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Andrew & Drew preview the Saints vs. Cowboys Sunday Night Football matchup, Bama vs. Ole Miss and the rest of the football weekend. Plus, the premiere of the KDD Parlay. Listen to KDD on the PodCoin App & get paid. Use promo code: KDDPOD Twitter - @KreweDuDrew krewedudrew@gmail.com

Andrew & Drew discuss Teddy Two Gloves' first victory as the Saints starting quarterback in New Orleans' dominant road win against Seattle (2:00), Joe Burrow's record setting performance in Nashvegas against Vanderbilt (21:30), "Winners & Losers" (34:55) and a crazy encounter between a camel & a Florida woman at a Louisiana gas station (51:27). Plus, Andrew recaps his first trip to the Fried Chicken Festival (54:23). Listen to KDD on the PodCoin App & get paid. Use promo code: KDDPOD Twitter - @KreweDuDrew krewedudrew@gmail.com

Andrew & Drew discuss the Saints' first full game without quarterback Drew Brees, preview LSU's SEC opener and Bama's rent-a-win versus Southern Miss, and debate if it's too early to induct Nick Saban into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. Listen to KDD on the PodCoin App & get paid. Use promo code: KDDPOD Twitter - @KreweDuDrew krewedudrew@gmail.com

Michelle continues her quest to discover keys to Revival in Psalm 119 reading verses 129-136 in the Passion Translation. Today, as we continue to discover how the keys of living from intimacy and following God in obedience as our passionate pursuit and souls longing leads us to crave His presence and grieve over sin. When we come into a right understanding of Who God is as we pursue Him through His Word – the keys of presence and obedience bring us into understanding the justice of His heart toward a lost and dying world. Show Transcript: Blooming Inspired Podcast equipping and empowering the voices of women who live their lives Blooming Alive. Introduction Good Morning! This is Michelle Bentham, host of Blooming Inspired Podcast. I’m always excited to jump on the podcast with you each week. I’ve been on a social media and podcast break for the last month while traveling and am ready to get back in touch and into Psalm 119. Before I do, I wanted to share a little about the last few weeks of my life and a few changes that will be coming soon to Blooming Inspired Network.. First, I want to say as I’ve spent time away I’ve missed “seeing you” on Facebook and interacting with you there. Still, part of the reason I’m needing to make changes centers on the book God has been stirring in my heart for 14 years now. In August I attended the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association Conference in Nashville, TN. This event inspired me to get serious about my book project and developed some definite goals for the next few months. I was able to spend time with my writing friends from North Texas while making new friends the few days we were there. It’s been an amazing time in my life and encourages me to take steps of faith like never before. If you don’t know, writing a book is labor intensive and time consuming. So, I may not be able to interact with you as often on Facebook, but I’ll be bringing you content that will still encourage and inspire you to go deeper with God in your life. After I returned home from the writer’s conference, I w laundry and headed out again. This time for a retreat for ministry leaders in Telluride, CO. The theme of the Retreat was rest and and… BOY, Did I Need It. The scenic beauty surrounded us on every side. I was incredibly blessed. I took my calendar and my laptop hoping to do some planning and writing while away. But, instead… I heard the Lord whisper, “Just enjoy my creation with me.” I laid in bed late at night and looked up at the diamond-like stars glistening in a black sky just beyond the windows of my bedroom. I fell asleep to the peaceful sound of a creek running behind the house where we stayed. I woke up early and took in the first rays of light coming over the mountains to our east without ever leaving my bed. I marvelled at those mountainous landscapes that surrounded us. And, I enjoyed the 100s of birds, most of them Hummingbirds, that lived in the Douglas Fir Trees around the retreat house. Until… The third day. The plumbing backed up in the electrical closet downstairs. We were moved up the mountain from Telluride to the Mountain Village Lodge where we spent our last two nights in an even more beautiful setting with less oxygen. I just have to say I’m grateful for the Gondolas and shuttles in that area that helped us get around. Several other women journeyed with us on the retreat that week and we quickly became heart friends. I miss them already, but they reminded me why Blooming Inspired Network exists - we’re here for you! Now… Here’s the fun part - we’re going to allow you to submit content for the page! Did you read a Scripture or quote that really moves you? Do you have a word from God that you want to share? GREAT! Simply DM the content to the Blooming Inspired Page, and we’ll look for an opportunity to get it posted. Here are a few guidelines: Our content is by women for women, looking forward to empowering your voice and pen! Not that doesn’t mean we don’t value the voices and offerings of men - we do! But this is a place for wildflowers to bloom. So bring on the women who are wildflowers waiting to sing! [Please note: Not every quote that gets submitted will fit our scope and needs at Blooming Inspired Network - but we’ll be sure to let you know if your content is selected and when it will post.] Content for Quote or Scripture Graphics: Must include the original author or Scripture Reference AND Translation in the message. We’ll ask for it if it is not included. TIP: Ask yourself, “How will this equip and empower women to walk in their role and reign in God’s Kingdom?” Then send us your thoughts along with the quote. We’ll include your note and tag you in the post. :) Other Content: 1) It must be encouraging. 2) It must inspire action. 3) It must be biblically sound. 4) Be sure to respond to the comments if your content is posted. We’ll tag you in the post… :) Do you have a testimony or Podcast idea? Listen for an opportunity to join the fun at the end of today’s show! If you want to go deeper with the Wildflowers at Blooming Inspired Network be sure to join our Wildflower Women Relaunch on Facebook! We’d love to connect and enjoy the encouragement of community with each of you. Are you a writer? Be sure to DM or fill out the contact page at the website. We’d love to get a sample from you as we’re starting a blog soon! We need writers! :) With that said, in addition to our weekly podcasts - Blooming Inspired Network will post on Facebook 2-3 times a week. Looking at a Monday, Wednesday & Friday. The more you engage with our content the more we’ll bring to you there. We’ll also be posting to Instagram, Twitter and A NEW! Pinterest account we’ll be opening this week. We’d love to pin your work. Be sure to connect with us and let us know what you’re up to. But enough about this social stuff… Let’s get to our show. Review In our last episode of the Revival Series we read verses 121-127 and saw the way God’s tender love leads us into not only His righteousness but, when we choose to submit to God in obedience, it also leads us to beautiful intimacy with Him. Today we continue that theme as we look at what it means when our longings are to obey God. This Week’s Reading This week we’re returning to our reading in verses 128-136. We’re reading from the Passion Translation, but go ahead and grab your Bible and turn to the Psalm so you can follow along, I’ll pray to open our discussion today. Father God, I ask that you would open our eyes to see your revelation, open our ears to hear your voice, and open our hearts to know you more. Protect us from the plans of your adversary and keep us from harm. I ask these things in Jesus’ Name, AMEN. The heading for today’s reading is, “I Long to Obey You.” As we read today, I want you to consider this question: “Do I Long To OBEY God?” Let’s begin: Verse 129: Your marvelous words are living miracles; no wonder I long to obey everything you say. Did you catch that? There is a link to seeing God’s living miracles and obedience. Not just obedience for the sake of obedience… But, there is a sense of an obedience that HANGS on every word God has spoken to us. How does God speak personally to us: Through His Word - Jesus, through the Scriptures, and through the revelation that the Holy Spirit brings to us when we walk closely with Him. When you read the Scriptures or sense God speaking to you through the Holy Spirit, do you feel compelled to respond in some way? This is where I think obedience becomes a key. My friend, Tracy, says often - Obedience is the Love Language of the Holy Spirit. And, I agree. If we never do what we read about in Scripture how will we ever know the Greater Works that Jesus said we who come after would do? Obedience is more than doing the right thing because God said so, obedience is an expression of both faith and love toward God. An expectant faith, that knows God will respond - keeping the promises of His Word - when we obey Him. Verse 130: Break open your word within me until revelation-light shines out! Those with open hearts are given insight into your plans. Before you ever experience a breakthrough in your circumstances, God’s word - the Scriptures must break open within you - flooding your being with the revelation light of Christ. Only then will we see and understand the plans God speaks of in Jeremiah 29:11, plans that the NKJV calls THOUGHTS. I recently heard Jesse Beebe speak at a conference and she said, “Did you know God has one destiny for your life, but many plans?” That’s right. God doesn’t just have 1 PLAN for your life - He has many plans that all lead to the one destiny He created and designed you to fulfill in your lifetime. It is through His Scriptures that these plans first break open to us, and as we follow Him through each revelation in obedience to His call… We find our hearts open and we discover the insights and wisdom of His truth in every area of our lives. Verse 131: I open my mouth and inhale the word of God because I crave the revelation of your commands. In 2 Timothy 3:16-17 we read that the Scriptures are “God-Breathed.” Picture the words of God being inhaled into your body like life-giving oxygen, bringing both light and life to the thoughts and intentions of your heart, soul and body. What would our lives look like if we craved God’s Word like our bodies crave oxygen to breathe. The other evening I was working with my husband cleaning out closets and rooms in our house. My allergies have been bothering me lately and I’ve had a little trouble breathing at times. As I bent over to pick something up I found myself unable to catch my breath. I tried to find my inhaler but couldn’t seem to get it. Without oxygen, all I could do was sit on the side of my bed - feeling my lungs burn with their need for oxygen and pray that my husband would realize I needed his help. Eventually he came along and found my inhaler. I took a couple of puffs and began to feel my airway open and my lungs fill with the oxygen my body needs to live. This is the picture this scripture paints - that our souls hunger for God’s word and crave the revelation of His truth. Our lives depend on it… Verse 132: Turn your heart to me, Lord, and show me your grace like you do to every one of your godly lovers. Have you ever been reading scripture and your heart became convicted about something in your life that perhaps you’d never considered sin before that moment? In Isaiah 6, we see the prophet standing before God’s throne as God displayed His glory to Isaiah. The Lord was looking for a man to send as a prophet to Israel, and in the presence of God’s glory all Isaiah could say was “Woe to me, I am undone because I am a sinful man of unclean lips.” (Isaiah 6:5 my paraprase) This picture of our human hearts, and its inclination toward evil, being undone before a Holy God is what it means to truly FEAR the Lord. To revere Him, and His majesty. To humble and prostrate ourselves before Him as we behold the beauty of His splendor beyond our ability to conceive. A revelation of God’s glory creates a desire for His heart be turned to us as He extends His grace in our lives. As He does, as we behold His glory and His grace in our lives, our souls respond in obedience to Him because we love Him recognizing it was He Who first loved us. This is the relationship that God desires for us - that our obedience would lead us to the deeper revelations of intimacy with His heart. Verse 133: Prepare before me a path filled with your promises, and don’t allow even one sin to have dominion over me. We see now how God’s Word, intimacy and obedience lead to purpose. If we are going to fulfill our God-given purpose in life we must know God intimately through His word and respond to it in obedience as the Holy Spirit prompts us to move. If Jesus is God’s Word, and all of God’s promises are Yes And Amen in Jesus - then knowing scripture- being deeply connected to Him through it will lead us down a path filled with His promises. And the more we focus on Him through the Scriptures the more we will realize that transformation that we are called to as we renew our minds in His Word. Verse 134: Rescue me from the oppression of ungodly men so that I can keep all your precepts. As we behold God through His Word, and seek to obey Him - the natural inclination of our hearts will be to experience His protection as we seek to keep His word. God longs for us to ask for His protection - that we would not be oppressed by the ungodly or be distracted from His will in our lives by the ever-darkening world around us. The key is to cry out to Him both in repentance and seeking His refuge in our lives. Verse135: Smile on me, your loving servant.[a] Instruct me on what is right in your eyes. (Footnotes form TPT: Psalm 119:135 [a] Or “Cause your face to shine on me.”) That phrase “Smile on me” here is more literally translated, “Cause Your Face To Shine On Me…” What does that mean… Cause Your face to shine on me? As I asked the Lord about that this morning I felt like He reminded me of Moses. When Moses went up on the mountain and encountered the Lord his face blazed with the Glory of God. So much so that the people of Israel covered his face with a veil because they could not bear to look upon it. I’m reminded that we become like what we behold - God told Moses He spoke to him as a friend. I believe when the Face of God shines on us - we are face to face with Him. Beholding Him and His glory gets on us. We are marked by His presence and people cannot help but see it on us. And because of this, our deep desire is to do what is right in His sight. Not only are we marked by Him when His face shines on us, but we begin to look and act like Him as a result. Verse 136: When I witness the rebellious breaking your laws, it makes me weep uncontrollably! A number of years ago I joined a governmental prayer group during election season. I found myself praying Joel 2 during that season. As I did I received a revelation about what it means to weep between the altar and the door. Before that time, I would glance past that moment to the part where the Lord restores what had been lost and stolen from us in a double portion way. But, as I prayed these scriptures over the election I found myself seeing a different picture. A picture of the priests of God (in Christ, we are believer-priests) walking to the door and seeing the plight of the world around them. The condition of their fellow man, and returning to the altar weeping in their prayers for His redemption. Those days of prayer and that election marked me in immeasurable ways. I like to tell people I’m the grace girl. I sincerely do not believe there is any circumstance, any person, beyond the redemption of God. His arm is not too short… But, sometimes my faith to believe is woefully limited. Limited by what I can see, taste, touch, feel and smell. Seriously… Don’t tell me I’m the only one. Recently I attended a large church who has security teams in place to help keep both the congregants and the staff at the church safe. In the world we live in, this is not an unreasonable position. During the service the leaders make time for the congregants to interact with and greet one another before the weekly message begins. A young man was going around and greeting people, speaking to them. He must have been loud or disturbing to some because a few minutes later the security team came in and took him out. He did not return to the service. Now, I do not know the exact circumstances of what took place, but when the church is an unwelcoming place for people then it becomes a problem. Rather than shut people out - we should create places for them to connect that facilitate the safety of others but also take into consideration the needs of the individual who may be seen as “unacceptable.” The church cannot be a police state - if it becomes such we will look more like the pharisees than Jesus in every way. I’ve worked on staff in churches, and written position papers on marriage as well as run background checks on folks who desired to serve in ministry. I’ve had to report sex offenders and watched pastors lovingly and discerningly develop ministry plans that allowed the offenders to attend church while caring for those around them and creating safe parameters to allow for interaction. When I think of the way the rebellious around me make me grieve these days. It’s not the world - the ones outside God’s house and family - that bring me to tears but those who have seemingly forgotten who we are and Who we represent to the lost and dying world around us. Father God, as I read today, my heart grieves at a church that protests sinners rather than loving them, that exiles the unlovely and the broken rather than embraces them and I grieve that after all these years of knowing you - at times - even my heart still does not look like yours. Change our hearts God, make us crave the breakthrough of your revelation and truth in our hearts and minds like air to breathe, give me more faith in your Spirit’s ability to transform sinners into saints, than in the human spirit’s ability to wreak havoc and devise evil. Make my heart like yours. I desire your words like the air I breathe and I desire to obey you more than anything else in my life. Bring me to your heart by your Word, O God. And bring the world to yourself as you do. IN Jesus’ Name, Amen. Closing Remarks That's all the time that I have for today! Thank you for tuning in with us. 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This week Andrew & Drew talk about Drew Brees' injury, the Saints loss to the Rams and if the team can survive with Teddy "Two Gloves" Bridgewater under center. Plus, the guys talk LSU over Northwestern State, Bama over South Carolina, Andrew's RV issues and Drew's airline travel troubles. Listen to KDD on the PodCoin App & get paid. Use promo code: KDDPOD Twitter - @KreweDuDrew krewedudrew@gmail.com

