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In God’s presence, we can find healing. In his pure love, our hearts can find hope. Join Stasi for a delightful conversation with guest Liz Wright – best-selling author, international speaker, podcast host, and Founder of the International Mentoring Community. Liz shares her powerful story of falling in love with Jesus in the middle of a painful season, and her heart for everyone to experience the transformational life found in resting in God’s embrace.SHOW NOTES:Verses: 1 John 3:2 (NIV) — Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.Romans 8:1 (NIV) — Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, Romans 16:20 (NIV) — The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.Psalm 46:10 (NIV) — He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”Ephesians 4:23-24 (TPT) — And to be transformed as you embrace the glorious Christ-within as your new life and live in union with him! For God has re-created you all over again in his perfect righteousness, and you now belong to him in the realm of true holiness.John 17:22-23 (NIV) — I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.Psalm 23:1 (NIV) — The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.Luke 11:34 (TPT) — The eyes of your spirit allow revelation-light to enter into your being. When your heart is open the light floods in. But when your heart is hard and closed, the light cannot penetrate and darkness takes its place.LIZ WRIGHTWebsite: https://lizwright.org/Courses: https://courses.lizwright.org/Instagram: https://@lizwrightministries Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lizwrightministries/aboutTelevision Show: Encountering God: https://lizwright.org/encountering-god International Mentoring Community: https://www.jointheimc.com/Podcast: Live Your Best Life with Liz Wright https://www.charismapodcastnetwork.com/show/liveyourbestlifeVideo Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/LizWrightBooks:Ekklesia RisingReflecting God - Spiritual Keys to Unlock the Supernatural YouLoved - A 90 day journey into the heart of GodLiz Wright Bio:Based in the UK, Liz Wright is an international best-selling author, speaker, presenter of the TV show Encountering God with Liz Wright, host of the Charisma Podcast show Live Your Best Life with Liz Wright, and the CEO and Founder of the International Mentoring Community. Liz's life changed forever in 1995 with a physical visitation from Jesus Christ.  Since that time, she has helped millions around the world to know the heart of God and experience His life-transforming love for themselves.

Stasi invites guest Danita Jenae, author of When Mountains Crumble, into the studio for this week's podcast to share about the faithfulness of Jesus amidst tragedy and grief. With practical wisdom, Stasi and Danita talk about finding peace even when things fall apart, grieving without shame, and what Danita came to know of God through her heartbreaking loss. Her story is filled with beauty and pain, and the conversation is a blessing of knowing God’s unshakable presence. Show Notes:DANITA JENAEWebsite: danitajenae.comWebsite: WhenMountainsCrumble.comInstagram: @CompanionInSorrow and @danitajenaeBook: When Mountains CrumbleDanita Jenae Bio:Danita Jenae is a young mom and recent military widow learning to carry both joy and sorrow in the same breath. As an author, speaker, poet, and artist, she walks alongside the broken-hearted, offering practical and creative ways to lead a Spirit-led life at danitajenae.com and @CompanionInSorrow. To help you find your way in sorrow, Danita invites you to grab your free copy of her Find Your Footing Grief Guide at WhenMountainsCrumble.com.

Stasi is so happy to have guest Eric Gilmour from Sonship International on today’s podcast. Out of his deep love for Jesus, Eric shares what it means to abide in God and fix our gaze on him, as well as ways to access what God offers us. Friends, we won’t know the depth of God’s love until we have tasted the majesty and goodness of Jesus. As Jeremiah 29:13 says, "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."SHOW NOTES:Verses: Ephesians 5:25 (NIV) — Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her Song of Solomon 2:14 (NIV) — My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.Song of Solomon 1:2-3 (NIV) — Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—for your love is more delightful than wine. Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out.Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV) — You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.Hebrews 12:2 (NIV) — fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.Psalm 25:15 (NIV) — My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only he will release my feet from the snare.Hebrews 1:4 (NIV) — So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.Hebrews 2:1 (NIV) — We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.Deuteronomy 6:8-9 (NIV) — Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.Third Day Song Reference:Love Song — “I've heard it said that a man would climb a mountain. Just to be with the one He loves.”ERIC GILMOURWebsite: https://www.sonship-international.org/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ewgilmourMusic: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6fVjCsKdS30DoRnMfOlG4jInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonshipintl/Eric Gilmour Bio:Eric Gilmour is an author, musician, and itinerant speaker who travels domestically and internationally.  He and his wife Brooke are the founders of Sonship International- a teaching ministry committed to strengthening the church. Their hearts are to bring the church into a deeper experience of God's presence in their daily lives.  With over one hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube Eric's music and teachings have aided millions of people in resting in the presence of God.Eric, Brooke and their two daughters, Madison and Lia, reside in Orlando, Florida. They have two golden retrievers, Mia and Oakley. When he's home you can find him spending time with his family, reading and/or with a camera in his hand filming or taking pictures, namely in the golden hour.

