Life Journeys

We were born that way, but we don't have to die that way. It's called sin. We've all got it, and there is a Savior. We can live by faith instead of being led by feelings. This is not Pride Month; it's called June. One problem - too many preachers are telling us what to do, and too few are preaching the power of faith.

It is not the presence of life's storms that defeats us; it is the absence of Christ's presence. Don't act like you don't have a Savior! Suffering doesn't mean God has something against you. Seek Him until you find Him. It's that simple, really. Every time you entertain fear, you're allowing your heart to defy His promises.

What do I fear? What do I want? Fears and hopes become the substance of what is truly ruling my life. Faith that doesn't set me free is usually blocked by an idol that is demanding I serve it. Fear, sorrow, or anger are signs of an idol manipulating and dominating me. Turning from it will release my faith.   Click https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys to find a list of your favorite platforms for this podcast!

God's best for us is not what things He can give. His best is giving Himself to us. Too many people have tried to apprehend the love of God in the suffering in their world yet haven't, because God isn't bigger to them than their world is. Have faith that Christ will light up the darkest tombs in your life. Click https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys to find a list of your favorite platforms for this podcast!

You've been given all you need to be all that God's called you to be. But your faith must be tested in the fire to produce the patience you need to love with. Don't fret. Refining doesn't mean failure. Your heaviness in faith's season of testing will end in joy that is unspeakable and full of glory forever. Click https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys to find a list of your favorite platforms for this podcast!

"Lord, I've been shaken like a leaf. How can I relate to you, you're so big?” "Just jump in," He said! "Stop trying to figure out how I work. Trust Me. Don't act like I'm no bigger than your thoughts. You measure speed and distance by the speed of light. I can walk faster than that! I'm much bigger than your problems.”

Kingdom life begins where carnal life ends. My despair over my failures is the crucifixion that begins His resurrection in me. I may think God is disappointed in me until I realize it's just failed faith in myself. When I've hit bottom and am empty, God can start filling me up with His life. I can resign as manager of the universe!

The trauma of a life tragically altered numbs the senses until faith seems impossible. God takes the outrageous things of life, like the crucifixion, and He turns them all into seeds of eternal victory! A firestorm is a sign of impending divine intervention. He builds faith in places of impossibilities.   Click https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys to find a list of your favorite platforms for this podcast!

You can live with an inner settled sense of the grace, mercy, and power of God within, and have peace with God and with yourself. Come in touch with inner fears, pain, or anger. Learn to believe God in every dark place where you've felt incomplete. Then, take your lead from above. Click https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys to find a list of your favorite platforms for this podcast!

One day the Sun went backwards in the sky to show there really is an all-powerful, all-loving God! “I'm here, I'm in control, and I'm going to help you! This is MY world and YOU ARE MINE!” He plans big. He has a plan for your life ten thousand years from now! Learn to think past your front yard! Click https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys to find a list of your favorite platforms for this podcast!

Sometimes I spend too much time thinking about who I'm not instead of who I am. To deny who I am is to deny who Christ is, for He gave His life to me. My sin and unbelief have kept me from the fulfillment of self-esteem, not my lack of accomplishments. God has crowned us with glory and honor. Ps. 8 Click https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys to find a list of your favorite platforms for this podcast!

I've been created to believe God. I don't have the right to doubt Him. To do so is to abuse myself and accuse God of being a hypocrite. It creates despair, fear, and anger over life's problems. Chronic sorrow says our pain is greater than God's power. Faith is the only way I can function as I am created to be. Click https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys to find a list of your favorite platforms for this podcast!

Jacob said, “Surely God is in this place, and I didn't know it.” His story showed us that God will use our hardships to weave the covenant of grace that defines our life purpose. We don't have to be perfect by any means to fulfill our destiny. Our God given legacy is a message to our families and the world. Click https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys to find a list of your favorite platforms for this podcast!

When I get bogged down, I know this one thing - I'm living my life instead of His! Suffering is God's invitation to come into His throne room and overcome. God turns our places of suffering into places of revelation. It is His great joy to welcome you to come near. In all God is, He is to you right now. Click https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys and find a list of your favorite platforms to listen to this “Words That Work” podcast!