Michelle continues her quest to discover keys to Revival in Psalm 119 reading verses 129-136 in the Passion Translation. Today, as we continue to discover how the keys of living from intimacy and following God in obedience as our passionate pursuit and souls longing leads us to crave His presence and grieve over sin. When we come into a right understanding of Who God is as we pursue Him through His Word – the keys of presence and obedience bring us into understanding the justice of His heart toward a lost and dying world. Show Transcript: Blooming Inspired Podcast equipping and empowering the voices of women who live their lives Blooming Alive. Introduction Good Morning! This is Michelle Bentham, host of Blooming Inspired Podcast. I’m always excited to jump on the podcast with you each week. I’ve been on a social media and podcast break for the last month while traveling and am ready to get back in touch and into Psalm 119. Before I do, I wanted to share a little about the last few weeks of my life and a few changes that will be coming soon to Blooming Inspired Network.. First, I want to say as I’ve spent time away I’ve missed “seeing you” on Facebook and interacting with you there. Still, part of the reason I’m needing to make changes centers on the book God has been stirring in my heart for 14 years now. In August I attended the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association Conference in Nashville, TN. This event inspired me to get serious about my book project and developed some definite goals for the next few months. I was able to spend time with my writing friends from North Texas while making new friends the few days we were there. It’s been an amazing time in my life and encourages me to take steps of faith like never before. If you don’t know, writing a book is labor intensive and time consuming. So, I may not be able to interact with you as often on Facebook, but I’ll be bringing you content that will still encourage and inspire you to go deeper with God in your life. After I returned home from the writer’s conference, I w laundry and headed out again. This time for a retreat for ministry leaders in Telluride, CO. The theme of the Retreat was rest and and… BOY, Did I Need It. The scenic beauty surrounded us on every side. I was incredibly blessed. I took my calendar and my laptop hoping to do some planning and writing while away. But, instead… I heard the Lord whisper, “Just enjoy my creation with me.” I laid in bed late at night and looked up at the diamond-like stars glistening in a black sky just beyond the windows of my bedroom. I fell asleep to the peaceful sound of a creek running behind the house where we stayed. I woke up early and took in the first rays of light coming over the mountains to our east without ever leaving my bed. I marvelled at those mountainous landscapes that surrounded us. And, I enjoyed the 100s of birds, most of them Hummingbirds, that lived in the Douglas Fir Trees around the retreat house. Until… The third day. The plumbing backed up in the electrical closet downstairs. We were moved up the mountain from Telluride to the Mountain Village Lodge where we spent our last two nights in an even more beautiful setting with less oxygen. I just have to say I’m grateful for the Gondolas and shuttles in that area that helped us get around. Several other women journeyed with us on the retreat that week and we quickly became heart friends. I miss them already, but they reminded me why Blooming Inspired Network exists - we’re here for you! Now… Here’s the fun part - we’re going to allow you to submit content for the page! Did you read a Scripture or quote that really moves you? Do you have a word from God that you want to share? GREAT! Simply DM the content to the Blooming Inspired Page, and we’ll look for an opportunity to get it posted. Here are a few guidelines: Our content is by women for women, looking forward to empowering your voice and pen! Not that doesn’t mean we don’t value the voices and offerings of men - we do! But this is a place for wildflowers to bloom. So bring on the women who are wildflowers waiting to sing! [Please note: Not every quote that gets submitted will fit our scope and needs at Blooming Inspired Network - but we’ll be sure to let you know if your content is selected and when it will post.] Content for Quote or Scripture Graphics: Must include the original author or Scripture Reference AND Translation in the message. We’ll ask for it if it is not included. TIP: Ask yourself, “How will this equip and empower women to walk in their role and reign in God’s Kingdom?” Then send us your thoughts along with the quote. We’ll include your note and tag you in the post. :) Other Content: 1) It must be encouraging. 2) It must inspire action. 3) It must be biblically sound. 4) Be sure to respond to the comments if your content is posted. We’ll tag you in the post… :) Do you have a testimony or Podcast idea? Listen for an opportunity to join the fun at the end of today’s show! If you want to go deeper with the Wildflowers at Blooming Inspired Network be sure to join our Wildflower Women Relaunch on Facebook! We’d love to connect and enjoy the encouragement of community with each of you. Are you a writer? Be sure to DM or fill out the contact page at the website. We’d love to get a sample from you as we’re starting a blog soon! We need writers! :) With that said, in addition to our weekly podcasts - Blooming Inspired Network will post on Facebook 2-3 times a week. Looking at a Monday, Wednesday & Friday. The more you engage with our content the more we’ll bring to you there. We’ll also be posting to Instagram, Twitter and A NEW! Pinterest account we’ll be opening this week. We’d love to pin your work. Be sure to connect with us and let us know what you’re up to. But enough about this social stuff… Let’s get to our show. Review In our last episode of the Revival Series we read verses 121-127 and saw the way God’s tender love leads us into not only His righteousness but, when we choose to submit to God in obedience, it also leads us to beautiful intimacy with Him. Today we continue that theme as we look at what it means when our longings are to obey God. This Week’s Reading This week we’re returning to our reading in verses 128-136. We’re reading from the Passion Translation, but go ahead and grab your Bible and turn to the Psalm so you can follow along, I’ll pray to open our discussion today. Father God, I ask that you would open our eyes to see your revelation, open our ears to hear your voice, and open our hearts to know you more. Protect us from the plans of your adversary and keep us from harm. I ask these things in Jesus’ Name, AMEN. The heading for today’s reading is, “I Long to Obey You.” As we read today, I want you to consider this question: “Do I Long To OBEY God?” Let’s begin: Verse 129: Your marvelous words are living miracles; no wonder I long to obey everything you say. Did you catch that? There is a link to seeing God’s living miracles and obedience. Not just obedience for the sake of obedience… But, there is a sense of an obedience that HANGS on every word God has spoken to us. How does God speak personally to us: Through His Word - Jesus, through the Scriptures, and through the revelation that the Holy Spirit brings to us when we walk closely with Him. When you read the Scriptures or sense God speaking to you through the Holy Spirit, do you feel compelled to respond in some way? This is where I think obedience becomes a key. My friend, Tracy, says often - Obedience is the Love Language of the Holy Spirit. And, I agree. If we never do what we read about in Scripture how will we ever know the Greater Works that Jesus said we who come after would do? Obedience is more than doing the right thing because God said so, obedience is an expression of both faith and love toward God. An expectant faith, that knows God will respond - keeping the promises of His Word - when we obey Him. Verse 130: Break open your word within me until revelation-light shines out! Those with open hearts are given insight into your plans. Before you ever experience a breakthrough in your circumstances, God’s word - the Scriptures must break open within you - flooding your being with the revelation light of Christ. Only then will we see and understand the plans God speaks of in Jeremiah 29:11, plans that the NKJV calls THOUGHTS. I recently heard Jesse Beebe speak at a conference and she said, “Did you know God has one destiny for your life, but many plans?” That’s right. God doesn’t just have 1 PLAN for your life - He has many plans that all lead to the one destiny He created and designed you to fulfill in your lifetime. It is through His Scriptures that these plans first break open to us, and as we follow Him through each revelation in obedience to His call… We find our hearts open and we discover the insights and wisdom of His truth in every area of our lives. Verse 131: I open my mouth and inhale the word of God because I crave the revelation of your commands. In 2 Timothy 3:16-17 we read that the Scriptures are “God-Breathed.” Picture the words of God being inhaled into your body like life-giving oxygen, bringing both light and life to the thoughts and intentions of your heart, soul and body. What would our lives look like if we craved God’s Word like our bodies crave oxygen to breathe. The other evening I was working with my husband cleaning out closets and rooms in our house. My allergies have been bothering me lately and I’ve had a little trouble breathing at times. As I bent over to pick something up I found myself unable to catch my breath. I tried to find my inhaler but couldn’t seem to get it. Without oxygen, all I could do was sit on the side of my bed - feeling my lungs burn with their need for oxygen and pray that my husband would realize I needed his help. Eventually he came along and found my inhaler. I took a couple of puffs and began to feel my airway open and my lungs fill with the oxygen my body needs to live. This is the picture this scripture paints - that our souls hunger for God’s word and crave the revelation of His truth. Our lives depend on it… Verse 132: Turn your heart to me, Lord, and show me your grace like you do to every one of your godly lovers. Have you ever been reading scripture and your heart became convicted about something in your life that perhaps you’d never considered sin before that moment? In Isaiah 6, we see the prophet standing before God’s throne as God displayed His glory to Isaiah. The Lord was looking for a man to send as a prophet to Israel, and in the presence of God’s glory all Isaiah could say was “Woe to me, I am undone because I am a sinful man of unclean lips.” (Isaiah 6:5 my paraprase) This picture of our human hearts, and its inclination toward evil, being undone before a Holy God is what it means to truly FEAR the Lord. To revere Him, and His majesty. To humble and prostrate ourselves before Him as we behold the beauty of His splendor beyond our ability to conceive. A revelation of God’s glory creates a desire for His heart be turned to us as He extends His grace in our lives. As He does, as we behold His glory and His grace in our lives, our souls respond in obedience to Him because we love Him recognizing it was He Who first loved us. This is the relationship that God desires for us - that our obedience would lead us to the deeper revelations of intimacy with His heart. Verse 133: Prepare before me a path filled with your promises, and don’t allow even one sin to have dominion over me. We see now how God’s Word, intimacy and obedience lead to purpose. If we are going to fulfill our God-given purpose in life we must know God intimately through His word and respond to it in obedience as the Holy Spirit prompts us to move. If Jesus is God’s Word, and all of God’s promises are Yes And Amen in Jesus - then knowing scripture- being deeply connected to Him through it will lead us down a path filled with His promises. And the more we focus on Him through the Scriptures the more we will realize that transformation that we are called to as we renew our minds in His Word. Verse 134: Rescue me from the oppression of ungodly men so that I can keep all your precepts. As we behold God through His Word, and seek to obey Him - the natural inclination of our hearts will be to experience His protection as we seek to keep His word. God longs for us to ask for His protection - that we would not be oppressed by the ungodly or be distracted from His will in our lives by the ever-darkening world around us. The key is to cry out to Him both in repentance and seeking His refuge in our lives. Verse135: Smile on me, your loving servant.[a] Instruct me on what is right in your eyes. (Footnotes form TPT: Psalm 119:135 [a] Or “Cause your face to shine on me.”) That phrase “Smile on me” here is more literally translated, “Cause Your Face To Shine On Me…” What does that mean… Cause Your face to shine on me? As I asked the Lord about that this morning I felt like He reminded me of Moses. When Moses went up on the mountain and encountered the Lord his face blazed with the Glory of God. So much so that the people of Israel covered his face with a veil because they could not bear to look upon it. I’m reminded that we become like what we behold - God told Moses He spoke to him as a friend. I believe when the Face of God shines on us - we are face to face with Him. Beholding Him and His glory gets on us. We are marked by His presence and people cannot help but see it on us. And because of this, our deep desire is to do what is right in His sight. Not only are we marked by Him when His face shines on us, but we begin to look and act like Him as a result. Verse 136: When I witness the rebellious breaking your laws, it makes me weep uncontrollably! A number of years ago I joined a governmental prayer group during election season. I found myself praying Joel 2 during that season. As I did I received a revelation about what it means to weep between the altar and the door. Before that time, I would glance past that moment to the part where the Lord restores what had been lost and stolen from us in a double portion way. But, as I prayed these scriptures over the election I found myself seeing a different picture. A picture of the priests of God (in Christ, we are believer-priests) walking to the door and seeing the plight of the world around them. The condition of their fellow man, and returning to the altar weeping in their prayers for His redemption. Those days of prayer and that election marked me in immeasurable ways. I like to tell people I’m the grace girl. I sincerely do not believe there is any circumstance, any person, beyond the redemption of God. His arm is not too short… But, sometimes my faith to believe is woefully limited. Limited by what I can see, taste, touch, feel and smell. Seriously… Don’t tell me I’m the only one. Recently I attended a large church who has security teams in place to help keep both the congregants and the staff at the church safe. In the world we live in, this is not an unreasonable position. During the service the leaders make time for the congregants to interact with and greet one another before the weekly message begins. A young man was going around and greeting people, speaking to them. He must have been loud or disturbing to some because a few minutes later the security team came in and took him out. He did not return to the service. Now, I do not know the exact circumstances of what took place, but when the church is an unwelcoming place for people then it becomes a problem. Rather than shut people out - we should create places for them to connect that facilitate the safety of others but also take into consideration the needs of the individual who may be seen as “unacceptable.” The church cannot be a police state - if it becomes such we will look more like the pharisees than Jesus in every way. I’ve worked on staff in churches, and written position papers on marriage as well as run background checks on folks who desired to serve in ministry. I’ve had to report sex offenders and watched pastors lovingly and discerningly develop ministry plans that allowed the offenders to attend church while caring for those around them and creating safe parameters to allow for interaction. When I think of the way the rebellious around me make me grieve these days. It’s not the world - the ones outside God’s house and family - that bring me to tears but those who have seemingly forgotten who we are and Who we represent to the lost and dying world around us. Father God, as I read today, my heart grieves at a church that protests sinners rather than loving them, that exiles the unlovely and the broken rather than embraces them and I grieve that after all these years of knowing you - at times - even my heart still does not look like yours. Change our hearts God, make us crave the breakthrough of your revelation and truth in our hearts and minds like air to breathe, give me more faith in your Spirit’s ability to transform sinners into saints, than in the human spirit’s ability to wreak havoc and devise evil. Make my heart like yours. I desire your words like the air I breathe and I desire to obey you more than anything else in my life. Bring me to your heart by your Word, O God. And bring the world to yourself as you do. IN Jesus’ Name, Amen. Closing Remarks That's all the time that I have for today! Thank you for tuning in with us. I want to ask you if this podcast has been a blessing to you: would you subscribe to it and share it with your friends and family? We’d love to partner with you in sharing messages that encourage and inspire. As you may know, our Redeemed Rebel Podcast aired its last show for this season yesterday. While Michele will still be popping in from time to time as a guest host on this show or showing up as a guest on our other shows -- she will not be regularly featured through the Redeemed Rebel Podcast for the foreseeable future. Be sure to catch her last episode and connect with her this week at facebook.com/redeemedrebelunveiled. If you’d like to be a guest on this show or get more information about hosting your own podcast on the Blooming Inspired Podcast Network - please reach out to michelle.bentham@bloominginspirednetwork.com. I’d love the opportunity to connect with you and figure out how we can share your voice with the world around us. BIBLE STUDY SEASON IS UPON US! 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Andrew & Drew preview LSU, Bama & the Saints' NOLA No-Call revenge game against the Rams. Plus, "Remember When" South Carolina beat Alabama in 2010 and the guys' picks for the week. Listen to KDD on the PodCoin App & get paid. Use promo code: KDDPOD Twitter - @KreweDuDrew krewedudrew@gmail.com

This week Andrew & Drew recap Louisiana's dominant weekend over Texas, discussing LSU's win at the University of Texas and the Saints' big last second Monday Night Football win over the Houston Texans. Listen to KDD on the PodCoin App & get paid. Use promo code: KDDPOD Twitter - @KreweDuDrew krewedudrew@gmail.com

This week Andrew & Drew recap Week 1 of college football, including LSU's impressive new offense and a slew of embarrassing SEC losses, and look ahead to the massive LSU-Texas matchup in Austin. Plus, the guys preview the Saints and the rest of the NFL. Listen to KDD on the PodCoin App & get paid. Use promo code: KDDPOD Twitter - @KreweDuDrew krewedudrew@gmail.com

Welcome back to The Zone! Mike C, and Rich are back in the studio talking all things Horror! Here's what's in the The Zone this week:   HORROR NEWS SEGMENT 1: - Anthony Michael Hall is cast as Tommy Doyle - Hell House LLC sequel release date - Creepshow series release date and More   HORROR NEWS SEGMENT 2: - Saw has wrapped shooting - Idle Hands 2? - Nightmare on Elm St 3 reading in LA - Antrum Trailer and More!   TALKING HORROR SEGMENT: - Ready or Not Review   Visit our Website   8122productions.com Like us on Facebook   Horror Zone 607 Follow us on Twitter   @horrorzone607   Download the Podcoin App and earn money for listening to podcasts! Use our referral code HZ607 and get 300 bonus coins!

College football is back, folks! This week, Andrew and Drew discuss the 2019 college football landscape, preview LSU and Alabama and talk win totals, Heisman Trophy thoughts and College Football Playoff predictions. Listen to KDD on the PodCoin App & get paid. Use promo code: KDDPOD Twitter - @KreweDuDrew krewedudrew@gmail.com

What's up Nerds!? Your 3 favorite Fat Nerds are back this week, as Rich, Ron, and Derek talk about all things Nerd and Pop Culture! Here's what we talk about this week:   OPENING HOT: - Sony and Disney part ways in regards to Spider-Man   NERD NEWS: - Matrix 4 in the works - Bond 25 gets a title - Breaking Bad getting a Netflix movie - 2 Thors are on the way - The Suicide Squad has a new casting - Joker gets a hard R and Much More!   DUNGEON MASTERS CORNER: - Ron shares about the new D&D books - Derek gives us the low down on the banned and restricted list for MTG   TALKING NERD: - D23 News and our opinions on the event   DIESEL'S MOVIE TRIPLE STUF: - Box Office - Top 3 Ensemble Movies - Diesel's Pick of the Week   Visit our Website   8122productions.com Like us on Facebook   3 Fat Nerds Podcast Follow us on Twitter & Instagram   @3fatnerdspod Email us   3fatnerdspod@gmail.com   Special thanks to The Phosphenes and Shout At The Robots for allowing us to use their music   Check out the Podcoin App and get 300 bonus coins by using our referral code FATNERDS

This week Andrew & Drew preview Week Zero's marquee matchup, Florida vs. Miami. Plus, the guys discuss Drew's newfound food allergy, another NOLA bar crawl and the glory days of Miami & Florida during the latest Remember When segment. Listen to KDD on the PodCoin App & get paid. Use promo code: KDDPOD Twitter - @KreweDuDrew krewedudrew@gmail.com

What's up Wrestling Nerds!? Rich, Ron, and Derek are back to talk about the week that was in Pro Wrestling. Huge developments in the world of wrestling this week, have led us to this exciting, and very opinion based episode this week! Here's what's on the card for this weeks episode:   OPENING HOT: - NXT on USA announced, and how we feel about the Wednesday Night War   3FN WRESTLING NEWS: - WWE Podcast Network - Bray Wyatt responds to click bait about him - Raw and Smackdown Live have another good week - Tony Schiavone to AEW - Jon Moxley news and More!   TALKING WRESTLING: - A trifecta of CM Punk news articles, and some fantasy booking - Plus some breaking news!   THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: - Top 3 things AEW needs to do to be successful in the Wednesday Night War - Indy Round Up - Rich's Pick of the Week   Visit our Website   8122productions.com Like us on Facebook   3 Fat Nerds Podcast Follow us on Twitter   @3fatnerdspod Email us   @3fatnerdspod   Special thanks to Shout At The Robots for allowing us to use their music   Download the Podcoin App and earn $$ for listening to Podcasts! Use our special referral code FATNERDS to get 300 bonus coins when you sign up!

