This is a lighthearted conversation between Kristene and Talor highlighting the different aspects of Season Two. Look for Season Three of Renaissance Voices to launch soon.

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1:32: This season of Renaissance Voices was deep. Each guest brought something unique to the table. There is still so much to unpack.

2:19: Wholeness and freedom in Christ was a big theme in season two. 

3:10: Wholeness is being spiritually, mentally, and physically well. If you are lacking in one area, it overflows to the others.

9:00: Books on being healed from stress related illnesses are important books to write.

10:12: Natalie talked about overcoming anxiety which is another important book to write.

10:35: God wants to heal His body. This season, we heard from different voices that all make up the body of Christ. Things like prophetic ministry, Pastor Richard Knight, Hannah talking about cleansing the land and how that affected her.

11:24: We even touched on the body of Christ when we interviewed John Bates. You will have to go back and listen. It was a funny conversation.

12:03: We also talked about physical healing when Jesus met Junia in a dire situation in Haiti.

12:23: Prophetic ministry was certainly a theme. It’s normal ministry in the body of Christ because it is one of the five-fold ministries that Jesus gave to His Church.

14:52: We touched on the prophetic with Nathan Horton, but then we also brought up the gift of being a teacher. So that says to me that five-fold ministry is coming to the forefront as well.

15:18: We can say that with Nathan, Season Two of Renaissance Voices was built upon the foundation of faith which is interesting because that’s what a five-fold teacher should do!

16:15: Kristene and Talor are working on a book laying out what it takes to write your redemption story. We need your stories about how Jesus has met you in the deepest places and how He overcomes it all.

17:37: Language about what Jesus did on the cross has been lost in certain circles. When we don’t have stories that show us and when we don’t hear the message of the cross over and over, the Church begins to be shaped more into a religious structure instead of offering   the beautiful relationship that we are all invited into no matter our background.

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In 2010, an earthquake hit Haiti that destroyed much of it's infrastructure. They are still recovering today. Junia Voltaire Demesle was attending class when her university collapsed upon her. She has written a book about her miraculous survival. Through severe injury, she managed to get home, heal both physically and emotionally, and then be one of the few chosen to attend a Bible college in the United States. 

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8:40: When Joyce and Junia met, Junia had cut off the end of her thumb. 6 hours later, the doctor told her he didn’t think her thumb would grow back.

9:56: Intercessors at her church prayed that God would grow her thumb back and He did!

10:26: Junia’s book is called Survival. It is her testimony of how God saved her life during the Haitian Earthquake of 2010.

12:46: Junia was at the university when the earthquake hit. The building she was in collapsed upon all those in attendance. She was trapped in the rubble.

13:29: She felt as though someone pushed her as the building was collapsing. Instead of being in the middle of the room where she was standing, she ended up next to the door. 

15:02: When she gained consciousness, she began to yell out for help. A student who was looking for his sister came over to where Junia was trapped. He cleared the dirt from her face trying to see if it was his sister. When he realized it wasn’t, he left Junia. But he had cleared enough rubble from her face that she could now be heard as she cried out for help.

15:56: A janitor dragged her out of the rubble. This created more injuries and bleeding.

18:25: Junia’s friend from school took her to the hospital. When they got there, the hospital could not take in anymore people. Junia and her friend found a place to rest outside on the ground. Junia was bleeding and going into shock. She also was aware that she had broken bones and was in a desperate situation. Her friend laid on top of her and prayed like Elijah. 

21:28: They had to take clothes off someone who had died to make bandages and slings for Junia so that she did not bleed out.

21:40: Junia told her friend, if I do not die tonight, take me home.

21:52: Junia and her friend believed in the power of God to save her that night.

23:51: This book is a tremendous testimony of faith in God and persistence to survive. 

24:20: Junia was not only healed physically, but emotionally as well, and ended up attending Christ for the Nations Bible college in Dallas, TX. 

