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The most surprising thing in the Bible is not a miracle. It is not a sea that parted. It is not a bush that burned without being consumed. It is not the stone that rolled away from the tomb. It is a single sentence — spoken early, into the leaves of a garden, to a man who was hiding from Him behind a tree. Where art thou? He is looking for them. Before they can find their way back to Him — before they even fully know they are lost — He is already looking for them. And that one sentence is what the next sixty-five books of scripture will spend themselves unfolding. In this season finale of Paths to Glory, we set the testimonies aside and sit with one question. Not — how do we find God. But — how is it that God has always been the One who found us first? From a garden in Genesis to a bush in the back side of a desert, from a boy tending sheep in Bethlehem to a well outside a town called Sychar, from a tax collector called down out of a tree to a thief who could do nothing but turn his head on a cross, from a Palestinian father watching a dusty road every day to a promise in the sixty-fifth chapter of Isaiah that says before they call, I will answer — every page of scripture is the story of a God who moved first. Because He always moves first. And He is moving still. For you. If you have been rehearsing a speech on the way home — He is not going to let you finish it. If you have been afraid of what the Father is going to say when you get there — He is not going to say what you are afraid He is going to say. If you have been a long way off for a long time — He has seen you already. He came first. He is still coming first. Come home. www.pathstoglory.com If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory, be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young at heart — don’t miss The Jones Family Chronicles, a fun, faith-filled adventure series for the whole family. You can find Paths to Glory Kenya and The Jones Family Chronicles The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

Some testimonies are about one search. This one is about two. This week on Paths to Glory, we replay an episode from Season 3 — a story that has quietly become one of the ones our listeners return to more than almost any other. It is the testimony of a little boy born on a Hawaiian island and given up for adoption almost as soon as he arrived. Raised in the islands by a Puerto Rican father and a part-Apache mother, he grew up loved — and grew up with two questions he could not stop asking. Who was he? And where had he come from? The search that would eventually take him through ancestry records, court petitions, and a phone call that opened forty years of silence — that search would not begin until much later. Long before it did, a very different chapter unfolded. A Navy uniform. A ship at sea. Two arrests in the space of two weeks. A Bible handed to him by a shipmate whose name he barely remembers. And a series of encounters he did not go looking for — a preacher in a shopping mall, a cleaning lady who prayed over his bed, and a dimly lit room on a warship where the presence of God overwhelmed him so completely he fled it. He came back. And what happened after he came back — on that same ship, in the years that followed, in the church he now pastors — is why we felt led to bring this testimony back today. Two searches. One answer. Not in the order any of us would have written it. www.pathstoglory.com The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

Some testimonies you produce and move on from. Others follow you for years. This week on Paths to Glory, we replay one of the most impactful stories we have ever brought to this podcast — an episode from Season 4 called Bonus Time. It is the story of a little girl who answered the door when two strangers came knocking, asking if any of the kids in the house wanted to come to church. It is the story of the twelve-year-old who was filled with the Holy Ghost on an ordinary Wednesday night, and baptized in the name of Jesus Christ on her thirteenth birthday, with no parents watching and no photos taken. It is the story of the woman that little girl became — a high achiever with a master's degree and a hidden seventeen-year addiction almost nobody around her ever knew about. It is the story of a brother who rode that same church bus, and of the two very different ways their lives ended up. And it is the story of one Sunday morning at an altar when everything — quietly, finally, completely — broke. We felt led to replay it today. If you are the reason — you will know. www.pathstoglory.com The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

Some prayers are quiet. Some are broad. Some are the sort any of us might pray on any given Sunday. This one was none of those. This week on Paths to Glory, we sit with a woman who prayed a single specific request from a hospital bed at twenty-one years old — and has spent the last twenty-five years watching God answer it in front of her family, in front of her husband, and in front of every last person who had ever known her before she was the kind of woman who prayed anything at all. Raised Catholic in a broken home. A mother in field labor. A little brother she began raising when she was still a child. A marriage at nineteen to a drug-dealing husband who came faithfully to every service she attended, but would not surrender. A brother lost to heroin after a childhood prescription ran out. Groceries that appeared on a porch in answer to a promise she had barely learned to read. A pastor she had never met making a U-turn out of freeway traffic to come and find her. This is the story of a young mother who asked the Lord for one specific thing that only He could give — and of a family whose story has been rewritten so completely that she and her husband still sit on the porch some evenings and remind each other, babe — we're here. www.pathstoglory.com If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory, be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young at heart — don’t miss The Jones Family Chronicles, a fun, faith-filled adventure series for the whole family. You can find Paths to Glory Kenya and The Jones Family Chronicles The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

