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This weeks guest post is from my friend and fellow writer Meghan Weyerbacher.  We have been “online friends” for  years, but this past June, we finally met face to face!  I loved getting to travel to see Meghan, meet her family and speak at her church.  I have always loved Meghans sense of humor and fun writing style.  I have been honored to support her as a launch team member when she published her first two small town romance novels, and now again with her third one just having been released a short time ago.  I am so proud of Meghan for stepping out and being obedient to write and get her stories and their messages out there.  I am honored to call her friend and have her being a guest on the blog.  When I asked her to write a guest post back in August, life happened and she had to delay. Then as she was writing, she messaged and asked if it could be a series.  For the next three weeks, I am honored to share my space with Meghan.  I pray you get to know her and fall in love with her the way I do.  If you would like to purchase any of her books, you can find them all on Amazon!  Click on the pictures below.

 

Organic Love

Wild Hope

Rooted Peace


The Gift of Prophetic Story: A 3-Part Series

Imperfections = Partnership Invitations

By: Meghan Weyerbacher

 

“You do not have a story until something goes wrong.”

 – Steven James, author of Story Trumps Structure

 

If you’ve ever written a story, you might be familiar with how halfway through, it reroutes itself despite all your attempts to neatly outline and stick with the program. Like flawed characters in fictional tales, our actual lives often end up on detours, showing us the scenic route of life, yet we inwardly fight it thinking, “This can’t be right.”

It’s disheartening when we show up to give our best, but it turns out looking like a Sunday morning gone wrong, which in our household, isn’t that hard to do. It looks a lot like good intentions met with harsh realities. A lot like a night well spent, planning for the morning ahead, only to be sabotaged by dog dung (you never want to come over now right?), pulsating headaches, or missing shoes that were right there—we promise.

 

Like flawed characters in fictional tales, our actual lives often end up on detours. Share on X

 

I don’t know about you, but I want life to shimmer and shine like a plump computer animation. Like post-this-Earth. Give me The Land of Oz. Give me fresh sneakers or that fresh car smell. Maybe even give me one of those neat spotted turtle shells that Yoshi sports. Heck—give me wings so I can fly to other worlds because staying on the ground is boring.

But you can’t touch computer animation, Oz isn’t real, sneakers don’t last, and don’t get me started on the interiors of vehicles. Yoshi? He’s my pick out of all the above, but even he got too heavy for his own wings and had to lower to take a breath.

Sometimes, our unglamorous daily-grind-lives seem too simple and unseen, too muddled and unholy to be worthy of having a God-hand in them. But He’s in them, with no regrets.

How can God take our everyday, messy lives and make art from them?

How can He encompass our dirty air with love and vitality, and allow us to become an offering to a hurting world? I’m talking, like Jesus in the flesh to others, when we are so dented and prone to fall?

How can our, “I just swept that,” floor be a firm foundation for guests, neighbors and even strangers, to stand on?

How can our (insert frustration or lack) give way to glorify a perfect God? How is this possible?

I’ve been asking myself these questions because the longer I live, the more I am seeing with Jesus-brother, Jesus-friend eyes: the kind that adjust to the dusty, everyday life. The kind that are trying to get our eyes off the flaws and onto the possibilities.

How could a 33-year-long pit stop by the Son of God possibly be in The Plan? Wasn’t His kingdom lovelier without us messy humans? (And by the way, we’re not alone—he sent his own Spirit to come stay in our “houses.” Those houses are us!)

Author Steven James says, “…with no crisis, no struggle, no discovery, no transformation, no revelation…it’s not a story, it’s a report.”

We know from scripture (see Job 1:6) that angels report to God, but I love to imagine that they are reporting on how our story is coming along, as if we are part of an epic Choose Your Own Adventure with God the gentle Guide, there to help along the way.

 

“Angels get to report, but we get to help the Author of all authors, write what they are reporting!”

 

Maybe things that go wrong are an invitation to see from a different angle. Share on X

 

Maybe things that go wrong are an invitation to see from a different angle.

Maybe the cracks in the ground and the dirt between our toes can be reminders we are part of an unfinished work.

Maybe holes in the story, unanswered questions and unsolved mysteries are ways we can remember we need a Guide and can’t go it alone.

Maybe what we see as imperfections, God sees as purposeful partnerships.

 

Maybe what we see as imperfections, God sees as purposeful partnerships. Share on X

 

Meghan Weyerbacher is a storyteller, freelance writer, and cry-laugher.
You can find her running or strumming and humming on a daily basis.
Connect on Instagram : Twitter or come over for #TeaAndWord.
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Check out the NEW Podcast from @Dare2Hear Episode 28: Prophetic Processing Guest Michelle Deuz Share on X

Episode #028:  Prophetic Processing Guest Michelle Deuz “Dare 2 Hear The Podcast” is now live!

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Debbie Kitterman is a natural born encourager who is on fire for God. She is passionate about equipping individuals, so they can go deeper in the relationship with God, reach their God-potential and claim their Kingdom inheritance. Debbie is a wife, mother, author, pastor, speaker and the founder of “Dare 2 Hear,” a ministry that trains individuals to hear the voice of God. She travels to churches internationally and is the founder and teacher of d2htraining.com, an online course designed to equip the believer in releasing God’s heart. Her writing and teachings inspire faith and build bridges for people to believe and expect the impossible. She is also an ordained Foursquare pastor, currently serving with her husband, John, as senior pastor of Restoration Church in Lacey, Washington. Learn more at: www.debbiekitterman.com

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I am blessed and honored to have a 7-day devotional on the YouVersion Bible App. YAY!!! It is a great way to kick start the 7- days before my on-line Bible Study starts next week. I would be so blessed if you would check it out and share it with your friends. You can find it here: Be The Gift Someone Needs Today!


Have you had the opportunity to read my new book  “The Gift of Prophetic Encouragement: Hearing the Words of God for others.” ?  This book is about learning to hear the voice of God in our own life so we can respond to those God bumps and little nudges He gives us on a daily basis.    God is calling us to be agents of encouragement and to be the gift the worlds needs today.

We live in a time, where those around us are in desperate need of a real encounter with Jesus and in need of encouragement. We are called to encourage one another daily (Hebrews 3:13), and to build each other up (1 Thessalonians 5:11).  My book will teach you how to step out and do just that.

To order your copy today: You can find it at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, OR your favorite online retailer, Plus, newly added, you can now get a signed copy from me.  Click Here to order yours today! 

We all have the opportunity to #BeTheGift of encouragement others need today.

 


Do you wonder if God still speaks today?  Do you wonder if He would ever speak to you personally?  Do you long to hear the voice of God in your life?

Have your read other books on hearing from God, but long for hands on practical application? or are you looking for ways to  move you forward  hearing from God?

If you answered YES to any of those questions, then I have exactly what you need.  I now have an online e-course designed to equip you in understanding that God still speaks today, and He longs to speak directly to you, through His word, and others.  He longs to encourage you, strengthen you and comfort you.  The training on this site, is fully based on Scripture, and taken from my training manual Releasing God’s heart through Hearing His Voice. 

God is speaking, Can you Hear Him?

d2htrainging.com membership site is open, I invite you to check it out today, and develop a deeper relationship with the Lord, as you learn to hear Him speak to your heart.

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