Living Your Holiest Hot Mess Life

Since waiting is so hard, I thought I would do another podcast of encouragement for what to do while we're waiting. In today's podcast, we're looking at a New Testament scripture to encourage us that there are things we can do to make our waiting period more enjoyable as we strive to live our holiest hot mess lives.

Let's be honest, waiting stinks. No one really likes that time in life where it feels like God isn't telling us what's next or it feels like we have no idea what's about to happen or it feels like we've been stuck in the same holding pattern for forever. But we don't want to be like the Children of Israel who gave up on God and started worshipping a golden calf because they couldn't see what was c...

So often when we think about living in the presence of God, we think about eternity and spending eternity in God's presence in heaven. But in today's podcast, we're going to talk about the idea of being able to live in God's presence while still here alive on Earth. As we grow in our capacity to live our holiest hot mess lives, we will see God manifest His glory among us, and we will see ourselves...

One of the great blessings in the psalms- especially the psalms of David - is how encouraged we can be and how aware we can be of who God is and how he operates in our lives. David faced so many trials and tribulations and yet even in the midst of being attacked by people who should love him, David still was able to rejoice and trust in God. Today's episode encourages us to do the same as we trust...

No matter what we're going through or what we've done, God still sees us through eyes of love. In today's episode, we're looking at a very special verse that reminds us of how very loved we are by a very powerful and amazing God. Prayerfully this episode will help you to live your holiest hot mess life by being reminded of the love that is available everyday and all day just for you - and by seein...

When we make God and His priorities our deepest desire, we'll find that no matter what our circumstances are, we can refocus our eyes on Jesus in heaven and find encouragement in Him.

If we were all to be honest with our situations and our circumstances, we would tell one another how tired we are or how discouraged we are or how overwhelmed we are. If we were to be honest, we would share with one another that sometimes we need a reminder of how great and awesome our God is. So on today we're going to take a look at some examples of God's greatness and we're going to be encourag...

In today's episode, we're examining a very famous passage in Deuteronomy that commands us how to love God and to live for Him. When we're truly able to live by loving God first, we open up opportunities for great blessings and we help ourselves to love our holiest hot mess lives.

Today's episode is all about how we can tap into the power of the Lord through our praise. God has blessed us with so much power! When we praise Him we can send demons fleeing, we can change the atmosphere, and we can change even our own thought processes and our own habits. So let's enjoy this episode together as we practice praising God and seeing the amazing power He blesses us with in our prai...

All of us have power in our words and sometimes we use that power for good and sometimes we use that power not for bad. God wants us to be aware of what we do with our words because we are able to change things when we speak. In today's podcast we are looking at how we can speak with the authority that Jesus had and we can be change agents in this world as we continue to live our holiest hot mess...

Do you ever wake up in a bad mood? Do you ever feel like you're just grumpy or mad at the world or irritated by everyone you see or hear? It happens, right? But we can't just let it happen - we can't just be led around by negativity. We need to be careful how we think because our entire lives are shaped by what's happening in our minds, in our thoughts. Today's podcast is all about being mindful o...

If we're being honest it can be really hard to love other people. So when Jesus commands us to love others like He has loved us, it can make you really cringe. But if we are going to live our holiest hot mess lives then we need to stretch and grow ourselves to love others the way Jesus loves us. Prayerfully today's episode will encourage you to do exactly that!

Sometimes it's hard for us to really understand how much God loves us because we don't love one another in the same way. Most often our love for one another is conditional. It's conditional upon how we're feeling or upon how we're feeling about the other person or about how we're feeling about how the other person is treating us... it's conditional. But God loves us without conditions and has noth...

Today we continue to look at the life of King David and we recognize that God fought so many battles on behalf of David. We also recognize that David is a great example to us of what it means to look to God and to trust God that He is going to do what He said He would do. God does love us and He does desire to bless us. He also loves when we call on Him and when we trust in Him. What battles are y...

Today's podcast is meant to be an encouragement to all of us who are facing attacks in our lives, whether those are attacks from friends or foes or family, God has the amazing ability to protect us no matter what is coming our way. As we look at an example in King David's life, we learn the lesson of the importance of our praise, and we learn that we can truly trust God to shelter us, to be our st...

As a continuation of yesterday's podcast, today we're going to look at seeing obstacles as opportunities. Day in and day out we are facing obstacles - whether they are personal ones, local ones, or global ones, all of us have obstacles in our lives. On today, I want to encourage us that instead of looking at these obstacles and becoming frustrated, we can look at these obstacles and become excited...

So often in our lives we get distracted by the situations we're stuck in and we forget about the strength of the Lord and the access that we have to His strength. In today's podcast, we're going to look at a few verses to encourage us that will prayerfully help us to live our holiest hot mess life even when facing obstacles and even when hearing our haters try to tear us down.

Satan wants to convince us that our prayers have no power or that God doesn't care what we have to say. Or that we have to use fancy words or that we have to know certain scriptures. What we need to have is faith. And yes there is power in praying God's word back to Him but you don't HAVE to use scripture to pray. You have to have FAITH to have powerful prayers. Prayerfully today's podcast is a bl...

Let's be honest, forgiveness is not always easy and it's absolutely not always fair, but God makes a really big deal out of forgiveness. So today we're going to look into why - why is it so important to God that we forgive one another? This is a judgement-free, forgiving unforgiveness zone - jump in and join us! Jesus has some wisdom to share to help us to forgive in the midst of our hot mess live...

Today's episode is a special episode to recognize the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as well as to be mindful of how we can operate out of a spirit of humility as Jesus and Dr. King did. Prayerfully today's episode will be a blessing to you in helping you to live your holiest hot mess life as we learn the importance of pleasing God through humility.

To end the week strong we're going to continue talking about prayer today. Truthfully, If we did 10,000 podcasts we still would have more to say about prayer. So on today, let's just learn a little bit more to end our week strong in the Lord and on how He's helping us to live our holiest hot mess lives while we pray.

While there are so many different ways that we can pray, the goal of today's podcast is to encourage you to just get started. I often hear from people that they don't pray because they don't know what to say or because they think they have to say specific words or use specific phrases or be in a specific place, but the reality of the situation is that God loves to hear from us no matter what we're...

Welcome to Wednesday for those of you who are listening one day at a time throughout the week! Today's episode is to encourage all of you who feel like something is too small to be used by God - whether it's you yourself or something you have or something you want to do, I pray that today's episode encourages you to just get started! Stop looking at the smallness and start looking at God's greatne...

So often in our lives we follow our feelings, but our feelings are not facts, and most often they get us into a lot of trouble. On today's episode, we're going to look at the life of King David and how when he followed his feelings, he created quite a hot mess for himself and everyone involved. Thankfully, even in this hot mess God was able to work out miracles. We can be encouraged that if we can...

So often in our lives it feels like God isn't making any sense. We question what He's doing, we question if He cares, if He sees us - if He hears our prayers. We get frustrated and we wonder, "What is going on?" In today's episode, we look at the story of Ruth and Naomi as a story of redemption and a story to encourage us that even when it looks like God doesn't make any sense, He is absolutely at...