Leading Together with Merle & Cheree Shenk Cheree Shenk

Resources Mentioned in Today's Podcast:


Mark Gungor Flag Page assessment
How We Love
The Five Love Languages
Keep Your Love On
Crucial Conversations

Check out the full youtube playlist from the Summer in Acts, HERE.

Ministry is not a sprint, it is a marathon. And no one wants to face burn out, we want to be able to keep the pace for ministry longevity. But how do we go about pursuing health and staying healthy in ministry?  Join us today, for Part 1 of this topic on the podcast. 

On today's podcast, Merle shares tools that he uses today to practice rest and healthy rhythms, and also what he learned after experiencing burn out personally. Also, be sure to watch this space for Part 2 on this topic in future episodes.

Resources Mentioned in Today's Podcast:

Book Resource: The Emotionally Healthy Leader

Book Resource: Straight Talk to Leaders

Today's discussion is a deep dive on the topic of Faith, some theory and also practical examples of what we have experienced in our own lives. We are talking about: faith as it relates to endurance, the prophetic, and even what happens when what we pray for doesn't happen.  We talk about what it means to live in the Kingdom of God by faith, with examples from scripture. And the call for all believers to live by faith in daily relationship and obedience to God.



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We share how we have processed our own personal prophetic words and wait before the Lord in preparation for the New Year. 

The Just Shall Live by Faith

2 I will stand my watch
And set myself on the rampart,
And watch to see what He will say to me,
And what I will answer when I am corrected.

The Just Live by Faith
2 Then the Lord answered me and said:

“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
Because it will surely come,
It will not tarry.

4 “Behold the proud,
His soul is not upright in him;
But the just shall live by his faith.

When we have a God encounter, there can be this misconception that everything that comes after that is going to be easy. What do you do when your journey is looking differently to what you expected? When you have been working in your calling, anointing, purpose, and destiny and it doesn’t seem to be working out the way you expected it to. When where you are at right now doesn’t look anything like the big God vision or dream. Today we are talking about the test in the crucible, as well as the tests of success. What if all the detours, that look like detours to you, are part of God’s plan.  Lets dig into some life lessons for World Changers from the life of Joseph in the Bible.