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Father Reveals the Truth in My Innermost Being

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:07:46 PST

Father, show me where I'm in bondage today. It was a simple prayer for the start of the first week of Advent 2010. It was an honest prayer. I wanted the revelation. And more importantly, I wanted the freedom that I know is available - the power and courage of a life lived without bondage to lust, fear or doubt. And Father answered. Clearly, powerfully and wonderfully. Listen in as I share the story.

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To see the full text of Gen. John F. Kelly's speech to the Semper Fi society of St. Louis on November 13, 2010, in which he related the story of the two Marines killed while protecting their American and Iraqi allies, click here.

Horse Training and Human Transformation

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:55:21 PDT

God's ground work with our hearts isn't so different from training a horse. He wants us to experience more joy, more usefulness, and more courage. And just like with horse training, He takes us through challenges, tough and sometimes scary places, to refine our trust in who He is and who He has predestined us to be. He's working patiently to desensitize the core of who we are, so that we become less and less affected by those things that ultimately have no power of us anyway.

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Freeing Father or Manipulating God

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:24:07 PDT

An honest approach to the journey of Walking with God demands that we allow Father the freedom to interact with us however He knows is best.

Unfortunately, so much of what passes for good religious activity in Christianity today is nothing more than a sugar-coated attempt to convince God to interact with us in a manner of our choosing.

But if Father allows us freedom of conscience, shouldn't we allow Him the same? If we do, it's really the beginning of a relationship in which true love can flourish.

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Talking Horse or God in the Barn

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:33:17 PDT

God doesn't just tell us things in Scripture and then expect us to believe them without any other evidence. He is very much engaged in this world and He brings His presence into the daily experiences of life, using the visible to explain and verify the invisible.

In this podcast I share a brief history of my experiences with family pets and explain how God recently spoke truth into my life through our horses.

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Dangerous Silence

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:59:18 PDT

One of the scariest places in the walking-with-God journey is that moment when we approach God and simply wait in silence for Him to initiate communication with us. It's so vulnerable, so open to the enemy stepping in and taking advantage of what appears to be God's silence. We're afraid we'll find out that God doesn't speak; that He's not listening, that He doesn't care.

So, to avoid that, we fill our spirituality with religion - bible studies, looking up the "Greek", good deeds - all distractions to protect ourselves from the threat of silence.

Maybe it's time to go there, to go to that dangerous place of silence and see what happens.

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The Dark Night of the Soul

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:05:34 PST

Blessings in diguise. A way to freedom that we would never choose on our own, but would, if we could see the end from the beginning, most heartily embrace.

Walking with God includes walking in darkness. But we are never walking along. He is always with us to heal and bless. But sometimes, God must protect us from ourselves if He is to answer our own prayers for healing and growth.

Listen in as we discuss the blessings of the Dark Night of the Soul.

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Source for Gerald May's book
Wikipedia on the "Dark Night"

Suddenly

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:43:09 PST

God has a lot of thoughts that are different from ours. Just like Jesus first came to this earth with an appearance, manner and mission that seemed so unpredicted, so God's providence today very often seems totally sudden and unexpected. But knowing that is a great encouragement to sit quietly watching our lives unfold with a prayer to understand His walk with us in every breath.

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Punished By God? Beware of Voices

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:00:03 PDT

Losing a family pet is a tough experience for a twelve-year old. But it's even worse when he thinks that the tragic loss is an act of God punishing him for some religious mis-behavior. Join me this week as I share a story that illustrates the importance of identifying the "voices" in life that are not God's.

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Music by Casting Crowns "Your Love Is Extravagant"

Asleep At The Wheel

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:08:40 PDT

I was suddenly aroused from a deep sleep of exhaustion to the realization that I was going somewhere fast and I was totally asleep - asleep when I should be driving. The fear drove adrenaline through my blood and sparked the re-engagement of my other senses. I woke up expecting to see grass or guardrails flying my direction.

This week, God used that moment of fear - Ok, no, shear terror - to point out a need in my life. And He does that a lot. With His arms around us He speaks through these things to say, "Hey Glenn, what do we have going on in this little part of your life." And when we admit that little thing is there, He adds, "Would you like Me to help you work on it?"

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Music by Casting Crowns - "Your Love Is Extravagant"

Eternity in a Sunset

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:20:20 PDT

"He has put eternity in their hearts", Ecclesiastes 3:11. And when I see beauty like I saw last week, it's clear that the heart of God is so wonderful that I just have to get closer. Whoever does stuff like those sunsets... I want to know!

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Exposing Our Underwear

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:42:02 PDT

Walking with God is a trip into the naked world of complete honesty. Thankfully. Really. We don't have to pretend with God. We can let everything that's "under-there" come into our conversations with Him. It's a lot like what I saw on one of my mountain hikes a couple years ago...

