We're taking a look across 2024, revisiting our episode with Andrew Curtis, where he opens up about how he struggled to receive God’s love but now that he has received it, he realizes his Christian journey is more about God finding him.

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Looking back across 2024 we revisit the very first episode of Where Do You Find God.  Lizzie Oakes chats with Cathy Jenke who has worked with Rhema Media for over 45 years and is soon moving out of Auckland to Nelson and will be working part time broadcasting from there.  

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‘I had a real encounter at the age of 19 and I thought that was enough, until I realized God is available for me to encounter every day’. 

Rev Keri-Ann Hokianga, Maori Evangelist in Te Takiwa o Manukau talks with Lizzie Oakes of God calling her out of the corporate sector to work in evangelism.  She shares of finding God in all sorts of places including meeting with a group of women in prison.  

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'I really feel that God is always with us; the question is, are we are aware of him being with us?'

Author Anna Harris of Not Abandoned  -(a story of how God's love and understanding your true identity overcome abandonment and rejection from trauma, adversity and rejection) - talks with Lizzie Oakes about the ways she connects with God.

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‘And as I walked past this group, it was like I literally ran into a wall, the presence of God, the Holy Spirit, it was very odd and very unusual for me’.

Bjorn Brickell has been a breakfast show host on the Morning Wake Up on Life FM for 13 years.  He talks with Lizzie Oakes about the ways he finds God and has come to the conclusion that these days it's more about where God finds him.  

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‘Sometimes it’s in the noise and the chaos or the big mountain top moments, but he does follow us down into the normality of life’.

Davina West, born in Singapore and now living and working in New Zealand is a Producer/Broadcaster with Rhema Media.  Davina talks of having searched for God in all sorts of places but how now she is increasingly learning to recognize God in the everyday moments of life, whether it’s spending time with her children or making healthy, tasty and nourishing food. 

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"I help those whose lives have experienced the heart of the Father - whose hearts cry: How do I authentically live this out in the context of my own life – without all the usual effort driven striving?”

Mark Head, Spiritual Director of The Finding Home Journey talks with Lizzie Oakes about the ways we can struggle to find God and how he helps people to connect with God in their own individual lives.

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https://refocussing.com/ - as mentioned in the conversation Di Divett's practice of helping us to connect to God in our everyday lives. 

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‘The storms don’t go away, the unfortunate times don’t not happen, but if you open up your heart, he’s there.’

Broadcaster Sela Alo who once told Lizzie that his greatest super power is being vulnerable shared openly and honestly about the ways he finds God in his life in the good times and the hard times.   

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‘I would stay up late at night and binge watch Netflix and snack, and what I was trying to avoid was the next day coming with its stresses.'

Francis Ritchie, Minister, Media Chaplain & Broadcaster openly and honestly shares of some of the struggles he and his family have been facing the last 4 years and is still currently working his way through.    

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‘This thing that I fought for years, to try and start to receive, this love that God has for me if I could go to you and just unlock it, just click and bang, and it would just be the best, and I can’t do it and I hate that’.

Andrew Curtis honestly shares of how he struggled to receive God’s love but now that he has received it, he realizes his Christian journey is more about God finding him.

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