The car wouldn’t start, so you arrived at work almost an hour late.

Your boss didn’t buy your excuse for not finishing that urgent project.

And yet another unproductive, boring meeting broke up your workflow.

We all recognize it. In fact, a popular term describes it: “One of those days.”

When you have one of those days as a believer in Christ, what should you do? Dr. Steve Greene has the answer, and he shares it on a recent episode of his At Work With God podcast on the Charisma Podcast Network. The former college dean and current publisher and executive vice president of the multimedia group at Charisma Media says he sometimes has one of those days too.

“I’m not any different than any of you,” he says. “We all have hard days, and our faith gets challenged. Our entire way of thinking can be challenged.”

But that doesn’t mean we should give up, Greene cautions.

“And then we think about the hope that’s within us,” he adds. “And maybe the most important point about hope is that it’s the seed of better faith.”

Greene, who has spent time reading Kris Vallotton’s book Spiritual Intelligence, quotes Vallotton’s words: “Hope feels, faith sees, and love never fails.”

And Greene adds, “I love that, because with hope, I’m going to feel that things are OK. With faith, I’m going to see it. Faith is ‘the evidence of things not seen.’ I don’t see it, but faith sees it. … And then to go with all that, love never fails, especially when you have a leader who leads with love as opposed to leading with fear. If you have a fear leader, you lose hope.”

For more from Dr. Steve Greene on how the simple vehicle of hope can brighten even “one of those days,” listen to the entire At Work With God podcast here. And be sure to subscribe to the At Work With God podcast on your favorite podcast platform. {eoa}

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Renowned Bible teacher and longtime Southern Baptist author and speaker Beth Moore has made a staggering decision public: On March 5, she told Religion News Service in an interview that she is “no longer a Southern Baptist.”

. @BethMooreLPM said the #SBC has been her family, her tribe and her world. But she is walking away, saying the denomination’s public witness has been poisoned.

— Religion News Service (@RNS) March 9, 2021

“I am still a Baptist, but I can no longer identify with Southern Baptists,” Moore said. “I love so many Southern Baptist people, so many Southern Baptist churches, but I don’t identify with some of the things in our heritage that haven’t remained in the past.” She also told RNS that she has ended her long-term relationship with Lifeway Christian, which will continue distributing her books but will no longer publish them or administer her live events.

Moore was the first woman to have a Bible study published by LifeWay and has since reached more than 22 million women, per The Atlantic. Her Living Proof Ministries grew in assets from $1 million in 2001 to just under $15 million by April 2016, RNS says. Her Bible teaching ministry grew from her home church, First Baptist Houston, to a broad teaching ministry that included sold-out stadium events.

But some of that changed when Moore, horrified by the release of the Access Hollywood tapes prior to the 2016 election, began speaking out against Trump. His boasting of his sexual exploits with women dismayed Moore, herself a survivor of sexual abuse. Her Twitter posts revealed her growing concern for what she viewed as her fellow Southern Baptists’ and evangelicals’ blind eye to his issues.

Kate Bowler, a historian at Duke Divinity School, told RNS that Moore’s departure represents a significant loss for the Southern Baptist Convention, which remains the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Rather than basing her platform on marriage to a famed pastor, Bowler said Moore developed her broad following from her own “charisma, leadership and incredible work ethic.”

“Ms. Moore is a deeply trusted voice across the liberal-conservative divide, and has always been able to communicate a deep faithfulness to her tradition without having to follow the Southern Baptist’s scramble to make Trump spiritually respectable,” Bowler said. “The Southern Baptists have lost a powerful champion in a time in which their public witness has already been significantly weakened.”

Moore told RNS she believes politics and Christian nationalism have crowded out the gospel in her former denomination, saying she has realized the SBC is “not in step with the gospel. It felt like we had landed on Mars.”

Moore also sparked a 2019 debate among Southern Baptists and other evangelicals about whether women should be allowed to preach in church and, at the same time, condemned what she saw as widespread hypocrisy, misogyny and power abuse within the SBC, posting an open letter “to my brothers” and writing on Twitter that “there are countless godly conservative complementarians. So many.”

Beth Allison Barr, a history professor and dean at Baylor University, told RNS that Moore’s departure will come as a shock and a potential call to action for Southern Baptist women. “If she walks away, she’s going to carry a lot of these women with her,” Barr said. “I applaud this move and support her because I know how soul-crushing the SBC is for women. She will be far better off without them, doing the ministry God calls her to do.”

Ed Stetzer, longtime Southern Baptist and current Billy Graham Distinguished Chair of Church, Mission and Evangelism at Wheaton College and executive director of the college’s Billy Graham Center, posted his thinly veiled support for Moore’s decision on Twitter, announcing that she will co-teach at Wheaton this summer and ending with, “Yep, Beth is at home at @WheatonCollege.”

