to get to preach and that he's going to be here tonight and that Shelly's
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E
going to be here.
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D
And I know my mom had met you, and so I just felt like that was just going to be a cool moment and. But I got really nervous, honestly, because I was like, wait. All of a sudden, I realized I'm speaking, I'm kind of. I'm kind of preaching. What am I doing? You know? And I get up there and share this message. And then we had that God moment, and y' all just spoke so much life into me, and it brought so much confidence, because it was like, y' all actually believe not in me, but in what God was going to do. And it helped me to open my eyes to, like, oh, God, like, you're doing something bigger than what I'm just seeing in this moment. Maybe this is bigger than this moment, you know? And so I think that was one of the first times, truly, that it opened my eyes to actually believe what God was doing, too. And it just kind of took a little nudge from somebody older just seeing it. And, yes, my mom had seen it since I was little, and people had said that, but I don't think it really clicked until that moment. And then, of course, later, y' all asked me to preach at Passion Church. And I remember telling y', all, that sounds great, but I hope y' all know I've never preached before. And I remember laughing and being like, are you sure you trust me? And you kept saying, I trust God. I trust what God is doing in you. And that was the biggest thing for me. And that's kind of what I was talking about. Even. Fast forward to Passion Conference this year. I was so nervous in, you know, my body, and I was shaking, but I was so confident in my spirit. And what I've learned over the years is that verse, Hebrews 10:35. So then do not forget the Confident trust that you have in the Lord for that will be richly rewarded. And so over the years of learning to preach or learning to get on stage and share a message or share something vulnerable in the sake of hopefully somebody hearing my testimony and coming to know Jesus, I know it really is not about me. It really is about God. And I don't have to trust in my own ability. I have to trust in the Spirit, and he has never let me down. He is so faithful. He's so good. And so, yeah, y' all have really been on the whole journey with me, and I still shake when I think about it. But that just shows how good God is and that it really isn't in my own doing. So, yeah, it's powerful to think back
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C
on such a joy for us to get to be on that journey with you. It's beautiful to watch you become. You know, I think that's what all of us are doing is becoming. And it's not always easy to be on a stage when you become. And watching you do that on a big stage where a lot of people are paying attention, it makes me prayerful for you in lots of ways. And I know, Corey, that that's your heart. It's just. I know God has placed Sadie here, but I also know that he needs me to engage him in a way of Lord, bring protection over her life and bring clarity to her as she grows up so that she can be great representation of your heart, Jesus. And that's what's. I think that's what makes us so proud, Sadie, is. It doesn't feel like that you're growing into something that is different than that, but you're becoming what God intended for you to be all along. And like what your mom said, just those early days of you not even understanding fully what you were doing, but acting out of what God had put in you in the way of giftedness. That is the kingdom. He's building the kingdom stone by stone in our lives and through our lives. And it's been awesome to watch. You mentioned one of the things that you just mentioned was vulnerability. And we talk a lot about this because it feels like there is a measure of vulnerability that's needed for people to be able to access the truth through us. But there's also a level of understanding that the goal isn't just to be vulnerable. Like, hey, this is all the stuff, and I just want to keep putting that out there, but that the vulnerability would actually bring transformation to our lives and to other people through our lives. Can you talk about that for a second. I think it would be fascinating to hear you talk about because some of the things we know about you and what we've heard you preach about are actually related to trouble. It's related to hard times. And it resonates with us for a lot of different reasons. But talk about your intentionality on that front.
