Mavericks & Misfits with Jeff Lyle

Episode 190: How to Forgive One of the most difficult things to live out as a follower of Christ is His command to live with a heart free of bitterness and unforgiveness. We have all been done wrongly by someone. Words, actions, and attitudes sometimes come our way from others with no other intention but to hurt us. We feel their stings. Then, Jesus comes to us and calls us to forgive them for eve...

Episode 189: What About Fasting? Jeff Lyle’s first encounter with fasting as a Christian came in the form of a weekly legalistic demand. For the first 18 months of his Christian life, he would fast for a legal 24 hours, sometimes setting his alarm at 12:01 AM to get up and eat after fasting the previous 24 hours. Because of this, Jeff abandoned the practice of fasting for the next three years, bel...

For many Christians, there exists an ignorance of what to do when they have failed God in something they thought, said, or did. They know that Jesus paid for their sins, but what do they do when they have intentionally sinned in some way that they cannot excuse? We answer, “They must repent.” True, but what does repentance look like for a believer? If one asks God for forgiveness but does not chan...

Episode 187: Validating Who You Are & What You Do Most people are trying to get ahead. We need to get ahead at work. We would like to get ahead at home and stop drowning in nonstop duties and projects that can seem suffocating. Parents want their kids to get ahead of other kids so thye can eventually get ahead in life. In the Church, many people want fruitful ministries that impact large amoun...

Episode 186: When It’s Too Heavy In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, listeners invited to consider and confess their internal weariness. Today’s episode reveals the sometimes overlooked issue of spiritual fatigue and overwhelming weariness that can find Christians. Jesus offers all a simple remedy of how to reignite rest and appropriate self-care. Jeff Lyle discusses Jesus' promise of peac...

Episode 185: Accusation: Satan’s Stranglehold Are you feeling the weight of an invisible battle? Have you checked that voice in your head/heart/spirit to make sure it is the right voice to which you should be listening? Today’s episode of Mavericks & Misfits plunges into the heart of spiritual warfare and offers helpful equipping for defeating a primary tool of the enemy called Accusation. Thi...

Episode 184: Individual Stats Are Killing Championships In this M&M episode, we confront the hard truths about disillusionment in the Church, spurred by the sins, flaws and missteps of its leaders. We must determine to hold to the importance of perseverance and commitment, likening the Christian journey to the arduous races, fights, and wars that soldiers and athletes endure for victory. Empha...

Episode 183: Is It Of God Or Not? The Great Commission and the advance of the Kingdom through the Church are the two activities being facilitated by God which will continue until Jesus comes. Within those two activities (which are really just two aspects of the same movement) there are scores of historical movements that God initiates for a season and then allows them to fade into history. How do...

Episode 182: Noise in the Soul Scripture speaks of the “noise of the enemy.” Many believers are unaware that a primary tactic of Satan and his demons is to consistently disorient the believer with the noise of warfare. The good news is that each believer is fully authorized and empowered to diagnose this type of noise, and to silence it. Sadly, most believers do not take it seriously enough, and t...

Episode 181: God’s Brief Moment Offer Too many voices seem inclined to hijack God’s communication to declare to us, “THIS IS WHAT GOD IS SAYING RIGHT NOW!” The truth is that God is actually saying many things to His people, and that there is not a singular Word that he is presently releasing that stands as the lone Word of the hour. We need a touch of wisdom from Heaven to discern the many things...

Episode 180: What May Reignite Your Flame Scripture warns us in two areas concerning our relationship with Holy Spirit: 1. Do not grieve Him 2. Do not quench Him Far too few Christians grasp how easy it is for us to commit both of these violations. Today’s podcast helps us analyze if we have quenched the flame of the Spirit in our lives by continually grieving Him with a certain violation of His n...

Episode 179: Red Clay Warfare For close to six decades, the American Church has presented an exterior of polish. It has looked really inviting to step into the American Brand of God’s Kingdom. Wealth, health, triumphalism, prosperity, power, luxury and beauty…we have been told that these things are what make up the Kingdom. The negative impact of this lopsided messaging is clearly seen today. Whil...

