Hear Him Louder Podcast

In this episode, Marnie and Rachael Adams discuss how loving God and loving others fits together with hearing God’s voice. Because they go together. When we love God and others, we’re leaning into our journey with Him in ways that open us to hearing Him – and when we hear His voice louder, we can love Him and others better. 

And sometimes we overcomplicate it all, when what God is really asking of us is pretty simple.

Marnie and Rachael discuss how: 

• Circumstances can unfold differently than we expect after hearing God’s direction – but that doesn’t mean we misheard God.  
• Knowing we are loved by God helps us to love Him and others.
• Feeling unlovable can be a barrier to receiving God’s love for us.
• Listening for God’s voice is part of HOW we love others.
• We can love God and others as a natural part of our everyday.
• We often overcomplicate what loving God and others looks like.

Author of A Little Goes a Long Way and Everyday Prayers for Love, Rachael Adams, hopes to help women realize God’s love and purpose for their lives. She and her husband, Bryan, live in Kentucky with their two children, Will and Kate. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, Crosswalk, Proverbs 31, Today Parenting, and YouVersion. Connect with her by visiting her website, on Instagram and Facebook, and tuning in to The Love Offering podcast every Tuesday on your favorite listening platform. Grab your free copy of Rachael’s Love Offering Calendar, 30 Days to Live Out Love. 

You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Mariel Davenport continue with part two of their conversation by diving into a four-step method, called TEND, for studying and listening for Jesus through scripture.

After she describes each step, she models what using her TEND method looks like with a verse in real time, so we can see it come to life.

As we wind down our busy spring seasons and transition into a new rhythm for summer, this TEND method is a great way to study the Bible this summer.

Marnie and Mariel chat about: 

• How Bible study can be powerful in a slower rhythm – even just a verse a day.
• The four-step TEND method that she developed for studying scripture.
• What it looks like to use the TEND method for one sample verse, in real time. 
• How we listen for Him in each of the four steps.
• The importance of not just reading, but also doing what we read.
• How Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit will guide and teach us in all things, including scripture.

As an atheist transformed by the Word of God, Mariel Davenport knows the power of seeking God through His Word. She is passionate about equipping women of all ages to tend their soul by the Word using her TEND method. As a trained Bible teacher with both Precepts Ministries and Community Bible Study, she has spent over 20 years in ministry. She also served as a mentor with Flourish Writers and Hope Writers. Now Mariel has a Bible study series releasing this fall with Our Daily Bread Publishers. Married for over 25 years to her college sweetheart and a retired homeschool mom of two grown sons, Mariel enjoys spicy salsa from her garden and walking her dog, Scout, on the beach near her house.

You can find Mariel at her website, on Instagram, and Substack. Download your FREE resource to finish TENDing through Psalm 23 and apply this method to any scripture.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Mariel Davenport discuss how as an atheist, she was perfectly content to believe that God didn’t exist – but God had other plans.

Marnie and Mariel discuss: 

• How the label “atheist” didn’t keep God away.
• God’s heart to pursue us, even when we aren’t aware of Him or His pursuit. 
• How God used the imperfect humans from the stories in Genesis to meet Mariel's own brokenness. 
• How Mariel began to hear God speak to her as she read the Bible.
• When we read His Word every day and listen for Him, He anchors us with those very words.

As an atheist transformed by the Word of God, Mariel Davenport knows the power of seeking God through His Word. She is passionate about equipping women of all ages to tend their soul by the Word using her TEND method. As a trained Bible teacher with both Precepts Ministries and Community Bible Study, she has spent over 20 years in ministry. She also served as a mentor with Flourish Writers and Hope Writers. Now Mariel has a Bible study series releasing this fall with Our Daily Bread Publishers. Married for over 25 years to her college sweetheart and a retired homeschool mom of two grown sons, Mariel enjoys spicy salsa from her garden and walking her dog, Scout, on the beach near her house.

