Hear Him Louder Podcast

Today's conversation with Barb Roose will change your prayer life. Have you ever had these thoughts: Is prayer worth it? Am I doing it right? Why don’t I feel closer to God? Why isn’t God answering?If you’re feeling stuck in how you pray and your soul is longing for connection with God, this conversation is for you.Today we talk about the ways we tend to relate to God (and all the grace, friends!), and four principles and truths that will change and re-shape how we pray. We’ll talk about repetitive versus persistent prayer, five behaviors we might choose over prayer, and how to listen for God in our prayers. Our entire conversation wraps around Barb’s Bible Study, Matthew: Pray Like This. Friend, if you’ve struggled with how to pray, you’ve landed in the right place. Marnie and Barb discuss:Common prayer hang-ups.Three ways we tend to relate to God in prayer.Four truths to re-shape and revolutionize our prayer mindset.The difference between repetitive and persistent prayers.A single sentence prayer that changes our grip on outcomes.Five behaviors we can choose instead of praying.How to listen for God and receive His truth in prayer.Barb Roose is a popular speaker, author who is passionate about teaching women to live beautifully strong and courageous so that they experience God’s great adventure of faith and purpose for their lives. Barb speaks in the US and abroad at women’s conferences and events, including national platforms like the Aspire Women’s Events, She Speaks Conference and the UMC Leadership Institute. She is the author of eight Bible studies such as Matthew: Pray Like This, and five books including Stronger Than Stress: 10 Spiritual Practices to Win the Battle of Overwhelm. Barb is the host of the Bold, Brave & Beautiful podcast. She lives in NW Ohio and is proud mother of three adult children. Whenever possible, Barb prefers to eat dessert first.Check out these resources from Barb:Barb’s Digital Prayer Board Matthew: Pray Like This And connect with Barb at her Website, Instagram, and Facebook.And go grab this from Marnie: To help you get into a practice of listening for Jesus in your everyday, Marnie created a FREE resource for you: Find Your Listening Rhythm with Jesus. You can connect with Marnie through her Website or on Instagram.

In today’s episode, we celebrate the one year anniversary of the Hear Him Louder Podcast! And today, the tables are turned! Becky Keife steps into the host role to ask Marnie all the questions.They discuss Marnie’s own story of how she discovered that Jesus speaks to us, the backstory of this podcast, and how listening for Jesus can help guide us through all of the January things. If your heart is craving encouragement and clarity around listening for Jesus as we make our way through another January, this conversation is for you. Because all of these things matter and listening for His voice and guidance is the starting point for well, everything.Marnie and Becky discuss:How Marnie learned that God still speaks to us today.Two key learnings about God's character after one year of Hear Him Louder episodes.The one word that is the most important posture in listening for Jesus.How to invite Jesus into your January and all of the January things you might be sifting through. How God can speak promises and peace without answering the question we’re asking.A story that comes with the promise that God will take us higher.To help you get into a practice of listening for Jesus in your everyday, Marnie created a FREE resource for you: Find Your Listening Rhythm with Jesus. You can connect with Marnie through her Website or on Instagram. And a huge thank you to our host today, Becky Keife, who is the author of A Verse A Day For The Anxious Soul, as well as a Bible teacher and speaker who is passionate about helping people hear God’s voice, embrace their true identity, and step into their purpose. A dedicated mental health advocate, Becky equips individuals and churches to understand anxiety biblically and experience Jesus wholly. She loves long naps, puffy clouds, and shady trails. Becky lives in Southern California with her husband and three always-hungry teenage sons. You can connect with Becky at her website or on Instagram. And you can grab a copy of her book here.

In today’s episode, Marnie and Becky Keife talk about how the start of a new year can feel like a loud mix of hope and pressure. Maybe your calendar is already crammed, your mind is racing with goals you “should” accomplish, or anxiety has followed you right into January. If your soul is craving calm and clarity, this conversation is for you, as we cover how to establish simple, soul-anchoring rhythms that make space for God’s peace not just for the start of the year, but also for whatever the months ahead may hold. Quieting that "New Year" swirl begins with tuning your heart to the One voice that matters most. God is near and His voice of love can be louder than the anxious noise we feel and hear.Marnie and Becky discuss:How to invite God into daily rhythms that help us to manage anxiety.Becky’s own journey with anxiety.The gift Becky found inside anxiety. How listening for Jesus can help us to find peace.Fourteen practices that center around listening for God and how they can help us calm the chaos.Becky Keife is the author of A Verse A Day For The Anxious Soul, as well as a Bible teacher and speaker who is passionate about helping people hear God’s voice, embrace their true identity, and step into their purpose. A dedicated mental health advocate, Becky equips individuals and churches to understand anxiety biblically and experience Jesus wholly. She loves long naps, puffy clouds, and shady trails. Becky lives in Southern California with her husband and three always-hungry teenage sons. You can connect with Becky at her website or on Instagram. And you can grab a copy of her book here.You can connect with Marnie through her Website or on Instagram. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Three Steps to Finding Quiet: A Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this special Christmas episode, we talk about what we can learn about listening from the shepherds in the Christmas story. Then we walk through four simple steps we can follow, just as the shepherds did, to listen for Jesus. Those four steps form a listening practice we can use during Advent and beyond. What if we can learn how to see and hear God in new ways this Christmas? What if we can learn from and follow the shepherds’ lead from that very first Christmas to hear Jesus louder today?In this episode you’ll: Learn the four choices the shepherds made after the angel appeared.Discover how those same four actions can help us listen for Jesus this Christmas and beyond.Hear a simple four-step practice of listening for Jesus during Advent -- a practice you can follow in just 10 minutes a day. Part of hearing God louder is first seeing what He is doing. When we see, we hear. When we hear, we respond. When we respond, we are changed. Marnie walks through her FREE Advent Listening Guide, a simple resource to help you listen for Jesus during Advent.You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email.And be sure to grab your free Advent Listening Guide here. Merry Christmas! The Hear Him Louder Podcast will be back in January 2026.

In this episode, Marnie and Cynthia Ruchti discuss a different way to enter into the holiday season this year. Could we see and hear Him differently this season? This conversation centers around our longing to know God’s presence in all of our days – even the busiest, hustly-bustly holiday ones and the good news that part of hearing God louder is noticing the ways He is already here. Today’s conversation begins with Cynthia’s story of learning how God speaks into her life, and how she wants to live a life of noticing. We discuss her new book, The Spirit of Christmas, and how noticing where the Holy Spirit is in the Christmas story helps us to see and hear Him more clearly in our everyday.As we begin this holiday season, and we find ourselves in checkout lines and at Christmas parties – what if we carry with us, into all those places, the truth and the joy that He is always speaking right where we are? Because noticing God and hearing His voice go together -- not just during the holiday season, but for every day long after the season ends.Marnie and Cynthia discuss: How noticing God leads to hearing God.How asking God one simple question can help us to see and hear Him more clearly.How “praying unceasingly” can look a lot like “listening unceasingly.”The possibility that we can come out the other side of this holiday season more spiritually healthy than we entered.Cynthia Ruchti tells stories hemmed in Hope through her more than 50 novels, nonfiction, and speaking events for women and writers. She draws from three decades writing and producing a radio broadcast heard on 48 stations across the country and internationally online. Her tagline is: I can’t unravel. I’m hemmed in Hope. She and her husband of a billion years live in the heart of Wisconsin. Grab your copy of The Spirit of Christmas: Discovery His Presence throughout