God said, "I'm going to pay your rent." Then the waiting began. Two weeks ago, Michelle left you with a cliffhanger: her ghostwriting client had gone silent, and rent was due in four days. In Episode 5 of The Chronicles of San Diego, she finally tells you what happened. You'll hear the journal entries from those days, written with $50 to her name, expired car tags, and bills stacking up, along with what God spoke back. Then comes the Sunday morning she almost stayed home. She drove to church on just enough gas to get there, broke down at the altar, and went back to her seat. That's when a woman made a beeline across the sanctuary and said, "The Lord told me to pay your rent. How much is it?" Michelle also shares the three lessons that moment taught her: your testimony is your weapon, but only if you remember it; there's a difference between trusting God and managing God; and provision doesn't always look like a paycheck. The episode closes with an activation, a provision inventory, to help you recognize where God has already provided in ways you didn't expect. RESOURCES • The Prophetic Listening Method book: propheticlisteningbook.com • Bring the Prophetic Listening Tour to your church or city: propheticlistening.com/tour • Become a Certified Prophetic Listening Practitioner: propheticlistening.com/certification Follow The Prophetic Listening Podcast so Episode 6 shows up as soon as it's out, and leave a rating to help others find the show. When you hear God clearly, you can change your life quickly.

Is that God, or is that me? Last week Michelle left you in the middle of it: rent due, client silent, no resolution in sight. Before she tells you what happened, Episode 4 of The Chronicles of San Diego does something different. You'll hear the Prophetic Listening Method at work for someone else, in real time. Michelle's guest is Megan Cantone, a wife and mom of two who once served in jail ministry. Life has become constant go, go, go, and the sensitivity to God's voice she had a year and a half ago has dimmed. Michelle walks her through the full method: naming the ways God tends to speak to her, clearing the room in prayer, asking Holy Spirit two specific questions (what to do in this season, and where she's called to serve), and sealing the word in prayer. You'll hear what Megan sensed, what Michelle heard, and what happens when one question feels harder to hear than the other. At the end, Megan names the struggle so many believers share: she hears Him, but she second-guesses herself. If you're learning to recognize God's voice in the noise of everyday life, or you help others do the same, listen in. RESOURCES • Become a Certified Prophetic Listening Practitioner: propheticlistening.com/certification • Bring the Prophetic Listening workshop to your church or organization: propheticlistening.com/tour • The Prophetic Listening Method book and Partner Journal: propheticlisteningbook.com • Center for Prophetic Listening: propheticlistening.com Follow The Prophetic Listening Podcast so Episode 5 shows up as soon as it's released, and leave a rating to help others find the show. When you hear God clearly, you can change your life quickly.

Rent was due. Her client had gone silent. And God said, "Don't tell anybody. Just watch me move."

In this episode of The Chronicles of San Diego, Michelle Onuorah shares one of the most stretching seasons of her faith. In 2018, the ghostwriting project funding her new apartment fell apart when the client stopped paying and then disappeared. With rent coming due, almost nothing in her account, and no family safety net to call, she turned to her journal and to the Lord.

Michelle reads two raw, unpolished journal entries from that season: her honest frustration with God, and what she heard Him say back. She talks about learning that a paycheck is a resource but God is the source, why it's safe to bring your complaints straight to God, and what it means to choose faith over panic when the math doesn't add up.

You'll hear: - What happens when trust stops being theory and becomes a specific bill on a specific date - Why crisis can reveal how close you really are to God - How to hold God's timing when four days feels like nothing and everything - The one question to ask God about the situation you're facing right now

This week's activation: Ask God, "What does trusting You look like in the situation I'm facing right now?" Write down what you hear, then take that step.

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