Starting from scratch with Hannah James

My friend and sister in the faith, Hannah James, joins us for this week’s episode (part 1 of 3). A beautiful woman of God, full of love, knowledge, and experience of walking with Jesus in various stages of her faith. She shares with us about her early stages and how he helped her start over from scratch. Through continued obedience, Jesus gave her a gift and she shares about the first time she used the gift at the capital here in Wisconsin. 

The Lord said to her,“You don’t like your life right now,”

She said,“You are right Lord, I don’t.”

He smiled,“You should give it to me.”

Take a listen to part 1 of three, and stay tuned for more of this incredible story! 

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How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

"Teen Talks" is a testament to the inspiring faith and courage of the Gen-Z generation. Guided and fueled by the Holy Spirit, these young adults are walking boldly and living out their faith with great conviction. Their hearts, minds, and spirits are moved by the Holy Spirit, empowering them to achieve amazing things without looking to the ways of the world. It's truly inspiring to witness their unwavering faith and steadfast commitment to living a life that glorifies God.

“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.” 1 Timothy 4:12

Meet my friend Alyssa who has such a soft and gentle spirit, she challenged us with a few questions during this weeks episode that I believe are very useful for many of us, no matter where we are on our faith walk. She asks, “Is there a difference between your life getting easier and your life getting better?” As I interviewed Alyssa she talks about how walking with Jesus isn’t necessarily easier, but its better because we have tools to cope with the fact that it is not easier. “The journey is not better than the destination.”

Alyssa shares one of her favorite verses from John 15:18, “if the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.” 

“The worlds hatred,” she says, “is about knowing that you do not live for the world, you live for God. You are just passing through to get to something eternal.”

This is not just a podcast for teens, it’s for adults who are wanting to better understand the hearts, minds, and challenges of today’s youth. I pray this episode move you.

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast, consider a⁠ monthly tithe ⁠or venmo: ⁠@wearesimplymade! ⁠Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

Are you seeking a community to walk your faith out with? Consider joining the ⁠MADE GOOD Monthly Membership! ⁠

Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a⁠ few offerings⁠ I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

Oh, How He Loves Us So.

A few days ago, the Lord told me while we journaled together that my“peace and joy are of the utmost importance to him.” He wanted me to experience these gifts andthe fruits of his spirit. 

I felt so loved in that moment.It was important to him that I was able to experience both peace and joy in my life. 

On this week’s episode, we take a look at a few verses from the message translation in Isaiah 44 and 45. There was a line that stopped me in my tracks. 

“Come back to me, come back. I’ve redeemed you.”

Would we turn back from our ways? Would we learn to seek him? Would we be brave enough to stop going at it in our own way??

I see the Lord simply calling his children home to him. He doesn’t need us but he wants us. 

His love for us is so deep, pure, life-changing and transformational. 

It is already yours, would you grab hold of it and seek him fully?

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast, consider a⁠ monthly tithe ⁠or venmo:⁠@wearesimplymade! ⁠Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

Are you seeking a community to walk your faith out with? Consider joining the⁠MADE GOOD Monthly Membership! ⁠

Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a⁠ few offerings⁠ I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

The Lord is inviting us all into a deeper and more meaningful relationship with him. Over the last few weeks, I have been asked to put things aside while I seek him in the secret place.

This time together with him is sacred, as he shares his heart and heals deep seated wounds that were still gushing (unbeknown to me). The secret place is a place of complete surrender in the quiet of your heart, learning to hear his voice with clarity and distinction and putting down the things that keep getting in the way of that relationship.

He is inviting you into something deeper, richer, and more fulfilling than this world will ever be, but it comes with a cost. Jesus warns us about being lukewarm for his kingdom.

I don’t want you to be lukewarm or cold, I want you to know the deep riches of the love of our Father who waits for us patiently with long-suffering.

Are you willing to pay the cost to step into full redemption on the other side?

If we do not devote ourselves to him then everything else is“meaningless, meaningless, meaningless” (Ecclesiastes 1), we must learn to seek him above ALL else. 

I hear many people ask questions like,“What is my purpose? What should I do? Where do I go?”

