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Have you ever poured out your heart, almost begging God to solve a problem, but it doesn’t feel like your prayer is ever answered? You wonder if there’s a better way to pray you don’t know about. Then some days, you really connect with God in prayer and it just makes you want to be closer to Him?
Each week The Bible Speaks to You Podcast helps you rediscover the original Christianity of Jesus. Host James Early, Bible teacher and speaker, and an occasional guest dig deep into how to think, pray, and love like Jesus. And how to experience more of Jesus’s promise that “the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
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358 – FREEDOM FRIDAY How does it feel when you make spiritual progress in your life? It’s pretty exciting isn’t it? You feel like you’ve finally had a victory over the guilt and sins of the past, or a challenge you’ve been facing. But then sometimes, right on the heels of that spiritual progress, you fall back into the old patterns of thinking and acting. How do you hold onto your spiritual progress? In this episode, we talk about: Share your spiritual progress with a trusted friendDon'...
357 – How do you explain God's wrath in the Bible? Have you ever read some of those passages in the Old Testament where the text basically says God told the Children of Israel to kill all the inhabitants of Canaan, or other enemies, including the women and children, even babies? But in the New Testament, Jesus brings a very different perspective to dealing with your enemies. Instead of killing them, or praying for God to kill them, Jesus says to love and bless your enemies. What’s going on he...
FREEDOM FRIDAY Are you hungry and thirsty for spiritual things? Have you ever been really hungry or really thirsty? Why does that happen? It’s because your body is telling you need to eat or drink something. Hunger and thirst tell us there’s something we need that we don’t have. Jesus said we will be blessed when we hunger and thirst for righteousness, when we realize the need in our lives for things of the Spirit. In this episode: People, places, and things will never satisfy you...
355 – What is God teaching you? When was the last time you felt like God taught you an important lesson? Was it when you did something really well and you felt God showed you how to navigate all the different things that had to happen for a good outcome? Or did you make some mistakes and God taught you a better way to take care of the situation? The real question is: What did you do next? What did you do with what God taught you? Did you do apply those lessons to your life or just...
Welcome to Freedom Friday 354 – Jesus said: The kingdom of heaven is at hand Do you believe him? Most people think heaven is somewhere you go after you die. When you start seeing yourself from the perspective that heaven is at hand, the shame and guilt from you past will begin to dissolve. In this episode: Jesus promised that the kingdom of heaven is at handYou can't see it with your material eyes, just like you can't see radio wavesBut it's here and God reveals it spirituallyYou can discern ...
353 – When you’re facing a serious challenge... Do you tend to run away from it, ignore it, or face it so you can deal with it? The best solution is to face your challenges head on, ask for help if you need it, and do what you can to find a solution. In today’s episode we’re going to look at several examples in the Bible of people who faced their challenges some who tried to run away from them. And we’ll talk about what you can do to face your challenges head-on and the blessings that c...
It's Freedom Friday What if you could think and pray like Jesus did? What if you could love the way Jesus did? Does that even seem possible? What keeps us from doing that? Sometimes you might think there’s no way you could of be like Jesus and that it’s not even worth trying. Or maybe you’re afraid to love as much as he did. It’s just too much to commit to. But Jesus wanted and expected everyone who believed in him to follow his example of living and loving. In fact, Paul re...
351 – What do you ask for in your prayers? A new job, a good relationship, to be healed of an emotional problem or physical disease? What about asking God for guidance in what to do with your life and how to fulfill your purpose? Sometimes we ask God for small things and sometimes our prayers have a broader scope. But all too often we don’t go as broad and as deep as we could in what we ask for in prayer. Considering everything that’s going on in the world right now, it’s t...
350 – Do you know your spiritual identity? It's FREEDOM FRIDAY How often do you really stop and ponder that you are a child of God? All too often we identify ourselves based on what we have done or not done, the accomplishments or the failures we’ve had. And it’s very easy to fall into identifying yourself with the sins and mistakes you’ve made over the years. But the way you see yourself, the way you identify yourself, determines to a large degree how you will act and interact with oth...
