Jackie Greene Shares How God’s Rhythm Guides Her Life
Dr. Jackie Greene wears many hats as a wife, mother, dentist, author, and podcast host. She is clear that without Jesus' guidance and the help of others, she could not accomplish these many tasks. In a sit-down interview with Crosswalk, Greene lays out the ups and downs of being in the position that the Lord has placed her in.
Crosswalk Headlines: How do you pull off the many tasks that God has called you to do?
Jackie Greene: I have a great level of dependency on the Lord and know from season to season what the priority is. People may often talk about balance, and balance means that you're putting even weight in both directions. I don't think that I have found a life where I can achieve balance, but I have found a rhythm where I understand, from season to season, this is the Lord's priority. I must be a student of the Father enough to hear when He's shifting His priority to be able to flow with that. There are times when, from season to season, my children always need me, but there are times when the Lord has made clear to me that you need to be at home more.
CWH: How does the shifting look in your life practically?
JG: In one season, I might've been at the church more; I would shift those priorities if that's what the Lord called for me to do. No different than I put down podcasting at times because I felt the priority shifting this particular thing at the church. I just think that there's a rhythm that you must find living in a relationship with the Lord where your identity, number one, is not too attached to the things that you do recognize. The second thing that I would say in this conversation is how do I manage all the things that the Lord has called me to do? It takes a village. I have a village of aunties; I have Travis's mom and my mom, who must play a vital role in being able to hold up all the different things that I would call the way to blessing. What people don't talk about enough is that there is weight to blessing the more the Father gives you. Although I'm very grateful for all that He's trusted me with, He's not only had to trust me with it, but I've also had to learn to be a delegator of the things that He's trusted to be able to manage and do only what I can do and allow others to do what they can do alongside me.
CWH: Who has poured into your life?
JG: I do have to give flowers where flowers are due. Priscilla Shirer has been very, very good at being an open door; she's never been so caught up in doing the things that she didn't stay true to her actual heartbeat for why she started. Priscilla has such a heart to show up for the generation that's coming after her to tell them not just how to do it but how to do it well. Priscilla keeps priority in place regarding her family as her first ministry. I have emulated that much in my own ministry, and I would also say the Holy Spirit taught me a lot through experience.
CWH: Your podcast is back; what will the listeners get from it?
JG: I'm so burdened for people to experience what I've experienced; it fuels me in a way that I don't want women or men to suffer. What many don't know, they'll see what I would say is the testimony produced from the test of living out the questions of, am I good enough? Do I talk too fast? Am I too loud? Do I need to mute myself? I always asked people for permission to be truthfully the unique, specified version of who God created me to be. The Lord whispered to me one day; He said, Daughter, stop asking people in rooms for permission that I've already granted you. I've already given you permission to be exactly who I made you to be.
CWH: What is God doing in you when you minister to others through your podcast?
JG: I'm on a mission to push men and women alike into the fullness of all that God said for them. If I'm being honest with you, it's one of the reasons why I ran from the call I did. I would watch other people, and it would seem like they just go into their little room and get their little message. And it doesn't require what I experience when I'm preparing or when I speak. I feel like it takes a very essence of myself, in terms of this deep pour out and a level of vulnerability that is just to me. There is no holding back. There's a level of vulnerability and dependency that is uncomfortable to people who have it all together, people who like to cross every "t" and dot every "i." The girl who was trained professionally as a dentist had to learn to give way to the Holy Spirit to learn, to subject to Him where you might have written the script and you might have to abandon the script for the sake of glory.
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Originally published May 29, 2025.
