The Receive Experience

I gave God ten minutes. That's it... ten minutes of silence on a balcony in Caracas, with two highways roaring past and a stinky attitude about whether He'd actually say anything back. This conversation I have with Jody Hovda gets into what that experiment became, and where prayer went for her once she stopped telling God what to do and started listening instead.Jody has spent years walking with people through spiritual formation and discipleship, including her work with Cultivate. She's lived overseas, discipled women through hard seasons, and has a gift for helping people notice where God already is instead of chasing where they think He should be.Expect to hear the full story behind the ten minutes of silence that started it all, what changed when Jody moved from petitioning God to listening for Him, the story of a roadside decision that turned into an act of kindness, why she calls painful seasons "the manure" and how that framing actually produces growth, the difference between the two kinds of knowing God (intellectual and experiential), and how believing every person is an image-bearer changes the way you drive, parent, and stand in line at the grocery store, and more...If something in this conversation stirs something in you, I'd love for you to sit with it. And if you want a way to start listening for yourself, the Hearing God Challenge is a free place to begin... the link is below.🔗 Sign up for the next Hearing God Challenge - https://hearinggodchallenge.com/CHAPTERS00:00 I Gave God 10 Minutes (The Story That Started It All)02:13 From Telling God What to Do to Relational Prayer04:40 Why "God Is Always Up to Something" Became Her Core Belief06:30 Stopping for a Stranded Couple (A Story of Kindness)11:10 Creating Space to Listen Together in Prayer16:10 The Stages of Development in a Life of Faith19:14 A Theology of Manure: Growth in the Hard Seasons25:31 Two Kinds of Knowing God (Saber and Conocer)28:18 The Season She Told God "I Like You, I Just Don't Love You"38:10 What These Lessons Have Taught Her About Parenting

This conversation I have with Misty Marascalco is one that surprised even me, because about an hour in, she saw something in the spirit she'd never seen before... all of us sitting at her table with Jesus. We get into how she went from a conservative upbringing where prayer was mostly "dump and run" to seeing visions, hearing Him speak identity over her, and now walking others through the same journey.Misty is the author of a book about her own path into hearing God through vision and imagination, and now leads inner healing and deliverance prayer with people all over the country.You can find her book here - https://www.just1grain.com/Here's what we explore:▪️How a movie about the crucifixion cracked open something a lifetime in church hadn't touched▪️Her first vision during worship, and the words that came with it: "you are a gate breaker"▪️The table encounter where Jesus began undoing a lifetime of lies about who she was▪️Why the same imagination the enemy can hijack is also the very place Jesus loves to meet you▪️How Scripture itself, Abraham, the Psalms, Jesus' parables, Nicodemus, is full of invitations to imagine▪️A live activation you can experience right along with us, picturing Jesus meeting you at a tableIf any of this stirs something in you, I'd love for you to sit with it. And if you want a simple, guided way to start listening for yourself, the Hearing God Challenge is a good next step... the link is below.🔗 Sign up for the next Hearing God Challenge - https://hearinggodchallenge.com/Chapters:00:00 Intro1:53 From a Conservative Church to an Unexpected Awakening3:00 How The Passion of the Christ Changed Everything for Misty14:26 Choosing a Weekend That Changed Her Whole Trajectory19:20 Her First Vision: Becoming a Gate Breaker25:11 The Table Where Jesus Named Her True Identity29:03 Why Your Imagination Was Never Off Limits to God37:38 How Imagination Shows Up All Through Scripture52:09 A Live Activation: Practicing Seeing Together1:05:43 Meeting Jesus at the Table, Live on This Call

