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BONUS: Do We Have to Honor Our Parents if They Are Toxic? How Do Christians Navigate Single Parenthood and Dating? Audience Questions Answered In this Q&A session, Rachael addresses various questions from listeners. She discusses the difference between Eastern and Biblical meditation, emphasizing that the gospel is the only way to heaven. She also talks about navigating relationships with toxi...

598: A Life Changing Prayer for You - Hearing God’s Voice Series, Devotional Today I pray over you the same prayer a missionary prayed over me years ago- and it changed my life! I pray it blesses you. Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides, journaling worksheets, bonus content, and our private discussion forum, please visit our Patreon page: patreon.com/HearingJesus Co...

597: Allowing God’s Truth to Set Us Free - Hearing God’s Voice Series, Devotional If we read God’s word and don’t understand it, we aren’t likely to get freedom from the things that keep us bound. We have to understand what it’s actually saying. That’s where the freedom comes from. Join me as we dig into this today. Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides, journaling wo...

596: Ways to Understand Your Bible - Hearing God’s Voice Series, Devotional There are tools we can use that help us understand God’s word. They don’t cost any money, but you do need to be intentional. Let’s dig into the Bible and study it. Your time will never be wasted! Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides, journaling worksheets, bonus content, and our private discu...

595: How We See God’s Word Through Our Own Eyes - Hearing God’s Voice Series, Devotional We all naturally have a filter when it comes to reading God’s word. The challenge becomes removing that filter and examining the Scriptures through the lens of the original audience and the original author. God’s word is a treasure and can impact our daily lives- if we let it. Additional Resources: For ad-free...

594: God Uses His Word to Speak to Us - Hearing God’s Voice Series, Devotional Today we dig into the topic of studying our Bibles. What does that mean? Why should we do it? How do we get started? All this on more, it’s going to be a great week! Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides, journaling worksheets, bonus content, and our private discussion forum, please visit o...

593: Why Fasting Isn’t About Fasting - Hearing God’s Voice Through Fasting, Devotional Today we are finishing up our topic of fasting and I am leaving you with some homework: Pray about how you an incorporate fasting into your own life. Just a reminder- it’s not about the fast. It’s about the posture of your heart during the fast. Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides...

592 What if I Can’t Fast? - Hearing God’s Voice Through Fasting, Devotional When we fast for spiritual reasons, we don’t always have to fast from food. There are other barriers in our life that we can remove so we can hear God more clearly. Today we discuss some, Join me! Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides, journaling worksheets, bonus content, and our private disc...

591: Fasting for Beginners - Hearing God’s Voice Through Fasting, Devotional The point of fasting is to hear from the Lord. We don’t fast just because everyone else is or we feel pressure to. Instead we fast so we can create a vacuum in our hearts, removing things that might have been taking up some space where the Lord should have been. Join me today as we look at some practical ways to engage in...

590: Need A Breakthrough? Fasting Can Help! - Hearing God’s Voice Through Fasting, Devotional We all face hard things in our lives. Fasting can be a tool that we use to deal with the hard things in our lives. Join Rachael as she discusses the ways fasting can move the needle on things that seem to be stuck in our lives. Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides, journalin...

589: Following God’s Agenda - Hearing God’s Voice Through Fasting, Devotional Sometimes we fast because we have an agenda. My encouragement today is to allow God’s agenda to trump our agenda. It should always be about Him and what He wants to do in our lives. Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides, journaling worksheets, bonus content, and our private discussion forum,...

588: How Do You “Get To Know” God? - Hearing God’s Voice in Prayer, Devotional Prayer is how we get to know God: His nature, His character, and how He interacts with us as His children. Today we finish up prayer week and I pray over you as you continue to seek to grow in your prayer life. Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides, journaling worksheets, bonus content, and...

587: Have You Forgotten to Pray For Someone? What Happens Next: Hearing God’s Voice in Prayer, Devotional How many times has someone asked you to pray for them, you said yes, and then forgot? It’s happened to all of us. Today we are talking about that phenomenon as well as how to pray with expectation. Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides, journaling worksheets, bonu...

