Faith Chapel SD Podcast

Still following the life of Peter with his high and low moments, he merits an invitation to the mountain of transfiguration with a couple other disciples. This was a monumental moment for Jesus and for those who witnessed what happened! Was this a moment just for Jesus or an invitation for us to live likewise? Pastor Josiah breaks it down and shows how this moment wasn’t just for Jesus but to be an example for all of us to follow. We too are invited up the glorious mountain.

Pastor Josiah & Ashley share some incredible insight into their marriage, focusing on how our intimacy with the Lord trickles into every other relationship we have. Especially our marriage. When we’re learning to be close to the Lord and have an incredible depth of relationship there, it no doubt affects every other relationship in our life. We need it this way. It’s supposed to be this way. God designed it to be this way. The best way to invest in your marriage is to actually invest in your relationship with the Lord through intimacy.

Pastor Josiah takes us into concept of multiplication which only happens through intimacy. If it’s true that mankind multiplies when they’re intimate with each other within the confines of a marriage, then spiritually speaking there’s a multiplication that takes place through intimacy with God. Looking into the life of the judge Samson to better understand the consequences of our decisions, much depth concerning what we’re looking at brings forth a strong degree of revelation. 

Peter has some great contrasting moments. One moment he’s knocking it out of the park with great responses and shining decisions, and the next moment he appears to have fallen off the back of the train. We learn through his life that God wastes absolutely nothing. There is never an excuse for sin but there’s also not an excuse to stay down or give up or get stuck. We must be like a righteous man who gets back up again to move forward doing what God has called them to do. Pastor Josiah pulls some incredible truths from the life of Peter and the teachings of Jesus on this subject while encouraging the listening TO NEVER GET STUCK! No matter how far the fall or how loud the crash is, nothing is wasted.

We venture back to Adam & Eve and get a solid understanding of how intimacy was supposed to look from the very beginning. Both between the institution of marriage as well as what it was like for them to walk in unbroken relationship with The Lord before the fall of man. There’s much to uncover in this. Then, venturing into what Jesus has to say about oneness and tying this into what the plan was from the beginning. This is a vital component to walking in a lifestyle of intimacy with God.

The gates of hell will not prevail against us! The gates aren’t meant to keep the devil and his demons in, it’s really to keep us out! We’re meant to plunder hell! Every time we share the Gospel and every time we make disciples, we’re wreaking havoc on the kingdom of darkness for the glory of God. Peter figured this out when he identified who the Christ is, the Messiah, the Son of the living God! Everything hinges on who we know Him to be! Who He is to us matters greatly! This exciting message is filled with inspiration and motivation to get off our hands and get them working for the glory of God. Let’s plunder hell and populate heaven!

As we’re learning to grow in intimacy with the Lord, the trust factor comes into play. If we’re struggling with intimacy with God, there’s a strong chance that we’re actually dealing with a trust problem. Trust is essentially faith. Pastor Josiah takes us into the life of Abraham & Sarah and their remarkable journey to learn to be intimate with God which correlated to their intimacy with each other. This would ultimately birth the promise of Isaac. But they had to be willing to do it God’s way, not their own.

We’re all in process. We likely have not arrived to looking just like Christ. It’s a process’s. The disciples were in it and Jesus was extremely patient with them, as He is with us. The only vital error would be to abandon the process He has us in. Can’t have it! Pastor Josiah shares how vital the process is that we’re all in and how crucial we are to walk through this together as family.

Intimacy will always be tied to reproduction. We know that intimacy cannot be separated from sexual intimacy but to be clear, the intimacy with the Lord we’re discussing is NOT a sexual intimacy. However, when we can use the understanding of what sexual intimacy is between a husband and a wife, a man and a woman, we see a guide and uncover some helpful tools that will help us explore what intimacy with God does look like. So, we’re pulling elements from that kind of sexual intimacy, but we’re certainly not saying that’s what we’re supposed to be engaging with God in. Pastor Josiah takes us into the story of Jacob & Laban, also his mother Rebecca. Jacob became what he saw within his family. Knowing we’ll become what we look at can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on what you’re looking at. What influences you matters greatly!