the Advent Season and connect with Cynthia at her Website and on Instagram.You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Three Steps to Finding Quiet: A Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Rachael Groll discuss what we can learn about how God speaks to His daughters from the stories in our Bibles. God has always spoken to and through women. We discuss Rachael's book, Knowing God's Voice, which highlights women like Miriam and Hulda and Deborah and Anna, who heard and boldly obeyed God’s voice. When we study how God speaks to others, we are also learning more about how He’ll speak to us. We can lay down our insecurities about hearing God and know that He will invite us to join Him in His plans.Marnie and Rachael discuss: The insecurities that we can carry and believe about whether we are hearing from God.How we can test what we hear when we’re seeking to hear Him.How the enemy can use fear to keep us from hearing God.How He is always FOR us and will speak to our hearts in similar ways to how He spoke to His daughters in the Bible.Rachael Groll is an author, certified life coach, missionary, and podcaster with a heart for sharing Jesus with anyone who will listen. She has served in various full-time ministry capacities both locally and globally, including starting outreach programs for women, creating curriculum, teaching, and speaking. Her podcast, Hearing Jesus, has remained on the Top 30 list for Christian Podcasts in the US for the last year and ranks in the top 0.5% percent of all podcasts globally. She holds a BA in ministerial leadership from Southeastern University and an MA in Bible exposition/theology from Biola University/Talbot School of Theology. You can find Rachael at her Website and grab her book, Knowing God's Voice, here.You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus. Get your copy: Three Steps to Finding Quiet: A Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Asheritah Ciuciu discuss practical ways to calm our hearts and minds to hear God louder. We discuss how we can find space to listen for Him EVEN in the fullness of our days, and how there isn’t a one size fits all way of listening for God’s voice. She walks us through a prayer practice that will help us when we’re distracted in our prayer time. And get ready to take notes as she walks us through a technique for praying and listening for Jesus that follows the acronym R-E-S-T AND three different ways to help us cultivate mental stillness. Asheritah’s insights and ideas will help you in your journey in listening for Jesus.Marnie and Asheritah discuss: Asheritah’s name and its meaning -- and the power of knowing what our names mean.How we can learn to listen for God even in the fullness of our days.A prayer technique for when we get distracted in prayer.A prayer framework, R-E-S-T, that guides us as we pray and learn to listen for Jesus.Three ways to cultivate mental stillness, to help us to quiet ourselves, notice God, and listen for Him.Asheritah Ciuciu is a national retreat speaker, YouTube Bible teacher, and bestselling author of ten books, including Full, Prayers of Rest, and Unwrapping the Names of Jesus. Growing up as a Romanian missionary kid, Asheritah helps people worldwide delight in Jesus through creative Bible habits. She and her high school sweetheart raise their three spunky kids in NE Ohio—and anywhere they adventure together in their camper. You can find Asheritah at her Website. Sign up for the 5-Day Prayer Dare here and order Prayers of Rest here.You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Beth Guckenberger discuss how listening for Jesus can bring questions. God promises that He will speak to us, but sometimes we feel unsure of what we’re hearing. After discussing Beth's journey of learning to hear God’s voice, we walk through a handful of “listening scenarios” – questions that can come up when we’re seeking to hear Jesus, like what do we do when we don’t hear Him? What happens when we do what we thought we heard, but it didn’t turn out how we hoped? What if what we hear and what someone else hears don’t match? Beth’s stories and experience and wisdom will encourage you for when you have these same questions.Marnie and Beth discuss: How she learned to recognize God’s voice, even as a teenPractical ways we can learn to listen for Jesus.What to do when we don’t hear Jesus.How to reconcile being faithful to do what we think we heard, yet seeing an outcome we didn’t want.How to handle when two people hear differing direction from God.What we do when God answers us way outside the box we put Him in.Beth and her husband, Todd, live with their family in Cincinnati, Ohio where they serve as Co-Executive Directors of Back2Back Ministries. After graduating from Indiana University, the Guckenberger’s moved to Monterrey, Mexico where they lived for 15 years. Between biological, foster, and adopted children, they