Whelp, @BethMooreLPM is trending on twitter.

Fun fact, if you’re in one of our 5 @PropelWomen master’s degree cohorts, you can take a class w/ Beth (& others) this summer on campus at Wheaton.

Yep, Beth is at home at @WheatonCollege.

— Ed Stetzer (@edstetzer) March 9, 2021

And Trillia Newbell, acquisitions editor for Moody Press, wrote words of unity in her Twitter post: “As I think about our tendency to analyze and tear each other apart, I hope we’d resist it here and instead pray.”

I have deep love and respect for @BethMooreLPM. She let me know this was coming because she is human, and she loves others fiercely. As I think about our tendency to analyze and tear each other apart, I hope we’d resist it here and instead pray.

— Trillia Newbell (@trillianewbell) March 9, 2021

Where is Moore headed? After saying that she and her husband have begun visiting a new church, “one not tied as closely to the SBC but still ‘gospel-driven,'” Moore told RNS, “I am going to serve whoever God puts in front of me.” {eoa}

Portions of this story were excerpted from this article on , © 2021 Religion News Service. All rights reserved.

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Feeling unqualified? Uneducated? Disadvantaged? That your background hasn’t prepared you well to step into your calling?

Kris Vallotton says that none of those factors can stop you from pursuing God’s purpose for your life—because that description also fits him. The associate leader of Bethel, Redding, shared his thoughts with Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of the Greenelines podcast on the Charisma Podcast Network.

“I’d say the most-used phrase when describing me to other people is the word ‘overachiever,'” Vallotton says. “And I used to think was a great compliment. Then I’d think, Oh, they realized that if you could do this, anyone can.

“I grew up in not a great home,” he adds. “And I honestly have no formal education besides high school,” he says, adding that despite what he considers his lack of qualifications, the Lord has allowed him to do some powerful things.

“I’ve just learned how to tap into the Holy Spirit and be led by Him and learn to think from the Spirit realm,” he says. “And I think, obviously, I’d love to get better and better at that. I think it’s a journey. But I feel like I’m an example to people who weren’t born with a silver spoon. They weren’t born in the right family; they don’t have the right education. They’re completely disqualified. And yet God’s called them to a life of brilliance. And I feel like I’m an example for that.

To hear much more from Kris Vallotton on what he calls “spiritual intelligence,” which has nothing to do with qualifications and everything to do with our relationship with God, listen to the entire episode of Greenelines here, and be sure to check out Vallotton’s new book, Spiritual Intelligence, for more Spirit-filled encouragement. {eoa}

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As others pushed through the polished progression of round after round of golf, the lone woman waited.

And waited.

And waited some more.

No one seemed to know her name—or even care that she had one.

The spreading oak tree, 30 yards behind the green, hid her from the view of most golfers there on the course in Huntington, West Virginia.

They didn’t notice her flowing brown hair, handmade dress or pearls. They paid no attention to the handbag she carried in the bend of a right elbow or the flowers clipped into her hair.

But a young Dr. Steve Greene noticed. A novice golfer, he often found himself far back from the green where, he says, “I didn’t give her much thought. I just thought she was waiting for someone; that was where people picked her up.”

Whenever he golfed, he saw her. And as the months went by, whenever he golfed, he wondered why she was there.

As it turns out, the woman was waiting for someone. A someone who had left many years before.

“I finally asked the old golf pro, whose best skill, in my opinion, was hotdog serving, about this lady with a bag—because he had called the police about her many years prior to my questions,” Greene says in the first-ever episode of the perennially popular Greenelines podcast on the Charisma Podcast Network. This week, that podcast will host its thousandth show.

To learn who the woman waited for—and why Greene says her story reminds him to lead others with hope—listen to the entire podcast at this link. And be sure to subscribe to Greenelines on your favorite podcast platform for more inspiring stories like this one. {eoa}

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“Lord, bless Mommy and Daddy.”

“God, help Grandpa get better soon.”

“Dear Jesus, Charley hurt his paw. Please help him feel better.”

Many of us have heard (and even prayed) prayers like these as children. But how do we move beyond them into true intercession?

That question is something Jon Graf, author, intercessor and president of the Church Prayer Leaders Network, set out to answer for church leaders and members. He says most young believers do, in fact, pray like children. “They focus almost entirely on personal needs,” he says.

But there is a way forward.

“When a parent’s teaching a child about prayer … the parent helps them see, ‘Well, maybe you should pray for your friend Billy’s salvation,'” and so they kind of help them learn,” Graf says. “And really what happens is we start with that petition, praying for our own needs. But we need to move into intercessory prayer from there. And intercessory prayer is kind of being a go-between, between somebody else’s needs and the Father in heaven. And so we start to learn to pray for other people and other situations.”

But in many churches, Graf says, people keep their prayers focused on personal needs. Though these needs are important and worth bringing to the Father, Graf has a passion to bring the kingdom into people’s prayers.

“We need to try to help people to see beyond that, to see more kingdom things, to praying for lost people, praying for the world, praying for nations, praying for America, praying for their city, those kinds of things,” Graf says. “And that’s all a part of moving them beyond just praying for their own needs.”

What would it take to change the world and impact the kingdom through your prayers and those of your church? Listen to the entire episode of the Greenelines podcast for more information, and subscribe to both Greenelines and Graf’s own podcast, Pray Beyond, on the Charisma Podcast Network. For still more information on intercessory prayer toward racial healing, read the most recent book from Graf and PrayerShop Publishing, Make Us One. {eoa}

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“Afghanistan, 2009, Operation Kanjari—that was quite the rough deployment,” Jared Laskey says in describing one part of his service as a Marine field radio operator. “But Jesus saw us through, and Jesus was with me the whole time.

“Whenever we were in combat with the enemy, I was praying and doing my job simultaneously,” Laskey tells Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of Greenelines on the Charisma Podcast Network. “The Holy Spirit was with me the entire time, and He saw me through.”

And Laskey needed the Spirit’s power. “In my platoon of 26, I think 16 had been blown up in an IED” [improvised explosive device, or roadside bomb].

But instead of turning Laskey away from God, those horrific experiences and the PTSD that resulted moved him toward his heavenly Father. “It was through that, honestly, that I ran toward God, and Holy Spirit healed my life supernaturally,” he says.

Some might say this is spiritual mumbo-jumbo or something no one can verify. But Laskey has experienced the Spirit’s freedom and power. Not only has he written an e-course called Healing Warriors to share his testimony of healing from post-traumatic stress disorder, but he put that healing to a concrete test, returning to Afghanistan—the scene of his trauma—as an independent military contractor.

“I saw I had nothing but love for the people,” he says of his mission there. “I thought that I may have had something to deal with. I’d undergone the healing. I’d been supernaturally healed, progressively healed, during the process of time … but I thought I might have one more thing to face.”

Instead, Laskey says, the deep love he felt revealed something incredible: “I’m healed and whole. I just want to see people here come to Jesus.”

To hear more of Jared Laskey’s story of supernatural healing from PTSD and how he now ministers Spirit-powered healing to others, listen to the entire episode of the Greenelines podcast here. Be sure to subscribe to both Greenelines and Laskey’s own podcast, Adventures in the Spirit, on the Charisma Podcast Network. And check out Laskey’s e-courses here. {eoa}

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He was a successful businessman—until God showed him a new and better plan.

“I was on a half-business, half-mission trip to China,” Aamon Ross tells Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of the Greenelines podcast on the Charisma Podcast Network.

“I was walking along the Great Wall of China, just kind of talking to the Lord, and out of nowhere—and I’ve never had this happen in my life—I literally heard God say, ‘Aamon. You think too small. You don’t think generationally.’

“And I was scared,” Ross says. “I had tears in my eyes. The atmosphere was thick. It was really just a paralyzing moment.”

After his return home, Ross says, he kept praying about what God had told him. After about a week, he got together for coffee with a close friend, Kevin Stitt, who asked about his trip.

“Kevin, this is what happened to me on the Great Wall,” Ross told his friend, sharing the story of the supernatural encounter.

“Well, what do you think it means?” Stitt asked.

“Well, I prayed about it for the last week,” Ross says. “And for some reason, I feel like you and I are supposed to put our heads together and put godly people in positions of authority at the state and national level.

“And he just stared at me with this kind of awkward silence,” Ross says.

But he wasn’t prepared for what Stitt would say next: “Aamon, don’t tell anyone this, but I think God asked me to run for governor.”

“And then he said, ‘Be my campaign manager,'” Ross says. “Then I just started laughing. I told him, ‘Kevin, that’s a ridiculous idea. I’ve never done anything but vote.’ And he said, ‘Neither have I.'”

That conversation—and those supernatural moves of God—ended up bringing Stitt into his current position as governor of Oklahoma and pushed Ross into a ministry that is helping believers across the country move into positions of influence in the political realm.

Listen to the entire episode of Greenelines for more of Aamon Ross’ inspiring story, and be sure to subscribe to both Greenelines and Ross’ own podcast, Kingdom in Politics, on the Charisma Podcast Network for more inspiring, informative stories like this one. {eoa}

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“There’s something scary in my room, Daddy.”

“Mama! Daddy! I see an angel!”

“Jesus came to my room last night, Mommy.”

Many of us hear words like these from our young children, prophetic intercessor, ministry leader and podcast host Rebecca Greenwood says.

“A lot of children when they’re born, they do see, they do hear in the spirit realm,” she tells Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of Greenelineson the Charisma Podcast Network.