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D
Yeah, for sure. It's a great question. You know, I think about that verse a lot that says, I humble myself to exalt your name. And I think that that is kind of what I think about when I think about vulnerability is a lot of times I'm like, okay, Lord, I'm going to share this. Not from a place of me needing anything from anyone. I already have that in you. Because I think that's where people sometimes can go wrong with vulnerability. It's like, oh, I'm just going to be vulnerable, and I throw it all out there. And sometimes we don't mean to, but what we really want in return is people's commentary, people's praises, people's applause, people's likes or whatever. But it's. It's never. It can never be for that. You know, it's like for me, when I want to share something I've learned, I've got to work that out with the Lord first. I gotta talk that out with my family. I gotta talk that with the people close to me. And then when it's time to share, I'm like, okay, Lord, I humble myself in this moment. Gonna share something pretty vulnerable that, you know, doesn't make me look great, but it makes you look amazing. Because you have just. You have just done this transformation in me. And so when I wanna lead people, you know, with vulnerability to transformation, I think sometimes I have to be on that end too. You know, I have to feel that transformation from God. So I can teach that. But sometimes, you know, I'll share right in the middle of it. Honestly, that's kind of what started me speaking in a way, is whenever. One time I was kind of struggling, honestly, I just gotten out Dancing with the Stars, and I was like, what am I doing with my life? What do I want to do with my life? I was really struggling with a lot of insecurity just from living in Hollywood for three months and then coming back to West Monroe and just kind of an identity, not crisis, but who am I? Moment. And I'm 17, so that plays into it. And so I remember I just turned on a video camera and I just shared with myself, and I was just kind of talking about where I'm at. And I shared some scriptures with myself. And I was like, this is, you know, what I'm going through. This is the insecurity that I'm facing. This is what the world's putting on me. But, God, this is who I know you say I am. And I've told this story before, but my little sister came and she saw it, and she said, sadie, this needs to go out on YouTube. At the time, I didn't even have a YouTube channel. So Bella created me one, and she put it out for the world to see. And over, like, a day, it had a million views, and then so on. And then Good Morning America wanted me to come on. And, you know, now I'm here on Good Morning America talking to the world about all my insecurities and struggles. But even though that. That was very humbling and that was really vulnerable, that really did lead a lot of people to Jesus, because in that I was sharing, like, how through this, I am still quoting that, God, this is who you say I am. This is who you are to me. Even though I feel like this, in this moment. And so there is beauty to, you know, being able to share in a moment that, you know, you're going through something really hard. But yet I still believe, God, you're good. And I know I'm going to see that. And I think letting people in on that journey. Cause what I've learned is that, you know, people are scared to share. But this is what I told my friend. She's writing a book. I said, you feel the vulnerability. But when people are reading, they're not reading like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe she went through that. They're reading, saying, wow, I feel like that, too. And so when we're able to let people in, they're not normally looking at you and saying, wow, I can't believe Sadie Robertson struggles with anxiety. They're like, man, I have been waiting on somebody to talk about anxiety because they need that. And so I think it is really important that we're vulnerable, but for the right reasons. It's to exalt God's name and not kind of praise our own.
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C
That's so good. That is. Can we just stop for a moment? Wasn't that so good? That's so good. There's a verse in Romans, Corey, that talks about not being conformed to the world, but being transformed by the renewal of our minds. I feel like when I'm around you, that transformation has happened in your mind. How did you intentionally set your Heart in that direction.
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E
Oh, wow. That's a good question. You know, I was. I was talking to Sadie earlier today. I've been thinking a lot about this kind of idea of sacrifice and how sacrifice is, like, built into everything that we do in life. If my husband will. He's a hunter. So, of course, like, you can see, something has to be killed for us to eat it. You know, and it's not just. If you eat meat, it could be. It's a plant or whatever. You know, there's everything we do in life, there's a sacrifice involved. And I think that I've been thinking about how that relates to just how we live our lives on a daily basis. Thinking about, like, even talking to the kids about college. Like, if you want a college degree, you have to sacrifice your four years and put in the time to do the work to gain the thing that you want. And so I think that that relates as well to us in our lives as far as our spiritual walk and our lives with being in God's word and all that. If we want something different, then we have to do something different. And we have to sacrifice the things that, like, maybe the world says is important. You know, maybe it's like social media or that Netflix show that, like, everyone's talking about and everyone's watching, or maybe it's the. The music being up to date on what everybody is doing, or the music. We have to sacrifice some of those things to put in what we really want in our life. And I think that there's been times in my life when I've done it, and there's been times in my life when I haven't, you know, And I can see the difference whenever I'm saying, like, okay, I'm going to put aside the things of this world because I want to put in the things that you have for me. And so I think that maybe that has to do with the renewing of your minds. I feel like there's a sacrifice that's involved, that we have to know that whenever we sacrifice something that's not as good, honestly, we're gaining the thing that God has for us. That's. That's. That's so much better.
