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What if God is not done with you and never will be, and what if the next step is available right now?

We talk about spiritual growth as a lifelong process and why that matters when you're discouraged, aging, grieving, or simply tired. Along the way we unpack a Dallas Willard line that reframes everything, that you are an unceasing spiritual being with an eternal purpose in God's great universe. That lens gives you permission to stop living in regret, stop treating failure as final, and start doing the next faithful thing.

A big turning point is joy. Not hype. Not denial. The joy of the Lord as strength. We get practical about how joy differs from happiness, how you can suffer with Christ without slipping into anti joy, and how choosing joy can restore momentum even when nothing feels easy.

Then we explore hearing God through a both and framework. God wires you with interests and skills, and God also speaks with specific direction. We name the two ditches, waiting forever for a spiritual download or charging ahead without relational listening, and we argue there's no secular sacred divide. Your ordinary routines, your work, and your faithful presence in hard seasons can still glorify God and expand the kingdom.

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If you've ever caught yourself thinking "that's just my humanness" like it's a spiritual insult, you're not alone. We get honest about the way believers quietly cringe at their own limits, weaknesses, and ordinary emotions, then assume God feels the same way about them. What if He doesn't? What if God actually meets your humanity with kindness, even joy, and the real problem isn't your humanness but the story you've been telling yourself about it?

From there we tackle a question that sits under so much of our striving: am I important to God? We talk about why the "humble" answer of "I'm not important" actually leaves us wide open to discouragement and disqualification. We get into purpose and design, how God doesn't create anything without intent, and how the way creation functions hints at how God chose to work with people. We also talk about intercession and participation in God's unfolding plan, and why purpose naturally implies meaning and value.

Then we land on the center of it all: Jesus. God's clearest statement about human worth is the incarnation. God becomes human, remains the God man, and carries our story all the way through the cross and into restoration. We name the gap between head knowledge and heart belief, and we lean on Jesus' words in John 15 about abiding, plus the startling humility of John 5, where even the Son only does what He sees the Father doing. Dependence isn't shameful. It's design.

We close with Peter's charcoal fires, denial and restoration, and pray together for the Holy Spirit to speak chosenness into our hearts, not just our minds. 

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That nagging voice that says, “You should be farther along,” can sound spiritual while it quietly drains your joy and erodes your confidence in God’s love. Anthony and Dan start with a grounded reminder we both need on repeat: God’s voice and God’s message always come in a loving way. As we learn to hear God, our biggest growth edge is often not technique, but expectation, trusting that when He captures our attention in prayer or in the middle of an ordinary day, His tone is kindness.  

We also talk about why “should” is rarely helpful and how it tends to spring from comparison, fear, and the false belief that we are the chief transformation agent in our own story. From there we shift into a theme the Lord has been pressing into Anthony’s life: enjoyment. Enjoying God and enjoying what God does is not a shallow detour, it is part of healing and part of building endurance for the long road of spiritual formation.  

The conversation deepens into Christian resilience, shaped by John Eldridge’s Resilient and Tish Harrison Warren’s What Grows in Weary Lands. We name the grief many of us carry after years of cultural tension and change, and we explore what happens when we stop compartmentalizing pain and instead invite Jesus into the places that hurt. Along the way we reflect on Hebrews 12, the difference between weight and sin, and Romans 8:17 on sharing in Christ’s sufferings so we may also share in His glory. If this brings language to what you’re carrying, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find these conversations.

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Some conversations carry more than information, they carry weight. We have both had moments where someone speaks and our hearts recognize something deeper is happening, not emotional hype, but a clear spiritual resonance. That is the kind of “unexplainable but unmistakable” authority people noticed on Jesus, and it is the hunger driving this conversation on the Hearing God Podcast.

We wrestle with what made Jesus teaching feel so different, and why crowds were drawn to Him even before miracles broke out. Then we get practical: spiritual authority is not something we manufacture or chase as an experience. We believe it grows out of union with God, intimacy with Jesus, abiding in the Spirit, and learning to hear God clearly. We also talk about Acts 4 and the startling credibility of “ordinary and unschooled” believers whose main credential is simply that they have been with Jesus.

From there, we turn toward the refining work that often comes with deeper intimacy. Dan shares a fresh prophetic picture from a prayer gathering: a packed bookshelf and a “book of insecurities” with no place to belong. As he prays through it, God names what is underneath it, bearing false witness, and it opens a path for repentance, renouncing lies, releasing self-protection, and receiving God’s truth and peace. We close by coaching simple freedom prayer questions you can ask the Holy Spirit and by praying for you to let go of what has felt like comfort but has been stealing life.

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You can pray “God, I surrender my agenda” and mean it with your whole heart, then wake up the next morning to interruptions that feel like chaos. We’ve lived that gap between intention and reality, and it’s exactly where the spiritual life gets honest.  

Union with Christ is an unfolding reality to receive. A revelation in process. That single shift changes everything: how we hear God, how we relate to Jesus, and why worship can be both the right response and the overflow of being loved. 

