Kingdom Life Coaching: Untangle the Noise, Hear God's Voice, Clarify Your Calling

Ep 17 // Positioning Yourself to Hear from God

Megan builds on the theme of how writing out your conversations with God is a form of worship. This episode unpacks the transformative experience called, “Beautiful Exchange Journaling.” 

Join Megan as she discusses:

• How the book of Habakkuk (and the prophet himself) helps us understand this concept.

• The interchange you can experience with God if you open yourself up to this practice!

• The very real challenges people experience when attempting to communicate with God.

• What full life really is. 

• The four keys to hearing God’s voice. What we learn from Habakkuk.

• How releasing your thoughts and concerns lead you into a place of openness.

• God can speak through anything! Don’t count anything out. 

• What “purple wildflowers” have to do with hearing God’s voice. 

Questions you’ll ask yourself in this episode:

• What concerns you about the state of the world right now?

• If you could ask God anything right now - what would it be?

• What new door do you feel God is opening for you?

• Is there something you feel you can’t be honest about right now?

• How are you tempted to “future trip” right now into vain imagination?

• Are you open/willing to try “Beautiful Exchange Journaling”? If you have tried it already, how did it go?

• Is there anything keeping you stuck from believing God has plans and a purpose for you?
• How is God calling you to come closer to Him right now? In what specific area could you use deeper support and discernment to move forward in freedom and confidence?

Megan is so excited to walk this journey with you! Join her to have conversations on reframing life, love, and calling to live the life God has so purposefully created for you.

Resources for Listeners:

Episode 16 // When God Seems Silent

Episode 3 // Lord Send Me, and Other Things We Might Not Really Mean

Four Keys to Hearing God’s Voice (Mark Virkler)

Megan’s new book + journal //  Untangled Faith: How Honest Conversations with God Lead to Deeper Connections, Clarity, and Peace available on Amazon.

If you want to learn how to discern God’s voice - go grab the bookmark at hearinggodbookmark.com

Connect with Megan: Website: meganbnilsen.com

Instagram: @megan_nilsen

Facebook: @MeganNilsenKingdomLifeCoach

Schedule a Free Curiosity Call on my website

Or send a good, old-fashioned email: [email protected]

Ep 16 // 3 Things to Do When God Seems Silent 

No matter how long you’ve walked with God, there will likely be times when God seems silent. When you pray, and seek, and knock and hear nothing, sense nothing...What are you to do in those moments?

Join Megan as she discusses:

• What to do when it feels like you are talking to a wall and can’t seem to hear God.

• The options you have for breakthrough and clarity in these seasons. 

• Timing is everything in the Kingdom of God.

• How Jesus demonstrates the importance of divine timing. 

• There is always more to the story than meets the eye. 

Questions you’ll ask yourself in this episode:

• What do you know “for sure” that can help you move forward?

• In what ways are you tempted to “future trip” and conjure imaginations that aren’t true?

• What is something you hope for right now that may need more time to mature or develop before you can experience it?

• How do you need to move forward trusting God is with you and you have enough information? 

• Is there an area of life in which you need to change the question with God?

• Is there something God has already told you to do, but you don’t like the answer? 

Megan is so excited to begin this journey with you to have conversations on reframing life, love, and calling to live the life God has so purposefully created for you.

Resources for Listeners:

Dallas Willard

Bob Goff, "Love Does + "Everybody Always" 

Oswald Chambers, "My Utmost for His Highets"

Megan Nilsen, book + journal available on Amazon, “Untangled Faith: How Honest Conversations with God Lead to Deeper Connections, Clarity, and Peace” 

Connect with Megan: meganbnilsen.comFacebook Community: Beautiful Exchange Community Group

Facebook: MeganNilsenKingdomLifeCoach

Instagram: @ megan_nilsen

Email: [email protected]

Ep 15 // POV - Writing as Worship

Megan builds on the theme of how writing out your conversations with God is a form of worship. If you care to connect with God and explore what’s going on in your internal world - this episode is for you!

Join Megan as she discusses:

• How writing with God will bring renewed truth into your life.

• Whether you like “writing” or not is irrelevant. No one will ‘grade’ this type of writing!

• Writing as a form of WORSHIP.

• What comes to mind when you think of the word/idea of “worship”.

• Worship is less about the external experience and more about the internal transformation.

• Writing with God is a form of worship because you are waking up to your life!

• Checking the box of “going to church” is not the most important thing.

Questions you’ll ask yourself in this episode:

• How do you view worship? What does worship mean to you?

• Where (how) am you holding back from sharing your full heart with God right now?

• Over what area of your life do you most need Jesus’ perspective?

• In what specific area is God beckoning you to become more like Christ?

• What is something you have elevated above your relationship with God right now?

• What are you asking your loved ones to carry right now that is not theirs to carry?

• Where in your life do you need to ask "wow" instead of "how"?

Megan is so excited to walk this journey with you! Join her to have conversations on reframing life, love, and calling to live the life God has so purposefully created for you.

