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POLISHED JEMS
by 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.
Episodes
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New Every Morning: Finding God's Faithfulness When You Can't See the Path
This episode is sponsored by Living With More Enterprises. Faithfulness doesn't require seeing the whole path — just the willingness to take the next step. In this episode, author and speaker Lesley Carney joins us to talk about family restoration, forgiveness, and what it looks like to stay a...
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The Faithful Choice: How Forgiveness Softens a Bitter Heart and Leads You Back to Joy
What does faithfulness look like when your heart has been broken? In this episode, Jacinta sits down with national Christian speaker Rebekah Storey for an honest conversation about forgiveness, bitterness, spiritual numbness, and finding your way back to joy — even after betrayal. If you've been...
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God's Correction Is Protection: Trusting the Pruning Process
What if the thing you keep avoiding is actually protecting you? In this finale to our Faith series, we're unpacking why correction feels like a threat instead of protection, what delaying it really costs us, and why faith means responding now — through the story of a man who gave up everything he...
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The War Within the Waiting: Finding Faith in the In-Between
You've left Egypt, but you're not in the Promised Land yet — and that in-between space is where the real war within happens. This week, we're talking about the two things that try to stop you in the middle: doubt about whether you're even qualified to obey God, and impatience when His timeline...
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Wounds, Scars, Oh My!: Why Your Faith Needs Refining?
This episode is sponsored by Living With More Enterprises. That's the question we're answering today. "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." (Psalm 147:3, AMP) This month's Refining Faith series continues with a teaching straight from Day 2 of my devotional, From Faith 2 Faith....
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By Faith, He Built It: An Unconventional Path to Purpose
Sponsored by Living With More Enterprises 💎 Book a $25 consultation (credited toward your contract if you move forward) and use code LWME26 for 10% off your publishing contract: https://livingwithmore.org/schedule-consultation/ This Faith series episode features Spencer Coffman, whose life reads...
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Life Behind the Smile: What Faith Looks Like in the Dark
This episode is sponsored by Living With More Enterprises. A $25 consultation fee applies to book your session — credited toward your total contract balance if you move forward. Use code LWME26 when scheduling to receive 10% off your overall contract:...
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Quiet Goodness: Living Well When No One's Watching
Little white lies feel harmless — until you realize God may be watching the small things more closely than we think. In this solo training and equipping episode of the Goodness series, Jacinta explores why quiet goodness (the kind no one claps for) is foundational to real spiritual breakthrough....
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From Ashes to Beauty: How Kim Becker Reflects God's Goodness
"To grant beauty for ashes" (Isaiah 61:3 AMP). This week on Polished Jems, we're joined by Kim Becker — speaker, television co-host, award-winning author, and Founder of Hello Gorgeous! of HOPE, Inc. — for a conversation on faith, restoration, and what God's goodness looks like in action. Kim...
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Walking Through the Fire: Janet McHenry on Prayer, Trials, and God's Goodness
Bestselling prayer author Janet McHenry joins Polished Jems to talk about trusting God's goodness even in life's hardest seasons. After 28 years of prayerwalking, Janet shares what she's learned about building a real relationship with God, why prayer is more about access than answers, and how to...
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Three Years, Three Miracles: Reneé Austin's Undercover Prodigal Story
She opened for nine Grammy winners, sang live on WWE Smackdown, and built a career most singers only dream of — then lost her voice completely. In this episode, Reneé Austin shares her story as a self-proclaimed "Undercover Prodigal": a season of hidden wandering beneath outward success, a...
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First Response | Training Your Heart to Choose Kindness in Unexpected, Stressful Moments
Your first response to stress isn't random — it's a reveal of what's already in your heart. 💎 In this closing episode of our Kindness series, we're getting tactical. We break down the split-second gap between what triggers you and what comes out of you — and how to fill that gap with kindness...
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No Label Can Hold You: How God's Kindness Rewrote My Story ft. Jessica Chenoweth
The labels we carry — shame, failure, too far gone — were never meant to define us. But letting them go? That's where the real work begins. In Season 2 Episode 51 of the Polished Jems Podcast, host Jacinta Martin sits down with Jessica Chenoweth, a Christian speaker, Bible teacher, and devotional...
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Kindness Isn't the Same as Nice: How to Know the Difference and Walk In It | Fruit of the Spirit
Have you ever said yes when your whole body screamed no — and called it kindness? This week, we're breaking down one of the biggest lies in faith culture: that nice and kind are the same thing. They're not — and confusing them is costing you your peace and your boundaries. In this episode: why...
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Trained by the Spirit: A Missionary's Journey Through Kindness, Faith & God's Voice
What if God was speaking to you before you even knew who He was? In this episode of the Polished Jems Podcast, Jacinta sits down with Amani Ruhasha — a missionary from Tanzania, East Africa, who spent over 15 years bringing the Gospel to unreached people groups. But before any of that, God was...
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Inheriting the Wind | When Unkindness Costs You Everything You Built| Polished Jems Podcast
Are you building your home — or slowly troubling it? In this solo episode of the Polished Jems Podcast, Jacinta Daniel is helping us dig into one of the most sobering warnings in all of Scripture: Proverbs 11:29 — "Whoever troubles his own house will inherit the wind."Kindness isn't just…
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Practical Tips To Heal And Rebuild Gentleness With Yourself And Others
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.
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3 Ways Gentleness Plays In The Power Of Sound
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.
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Two Gentle Ways To Handle Secrets With Care
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.
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7 Questions To See God’s Gentleness In Your Contentment
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.
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How To Rebuild And Heal Kindness In Your Life
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.
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Kindness Displayed: 5 Ways To Share It Daily
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.
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Giving And Receiving Correction With Love And Kindness
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.
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How To Demonstrate Kindness In Adversity By Sharing Your Last
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…
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Protect Your Yes: How To Help Avoid Burnout
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…
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3 Ways To Rebuild Self-Control When Healing From Anger
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.
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Gaining The Fruit of Temperance - How To Walk It Out?
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...
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Shift Your Life: How Controlling What You Speak Changes Things For The Better
We have the power to shift our life and how we view our circumstances! 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.
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7 Bible Verses To Help Evaluate Self Control In The World We Live In
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.
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3 Ways To Discover God's Goodness Through Your Connections
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.
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5 Questions To Ask God And Identify Your Purpose Along With His Goodness
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...
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How To Rebuild Goodness By Thinking On These 8 Things
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.
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Experience The Goodness Of The Lord Through Uncertainty
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.
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Losing Patience? 3 Step Strategy On How To Gain It Back
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.
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Working on Patience: By Being Slow to Get Angry
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...
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How To Rebuild Patience: From The Inside Out
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...
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God is Coming, How To Have Patience While You Wait!
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...
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How To Rebuild Love: With The Power of Forgiveness
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? If you need help to...
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How To Love God's Way: Agape Love
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...
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Ways To Show Love By Keeping His Commandments
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…
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How To Love Others Where They Are In Their Growth
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...
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10 Affirmations To Maintain Your Joy (Special Guest Rena Laster)
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…
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Let's Have Joy No Matter The Circumstance
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.
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Reflect On Joy and Get Ready For Something New
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…
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Joy, Where Are You? - What To Do When You've Lost Your Joy
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…
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Putting Your Faith In People! Should You or Why Not?
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…
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How To Rebuild Your Faith: One Act Of Obedience At A Time
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…
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Welcome To POLISHED JEMS!
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.
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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.
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Jacinta Martin
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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.
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