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Have you ever heard a quiet voice inside say, "I can't live like this anymore"? That moment wasn't shame. It was God's gentleness. In this November episode on the fruit of the Spirit of gentleness, we look at the prodigal son's turning point in Luke 15:17, where he "came to himself," and how God uses kindness instead of condemnation to bring us home. In this episode: • Why clarity comes as an invitation, not an accusation (Romans 2:4) • How God's gentle whisper speaks before the noise does (1 Kings 19:11-13) • Why you only need the next step, not the whole map (Luke 15:18) Sponsored by Living With More Enterprises, a Christian publishing company. This episode includes a paid partnership.Write your story with Living With More Enterprises, a Christian publishing company. Book a $25 consultation, credited toward your contract if you move forward, and use code LWME26 for 10% off your overall publishing contract: livingwithmore.org/schedule-consultation Get The Fragmented Soul: https://a.co/d/08BuBwYD Share this episode with one person who needs to hear it, and find more at fruitfuljems.com. Scriptures: Luke 15:11-24, Romans 2:4, 1 Kings 19:11-13, Galatians 6:1

Sponsored by Living With More Enterprises, a Christian publishing company. The father’s grace was instant, but learning to live as His child takes time. If you’re returning to God after church hurt, backsliding, or a season of walking away, this episode is for you. Using Luke 15:19-22 and Romans 8:15 (AMP), we cover three teaching points:💎 Position changes in a moment, but wholeness is a walk💎 Relearn God as Father💎 Relearn the table You’ll also get one practical application to put into practice this week. Called to share your story? Living With More Enterprises is a Christian publishing company that helps authors publish their testimonies. A consultation is $25 and is credited toward your total contract balance. Use code LWME26 for 10% off the overall publishing contract. Book at https://livingwithmore.org/schedule-consultation/ The Fragmented Soul: Naomi’s story of healing is in my novel.💎 Amazon: https://a.co/d/01pEgMRx💎 Signed copies (limited supply): https://bit.ly/TheFragmentedSoul Stay polished 💎

💎 Sponsored by Living With More Enterprises, a Christian publishing company that helps authors share their stories. If God is faithful, why would He let you leave? In this solo teaching episode on faithfulness, we look at the prodigal son’s three reasons for walking away (wealth, independence, and pleasure) and see how the Father meets him in each one. In this episode:💎 God honors your choice, because His faithfulness doesn’t force💎 God stays in the distance, because you can’t outrun His presence💎 God gathers the broken pieces, because He runs to meet you Scripture: Luke 15:12-13, Luke 15:20, Psalm 139:7-10 (AMP) Called to share your story? Book a $25 consultation with Living With More Enterprises. It’s credited toward your contract if you move forward, and code LWME26 gets you 10% off your overall publishing contract (not the consultation fee).Book here: https://livingwithmore.org/schedule-consultation/ The Fragmented Soul, a novel loosely based on my testimony:💎 Amazon: https://a.co/d/0etvwXTs💎 Signed copy from me (limited supply): https://bit.ly/TheFragmentedSoul Stay polished 💎

This episode is sponsored by Living With More Enterprises. Faithfulness doesn't require seeing the whole path — just the willingness to take the next step. In this episode, author and speaker Lesley Carney joins us to talk about family restoration, forgiveness, and what it looks like to stay a child of God even when bitterness feels easier to hold onto. She also shares the story behind her book, From Bitter to Blessed: How God Transforms Pain into Purpose. 💎 Hear what real forgiveness requires💎 Walk through her journey from bitterness to purpose💎 Get a word of hope for the season you can't see through yet Connect with Lesley:lesleycarneyspeaks.com | IG/FB: @lesleycarneyspeaksBook: From Bitter to Blessed: How God Transforms Pain into Purpose Today's sponsor, Living With More Enterprises: Lesley's book started with a message worth sharing — yours could too. Book a $25 consultation (credited toward your contract if you sign) at livingwithmore.org/schedule-consultation — use code LWME26 for 10% off. Stay polished 💎