Resources for Listeners:

Megan’s new book + journal //  Untangled Faith: How Honest Conversations with God Lead to Deeper Connections, Clarity, and Peace available on Amazon.

If you want to learn how to discern God’s voice - go grab the bookmark at hearinggodbookmark.com

“Women Who Write Roundtable” Call - July 10th. Email Megan for details → [email protected]

Connect with Megan: WebsiteFacebook Community

Instagram 

Schedule a Free Curiosity Call

Or send a good, old-fashioned email: [email protected]

Ep 14 // Addressing Journal-Phobia Tackling the Fear of Writing

Does the word “journaling” scare you? Are you a “journaler” by nature or do you run from the hills at the thought of spending time with your thoughts?! Join Megan in this episode as she unpacks the powerful spiritual practice of journaling with God. 

Join Megan as she discusses:

• How journaling with God is a deeper transformative practice than stopping with just your own thoughts. 

• Why you don’t need to be a good writer to benefit from this practice.

• How journaling helps you make sense of things happening in your life!

• How journaling connects both sides of your brain by creating new neural pathways for greater awareness of what’s going on in your life.

• How journaling your feelings with God not only blesses you, but benefits all those around you!

Questions you’ll ask yourself in this episode:

• Am I willing to give this journaling-with-God-thing a try?

• Would it change your perspective on journaling if you believed the practice would benefit your loved ones as well as yourself?

• What would it look like for me to take one step closer to the Lord today?

• Is what I’m hearing when I pray connecting me deeper to the heart of God or tempting me to disconnect?

Megan is so excited to walk this journey with you! Join her to have conversations on reframing life, love, and calling to live the life God has so purposefully created for you.

Resources for Listeners:

Megan’s new book + journal //  Untangled Faith: How Honest Conversations with God Lead to Deeper Connections, Clarity, and Peace available on Amazon.

If you want to learn how to discern God’s voice - go grab the bookmark at hearinggodbookmark.com

“Women Who Write Roundtable” Call - July 10th. Email Megan for details → [email protected]

Besser van der Kolk’s book: “The Body Keeps the Score”

Connect with Megan: WebsiteFacebook Community

Instagram 

Schedule a Free Curiosity Call

Or send a good, old-fashioned email: [email protected]

Ep. 13 // Did God Really Say…?

The journey of following Jesus is not for the faint of heart! It’s for the hearty, spiritual pilgrim. If you believe there’s more to this life than what you can see with the naked eye - this is for you! 

Join Megan as she discusses:

• Why settling for “good and fine” in life is getting in the way of true life in Jesus.

• Good often disguises itself as a counterfeit opportunity that strategically withholds God’s best.

• What does it look like to ask God to shed His perspective over your life?

• The step of faith that it takes to allow God to choose for us instead of choosing everything for ourselves.

• The natural human inclination to question God when it seems hard.

• How hearing God’s voice is vital if you want to thrive in this life.

• Three questions you can ask yourself when you hear God’s voice to determine if it’s truly Him!

Questions you’ll ask yourself in this episode:

• What seems like a “good opportunity” on paper but feels like a counterfeit opportunity in your spirit?

• Am I ‘stagnating’ spiritually? 

• Do I trust God when it really matters?

• Can I walk in faith even when I don’t know the outcome?

• Do I know how to hear God’s voice?

Megan is so excited to walk this journey with you! Join her to have conversations on reframing life, love, and calling to live the life God has so purposefully created for you.

Resources for Listeners:

Episode 4: Is the Comfort Zone Really All That Bad

Megan’s brand new book + journal //  Untangled Faith: How Honest Conversations with God Lead to Deeper Connections, Clarity, and Peace.

If you want to learn how to discern God’s voice - go grab the bookmark! 

Connect with Megan: WebsiteFacebook Community

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Schedule a Free Curiosity Call

Or send a good, old-fashioned email: [email protected]

Ep. 12 // Awareness of Who or What is Influencing You and Why it Matters

You are the sum total of everything you’ve experienced in your life. Do you pay attention to what you absorb into your heart and mind on a daily basis? Whatever you look at, whatever you’re listening to has influence over you to one degree or another.

In this episode, Megan unpacks the power influences have over us and what Kingdom living looks like on a daily basis. 

Join Megan as she discusses:

• Why we need to pay attention to what we are allowing influence over our lives.

• The importance of being selective about your external influences.

• The power you have to filter those influences for good (or harm).

• The importance of drawing healthy boundaries.

• How to creatively connect with God.

Questions you’ll ask yourself in this episode:

• What or who are the top five influences in your life?

• On a scale of 1-5, how healthy are these influences? Do they bring good fruit?

• Do you need to draw a healthy boundary in any area of life in order to flourish and aligned with Kingdom living?

• Are the influences in your life in line with your core values?

• What influences are competing for your attention and affection toward Jesus?

Megan is so excited to begin this journey with you to have conversations on reframing life, love, and calling to live the life God has so purposefully created for you.

