Trailer - New Patreon Course: The Calling Quadrant

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!Checking in! I'm still here, I wanted to touch base with a 5 minute episode, that of course turned into a 28 minute bible study. In this episode I'm thinking about Philippians 4, living a calling that gives anxiety and worry to God and lives thankful whatever "calling" is looking like."What we leave behind is far less important than how we've lived" CHECK OUT MY PATREON (patreon.com/cw/UnderstandingCalling) for more content, leadership stuff, an extra podcast with courses and series and a whole lot more - all for free! 

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!We can find ourself seeking to go further up the ladder, seeking to be 'at the top' of our profession or ministry and totally miss that we have gone past a place we were called to be.What if being the place and the person God has us destined to be has nothing to do with being the most important person at our workplace, or in our church, or amongst our peers or competition? The bible shows us in the life of Jonathan that you can actually step out of the flow of pressure to get to the top or be who everyone expects you to be, and instead live a life where you honour the anointing of God where you see it and refuse to move away from it.In this episode we look at how we can move out of the flow of expecation and pressure to succeed and into a mindset that is content with being the person God made us to be and coming alive where He desires us to do so - regardless of how it looks from the outside.CHECK OUT MY PATREON (patreon.com/cw/UnderstandingCalling) for more content, leadership stuff, an extra podcast with courses and series and a whole lot more - all for free!

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!In this episode I talk to Jay Snyder, a pastor, missionary, Father and friend. Jay along with his wife Peg heads up Passion For Life Ministries (passionforlifeministries.org) a ministry that equips pastors and leaders in churches in America and Central America, plants churches and seeks to show release the love of the Holy Spirit and the Father heart of God.Jay is a man who loves Jesus and his wife and kids and has a wealth of experience in leading churches and navigating "doing calling" along with being a husband and a father. In this chat we get into exactly that, stepping into calling and holding together your family, marriage and health protected and valued and not flung to the side for the greater good of "ministry". I hope this will help anyone who is navigating their calling and holding the most important relationships where they should be.CHECK OUT MY PATREON (patreon.com/cw/UnderstandingCalling) for more content, leadership stuff, an extra podcast with courses and series and a whole lot more,,,all for free!

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!How much should we think about our God given calling...and how much is too much?How do we draw the right balance between being intentional and being egotistical?What is God's best for our mindset and perspective on what He's called us to?In this episode we look at:Obedience - Intentionality - Living - Living in the flow of the Spirit - Obsession = Naval Gazing - Vision and Dreams - Our Potential - Stewardship and what God's Priorities are."Seek Great things for thyself? Seek them not..." Says God through Jeremiah to his servant Baruch.What is God up to...? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including:Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions Enjoy for FREE as well as supporting the show as a monthly partner go to: www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!Over on Patreon Understanding Calling has a whole other Podcast called "Understanding Calling Extra", that is for courses and series to help with our personal discipleship journey. This trailer is about the new course "The Calling Quadrant" - check it out for free on Patreon or become a monthly supporting member and sow into this ministry to support others who want to grow in their God given callings in the kingdom. 

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!This episode is all about the insecurities God lets us see when we get squeezed by waiting and by the pressure of circumstances on us.Very few things expose the need for control in our lives like a season of prolonged waiting does.In this episode we look at a story from the Old Testament and the New to explore how we end up often looking back with rose tinted glasses to a former life when our current life squeezes us, or how we project forward to some kind of idyllic savior like a job or healing or change of circumstances that we believe will just change everything."If God would just give me this thing...then all would be well...then I would follow Him..then I would be better than I am right now".God in His mercy resources us where we are and invites Him to trust Him as we are.I hope and pray this episode helps you...if you're in a prolonged season of waiting right now.--> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including:Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions Enjoy for FREE as well as supporting the show as a monthly partner go to: www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership  

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!In this second part of the Waiting in the Wilderness series, we're looking at Joseph's story and what God does in the life of someone who has been rejected, forgotten, lost a sense of belonging and purpose (multiple times) and yet been used where he was, as he was, and experienced huge redemption in areas of suffering and obscurity. If you have felt forgotten, hidden, in a transition season or in a series of false starts in your calling, there may be some lessons here from God's Spirit to you that will help.--> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including:Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions Enjoy for FREE as well as supporting the show as a monthly partner go to: www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!We all want to know what God is doing in us and around us as we wait for what He has for us next...HoweverHow do we know if we are actually waiting like we think we are? Could it be possible that we might be in danger of deferring, stuck in a holding pattern, kicking the can of what God has put in our hearts down the road?This new mini series "Waiting in the Wilderness" is about discerning what God is doing within us as we wait...but we have to know that we are waiting under godly obedience first and not simple existing, hoping that something in our callings will spontaneously happen out of nowhere.What does God's word say about this and what questions do we need to ask?//--> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including:Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions and the first few chapters of Alistair's new book 'The Heart of Calling: What Matters Most to God'.Enjoy it all for FREE as well as becoming  a monthly partner of the show. For everything go to: www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!Ken Snyder, Missionary and Pastor shares authentic stories about living outside of the limelight and from a place of humility and service - and ultimately from a place of trying to be obedient to God in our callings, not ambitious. A very helpful listen to anyone wanting to grow in a real, not impressive looking, godly calling.Also, if you are a pastor of a numerically smaller church - this ones for you!--> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including:Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions Enjoy for FREE as well as supporting the show as a monthly partner go to: www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!We all ask ourselves questions about who God made us to be:- Is who I dream I could one day be "The real me"? - Is it the person I am on my worst day?- Is the real me the one that feels like my best days are behind me?- Or is there another way of discovering who God designed me to be?In this episode we explore how our human nature is to try and discover who God made us to be based on the vision we have for our lives, our successes or failures and the unfolding of our lives.We land on the biblical truth that God reveals to us, through daily intimacy and revelation who He really made us to be. It's actually not us working it out, but God revealing it to us as we trust that He is with us and guiding us through life - one day at a time.--> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including:Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions and support the show at: www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership