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The Beyond Condition PodcastAct like a PRO Guest. Wendy McCreadySend us a textSarah welcomes Wendy McCready, the longest serving IFBB PRO, to discuss all things becoming and acting like a pro.We delve into so many topics in this episode from communication, positive influences in your life and having clear goals.We hope you enjoy this one!Find Wendy on Instagram @ifbbprowendymccreadyWatch it here: https://youtu.be/PHbNXw8s3mgTHE ULTIMATE SHOW DAY GUIDE E-BOOK: Purchase here Beyond Condition Coaching Application: Click here Find Sarah o...2025-04-091h 14
The Ideal Day Podcast with Adam ParkerWendy Myers | The Shocking Truth About Frequency Medicine and DetoxificationOn today’s episode we’re joined by Wendy Myers, a world-renowned detox coach, author, and expert in frequency medicine. Wendy has helped thousands of people worldwide reclaim their health by going beyond traditional detox methods and exploring the cutting edge of holistic healing. In our conversation, Wendy shares her vast experience in detoxification, uncovering the surprising toxins most people don’t realise are affecting their health. But this episode goes deeper. Wendy takes us into the realm of frequency medicine, explaining how energetic therapies can amplify detox, improve health, and shift our...2024-12-171h 00
"Now, Appalachia"Now, Appalachia interview with authors Wendy Atkins-Sayre and Ashli Quesinberry StokesOn the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews authors Wendy Atkins-Sayre and Ashli Quesinberry Stokes about their new book HUNGRY ROOTS: HOW FOOD COMMUNICATES APPALACHIA'S SEARCH FOR RESILIENCE. Ashli Quesinberry Stokes is professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Wendy Atkins-Sayre is professor and chair of the Department of Communication & Film at the University of Memphis. The two have collaborated on Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South and coedited City Places, Country Spaces: Rhetorical Explorations of the Urban/Rural Divide. 2024-11-2636 minThe Beyond Condition PodcastI am the LONGEST SERVING IFBB PRO Guest. Wendy McCready | Competitor Journey Series Ep. 5Send us a textSarah welcomes Wendy McCready back to The Beyond Condition Podcast for an inspiring episode that gives the listeners insight into Wendy's journey as the longest serving IFBB Pro.We delve into so many topics and this episode is jam packed! We talk about both mental and physical growth, success as a competitor, the pro mindset and so much more...Discussions include:*Mindset and personal growth*Living as a pro bodybuilder*Amateur and professional bodybuilding*Socialising and your circle*Dealing with...2024-09-021h 58The Beyond Condition PodcastThe Beyond Condition Podcast Female Bodybuilding Truths Roundtable Series Ep. 5 Guest. Wendy McCreadySend us a textSarah, Sara and Romana welcome you back to The Beyond Condition Podcast Female Bodybuilding Truths Series for the fifth episode together with guest Wendy McCready, the longest serving IFBB Pro.What an episode! Over 60 years of experience as bodybuilders between us, all poured into an episode that offers heaps of value to all of the listeners.Discussions include:*Competitive bodybuilding*Bodybuilding preps*Communication with others*Comparison to others*Competing internationally*Finances*Sportsmanship and show day*Checking in and monitoring...2024-08-191h 17
The Spacious RoomBut We Tell A Different Story...Kicking off the Spacious Room leaders talk podcasts for 2024, is my dear husband, Philip Parker. From leadership in the Royal Navy, to the market place, and leading teams in church life, he shares his nuggets of wisdom on how and why good team building is an important part of leadership. "Valuing the person rather than the job" is Philip's way of telling a different story, as coming alongside someone and discipling them helps them to believe in themselves. 2024-01-0743 min
4 Questions Journalist Spotlight"4 Questions Journalist Spotlight" with Wendy Parker, East Cobb NewsThis week, our “4 Questions Journalist Spotlight” focuses on Wendy Parker, founder and publisher of East Cobb News. We talk all about what makes her site work, stories she's looking for, how to pitch her and, of course, her favorite local restaurant!Important Things to Know About Wendy:Coolest Thing: She's been inducted into the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame! Last Podcast: "755 is Real" with Dave O'Brien and Eric O'FlahertyLast Book: The Introvert EntrepreneurFavorite Local Restaurant: Cafe RivkaFavorite Guilty Pleasure: Garden & Gun magazineLocal Getaway: Local Ea...2023-08-1322 min
The Spacious RoomAn Open Heart Opens Your PassionAs the saying goes, ‘Practice makes perfect’ but practice can never make anything perfect.