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A Mountain Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:42:29 PDT

When we ask for God to walk with us, we can expect that He will - not just in the 45 minute devotional period we have each morning or through the spiritual thought we read before going so sleep each night. He will walk with us throughout our day and in each circumstance. Join me in this podcast as I share a story of a mountain hike experience back in 2006 in which God spoke some incredible guidance into my life when I really needed it.

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A Flat Tire

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:50:31 PDT

In this podcast we discuss how our loving Father helps us negotiate the dragons and nits of daily life - like flat tires on your work trailer (when you don't have a spare). He knows what our future holds and He is interested in guiding us through all difficult times.

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Turning to God

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:02:23 PDT

One of the most crucial elements to walking with God is learning to repent. Now that's a word that is really misunderstood in the Christian world. We usually associate it with turning from sin. But in this podcast, I'll take a look at repentance from a more simple view. Turning to God. Just turning to God when things aren't going well, when we're in over our heads. And we'll find a new way of hearing God's voice without really hearing a thing.

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Looking for my Hat

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:43:08 PDT

Jesus told us, in John 10.10, that we have an Enemy who has one purpose against us: to steal, kill and destroy. What we don't recognize very often, even years into our Christian experience, is that he is doing that against us all the time. He's constantly taking little annoyances and using them to ruin our day, our evenings, and even our vacations.

But could it be that Jesus also really meant what He said in the rest of that verse when He said, "I have come to give life more abundantly"? Did He promise to work against the Enemy's stealing, killing and destroying, to open up ways for us to have a more abundant life?

Listen in as I share a vacation story from January, 2009 where Father did just that.

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God Speaks Through Affliction

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:43:30 PDT

In the battleground of this world, it's comforting to realize that God is well able to speak in and through affliction. Join us this week as we explore how to hear His voice when things aren't going well.

Suggestions:

Free your heart from thinking God is the source of your affliction
Open your heart to His presence in affliction
Ask Father, "What new thing can I understand about You through all of this?"

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Listening to His Voice of Beauty

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:57:43 PDT

Simon Weil wrote that only two things pierce the human heart, beauty and affliction.

God is longing to enter into a Sacred Romance with each one of us. To open up our hearts, to woo us softly to Himself, He so often uses beauty. It's beauty in many different forms. But it's beauty that comes straight from His creative heart.

I have seen in my own life how God has used the beauty of a woman (who's been my wife now for nearly 18 years!) to offer His own love to my impoverished heart. And in the last few weeks, He's used the beauty of an unusual Colorado springtime to speak His love to my soul.

Have you been listening when God speaks beauty to your soul? To learn to walk with God, it would be well for each of us to sensitize ourselves to His romantic call of beauty.

Suggestions:

Notice beauty
Open your heart up to emotions beauty will stir up. Let it come. Feel it.
Ask Father what He's speaking to you through that beauty.

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Mentioned in this podcast is the book, The Sacred Romance by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge. Click the link for more information on this crucial resource.

A New Hope

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:31:31 PDT

When we get into the journey of learning to walk with God, there has to be a pretty powerful motive to keep us moving forward. Every deeply spiritual man and woman has come to realize that any move toward God and real freedom will be opposed. And that opposition often comes in the form of personal diminishment in our journey.

God doesn't want to walk with me
I can't ever hear Him speak
This is all a waste of time

In this podcast we talk about hope, the kind of hope you get at a really great wedding ceremony - the kind of hope you get from rewarded characters in scripture, the kind of hope you get from your fellow travelers in the God Journey.

Suggestions:

Journal little things you're pretty sure God's involved in with your daily life
stay in tune to the great biblical stories of God rewarding people search for him
read the biographies, writings and poetry of great men and women of faith from the past or our contemporaries

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The Narrow Gate

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:26:53 PDT

That nagging dissatisfaction in life often seems to suggest to us a bunch of good, religious ways it can be solved -- and none of them are the real way. In this podcast we explore the nature of the narrow way and how to avoid mistaking the scaffolding of things that can point us to God with the real building of walking, talking and living in intimate relationship with the Father.

Suggestions

Am I really concerned about finding some satisfaction in something less than in the person of God alone?
If so, am I willing to give up that personal agenda and refocus?

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Opening the Portal

noreply@blogger.com (Glenn G. Poole, II) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:42:55 PDT

In this first podcast, we're taking an honest look at "determined dissatisfaction" - that sometimes quiet, but often unrelenting sense that something is missing in our lives. Admitting it, letting it come out, being honest to God about it is a powerful way to open the first portal in our hearts to walking with God

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