It feels logical to think that if we do what God says, things will go smoothly. It feels right that if we are obedient, we will be rewarded with better. But why is it that sometimes, when we walk the path God has set for us, things get worse? Why does it sometimes seem like the more we follow Him, the more difficult our life gets? In this episode, we’ll talk about this and some of the reasons why this happens.

We are under so much pressure from so many different directions. We’re told who we should be, what we should and should not be, how we should or should not act. Over time, we can internalize the stories we are being told. Then the pressure ends up going both ways. So how do we fight back? Let’s talk about the question we can ask ourselves to resist the internal pressure of societal expectations.

When you want something very deeply, how do you know if it is the result of a promise of God or God’s voice versus your own desires speaking? The goal is that our desire align with God’s desires for us; but that is not always the case. Sometimes we can even want something that God does have for us but we lack the patience to allow it to happen in His perfect timing. In this episode, we’ll talk about ways to distinguish between God’s voice and our own.