Lowercase Kingdoms with Ariel Anderton

Ariel and Jeff recount recent trials in their life and where God is reaching them in it. Old scriptures have new life as our hearts gain more alignment with God's heart in them. The process of organizing oneself around God rather than the trial or the pain is the way Jesus made possible for us.

It's hard to be people who need and be honest about where we need, how much we need, when we need etc. And God wants to come through right there for us. Jeff and Ariel share their cluster month of trials that had their backs against the wall and the dramatic and personal ways God came through that has them retelling the story to everyone they bump into.

In Jesus' promises to us He includes peace, rest and comfort. Jeff shares his most recent experience from fear, exhaustion and avoidance to Jesus' promises. Episode referenced: 10 - Presence Grows Our Heart Song referenced: To Cry For You by Carolyn Arends

We relisten to Jeff's story believing that wherever God is present there is more life to receive. Ariel and Jeff reflect on where Jeff has grown since then and how that shows up in daily life.

Did you watch the Olympics? Me too. And it always brings up many emotions for me since my childhood dream was to become an Olympic gymnast. But this year, God redeemed and restored my story in a big way.

God gives us the gift of cycle and seasons in our world as well as in our heart. We relisten to Ariel's Story to reflect and expect God to reveal more in it. Jeff and Ariel unpack the new fruit from an old story.

The transitions we allow our hearts to have and the room to be where we are before acting and speaking is the space we explore here. Increasing and practicing space with Jesus as we live will also increase our experience of His abundance in us. Jeff and Ariel share parenting and personal scenarios from recent life to illustrate.

Has God ever brought you into His possible through your impossible? Ariel shares her journey through impossibilities to get to God's possible for her and with her inside a retreat.

Jeff and Ariel share 3 personal stories and 1 story from the Bible illustrating God's co-creating context with us. God wants to fill in the context for our hearts as only He can. He brings the complete picture.

What is it like for you to need? How you relate to your needs reveals how you're seeing God in your life. Jeff and Ariel share personal stories of how they've treated their needs and stories of recent growth with God.

Our internal and external experiences all matter in the Kingdom of God. Our assumptions can put us at an "off" starting point, one that is incomplete or missing truth. Jeff and Ariel share stories and examples for getting back to complete Reality with Jesus.

Jesus wants us to look at our hearts WITH Him and when that involves pain, we can be reluctant. We'd rather He work on places in us that we don't like without us having to go there. Yet the richness of His love and deeper connection await us when we choose to go with Him. Jeff and I share some day to day example from our lives with Jesus.

Recent stories around groceries and Christmas where Jesus showed up visibly and tangibly in our needs. We practice connecting our hopes in Jesus that root and establish our hearts in Love, who is God, and anchor us into 2021.

Why traditions? Does it do good for our hearts? God thinks so. We look at how to assess our chosen holiday traditions for the good God intended for each of our hearts.

Receiving the whole heart of Jesus with thankfulness brings refreshment. The Holy Spirit enables us to receive. We are lifted by lyrics from Bethel Music's Pieces looking at God's heart as well as by the fruit of the spirit in the scripture reading from Galations 5:22-26.

Actively resting in Jesus is an overseeing of our hearts connecting with His heart. Jeff and Ariel read from Isaiah and pray over our resting connection in Jesus.

Ariel coaches Cindy supporting her in facing the obstacles competing for her attention. Cindy regains ground, re-owning her heart, reconnecting her heart to God's heart.

We want to notice sooner when we're disconnected from Love, our God, and return to connection with Him. Looking at the parable of lost sons, we're given examples of being disconnected and what it looks like to regain connection: dialoguing with the father.

Our deep desires are God given. It can be difficult to trust the good hearts He gave us afresh in Jesus when so much around us screams "scarcity" and "impossible". Here is our journey through impossible to possible.

Presence of Love, who is our Father God, is the source of our ability to live, give, love etc. We return again to this important look at what presence is, how to receive it and value it as we offer it to other hearts in our lives.

As each of us has grown in our own hearts in God, we have experienced fruit between us in our marriage. Here we look at these hopeful improvements.

This is my story of learning that being drained was not only not required for loving people nor for doing good work but that I could stay filled with Love, only giving out of overflow. My energy and heart were restored and the love and good work I was giving multiplied in quality and quantity.

Jeff shares how he met Jesus, getting mad and walking away from God, and how coming home to Jesus again transformed him.

Our mission to support you knowing, growing and guarding your hearts comes from Proverbs 4:23. But we're changing "guard" to "own" based on conversations with you and translations for that verse as "watching over." Ownership guards our hearts best.

When you think of Love do you include anger? Why or why not? We explore how we are to be lovingly angry like God distinguishing between anger and rage.