We live in a flawed, imperfect world and practice and perfection cannot coexist because one will inevitably cancel out the other. Perfect is about avoiding mistakes in the process of practice and the sense that everything needs to be perfect before we even think about the practice causes this tension on the inside of us that only creates more fear.
Because who knows, with an open heart that opens your passion too wide and too deep is a scary place to be a...2023-04-0916 min
The Spacious RoomClearing Out The ClutterThe trouble with us doing all the clearing out is we cannot keep it up. Clearing out every piece of clutter, each thing we believe is collateral damage from our past and fixing ourselves up won’t last. Instead of allowing God’s extravagant love to get rid of and keep what He deems necessary and essential in our lives. 2023-03-2613 min
The Spacious RoomPutting The Cart Before The HorseTrusting.
With all our controlling, managing, and fixing we view God as an uncontrolled, untameable, wild horse that we need to break in so we can trust Him. But deep down we know we cannot break God in so He becomes more manageable and more compliant.
So, what do we do? Well, we decide to pull our carts on our own.2023-03-1213 min
The Spacious RoomMaking The Invisible VisibleRemember those ‘Magic Eye’ pictures that were all the rage back in the 1990s? The optical illusion caused people to go cross-eyed while staring blankly at a random patterned poster until they suddenly shouted, “I’ve got it! Look, see the giraffe!” as they excitedly pointed at the patterned picture to others who couldn’t see the giraffe or whatever else it was that was hidden in the picture. The trend was all about making the invisible visible, and the trick to seeing the hidden image was to hold the image close to you and let your eyes stay focused on t...2023-02-2611 min
The Spacious RoomSomewhere You’ve Not Been Before2023-02-1221 min"Now, Appalachia"Now, Appalachia Interview with editor and nonfiction author Wendy WelchOn the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot speaks with editor and nonfiction author Wendy Welch about her latest book "Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do: Appalachian Health-Care Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic." Wendy is the executive director of the Southwest Virginia Graduate Medical Education Consortium and the author, coauthor, or editor of six books, including Fall or Fly: The Strangely Hopeful Story of Foster Care and Adoption in Appalachia (also from Ohio University Press). She advocates for social justice in health care and other critical areas of development across Appalachia.2023-01-3135 min
The Spacious RoomShe Has A Plan‘She has plan’ could perhaps be the title for the whole of Proverbs 31. Reading about this truly excellent woman can get women all stressed and anxious because we compare and measure her against our own short comings, failings, and inadequacies. But the dreaded Proverbs 31 woman who seems linger over us, the one who has her life all wrapped up in a neat, little package tied up with a big, red bow.
However, if we dig a little deeper and see the Proverbs woman, who is worth more than rubies, we discover a woman of character because she choo...2023-01-2914 min
The Spacious RoomThe Sound Of BellsBells ringing out are a representation to celebrate endings and new beginnings. The sound of bells has been a long-held tradition to ring in the new year.
But with all our busyness, our time with God seems shorter, more hurried, and more frenzied than before. The sound of bells that once rang loudly as they announced our intention to enter God’s presence and not want to leave the holy place for quite some time now have the hollow ring of needing to know all the answers quickly rather than just sitting still with the Answer.
Wi...2023-01-1512 min
The Spacious RoomBusyness Gives Us NothingSometimes we just have to stop thinking and doing so much busyness and just go where our heart leads us, back into the stillness and quietness that resets us. Stillness teaches us things which busyness knows nothing about. Jeremiah 33:3 says, ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you. I will tell you of great things, things beyond what you can imagine, things you could never have known.’
But how can we know all those great things if we don’t leave all that busyness behind? 2023-01-0115 min
Prosecco N Prose | A Book ClubShort Stories of Dorothy ParkerSend us a text Wendy and Amy discuss two short stories by Dorothy Parker, "Such a Pretty Little Picture" and "Here We Are," and finally get a taste of prosecco in a Pretty Pink Prosecco Jello Shot. They find the funny and the tragic in an old and new marriage, ponder unhappy endings and roles women - and men! - were/are expected to play. Pop a cork to the Queen of the Quips!Today's Prosecco Jello Shot: Pretty Pink Prosecco Jello Shot from Wanda at En...2022-12-2145 min
The Spacious RoomGirl, Dig Your Heels In!Joy is possibly one of the most understated emotions that we are equipped with in our spiritual weaponry as it is far more powerful than we first believe. It’s why the enemy fires little poisonous darts, piercing the protective membrane around this precious emotion we call ‘joy’ instead of the large arrow tips which normally assail our faith.