Episode 178: What If It’s This? NOTE: Please use discretion if you regularly listen to Mavericks & Misfits with your young children as this episode holds candid discussion of sexual issues. Now more than ever, American Christians must take a difficult look in the mirror to become sobered about sexual sin among Christians. The slow drift that has been occurring for decades is no longer a drift....

Episode 177: Hypocrites In The Church You do not need an anointing of spiritual discernment to know that the Church has hypocrites within it. You do, however, need an anointing of biblical discernment to understand the difference between true hypocrites and true Christians who fail to always live up to the righteous standard that God offers us. If a Christian failing or sinning is ALWAYS evidence...

Episode 176: Blowing Up Christmas For Everyone Who would have ever thought that the season on the calendar wherein the world considers the birth of Jesus Christ would have ever ended up being a rope with which Christians play a spiteful game of tug-of-war? If nothing else, Christmastime proves yet again that Christians have learned to fight each other over anything. While each is free to decide fo...

Episode 175: What God Is Offering You There is a standing offer from Heaven to which not enough people say YES. If God offered to make us all millionaires, nearly everyone would say YES. If God offered to make us all beautiful and healthy, we would rush to sign up. Yet, God has permanently offered to make any child of His incredibly wise…and too many shrug, sigh, and walk away. This is the generat...

Episode 174: The Spirit of Offense at the End of the Age When Jesus talked about the signs that will precede the Second coming and the end of the age, we are most familiar with the global wars He foretold, the earthquakes, and the famines. Many are unaware that He also spoke of people being deceived into offense, hatred, and falling away. In fact, Jesus taught that so many people will be offended...

Episode 173:Why We Need A Five-Fold Comeback Pastors cannot move a flock into breakthrough. Prophets cannot do it all. Evangelists are insufficient to finish the task. Apostles begin much, but usually aren’t equipped to finish the task alone. Teachers can tell us what, but rarely how or why or where. Do these statements offend you? They shouldn’t. God never intended the Kingdom mission to rest on...

Episode 172: When Do I Walk Away? There is only one Savior…and it is not you. Many Christians are surprised – even shocked! – to learn that the Bible communicates clearly that there are times to sever ties with certain types of people in our lives. While we live with the awareness that we are forbidden to live with bitterness and resentment toward others, the Scriptures are equally clear that we a...

Episode 171:Prophetic Download About the American Bride On Sunday October 15, 2023, Jeff Lyle received from God an intense word from the Lord as he was driving to church. Before releasing this word publicly, he sat on it for a week before sharing it with his wife. The only other place he has presently released it is this podcast. The inner vision revealed a bride in an unusual wedding gown on her...

Episode 170: Exiting Anxiety & Entering Peace Most of the world thinks of peace as the absence of conflict. Beyond that, many of those same people assume that peace is unattainable unless that absence of conflict is their current reality. Wouldn’t it be terrible if that were true? That would mean that would be zero possibility of peace unless everything in our lives was pleasant, friction-free...

Episode 169: The Mind: Renewal & Removal It is clear in Scripture that the world, the flesh, and the devil work in a concentrated effort to imprison people with deception. The difficult truth is that we do not rise above what we believe is true and prioritized. What we believe to be true owns us. While God has empowered us to defeat the enemies which seek to dominate our thinking, He expects u...

Episode 168: Mind Games We typically live to the fullest along the lines of what we believe to be the truest. This is awesome news if you are in alignment with truth. It is devastating if what you unknowingly believe is actually false. The war for the mind is always atop the list of what the enemy seeks to win in our lives. Gratefully, we have divine power to destroy opinions and strongholds which...

Episode 167: Benefits of Praying in Tongues A concern often expressed by those who are skeptical of the gift of tongues is centered on what possible value there could be in praying in a language that you do not understand. More than once, I have been interrogated about whether or not it is good stewardship of my time to devote large portions of it to praying privately in tongues. For those who do...

Episode 166: Let’s Talk About Tongues What do you believe about speaking in tongues? For many, the subject is irrelevant to them on a practical basis. They do not speak in tongues, the church they attend does endorse the gift of tongues, and they simply do not see the benefit in the lives of those who say they speak in tongues. For other Christians, the practice of praying in tongues plays a signi...