Growing Wild

Be strengthened and encouraged by Peter's story. This inspiration explores the transformative power of Jesus' restoration, and the hope found in Peter's story of humility and faith.

Part 1 of a 3 part study on Peter: inspiration for when our circumstances grow bigger than our trust in God. Be inspired to let Jesus be the Lord of your life because where he is Lord, there is freedom. And glory!

Prepare your heart in worship with the song "Your Peace Will Make us One" by Audrey Assad and Urban Doxology

Be inspired to see that true Freedom comes when we open our hands, releasing all our own plans in exchange for his. The white flag of Surrender sprouts in your season for growing Freedom. But oh so much more! With this 7th seed of Freedom, you are like a Garden growing wild.

The Lord will guide you always;
    he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
    and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
    like a spring whose waters never fail.

Isaiah 58:11

Access JOY anytime. The discussion highlights the transformative power of gratitude in daily life and the contrast between fleeting worldly joy and the enduring joy found in the Garden.

True Peace exists even when circumstances are far from comfortable. Discover the difference between the world's peace and the Peace that Jesus left with us. We are no longer allowing fear to finish our stories. God wants us to know the story he has written. And it's a good one!

music:

open: "Honey in the Rock"

close: "At the Altar”

Perhaps the most productive use of our time is not chasing our own tails of assumptions and to-do lists. Maybe running around looking and feeling busy does not a productive life make!

Discover how resting in God's presence is a most productive use of time which leads us to do work that is more effective and purposeful than we could ever strive for on our own.

opening song: "Cathedral" Jonathan David Helser, Melissa Helser and Cageless Birds

Don't you want a relationship with the people you love? So does God! And He has gone to great lengths to secure a relationship with us. In this episode, we consider the loving ways God brings us into his Presence and keeps us there.

Worship:

"God Really Loves Us" Crowder

"It's Your Love" Young Oceans

In this conversation, Sarah discusses the transformative power of hope and challenges our temptation to settle in despair saying things like, 'it's just the way it is.' She uses the metaphor of a tree house to illustrate our ability to climb higher and choose a divine perspective. Sarah encourages us to confront cultural assumptions and fears, seek truth, and embrace an opportunity for hopeful change.

Music:

open: "Dancing on the Waves" We the Kingdom

close: "Farther Along" Josh Garrels

When we develop our understandings of who God is and what He has done and continues to do for us, we gain spiritual wisdom and intimacy with the Holy Spirit: aka "the comforter".

May this discussion remind you that coming home to the Father is--not only the ultimate comfort-- it's what allows your life to grow wild with truthful purpose and powerful action. May these words comfort your discomfort as "Perfect love casts out all fear." (1 John 4:18)

worship:

"The Garden" Kari Jobe

"At the Table" Josh Garrels

Note from Sarah: Thank you for your grace as I learn to use this public platform to encourage and inspire, but always where my words can easily be mistaken and misrepresented. To be clear- in no way do I mean to discourage you from therapy, medications or doctors or any other valuable resource for health. I will be more clear on n the future in this topic! I often encourage others to seek God’s council, order and his will through prayer first and sometimes forget to make a disclaimer statement that these wonderful people are also valuable ways God will indeed bless us with health solutions. I am often speaking on the solutions we don’t reach for first. Often God and prayer are our last resort not our first. Please don’t misunderstand my encouragement as a reason to disregard medical doctors as an adequate solution. God bless our brilliant doctors, therapists and medicine!

“Raising the dead” may not look like Lazarus, and it may look like restoring life to places we thought to be hopeless and dead. We are called and empowered to speak life into dead situations.