have raised eleven children.Beth is the author of thirteen books including adult and children’s titles. She travels and speaks regularly at conferences, youth gatherings and church services about reckless faith. You can find Beth at her Website, on Instagram, and at Back2Back Ministries.You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Judy Dunagan discuss our battles with fear and anxiety. During a time when things feel so loud and heavy in our world, this conversation offers peace for your heart by pointing you to God’s truth and practical steps to hear His Word and His voice louder. A mere whisper from Jesus can quiet the enemy’s lies. Judy’s wisdom and personal stories will make you feel like you’ve found a friend who understands the anxieties and fears we battle. Marnie and Judy discuss: Judy’s stories and experiences with fear and anxiety.Practical ways we can battle the lies we hear and how we can tap into God's protection.How we hold onto God’s victory when our circumstances don’t feel like victory.How we reconcile our instinct to blame God for things we don’t understand.How to see prayer as a gift.How God will speak into our fears in deeply personal ways.Judy Dunagan is a speaker, Bible teacher, and the author of The Loudest Roar: Living in the Unshakable Victory of Christ. A wonder seeker of God and His Word, Judy is passionate about discipleship and making God’s Word and prayer come alive in everyday life. She serves on the Board of Deeper Walk International, and recently retired from Moody Publishers as an Acquisitions Editor. Judy and her husband, Rick, live in Colorado and are the joyful grandparents of six grandchildren. You can connect with Judy at her Website. You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus. Get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Amy Seiffert have a chat (in between a lot of laughing) about the most beautiful truths, beginning with how hearing Jesus changes us. His Word and words change how we think, which then changes: how we show up in all of our places, how we see ourselves, how we live life with others, how we walk through uncertainties, and yes, even how we send off our college kids. And we talk about how our position, as His beloved daughters of the Most High King, cannot change. Ever. When we let that truth take root deep, we walk out all the things differently.Marnie and Amy discuss: How to hold space to sit with Jesus even on the off-and-running days.  A quick and simple spiritual practice we can try to connect with Jesus.How and why we can “keep our spiritual receipts” to grow our faith in God.How to listen for God in hard places – like dropping off your firstborn at college.Why understanding our worth to God matters.How to battle the lies we hear by listening for Jesus.A powerful story from scripture of how God spoke to and used one of His daughters in a big way.A personal story of how God is faithful to lead us and those around us (and how we don’t have to be mini-shepherds).Amy Seiffert is an author, speaker, and monthly YouVersion teacher. She also serves as the Pastor of Coaching and Content at Soma City Church. Previously was a Team Leader with Cru at BGSU and worked with them for more than fifteen years. Amy is currently a graduate student at Denver Seminary in the Masters in Biblical and Theological Studies program and is working on her next book project with Bethany House Publishers. Weaving biblical wisdom through her presentations, Amy inspires, teaches, and humbly invites any willing spiritual pilgrim to walk alongside her in the pursuit of truth and the knowledge of God. Amy is married to Rob, and they live in Bowling Green, Ohio, with their three kids. You can connect with Amy on Instagram and grab her book and sign up for her newsletter at her website.You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Jennifer Dukes Lee kick off a new season with a conversation that’s packed with goodness. We talk about the peace that comes in asking questions of ourselves and God, and how we can listen for and learn from Him inside those questions. And we discuss how our springs and summers and falls and winters all hold purpose and growth, even when we can’t see it. When we unhurry our hearts and open our ears, we can learn and grow in all of them.Marnie and Jennifer discuss: How (our shared) background in journalism began a practice of asking questions and listening.  How looking at the way Jesus asked questions offers evidence that our own questions can move us closer to God.How listening for Him can bring peace, even in situations we don’t choose.A single sentence that changed Jennifer’s perspective on how she listens for Jesus in the most ordinary places.How to come out of “hurry sickness” and how unhurrying our hearts can help to open our ears.The importance of all of the different seasons of our lives and how every season holds purpose, growth and opportunities to listen for Jesus.Jennifer Dukes Lee is the bestselling author of several books, including Growing Slow, It’s All Under Control, and Stuff I’d Only Tell God. She’s a fan of queso, bright lipstick, and singing too loudly to songs with great harmony. She lives on a fifth-generation family farm in Iowa, where she and her husband have made a life of growing crops, pigs, two beautiful humans, and an enduring faith. You can find Jennifer on Instagram and Facebook and sign up for her newsletter at jenniferdukeslee.com.You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

