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The Spacious Room
by wendy parker
Experiencing a small, contained faith? Tired of settling for less?This podcast is going to help live out your faith in a Spacious Roombecause you were made for BIGGER things!
Episodes
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The Strength of Patience
This episode is a fruitful conversation about how to grow the fruit of patience, with my good friend and publisher, Elizabeth Chapman. As a stay at home mum, writer of several books, and currently studying her Doctor of Professional Practice, Elizabeth has learned the hard way by trying to grow...
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Strength In Choosing Kindness
Pastor of Believe Church, Founder of Believe Ministries and Esther's Voice, Janine Kubala, shares in this episode how geniune kindness from a friend transformed and fortified her spirit to become a better leader and pastor. Now years later, this solid foundation has brought her something she now...
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Strength Found In God's Love
Kicking off my new series 'Fruits of the Spirit' acclaimed Australian artist, Kirsty Neilson shares her journey of how she learned to connect to God's higher love, dig deep in her obedience which helped her faith grow so she was able to push past disappointments and dare to dream. Kirsty reveals...
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Wounded And On The Run: Interview with Leonie Schlosser
Today I'm chatting with my good friend, Leonie Schlosser about overcoming church hurts and wounding. Leonie shares some of her struggles about feeling seen and included and how the rejection from other believers effected her faith. However, through the power of grace and forgiveness she was able…
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'How To Find God In Your Mess' With Generosity Guy, Kieran Johnson
How do you find God in your mess? Today, in my Wounded And On The Run Conversations, we are unpacking how you can heal from the deep wounding which comes from rejection with Generosity Guy, Kieran Johnson. Kieran is the State Manager in Western Australia and South Australia for Opportunity...
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The Narrative Of An Anti-Hero
So, you've been going along quite nicely in your leadership walk and then all of a sudden, BOOM! God asks you to do something. However, you're not keen and it's making you want to run in the other direction! As leaders, we want change, we want to see change, and yes, we want to be the change. And...
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Be Prepared To Take A Stand
Excited about this week's Leaders Talk episode as I'm chatting with my dear friend, Ivana McNeil. Wife, mother, and campus pastor, Ivana shares her hard-won wisdom on what it means to become a leader who is prepared to take a stand. A leader, like Queen Esther, who choose to lay down her own…
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Let Others Hear Your Song
Joining me in the Spacious Room Leaders Talk this week is my good friend, Leonie Schlosser. Wife, mother, and worship leader, she has learned to let others hear her life song. Drawing on the life and leadership of Miriam, we chat about the battle cry of worship, packing your tambourine, and how...
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The Importance Of Being In God's Presence
How does the importance of being in God's presence help you to delegate well and avoid burnout as a leader? This week's Leaders Talk Episode on the Spacious Room, I'm chatting with my good friend, Elizabeth Chapman, wife, mother, author of multiple books, and founder of DOLL Ministries. Elizabeth...
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But We Tell A Different Story...
Kicking off the Spacious Room leaders talk podcasts for 2024, is my dear husband, Philip Parker. From leadership in the Royal Navy, to the market place, and leading teams in church life, he shares his nuggets of wisdom on how and why good team building is an important part of leadership. "Valuing...
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Then There Was The Voice Of God
We pray and we listen. We position overselves to hear the voice of God. We feel His presence when He speaks to our void, vacant spaces. He takes us on a journey and shares His dreams for our lives. He takes our inadequacy, our loss, our sinful ways, and moulds them into something beautiful and good.
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Ten Degrees
Understand that the vision you carry, the blueprint for seeing your dream come to pass is your prized possession. Sharing this prized possession with the wrong people can sterilize your dream causing you to go off course by ten degrees. Doesn't seem much, however, stroking egos rather than…
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Unhurried,Uncomplicated,Undone.
Where do you need to stop striving and doing things in your own strength? Spending some unhurried, uncomplicated time with God causes you to become undone, as those subtle cues He laid out previously that you either ignored or were totally ignorant and unaware of have now become as obvious as an...
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It Won't Hurt Forever
In today's episode, I talk about pain. When we get real with God, it won't hurt forever and the pain from our wounds will evenually be healed into silence. Because it's the scars that are left behind that tell our stories helping others to find their healing too.
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Where I Sit
I'm sure there is a big diffrence where you sit and where I sit. Nevertheless, God's word and His presence meets us both, right where we're at, when we stop for a moment and selah with Him for a while. Purposefully, intentionally and unhurried moments. God promises to help all those who seek Him.
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Coming Up For Air
"How do you come up with the ideas?" This is the most asked question I get asked as a writer. Trying to be cutting-edge, innovative, and inspiring is the underlying current of what drives the vision and productivity of many creatives. So, to all the creatives today, if you're finding that you've...
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The Lies You Tell Yourself
Have you ever shared a struggle with someone and while you're sharing you suddenly hear the words coming from your own lips are the lies you've been telling yourself? Lies. Hmmm, regardless how small they may seem, they tend to drip out of our mouths like a leaky tap. The fact that you've been...
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Resolute Resolve
What have you started to rebuild but stopped the 'great work' out of fear and discouragement? Plans and proposals aren't what gets the enemy rattled. All our 'I'm gonna do's...' and 'I'm planning to's...' are not enough for the enemy to raise even one of his eyebrows let alone break out in a cold...
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The Habit Of Hiding
We can develop a habit of hiding from others rather than a habit of hiding in God. But what happens when you've been singled out by God and He says, "This is the one" and after you've been anointed you feel left out, looked over, devalued, and discarded? What then? Do you keep hiding, never…
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Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands
Do we stick with the strategic strategy of God in our prayers and wait on His perfect timing. or do we take matters into our own hands? You see, the tempation comes when God promised to come to our rescue and He ends up being a no-show. It can be disappointing, to say the least. However, our lack...
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Chasing Donkeys
Feel like you've missed the memo on your calling? Tired of getting distracted and confused as to where to go in the next phase of your journey? Perhaps it is because you've been too busy chasing donkeys. Well don't worry, you're not alone. Before Saul became the first king of Israel, he was busy...
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Internal Posture
Our posture is important to God. If our external posture has been bent out of shape becasue of all our try-hard, people-pleasing, performance-based striving, then perhaps an internal check up is needed. Transformation starts with our internal posture and the renewing of our minds. The Apostle…
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Restoring Our Joy
Feeling flat today? A little joyless and unmotivated? Well, on today's episode, I share three ways that will help restore your joy. Three top tips that the Enemy does not want you to excerise in your faith! So, if you're pumping up those balloons and getting ready to throw a self-pity party…
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Miracle In Motion
To set a miracle in motion we sometimes need the right person, the right place, and the right time to all come into alinement. Offering to water ten thristy camels in the nautral did not look like a miracle at all, but the supernatural power of God set a miracle in motion for Rebekah that changed...
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Fire In My Bones
Struggling with doubt? Allowing that inner critic to gnaw away at your confidence and have the last say on your calling? Don't worry, you're not alone in your struggle because even prophets can get a little worn down and weary in what they've been called to do. If there is a fire in your bones…
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Brick By Brick: How A Wise Woman Builds Her House
In Proverbs 14:1 it says that a wise woman builds her house but a foolish one tears it down. But how does a wise woman build her house ? Brick by Brick !
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Your Biggest Fan
When we view God as our biggest fan we become the centre of attention and not Him. If we continue in this thinking then a disconnection of the lines in whose will is going to be done in our relationship with God finds us drawing our own conclusions. On today's episode I share how we can flip this...
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Special BONUS BIRTHDAY Episode
As a gift to you, dear listener, I have released this special BONUS BIRTHDAY Episode of the Spacious Room to celebrate my birthday this week! In this power-packed episode I talk about how being a slightly ridiculous woman helps in those moments when you need to stand on the hillside and fight and...
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An Open Heart Opens Your Passion
As the saying goes, ‘Practice makes perfect’ but practice can never make anything perfect. We live in a flawed, imperfect world and practice and perfection cannot coexist because one will inevitably cancel out the other. Perfect is about avoiding mistakes in the process of practice and the sense...
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Clearing Out The Clutter
The trouble with us doing all the clearing out is we cannot keep it up. Clearing out every piece of clutter, each thing we believe is collateral damage from our past and fixing ourselves up won’t last. Instead of allowing God’s extravagant love to get rid of and keep what He deems necessary and...
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Putting The Cart Before The Horse
Trusting. With all our controlling, managing, and fixing we view God as an uncontrolled, untameable, wild horse that we need to break in so we can trust Him. But deep down we know we cannot break God in so He becomes more manageable and more compliant. So, what do we do? Well, we decide to pull…
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Making The Invisible Visible
Remember those ‘Magic Eye’ pictures that were all the rage back in the 1990s? The optical illusion caused people to go cross-eyed while staring blankly at a random patterned poster until they suddenly shouted, “I’ve got it! Look, see the giraffe!” as they excitedly pointed at the patterned…
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She Has A Plan
‘She has plan’ could perhaps be the title for the whole of Proverbs 31. Reading about this truly excellent woman can get women all stressed and anxious because we compare and measure her against our own short comings, failings, and inadequacies. But the dreaded Proverbs 31 woman who seems linger...
