The Receive Experience

This conversation I have with Beatty Carmichael is one I've been thinking about since we recorded it. Beatty has spent decades learning to trust God at His word through financial near-disasters and real-world healings, and what he shares here is deeply biblical... and quietly life-changing.Beatty Carmichael is a businessman, author, and healing practitioner and the author of The Prayer of Freedom.Expect to explore what it actually means to take God at His word in financial crisis, how Beatty tripled his giving while broke and why the math still worked, what scripture says about the connection between unconfessed sin and physical sickness, the heavenly courtroom framework and why pleading the blood of Jesus isn't just metaphor, and how anxiety, chronic pain, and addiction can disappear through confession and repentance.Chapters00:00 Tripling His Giving While Broke: The Story That Started It All06:37 The $25 Test: What Happened When Beatty Gave 45% of His Income11:38 Naaman's Story and Why Faith Is Just Obedience19:14 "If You Believed I Would, How Would You Be Acting?"25:30 Learning to Hear God's Voice and Why Beatty Stopped Trusting Men to Interpret Scripture32:00 How Sin Creates a Legal Opening for the Enemy40:00 The Heavenly Courtroom Vision and Pleading the Blood of Jesus58:32 The Biblical Pattern: Sin, Sickness, and Confession01:06:12 Anxiety Gone in Four Minutes: A Real Story from the Prayer Line01:12:03 Catherine's Story: Heroin, Migraines, and Anxiety — All GoneIf something in this conversation stirred something in you, I hope you'll sit with it... and maybe even bring one part of it to God and ask Him what He wants you to do with it.🔗 Beatty's Book & Resources — https://theprayeroffreedom.com/🔗 Join The Receive Academy — https://receiveacademy.com/🔗 Sign up for the next Hearing God Challenge — https://hearinggodchallenge.com/

This conversation I have with my friend Sylvia is one I've been wanting to share for a while. She tells the story of how fear and anxiety almost led her and her family into a polygamist offshoot religion... and the quiet moment at a friend's doorway that brought her back. Sylvia has six kids, homeschools, and has learned to hear God in a way that's woven through her ordinary days.

My friend Sylvia is a mother of six, a homeschooling mom, and someone who has been showing up to the Receive Experience call in the mornings. What I love about her story is the honesty of it... she's not pretending she always heard God clearly. She walks us through what it actually felt like to swallow a lie, to feel God's love drain out of her, and then to feel that first little ping of the Spirit returning.

Here's what we explore:

▪️What it feels like to reach "sideways instead of up" to God
▪️The subtle moment of choice she missed before going down a path of fear
▪️How logic helped her reason her way back to a loving God
▪️The story of Ruth and what it taught her about being led
▪️A simple practice for hearing God in the small things (yes, even pancake batter)
▪️How Sylvia partners with God in parenting six kids and homeschooling
▪️Why God's voice never sounds like condemnation, and what to listen for instead

If something in this conversation stirs something in you, I just invite you to sit with it. And if you want to start practicing hearing God for yourself, the Hearing God Challenge is a great place to begin.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:31 When I Almost Joined a Polygamist Community
03:34 Reaching Sideways Instead of Up to God
05:25 The Subtle Moment I Felt God's Love Drain Out of Me
08:36 The Dinner and the Sentence That Brought Me Back
10:41 How Logic Helped Me Believe God Is Love Again
14:13 Learning to Partner With God in Parenting
19:16 What the Story of Ruth Taught Me About Being Led
26:35 Hearing God in Sensations, Pancakes, and Everyday Life
33:11 Why Condemnation Isn't God's Voice

I sat down with my friend Johs Wu for what started as a casual catch-up — and somewhere in the middle of it, something clicked for me that I'd been holding onto as a question for a long time. If you watch this one, I'd love for you to guess in the comments what that insight was.Johs Wu is a coach, author, and Identity Exchange practitioner who has spent years helping people discover who God calls them and walk in it. He's also the author of The Golden Wish Junior, a picture book about identity and breaking generational patterns.Expect to hear about what happens when your true identity becomes another thing to perform, how God speaks in far more ways than we think to notice, why the "harvest is plentiful" passage might mean something completely different than what most sermons say, what Peter's denial actually reveals about perfect love, and what it looks like to move from doing this stuff out of fear to doing it out of love — and more...Chapters:00:00 Welcome and Intro to Johs Wu02:10 The Book Johs Wrote About Identity and Generational Patterns07:25 What "Friend First" and "Light Bringer" Actually Mean to Live Out13:19 When Living from Your Identity Becomes Striving28:47 Why God Shows Us Things That Haven't Happened Yet30:04 Peter's Denial and What Perfect Love Actually Looks Like36:00 Asking God What He Means — Not Just What He Said40:19 How Any Good Practice Can Become Performance53:09 Is Intentional Practice a Formula or a Muscle?1:05:43 The Last Word God Put on Johs's HeartIf something in this conversation stirred something in you, sit with it. And if you're ready to go deeper in hearing God for yourself, the links below are a good place to start.📖 Get Johs's book The Golden Wish Junior — https://amzn.to/48wITPA🔗 Join The Receive Academy — https://receiveacademy.com/🔗 Sign up for the next Hearing God Challenge — https://hearinggodchallenge.com/#HearingGod #IdentityInChrist #ListeningPrayer #SpiritualFormation #ReceiveAcademy

