A Notebook Found After 25 Years — Every Miracle Was Already Checked Off | Dr. Todd Martin — Supernatural Prayer Stories

A Notebook Found After 25 Years — Every Miracle Was Already Checked Off | Dr. Todd Martin — Supernatural Prayer Stories

What if you found a notebook you hadn't opened in 25 years — and every single miracle you had desperately prayed for had been answered? In this warm, thoughtful, and quietly powerful episode of Supernatural Prayer Stories, Rick Osborne sits down with his longtime friend Dr. Todd Martin — President of Trinity Western University, Canada's largest Christian university — for a conversation that is as much about faithfulness over a lifetime as it is about any single dramatic moment. Todd is not a man of big emotional displays. He's a sociologist, a former pastor, a businessman, an academic — methodical, rational, and by his own admission, someone who in his first year of college wasn't sure he was getting a good return on his conviction. And yet it's precisely that kind of honest, clear-eyed faith that makes his stories so compelling. Story One — Getting Off the Fence Nearly 50 years ago, Todd was standing on a lawn at a graduation ceremony in Southern California — surrounded by pageantry, music, and crowds — when the whole world faded away. In that strange isolation, he sensed God asking him one direct question: "When are you going to get off the fence?" No thunder. No tears. Just a quiet, unmistakable moment of reckoning. Todd's answer — a simple, determined "Here I am, God. I'm all in" — redirected everything. His career plans, his calling, his entire life trajectory shifted from that single afternoon. What he thought would be a business career became 25 years in pastoral ministry, then 25 years in Christian higher education, and counting. Story Two — The Notebook Three months before this interview, Todd was packing up his home during a move and came across an old notebook. Inside was a page with two columns: Miracles Needed and Miracles Received. About 15 items — written during one of the most precarious seasons of his life, when he and his wife stepped away from pastoral ministry, moved to the American Midwest to be near family, built a successful finance career, and then felt God's unmistakable tug back to Canada to replant a church with no guaranteed income and no safety net. The "Miracles Received" column was filled in with different colored pens — written at different times, as each answer came. Church facility: yes. Church growth: yes, doubled in year one. Every single one checked off. Also in this conversation: * Why Rick calls Todd one of the most consistently gentle, loving people he's ever known — and what that kind of character actually looks like in leadership * Todd's practical wisdom on journaling your prayers — why writing down specific requests and going back to find the answers builds faith in ways that vague, forgotten prayers never can * A closing prayer drawn from John 15 — the vine and the branches — that is one of the most quietly powerful prayers in the show's history * An introduction to Trinity Western University — 5,000 students from 80 countries, 8 faculties, a brand-new divinity school, and a mission to equip graduates to think truthfully, act justly, live faithfully This is an episode for anyone who has ever wondered whether God is really keeping track. He is. And sometimes He lets you find the notebook. 🎓 Learn more about Trinity Western University: twu.ca [http://twu.ca] 📧 Contact Dr. Todd Martin directly: president@twu.ca [president@twu.ca] 🎙️ Supernatural Prayer Stories is part of the Face to Face with God broadcast with Rick Osborne — real stories of people who pray and expect God to show up. 🔔 Subscribe and never miss an episode.

