Open Doors: Conversations with Heart of the Father

Do you know the Lord but long to go deeper in your walk with Him?

Have you experienced a great loss in your life but have just believed that life goes on and so you just moved on?

Have you ever struggled with habitual sin, and no matter how hard you try you just can't seem to break free?

Or have you had a difficult relationship with someone and still have a hard time overcoming negative feelings about them?

The Lord longs for you to walk deeper in freedom and He desires to take you to new levels of healing and forgiveness.

Meet Tony and Toni, two beautiful souls from the Diocese of Wichita, Kansas, who lead a flourishing Unbound Ministry there.  Listen as they both share with Rachel incredibly moving testimonies of God's faithfulness in touching the deepest places of their hearts, especially through forgiveness.

Listen as they talk about the power of renunciation and the beauty of saying YES to ministering to others.

Toni: And even after the  Unbound session, I was still thinking about the freedom that came from forgiving that person for what they had done and truly releasing them. There is something to true forgiveness. Like until that point I had not experienced what true forgiveness was...

It was really difficult. I really had to dig deep and ask the Lord to help me with this, because this was something that I had carried around for quite some time.

And the next day I remember feeling like WOW, when I think about this person, I no longer have the feeling that I had before. I just didn't feel anything negative towards them (anymore).

Hear more about how the Lord changed their lives through the ministry of Unbound and why Tony and Toni long to share the message of freedom in Christ with others.

Want more of what you heard today?

Tony and Toni's Unbound team are hosting an Unbound Freedom in Christ retreat from October 21st to the 23rd. So definitely go check it out!

Or join us for another Freedom in Christ conference this fall. Visit our events page and invite a friend to join you!

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Release: September 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Have you heard about the Five Keys of Unbound? If so, well you are going to love this episode about going deeper with the Keys. If not, you'll still in for a wonderful treat. 

The Five Keys are simple responses to the good news that help us to cooperate with God's grace.  Each key helps us to access this grace and unlock the door to greater freedom.

The first three keys, Repentance and Faith, Forgiveness, and Renunciation,  are about responding to the gospel.  

Those keys are about turning to Jesus and expressing faith, and more deeply experiencing the power of His kingdom released into our hearts. 

Then the last two keys are Authority and The Father's Blessing. These are really about the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

These keys work intimately together to both give expression to a person's heart as they cooperate with what God's doing, but also to proclaim the good news over a person’s life.

These keys are SO SIMPLE, yet SO DEEP.  Every time we minister to someone, we learn something new along the way!

Join Matt and Jenn as they take us Deeper with the Keys and get into the layers of repentance, the less obvious need for forgiveness, and the power of revelation in renunciation.

Listen as they dive into learning not only about blessing a person's identity, purpose, and destiny, but taking it further by blessing areas in their lives that have been discouraged, hidden, or cursed.
 
Whether you are new to Unbound or have been leading ministry sessions for years, you will hear some profound insight and beautiful testimonies,  and you'll be inspired along the way.

Renunciation List
A Ring on Our Finger podcast
The Overview of the Five Keys talk
Leadership Conference information

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Release: September 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Join Janet as she interviews our friend Therese Griffin, and you'll hear a beautiful story of zeal for God's kingdom, hunger for more of Him, and a heart of compassion for the lost.

 Aside from loving her expanding family, Therese is  currently a physical therapist in  Maryland, but her favorite thing to do (in her ownd words) "is just to minister to people on the streets and watch God move on people and see their faces light up". She loves to see lies broken about what they believed God thought of them and what God really thinks about them, whether ministering in an Unbound session, at a methadone clinic, or out on the streets.

"That is always the most joyful moment, getting to see what freedom looks like on a person's face or as they express it out of their heart, it's just really amazing. It is life changing for the person and it's food for my soul."

Be encouraged and empowered today!

(Please accept our apologies for the occasional slight static in this episodes. We had technical difficutlies and did our best to fix it. We know you are going to LOVE this conversation and didn't want you to miss it!)

Note:, this is the last podcast for this season, Season 1, and it's been just such a joy to be on this journey with you all.  We look forward to beginning again with our podcasts on September 9th! Join us for Season 2 of Open Doors: Conversations with Heart of the Father and go DEEPER STILL!

