The Living Unleashed Podcast

Has life made you tired and exhausted? Especially during this time of crisis with the coronavirus pandemic, you may feel overwhelmed and beat. Jesus offers us a real rest--one that we can't find anywhere else. With him, we can live freely and lightly even in the midst of crisis and tough times. Listen to today's episode to find out how to take a real rest.

Hey fellow Journeyers! I am so glad you have joined us this week for the journey. We just wound up our journey through Luke and Acts last week and are preparing to launch Season 3 of the Living Unleashed Podcast on April 15th! For these two weeks, we are doing Bonus Replay podcasts. I am selecting 10 of my favorite episodes from Season One to replay. This will give you a chance to listen in to some of the early episodes that you might have missed. Today’s episode is entitled “God’s Got This”. God is with you and He is all you need. Hope you enjoy.

Keep on Living Unleashed!

Jeremy

There is a lot of uncertainty in today’s world. All one has to do is scan the news headlines to know that this is so. We can also go through uncertain times in our own lives. The good news is that even when things are shifting around us, we have an unchanging God. Listen to today’s episode to see how God’s unchangingness changes everything. Keep on living unleashed!

Recently, as I was meeting with a group of folks, I asked the question, “What is prayer?” After some discussion, we came to a consensus that prayer is a conversation with God. However, after further discussion, we all admitted that most of the time our conversation is pretty one-sided with us doing most (if not all) of the talking. So the question becomes, how do we listen for the voice of God, especially in the midst of the chaos and competing voices that are all around us. In today’s episode, join Jeremy on the journey as we consider how Elijah heard the voice of God on the mountaintop as we listen for the voice of God in our own lives. Keep on living unleashed.

1 Kings 19:9-18

⁹ There he went into a cave and spent the night.

And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

¹⁰ He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”

¹¹ The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”

Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. ¹² After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.¹³ When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.

Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

¹⁴ He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”

¹⁵ The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. ¹⁶ Also, anointJehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet. ¹⁷ Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu.¹⁸ Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”

We had our first Live Feed worship service on Sunday due to the restrictions in place to attempt to flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic. Today's podcast is the message that I shared during that Live Feed. In this time of crisis, we are invited to remember that God is with us, therefore, we can be strong and courageous (Joshua 1:1-9). The title of this podcast is actually the final words of John Wesley before his death. I hope you find some encouragement with these words. As always, Keep on Living Unleashed.