This week on Paths to Glory, we sit with a young woman who was baptized in the name of Jesus Christ before she could tie her own shoes, and received the Holy Ghost when she was five years old. She did not need to be rescued from the streets. She did not need to be rescued from a jail cell. She needed to be rescued from something the world was never going to see — a slow bleeding on the inside of a life that looked, from every angle out there, exactly the way a Pentecostal life is supposed to look. Her father was a lay minister who prayed people through to the Holy Ghost — until he wasn't. Her mother was a woman of quiet, unshakable prayer who never spoke a word against him. And the daughter in between them carried, for years, a bitterness so heavy she still uses the word hatred to describe it. This is the story of what a sermon she cannot remember started in her, what a pastor's wife's single sentence finished, what a very specific prayer received a very specific answer to within fifteen minutes, and what a house fire two weeks before her wedding taught her about the family of God. And, in the end, of a childhood memory about a light that could finally be turned off — because the room had never actually been empty. www.pathstoglory.com If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory, be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young at heart — don’t miss The Jones Family Chronicles, a fun, faith-filled adventure series for the whole family. You can find Paths to Glory Kenya and The Jones Family Chronicles The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

Most testimonies are the story of one life turning. This one is the story of four generations of a family that would not stop reaching for the next one. This week on Paths to Glory, we sit with a man whose ministry has now spanned fifty years — and every one of those years traces back to a brush arbor meeting in a field in Indiana almost a hundred years ago. Two great-grandmothers who came home full of the Holy Ghost. A grandfather who built a church in his own garage. A mother who prayed for a hardheaded son for twelve years — and then, when that prayer did not bring him home, quietly began praying for a wife who would. Hers is not the only prayer God answered. What follows is a life shaped by everyone who bothered to build a relationship with a man who did not yet know he needed one — a pastor who asked one honest question at a peeling-paint door, a congregation that made a stranger feel like a son, a bus route he ran the first weekend after he received the Holy Ghost, and a Bible study his wife started with a sixteen-year-old girl who answered the door with a toddler in diapers on her hip. The toddler grew up. He is pastoring a church of his own now. And the man who was once the hardheaded son, at seventy-seven, is still the first one at the door of the sanctuary he serves — greeting strangers the way strangers once greeted him. www.pathstoglory.com If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory, be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young at heart — don’t miss The Jones Family Chronicles, a fun, faith-filled adventure series for the whole family. You can find Paths to Glory Kenya and The Jones Family Chronicles The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

There is a moment in almost every man's testimony when he has to be told a sentence he cannot forget. Sometimes it comes from a judge. Sometimes from a father. Sometimes it comes from a pastor, late in the game, after years of drift. This week on Paths to Glory, we sit with a man whose whole life has been shaped by two of those sentences — spoken years apart, by two very different men. Born into a coastal California home broken open by gang violence. Nine years old when a mother's tears explained that his father was not coming home from prison. Eleven the first time he was sent to a juvenile detention center for a fight of his own. A cycle that seemed like it would never end — until a pregnant girlfriend, a brother's late-night text, and a jail cell facing fifteen years began to arrange the beginning of a very different story. But this testimony is not really about how he got out. It is about a sentence a pastor spoke to him years later — one line that reshaped how he prays, how he fathers, and what his own boys will inherit from a man they now watch every day at the altar. www.pathstoglory.com If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory, be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young at heart — don’t miss The Jones Family Chronicles, a fun, faith-filled adventure series for the whole family. You can find Paths to Glory Kenya and The Jones Family Chronicles The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

Most testimonies follow a familiar shape — someone was lost, someone was found. But some lives don't divide that cleanly. This week on Paths to Glory, we sit with a young man in his early twenties whose story is not about how he was rescued from the world — it is about what held inside him when everything he had leaned on was suddenly taken away. Born into a family that prayed through together every morning before school. Raised by a father who, when spanking was no longer the answer, would come stand beside him and pray, then walk the rooms of the house praying over the doorways. Fifteen years old when that father was lost to cancer, after a church that had prayed for healing until the very last night. What followed were years of drift that never once became departure — and a slow, quiet return, service by service, prayer by prayer, to the roots that had been put down in him long before he knew what they were. Because as he would tell you now, in his own careful words: the tree hadn't died. It was just drought. www.pathstoglory.com If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory, be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young at heart — don’t miss The Jones Family Chronicles, a fun, faith-filled adventure series for the whole family. You can find Paths to Glory Kenya and The Jones Family Chronicles The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

Some testimonies arrive with fire and thunder. Others arrive with the quiet hum of a vacuum cleaner. This week on Paths to Glory, we sit with a man born two blocks behind the church he would spend thirty years running from. Probation by the age of eleven. Three prison sentences. A father figure murdered when he was eight, a mother taken, and a moral compass he tried for decades to drown out. And underneath all of it, a mother who would not stop praying. His is the story of a vow made on his knees in a county jail cell before he even knew his sentence — of a Bible read more than forty times inside — and of a limp back through the sanctuary doors of the very church he had once been chased out of. Not saved by thunder, but by the patient, unglamorous work of a God who was never once in a hurry. And of the lessons a redeemed man began to learn when he picked up a vacuum cleaner and started tending an altar. www.pathstoglory.com If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory, be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young at heart — don’t miss The Jones Family Chronicles, a fun, faith-filled adventure series for the whole family. You can find Paths to Glory Kenya and The Jones Family Chronicles The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

