God is our Good Shepherd, yet sometimes, as sheep, we can get distracted by the snares and entanglements of life that cause us to deviate. Today, Dr. Jia Richardson encourages us that no matter what the deviation is, God's rod and staff are our protection, and the Good Shepherd helps us to guard and refocus on His promises. The Good Shepherd leads us to a place of stillness and good pasture! We just have to stay focused!

As the divine, incomparable being that He is, God has many names. Some of the most meaningful are the ones in which He revealed Himself to individuals through a name that specifically described His character in the moment they needed it most. This week, Julie Harwick explores the name El Roi, The God Who Sees.

Have you ever been so wiped out that you feel you can't go on and you are hanging on by a thread? A thread that is about to break at any time. Please join Rusanne Carole in this week's podcast as we travel to visit the woman the Bible speaks of in the book of Luke. We chat about pressing in to touch His garment, allowing us to "press in" and "persevere" and get through the many challenges we face in life.

When Julie Harwick was just ten years old, she discovered other believers around the world were being persecuted for their faith in Christ. God gave her a heart to pray for them, support them, and share her love and admiration for them with other believers. Our suffering brothers and sisters in Christ need and deserve our support. Take some time to listen to Julie's podcast and learn what is happening to our fellow Christians so that you can also "bear one another's burdens and thus fulfill the law of Christ."

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Do you ever just need to be reminded that there is a future God has already prepared beyond the one you are working on? Do you ever just need to be reminded that the future looks bright because God ALREADY has prepared such a place called destiny for you? Well, know this for FUTURE REFERENCE...to embrace such a mindset means that we must stay faithful, focused, and future-minded, not on what we know, but on what God knows! Join Dr. Jia Richardson for today's powerful podcast.

In a world where there is so much competition and comparison, God wants us to learn to encourage and support each other. Join Tewannah Aman as she shares a message on how to let go of envy and jealousy, so that we can be a source of strength, support, and love to those around us.

Names are what we use to identify people and the starting point for knowing anyone, so God places great significance on them. In Part I of this series, What's in a Name?, host Julie Harwick leads us to consider what scripture teaches about the importance of names.

The awe of God is that He wastes nothing, and at times it can seem that God watches us through the hard times to see how we will make out. This is probably a very sound truth, because the hard places that we survive not only tell us something of soundness about ourselves, but about the nature of God. Hard times and things are necessary, we don't like them, but I promise you that if you look back on a hard time-season-place- or person that you have now been delivered from, the process could not have been done any differently. Sisters, you are who you are today because the hard place built you even while breaking you. "It Was Hard, but It Was Necessary!"