The Spacious Room

Kicking off my new series 'Fruits of the Spirit' acclaimed Australian artist, Kirsty Neilson shares her journey of how she learned to connect to God's higher love, dig deep in her obedience which helped her faith grow so she was able to push past disappointments and dare to dream. Kirsty reveals how we need to keep going through the unknown parts of our journey, find our slipstream and not be afra...

Today I'm chatting with my good friend, Leonie Schlosser about overcoming church hurts and wounding. Leonie shares some of her struggles about feeling seen and included and how the rejection from other believers effected her faith. However, through the power of grace and forgiveness she was able to stop running and let Jesus use these experiences to see other Christians who are struggling in this...

How do you find God in your mess? Today, in my Wounded And On The Run Conversations, we are unpacking how you can heal from the deep wounding which comes from rejection with Generosity Guy, Kieran Johnson.  Kieran is the State Manager in Western Australia and South Australia for Opportunity International Australia, an organisation that is ending poverty one family and one community at a time. Kier...

So, you've been going along quite nicely in your leadership walk and then all of a sudden, BOOM! God asks you to do something. However, you're not keen and it's making you want to run in the other direction! As leaders, we want change, we want to see change, and yes, we want to be the change. And yet, God will send a storm and a whale to change us from the inside out first so that the chaos inside...

Excited about this week's Leaders Talk episode as I'm chatting with my dear friend, Ivana McNeil. Wife, mother, and campus pastor, Ivana shares her hard-won wisdom on what it means to become a leader who is prepared to take a stand. A leader, like Queen Esther, who choose to lay down her own needs to help others when that big faith moment came. 

Joining me in the Spacious Room Leaders Talk this week is my good friend, Leonie Schlosser. Wife, mother, and worship leader, she has learned to let others hear her life song. Drawing on the life and leadership of Miriam, we chat about the battle cry of worship, packing your tambourine, and how through the struggle and hard places we can learn, regardless of our singing ability, to become worship...

How does the importance of being in God's presence help you to delegate well and avoid burnout as a leader? This week's Leaders Talk Episode on the Spacious Room, I'm chatting with my good friend, Elizabeth Chapman, wife, mother, author of multiple books, and founder of DOLL Ministries. Elizabeth is an influential voice in my life and I'm sure as your listen to her nuggets of wisdom on how she has...

Kicking off the Spacious Room leaders talk podcasts for 2024, is my dear husband, Philip Parker. From leadership in the Royal Navy, to the market place, and leading teams in church life, he shares his nuggets of wisdom on how and why good team building is an important part of leadership. "Valuing the person rather than the job" is Philip's way of telling a different story, as coming alongside some...

We pray and we listen. We position overselves to hear the voice of God. We feel His presence when He speaks to our void, vacant spaces. He takes us on a journey and shares His dreams for our lives. He takes our inadequacy, our loss, our sinful ways, and moulds them into something beautiful and good. 

Understand that the vision you carry, the blueprint for seeing your dream come to pass is your prized possession. Sharing this prized possession with the wrong people can sterilize your dream causing you to go off course by ten degrees. Doesn't seem much, however, stroking egos rather than stoking the fires of a dream can lead you into trouble. Just ask king Hezekiah!  

Where do you need to stop striving and doing things in your own strength? Spending some unhurried, uncomplicated time with God causes you to become undone, as those subtle cues He laid out previously that you either ignored or were totally ignorant and unaware of have now become as obvious as an elephant sitting in the corner of a room. I know what you're thinking, an unhurried, uncomplicated, und...

In today's episode, I talk about pain. When we get real with God, it won't hurt forever and the pain from our wounds will evenually be healed into silence. Because it's the scars that are left behind that tell our stories helping others to find their healing too. 

I'm sure there is a big diffrence where you sit and where I sit.  Nevertheless, God's word and His presence meets us both, right where we're at, when we stop for a moment and selah  with Him for a while. Purposefully, intentionally and unhurried moments. God promises to help all those who seek Him.  

"How do you come up with the ideas?" This is the most asked question I get asked as a writer. Trying to be cutting-edge, innovative, and inspiring is the underlying current of what drives the vision and productivity of many creatives. So, to all the creatives today, if you're finding that you've become immersed in the murky waters of weariness and fatigue in your creative endeavours, don't worry,...

Have you ever shared a struggle with someone and while you're sharing you suddenly hear the words coming from your own lips are the lies you've been telling yourself? Lies. Hmmm, regardless how small they may seem, they tend to drip out of our mouths like a leaky tap. The fact that you've been happily doing your thing, minding your own business and keeping your head down, should give the enemy now...

What have you started to rebuild but stopped the 'great work' out of fear and discouragement?  Plans and proposals aren't what gets the enemy rattled. All our 'I'm gonna do's...' and 'I'm planning to's...' are not enough for the enemy to raise even one of his eyebrows let alone break out in a cold sweat. However, when all his intimidation tactics don't succeed and nothing he does causes you to dow...

We can develop a habit of hiding from others rather than a habit of hiding in God. But what happens when you've been singled out by God and He says,  "This is the one" and after you've been anointed you feel left out, looked over, devalued, and discarded? What then? Do you keep hiding, never finding the boldness and courage to step into your destiny? Or, do you develop a habit of hiding in God whi...

Do we stick with the strategic strategy of God in our prayers and wait on His perfect timing. or do we take matters into our own hands?  You see, the tempation comes when God promised to come to our rescue and He ends up being a no-show. It can be disappointing, to say the least. However, our lack of obedience is really a lack of trust in seeing God come through with a miracle. It's not that God i...

Feel like you've missed the memo on your calling? Tired of getting distracted and confused as to where to go in the next phase of your journey? Perhaps it is because you've been too busy chasing donkeys.  Well don't worry, you're not alone. Before Saul became the first king of Israel, he was busy chasing donkeys. That was until he met the prophet, Samuel, and then everything changed. 

Our posture is important to God. If our external posture has been bent out of shape becasue of all our try-hard, people-pleasing, performance-based striving, then perhaps an internal check up is needed. Transformation starts with our internal posture and the renewing of our minds. The Apostle Paul tallks about the transforming power of the gospel and how the renewing of our mind is the key to a li...

Feeling flat today? A little joyless and unmotivated?  Well, on today's episode, I share three ways that will help restore your joy. Three top tips that the Enemy does not want you to excerise in your faith! So, if you're pumping up those balloons and getting ready to throw a self-pity party becasue you've allowed the Enemy to steal your joy, then put down that balloon inflater and join me in the...

To set a miracle in motion we sometimes need the right person, the right place, and the right time to all come into alinement. Offering to water ten thristy camels in the nautral did not look like a miracle at all, but the supernatural power of God set a miracle in motion for Rebekah that changed her life forever. 

Struggling with doubt? Allowing that inner critic to gnaw away at your confidence and have the last say on your calling? Don't worry, you're not alone in your struggle because even prophets can get a little worn down and weary in what they've been called to do. If there is a fire in your bones and you're finding that the enemy is trying to snuff out those flames, then listen in to my episode today...

In Proverbs 14:1 it says that a wise woman builds her house but a foolish one tears it down.  But how does a wise woman build her house ? Brick by Brick !

When we view God as our biggest fan we become the centre of attention and not Him. If we continue in this thinking then a disconnection of the lines in whose will is going to be done in our relationship with God finds us drawing our own conclusions. On today's episode I share how we can flip this script and show you how to become God's biggest fan.