Awakened To Love

What is our definition of obedience? There is something which the Lord has been speaking to my heart: “Beloved, I want to teach you about obedience, simply for obedience’s sake. I want to show you how your unconditional yielding to Me, moves my heart. Will you let go of the end result? Will you allow Me to teach you? Will you let obedience alone, be enough?” Choosing obedience, and fixing my gaze on Him alone. This is what I am learning. And that’s a bit of what this episode is about.

When the journey looks nothing like expected…what do you do?

Like Peter responding to Jesus’ call and stepping out of the boat to walk on the water, like Indiana Jones’ journey requiring him to step off the cliff without the evidence of what he would step out onto — I believe there is a deeper realm of faith God invites us to live from, where in order to succeed we are required to look to Him alone: not looking at our circumstances but with our gazes locked on Him. Into the unknown…always and forever.

“Don’t forget to remember.” This episode is a whopper of a testimony about process: and how, even when things do NOT make sense in a current season, there may yet come a time (if we can look through the eyes of faith) when we can look back, and realize that there was a purpose. I think the Lord loves to show us His faithfulness, if we will take the time to look for it. This episode is all about that. And, well, maybe some more besides ;)

Wow! 2023! We are halfway through January and it’s already been SO FULL. This episode is a space of reflection, remembering, and reveling - in the wonder, the breakthrough, and so much anticipation. There’s lots of encouragement, a few of my personal revelations, and sweet invitation deeper into the heart of Jesus.

Ephesians 1 is the subject of this episode. I read it this morning and it caught my heart - so I wanted to unpack it a bit, with you. I hope you’re even half as encouraged and strengthened as I am from this encounter.

Vulnerable, raw, and messy. This episode is a confession, a declaration, a peek into my messy spaces right now. It holds a story, a commitment, and an invitation. And it ends with a blessing: for you.

This episode is simply, Scripture. I share some verses / passages that have left a mark on me. Passages that I arm myself with. Passages that remind my heart of God’s goodness and of His invitation: to look only to Jesus. To love Him, and be loved by Him. Even as I recorded this episode I could sense my faith rising anew. His words change is. His words hold power. And power is released as we declare His truth over ourselves. So as you listen to this, I pray that you are encouraged and strengthened, and reminded of how incredibly good God is, and how very much He loves you.

Preparation for planting. Pulling out obstacles (old dead roots, stones, things that don’t belong there or would get in the way of new seeds). Exposure and oxidization. Softening the ground. This is gardening; but this is also what God does with our hearts - if we will let Him. This is what He is doing in me. And this is what we talk about today.

I believe in the promises God has spoken over me. But He has been uncovering areas in me, where I’ve been so fixated on HOW I think His promises are supposed to come to pass, that I’ve missed some of their actual fulfillment. Hence missing the forest for the trees. BUT! He’s at work, and He’s teaching me and changing my heart and I AM LEARNING. This episode is all about that.