Before Midnight Podcast Felicia and Jessica

The stories of the old testament have many lessons…

If you’ve been in the Christian sphere for awhile, I’m sure you’ve heard the story of David and Goliath. It can be easy to brush by those chapters thinking that you’ve learned all the you can, but it might surprise you how many practical truths and revelations God has poured out on those pages. He wants you to read this story, and know that He is with you overcoming your goliath’s, pointing you to your current and future victory over every battle you face.

Just as David stayed in step with the Spirit, letting God lead Him through this fight in a unique, God inspired, order of events, it’s also important we turn to Him during our battles and allow Him to bring us to victory by His own wisdom.

So, grab your sling, your stone, a refreshment of your choosing - let’s navigate every battle we face, knowing that victory is assured on the other side.

Here’s what we cover:

Don’t get distracted by other’s discouragement!

The importance of remembering God’s faithfulness.

You can’t fight with someone else’s armor.

The battle is the Lord’s… and so is the glory!

Decisions are a constant part of our lives…

Whether we’re deciding how to answer questions about a project at work or figuring out what to cook for dinner, everyday we’re met with a wide range of dicisions to make, each with their own weight and set of consequences. Enter, Decision Fatigue.

As our brains get more and more tired, we tend to start second guessing ourselves, leaving our minds to operate on the fumes we have left to give. Is this how we make all of life’s most important decisions? If our everyday is filled with a million of them, how do we know if we’re making the right ones when they truly matter?

Grab your coffee and a cup of something warm and let’s have a chat about how to overcome the often paralyzing fear of making the wrong decision. ☕

Here’s what we cover:
+How to tackle the fear first, before you make your decision
+Where this fear comes from and why it’s important we face it
+Why the ends do NOT justify the means
+How to walk in confidence as we make decisions everyday… yes, it is possible :)

Do you ever feel silly for loving certain things?

We all have those secret desires in our hearts that make us happy but are often too embarrassed to reveal them to anyone. But why do we think that is? After all, if they are a part of our hearts, what makes them so bad?

The inner child - or simply the part of you that lives life with joy - is extremely important to our relationship with God and our world around us. Everyone is looking for happiness, but they are also making themselves believe that anything that makes them truly happy is immature. Sure we need to become responsible adults, but that odes not mean becoming a sad, depressed person whose only goal is to produce results!

Grab your coffee and a cup of something sweet and let’s have a chat about what role our inner child God desperately wants us to hold onto☕

Here’s what we cover:
+How your inner child could be the missing link to finding true joy in your life
+Why the enemy wants to steak your joy
+Ways to get our joy back when we’ve spent years choosing to ignore it
+The balance between responsible and joyful… they’re not mutually exclusive!

Have you ever thought about what your thinking about?

The thoughts that spring up in our minds on a daily basis can come from any number of places, but often we don’t always think of them as lies and therefore attacks on our minds and hearts. The enemy cannot do anything to you without you cooperating with his mentality. So his favorite plan of attack? Planting lies in our minds that we accept as truth.

But we don’t have to live our lives victim to these prying mentalities. As soon as we acknowledge this reality, we will begin to recognize more and more of the lies we’re believing and once a lie is exposed, it truly does lose it’s power to influence us.

Grab your bible and a cup of your strongest coffee and join us for today’s episode ☕

Today we’ll chat about:
+How to recognize a lie from other random thoughts
+How the lies we’re believing can affect our lives in more ways than we think
+How the enemy uses lies to keep us stagnant and passive
+What lies we’ve believed about ourselves
+How to move forward without allowing these lies to control or manipulate us

Find our show notes here: https://www.beforemidnightpodcast.com/episodes/

The enemy is gaslighting you…

We too often accept the defeated and negative thoughts that plague our minds, stitching them onto the fabric of our hearts, when the whole time, our enemy knows he cannot take you out… unless he can convince you to take yourself out!

If we are Royal Daughters of the Most High God, endowed with power, authority and purpose on this earth, then there really isn’t anything the enemy of our souls can do to stop us. And he knows this. So just like Mother Gothel does with Rapunzel, he whispers lies, negativity and doubt into our minds, convincing us that there really isn’t anything special about us, and we should probably just give up. There’s better people in the world doing that, you shouldn’t try. There’s nothing for you on the other side of that opportunity, you should just be grateful to be where you are. No one will understand you if you take a step of faith, who are you to try something new?

Sound familiar?

Overcoming the defeated mentalities that have built up in our minds will need to start with shining light on whose behind most of these thoughts, and moving forward in the truth of who the enemy already knows you are, and fears you for.

Grab your coffee and bible and we’ll meet you in today's episode ☕

Here’s what we cover:
+How to practically resist negative and defeated thoughts… it’s not all about rebuking ;)
+How the enemy tries to gaslight you
+Attack your struggles in strength and purpose
+Why it’s dangerous to embrace your problems as trying to make you stronger… eh, eh, they are not!