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Release: July 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Matt's excited to interview one of our really good friends, John Paul Ngotty, a leader in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Tanzania.

John Paul traveled with Matt to different countries to share the message of Unbound. He has also trained hundreds and hundreds of people to use Unbound for deliverance.

John Paul loves Unbound for "we experience a real freedom" and after using Unbound Ministry instead of more confrontational deliverance models, people are "completely set free!"

"It's very easy, like coffee or tea! People get very free."

We pray that God gives John Paul more opportunities to travel and share the message of Unbound with many people. We believe he has a gift and a calling to share the message of freedom not only to Tanzania and Nigeria but beyond. 

Join Matt and John Paul today for a powerful conversation about deliverance ministry made simple! You are going to LOVE him!

(Next week join us as Janet interviews our good friend Therese Griffin from Maryland. Then we'll be taking off the month of August- a good time to catch up on missed episodes!)

Hear John Paul's powerful testimony from our Leadership Conference.

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Release: July 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Join us today and you're going to hear a beautiful story of humility of heart, willingness to serve, and faithfulness to the call.

Our guest today, Ben Akery,  reminds us of Samuel who heard the Lord's voice and responded, " Here I am, Lord; you called me?"

Ben is on the pastoral staff at Crosstown Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Born in Missouri, Ben spent most of his young life in Southern California.

He began his career as an engineer, which brought his wife and him to many different places.   They moved frequently, but they always found themselves ending up in churches where they could serve and support.

Finally, in 2007, Ben and his late wife Candy were ordained into ministry at Crosstown Church in South Carolina. It was around this time that they discovered Unbound and have gone on to raise a great team and help many other teams get started.

A few of Ben's sweet and powerful musings:

"God doesn't want us to be tormented by anything-doubt, shame, fear, all those related spirits, all those things in the back of the (Unbound) book...

But I realize...  that God sent Jesus Christ not only to save us from our sins,  but also to give us the abundant life that we always hear about.  The Holy Spirit convicted me that the peace that surpasses understanding, the one that can give us the joy of the Lord, is unlimited.

So there's no problem you have that's greater than the peace that God can give you... it can't be restricted at all by your ability to understand it, because if you were able to understand, it'd probably blow your head off!

I mean, it's just more than you can handle. So it's greater than we would ever need. It doesn't matter if we understand it or not. It's a peace that God gives us, not based on any of our own understanding."

Come be encouraged and inspired by Ben and Jen today.

You might just be blown away!

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Release: July 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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What is spiritual authority?

 Authority is such an important part of our Christian life.

Yet, many of us don't have a good or clear understanding of the authority that we carry as followers of Christ.

So what is authority in the context of the Christian life?

Why is it important for us to walk in it?

John 1:12 says, "but to all who receive Him, who believe in His name, He gave the power to become children of God."  The word translated power there is literally translated authority.

So, He's given us power and authority. Jesus has restored our identity as sons and daughters of God, and now we can use this power and authority to live in the freedom of who we are, the children of God. 

But wait,  there's more!

Authority is also given to us so that we can share in His mission- and two things about this mission.

Jesus has come to reveal the Father and to advance the Kingdom of God.

Remember the Prodigal Son story?

His father saw him and ran to him. He ran to him and he hugged him and he kissed him and he put a robe on him, put sandals on him, and he put a ring on his finger.

Join us today and get a deeper understanding of the "ring on your finger!"

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Release: July 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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 You'll be so blessed by the beautiful Susana de la Piedra. Born in Chile,  when she was a little girl,  Susana left her country to live in Brazil and then later in South Africa and Australia.

Now back and raising a family in Chile, she has been instrumental in sharing the message of Unbound there.

Susana, a nurse by profession, cares for her husband and five kids while ministering through the Regnum Christi movement. She exudes a love for others and her passion is to see people set free.

Listen to her testimony of deep healing and forgiveness...and allow the Lord to take you deeper and deeper into His heart.

"How much He loves us and how much MORE He has in store for us."

Expect something beautiful!

"It  was obvious that this was the way the Lord wanted me to walk so I read the books and then I took the Basic Training and after that the Mentoring, ( and then the Advanced Training.) I just, I just was so hungry, Rachel, for more, and I wanted to understand better and go deeper. So it was a beautiful gift to come across the training and the Five Keys, and to know that there was a nonconfrontational model that we could use to bring freedom to the people."

