What Is God Asking You to Lay Down? Hearing God in Listener Questions

What Is God Asking You to Lay Down? Hearing God in Listener Questions

Start with the thing you feel like you couldn't possibly give up. That's
usually the one.

It's Friday, so we're catching up and working through questions that came
in. Today we talk about using the color method with kids, whether spiritual
gifts only operate through tongues, and a question I had to sit with: what has
God actually asked me to surrender? I share the closed door that led to my
first book, and the hardest thing I've ever had to lay down.

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Questions we answer today

Can kids do the color method, and where do I find the chart?

Do the gifts of the Spirit only come through praying in tongues?

Is speaking in tongues the only evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit?

What has God asked me personally to give up?

How do I know what He's asking me to surrender?

Timestamps

00:00 How Friday episodes work

01:50 Can children use the color method?

02:45 Adapting it for younger kids

03:10 Where to find the free Bible Study 101 download

04:10 A question about the gifts of the Spirit

05:00 Do gifts only operate through tongues?

06:40 Why I try never to say amen

08:10 Pushing back on some charismatic teaching

08:40 The evidence of a Spirit-filled heart is a
Spirit-filled life

09:00 The prophetic artist on one of our trips

10:20 The painting that undid me

11:40 What we've seen so far in Luke

12:45 What has God asked me to give up?

14:30 The article, the contract, and the closed door

17:40 Surrendering it at my desk

18:00 The two emails that came that week

19:20 How one act of obedience opened everything after
it

20:10 Daycare, children's ministry, missions, and now
this

21:10 What God usually asks for

21:40 The two hardest things I've laid down

22:20 Laying your children before the throne

23:20 Watching them go where I couldn't follow

24:30 Start with what you can't imagine giving up

25:40 Prayer

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