Ep 12: Are You 'Waiting' or Are You 'Deferring'? (Waiting In The Wilderness Pt 1)

Ep 15: Narcissism, Calling and the Right (and the Wrong) Amount of Thought About Our Place in God’s Plan

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2549472/fan_mail/new] How much should we think about our God given calling...and how much is too much? How do we draw the right balance between being intentional and being egotistical? What is God's best for our mindset and perspective on what He's called us to? In this episode we look at: Obedience - Intentionality - Living - Living in the flow of the Spirit - Obsession = Naval Gazing - Vision and Dreams - Our Potential - Stewardship and what God's Priorities are. "Seek Great things for thyself? Seek them not..." Says God through Jeremiah to his servant Baruch. What is God up to...?  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including: Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions  Enjoy for FREE as well as supporting the show as a monthly partner go to:  www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

Trailer - New Patreon Course: The Calling Quadrant

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2549472/fan_mail/new] Over on Patreon Understanding Calling has a whole other Podcast called "Understanding Calling Extra", that is for courses and series to help with our personal discipleship journey.  This trailer is about the new course "The Calling Quadrant" - check it out for free on Patreon or become a monthly supporting member and sow into this ministry to support others who want to grow in their God given callings in the kingdom.

Ep 14: Insecurities and Why You Don’t Know What Is In You Until You Get Squeezed...(Waiting In The Wilderness Pt 3)

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2549472/fan_mail/new] This episode is all about the insecurities God lets us see when we get squeezed by waiting and by the pressure of circumstances on us. Very few things expose the need for control in our lives like a season of prolonged waiting does. In this episode we look at a story from the Old Testament and the New to explore how we end up often looking back with rose tinted glasses to a former life when our current life squeezes us, or how we project forward to some kind of idyllic savior like a job or healing or change of circumstances that we believe will just change everything. "If God would just give me this thing...then all would be well...then I would follow Him..then I would be better than I am right now". God in His mercy resources us where we are and invites Him to trust Him as we are. I hope and pray this episode helps you...if you're in a prolonged season of waiting right now. --> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including: Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions  Enjoy for FREE as well as supporting the show as a monthly partner go to:  www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

Ep 13: Have You Had A Season of Obscurity and Hiddenness? What Does God Do When It Feels Like You’ve Been Forgotten... (Waiting In The Wilderness Pt 2)

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2549472/fan_mail/new] In this second part of the Waiting in the Wilderness series, we're looking at Joseph's story and what God does in the life of someone who has been rejected, forgotten, lost a sense of belonging and purpose (multiple times) and yet been used where he was, as he was, and experienced huge redemption in areas of suffering and obscurity.  If you have felt forgotten, hidden, in a transition season or in a series of false starts in your calling, there may be some lessons here from God's Spirit to you that will help. --> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including: Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions  Enjoy for FREE as well as supporting the show as a monthly partner go to:  www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

Ep 12: Are You 'Waiting' or Are You 'Deferring'? (Waiting In The Wilderness Pt 1)

Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2549472/fan_mail/new] We all want to know what God is doing in us and around us as we wait for what He has for us next... However How do we know if we are actually waiting like we think we are? Could it be possible that we might be in danger of deferring, stuck in a holding pattern, kicking the can of what God has put in our hearts down the road? This new mini series "Waiting in the Wilderness" is about discerning what God is doing within us as we wait...but we have to know that we are waiting under godly obedience first and not simple existing, hoping that something in our callings will spontaneously happen out of nowhere. What does God's word say about this and what questions do we need to ask? // --> You can be part of Understanding Calling's Patreon for more content for growing in your calling and support for pastors including: Monthly community calls, the Understand Calling Extra Podcast, Courses, Show Notes and Devotionals for each episode, the audio book of Alistair's book 'The Road to the Father's House, video sessions and the first few chapters of Alistair's new book 'The Heart of Calling: What Matters Most to God'. Enjoy it all for FREE as well as becoming  a monthly partner of the show. For everything go to:  www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership