The Unforced Gifts

Tanya shares a first-time public account of a 4:04 a.m. encounter with God that occurred in December of 2010 and reframed her view of the Holy Spirit, spiritual warfare, and divine alignment. Scripture anchors a wake-up call to cruciform living, surrender in our methods and motives for obedience and a life defined by eternity including an exploration of:• A relationship with the Holy Spirit as one third of God's relational heart• A warning against altars to control and performance• A vision of the last days (the hour is late)• A ministry of life and death based on 2 Cor. 2:14-17• A supernatural answer to prayer• Revelation 5 as a lens for urgency and hopeWe'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

"To obey is better than sacrifice" 1 Samuel 15:22 Join us as we trace a straight line from Saul’s disobedience to the modern pull toward pride, people pleasing, and performative relevance, and we invite a return to divine alignment where obedience to God Himself is the measure of success. We end with a prayer of reconsecration to start 2026 with clean hands and a pure heart in the spirit of Psalm 24. In this episode we also discuss:• Defining divine alignment as full agreement with God's word + Spirit• 1 Samuel 15 as a framework for obedience over sacrifice• How culture normalizes disobedience and dulls reverence• New Testament warnings about flesh and false godliness• The 3 altars of the heart: pride, fear of man, relevancy• The danger of platform without hidden devotion• Practicing discernment to hear God directly• Living for the audience of One and in light of eternity• A guided prayer of repentance and reconsecrationTo sign up for retreat email notifications: https://tanyagodsey.com/work/redeeming-the-story-retreats-erg82To purchase Tanya's Book: Befriending God: https://a.co/d/8MPpkqcInstagram: @tanyagodseySupport Tanya's Non Profit: www.redeemingthestory.orgWe'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Signs and wonders. These are the operative words for 2025 and here at the year's final exhale Tanya takes a moment to draw us back to one simple invitation: There is more—but the "more" often flows to those willing to risk it all for obedience and loyalty to God...those willing to pursue the purity of God's Presence above all else.This episode tells the story of this truth through a miraculous series of events that ushered Tanya and her family into the most supernaturally charged 9 months of their lives. If you’re weary of human strategy and starved for Presence, this conversation calls you into childlike faith, deeper surrender, and the courage to leave what no longer fits. She names the hard questions—what needs to be left behind in 2025? Who do you need to forgive and release?  What do you need to repent of and renounce? Tanya leads us in a year-end inventory of the soul to help us posture our hearts for radical loyalty to God and a willingness to be open to the possibility of being surprised by God in 2026.If this episode resonates, share it with a friend, subscribe for what’s ahead, and leave a review to help others find these stories of hope. Befriending God Book/Audiobook: https://a.co/d/dGrQ3rNSign Up For Befriending God Retreat Summer/Fall Notificationshttps://bit.ly/befriendingGodretreatWebsite: www.tanyagodsey.comSocial: instagram.com/tanyagodseyWe'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

In episode 8 we continue our 4-part series covering 8 biblical ways to hear and know God's voice. This week our focus lies on circumstances and impressions as doorways to discernment. With insights from Tanya's new book, "Befriending God," we'll journey through the life of Moses and Joseph, uncovering how their experiences with God—marked by adversity and divine intervention—can inspire us to listen closely to the guidance offered through our own circumstances and Spirit-led inner knowings. We also discuss what it means to cultivate radical loyalty to God in prioritizing this transformative question, "What is God saying?" and contemplate the requirements and rewards of a cruciform life through which we fully surrender to the lordship of Christ.Befriending God BookConnect With TanyaTanya's InstagramWe'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Surprise! We interrupt our regularly scheduled micro-series for a very special live Q&A from the Befriending God pre-release gathering on February 7th. Join Tanya and Redeeming The Story board member Hannah Wood as they dive into God as our permanent home, the invitation of prayer, a healthy theology of suffering and other important topics related to Tanya's new book releasing February 11th.Befriending GodTanya on Ann Voskamp's Blog (An excerpt from Befriending God.)We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Join us as we continue our 4-part series exploring 8 biblical ways God befriends us, intimately, here in a Post-Eden world. In this very special episode, we explore wonder through the artistry of God as revealed in nature and science.  We also contemplate the power of music to draw us into intimacy with God through specific songs and musical moments found in Exodus, Psalms, 2 Kings and Revelation.  God is the Original Artist, the first to make something beautiful out of absolutely nothing. Join us as we lean into spiritual and practical ways to embrace this truth and to befriend Him in intentional ways.Episode References:Tanya's new book, Befriending God, releases February 11th. Order your copy here. Connect with TanyaNT Wright | 2 Kings 3:15 (Get Me A Musician)Author, Astrophysicist + Apologist Hugh Ross We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Join Tanya for a 4 part series chronicling 8 biblical ways God speaks and befriends us here in a transient, complex, Post-Eden world.  In this episode we contemplate what it means to abide in God as our permanent home.  Tanya also integrates a few choice excerpts from "Befriending God," releasing February 11th.  Pre-order physical copies/audio books here.Listen/Read Tanya's new YouVersion Bible plan focused on surrender. Connect with Tanya.We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