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D
Yeah. So good. It's like that verse. We were just talking about this the other day, Christian and I. Because this do not conform any longer to the pattern of the world. But what's the pattern of the world? And it is that it's social media and Netflix and this and that. And if we want to be transformed by the renewal of our mind, then we have to sacrifice those things. You're so right. We were talking about that because all of our friends were talking about all these shows that they had watched. And I was like, oh, shoot. And I looked at Christian. I was like, should we start watching a show? And he's like, no. Just so you can tell everybody in this moment that you're watching. I'm like, true, true. No, Transform. That's amazing.
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Yeah. I feel like everybody wants their mind to be transformed. But like you were saying, Corey, very few people are willing to sacrifice for that. And it feels like we want something magic to happen. Like we want somehow just to be conformed to truth, and we want to know what the truth is. And I'm like, well, do you read the truth? And I find sometimes my answer is no. I want to be aligned with truth, but I'm not actually engaging in the process from the discipline on my own side to actually flourish in the word of God. And so I feel like while we don't wanna err on the side of religion, like, hey, you gotta get up and do this every day, and it's gonna be part of you earning your way back to God. That's not what we believe. We believe we stand in a graceful situation where God extended everything we have to us before we did anything. We didn't do anything to earn it or deserve it. It just all came to us by the goodness of God, which we believe. But actually, when you're growing up, you actually have to eat food to grow. And when you're growing up spiritually, you need to consume truth to be aligned to it. And sometimes you have to just call yourself up. You have to say, you know what? It's not good enough that I wanna be different. I actually have to take steps to engage my heart and life in a different direction. And I just have watched y' all make those intentional steps. And it feels like that if we're gonna train the church on how to look more and more like Jesus every day, that we need some practical tools to do that with. And for me, I've mentioned this a couple of times, but I turn off all the apps on my phone at night, and I close them all down. And the only thing that's open on my phone when I turn it over in the morning is the Bible app. And we all know the guy that invented YouVersion app, which is insane to me to think how many people are reading the Bible on their phones today. It's just incredible. And I love it because it's the first thing I engage with, instead of looking at the news and deciding what I felt about the day or looking at Instagram to decide what I feel about today, I actually decided that the best way to feel what I was gonna feel about today was to hear truth and to have that spoken into my life first before my feet ever hit the floor, so that I could be aligned to who I say I want to become. And I just feel like today we have that choice. And I love that you're suffering Netflix and you don't know all the shows, Sadie, but I do love when I watch you. What I see is a radiant Jesus inside of you. And I know that you took intentional steps to get there. Same with you, Corey. And it's beautiful to see. I wanna ask one more question or two more. Maybe we have time for three more. Okay. Corey, you adopted some children whom I love. Somewhere along the way, you decided that God has in him a very adoptive heart. And you started, I think, mimicking the heart of the father in your own life. And adoption has sort of followed that trend in Yalls family. And I. I love your adopted kids, and I love that you took God up on the offer of adoption. Can you talk about that for a second? And how you believe it's part of God's heart? And then also, if you would just talk about your kids for a second. Because we love them so much.