Then we turn toward the role of the intercessor. We define intercession as choosing to carry a burden that isn’t technically yours, standing in the gap for people, communities, and even regions that are experiencing injustice or spiritual resistance. Ezekiel’s call to “stand in the breach” gives language to what God looks for in his friends, and Hebrews 7 anchors it in Jesus, the great intercessor who continues to work.

 
Intercession is at the heart of the church’s mission: prayer that becomes action, heaven touching earth, and Acts 10:38 as a practical template for doing good and setting captives free. 

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We sit down with Psalm 103 open and begin with encouraging your own soul, naming God's benefits, bringing our hidden inner world into his gentle care. That's where honest prayer begins and it's often where hearing God becomes clearer, because you're no longer holding back the very thing you need to say.

The Psalms are a roadmap for raw, human processing with God. David's prayers don't read like polished lines, and that's the point. They give permission to pray what's real without getting stuck in despair, because the pattern keeps turning toward trust.

We also talk about the long game of spiritual formation and inner healing. The slow, garden-pace of wholeness. Why God is patient with the motives and wounds we barely understand ourselves.

Then we land on Psalm 86:11: "Unite my heart to fear your name." The fear of the Lord is a reverence you can't manufacture. It grows as the heart becomes whole. We name the risk of surrender, why God's better word can feel dangerous, and how the new self in Christ pushes from the inside to dismantle old frameworks. The surprising outcome is courage. As reverence rises, other fears start to lose their authority.

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Something shifts when you realize the prayer you’ve carried for years is already being answered. We walk through that exact moment as we reflect on One Conference, a gathering of around 4,000 teenagers in Atlantic Canada, and the growing sense that a genuine youth revival is unfolding in schools and communities right now.

We talk about the difference between asking God to move and learning to recognize where the Holy Spirit is already at work. That thread leads us into the prophetic question God asks throughout Scripture: “Do you see this?” We connect it to Ezekiel’s river of life and Isaiah’s “new thing,” and we explore why spiritual discernment isn’t about hype, it’s about perceiving the unseen work beneath what your eyes can measure.

From prayer ministry lines to spontaneous groups praying in the arena, we share stories that ground this awakening in real fruit: physical healing, honest repentance, deep tenderness, and a moment that stopped us cold, three middle school girls asking for prayer to forgive their bullies and to see them come to know Jesus. We also name a challenge for older leaders: champion the next generation, serve their calling, and refuse the impulse to control what God is doing.

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Revival can feel like a wave that crashes in, changes everything, and then mysteriously pulls back. We sit down and trace the moments that formed us and the questions they still raise: What is happening when a room is charged with hunger and the Holy Spirit seems to be directing the night? 

We share personal stories from the 90s, including a massive Promise Keepers pastors gathering in Atlanta where Jesus’ prayer in John 17 for unity became impossible to ignore, plus memories of worship gatherings where young people came to Jesus without a sermon-driven strategy. We also revisit the Toronto Blessing and the Father’s heart emphasis, and we talk plainly about agency: powerful encounters don’t have to mean losing control, and sometimes the simplest truth is that people don’t want to leave because God’s presence feels like home.

We land on Ephesians 3 as the ultimate destination of spiritual awakening: strengthened by the Spirit, rooted and grounded in love, and filled with all the fullness of God. If this conversation helps you name what you’ve experienced and where God might be taking it, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find it.

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We dive into the long road of revival and calling. Dan shares how God spoke to him decades ago about a youth revival in Atlantic Canada, and how that promise has unfolded in waves, with real fruit and real waiting. Along the way, we talk about the difference between God giving you a vision and you assuming you’re the hero of it. Sometimes the assignment isn’t “lead the charge.” Sometimes it’s “stay planted,” let your roots go deep, and keep believing when the heat turns up.

We also get practical about the inner battles that can derail a God-given dream: offense, disappointment, and bitterness. We unpack why forgiveness is not optional for spiritual formation, and why the pursuit of purpose often looks like a cross. If you’re younger and overwhelmed by choices or afraid of getting it wrong, we speak directly to that fear and point to the way God guided Joseph through detours without wasting a single season.

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God designed us to hear Him, and a daily rhythm of listening is not optional for a healthy heart. When we feel restless, anxious, or dull, it’s usually a sign our heart is believing something untrue, and the first move is not striving harder. It’s turning toward God, because He is nearer than we imagine.

Revival is a waking-up to God's agenda in the present time, and His people are invited to listen, receive, and surrender. We talk about why humility and repentance keep showing up in every genuine move of God, and we ground that in Scripture, including Acts 3:19 and the promise of “times of refreshing” from the presence of the Lord. We also reflect on Daniel 9 and that stunning line that reshapes how we pray: we ask not because we are righteous, but because of God’s great mercy.

We discuss lordship and ownership and the places in our heart we still grip with a closed fist, and why surrender can feel scary even when we trust God’s goodness. If you’ve felt like you’re “circling the mountain” and having the same inner conversations again, we offer encouragement: God isn’t wasting time, and He isn’t trying to condemn you. He’s faithfully leading you forward, one heart-turn at a time.

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