life-changing power

The Life-Changing Power of Speaking a Blessing

I am speaking to you continually: words of Life . . . Peace . . . Love. Tune your heart to receive these messages of abundant blessing. Jesus Calling, September 21 Other than praying, what should we do when someone we love isn’t living up to their potential? We can bless them. God blessed Adam and Eve and then released them to be fruitful, multiply, and rule. For most of my life, I believed the opposite. I assumed that if I performed well, then I would be blessed. But Genesis 1:28 radically upends the order of events. With God, the blessing is not the reward for productivity—it’s the power for it. Blessing is a positive, faith-filled vision spoken in accord with God’s Word over someone’s life. It’s stronger than encouragement and altogether different than prayer. Though often unfamiliar to...

The Life-Changing Power of Connection: Jeremy Miller, Brandon Lane Phillips, & The Singing Contractors

Jeremy: Family is such an important part of my life. And to have another brother, someone that I can depend on, someone I can count on, someone who’s there for me, and someone to share this journey with—Brandon’s faith and his story, the hope that his life has been and is every single day—is just an inspiration to me. This man, I can say with full confidence, helped save my life.  The Life-Changing Power of Connection: Jeremy Miller, Brandon Lane Phillips, & The Singing Contractors – Episode #171 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we see the powerful ways that close friendships can change our lives: actor Jeremy Miller and pediatric cardiologist Brandon Lane Phillips, and viral singing sensations The Singing Contractors. When they were just preteens, Jeremy Mill...