Moments with God

Eight Words That Emptied Hell

🩸 **He had no time left to earn it. And he received Paradise.** ✍️ No baptism. No church membership. No tithing record. No quiet-time streak. No accountability partner. He was a convicted criminal hanging on a cross with hours to live. He had nothing to offer God except a single sentence — and he couldn't even kneel when he said it because his hands were nailed to wood. 🔥 I'm not talking to the person who doesn't believe. I'm talking to the person who believes too many things are required _before_ God will accept them. The Christian who has been adding conditions to the unconditional. Who has turned grace into a reward for spiritual performance. 📜 Who has stacked the Bible reading plan you didn't finish, the accountability group you ghosted, the fast you broke on day three — between yourself and God's acceptance. ⚖️ A dying criminal received the full inheritance of the kingdom in the time it took Jesus to exhale a sentence. Eight words demolished every performance-based theology the world has ever constructed. 🗣️ Hear the voice from the middle cross: "Child. I see the hands. I see what they have been trying to hold up to Me. The résumé. The streak. The improvement plan. Put it down. You cannot reach for Me with hands that are full of your performance. Reach the way the criminal reached — with empty hands and two words. Remember me. I will. Today. With Me." 🎧 If you've been adding conditions to grace — press play. 👉 Subscribe. Send this to the friend who thinks they've run out of time. Leave a review — it's how one more person stops stacking and starts receiving. 🩸 Today. With Me. The eight words are enough. They have always been enough. 🕊️ Remember, God loves you, and so do we! ❤️‍🔥 Important Notice: If a Bible study was offered with an episode on any of our shows, please include in the Subject line: [name of podcast & name of episode], then the word 'study guide'. You can contact us through our website at FaithHope.Love [https://www.faithhope.love] Example: Subject: Moments with God, Fully Restored - Study Guide Thanks for being a part of this God filled journey with us. Your Hosts, Loretta & Lee FaithHope.Love

The Woman Who Left Her Jar at the Well

🩸 She left the water jar at the well. Have you? 🚰 I’m not talking to the person who has never met Jesus. ✍️ I’m talking to the person who met Him and is still holding the water jar. You had the encounter. The real one — the conversation that went beneath the surface and named things no one else knew. 🔥 And then you picked the old container back up and kept hauling it. You met the living water. 💧 You’re still hauling the old jar. You came to the well at noon — the hour your neighbors aren’t there. 🌞 You schedule your life around not being seen. The grocery run at off-hours. The Zoom camera off. The church service entered late and exited early. The architecture of someone who has decided that being seen costs more than you can pay. 👑 A Samaritan woman with five broken cisterns walked into a midday well — and met the Person who knew everything she had ever done. And stayed.  👉 Subscribe. Send this to the friend who answers “Fine” when she is not fine. Leave a review — it’s how one more woman walks into her city with the real story instead of the polished one. 🩸 Set the jar down. The living water does not run out. The jar was never going to be enough. 🕊️ Remember, God loves you, and so do we! ❤️‍🔥 Important Notice: If a Bible study was offered with an episode on any of our shows, please include in the Subject line: [name of podcast & name of episode], then the word 'study guide'. You can contact us through our website at FaithHope.Love [https://www.faithhope.love] Example: Subject: Moments with God, Fully Restored - Study Guide Thanks for being a part of this God filled journey with us. Your Hosts, Loretta & Lee FaithHope.Love

