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In this episode, we walk verse by verse through Matthew 5:27-48, where Jesus confronts lust, divorce, integrity, retaliation, and loving your enemies. This teaching unpacks what Jesus meant when He said righteousness begins in the heart, not just behavior. Discover how Christ calls believers to a deeper transformation, exposing hidden sin, redefining love, and inviting us into a life that looks impossible without grace. This episode is for anyone wrestling with obedience, holiness, and what it truly means to follow Jesus in a broken world. Today's Sponsors: ✅ BIRCH GOLD - Text CHAD to 989898 right now to claim your free info kit on gold. Protect your future today with Birch Gold. ✅ Home Title Lock - Go to https://hometitlelock.com/chadprather and use promo code CHAD to get a FREE title history report and a FREE TRIAL of their Triple Lock Protection! For details visit https://hometitlelock.com/warranty ✅ LEAN - Get 20% OFF WHEN YOU ENTER CHAD at http://TAKELEAN.com. That's code CHAD at http://TAKELEAN.com

In Matthew 5:17-30, Jesus appears to make the Law harder, not easier. Why would He do that? In this episode, we explore how Jesus fulfills the Law, why He confronts anger and lust at the heart level, and how true righteousness goes beyond outward religion. This message helps listeners understand the difference between performance-driven faith and heart-level transformation. Today's Sponsors: ✅ Patriot Mobile - https://patriotmobile.com/partners/chad ✅ LEAN - Get 20% OFF WHEN YOU ENTER CHAD at TAKELEAN.com. That's code CHAD at TAKELEAN.com ✅ BIRCH GOLD - Text CHAD to 989898 right now to claim your free info kit on gold. Protect your future today with Birch Gold.

In Matthew 5:12-20, Jesus shifts from blessing to backbone. He reminds His followers that joy in persecution is not denial of pain, it is confidence in reward. Then He tells them exactly who they are in the world, salt that preserves, light that exposes, and a city that cannot hide. This passage confronts the temptation to shrink back, blend in, or privatize faith. Jesus does not lower the standard of the Law, He fulfills it, and then calls His people to live in a righteousness that is visible, costly, and deeply faithful. This teaching challenges believers to endure with hope, influence with purpose, and live in a way that points unmistakably to the Kingdom of God. Today's Sponsor: ✅ First Cup - Use promo code CHAD at https://FirstCup.com

Jesus opens the Sermon on the Mount by redefining what it means to live a truly blessed life. In Matthew 5:1-9, He does not reward strength, status, or self-sufficiency. In this teaching, we walk through the Beatitudes as Jesus intended them, not as religious slogans, but as evidence of a transformed life. Today's Sponsor: ✅ Home Title Lock - Go to https://hometitlelock.com/chadprather and use promo code CHAD to get a FREE title history report and a FREE TRIAL of their Triple Lock Protection! For details visit https://hometitlelock.com/warranty

Scripture is clear that every believer will face seasons of testing, temptation, and spiritual resistance. Paul calls these moments "the evil day" and urges Christians to be prepared before it arrives. This teaching from Ephesians 6:10-24 explores what it means to be spiritually ready, how the armor of God functions in everyday life, and why standing firm matters more than reacting emotionally. This message offers practical steps for building spiritual endurance and confidence rooted in Christ. Today's Sponsor: ✅ BIRCH GOLD - Text CHAD to 989898 right now to claim your free info kit on gold. Protect your future today with Birch Gold.

What if authority is not about control, but stewardship? What if obedience is not weakness, but worship? In this teaching through Ephesians 6:1-9, we unpack how the gospel redeems power, purifies leadership, and forms integrity when no one is watching. From the home to the workplace, from parenting to leadership, this message confronts the misuse of authority, exposes performative obedience, and calls every role to live under the Lordship of Christ. Not louder faith. Deeper faith. Faith that shows up in the ordinary places where God does His most transformative work. Today's Sponsor: Poncho - www.ponchooutdoors.com/BEFORETHENOISE

Marriage was never meant to be just about compatibility, happiness, or survival. In Ephesians 5:21-33, Paul reveals marriage as a living picture of the gospel itself. In this teaching, we unpack what mutual submission really means, why biblical headship is about responsibility and sacrifice, and how love and respect function as daily, intentional choices. This episode offers clear, practical steps for husbands and wives who want their marriage to reflect Christ, not perfection, but faithfulness, humility, and grace lived out at home. Today's Sponsor! Birch Gold: Text CHAD to 989898 right now to claim your free info kit on gold. Protect your future today with Birch Gold.