Trials will prove if we will live by God's word, be governed by Him, and trust Him or not. He's looking for acts of faith, not merely confessions. Satan will say, "If you're right with God, you wouldn't be facing me," and that's one of the great lies. Just because there is a battle doesn't mean you have failed. Listen to the short podcast, “Why Am I Being Attacked” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Faith is preoccupied with God's intentions. Fear is preoccupied with men's plans. God loves us enough to cause us to face our fears, for fear can keep us from the remedy for sin – honesty in the secret places of our souls. When God exposes our fears, it is faith in His will to raise us up that will win the day! Listen to the short podcast, “The Secrets of Fear” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

God's created the world and redeemed us in such fashion that this world's trials mingled with His sovereign love will refine away all that is out of character with Him. This crucible of refining will purify us to know that “He will never leave us or forsake us.” He will keep us in our darkest hours. Listen to the short podcast, “Known Only In The Secret Place” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

"If you're a deliverer, Jesus, then why aren't you delivering me? What's wrong with me?" Dungeons will turn into glory through faith in the purposes of God. The transfiguration shows how glorious the other side of death is. Your suffering in faith can be a prophetic declaration of hope for those you touch. Listen to the short podcast, “Suffering Turned Into Glory” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

You are made righteous BY GOD HIMSELF. The One who spoke all creation into existence came and died for you. Your standing for eternity is the work of supreme deity. It's not up to you to decide where you stand with God as a repentant believer. It's up to Him! The One who was offended, forgave. Listen to the short podcast, “The Day Your Freedom Shook The Earth” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Who or what you relate to the most will determine your course in life. If Jesus is your life, then He defines your identity, and who you are is not what you did today. It's what Jesus did. Worship is about how you relate to God. When everything seems to be against you, worship will lift you above the darkness. Listen to the short podcast, “Worship That Leads To A Powerful Life” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Don't be more preoccupied with the human condition than with the divine solution. I can live in a place that God created on earth, or I can live in the God who created all places. He conceals the revelation of His Word in the hiding places of His glory. It's the secret place every Christian can inhabit. Listen to the short podcast, “No Fear, Live Life In the Secret Place, Ps. 91” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

America has descended into a feelings-based identity and morality, and it's altering our faith. Feelings aren't the foundation of faith, God's word is. Feelings aren't a sound indicator of a person's standing with God, faith is. Don't use your feelings to tell God what you believe. Living by the Spirit does not mean living by emotions; it means honesty, faith, and surrender. Listen to the short podcast, “Defined By Faith, Not Feelings” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

I've been threatened by gangs several times while out on the road, both in the states and abroad. I know what it's like to be homeless for Christ and also, to fail Him. I've proved that I can do all things through Christ. He will never leave me or forsake me; and when I'm with Him, nothing is impossible. Listen to the short podcast, “Called To Live In Impossible Places” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

What I believe in is what I will be influenced by. My circumstances don't have to change for me to be happy! I can be in a prison, hospice, or a dead-end job and still have the peace of God. Neither my guilt, my fear, nor my pain will tell me what to believe when Christ is my great influencer. In Him I'm safe. Listen to the short podcast, “Your Great Influencer When Life Gets Heavy” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

- More influenced by the Word than the world; it loves my enemies because I no longer need anything from them - not doing so is a symptom of slavery to injustice. How? Have more faith in God's grace than in your own sin. Don't let the consequences of your sin become bigger than the consequences of the cross. Giving doesn't come from a full storehouse but from a full heart. Listen to the short podcast, “Freedom From Above Looks Like This” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