So, what are we to do about it?
Well, girl, it’s time to dig your heels in!2022-12-1810 min
The Spacious RoomA War To Wage And A Kingdom To WinWhen there is a war to wage and a kingdom to win, each woman brings the same thing to the battle, a feminine heart. I know what you’re thinking, how could a nurturing spirit filled with love and kindness stop the enemy in his tracks? How could the tenderness of a mother’s heart win a war? Proverbs 31:35 reminds us that we are, ‘clothed in strength and dignity’ When the enemy hurls intimidating accusations at us. When he tries to disempower and render us incompetent. When the enemy whispers that you are, “No one special” in his mocking tone across t...2022-12-0516 min
The Spacious RoomFilling My Cup Again And AgainHow often are we willing to go into the desolate wastelands to pray when we become popular? How many times has the backcountry beckoned us to come away from the crowds and fill our cups up to overflowing with God’s presence?
Spending time with God cultivates a deep relationship with Him. It’s where our identity is secured, our calling is clarified and our cup is filled so we are able to pour ourselves out onto others. We cannot give out if there is nothing to give out from.
It's time to fill up your...2022-11-2011 min
The Spacious RoomNext Courageous StepWhat does your next courageous step look like?
It’s different for everyone but the chasm we must cross still looks the same - Scary. That enormous gap, that gigantic step, the massive move you need to make between where you would like to be and where you are always feels way too wild, too crazy, too wide, and too far to position ourselves into. Perhaps today, it’s time to simply take one step toward what you were born to do?
Yeah, that’s it, just one little step forward that’s going to help you...2022-11-1314 min
The Spacious RoomThe Good PartThe posture of a bull elk when he’s polishing his antlers is one of distraction. His whole focus is to shine up his antlers to impress.
With their eyes closed, busily making sure every part of their points is polished and rubbed, distracted by all his busyness, this becomes the good part of the hunter’s story when he retells it to his friends.
However, this is not the good part of the story for the elk, in fact, it’s the bad part. I know what it feels like to be wounded by the hu...2022-11-0614 min
The Spacious RoomOwning Our StoriesWounds make us hide our true selves, and if we don’t allow Jesus to deal with them properly then we can’t live out an authentic life.
The great news is that Jesus doesn’t leave you in those moments of shame as fear causes you to pick at the scabs covering your wounds. As with Peter, Jesus dealt with the shame attached to the wounds of Peter’s guilt because he had denied His saviour.
Jesus sat right in Peter’s pain, and Jesus will sit with you too in those moments as He reveals...2022-10-3016 min
The Spacious RoomUnfamiliar SoundsDid you know that an elk’s anklebones make a distinct sound when they walk? These sounds are the primary means of communication and engagement with other elks as the sounds of their anklebones cracking and popping are a way of communicating that another elk is approaching from behind. These familiar sounds are so important for an elk to listen out for because if they follow unfamiliar sounds that seem strange and different then their curiosity about what is approaching from behind will lead to the unfortunate event of having their heads mounted on a hunter’s trophy wall.
O...2022-10-2310 min
The Spacious RoomWallowing In MudDid you know that elks like to wallow in mud?
A wallowing hole is created by a bull elk finding a pool of water, digging into the ground with his hooves and antlers to push up the dirt, urinating into it and then rolling in it. As gross as this may sound, wallowing attracts other elks and it’s the bull elk’s way of sending a clear message to all cows letting them know that his pheromone–soaked, perfumed coat along with his bugle calls mean he’s ready for action as the rutting season approaches.
Lik...2022-10-1715 min
The Spacious RoomTurn Your Wounds Into Victorious ScarsBlood trailing is when a bow hunter or a rifle hunter will track an elk, wound it, and then chase it through the forest until he finds it and kills it. Its classic hunter versus beast as the hunter looks for blood marks left on trees and tracks on the forest floor left by the elk so the hunter knows which way it ran.
