But What Did GOD Say?™

What does it look like when a heart is completely yielded to God? Throughout this series, we’ve seen hearts tested, influenced, corrected, and restored. But this episode turns our attention to the One who shows us something altogether different. In The Perfectly Governed Heart , we look at Jesus through John 6:38, Matthew 26:39, and John 8:29 and listen closely to what His words reveal about surre...

A Broken and Contrite Heart What happens when the truth we need to hear is about us? In this episode of But What Did GOD Say?™ , we continue the Who Is Governing Your Heart? series with A Broken and Contrite Heart . What does God desire in the inward parts? What does it look like when the heart stops resisting His truth? And how do repentance, mercy, and transformation work together when God shows...

What happens when the pressure comes before we have time to think? In this episode of But What Did GOD Say?™, we continue the Who Is Governing Your Heart? series with A Heart Settled Before the Test: Joseph — Faithfulness When No One Is Watching. Genesis 39 gives us a private moment in Joseph’s life when temptation, responsibility, and faithfulness collide—and his response raises a question worth...

What do our words reveal about what is governing our hearts? In this episode of But What Did GOD Say?™ , we continue the Who Is Governing Your Heart? series with Language of A Governed Heart . Jesus tells us in Matthew 12:34 that “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” So what can our language reveal about what’s happening within us? As we follow the Scriptures, we’ll look at the con...

What has your ear? Every day, voices compete for our attention—some familiar, some trusted, some so constant we may not even realize how much influence they’ve gained. But Jesus says in John 10:27 , “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” In this episode of But What Did GOD Say?™ , we continue the Who Is Governing Your Heart? series with Voices That Shape the Heart . Togethe...

We’re continuing our series, Who Is Governing Your Heart? , with our next conversation: The Battle Within. Have you ever known what God said, yet still felt something within pulling you another way? In Romans 8:5–6 , Paul draws a striking contrast between the flesh and the Spirit—one that brings the question of who is governing our hearts much closer than we may realize. So what is happening withi...

What does it mean for Jesus to increase while we decrease? In John 3:30, John the Baptist wasn’t questioning his worth or rejecting the assignment God had given him. He understood that his life and ministry were meant to point beyond himself to Christ. In this episode, we examine what John’s declaration teaches us about Kingdom order, submitting self-rule to the lordship of Jesus, and allowing Chr...

We’re beginning a new series called Who Is Governing Your Heart? and we’re starting with The King and the Heart . Every heart answers to an authority—even when we haven’t stopped to recognize whose voice carries the greatest weight. In The King and the Heart , the opening episode of this new series, we turn our attention to the King eternal, immortal, invisible—the only wise God. Scripture leads u...

What if some of the deepest work God does in us happens where no one else can see? Jesus didn’t just teach His disciples what to pray. He showed them where prayer begins—with the door closed, the distractions quieted, and the heart turned toward the Father who already sees and knows us. In this final episode of the Prayer According to Jesus series, we step away from public expressions and into the...

What happens when life says one thing—but faith answers, “Yet”? Habakkuk looked around and saw loss, uncertainty, and no visible reason to believe that circumstances were about to improve. Still, one small word marked a powerful turning point in his response. In this episode, we sit with Habakkuk 3:17–19 and listen closely to what rises from a heart that can see the emptiness yet still knows his G...

In this episode of Prayer According to Jesus: Commissioning Disciples , we look again at the Great Commission — not only as something Jesus commanded, but as something He covered in prayer. Before the disciples ever went out, Jesus prayed. Before they spoke boldly, they waited. Before they became witnesses, they received power from the Holy Spirit. And through it all, Jesus was teaching them how t...

In this opening series of “Prayer According to Jesus,” we explore what prayer looks like when it flows from The Father’s Heart —from relationship, trust, and the goodness He has revealed in His Word. As disciples, we are learning to see God as He truly is: a Father whose heart is for salvation, repentance, and restoration. In this episode of “The Heart of the Father,” we discover from Scripture: T...