If I need to feel happy to do the right thing, then sadness can lead me to do wrong. Emotions shouldn't be the rudder that steers my ‘ship.' Let faith lead he way to the joy of heaven that no man can take. Even if the Sun would cease to shine, it would not mean that God's word is no longer true. Listen to the short podcast, “Velvet Covered Bricks” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Faith that never fails is faith that won't let our feelings tell us what to believe. Anxiety doesn't mean we've lost our peace with God. Don't ever let your feelings determine your thoughts. The Bible never said, “By grace you are saved through feelings.” Feelings don't change the truth. God's still with you. “Never Again Controlled By Emotions” - Find this short podcast on your favorite streaming app at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Love that doesn't discriminate reveals a heart living in liberty. A hard life doesn't keep us from loving the unlovely (politician), it's our own heart trouble. When God's gives you tough love, don't trust more in your failures as a sign of defeat than you trust in Jesus's success as a sign of your victory. “Giving and Receiving Tough Love” - Find this short podcast on your favorite streaming app at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Without the inner peace that the cross of Christ affords, our life will never be what it's created to be. Our standing before God both today and forever is one hundred percent the work of Christ alone! When Jesus died for your sin, you died. When He arose, His life became yours. Repent and identify with Him. “No Longer ‘Less Than'” - Find this short podcast on your favorite streaming app at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Do you realize that God chose you before the world began? He made you to be accepted in Christ as one who will be blameless before His throne. By grace alone God chose His elect to receive the glory of Jesus. Why did He choose you? The glory of His grace is far beyond man's wisdom and works. Listen to, “Overcome Sorrow By Divine Choice” - Find this very encouraging podcast on your favorite streaming app at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Faith is refined in times of testing. God wants faith in action, not just in words. But when I've failed, God won't fail me. James says that I'm to rejoice in the test, not just when I've passed it! Always be honest, for grace and mercy only come in the courtroom of full disclosure. Here's where faith is perfected. Listen to, “Help, My Faith Just Failed Again” - Find this very encouraging podcast on your favorite streaming app at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Who you are and where you are going has less to do with your choices and more to do with your faith. It's God's choice of you that counts. Your choices are about your wisdom and glory, and that's not secure enough for eternity. Your faith is about your heart and the glory of God, whereby you are safe. Listen to, “Chosen and Safe By God's Glory and Grace” - Find this very encouraging podcast on your favorite streaming app at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

God allows suffering in the world, and it doesn't mean He doesn't exist. We have hope because He does exist. The cross reveals God's true relationship to evil and suffering. The resurrection shows ultimate victory is on the way. God allows suffering because man allows it. Evil exposes the need for a Savior. Listen to, “Hope - It's Just A Matter of Time” - Find this short podcast on your favorite streaming app at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

The affairs of the earth are determined by a man's relationship to the glory of God. We're created and called to live in God's glory. We can overcome the manipulation of temptation and fear when we live in God's presence. If you've had enough of ‘you,' learn to be a ‘keeper' of God's temple within. You can overcome manipulation, temptation, and fear by “The Call of The Cherubim” - Find this short podcast on your favorite streaming app at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

God often delivers us from fear by leading us to something far more valuable than the treasures we've worried about. He gives us Himself!! He removes earthly preoccupations with a majestic heavenly preoccupation!! When the human heart is captivated by God's glory, it is free, and nothing is impossible. “Be It Done Unto Me According To Thy Word” - Find this short podcast on your favorite streaming app at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Jesus showed us the kind of a life that we can live when he is the determiner of our existence, blessing, and happiness - “Love your enemies so I can continue to meet your every need.” It's not the injustice against us that does the most harm. It is our own preoccupation with justice instead of grace. The great tragedy is not that people sin. It's that we sin against the remedy for sin.  “Activating Great Faith” - Find this short podcast on your favorite streaming app at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