Welcome back to The Zone! Mike C and Rich are back in the 8122 Productions Studio @ Dragon Master Games, to bring you this week in Horror! Here's what we discuss this week in The Zone:   HORROR NEWS SEGMENT: - New Halloween sequels news - Kane Hodder weighs in on the next Friday The 13th movie -  The Tobe Hooper directed Freddy origin - Candy Corn Trailer and Much More!   TALKING HORROR SEGMENT: - Rich brings up an article that reveals that our favorite Slashers live in a connected universe!    CLOSING SEGMENT: - We discus our involvement with and who is coming to Sci-Fi Horror Fest For tickets and information about this event go to sci-fihorrorfest.com - We then discus our involvement and who will be at Scare-A-Con For tickets and information about this event go to scareacon.com   Visit our Website   8122productions.com Like us on Facebook   Horror Zone 607 Follow us on Twitter   @horrorzone607   Special thanks to Crimson Brethren for allowing us to use their music Check out our Podcast on the Podcoin App! Use our referral code HZ607 for a bonus 300 coins when you sign up!

What's up Nerds!? Rich, Ron, and Derek are back at it again this week, as we discuss all that is Nerd and Pop Culture! Here's what we talk about this week:   OPENING HOT: - Ewan McGregor returns as Obi-Wan - Michael Rooker joins Fast 9 - Double shot of He-Man news - Snake Eyes casted for G.I Joe reboot and More!   NERD NEWS: - Disney Plus international launch dates - Krypton Canceled - Titans add Michael Mosley as Doctor Light - Elvis animated show coming to Netflix - Bill & Ted 3 news and much more!   DUNGEON MASTERS CORNER: - Ron gives his reasons for using Monks in D&D - Stranger Things coming to Dead by Daylight   TALKING NERD: - This week we discuss who would win between The Hulk and The Thing   DIESEL'S MOVIE TRIPLE STUF: - Box Office - Top 3 Super Hero powers we would choose - Diesel's Pick of the Week   Visit our Website   8122productions.com Like us on Facebook   3 Fat Nerds Podcast Follow us on Twitter & Instagram   @3fatnerdspod Email us   3fatnerdspod@gmail.com   Special thanks to The Phosphenes for allowing us to use their music   Download the PodCoin App and earn $$ to listen to Podcasts! Use our referral code FATNERDS to get 300 bonus coins!

This week Andrew & Drew discuss the Saints' first preseason game, Boogie Cousins' newest injury, and his days in New Orleans during the latest Remember When segment. Plus, the guys recap Red Dress Run, talk hard seltzers and Andrew's New Orleans bar crawls. Listen to KDD on the PodCoin App & get paid. Use promo code: KDDPOD Twitter - @KreweDuDrew krewedudrew@gmail.com

What's up Wrestling Nerds!? Rich, Ron, and Derek go over this past weeks wrestling news and events. Here's what's on the card for this episode:   OPENING HOT: - NXT Takeover: Toronto Review   TALKING WRESTLING: - WWE SummerSlam 2019 Review   3FN WRESTLING NEWS: - Return of Sasha Banks and the King of the Ring - Click bait untrue stories about Bray Wyatt & Dolph Ziggler we shed light on - Matt Riddle meets Goldberg - New class enters WWE PC - Orange Cassidy signs with AEW - New Japan news and More!   THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: - Top 3 Moments from SummerSlam weekend - Indy Round Up - Rich's Pick of the Week   Visit our Website   8122productions.com Like us on Facebook   3 Fat Nerds Podcast Follow us on Twitter & Instagram   @3fatnerdspod Email us   3fatnerdspod@gmail.com   Join the Podcoin App and use our referral code FATNERDS to get 300 coins!   Special thanks to Shout At The Robots for allowing us to use their music

This week Andrew & Drew discuss NFL teams, including the Saints, that will rise and decline during the 2019 season. Plus, Michael Thomas' big payday in New Orleans and the debut of a new segment: Remember When? Listen to KDD on the PodCoin App & get paid. Use promo code: KDDPOD Twitter - @KreweDuDrew krewedudrew@gmail.com

I am a huge fan of the Daily Om, and get an uplifting and encouraging message almost every day in my inbox from them. A couple of weeks ago, Madisyn Taylor’s message really struck a chord with me. She talked about making a habit of happiness and shared with me how to do this. Tag you’re it! Tune in… If you want to follow the Daily Om and receive their daily inspirations, please visit their website here: https://www.dailyom.com/ Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Over the course of the next few weeks I am discussing the chapters in a brilliant book called, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew by Dr. Sharon Saline (© copyright Sharon Saline, Psy.D. 2019). In this episode, I discuss chapter 3, where the author shares with us how you accepting your child having ADHD and, you being able to help your child come to a place of acceptance for having it is key to moving forward with success. You can find Dr. Sharon Saline at www.drsharonsaline.com Follow her on FB at https://www.facebook.com/DrSharonSaline/ Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/drsharonsaline/ You can purchase the book at the following amazon link: https://amzn.to/2MGa9mW Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

In episode 312 I discussed consequences; how you use them, why you use them and why you most probably struggle with them. In this episode, I share with you the art of setting what I like to call “On-The-Fly” consequences, for it is these that trip us the most. Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

This week Andrew & Drew discuss the new luxurious LSU football locker rooms and the subsequent social media "controversy," NFL quarterback rankings and Drew gives a summer wedding review. Listen to KDD on the PodCoin App & get paid. Use promo code: KDDPOD Twitter - @KreweDuDrew krewedudrew@gmail.com

Many parents I work with struggle with how to set effective consequences and follow through with them. It can be hard but there’s an art to doing it and doing it well. In this episode, I share with you what I do for what I call pre-planned consequences. With the holidays in full force, doing this around device use is key. Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Over the course of the next few weeks I am discussing the chapters in a brilliant book called, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew by Dr. Sharon Saline (© copyright Sharon Saline, Psy.D. 2019). In this episode, I discuss chapter 2, to help you understand just what’s going on inside the ADHD brain. Tune in… You can find Dr. Sharon Saline at www.drsharonsaline.com Follow her on FB at https://www.facebook.com/DrSharonSaline/ Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/drsharonsaline/ You can purchase the book at the following amazon link: https://amzn.to/2MGa9mW Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Michelle continues her quest to discover keys to Revival in Psalm 119 reading verses 105-112 in the Passion Translation. Today, as we discover the keys of gratitude, joy and being refreshed, we also see how they partner with obedience to bring about freedom. As we step out by faith, trusting God’s revelation-light, we find ourselves walking a path that will lead into obedience, joy, rest and righteousness. Blooming Inspired Podcast equipping and empowering the voices of women who live their lives blooming alive. Greeting Good morning this is Michelle Bentham. I’m the host of Blooming Inspired Podcast. I took a break on Tuesday this week and offered you a special encore presentation of last Thursday’s podcast. But today we are diving right back where we left off last week. We’ve been reading through Psalms 119 looking for keys to revival as we work through the verses. Before we get started, let’s pray: “Lord God, we come humbly today and ask you to give us eyes to see, ears to hear and a heart to know you more. Lord, we ask you to speak now as your servants are listening - send Holy Spirit to give us revelation truth and light to mark the path ahead of us today. In Jesus’ name, Amen.” Review Last week we focused on placing our faith in God’s word and finding that our hearts love and treasure His Word.That faith in God leads to freedom, and loving His Word leads us to an uncompromising desire to be both obedient to His Word and to face the difficult truths in His word. Our keys from the last reading are wisdom and understanding that come from God’s Word. Today’s Reading Today we are going to be reading Psalm 119:105-112. Grab your Bible, a pen and if you desire - your favorite journal to take some notes as we get ready to jump into this section of scripture. I’m reading from the Passion Translation today. The heading over this section is “Truth’s Shining Light.” We’ve read in the previous verses that God’s revelation-light brings us to walk in His ways, to face difficult truths, and find obedience to His Word. Let’s see what God wants to share with us today. Something Familiar Before I get to today’s reading, I want to acknowledge the familiar words that can be found in many of the other translations of Psalm 119:105-106, from the NIV. “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. I have taken an oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws.” Catch this… God’s word is a lamp for my feet and a light to my path. The key to following God, being obedient to Him, and as the psalmist confesses, keeping His righteous laws -- is the shining light of His Truth - His Word. Remember this from John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me.” He also said, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” (See John 8:32) Freedom & Obedience How many of us in our lives would say that freedom and obedience walk hand in hand.Today’s key of truth partnered with the key of obedience will lead us to freedom. Not the kind of freedom that casts off restraint, but the kind of freedom that compels us to bow low, follow closely and seek to Know Him - Jesus, the Truth of God, His Living Word. Personal Testimony I remember being a teenager, convinced I knew it all, and especially knew better than my parents who were old-fashioned and simply did not understand this modern world we lived in. Unlike James Dean, I was a Rebel With A Cause. I wanted to be free. In my mind, freedom was the ability to choose WHATEVER I wanted to do. I could not wait to be out from under their authority so I could find my own way, choose what I wanted and cast off the restraint of their rules in my life. Can I tell you that led me to some very difficult years in a prodigal season that led me to be an unwed mother, following that up with marrying a very broken and abusive man? We had two more children by the time I was 21 and then I divorced him. After my divorce we lived in poverty on welfare assistance from the state. I gave myself to wild living (mostly by way of alcohol and honky tonks) and some of my choices landed me in jail - not once, but a few times. All I can say is that the mercy of God met me in the middle of my mess -- and many of the messes I created learning to walk out of the broken patterns of my past. In my late 20s I began to seek God, to hunger for a relationship with Him again the way I had when I was saved at age 12. His Truth Changed My Life By the time I was 30 I was searching the Scriptures doing regular Bible study and seeking truth. It would be several more years before I would sincerely begin to walk out that truth and discover God’s unending love and powerful truth as a reality in my life. It’s been a long road from their to here. But, in that journey I have found the more I allow the Holy Spirit to guide and restrain me through God’s Word, the more obedient my heart becomes and the more I realize obedience to God’s Word in my heart and my life --- the more free I become. Truth’s Shining Light Now, let’s read from the Passion Translation and see what additional insights we can gather from this passage of Scripture: Verse 105-106: “Truth’s Shining light guides me in my choices and decisions; the revelation of your word makes my path clear. To live my life by your righteous commitment.” Just Enough Light The Hebrew language often paints a picture for the reader or hearer. I feel like the picture for this passage is that picture we find in the NIV: a picture of God’s light, like a lamp in our hand… or, if you will, our hearts... shining the light of truth into a dark world around you. A lamp shines in darkness, illuminating the immediate area surrounding us. The picture from Psalm 119:105 is just enough light to take the next step. It doesn’t show us all the things that could be seen in the darkness. It lights the path that God wants us to take. Giving us a clear direction. If we are willing to follow God through the truth of His revelation-light in our lives, our choices and decisions will honor that light as we choose to live our lives by His righteous commitment. Take the Next Step Often times I think we get off track because we do not feel God is guiding or directing us - when in fact, our hearts are not obedient because we do not see the bigger picture. It’s like standing in the mall and looking at their map to find a store. You have to get your bearings to find that STAR with the words, You Are Here emblazoned in red. I’m a big picture kind of kid, the details often don’t matter to me as much as knowing where we’re going and plotting the best way to get there. I’ve often mused that life would be so much easier if God would just give us the road map so I know where we’re headed. Not Just A Road Trip As I am sharing this with you, a picture of the television show “The Amazing Race” pops into my head. If you aren’t familiar with it, coupled contestants from various place are selected to run the amazing race. At the beginning of each episode the audience is given a preview of what the contestants must do to get to the next Pit Stop for that leg of the race. The contestants have no clue where they are going - they are just following the instructions, completing the task outlined in the series of clues they receive, and then trying to run the best race to arrive at the Pit Stop first. We’ll be back in a minute or two as we share something exciting with you! [Podcoin Promo - information included in the close] Not Exactly Your Average Road Trip It’s not like a road trip where you ask Siri or Google to get you directions and then you follow their directions to get to where you are going. The contestants are compelled to not only find the clues, but follow them precisely - even in countries where they do not speak or understand the language. They are dependent on the information provided at each detour, roadblock and clue that is provided or else they won’t complete that leg of the journey and finish the race. They also are provided resources to get the transportation needed to make the journey, and sometimes have to do unpleasant and difficult assignments to complete the race. But, you know… Many of us use our map apps to help us get where we are going the fastest route with the fewest delays, detours or obstacles to overcome. As a matter of fact, we’ll set our map and then in the midst of driving realize a better way and turn off the directed path - then our maps start recalculating and giving us instructions to get us back on track and headed to our destination. But, the thing is --- we pick the route we want to take and then deviate from that path. Requiring the system to update and reroute us to get us to our destination in a timely manner. Finish Your Race The truth is, many of us are off track simply because we thought we knew a better way and went our own direction instead of following God. Walking closely with God through His Word is where you will find Him best. As you incline your heart to His Word - His Holy Spirit will Shine the Light of Jesus and give you clear direction and the assignments needed to run your race well. The question is… Will you partner with Him through the Key of Obedience? Trusting Him to give you just the light you need for the next step, or are you asking for a bigger picture? Overwhelmed Verse 107: “I’m bruised and broken, overwhelmed by it all; breath life into me again by your living word.” Life really has a way of beating us down. I often get pacing and run hard after following Jesus. But, the drawback is I get weary, and need to rest. One of the keys for today’s reading is to be refreshed when you are weary. A Yoke of Rest In Matthew 11, Jesus tells His followers that when they feel weighted down by life and are wearied by its burdens, to come and exchange these heavy burdens for his yoke of rest - which is easy and light. Jesus wants to carry your load for you. You don’t have to go it alone. But, in order to make the exchange you have to learn to pause, surrender and receive His gift of rest. Offering Thanks Verse108-109: “Lord, receive my grateful thanks and teach me more of how to please you. Even though my life hangs in the balance, I’ll keep following what you’ve taught me, no matter what.” The next key we find is thanksgiving - a heart turned in gratitude before God, expressing thanks, seeks to please Him. It takes faith to thank God in a hard season. When my son passed away nearly 14 years ago - I read that sweet verse in Thessalonians where it says to “Give thanks in every circumstance.” Thankful In… Not Thankful For Learning to thank God in unpleasant or painful circumstances will lead us to depend on Him in those seasons. It will tune our hearts to see Him moving in our lives and answering our prayers as we pray them -- because we are relying on Him, looking for His goodness in the midst of our pain and trevail, we have the opportunity to find Him faithful and respond by faith to Him, which pleases Him. And when we find His goodness, and the faith to follow Him no matter what we experience the depths of His love for us as we continually seek to follow Him. A response of obedience that is born of love, is an act of worship. Freedom Comes Through Obedience Verse 110: “The ungodly have done their best to throw me off track, but I’ll not deviate from what you’ve told me to do.” When I submit to God allowing Him to guide my path as I follow in obedience. Even when the distractions and assignments from the enemy come at me - I’ll not be sent off course. I’ll be steadfast in my determination to follow God, and do what He has told me to do. Freedom comes through obedience, and when freedom comes so does JOY in the obedience! Joy In Obedience Verse 111-112: Everything you speak to me is like joyous treasure, filling my life with gladness. I have determined in my heart to obey whatever you say, fully and forever!” When we begin to realize the freedom of obedience in our lives, His words become joyous treasure that we receive in gladness. It sets our hearts in determination to realize FULLY His plan and purpose for our lives as we seek to do whatever He says - to live fully until we reach eternity. Father God, we thank you for Jesus, your revelation-light, in a dark and dying world. We thank you for Holy Spirit who guides, reminds, and convicts us of your word and your truth. We ask Lord to make our hearts and our steps true to you, to increase our faith and to walk boldly knowing your word gives us the strength, rest and refreshing we need to do everything you have said over our lives! In Jesus’ Name, Amen. What’s Your Take? What are you thinking as we close out the message today? I’d love for you to share your insights with me. You can find me at facebook.com/bloominginspired and share your thoughts in the comments or send me a direct message. We’ve also got a contact form on the website: bloominginspirednetwork.com just click the Let’s Connect link at the top of the page. Ways to Listen Want more of Blooming Inspired Podcast - or maybe you’d like to learn more about Blooming Inspired Network - be sure to like us on Facebook. We’re also on Twitter: @bloominspirenet and Instagram: @bloominginspired. We’d love to see you on our pages - if you stop by be sure to leave us a comment and let us know you’re tuning in. I want to remind you that our podcast is available through your favorite subscription services like Apple Podcasts (Formerly iTunes) or Google Play. You can also find us on the Podcoin App as we shared in this podcast. Podcoin is the app that pays you to listen to our podcasts - and really any podcast you find on their app. You can use your podcoins to purchase gift cards or make donations to charitable organizations. It’s a win-win if you ask me… So check out the Podcoin App today and use our referral code: BLOOMING to get 300 podcoins when you create your account! Closing Thank you for tuning in to today’s podcast. Don’t forget to tune in on Mondays at 4pm (CT) to catch Michele Turman, our resident Redeemed Rebel, Gold Digger and Hope Dealer, as she shares The Redeemed Rebel Podcast each week. You’ll also not want to miss next week’s Accidental Hope Podcast at 2pm (CT) right here on Blooming Inspired Network. I will be the featured guest joining Jennifer Eikenhorst, our Hope Ambassador, talking about Bible Journaling and Creative Journaling as a way to find hope and healing in difficult circumstances. You don’t want to miss it! Be sure to take a moment to like us on social media. If you love our show and it’s been a blessing to you would you help us get the word out by sharing it with your friends and family on social media. We’re praying for you often and want you to know you are important to our show and our ministry - we could not do this without you! And now… I want to remind you as I always do. Blooming where you’re planted is the first step to living your wildest dreams, so live your lives blooming alive!

