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The Unforced Gifts

Tanya Godsey

18 episodes

9 months ago

In episode 8 we continue our 4-part series covering 8 biblical ways to hear and know God's voice. This week our focus lies on circumstances and impressions as doorways to discernment. With insights from Tanya's new book, "Befriending God," we'll journey through the life of Moses and Joseph, uncovering how their experiences with God—marked by adversity and divine intervention—can inspire us to listen closely to the guidance offered through our own circumstances and Spirit-led inner knowings. W...

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In episode 8 we continue our 4-part series covering 8 biblical ways to hear and know God's voice. This week our focus lies on circumstances and impressions as doorways to discernment. With insights from Tanya's new book, "Befriending God," we'll journey through the life of Moses and Joseph, uncovering how their experiences with God—marked by adversity and divine intervention—can inspire us to listen closely to the guidance offered through our own circumstances and Spirit-led inner knowings. W...

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Religion & Spirituality

Episodes (18/18)

The Unforced Gifts

Befriending God: An Invitation Into Transformation Through Disruption

In episode 8 we continue our 4-part series covering 8 biblical ways to hear and know God's voice. This week our focus lies on circumstances and impressions as doorways to discernment. With insights from Tanya's new book, "Befriending God," we'll journey through the life of Moses and Joseph, uncovering how their experiences with God—marked by adversity and divine intervention—can inspire us to listen closely to the guidance offered through our own circumstances and Spirit-led inner knowings. W...

9 months ago

28 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

Befriending God BONUS Episode: Live Book Release Gathering Q&A

Surprise! We interrupt our regularly scheduled micro-series episode for a very special live Q&A from the Befriending God pre-release gathering on February 7th. Join Tanya and Redeeming The Story board member Hannah Wood as they dive into God as our permanent home, the invitation of prayer, a healthy theology of suffering and other important topics related to Tanya's new book releasing February 11th. Befriending God Tanya on Ann Voskamp's Blog (An excerpt from Befriending God.)

9 months ago

41 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

Befriending God: An Invitation Into His Artistry

Join us as we continue our 4-part series exploring 8 biblical ways God befriends us, intimately, here in a Post-Eden world. In this very special episode, we explore wonder through the artistry of God as revealed in nature and science. We also contemplate the power of music to draw us into intimacy with God through specific songs and musical moments found in Exodus, Psalms, 2 Kings and Revelation. God is the Original Artist, the first to make something beautiful out of absolutely n...

9 months ago

36 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

Befriending God: An Invitation To Abide

Join Tanya for a 4 part series chronicling 8 biblical ways God speaks and befriends us here in a transient, complex, Post-Eden world. In this episode we contemplate what it means to abide in God as our permanent home. Tanya also integrates a few choice excerpts from "Befriending God," releasing February 11th. Pre-order physical copies/audio books here.Listen/Read Tanya's new YouVersion Bible plan focused on surrender. Connect with Tanya.

9 months ago

25 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

A Forward Facing Life: How To Discern And Follow God's Voice Into Uncharted Territory

In Episode 4 we explore the practicalities of discerning God's voice and aligning life with Philippians 3:14 even when it requires courageous faith.

1 year ago

40 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

Unlikely: God Loves The Underdog

The upside-down reality of God's kingdom is found in Jesus' words in Matthew 5. God loves the unlikely and frequently overshadows human power structures to prove the last is first in His heart.In this episode Tanya shares family secrets and personal stories to this end. She also unveils an unlikely but beautiful development, 2 years in the making.https://www.tanyagodsey.com/befriending-god-book

1 year ago

51 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

Protect Your Becoming: Navigating Transformational Seasons with God

In this episode Tanya unpacks a beautiful experience with God that took place on March 24th of this year, an experience that runs parallel to 2 Corinthians 3:18 and holds a wealth of spiritual gold for those navigating seasons of change. The stories and insight within this episode will serve as a foundation for an important, forthcoming announcement, 2 years in the making.

