The Holy Shift Devotionals Podcast

Desiree Day | Devotional Book Author & Publisher + Christian Woman & Mama

Holy Shift Devotionals Podcast You were made for more — and it's time to act like it. Your daily devotional home for Christian women ready to put God first. Find your prayer for today, morning devotionals, scripture reading, and Bible study rooted in the goodness of God. We cover trusting God, walking in God's direction, and believing God sees your pain. Daily bread. Worship. Motivation for pursuing dreams in God's hands. Not just inspiration — action. Connecting with God in a way that shifts everything. Stay Faithful. Stay Expectant. And Keep Shifting.

  1. 11H AGO

    E204: DAY 8 The One Thing Jesus Couldn't Do | Greatest Gift

    DAY 8 — MAY 15 The One Thing Jesus Couldn't Do While Jesus walked the earth in human form, there was one specific, powerful thing He could not do. He could heal the blind. He could raise the dead. He could speak to storms. He could feed thousands with almost nothing. But He could not walk up to a person and say: I was where you are. I was lost. I was broken. I failed and I fell and I didn't know if I would make it back. And then something changed. He couldn't say that. Because He didn't have that story. You do. Second Corinthians 5:20 calls us ambassadors for Christ — presbeuo, officially commissioned representatives of the Kingdom, sent into territory that does not belong to us, carrying authority from the One who appointed us. And the authority you carry is not just theological. It is experiential. It is the testimony. Revelation 12:11 gives us the two weapons: the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. Together. Not one without the other. The blood is the foundation. Your story is the weapon. And the enemy was present for your before — which means he knows exactly what changed and cannot argue with the fact that it did. The Greek word hagiazo — sanctify, set apart — does not just mean to clean something up. It means to set something apart for a specific commissioned purpose. You were not pulled out of your worst moment just to be quiet about it. You were commissioned through it. 📖 Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:20 🔤 Ancient Word: Hagiazo (Greek) — to sanctify; to set apart as holy for a specific commissioned purpose; not just clean but sent For more resources and to get your weekly devotional delivered to your inbox, head over to holyshiftmedia.com For more teaching by Pastor Jose Boveda, check out mfhlv.com for service replays and join live on Sundays at 10am Pacific.

    7 min
  2. 1D AGO

    E203: Day 7 Get Hooked on His Presence | Greatest Gift

    DAY 7 — MAY 14 Get Hooked on His Presence There is a night in Pastor Jose Boveda's life that he tells in this episode that will stay with you. What supernatural fellowship with God does to a person. It doesn't make you dignified. It makes you hungry. And once you get a real taste of what's available in His presence — not the routine of devotional practice but the actual koinonia, the intimate participation in what God is doing — you don't manage it. You pursue it. And you don't apologize for what it looks like from the outside. Koinonia is the Greek word translated as "fellowship" in most of our Bibles, but the word is far richer than a Wednesday night gathering. It means intimate participation — sharing so deeply in what another person has that their experience becomes your experience. That is what God is inviting you into. Not observation. Participation. Revelation 12:11 tells us they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. You can't have the second without the first having happened to you. Today's episode is about going back until the avalanche comes. 📖 Scripture: Revelation 12:11 🔤 Ancient Word: Koinonia (Greek) — intimate participation; sharing so deeply in another's experience that it becomes your own For more resources and to get your weekly devotional delivered to your inbox, head over to holyshiftmedia.com For more teaching by Pastor Jose Boveda, check out mfhlv.com for service replays and join live on Sundays at 10am Pacific.

    7 min
  3. 2D AGO

    E202: DAY 6 He's Praying for You Right Now | Greatest Gift

    DAY 6 — MAY 13 He's Praying for You Right Now Not historically. Not in some future moment when you've finally gotten it together. Not as a general prayer for humanity. Right now — in this moment — Jesus is at the right hand of the Father, saying your name. That is not a devotional sentiment. It is a present-tense, theologically precise reality that most believers treat like a metaphor when it is actually the most active thing happening in the spiritual realm on your behalf. John 17:15 — Jesus prays: "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil." He is not praying you out of your difficulty. He is praying you kept through it. He is not asking the Father to remove the pressure — He is asking the Father to ensure nothing reaches you that wasn't authorized. The Greek word presbeuo — ambassador, senior representative — tells us exactly what Jesus's role is at the Father's right hand. He is not passively present. He is actively interceding, officially representing you, advocating with full authority on your behalf every moment of every day. Pastor Jose shares the testimony that anchors this episode — the moment as a young believer when he lost everything, sat alone in prayer, and felt something he could only describe one way: I will never be alone again. That is what the reality of Jesus's intercession does when it lands in a person's spirit rather than just their theology. 📖 Scripture: John 17:15 🔤 Ancient Word: Presbeuo (Greek) — to be an official intercessor and ambassador; a senior representative pleading another's case For more resources and to get your weekly devotional delivered to your inbox, head over to holyshiftmedia.com For more teaching by Pastor Jose Boveda, check out mfhlv.com for service replays and join live on Sundays at 10am Pacific.