The great purpose of faith is not that we can obtain everything that we ask. It's about not giving up when all seems lost. Those “of whom the world was not worthy” by faith were “made strong, waxed valiant in fight, being destitute, afflicted, and tormented.” Such receive and give great grace. Listen to the short podcast, “The Price And Promise of Great Faith” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Faith doesn't worry about what's unfair. It just never gives up. What's just is established by grace, not demands. A heightened sense of justice will confound our faith and our soul. Performance oriented living breeds deception and spiritual defeat. By grace alone does the heart thrive with no sorrow in it. Listen to the short podcast, “When Life Is Unfair, Keep The Faith” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Everything that you close the door to that would destroy the Kingdom of God in your life, heaven shall stand with you. You don't have to be defeated by suffering, corruption, and hardships! You can bind up their power over your soul and find the joy of the Lord in the storm that this world is experiencing! Listen to the short podcast, “Heavens Keys To Your Divine Potential” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Mountain moving faith sees God as a greater reality than the mountains in our life. It is being influenced by God and His word more than by the world. But, before our faith moves a mountain, it needs to move us. When faith releases the presence of God, His Spirit begins to increase our faith exponentially. Listen to the short podcast, “What Mountain Moving Faith Is Like” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Ancient Israel's trial wasn't about the trial, but to establish true freedom from captivity. The bitter water wasn't about the water. Would they be committed to Him no matter what? Life doesn't work by our best efforts. God's purpose in trials is not to focus on our failures and faults but to bring us to His grace. Listen to the short podcast, “From Victims To Victors” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Faith begins with believing who God is before it believes in what He will do. It is living by the power of Christ instead of self, and that results in answered prayer! Before God does something for us, He will do something in us. You're chosen to bear fruit resulting in answered prayers, not ‘make a wish' petitions. Listen to the short podcast, “Unlocking Impossible Prayer” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

“There they were in great fear where no fear was,” Ps. 53:5. The storm that threatened the disciples in the boat was in greater danger than they were because of the Man in the boat! There's nothing I can conceive of whereby Jesus would tell them, or you, “You'd be wise to be afraid here.” Listen to the short podcast, “When I Sat On A Rattlesnake!” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Your God given identity is established as you wrestle with your purpose on earth to overcome! It's not your gender, money, gifts, or stuff that defines you. Destiny emerges in finding grace to overcome hardships and temptation. Eternal rewards are made here. God is near even when it doesn't look like it. Listen to the short podcast, “Don't Waste Life-Defining Trials” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Faith doesn't mean being positive that everything is going to be ok. It means that whatever happens, you're going to be ok. God will be far more inclined to allow us to quiet the storm around us by faith, when we have first used that faith to allow Him to quiet the storm within us. Listen to the short podcast, “You're Going To Make It” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Ask God to speak precisely where you're attacked and receive a living faith that perfectly hits the mark. Faith comes when God sends His word to an honest and humble heart. But where there's no vision (word of the Lord) people perish. Doubting your Creator's word is like denying your existence. Listen to the short podcast, “When All Seemed Lost, God Said…” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

As my physical life realities decline, I feel the need for greater realities. I can't take my life's cues from faults, hardships or pain. Being crucified with Christ and living by faith is a complete exchange from my sins, faults, and life defining history to Jesus being my new life source. Pain won't define me. Listen to the short podcast, “Don't Live By The Pain” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Hardship doesn't mean there's something wrong with your faith! God is working to restore you back to where you're destined to be for His own Name's sake. When anything else supplies you, then it can control and manipulate you. Stop letting difficulty speak to you louder than God's grace. Listen to the short podcast, “God Is Going To Take Care of You” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

Faith to be healed isn't as hard as faith to stop struggling when we're not healed. God's not against us when He's leading us through a deep valley. It takes great faith when the darkness is allowed to come and strip us of our pride and impatience. When we're emptied of self, we will be filled with God. Listen to the short podcast, “Faith In Life's Dark Places” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

It's in our soul's DNA to have the contentment that is only found before the throne of God.  Faith's great goal is to live in God's glory until our heart refuses to yield to the fleeting threats of this world. Demanding we understand all pain is a futile bid to be intellectually equal to God and will end in failure. Listen to the short podcast, “Delighted By God Or Defeated By the World” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys

“God grant you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man.” Be the glory of God in the earth! That's why you're here, even in the hard times. “The heavens declare the glory of God;” Look at the heavens and you'll see Him speaking to you. Just listen! Listen to the short podcast, “Triumph Over Life's Pain” & find your favorite streaming app for this episode at https://bit.ly/m/Life-Journeys