The Donavan Montrell Podcast

The Search Sets the Timeline

What if your life looks the way it does because of what you’ve been searching? In this episode, we unpack alignment, desire, and the spiritual “algorithm” shaping your timeline. Whatever you draw nigh to draws nigh to you. Sin isn’t just bad behavior — it’s misalignment. And desire might be the strongest drug you’ve ever taken. If you’ve been winning but still feel off, this conversation will reset how you see the will of God, identity, and the river you’ve stepped into. Your search is setting your timeline. Get full access to Donavan Montrell at www.donavanmontrell.com/subscribe [https://www.donavanmontrell.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Menace Tree

What if the discomfort in your life isn’t the enemy — it’s pruning? In this episode of Menace Tree, Jesus is revealed not as soft and sentimental, but as a holy disruption. The red words confront comfort, challenge mediocrity, and uproot hustle-driven identity. From “take my yoke” to John 15’s pruning metaphor, this conversation reframes agitation as cultivation and submission as elevation. The menace isn’t destruction — it’s refinement. When the Vine starts cutting, it’s not to harm you — it’s to produce fruit. If you’ve mistaken discomfort for attack, this episode will recalibrate how you see growth, purpose, and the red words. Get full access to Donavan Montrell at www.donavanmontrell.com/subscribe [https://www.donavanmontrell.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

REDIN30: Menace Tree ft. Troy & Rico

What if Jesus isn’t gentle — but a menace to everything in you that isn’t real? In this episode of Menace Tree, the red words aren’t framed as comfort — they’re framed as a flood. They disrupt. They prune. They leave no wiggle room. This conversation explores repentance as mind replacement, pruning as love, and fruit as identity — not performance. From the mother eagle tearing up the nest to the Red River flowing through the soul, this episode confronts behavior modification and calls for origin reset. Ministry isn’t platform — it’s cutting. And love isn’t soft — it refuses to leave you unchanged. Get full access to Donavan Montrell at www.donavanmontrell.com/subscribe [https://www.donavanmontrell.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

You Can Manifest It… But Should You?

This conversation confronts the popular language of manifestation and places it under the lens of Jesus’ red words. While affirmations, positive thinking, and speaking things into existence do work, the episode challenges how and why that power is being used. Power without submission is shown to be dangerous—capable of producing things God never intended. The discussion reframes creation not as self-expression, but as stewardship, asking whether what we’re manifesting aligns with the will of the One who gave the power in the first place. Using everyday metaphors—unfinished brownies, alternate timelines, signing loan paperwork, and self-made outcomes—the episode reveals how selective belief creates unfinished gospels and unnecessary burdens. Jesus’ strength is shown not in unchecked power, but in humility: “I of my own self can do nothing.” True rest, ease, and clarity come from yielding desire, voice, and intention back to the Father. The call is simple but confrontational: stop trying to manifest control, and start living from submission—thy kingdom come, thy will be done. Get full access to Donavan Montrell at www.donavanmontrell.com/subscribe [https://www.donavanmontrell.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Obvious Encryption

This conversation reframes faith as correspondence, not striving. The issue isn’t effort, information, or intensity—it’s response. From the beginning, humanity was created in image and likeness, meaning the blueprint was already complete before the action began. Confusion doesn’t come from God withholding direction, but from us responding out of fear, lack, or anticipation instead of alignment. Jesus models this perfectly: He doesn’t chase instruction, ask excessive questions, or live in delay. He moves as the instruction itself. The discussion uses modern metaphors—encryption, direct connection, ethernet versus Wi-Fi—to explain spiritual efficiency. Prayer, especially “Our Father,” is presented as an encrypted alignment that protects identity and blocks interference. Faith is not future-based hope but present-tense movement. Jesus never lives ahead of Himself or behind Himself—He operates in now. The call of the episode is simple but confrontational: stop relaying life through anxiety and start living as God’s intention already in motion. Timestamps 00:00 – Opening flow & setting the conversation02:15 – Image, likeness, and correspondence05:10 – Striving vs responding08:40 – Faith as alignment, not effort12:05 – Jesus as the instruction15:30 – Overthinking, over-praying, and delay18:45 – Prayer as encrypted alignment22:20 – “Our Father” and identity protection26:10 – Faith only exists in the now30:00 – Ethernet vs Wi-Fi (direct connection metaphor)34:40 – Removing interference and clutter38:15 – Living as intention, not anticipation42:00 – Closing reflections on union and movement Get full access to Donavan Montrell at www.donavanmontrell.com/subscribe [https://www.donavanmontrell.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]