Welcome to the final episode of the Summer Book Club, a special series for the Hear Him Louder podcast that features three guests and three books in three episodes — all focused on helping you to hear Jesus louder.Do you have quiet, unvoiced questions for God? What if asking God our questions can strengthen our faith?Marnie and Niki discuss all of this as part of her book, God, Can We Chat?  In this episode, we talk about:Reimagining our doubtsHow our questions can strengthen our faith.Reframing the lies we’re believingReplying to Jesus’ invitation to come to Him, even with all of our questions.Niki’s four-step C-H-A-T prayer format (and listen to her read an excerpt and walk through the C-H-A-T format).How to listen after we ask God our questions.In addition to God, Can We Chat?, Niki Hardy is also the author of Audi Award-nominated, Breathe Again and One Minute Prayers for Women with Cancer. Niki has been featured in places like the Hallmark Channel, Life Today and Premier Radio. Having left corporate life, been to seminary, moved continents, planted churches, started businesses and nonprofits, and navigated loss, cancer, church hurt and painful uncertainty, she firmly believes God loves a cheerful doubter. Niki lives in North Carolina with her husband and ridiculous Doodle, Charlie, who is the main reason their three grown kids come home.Grab your copy of God, Can We Chat? here. You can connect with Niki on her Website or on Instagram, and check out Wildly Known on Substack.Marnie would love to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a free resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy of How to Find Quiet: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

Welcome to the second episode of the Summer Book Club, a special series for the Hear Him Louder podcast that features three guests and three books in three episodes — all focused on helping you to hear Jesus louder.Do you have “What do I do” questions for God?In this episode, Katie Reid and Marnie talk about these kinds of questions, as they’re the backbone of her new Bible study, God, What Do I Do?  This study asks the very same questions we ask: God, what do I do when I’m unsure? When I need help? When I’m in a battle? When I want to give up? God will meet us in these questions. If you have questions for God, this episode will help as you seek to hear Him louder.Marnie and Katie discuss: What we can learn from Judges 4 and Deborah on how to walk through an intimidating battle. Why listening and obedience must go together.A personal story of obedience and what Katie learned from trusting and doing what she heard.A principle to follow when we’re not sure we’re hearing God.How to lean into God in our questions of suffering.Katie Reid, a Bible teacher and the author of Made Like Martha and, the Bible study we’re talking about today, God, What Do I Do? Trained in education, Katie teaches around her kitchen table, in the classroom, and around the country. She co-hosts The Martha + Mary Show and runs the Martha + Mary Show Sisterhood group on Facebook. Katie is a pastor’s wife and worship leader. Following Jesus, marrying her husband, and being a mom to five are the best decisions she’s made. Connect with Katie at her website or on Instagram. Grab her Bible study here.You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

Welcome to the Summer Book Club, a special series for the Hear Him Louder Podcast that features three guests and three books in three episodes — all focused on helping you to hear Jesus louder.How would you listen differently if you couldn’t see?In this episode, Karen Wingate and Marnie talk about Karen’s story of being born legally blind and how she used her ears as her eyes. With her limited vision, listening well to the world around her and for God within her became how she saw.Karen shares her story of how hearing and seeing in her physical world taught her about spiritual hearing and seeing.Marnie and Karen discuss: Her journey of leaning into her hearing because of her limited sight. How she learned about God’s character through what she could hear in His creation.The truth that noticing what we can hear helps us to hear more.  