Guiding God's Daughters: Get Real and Go Deep

Ladies, so many of you have a hardened and wounded heart around marriage and being single and it needs to be healed in Jesus name. This episode is for you if you’ve had parents who got divorced or you come from a dysfunctional family you've had to overcome. Maybe it’s made you fearful of marriage or made you think you never will get married. I believe the Lord wants to give you another perspec...

Have you ever struggled with guilt and shame around things you've done when it comes to sexual sin? Have you ever even realized something like that could have a negative impact on your self-esteem and more importantly, your spiritual life? We live in a world that is so focused on sex being for pleasure and the message of "Do whatever you want with your body" or "Do whatever feel...

Grief and suffering are two of THE hardest things in life to go THROUGH. Emphasis on the word "through." Why? Because you have to go through them, which you can't change. BUT -- what you can change is how you respond to them. How you respond to grief and suffering that changes your life is what sets your life in one direction or another. One is where you let God pull you out of the p...

What are you working on in this new year? Maybe you are working on your physical fitness. Maybe you are finally ready to address your heart wounds and get some help. Maybe you are trying to declutter or be more self-disciplined in your finances. Whatever it is, and really - whatever time of year you are watching this - you can start fresh, because we serve a God of second chances. If you are ready...

This episode is with my good friend Amanda Florczykowski. She is an Author and President of Able Moms International. God is using her in many and mighty ways and I want you to hear how He’s been working in her life. Backstory, we met at their first national conference in Illinois. I was supposed to go to a political event in DC and the Lord sent me in the clear opposite direction to Illinois for M...

This video was first recorded on audio 3 days before Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I had no idea what would transpire over the next few days, but God did. God knows this is a spiritual battle. He knows He needs warriors who will be boots on the ground to reach those who are desperate for Jesus. This - is part battle cry for the warriors, part testimony of how God took me from the battle on the ho...

Right now, we are seeing many in Generation Z being drawn to Jesus. Whether it's music like Forrest Frank that does it or a Tik Tok influencer sharing Bible verses, they want to know more and we're here for it! My friend Alaina DeHart who is today's guest, is a student at Western Michigan University. We met through our church and her Mom who is a friend of mine through Griefshare. She...

Earlier this summer, I got to sit down with my friend Megan Murphy Steen. She is currently serving at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya where God called her to medical mission work with her husband Jonathan, who is also a doctor. They are also parents to four children named Joseph, Timothy, Micah, and Cora who get to grow up in Africa! Megan specifically works as an OB/GYN there and is working to establish...

What does freedom look like to you? I don’t know about you, but i always contemplate the meaning of freedom to me when July 4th is around the corner. Maybe it’s my upbringing in D.C. and Philadelphia, where I was surrounded by history and patriotic things. Or maybe it’s having worked at the White House and knowing it’s about so much more than our freedom as Americans. At it’s depth, true freedom i...

When you think of Father’s Day, what comes up for you? Is it a day where you love celebrating your Dad? Or is it hard for you? __ When I was a kid and my Dad lived three hours away, I would have told you it was hard because I felt a bit abandoned, even though I knew he loved me. He wasn’t in my everyday life, except every other weekend and lots of phone calls. My heart couldn’t comprehend it.  14...

Have you ever had a time in your life when you’ve been forced to rest? It’s like you are taken out of the game, the race of life. What do you do with that time? Recently I had a case of the shingles (at 47). I’m not young! But I also thought it was mostly for old people (not so much). As someone who seeks the Lord as much as I can and knows how He can speak most at the times when you are most in p...

Infertility is something so many women struggle with silently so it can feel tremendously lonely and isolating. There aren’t a lot of places to talk about it, let alone in the context of our faith. But here, we like to get real and go deep about the issues nobody likes to talk about in the context of faith. On that note, this was one of those conversations that felt very relevant of our day. So, I...