In this teaching, we walk verse by verse through Ephesians 5:1-20 and confront the quiet drift that happens when identity is forgotten and holiness becomes optional. Paul reminds us that obedience flows from belonging, light exposes in order to heal, and wisdom requires intention in an age that numbs the soul. This episode challenges you to live as a beloved child, walk in love, and be filled daily with the Spirit instead of being shaped by the darkness around you.

Ephesians 4 is not theory, it is traction. This teaching walks straight into the gap between what we say we believe and how we actually live. Paul draws a hard line between the old self and the new, between mental drift and spiritual renewal, between reactive relationships and gospel-shaped maturity. Text CHAD to 989898 right now to claim your free info kit on gold. Protect your future today with Birch Gold.

Ephesians 4 is where belief turns into behavior and theology meets real life. In this one hour teaching, we move from identity to action, from unity to maturity, and from giftedness to daily transformation. Paul challenges believers not to earn their calling, but to live in alignment with it. We explore what it means to walk worthy of grace, how humility guards unity, why every believer is equipped for purpose, and how real spiritual growth shows up in our words, habits, and relationships. This is a call to stop spectating faith and start living it, not by trying harder, but by living truer to who Christ has already made us to be. Sponsor: Text CHAD to 989898 right now to claim your free info kit on gold. Protect your future today with Birch Gold.

What if your life is part of something far bigger than your circumstances, your struggles, or even your personal faith journey? In Ephesians 3, the apostle Paul pulls back the curtain on God's eternal plan, a plan hidden for ages and now revealed in Christ. This teaching walks through that chapter as a living, breathing reality, not abstract theology, but truth meant to shape how believers see themselves, the Church, and the world. Today's Sponsors: ✅ First Cup - https://FirstCup.com ✅ Birch Gold - Text CHAD to 989898

Most Christians believe in grace, but still live like everything depends on them. In this teaching through Ephesians 2, we walk step by step through what it actually means to be made alive by God, not improved, not fixed up, resurrected. We expose why shame driven effort keeps believers stuck, how grace reshapes identity before behavior, and why salvation was never meant to end with forgiveness alone. Today's Sponsors: ✅ Patriot Mobile - https://patriotmobile.com/partners/chad ✅ American Financing - Call American Financing today to find out how customers are saving an avg of $800/mo. 888-961-4143 or visit http://www.AmericanFinancing.net/Chad, NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org

What if the most important things about your life were decided before you ever took a breath? In this teaching we step back into eternity to discover who God is, who we are in Christ, and why security, clarity, and courage are meant to define the Christian life. This message walks through God's eternal choosing, our adoption as sons and daughters, the sealing work of the Holy Spirit, and the exalted reign of Jesus over all things. If you are tired of striving, unsure of your standing with God, or living beneath your spiritual inheritance, this teaching will realign your heart and restore your confidence in what God has already accomplished.

What does it look like to live in such a way that you can finish well, not loudly, not comfortably, but faithfully? Drawing from Acts 20, this teaching walks through one of the most personal and sobering moments in the New Testament. Paul stands at the edge of suffering, speaks to the leaders he loves, and defines success in a way that cuts against modern assumptions. This session explores the kind of life that does not shrink back, the inner discipline required to guard your soul before leading others, the discernment needed to recognize subtle distortions of truth, and the eternal perspective that allows a believer to release control and trust God with the outcome. Today's Sponsors: ✅ Birch Gold - Text CHAD to 989898 right now to claim your free info kit on gold. Protect your future today with Birch Gold.