Michelle continues her quest to discover keys to Revival in Psalm 119 reading verses 105-112 in the Passion Translation. Today, as we discover the keys of gratitude, joy and being refreshed, we also see how they partner with obedience to bring about freedom. As we step out by faith, trusting God’s revelation-light, we find ourselves walking a path that will lead into obedience, joy, rest and righteousness. Blooming Inspired Podcast equipping and empowering the voices of women who live their lives blooming alive. Greeting Good morning this is Michelle Bentham. I’m the host of Blooming Inspired Podcast. I took a break on Tuesday this week and offered you a special encore presentation of last Thursday’s podcast. But today we are diving right back where we left off last week. We’ve been reading through Psalms 119 looking for keys to revival as we work through the verses. Before we get started, let’s pray: “Lord God, we come humbly today and ask you to give us eyes to see, ears to hear and a heart to know you more. Lord, we ask you to speak now as your servants are listening - send Holy Spirit to give us revelation truth and light to mark the path ahead of us today. In Jesus’ name, Amen.” Review Last week we focused on placing our faith in God’s word and finding that our hearts love and treasure His Word.That faith in God leads to freedom, and loving His Word leads us to an uncompromising desire to be both obedient to His Word and to face the difficult truths in His word. Our keys from the last reading are wisdom and understanding that come from God’s Word. Today’s Reading Today we are going to be reading Psalm 119:105-112. Grab your Bible, a pen and if you desire - your favorite journal to take some notes as we get ready to jump into this section of scripture. I’m reading from the Passion Translation today. The heading over this section is “Truth’s Shining Light.” We’ve read in the previous verses that God’s revelation-light brings us to walk in His ways, to face difficult truths, and find obedience to His Word. Let’s see what God wants to share with us today. Something Familiar Before I get to today’s reading, I want to acknowledge the familiar words that can be found in many of the other translations of Psalm 119:105-106, from the NIV. “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. I have taken an oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws.” Catch this… God’s word is a lamp for my feet and a light to my path. The key to following God, being obedient to Him, and as the psalmist confesses, keeping His righteous laws -- is the shining light of His Truth - His Word. Remember this from John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me.” He also said, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” (See John 8:32) Freedom & Obedience How many of us in our lives would say that freedom and obedience walk hand in hand.Today’s key of truth partnered with the key of obedience will lead us to freedom. Not the kind of freedom that casts off restraint, but the kind of freedom that compels us to bow low, follow closely and seek to Know Him - Jesus, the Truth of God, His Living Word. Personal Testimony I remember being a teenager, convinced I knew it all, and especially knew better than my parents who were old-fashioned and simply did not understand this modern world we lived in. Unlike James Dean, I was a Rebel With A Cause. I wanted to be free. In my mind, freedom was the ability to choose WHATEVER I wanted to do. I could not wait to be out from under their authority so I could find my own way, choose what I wanted and cast off the restraint of their rules in my life. Can I tell you that led me to some very difficult years in a prodigal season that led me to be an unwed mother, following that up with marrying a very broken and abusive man? We had two more children by the time I was 21 and then I divorced him. After my divorce we lived in poverty on welfare assistance from the state. I gave myself to wild living (mostly by way of alcohol and honky tonks) and some of my choices landed me in jail - not once, but a few times. All I can say is that the mercy of God met me in the middle of my mess -- and many of the messes I created learning to walk out of the broken patterns of my past. In my late 20s I began to seek God, to hunger for a relationship with Him again the way I had when I was saved at age 12. His Truth Changed My Life By the time I was 30 I was searching the Scriptures doing regular Bible study and seeking truth. It would be several more years before I would sincerely begin to walk out that truth and discover God’s unending love and powerful truth as a reality in my life. It’s been a long road from their to here. But, in that journey I have found the more I allow the Holy Spirit to guide and restrain me through God’s Word, the more obedient my heart becomes and the more I realize obedience to God’s Word in my heart and my life --- the more free I become. Truth’s Shining Light Now, let’s read from the Passion Translation and see what additional insights we can gather from this passage of Scripture: Verse 105-106: “Truth’s Shining light guides me in my choices and decisions; the revelation of your word makes my path clear. To live my life by your righteous commitment.” Just Enough Light The Hebrew language often paints a picture for the reader or hearer. I feel like the picture for this passage is that picture we find in the NIV: a picture of God’s light, like a lamp in our hand… or, if you will, our hearts... shining the light of truth into a dark world around you. A lamp shines in darkness, illuminating the immediate area surrounding us. The picture from Psalm 119:105 is just enough light to take the next step. It doesn’t show us all the things that could be seen in the darkness. It lights the path that God wants us to take. Giving us a clear direction. If we are willing to follow God through the truth of His revelation-light in our lives, our choices and decisions will honor that light as we choose to live our lives by His righteous commitment. Take the Next Step Often times I think we get off track because we do not feel God is guiding or directing us - when in fact, our hearts are not obedient because we do not see the bigger picture. It’s like standing in the mall and looking at their map to find a store. You have to get your bearings to find that STAR with the words, You Are Here emblazoned in red. I’m a big picture kind of kid, the details often don’t matter to me as much as knowing where we’re going and plotting the best way to get there. I’ve often mused that life would be so much easier if God would just give us the road map so I know where we’re headed. Not Just A Road Trip As I am sharing this with you, a picture of the television show “The Amazing Race” pops into my head. If you aren’t familiar with it, coupled contestants from various place are selected to run the amazing race. At the beginning of each episode the audience is given a preview of what the contestants must do to get to the next Pit Stop for that leg of the race. The contestants have no clue where they are going - they are just following the instructions, completing the task outlined in the series of clues they receive, and then trying to run the best race to arrive at the Pit Stop first. We’ll be back in a minute or two as we share something exciting with you! [Podcoin Promo - information included in the close] Not Exactly Your Average Road Trip It’s not like a road trip where you ask Siri or Google to get you directions and then you follow their directions to get to where you are going. The contestants are compelled to not only find the clues, but follow them precisely - even in countries where they do not speak or understand the language. They are dependent on the information provided at each detour, roadblock and clue that is provided or else they won’t complete that leg of the journey and finish the race. They also are provided resources to get the transportation needed to make the journey, and sometimes have to do unpleasant and difficult assignments to complete the race. But, you know… Many of us use our map apps to help us get where we are going the fastest route with the fewest delays, detours or obstacles to overcome. As a matter of fact, we’ll set our map and then in the midst of driving realize a better way and turn off the directed path - then our maps start recalculating and giving us instructions to get us back on track and headed to our destination. But, the thing is --- we pick the route we want to take and then deviate from that path. Requiring the system to update and reroute us to get us to our destination in a timely manner. Finish Your Race The truth is, many of us are off track simply because we thought we knew a better way and went our own direction instead of following God. Walking closely with God through His Word is where you will find Him best. As you incline your heart to His Word - His Holy Spirit will Shine the Light of Jesus and give you clear direction and the assignments needed to run your race well. The question is… Will you partner with Him through the Key of Obedience? Trusting Him to give you just the light you need for the next step, or are you asking for a bigger picture? Overwhelmed Verse 107: “I’m bruised and broken, overwhelmed by it all; breath life into me again by your living word.” Life really has a way of beating us down. I often get pacing and run hard after following Jesus. But, the drawback is I get weary, and need to rest. One of the keys for today’s reading is to be refreshed when you are weary. A Yoke of Rest In Matthew 11, Jesus tells His followers that when they feel weighted down by life and are wearied by its burdens, to come and exchange these heavy burdens for his yoke of rest - which is easy and light. Jesus wants to carry your load for you. You don’t have to go it alone. But, in order to make the exchange you have to learn to pause, surrender and receive His gift of rest. Offering Thanks Verse108-109: “Lord, receive my grateful thanks and teach me more of how to please you. Even though my life hangs in the balance, I’ll keep following what you’ve taught me, no matter what.” The next key we find is thanksgiving - a heart turned in gratitude before God, expressing thanks, seeks to please Him. It takes faith to thank God in a hard season. When my son passed away nearly 14 years ago - I read that sweet verse in Thessalonians where it says to “Give thanks in every circumstance.” Thankful In… Not Thankful For Learning to thank God in unpleasant or painful circumstances will lead us to depend on Him in those seasons. It will tune our hearts to see Him moving in our lives and answering our prayers as we pray them -- because we are relying on Him, looking for His goodness in the midst of our pain and trevail, we have the opportunity to find Him faithful and respond by faith to Him, which pleases Him. And when we find His goodness, and the faith to follow Him no matter what we experience the depths of His love for us as we continually seek to follow Him. A response of obedience that is born of love, is an act of worship. Freedom Comes Through Obedience Verse 110: “The ungodly have done their best to throw me off track, but I’ll not deviate from what you’ve told me to do.” When I submit to God allowing Him to guide my path as I follow in obedience. Even when the distractions and assignments from the enemy come at me - I’ll not be sent off course. I’ll be steadfast in my determination to follow God, and do what He has told me to do. Freedom comes through obedience, and when freedom comes so does JOY in the obedience! Joy In Obedience Verse 111-112: Everything you speak to me is like joyous treasure, filling my life with gladness. I have determined in my heart to obey whatever you say, fully and forever!” When we begin to realize the freedom of obedience in our lives, His words become joyous treasure that we receive in gladness. It sets our hearts in determination to realize FULLY His plan and purpose for our lives as we seek to do whatever He says - to live fully until we reach eternity. Father God, we thank you for Jesus, your revelation-light, in a dark and dying world. We thank you for Holy Spirit who guides, reminds, and convicts us of your word and your truth. We ask Lord to make our hearts and our steps true to you, to increase our faith and to walk boldly knowing your word gives us the strength, rest and refreshing we need to do everything you have said over our lives! In Jesus’ Name, Amen. What’s Your Take? What are you thinking as we close out the message today? I’d love for you to share your insights with me. You can find me at facebook.com/bloominginspired and share your thoughts in the comments or send me a direct message. We’ve also got a contact form on the website: bloominginspirednetwork.com just click the Let’s Connect link at the top of the page. Ways to Listen Want more of Blooming Inspired Podcast - or maybe you’d like to learn more about Blooming Inspired Network - be sure to like us on Facebook. We’re also on Twitter: @bloominspirenet and Instagram: @bloominginspired. We’d love to see you on our pages - if you stop by be sure to leave us a comment and let us know you’re tuning in. I want to remind you that our podcast is available through your favorite subscription services like Apple Podcasts (Formerly iTunes) or Google Play. You can also find us on the Podcoin App as we shared in this podcast. Podcoin is the app that pays you to listen to our podcasts - and really any podcast you find on their app. You can use your podcoins to purchase gift cards or make donations to charitable organizations. It’s a win-win if you ask me… So check out the Podcoin App today and use our referral code: BLOOMING to get 300 podcoins when you create your account! Closing Thank you for tuning in to today’s podcast. Don’t forget to tune in on Mondays at 4pm (CT) to catch Michele Turman, our resident Redeemed Rebel, Gold Digger and Hope Dealer, as she shares The Redeemed Rebel Podcast each week. You’ll also not want to miss next week’s Accidental Hope Podcast at 2pm (CT) right here on Blooming Inspired Network. I will be the featured guest joining Jennifer Eikenhorst, our Hope Ambassador, talking about Bible Journaling and Creative Journaling as a way to find hope and healing in difficult circumstances. You don’t want to miss it! Be sure to take a moment to like us on social media. If you love our show and it’s been a blessing to you would you help us get the word out by sharing it with your friends and family on social media. We’re praying for you often and want you to know you are important to our show and our ministry - we could not do this without you! And now… I want to remind you as I always do. Blooming where you’re planted is the first step to living your wildest dreams, so live your lives blooming alive!

In this episode, I share with you Part 2 in the “What do good dads do?” series inspired by a blog post written by Kelly from Happy You, Happy Family. It’s been proven time and time again that kids don’t remember all the stuff and things and trips. They remember the experiences that we create with them and they want more of the “ordinary” moments, provided those moments are with YOU. In episode 306, I shared 15 of 25 things “good” dads can do with their kids. Tune in as I share with you the remaining 10. Thank you Kelly for inspiring this episode on the podcast. You can find Kelly and all her other fab blogs posts at https://happyyouhappyfamily.com/how-to-be-a-good-father/ Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

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We all long for the summer holidays but when we are in the thick of them often find ourselves challenged by having the kids home all day AND wanting to be on their devices more than we want them to be! What do you do? In this episode, I share with you the inadvertent mistake we often make and what you can do to turn things around. Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

As you know, over the past few weeks I have been doing a book club podcast on a brilliant book called, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew by Dr. Sharon Saline (© copyright Sharon Saline, Psy.D. 2019). Over the next few weeks, I'll be discussing the remaining chapters in the book but today I am celebrating the fifth C in the Five C’s of ADHD parenting. Tune in… You can find Dr. Sharon Saline at www.drsharonsaline.com Follow her on FB at https://www.facebook.com/DrSharonSaline/ Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/drsharonsaline/ You can purchase the book at the following amazon link: https://amzn.to/2MGa9mW Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