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Talor and I interview Hannah Scholz as we talk through a prayer assignment we were tasked with last year. In this assignment, a prayer team was formed to spiritually cleanse our church offices that had years before been a Planned Parenthood. Why is this conversation important for us today? Because America is now a post Roe v Wade nation, but we have yet to see revival take place. What if God is calling His intercessors into a nation-wide prayer assignment to cleanse the land of all the effects of abortion being so ingrained in our nation?

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4:50: I think many Christians assumed that revival would automatically hit America once Roe was no longer the law of the land. 
5:16: Yes, some legalities have happened that will allow for change to take place, but God is looking for His church to arise. God gets the glory in all things. There were some governmental aspects, political aspects, that allowed for an open door to revival, but God is still looking to us to do our part. So, the question would be, “What is our part?”
7:18: The offices of Freedom Fellowship once housed Planned Parenthood years ago. We underwent a season of intense warfare at Freedom and knew that we were dealing with a spirit of death and suicide. It became apparent to us that there were territorial spirits still tied to the land because of Planned Parenthood.
17:40: We can’t find the full healing we need (of anything) without going through the cross. We need to allow Jesus to exchange what the enemy meant for harm for the Lord’s healing touch on any given circumstance. So, we prayed through every aspect of what might have taken place at Planned Parenthood years ago and asked Jesus to make the exchange. 
20:12: Each night, as we prayed, Father showed us His compassionate heart as we dealt with the layers of things that needed to be cleansed.
21:45: Once some of the initial cleansing work was done, we began to see what God wanted to bring to Freedom and the deep purpose that God has for her. We began to pray that God’s life would be infused into Freedom corporately. We prayed for the staff and partnered with the Lord concerning what He wanted for each of them. 25:30: God led us in knowing how to pray according to His assignment, how to pray in authority, and how to know that our prayers were effectual.
26:27: Hannah learned during this assignment how the Lord does warfare. It wasn’t as heavy as she thought it might be. The Lord taught her to focus on what He was doing, not what the enemy was doing, and in that, she was able to rest. 
28:08: Much of warfare was worship. We worshipped through the hallways. We walked through and thanked Father for life. We thanked Him for His presence. And we thanked Him for what was to come. 
29:14: It was peaceful because we were bringing peace into the situation. 
31:26: We believe it is imperative that we begin to cleanse the land in the states that no longer allow abortion activity. We have the authority to do it. It’s hard in the sense that it’s big. But it’s not hard in the sense that God will lead us in how to do it.

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Our guest for this episode is our friend Natalie Horton. Natalie speaks openly about her struggle with anxiety and how she learned to find healing in Jesus.  This truly is a casual conversation among friends about the beautiful work Jesus does in our lives to bring us into a place of peace and wholeness. 

2:40: Anxiety is the feeling of being pulled apart. God brings His Shalom peace (wholeness, wellness) to us. 

3:15: Wholeness comes about by giving God full access into our lives. We can’t hide our pain and shame. We need to surrender those things to God.

3:50: We need to learn to be honest about our processes–when we are okay and when we are not. It was a shock to learn how to admit when I wasn’t okay. 

4:07: If we get hung up on a journey into wholeness, its often because we feel like we need to have all the answers or be a “super-Christian” so that we can get God to do what we need Him to do.

4:32: However, God meets us where we are–even at our lowest points. 

5:18: Wholeness is a journey. It’s not a definitive place where we arrive and live out the rest of our days there. We are continuously working toward wholeness. 

5:47: God is so gracious and doesn’t ask us to give Him more than we can give in the moment.

6:55: I (Natalie) learned freedom in layers. Had it been an instantaneous deliverance, I don’t know that I would have learned to live a life of surrender. 

8:53: Jesus absolutely heals us. Some healings happen instantaneous, and others happen over time.

10:31: Sometimes the thing that keeps us from giving our anxiousness to God is the fear of losing control. 

12:55: One of the crucial things Natalie learned was not to put human characteristics on God. She did not have to project a false image of herself onto Him to gain His approval. She learned to trust that Father’s level of acceptance and love was more than she could understand.

17:39: Many of us as Christians have been taught that we are not supposed to feel negative emotions, have anxiety, or deal with depression. And instead of surrendering those things to Jesus, we disassociate from them and act like they are not there. When we do that, there is no room for growth, and we stay stagnant.