Our hearts are designed to have love connecting every part of them and working together as a whole like a school of fish or flock of birds. Each part is of equal value and any inequality shows a place in need of Love's intervention.

Seeing ourselves the way Love sees us; believing we truly are who Love says we are is our participation in becoming like Jesus. We already are like Jesus in the Kingdom and we get to participate in the process of becoming.

Once Fear is identified for its true root, now what? Knowing and feeling the fear is the first step but not the transformative one. Next, we bring that part of our heart safely in our seeing God for Who He Is. There we receive Peace in place of the Fear.

Our 1 year anniversary together, dear hearts! And introducing my husband, Jeff, we will identify the ways to find fear in your heart when it doesn't look like fear on the outside.

Love holds all things together (Col.1:17). God is Love and He gives Himself to us to live from, to become fully ourselves. How we live reinforces who we are. Let's practice being Love.

Everything that has been made including us has been made by words from God. We echo Love into our lives, shaping who we become and what comes to be with our words. The heart posture we embody our words with determines the life giving or tearing down effect.

Interacting with Love is the way we grow and the way our hopes become earthly realities. But our hearts will not be able to receive the experience of hope come to fruition without practice. Practice believing, choosing, listening, desiring and acting on hope.

Our hearts are already Hoping. But where are we hoping? In ourselves? In an outcome? Hope that gives us what we need and desire now AND future is the only Hope that will anchor and guard our hearts.

The Kingdom resources are available, abundant and applicable in our daily moments. Truth is one of these. A gift that keeps on giving. Attending to the Truth inside us will increase the Truth we experience on the outside. Truth who is God who is Love.

We have endless time. Eternity is in our hearts (Eccl 3). And we are agreeing with each other daily around the lie that time is scarce, defining us by the poverty of it. Jesus freed us.

Kingdom Currencies are abundant, unlimited and always available to us. Through 3 personal stories, we look at the Kingdom's Complete Context for our heart. When part of us is stuck, this outside input frees and reconnects us back to Life.

Parts of us get stuck in worry, defense, shame, disconnection etc. all the time. Identity is an essential resource to free ourselves back to Love and Life allowing us to be available again to give ourselves where and how we desire.

The resources of God's Kingdom are unlimited, accessible by us and are impactful in our daily lives. But what are they? We begin to explore some of the infinite list: hope, time, identity, memory, resurrection, belief, creative agency, words etc.

Feelings are truth-tellers of your heart parts underneath. And your thinker heart parts may be suspect of the "mess" feelings can create. Love is the best leader for all of your heart parts to gather around and follow.

Knowing about Love is different than interacting with Him yourself. Only inside relationship with Love will we be filled up, grow and transform. My 21 month old shows this so well. Here we look at the process of readying our hearts and receiving our fill of Love.

Part 4 - Absence of conflict does not equal "ok again." We actively fill back up on who we are according to Love until we're our true selves again. Just as angels ministered to Jesus's needs after the Enemy's attack, we intentionally tend to and listen to our hearts.

Your heart is the prize the Prince of lies is after. Keep your heart full of complete truths of who you are and agree at all times with how Love sees you. Jesus' ability to win against the Enemy is now your ability to win.

Love guards us inside as we fill up on it, experiencing Love, receiving Love. We distribute Love inside us to any part in need of it, any part of us disconnected from Love. This readies our heart for anything wanting to pull us away.

Any experience short of Eden can disconnect us from the Love that brings our hearts to Life. Guarding our hearts and reconnecting our hearts to Love after disconnection is a must. This series looks at heart preventions, guarding in the midst of threat and reconnecting our hearts to Love in the aftermath.

God who is Love, Love who is God exists and is available to us all the time, personally and specifically to us. Keeping our hearts alive with Love therefore looks like 1) Believing the possibility and 2) feeding our hearts Love.

In general, interruptions are not welcome to us. Yet Love had to do just that to bring us back to life. Love is a good interruption. If only it FELT good every time it interrupted us. Let's learn to interrupt our own hearts as Love does with us.

We want to treat our hearts the way Love treats our hearts. Love leaves the 99 in search and value of bringing the 1 back into the fold. There are parts of our hearts cut off by traumas that we can participate in reconnecting to Love.

What is Presence? How does Love's Presence grow our hearts? We explore this from the vantage points of a child and a grown up following the ripple effects of Love's presence for our hearts.

It's not IF our hearts will fly off the rails but how do we get back ON when we recognize we're off that we want to continue to learn. We can reconnect to Love through ownership of our hearts.

Where our treasure is, so will our hearts be. Wherever our hearts are, our treasure will be there also. Where is heaven? Where do we invest our hearts that will last forever in a tangible way? And a juice story where a heart was dramatically restored.

The first disconnection from Love may go unnoticed but it sets in motion a snowball of wandering and skewed perceptions. But Love pursues and offers the way back home sooner rather than later.