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Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! Some of the biggest spiritual shifts start with a sentence we sometimes hate admitting: “God, I just want my own way.” We open with honest reflections on surrender, humility, and why the messy realities of your current life aren’t obstacles but raw material God can use to form you into the image of Christ. When we stop performing and give God access to what’s really going on inside, the potter finally has clay to work with. From there we zoom out to the church and ask a leadership question that won’t go away. How do we truly equip the saints? We talk about raising up leaders who reproduce leaders, and why education alone isn’t enough. We need form and fire, training and an inner life, structure and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. We also dig into what it means to steward a prophetic word over time, treating revelation as an invitation to ongoing dialogue, interpretation, and practical application. Then we camp in Acts 4, one of the clearest snapshots of a corporate prayer meeting in Scripture. The early church prays for boldness while God stretches out His hand to heal, bringing signs and wonders through Jesus’ name. We unpack the difference between private prayer and corporate prayer, the courage that comes from agreement, and the both and of a healthy prayer gathering, planning with the Lord while staying fully led by the Spirit in the moment. If you’ve felt bored, nervous, or cynical about prayer meetings, we hope this restores hunger and expectation. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs fresh faith for prayer, and leave a review that helps more people find the show.

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! You ever pray “Your kingdom come” and then realize you’re also handing God a detailed blueprint for how He needs to answer? We have done that more times than we can count, and it’s one of the clearest ways prayer exposes what’s really going on in our hearts. Anthony and Dan open with a vulnerable thread that runs through the whole conversation: we are weak, we have limits, and God is not asking us to outgrow dependence. He’s inviting us to find Him inside it. From there, we dig into what actually happens when we pray, especially when God’s will doesn’t unfold the way we expected. We explore a provocative thought about Judas, not to excuse betrayal, but to notice how easily we can misread God’s plan and try to force His hand. That leads into the hard mercy of prayer over time: learning to surrender our will, our timing, and our imagined outcomes while still keeping our hearts engaged, hopeful, and persistent. We also trace the long road of formation in Scripture. David’s anointing comes decades before the throne, and Peter keeps needing correction even after powerful encounters with God. Along the way we name the real temptations that show up when trust wobbles: scheming, control, bitterness, and solving problems in ugly little ways. Then we land in hope: God can redeem detours we created, restore joy, and keep working His purposes in and through our lives. If you care about Christian prayer, hearing God, spiritual maturity, and living the Lord’s Prayer with integrity, this one is for you. Subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review. What area of your life is God asking you to surrender right now?

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! Some spiritual tensions are not accidents or problems to fix. They are paradoxes that actually reveal the kingdom of God. We talk candidly about why overthinking can drain the life out of faith, and how peace returns when we stop trying to force mystery into neat answers. From “the first will be last” to strength in weakness, we explore why Jesus keeps teaching in paradox, and how embracing that tension can settle your soul. Then we tell a story straight from our ministry school and prophetic training at King’s Academy: a class learning prophetic ministry, hearing God, and practicing prophetic activation in a grounded way. We walk through a simple framework for delivering healthy prophetic words: revelation, interpretation, and application. What happens next surprises us. We ask one big question for our church, and without coordinating, multiple people begin hearing the same themes. The room shifts into a focused hush, with a shared sense of God’s presence that feels impossible to manufacture. We also dig into “form and fire”, the partnership of structure and the Holy Spirit’s power, plus the honest question leaders face all the time: is it God or is it us? We name the reality of limitation, the grace to show up ordinary, and the “anointing” that can feel strong in a ministry moment and then lift when you head back into everyday life. Finally, we connect it to perseverance and hope with Galatians 6:9, and we share why we sense a window of acceleration opening, marked by humility, discipleship, and the name of Jesus becoming famous. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s hungry to hear God, and leave a review if the conversation helps. What paradox is God inviting you to embrace right now?

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! Some prayers feel like a thunderclap, and others feel like silence. We sit in that tension and refuse to settle for the idea that God is distant, annoyed, or withholding. From the opening moments, we’re honest about real life ups and downs, and how the Psalms keep inviting us back to humility, repentance, and a relationship God is committed to pursuing.  We also talk about intimacy with God that has no strings attached. What does it look like to enjoy God, not to get something from Him, but because He is near? Anthony shares a picture that’s hard to forget: being embraced by Jesus while our arms hang at our sides. Many of us believe “God loves me,” yet we struggle to actually return the embrace. We slow down and name the internal clutter that keeps us performing, striving, or timing out before we ever rest in His love.  Then we pivot into prayer and the theme that anchors everything: heaven responds when we pray. Daniel 10 shows us something stunning, that Daniel’s words were heard from the first day, even though the breakthrough arrived later. We compare delayed answers with moments of immediate response in Acts, and we talk about how disappointment can distort our theology when experience starts leading Scripture. Along the way we hit practical tools for Christian prayer, perseverance, spiritual warfare, remembering testimony, and surrendering timing with one powerful word: eventually.  If you’re hungry to hear God more clearly and pray with steadier confidence, listen now, share this with a friend who feels stuck, and leave a review so more people can find the podcast.

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know!  We talk candidly about the strange moment when you ask God for open doors, more opportunities, and a bigger “yes” to his plans, and then your calendar gets crowded, your routines get disrupted, and you wonder what happened to peace. Instead of interpreting that pressure as failure, we explore the possibility of a rising tide of hunger and divine momentum and how to stay grateful and aware while God moves in real time. From there, we shift into a practical leadership question that hits home for any church or ministry: why do some communities burn for prayer while others stall out? One line becomes a compass: you don’t have a prayer problem, you have an equipping problem. We unpack how people often don’t intuitively know why they should pray, and why “more prayer” isn’t the same as deeper prayer. The aim is a prayer life that grows deep and wide, forming maturity, cultivating spiritual gifts, and strengthening corporate prayer without turning it into empty religious effort. Then we open Matthew 6 and follow Jesus into a kingdom reorientation. Prayer is not just about getting provision; it’s about seeking first the kingdom of God and letting the Father reshape what we fear, chase, and trust. We connect Jesus’ words about the eye being the lamp of the body to a healthy spiritual perspective, and we name repentance from self-sufficiency as a central doorway into the Holy Spirit’s love, power, and gifts. If you want prayer that flips the light on and keeps it on, this conversation is for you.  Subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the podcast.

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! You can’t keep anything hidden from God but you can spend years living like you have to. We talk about the moment prayer changes from control and performance into surrender: when we stop resisting being fully known and start welcoming God’s kind gaze. We begin with Ephesians 6 and the simple, demanding invitation to “be strong in the Lord,” learning what it means to draw strength from our union with Christ instead of our own drive. From there we get honest about the regret many of us carry about being needy, weak, or limited and why Scripture points us to a paradox that can feel almost offensive at first: boasting in weakness because God loves to work through frailty. Psalm 139 becomes our guide for hearing God with an open heart. God searches us, knows our motives, and understands what we are like before a word is on our tongue. The real question is whether we welcome that reality. We explore the “rooms” in our hearts we would rather avoid, how to bring God into those places without pretending, and how to pray when you know it’s best to surrender but you cannot yet force your heart to comply. If you’ve ever wondered why the Psalms sound so raw, this conversation will help you see prayer as a real relationship where God patiently untangles what we withhold over time. Subscribe for more conversations on Christian prayer, hearing God, surrender, and spiritual formation and if this helps you, share it with a friend and leave a review so more people can find it.

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! Busy season doesn’t mean bad season. We’re talking about the kind of “neck deep” fall momentum many of us feel and why the kingdom of God often looks like real work: planning, building, inviting, organizing, and showing up. We unpack a simple framework we’ve lived by for years, “form and fire,” where we build the altar and trust God to bring the fire. If you’ve ever rolled your eyes at “programs,” or felt guilty for being productive, we offer a different lens: healthy spiritual life can be active without becoming anxious. Then we pivot into prayer, because we’ve been sensing a fresh invitation to grow here, personally and as a church. A line landed in our hearts: we don’t have a prayer problem, we have an equipping problem. Sometimes we expect people to run before they’ve learned to walk. We talk about what’s actually happening when we pray: surrender, trust, being reshaped in what we call “good,” and getting close enough to hear what matters to God. Prayer becomes less about getting stuff and more about doing life with God. We also name a battle many people face: the lie that eloquence equals effectiveness. God isn’t looking for polished words as much as a humble, honest heart. If prayer has felt intimidating, transactional, or confusing, this is a grounded starting point and a hopeful reset.  Subscribe for what’s coming next, share this with a friend who needs encouragement, and leave a review so more people can find the podcast.

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! The fastest way to burn out spiritually is to treat hearing God like a test you have to pass. We slow things down and bring it back to the heartbeat of the gospel: a good Father who loves to speak, loves to lead, and loves to partner with ordinary people. We share a fresh story from a church renewal night where we pause in silence and pray, “Speak, Lord, your servant is listening,” then we connect it to the bigger invitation of God’s mission in our cities and communities. Anthony also opens up about teaching a prophetic ministry training class and watching people step into “first time” discovery, including those who are new believers and those carrying baggage from unhealthy spiritual gift experiences. From there we get practical: we talk about a simple activation that dismantles performance and builds faith fast, asking, “Holy Spirit, what do You love about the person beside me?” We unpack why healthy prophecy never traffics in public shame, how “secrets of the heart” can point to identity, design, and destiny, and why Romans 2:4 (kindness leading to repentance) matters for prophetic ministry. We also name the difference between the “what” of revelation and the “how” of delivery, because stewardship and heart posture determine whether a moment becomes life-giving. Finally, we trace a choice every listener faces: a journey of fear or a journey of joy. If listening to God is producing anxiety, we talk about how to return to truth, dependence, and delight, until you rediscover that Jesus is better than your mind thought He was. If this conversation helps you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can learn to hear God with joy.

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! In this episode we say out loud what most of us feel but rarely admit: you can have a real mountaintop moment with Jesus and still come down that mountain straight into the stuff you don't want to do. The dishes. The hard conversation. The job nobody wanted. And somehow, in the middle of that trudging, God still lets joy show up. Most of the conversation happens in Gethsemane. We sit with Jesus in the moment he asks the Father to take the cup away, and then surrenders anyway: "Not my will, but yours be done." That's what surrender without shame actually looks like, and it's a picture of the quiet work God does in a human heart when nobody's watching. We talk about why this scene might be one of the clearest pictures of mature faith in all of Scripture. If you've wrestled with obedience, with sacrifice, or with what love actually costs you, this conversation gives you language for it. If you're hungry to hear God more clearly in the ordinary moments of your day, press play. Then subscribe, send this to a friend who needs it, and leave a review. It helps more people find the show.

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! Anxiety has a way of feeling responsible, like if we stop worrying then something will fall apart. We sit down and tell the truth about that pressure, how it grows when hard circumstances hit, and how quickly it can sneak into identity. We start with a personal reflection on recovery and “convalescing,” not as a dirty word, but as the process of getting stronger and stepping back into life with a healthier mindset. From there we go deep on a simple biblical invitation that is anything but automatic: “Cast all your cares on Him, because He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7). We talk about the real-life moment when you realize you have been ruminating for hours, the warning signs that show up as “fruit” in your heart, and why the fruit of an unburdened life looks like rest. We share two practical ways to pray when your mind won’t stop spinning: a breath prayer you can do in minutes, and a short releasing prayer we return to again and again, naming the people and situations we cannot fix while guarding peace. We also explore Philippians 4:6-7 and why gratitude becomes a declaration that shifts posture from under the weight to seated with Christ, helping us rule over the cares of life instead of being ruled by them. If you need a grounded Christian approach to anxiety, prayer, Sabbath rest, and hearing God in the middle of stress, this conversation is for you.  Subscribe, share this with a friend who feels weighed down, and leave a review so more people can find the podcast.

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! God can speak through a scent, a sentence, or a sudden inner knowing and sometimes it’s so unexpected we don’t even have a category for it. We start with why we’ve spent years having open, agenda-free conversations about hearing God, the prophetic, and the mystical, and why we think the Church needs more room for honest stories that don’t fit an “enlightenment-only” worldview. Then we tell a fresh prophetic story: a friend drives past a construction site, smells newly excavated earth, and hears the Lord say, “I love that smell.” That one line leads us straight into Hosea 10:12 and the call to “break up your fallow ground.” We explore what fallow ground can mean in Christian spirituality: places in the heart that are unplowed, places that were once worked but left untouched for a season, and places that became hard because of fear, pain, disappointment, distraction, or self-protection. We also talk about how God may revisit an old calling or dream you assumed was finished, not to shame you, but to bring rain and plant something new. Along the way we get practical about prophetic ministry, spiritual gifts, and why we believe every believer can grow in prophecy through relationship with the Holy Spirit. We name repentance as the doorway to change, trust as the thing our hearts most need, and partnership with God as the core invitation: he loves working with us, not around us. If you feel stuck, restless, or out of your depth, you’ll hear simple prayers and next steps that start with honesty and end in hope. Subscribe for more conversations on hearing God, share this with a friend who needs encouragement, and leave a review so more people can find it. What part of your “fallow ground” is God inviting you to revisit?

