EYFPodcast Exercise Your Faith

Here we are 2+ years and 250+ episodes into this and it struck us that James and I needed to stop talking and start doing. We started this show not knowing if we'd last one week much less two years and while we're not done podcasting we are going to close the chapter on this show. My wife said it best when she said that all we need to do is exercise the faith God has given us in every situation because it is enough. Our podcasting library is filled with testimony after testimony of God fulfilling His great promises in the lives of ordinary people just like us. It is our hope that you have been blessed to go along with us on this journey and will come back when God has called us to once again use this format to spread His message. We thank you for listening and downloading and we encourage you to continue to do just that because the nuggets of wisdom our guests have shared need to be listened to over and over again. We're going to pay to keep it up so take advantage and re-listen. Have a great day folks and as always, God Bless.
Your's in Christ,
Dave and James

The EYFPodcast is proud to sit down today with Jody Hudson. An inspiring author and founder of the Alex Hudson Lyme Foundation, Jody Hudson is on a mission to spread hope through self-rediscovery, gratitude, and faith. After losing her twenty-two-year-old daughter to Lyme disease, Jody turned her pain into purpose and built a nation-wide preventative curriculum to educate on the severity of tick-borne illnesses that’s led to her collaboration with the Girl Scouts. 

With over 13 years of nonprofit leadership experience and 12 years of retail management, Jody embodies both a kind heart and a keen vision for empowering individuals. Today, Jody frequently speaks on overcoming loss, navigating through grief, learning gratitude and finding one’s purpose in life.  

Her story is one no parent ever wants to have to tell but she found God at the right time and is able to rest in Him knowing that Alex is at home with Jesus. We hope you enjoy her story as much as we did in bringing it to you. 

Thankfully it appears we can now put COVID in our rear view mirrors. This pandemic is over but the scars and fears remain. One of the fears involves the persecution of Christians that saw pastors get arrested and thrown into prison for refusing to bow down to the government. In America when we hear about this type of persecution we associate it with some far off country in the Middle East and certainly not with our neighbor Canada up north. Unfortunately our former good neighbor Canada used Covid as a reason to persecute the Christian church there and it's pastors. One such Pastor was James Coates and he has a story to tell and we are sharing it with you today. His story is so stunning that it helped foster a new book called "God vs. Government" which not only tells his story of arrest and persecution but also provides a blueprint going forward how we can all fight back when the government oversteps its bounds.

We hope you enjoy Pastor Coates story and the message of hope he brings.

God vs. Government

https://gracelife.ca/

These are strange times indeed. It seems like what is good is bad and what is up is really down. We've become a nation of creatures looking for comfort but God is stirring in those who will be obedient a different way of thinking. God is using people like Matthew and Joy Thayer of Speropictures to wake people like you and I up from our slumber. The enemy never rests and so the people of God must "rest" in Jesus so that we are able to fight back against the powers of this world. We are in a battle but this is a battle we can win if we will simply obey God and retake our God-given authority back from those who receive their instructions from satan. We are on the good team and we need to help wake our other sleeping team members up. This might be the most important podcast you listen to not because of us but because of where reawakening can take you (us) as a people forward.

https://reawakeningseries.com/

https://speropictures.com/

It seems like the world is going to hell. Covid, mandates, protests, wars and rumors of wars, good is now bad and bad is now good. For many Christians this has been more than a rude awakening as for many it's caused fear and doubt. Into this picture comes two very important gentlemen who have been given the gift of prophetical discernment, The Prophecy Pros.

Two experts. One topic. No confusion. Jeff Kinley and Todd Hampson are on a mission to reach the next generation with the inspiring, hopeful message found in Bible prophecy and today they spend an hour with us to bring some hope and encouragement. Enjoy this important episode and make sure you share it with every Christian you know so they can be reassured that God has THE PLAN.

https://jeffkinley.com/

https://toddhampson.com/

https://theprophecypros.com/

All of us make agreements every day. We buy things that require an agreement, we enter into relationships that require an agreement and when we go to work we agree to fulfill certain requests as a part of our employer agreement. Did you know that you are to be in agreement (called COVENANT) with God as well? Did you know that if the you will simply "agree" with God (See Matt 6:33) that your life will not only improve but will be governed by God's laws and principals which He created to bless you with!

God wants to be in COVENANT with you! It's the common sense plan for every person as we are all God's creation whether we know it or not. Come into agreement with God today and be inspired to seek COVENANT with Him. All you have to do is Trust and Obey. 

Take notes listeners! There is so much simple truth in today's show. We have the honor and pleasure of talking with author and publisher Jack Countryman.  
Jack Countryman is the founder of JCountryman gift books— a
division of Thomas Nelson—and is the recipient of the
Evangelical Christian Publishers Association’s Jordan Lifetime
Achievement Award. Over the past thirty years, he has
developed bestselling gift books such as God’s Promises for Your
Every Need®, God’s Promises for Men®, God’s Promises for
Women®, God’s Blessings Just for You® and The Red Letter
Words of Jesus. Countryman’s books have sold more than 27
million units. This one is truly a treasure folks!

It's been said that 95% of the things we fear about never materialize. Most people are afraid of speaking in public but have never been asked to or had to and yet still fear it. There is a real spirit of fear but there is also our Lord Jesus Christ who came to give us back our dominion over fear. Join us today as we discuss the topic of fear, irrational and rational fears and have a return to a common sense and biblical approach to fear. God didn't give us a spirit of fear so let's not be so willing to accept it from the enemy. 

As a middle school PE teacher you get to really see everything that goes on in a school community. Nowadays we really don't teach but rather we manage, we counsel, we make sure there is no unaccidental bloodshed. Everyone says our schools are broken and I would agree they are but not because of the usual suspects. Yes, schools have become indoctrination centers of leftist policies. This is by design and has been working so well for one reason. Parents have given up and given over their authority over their kids to someone else. God made you in His image. God has adopted you and made you an heir with Christ. God has given you His authority to use through Him to glorify Him and to live your life to the fullest. It doesn't take a village to raise your kids. It takes two followers of Christ, a man and a woman, husband and a wife. It's common sense. 

It's been said that 70% of your neighbors are living paycheck to paycheck. Chances are such that you might be one of those neighbors! Everyone should strive to owe no one anything but especially Christians because we can't serve two masters. The issue is how do we get out of debt? What are the steps we can take to get us there? Is there some plan or person who has been where I'm at today who has gotten out of debt? Today on the podcast we are talking to debt relief expert John Nicholas, the author of Debt-Free ASAP! who has a plan based on his knowledge of getting out of debt. John is like many of us in that he has been to the top and the bottom and by the grace of God has gotten out and it is now his mission in life to share with others the common sense steps and methods to getting out of debt and staying out. We hope you enjoy today's show and we encourage you to reach out to John at:

https://debt-freeasap.com/

Common sense says getting out of debt is a great idea and we hope it is one of your goals for 2022!