1 year ago

38 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

Re-Parented by God: The Role of Spiritual Fathers and Mothers

Season 2 begins with a biblical and personal exploration of the foundational role spiritual fathers and mothers play in the family of God and in our understanding of what it means to be re-parented by Him in a Post-Eden world. Tanya discusses how these experienced mentors are not meant to become idols but models of goodness, offering their lives as living pictures of what it means to befriend God intimately and to live a relationship-first life with Him here in a homesick world.

1 year ago

42 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

Final Advent Reflection: Luke 2 - Emmanuel, God With Us

We culminate our special series of Advent reflections with Luke 2 as we contemplate the divinity and humanity of Emmanuel, God with us and celebrate the miracle of our Savior's birth.

1 year ago

11 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

Advent Reflection 3: Luke 1 - Mary's Song

Join us for our third Advent reflection as we contemplate Mary's Song and the reality of God's upside-down kingdom.

1 year ago

11 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

Advent Reflection 2: Luke 1 - Divine Expectancy

Join us for our second Advent reflection as we focus on divine expectancy based on select passages in Luke 1.

1 year ago

13 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

Advent Reflection 1: Isaiah 9 - The People Who Walked In Darkness Have Seen A Great Light

Join us this Advent season for a vertically aligned reflective space. In the next four weeks we will ground our hearts in the scriptures and themes surrounding the arrival of the Messiah and the beauty and power of God’s supernatural plan to redeem the story of humanity.I hope you’ll join us as we make room in our hearts to contemplate, connect and respond to God in these special micro episodes. Our first Advent offering includes a reading from Isaiah 9:2-7 followed by a thoughtful Advent pra...

1 year ago

12 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

Perfectionism Versus Excellence

Prepare to embark on a transformative spiritual journey as we unpack the profound implications of excellence versus perfectionism. In episode six, we delve into how our yearning for Eden's perfection influences our attitudes and actions. We expose the roots of each concept and discover that perfectionism is fear-based, while excellence is rooted in love. Tune in to discover how to walk alongside God, embracing the freedom that comes from His sufficiency. This episode is a must-listen for...

2 years ago

39 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

Sabbath Surrender

Do you ever feel caught in a cycle of constant doing and achieving? In this episode we'll explore Sabbath surrender and what it means to embrace sacred rhythms of work and rest. We'll also acknowledge the tension that arises when we intentionally step away from our cultural obsession with productivity to observe a 24-hour period of rest. Join us as we contemplate the Sabbath as an act of trust in the sovereignty of God as the Master Conductor in the symphony of life. When surrender is the for...

2 years ago

32 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

The Secret Place

Matthew 22:37-38 invites us to place our love for God at the forefront of everything we do. When we prioritize this level of intimacy with Him in the secret place we encounter the antidote to the cultural illness of striving.

2 years ago

32 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

A Vertically Aligned Life with God through the Unforced Gifts of Scripture, Prayer + Wonder

Have you ever wondered what it truly means to 'abide' in God and live a vertically inclined life with Him? Join us as we explore what it means to live a life of relational attentiveness to God drawn from John 15:5.In this episode we focus on the unforced gifts of scripture, prayer and general revelation, through the wonder of the world God made, as conduits to remain tethered to Him as our Source.

2 years ago

42 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

A Life Planted In The Soil Of Communion

"What is my primary reward system?" This is the question that lies just beneath the surface of who we are and who we will become. The answer to this question will produce the invisible root system that determines what grows within our lives and how we invest our hearts, time, resources and relationships. Jesus says in John 6:38 "For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me." In this episode we explore how the life of Christ gives us a living pictu...

2 years ago

30 minutes

The Unforced Gifts

Look For The Unforced Gifts

In a "do more, try harder" culture of performance...welcome, as we cultivate a quiet space to notice the activity of God within us and around us. Join us for the journey of leaning in to a deeper, more vertically inclined life with God.

2 years ago

25 minutes