Spirit Led Life

#34: My 14-day social media fast has ended. I’ve shared some of what has come up for me during those 14 days such as comparison and loneliness.

Now that the 14 days are up, what’s next for me and social media? I’ll be discussing that and more on this episode.

Key Take-Aways:

• 1:57 - my summary of my social media fast
• 3:38 - a saying that kept showing up for me during my fast
• 4:03 - the negative effects social media has on humans
• 8:10 - the positive effects of social media
• 11:22 - my plans for social media going forward
• 13:31 - how is the enneagram relevant to all of this?
• 18:00 - alternatives to social media
• 19:55 - Closing reading - when you need to return

Resources:

• Cleveland Clinic Article
• McLean Hospital Article - The Social Dilemma: Social Media and Your Mental Health
• Harvard Article
• Sensible Shoes: A Story about the Spiritual Journey (Sensible Shoes Series) by Sharon Garlough Brown
• That Sounds Fun Podcast - EnneaSummer 2024: Enneagram Triads + Relationships with Ashton Whitmoyer-Ober – Episode 899
• That Sounds Fun Podcast - EnneaSummer 2024: Enneagram Head Triad (5s, 6s, 7s) with Ross Slough – Episode 902

Heavenly Position Guidance Challenge:

For this week’s Heavenly Position System Challenge, take out your journal and find a quiet place if possible. Now that you have more knowledge of social media and the effects positive and negative it can have, how is it showing up in your own life? Ask God what place does social media have in your relationship with him?

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#33: On today’s episode I’ve uncovered another side effect of social media that I’m exploring as I continue on my social media fast. It is the feeling of loneliness that comes from not thinking I have enough friends. 

I don’t have 5000, 10,000 heck I don’t even have 1000 followers. That friend number count on your profile invokes different feelings. It even carries over into my real life and questioning if I have enough friends in real life. I even look at how it triggers some childhood wounds I didn’t know I still carried.

Key Take-Aways:

• 2:44 - My loneliness as a child
• 5:38 - Understand my friendships through the Enneagram
• 6:15 - Facing loneliness today
• 8:10 - I share a devotion from the social media fast book I'm reading
• 12:38 - Final thoughts on loneliness
• 13:50 - A friendship prayer

Resources:

• The 40-Day Social Media Fast by Wendy Speake

Heavenly Position Guidance Challenge:

For this week’s Heavenly Position System Challenge, take out your journal and find a quiet place if possible. Begin to evaluate the friendships in your life or if you feel you are lacking. Ask God to show you where he hasn’t left you alone. Ask him to highlight untruths you have been believing and shed light on the truth.

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#32: On today’s episode I’m going to have a real and raw conversation about comparison. I don’t know about you but with the rise of social media, I find myself comparing my life to others. Everything from my hair to the vacations I do or don’t take.

I know comparison will always exist. I’ve accepted it as part of human nature. I thought we could take this time right now for me to share my struggles and just have a real conversation. No condemnation or teaching here just my out loud thinking as I process how I’m managing my comparison.

Key Take-Aways:

• 1:00 - what I'm fasting
• 2:56 - why I'm fasting
• 6:59 - comparison leads to complaining
• 7:40 - how the Enneagram helped me with comparison
• 9:45 - my social media decline
• 18:36 - what I've been processing going through this fast
• 20:34 - a reading from my personal journal
• 23:16 - where do I stand with social media right now
• 24:43 - deeper, bigger thoughts I'm contemplating

Resources:

• The Beauty in Letting Go by Angee Robertson
• The 40-Day Social Media Fast by Wendy Speake
• My church message Parables - The Vineyard Workers
• Loop for Women by Jennifer Camp

Heavenly Position Guidance Challenge:

For this week’s Heavenly Position System Challenge, take out your journal and find a quiet place if possible. Where does comparison show up in your life? Spend some time in your journal and ask this question, Father show me how comparison shows up in my life. Be sure to write what you hear and if you don’t understand what He is sharing, ask more questions. Keep asking questions.

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#31: On today’s episode, I’m going to do an July recap of what has been supporting me in my body, soul and spirit. This has been a pretty low key month for me but I did have a lot of things that I could share. Such as, how to deal with all the history making things that happened in the month of July, some special anniversaries I celebrated this month and something I'm going to be doing in the month of August that's really going to put me and my faith to the test.

These are just a few of the things I will be sharing. I hope this episode inspires and encourages you to do your own reflection. 

Key Take-aways:

• 3:05 - The Body/5 Senses - Dave's Cookies (recipe below)
• 4:55 - The Body/Speech
• 5:53 - The Body/Action
• 8:43 - Soul/Mind
• 11:34 - Soul/Will
• 15:50 - Soul/Emotions
• 18:23 - Spirit/Conscious
• 19:33 - Spirit/Fellowship
• 21:13 - Spirit/Intuition

Resources:

• Ep. 5 - How Are You Created in God's Image
• Ep. 28 - Two Way Communication with God with guest Dr. Tony Robinson
• Article - Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule by Paul Graham
• Pecan, Oat, and Dark-Chocolate-Chunk Cookies



Heavenly Position Guidance Challenge:

For this week’s HPS Challenge, take out your journal and spend at least 15 minutes in a quiet space if possible. Take some time to reflect on the month of July for yourself and your three parts, body, soul and spirit and the makeup of each area.