You can find Mariel at her website, on Instagram, and Substack. Download your FREE resource to finish TENDing through Psalm 23 and apply this method to any scripture.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Rachel Wojo continue with part two of their conversation by discussing her book, Desperate Prayers. In every desperate circumstance we face, we have the choice of whether to pray or not pray. To walk through it with God or without Him.

Rachel shares what choosing to walk through it with God can look like. And we don’t have to be perfect or say the right words.

Marnie and Rachel chat about how: 

• We can lean into and learn from the desperate prayers of 15 Bible characters – and know that our own heartbreaks look an awful lot like theirs. 
• To pray when we don’t have the words.
• Simple three-word prayers open our communication with Jesus.
• When we open ourselves up to God in prayer, we begin to hear Him in a different way.

Rachel Wojo is an author, public speaker, and podcaster who hosts Bible reading challenges on her popular blog, rachelwojo.com. Her biblical approach and life circumstances influence women to find strength and hope in everyday situations. The ideal desperate pray-er to shed light on asking God questions, Rachel’s journey includes losing her mother to leukemia, her adult special needs daughter to a rare neurologically degenerative disease, and her father to illness. She is the author of Desperate Prayers: Embracing the Power of Prayer in Life’s Darkest Moments. Mostly, Rachel is crazy in love with Matt, mom to six on earth and two in heaven.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Rachel Wojo discuss how, inside the hardest of hard things, we face a choice: Hold our heartbreak alone or offer God our most desperate, raw prayers.

We don’t always want to invite God into our anger, confusion, and pain – but Rachel asks the question, what if inside our trials, we leaned into Jesus? What if we asked Him to show us how to show up?

When we choose to, something unexplainable happens. 

If you’re in a painful season, these next two episodes are for you. Marnie and Rachel have a real and raw conversation, through some tears, about how: 

• God is always pursuing us – and her story of His pursuit at age 6.
• His voice and character are always the same, but the way we listen can change.
• He meets us in what Rachel calls “the fellowship of suffering,” a sacred place that offers unexplainable peace, like the eye of the storm.
• When we experience His comfort, we find a deeper longing for His presence.

Rachel Wojo is an author, public speaker, and podcaster who hosts Bible reading challenges on her popular blog, rachelwojo.com. Her biblical approach and life circumstances influence women to find strength and hope in everyday situations. The ideal desperate pray-er to shed light on asking God questions, Rachel’s journey includes losing her mother to leukemia, her adult special needs daughter to a rare neurologically degenerative disease, and her father to illness. She is the author of Desperate Prayers: Embracing the Power of Prayer in Life’s Darkest Moments. Mostly, Rachel is crazy in love with Matt, mom to six on earth and two in heaven.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Abby McDonald continue with part two of their conversation with a discussion of fear, doubt, and our desires. We talk about how each of these aren’t bad – but that the enemy can use our fears, doubts, and desires to keep us from meeting with Jesus and hearing Him.

What if we view our fears, doubts, and desires as invitations to seek deeper understanding of each WITH Jesus?

Marnie and Abby chat about how: 

• Fear has value, and we can take our fear to God to learn more about what’s happening behind the fear.
• To recognize when fear is holding us back.
• Doubt begins and why we doubt.
• We can move past doubt, including when we doubt we’ll hear God and when we doubt what we hear.
• To test whether our desires are God-given.
• To find peace and to know what we can hold as certain.

Abby McDonald is the author of Surrendering Certainty and Shift. She is also a writing coach and speaker whose passion is to help women become unstuck in their calling and respond to God’s voice in faith. She is a regular contributor for Proverbs 31 Ministries, and her work has been featured in numerous publications. You can find her at her Website, on Instagram, and you can preorder Surrendering Certainty here.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus. Get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Abby McDonald discuss our longing for certainty. It’s something we all want, right? We want to know when we choose a certain path, it’s going to end up a certain way.

What we may not realize is that our desire for certainty can actually get in the way of being with and hearing Jesus. What if surrendering the need for certainty helps us find and hear Jesus better?