In Episode 4 we explore the practicalities of discerning God's voice and aligning life with Philippians 3:14 even when it requires courageous faith.We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

The upside-down reality of God's kingdom is found in Jesus' words in Matthew 5. God loves the unlikely and frequently overshadows human power structures to prove the last is first in His heart.In this episode Tanya shares family secrets and personal stories to this end. She also unveils an unlikely but beautiful development, 2 years in the making.https://www.tanyagodsey.com/befriending-god-bookWe'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

In this episode Tanya unpacks a beautiful experience with God that took place on March 24th of this year, an experience that runs parallel to 2 Corinthians 3:18 and holds a wealth of spiritual gold for those navigating seasons of change. The stories and insight within this episode will serve as a foundation for an important, forthcoming announcement, 2 years in the making.We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Season 2 begins with a biblical and personal exploration of the foundational role spiritual fathers and mothers play in the family of God and in our understanding of what it means to be re-parented by Him in a Post-Eden world. Tanya discusses how these experienced mentors are not meant to become idols but models of goodness, offering their lives as living pictures of what it means to befriend God intimately and to live a relationship-first life with Him here in a homesick world.We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

We culminate our special series of Advent reflections with Luke 2 as we contemplate the divinity and humanity of Emmanuel, God with us and celebrate the miracle of our Savior's birth.We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Join us for our third Advent reflection as we contemplate Mary's Song and the reality of God's upside-down kingdom.We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Join us for our second Advent reflection as we focus on divine expectancy based on select passages in Luke 1.We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Join us this Advent season for a vertically aligned reflective space. In the next four weeks we will ground our hearts in the scriptures and themes surrounding the arrival of the Messiah and the beauty and power of God’s supernatural plan to redeem the story of humanity.I hope you’ll join us as we make room in our hearts to contemplate, connect and respond to God in these special micro episodes. Our first Advent offering includes a reading from Isaiah 9:2-7 followed by a thoughtful Advent prayer and a time of personal response.We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Prepare to embark on a transformative spiritual journey as we unpack the profound implications of excellence versus perfectionism. In episode six, we delve into how our yearning for Eden's perfection influences our attitudes and actions. We expose the roots of each concept and discover that perfectionism is fear-based, while excellence is rooted in love. Tune in to discover how to walk alongside God, embracing the freedom that comes from His sufficiency. This episode is a must-listen for anyone eager to break free from the shackles of perfectionism and towards a more fulfilling and spiritually enriched life.We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Do you ever feel caught in a cycle of constant doing and achieving? In this episode we'll explore Sabbath surrender and what it means to embrace sacred rhythms of work and rest. We'll also acknowledge the tension that arises when we intentionally step away from our cultural obsession with productivity to observe a 24-hour period of rest. Join us as we contemplate the Sabbath as an act of trust in the sovereignty of God as the Master Conductor in the symphony of life. When surrender is the force guiding the music of our lives, the Original Artist can write a beautiful, brand new song.  We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Matthew 22:37-38 invites us to place our love for God at the forefront of everything we do.  When we prioritize this level of intimacy with Him in the secret place we encounter the antidote to the cultural illness of striving.We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

Have you ever wondered what it truly means to 'abide' in God and live a vertically inclined life with Him? Join us as we explore what it means to live a life of relational attentiveness to God drawn from John 15:5.In this episode we focus on the unforced gifts of scripture, prayer and general revelation, through the wonder of the world God made, as conduits to remain tethered to Him as our Source.We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

"What is my primary reward system?" This is the question that lies just beneath the surface of who we are and who we will become. The answer to this question will produce the invisible root system that determines what grows within our lives and how we invest our hearts, time, resources and relationships.  Jesus says in John 6:38 "For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me." In this episode we explore how the life of Christ gives us a living picture of God's vision for a vertically aligned life of communion and a healthy root system centered in the presence of God Himself.We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.

In a "do more, try harder" culture of performance...welcome, as we cultivate a quiet space to notice the activity of God within us and around us. Join us for the journey of leaning in to a deeper, more vertically inclined life with God.We'd love to connect with our listeners! Send us your prayer requests and comments via text. We look forward to hearing from you.