I’m sure you’ve got some wounds, and just like a human hunter who finds an elk to wound, Satan is hellbent on hunting you down and firing his arrows or bullets into...2022-10-0915 min
The Spacious RoomThe Oil Of GileadMy friend and I were having coffee together a couple of weeks ago and during the conversation, she said, “I cannot wait to hold your new book in my hands and listen for the ‘crack’ as I open up the first page and start reading it.” Unbeknown to my friend, she had put words to the images I had in my head of the top of an oil jar being ‘cracked’ open as I recalled the still, small voice that had whispered to me when I was praying one morning that my debut book, ‘Wounded and on the Run: How the worst p...2022-10-0216 min
The Spacious RoomPurpose, Mission and ResponsibilityKings and Queens can be seen as being born into a privileged life, however, according to the Apostle Paul, we as believers are destined to be adopted as God’s children through the sacrificial life of Jesus. ‘He destined us to be adopted as His children through the covenant Jesus the Anointed inaugurated in His sacrificial life…With immense pleasure, He laid out His intentions through Jesus, a plan that will climax when the time is right as He returns to create order and unity – both in heaven and on earth – when all things are brought together under the Anointed’s...2022-09-2512 min
The Spacious RoomI Will Live Unafraid!I will live unafraid. Hmmm, it says it right there at the end of Psalm 4, the poetry of God reminding the ones who feel afraid, anxious, out of control or discouraged to stop fussing, to stop controlling outcomes. To remember that God is our champion defender and to live unafraid, no matter what happens. ‘Now, because of you, Lord, I will lie down in peace and sleep comes at once, for no matter what happens, I will live unafraid!’ Psalm 4:8 [TPT]
No matter what happens? And this is where we flinch and hesitate. We mistake peace and sleep t...2022-09-1811 min
The Spacious RoomAn Ordinary Sight For An Extraordinary Message “What do you see?” asks God to the reluctant prophet, Jeremiah. Jeremiah tells God that he sees an ordinary almond tree. This ordinary sight starts a chain reaction of events that leads Jeremiah into his vocation and calling. God had already chosen Jeremiah as His prophet to ‘speak My word to the nations.’ (Jeremiah 1:5) This is where Jeremiah tries to talk God out of the calling He had chosen for him by telling God that He’s got the wrong guy because of his lack of credentials and how he is too young and inexperienced for the massive task ahead of him...2022-09-1108 min
Keep The Dream Flowing - Celebrating the History of Woodstock 1969Episode 85 – Woodstock darling, Wendy Darling! (part two)Happy September, everyone! This time around we have a very interesting episode indeed — Johnny and Jack (Scott was absent for this one, much to his chagrin) speak to none other than WENDY DARLING! Wendy was the wife of David Carron, who with his band THE QUARRY, were the house band at the Woodstock Free Stage! Wendy has led a very rich life well above and beyond Woodstock, and you will hear all about it! What can you say about a woman who counted Minnie Riperton as a close friend, who designed clothes for numerous rock stars and even once we...2022-09-071h 02
The Spacious RoomMoved With CompassionWhat is it that moves you with compassion? What motivates you enough to see God do something great through you? What do you feel creates a motion that motivates you toward action? When we’re moved enough to try something new, create something different, to be compassionate about something that we feel needs to change, why is it that fear suddenly rears its ugly head?