In this episode, I share with you what Dr. Alastair McAlpine found when he asked some of his terminal paediatric palliative care patients (kids between the ages of 4 and 9 years old) what they had enjoyed in life and what gave their life meaning. As he said “Despite being so young, the managed to hit the nail on the head when it comes to what makes life worth living”. Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Michelle continues her quest to discover keys to Revival in Psalm 119 reading verses 97-104 in the Passion Translation. Today, as we discover the keys of wisdom and understanding. As we look into the mirror of God’s revelation-light, we find the ability to face the hard truths and refuse to bend our morals, while at the same time loving others and sacrificing ourselves that they may be saved from the dark world around us. Blooming Inspired Podcast equipping and empowering the voices of women who live their lives Blooming Alive. Introduction Good Morning! This is Michelle Bentham, host of Blooming Inspired Podcast. Sometimes I think I should say “I’m Hostess with the Mostest” when I introduce myself as a podcast host, but alas… That is my vain attempt at being funny for the week! Seriously, we are in Psalm 119 teaching our Revival Series of messages. God has been showing us amazing things as we read through this very long, but very powerful chapter focusing our hearts on God’s Word. Last time we examined the powerful keys of faith and revelation as we read. Today we’ll be reading verses 97-104 in the Passion Translation - so take a minute, grab your Bible -- in your favorite version -- a journal and a pen before we dive in. Testimony While you do that, I’d like to share a bit of testimony. I’ve had some amazing things happening in the last few months and want to update you on some of it. As many of you know, I’ve been podcasting with Blooming Inspired Network since June 2018. Those first few months were brutal. I suffered from allergy attacks, and strange polyps on my eardrums. I mean… The allergy shots and medicine nearly put me under. In the past, I would have thrown in the towel with all that adversity. If I am really honest, I almost did. But God God reminded me, over and over again, of His faithfulness in those quiet moments last summer. He made provision and moved me in new directions. I look back and see His hand firmly on me in those days when all I could do was lay out on the couch praying for recovery. In September, I am not sure what changed other than I DECIDED to get up. I wasn’t going to let all the fatigue and malaise in my life keep me from God’s purpose. In reality, God really answered my prayer. He revived me with a sense of purpose and truth. I began podcasting again about the middle of that month. Word for the Year As the fall days led into winter, I grew excited as I did interviews and invited other women to join me in the podcasting adventure. I began to focus on 2019 and felt God say this was a year to be Released. I set my heart on that word and planned a prophetic retreat during the first month of the year. God met me in my plans and brought three women to the retreat. My coaching business was loping along with a couple of clients, and I had an opportunity to perform as a worship painter at a women’s conference in South Texas in February. My heart waited expectantly as the whisper of release continued to roll though my mind. Many times I’ve felt like I missed God, and landed off the track of His plan. Then a phone call or text message would come - an invitation to a lunch appointment with a friend, and the ball would start rolling again. By the end of February I had a clear plan for the year. Yielded The first quarter found me living Yielded. Fasting in surrender waiting on the Lord. Unleashed The second quarter should unleash me. Bound by limiting beliefs about my creative nature, and living in organized chaos making room for those beautifully spontaneous expressions. I flew through life by the seat of my pants. No plan - failing to plan - and by extension failing to accomplish much. I sensed that looming thought of floating through the recesses of my mind and wanted to squelch it - so I turned to an old favorite. A Sonic Route 44 Coca Cola, and a new favorite would deliver just the right effect - a 16 oz. Butterfinger Blast with extra Butterfinger, add Snickers. Ya’ll - it cost me $8 a pop to drown my sense of failure. And, well… It only added to it when I stepped on the scales and discovered 10 extra pounds had been added to my already rotund frame. Something needed to change. And quick… Mid-Year Reset At the beginning of May, after another long bout of Malaise from March to April - I was ready for a reset. God began to talk to me about a Mid-Year Reset and I began to sense that June is critical to the season. God wanted me to have a plan, to track my progress and make changes in my life. I researched planning systems and looked at things I’d used in the past. A Just Right Plan Nothing seemed to fit. Story of my life - if you will - always the square peg trying to shove herself in the round whole. Except… God inspired me to build my own system. Incorporating the visual thinking strategies I’d learned through my down times with a bullet journal style, I spent those days creating documents for printing on my computer and learning the system I created through May and June. God began to unlock things for me as the second quarter came to a close. I traveled to attend events throughout the month of June, adding new coaching clients to a full schedule. I’ve had more time for extended family and my husband. And I’m learning to arrive on time! Which is a bit of a lark for anyone who knows me. I mean I arrived early for church a few weeks ago and my husband said, “Wow! My wife just walked through the doors and the previous service isn’t even out yet.” That’s a wake up call! Advance As June barrelled to a close, I began to look ahead to the third quarter. Marking out my goals and plans in my new system. Managing details and dailies in the middle. When the next to last Sunday of the month, my pastor taught a message. Packed in the middle of his word to the church about “going for it” - Pastor Jeremy used the word Advance. Advance. That is my third quarter word. I felt like God was saying Go. For. It. Launch I pressed on… Relaunching the Wildflower Women group and beginning to try new things with my podcasts that I felt I did not have time to do before. And though I still struggle a bit, and find myself on the learning curve. I feel balanced and less stressed. Reflecting Since September, I’ve been regularly airing my podcasts with only an occasional replay. We celebrated one year of Blooming Inspired Podcast at the beginning of June. I’ve also added over 4,000 downloads to my podcast in the last month. That compared to the first year coming in at just over 9,000. I’ve also coached two new podcast hosts on the network and added their shows to our weekly line up. I’m adding new coaching clients to my business and starting to regain health and energy in my life again. Plus… I have a few dreams for the future I want to explore. Last Weekend Over the weekend a friend championed me and made a way for me to join The John Maxwell Team. Another bucket list item crossed off my list. There is work to do, a plan to make, but there is also opportunity and anticipation. God is doing a new thing in my life and I am grateful. God did all this almost while I wasn’t paying close attention. And, as we read through these keys to revival in Psalm 119 I find that God is showing me how over the last three years He’s brought me through these keys to discover not only His heart and plan for my life - but to find He is reviving and fulfilling dreams and passions I thought had long since passed. Don’t Give Up! I share this testimony not to pat myself on the back or boast about the favor of God on my life. Instead, I’m hoping you’ll be encouraged not to give up on your own dreams and passions. That you see if God’s glory can be revealed through simple steps of obedience in my life - what can He do in yours? Stay the course, friends. Win the race. Watch Him Work Miracles For You. Today’s Reading Now, let’s dive into today’s reading! Psalm 119 from the Passion Translation. The heading over today’s Scriptures: “I Love The Word Of God” Verses 97-98: “Oh how I love and treasure the revelation of your word; throughout the day I fill my heart with its light. By considering your commands I have an edge over my enemies, for I take seriously everything you say.” God is Fun! A few weeks ago I helped a former co-worker lead a retreat she planned for her friends. During the first session I was teaching from Scripture about prophetic words. In the midst of sharing the group heard me exclaim in a spontaneous moment of joy, “I love God! He is so much fun!!!” I hadn’t planned to say it, and forgot all about those words until the next evening. A woman on the retreat wrote me a note of encouragement that said, “You had me when you said, ‘God is fun!’ Because I’d never heard anyone say that before.” Treasures In God’s Word I’ve had many occasions since those early days of walking out my adult faith in God’s Word to exclaim how much I love God’s Word, and “mining for treasure” in the pages of Scripture. I spent hours of days upon days in 2008 writing out long blog posts featuring the Hebrew Names of God in Scripture. Digging deep and committing myself to word study, I found golden nuggets of truth again and again. I also found a passion for teaching in those wonder-filled days. Read It Fresh A few years ago I sensed God challenging me to read the Gospels as if I didn’t know anything about Jesus or the Scriptures. To set aside everything I thought I knew or had been taught and consider what I would believe if I only had the Scriptures to inform my faith. What I thought would take me a few months has taken me on a six year Journey of discovering my Savior through the Scriptures and learning to love Him in a new way. Teaching from Revelation After a few years I began a podcast sharing the insights I gathered as I read through the Gospels. Then, two years ago I launched a verse-by-verse study of the Gospels through Blooming Inspired Network based on the way God led me through my readings. Each time I teach a Bible study session, I find myself teaching from the revelation I receive as we read rather than some preconceived idea I had before I joined God at the table of His Word. It has truly changed my life and taken on such depth of meaning for me. I’m often deeply touched and overwhelmed by His goodness as we partake of the Scriptures with eyes to see Him, ears to hear Him and a heart to know Him more. He never fails to show up! And I love Him all the more as we move through His precious words. More Understanding Verse 99-100: “You have given me more understanding than those who teach me, for I’ve absorbed your eye-opening revelation. You have graced me with more insight than the old sages because I have not failed to walk in the light of your ways.” Isn't that what I was just talking about? He has given me more understanding than those who have taught me about his word for I have absorbed -- I have allowed his eye-opening revelations, the revelations of the Holy Spirit, that I get while I'm reading scripture to become a part of who I am. As I do, I find his grace and wisdom as I gain more and more insight. People tell me all the time that I walk in wisdom - I hardly believe it. Still, I choose to walk in the light of His ways, the light of that wisdom and revelation that He brings to me in scripture. The Key of Wisdom Today, I believe what we're discovering is the key of wisdom in His word. Let's read on: verses 101, “I refuse to bend my morals when Temptation was before me so that I could be obedient to your word.” Have you ever found yourself in the midst of struggle? I mean, real struggle trying to find your moral compass as you read God's Word, and realize there are adjustments that need to be made. Earlier, I told you the story about going to Sonic and getting that 44 oz. Coke and that 16 oz. ice cream to allay my feelings of failure. I will not deliver you a second time… The truth is, in 2016 some friends of mine and I went to a healing school out in California, and before we went, I had been asking God, “What do You want me to ask for?” I felt like He said I needed to ask him to be delivered of my desire for Coca-Cola. I didn't call it an addiction because I've come to the conclusion that I didn't drink that Coke because I needed it... Because I was going to detox if I didn't have it. I drink that Coke simply because I wanted it. I wanted it, now there may have been an emotional attachment quality to my issue, but I simply wanted that Coke. I asked God to deliver me of my desire for that beverage. On the way to the airport that day I had stopped to buy a large, 32 oz. Sonic Coca-Cola. Not my usual 44 oz. but 32. I swigged that sugar and caffeine through the red straw all the way to the airport. Once we arrived, we went to the Curbside Check-in at Dallas Love Field. As I'm walking up to the line, I dropped that cup of soda in the trash and we proceeded to my flight. While waiting for our plane, we bought something to eat but I didn't get a Coke. I chose to drink water instead. That whole week I didn't drink one Coke. I ordered lemonade and water. There were no detox side effects - no fatigue, headache or irritability. It was amazing! We returned home I still had not had a Coke until weeks later. When I finally did try a sip, I offered it to my husband and said, “Here, you drink this. I don’t think I want it anymore.” That’s when I remembered how I asked God to make it taste bad in my mouth, and He did! Months later, life got busy and stressful. We went out to eat one night, I tried a Coke. After all, one is not bad. I didn't really want another one, but a few weeks later I got another one. Eventually I stopped in at Sonic on my way home, and before you know it I'm back in my routine. My car runs on autopilot right into Sonic to get a Coke. After a few days of repeating the behavior, I sensed the Lord saying, “I won't deliver you with the of this a second time.” In other words: it's not going to be easy to give this up again and He is right! The Good I Ought To Do I'm in the struggle right now. You know, the apostle, James, wrote “Those who know the good they ought to do and do not do it, to them it becomes sin.” That's pretty powerful. Right? Except, we read the scripture that says “ refuse to bend my morals when temptation was before me so that I could become obedient to your word.” And I have to ask…. Do I? I’m moving back to center on this. A little bit of pleasure in something that is so toxic for me is not worth forsaking the work of God in my life. Sometimes, I just need to say, “I repent!” Verse 102, “I refuse to turn from difficult truth for you yourself have taught me to love your words.” And now, it seems I’ve come full circle. Remember when we started reading Psalm 119 a few weeks ago, I shared about a time when God first put it on my heart to read this chapter of scripture. I also shared that I quit reading it because I couldn't see myself in the words I read. That’s difficult truth to bear yourself up in… But as we began this reading in Psalm 119 I came back to it the encouragement I feel I heard from the Lord again and again and again. You aren’t supposed to find yourself in Scripture - You’re supposed to find Me. Earlier this year as I studied revival history and landed in Psalm 119, I heard the Lord say that when I read scripture I may not find myself in it because I am supposed to find Him. How many of us are reading scripture to know God? When we read to find Him, to know Him, we deepen our relationship with Him. If we aren’t careful we’ll find ourselves reading it for a list of do's and don'ts, wills and won’ts, and wander far from God. The big question I have to ask myself each time I read scripture is this: Am I looking at it and measuring myself by scripture, or by other people’s convictions about Scripture… Or am I looking reading and seeing how scripture can transform me into a Christ-like disciple? When His Truth is your truth I believe that's what this means when we look into the mirror of scripture we find our moral compass. If we won't turn away from it or ignore it, we will find the difficult truths that teach us to love His Words! Did you know difficult truth can teach you to love God's word because once you receive it it's yours? When you receive God’s word and let it transform you - His truth becomes your truth. verses 103 and 104. “How sweet your living promises are to me; sweeter than honey is your revelation-light. For your truth is the source of my understanding, not the falsehoods of those who don't know you which I despise.” Listen to that! “How sweet are your living promises to me; sweeter than honey is your revelation-light.” Can you taste of scripture and see that the Lord is good? Can you search his Truth for Revelation and Light? Can you find that truth as your source of understanding and refuse to partner with deception and falsehood... refuse to look to those who do not even know Him? Don’t Despise People - Despise what Sin Does To People I don't have to despise people to despise what falsehood, deception and not knowing God does to a person. I can despise the work of the enemy without despising people! We have to guard our hearts against turning hard toward people because of the darkness of our culture and the world around us. I have been repenting a lot lately of judgments I make against people based on my own convictions. I love God’s Word. I value life and truth. But, I have to remember - as John Bradford said, watching people from his community being taken to the scaffold for execution, “There but for the grace of God go I.” It would only be a short time later that he made that same journey for execution. Conclusion God so loved people that He sacrificed Himself to save them. What are we, as recipients of this lavish grace, willing to sacrifice of ourselves to love people the way He loves them? Leaving off until next week… I think that's where I want to leave you today. I’ll be back next Tuesday and pick up reading in psalm 119 verse 105. I want to encourage you to have a great weekend. Spend some time reading this for yourself, make some notes in a journal -- or if you're like me write it down in the margins of your Bible right where you're reading it. Allow God’s heart to minister to your heart. A Prayer For You Father God, I thank you for Your word today! I thank You for Your truth that sets us free. I ask, Lord God, that we would know this truth, let it go deep in our hearts. That this truth would reflect back to us where our morals don't agree with Your truth. I pray we would adjust our morals to Your truth, not try to bend them so that we can participate in the things that tempt us; but rather, we would be obedient to Your word. I pray that you're living promises would be sweet to us. Sweet like honey, and they would show us Your revelation-light. That your truth would always be the source -- a door standing open to us, inviting us in. It is in Jesus’ name I pray, amen. Closing Remarks That's all the time that I have for today! Thank you for tuning in with us. I want to ask you if this podcast has been a blessing to you: would you subscribe to it? We're on iTunes where on Google Play Music and podcast we are also available on the Podcoin App. By The Way, Podcoin is a great app! They pay you “podcoins” for every 10 minutes that you listen to any podcast that's listed on their app. All of the Blooming Inspired Podcast Network’s podcasts are listed there. We’re working on keeping our shows as “Bonus Shows” on the app. That means if you download the app and create your account with our referral code, “Blooming” you’ll get 300 “podcoins” just for signing up! You can use your podcoins to buy gift cards or make donations to charitable organizations. That’s a WIN-WIN, don’t you think? 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Michelle continues her quest to discover keys to Revival in Psalm 119 reading verses 97-104 in the Passion Translation. Today, as we discover the keys of wisdom and understanding. As we look into the mirror of God’s revelation-light, we find the ability to face the hard truths and refuse to bend our morals, while at the same time loving others and sacrificing ourselves that they may be saved from the dark world around us. Blooming Inspired Podcast equipping and empowering the voices of women who live their lives Blooming Alive. Introduction Good Morning! This is Michelle Bentham, host of Blooming Inspired Podcast. Sometimes I think I should say “I’m Hostess with the Mostest” when I introduce myself as a podcast host, but alas… That is my vain attempt at being funny for the week! Seriously, we are in Psalm 119 teaching our Revival Series of messages. God has been showing us amazing things as we read through this very long, but very powerful chapter focusing our hearts on God’s Word. Last time we examined the powerful keys of faith and revelation as we read. Today we’ll be reading verses 97-104 in the Passion Translation - so take a minute, grab your Bible -- in your favorite version -- a journal and a pen before we dive in. Testimony While you do that, I’d like to share a bit of testimony. I’ve had some amazing things happening in the last few months and want to update you on some of it. As many of you know, I’ve been podcasting with Blooming Inspired Network since June 2018. Those first few months were brutal. I suffered from allergy attacks, and strange polyps on my eardrums. I mean… The allergy shots and medicine nearly put me under. In the past, I would have thrown in the towel with all that adversity. If I am really honest, I almost did. But God God reminded me, over and over again, of His faithfulness in those quiet moments last summer. He made provision and moved me in new directions. I look back and see His hand firmly on me in those days when all I could do was lay out on the couch praying for recovery. In September, I am not sure what changed other than I DECIDED to get up. I wasn’t going to let all the fatigue and malaise in my life keep me from God’s purpose. In reality, God really answered my prayer. He revived me with a sense of purpose and truth. I began podcasting again about the middle of that month. Word for the Year As the fall days led into winter, I grew excited as I did interviews and invited other women to join me in the podcasting adventure. I began to focus on 2019 and felt God say this was a year to be Released. I set my heart on that word and planned a prophetic retreat during the first month of the year. God met me in my plans and brought three women to the retreat. My coaching business was loping along with a couple of clients, and I had an opportunity to perform as a worship painter at a women’s conference in South Texas in February. My heart waited expectantly as the whisper of release continued to roll though my mind. Many times I’ve felt like I missed God, and landed off the track of His plan. Then a phone call or text message would come - an invitation to a lunch appointment with a friend, and the ball would start rolling again. By the end of February I had a clear plan for the year. Yielded The first quarter found me living Yielded. Fasting in surrender waiting on the Lord. Unleashed The second quarter should unleash me. Bound by limiting beliefs about my creative nature, and living in organized chaos making room for those beautifully spontaneous expressions. I flew through life by the seat of my pants. No plan - failing to plan - and by extension failing to accomplish much. I sensed that looming thought of floating through the recesses of my mind and wanted to squelch it - so I turned to an old favorite. A Sonic Route 44 Coca Cola, and a new favorite would deliver just the right effect - a 16 oz. Butterfinger Blast with extra Butterfinger, add Snickers. Ya’ll - it cost me $8 a pop to drown my sense of failure. And, well… It only added to it when I stepped on the scales and discovered 10 extra pounds had been added to my already rotund frame. Something needed to change. And quick… Mid-Year Reset At the beginning of May, after another long bout of Malaise from March to April - I was ready for a reset. God began to talk to me about a Mid-Year Reset and I began to sense that June is critical to the season. God wanted me to have a plan, to track my progress and make changes in my life. I researched planning systems and looked at things I’d used in the past. A Just Right Plan Nothing seemed to fit. Story of my life - if you will - always the square peg trying to shove herself in the round whole. Except… God inspired me to build my own system. Incorporating the visual thinking strategies I’d learned through my down times with a bullet journal style, I spent those days creating documents for printing on my computer and learning the system I created through May and June. God began to unlock things for me as the second quarter came to a close. I traveled to attend events throughout the month of June, adding new coaching clients to a full schedule. I’ve had more time for extended family and my husband. And I’m learning to arrive on time! Which is a bit of a lark for anyone who knows me. I mean I arrived early for church a few weeks ago and my husband said, “Wow! My wife just walked through the doors and the previous service isn’t even out yet.” That’s a wake up call! Advance As June barrelled to a close, I began to look ahead to the third quarter. Marking out my goals and plans in my new system. Managing details and dailies in the middle. When the next to last Sunday of the month, my pastor taught a message. Packed in the middle of his word to the church about “going for it” - Pastor Jeremy used the word Advance. Advance. That is my third quarter word. I felt like God was saying Go. For. It. Launch I pressed on… Relaunching the Wildflower Women group and beginning to try new things with my podcasts that I felt I did not have time to do before. And though I still struggle a bit, and find myself on the learning curve. I feel balanced and less stressed. Reflecting Since September, I’ve been regularly airing my podcasts with only an occasional replay. We celebrated one year of Blooming Inspired Podcast at the beginning of June. I’ve also added over 4,000 downloads to my podcast in the last month. That compared to the first year coming in at just over 9,000. I’ve also coached two new podcast hosts on the network and added their shows to our weekly line up. I’m adding new coaching clients to my business and starting to regain health and energy in my life again. Plus… I have a few dreams for the future I want to explore. Last Weekend Over the weekend a friend championed me and made a way for me to join The John Maxwell Team. Another bucket list item crossed off my list. There is work to do, a plan to make, but there is also opportunity and anticipation. God is doing a new thing in my life and I am grateful. God did all this almost while I wasn’t paying close attention. And, as we read through these keys to revival in Psalm 119 I find that God is showing me how over the last three years He’s brought me through these keys to discover not only His heart and plan for my life - but to find He is reviving and fulfilling dreams and passions I thought had long since passed. Don’t Give Up! I share this testimony not to pat myself on the back or boast about the favor of God on my life. Instead, I’m hoping you’ll be encouraged not to give up on your own dreams and passions. That you see if God’s glory can be revealed through simple steps of obedience in my life - what can He do in yours? Stay the course, friends. Win the race. Watch Him Work Miracles For You. Today’s Reading Now, let’s dive into today’s reading! Psalm 119 from the Passion Translation. The heading over today’s Scriptures: “I Love The Word Of God” Verses 97-98: “Oh how I love and treasure the revelation of your word; throughout the day I fill my heart with its light. By considering your commands I have an edge over my enemies, for I take seriously everything you say.” God is Fun! A few weeks ago I helped a former co-worker lead a retreat she planned for her friends. During the first session I was teaching from Scripture about prophetic words. In the midst of sharing the group heard me exclaim in a spontaneous moment of joy, “I love God! He is so much fun!!!” I hadn’t planned to say it, and forgot all about those words until the next evening. A woman on the retreat wrote me a note of encouragement that said, “You had me when you said, ‘God is fun!’ Because I’d never heard anyone say that before.” Treasures In God’s Word I’ve had many occasions since those early days of walking out my adult faith in God’s Word to exclaim how much I love God’s Word, and “mining for treasure” in the pages of Scripture. I spent hours of days upon days in 2008 writing out long blog posts featuring the Hebrew Names of God in Scripture. Digging deep and committing myself to word study, I found golden nuggets of truth again and again. I also found a passion for teaching in those wonder-filled days. Read It Fresh A few years ago I sensed God challenging me to read the Gospels as if I didn’t know anything about Jesus or the Scriptures. To set aside everything I thought I knew or had been taught and consider what I would believe if I only had the Scriptures to inform my faith. What I thought would take me a few months has taken me on a six year Journey of discovering my Savior through the Scriptures and learning to love Him in a new way. Teaching from Revelation After a few years I began a podcast sharing the insights I gathered as I read through the Gospels. Then, two years ago I launched a verse-by-verse study of the Gospels through Blooming Inspired Network based on the way God led me through my readings. Each time I teach a Bible study session, I find myself teaching from the revelation I receive as we read rather than some preconceived idea I had before I joined God at the table of His Word. It has truly changed my life and taken on such depth of meaning for me. I’m often deeply touched and overwhelmed by His goodness as we partake of the Scriptures with eyes to see Him, ears to hear Him and a heart to know Him more. He never fails to show up! And I love Him all the more as we move through His precious words. More Understanding Verse 99-100: “You have given me more understanding than those who teach me, for I’ve absorbed your eye-opening revelation. You have graced me with more insight than the old sages because I have not failed to walk in the light of your ways.” Isn't that what I was just talking about? He has given me more understanding than those who have taught me about his word for I have absorbed -- I have allowed his eye-opening revelations, the revelations of the Holy Spirit, that I get while I'm reading scripture to become a part of who I am. As I do, I find his grace and wisdom as I gain more and more insight. People tell me all the time that I walk in wisdom - I hardly believe it. Still, I choose to walk in the light of His ways, the light of that wisdom and revelation that He brings to me in scripture. The Key of Wisdom Today, I believe what we're discovering is the key of wisdom in His word. Let's read on: verses 101, “I refuse to bend my morals when Temptation was before me so that I could be obedient to your word.” Have you ever found yourself in the midst of struggle? I mean, real struggle trying to find your moral compass as you read God's Word, and realize there are adjustments that need to be made. Earlier, I told you the story about going to Sonic and getting that 44 oz. Coke and that 16 oz. ice cream to allay my feelings of failure. I will not deliver you a second time… The truth is, in 2016 some friends of mine and I went to a healing school out in California, and before we went, I had been asking God, “What do You want me to ask for?” I felt like He said I needed to ask him to be delivered of my desire for Coca-Cola. I didn't call it an addiction because I've come to the conclusion that I didn't drink that Coke because I needed it... Because I was going to detox if I didn't have it. I drink that Coke simply because I wanted it. I wanted it, now there may have been an emotional attachment quality to my issue, but I simply wanted that Coke. I asked God to deliver me of my desire for that beverage. On the way to the airport that day I had stopped to buy a large, 32 oz. Sonic Coca-Cola. Not my usual 44 oz. but 32. I swigged that sugar and caffeine through the red straw all the way to the airport. Once we arrived, we went to the Curbside Check-in at Dallas Love Field. As I'm walking up to the line, I dropped that cup of soda in the trash and we proceeded to my flight. While waiting for our plane, we bought something to eat but I didn't get a Coke. I chose to drink water instead. That whole week I didn't drink one Coke. I ordered lemonade and water. There were no detox side effects - no fatigue, headache or irritability. It was amazing! We returned home I still had not had a Coke until weeks later. When I finally did try a sip, I offered it to my husband and said, “Here, you drink this. I don’t think I want it anymore.” That’s when I remembered how I asked God to make it taste bad in my mouth, and He did! Months later, life got busy and stressful. We went out to eat one night, I tried a Coke. After all, one is not bad. I didn't really want another one, but a few weeks later I got another one. Eventually I stopped in at Sonic on my way home, and before you know it I'm back in my routine. My car runs on autopilot right into Sonic to get a Coke. After a few days of repeating the behavior, I sensed the Lord saying, “I won't deliver you with the of this a second time.” In other words: it's not going to be easy to give this up again and He is right! The Good I Ought To Do I'm in the struggle right now. You know, the apostle, James, wrote “Those who know the good they ought to do and do not do it, to them it becomes sin.” That's pretty powerful. Right? Except, we read the scripture that says “ refuse to bend my morals when temptation was before me so that I could become obedient to your word.” And I have to ask…. Do I? I’m moving back to center on this. A little bit of pleasure in something that is so toxic for me is not worth forsaking the work of God in my life. Sometimes, I just need to say, “I repent!” Verse 102, “I refuse to turn from difficult truth for you yourself have taught me to love your words.” And now, it seems I’ve come full circle. Remember when we started reading Psalm 119 a few weeks ago, I shared about a time when God first put it on my heart to read this chapter of scripture. I also shared that I quit reading it because I couldn't see myself in the words I read. That’s difficult truth to bear yourself up in… But as we began this reading in Psalm 119 I came back to it the encouragement I feel I heard from the Lord again and again and again. You aren’t supposed to find yourself in Scripture - You’re supposed to find Me. Earlier this year as I studied revival history and landed in Psalm 119, I heard the Lord say that when I read scripture I may not find myself in it because I am supposed to find Him. How many of us are reading scripture to know God? When we read to find Him, to know Him, we deepen our relationship with Him. If we aren’t careful we’ll find ourselves reading it for a list of do's and don'ts, wills and won’ts, and wander far from God. The big question I have to ask myself each time I read scripture is this: Am I looking at it and measuring myself by scripture, or by other people’s convictions about Scripture… Or am I looking reading and seeing how scripture can transform me into a Christ-like disciple? When His Truth is your truth I believe that's what this means when we look into the mirror of scripture we find our moral compass. If we won't turn away from it or ignore it, we will find the difficult truths that teach us to love His Words! Did you know difficult truth can teach you to love God's word because once you receive it it's yours? When you receive God’s word and let it transform you - His truth becomes your truth. verses 103 and 104. “How sweet your living promises are to me; sweeter than honey is your revelation-light. For your truth is the source of my understanding, not the falsehoods of those who don't know you which I despise.” Listen to that! “How sweet are your living promises to me; sweeter than honey is your revelation-light.” Can you taste of scripture and see that the Lord is good? Can you search his Truth for Revelation and Light? Can you find that truth as your source of understanding and refuse to partner with deception and falsehood... refuse to look to those who do not even know Him? Don’t Despise People - Despise what Sin Does To People I don't have to despise people to despise what falsehood, deception and not knowing God does to a person. I can despise the work of the enemy without despising people! We have to guard our hearts against turning hard toward people because of the darkness of our culture and the world around us. I have been repenting a lot lately of judgments I make against people based on my own convictions. I love God’s Word. I value life and truth. But, I have to remember - as John Bradford said, watching people from his community being taken to the scaffold for execution, “There but for the grace of God go I.” It would only be a short time later that he made that same journey for execution. Conclusion God so loved people that He sacrificed Himself to save them. What are we, as recipients of this lavish grace, willing to sacrifice of ourselves to love people the way He loves them? Leaving off until next week… I think that's where I want to leave you today. I’ll be back next Tuesday and pick up reading in psalm 119 verse 105. I want to encourage you to have a great weekend. Spend some time reading this for yourself, make some notes in a journal -- or if you're like me write it down in the margins of your Bible right where you're reading it. Allow God’s heart to minister to your heart. A Prayer For You Father God, I thank you for Your word today! I thank You for Your truth that sets us free. I ask, Lord God, that we would know this truth, let it go deep in our hearts. That this truth would reflect back to us where our morals don't agree with Your truth. I pray we would adjust our morals to Your truth, not try to bend them so that we can participate in the things that tempt us; but rather, we would be obedient to Your word. I pray that you're living promises would be sweet to us. Sweet like honey, and they would show us Your revelation-light. That your truth would always be the source -- a door standing open to us, inviting us in. It is in Jesus’ name I pray, amen. Closing Remarks That's all the time that I have for today! Thank you for tuning in with us. I want to ask you if this podcast has been a blessing to you: would you subscribe to it? We're on iTunes where on Google Play Music and podcast we are also available on the Podcoin App. By The Way, Podcoin is a great app! They pay you “podcoins” for every 10 minutes that you listen to any podcast that's listed on their app. All of the Blooming Inspired Podcast Network’s podcasts are listed there. We’re working on keeping our shows as “Bonus Shows” on the app. That means if you download the app and create your account with our referral code, “Blooming” you’ll get 300 “podcoins” just for signing up! You can use your podcoins to buy gift cards or make donations to charitable organizations. That’s a WIN-WIN, don’t you think? 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Michelle continues her quest to discover keys to Revival in Psalm 119 reading verses 89-96 in the Passion Translation. Today, we discover the keys of faith and revelation. Seeking to place our faith in God, through His Word - both the Holy Scriptures and Jesus Christ--the expressed person of God, leads us to surrender to His truth and revelation. As His truth and revelation penetrates our hearts, faith is rooted deep within us.    Show Transcript: Blooming Inspired Podcast equipping and empowering the voices of women who live their lives blooming alive. Good morning! This is Michelle Bentham, host of Blooming Inspired Podcast. Introduction This week we are digging back into Psalm 119. We're going to be reading from Psalm 119 beginning in verse 89 today, but before we do that I want to go back and review what we talked about last week. Review We focused on allowing our hearts to be planted deep in God's word and being delivered by it. Remember we're looking for keys to revival… Keys To Revival… and so I want to remind you that allowing our hearts to grow in the deep in the things of God and allowing those things that are being penetrated in our heart by God's word to deliver us from our afflictions, and the persecutions in this life, as well as the choices and the consequences for those choices we make that results in sin. We also discovered humility as a key, and we've discovered specifically that humility is a key that opposes pride. In like manner honor comes as a key to overcome shame. Today’s Reading Today, we'll examine how faith in God's word will help us stand firm in his truth in our relationship with him as we seek to live the overcoming life. You see, I believe that the overcoming life is a part of the truth and the promise of Revival. Before we get started I'd like to just pray: Lord God I just ask that you would invade our hearts with not only Your Word, but with the Holy Spirit. That Holy Spirit would activate and penetrate our hearts with the Living Word of God and bring forth revelation truth to us today. I asked Lord for eyes to see, ears to hear and a heart to know You more. In Jesus’ name, amen. Faith in God’s Word Today, the heading over the eight verses we’re going to read is “Faith In God's Word.” Beginning in verse 89: “Standing firm in the heavens and fastened to eternity is the word of God…” I want you to hear that because in John 1, and throughout the New Testament we see this picture of the manifestation of the word of God being fully made known through Jesus Christ, Himself. That when the Word became flesh, we saw then exactly who Jesus is, and it says here that that Word of God Is standing firm in the heavens fastened to eternity. You see, our faith is not in -- just in -- the words that are written in the book we call the Bible, but our faith is in the One Who is the full manifestation of God himself, Jesus Christ. Creation Testifies that God Exists Verse 90: “Your faithfulness flows from one generation to the next; all that you created sits firmly in place to testify of you.” Did you know that our creation -- that this atmosphere -- this created world that we are living in, our very beings, testify that God exists? They testify to who He is. They testify to who Jesus is, who the Father is, who the Holy Spirit is! That if we would tune our hearts to know Him, every created thing on this earth would testify of Him. Everything God Created Serves Him Verse 91: “By Your decree everything stands at attention, for all that You have made serves you.” Do you understand this that everything that is made by God serves God? Now, look around you --what in our world is not made by God? You can say, well God didn't build my house or God didn't make my car. God didn't put the furniture together that’s in my house. I want to point you to the books of the New Testament in Hebrews and Colossians, we can read the everything on this earth was created and sustained by the power of His Word. There's an interesting development in science that rather affirms this to be true. They have found that one of the smallest parts of matter is what they call a quark. Tiny Vibrating Sound Waves A quark is simply a tiny vibrating sound wave. Just think about this -- when you speak the reason we can understand what you're saying is because we can hear it with our ears. Our ears take those sound waves and process them into language and music and things we can understand by hearing. Correct? In the same manner thousands and thousands and thousands of little vibrating quarks actually are put together and they create matter. This is exciting! That means that the chair that I'm sitting on is nothing more than thousands and thousands and thousands, maybe even millions, of small vibrating sound waves that becomes something that I can sit on. That I can grab hold of... I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands and my body. If we go back to Genesis Chapter One, it says that when God created all of the things on the earth He did one simple thing: He spoke and it came into existence. Maybe God didn't physically build your furniture, your house, or your car or the many things that we we use today in our daily life. Yet, He created the human being that developed the idea that actually completed the work that built your house, built your car, built the furniture and created the things that we use on a daily basis. All of this creation all of this intelligent design, as it has come to be called, it simply declares that God exists. It's a good word! And, if it is created by God, therefore it serves God. Power to Overcome Verse 92: “Because your words are my deepest delight, I didn't give up when all else was lost.” Do you get this? When God's word is our deepest delight, it gives us persevering, enduring power to not give up even when we can't see the victory even when everything feels lost. God’s Transforming Revelations Verse 93: “I can never forget the profound Revelations you've taught me, for they have kept me alive more than once.” Now here's that word revelation and I prayed for that, right? I prayed for revelations as we read today, but I want to highlight to you: revelation is different than information. Revelation is different than information. In Romans 12 we read, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind and then you will be able to test and approve what God's good, pleasing and perfect will is.” (vv.1-2, my paraphrase) Revelation is different than information. More than mere human knowledge, revelation is divine spiritual wisdom and knowledge that comes to us with transforming power through the impartation of the Holy Spirit. Revelation is when the Word of God comes alive to us whether through prayer, through our experiences with people or through our encounters with Scripture -- the one thing that will create the encounter is the power and presence of God’s Holy Spirit in us. Revelation is the key to transformation, and transformation - the key to overcoming through God’s Word. Revelation leads us to Surrender Verse 94: “Lord, I’m all yours, and you are my Savior; I have sought to live my life pleasing to you.” When God's revelation comes to us we realize the power of His work in our lives. Not just that work unto salvation, meaning out of hell and into heaven. But rather, if we go back to that very first verse we read today, where it says that “Standing firm in the heavens and fastened to Eternity, is the word of God…” If we go back to that, then we realize, the more we get a revelation of who Jesus is as the Word of God through the scriptures, through the impartation of the Holy Spirit - the more we surrender to Him as our Lord. The more we desire to be obedient to him, not because we're obligated to Him, but because the profound reality of His love has taken root in our lives. Then, all we want to do is respond in obedience to Him seeking to live our lives to please Him. Hebrews chapter 11 tells us that without faith it is impossible to please God. That is why it is key that we understand that revelation is part of building faith in our lives. You see, Paul also writes that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God (see Romans 10:17). Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God Revelation is integral to us realizing the impartation of faith from the Holy Spirit. It's the Holy Spirit that draws us to Christ. It's the Holy Spirit that testifies to us of Christ. It's the Holy Spirit that teaches us about Christ. It's the Holy Spirit that reminds us. It's the Holy Spirit that empowers us to minister according to His will. Do you understand what I'm saying? Faith is a key that unlocks revival because it creates disciples that look like Jesus, that live lives pleasing to him This brings us to our conclusion, verses 95-96:”Even though evil men wait in ambush to kill me, I will set my heart before you to understand more of your ways. I’ve learned that there is nothing perfect in this imperfect world expect your words, for they bring such fantastic freedom into my life!” We place our faith in God, through His Word - both the Holy Scriptures and Jesus Christ - the expressed person of God. we learn to surrender to His truth and revelation as it penetrates our hearts, allowing faith to take root deeply in our hearts. When our lives are vitally empowered by the revelation and presence of the Holy Spirit - even when our circumstances are anything but hopeful. When others persecute and seek to destroy us, we will live with our hearts set on Him, set before Him, understanding that the imperfections of this world will not consume us if we live in the perfection of His Living Word. This key brings us to Freedom and victory in our lives! Conclusion Well, that is all the time we have for today. Be sure to download the Podcoin app and subscribe to this podcast there. They pay you one podcoin every 10 minutes you listen, and more if you catch us as a bonus podcast (one week left for that)! You can redeem podcoins for gift cards to your favorite businesses or you can make donations to charities. It’s a win-win for us all! So download the app and subscribe to Blooming Inspired Podcast today! Our Wildflower Women ReLaunch is also well under way with 11 women joining our group in the last week! That’s very exciting! We’re beginning to build relationships and explore the reason God calls us wildflowers as He has brought us together to dot the surrounding landscapes with His Beautiful Glory! If you’d like to join us for Wildflower Women & the Relaunch, then hop over to our Facebook Page, facebook.com/groups/wildflowerwomenrelaunch and request to join the group! Be sure to also take some time to like us on facebook.com/bloominginspired to stay up to date and in the know about all things @BloomingInspired. Don’t Forget! Don’t forget to check out these shows also airing on the Blooming Inspired Podcast Network: Redeemed Rebel Podcast featuring our very own redeemed rebel, hope dealer and gold digger: Michele Turman each Monday at 4pm (CT) and Accidental Hope Podcast featuring our ambassador of hope, Jennifer Eikenhorst each Wednesday at 2pm (CT)! All of our shows are available on iTunes, Google Play and the Podcoin App - so subscribe and listen today! Closing Remarks As I close the show today, I want to share a little about my coaching business and opportunities with you. This is Michelle Bentham, and in case you didn’t know, in addition to being an ordained minister and the founder of Blooming Inspired Network, I am also a Certified Executive Coach. This week, I have a huge praise as a friend of mine has helped me become a part of The John Maxwell Team. I’m very excited about this opportunity and what it will add to my Executive Coaching practice that has been in full swing for the last year. If you are looking for personal or professional development in any area of your life, including areas of ministry, I’d love to offer you a free coaching consultation to sit down and share what coaching is, and explore the values it might add to your life. Monthly coaching packages that fit any lifestyle and budget are currently available. To set up your free consultation please email: michelle.bentham@bloominginspirednetwork.com I also offer a unique opportunity for Podcast development through coaching where I will walk you through the steps of developing your show concept, how to produce your podcast from recording to editing and airing your show on our Blooming Inspired Podcast Network. We will then work together to promote your show and expand the place of your influence. I’d love to partner with you as you seek to live your life Blooming Inspired! For more information about the podcast network and podcasting opportunities visit bloominginspirednetwork.com and click the podcast link at the top of the page. Remember: Blooming Where You’re Planted is the First Step to Living Your Wildest Dreams, So Live Your Lives Blooming Alive!

