In the Light of Advent for Christmas, we Advent for The Day Of The Lord. Can we hasten His coming as we wait for Him? In this episode, I encourage you to anticipate Jesus's second coming as you anticipate Christmas.

I mention:

Preparing For Jesus by Walter Wagnerian Jr.

While You Were Sleeping by Casting Crowns

It's Advent, a time of LIGHT bursting forth in the darkness. In this episode I talk share the stunning beauty of the Christmas story and how the Holy Spirit in women made mighty waves. Sound waves, and prophetic songs. As women who walk with the Lord, we have this glory in us ready to burst forth into our own spiritual songs to impart LIGHT into the darkness and bring LIFE into the world.

In this episode:

The Greatest Gift by Ann Voskamp (it's only $10.99!)

Divine Conversations Bible Study by me. :)

I received permission to read one of my favorite readings from Watch For The Light, an Advent devotional by Plough Publishing.

Order Watch For The Light HERE.

If you are interested in my other favorite Advent devotionals, you can find them HERE.

Also, regarding the topic of God shaking us to wake us--as I was seeing it in March 2021, read a blog post I wrote HERE.

On this trip through the wilderness, we experience times of feeling pressed and crushed. This life is warfare, don't we know it? As believers in Jesus, we can have peace in the midst of life's worst--we can endure because of Jesus and what He's given us. Psalm 23:5a says He prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies. We need to get that visual, so we will experience this grace. Take a listen and feast in His presence in the midst of your strife.

Drive the dark of doubt away by believing Jesus loves you, loving Jesus, obeying Him, and loving His Family--then you will be joyful as you adore Him.

Sounds like a simple song, doesn't it? It's not easy to love people but it's what Jesus prays we will do as a result of our love relationship with Him. Knowing His heart for us to pursue love with one another should move us toward one another instead of away or hiding.

In this episode, I share motivation and "how to" love people Jesus' way.

Conflict, valuable? YES! YES! We need to change our thinking about conflict. None of us like it, but the alternatives are worse. Fight or flight is our natural response to disagreement. But for believers in Jesus, those are not acceptable responses. Not when He prays that His family will be of one Spirit, one mind, one Church. When we fight or flight, we aid the enemy in dividing instead of pleasing Jesus in uniting.

Listen in to find out how to press into conflict and gain spiritual ground instead of retreating and losing.

I didn't mention this, but TWO resources I have found valuable:

The Other Half of Church Podcast

Relational Wisdom by Ken Sande

(There is a ton of helpful teaching in both of those places!)

This is my longest episode. Maybe one of the most intense episodes of the podcast. But life is life, as my mentor used to say. There is a necessity for intensity. Especially in this topic: The way of Jesus and the eternal impact of finding and following His way.

I read from Matthew 5:31-46 and Jeremiah 42:1-22 and 44:1-18.

Two songs I recently encountered serve this message.

Isaiah 53 by Aaron Shush

Still by Hillsong

Fear of God by Brooke Ligertwood

God literally told me one day, “Kathy, you are not a victim of your thoughts.” 

It was a word I desperately needed. Not only could I put a stop to rogue thoughts, but I could be free from fear, hiding, and shame.

The blood of Jesus is our victory over the darkness and we need constant reminders.

"Secrecy is to sickness as openness is to wholeness."

“Secrecy always provides fertile ground for shame to grow.”  ~Beth Moore, Breaking Free Bible Study

We know, as believers, that we should treasure Jesus above all things. But what if we aren't there? How do we find Him to be the One dominating our lives? In this episode I give a few suggestions based on what I have been seeing in the Apostle Paul's fervent letters to the churches he fathers. Give a listen!

Hope and meaning come from knowing our identity and believing we have a distinct destiny--both are found in Jesus' gift to us: His Spirit

In a world of confusion, groping for hope, we need to know who we are and what we are made for. The Christmas songs tell the whole world what the answer is to our craving for belonging, our desperation for identity and our hunger to know we are designed for a destiny. Joy to the world, the Lord has come, let earth receive her King! O come, O come, Immanuel! In this episode I dig into 2 Corinthians 3 which reveals the power within us to know who we are and the power we have to do what we were made to do: glorify God.