    8 min
  4. 4D AGO

    E199: Day 3 The Gift for Jesus from the Father | Greatest Gift

    DAY 3 — MAY 10I'm Your Gift, Jesus We have been taught that God so loved the world He gave His Son. That Jesus is the gift. And that is true — completely true. But Pastor Jose Boveda turns the coin over and shows us the other side, and what's there will change how you walk into every room for the rest of your life. John 17:6. Jesus praying to the Father: "Thine they were, and thou gavest them me." You were given. By the Father. To Jesus. As a gift. The Hebrew word mattanah — gift — is not a casual offering. It's something chosen because of what the giver knows the recipient values. It's something sent with the full weight of the giver's love behind it. God the Father does not give His Son something He doesn't cherish. Which means the moment you received salvation, the Father was saying to Jesus: this one. This one is yours. And I'm giving them to you because I trust you with them. Three women in the Gospels understood this before most theologians put it into words — the woman who reached through the crowd and grabbed the hem of His garment, the Syrophoenician woman who said even the dogs eat the crumbs, the blind man Bartimaeus who would not stop shouting until Jesus stopped walking. Pastor Jose calls it pickpocketing Jesus with your faith. They all brought Him something. They activated something in Him. Today's episode is the one that changes your posture in prayer permanently. 📖 Scripture: John 17:6 🔤 Ancient Word: Mattanah (Hebrew) — a gift; something given as the fullest expression of the giver's love For more resources and to get your weekly devotional delivered to your inbox, head over to holyshiftmedia.com For more teaching by Pastor Jose Boveda, check out mfhlv.com for service replays and join live on Sundays at 10am Pacific.

    8 min
  5. 6D AGO

    E198: Day 2 The Servants Knew from the Prodigal son | Greatest Gift

    DAY 2 — MAY 9The Servants Knew In the story of the prodigal son, something happens when the father runs to meet his lost boy that most readers move right past. The father calls out: bring the ring, the robe, the fatted calf. And someone has to know where all of those things are kept. Not the son who just came home — he's been gone. Not the older brother sulking in the field. The servants. The ones who stayed close. The ones who knew the house. This is Chapter 1 of Pastor Jose Boveda's teaching: the Three Purposes of Ministry. And before you skip this because you're not in ministry — these three purposes are not for people with titles. They're for anyone who wants to walk in the full will of God. They're for anyone who wants to be close enough to know where the ring is kept. Purpose One: Experience God. Not know about Him — experience Him in supernatural encounter. Purpose Two: Be Taught by God. Not just read the Word — let God become your personal teacher in the quiet moments. Purpose Three: Give Back to God. Let what comes into you flow back out. You're not a reservoir. You're a river. The Greek word doulos — bond-servant — describes someone who belongs completely and therefore has access to everything the master possesses. Today's episode is about building the kind of closeness that gets you into the house. 📖 Scripture: Luke 15:22 🔤 Ancient Word: Doulos (Greek) — bond-servant; complete belonging that opens complete access For more resources and to get your weekly devotional delivered to your inbox, head over to holyshiftmedia.com For more teaching by Pastor Jose Boveda, check out mfhlv.com for service replays and join live on Sundays at 10am Pacific.

    9 min
  6. MAY 8

    E197: Day 1 The Gift You Don't Know You Are | Greatest Gift

    DAY 1 — MAY 8 The Gift You Don't Know You Are What does God the Father actually think of you? Not what you hope He thinks. Not what you say you believe on your good days. What He actually thinks — according to Jesus, in His own words, the night before the cross. This is Day 1 of a 10-day series built from the teachings of Pastor Jose Boveda, and it begins with a question that most believers have never fully sat with: what if you are not just the recipient of God's greatest gift — what if you are the gift itself? In John 17, Jesus prays to the Father and says: "Thine they were, and thou gavest them me." You were given. Deliberately. Chosen. Placed in Jesus's life by the Father who loves Him most — because the Father doesn't give His Son something He doesn't treasure. Today we open with the Hebrew word yada — the kind of knowing that isn't information, but encounter. Intimate. Deep. The kind of knowing that eternal life is actually made of, according to John 17:3. Because this whole series is not about learning more about God. It's about experiencing Him differently. If you've been going to God only in the painful moments — or wondering whether you're really as valuable to Him as the scriptures say — this episode is the beginning of something that's going to shift that. Stay with it all 10 days. Each one builds on the last. 📖 Scripture: John 17:3 🔤 Ancient Word: Yada (Hebrew) — deep, intimate knowing; encounter over information For more resources and to get your weekly devotional delivered to your inbox, head over to holyshiftmedia.com For more teaching by Pastor Jose Boveda, check out mfhlv.com for service replays and join live on Sundays at 10am Pacific.

    10 min

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Holy Shift Devotionals Podcast You were made for more — and it's time to act like it. Your daily devotional home for Christian women ready to put God first. Find your prayer for today, morning devotionals, scripture reading, and Bible study rooted in the goodness of God. We cover trusting God, walking in God's direction, and believing God sees your pain. Daily bread. Worship. Motivation for pursuing dreams in God's hands. Not just inspiration — action. Connecting with God in a way that shifts everything. Stay Faithful. Stay Expectant. And Keep Shifting.