Have you ever stood in the crowd and wondered if God could actually see you? Not the version of you that has it all together — but the real you. The one carrying the habit you can’t break, the grief nobody knows about, the season that feels too embarrassing to even pray about.

In Episode 16, we open up the story of Zacchaeus and discover what it means to be truly seen by El Roi — the God who sees.

Zacchaeus was short. He was blocked. He had a reputation that preceded him everywhere he went. And yet, out of an entire crowd, Jesus stopped, looked up, and called him by name. Not to shame him. Not to expose him. But to stay with him.

Friend, that same Jesus is walking toward you right now.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why so many of us feel like Zacchaeus — on the outside, overlooked, too far gone

• How God’s eyes are nothing like the eyes of our past, our shame, or the crowd

• What it really means to “come down from the tree”

• The areas we lock the door on — and why God is still knocking

• How El Roi sees you in the middle of your mess and says, “I must stay at your house today”

You don’t have to be better first. You don’t have to have it figured out. You just have to say yes.

Scripture Focus: Luke 19:1–10

Name of God: El Roi — The God Who Sees

Anchor Verse: John 15:5

El Roi — The God who sees me. And friend, He sees YOU too.

Leah knew what it felt like to be overlooked. Present in her own home, yet invisible to the one closest to her. But what her husband missed? God never did.

And what He did with her unseen season — INCREDIBLE.

If you’ve ever felt like your pain was too quiet for anyone to notice, this episode is about to remind you that El Roi has never once looked away from you.

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Intimidation will have you believe someone else should be doing it. Someone else is more qualified. Someone else is more anointed,But God didn’t make a mistake when He called you. He knew your strengths and your weaknesses and He called you anyway. 

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What has intimidation been keeping you from? Drop it in the comment

It’s giving God’s timing > our timeline every single time.

Episode 5 — the final episode of How God Answered My Prayer — is LIVE today!

She left a job she loved because the environment was toxic. She waited a full year. She doubted. She pressed through. And then God did something she never could have orchestrated herself.

But what hit me most in this conversation?

Don’t just pray for what’s coming, thank God for what’s already here.

You are living an answered prayer right now. Let that sink in.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart.” — Proverbs 3:5 NIV

Trusting God with all your heart means you believe He’ll do what He said, even when you can’t see how. Even when the timeline doesn’t make sense. Even when the door looks closed.

Luke 11:9 says ask, seek, and knock. But Rose’s story takes it even deeper: the most powerful prayers come from a heart that’s fully delighting in God , not just asking for what we want, but trusting that what He has for us is so much greater.

And can we talk about this line for a second?

“I don’t have any obligation to believe the lies of the enemy.” 

Someone needed to hear that today. Screenshot it. Write it down. Say it out loud.

If you’ve been waiting on God for a spouse, a baby, healing, or a promise that feels delayed, this episode is for you. Waiting is not the same as forgotten. And God’s hold on is not the same as God’s no.

Your breakthrough is still coming. 

Zenobia Gerald shares her testimony of how God delivered her from shame and an identity crisis and showed her exactly who she is in Him. We go deep into Ephesians together and sis, Ephesians 1:4 alone will wreck you in the best way:

“He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him.” — Ephesians 1:4

Before the foundation of the world. Before the mistakes. Before the shame. Before the crisis. He chose you.

If you’ve ever questioned your identity, felt disqualified, or carried guilt that doesn’t belong to you anymore, this episode is your permission slip to put it down.

The second episode of How God Answered My Prayer is LIVE!! and today my husband, Francis, is sitting in the guest seat and sharing what God did in his life.

I have heard this testimony before, but recording this episode with him? That was something special. There is nothing like watching the person you love give glory to God out loud.

Friend, this one is personal. And I believe with everything in me that God is going to use Francis’s story to speak directly to someone who is still in the middle of their waiting season that God will do what He promised.

“For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” — Luke 11:10

Share this with someone who needs to hear that God still answers prayers

Christelle opens up about the moment she brought it all before God, the season of waiting that tested everything she believed, and the way He answered in a way only He could. This is the kind of story that reminds you — your prayers are not going unheard.

This episode is for you if you are:

• Holding on to a prayer that hasn’t been answered yet
• In need of a reminder that God is still faithful
• Ready to have your faith renewed all over again

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

— Luke 11:9

Prayer gives you ACCESS to the Father.

And I mean that literally —

A — Adoration

C — Consecration

C — Confession

E — Expectation

S — Supplication

S — Spiritual Warfare

This is what Jesus was showing us inside the Lord’s Prayer all along. Six movements. One framework. A blueprint for a prayer life that actually matures over time.

You don’t have to have it all together to start praying.

This truth changed the way I pray entirely:

"The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us."  — John 1:14

God didn't stay at a distance and send instructions. He came near. He moved in. He put on skin and walked among us — and through the Holy Spirit, He still dwells with us today.

The God you're trying to "reach" is not somewhere far above the clouds waiting for you to find the right words. He is here. He is close. And He has been speaking all along — we've just had so much noise in our lives that we couldn't hear Him.

Isaiah 66:1 gives us an incredible picture of just how vast and near He is:

"Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool."  — Isaiah 66:1

The God who fills all of heaven uses the earth as a footrest — that is how present He is in every space, every moment, every ordinary Tuesday of your life.

He has been speaking all this time. We were just not paying attention.

Revelation 3:20 tells us that Jesus stands at the door and knocks. Every single day, He is there — not forcing His way in, but knocking. Waiting. Ready.

And it's up to us to open the door.

Prayer is how we open it.

Not a formal, polished, perfectly-worded prayer. Just — God, I'm here. I need You. Come in. That is enough. That is more than enough.

When we pray, we are not just asking for things. We are inviting God to intervene. We are aligning ourselves with His will — praying that what is done in heaven would be made manifest on earth, in our homes, in our families, in our workplaces.

A prayer life is not just essential. It is the connection line between you and God. When we neglect it, we don't lose God — but we lose the awareness of His nearness. And we were never meant to live without that awareness.