The Book of Ruth: A Story of Restoration

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Edge God In Podcast 326 : The Book of Ruth: A Story of Restoration

EdgeGodIn.com | Host: Estella Chavous

Championing Human Potential in Christ

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Learning Objective: By the end of this lesson, you will explore how the Book of Ruth reveals God’s providence, restoration, and faithfulness in everyday life—even when circumstances feel uncertain or delayed.

Scriptures: Ruth 4:14-15 | Romans 8:28 | Proverbs 3:5-6 | Galatians 6:9 | Luke 16:10 |Joel 2:25 | Psalm 71:20

Key Learning areas:
The book helped them understand five key areas:

  1. God Works Behind the Scenes
  2. Faithfulness Creates Pathways
  3. God Restores What Seems Lost
  4. Obedience in Small Steps Leads to Divine Alignment
  5. Your Story Can Become a Legacy of Hope

Prayer
Heavenly Father,

Thank You for another day to praise and honor You. Even when our attention drifts and our focus becomes distracted, You remain faithful and never forget us.

As we begin our study of the Book of Ruth, open our hearts to recognize Your restoring power at work in our lives. Help us see that even during seasons of loss, disappointment, uncertainty, and waiting, you are still working behind the scenes for our good.

Give us discernment when bitterness, discouragement, fear, or hopelessness try to take root in our hearts. Teach us to replace those thoughts with trust in Your promises and confidence in Your faithfulness.

Strengthen us to choose obedience over compromise, faith over fear, and hope over despair. Help us trust that You are the God who restores what has been lost and renews what has been broken.

In Jesus’ name,

Amen.

What Are You Asking Fire From? How False Gods Create Stress and How God Brings Peace

Edge God In Podcast 325: What Are You Asking Fire From? How False Gods Create Stress and How God Brings Peace

EdgeGodIn.com | Host: Lauren E Miller

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Learning Objective: Increase self-awareness by identifying modern-day idols that compete for their attention and affection and practice aligning their thoughts, emotions, and decisions with God’s truth.

Scriptures: 1 Kings 18 ? Colossians 1:9-14

Prayer: Lord, too often I seek answers, security and fulfillment from the world. Grant me the grace to reorder my disordered focus so that I am undivided in my desire to pursue what YOU want me to pursue.

Previous Podcast in this series by Lauren: Plug into Your Greatest Resource

Support Resources: Award Winning Books:

Hearing His Whisper, with Every Storm Jesus Comes Too  https://amzn.to/3nNxdya

99 Things You Want to Know Before Stressing Out! 

Emotional Intelligence in Christ Project: Book, 6-Week Study Guide & Course Now Launched

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The Book of Judges: Self-Rule vs God’s Leadership

Edge God In Podcast 324 The Book of Judges: Self-Rule vs God’s Leadership
EdgeGodIn.com | Host: Estella Chavous

Championing Human Potential in Christ

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Learning Objective: By the end of this lesson, You will explore how the Book of Judges reveals the cycle of compromise, self-rule, and spiritual drift, and how believers can use self-examination through an EIC lens to return to God’s guidance and truth.

Scriptures: Judges 17:6 | Judges 2:11-12 | Proverbs 3:5-6 | 1 John 1:9

The book helped them understand five key areas:

  1. Honest self-examination
  2. Recognition of compromise
  3. Repentance
  4. Realignment with God’s truth
  5. Submission to God’s leadership

Prayer:

Heavenly Father,

We come before You with humble hearts, acknowledging that without Your guidance, we are prone to wander and rely on our own understanding.

As we enter this reflection on the Book of Judges, we ask that You open our eyes to see the subtle ways compromise can enter our thoughts, choices, and desires. Search our hearts and reveal anything that has drawn us away from Your truth.

Teach us to recognize where we have been doing what is right in our own eyes rather than seeking Your wisdom and leadership. Give us the courage to face ourselves honestly, without shame, and the grace to respond with repentance and willingness to change.

Through this time, form in us a deeper awareness of Your presence. Strengthen our emotional and spiritual discernment so that we may respond with wisdom rather than impulse, and with obedience rather than resistance.

Help us to walk in alignment with You, surrendering self-rule and embracing Your righteous leadership over every area of our lives.

May this reflection bring clarity, conviction, and transformation—not through condemnation, but through Your loving correction and truth.

We dedicate this time to You.

In Jesus’ name,

Amen.

Support Resources: Books & Resources:

Understanding and Acting on Behaviors that lead to Christ-Filled Relationships: Designed to uncover the key behaviors that influence how you relate to Christ-Awareness, Discernment, Emotion, and Renewal.

Situational Meditation Theory and Practice: Finding this space and learning to engage in meditation, contemplation and reflection.

Situational Meditation Journal: A companion to the book, cultivating a lifestyle of presence and full engagement in the moment.

Emotional Intelligence in Christ Project: Book, 6-Week Study Guide & Course