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This week, we’re giving you a special sneak peek into the devotionals from our GIGI Kids Story Club! We hope you enjoy these heartwarming stories, fun lessons, and encouraging messages that will help you connect with Jesus in a special way. It’s a great way to start your mornings. Get ready to grow, learn, and feel God’s love through every story!

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Jesus The Good Shepherd is seeking to reclaim His sheep from Babylon. Revelation 14:8 gives us insights into this great project.

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The transformation from disciples to apostles demonstrates how God works through imperfect people to achieve His purposes. While disciples are learners and followers, apostles are those sent out to serve. The original twelve apostles were deeply flawed individuals, yet God used them powerfully. Through active service and stepping out in faith, they experienced profound personal transformation, learning to love all people, understand spiritual authority, and move from fear to boldness. This journey shows that spiritual growth comes through active service, even when feeling unqualified.

On this episode, Overcoming Insecurity to Reach Your Fullest Potential. I want to help you push past your insecurities so you can lead powerfully, make a greater impact, and fulfill the call God has placed on your life. Insecurity is a silent thief - it robs you of confidence, clouds your judgment, and convinces you that you're not enough, even when God says you are. It causes you to second-guess your gifts, shrink in rooms you were called to lead, and hesitate when you should be taking bold, faith-filled action. When you're focused on what you're not, you miss out on what you are: chosen, equipped, and destined for impact. Insecurity keeps you surviving, not thriving—but you were made for more. That is what this episode is all about. 

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"Insecurity keeps your gifts locked inside, buried beneath fear, doubt, and comparison. When you question your worth, you withhold what the world desperately needs - your voice, your wisdom, your impact. You can’t release your value when you don’t believe you have any. You will sit at tables and not speak up. You will stand at the threshold of opportunities and not move forward. You will dream of what the future could be like and not take action. The antidote for insecurity is identity and action."

This episode, like all Rise and Lead Podcast episodes, is highly practical and motivating. Don't forget to subscribe to the Rise and Lead Podcast to ensure you get notified when new episodes release every month.  When you share about the podcast, make sure and tag @benjaminlundquist, and he'll always try and give you a re-post. Remember, the best time to rise and lead is now!

Larry Witzel unpacks why the weekend after Easter is the perfect time to launch an evangelistic series. He shares five powerful reasons: heightened spiritual openness, Easter momentum, Gospel flow, emotional receptivity, and spring renewal.

It’s an opportunity that only comes once a year, and Witzel urges churches to make the most of it.

Allusions Images Symbols: How to Study Prophecy — Images From Marriage — The Beautiful Bride

Join us as we study the Bible Study Guide for the second quarter of 2025 called Allusions Images Symbols: How to Study Prophecy. We are studying the lesson for week 3 called Images From Marriage.    

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This article emphasizes the importance of churches actively engaging with their surrounding communities by promoting shalom, a holistic concept of peace and well-being. It highlights the biblical call to "seek the welfare of the city" as a path to both community and church flourishing, urging churches to assess local needs and develop partnerships that contribute to the common good. 

Ezekiel 16 shows us an astonishing picture of God’s regard for His people. He describes the nation of Israel as an abandoned baby, left in a field to die. He takes her home, cleans her up, and when she is fully grown, he marries her. It is a powerful picture of an unlikely marriage.

Read Ezekiel 16:4–14. What do the details about this bride’s exaltation teach us about God’s intentions toward us?

God told Israel that, under His care, she grew “ ‘exceedingly beautiful’ ” (Ezek. 16:13, NKJV). When God first found her, nobody found her beautiful; she was a reject among other children, cast aside in the hopes that she would die. But as God showered His attention on her, she became more and more beautiful, until she was the talk of the world. In the earliest days of the Hebrew kings, under David and Solomon, this was particularly true. The queen of Sheba even made a special trip in order to see the splendor of Israel for herself!

Israel’s beauty, however, was entirely the gift of God. She was beautiful—the talk of the nations—precisely because she was His bride. God says that her beauty “ ‘was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you’ ” (Ezek. 16:14, NKJV).

This is a recurrent theme in the Bible: God’s bride is beautiful, not because of anything she has done but because God has showered His favor on her and made her that way. In a similar way, believers appear beautiful in the estimate of heaven, not because of anything we have done to earn it but because of the favor of God, the salvation that He has showered on us. We are beautiful because we are covered in His righteousness, the “righteousness of God” Himself (2 Cor. 5:21).

All was good, however, until the next verse in Ezekiel: “ ‘But you trusted in your own beauty, played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it’ ” (Ezek. 16:15).

We were created to reflect the goodness and glory of God. When God’s creations assume that their beauty is their own, that beauty is cheapened, and trouble awaits.

What are the dangers of us trusting in our “own beauty”? That is, how might we think that there is anything in and of ourselves that gives us merit with God or makes us deserving of His love? How can we always guard against spiritual pride?