Today's Sponsors: ✅ Birch Gold - Text CHAD to 989898 What happens when faith stops being theoretical and starts changing real lives? In Acts 19:23-41, the gospel does more than spark debate, it disrupts an entire city. As idols are exposed and economic systems feel the pressure, chaos erupts in Ephesus. This teaching explores how the gospel quietly dismantles false gods, why cultural resistance is often a sign of genuine transformation, and what it looks like to live with a faith that actually costs something. Discover how long obedience, quiet confidence, and unwavering truth still shake marketplaces today.

In Acts 19:1-27, the gospel collides head-on with a culture built on false gods, spiritual counterfeits, and economic self-interest. This teaching walks through Paul's ministry in Ephesus, exposing the difference between inherited belief and Spirit-filled faith, surface repentance and costly surrender, religious noise and transforming truth. As the word of the Lord prevails, idols fall, systems shake, and lives are reordered around Christ. This message calls believers to examine their foundations, embrace daily formation, practice decisive repentance, and trust the quiet but unstoppable power of the gospel to disrupt what we worship and reshape how we live. Sponsors: Birch Gold Group Text CHAD to 989898 right now to claim your free info kit on gold. Protect your future today with Birch Gold.

Acts 18:18-28 reveals how God advances His kingdom not only through dramatic moments, but through steady obedience, quiet devotion, humble correction, and faithful discipleship. This teaching explores Pauls submission to Gods will, the unseen faithfulness of Priscilla and Aquila, and the teachable humility of Apollos. Together, they show how the gospel grows strong in the ordinary spaces between the big moments, calling believers to live disciplined, obedient, and others-centered lives that finish well. Today's Sponsors: ✅ American Financing - Call American Financing today to find out how customers are saving an avg of $800/mo. 888-961-4143 or visit http://www.AmericanFinancing.net/Chad, NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org Get full access to Glorify for just $29.99 for the entire year. That's Glorify's lowest price ever, when you download the Glorify app now at http://glorify-app.com/BEFORETHENOISE

In this episode, we walk through Acts 18:1-17 and discover how God advances His kingdom through ordinary obedience, quiet courage, and long faithfulness. Paul arrives in Corinth weary and opposed, yet God meets him in the workbench, the synagogue, and a midnight word of reassurance. This teaching explores what it means to serve without applause, speak even when fear whispers silence, and trust that God is already at work in places that seem resistant. If you feel overlooked, worn down, or hesitant to speak truth in a hostile culture, this message will remind you that God is with you, He has people you have not met yet, and faithfulness in the ordinary is never wasted.

Athens was full of idols, brilliant minds, and endless conversation, yet something was missing. In Acts 17:16-34, Paul steps into a culture saturated with ideas and draws a line that still confronts us today. This episode explores how misplaced worship shapes identity, why reasoning matters more than reacting, and how the resurrection of Jesus forces a decision that cannot be postponed. From modern idols hiding in plain sight to the quiet danger of spiritual delay, this teaching calls listeners to wake up to the nearness of God and live with resurrection awareness. The question is not whether we worship, but who, and how that allegiance is shaping the way we live right now. Birch gold - Text CHAD to 989898

In Acts 17:1-16, Paul and Silas step into cities shaped by power, philosophy, and idolatry, and the gospel immediately creates tension. This teaching walks through how truth confronts culture, why resistance often follows faithfulness, and what it means to proclaim Jesus as King in a world full of competing loyalties. Drawing from the example of the Bereans and Paul's burdened heart in Athens, this message offers clear, practical steps for anchoring your faith in Scripture, cultivating discernment, engaging culture without compromise, and living with intentional allegiance to Christ in everyday spaces.

Acts 16:16-40 reveals what happens when the gospel collides with spiritual deception, cultural systems, and personal suffering. This teaching series walks through the clash point by point, from discerning voices that sound right but come from the wrong spirit, to worshiping in the dark when obedience leads to chains instead of comfort. Birch Gold Text Chad To 989898 Glorify App

Acts 16:16-40 reveals what happens when the gospel collides with spiritual deception, cultural systems, and personal suffering. This teaching series walks through the clash point by point, from discerning voices that sound right but come from the wrong spirit, to worshiping in the dark when obedience leads to chains instead of comfort. Today's Sponsors: ✅ Birch Gold - Text CHAD to 989898 ✅ American Financing - Call American Financing today to find out how customers are saving an avg of $800/mo. 888-961-4143 or visit http://www.AmericanFinancing.net/Chad, NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org