We tend to picture grace as a single open door — offered once, taken or missed. But some testimonies reveal a God far more patient than that. This week on Paths to Glory, we trace the life of a woman who walked past that door for the better part of a lifetime. From a one-room house and a barefoot childhood in the Philippines. Through a Pentecostal couple on a crowded street, a missionary family who took her in, the Holy Ghost at seventeen. Through decades of drifting — one foot in the church, one foot in the world. Across an ocean. Through a phone book in her unconverted husband's hands. Until the quiet morning a pastor straightening chairs laid a hand on her head, and she finally understood what God had been doing the whole time. He kept opening the door. He never stopped opening the door. This is the story of what happened the day she finally walked all the way through. If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory, be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young at heart — don’t miss The Jones Family Chronicles, a fun, faith-filled adventure series for the whole family. You can find Paths to Glory Kenya and The Jones Family Chronicles The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

Every journey has a destination. But for the believer walking the path to glory, the destination is not simply a place on a map — it is a becoming. A conformation, as Paul described it in Romans 8:29, to the image of the Son. And it is also a place — a prepared, specific, glorious home promised by the Lord Jesus Himself in John 14. This week on Paths to Glory, we ask the question the last several episodes have been building toward: where does the path actually lead? And we discover that knowing the answer changes everything about how you walk. If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory, be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young at heart — don’t miss The Jones Family Chronicles, a fun, faith-filled adventure series for the whole family. You can find Paths to Glory Kenya and The Jones Family Chronicles The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

Every path requires provision. Not just at the beginning, when the road is new and the faith is fresh — but in the middle of the journey, when the supply looks low and the distance still looks long. This week on Paths to Glory, we open the Word and look at what God's provision has always looked like in the lives of those He has called — from the manna in the wilderness to the widow's oil that would not run out, from the cake baked on coals for a spent prophet to the promise of Philippians 4:19 that His supply is calibrated not to your circumstances but to His riches. God provides. But learning to recognize His provision when it comes in a form you did not request may be one of the most important things you ever do. If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory, be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young at heart — don’t miss The Jones Family Chronicles, a fun, faith-filled adventure series for the whole family. You can find Paths to Glory Kenya and The Jones Family Chronicles The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

Every path to glory runs through one. You may have called it a hard season, a difficult stretch, or simply the longest year of your life — but Scripture calls it by its name: the wilderness. Jacob wrestled in one. Israel wandered through one for forty years. Jesus was led into one by the very Spirit that had just descended upon Him. And in Deuteronomy 8:2, Moses looked back over forty years and told us exactly what the wilderness was for — to humble, to prove, and to reveal what is in the heart. This week on Paths to Glory, we spend time in the wilderness — not because it is comfortable, but because what happens there is too important to misunderstand. If you are in one right now, this episode is for you. If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory, be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young at heart — don’t miss The Jones Family Chronicles, a fun, faith-filled adventure series for the whole family. You can find Paths to Glory Kenya and The Jones Family Chronicles The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

Every path to glory has one thing in common — someone went first. Someone moved through the wilderness ahead of you, marked the trees, and made a way where there was no way. In the language of exploration, that person is called a pathfinder. In the language of the church, we call them a soul winner. Solomon said it plainly in Proverbs 11:30 — He that winneth souls is wise. And centuries later, the prophet Daniel told us what God does with the wise — they shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever. This week on Paths to Glory, we explore what it actually costs to do this work, what it requires of the person willing to do it, and why blazing a trail for someone else may be the most important thing you ever do. The path doesn't build itself. Someone has to go first. If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory, be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young at heart — don’t miss The Jones Family Chronicles, a fun, faith-filled adventure series for the whole family. You can find Paths to Glory Kenya and The Jones Family Chronicles The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx

Some gifts travel farther than the hands that carry them. When a small group from Valley Pentecostal Church in Glendale, Arizona answered a call to minister at a National Ladies Conference in Bungoma, Kenya, they went believing they had something to offer. What they discovered on the other side of the world was that God had already been at work — long before their plane ever left the ground. In this final episode of our Kenya series, Pam Johnson and Alexis Banda share what they witnessed, what they felt, and what they could not leave behind. A conference. A room full of women. A moment that none of them were prepared for. And a love that needed no passport to travel. This is what happens when the body of Christ reaches across the world — and the world reaches back. If you’re enjoying Paths to Glory, be sure to check out our two other podcasts! Paths to Glory Kenya shares powerful stories of faith and transformation from the heart of Africa — voices of hope, revival, and purpose. And for the young — and the young at heart — don’t miss The Jones Family Chronicles, a fun, faith-filled adventure series for the whole family. You can find Paths to Glory Kenya and The Jones Family Chronicles The song "Paths to Glory" created with Udio and written by Roy Allison IV. 687DnYhOfZWHus5AEqMx