The GYFT Podcast with Jerome Farris

Week 7 coming from Matthew 7:14 teaches that the narrow way is intentional, disciplined, and life‑giving. In this episode, we explore how wisdom shapes the choices, habits, and desires that keep your life aligned with the path that leads to life. Choosing the narrow way means embracing clarity over distraction, purpose over comfort, and spiritual maturity over ease.

Week 6 guides us into a spiritual practice that transforms everyday experiences into wisdom and discernment. Rooted in Psalm 139: 23-24, this episode teaches how honest reflection opens the heart to God's shaping work. Slow down, listen within, and discover how reflection deepens clarity, growth, and spiritual formation.  

In Week 4 of the Path of Wisdom , we explore one of the most defining marks of spiritual maturity: a teachable spirit . Proverbs 9:9 reminds us that wisdom expands in the heart willing to learn, willing to listen, and willing to be shaped. A teachable spirit isn’t about intelligence — it’s about posture. It’s the humility to receive instruction, the courage to accept correction, and the openness t...

In Week 3 of the Path of Wisdom , we explore one of the most essential postures of spiritual growth: the humble heart . Pride hardens the soul, but humility softens it. Pride closes the mind, but humility opens it. Pride isolates, but humility integrates. In this episode, Jerome walks us through Proverbs 11:2 and shows how humility becomes the soil where wisdom can actually take root.

A listening life is a life that is attentive to God's voice

Week 16 closes this phase of the Year of Becoming with a commissioning moment—celebrating what God has built in you and preparing your heart for phase 3 - The Path of Wisdom in September, the bridge between formation and the future.

With one more episode left in this Phase 2 Make Room - Soil of the Soul, God renews your mind before He renews your circumstances. This week invites you to reclaim your perspective, restore your hope, and live with holy expectancy.  

This week's episode explores the quiet strength of emotional sobriety—learning to respond instead of react. We talk about peace, self‑control, and the Spirit‑led maturity that helps us stay grounded even when our emotions run high.

This episode invites you into the quiet, holy work of becoming — not who life shaped you to be, not who people expected you to be, but who God saw from the very beginning. Before the wounds, before the detours, before the doubts, God held a picture of you that has never changed. Through Scripture, reflection, and honest soul‑work, we explore how God patiently leads us back to our truest identity....

The last week of Cultivating the Inner Life steps into the quiet work God has been doing beneath the surface.  Interior strength  isn’t loud, and it isn’t proven by pretending to be unbothered. It’s the rooted, Spirit‑formed stability that shows up when life starts shaking. Today, we explore how God builds resilience in the unseen places — through identity, repetition, surrender, and the slow form...

Some weeks the fire feels dim, the worship feels soft, and the heart feels tired. Week 11 reminds us that this is not failure—this is formation.  Faith Beyond Feelings  calls us to a mature trust, the kind that stands even when emotions fall silent. Through Psalm 42:5, we learn to speak hope to our own souls, to choose consistency over convenience, and to let repetition become the soil where roots...

In Week 10, we slow down and listen for the God who has been speaking all along. Through the story of Samuel in 1 Samuel 3, we explore how God trains our ears, steadies our hearts, and forms a posture that can recognize His voice in the noise. This episode offers both reflection and practical guidance—helping you notice divine nudges, respond with a willing heart, and cultivate a quieter interior...

As we enter Movement Three (CULTIVATING THE INNER LIFE) of Phase 2 Make Room, we turn our attention to the quiet, hidden places where God shapes the soul. God's work is not fast work — it is patient work (James 1:4). In this episode, we explore the slow, deliberate pace of God’s transforming grace and why real growth takes root beneath the surface long before it becomes visible. If you’ve felt del...

After tending the soil of the soul for the last 7 weeks, Week 8 invites us to plant the small, steady rhythms that make room for God to shape our lives. One seed. One practice intentionally planted. Transformation grows through daily repetition, not rush.  

Week 7 is where the story beneath your story comes into the light. In this episode, we explore how hidden narratives—shaped by wounds, assumptions, and survival—quietly direct our choices, our identity, and our expectations. Through Scripture, reflection, and honest soul‑work, we confront the lies we’ve lived from and invite God to rewrite the internal script with truth, healing, and freedom. This...

Week 6 continues the Root Work by going beneath the surface to the wounds that shaped us, marked us, and still speak today—the hidden roots behind our patterns, pain, and protection. This episode invites you to name what hurt, release what’s been buried, and let God heal the places you’ve carried for far too long.

Week 5 begins the Root Work beneath the surface of our lives—past the behaviors we try to manage and into the beliefs, wounds, and internal scripts that shape them. From Proverbs 4:23 we explore the truth that you can’t change fruit without addressing roots, because everything we do flows from the heart. Together we’ll identify the patterns that keep repeating, the cycles that keep returning, and...

Week 4 is the turning point of Breaking Ground—the moment where the digging becomes surrender. This episode guides you into the holy work of releasing identities, assignment, roles, and expectations that once served you but no longer carry grace. Through honest reflection and gentle repentance, you’ll learn to loosen your grip on what God is no longer asking you to hold. This is the week of open h...

Week 3 of the Breaking Ground Movement steps into the sacred work of honesty. Before God can heal what’s hurting, we have to be willing to name it. Not to shame ourselves, not to relive old wounds, but to finally bring into the light what has been quietly shaping our lives in the dark. This conversation invites you to slow down, listen inward, and tell the truth about the places that still ache. T...

Clearing the Inner Clutter is the practice of slowing down long enough to notice what’s been filling your inner world and gently releasing it in God’s presence. It’s where you name the distractions, emotions, and quiet pressures that have been shaping your reactions, your pace, and even your sense of self. Instead of pushing harder or adding more, you create space for your soul to breathe again—sp...

Week 1 opens the  Breaking Ground  movement with a gentle invitation: now that you’ve seen yourself clearly through your Mirror Moment, it’s time to make room for who you’re becoming. Through a reflective spoken‑word moment, a soft teaching on surrender, and a grounding prayer, this episode helps you release what’s been crowding your heart and welcome the work God is ready to do. This is the week...

Day 8 brings the Mirror Moment Challenge journey full circle — the sacred moment when God calls you back to the identity He created, redeemed, named, and claimed, silencing every competing voice and anchoring you again in the truth of Isaiah 43:1: you are known, you are called by name, and you are wholly His. In this finale, the reset becomes a holy return, where every false reflection falls away...

Mirror Moment Challenge Day 7 is the moment your sight shifts and your season follows. In this episode, we explore how God renews your vision from the inside out—opening your eyes to what He’s doing now, not what you’ve lived through before. This is where clarity becomes direction, where perception becomes movement, and where the new thing God is revealing finally comes into focus.

Mirror Moment Challenge Day 6 is the moment clarity breaks through. The lies lose volume and the noise settles. You step into a new kind of vision - one that aligns your identity with God’s intention. This is the shift from distortion to truth—not the truth shaped by fear, failure, or opinions of others but truth shaped by the God who formed you, called you, and has been patiently waiting for you...

This is Day 5 of the Mirror Moment Challenge.  Beneath the surface of our souls are the hidden places where spiritual weeds grow — the worries, distractions, and desires that quietly choke clarity, peace, and purpose. Through Psalm 139 from Day 4 and Jesus’ teaching today in Mark 4, you’ll learn how to let God search the soil of your heart, expose what’s been distorting your view, and uproot anyth...