What do you do when the Holy Spirit shuts doors you were sure God wanted open? In Acts 16:6-15, Paul learns that divine guidance often comes through restraint before redirection. This teaching explores how God leads His people through closed doors, partial clarity, and quiet obedience, and how the gospel's first steps into Europe began not with a crowd, but with a prayer meeting by a river and a woman whose heart the Lord opened. Discover how to discern God's leading without forcing outcomes, how to stay faithful when clarity feels incomplete, and how small acts of obedience can carry world-changing significance.

This episode walks slowly through Acts 16:1 to 5 to uncover a forgotten rhythm of the Christian life, formation before platform, obedience before recognition, and strength before growth. Through the relationship between Paul and Timothy, we explore why submission, mentorship, and restraint are not obstacles to calling but essential tools God uses to shape lasting faith. This teaching gently challenges modern American assumptions about success and brings us back to the heart of Jesus, who chose obscurity before impact and surrender before glory.

What do you do when godly people disagree, restoration takes time, and separation feels like failure? In this teaching from Acts 15:36-41, we explore how discernment works when there is no villain, no scandal, and no clear right or wrong. This episode walks through how to handle conflict without condemnation, extend grace without enabling, and release relationships without carrying guilt. You will learn how God multiplies the mission through obedience, even when paths diverge, and how to move forward with humility, courage, and trust when resolution does not look the way you expected.

In this teaching from Acts 15:22–35, we explore how the early Church navigated deep disagreement without fracturing the body or compromising the gospel. This message unpacks the difference between essential truth and cultural preference, how Christian freedom can either build up or divide, and what Spirit led discernment looks like in real community. You will learn how to steward your freedom with love, make wise decisions without urgency or pressure, and protect unity while staying anchored in grace. This teaching offers clear biblical insight and practical steps for churches, families, and believers who want to walk in truth without losing peace.

Faith was never meant to feel crushing. In this teaching from Acts 15, we get practical about why grace can feel uncomfortable, how fear quietly turns faith into performance, and where we unintentionally add weight that God never required. We explore how to recognize legalism in our own lives, how to stop placing unnecessary expectations on ourselves and others, and how to guard biblical truth without becoming harsh, divisive, or controlling. This episode offers clear, grounded guidance for living with conviction, walking in freedom, and helping others move toward God without making the journey heavier than it needs to be.

What happens when obedience costs more than you expected? In Acts 14, Paul and Barnabas preach boldly, face fierce opposition, reject false glory, and endure real suffering, yet the mission never stops. This episode walks through belief and backlash, praise and persecution, and the kind of resilient faith that gets back up after being knocked down. If you have ever wondered whether resistance means you missed God, this teaching will reframe hardship as part of faithfulness and remind you that God's presence is not proven by comfort, but by courage to keep obeying.

Acts 13:13-52 captures a decisive turning point in the mission of the early church. Leadership shifts, courage is tested, and Paul delivers a gospel message rooted in Israel's history and fulfilled in Jesus Christ. As hunger rises and opposition intensifies, the gospel moves beyond familiar boundaries and explodes into the wider world. This passage shows how faithfulness precedes fruitfulness, how grace confronts religion, and how obedience to God's mission requires both bold proclamation and the willingness to turn when God redirects.

What do you do when someone walks away? Acts 13:13 is only one verse, but it exposes a truth every leader and believer eventually faces. Not everyone who starts with you will finish with you. In this episode, we walk through the quiet fracture in the early church when John Mark leaves Paul and Barnabas, and what that moment teaches us about leadership, endurance, failure, and restoration. This is a raw, honest conversation about staying faithful when the excitement fades, the team gets smaller, and obedience starts to cost more than you expected. https://Preborn.com/prather

What happens when the church stops chasing strategy and starts listening to the Spirit? In Acts 13:1-12, we see a church that worships before it plans, leaders who are set apart by God, and a gospel that advances in the face of spiritual opposition. This episode walks through how God still speaks today, how to discern false spiritual authority that disguises itself as truth, and how believers are called to stand with courage and clarity when deception resists the gospel. This is a practical and sobering call to rebuild spiritual attentiveness, recognize subtle opposition, and walk in Spirit-filled authority for the sake of Christ and His mission.

