The greatest awakenings of our lives don’t come in the spectacular, they come in the mundane moments, the unexpected moments, and the hardest moments of our lives. Let's share an Awakening Moment today!
Episodes
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
In today’s episode, Rhonda and Lori talk about how to hear God speak personally. Rhonda shares a couple of prophetic messages from God from her journal and we know you will be encouraged as you listen!
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
In today's episode, Lori shares a Bible study from the Heartstrong off-season Lifegroup. This study is an invitation into a beautiful and difficult tension in the greatness of our God and the reality of our unanswered prayers.
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
In today's episode, Rhonda and Lori talk about their heart to empower others while letting you behind the scenes into some of the tensions in stewarding well their leadership in ministry and leading in their own families.
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Mentoring Moment 1: Part 6: Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” Luke 10: 27 - 28
Rooting your identity in being loved by God is the first step to loving others well. We love because God first loved us.
We root in God’s unconditional love for us, from that place we love God in return.
God loves you, the real you, so you can love the real you too.
Out of God’s love, we can love others well.
Truly loving others will fulfill the desire in us for significance.
Let’s Dig Deeper
Be honest about the parts you don’t love about yourself.
Invite God into the parts you don’t love about yourself.
Let God show you what He sees when He looks at you
Let God show you how He feels about those parts of you
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Mentoring Moment Series: Part 5: Love God with your strength (M1P5)
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
Luke 10: 27 - 28
“Our Body is our independent power source for action. It is the little “power pack” that God has assigned to us as the field of our freedom and development. It is the place from which we live.” Dallas Willard
Our physical bodies represent our physical doing, when our soul is submitted to Christ, our bodies will align to God’s will. There is a spiritual war between our physical & spiritual parts but when we walk in the spirit we can win over the fleshly desires.
The desires of the flesh are against that which will truly bring life, that is why we do the things we do not want to do and the things we want to do, we just don’t do. Being consistently disciplined is hard.
Loving God with your strength starts with showing up. You’ve got to show up in your physical body and be with God, be there for people, take care of your body, take care of God’s body (the church).
Stay in the present, in Christ there is enough strength for today. I can’t borrow strength from yesterday and I can’t pull strength from tomorrow.
Loving God with your strength must come from belonging, doing will never heal the soul.
Health Check Up:
Are you drinking enough?
Are you eating nutritiously
Are moving everyday?
Are you working from your own strength or God’s strength?
Are you depleted? Leave your burdens with the Lord
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Mentoring Moment: Part 4: Love God with your soul (M1P4)
Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12: 29-31
This instruction was first found in Deuteronomy 6:4 and it was called the Shema, which means to hear, to listen, and take action!
“The Soul encompasses and organizes the whole person, interrelating all the other dimensions of the self so that they form one person functioning in a flow of life. It’s like the computer that runs a business in the background.” Dallas Willard
The Soul is the most inner part of our being. We hide the soul space from God and others, we cover it with metaphoric fig leaves and hide behind trees because it’s the place where we are most known and most vulnerable. The soul space is where we are truly known, where we experience true intimacy with the Father. Let God into your soul space and He will heal you and you will become who you were always designed to be.
What is the soul?
How do we love God with our souls?
How do we care for our soul?
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
Mentoring Moment Series 1 (M1P3)
Part 3: Love God with your Mind
Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12: 29-31
“Our Mind is where thoughts and feelings originate. We get to choose what we think about which in turn affects our emotions. We live at the mercy of our ideas. This is never more true than with our ideas about God.” Dallas Willard
Mentoring Exercise:
This week keep a journal of everything that comes to your mind that is negative, ungodly or not God’s best for you. Do an inventory of these things.
Go back to your list and put a scripture or the truth of who God says you are and meditate on that. Ask God to help you think this way.
Other Books referenced in this podcast were Dangerous Prayers by Craig Groeschel and Your Mental Mess or Switch on Your Brain by Dr. Caroline Leaf.
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
In today's episode, Rhonda and Lori share their prophetic words for 2022. God is speaking and preparing us for what He has in store and we hope you are encouraged by these words today.
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Mentoring Moment 1
Part 2: Love God with your heart
37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22: 37- 39
How do you give and receive love?
What does it mean to love God with all your heart?
Why is love so vulnerable for you? Being Known
What are you afraid for God to Know about you?
Reflect on the hardest aspects of love for you in these 4 categories:
To receive from God,
To give to God,
To receive from others and
To give to others?
Do you struggle with being needy? Either too needy or not needy enough? How does this impact your relationship with God?
What is blocking the love of God in your life and through your life?
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Mentoring Moment 1
Part 1: Love God
Matthew 22: 37-39
37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
What was your relationship with Love Growing up? How was love shown, expressed, taught?
What do you believe it means when the Bible describes God as love?
What are some verses that talk about this great love?
Ephesians 3: 14-21, Ephesians 1:3-10, Romans 8:38-39, I John 4:8
What have you allowed to separate or disqualify you from God’s Love?
How do we love God when we have a nature that is inclined towards sin?
Read 1 John