What Is God Asking You to Lay Down? Hearing God in Listener Questions
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What Is God Asking You to Lay Down? Hearing God in Listener Questions
Start with the thing you feel like you couldn't possibly give up. That's usually the one.
It's Friday, so we're catching up and working through questions that came in. Today we talk about using the color method with kids, whether spiritual gifts only operate through tongues, and a question I had to sit with: what has God actually asked me to surrender? I share the closed door that led to my first book, and the hardest thing I've ever had to lay down.
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Questions we answer today
Can kids do the color method, and where do I find the chart? Do the gifts of the Spirit only come through praying in tongues? Is speaking in tongues the only evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit? What has God asked me personally to give up? How do I know what He's asking me to surrender?
Timestamps
00:00 How Friday episodes work
01:50 Can children use the color method?
02:45 Adapting it for younger kids
03:10 Where to find the free Bible Study 101 download
04:10 A question about the gifts of the Spirit
05:00 Do gifts only operate through tongues?
06:40 Why I try never to say amen
08:10 Pushing back on some charismatic teaching
08:40 The evidence of a Spirit-filled heart is a Spirit-filled life
09:00 The prophetic artist on one of our trips
10:20 The painting that undid me
11:40 What we've seen so far in Luke
12:45 What has God asked me to give up?
14:30 The article, the contract, and the closed door
17:40 Surrendering it at my desk
18:00 The two emails that came that week
19:20 How one act of obedience opened everything after it
20:10 Daycare, children's ministry, missions, and now this
21:10 What God usually asks for
21:40 The two hardest things I've laid down
22:20 Laying your children before the throne
23:20 Watching them go where I couldn't follow
24:30 Start with what you can't imagine giving up
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