So, you hit the pause button and put a cap on all that kindness, empathy, and compassion enthusiastically bubbling up on the inside of you to help others because you’ve believed the l...2022-09-0410 min
Keep The Dream Flowing - Celebrating the History of Woodstock 1969Episode 84 – Woodstock darling, Wendy Darling! (part one)Happy Labor Day weekend, everybody! This time around we have a very interesting episode indeed — Johnny and Jack (Scott was absent for this one, much to his chagrin) speak to none other than WENDY DARLING! Wendy was the wife of David Carron, who with his band THE QUARRY, were the house band at the Woodstock Free Stage! Wendy has led a very rich life well above and beyond Woodstock, and you will hear all about it! What can you say about a woman who counted Minnie Riperton as a close friend, who designed clothes for numerous rock stars and ev...2022-09-011h 01
The Spacious RoomA Spacious RoomPsalm 31:7-8 reminds us that God hasn’t handed us over. ‘I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul. You have not handed me over to the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place.’ Let that truth sink into the depths of your soul. ‘You have not handed me over to the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place.’ Satan wants to keep your thinking contained. He needs you cramped up and restricted because, like Eve, if we knew how much autho...2022-08-2813 min
The Spacious RoomTo The Moon And BackThe gravity of God’s love for us goes far beyond the moon and back because He gave His only Son so we could have the hope of our salvation. Amazingly, God created the universe with every syllable from His mouth. Yet, He still loves humans higher, deeper, and wider than all the cosmic stars put together because, unlike the universe, we get to have a relationship with Him. When we pause and remember the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross as we take the elements of communion, we acknowledge the power communion holds over death and darkness.2022-08-2110 min
The Spacious RoomProperly LovedHow can we properly love again? Eden is lost, gone, stolen from us. The garden we once communed in with God was exposed to a lie that turned our joy, peace, patience, kind-heartedness, goodness, faithfulness, and self-control into shame, disappointment, abandonment, and grief. The freedom we once walked in as we communed with God was destroyed by a cunning serpent, who hatched a plan to kill any hope we had of a fruitful life the moment he saw we’d been made in God’s image, fashioned according to His likeness, and given authority over all the earth (Genesis 1:26).
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The Spacious RoomFished All NightIn Luke chapter 5, we read about Peter, who had fished all night and didn’t catch a thing. So, Jesus asks to borrow Peter’s boat as a pulpit so he can teach the crowd. Maybe Peter felt like giving up trying to fish for anything?
However, he did what Jesus asked and to his astonishment, he was called to something much bigger than himself.
There are some observations in this story that can help you out when you feel stuck. When you’ve fished all night and didn’t catch a thing it leaves you wond...2022-08-0718 min
The Spacious RoomClear Your PlateRemember when you were a kid and your mum told you that if you didn’t clear your plate you wouldn’t get dessert? And remember that feeling of smugness you felt when you did clear your plate and got dessert but your sibling didn’t because they’d left all that yummy, delicious kale on the plate? Yeah, good times. Right?
Some wise soul once said, “If we want to live a full, attentive life to God and others we need to clear our plates.” Wise words indeed. But how do we clear our overfull plates when we’re o...2022-07-3112 min
The Spacious RoomThe Scarlet Thread Pt 2Last week I shared in The Scarlet Thread Part One, how the shameful wounds from our past can cause us to feel unqualified from having any kind of relationship with God. However, all He is looking for is obedience and total dependence on Him so we can live in victory and freedom from our past. I talked about, Rahab, a prostitute in the Old Testament, whom God selected to play a pivotal role in the story of how Joshua conquered the city of Jericho and this scarlet woman was led to the scarlet thread, propelling her toward her future th...2022-07-2411 min
The Spacious RoomThe Scarlet Thread Pt 1We tend to view the great heroes of the Bible as people whom we’ll never measure up to because we feel too broken, too wounded, and too damaged to ever be used by God.
Wounded people can believe the lie in their heads that tells them, “Sure, God used those people, but me? Ha! Not a chance!” However, nobody is ever too broken, too wounded, or too damaged to find the path and follow the scarlet thread that leads to freedom and victory over past wounds.
God views people differently from how th...2022-07-1710 min
The Spacious RoomIt’ll Be Pretty When We Get ThereWhy is it we believe that Jesus waits for us to have it altogether before we feel worthy enough to tell others about Him?
Why do we fall for the lies our enemy whispers that we are just too wounded, too broken to lead people to Jesus?
And while we’re here, why is it that some believers pass through this life making an idol out of the book of Revelation and the conspiracies surrounding end times, making their excuses that the world has too much ugliness in it.
So, they remind other be...2022-07-1009 min
The Spacious RoomAn Ocean Between The Past And PresentEver wonder what Moses was thinking when he realised there was an ocean between the past of Egypt and the future of the Promised Land?
We need to understand that as we move forward into the dreams God has for us, there will always be a Pharaoh chasing us down from our past and an ocean standing in the way of our future.
Today, if all you see is an ocean between the past and the promise, you need to start trusting God who can still use what’s in your hands to part the wa...2022-07-0311 min
The Spacious RoomGracefully BrokenGracefully broken. Sounds poetic, right? But what if being gracefully broken means that we have to go through the testing fire first? A fire that proves us, perfects us, and makes us holy so we can become beautifully, elegantly, and gracefully broken for others to experience God’s goodness, kindness, and compassion.