Acts 12:19-25 pulls back the curtain on how God truly governs history. As King Herod reaches the height of his power and accepts glory that belongs to God alone, his rule collapses in an instant. Yet while thrones fall and rulers fade, something far greater is happening quietly in the background, the Word of God is increasing and multiplying. In this episode, we walk through the sobering downfall of pride, the danger of stolen glory, and the unshakable reality of God's sovereignty over human power. More importantly, we are reminded where the church's focus must remain, not on reacting to collapsing systems, but on faithfully advancing the mission of Christ. This teaching calls believers to live anchored lives in chaotic times, resisting fear, rejecting pride, and investing in what is eternal. Kings come and go. God reigns. And His Word keeps moving forward.

Many believers pray faithfully yet struggle to see when God has already begun to move. Acts 12 shows a praying church asking for deliverance while the answer stands outside the door. This teaching offers practical insight into how disappointment, delay, and fear can dull spiritual expectation, and how to realign faith to recognize God's work in real time. Rooted in Scripture and everyday experience, it equips listeners to move from cautious prayer to confident obedience, from explaining away breakthroughs to stepping fully into them. Sometimes the breakthrough is not about praying harder, but about opening the door when God answers.

Acts 11:19-30 reveals a truth the modern church often avoids, God advances His mission through pressure, not comfort. What looked like persecution and disruption became divine placement. If your life feels disrupted, displaced, or unsettled, this message reframes pressure as purpose and calls you to see where God has sent you, not just what you have lost.

In this episode, we walk through Acts 11:1-18 and confront a truth the early church had to learn the hard way, God often moves beyond our expectations, categories, and comfort. Peter is challenged, criticized, and forced to explain himself after crossing boundaries he once believed honored God. What follows is not an argument, but a revelation. This teaching explores the tension between tradition and obedience, discernment and control, caution and faith. It challenges listeners to examine where sincerity may be resisting the Spirit.

In this episode, we explore how God confronts our assumptions, orchestrates divine appointments, and pours out His Spirit in places we never expected. This episode dives deep into spiritual blind spots, the movement of the Holy Spirit, and the breathtaking truth that Jesus is Lord of all. Chad walks through Acts 10 and unpacks one of the most explosive turning points in the story of the early church. What begins with a Roman soldier praying in Caesarea becomes the moment God dismantles the walls in Peter's heart and reveals the unstoppable reach of the gospel.

What does it take to stand when the world shakes? And how do you hear God when life is loud? In this episode, Chad delivers a motivational deep dive into biblical stability and spiritual discernment. You will discover why stability is not a personality trait but a construction project God builds in you through His Word, His presence, and His Spirit. Then you will learn how to recognize the Shepherd's voice in a distracted age. This is a fresh, equipping, and intimate teaching designed to strengthen your faith and sharpen your ears

In this teaching from Acts 9:32-43, Chad Prather explores the breathtaking stories of Aeneas and Tabitha, two believers whose lives were transformed not just by the miracle itself, but by what God intended after the miracle.

In this powerful teaching, we walk through Acts 9:20-43 and watch the gospel break open entire cities through ordinary believers who were surrendered to the Spirit. From Saul's explosive transformation and bold proclamation, to Peter's miracles in Lydda, to Tabitha's compassion in Joppa, this episode uncovers the pattern God still uses to awaken communities today.

In this episode we walk through Acts 9 with fresh eyes, tracing the moment God stepped into Saul's destructive momentum and rerouted both his destiny and the future of the church. Through four connected segments, we explore not only the collision on the Damascus Road, but the inner reconstruction that follows, the quiet disciples who shape the story behind the scenes, and the larger spiritual pattern God uses when He interrupts entire cultures.

