Episode 10: Walking with Wisdom In this final episode of our wisdom series and the final episode for 2024, Lana and Courtney take a look at ‘what wisdom is saying.’ We must have an intentionality to keep our eyes and mind firmly fixed on God as we listen to what wisdom is speaking. He is the Prince of Peace, in all times and seasons, so we may walk in the peace that surpasses all understanding. There is an authority that comes with peace, bringing us into a deeper place of trust. This is founded and rooted in His Word, which is our measuring stick for wisdom. Seek after Him, seek after His wisdom. He waits for us in His Word.

Episode 9: Storm Chasers In this episode, Lana and Courtney take a slight detour on the topic of wisdom and discuss a subject from one of Lana’s latest words: God is raising up the storm chasers. But to still the storms on the outside, we must first quiet the storms inside us. God is teaching us this, giving us gentle hearts and incorruptible spirits; so that throughout all His dealings with us, we might know Him as good.   Read Lana’s word mentioned here: https://lanavawser.com/i-heard-the-lord-say-listen-closely-i-am-releasing-clarity-for-2025/

Episode 8: Wisdom with Roma WatermanWith special guest Roma Waterman, Lana and Courtney bring a wealth of wisdom in discussing how wisdom must be partnered with discernment. When God gives us wisdom, discernment tells us how to use it. We do this by asking God each step of the way. It is a brave way to live, but the only way to live. With clean hands and a pure and humble heart.

  Episode 7: Wisdom for the Seasons Proverbs 10:5 tells us to pay attention to the seasons, for there is strength found in knowing your season. Wisdom will guard us from wrong counsel and give us new strategies for the new season. Wisdom also calls us to examine our hearts and our heart motivations. God asks us to give our longings to Him: not so He can take them away, but so He can put them into their proper place and shape them into something beautiful. For God is bringing us out of the battlefield into a place of dreaming again. When you give your longings to God, you give Him the opportunity to be the I Am… Then you get to be the thing that you long for to the rest of the world.

 Episode Six: Treasuring Wisdom In this episode, Lana and Courtney look at Proverbs 2:1-7 and discuss how wisdom brings first-love purity. Each time we encounter God’s wisdom, there comes a deeper level of consecration, as His awe and wonder challenges our own earthly wisdom. Wisdom is something that we must treasure, and in the very decision of seeking wisdom it shows just how much we recognise our own need for Him.  

Episode Five: Wisdom over Foolishness Proverbs 8&9 tell of how wisdom and foolishness both battle for our hearts. As we go through the gates of wisdom and come out the other side, we come out changed. We sit in the high places of wisdom and govern from the mountains of influence. Jesus, wisdom personified, lives in us and flows out of us. We may not always get it right, but wisdom is not perfection, wisdom is a place of connection to the Lord, leading to correction. And in whatever we do, wisdom must always carry His heart.

As Lana and Courtney continue to dive into the wealth of scriptures on wisdom, they look at Proverbs 3, which teaches how wisdom brings refreshment, healing and prosperity. His Word and wisdom will carry us through the unfamiliar places, and when we saturate ourselves in it, we will see good fruit in our lives. This means surrender to His timing and ways, but the key is intimacy with Him in whatever we do. There is so much more available to us when we live in a place of wisdom and not lean on our own understanding. He loves to lavish His wisdom on us: to teach us and guide us and come alongside us, and tend to our hearts.

Episode Three: Invitation into Wisdom In Psalm 32:8-9 God is inviting us into His wisdom. In this season, the Lord is teaching us to operate in a new way of wisdom. He is stretching us and leading us in ways we have not been before. Will we stay in a place of familiarity and comfort or will we step out into what He has for us? In stepping out in wisdom, God also brings forth our own identity. Wisdom becomes a part of us and the character of our heart.

  Episode Two: Wisdom’s Door Prov 8:34-36 calls us to long for wisdom, to wait at its door. It also cautions us against disregarding wisdom. It is both an invitation and a warning. In this episode, Lana and Courtney ask, ‘What is your focus? What is your source?’ and they share that our heart’s cry should be to love the Lord and His Word above anything else. This is from where our strength and wisdom comes. As we meditate on Him, resting in His presence, the revelation grows and the lies lose hold. As we wait at wisdom’s door, we come to see that we are partnered with Him, as He leads us into all truth.

Season 6 Episode One: Wisdom from Above In James 3:13 we are called to show our wisdom through our life and deeds. However, this heavenly wisdom is not found in a place of striving, but can only be found in yielding to the place of intimacy with God. As new creations in Christ we are designed for wisdom. We are wired to be a conduit of wisdom, flowing down from heaven. It is the fruit of intimacy and knowing Him. And so, as we allow His wisdom to flow through us  — not in arrogance, but in awe and wonder at the privilege of carrying the heart and mind of Christ — we will see it outwork in our lives. 

Abide: John 15:16-17 — One As Courtney and Lana wrap up the season on Abide, we begin this episode with Jesus saying, ‘I have chosen you…’ Here we see an intertwining of identity. We are chosen for a specific reason. Just as Jesus especially chose His disciples to be His representative on the earth, so He now chooses us. And as we abide in the vine, His heart and our heart become one. Our prayer life overflows because we have confidence that our heart beats with His. Our lives are driven by a Kingdom mindset as we live out ‘on earth as it is in heaven.’ We abide and obey, continually nourished and empowered by His love, bearing fruit that will last.