I wonder, what fire of affliction are you going through today?
Could it be possible that the testing fire that is gracefully breaking us could help us to come out better than we were before?
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The Spacious RoomThe Red Blanket Strategy Of DiscontentThe word ‘matador’ means ‘killer’ and the enemy is in the business of stealing, killing, and destroying your purpose and calling (John 10:10). Know this dear discontented bull, that you’ve been taking actions that have caused Satan to change up his tactics. He has quietly observed your endless searching through your social media accounts.
Scrolling…scrolling…scrolling…comparing…comparing… comparing, and he’s realised that a little discontentment and a good sprinkle of frustration is what’s needed to conceal his weapon that has been formed against you underneath his red blanket to make you lose your focus because of distrac...2022-06-1916 min
The Spacious RoomConnection In the FlowNumbing the connection to our feelings of self-worth and status with our busyness can be a way of avoiding the pain and discomfort that endlessly circle our thoughts.
We’re so afraid that if we stop moving and pause for just a moment, the issues that we’ve tried to keep hidden will be exposed for all to see. But what if in our hopelessness we dared to reach out to Jesus? What if we were able to brush the hem of Jesus’ garment with our faith, causing Him to stop?
What if His flow of red...2022-06-1208 min
The Spacious RoomThis Is How I Fight My Battles Part 2Last week I shared in, This Is How I Fight My Battles – Part 1 how worship is a powerful weapon when we are struggling with fear, doubt, and worries during the midnight hour. Raising battle-scarred hands not only helps set you free but others can be set free too as we found out in the story of Paul and Silas in Acts chapter 16.
But what if that surrender, that posture of worship could be found in another weapon that your enemy doesn’t want you to know about?
What if remembering something that your enemy would rathe...2022-06-0509 min
The Spacious RoomThis Is How I Fight My Battles Part 1In Acts chapter 16, we find Paul, and Silas. Deemed as rebel-rousing troublemakers by the Roman officials, these worshippers have been flogged and are now facing their darkest hour in the most secure part of the prison.
The noises the other prisoners heard from Paul and Silas were not from their moaning and groaning, even though they had been flogged within an inch of their lives. They were using worship as a weapon to push back the darkness, raising their black and blue arms in victory instead of defeat and surrendering to their circumstances.
They knew...2022-05-2910 min
The Spacious RoomUnshaken And UnshakeableAll our lives tell a story to pass on to future generations.
Remembering what God has brought you through, every trial, every struggle, and every difficult moment and of course, not forgetting all those amazing answers to prayer and each miracle you've seen come to pass are all so important in developing an unshaken and unshakable faith when things in our lives become a little shaky.2022-05-2307 min
PreciselyParkerWendy Williams placed under financial GuardianshipI read an article from The Hollywood Reporter about Wendy Williams financial Guardianship.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/preciselyparker/message2022-05-2105 min
The Spacious RoomA Different Kind Of PersonA cupbearer was a high-ranking official whose job it was to taste the wine that was going to be served to the royal table just incase it was poisoned.
This is the one little moment we can so easily skip when reading the story of Nehemiah, found in the Old Testament. This minor detail that so often gets overlooked is important to remember because before he became a rebuilder and restorer of walls, Nehemiah was the cupbearer to a king. A different kind of person who was willing to lay down his life for another.
Trust, confidence, influence. Not normally th...2022-05-1502 min
The Spacious RoomGrace In BloomSomeone once said, “I can no longer go on basing my faith on what’s right for others or what feels good. I must find out once and for all what God’s truth is for me in my own life. But how do I go about that?”
I believe this is where I had gone wrong for so many years. Because I had been basing my faith on what was right for others for so long, comparing how much sunlight, how much water and what soil they were planted in, I found the leaves of my own faith start to shrive...2022-05-0808 min
The Spacious RoomThe Turning PointHave you ever had an “aha” moment when you look back and you remember that it wasn’t necessarily always the big, grand decisions you made that led to where you are now, but the small decisions, the ones you intentionally, deliberately, and wilfully made every day that brought the greatest gain and changed the narrative of your story?