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! What if God is not done with you and never will be, and what if the next step is available right now? We talk about spiritual growth as a lifelong process and why that matters when you're discouraged, aging, grieving, or simply tired. Along the way we unpack a Dallas Willard line that reframes everything, that you are an unceasing spiritual being with an eternal purpose in God's great universe. That lens gives you permission to stop living in regret, stop treating failure as final, and start doing the next faithful thing. A big turning point is joy. Not hype. Not denial. The joy of the Lord as strength. We get practical about how joy differs from happiness, how you can suffer with Christ without slipping into anti joy, and how choosing joy can restore momentum even when nothing feels easy. Then we explore hearing God through a both and framework. God wires you with interests and skills, and God also speaks with specific direction. We name the two ditches, waiting forever for a spiritual download or charging ahead without relational listening, and we argue there's no secular sacred divide. Your ordinary routines, your work, and your faithful presence in hard seasons can still glorify God and expand the kingdom. If this conversation helps you take one concrete step forward, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review. What's the next thing you know you should do?

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! If you've ever caught yourself thinking "that's just my humanness" like it's a spiritual insult, you're not alone. We get honest about the way believers quietly cringe at their own limits, weaknesses, and ordinary emotions, then assume God feels the same way about them. What if He doesn't? What if God actually meets your humanity with kindness, even joy, and the real problem isn't your humanness but the story you've been telling yourself about it? From there we tackle a question that sits under so much of our striving: am I important to God? We talk about why the "humble" answer of "I'm not important" actually leaves us wide open to discouragement and disqualification. We get into purpose and design, how God doesn't create anything without intent, and how the way creation functions hints at how God chose to work with people. We also talk about intercession and participation in God's unfolding plan, and why purpose naturally implies meaning and value. Then we land on the center of it all: Jesus. God's clearest statement about human worth is the incarnation. God becomes human, remains the God man, and carries our story all the way through the cross and into restoration. We name the gap between head knowledge and heart belief, and we lean on Jesus' words in John 15 about abiding, plus the startling humility of John 5, where even the Son only does what He sees the Father doing. Dependence isn't shameful. It's design. We close with Peter's charcoal fires, denial and restoration, and pray together for the Holy Spirit to speak chosenness into our hearts, not just our minds.  If this encourages you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the conversation.

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! That nagging voice that says, “You should be farther along,” can sound spiritual while it quietly drains your joy and erodes your confidence in God’s love. Anthony and Dan start with a grounded reminder we both need on repeat: God’s voice and God’s message always come in a loving way. As we learn to hear God, our biggest growth edge is often not technique, but expectation, trusting that when He captures our attention in prayer or in the middle of an ordinary day, His tone is kindness.   We also talk about why “should” is rarely helpful and how it tends to spring from comparison, fear, and the false belief that we are the chief transformation agent in our own story. From there we shift into a theme the Lord has been pressing into Anthony’s life: enjoyment. Enjoying God and enjoying what God does is not a shallow detour, it is part of healing and part of building endurance for the long road of spiritual formation.   The conversation deepens into Christian resilience, shaped by John Eldridge’s Resilient and Tish Harrison Warren’s What Grows in Weary Lands. We name the grief many of us carry after years of cultural tension and change, and we explore what happens when we stop compartmentalizing pain and instead invite Jesus into the places that hurt. Along the way we reflect on Hebrews 12, the difference between weight and sin, and Romans 8:17 on sharing in Christ’s sufferings so we may also share in His glory. If this brings language to what you’re carrying, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find these conversations.

Questions? Fun God stories? Let us know! Some conversations carry more than information, they carry weight. We have both had moments where someone speaks and our hearts recognize something deeper is happening, not emotional hype, but a clear spiritual resonance. That is the kind of “unexplainable but unmistakable” authority people noticed on Jesus, and it is the hunger driving this conversation on the Hearing God Podcast. We wrestle with what made Jesus teaching feel so different, and why crowds were drawn to Him even before miracles broke out. Then we get practical: spiritual authority is not something we manufacture or chase as an experience. We believe it grows out of union with God, intimacy with Jesus, abiding in the Spirit, and learning to hear God clearly. We also talk about Acts 4 and the startling credibility of “ordinary and unschooled” believers whose main credential is simply that they have been with Jesus. From there, we turn toward the refining work that often comes with deeper intimacy. Dan shares a fresh prophetic picture from a prayer gathering: a packed bookshelf and a “book of insecurities” with no place to belong. As he prays through it, God names what is underneath it, bearing false witness, and it opens a path for repentance, renouncing lies, releasing self-protection, and receiving God’s truth and peace. We close by coaching simple freedom prayer questions you can ask the Holy Spirit and by praying for you to let go of what has felt like comfort but has been stealing life. If this helps you grow in hearing God, spiritual authority, repentance, and identity in Christ, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review. What is one “book” you sense God asking you to release?