Divine Designed Life Podcast

When God brings a person or situation to your attention, how do you respond? What do you do with it? Are you willing to enlist your heart for God's prayers? We are not called to simply observe the world around us; we are to rule and reign through Jesus Christ!

Martha once said, "Show me how you spend your time and I'll tell you what you love." You live your life according to what you love, so your time and your life are linked. What do you do with your time and where does God fit into it? Does He take part?

“We do not know how to pray as we ought but the Holy Spirit comes in our weakness and with groanings and petitions He prays.” Paul boasted of weakness, and then said that we don't know how to pray. Is there a connection between weakness and effective prayer?

It's the depth of God's love that orchestrates the situations and circumstances that bring us down to nothing, a place of complete dependence on the Father. What hidden beauty and reward awaits the Nothing there at the end of himself and the beginning of LIFE!

The Apostle Paul didn't just accept his weakness and infirmity and failure. He boasted in it! What a mighty work Paul must have done to so embrace weakness. We can't see the work he did, and so we trust the Spirit and follow Jesus as He leads us individually.

It sounds like a contradiction, but for the born-again believer, there is great power in weakness. Power is not a singular entity, like a tool or a weapon. We are vessels made and sanctified to carry power. When we ask God for power, He gives us Jesus Christ.

Could there be a Shulamite conference on the Bride at some point in the near future? As we discover anew everyday and with each development in life, everything is possible with Jesus! We all feel that strongly after publishing The Joy Unequaled of Being Nothing.

We know that there is a time for everything, including encouragement. When we are fed by a word or teaching, we can send that good food to others and encourage them to nourish their hearts, minds and spirits with it. We become part of that ministry then!

What follows the realization of being nothing? Why, complete freedom and a surprising amount of joy, of course! Readers respond wholeheartedly to Martha's new booklet and John's revelation of the 'day of suddenly' with their own stories of great blessing.

Obeying God is costly, but the reward of that obedience is to find yourself being overtaken by blessings of every kind and in every area of your life! After seasons of sowing and dying and breaking down and healing, is the Church being overtaken by blessings?