You have a divine calling within you to love the Lord your God with ALL of your heart, all of your might, and all of your strength.

Our purpose is to worship him and to seek him, to give him the glory in all that we do. I pray that this episode invite you into something that changes your heart for the Lord in a deeply transformative way. I know it will not come without difficulty and pain, but his tender love will heal even the deepest of wounds and it is worth it, HE is worth it. 

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast, consider a⁠ monthly tithe ⁠or venmo:⁠@wearesimplymade! ⁠Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

Are you seeking a community to walk your faith out with? Consider joining the⁠MADE GOOD Monthly Membership! ⁠

Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a⁠ few offerings⁠ I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

In Christ, we are overcomers.

As I sit on my bathroom floor to record this episode, a past version of myself would have found great sadness, and debilitating self-doubt in this circumstance.

But with Jesus, we can find gratitude for even these small moments that do not define us, but refine us for his kingdom purposes. I cannot help but laugh at this moment in time. 

I have always been my own worst enemy, listening to the lies that have kept me debilitated by feelings of lack and self-deprication. It has been a long journey of learning that my thoughts do not always align with how God sees me. Someone said to once to me like this, “you might be wrong about you.”

I have to look really hard sometimes to see the truth behind the lies of condemnation that i’ve believed about myself. Lies that believe I am not good enough, or that my body is broken, or that I don’t belong.

Condemnation is not our sentence. 

I can choose for the chains to hold me back, which I have done before, OR I can choose Him. 

I can choose Him, fully. 

I can move past the lie with the truth, that he loves me because he loves me because he loves me and that my circumstance do not define me, but only HE can. 

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast, consider a⁠ monthly tithe ⁠or venmo:⁠@wearesimplymade! ⁠Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

Are you seeking a community to walk your faith out with? Consider joining the⁠MADE GOOD Monthly Membership! ⁠

Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a⁠few offerings I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

Learning to trust that we are his, a hard lesson that I had to learn as an adult in my faith journey. Our God has been so gracious to me as I’ve navigated paths in my own life, seeking to find meaning and purpose, without Him.

As a young person, there was a part of myself that would flourish during a week a way at camp. I would watch how my faith would be strengthened ten fold, until moments of being home and coming back to the “real world.”

“Jesus freak,” they’d say.

There was a part of myself that loved the Lord but I often left her at camp. I was neglecting that part of who I was, and it has impacted my heart for years since then.

Working with young people is so heavy on my heart because I can speak to a moment in my own life that could have shifted drastically If I would have been reminded that…

-I would never fit into the world.

-Seeking after worldly things WOULD happen.

-Following Jesus was a choice.

-That the part of myself that loved Jesus was who I was, deep down.

But, he is the God that writes perfect stories, and redemption is in his blood. We are made new in him, and with him. The part of myself that loves Jesus is the part of myself I get to live out now. Having waited many painful years, it was worth it to learn a hard but beautiful truth.

It was my identity as his child I was seeking, and it was the identity of his child that was found.

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast, consider a⁠ monthly tithe ⁠or venmo:⁠@wearesimplymade! ⁠Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

Are you seeking a community to walk your faith out with? Consider joining the⁠MADE GOOD Monthly Membership! ⁠

Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a⁠ few offerings⁠ I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

A practice of quieting our mind and resting in the spirit is something that can take time, I felt strongely that the body of Christ was needing encouragement and some quiet time of reflection and connecting with the spirit. (I needed this, too)!

The nervous system needs time to turn off, reset, and get restablished. We can use prayer as a means to connect deeply with the Holy Spirit in the secret place, to find refreshing for our soul, and allow our bodies (our temple) to enter into deep and healing rest.

I want to invite you into that today. Are you feeling worn out, tired, weary, or in need of deep spiritual refreshing? 

Then find 20 minutes in the next few days to find a quiet spot, free from distractions, and allow yourself to sit and rest. Invite your spouse, family member, or a friend to join you and when you are done use these few reflection questions if you’d like to discuss:

I pray this is a deep moment of refreshment for your soul, Jesus, we thank you for these moments to remember that are only called, “to be still and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10)

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast, consider a monthly tithe or venmo: @wearesimplymade! Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

Are you seeking a community to walk your faith out with? Consider joining the MADE GOOD Monthly Membership!

Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a few offerings I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

A warning from Jesus in Matthew 26:41,“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Even though our hearts and our spirits are willing to do this work, our flesh is weak and is in direct opposition to the spirit. We are constantly being tempted to be pulled back into the sinful nature and settle into the ways of this world.

Our spiritual disciples are so important, and we must get comfortable with taking conscious inventory of our spiritual health, seeking to continue to grow in deeper and more intimate relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ and our Father in Heaven.

Perhaps you are taking time to skim over the pages and check off that you read your Bible, but are you taking what you are reading and truly applying it to your life? 

Are the words sinking in? 

Do you actually understand what it is saying? 

Are you truly loving your neighbors as yourself? 

Do you know what it means to be loved? 

Do you love God in that same way?

We must learn to mature in our faith and seek the deeper truths, as we do, we continue to grow and step further into the purposes that our Father has for us.

Paul tells the church of Ephesus in Ephesians 4:14 , “Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.”

It is through him that his eternal kingdom will emerge, as we seek to speak the truth in love and mature into who Christ intends for us to be for the equipping of the saints, and the maturing of the body. 

Church, are you ready?

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast,⁠consider a monthly tithe.⁠ Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

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Looking for more support but not ready for a community? Check out a few offerings I’ve created to help support you on your faith walk. 

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How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

The thing about God is that he doesn’t expect our perfection but our desperate need for his. 

When we try to be in control of everything and seek perfection in our life, we are not walking out faith and the full truth of the gospel.

In Genesis 9, the Father establishes a new covenant and promised us that he would never flood the earth again, and although we have turned our back on him and chose to go our own way, hestill had a plan for reconciliation from the very beginning. 

His plan for redemption and reconciliation was fulfilled through the life of Jesus, the Fathers will is perfect and yet, he offers us free will because he wants us to be in a relationship with him. Being in a relationship with him means freedom to choose and our God desires to be chosen.

When the Father looks at you he sees the perfect spotless lamb of Jesus. He gives us new robes, he makes us clean, andwhen we don’t acknowledge his promise, we miss out on his entire character that made room for you, me, and the new life promised to us through Jesus. 

This episode will leave you challenged to look at, “What is getting in the way?” in your own life and how God is drawing you nearer to himself. 

Enjoy! 

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Join us every Wednesday to be encouraged as you take steps in your faith, remembering that He is the God that Sees You, and He is the God that Sees Me, too.  

If you have been blessed by The God Who Sees Me podcast,consider a monthly tithe. Thank you for your generosity and kindness and for joining us until every shall bow. 

Are you seeking a community to walk your faith out with? Consider joining theMADE GOOD Monthly Membership!

How blessed are we to serve such a loving God? Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to serve you in this way, in you we are blessed. 

In it with you, Shauna 

@wearesimplymade 

Music and Vocals by Corey and Shauna Bauhs

Today while I was on my run, I heard myself speaking encouragement over my spirit that sounded a lot like mantras from my days wrapped up in the new age and wellness space.

The mantras I was using (back then) were a band-aid to the hurt but they weren’t healing the wound because I wasn’t aware of the wound.

Today, the difference was that they carried a tangible weight to them because the words were prompted by the Holy Spirit. They weren’t empty, they carried a medicine, a healing for my spirit and soul because they carried the truth of scripture and the truth of who God says that I am.

I know what Jesus says about me. He calls me who I am. So after a long season of learning to deny the self while learning who HE was, I heard the truth of scripture in a way that truly brought healing balm to my wounding, something I was DESPERATE for. 

A familiar mantra might sound like, “I am strong”

But when we pair that with the truth of scripture,  “Where I am weak, he is strong” I don’t need to be strong, I need to know who He is.

The new age wants you to focus on yourself, God wants us to focus on Him. He fills in the gap. 

I pray that this episode bring you clarity on the lie and need that lives underneath the mantra.