Resources:

Beautiful Exchange Journaling Bookmark, hearinggodbookmark.com

Untangled Faith book and companion journal

Connect with Megan: WebsiteFacebook Community

Instagram 

Schedule a Free Curiosity Call

Email: [email protected]

Ep. 11 // Choosing to Be Awake to Your Life

Do you believe there’s something more than just this “vanilla” life but wonder what it is and how to experience more than the world offers?  If you long for a deeper level of connection with God and others this is the episode for you!

Join Megan as she discusses:

• Why it’s important (and fun!) to wake up to your life.

• How might we reframe the word “discipline” - are they laws or tools to create space for God?

• How being awake to your life helps you collaborate more fully with God.

• Feelings are indicators of something deeper - so pay attention.  

• She shares stories of how God 

Questions you’ll ask yourself in this episode:

• Am I currently awake to my life?

• What are you feeling right now that God wants you to be aware of so you can grow, heal, and collaborate with Him?

 Megan is so excited to walk this journey with you! Join her to have conversations on reframing life, love, and calling to live the life God has so purposefully created for you.

Resources for Listeners:

Megan’s brand new book + journal //  Untangled Faith: How Honest Conversations with God Lead to Deeper Connections, Clarity, and Peace.

Sharon Garlough Brown, The Sensible Shoes Novel Series

Connect with Megan: WebsiteFacebook Community

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Ep. 10// Are God's Ways Really Higher Than Our Ways 

If God’s thoughts are far beyond the way we think (Isaiah 55:8-9), how do we differentiate our thoughts from God’s thoughts? Why is this important for flourishing, Kingdom living? 

Join Megan as she discusses:

• The fact that God’s ways are higher than ours, but He invites us into that space with Him!

• Her husband’s job journey that ushered him into a space of discerning God’s ways.

• How do we tap into God’s thoughts?

• What posture do we need to take?

• What to do when emotions run rampant.

Questions you’ll ask yourself in this episode:

• Am I aligned with what God created me to do?

• Am I submitted to God in such a way that I could hear His thoughts over my own?

• What does God want to show you about your life right now?

• Where do I need to ask God to shine his divine light over my life?

• In what way are you feeling stuck, frustrated anxious? How can you take this to the Lord to hear His thoughts on it?

 Megan is so excited to walk this journey with you! Join her to have conversations on reframing life, love, and calling to live the life God has so purposefully created for you.

Resources for Listeners:

Megan’s brand new book + journal //  Untangled Faith: How Honest Conversations with God Lead to Deeper Connections, Clarity, and Peace.

FREE Bookmark to slide in your bible/journal! hearinggodbookmark.com

Connect with Megan: WebsiteFacebook Community

Instagram 

Schedule a Free Curiosity Call

Or send a good, old-fashioned email: [email protected]

Ep. 9 // Three Myths That Impede Personal Encounter with Jesus

It's one thing to listen to and be encouraged by other people's miraculous encounters with Jesus, but have you heard Him for yourself? What does it look like to have a personal encounter with God to fill your own cup?

Join Megan as she discusses:

• The difference between someone else's testimony and your own encounter.

• How someone else's story is simply the catalyst for your own!

• Three myths that might be impeding your own encounter with Jesus

• Why limitations don't exclude us from God

• Why being in a "dry season" could be the catalyst to a new in-filling

• Why we must bridge the "sacred/secular" divide

Questions you’ll ask yourself in this episode:

• Am I "drafting" off other people's testimonies, or have I experienced Jesus for myself?

• Do I know how to hear his voice?

• What gets in the way of hearing Jesus for myself?

• What do I need to do to be able to hear Jesus better?

 Megan is so excited to walk this journey with you! Join her to have conversations on reframing life, love, and calling to live the life God has so purposefully created for you.

Resources for Listeners:

Mark Virkler, Communion with God Ministries

Megan’s brand new book Untangled Faith: How Honest Conversations with God Lead to Deeper Connections, Clarity, and Peace

Untangled Faith: Beautiful Exchange Companion Journal

Connect with Megan: WebsiteFacebook Community

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Schedule a Free Curiosity Call

Or send a good, old-fashioned email: [email protected] 

Ep. 8 // Mother's Day Letter to Birth Moms from an Adoptive Mom

This is a short and tender episode dedicated to birth moms who have carried babies to term or raised children to a certain age and, for one reason or another, have relinquished them for adoption. 

Join Megan as she shares her heart for birth moms and her perspective as an adoptive mom. Do you know any birth moms who may be blessed by this episode? Please share as you feel led!

In addition, you will ask yourself if there is a message God has put on your heart that you are meant to share with the world. Perhaps it's time to step out of your comfort zone and share this word for the nourishment and growth of others!

Megan is so excited to walk this nuanced journey of life and faith with you! Join her to have conversations on reframing life, love, and calling to live the life God has so purposefully created for you.

Resources for Listeners:

Megan’s brand new book Untangled Faith: How Honest Conversations with God Lead to Deeper Connections, Clarity, and Peace.

Connect with Megan: WebsiteFacebook Community

Instagram 

Schedule a Free Curiosity Call

Or send a good, old-fashioned email: [email protected]