You Can't Earn God's Promises | How to Live in All of Father's Promises — Part 3

📝 Most believers know God's promises exist — but deep down they're still trying to earn them. Still trying to be good enough, do enough, perform enough. In this episode, Rick Osborne exposes a massive key that most Christians are missing — and it changes everything. In the New Covenant there are actually two distinct sets of promises. One set covers God taking care of you — healing, blessing, provision, protection. The other covers God working inside you — transforming your heart, changing you from the inside out. And here's the game-changer: you can't earn either one. In this teaching, you'll discover: 1. Why Paul twice declares in 2 Corinthians 1 that we are no longer in a "Yes and No" covenant — and what that means for every promise in your Bible 2. The stunning truth hidden in Jeremiah 32 — God doesn't just say "I will be your God if you are my people." In the New Covenant He says "I will be your God AND I will cause you to be my people" 3. What the word "guarantor" in Hebrews 7:22 actually means — it's a legal term used only once in the entire New Testament, and when you understand it, the love of God goes to a whole new level 4. How Jesus became the mediator on behalf of BOTH sides of the covenant — guaranteeing to God that He would work in us, and guaranteeing to us that God would fulfill every promise 5. Why 2 Peter 1:3-4 says His divine power has ALREADY granted you everything for life AND godliness — two sets of promises, both already yours 6. How Romans 4:16 seals it: the promise rests on grace and is guaranteed to all His offspring — by faith, not performance Rick puts it plainly: "There's no doubt, no earning, no begging, no getting God's attention. Jesus said it's finished. It's already done." This is the episode to share with anyone who is still striving, still performing, still wondering if they've done enough. 🔔 New episodes every Friday at 12 PM Pacific | 1 PM Mountain | 2 PM Central | 3 PM Eastern 👉 www.youtube.com/@getfacetofacewithgod [http://www.youtube.com/@getfacetofacewithgod] 💎 Go deeper with exclusive post-broadcast Zoom sessions — join Behind the Curtain: 👉 www.joinbehindthecurtain.com [http://www.joinbehindthecurtain.com]

God Blew Out the Candle — and It Was the Most Loving Thing He Ever Did | Jenny Wise Black — Supernatural Prayer Stories

What if the moment God seemed most cruel turned out to be the most loving thing He ever did for you? In this deeply moving episode of Supernatural Prayer Stories, Rick Osborne sits down with Jenny Wise Black — licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of MediaTalks.net — for one of the most raw, honest, and theologically stunning conversations the show has ever had. Jenny came prepared with safe answers. Instead, she chose to share her deepest, truest stories. What followed left both of them in tears. Story One: The Candle At 23, Jenny was on fire for God — deep in ministry, deep in the Word, deeply devoted. Then a devastating experience with a church community left her crushed and confused, unable to distinguish between how people were treating her and how God felt about her. Lying face-down on her basement floor with her Bible open, she showed God the tiny birthday-candle flame that was her remaining love for Him and said, "Please be gentle — it's about to go out." Then God blew it out. What followed was seven years of not opening her Bible. And what God whispered to her years later in five stolen minutes at a Target Starbucks — while she had a grocery cart and somewhere to be — is one of the most beautiful revelations of grace you will ever hear. "That was your love for me. Not my love for you. And my love for you can never go out." Story Two: The Miracle When Jenny's 26-year-old son Brandon suffered a concussion that left him functioning for only 20 minutes a day, she prayed the prayer every parent knows: "If I only get one miracle, Lord — let it be this." What happened next wasn't a dramatic divine intervention from the sky. It was something she almost missed — God inviting her into co-creation, her mind assembling puzzle pieces no one else could see, leading to an experimental treatment that brought Brandon back to 90% in three days. And during the months he was nearly comatose, Brandon wrote a book — currently titled While I Was Sleeping — about discovering his value when he had nothing to offer. Also in this conversation: * Why Jenny carries a "Wise Phone" instead of a smartphone — and what it's doing for her prayer life * The simple household boundary exercise that will change how you think about who you let into your most vulnerable spaces * Why she believes constant digital noise may be the most overlooked threat to our ability to hear God * How God uses painful seasons — not despite His love, but because of it — to orient us away from people-pleasing and toward the truth of who He says we are This is an episode you'll want to listen to twice. 🌐 Learn more about Jenny's work: mediatox.net [http://mediatox.net/] http://mediatox.net/️ Supernatural Prayer Stories is part of the Face to Face with God broadcast with Rick Osborne — real stories of people who pray and expect God to show up. 🔔 Subscribe and never miss an episode.

