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Handing It To JesusYou Have Handed Over Your Deepest Struggles to Jesus, Now What?In this episode we encourage moving on to the next struggle to hand over to Jesus. We outline how to select the next struggle and what this process looks like over the course of your life. The reality that we get to continue to move closer to Jesus and had over struggles again and again is something that is exciting and fundamental in developing a deeper relationship with God. Thank you all for the work you have put in!Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can...2025-04-0830 minHanding It To JesusHow to Persevere When Temptation ComesIn this episode we go over the persevere step. This is a plan for temptation and relapse. Hopefully, you never have to use it but it is better to be prepared than not!Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership and support."Handing it to Jesus"...2025-04-0137 minHanding It To JesusWho Do You Forgive For Your Struggle?In this part 2 episode, we continue to discuss forgiveness. In this episode we give an example and walk through using personal examples of our struggle. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership and support."Handing it to Jesus" printable workbookhttps://handing-it-to-jesus.captivate.fm...2025-03-2535 minHanding It To JesusHow Do You Forgive?In this episode we start our conversation about how to forgive. We talk about the command to forgive in the bible and also explore how forgiveness works neurologically. This episode is part 1 in a 2 part series to help you through your journey of handing your struggle to Jesus and how forgiveness plays a role in that. 2025-03-1840 minHanding It To JesusWhat Can Reflecting On Your Growth With Jesus Do For Handing Your Struggle Over To Jesus?In this episode we go through questions 1-8 in the Reflection Step of the workbook. This work is important for helping recognize growth for continued work in your handing your deepest struggles over. God wants us to remember successes to help keep us on track to grow closer to Him. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written...2025-03-0451 minHanding It To JesusHow Does Exploring Our Strengths and Hardships Help With Our Struggle?In this episode we go over the strengths and hardships sections in the Meditation Step of the workbook. This sections helps us leverage our strengths and make a plan to improve our hardships around handing our struggle over to Jesus. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership and...2025-02-2548 minHanding It To JesusWhat is the Importance of Meditating on Your Journey?In this episode we start to explore the Meditation Step. We want to start to focus on areas of growth or lack of growth thus far in our journey to glean insight about why. As always, we want to press into the difficult parts so we can continue to hand our struggle over to Jesus!Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we...2025-02-1825 minHanding It To JesusWhat Blocks of Intimacy are Keeping Your From Handing Your Struggles Over to Jesus?In this episode we explore the latter part of the Engage Step to identify blocks and focus in on specific language of our own block of intimacy with Jesus. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership and support."Handing it to Jesus" printable workbook...2025-02-1137 minHanding It To JesusHow to Engage with Jesus With Your Struggle?In this episode we talk specifically about increasing your intimacy with Jesus in our Engage Step. This helps us be more vulnerable and open about our struggle and is central to what this workbook is aimed at accomplishing. The questions in the workbook help give you an idea of some places where intimacy is hard with people and with Jesus. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a...2025-02-0437 minHanding It To JesusWhat Does Taking Action in Handing Over Your Deepest Struggle to Jesus look like?In this episode we go over the consolidate section in the Connect Step of the workbook. We discuss what taking action looks like when addressing our struggle. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership and support."Handing it to Jesus" printable workbookhttps://handing-it-to-jesus...2025-01-2846 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 24: How Can A Church Community Can Help With Your Deepest Struggles?In this episode we talk about using a church community and the relationships within those communities to help with your deepest struggle. We talk about what this is like building those relationships and how to handle disagreements or conflict in those communities as well. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly...2025-01-2135 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 23: How Does Shame Lock You In Your Struggle?In this episode we talk about shame and how that harms our relationship with God and others. It causes us to go into a protective mode and hide some of who we are for fear of being hurt. We talk about how to operate when shame is making it hard to build good relationships to help our struggle. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution...2025-01-1441 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 22: How Does Building Relationships Help Hand Your Struggles Over to Jesus?In this episode we start to explore the power of relationships and how they can play a role in handing our struggle over to Jesus. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership and support."Handing it to Jesus" printable workbookhttps://handing-it-to-jesus.captivate.fm...2025-01-0748 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 21: What Does a Theme Study Inside and Outside the Bible Look Like?In this episode we go through a theme study looking at Matt's struggle he is handing to Jesus. In this, Matt will help us look a what a theme study looks like in the Bible and using resources outside of the Bible. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your...2024-12-3147 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 20: Can You Still Stand By God, Even After Losing Everything?In this episode we explore and example of the theme study using Craig's struggle as an example. This is to help give you an idea of what a theme study can look like as a guide for when you do yours!Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership...2024-12-2422 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 19: What Is A Theme Study In the Bible?In this episode we give an overview of how we will use a theme study to help us hand over our deepest struggles to Jesus. Using theme studies are powerful and focused tools that we can use to help with our struggles. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your...2024-12-1735 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 18: What Is A Prayer of RepentanceIn this episode we discuss repentance and what that can look like in prayer. We specifically want to help with the emotional turmoil that comes with repentance and helping to creating that intimate emotional connection in prayer with God. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership and support.2024-12-1039 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 17: How Do You Pray?In this episode we explore prayer and various ways of implementing prayer. we need to pray in general but also want to pray about our struggle on a regular basis. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership and support."Handing it to Jesus" printable workbook2024-12-0345 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 16: How Do You Connect With God In Your Deepest Struggle?In this episode we do an overview of Step 4: Connect of the workbook. This will help you understand the process we will be enacting to help address the struggle you identified in Step 1. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership and support."Handing it to Jesus"...2024-11-2627 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 15: Grieving in PrayerIn this episode we go through an example of grief in prayer using the format in the grieving section. We hope this is helpful! Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership and support."Handing it to Jesus" printable workbookhttps://handing-it-to-jesus.captivate.fm/printable-workbook2024-11-1935 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 14: How Do You Grieve Like David?In this episode we go through the Grieving Step of the workbook. We focus on answering the questions to help discern what loss we are contending with and a process in which you can use to grieve with God as you hand over your struggles to Jesus. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you...2024-11-1243 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 13: Why You Need to GrieveWe start to move into the Grieving Step of the process. We all experience loss, and we need to be prepared for that reality. Thankfully, God will be with us and we can find examples of how to properly grieve in the Word!Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate...2024-11-0526 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 12: How Do We Recognize the Importance of Handing Our Struggles to Jesus?In this episode we go through the consolidate section of the Recognize Step. We want to tie everything together here and we talk through some examples of what that looks like with our own struggles. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership and support."Handing it...2024-10-2941 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 11: How Can Your Motivation Help In Your Struggle?In this episode we discuss the motivation section in the Recognize Step of the workbook. Our own motivations are central for helping us stay the course when your struggle is really pressing us. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership and support."Handing it to Jesus"...2024-10-2252 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 10: What Are The Consequences of Your Struggle?In this episode we take a concentrated look at the consequences of your struggle and different areas of your life those consequences arise from. We want to have these consequences exposed to help give us drive (not promote more guilt) to turn towards Jesus with this struggle. By keeping these consequences in mind, we are amping up the need for this struggle to be resolved. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. ...2024-10-1527 minHanding It To JesusWhat Does Your Struggle Say About Who You Are?In this episode we explore the about you section of the work book. This section focuses on the message you say about yourself because of this struggle. This helps fill out how our struggles shape our identify by teasing out how we view ourselves while going through hardship. It is only through knowing this we can directly confront how we view ourselves with how God views us and who our identity is in God. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked...2024-10-1515 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 9: How Does Your Struggle Shape Your View On God?In this episode we start to explore how our view of God is reflected in our struggle. We aim to recognize the discrepancy in our logical and emotional understanding and how that plays out in our struggle. We hope you find this helpful and enlightening! Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would...2024-10-0829 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 8: What Makes A struggle Deep?We apologize for the poor audio and hope you bear with that for this important section. In this episode, we start to tie this entire chapter and its sections together for form a cohesive story of your struggle. This is an important step in addressing your struggle and acknowledging the depth of this struggle. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue...2024-10-0123 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 7: About YouIn this episode we start to explore how your own experiences and beliefs about yourself have influenced how you see yourself. We naturally interpret our experiences through a lens of identity and our struggles most certainly impact how we think and experience ourselves. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate...2024-09-2415 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 6: What Experiences Have Shaped Your Struggle?In this episode you will start to think about the memories that have contributed to your struggle and how you see yourself in that struggle. This is an important step in acknowledging the depth and wide spread impact of your struggle. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership...2024-09-1739 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 6: Forming A StatementIn this episode you will explore experiences that have influenced this struggles. The more we understand the depth and intensity behind our struggles, the more opportunity we have to lean into Jesus with all parts of ourself. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership and support."...2024-09-1724 minHanding It To JesusEpisode 5: Forming A StatementIn this episode we discuss the central features of your own struggle and how that informs your identity. When we struggle, we can take our failures and use those to shape who we are rather than who God says we are. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a financial contribution so that we continue making episodes and written content for you! We would greatly appreciate your partnership...2024-09-1024 minHanding It To JesusWhat is Keeping You From Handing Over Your Struggles to Jesus?Today we will think on 3-5 reasons we have been unable to hand our struggle over to Jesus. This will help us identify some obstacles and give us the opportunity for specifically addressing those obstacles through prayer and bible study. Before that, we need these 3-5 reasons to help us really understand the depth of why our struggle is so hard for us. Without that acknowledgment, it becomes easy to allow guilt and shame to slow our progress towards moving close to Jesus. Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have...2024-09-0318 minHanding It To JesusWhat Struggle Do You Start With?Welcome to episode 3! You will start to work on narrowing your focus on one struggle to address first. Often, this may be hard to choose just one struggle. In this process, you will use your own physical and mental response to discern which struggle may be best to start with. A note is that in prayer, you may feel convicted towards a certain struggle. That is a clear signal on where to start!Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below...2024-08-2621 minHanding It To JesusWhat Struggles Cause Distance Between You and Jesus?Welcome to episode 2! Defining your struggles that cause distance between you and Jesus is a good place to start. This gives you the opportunity to work on your struggle you want to hand to Jesus and the way this struggle affects your relationship with Jesus at the same time!In this episode, we want to start the process of putting words to your struggle(s) to have a place to start your process. We congratulate you on joining us on this journey!Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written...2024-08-1925 minHanding It To Jesus"Handing it to Jesus" Episode 1: Process OverviewWelcome to episode 1 of "Handing it to Jesus!" We are excited to start this journey with you. Join us, Craig Foust and Matt Tilley, as we start asking the hard question of how do we turn over to Jesus the "thing" that we most struggle with? What is it that is most harming our relationship with God, self, and others? Please follow along with us in the free workbook that we have written just for you. You can find it linked below, both a printable version and a fillable version. Please also consider making a...2024-08-1238 min