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#30: Today is the final episode of Two Way Communication with God.

On today’s episode, I’m going to give some final thought on what we covered over the last six weeks, answer some of your questions regarding communicating with God and share my own process of communicating with God on a regular basis.

Let’s go to the show.

Key Take-Aways:

• 2:30 - My final thoughts on the entire series
• 6:13 - Listener questions: Question #1 Is being led by the Spirit and guided by God’s Word interchangeable to how I experience and encounter God?
• 7:04 - Listener questions: Question #2 What does the audible voice of God sound like?
• 9:10 - Listener questions: Question #3 What is the most common way I hear from God?
• 15:24 - Using journaling to hear from God

Resources:

• Wanting a God You Can Talk To by Jesse Duplantis
• The Beauty in Letting Go by Angee Robertson
• Ep. 23 - Two Way Communication with God - Introduction
• Ep. 24 - Two Way Communication with God - Audible Voice & Still Small Voice
• Ep. 25 - Two Way Communication with God - Inner Witness & Supernatural Words of Knowledge & Wisdom
• Ep. 27 - Two Way Communication with God - Nature
• Ep. 28 - Two Way Communication with God - Prophesy, Dreams & Visions
• Two Way Communication with God: An Interactive Workbook

Heavenly Position Guidance Challenge:

For this week’s Heavenly Position System Challenge, I have created a workbook for this entire series and you can request your own copy here. This workbook contains some of the basics on hearing God from episode 23 along with the Heavenly Position System challenges from all the episodes. My hope is this workbook helps you to take what you heard and put it into action.

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#29: Today is Part 6 of Two Way Communication with God.

On today’s episode, we are going to discuss the final way to hear from God and that is through the gift of tongues. This particular way of hearing from God has many layers and we will be sure to peel them back. I don’t know about you but this is a topic that isn’t talked about much in church or even in our friend circles.

My hope is that today’s conversation will help you to have more understanding so you don’t avoid this vital way God uses to communicate to us because one of the layers of this gift is for our own edification.

Let’s go to the show.

Key Take-Aways:

• 2:51 - introduction to speaking in tongues
• 4:43 - the purpose of speaking in tongues
• 7:18 - personal edification of speaking in tongues
• 7:50 - guest message from Pastor Jordan Tardo on the personal edification
• 15:42 - edification of the body of Christ
• 15:49 - the public gift of speaking in tongues

Resources:

• Wanting a God You Can Talk To by Jesse Duplantis
• Ep. 23 - Two Way Communication with God - Introduction
• Ep. 24 - Two Way Communication with God - Audible Voice & Still Small Voice
• Ep. 25 - Two Way Communication with God - Inner Witness & Supernatural Words of Knowledge & Wisdom
• Ep. 27 - Two Way Communication with God - Nature
• Ep. 28 - Two Way Communication with God - Prophesy, Dreams & Visions
• Pastor Jordan Tardo's full sermon - The Promise - To Fill Us
• Peter also taught that speaking in tongues is a sign of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. His teaching can be studied in Acts 10:44-46, 11:16-17, and 15:7-9

Heavenly Position Guidance Challenge:

For this week’s Heavenly Position System Challenge, once again I’m not going to have you journal, at least not immediately. I want to challenge you to sit with the Holy Spirit and begin practicing your own prayer language. Invite the Holy Spirit to begin speaking through you. You can begin by just speaking and you might hear what seems like foreign language. If you know someone who does practice this form of communication, ask them to pray with you as they can encourage your language. It is how I began by having someone pray with me.

I would encourage you to document this experience in your journal so you can look back on it years later as the day you began using your prayer language.

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#28: Today is Part 5 of Two Way Communication with God.

Today’s episode is a very special one and buckle up because it is a good one. In my book, The Beauty in Letting Go, I share about one of my mentors, Dr. Tony Robinson.

Well today on the podcast, she will be my guest. Doc, as those who know her lovingly call her, and I will discuss three more ways to hear from God, prophesy, dreams and visions. This conversation is so rich and deep. I learned so much myself and was freed even more in my communication with God when she shared about our thoughts and a few other secrets she shares.

This is a longer episode than usual but I promise you won’t want to miss a single second of it. So if you’re on a walk, cleaning the house, commuting to work or just taking some time to unwind, you will glean plenty of what Doc shares and I feel confident it will cause you to deepen your communication with God even more.

Let’s go to the show.

Key Take-Aways:

• 6:28 - What is prophecy?
• 10:27 - How do we articulate a prophetic word?
• 13:00 - How do we receive or give a prophetic word?
• 21:15 - How do we know it's from God and can only prophets prophesy?
• 33:32 - What is the difference between sleeping dreams of the bible and dreams that are just normal brain function dreams?
• 38:08 - Why does God use dreams instead of just talking to us?
• 43:32 - What is the difference between visions and dreams?
• 46:54 - Dr. Tony shares her wild testimony of visions and dreams.
• 51:51 - Dr. Tony shares what a spirit led life means to her.

