Episode 33: Abused and Broken, Redemption in Adoption - Melissa's story
Release Date: 06/10/2019
Prayer Series: Church Neighborhood Prayer Walk
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This episode was curated for the neighborhood around our church. These scriptures include ones to pray over the community but also to the workers God is calling to labor in these fields.
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Prayer Series: The Battle in Depression, Anxiety, and Physical Sufferings
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Depression, mental illness, & physical suffering our ever present right now. These scriptures are meant to ignite our prayers in faith and illuminate God’s words about how he cares, interacts, and feels about his children suffering. Psalm 46:1-3, Rom 8:38-39, Psalm 139:7-12, Psalm 57:1, Matthew 11:28-30, Psalm 91:1-6, 1 Peter 5:6-11, Psalm 143, John 14:1, 16-19, 27, John 16:33, Romans 8:24-28, Jeremiah 29:11-13, Isaiah 40:28-31, Isaiah 43:1-3a, Philippians 4:6-8, 1 Peter 1:6, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
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Prayer Series: The Battle for My Kids - Raising up the Next Generation
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This episode is a set of scriptures that I desire to pray over my own children. More than anything, I want them to know God and walk with God. Oh that we could see a new generation with hearts set on the Lord!
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Prayer Series: Battle for Children - Rescue the oppressed and bring justice
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Plead for God to rescue oppressed children you know specifically or in mass ways around our city, nation, and world.
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Prayer Series: The Battle for Souls - Salvation for our friends and neighbors
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This episode was inspired after asking God how to pray for my friends that do not know the truth about Jesus. Jesus is fully God (part of the Trinity), fully man, and has existed for all eternity. He alone brings salvation! Scriptures include:
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Prayer Series: The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. Help!
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James 5:16 "Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective."
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Season 3 – If my people who are called by my name… Could this be the beginning of new stories?
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What if a group of people started crying out to God to move, according to His word, in the lives of the people around them? What if we started crying out to God to free the captives of false religion, abuse, human trafficking, idolatry, depression, injustice, and the list goes on? What if the Church unified over praying scriptures and jointly asking God to do the same things in our day?
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Provision in the Waves of Grief and in the Midst of Loss - Kate's Story
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We are closing out season 2 with an interview with my cousin Kate. If you listened last week, you heard her mother, Judy share her story. Kate shares how Jesus redeemed her from an early age and taught her to trust in him no matter the circumstances. Her faith was put to the test when her husband, Doug, suddenly passed away, leaving her as a single mom of a 20 month old. Kate shares how God showed his love and grace through very tangible means over the last 11 years.
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Judy's Story - My Hope is Built on Nothing Less
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Today we get to hear from my aunt, Judy. She is 79 years old and has been one of my heroes of the Christian faith. How often to we get to hear the stories of one who has walked with Jesus for 70 years? Judy shares how God’s word and grace have sustained her and enabled her to live a life of blessing even through a stroke that paralyzed her from the waist down 20 years ago.
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Jesus Redeems it All! - Jana Rae's story
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Jana Rae speaks about the power and grace of God protecting her and carrying her through her younger years of running from God. She started following God as a single mom and later married a man that cared deeply for her and her daughter but was not a follower of Jesus. Fast forward.. and this past December, Jana Rae got to see 32 years of prayer answered seeing her husband step into a relationship with God.
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So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”
Romans 8:15 NLT
Today we hear from my friend Melissa living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Melissa experienced a lot of trauma and brokenness as a young child, including sexual abuse from her great grandfather, an elder in the church. She bravely shares of the deep impact of the abuse. Even in her hardest moments, God never left Melissa's side.
As a teenager, she was taken in by a friend’s family which set her on a new track and gave her a vision for foster care and adoption. God is healing and redeeming Melissa and her family for generations to come.
I was so encouraged by the redemptive work in Melissa’s life and how God has used her trauma from the past to bring life to those around her.
I hope you are encouraged by Melissa’s story too.