Why You Must Say "Amen" to Receive God's Promises | How to Live in All of Father's Promises (S3E2)

Did you know that the word "Amen" in 2 Corinthians 1:20 isn't just a closing to a prayer — it's a key that unlocks every promise of God in your life? In this episode of Face to Face with God, Rick Osborne continues the teaching series How to Live in All of Father's Promises with a revelation that will change the way you read your Bible and talk to your Father. When Paul writes that every promise of God is "Yes and Amen" in Christ, he's quoting from two very specific — and very deliberate — passages of Scripture. Understanding what he's pointing to changes everything. In this episode, Rick unpacks: 1. Why God said "Yes" to every promise before the foundation of the earth — and what that means for you right now 2. The stunning contrast between the Old Covenant (where people said Amen to the curses) and the New Covenant (where David's tent points to saying Amen only to the promises) 3. How Christ redeemed us from every curse of the law — so there's no longer a yes-and-no covenant, only yes 4. Why God doesn't just fulfill His promises reluctantly — He rejoices while doing good to you, without ever stopping 5. A simple, practical way to begin saying "Amen" to your promises daily — and why this is the first key to living in all that God has for you This isn't abstract theology. Rick walks through Jeremiah 32, Deuteronomy 27–28, 1 Chronicles 16, Galatians 3, and 2 Corinthians 1 to show you exactly what the Spirit of God embedded in Scripture — and exactly how to respond. If you've ever felt like you had to earn God's blessings, or wondered whether His promises were really for you, this episode will set you free. 🌐 Ready to go deeper? Check out the full Bible course at TranzformU.info [http://TranzformU.info] 🎙️ Face to Face with God with Rick Osborne — intimate, transformational teaching every week. 🔔 Go Behind The Curtain for deeper teaching and to speak with Rick: www.joinbehindthecurtain.com

62,000 Wells, 6 Million Lives, and a God Who Says Jump | Tom Logan — Supernatural Prayer Stories

What does a hitchhiking teenager in apartheid-era Africa, a cliff face with no ropes, a KKK cross burning in the yard, and 6 million people with clean drinking water all have in common? One man's radical, lifelong yes to God. In this episode of Supernatural Prayer Stories, Rick Osborne sits down with Tom Logan — founder of Marian Medical Mission — whose journey reads less like a biography and more like a book of Acts for the 21st century. At 18, Tom hitchhiked alone across Africa, served alongside Dr. Albert Schweitzer, lived on a kibbutz in Israel, and marched in Washington in 1963 to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver "I Have a Dream" in person. He registered voters in Alabama, faced the KKK, and stood on the front lines of the civil rights movement. Then in 1985, he and his wife Jacqueline answered one more call — and it changed millions of lives forever. In this conversation, Tom shares: * How Marian Medical Mission has built over 62,000 wells, bringing safe drinking water to 6 million of the extreme poor across Sub-Saharan Africa — at just $500 per well where others charge $3,000 * Why the mission works: it's run entirely by Africans, for Africans — 21 field officers, 1,100 well builders, and 4,000+ village maintenance people * A hilarious and gut-honest answered prayer story from 1962 — free-climbing a cliff in South Africa with no ropes, making a promise to God, breaking it 10 minutes later for a pretty girl, and somehow surviving both times * The story of an 81-year-old man hiding in the back of a truck to sneak into Mozambique to build wells — and how God opened the door anyway * Why Tom believes "sharing the love of Jesus is the best defense against war and terror" * What it really looks like when calling becomes the most intimate thing between a person and God Tom Logan is living proof that God doesn't call the equipped — He equips the called. And He has a sense of humor about 18-year-old boys who can't keep a promise. 🌊 Learn more or partner with Marian Medical Mission: mmmwater.org [http://www.mmmwater.org] 🎙️ Supernatural Prayer Stories is part of the Face to Face with God broadcast with Rick Osborne — real stories of people who pray and expect God to show up. 🔔 Subscribe and never miss an episode. Watch this episode on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IsgD0OSXcw