586: #PrayerGoals: What is the Goal of Prayer? - Hearing God’s Voice in Prayer, Daily Devotional God wants to be involved in all aspects of our lives, even the hard ones. He is big enough to take on your hard emotions. Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides, journaling worksheets, bonus content, and our private discussion forum, please visit our Patreon page: patreon.c...

585: How Unanswered Prayers Impact Us - Hearing God’s Voice in Prayer, Daily Devotional Today we are continuing our conversation about prayer and what happens when those prayers go unanswered. How can we hear God’s voice if He isn’t speaking? In today’s episode, we learn how those unanswered prayers may in fact be the answer we need. Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion gui...

584: What is the Point of Prayer? - Hearing God’s Voice in Prayer, Daily Devotional Prayer is not just asking things from God. The primary function of prayer is to develop an ongoing relationship with Him. It’s about a dialogue back and forth as you learn how to hear His voice. Join me as we start a week focused on prayer. Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides, journa...

583: Is it My Voice? God’s Voice? Or the Voice of the Enemy? How to Tell- Hearing God’s Voice in Biblical Meditation, Daily Devotional God is always with us, it does not matter where we go, what we do, God is always there. It’s a matter of recognizing that. How do we know whose voice is speaking to us? Listen in as we talk about how to tell the difference.  Additional Resources: For ad-free conten...

582: Generational Impact Through the Gospel - Father’s Day BONUS Episode, Daily Devotional, Bible Study Jey Mbiro joins us on the show again to talk about his perspective as a parent, visiting his hometown in Kenya. Escaping generational poverty means his children do not have to suffer the way he did. Join me for today's daily devotional, Bible Study episode. Additional Resources: For ad-free cont...

581: When God is Silent- Hearing God’s Voice in Biblical Meditation, Daily Devotional, Daily Devotional, Bible Study Jesus is not dead, He is alive and continues to speak to us through the Holy Spirit. He is constantly at work in this world. When we meditate on God’s word, we can hear His voice, even in the silence. Join me for today's daily devotional, Bible Study episode. Additional Resources: F...

580: Can’t Sleep? Do This Instead of Worrying!- Hearing God’s Voice in Biblical Meditation, Daily Devotional, Bible Study Have you ever lost sleep worrying about what tomorrow would bring? Scripture gives us some tools to deal with that very thing. Join me for today's daily devotional, Bible Study episode. Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides, journaling worksheets,...

579: Complaining to God- Hearing God’s Voice in Biblical Meditation, Daily Devotional, Bible Study You may not connect complaining and meditation. But the Bible does. Curious to know how? Join me on today’s episode as we take a look at the connection. Join me for today's daily devotional, Bible Study episode. Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discussion guides, journaling worksheet...

578: What Does Meditating on God’s Word Even Mean? - Hearing God’s Voice in Biblical Meditation, Daily Devotional, Bible Study Sometimes that word meditate leaves us in a weird space. We don’t really know what to do with it as believers. Is it bad? Or something we should stay away from? Today we are taking a look at what God says in His word about the concept of meditation. Join me for today's dai...

576: Being Ready to Respond When God Speaks- Hearing God’s Voice Series, Daily Devotional, Bible Study When we are pursuing God, to become more like God (His nature and character), that process is called sanctification. That process is God’s work, not our work. Ultimately, we are powerless to change on our own. God’s nature in us is what allows us to change. Paul mentions 35 times that righteousne...

576: BONUS- When the God of Hope Reaches In: A Testimony of How God Rescues, Devotional Bible Study Podcast On today’s bonus episode, Rachael is airing her discussion with Jey Mbiro, in preparation for his upcoming Father’s Day episode.  Jey shares his powerful testimony of growing up in poverty in Nairobi, Kenya, and his journey from begging and stealing to finding hope and transformation through...

575: Hearing What God Says About You- Hearing God’s Voice Series, Daily Devotional, Bible Study You are loved for who you are, not what you do. Chasing a feeling is a dangerous way to establish our identity. Instead, the spiritual disciplines help us to understand our identity is in Christ. Join me for today's devotional, Bible study episode. Additional Resources: For ad-free content, family discu...