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Michelle continues her quest to discover keys to Revival in Psalm 119 reading verses 89-96 in the Passion Translation. Today, we discover the keys of faith and revelation. Seeking to place our faith in God, through His Word - both the Holy Scriptures and Jesus Christ--the expressed person of God, leads us to surrender to His truth and revelation. As His truth and revelation penetrates our hearts, faith is rooted deep within us.    Show Transcript: Blooming Inspired Podcast equipping and empowering the voices of women who live their lives blooming alive. Good morning! This is Michelle Bentham, host of Blooming Inspired Podcast. Introduction This week we are digging back into Psalm 119. We're going to be reading from Psalm 119 beginning in verse 89 today, but before we do that I want to go back and review what we talked about last week. Review We focused on allowing our hearts to be planted deep in God's word and being delivered by it. Remember we're looking for keys to revival… Keys To Revival… and so I want to remind you that allowing our hearts to grow in the deep in the things of God and allowing those things that are being penetrated in our heart by God's word to deliver us from our afflictions, and the persecutions in this life, as well as the choices and the consequences for those choices we make that results in sin. We also discovered humility as a key, and we've discovered specifically that humility is a key that opposes pride. In like manner honor comes as a key to overcome shame. Today’s Reading Today, we'll examine how faith in God's word will help us stand firm in his truth in our relationship with him as we seek to live the overcoming life. You see, I believe that the overcoming life is a part of the truth and the promise of Revival. Before we get started I'd like to just pray: Lord God I just ask that you would invade our hearts with not only Your Word, but with the Holy Spirit. That Holy Spirit would activate and penetrate our hearts with the Living Word of God and bring forth revelation truth to us today. I asked Lord for eyes to see, ears to hear and a heart to know You more. In Jesus’ name, amen. Faith in God’s Word Today, the heading over the eight verses we’re going to read is “Faith In God's Word.” Beginning in verse 89: “Standing firm in the heavens and fastened to eternity is the word of God…” I want you to hear that because in John 1, and throughout the New Testament we see this picture of the manifestation of the word of God being fully made known through Jesus Christ, Himself. That when the Word became flesh, we saw then exactly who Jesus is, and it says here that that Word of God Is standing firm in the heavens fastened to eternity. You see, our faith is not in -- just in -- the words that are written in the book we call the Bible, but our faith is in the One Who is the full manifestation of God himself, Jesus Christ. Creation Testifies that God Exists Verse 90: “Your faithfulness flows from one generation to the next; all that you created sits firmly in place to testify of you.” Did you know that our creation -- that this atmosphere -- this created world that we are living in, our very beings, testify that God exists? They testify to who He is. They testify to who Jesus is, who the Father is, who the Holy Spirit is! That if we would tune our hearts to know Him, every created thing on this earth would testify of Him. Everything God Created Serves Him Verse 91: “By Your decree everything stands at attention, for all that You have made serves you.” Do you understand this that everything that is made by God serves God? Now, look around you --what in our world is not made by God? You can say, well God didn't build my house or God didn't make my car. God didn't put the furniture together that’s in my house. I want to point you to the books of the New Testament in Hebrews and Colossians, we can read the everything on this earth was created and sustained by the power of His Word. There's an interesting development in science that rather affirms this to be true. They have found that one of the smallest parts of matter is what they call a quark. Tiny Vibrating Sound Waves A quark is simply a tiny vibrating sound wave. Just think about this -- when you speak the reason we can understand what you're saying is because we can hear it with our ears. Our ears take those sound waves and process them into language and music and things we can understand by hearing. Correct? In the same manner thousands and thousands and thousands of little vibrating quarks actually are put together and they create matter. This is exciting! That means that the chair that I'm sitting on is nothing more than thousands and thousands and thousands, maybe even millions, of small vibrating sound waves that becomes something that I can sit on. That I can grab hold of... I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands and my body. If we go back to Genesis Chapter One, it says that when God created all of the things on the earth He did one simple thing: He spoke and it came into existence. Maybe God didn't physically build your furniture, your house, or your car or the many things that we we use today in our daily life. Yet, He created the human being that developed the idea that actually completed the work that built your house, built your car, built the furniture and created the things that we use on a daily basis. All of this creation all of this intelligent design, as it has come to be called, it simply declares that God exists. It's a good word! And, if it is created by God, therefore it serves God. Power to Overcome Verse 92: “Because your words are my deepest delight, I didn't give up when all else was lost.” Do you get this? When God's word is our deepest delight, it gives us persevering, enduring power to not give up even when we can't see the victory even when everything feels lost. God’s Transforming Revelations Verse 93: “I can never forget the profound Revelations you've taught me, for they have kept me alive more than once.” Now here's that word revelation and I prayed for that, right? I prayed for revelations as we read today, but I want to highlight to you: revelation is different than information. Revelation is different than information. In Romans 12 we read, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind and then you will be able to test and approve what God's good, pleasing and perfect will is.” (vv.1-2, my paraphrase) Revelation is different than information. More than mere human knowledge, revelation is divine spiritual wisdom and knowledge that comes to us with transforming power through the impartation of the Holy Spirit. Revelation is when the Word of God comes alive to us whether through prayer, through our experiences with people or through our encounters with Scripture -- the one thing that will create the encounter is the power and presence of God’s Holy Spirit in us. Revelation is the key to transformation, and transformation - the key to overcoming through God’s Word. Revelation leads us to Surrender Verse 94: “Lord, I’m all yours, and you are my Savior; I have sought to live my life pleasing to you.” When God's revelation comes to us we realize the power of His work in our lives. Not just that work unto salvation, meaning out of hell and into heaven. But rather, if we go back to that very first verse we read today, where it says that “Standing firm in the heavens and fastened to Eternity, is the word of God…” If we go back to that, then we realize, the more we get a revelation of who Jesus is as the Word of God through the scriptures, through the impartation of the Holy Spirit - the more we surrender to Him as our Lord. The more we desire to be obedient to him, not because we're obligated to Him, but because the profound reality of His love has taken root in our lives. Then, all we want to do is respond in obedience to Him seeking to live our lives to please Him. Hebrews chapter 11 tells us that without faith it is impossible to please God. That is why it is key that we understand that revelation is part of building faith in our lives. You see, Paul also writes that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God (see Romans 10:17). Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God Revelation is integral to us realizing the impartation of faith from the Holy Spirit. It's the Holy Spirit that draws us to Christ. It's the Holy Spirit that testifies to us of Christ. It's the Holy Spirit that teaches us about Christ. It's the Holy Spirit that reminds us. It's the Holy Spirit that empowers us to minister according to His will. Do you understand what I'm saying? Faith is a key that unlocks revival because it creates disciples that look like Jesus, that live lives pleasing to him This brings us to our conclusion, verses 95-96:”Even though evil men wait in ambush to kill me, I will set my heart before you to understand more of your ways. I’ve learned that there is nothing perfect in this imperfect world expect your words, for they bring such fantastic freedom into my life!” We place our faith in God, through His Word - both the Holy Scriptures and Jesus Christ - the expressed person of God. we learn to surrender to His truth and revelation as it penetrates our hearts, allowing faith to take root deeply in our hearts. When our lives are vitally empowered by the revelation and presence of the Holy Spirit - even when our circumstances are anything but hopeful. When others persecute and seek to destroy us, we will live with our hearts set on Him, set before Him, understanding that the imperfections of this world will not consume us if we live in the perfection of His Living Word. This key brings us to Freedom and victory in our lives! Conclusion Well, that is all the time we have for today. Be sure to download the Podcoin app and subscribe to this podcast there. 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If you are looking for personal or professional development in any area of your life, including areas of ministry, I’d love to offer you a free coaching consultation to sit down and share what coaching is, and explore the values it might add to your life. Monthly coaching packages that fit any lifestyle and budget are currently available. To set up your free consultation please email: michelle.bentham@bloominginspirednetwork.com I also offer a unique opportunity for Podcast development through coaching where I will walk you through the steps of developing your show concept, how to produce your podcast from recording to editing and airing your show on our Blooming Inspired Podcast Network. We will then work together to promote your show and expand the place of your influence. I’d love to partner with you as you seek to live your life Blooming Inspired! 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In this episode, I share with you a blog post written by Kelly from Happy You, Happy Family. It’s been proven time and time again that kids don’t remember all the stuff and things and trips. They remember the experiences that we create with them and they want more of the “ordinary” moments, provided those moments with YOU. Tune in as I share with you 15 of 25 things that “good” dads do and can do with their kids. In part 2, I will share with you the remaining 10. Thank you Kelly for inspiring this episode on the podcast. You can find Kelly and all her other fab blogs posts at https://happyyouhappyfamily.com/how-to-be-a-good-father/ Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