This conversation I have with Roy Moran is about something I hear from so many people I work with... the silence. What do you do when you sit down to pray and just get nothing back? Roy walked me through his own journey with that exact question, and how solitude became a discipline he couldn't live without.Roy Moran spent 25 years pioneering the Hybrid Church model at Shoal Creek before joining New Generations, where he now works with disciple-making movements around the world. He's the author of Spent Matches. You can learn more about his work at Mercy Alliance.We get into why Roy stopped filling his prayer time with talking and started learning to just be quiet, what to do when your mind won't settle even after you've gone silent, and how that discipline ended up changing the way he experiences God's love, not just in his head, but in his body.Chapters:00:00 Intro: How Roy Got Started in Disciple-Making03:20 Why "Jesus Commands Us to Make Disciples" Is False05:33 Gravitational vs Catalytic Leadership09:15 How Roy's Journey of Listening to God Began11:34 Learning to Sit in Silence With God24:19 Trading a Spirit of Success for Perseverance29:51 The Fear Behind Our Demand for Answers34:34 The Prodigal Son Picture That Changed Everything43:41 Moving From Striving to ReceivingIf the silence has felt more like absence than connection, I don't think you're missing something. I think you might be closer than you realize.🔗 Sign up for the next Hearing God Challenge - https://hearinggodchallenge.com/🔗 Learn more about Roy Moran's work at Mercy Alliance - https://mercyalliance.org/

This is a conversation I have with Anne de Leyser. Anne leads Local House of Prayer, the movement that grew out of Ffald y Brenin and The Grace Outpouring, and we get into what over ten years of listening to God's whispers has taught her about ordinary people carrying real authority right where they already live.
We talk about praying "teach me how to pray" instead of assuming you already know, why the way you hear God looks different from anyone else's and that's not something to fix, kids who heard God before anyone taught them to, the difference between asking God to bless someone and speaking that blessing over them, and what she's learned about chronos time, kairos time, and not giving up right before the breakthrough.
Chapters:00:00 A Boy's Words That Set Her Free01:53 The Story Behind The Grace Outpouring04:43 "I Don't Know How to Pray" and Why That's Okay10:39 How Local House of Prayer Was Born18:11 It's About Your Yes, Not Your Ability20:29 Kids Who Heard God Before Anyone Taught Them To24:51 Forty Countries, No Budget, and a Hobbit Adventure33:44 The Fossil Museum and the Words That Freed Her48:19 Speaking Blessing Instead of Just Asking for It56:01 Sons of Issachar and a Call to National Prayer
If you want to learn how to better hear God, sign up for the next Hearing God Challenge - https://hearinggodchallenge.com/
Resources mentioned:🔗 The Grace Outpouring Book - https://amzn.to/4y4yGVC🔗 Local House of Prayer - https://localhousesofprayer.org/

Michele has been part of our community for eight months, and in that time she went from believing she was fundamentally broken to telling me she hasn't felt that way since. In this conversation she walks me through the marriage she entered without ever praying about it, the year that took her mom and nearly her faith, and what it's actually looked like to hear God's voice in the small, practical stuff of her life. Toward the end we pray together, and something opens up in her about why it's felt safer to keep love out than risk it leaving again.Michele is a member of our Receive Academy community who's spent the last eight months learning to recognize God's voice in her everyday life, from prayer to parenting to driving in traffic.Here's what we explore:▪️ How a belief that she was fundamentally broken kept her from expecting God would actually come through for her, and what shifted once that healed▪️ The morning she finally saw Jesus' eyes after eight months of sensing Him near without seeing them▪️ What happened when she started asking God how much to earn before her DoorDashing shifts▪️ Realizing she had pictured God acting like her mother instead of trusting Him as Father▪️ A live prayer where we get underneath a fist wrapped around her heart, holding pain because letting love in once meant watching it leaveChapters00:00 Intro01:05 Becoming a Single Mom at Nineteen and the Miracles That Followed04:05 Marrying Without Ever Praying About It06:56 Growing Up in a Split Faith Family and Hearing Her First Name From God08:54 A Year That Took Her Mom, Her Son's Faith, and Nearly Her Own11:19 Six Weeks of Hearing Not Yet Before Joining the Community13:16 Seeing His Eyes and Feeling Time Stretch16:23 Healing the Belief That She Was Broken20:36 Asking God How Much to Earn and Realizing She'd Pictured Him Like Her Mother27:24 A Live Prayer for the Fist Around Her HeartIf something in this stirred something in you, I'd love for you to sit with it. And if you want to keep going deeper into hearing God's voice for yourself, the Hearing God Challenge is a great next step.🔗 Sign up for the next Hearing God Challenge - https://hearinggodchallenge.com/