Join Stasi as she dives deeper into the beautiful truths of who we are in Christ and what our magnificent God has accomplished for us! Growing in our practice of resting in these truths helps us to guard against Identity Theft — the enemy’s #1 tool to keep us from living in the love and power of God.SHOW NOTES:Verses:1 John 1:3 (NIV) — See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.Revelation 4:1 (NIV) — After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”,Colossians 2:13-25 (NIV) —  When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. …John 19:30 (NIV) — When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.Colossians 1:15-22 (NIV) — The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—Colossians 3:1-3 (NIV) — Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Ephesians 1:20-23 (NIV) — he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.Luke 1:26-33 (NIV) — …He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”Luke 22:69 (NIV) — But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God.Matthew 26:64 (NIV) — “You have said so,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”Hebrews 8:1 (NIV) — Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,1 Peter 3:22 (NIV) — who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.Hebrews 10:12 (NIV) — But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,Ephesians 2:6-7 (NIV) — And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, …Hebrews 12:2 (NIV) — fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.Philippians 3:20-21 (NIV) — But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.Colossians 2:2 (NIV) — My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ,Colossians 1:25-27 (NIV) — I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness — the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people. To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.kalahOriginal Word: כָּלָה Part of Speech: VerbTransliteration: kalahPhonetic Spelling: (kaw-law')Definition: to be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

The busyness of the world can leave us feeling fragmented and buried. Jamie Goudie joins Stasi to talk about the ways the pressures of life separate us from the heart of God, and the importance of not letting go of the things that bring us life and connect us to Him. Tending to our hearts is an invitation to show up just as we are, trusting Him to meet us with His mercy and kindness.SHOW NOTES:Hebrews 13:5 (NIV) — “Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.’” Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul In These Turbulent Times by John EldredgeGet Your Life Back: Everyday Practices for a World Gone Mad by John EldredgePause App: 1-minute Pause and 30 Days to ResilientAdditional Podcasts Referenced from Wild at Heart:Depleted ReservesProtect the EpicenterWas Summer Enough?Natural vs. Supernatural Help

It’s helpful to know we are not alone in not fitting in. Today’s guest is Nancy Carmichael, creator of IsleofMisfits.com. She loves to encourage others in their “weird,” and today she shares her three core values: owning your awkward, loving your fellow misfits, and seeking beauty and truth. Believing that God doesn’t just love us but actually likes the way he made us can help us own who we are and step into the glory and purpose he intended.SHOW NOTES:Verses: John 6:67-68 (NIV) — “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.Luke 8:26-39 (NIV) — Story of Legion being set free — (verse 36-37) Those who had seen it told the people how the demon-possessed man had been cured. Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and left.Galatians 5:1 (NIV) — It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. …John Keats Quote: “Beauty is truth — truth beauty — that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.”NANCY CARMICHAELWebsite: https://isleofmisfits.com/Podcast: https://isleofmisfits.com/podcasts/Blog: https://isleofmisfits.com/blog/Nancy Carmichael Bio:Nancy Carmichael is the Proprietor and Chief Misfit of the IsleofMisfits.com, a blogging and podcasting Oasis for self-proclaimed square pegs, far and wide. Through it, she hopes to build a community of people who own their awkward, love their fellow misfit and embrace beauty and truth in the weirdness of life. Aside from this, one of her main claims to fame is being merely 1 degree separated from Kevin Bacon, thanks to a friend who once played a stand-in for his leading lady in the 80’s classic “She’s Having a Baby”. As if it could get any better, Nancy is married to a man so good it took EHarmony to help her find him, and a daughter she will obnoxiously brag about if given even half a chance. She has spent her life communicating good news wherever in the world the door opens, through writing, singing, speaking, coaching, counseling and advocating for those whom society often overlooks.

