'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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"He's everywhere and I'm a carrier of the presence of God, and every Christian is a carrier of the presence of God.  

Canon J John and his wife Killy chat with Lizzie about the ways they find God in their everyday lives.

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‘I grew up thinking that maybe only the serious people could find God, you know the real holy ones who do things properly and all the rest and then I lived the life that I lived and, on my way, back through to the heart of God I found he is very near to the broken hearted’. 

Captain Hana Seddon of Rotorua Salvation Army shares with Lizzie Oakes of finding God with her sleeves rolled up.

 

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‘It’s not about achieving; its understanding what it’s like to sit down and imagine God sitting down next to you on a park bench, on your good days and your bad days. When you’re crying, when you’re laughing’. 

Counsellor Craig Gemmell talks with Lizzie Oakes about the ways he used to struggle to find the presence of God compared to how he is now readily able to access the presence of God.    

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