31:23: There are times we need professional help. It is not a lack of faith to need a counselor. Faith seeks God’s answer. It is solution-seeking. Faith is not denial. 

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This is an engaging conversation with Pastor Rich Knight as we touch on the three resources we (8 Owls Publishing) created for him. Although prophetic ministry can seem mystical, it is actually simplistic in its approach and brings comfort, exhortation, and encouragement.

4:22: People are not designed to analyze God, but rather experience God.

5:23: We are to live in relationship with God; and His ways are higher than our natural world’s ways. He calls us up into His.

5:35: “The spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.” A testimony is an eyewitness account. Through the gifts of the Spirit, we can have an eyewitness account of what Jesus is doing in the earth–that’s the New Testament gift of prophecy.

6:39: Prophecy can be defined: to utter divine inspiration. It’s edifying, exhorting, and comforting language. It’s second nature as Christians to want to move under divine inspiration to help one another and lift one another up.

7:59: We are all called to prophesy. 

10:45: Pastor Rich has three books with us: The Divine Articles of Warfare; The Revelatory River, and The Dream Hacker’s Guide.

11:57: There is a language to dream interpretation that can take much of the mystery out of the interpretation. God’s language is clear in the fact that He is not so mystical that He doesn’t want you to understand what He is saying. He speaks to you in a way, that with some skill sets, it will be clear to you.

14:35: Interpreting dreams is both personal and principled. 

17:52: No one comes out of the gate a seasoned dream interpreter. Start with your own before you try to interpret for others and let God grow you in the understanding of His Word. 

18:17: The Bible tells us that God will speak to us in parables and dark sayings. The word used for that means “knotted puzzle.” This means we need to unravel something, put the pieces together, and figure it out.

19:05: Dream interpretation is a great evangelism tool.

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We are thrilled to interview Nathan Horton as we discuss the various aspects of faith and what it means to partner with God. We also get into a brief dialogue about the role of the Five-fold ministry Teacher.  Nathan is both highly prophetic and a strong teacher. And He knows that a great teacher takes difficult subject matter and brings simplicity and clarity so that others can easily understand.

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3:19: Faith is about a relationship with the Lord. It’s not a list of do's and don’ts. God is not a list; He is a person. We don’t have a relationship with a rock of rules. We have a relationship with a living, breathing, thinking, emotional person who has a mindset and a desire for our lives. 

3:41: Faith is basically learning how He moves, how He speaks, how He operates, and trusting that He is a God who does not lie–that He is for us and not against us.

4:13: Your understanding of who God is gives you vision. Faith sees the promises, it may just not be available in the natural realm. But because you know who God is–you see beyond your current circumstances.

5:53: Because God is relational, there is a process to walking in faith. It is not a formula. 

6:00 God calls us into partnership with Him.

13:27: In this success driven culture, we think success even in the things of God looks a certain way. But God calls success something very different–He says it is being faithful to Him through all of life’s experiences.

17:00: Nathan partnered with a grace that He had not experienced before in writing this book. While dealing with Covid, he completed the Process of Faith in a week and a half. 

23:40: This book breaks down the elements of living a faith-filled life so that you can find some practical application in how to do it.

23:57: A good teacher takes difficult things and brings simplicity and clarity into the mix so that others know how to take the next step forward.

27:58: The role of a teacher is not to tell you what to believe. It’s to give you something to believe in.

“In partnering with God, He gives me the opportunity to learn who He is–and in learning who He is–I learn who I am as well.” Nathan Horton

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This week, Kristene speaks with Talor Boyd on the process of knowing how to write your redemption story from an authentic place. They talk through a coaching session they held as they walked through the ins and outs of writing your story for six months with others attempting to do just that–write their story.

1:52: Last season you heard Talor and I talk about the Write My Story Challenge

2:25: Today’s discussion will be the very first lesson we started with in the challenge–finding your authentic voice.

2:54: This lesson helped Talor journey through solidifying her authentic self. She said, “We all go through stages of wearing a mask, people pleasing, or trying to be who everyone else says we should be; and along the way, it’s very easy to lose who we truly are.” 

4:17: This is important for anyone looking to write a book because you want your readers to know who you are from the beginning so they can connect with you.

4:30: Your redemption story is your authentic encounters with Jesus, and what He has done in your life and by telling it, you are introducing people to an encounter of their own. They need to understand how real this has been and how Jesus is not afraid to go to the real places of your life and they need to know that they can trust you. They only way they can trust you is if they really connect with you.

5:26: We can’t mimic somebody else’s voice and really be a true witness for Jesus.

5:40: For Talor, she had to get off social media so she could speak authentically and not just become what she was inundated with through media sources.

7:08: As Christians we often learn what we call Christianeze. It becomes its own language; and it hinders us from connecting with this culture because it becomes its own sub-culture that doesn’t speak the same language as the people who Jesus wants us to reach.

7:54: The culture we are living in is looking for authenticity, something real, and wholeness.

9:46: Being honest with yourself and getting in a vulnerable place helps you truly define your core values which leads to your authentic voice. It allows Jesus space to break in and shape you into who He has truly created you to be. It’s okay if you are not like everyone else around you. We need different perspectives centered around Jesus. That’s what the Kingdom is built on.

14:40: Your voice is the aspect of yourself that only you possess. It is God-given. Voices can be different from one another and yet combine to make beautiful music–beautiful harmonies–but only if we are all using our voices to their fullest potential. It’s not that I walk around with an undisciplined voice. I just know who I am. 

19:35: If Jesus’ voice, His compassionate truth, is not coming through the pages of your story, it’s not redemptive.

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In this lighthearted interview, Kristene speaks with John Bates, Senior Leader of Freedom Fellowship Intl about what it means to be an apostolic/prophetic hub. They touch on Freedom in Christ, missions, finding your identity in the body of Christ, and the difference between spirituality and religiosity. 

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3:40: Freedom Fellowship Intl is a place where people come to receive healing and direction in their life. It’s a safe place. We have striven to get rid of religion. There is a difference between religiosity and spirituality. We strive for spirituality which is connection with God. Religion on the other hand is man’s attempt to reach God, which is usually out of a desire to impress other people.
4:28: As a prophetic house, we train people to know God’s voice. That’s foundational because when you can hear God’s voice, it sets the tone for the rest of your life.
5:11: Without direction, vision doesn’t have any place to go. This is why we have become more of an apostolic/prophetic hub. If you try to be apostolic without the direction of the prophetic, it’s easy to get lost. You may win some battles, but you lose the war because you don’t know what’s happening. Neither function on their own well. They need one another.
6:31: The particular calling of Freedom is just that–identity is so important and what is our name? It’s Freedom. The identity of Freedom in Christ is what we take with us wherever we go.
6:55: You can’t find Freedom through religion. You can’t get there through your own efforts. You must receive the work that Jesus has done on your behalf and then let it unlock you.
12:06: When we come to the Lord, we truly are transferred from the Kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Light. We are new creations. We move out of that new creation, but there are old mindsets, emotional responses, traumas, all manner of things that want to tie us back to the old man. Those are the things that we are finding freedom from–freedom is a process. 
14:18: Freedom is sent out with a particular message, and it’s this–It really doesn’t matter what pit you find yourself in, Jesus is not afraid to get dirty. He runs right to where you are, brings you out, and brings you back into Himself and His family so that you can find true freedom.
18:25: We have been birthed into a supernatural Kingdom with all the benefits of our Heavenly Father who is all-powerful and all-knowing and loves us deeply with a love that we can’t even fathom; and He simply wants us to know that we have been called into this beautiful way of life and He will walk us through anything to find it. 
19:10: The other aspect of an apostolic hub is that we are not just a wonderful little place where we just hide out and keep to ourselves, but we have been sent out on a mission to bring the message of Freedom to the nations.

Quote: “For too long we have thought that moving in supernatural gifts is for “Superstar Christians.” But these are the things that Jesus says all believers will do–heal the sick, cast out demons, thwart the plans of the enemy, and speak in new tongues.” John Bates, Senior Leader of Freedom Fellowship Intl

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