I came across a beautiful piece of writing recently which was just too good to not share. It’s about imagining our minds as being a garden and our thoughts being the seeds. Tune in… Thank you @_Jakewoodard Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Over the course of the next few weeks I am discussing the chapters in a brilliant book called, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew by Dr. Sharon Saline © copyright Sharon Saline, Psy.D. 2019. In this episode, I introduce you to the fourth C in the Five C’s of ADHD parenting. Tune in… You can find Dr. Sharon Saline at www.drsharonsaline.com Follow her on FB at https://www.facebook.com/DrSharonSaline/ Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/drsharonsaline/ You can purchase the book at the following amazon link: https://amzn.to/2MGa9mW Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

It is all too easy to lose sight of ourselves in the heat of the summer. The kids are home, you are at home and suddenly you find yourself with no time to yourself. It can be hard on everyone. I made this mistake for many summers and if I’m completely honest those summers were not the best. Now I know exactly what to do to avoid this and share with you my ideas here. Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

In this episode, I share with you Bréne Browns amazing and stunning parenting manifesto. If you have never heard this or read it, it’s not to be missed. Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

At this time of year I often find myself struggling to find the balance between work and play and feeling guilty for working when my kids are home. It’s a struggle many working moms face. In this episode, I share with you some ideas as I contemplate the summer holidays. Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Over the course of the next few weeks I am discussing the chapters in a brilliant book called, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew by Dr. Sharon Saline. In this episode, I introduce you to the third C in the Five C’s of ADHD parenting. Tune in… You can purchase the book at the following amazon link: https://amzn.to/2MGa9mW Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to hear yourself described in a certain way over and over again? If it’s positive it could create pressure to live up to it and if it’s negative it could erode ones self-esteem. So often, as parents, we find ourselves inadvertently doing this with our kids and raising our awareness for it would be a good thing to do. Tune in… The link for the book The Parent’s Tao Te Ching by William Martin can be found here: https://amzn.to/31LfgWv Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Kid’s arguing, bickering and pushing each others buttons is exasperating to have to witness and deal with. What do you do because getting involved doesn’t seem to work? Knowing what do to is super important and in this episode, I share with you what I recommended to this Dad who reached out to me with this challenge. Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Do you ever give silence a second thought? How comfortable are you with silence? Do you give yourself the silence you need? It is within silence that I believe we can access our being and when we access this, a whole new world opens up for us. Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Over the course of the next few weeks I am discussing the chapters in a brilliant book called, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew by Dr. Sharon Saline. In this episode, I introduce you to the second C in the Five C’s of ADHD parenting. Tune in… You can purchase the book at the following amazon link: https://amzn.to/2MGa9mW Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

It can be so easy to get caught up in our own agendas for our kids and overlook them in all of it. With summer fast approaching, in this episode, I share with you what you can do to try and avoid this. Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

I recently over-heard a mom tell her 2-year-old son that he was disgusting and it nearly broke my heart. If only she had had the awareness to tell him that what he did might have been disgusting but that he was not disgusting. We have to be able to separate our children from their behavior because at the end of the day, they are not their behavior. They are so much more than that. And, we all know that our voice soon becomes their own voice so can you imagine what thoughts this little guy will have about himself?Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

I came across this quick and easy technique a few years back and often use it at the start of my meditation practice as it really helps me tune in to my energy and go deeper within. And I have discovered that kids get a kick out of it too! My son (who loves to meditate with me) finds it highly cool! Tune in as I share it with you here… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Over the course of the next few weeks I am going to be discussing the chapters in the brilliant book called, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew by Dr. Sharon Saline. In this episode, I introduce you to the first C in the Five C’s of ADHD parenting. This one is so important that I felt it needed an episode all to itself because it is THE most fundamental thing in being able to parent well. Period! Tune in… You can purchase the book at the following amazon link: https://amzn.to/2MGa9mW Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

When we take our child or teen’s behaviour personally we go into reactive mode, and when we go into reactive mode, we deny ourselves the opportunity to stay present and find out what is really going on. Being able to not take their behavior personally is perhaps one of the biggest things we can do to parent well. How do you do it? Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Do you ever find yourself saying things like “If you hadn’t taken so long getting ready, we wouldn’t be late!” and “If you had just done your homework when I told you, you wouldn’t be up at midnight!”. It’s easy to find ourselves blaming our children for all sorts of things but doing so can cause them to feel shame and shame is a dangerous place to find themselves. Blaming them for a mistake translates to shame that says they ARE a mistake. Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

In this episode, I share with you an excerpt from an awesome book that I just read called The Energy Codes by Dr. Sue Morter. On pages 104 - 114 she shares with the reader a breathing exercise called Central Channel Breathing. I have been practicing this and find it a powerful way to connect with Source energy. Tune in as I share it with you here… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

You have read so many books and seen so many experts yet you still struggle with the everyday things. Surely there has to be a better way? There is and this is the first in a series to help you find the way. Over the course of the next 10 weeks I am going to be discussing the chapters in a brilliant book called, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew by Dr. Sharon Saline. In this episode, I introduce you to her road map: the Five C’s of ADHD parenting. Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Basketball ran in the bloodline for Ryan Watkins and his family. That being said, nothing was ever given to him. He had to literally work for everything he had to get to where he is now.  From his days in High School, to not being recruited, to finding a home at Boise State University, to now playing over in the ABL, Watkins has a true underdog mentality and story to go along with it.  Learn about his journey as he discusses it all with us today on the show! We'll get to hear about his professional journey too, there are some interesting things that happened while he's been playing overseas! Make sure to check this episode out and subscribe to the show!  ________________________________________________________ Where to Find Me: iTunes - https://apple.co/2syRPkw Spotify - http://spoti.fi/2oVVZ36 Stitcher - http://bit.ly/2sR9m90 TuneIn - http://bit.ly/2Fx5UlU ________________________________________________________ Get your Audible Free Trial:  audibletrial.com/thegametimeguru ________________________________________________________ Get paid to listen to the show by downloading the PodCoin App on your Android or iPhone

We all have this valuable parenting tool within us. Yes! You have it! It’s always there, it’s just we forget to use it. Doing this one thing has never failed me and I know it never will. Curious? Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

I was recently invited to be an expert on the ParentTalk Podcast hosted by Genevieve Kyle and Heather Fox where we had a rich discussion on how to help parents help their children develop emotional literacy. It is such a vital skill for our children to develop and is a skill which many of us have not yet quite mastered for ourselves! Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

There is something so nurturing about walking in nature. It is so grounding, soothing and yet enlivening. In this episode, I share with you an excerpt from an awesome book that I just read called The Energy Codes by Dr. Sue Morter. On pages 76 - 78 she shares with the reader an exercise you can do to enhance your experiences whilst walking in nature. Tune in as I share it with you here… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