The God Who Knelt - Did the Lowest Job in the House

🩸 The most powerful moment in the upper room wasn’t the bread and the wine. ✝️ You've admired the cross from the safe side of two thousand years. A God who dies for you is tragic and beautiful. 🏛️ Cathedrals are built around it. 🎶 Hymns are written about it. It costs nothing to admire. But a God who kneels on the floor and washes the dirt off your feet with His own hands 🧎‍♂️🫗—that is not tragic. It is uncomfortable. Because it means the most powerful person in the room took the lowest position in the house. And the question is not whether you admire it. It is whether you will let Him do it to you. You are the leader who cannot be served. 👑 The perfectionist who hides her feet. 🦶 The long-faithful Christian who believes needing the basin again would mean something has gone wrong. Tonight, that belief gets dismantled. 🔨  🍞 Before the bread, 🍷 before the wine, before a single word of institution — the God who held all authority picked up a towel. 🗣️ Hear the voice from the floor: “Child. I see the feet. I see the road. I see where you have been since the last time you stood up from this basin. I am not measuring the dirt. I am holding the foot. The kneeling is not punishment. It is My love in the posture love takes when it is fully Mine. Let Me wash you.” 🎧 If you’ve been resisting the basin — press play. 👉 Send this to the leader who cannot be served. Leave a review — it’s how one more person stops pulling back from the hands that are reaching for them. 🩸 Stop resisting. Let Him kneel. Let the water do its work. The basin is the throne's final word. 💧👑 🩸 Covered by the blood of the Lamb — forever. 🕊️ 🕊️ Remember, God loves you, and so do we! ❤️‍🔥 Important Notice: If a Bible study was offered with an episode on any of our shows, please include in the Subject line: [name of podcast & name of episode], then the word 'study guide'. You can contact us through our website at FaithHope.Love [https://www.faithhope.love] Example: Subject: Moments with God, Fully Restored - Study Guide Thanks for being a part of this God filled journey with us. Your Hosts, Loretta & Lee FaithHope.Love

The Question Jesus Asked Twice

🩸Jesus didn’t lower the standard. He came down to your word. You’ve been performing a love you can’t sustain. The quiet time that dies after ten days. The prayers you stopped meaning three words in. The worship where your mouth moves but something behind your ribs went dark. And underneath all of it — the gap. The Sunday love versus the Wednesday truth. You've tried to close it a hundred times. It tears back open every time. Here's the part nobody preaches: you're not afraid God is disappointed. You're afraid He's done waiting. On a beach after the resurrection, Jesus asked Peter the same question three times. The third time, He changed one word — and that word will wreck the way you carry the gap for the rest of your life. Hear what He is saying to you across the same fire tonight: “Child. I hear you. I see where you are. I am not going to keep asking you to climb to a love you cannot reach. I am coming down to the love you actually have. And I am going to build My church on it.” 🎧You've been performing a passion you don't feel. Press play. 👉 Subscribe. Send this to the friend who stopped serving because the fire went out. Leave a review — it's how one more person stops performing and starts being met. 🩸 The commission was never waiting for the perfect love. It was waiting for the honest one. And you just gave it. Covered by the blood of the Lamb — forever. 🕊️ Remember, God loves you, and so do we! ❤️‍🔥 Important Notice: If a Bible study was offered with an episode on any of our shows, please include in the Subject line: [name of podcast & name of episode], then the word 'study guide'. You can contact us through our website at FaithHope.Love [https://www.faithhope.love] Example: Subject: Moments with God, Fully Restored - Study Guide Thanks for being a part of this God filled journey with us. Your Hosts, Loretta & Lee FaithHope.Love

The Mess Is Not the Mistake — It’s the Method

🎧 If everything collapsed right after you prayed, this episode is your lifeline. 🩸 What if the mess isn’t the mistake — it’s the method God is using to move you? You asked for clarity and the confusion multiplied. You prayed for the marriage and the warfare intensified. You stepped out in faith and the ground disappeared beneath you. And that 2 a.m. voice keeps insisting you misheard God. But John 9 tells a different story. Jesus heals a blind man with spit, dirt, and mud — a method that looks like humiliation but is actually a commissioning. The crowd saw setback. Heaven saw strategy. Your darkness isn’t a sentence. It’s a stage. And the mud on your eyes is not failure — it’s the canvas of a coming manifestation. 🩸 The water is waiting. The sight was always the plan. The miracle is already in motion. 👉 Press play. Subscribe. Share this with the friend sitting in the mud after obeying God. Your mess is not the end — it’s the method. Covered by the blood of the Lamb — forever. 🕊️ Remember, God loves you, and so do we! ❤️‍🔥 Important Notice: If a Bible study was offered with an episode on any of our shows, please include in the Subject line: [name of podcast & name of episode], then the word 'study guide'. You can contact us through our website at FaithHope.Love [https://www.faithhope.love] Example: Subject: Moments with God, Fully Restored - Study Guide Thanks for being a part of this God filled journey with us. Your Hosts, Loretta & Lee FaithHope.Love