We all have turning points scattered throughout our lives, intersections that shape our journey. But what if I told you as you stand at this crossroads there is a cross in the road that can become your turning point?2022-05-0210 min
The Spacious RoomSudden Stops Are Sometimes NeccessaryHave you stopped trusting God with your future?
To be completely honest with you, I had stopped trusting God the other week. I found myself questioning what I was doing and wondering whether God was going to be with me in every step I was taking. I found my train of thought that had run along the tracks of my faith for so long, now had come to a grinding halt, and I thought to myself, "Is this sudden stop necessary?"
Are sudden stops necessary in your faith journey? They are if you've stopped trusting G...2022-05-0112 min
The Spacious RoomWithout RestraintCan you believe that the creativity of our mighty God saw us in His mind's eye even before He created us from the dust of the ground and the rib from Adam's side?
And as He formed and fashioned us in our mother's womb, He placed creativity in every one of us.
Still not convinced you're creative? Well, let me help you our a little... 2022-04-1809 min
The Spacious RoomEven When We Cannot SeeI today's episode, I share the story of Samson and how he positioned himself before God, even though he had no strength, even though he couldn't (literally) see, he became an overcomer of his circumstances.
Each day we get an opportunity to focus on the purposes of God in our lives even though we can feel as though our strength has gone and we cannot see how it's all going to work out.
Like Samson, regardless of how many obstacles the enemy puts in our way we can still trust God to help us through...2022-04-1013 min
The Spacious RoomThe Volume Of A Quiet AchieverIn today's episode, I share two epic stories found in the Old Testament that started out quietly. Each story involves the volume of a courageous women who was a quiet achiever. Two wounded women with not much to offer understood that no loud achievement birthed from their own strength was going to get God's attention. Turning the volume up on their faith required silent, heartfelt prayers that moved God with compassion.
Sometimes to see our breakthrough, we don't need to get louder to get God's attention we just need to become quiet to see the miracles happen. 2022-04-0308 min
The Spacious RoomBe True To YourselfEndless quotes on Pinterest tell us to, “Be true to yourself” but what does that mean?
In Genesis 1:27 we are reminded that we are created in God’s image. He made man in His image, so we reflected Him. However, Adam and Eve were deceived and ate the fruit that the serpent enticed them with, causing a chasm, a broken relationship with God.
Man, who bears His image, now looks in a fragmented mirror that distorts his reflection. And as we look into the mirror, we try to recapture those true self moments when man felt close to God and walked...2022-03-2708 min
The Spacious RoomThe Invitation.Welcome to my 100th episode!
You are invited...
And in this week's special 100th celebration episode I share the power of an invitation.
Invitation's make us feel valued, seen and loved. They let you know that someone wants to share a special moment or event with you.
In John chapter 4 we read about a women at Jacob's well who has possibly forgotten what it feels like to receive an invitation because she carries her shameful past to the well along with her water pot. However, Jesus offers her an invitation that s...2022-03-2019 min
The Spacious RoomThere Is No Plan BSo, you've decided this year you're going to throw caution to the wind. say to hell with fear and follow God with the plan for your life? Wonderful!
However, you're making sure you include a clause in the contract with God before you sign on the dotted line because you're no fool, right? You want a second plan if you don't mind, a plan "B" thank you very much, just in case the first plan doesn't quite work out.
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The Spacious RoomDon’t Let Your Dogged Determination Get DerailedSo, you've answered the call to adventure, stepped out in faith and told fear to go take a hike? But the steep and winding path toward your dream that was lit up in the first few steps so you could read each signpost along the path now seems to have suddenly gone dark.
Questions start to circle in your head, "Did I really hear from God?" "Am I going in the right direction?"
Don't worry, in this week's episode we'll be looking at the story of Ruth and how she didn't let her dogged determination g...2022-03-0608 min
The Spacious RoomBig Enough For The Dreams And Plans God Has For YouIn this week's episode I share that whatever dreams and plans God has placed in your heart, know that you're big enough to fulfil them. Fear whispers that you're just too small for the task, too insignificant to make a difference.
If there's a chance that the dream God gave to you will develop into something real, then satan will poach, plunder and pilfer your potential until your dreams and plans are forgotten.
Don't allow the enemy to shut down your potential and rob you of your dreams!