What does faithfulness look like when your heart has been broken? In this episode, Jacinta sits down with national Christian speaker Rebekah Storey for an honest conversation about forgiveness, bitterness, spiritual numbness, and finding your way back to joy — even after betrayal. If you've been struggling to forgive or wondering if joy is even possible after pain, this episode is for you. ✨ Sponsored by Living With More EnterprisesAre you an author ready to share your story? Book a $25 consultation — and if you sign a publishing contract, that fee becomes a credit toward your balance. 👉 https://livingwithmore.org/schedule-consultation/🎉 Use code LWME26 for 10% off your publishing contract! 🌿 Connect with Rebekah StoreyRebekah has 3 limited trial spots for her Burned Out Mom Challenge this October — a 5-day coaching experience via Zoom to help you stop running on fumes and find true rest. 🌐 http://www.rebekahstorey.com📘 https://www.facebook.com/rebekah.storey.2025📸 https://www.instagram.com/rebekahstorey/ 💎 Support Fruitful Jems MinistryBooks, Patreon, email list & more:👉 https://fruitfuljems.com/support

What if the thing you keep avoiding is actually protecting you? In this finale to our Faith series, we're unpacking why correction feels like a threat instead of protection, what delaying it really costs us, and why faith means responding now — through the story of a man who gave up everything he was promised for one moment of relief. Wounds gave us the why. Calling gave us the what. Correction gives us the urgency. Let's get refined. 💎 Sponsor: Living With More Enterprises — keep 100% of your royalties and full ownership of your work. Use code LWME26 for your consultation. https://livingwithmore.org/schedule-consultation/ Grab the books this series is built on, available on Amazon:From Faith 2 Faith — https://a.co/d/00knEg88The Fragmented Soul — https://a.co/d/03x5GMal 📖 Hebrews 12:9-17 | John 15:2 | Romans 8:1 (AMP)

You've left Egypt, but you're not in the Promised Land yet — and that in-between space is where the real war within happens. This week, we're talking about the two things that try to stop you in the middle: doubt about whether you're even qualified to obey God, and impatience when His timeline doesn't match yours. Rooted in Romans 7:18 and the story of Israel's wilderness murmuring in Numbers 21, this episode gives you one simple posture to carry through your own in-between: look up, and live. Mentioned in this episode:From Faith 2 Faith: A 45 Days Devotional (https://a.co/d/0elTIDQ3) and the novel The Fragmented Soul ( https://a.co/d/0d0g3RTh) — both available on Amazon Episode Sponsor: Living With More EnterprisesPublishing services for faith-filled authors ready to get their message out.Schedule a free consultation: https://livingwithmore.org/schedule-consultation/Use code LWME26 for 10% off their services. Stay polished 💎

This episode is sponsored by Living With More Enterprises. That's the question we're answering today. "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." (Psalm 147:3, AMP) This month's Refining Faith series continues with a teaching straight from Day 2 of my devotional, From Faith 2 Faith. We're unpacking the real difference between a wound and a scar — and why your faith can't be refined until you know which one you're carrying. 💎 What the Hebrew words behind "brokenhearted" and "bind up" really mean💎 Why unhealed wounds distort how you see God💎 What Jesus' resurrected scars teach us about ownership of our story Mentioned in this episode:💎 From Faith 2 Faith: A 45 Days Devotional → https://checkout.square.site/merchant/VBAT5B66A0SAP/checkout/UTWBOZIM3NQ6VPVQ2ZZQFXE6💎 The Fragmented Soul (novel) → https://checkout.square.site/merchant/VBAT5B66A0SAP/checkout/M3TGTX4DRXVV5BNOXPHW5NZK Thank you to our sponsor, Living With More Enterprises, for partnering with the Polished Jems Podcast this season! If God has called you to write your own book, they'd love to help — book a $25 consultation (credited toward your contract) and use code LWME26 for 10% off:💎 https://livingwithmore.org/schedule-consultation/ Stay polished 💎

Sponsored by Living With More Enterprises 💎 Book a $25 consultation (credited toward your contract if you move forward) and use code LWME26 for 10% off your publishing contract: https://livingwithmore.org/schedule-consultation/ This Faith series episode features Spencer Coffman, whose life reads like a modern Hebrews 11 testimony — an unconventional education, a financial faith-test, and a career built one obedient step at a time. Spencer shares what it means to trust God with a path nobody else can validate for you. 💎 Connect with Spencer: socialmediaministries.com💎 Join our Patreon community: patreon.com/fruitfuljems New episodes drop Saturdays at 7 AM. Stay polished 💎 #KingdomPublisher #BirthYourBookVision #ChristianAuthors