349 – Are you praying for your government? If you take an unbiased look at the government of countries all over the world, you’ll often find some degree of corruption. Sometimes it doesn’t run very deep but other times senior leaders and the heads of government themselves are the source of corruption. This has been going on since governments began. Is there a solution? Even when politicians claim they try to get rid of all corruption, it’s a difficult thing to accomplish. Many governmen...
348 – What defines your spiritual identity? Do you ever struggle to find freedom from guilt over things that happened in the past? You’re trying to follow Christ and live your life in obedience to all Jesus says, but sometimes it’s hard to let go of the guilt from things you did years ago, or maybe even just yesterday. You know that God has forgiven you, but once in a while, those past sins and mistakes weigh heavy on your heart. Is it possible to find freedom from all that guilt from t...
347 – What do you do when no one understands you? Have you ever been with a group of close friends and you share some pretty deep ideas you’ve been thinking about, but then everyone looks at you like you’re crazy. They have no idea what you’re talking about. You try to explain, but they’re still clueless, their eyes glaze over, and they go back to discussing with great enthusiasm, something that seems trivial and inconsequential. The same thing happens with your family. You ...
346 – Freedom Friday! Have you ever found it hard to accept God’s forgiveness? The mistakes you’ve made and the sins you’ve committed just seem too much for God to wink at, much less forgive? When you carry around the guilt, along with the feeling you don’t deserve God’s love and forgiveness, it can be a terrible burden that keeps you from living the life of joy and freedom God has in store for you. When someone gives you a gift, what do you do? You accept it, open it, and use it, wear ...
345 – Is Christian unity possible? Ever been disillusioned by people from different Christian denominations arguing about who is right theologically, and in the process sending everyone who disagrees with them to hell? So many churches today think they are the only true followers of Christ and dogmatically insist you must agree with their theology to be a Christian. This attitude doesn’t bring fellow believers together but is incredibly divisive. In this divisive atmosphere among so man...
344 – Freedom Friday What's your first thought when you hear the word, repentance? It doesn’t always have a positive connotation does it? Can’t you just hear an angry preacher shouting from the pulpit that you need to repent of your sins? Sometimes it seems like they are trying to rub your nose in all the sins you’ve committed and make you feel really bad about yourself. But when Jesus said we need to repent, that’s not what he meant at all. True repentance is a actually a wonderf...
343 – Understanding the Lord's Prayer How often do you say the Lord’s Prayer. Now, what I really want to know is how often you pray the Lord’s Prayer. They’re not always the same thing. Have you ever been at church and it seems like when you get to the Lord’s Prayer it’s a race to see how fast you can say it? Jesus didn’t want us just to repeat words. He wanted this prayer to be a guide to understanding God and our relationship with Him. And that’s what we’re talking about today, unders...
342 – Bad motives versus good motives Have you ever kept making the same mistakes and committing the same sin, even though you’ve tried to stop? You’ve tried to do what’s right but you keep slipping back into old patterns of thinking and acting. Sometimes, trying to change one behavior by a different behavior doesn’t really get at the root of the problem. We need to go a little deeper and deal with the mental and spiritual motives, with our thinking, to consistently do what’s righ...
341 – What are your hopes for 2026? Who do you want to be? At the beginning of a new year a lot of people set goals and make resolutions of what they want to accomplish or stop doing during the next 12 months. The focus is usually on achievements and results, changing behavior, establishing new habits, things like that. Other people like to pick out a phrase or a word as a theme for the year. But a lot of folks I know have trouble keeping their resolutions and their theme for the year b...
340 – Ever have trouble admitting your mistakes? Have you ever had a hard time accepting responsibility for the mistakes you’ve made and the sins you’ve committed? I know, it’s all too easy to blame someone else or circumstances, the way you were brought up, the way someone treated you, or whatever it may be. But if you really want to heal the burden of guilt you’re carrying around, you’ll accept full responsibility for your mistakes and sins. This will bring healing and freedom into your lif...
339 – Thank You 2025! It's been a great year in many ways, but it had its challenges as well. There have been ups and downs for sure, but from all the people I talk to and interact with online, I feel a gradual and growing momentum in the way people’s hearts are reaching out for things of the Spirit. Before we launch out into a new year, it can be really helpful to appreciate all the lessons learned in 2025 and the good received and experienced. In that spirit, that’s what this ep...
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