Make Prayer Beautiful
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S3 Ep 305An Amazing Question to Ask Every Hour
And a bonus question: Does Amy so love the person in front of her that she gave Jesus to everyone she saw?
S3 Ep 304Incorporating New Things into Life
How wonderful, to receive gifts. Why is it challenging, to do it well?
S3 Ep 303The Goal in Relationship Is Not to Be Friction-Free
Even Jesus dealt with crunchy relationships. Why would I expect to have none?
S3 Ep 302The Lie That What Happened Before Will Happen Again
With snippets of The Happiness Advantage and Weston A. Price, because I like all of these things.
S3 Ep 301When the Grace to Live in a City Vanishes
One of the most helpful bits of information. https://happybooks.me/transition
S3 Ep 300The Power of Music to Shift an Environment … Both Obvious and Less Obvious
Thoughts from scripture, life, and teaching.
S3 Ep 299Measure Progress Against What You Did, Not What You Haven't Yet Done
The best thought from The Gap and the Gain.
S3 Ep 298Angelic Encounters That Don't Require Falling on One's Face in Fear
With much gratitude for all the angelic help, recognized and not recognized.
S3 Ep 297The Secret to Four Hour Prayer Hikes
How to stay mentally in the game? One suggestion!
S3 Ep 296The Challenge of Short Term Gain, Long Term Loss, Big Picture Thinking, and the GOAT Quarterback
The necessity of sacrifice.
S3 Ep 295God, Why Would You Not Speak to Your Daughter Who Is Hurting?
The honest question and the shocking reply.
S3 Ep 294The Face at the Back of the Sanctuary
Interesting question: are we ever supposed to hide from God?
S3 Ep 293The Goodness of God in the Most Horrible of Situations
Powerful, heart-wrenching, shocking.
S3 Ep 292The Sudden Snap Realization to Welcoming Dreaming
Even if they're odd, odd, odd … how not to get frustrated.
S3 Ep 291An Involuntary Seer Shares Some of His Experiences
All things come in seed form!
S3 Ep 290Supernatural Healing and Protection … Twice
A testimony … because if God did it once, he can do it again. More miracles, Lord!
S3 Ep 289Supernatural Direction in Timing and Treatment for Emergency Heart Surgery
Celebration and thanksgiving for answered prayers: a testimony of celebration.
S3 Ep 288Listening to the Lord for One Word on Behalf of Another
A type of "prophetic word" that anyone can do, good for encouragement, comfort, and exhortation.
S3 Ep 287Praying for Invisible Spears and Other Thoughts on the Parallel Realm We Inhabit
Questions about healing and completion. Not necessarily resolved … but at least asked.
S3 Ep 286The One of the Five-Fold Ministry I Struggled with Most … Until a Definition Restored It to Me
A second example of the need to look more deeply at the words people speak over us, and not assume we know what they mean.
S3 Ep 285The Word That Made Me Recoil … and the Curiosity That Restored It to Me
An example of the need to look more deeply at the words people speak over us, and not assume we know what they mean.
S3 Ep 284The Hidden Message in the Ringing in the Ears
Lord, let us hear your voice … in all the ways you speak!
S3 Ep 283Movement to Prepare a Space
Cartwheels, shimmies, round-offs, running, twirling … does a space need a burst of joy?
S3 Ep 282Prayer: A Skill to Develop or a Relational Gift to Live Out?
Clearly, a relational gift … but even in relationships, I suspect we have a need for skill.
S3 Ep 281When You Feel Like You're in a Snowglobe
When all your interior furniture has been moved aside … a few practical ideas. (Including: get a tube of Ignatia 200C!)
S3 Ep 280Levels of Challenge in Giving Prophetic Words
Pay attention to what the Holy Spirit highlights on a person? Or put on a blindfold and listen carefully?
S3 Ep 279Running to the Presence of the Lord
The invitation to come to the altar to repent, and all the complexity around that.
S3 Ep 278Outrageous Stories of an Invisible Scalpel, an Invisible Doorway, an Unexpected Instruction, and More
Mind-bending stories to wrestle through.
S3 Ep 277A New Day Is Coming … and What That Might Mean
An invitation to the builders and the pioneers: the Lord has need of you.
S3 Ep 276Inflection Points on the Journey of Hearing from God on Behalf of Others
Two people on the journey talk about what's made a difference for them.
S3 Ep 275Not Settling for the Weather You Don't Want
And the three day rain that turned the Brown Mountains green.
S3 Ep 274The Deeper Meaning of What Jesus Said to Nathaniel
What a gift, to have glimpses of how the Lord looks at us.
S3 Ep 273The Surprise of the PB&J Comment
A possible format for speaking comfort and encouragement … with a surprising twist.
S3 Ep 272The Need to See Reality, to Preserve and Protect
A plea for more prophetic sight.
S3 Ep 271The Nastiness in the Children's Play Area, and What Came of It
A testimony, a challenge, a warning, and an encouragement.
S3 Ep 270Why the Body of Christ Needs the Prophetic
Several stories of the saints.
S3 Ep 269No Two Prophetic Voices Are Alike
At a conference with about a dozen speakers, what a gift to see the tremendous range of the prophetic at work in the lives of people.
S3 Ep 268The Journey Out of Cessationism
A study of scripture revealed some surprising insights into signs, wonders, and miracles.
S3 Ep 267Without the Gifts of the Spirit, We Can Have a Clean Plate … But We Might Get Hungry
Scripture is full of examples of the messiness of hearing from God … and God keeps on speaking.
S3 Ep 266A Gutsy Request to the Ancient of Days
And one of the most powerful stories I've heard of sowing in the Spirit.
S3 Ep 265A Healing Prayer Journey: From Wheelchairs to Headaches
Consistency and persistence … for seven years.
S3 Ep 264Healing Prayer for Financial Shadows in the Past
A dramatic story of healing prayer.
S3 Ep 263A Meditation on Vocation
Sometimes the Lord invites us to do things that horrify us. That doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong. Fourteen Greats is now on sale (and for a few days, available at a reduced rate for the launch!). https://happybooks.me/jonah
S3 Ep 262Why the Vine Grew Up to Shield Jonah
When the Lord is after the long-game in your life, and not just the short-term relief from suffering. Fourteen Greats is now on sale (and for a few days, available at a reduced rate for the launch!). https://happybooks.me/jonah
S3 Ep 261The Unexpected Reason Jonah's Message Might Have Been Readily Received
Thinking about the science behind the biblical story. And Fourteen Greats is now on sale (and for a few days, available at a reduced rate for the launch!). https://happybooks.me/jonah
S3 Ep 260The Necessity of Speaking Aloud in Prayer?
Some thoughts, though I also welcome yours. [email protected]
S3 Ep 259Communion for (Not Quite) a Month, and Three Times a Week Is a Habit
Once again, getting comfortable with my imperfection.
S3 Ep 258Two Examples of Hearing the Voice of God
Do I sometimes make it harder than it needs to be?
S3 Ep 257Intentionally Filling the Airwaves
A burst of inspiration while singing and prayerwalking the streets.
S3 Ep 256Willingness But Hesitation to Pray Over a Women's Shelter
Assorted thoughts on sensitivity and putting oneself out there.