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E
Well, yeah, we are God's adopted sons and daughters. We are adopted as sons and daughters into his family. And so I think we. Whenever we adopted, Will, he was our first child that we adopted. I remember Willie and I just looking at each other and was like, whoa, we get it. Like, you just. We just felt like we just got it because he was so ours. You know, there was no question that he was not ours. He was ours. From the very beginning. God had him planned to be in our family, and it was just a beautiful thing. And so, yeah, we had always, I think growing up another blessing that our family has passed down was our home was just really an open home. We always had someone living with us. My family never adopted, but we never had an empty bed in the house. It was like, you know, if one person moved out and somebody else moved in, that was kind of how it was growing up. There was always a family living with us that needed a home. There were single moms and their kids that lived with us. There were teenagers. There were just, you know, if you. If someone needed a place and a bed, our home was open to that growing up. So I really Kind of saw that modeled. And then I remember one of my teachers, my senior year in high school, adopted a little boy. And he was the cutest little thing. And that teacher talked to us about, as Christians, what is our responsibility to children and what is God's heart for the orphan and for those children that don't have a family? And it just really stuck with me and Willie and I started dating. I actually was 18 when we got married, so we were babies. So it was right out of high school. And I remember telling Willie, you know, I think I want to adopt someday if we get married. And he was like, me, too. I'm in. So it just wasn't even a question. We just always knew that was going to be a part of our family and what our family looked like, and it's been the greatest blessing.
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C
Yeah. So tell us all your kids names. And we just want to get them in our hearts.
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E
Okay. So another thing about our family that's a little weird is birth order shifted every time we adopted people. Like, did you think about birth order? I was like, clearly not, because it was like, John Luke was the oldest, then Rebecca was the oldest then.
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C
Yeah.
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E
So we had John Luke first, and then we had Sadie. Then, you know, I had thought we would have, in my, of course, grand planned for our life. We were going to have three, then we were going to adopt, and then I just didn't get pregnant. God just was like, no, maybe not. I have better plans for you. And so we had Jonathan, Sadie, and then we adopted Will, and we got him in December of 2001 and got pregnant with Bella in January of 2002. So God was like, all right, now you can have your fourth. You know, it was just so evident God had, you know, plans for Will to be in our home. And so then we had Bella in 2002. Then two years later, I was like,
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you know,
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E
it was one of the. One of the things that I'd always wanted for our family was for them to be able to travel and see the world, because I felt like it was so important. But we had, like, four little ones under the age of, like, seven. I was like, we're not going anywhere. Let's face it. So I was like, maybe what if we bring in an exchange student into our home, and then we'll get to, like, see the world in that way, and maybe we'll learn another language. Which that never happened, except for Sadie can rap in Chinese, but that's about it.
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C
So, anyway, that is definitely happening before the night's up.
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B
For sure.
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D
That is happening whenever they were little.
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E
Yes. We have to make her do that. So our kids were little, and Rebecca came to live with us as an exchange student, and we just fell in love with her. And I guess she fell in love with us, and she never left, so she became ours. She came to us when she was 16, and it's the greatest blessing. When she got married, her. Her mother, who lives in Taiwan, and I got to sit beside each other, you know, as she walked down the aisle, Willie walked her down the aisle wearing her. Her dad's tie. Her dad had passed. Has passed away whenever she was 11. And so she's been ours. And then, let's see. I don't know. What year was it? About 2016, we adopted Rowdy. Rowdy came into our home. He was 12 years old. So then he became the baby of the family then. He's three months younger than Bella. So yada, yada, yada. We had three kids graduate in 2020. So that was really insane.
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C
Yeah, I think that's my favorite thing is that nobody has three kids graduate unless they're triplets on the same year. But, Cory, you are the best. You are literally the best. We love those kids, and we love their hearts for Jesus and the way that they each uniquely shine. And I like what you've created in your family. Feels like there's not a lot of competition between the kids. They each know that they have a secure place and that they have actually a calling on their life to take that place. And it doesn't feel like it's all just whoever can be the loudest or the most noticed or the most liked. But actually, they all know we're all loved, and yet we can uniquely walk in that path that God has designed for us. So well done, Mom. That's a big job.
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E
Thank you.
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C
It's amazing. I was reading earlier today in Psalm 16, and it says this. The Lord is my chosen portion, My cup you hold my lot. The boundaries have fallen in pleasant places for me. I will set the Lord continually before me, and I will not be shaken. I wanna talk for a second just before we go. Sadie, if you could just speak to this a little bit about how God draws the boundary lines for our lives, that it's actually him who determines what our reach will be, who will actually be listening to us, what kind of stage, how big that stage will be in our life, whether it's around our kitchen table or actually on a stage as big as Mercedes Benz, that God intends for our lives to be drawn According to his boundary lines and that he sets that course in our lot and that we don't actually have to be in the process of earning that. That he's already decided that. I feel like you have an understanding of that and have from a young age, even though you didn't know what your boundary lines were yet, and you still probably don't. I don't fully know. But I also have a confidence that God has drawn them and that I can stand without trying too much into what he has already set before me. Can you just talk about that for one second in a way that feels like you're experiencing that?