Marnie and Abby chat about how: 

• When Abby discovered that she could hear God’s voice, it changed everything about her walk with Jesus.
• Only one thing is needed to hear Him — and it isn’t knowledge. Knowledge does not determine our ability to hear God.
• We don’t have to have it all figured out to hear Him.
• Wanting certainty is a “yoke” or burden that’s too heavy for us.
• To lay down the need for certainty.

Abby McDonald is the author of Surrendering Certainty and Shift. She is also a writing coach and speaker whose passion is to help women become unstuck in their calling and respond to God’s voice in faith. She is a regular contributor for Proverbs 31 Ministries, and her work has been featured in numerous publications. You can find her at her website, on Instagram, and you can preorder Surrendering Certainty here.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus. Get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Monika Kirkland continue with part two of their conversation with a discussion of how to open our hearts to hearing Jesus when He seems quiet. It’s all about taking the pressure off ourselves.

Marnie and Monika chat about how: 

• It’s normal that we experience quieter times with God. 
• We can draw near Him in several simple, practical ways that help open our hearts to hearing Him.
• We want to seek Him in the “low stakes” moments so we can hear Him more clearly in the “high stakes” moments.
• We’re probably already hearing Him more than we think.
• If we’re bored or stale or dry in our walk with Jesus, we can tell Him that.

Monika Kirkland is a Christian writer, podcaster, wife, and mother of four that knows what it’s like to walk in the trenches of motherhood, marriage, and over a decade of ministry. She is passionate about encouraging and equipping women to cultivate intimacy with Christ and experience the transformative power of the gospel from the inside out. You can follow along on Instagram, tune into her podcast Inner Revival, or visit her website.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Monika Kirkland discuss what the experience of hearing Jesus can be like and how it can look different in different seasons. She shares two powerful stories, separated by decades, of hearing His whispers in two very different seasons.

Marnie and Monika chat about how: 

• Jesus whispered a specific, timely promise she needed in her teen years and then, decades later, whispered a fresh, unexpected promise that only He could orchestrate. 
• Our practice of listening can look different in different seasons.
• Having knowledge does not equal having intimacy with Jesus. 
• Delighting in Him and spending time with Him can quiet our striving.
• Our expectations of God can get in the way of hearing Him.

Monika Kirkland is a Christian writer, podcaster, wife, and mother of four that knows what it’s like to walk in the trenches of motherhood, marriage, and over a decade of ministry. She is passionate about encouraging and equipping women to cultivate intimacy with Christ and experience the transformative power of the gospel from the inside out. You can follow along on Instagram, tune into her podcast Inner Revival, or visit her website.

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Shawna Sullivan continue their conversation about trusting God with “crossroads” decisions and then shift to discussing how understanding “stewardship” fits into both the big and small decisions.

Marnie and Shawna chat about: 

• How to wait on God for clarity and unity with “crossroads” decisions.
• How scripture will root us as we wait and how God will offer confirmations. 
• How seeking first the kingdom of God means stepping into a bigger story.
• What stewardship looks like (hint: it’s not only finances).
• How we teach our children to know God as their provider.

Shawna Sullivan is a mother and home educator to four children. After 13 years, she traded the hustle and bustle of New York City for the suburbs of north Texas. She will never take a backyard, time with family, air conditioning, or her own laundry room for granted. Shawna writes regularly for Family Christian online. Her passion for living faithfully, not perfectly, informs her words and ministry.

Shawna and David, her husband of 20 years, are writing a book and launching a podcast encouraging and equipping others toward a life of faithful stewardship with their time, money, and talents. Shawna connects with her readers through a bi-weekly newsletter, First Things First, where she shares practical resources and real-life applications.

You can find Shawna at her Website, on Instagram, and Facebook. She also has a free ebook, 30 Prayers for Provision, designed to help you anchor your heart so you can trust the heart of God and lean on His faithful promises. Included in this ebook are: 

-  30 prayers for provision, such as: a Prayer for Protection, Prayer for Finances, Prayer for Joy, etc.

-  30 Bible verses to guide your prayer time and anchor your heart

-  A prayer journal page to record your prayers, thoughts, and requests along with a space to record God's faithful provision

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.