Resources:

• Wanting a God You Can Talk To by Jesse Duplantis
• Ep. 23 - Two Way Communication with God - Part 1
• Ep. 24 - Two Way Communication with God - Part 2
• Ep. 25 - Two Way Communication with God - Part 3
• Ep. 27 - Two Way Communication with God - Part 4
• My book - The Beauty In Letting Go

You can find Dr. Tony at:

Instagram: @drtonyrobinson

Facebook: Tony Robinson

Websites: masterdreamacademy.com and schoolofkingdom.com

Heavenly Position Guidance Challenge:

For this week’s Heavenly Position System Challenge, we care going to do the homework that Tony shared. Take a journal and for the next 30 days, each day you will ask God this question:

God, who do you want to be to me today that you haven’t been able to be?

Each day write this question and practice hearing his answer just like Tony pointed out. Usually the first response is God.

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#27: Today is Part 4 of Two Way Communication with God.

On today’s episode, we are going to look at another way to hear from God and that is through nature. We read in scripture God speaks through the rocks and donkeys. I don’t know about you but I haven’t seen any donkeys talking or any animal for that matter and I certainly haven’t seen a rock talking, well maybe SchoolHouse Rock. What does hearing God in nature look like in the present day?

Let’s go to the show and find out.

Key Take-Aways:

• 3:34 - God talks to us through nature
• 7:54 - God uses animals to speak to us & authority
• 16:53 - Wrap up

Resources:

• Wanting a God You Can Talk To by Jesse Duplantis
• Ep. 23 - Two Way Communication with God - Part 1
• Ep. 24 - Two Way Communication with God - Part 2
• Ep. 25 - Two Way Communication with God - Part 3
• Spirit Led Life Gear
• Buy me a coffee



Heavenly Position Guidance Challenge:

For this week’s Heavenly Position System Challenge, I’m for once and probably the only time not going to have you journal, at least not immediately. I want you to go out in nature. Whether on your lunch break, a morning walk or an evening walk and just notice as much nature as possible. Are there rocks around? What animals are around you? What about the clouds in the sky? What sounds do you hear? What smells do you smell? Engage all 5 of your senses, sight, smell, sound, touch or taste, if you have some edible flowers or berries. Now if you go tasting something make sure it is safe!

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#26: On today’s episode, I’m going to do an June recap of what has been supporting me in my body, soul and spirit. This has been a social month for me, which has caused me to step out of my comfort zone quite a bit. It has led to some great conversations, making connections even through social media and helping a friend understand the difference between condemnation versus conviction.

These are just a few of the things I share. I hope this episode inspires and encourages you to do your own reflection.

Resources:

• Ep. 5 - How Are You Created in God's Image
• That Was Us Podcast
• Questions for mid-year review:

What has been your overall mood the last six months?

What’s been occupying your mind?

What’s been occupying your heart?

What’s worked well for you the last six months?

What hasn’t worked well for you the last six months?

What behaviors have been tripping you up lately?

What do you need from God in the next 6 months?

What does God need from you in the next 6 months?

• The Scripture Academy



Heavenly Position Guidance Challenge:

For this week’s HPS Challenge, take out your journal and spend at least 15 minutes in a quiet space if possible. Take some time to reflect on the month of June for yourself and your three parts, body, soul and spirit and the makeup of each area.

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#25: Today is Part 3 of Two Way Communication with God.

On today’s episode, we are going to look at 2 more ways to hear from God, the inner witness and Supernatural Words of Wisdom and Knowledge.

Sometimes the still small voice and inner witness get confused as the same thing but we will learn that inner witness has a unique purpose. 

Have you ever had someone tell you something that felt like it just pierced your soul and how on earth did they even know you needed to hear that? This is the power of supernatural words of wisdom and knowledge. 

I’m excited to explore two more options we have to communicate with God.

Key Take-Aways:

• 5:01 - The Inner Witness
• 6:54 - My personal testimony of the Inner Witness
• 9:20 - Words of Knowledge & Wisdom
• 10:43 - My personal testimony of Words of Knowledge & Wisdom

Resources:

• Wanting a God You Can Talk To by Jesse Duplantis
• Ep. 23 - Two Way Communication with God - Part 1
• Ep. 24 - Two Way Communication with God - Part 2
• Spirit Led Life Gear
• Buy me a coffee



Heavenly Position Guidance Challenge:

For this week’s Heavenly Position System Challenge, take our your journals and find a quiet place if possible. For the next 15 minutes, take some time thinking about the two ways we discuss, the inner witness and words of wisdom and knowledge. Write down in your journal if there have been times where you have experienced either or all. Was it easy for you to recognize or did it take some time? Or did you even ignore it all together? Ask Holy Spirit how can you better tune in to these ways to hear.

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