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The Sound Of Bells
Bells ringing out are a representation to celebrate endings and new beginnings. The sound of bells has been a long-held tradition to ring in the new year. But with all our busyness, our time with God seems shorter, more hurried, and more frenzied than before. The sound of bells that once rang...
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Busyness Gives Us Nothing
Sometimes we just have to stop thinking and doing so much busyness and just go where our heart leads us, back into the stillness and quietness that resets us. Stillness teaches us things which busyness knows nothing about. Jeremiah 33:3 says, ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you. I will tell you of...
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Girl, Dig Your Heels In!
Joy is possibly one of the most understated emotions that we are equipped with in our spiritual weaponry as it is far more powerful than we first believe. It’s why the enemy fires little poisonous darts, piercing the protective membrane around this precious emotion we call ‘joy’ instead of the...
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A War To Wage And A Kingdom To Win
When there is a war to wage and a kingdom to win, each woman brings the same thing to the battle, a feminine heart. I know what you’re thinking, how could a nurturing spirit filled with love and kindness stop the enemy in his tracks? How could the tenderness of a mother’s heart win a war?…
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Filling My Cup Again And Again
How often are we willing to go into the desolate wastelands to pray when we become popular? How many times has the backcountry beckoned us to come away from the crowds and fill our cups up to overflowing with God’s presence? Spending time with God cultivates a deep relationship with Him. It’s…
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Next Courageous Step
What does your next courageous step look like? It’s different for everyone but the chasm we must cross still looks the same - Scary. That enormous gap, that gigantic step, the massive move you need to make between where you would like to be and where you are always feels way too wild, too crazy,...
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The Good Part
The posture of a bull elk when he’s polishing his antlers is one of distraction. His whole focus is to shine up his antlers to impress. With their eyes closed, busily making sure every part of their points is polished and rubbed, distracted by all his busyness, this becomes the good part of the...
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Owning Our Stories
Wounds make us hide our true selves, and if we don’t allow Jesus to deal with them properly then we can’t live out an authentic life. The great news is that Jesus doesn’t leave you in those moments of shame as fear causes you to pick at the scabs covering your wounds. As with Peter, Jesus dealt...
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Unfamiliar Sounds
Did you know that an elk’s anklebones make a distinct sound when they walk? These sounds are the primary means of communication and engagement with other elks as the sounds of their anklebones cracking and popping are a way of communicating that another elk is approaching from behind. These...
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Wallowing In Mud
Did you know that elks like to wallow in mud? A wallowing hole is created by a bull elk finding a pool of water, digging into the ground with his hooves and antlers to push up the dirt, urinating into it and then rolling in it. As gross as this may sound, wallowing attracts other elks and it’s…
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Turn Your Wounds Into Victorious Scars
Blood trailing is when a bow hunter or a rifle hunter will track an elk, wound it, and then chase it through the forest until he finds it and kills it. Its classic hunter versus beast as the hunter looks for blood marks left on trees and tracks on the forest floor left by the elk so the hunter...
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The Oil Of Gilead
My friend and I were having coffee together a couple of weeks ago and during the conversation, she said, “I cannot wait to hold your new book in my hands and listen for the ‘crack’ as I open up the first page and start reading it.” Unbeknown to my friend, she had put words to the images I had in…
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Purpose, Mission and Responsibility
Kings and Queens can be seen as being born into a privileged life, however, according to the Apostle Paul, we as believers are destined to be adopted as God’s children through the sacrificial life of Jesus. ‘He destined us to be adopted as His children through the covenant Jesus the Anointed...
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I Will Live Unafraid!
I will live unafraid. Hmmm, it says it right there at the end of Psalm 4, the poetry of God reminding the ones who feel afraid, anxious, out of control or discouraged to stop fussing, to stop controlling outcomes. To remember that God is our champion defender and to live unafraid, no matter what...
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An Ordinary Sight For An Extraordinary Message
“What do you see?” asks God to the reluctant prophet, Jeremiah. Jeremiah tells God that he sees an ordinary almond tree. This ordinary sight starts a chain reaction of events that leads Jeremiah into his vocation and calling. God had already chosen Jeremiah as His prophet to ‘speak My word to the...
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Moved With Compassion
What is it that moves you with compassion? What motivates you enough to see God do something great through you? What do you feel creates a motion that motivates you toward action? When we’re moved enough to try something new, create something different, to be compassionate about something that we...
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Experiencing a small, contained faith? Tired of settling for less?This podcast is going to help live out your faith in a Spacious Roombecause you were made for BIGGER things!
HOSTED BY
wendy parker
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Experiencing a small, contained faith? Tired of settling for less?This podcast is going to help live out your faith in a Spacious Roombecause you were made for BIGGER things!
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