Do you ever struggle with comparison? I think this podcast might help you. I think it will give you some spiritual insight and why we all deal with it sometimes and I way to get out of it. Proverbs 1:7 NLT Matthew 7:24-27 NLT 2 Corinthians 10:12-13, 17-18 NLT For more content, make sure you follow me on Facebook, Tik Tok and Instagram @getrealwithmeredith. If you like to read blogs, go to my websi...

You are looking for strength, but you can’t find it within. You are looking for it. Well, I’m here to tell you where you can find it, because you and I both know that true strength isn’t just physical. It goes much deeper than that. It’s spiritual and the only way you can truly find strength is from the source. That’s God. Watch this message this week to find out more. #weakness #spiritualstrength...

Did you catch Simone Biles in the Olympic qualifying round and capturing the gold?! Awesome, right? Well, you may not be able to be the Olympic athlete she is. But the greatness she has in her? You've got that potential too. Maybe you need to be reminded of it in this video. Maybe you have no idea how. Either way, it's time to believe that you can be an overcomer. It's also time to rea...

Mountains, we all have them in our life. We don’t want them. But, they are part of what helps us grow spiritually… This is the last episode of the summer season and we are talking about the mountains in our lives and how we climb them. What are the mountains in your life? What is your approach toward the mountains? Is it, “Why is this mountain here?” or is it, “Okay, it’s here. Now what am I going...

We are talking today about the conch shell and how God used one on the beach in my early recovery to help me learn how to tune into His Voice. I think there are many women, especially Millennials and younger who want to know how to connect to God but don’t want to do it in the religion or ways they were shown growing up. They want something personal. I believe, they want a relationship and to do t...

Description We’re talking this week about how the pearl is formed in the oyster shell and it may not be how you expect. We’re going to talk about outside irritants in our lives, how we respond to the bad things that happen to us, how we can form our own protective layers that keep God from healing us and then about how this isn't just about us but it’s about the Kingdom of God. Subscribe to th...

This week, I’m talking about one of my favorite rocks to find on Lake Michigan - the heart rock. Not only that - big and small rocks and broken rocks. It’s amazing how often they can look like our hearts, and I believe Scripture has some truth to say about that. So many people today have the hearts hardened to the Lord, but it’s evidence to me that there is a need for those who are willing and wan...

I’m talking this week about how spending time with the Lord and resting in Him, really is the one cure for all of our anxieties. I deliver this from vacation in Northern Michigan where I’m “resting” and sharing the things that have made it kinda hard to get that rest in the Lord. It’s real life. We want to rest in the Lord but there are things that make it hard, which is why we all needed to be re...

This week I’m talking about the 4 things you think give you freedom but actually do the opposite. There are ways the enemy deceives us into thinking we have ultimate freedom in things of the world. I want you to be aware of those things so God can lift you out of the deception and intro His truth. Through wisdom from experience and the Word of God, I want to share those four fake freedoms -- from...

This week, I’m talking about what God does to make the broken beautiful. Life is messy. Instagram isn’t everyday reality. Things break. We break. We don’t have to pretend we have it all together because the truth is, it’s not being flawless that makes us beautiful. If we bring our brokenness to the Lord he will redeem it and display his glory through the cracks to a broken world. I want you to kno...

In the Podcast this week, my goal is to help you see how God’s love can fill in every gap in your heart that your father couldn’t fill. No father is perfect, and we aren’t going to spend our time talking about bad fathers. We’re going to spend our time helping you see how your earthly father is different from your heavenly Father. My goal is to help you heal from whatever hurt is in your heart aro...

We’re talking about how anxieties and fears can keep us from soaring and how to step out even through the fear. 15 years ago this past week, I celebrated my 31st birthday in treatment and I remember my therapist telling me the day I was leaving, “Are you ready to leave the nest?” I was terrified, yet totally ready to start testing my wing strength. My question for you is - how much power are we gi...

Have you ever felt like you want to bloom, but you can't quite get there? Maybe you are one of those people who just want to be anywhere but where you are. You want to get away so you can escape your problems where you are. But here's the thing. Everywhere you go, there you are. You've got to learn how to bloom where you are planted in order to actually bloom. That means sit still and...