In this final episode of “Faith According to Jesus,” we sit with one piercing question from Luke 18: “When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” In a world flooded with fear, division, and constant noise, we explore what it means to carry a persevering, praying, justice-seeking faith that refuses to give up. This is a heart-level reflection, not a recap. If your faith has grown t...

In our continuing “Faith According to Jesus” series, this episode looks at “Faith That Strengthens Others.” We follow Peter from Jesus’ words in Luke 22 —“I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren” —into the book of Acts, where the same Peter who wept over his denial now stands up to preach Jesus, lifts a lame man at the Beau...

In our continuing “Faith According to Jesus” series, we walk through Luke 7:36–50, where Simon the Pharisee hosts Jesus for dinner, and a woman with a shattered reputation comes in and falls at His feet. Jesus tells a story about two debtors, exposes the quiet pride in Simon’s heart, and then turns to this woman and says, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.” In this episode, we hold both peopl...

In our “Faith According to Jesus” series, this episode walks through Luke 5:17–26 (with the parallel in Mark 2:1–12), where four friends carry a paralyzed man, break through the crowd, and lower him through the roof to Jesus. We sit with the phrase “When He saw their faith” and watch how Jesus goes to the deepest need first—calling the man “Son” and forgiving his sins—before healing his body in fr...

In this episode of our “Faith According to Jesus” series, we look at two encounters with Jesus: the woman in Mark 5:25-34 who had suffered for twelve years, and the one leper in Luke 17:11-19 who returned to give thanks after being cleansed. Both stories show us that wholeness is deeper than relief. The woman reaches for Jesus with the last strength in her body, and the Samaritan returns to Jesus...

What happens when our faith is shaken to the core, and we fail God in the very area we thought we were strong? In this episode of “Faith According to Jesus,” we walk with Peter through Luke 22:31–32, 54–62. We listen as Jesus warns Peter about Satan’s sifting, prays that his faith will not fail, and then watches Peter deny Him three times—and we see the bitter tears of repentance that Jesus had al...

In this episode, we explore the sober side of “faith according to Jesus”: what He referred to as " no faith" . First, we go to Nazareth, where the people who knew Jesus best were “offended” at Him, and He marveled at their unbelief, doing only a few miracles there because their hearts were closed.  Then we walk into the valley of Mark 9, where a desperate father brings his demon‑tormente...

In this episode, we return to the moment that led Jesus to say, “Have faith in God.” This wasn’t a random slogan about faith—it was a response to a real situation the disciples had just witnessed. They saw the fig tree wither and had to wrestle with what Jesus said and did in that moment. We walk through the kind of faith Jesus was actually talking about in Mark 11:20–25—how it acts, how it is act...

In this episode, we return to Matthew 8:23–27 to sit with Jesus and His disciples in the middle of a great storm. We walk through three key observations from the scene in the boat and then zoom out to notice what the disciples had already seen Jesus do before the storm ever hit. Along the way, we explore what Jesus meant by “little faith,” how easily we forget our history with God in a new crisis,...

 In this first episode of the ‘Faith According to Jesus’ series, we slow down with Matthew 8:5–13 and listen to how Jesus responds to a Roman centurion. Jesus says He has not found such great faith, not even in Israel. What did He see in this man? We look at three simple marks of this ‘great faith’: coming to Jesus on behalf of another, believing what we have heard about Him enough to seek Him, an...

In this episode of “But What Did GOD Say?”, we confront the anxiety around the rumored claim about Social Security being changed to “federal benefit payments” and ask a deeper question: Who has really been our Source all along? We talk honestly about why so many of us who have worked 20–40 years feel dismissed, renamed, and at risk, then bring that tension under the light of God’s Word to rediscov...

In this episode of But What Did God Say?, we dive into Matthew 28:16-20 and unpack the phrase, “teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you.” What does it really mean to observe the words of Jesus? Is it just about hearing, or is it about guarding, keeping, and obeying what He said? This message came from a fresh look at the Great Commission and a powerful reminder that discipleship i...

In this episode, we slow down with one loaded verse—Acts 10:38—and let it redefine what an “anointed life” really is. We see Jesus as the One the Father anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil. From there, we explore four simple but deep movements: being rooted in relationship, revealing His goodness in everyday life,...