A Stronger Faith

Doctors told John Reed to get his affairs in order. COVID was destroying his lungs, his oxygen levels were collapsing, and doctors believed he was going to die. Then, in the middle of the night, John heard someone enter his hospital room. He felt a single finger touch his back — but when he looked, no one was there. Days later, the spot on his lung that doctors feared would collapse suddenly began improving.

But this story started years earlier.

As a young gang member, John repeatedly encountered strangers who gave him the exact same message: “The Holy Spirit told me to tell you He’s going to make you a pastor.” A prophet. A lunch lady. A pastor. For years, he tried to outrun the calling on his life — until a near-death battle with COVID changed everything.

In this episode, John Reed shares his supernatural healing testimony, prophetic encounters, dreams, surrender to God, and the hospital experience he believes saved his life.
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SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION QUESTIONS from this episode:
1. How has God confirmed something in your life, and what made it clear that it was Him and not coincidence?

2. Why do you think spiritual attack often intensifies when someone moves toward obedience, and how should believers respond when this happens?

3. How does John’s story challenge assumptions about who God calls?

Key Bible Verses for Further Study:
1. Jeremiah 1:5
2. 1 Samuel
3:103. Ephesians 6:12
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She didn’t believe God was real. Lisa Kehs wasn’t searching. She had already rejected religion after years of frustration with hypocrisy, rules, and empty ritual. Her life was successful, stable, and completely secular.

Then one night, in the middle of her anger over people offering empty words to grieving friends, she said something she never expected to matter:

“Unless you were real…”

What happened next interrupted everything she believed—and forced her to confront a reality she couldn’t ignore.

In this episode of A Stronger Faith, Lisa Kehs shares how a single, unexpected moment launched her from skepticism and resistance into a relentless pursuit of Jesus—not through religion, but through something she could no longer deny.
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SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION QUESTIONS from this episode:

1. How does Lisa’s story challenge the difference between religion and a real relationship with Jesus?

2. Have you ever experienced God bringing conviction or change in a gentle way rather than through pressure or shame? What happened?

3. What are some ways believers can avoid “walking with God” only as a duty and instead live by the Holy Spirit daily?

Key Bible Verses for Further Study:

1. John 17:3
2. Exodus 3:14
3. Romans 8:1
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Natalie Roe was a self-described analytical "first-born" who liked logic, rules, and order. But all of that was shattered in a single moment when the Holy Spirit broke through her intellectual barriers in a way she could not explain away.

During a quiet Bible study, Natalie began to feel a tangible, heavy weight of peace—quickly followed by an intense physical heat that left her "on fire" and sweating in a climate-controlled room. In that moment, she heard a clear, internal voice telling her she was about to be "called out" in front of everyone. Minutes later, the speaker stopped mid-sentence, pointed directly at her, and declared: "You are on fire."

But God wasn't done breaking through her logic.

Just weeks later, doctors found a specific, precise lump that required immediate scans. Despite the diagnosis, Natalie was flooded with a supernatural peace and a clear word from God: "The lump will be gone."

In this powerful testimony on A Stronger Faith, Natalie recounts:
⇨ The moment her physical heat became so intense it was visible to others.
⇨ How God redeemed her "Peter moment" of disobedience with a second chance to speak.
⇨ The medical results that left her doctors perplexed after the lump vanished in a 12-hour window.
⇨ How the "dam finally broke" on her prayer life, leading to a spontaneous gift of prayer language.

If you have felt like your faith is more of an intellectual "checklist" than a living relationship, Natalie’s story is a roadmap for how to move from logic to the "Holy Tsunami" of God’s presence.
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SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION QUESTIONS from this episode:
⇨ How has God revealed Himself to you in ways that went beyond your expectations or understanding?
⇨ What does it look like to “get out of our own way” and posture ourselves in humility before God?
⇨ How can we tell the difference between God’s voice, our own thoughts, and feelings like shame or fear?

Key Bible Verses for Further Study:
⇨ Proverbs 3:5–6
⇨ James 4:8
⇨ Luke 15:20
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For decades, Jesse Schlabach believed miracles had stopped. Then he experienced God in a way he couldn’t explain away.

Jesse was raised in a tradition that taught God no longer moved in supernatural ways. But after years of living under the weight of religious pressure, battling deep shame from childhood trauma, and even facing suicidal thoughts, everything came to a breaking point. What followed wasn’t a new idea about God—it was a real encounter with the Holy Spirit that changed how he thinks, lives, and relates to the people around him.

In this conversation, Jesse shares how his faith moved from something he understood in his head to something he actually experienced. He talks about hearing God in a way he never had before, the moment he witnessed a physical healing in an everyday setting, and how stepping into the gifts of the Spirit began to transform his prayer life, his marriage, and his identity.

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt stuck in religion, weighed down by shame, or unsure if God is still active today.
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SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION QUESTIONS from this episode:

⇨ Where in your life might God be inviting you to move from “head knowledge” to “heart transformation”?

⇨ What might you be holding onto—fear, control, shame, pride, or offense—that could be limiting your openness to the Holy Spirit’s work?

⇨ How have you seen obedience—especially when it felt uncomfortable or didn’t make sense—produce spiritual fruit in your life or in others?

Key Bible Verses for further study:
⇨ Romans 8:1–2
⇨ 1 John 5:13–15
⇨ Isaiah 43:1–4
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Lucy Meadows was raised atheist and became openly hostile toward Christianity after being labeled and pushed out in a heavily Christian environment. But she didn’t reject spirituality altogether. As long as it wasn’t Christianity, she was open to it—and what she stepped into was real. But it didn’t lead where she expected.

What began as exploration turned into something darker. Something she couldn’t control. And eventually, it led her to a moment in her living room where, without having the right words or even knowing who she was reaching out to, she asked for help.

What happened next was immediate. It was personal. And it completely disrupted everything she thought she knew about God, truth, and even her own identity.

In this conversation, Lucy shares:
⇨ What it was like growing up atheist and rejecting Christianity
⇨ How New Age spirituality opened the door to real supernatural experiences
⇨ The moment everything shifted when she cried out for help
⇨ What she encountered in her living room
⇨ How that moment changed her instantly—not gradually
⇨ What she’s discovered about truth, identity, and the reality of God

If you’ve ever questioned whether God is real—or wondered what would happen if you genuinely reached out—this conversation will challenge you.

LINK TO BOOK MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
⇨ The Prayer of Freedom, Beatty Carmichael ⇨ https://amzn.to/4sOwopI
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SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION QUESTIONS from this episode:
⇨ How can believers reflect Christ more faithfully to people who have been wounded by the church?
⇨ Have you ever experienced God in a way that changed your understanding of Him? What happened?
⇨ What are some areas in your life where God may be inviting you to trust His truth over your own understanding?

Key Bible Verses for Further Study:
⇨ John 14:6
⇨ Romans 12:2
⇨ Psalm 34:18
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