Pursuing God with Dave and Gene

Are you ready to abandon it all for the sake of the call? It’s scary to go to new places in our prayer lives, but Gene reminds us in today’s episode that God is able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine when we lay it all before Him. “God, Help us to be people who keep asking, keep seeking, and keep knocking.”

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

 “The most satisfaction I have is the sense that God is using me.” It’s an incredible thing that the God of the universe chooses to use us for His eternal plan. As you look toward the future, are you ready to live a life of purpose fully surrendered to His will?

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

 “God, I don’t know what the future holds, but here I am…LEAD ME.” The only thing more dangerous than praying this prayer is allowing it to be absent from your prayer life. David prayed in Psalm 61:2, “From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

Is it time to pray a prayer that takes you out of your comfort zone? Being a fully devoted follower of Jesus isn’t about playing it safe or praying for an easy life. Psalm 66:10 says, “For you, Oh God, tested us, you refined us like silver.” Pray today that God uses the circumstances in your life to make you more like Him – “God, stretch me.”

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

Is there a pattern you need to break free from in your life? Throughout the Bible, people are faced with patterns they need to overcome, and their healing all begins with the “Break Me” prayer. David says in Psalm 51:17, “It is a broken spirit you want–remorse and penitence. A broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not ignore.”

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

The Bible contains dozens of dangerous prayers for devoted followers of Christ to apply in their own lives. In today’s episode, Gene encourages us to pray a prayer that says, “God, aim your searchlight into the inner recesses of my soul and expose whatever’s inside that ought not to be there – Search Me.”

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

How do you pray when you want something so badly you could scream? When life’s circumstances have you at a point of desperation where it feels like there’s no way out? Jesus modeled a method for praying at these pressure points in our lives when He came to His own in the Garden of Gethsemane. In Luke 22:42, Jesus prayed, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

 Is there something in you that is blocking the presence of God? When you have access to divine power, it’s easy to confuse “needs” with “wants.” Continuing to unpack the Lord’s Prayer as a guide for our prayer lives, Gene shares the next two components of God-honoring prayer.

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

Is there something in you that is blocking the presence of God? When you have access to divine power, it’s easy to confuse “needs” with “wants.” Continuing to unpack the Lord’s Prayer as a guide for our prayer lives, Gene shares the next two components of God-honoring prayer.

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

How do you begin your prayer time? If we aren’t careful, our prayers become a heavenly wish list. Jesus understood how we were wired, so He gave us a model with the components of God-honoring prayer when He gave us the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6.

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.