If you've ever wondered whether God can use you, whether seekers still exist, or whether your past disqualifies you from the kingdom, this message will breathe fresh hope into your spirit. Desert roads are not empty. God meets people there. And He still sends Philips to reveal Jesus to the one who is ready. In this episode, we journey through one of the most intimate and supernatural encounters in the book of Acts as Philip meets the Ethiopian eunuch on a desert road. What begins with a simple command from God becomes a story of obedience, hunger, redemption, and identity rewritten by the gospel.

In this episode, we journey through Acts 8:9-25 and uncover one of the most overlooked but essential lessons in the Christian life: God is far more interested in transforming the heart than empowering the hands. Through the story of Simon the Sorcerer, we explore the difference between spiritual hunger and spiritual ambition, the subtle ways old identities follow us into new faith, and the danger of seeking the gifts of God without surrendering to the God who gives them.

In this powerful episode, we walk straight into Acts 8 and uncover one of the most overlooked patterns in the entire New Testament. The early church was not expanded by comfort, strategy, or structure. It was expanded through scattering. What looked like persecution became God's plan for multiplication. This episode will challenge your comfort, confront your excuses, and call you into the kind of faith that turns chaos into mission.

In this episode we walk deep into Acts 7, not as spectators but as students of a moment that changed the early church. Stephen stands before a hostile crowd, speaks truth with fearless clarity, sees the glory of God, and becomes the spark that ignites the greatest gospel movement in history.

In this deep-dive, Chad breaks down Acts 6 and shows how the early church turned conflict into clarity, pressure into purpose, and chaos into Spirit-led structure. This episode uncovers the enemy's strategy to divide you in the details, the rise of Stephen as a model of ordinary faithfulness turned extraordinary influence, and the Spirit-led systems that sustain revival in your life. If you're feeling stretched, distracted, or spiritually overwhelmed, this teaching will help you get aligned, get filled, and get focused.

This powerful teaching dives beneath the surface of holiday sentiment and into the deeper biblical reality of gratitude as a spiritual discipline and a weapon of warfare. This message explores how gratitude becomes an act of defiance against despair, a pathway to healing, and a return to the feet of Jesus.

In this explosive episode, we walk through Acts 5:17-42 and uncover the heartbeat of the early church: bold, Spirit-filled disciples who refused to bow to pressure, fear, or intimidation. From prison cells to public courts, from angelic deliverance to brutal beatings, this chapter reveals the clash between human authority and divine authority, the transforming power of suffering for the name, and the unstoppable momentum of the gospel when ordinary believers live with extraordinary obedienc

In this gripping and deeply convicting episode, we step into the heart of Acts 5 and witness what happens when the Spirit of God refuses to let the early church drift into image, pretense, or comfortable religion. From the sobering story of Ananias and Sapphira to the explosive signs and wonders that followed, Scripture gives us a radical picture of a Spirit filled community where holiness is not a burden, but the doorway to power. We explore how God purifies His people, why the fear of the Lord is not an obstacle to revival but the foundation of it, and how unity, honesty, and surrender opened the floodgates for miracles so real that even Peter's shadow carried an atmosphere of heaven. This is not a nostalgic glance into the past. It is a blueprint for the church today.

In today's episode we dive into Acts 4:1-22, the moment the gospel collided head-on with the powers determined to shut it down. Peter and John stand before the same council that sent Jesus to the cross, yet this time these fishermen are unshaken, unafraid, and filled with a courage that can only come from the Spirit of God. We unpack why the religious leaders were threatened, how the resurrection shattered their grip on control, and why boldness becomes the natural overflow of a life that walks closely with Jesus. This teaching exposes the fear, the intimidation, the political pressure, and the spiritual authority at play in this passage, and then brings it straight into your world with practical steps for living with conviction, clarity, and confidence in a culture that would rather you stay silent. This is a call to stand firm, speak truth, and live as someone who has truly been with Jesus.

This episode takes you straight into Acts 3 where a lame man is lifted, a crowd is confronted, and Jesus authority is revealed through ordinary disciples who simply stopped long enough to see people. Chad breaks down the miracle at the Beautiful Gate, the power of Jesus name in a self made culture, and why your life was meant to be living evidence. This is a full hour of biblical fire, practical truth, and Holy Spirit clarity that calls you to walk slower, see deeper, and step boldly into the interruptions God uses to change lives.