So often our plans do not go quite as well as we had hoped. What then? Where is God in that? Join Stasi in this week's podcast as she shares from personal experiences about that very thing.SHOW NOTES:Verses: Luke 17:21 (NIV) —  When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples, “As you know, the Passover is two days away—and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”Proverbs 27:17 (NIV) —  As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.Psalm 52:8-9 (NIV) —  But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love forever and ever. For what you have done I will always praise you in the presence of your faithful people. And I will hope in your name, for your name is good.Women at the Well original video recording When We FailStory Clip from This is Us, Season 6 Episode 06, “Our Little Island Girl Part II”

Join Stasi in this delightful conversation with singer, songwriter and gifted worship leader Rita Springer. Rita shares pieces of her story, including the powerful moment when she heard God ask her to “sing.” Friends, worshipping Jesus releases both a sweet, alluring fragrance and the power to break strongholds. Listen in and be encouraged by this wise woman.SHOW NOTES:Isaiah 54; specifically verse 54:1 (NIV) —  “Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy,  you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the Lord.Rita SpringerWebsite: http://www.ritaspringer.com/welcomePodcast: https://ritaspringerpdocast.buzzsprout.com/shareInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ritaspringer/Songs that Stasi referenced:Never LostThey Kingdom ComeRita Springer Bio:Rita is one of the most gifted worship leaders to arise over the last fifteen years. She believes that the joy of being a worship leader is to make those listening, jealous for what has been found in Christ. Making Christ famous through the art, act and physical sound of our worship is Rita’s anthem and her deepest desire is to see this arise in the body of Christ. Her motto is; “To make the Lord famous in whatever I do with my worship and relationship with Him”. Born out of that deep desire and to see women free through the tools of the Word, Worship and Prayer, she started her own women’s conference in 2000 called ‘Fragrant Oil’ it was an incredible season of 7 years watching God use worship powerfully to transform lives across the globe.In 2008 she began a worship school called DIVE. (Deep - Innovative - Vertical - Expression) The School trains and encourages upcoming worship leaders all over the world with weeklong intensive one-on-one courses. Staying true to her calling, Rita continues to write new songs and leads worship at churches, conferences and events around the country. Rita released her first book in 2013, Finding Eve.Jonathan Edwards Quote from Sermons and Discourses, 1743-1758 (WJE Online Vol. 25): It is the sight of the divine beauty of Christ, that bows the wills, and draws the heart…

Endings are hard. They mark the close of a season, but they also mark a beginning. In this new podcast, Stasi and Stacey Burton talk together about the significance of endings in our lives, and the importance of grieving so that we can fully step into the new. To be present and merciful to our hearts in the ache of a shift, and not run from it, we can find Christ and rest in his promise that no ending is forever. Show Notes:"Silence is God's first language" — Quote from Phantastes by George McDonaldDefiant Joy: Taking Hold of Hope, Beauty, and Life in a Hurting World by Stasi EldredgeThe Last Battle by C.S. Lewis

In this week’s podcast, Stasi shares her thoughts on the importance of nourishing our souls this summer by drinking in God’s presence more deeply. In order to make room for the much-needed refreshment and restoration that we all have, Stasi encourages us to ask God for His unique prescription for us. Where is God inviting you into more beauty? Intimacy? Adventure? What does your heart need?SHOW NOTES:Books: Resilient by John EldredgeThe Sacred Romance by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge Pause AppThe 30 Days to Resilience experience is found within the Pause Apphttps://wildatheart.org/resilient/Cheryl Wright on the Captivated Podcast:  Encountering JesusVerses: Luke 17:21 (NKJV) —  nor will they say,‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.Psalm 42:2 (TPT) — My soul thirsts, pants, and longs for the living God. I want to come and see the face of God. Ephesians 1:17 (NIV) — I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.Hosea 2:19-20 (NKJV) — I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy; I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the Lord.John 17:3 (NIV) — Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.Psalm 42:1 (TPT) — I long to drink of you, O God, to drink deeply from the streams of pleasure flowing from your presence. My longings overwhelm me for more of you!