Mental Health Insights in the BibleHow To Contend With The UnknownNoah had to wait for some time to wait for the flood then again for the flood to recede. There is so much unknown that happens here and often in the Bible. Today we talk about how the unknown affects anxiety and some hints we see of how the Bible seems to want us to deal with that. Lessons to PonderHow does dealing with the unknown affect your mental health?How does your relationship with God get impacted as unknown elements enter your life?Are there some unknowns you do better with...2023-09-2246 minMental Health Insights in the BibleGod's Provision Through A Broken WorldIn this episode we see how God provides deliverance though one of the most famous de-creation events recorded in the Bible. God provides a way for Noah's family escape the destruction of a wicked people. This is a story of pain, responsibility, and renewal amid destruction and connect well with the struggles we face even now. Lessons to PonderHow can you honor the dominion that God has given you over your life right now?Can you allow yourself to sit in the pain of the loss of these people to the flood...2023-09-0735 minMental Health Insights in the BibleWhat Does Righteousness and Blameless have to Do with Mental Health?We continue to explore the story of Noah in Genesis and work to glean some traits from Noah that may be helpful for us to consider for our own mental health. Lessons to PonderDo you feel the pressure of society affecting how you live?How can we separate ourselves and stand out from those that are doing wrong?How does violence in the world impact your mental health?What is a step you can take to being more righteous today? Thank you for listening to this episode! If you want to reach out...2023-08-1242 minMental Health Insights in the BibleImpulsiveness and How it Can Encourage SinWe are starting to explore the flood and how the part of the world that the bible is focusing on is full of sin and suffering. God decides to do something about it but will create a way of safety for the family of the one righteous person around, Noah. This story helps us understand how listening to our own impulses and body can pave a way to sin if we are not connected to God's word. Lessons to PonderWhy do we have impulses?What is God trying to cultivate in people to...2023-07-2945 minMental Health Insights in the BibleWhat Can We Learn From Sin Crouching At Our Door?The story of Cain and Abel sets us up to see the tragedy of how jealousy, shame, and guilt can cause us to protect ourselves in harmful ways. Anger, frustration, rage and upset feelings are all protective type of feelings that normally show up instead the vulnerability in our heart. Cain demonstrates this by striking his brother down and giving into the sin that God warned him about. Lessons to PonderWhat sin is crouching at our own door today?Are we really so different from Cain? He reacts out of anger and feeling...2023-06-3053 minMental Health Insights in the BibleRelationship Ideal vs fallen realityIn this episode we start to explore relationships and how they are to look before and after the fall. This has an impact on all relationships and will set the foundation for further books of the bible. Lessons to PonderThe ideal is in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve are working in unison with GodComplete intimacy and vulnerability is the ideal stateMan and Women are created as one and have rolesFirst glimpses of lying, blame, shame, and guilt from mankindNow we protect our vulnerability with divisive tactics. What tactics do you use to...2023-06-191h 04Mental Health Insights in the BibleHow Does the Fall From Eden Impact Your Mental Health Today?In this episode we start to explore the fall from Eden that occurs in Genesis and the consequences that give us a glimpse into mental health issues that generations to come will struggle with. Lessons to PonderKnowing Good and Bad/Evil without God's wisdom leads to deathGod's mercy leads to exile from Eden rather than the full consequence he warned ofcurses from the exile from Eden are still present todayIntroduction to blaming, shame, guilt, and deceit as tactics that obscure the truthThank you for listening to this episode! If you want to...2023-05-3055 minMental Health Insights in the BibleFood, Work, and Rest Reflect Who You AreIn this episode we explore food, work, rest, resource allocation and how all of this is a reflection of our identity. This will filter into our mind looking at the world as a scarce place that does not have enough or a world of abundance. Our specific view on this has a profound impact on how we operate in the world. Lessons to PonderFood, work, and rest are places where we can focus on God (and our own identity as the image of God)Scarcity experience has a substantial impact on the brain and bodyAbundance...2023-04-2455 minMental Health Insights in the BibleA Relationship Ruptured In EdenThank you for joining us on this journey! We go over Genesis one and start to unpack some of the biblical lessons from before the fall occurs in the biblical narrative. This is one of the most powerful examples of what life as a human would look like before sin and exile from the Garden of Eden occurs. Lessons to PonderWe are an image of GodMental health issues caused by conflict with identity and purposeWe are not meant to go through life aloneThe disconnecting damage of guilt and shameCommunication issues at the very start of...2023-04-2434 minMental Health Insights in the BibleYour Dominion May Need AdjustmentIn this episode we continue to explore Genesis and what purpose God made us for. The more we align our purpose with what God has called us to do the more fulfillment we will experience in our life!Lessons to PonderDominion impacts our mental health. Exert control over some of your environment in responsible waysCooperation in our rule over our dominionIntimacy in the relationship with God is a reflection of what our own relationships should beSpecialness is built into our identity but we often have a hard time allowing ourselves to feel this wayYour life...2023-04-2453 min