Wondering how to turn life’s dry seasons into growth?

Through Sonja’s story of (what seemed like) a shattered ministry promise, church splits, and learning to rest amid fear, discover how pop quizzes expose the roots of your fear, how to silence complaints and multiply provision with thanksgiving, and why “God is late on purpose” in a crisis of faith.

This seventh episode of Free Indeed: "Thrive in the Desert" reveals the desert as God’s classroom— where deprivation after deprivation builds unshakeable faith in His provision and perfect timing. Building on the series’ journey to Christian freedom, begin the process of learning to be free of the fear of trials.

This episode unpacks the Exodus template: God’s ways of the desert, repetition, and daily Word (Hebrews 3-4). Reflect daily on His Word, surrender your anxiety, and watch your desert bloom into the Promised Land of peace.

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LOVE the Word® is a Bible study method based on Mary’s own practice: lectio without the Latin. Get the book based on Sonja’s method in the right margin, How to Pray Like Mary.  

L | Listen (Receive the Word via audio or video.)

 

O | Observe (Connect the passage to your life and recent events.)

Deprivations cause a crisis of faith, where we are challenged to believe God will provide and is good despite what looks like contrary evidence. Where in your life are you experiencing deprivations that provoke fear in you? What are the roots of that fear? 

V | Verbalize (Pray about your thoughts and emotions.)

Remembering that He loves you and that you are in His presence, talk to God about the particulars of your O – Observe step. You may want to write your reflections in your LOVE the Word® journal. Or, get a free journal page and guide in the right-hand margin.

E | Entrust (Rest in the Word.)

Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, with the Holy Spirit your Beloved Spouse, lend me your wisdom and illumine my heart and mind so I may become free to glorify God by reaching my full potential, the glory for which I was created.  Amen +

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What We Discussed | Show Notes

Overview:

Minutes 00:00-15:00 – Just Rest book; two Baptist church splits; Heb 3-4

Minutes 15:01-30:00 – God's "ways": desert, repetition, Word

Minutes 30:01-60:00 – Pop quizzes in the Exodus

Transcript

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