Greenwood says her daughter Kendall, now 30, is a seer who showed evidence of this gift from her early years of childhood.

“I have angels,” 4-year-old Kendall told her mother one day. “You have angels. Daddy has an angel, the twins, Mama—they have angels, Mama. Mama, those angels help us.

“Mama, those angels, they have a big pointy, shiny thing. … Mama, they hold it in their hand. And Mama, do you know what they do?”

“I said, ‘No, baby, what?'” Greenwood says.

“Mama, when those demons come, the angels take that pointy, shiny thing and they swing it,” Greenwood explains, adding that her children never watched anything violent or demonic, so “you knew that you knew that you knew” she was seeing in the supernatural realm.

“She made this sound like someone swinging a sword … And she said, ‘Mama, they help us like that,'” Greenwood recalls. “‘And Mommy, you know what happens? … Those demons disappear.'”

Greenwood says she thought, Oh my goodness. Here’s a spiritual warfare, one-on-one lesson by a 4-year-old.

This experience with her daughter—among many others—has moved Greenwood to encourage other parents not to discount but to encourage what the Lord does through their giftings, even at a very young age.

To hear more from Rebecca about this spiritual aspect of parenting as well as much more on her life as a prophetic intercessor, listen to the entire episode of the Greenelines podcast here. Subscribe to Greenelines on your favorite platform, and be sure to check out Greenwood’s own podcast, Victorious Prophetic Warfare, also on the Charisma Podcast Network. {eoa}

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“I believe that the new president has a spirit like Herod. And I believe he will not last too long.”

These bold words come from prophetic minister Myles Kilby on a recent episode of the Greenelines podcast on the Charisma Podcast Network. Kilby has a burden for calling the church to encounter the fire of God, he says, as a part of God’s purpose in purging and restoring His bride.

“For the church, I believe that this is a tremendous time of breakthrough that God is releasing for the church, specifically for the body of Christ in our nation,” Kilby says. “Obviously, we’re facing many challenges.”

Kilby describes a recent vision he had in which he saw a red dragon suddenly come up out of China and move westward. “And I heard the Holy Spirit say, ‘China is the economic engine for the antichrist spirit in the earth.'”

What people fail to understand, Kilby says, is that in 1 John 2, the apostle John warns us about the end times: “Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us” (1 John 2:18-19).

“Now, if he said 2,000 years ago was ‘the last hour,’ where are we now?” Kilby asks. “God told me, probably a year ago, He said, ‘Myles, you’re an 11th-hour prophet.'”

Kilby says what we’re seeing right now are raging antichrist spirits which, he says, “love to attack governments. They love to attack people in authority and influence governments and people who are in high-level positions of authority so they can influence multitudes of people.”

For more from prophetic minister Myles Kilby on how you can experience breakthrough and hear God’s voice as well as be a part of preparing for Christ’s soon return, listen to the entire episode of the Greenelines podcast at this link. Be sure to subscribe to Greenelines on your favorite podcast platform for more inspiring stories in the power of the Holy Spirit, and check out Kilby’s own podcast, Your Breakthrough Today, also on the Charisma Podcast Network. {eoa}

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You want to lose that extra 10 pounds (or more).

More than that, you want to get healthy.

You want to start that exercise routine your doctor recommended.

You want to look and feel better than you do.

You’ll start early next week, because this week, you just don’t have the time or energy.

The problem? “Early next week” never comes.

We’ve all seen and even experienced this problem, naturopathic doctor Mark Sherwood tells Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of the Greenelines podcast on the Charisma Podcast Network. But it’s more than simple procrastination. The problem lies with our mindset—and the answer, he says, has more to do with spiritual warfare than you may realize.

“Most people, when you talk to them about the desire to get healthy, the want-to, probably you’re going to get 100% of the hands,” Sherwood says. “But then we also have to confront, address and bring correction, if you will, to the other side of that coin: How many listening right now have failed at making adjustments? Well, you’re going to get the same amount of hands that go up.”

Sherwood says what keeps us from success in our health goals is tied to lies or limiting ideas. “They’re so common, we don’t think about it; we sadly repeat them all the time. And we know our words create. So we’ll talk about somebody’s mindset—these lies—and we need to unravel those and get them out of our lives.

“Don’t entertain them,” Sherwood says. “Because when we entertain them, we’re basically being overtaken by a lie. We know the master of deceit is a master of lies; he twists things on us.”

To learn how to attack the devil and reach your personal goals for health and more, listen to this entire episode of Greenelines here. Subscribe to Greenelines on your favorite platform so you don’t miss any of the informative, inspiring content. And for more practical, spiritual tips, be sure to tune into Dr. Mark Sherwood’s own podcast, Healthcare’s Missing Link, also on the Charisma Podcast Network.{eoa}

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