I sat down with Adam Cruz to talk about something I think a lot of us feel but rarely name out loud — what happens when your drive to build and create is running on fear instead of freedom. Adam nearly lost everything chasing success, and what he found on the other side changed how he thinks about ambition entirely.Adam Cruz is a coach, entrepreneur, and the founder of Healed to Hustle. He's spent years studying what makes high achievers collapse — and what it looks like to build something meaningful without burning everything else down in the process.Expect to hear about the seven hidden inner life variables that determine whether your ambition sustains or destroys you, why your real motivation is almost never what you think it is, what it actually looks like to hustle from a healed place, the simple morning habit Adam keeps coming back to when everything starts to unravel, and what changes when you start asking "why am I doing this?" as a daily practice rather than a crisis question — and more...Chapters:00:00 Welcome and Intro to Adam Cruz01:30 How Adam Nearly Lost Everything He Built06:00 The Seven Hidden Variables That Determine Your Sustainability11:00 Identity Is Where It All Starts16:00 The Six Levels of Motivation (And Why Most of Us Aren't Honest About Ours)22:00 Recharge Routines vs. Achievement in Disguise24:00 Why Adam Touches the Grass Every Morning28:30 What Work Looks Like When You're Not Trying to Earn Anything37:00 Peace Is the New Profit44:30 What God Wants You to Know Right NowIf something in this conversation stirred something in you, sit with it. And if you're ready to take a look at where your own ambition is coming from, Adam's free assessment is a great place to start.🔗 Take the Healed to Hustle Assessment — https://www.thehealedhustle.com/🔗 Join The Receive Academy — https://receiveacademy.com/🔗 Sign up for the next Hearing God Challenge — https://hearinggodchallenge.com/#HearingGod #HealedToHustle #IdentityInChrist #SpiritualFormation #ReceiveAcademy

I had a conversation with my friend Chris Fox that I didn't record... but the insights were too good not to share. So I pulled the transcript and walked away with 10 things I thought were powerful.This one is about abundance, but probably not the way you're thinking. It's about living from a place of being fully resourced, letting challenges become invitations, and sitting with the question that quietly changes everything: What if my only job today is to be loved?Here's what I share in this video:▪️ How asking "Lord, what do you mean by abundance?" shifts what you actually see▪️ Why every frustration in your life is an invitation in disguise▪️ A simple practice from Baxter Krueger: name five ways God spoke to you today▪️ What happens when you stop looking for the right way to listen and let God out of the box▪️ Why "put it all to death — even the good stuff" might be the most freeing thing the Lord ever says to you▪️ How operating from "I am fully resourced" changes the quality of everything you create▪️ Why safety plus truth is the foundation of any conversation that actually goes somewhereChapters:00:00 Introduction01:17 Insight 1 — What God Actually Means by Abundance05:13 Insight 2 — Every Challenge Is an Invitation in Disguise07:21 Insight 3 — Name Five Ways God Spoke to You Today10:58 Insight 4 — What If There's No Wrong Way?16:53 Insight 5 — Mission Over Rules (The Stagecoach Story)19:54 Insight 6 — Put It All to Death, Even the Good Stuff21:35 Insight 7 — You Are Fully Resourced Right Now25:01 Insight 8 — Your Only Job Is to Be Loved29:25 Insights 9 and 10 — Safety, Truth, and the SandboxIf something landed in this video, I'd just invite you to sit with it for a minute. Ask the Lord which one of these is for you today.🔗 Join The Receive Academy — https://receiveacademy.com/🔗 Sign up for the next Hearing God Challenge — https://hearinggodchallenge.com/