More Power Than You Think : Anatomy of a Christ-like Mind

For 3 1/2 months you have heard me say I have had to "temporarily divert my time to other priorities." Well, today I reveal the secret of what those priorities were and what I have been doing these past months. Thanks for tuning in!   Subscribe to Jennifer’s Newsletter https://jenniferskaw.kit.com/subscribe   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop

On this one-year anniversary of the More Power Than You Think Podcast, I want to share one of the most vital, life-changing mind set shifts we must make in order to truly keep God in charge of our lives and to avoid resisting His plans for us. And that is, your position is not your purpose. Positions change, your purpose does not. Don’t let yourself believe the subtle lie that your security or purpose is in a position. If you do this, your loyalty, surrender, and devotion are misplaced. Let God use you in whatever position HE chooses. Let yourself be the surrendered vessel in the Potter’s Hands. Trust that if God changes your position/ path/ course, that the new path will bring more glory to God, have more eternal impact, and more fulfillment to you and others than any path you could have chosen for yourself.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop  

Have you ever said “hurry up and learn” to yourself? Have you ever poured your time and energy into pursuing knowledge and then realized what you’ve learned is just a drop in the bucket of what you should know? This can lead to some anxiety and probably some discouragement. Is there even time for us to learn all that we feel we need to know? As Pastor Scott Pauley says, let’s enjoy the journey! Today I talk about how to get this learning racing stripe off our back so we can instead savor the learning process.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop  

Today's episode is not an attack on fallen leaders, but rather encouragement and instruction for those disheartened or discouraged by leadership that has gone astray or caused harm. ​I pray what God has led me to share will inspire you or a loved one to continue on as a soldier for Jesus Christ, with focus on our faithful God, all the way to the finish line, regardless of what happens around us.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop  

I love the examples God gives us in Scripture. They offer a roadmap for us, so we can stay encouraged and on course. God used Joseph, Moses, David and Paul to minister to me. God did not expect perfection from them, only the next step of obedience as He continued to reveal their path. He does the same for us. I hope to encourage you today that you don’t need to know the whole plan, just the next step.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop  

It is so important that we learn to be content with loneliness. If we don't learn this skill, our relationships will suffer, our ministry will suffer, and our walk with God will suffer. Even in the best relationships, there is still a hunger in the soul only Christ can fill. We can be surrounded by people that genuinely love and care for us and still be lonely. And sometimes, we truly are alone. No one can meet the intricate needs of our soul like God can. Let’s Learn to be so dependent on God that He becomes enough.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop  

It is easy to lose sight of who our God is when the world seems so out of control. But God hasn't changed. God is alive and working in this world. The devil may think he is winning, but you and I have a Light and message that he can never dim!! Amen! I pray this post renews your spirit or encourages you in the power of our God. Maybe you already have strength right now.  Praise the Lord! Pass it on! If not, may this be a comfort.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop  

Sometimes we designate a trial in our life as a time to be “off duty” from being a light for Christ. Suddenly, we seem to have blinders on and all we can see is how our trial is affecting US.  But if we can view our trials through God's lens, many blessings surface. We lose many blessings when we isolate our interactions and trials to only be about us. Consider our Savior. Even facing death and abandonment, Jesus made His trial about others. Nothing He went through was for Him alone, but rather was for the glory of His Father and the benefit of mankind. Let’s talk about seeing beyond our trial, with a vision for serving others even during the most difficult hardship.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop  

King David had a dream of building God’s temple and was ready to take action, but God gave him a hard, “No!” Has God done this to a dream in your life? Said NO. How did you handle that? What became of the dream? There is a difference between suppressing our dreams, which leads to discontentment, and surrendering our dreams, which leads to peace. At the core of this surrender is trust. The more we trust God, the less painful surrender will be. The more we trust God, the more assurance we have that His plans are better than ours could ever be. Most of us have things we wish the Lord would allow but for some reason He hasn’t. The more we trust His wisdom, the less painful those things will be that He keeps from us. Today I’m talking about the two very different outcomes these two subtle but very different actions of suppress vs. surrender can bring.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop  

Scripture tells us that we can be God's friend. What an incredible honor and privilege. Several years ago, God helped me understand a way we can love Him with even more of our heart, soul, and mind so that we become a true friend of God. It is amazing that our Holy God condescends to our level to share friendship with us. Let’s uncover an obstacle to this friendship so that we can avoid it and God can continue to call us His true friend.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop  

Many believe that the idea of existing for the sole purpose of glorifying God is a ridiculous concept. Most have a perspective that following God is more like a hobby, and they see a relationship with Christ as optional. It is a given that for a lost soul to go to heaven, Christ is not optional, but there are also Christians who are living as if Christ is optional. Are we content with salvation and pursuing nothing more? A Christian loses so much by not pursuing Christ beyond salvation. Untold blessings are forfeited by living a redeemed life without a relationship with the Redeemer. Let’s shine some light on this deception from the evil one and get strengthened by the truth that for the lost or the saved, Christ is not optional.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop  

God doesn't always choose to remove affliction. Perhaps you will agree that looking back on certain trials in your life you can see at least one way you benefited from the trial.   People yearn for proof and examples that God really is enough for their trial. When we choose to keep living abundantly regardless of hardships and afflictions, we are giving others hope that scripture really is true, and that God really is enough. If we look from God's perspective, trials are a gift. This episode is about affliction, but not the woeful side of affliction, the beautiful side. There is hope and joy and mending and purpose when we let God be a part of our story, whether in the valley or on the mountain top.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop

Trials give God an opportunity to gently minister to us and give us an opportunity to savor resting in His care. We find His peace when we trust Him regardless of the storm around us. This week’s episode title comes from Psalm 116:7-8. “Return unto thy rest, O my soul; For the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.” I want to encourage you in this episode that you don’t have to wait for your circumstance to change or for a prayer to be answered to have God’s peace.  You can have it this very moment.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop

Prayer doesn't need to be perfect. Our prayer doesn't have to be long. We don't even have to know the person we’re praying for or the outcome. If we really tune in, I believe we will consistently hear God's whisper prompting us to pray all throughout our day for strangers everywhere we go. Everywhere we go and look, we will find someone who has a need. Even one sentence of prayer for a stranger may be all that God desires to do miracles in their life.  I Samuel 14:6, "For there is no restraint of the Lord to save by many or by few." The prayer of one. In this episode, we talk about what a difference praying for a stranger can make.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop

Any labor we do for the Lord is worth it all if just one life is enriched spiritually as a result. This week's episode is about your worth, my worth and the worth of every life we intersect. It is about sacrifice and how reaching, investing in, and enriching another life for Christ is worth ANY cost. We are so valuable that Jesus considered us worth the cost of His suffering and shame. Now we get to follow His example. Every day we get opportunities to make a difference.   Together, let’s consider it worth the cost to invest in each other.  Let’s consider it worth the cost and a success when we make a difference in even one life.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop  

This week’s episode is called At His Table. It is God who is meeting you there. You quiet your thoughts and listen to hear your Father’s soft voice reminding you of His truth. As bitterness and discontentment knocked at your door this week, you had to really listen for that comforting voice. Your Father’s whisper tells you that you can trust Him. It tells you to be content with His plan. He reminds you that you have no need to fret or feel like you are missing out compared to someone else’s adventure or path. He reminds you that your work is important, and He sees you.  In this week’s episode we focus on trusting the path God has allowed, and that any work He calls us to do is important work.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop

What should you do when the devil is attacking you? There are many tactics that bring success, but I want to share a tactic that brought me victory last week when the destroyer was trying to get me out of God’s will.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop

Early on in dementia, the patient has an awareness of things changing.  They know that some of their thoughts are not quite right. They have an awareness that there are parts of their thinking process that they are losing control of. Our mental battles can be very similar.  You have one foot hanging off the edge of sanity, while the foot on solid ground has an awareness that something is wrong, but doesn’t have the control to fix the problem. What do we do when we are on that edge of confusion? What is God’s plan to help us with our mind when it seems we are losing it? Let’s find out one of God’s remedies in Scripture.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop

God is always teaching! I'm back after 9 days in lovely Samara, Costa Rica.   I tried to remember to invite God to everything and was leaning in to hear His voice. Join me as I share some spiritual and not-so-spiritual memories from my amazing trip.   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop

Of all the episodes from this series, this last one pulls at my heart the most. I spend more time on stigma in this episode than any of the others. It is a sad topic, but it is the truth of what’s going on in our churches. I also am forthright about the harm in the approach many take in counseling, an approach that has much truth but is mixed with very little mercy, grace, or heavenly wisdom. I begin this episode by briefly going over the 6 key things that God used to bring me to stability from suicidal depression and bipolar.  I spend quite a bit of time talking about how we all handle stress differently.  For some, stress becomes illness and disease. For others, it leads to mental symptoms. We all respond to stress differently based on a variety of factors. We all have a different reserve of strength and health. This reserve, or lack thereof, affects how vulnerable we are to the consequence of life’s stressors. When it comes to trauma, I address how some biblical curriculums teach that any negative effects from these traumas reveal a spiritual problem. I don’t believe that is a balanced or realistic perspective and explain my thoughts on this teaching. I address the division, harm and discord the devil has been successful in achieving among the body of Christ. I emphasize that no matter the origin of any mental or physical battle we face, God’s Word and renewing the mind is part of the answer. Toward the end, I give my final thoughts, including identifying the real enemy, the father of lies. And I encourage folks that even if they don’t see eye to eye with their leadership on the topic of mental health, we can still have a wonderful relationship, stay teachable, and receive the blessings God will give through our leadership in other areas. I end this episode by highlighting our Savior, as He spent His last hours in the garden, heavy with physical, emotional, and spiritual pain, yet fully trusting and without sin.  He again, is our example in all things.   I am not a mental health professional, but I am a suicide attempt survivor and speak from first-hand experience of living with a mental illness called Bipolar Type II. If you are having an emergency, please call 988 or the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255. Information on this podcast is not to be taken as medical advice or as a replacement for professional care but is for educational purposes only. Download your free mental Health Resource Guide Here https://jenniferskaw.ck.page/resourceguide2022   Free Course Start - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/course   Email - jennifer@jenniferskaw.com   Website - www.morepowerthanyouthink.com   Jennifer’s YouTube Music Channel https://www.youtube.com/@JenniferSkaw   Buy Jennifer’s Music Here https://www.morepowerthanyouthink.com/musicshop