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What would happen if God gave you everything you’ve been asking for right now?

Would your character actually be ready to carry it?

Most of us are praying for more influence, better opportunities, bigger responsibility, or a clearer calling… but we rarely ask the harder question: Am I becoming the kind of person who can steward it well?

In this episode of the Biblical Passages Podcast, Brittany and Eric walk through 13 biblical filters of consecration—the process of aligning our character with Jesus, not just checking spiritual boxes.

This isn’t about looking more “churchy.” It’s about heart motives, identity, authority, grace, and learning to stop operating out of flesh, performance, or an orphan spirit.

You’ll hear honest conversation around:

• Why doing good things in Jesus’ name can still be dangerous if He never assigned them
• The difference between fairness and justice
• How an orphan spirit keeps people rebellious, self-referential, and stuck
• Why authentic submission is always voluntary
• Operating on grace instead of adrenaline and willpower
• And the quiet ways we still run back to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

If you’ve ever felt like God is holding something back… or if the pressure to “do more for God” is leaving you exhausted… this episode is a mirror and an invitation.

Consecration isn’t a performance. It’s permission for God to examine and reshape you so that when He does open the door, you’re ready to walk through it without falling apart.

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Feeling like you don’t have enough? Like your painful seasons were just wasted years?

In this episode of the Biblical Passages Podcast, Brittany and Eric unpack a powerful exercise called Tracing God—a practical way to look back and finally see the fingerprints of God in every season of your life.

You’ll walk through the four major sources of counsel God uses:

• The counsel of God (Scripture, life verses, Rhema words, and timely words from others)
• The counsel of others (the people He strategically places—including spiritual fathers)
• The counsel from within (what’s happening in your mind, will, and emotions)
• The counsel of circumstances (the resources, skills, and even the hard experiences He’s given you)

Brittany gets real about the moments she felt completely inadequate while filling out the assessment… until she realized the most painful chapters of her life had become her greatest tools for helping others. Eric shares why this exercise isn’t just a nice journal prompt—it’s discipleship training straight from Jesus’ final assignment.

If you’ve ever wondered:

• “God, where have You been?”
• “Do I even have anything to offer?”
• “How do I actually learn to recognize Your voice?”

This episode is for you.

The full Tracing God tool is available at spiritual-strategies.com. Grab it, walk through it, and start seeing the intentional path He’s already been leading you on.

Because looking back is often how we learn to trust Him for what’s next.

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You can be successful in one area of life and still be struggling deeply in another.

You can have the career. The responsibilities. The respect. The appearance that everything is going well.

And still have a “but.”

Naaman did.

He was a respected military commander. Powerful. Accomplished. Successful.

But he had leprosy.

In 2 Kings 5, Naaman’s search for healing takes him somewhere he never expected—and asks something of him that may have been harder than the journey itself:

He had to humble himself.

Naaman expected the prophet Elisha to come out, make a spectacle of the moment, and heal him in the way he thought healing should happen.

Instead, Elisha sent a messenger with a simple instruction: wash in the Jordan seven times.

Naaman was furious.

Because sometimes the problem isn’t that God hasn’t answered.

It’s that His answer doesn’t look like the one we wanted.

In this episode of the Biblical Passages Podcast, we unpack Naaman’s transformation in 2 Kings 5 and explore what his story can teach us about pride, control, obedience, healing, gratitude, and the difference between a transactional relationship with God and a transformational one.

In this episode, we explore:

• What happens when one unresolved struggle overshadows everything going right
• Why we sometimes resist simple answers because they require humility
• How our expectations can keep us from recognizing God’s direction
• Why the people with the least status may sometimes carry the wisdom we need most
• The difference between asking God to change our circumstances and allowing Him to change our hearts
• Why God’s mercy cannot be bought, earned, or controlled
• How pride and greed can distort something God intended for transformation
• What it means to trust God when His way looks nothing like ours

Maybe your “leprosy” isn’t physical.

Maybe it’s the relationship you can’t repair. The anxiety about what comes next. The career that looks successful but leaves you empty. The resentment you haven’t released. The financial pressure no one knows about. Or the part of your life where you keep asking:

“God, why haven’t You fixed this yet?”

Naaman’s story invites us to ask a different question:

What if the breakthrough isn’t only about what God wants to change around you—but what He wants to transform within you?

And as you listen, reflect on this:

What is God asking you to do that seems simple—but feels difficult because it requires you to humble yourself?

Stop guessing where God is working in your life.

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