This episode is sponsored by Living With More Enterprises. A $25 consultation fee applies to book your session — credited toward your total contract balance if you move forward. Use code LWME26 when scheduling to receive 10% off your overall contract: https://livingwithmore.org/schedule-consultation/ What does faith look like when you're still in the dark? Latoya M. Alston, founder of Rising from the Shadows, LLC, joins us for a raw, unfiltered testimony about growing up as a Bishop's daughter, surviving abuse, wrestling with God, and finally learning to love herself. This is a real conversation about the woman behind the story: her pain, her healing, and the faith that carried her when nothing else could. 💎 New episodes every Saturday💎 Join the Gems community: patreon.com/fruitfuljems Stay polished !

Little white lies feel harmless — until you realize God may be watching the small things more closely than we think. In this solo training and equipping episode of the Goodness series, Jacinta explores why quiet goodness (the kind no one claps for) is foundational to real spiritual breakthrough. You'll learn the difference between goodness performed for people and goodness offered to God, why integrity takes courage rather than convenience, and how the Golden Rule reframes the "why" behind honesty and character. 💎 Part of the Fruit of the Spirit: Goodness series💎 Faith-based, honest, and free of shame or condemnation💎 Scripture references: Proverbs 10:9, Proverbs 11:3, Proverbs 12:22, Luke 6:31 (AMP) Join the Patreon community for deeper teaching at patreon.com/fruitfuljems. Stay polished 💎

"To grant beauty for ashes" (Isaiah 61:3 AMP). This week on Polished Jems, we're joined by Kim Becker — speaker, television co-host, award-winning author, and Founder of Hello Gorgeous! of HOPE, Inc. — for a conversation on faith, restoration, and what God's goodness looks like in action. Kim shares how she stepped into a calling that's now impacted countless women walking through the cancer journey, and what it means to trust God's timing even when the picture isn't clear. This episode is part of our Goodness series, digging into the Fruit of the Spirit one story at a time. 💎 Learn more about Hello Gorgeous! of HOPE: hellogorgeous.org💎 Join our Patreon community: patreon.com/fruitfuljems Stay polished 💎

Bestselling prayer author Janet McHenry joins Polished Jems to talk about trusting God's goodness even in life's hardest seasons. After 28 years of prayerwalking, Janet shares what she's learned about building a real relationship with God, why prayer is more about access than answers, and how to spot His goodness even when it's hard to see at first. 💎 Connect with Janet: Facebook @janet.mchenry | Instagram @janetmchenry💎 Support the show: patreon.com/fruitfuljems Stay polished 💎

She opened for nine Grammy winners, sang live on WWE Smackdown, and built a career most singers only dream of — then lost her voice completely. In this episode, Reneé Austin shares her story as a self-proclaimed "Undercover Prodigal": a season of hidden wandering beneath outward success, a paralyzed vocal nerve, and three years of waiting for three miracles that never stopped feeling like homecoming. This month's theme is Goodness — the fruit of the Spirit that meets us in the waiting and welcomes us home. 💎 Physical healing and spiritual restoration as one story💎 What Isaiah 53:3 reveals about a God acquainted with grief💎 A word for anyone still hiding, still wandering, still waiting New episodes every Saturday. Subscribe so you never miss a Gem 💎 Support the ministry: patreon.com/fruitfuljems Connect with Reneé: reneeaustin.com #PolishedJems #FruitOfTheSpirit #Goodness

Your first response to stress isn't random — it's a reveal of what's already in your heart. 💎 In this closing episode of our Kindness series, we're getting tactical. We break down the split-second gap between what triggers you and what comes out of you — and how to fill that gap with kindness instead of a blow-up. 💎 Why your "default reaction" isn't a character flaw 💎 The "yellow light" principle: the moment where kindness is actually chosen 💎 Why kindness under pressure is trained like a muscle 💎 Grace for the reps you'll miss along the way Scripture Foundation: Proverbs 4:23 (AMP) Proverbs 15:1 (AMP),1 Timothy 4:6-8 (AMP) Go deeper into studying kindness: patreon.com/fruitfuljems Stay polished 💎