The Unforced Gifts

Tanya shares a first-time public account of a 4:04 a.m. encounter with God that occurred in December of 2010 and reframed her view of the Holy Spirit, spiritual warfare, and divine alignment.  Scripture anchors a wake-up call to cruciform living, surrender in our methods and motives for obedience and a life defined by eternity including an exploration of: • A relationship with the Holy Spirit as o...

"To obey is better than sacrifice" 1 Samuel 15:22  Join us as we trace a straight line from Saul’s disobedience to the modern pull toward pride, people pleasing, and performative relevance, and we invite a return to divine alignment where obedience to God Himself is the measure of success. We end with a prayer of reconsecration to start 2026 with clean hands and a pure heart in the spiri...

Signs and wonders. These are the operative words for 2025 and here at the year's final exhale Tanya takes a moment to draw us back to one simple invitation: There is more—but the "more" often flows to those willing to risk it all for obedience and loyalty to God...those willing to pursue the purity of God's Presence above all else. This episode tells the story of this truth thr...

In episode 8 we continue our 4-part series covering 8 biblical ways to hear and know God's voice. This week our focus lies on circumstances and impressions as doorways to discernment. With insights from Tanya's new book, "Befriending God," we'll journey through the life of Moses and Joseph, uncovering how their experiences with God—marked by adversity and divine interventi...

Surprise! We interrupt our regularly scheduled micro-series for a very special live Q&A from the Befriending God pre-release gathering on February 7th. Join Tanya and Redeeming The Story board member Hannah Wood as they dive into God as our permanent home, the invitation of prayer, a healthy theology of suffering and other important topics related to Tanya's new book releasing February 11...

Join us as we continue our 4-part series exploring 8 biblical ways God befriends us, intimately, here in a Post-Eden world. In this very special episode, we explore wonder through the artistry of God as revealed in nature and science.  We also contemplate the power of music to draw us into intimacy with God through specific songs and musical moments found in Exodus, Psalms, 2 Kings and Revelation....

Join Tanya for a 4 part series chronicling 8 biblical ways God speaks and befriends us here in a transient, complex, Post-Eden world.  In this episode we contemplate what it means to abide in God as our permanent home.  Tanya also integrates a few choice excerpts from "Befriending God," releasing February 11th.  Pre-order physical copies/audio books here. Listen/Read Tanya's new You...

In Episode 4 we explore the practicalities of discerning God's voice and aligning life with Philippians 3:14 even when it requires courageous faith. We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

The upside-down reality of God's kingdom is found in Jesus' words in Matthew 5. God loves the unlikely and frequently overshadows human power structures to prove the last is first in His heart. In this episode Tanya shares family secrets and personal stories to this end. She also unveils an unlikely but beautiful development, 2 years in the making. https://www.tanyagodsey.com/befriending...

In this episode Tanya unpacks a beautiful experience with God that took place on March 24th of this year, an experience that runs parallel to 2 Corinthians 3:18 and holds a wealth of spiritual gold for those navigating seasons of change. The stories and insight within this episode will serve as a foundation for an important, forthcoming announcement, 2 years in the making. We'd love to connect...

Season 2 begins with a biblical and personal exploration of the foundational role spiritual fathers and mothers play in the family of God and in our understanding of what it means to be re-parented by Him in a Post-Eden world. Tanya discusses how these experienced mentors are not meant to become idols but models of goodness, offering their lives as living pictures of what it means to befriend God...

We culminate our special series of Advent reflections with Luke 2 as we contemplate the divinity and humanity of Emmanuel, God with us and celebrate the miracle of our Savior's birth. We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Join us for our third Advent reflection as we contemplate Mary's Song and the reality of God's upside-down kingdom. We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Join us for our second Advent reflection as we focus on divine expectancy based on select passages in Luke 1. We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Join us this Advent season for a vertically aligned reflective space. In the next four weeks we will ground our hearts in the scriptures and themes surrounding the arrival of the Messiah and the beauty and power of God’s supernatural plan to redeem the story of humanity. I hope you’ll join us as we make room in our hearts to contemplate, connect and respond to God in these special micro episodes....

Prepare to embark on a transformative spiritual journey as we unpack the profound implications of excellence versus perfectionism.  In episode six, we delve into how our yearning for Eden's perfection influences our attitudes and actions. We expose the roots of each concept and discover that perfectionism is fear-based, while excellence is rooted in love. Tune in to discover how to walk along...

Do you ever feel caught in a cycle of constant doing and achieving? In this episode we'll explore Sabbath surrender and what it means to embrace sacred rhythms of work and rest. We'll also acknowledge the tension that arises when we intentionally step away from our cultural obsession with productivity to observe a 24-hour period of rest. Join us as we contemplate the Sabbath as an act of...

Matthew 22:37-38 invites us to place our love for God at the forefront of everything we do.  When we prioritize this level of intimacy with Him in the secret place we encounter the antidote to the cultural illness of striving. We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Have you ever wondered what it truly means to 'abide' in God and live a vertically inclined life with Him? Join us as we explore what it means to live a life of relational attentiveness to God drawn from John 15:5. In this episode we focus on the unforced gifts of scripture, prayer and general revelation, through the wonder of the world God made, as conduits to remain tethered to Him as...

"What is my primary reward system?" This is the question that lies just beneath the surface of who we are and who we will become. The answer to this question will produce the invisible root system that determines what grows within our lives and how we invest our hearts, time, resources and relationships.   Jesus says in John 6:38 "For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will,...

In a "do more, try harder" culture of performance...welcome, as we cultivate a quiet space to notice the activity of God within us and around us. Join us for the journey of leaning in to a deeper, more vertically inclined life with God. We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.