A personal story of how God spoke words of hope to Karen during a difficult medical situation – words she still holds onto today.How He speaks to us in so many creative ways, all the time.Karen is author of With Open Ears: 60 Reflections on the Wonder of Sound from a Woman Born Blind. She has also written the award-winning book, With Fresh Eyes, and Grateful Heart: 60 Reason to Thank God in All Things. You can buy Karen's book and find more about Karen and her resources at her website. You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Rachael Adams continue with part two of their conversation about loving God and others better and how hearing God’s voice helps us to do that. Sometimes it helps to hear someone else’s stories, to know what it can look like to do a thing we want to do better.Rachael shares several stories of what trusting those promptings has looked like for her, from conversations in the places she goes to inviting a dear neighbor for some barbecue chicken.As she goes about her days, she is listening and walking out this call we share to love Him and others — and even ourselves. What a reassurance that yes, we can do this, too.Marnie and Rachael discuss how: God used everyday circumstances to invite Rachael to love others.We can love God but not hear Him – and how to hear Him louder.  Hearing and obeying God isn’t about getting a certain reaction or outcome.Loving ourselves means something different to God than in our culture.To learn to hear God’s voice as the loudest.Author of A Little Goes a Long Way and Everyday Prayers for Love, Rachael Adams, hopes to help women realize God’s love and purpose for their lives. She and her husband, Bryan, live in Kentucky with their two children, Will and Kate. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, Crosswalk, Proverbs 31, Today Parenting, and YouVersion. Connect with her by visiting her website, on Instagram and Facebook, and tuning in to The Love Offering podcast every Tuesday on your favorite listening platform. Grab your free copy of Rachael’s Love Offering Calendar, 30 Days to Live Out Love.You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Rachael Adams discuss how loving God and loving others fits together with hearing God’s voice. Because they go together. When we love God and others, we’re leaning into our journey with Him in ways that open us to hearing Him – and when we hear His voice louder, we can love Him and others better. And sometimes we overcomplicate it all, when what God is really asking of us is pretty simple.Marnie and Rachael discuss how: Circumstances can unfold differently than we expect after hearing God’s direction – but that doesn’t mean we misheard God.  Knowing we are loved by God helps us to love Him and others.Feeling unlovable can be a barrier to receiving God’s love for us.Listening for God’s voice is part of HOW we love others.We can love God and others as a natural part of our everyday.We often overcomplicate what loving God and others looks like.Author of A Little Goes a Long Way and Everyday Prayers for Love, Rachael Adams, hopes to help women realize God’s love and purpose for their lives. She and her husband, Bryan, live in Kentucky with their two children, Will and Kate. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, Crosswalk, Proverbs 31, Today Parenting, and YouVersion. Connect with her by visiting her website, on Instagram and Facebook, and tuning in to The Love Offering podcast every Tuesday on your favorite listening platform. Grab your free copy of Rachael’s Love Offering Calendar, 30 Days to Live Out Love. You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Mariel Davenport continue with part two of their conversation by diving into a four-step method, called TEND, for studying and listening for Jesus through scripture.After she describes each step, she models what using her TEND method looks like with a verse in real time, so we can see it come to life.As we wind down our busy spring seasons and transition into a new rhythm for summer, this TEND method is a great way to study the Bible this summer.Marnie and Mariel chat about: How Bible study can be powerful in a slower rhythm – even just a verse a day.The four-step TEND method that she developed for studying scripture.What it looks like to use the TEND method for one sample verse, in real time. How we listen for Him in each of the four steps.The importance of not just reading, but also doing what we read.How Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit will guide and teach us in all things, including scripture.As an atheist transformed by the Word of God, Mariel Davenport knows the power of seeking God through His Word. She is passionate about equipping women of all ages to tend their soul by the Word using her TEND method. As a trained Bible teacher with both Precepts Ministries and Community Bible Study, she has spent over 20 years in ministry. She also served as a mentor with Flourish Writers and Hope Writers. Now Mariel has a Bible study series releasing this fall with Our Daily Bread Publishers. Married for over 25 years to her college sweetheart and a retired homeschool mom of two grown sons, Mariel enjoys spicy salsa from her garden and walking her dog, Scout, on the beach near her house.You can find Mariel at her website, on Instagram, and Substack. Download your FREE resource to finish TENDing through Psalm 23 and apply this method to any scripture.Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Mariel Davenport discuss how as an atheist, she was perfectly content to believe that God didn’t exist – but God had other plans.Marnie and Mariel discuss: How the label “atheist” didn’t keep God away.God’s heart to pursue us, even when we aren’t aware of Him or His pursuit. How God used the imperfect humans from the stories in Genesis to meet Mariel's own brokenness. How Mariel began to hear God speak to her as she read the Bible.When we read His Word every day and listen for Him, He anchors us with those very words.As an atheist transformed by the Word of God, Mariel Davenport knows the power of seeking God through His Word. She is passionate about equipping women of all ages to tend their soul by the Word using her TEND method. As a trained Bible teacher with both Precepts Ministries and Community Bible Study, she has spent over 20 years in ministry. She also served as a mentor with Flourish Writers and Hope Writers. Now Mariel has a Bible study series releasing this fall with Our Daily Bread Publishers. Married for over 25 years to her college sweetheart and a retired homeschool mom of two grown sons, Mariel enjoys spicy salsa from her garden and walking her dog, Scout, on the beach near her house.You can find Mariel at her website, on Instagram, and Substack. Download your FREE resource to finish TENDing through Psalm 23 and apply this method to any scripture.Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Rachel Wojo continue with part two of their conversation by discussing her book, Desperate Prayers. In every desperate circumstance we face, we have the choice of whether to pray or not pray. To walk through it with God or without Him.Rachel shares what choosing to walk through it with God can look like. And we don’t have to be perfect or say the right words. Marnie and Rachel chat about how: We can lean into and learn from the desperate prayers of 15 Bible characters – and know that our own heartbreaks look an awful lot like theirs. To pray when we don’t have the words.Simple three-word prayers open our communication with Jesus.When we open ourselves up to God in prayer, we begin to hear Him in a different way.Rachel Wojo is an author, public speaker, and podcaster who hosts Bible reading challenges on her popular blog, rachelwojo.com. Her biblical approach and life circumstances influence women to find strength and hope in everyday situations. The ideal desperate pray-er to shed light on asking God questions, Rachel’s journey includes losing her mother to leukemia, her adult special needs daughter to a rare neurologically degenerative disease, and her father to illness. She is the author of Desperate Prayers: Embracing the Power of Prayer in Life’s Darkest Moments. Mostly, Rachel is crazy in love with Matt, mom to six on earth and two in heaven.Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Rachel Wojo discuss how, inside the hardest of hard things, we face a choice: Hold our heartbreak alone or offer God our most desperate, raw prayers.We don’t always want to invite God into our anger, confusion, and pain – but Rachel asks the question, what if inside our trials, we leaned into Jesus? What if we asked Him to show us how to show up?When we choose to, something unexplainable happens. If you’re in a painful season, these next two episodes are for you. Marnie and Rachel have a real and raw conversation, through some tears, about how: God is always pursuing us – and her story of His pursuit at age 6.His voice and character are always the same, but the way we listen can change.He meets us in what Rachel calls “the fellowship of suffering,” a sacred place that offers unexplainable peace, like the eye of the storm.When we experience His comfort, we find a deeper longing for His presence.Rachel Wojo is an author, public speaker, and podcaster who hosts Bible reading challenges on her popular blog, rachelwojo.com. Her biblical approach and life circumstances influence women to find strength and hope in everyday situations. The ideal desperate pray-er to shed light on asking God questions, Rachel’s journey includes losing her mother to leukemia, her adult special needs daughter to a rare neurologically degenerative disease, and her father to illness. She is the author of Desperate Prayers: Embracing the Power of Prayer in Life’s Darkest Moments. Mostly, Rachel is crazy in love with Matt, mom to six on earth and two in heaven.Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.