  Abide: John 15:14-15 — Called His Friend In this episode, Lana and Courtney discuss the verse where Jesus says, ‘I no longer call you servants but friends…’ and He calls us to follow His commands. This speaks of a deep intimacy, where He reveals His heart from that secret place. It requires an intentionality and responsibility on our part, to remain in Him, the true vine. From there, we trust and obey. We walk closely with Him, listening to His whisper, with a heart posture that says, ‘I will do whatever you have called me to do.’   This is for the underside of each blurb: To donate to Zion's Company of Women, please feel free to use this link: https://donorbox.org/donate-to-zion-s-company-of-women While we are a non-profit company we are based in Australia and are not able to offer tax-deductibility.

True joy is a place of thriving that doesn’t depend on our seasons or circumstances. It is a place rooted in relationship and intimacy. It is Christ’s victory complete in us. God is always working for us and through us, so matter what we are walking, it is never hopeless. Like a mother forgetting the pain of childbirth, through His joy, God is redeeming our past seasons of hurt and pain, He is redeeming the forfeited ground. Jesus poured out His joy and love upon us, and has commanded us to love others with that same love. The strength to do this is only found when we let Him love us first. When we bring our questions and needs to Him first, we allow everything else to be put in its proper place. To donate to Zion's Company of Women, please feel free to use this link: https://donorbox.org/donate-to-zion-s-company-of-women While we are a non-profit company we are based in Australia and are not able to offer tax-deductibility.

Abide: John 15:9-10 — The Same Love Jesus calls us to ‘abide in Him.’ But what does it truly mean to abide? What is this love that He has given us, and calls us to love in the same way?    When we can offer only so much? God still delights completely in us.  Not about what we do. We love because He first loved…completely overtaken and changed by what He gave to us. Experience the revelation and encounter of His love, every day. Let His love nourish you. It is a command, but also an invitation to rest. Doing is the overflow of being His love is the fuel for our first love fire. FAith works by love The times when we are struggling with His love the most are the times we must think about it all the more, for His love will empower us to do what He’s asked us to do. Abiding in His love is warfare.

Lana and Courtney felt prompted by the Lord to record and release a special topic podcast. We hope it blesses you. We will continue with our Abide series in the next release. There has been a call to ascend higher with the Lord, but that ascension is under attack. In Matthew 11v12 Jesus said, ‘...Heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force.’ But what does this mean and how do we outwork it in our everyday lives? In all that we do and in all that comes our way, we must begin from a place of the Lordship of Jesus. It is only from that place we can apprehend the enemy. The more we apprehend (understand) the power of God in us, the more we are able to apprehend (stop) the enemy’s plans. Know Him and know the Word. Keep moving. Eyes on Jesus. Stay humble. Remain as one with Him. God is reminding His people that we are His victorious Bride, and He is calling us to ask the question, ‘What does it look like to live from that ascended place?’

Abide: John 15:5-6 Much Fruit In this episode, Lana and Courtney get real and honest on the practical outworkings of bearing much fruit. God has chosen to show Himself on the earth through our fruitfulness, and this only comes by abiding. We must remember that the fruit is not produced in our own strength, but is a positional inheritance when we remain in Him. It is a mindset of availability over ability. Even in the pruning and burning there is an invitation: The more we look at Him, the more we become like Him, the more His love flows out of us.  

Abide: John 15:7-8 — In His Word Jesus told His disciples the importance of remaining not only in Him, but in His Word. His Word is the ultimate truth: and so we live and breathe to know Him and hear His voice. When we walk with this singular focus, we bear abundant fruit and grow as mature disciples — and our Heavenly Father is glorified. Join us as Lana and Courtney share some practical tips they've learnt through their own walks in how to abide and remain in His Word: both the written Scriptures and the promises He whispers to our hearts.  

Abide: John 15:3-4 — Already Cleansed As Lana and Courtney continue to look at John 15, we see the pruning of the vine, not as a bad thing, but as a cleansing — a healing. Jesus said that He has ALREADY CLEANSED us! And when we understand that we are already forgiven and are totally loved, we can enter into a place of intimacy without judgement. This foundational place is important, as our beliefs shape the way we see and respond to Him. Seeing Him as good is how we bear good fruit. So we choose to remain: continually listening, allowing His love to continually grow us deeper into Him.

Abide: John 15:1-2 — Lifted Up Season five of our podcast centres on John 15: ‘I am the Vine, you are the branches.’ Join Courtney and Lana as they look at the pruning process through the lens of a loving Father. When we allow Him to be our gardener, He lovingly lifts our branches out of the dirt, so they might bear fruit. In the process, we must remember that God is for us, and He is pruning so that we can commune with Him in deeper ways. It is an invitation to return to first-love fire: to be a people of power and all He has called us to be.

Jacob’s Ladder #6: From Pillow to Pillar As Lana and Courtney wrap up the series on Genesis 28, they remind us that through Jesus, we no longer just rely on a visitation, but we are in constant communion with God, with no separation. There is an invitation for God to live in us. Holiness is an overflow of this indwelling and we move from ascension to consecration. As Jacob set up a pillar to honour God, so we become the pillars. It is here in this moment where Jacob said, ‘the Lord is my God,’ even as he wrestled with the promise. And like Jacob, there is something that is formed in that wrestle, which brings us face to face with the magnitude of what God is speaking. It takes us out of our own strength and into total dependance on God. With a determined heart, we declare that we trust in the truth of His promise.