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D
It's great. Yeah, absolutely. You know, it's crazy because people used to ask me, like, what do you want the next five years to look like? Or what's your five year goal? Or whatever? You know, people like love to ask those kind of questions. And at one point I just remember saying, I have no idea because had I had said anything five years ago, it would have not touched what God has done. And I couldn't have made anything happen. I couldn't have made any moment in my life that people have seen publicly really happen unless it had been the Lord open a door or even just, you know, even with encouragement from friends to say, do it when I was scared, or quiet prayers with the Lord about, you know, God, what are you doing? You know, all of those things. I just. I couldn't have physically made it happen. And so I like to talk to people when they ask me, they say, sadie, I want to do what you do. How do I do what you do? How do I step into it? I'm like, man, the last thing I want for you to think is for you to walk away and want to be me. Like, I pray that you walk away and ask the Lord, what does he have for you to do? Because that's how you're going to do it. It's going to be him opening the door. It's going to be him calling you. It's going to be him setting those boundaries in your life. Actually, I want to read this because it's so cool that you brought up Psalms. I have been like reading this psalm every single day, Psalms 131. And it kind of reminds me of what you're saying. And this has been something that the Lord's been teaching me. It says, oh, Lord, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high. I do not occupy myself with things too great or too marvelous for me. And this is what I love. It says, but I have calmed and quieted my soul. Like a weaned child with its mother. Like a weaned child, my soul is within me. And I've been quoting that over myself because I think it's so tempting in life to look and say, oh, you want to look high, you want to look there. You want to look to the future. You want to predict what you're going to do. You want to be occupied by marvelous things and great things. You want the stage, you want those things. But it's like, no, God, I'm not gonna fix my eyes on those things. I'm not gonna occupy my time with things that are so great or so marvelous or so far out. God, I just want to have a quiet and calm soul that is just completely content in you. And I feel like just quoting that over myself and praying that over myself in 2020. And I told Mom, I said, I was journaling the other day, and I've been asking the Lord, I'm like, God, a lot of things in my life have been canceled, and I haven't been that upset. Like, I haven't gotten upset. And I was like, is my, like, emotions off? Like, am I, like, not having expectation for what you're gonna do? Is my faith little? And then the other day in prayer, I was like, I think I realized this strange feeling. It's contentment. Like, I feel like in my life, there have been so many times where I haven't been content with just being still, with just being this. Like a child with their mother, just content with a quiet and calm soul, just resting in the lor. Wanted to go to different places. I wanted to travel, to do different things. But right now, God has finally, by stripping so many things away, just taught me, like, there is so much beauty to just resting in him, having a quieted soul and just dependent on Him. And I think when you think about the boundaries of your life and what God's going to do, if you can have that kind of contentment where you're not looking, you know, too high or too far for things too great or too marvelous, but you're just resting in him and who he is in the moment, then when things do come up, you'll be able to say yes for all the right reasons, and you'll be able to say yes and actually have something to say because you'll be so rooted in him and his love. And so I feel like recently the Lord has really honed that in on my life. I've just continued to read that Psalm and It's taught me a lot. But back to the boundaries of life, I think. You know, when we get to that place and we just trust God, knowing that I'm not going to look anywhere but yout, God, and I'm not going to follow anything other but yout voice, then you're in a really, really great place to be.