2022-02-2710 min
The Spacious RoomFill Your Flask With Anointing OilIn today's episode, if we are to learn anything in the passage of 1 Samuel 16:1, it's this; we need to live expectantly as believers and look toward the future. Learning from the past is very different to living in it. We cannot allow ourselves to get caught up in the former things God's done, else we'll stagnate in our vision and eventually our faith. 2022-02-2007 min
The Spacious RoomA Better TomorrowWhy does Jesus say in Matthew 6:34 that we are not to worry about tomorrow? Because when we worry about all our tomorrows and not allow them to take care of themselves, there's a real risk we won't feel like we're in control anymore. But that's the whole point Jesus is trying to make. When we let go of worrying about our tomorrow, it helps us to live in the freedom Jesus died for and live out a better tomorrow. 2022-02-1312 min
The Spacious RoomPlaying GamesThe ironic thing about playing games is that when we're playing, we cannot allow ourselves to become vulnerable enough to admit that we didn't read the instructions properly. We didn't take the time to careful go through how it all works, so we help Satan out by adding on our own rules to something that God never said.
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The Spacious RoomThen There Was The Voice Of GodWe pray and we listen. We position ourselves to hear the voice of God. When we let the voice of God build our dreams, they take on new contours and curves, which in turn, creates something beautiful and good over our chaos, over our circumstances and ultimately, over our lives.
2022-01-3009 min
The Spacious RoomFollow The Last InstructionHow close are you to God right now? Close enough to hear His voice in the breeze? Don't let fear keep you in the cave, take a walk up the mountainside like Elijah, and stand in God's presence because He wants to speak to you, He wants to help you to follow the last instruction. 2022-01-2309 min
Let's Talk Law: w/ Wendy M.Let's Talk About: Berman v. ParkerIn this episode, Wendy talks about Berman v. Parker and eminent domain.2022-01-2112 min
The Spacious RoomOurs For The TakingIn today's episode, I share how it can be sad when mindsets and beliefs seal the door to the wonderful mysteries of God. Fear can lock up treasures the Bible holds within its pages, as the invitation to discover its truth is denied.
However, access is ours for the taking when we approach God's heart with the right attitude. 2022-01-1607 min
The Spacious RoomA Dangerous BusinessI can so relate to J.R.R.Tolkien's character, Bilbo Baggins of Bag-End. This unlikely hero preferred the snug comforts of a safe existence rather than the adventure he was called to go on.
In today's episode, I share some dangerous business about callings, adventures and leaving our safety nets that only require one qualification - a willing heart.
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The Spacious RoomFight The Good FightIn today's episode, I share how the drain of navigating a pandemic for almost two years to the restrictions that have followed and the disappointments of plans not happening have all taken a toll on even the strongest of faith-filled followers.
But this is where our enemy prowls around like a lion on the battlefield, looking for every opportunity to take out the weary, disheartened soldier who feels that they are tired of fighting the good fight.
So, how do we keep our strength up in these challenging times and continue to fight the good fi...2022-01-0209 min
The Spacious RoomBut Then Something Happened...Have you ever been in a conversation with a true storyteller at a Christmas party?
They seem to arrest everyone's attention when they throw into the story the line, "But then something happened..." And as everyone gathers around him, leaning in slack-jawed over their cups of eggnog, marvelling at the enchanted words pouring from the gifted communicator's lips they listen in to how the story will end.
But what if the "then something happened" moment in your story wasn't what you were hoping for? What then?
In today's episode, I'll help you discover ho...2021-12-2607 min
The Spacious RoomDisappointed DisciplesWe build our walls so it keeps Him out. Walls made from bricks of all our disappointments. They say that time heals all wounds. Right? I used to believe that too. I was a disappointed disciple who stood at the cross from a safe distance.
At least I thought it was safe... 2021-12-1907 min
The Spacious RoomForging The SwordYour dream will not come to pass without some Spiritual warfare. Taking back the ground that the enemy has claimed will require the lump of metal which is the start of your dream to be forged and tempered so it can be used in the battles. For you to make a significant impact for God, you have to let the blacksmith do his work so you can faithfully and obediently yield to the process.
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The Spacious RoomStick To The PlanIn today's episode, I share how there are no guarantees in this life. But, regardless of how messy, dishevelled, or mistaken ridden the plan looks, God has a perfect plan for your life. All you need to do is stick to it!2021-12-0507 min