*This is a re-uploaded episode that is a little cleaner than the original version* We invite SB Nation's Grizzly Bear Blues host and site manager Joe Mullinax on this pod for trade talk concerning Mike Conley. We talk about how exiciting the draft will be for the Grizzlies, Conley's trade value and what assets the Jazz have that can be traded. Jared and Huu then talk in GREAT length (hence the supersized podcast) about other trade targets like CP3 and Dragic. Listen to this pod on the Podcoin App. Get paid to listen! Use code "Huutitum" to get free coins! twitter: Joe Mullinax (@joemullinax and @ sbnGrizzlies) Huu Tran (@huutransuperman and @jazzhighnotes) Jared Barker (@gothedistance49) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HittingTheHighNotes/support

(This is an episode that missed a few edits, there is a cleaner version if you scroll through the timeline....or if you want to hear my amateur hour, you can listen to this episode) We invite SB Nation's Grizzly Bear Blues host and site manager Joe Mullinax on this pod for trade talk concerning Mike Conley. We talk about how exiciting the draft will be for the Grizzlies, Conley's trade value and what assets the Jazz have that can be traded. Jared and Huu then talk in GREAT length (hence the supersized podcast) about other trade targets like CP3 and Dragic. Listen to this pod on the Podcoin App. Get paid to listen! Use code "Huutitum" to get free coins! twitter: Joe Mullinax (@joemullinax and @ sbnGrizzlies) Huu Tran (@huutransuperman and @jazzhighnotes) Jared Barker (@gothedistance49) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HittingTheHighNotes/support

Many of the ADHD books out there focus on helping parents manage the distractibility and lack of focus their child faces. They don’t give the us any pointers as to what we can do to cope with the fact that we can be driven to distraction by the distraction! It’s hard isn’t it. In this episode, I share with you what I do to try and cope with the frustration and impatience I feel in the face of my son’s (and my husband’s) distractability. Tune in… Follow Me Online Here: Website: https://yourparentingpartner.com/ Parenting In The Thick Of It Family Organizer: https://parentinginthethickofit.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/louiseclarke.ypp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourparentingpartner/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdQ1_fC72bKutwr5EfavQA FB Parent Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParentingInTheThickOfIt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/YPPartner Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/louiseclarkeyourparentingpartn/ Medium: https://medium.com/@mlouiseclarke iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-thick-of-it-with-louise-clarke/id1358492950 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pZfkJuOlQNohr4EqA0ivR Did you know that you can actually get reward points (redeemable on Amazon and Starbucks) for listening to this podcast? Well, you can! The PODCOIN App pays you to listen to this podcast, and every podcast. It’s the podcast player that pays. Just download the PODCOIN app (purple background with a white circle and a purple P) on your smartphone. It’s free and super easy to use. When you sign up you will have to use an invite code. Please use: PARENTING IN THE THICK OF IT. Please note that there’s nothing in this for me, it’s just for you and if you are going to listen to this anyway, you may as well get points. How cool is this app?!

Anyone who has played the sport of Baseball will know that hitting is a VERY important piece to the game that will separate some of the best players from the great players.  It could be the difference between playing in the Minors and the Majors. It's a difficult skillset to master, but today we bring on a Raphael (Raph) Turner, a former Minor League Baseball Player to speak to us about the art of hitting.  He's always had this skillset and now teaches others how to hit. We talk about his journey through baseball and talk about the skillset of hitting. HINT: It has a lot to do with TIMING!  It's awesome and you guys will love it!  ________________________________________________ Get your Audible Free Trial:  audibletrial.com/thegametimeguru ______________________________________________________ Don't forget to download the PodCoin App on your iPhone or Android to get paid to listen to my show! ______________________________________________________ To follow Raphael, go to his Instagram Page:  https://www.instagram.com/thathittingguy/

Brandi and Sunni Discuss James Henrikson, the con, liar and murderer who burned every bridge he crossed. Visit us online at www.bookofliespodcast.com Use offer code LIES on the free Podcoin App to get 300 free Podcoin.

It started as a backyard game that you'd normally play with family members at a bbq. A few years later it's now evolved into a world-wide sport which now has been featured on ESPN.  Today we get to discuss the sport (which is actually called Round Net, which you will learn about in the show) with professional, Jarratt Rouse.  We'll hear about how he got started with Spikeball and what it takes to compete at a high level. We'll learn of how pros get paid and where the sport has taken Jarratt during his playing days.  We'll also learn of where he expects himself as well as the sport to be in the next few years.  There's a lot to learn here on the show today so don't miss it!  _______________________________________________ Audible Free Trial: Audibletrial.com/thegametimeguru    Get Paid to Listen to my Show:  Download the Podcoin App on your Iphone or Android today!    Follow me on Social Media:  - Instagram - Facebook  - Twitter   

This week we dig in--waaaayyyy in. So far in, we end up 8 feet deep in JD's parent's basement. Friend of the show Trent comes on to break down some TTP news, WoW Classic, and the horrors of ACL surgery.Listen on the Podcoin App and earn credit for listening!

This week we dig in--waaaayyyy in. So far in, we end up 8 feet deep in JD's parent's basement. Friend of the show Trent comes on to break down some TTP news, WoW Classic, and the horrors of ACL surgery.Listen on the Podcoin App and earn credit for listening!

There is more money coming into Podcasting and Geoff and David Cook are hoping to get some of it by building a podcast app that focuses on helping you find new podcasts, integrate social ingredients (likes, etc), and pay you one podcoin (1-4 cents) for every 10 minutes. I wanted to find out more about this app. Podcoin was created by David Cook who credited the idea to a speech his brother Geoff Cook gave to Princeton University in April 2018. It’s not the first time they’ve been business partners. David and Geoff previously co-founded myYearbook with their sister Catherine in 2005. The trio then sold the company to Quepasa for $100 million in 2011. It's been around since January of 2019 and currently has 15 million users that are consuming 1,500,000+ Listening Minutes PER DAY For more information see https://www.podcoin.com/audience Find the app on Apple and Android Fixing Mistakes In Your Podcast You are listening back to your podcast and there is a mistake you HAVE to fix. Here are your options when using Libsyn Thank you for contacting Libsyn Support It gets tricky with Spotify, and Google Play Music. If you upload a file with the same file name, all the other directories and apps up EXCEPT the two above. There are two options Strategy 1 If you go to content > previously published > edit the episode Then click on the Scheduling Tab and go to the advanced sub-tab You will see the destinations. Uncheck Spotify, Google Play Music and click Publish (which acts as a save button). Then rename your episode file, go to content > add new episode Then click on the Scheduling Tab and go to the advanced sub-tab You will see the destinations. Make sure to UNCHECK ALL of the destinations EXCEPT Spotify, Google Play Music and click Publish (which acts as a save button). 670 This will create a version of that episode just for those destinations, and the original version never goes offline. Strategy 2 Go to Content > Previously Published > Edit Rename your original file and use the replace option and click Publish (which acts as a save button). The current apps will have a small amount of time when the file will not play (as the apps update they will see the new file name, but there may be people who go to play the file and it won't work (as it's still looking at the old name). This can take up to 24 hours. But the episode will update on all platforms. What If I'm Not Using Libsyn? The bottom line is if you upload the new file with the same name, then it won't update on Spotify or Google Play Music because they make Question of the Month What is your biggest pain in podcasting? Go to www.schoolofpodcasting.com/contact and upload your file or use the speakpipe button by 5/24/19 Start Your Podcast Today www.schoolofpodcasting.com/start

Hey Weight Loss Nation! www.TheWeightLossNation.com We ALL drink water everyday.  How much do you drink in a day? Did you know YOUR Body is made up of about 60% water? Your body uses water in ALL of it's cells, tissues and organs.....to regulate body temperature.....and to maintain other body functions. Your body loses water everyday when you sweat, through digestion....and.....BREATHING! You REHYDRATE by drinking fluids and eating food with water in it. How much water you need depends on a lot of things. Do you live near Fairbanks, Alaska....where the average temperature RARELY gets over 75 degrees?  Then....you're not sweating that much.  Or....do you live near...... New Orleans?....which is the most HUMID city in the U.S......bet you thought is was Florida! I did.  if so.....you're sweating pretty much all the time and you NEED to rehydrate often. How active are you? Are you a couch potato? If so...... you're probably not going to get dehydrated.  But.....if you exercise or do physical activity for 30 minutes or more......you NEED to replenish the water you will lose by sweating AND breathing faster. It's a good idea to drink water before, during and after physical activity.  How much water Do you need to drink water when you're sick?   So….How much water do you need to drink when you’re sick? Hey Weight Loss Nation! Did you know that you can get PAID….. JUST for listening to this podcast. I know it sounds CRAZY……but it’s true! I just discovered this free app called Podcoin, and it literally PAYS you to LISTEN to podcasts. You’re listening right now….why not get paid to listen! Here’s how it works … you listen to Weight Loss Nation & other podcasts…. and you’ll earn “Podcoins” while you listen. Then…. you turn those Podcoins in…. for gift cards at places like Amazon or Starbucks….. … Or….. if you’re a giving person…… you could even donate those Podcoins to charity. 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That's right at least a GALLON of water a day! If you weigh over 200lbs. drink HALF your weight in water.  So....if you weigh 200lbs. drink 100 oz of water a day. How can you measure how much water you drink? Use a clean glass each day, measuring how much water fills the glass. If you're drinking from a 12 oz glass, you know you need to drink at least 5 glasses a day to reach 60 oz. You can also use a 24 oz BPA Free bottle. I drink 4 bottles of water a day in my water bottle, which means I'm drinking 96 oz of water a day. That makes it easier for me to keep track. If you can't stand drinking "Plain water," the easiest thing to do is "squeeze" in some fresh lemon. You could cut up some berries & add them to your water too! You could even have fresh brewed cold ice tea! Here's a quick tip! When you drink an ice cold glass of water after sweating, you force your body to BURN calories in order to bring down the temperature of the water! So......when you drink at least 64 oz of water a day....or more.....if you're sweating alot....or when you're sick....you will keep your body balanced...... Your immune system will work more efficiently....You will have more clarity....your kidneys will produce "clear" colored urine....which means your kidneys are "Happy" You'll POOP easier and your eyes & skin won't be as dry. A Happy Body means you can lose weight more efficiently! I'm on a MISSION to SLAY Emotional Eating! If you're an Emotional Eater or someone who has problems with PORTION SIZES......come join me! Be come part of the Weight Loss Nation Village! It's FREE ..... AND.....it's a SAFE place to listen and vent! Walk with me ..... AND.....Together.....we will END Emotional Eating and Learn PORTION CONTROL! Go to www.Facebook.com/groups/TheWeightLossNation Join The Village! 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Weight loss Nation has a collaboration of experts in the fields of Nutrition, Mindset, Movement, Weight Loss, Yoga, Fitness, Meditation, Emotional Eating and Post Traumatic Stress! When you become a member of Weight Loss Nation, you have access to these experts to answer your questions! Weight Loss Nation Members* have access to recipes, cooking videos and exercise videos. Weight Loss Nation participates in “Meet Ups” in the Tampa Bay, Florida area. Our Private Facebook Forum is a "no judgement zone," where you can feel safe and comfortable in sharing your comments and feelings. So.....what are you waiting for? Go to www.TheWeightLossNation.com and take the life-long journey with me and finally lose the weight forever! Members* are Weight Loss Nation Pro Support and/or Lifetime Members https://goo.gl/aJrpZT    Nutrition Disclaimer These show notes are written and produced for informational purposes only. 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EP 143 Intro -Jay returns to the golf course and is preparing for his sister's destination wedding. -Dave goes to an all you can eat and all the sake you can drink sushi bar. LISTENER QUESTIONS -New caption contest. This week people commented on a picture from our Broken Goblet live show. and like Dave, everyone makes fun of Jays hat. Winner of this week's caption contest is Sean Faust of the WDIM Podcast.  -Jay would like to know if you could remake any movie what would be? The only catch is, Jay would have to star in it. What role would he play? WHAT'RE YOU WATCH'N  -Jay watches OA and Santa Clarita Diet season 3 on Netflix.  -Dave finishes his re-watch of Game Thrones and gets excited for the Season 8 premier and for the special Game of Thrones Cocktail Episode they will be doing with Lauren.  TRAILER PARK -Dave and Jay discuss the third trailer for Avengers: Endgame and Dave picks out a few more new details about the movies plot.  -Dave breaks down some interesting aspects of the recently released Joker trailer, and explains why he is not excited for the movie. -Jay and Dave gush over the trailer for The Dead Don't Die with Bill Murray and Adam Driver fighting zombies.  CRAFT BEER REVIEWS -Dave drops a line to our sponsors. Get a discount on BLOWFISH hangover cure when you use the promo code SMBFISH.  -You can listen to SMB on the PODCOIN App for iOS and Android.  -This week's Indie Pod Spotlight is for Invasion of the Remakes Podcast.  -Jay and Dave review two craft beers from Goose Island Brewing and Brooklyn Brewing companies.  TOP 5 -This week Dave and Jay are ranking their top five favorite Disney Live-Action movies.  -Thanks for listening. CHEERS! Super Movie Bros. is part of the PODFIX Network of podcasts. Follow the link and check out all the great shows, including our Movie Cocktail recipes there as well. You can get more SMB content over on our Patreon. Follow the link, and for as little as $1 you can get additional episodes, and for a little more you can receive gifts and prizes, as well as control the show. Brand new name that theme in 8-Bit, 90's Cartoon edition. Our Trailer Park music is provided by Thomas Iannucci. We are incredibly indebted to him for providing us with that, he's a fan, our friend, an amazing recording artist, and all around great human being. So please check out his music on Spotify.

Sea monsters are mythical beings from folklore are believed to dwell, depending on the monster, in the sea and other bodies of water. Most are said to be enormous and are often said to be dangerous and vile creatures taking many forms including dragons, serpents and multi-armed and headed bests. Today on The Lady Dicks Podcast, we're sharing the stories of three of these mythical creatures: Ogopogo, Hydra and Abaia. We highly recommend you listen to this episode on the Podcoin App so you're (somewhat) compensated for your time. Head to www.podcoin.com You can find full travel information for this episode on www.theladydicks.com. Check it out… no seriously, do. If you enjoy this episode, please rate and review us on your favourite app. And if that's not enough you can join us on Patreon at the Lady Dicks. You can connect with the Lady Dicks on Instagram and Twitter @theladydicks. This episode was voiced by Nikki K., Andrea C. & Tae H., “the Lady Dicks.” And was researched, written, edited and produced by Tae H. Our music was licenced through Audio Jungle and is aptly titled "Pink Panther 2." For any questions, comments or inquiries you can send an email to stories@theladydicks.com. Merchandise: www.threadless.com/discover/s/theladydicks/womens Nikki's Store: society6.com/ndkidesign?fbclid=…4I71emQl9xaxwFKcO0 Support this podcast

On April 10, 1912, the largest, most luxurious “unsinkable” ship to sail the sea thus far set out from Southampton, England. It was headed on a 7-day voyage to New York City, but she would never make it, taking her final resting spot off the coast of Newfoundland Canada, taking an estimated 1,500 souls with her. Welcome to the Lady Dicks Podcast, today we're dick-tecting the tragic story of the not-so-unsinkable Titanic. If you'd rather skip the banter and head right into the good stuff, here are the specific time points for this episode: 15:57 — The building of the RMS Titanic 26:10 — Booking a ticket on the RMS Titanic 30:34 — Timeline of the Titanic's last day 1:00:09 — How she actually sank 1:05:46 — After she was gone (a continuation of the timeline after the ship sank) 1:11:13 — What went wrong? 1:28: 46 — Ghosts of the RMS Titanic 1:39:10 — The Spooky Traveller, Titanic edition We highly recommend you listen to this episode on the Podcoin App so you're (somewhat) compensated for your time. Head to www.podcoin.com You can find full travel information for this episode on www.theladydicks.com. Check it out… no seriously, do. If you enjoy this episode, please rate and review us on your favourite app. And if that's not enough you can join us on Patreon at the Lady Dicks. You can connect with the Lady Dicks on Instagram and Twitter @theladydicks. This episode was voiced by Nikki K., Andrea C. & Tae H., “the Lady Dicks.” And was researched, written, edited and produced by Tae H. Our music was licenced through Audio Jungle and is aptly titled "Pink Panther 2." For any questions, comments or inquiries you can send an email to stories@theladydicks.com. Merchandise: www.threadless.com/discover/s/theladydicks/womens Nikki's Store: society6.com/ndkidesign?fbclid=…4I71emQl9xaxwFKcO0 Support this podcast

Thanks for everyone that have check me up on Podcoin App. The growth has been beyond what I expected. https://www.rt.com/news/452235-facebook-emails-android-ads-spy/ If you guys wanna follow me check out my social medias and website. www.twitter.com/leonlagrey www.minds.com/leonlagrey https://gab.ai/leonlagrey https://www.instagram.com/leonlagrey https://www.vk.com/leonlagrey Humble Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/monthly?partner=leonlagrey Download the Podcoin on IOS & Android. I recommend it! Once you sign up for the app make sure you use the promo code: LLGREY and receive 300 podcoin when you use podcoin app! https://anchor.fm/leonlagrey/episodes/Podcoin-Podcast-App-that-Pays-Ep-25-e39r68 Pledge me: ko-fi.com/leonlagrey https://www.goldmoney.com/w/leonlagrey GoldMoney Referral Code: leonlagrey --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leonlagrey/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leonlagrey/support