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C
That's such good word, man. Incredible. Can I just say thank you before we tell you how amazing you are? I would love for you just to pray over people. There are people all over the world watching tonight. The Grove. Interestingly enough, the Grove was never broadcast. This is our eighth, starting our eighth year of the Grove in years one through seven. We felt pretty sure that God said, don't broadcast something you don't yet know what it is. Let me birth in you what I want to create, and at some point I will export it. And so we waited. And we didn't know what we were waiting for, honestly, except we were waiting for God. And in God's timing, He knew this moment was coming. And he was preparing us all along to have a message to share in this moment. And we didn't know. We weren't even smart enough to know that's what he was doing. We were just, I think, aware that he was speaking to us and asking us to wait. And so I love that in time, he was making a plan. And the plan is now for people to be able to connect from all over the world to what God is doing right here in our house. And it's beautiful to watch. And so you guys were a huge part of that tonight. And we wanna say thank you. But before we do, I would love for you just to pray for these women who honestly want God to lead them. We want God to speak over our lives, and we want to be obedient. And I just want you to encourage us that we can do that. And if you'll just speak our names in your hearts before the Father, Sadie in particular, that would be amazing if you'd pray for us.
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D
Yes, absolutely. God, we. We thank you so much, God. Even in this moment, it's so evident that, God, we are connected by your spirit and by nothing else. God, honestly, we're in Louisiana, there in Atlanta. People are all over the world, but yet we feel this connection. And, God, we. That's because of your spirit, alive and active in our hearts. God, I pray over the Grove, first of all, and I just thank you so much for the impact that it's made on women. God, I thank you for Shelley and all the leaders on that team at Passion City Church, God, who pour into women's life. I thank you that they read the word day in and day out to one, get it in their heart, but two, recite it over the world. God, Lord, I pray that that does not just fall away, God, that that is not something that just falls on dry ground, but, God, that tonight and every time the grove happens that it falls on good soil and we see a growth in women around the world. God, Lord, I just pray for every woman listening right now. God, I pray right now. Wherever they are, whether it's their home, their backyard, their friend's house, their school, their university, God, and at their church, in their room by themselves, God, that they feel seen, that they feel loved, God, that they feel heard in this moment by you, God, I pray that they are having encounters, God, I pray right now, God, if they are willing and want to follow you, God, that today they would make a decision to just start following you. God, I pray and I thank you that your characters to meet people where they're at and say, hey, whatever you're doing, I have something so much greater with purpose. Follow me. So, God, I pray right now that you meet them where they're at, no matter what job position they have, no matter what age they're in, no matter what they're doing in life. And, God, I pray that you would just call them to their purpose, to their potential, to their greatness, God, and that they would follow you, that they would take you up on the offer. God, I pray that we would be women that in a world that is so uncertain, where things are, you know, causing us to have more anxiety, maybe to maybe feel the need to just cry some days. God, I pray that we would be women who are unwavering in our faith. God, as we talked about earlier, yes, we might be going through it, but yet at the same time, we will not doubt that you are good and that you still have a plan and you are still on the throne. God, we know you are faithful. We know you are the alpha and the omega. And God, we know that no matter what happens, even in this election, that, God, you sit on the throne. And we follow you, Jesus. We follow you, Jesus. God, I pray today, if women have been struggling with anxiety tonight, they would be rooted in your word. They would feel a peace that surpasses all understanding and a confidence that can only come from you. If people have been feeling alone or like their life doesn't have purpose, God, I pray that those lies are done tonight, that they would feel like you have purposed them. No matter what their life looks like right now. You have given them a great purpose and it's worth the living. God, I pray over every woman that they would just be renewed tonight, revived tonight with joy and with strength. Thank you so much for the Grove. Thank you so much for what it's doing. I pray that it continues to prosper. And every, every month that they gather, it's in your name that we pray. Amen.
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B
What a beautiful reminder that God is faithful to guide every step of our story and that becoming who he created us to be happens one faithful, yes, at a time. If you loved hearing from Sadie and Corey today, you can stay connected with Sadie at Legitsatie Robb or listen to her podcast. Whoa, that's good. You can also find Corey at Corey Robertson on Instagram. Be sure to download, follow and subscribe to the Grove Podcast so you never miss an episode with us this summer. And if this conversation encouraged you, and we hope that it did, send it to a friend who might need the reminder that God still has purpose for her right where she's planted. We love you, Grove girls. We'll see you soon.