Monday Musings Podcast

I was recently asked, how do I know I'm hearing from God? So, I broke down in this week's musing how that happens for me during one of my most fearful moments. I hope this encourages you that God's voice is real, and He is still speaking to the heart of His children today.

Often, the longer we are married, we believe there is nothing left to discover about our spouse. That is a dangerous place to be. God is a God who never runs out of wonder! Never! This is the God who makes no two snowflakes the same, and no sunset. So, is it any surprise He has made us so unique that our whole life will afford more to be discovered? Believing this, asking God to give you His eyes...

I never dreamed when I picked up this sport all God was going to reveal to me and help me reclaim. It has also been a real lesson in human behavior. No matter the age, God is still working things out in our hearts. Sometimes, He can even use the pickleball court.

Have you ever set aside some time at the beginning of the year to hear the voice of God? Get a word from Him to govern your year? Today, I'm going to share with you how you can begin to discern if God has a word for you to start out your year.

Do you have any residual disappointment from the holidays? The person who wasn't there? The painful conversation? The person who never called? I found myself dealing with lingering disappointment. In an honest conversation, this is how I process it with Jesus.

Often people will ask, "What do you do during your quiet time?" or "What devotional are you reading?" So, at the beginning of this new year, I thought it might be helpful to share a few things that help me engage the heart of God in my early morning quiet time. I hope it encourages you.

As we begin a new year, Monday Musings will have a new scaled-down version of our honest conversations. No production. Just you and me in a Monday morning conversation wherever I may be. I pray our times are just as treasured as they have been through all these many years. Also, remember, social media tends to give us no guarantees as to when they will change things up on us yet again. So to get t...

Jesus breaks it all down to us in these final words of the Sermon on the Mount.

It’s all in how you build whether you’ll be standing after the storms of this life. See, storms are guaranteed. Scripture says it rains on the just and the unjust alike. But very different results are available based on how we build. Let’s end where we began in this year of building stormproof.

God knows how to give good gifts. That’s why Jesus teaches us to ask, to seek, and to knock, and trust the heart of your Father.

Pigs and pearls are actually something Jesus talks about in the Sermon on the Mount. Not everyone can handle the holy moments of our hearts. Jesus makes it clear we need to be careful to whom we offer them.

It’s just so easy isn’t it… pointing out other people’s faults? Yet, Jesus knows so often we are pointing out people’s faults while pretending like we don’t have any.

What would you grab? What matters? What lasts?

In the Sermon on the Mount, in order to build stormproof Jesus tells us that fasting should be a part of our life. It’s important you realize the power in this piece of your arsenal as a follower of Jesus Christ.

Jesus begins and ends The Lord’s Prayer with telling us to focus on the bigness of our God. Knowing this gives us faith for everything in between.

He asked for Peter. He asked for Job. Why wouldn’t he be asking for us? That’s why Jesus tells us how to pray in regards to this enemy of our souls.

It really is, you know. It robs destiny and joy and it even robs God’s ability to bestow His best on us. Is it worth it?

The Message translation states “keep us alive with three square meals.” We know it as “give us this day our daily bread” in The Lord’s Prayer. We get so focused on the needs of tomorrow. But that is not how Jesus calls us to live or tells us to pray.

There is a very important reason Jesus tells us to begin prayer with knowing who our Father is. Let’s talk about it on this Monday morning.

We pray differently in different seasons. Sometimes they are raw. Sometimes it’s hard. Sometimes they are tender. But the most important thing is that we pray.

Another interruption in our series called Stormproof today, because sometimes you just need to. This week we talk about how the spirit of deception seems to be the spirit of this age.

From the schoolhouse to their bedroom, your child is bombarded by the enemy. A parent is their first line of defense. That’s why God chose you.

Could it be that much of what we are seeing today is because of a maturity problem in the Body of Christ? Isn’t that a sobering thought? God has been so patient with us. What is preventing us from being the mature Body of Christ we are called to?

It’s so hard to love those who truly desire our destruction. In fact, separate from Jesus, I would say it is impossible. But there really is a way to live in order to be stormproof even when an enemy rears their head.

It is so normal to want to get what is coming to us. Especially when we have been hurt or abused. But Jesus has called us to live a different way. Not always easy. But no less true.