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Release: June 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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We're excited to introduce to you our good friend, Fr. Antonio Ritaccio. Fr. Antonio grew up the youngest of five children in an Italian Catholic family in Bedford, England, entered the seminary in 1990, and was ordained a diocese and priest for the Archdiocese of Westminster in 1999.

Since then he's had many chaplaincy roles, including Westminster Cathedral College of Chaplains, Diocesan Youth Chaplain, and more recently has been assigned Pastoral Director of the Archdiocesan Seminary in London among others. We're grateful he will be the Spiritual Director for the Catholic Priest Retreat: Training in Unbound Ministry this July 25-29 in Wichita, Kansas.

Hear how the Lord profoundly made Himself known and touched Fr. Antonio's heart as a young man. Listen as he shares his journey to the West Indies, and as the only Catholic priest around, got called upon to do deliverance ministry there.

Upon returning to London, he dove deep into learning all he could about deliverance, hopped on a plane to an Unbound Priest Retreat, and has been ministering using the Five Keys ever since.

"And I got a bit of a reputation...(people started showing up at my door) and I would find that I would go out in the morning and there would be people waiting for me to get prayer ministry. So I had to start hiding at one point because I just couldn't manage the amount of people coming to me daily."

Don't miss some powerful stories and profound insights.

"Unbound is really a very simplified synthesis of what the church teaches on baptism and the catechumenate."

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Release: June 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Today, we have a treat for you. We share a great talk that Matt Lozano gave at our last in-person Leadership Conference called The Kingdom is a Family.

The gospel is a message of family. The gospel is the good news that the Father is inviting all to become members of His family. The gospel is covenant love offered to strangers. The gospel turns slaves into sons and daughters. The gospel ends division, and it makes one people out of two.

In Luke 7, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and His disciples, in a large crowd, went along with Him. As He approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out, but not just a dead person, the only son of his mother.

The inheritance is dead. The legacy is gone. This is a widow. This is a widow who has lost her future. Her life is gone. And a large crowd from the town was with her, and the Lord saw her, and His heart went out to her. God is drawn to the orphan, the widow, and the alien. This is the response of the gospel.

He went up and he touched the coffin. They were carrying him on. He touched it. He reached out and grabbed ahold of death, and the bearer stood still. Isn't that awesome. Stop. the funeral.; Jesus is here!

He said to the man young man, "I say to you, get up."  The dead man sat up and began to talk,  and Jesus gave him back to his mother. The result of the kingdom's power is to bring dead men to life and give them back to their mothers.  A son is reborn.

This is our model for ministry.

Family is where we belong. We are called to touch the place of death and destruction with the power of Jesus.

You won't want to miss this powerful episode.

Know you are a part of this family!

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Release: June 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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What it's like to have a mom and a daughter share about Unbound ministry, looking back over many, many years and hearing about the fruit that it's produced in their lives?

Meet Carolina Prada, originally from Costa Rica, now married and raising her family in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. She and her husband have a powerful conversion story and then the Lord led them to serve in Apape Street Ministry, healing ministries, RCIA, and Unbound. 

Hear her personal testimony of freedom from nightmares which led Carolina to bring Unbound to her church, her family, and friends.

Carolina: (On my behalf) my husband went to talk to a priest who told him to get the book (Unbound) and to do it right away. So he got the last copy and brought it home to me.

I read it…and the rest is history!

Hannah (her 15-year-old daughter): I got introduced to Unbound when I was three years old, which was a huge blessing. And since then my mom and I use it all the time and this has just built a beautiful relationship of trust between us…Our doing Unbound together has really helped me pinpoint things in my life that I need to get rid of like unhealthy attachments and such…

Carolina: In praying together, Unbound has basically created a very special bond between us because sometimes I'm the problem. I haven't realized it is something I've said or the way I've said it or the timing has just been so wrong. And then I offer Hannah (or my other children) prayer and as we pray at some point, it will come out…and it's this safe place where our Lord is so present, and they can really open up and just say exactly how they feel, without feeling shame or feeling afraid…we can truly open our hearts for Him to heal.

Whether you long to grow in listening, desire more healing in your family, or just want to be blessed, join us today and be filled with hope!

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Release: June 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
Artwork by Rosemary Strohm at Command-S.