Stirring Faith

Looking for some practical ways to help you focus on the meaning of the season? In this episode, Cheri shares five tips for cultivating an attitude and atmosphere of thankfulness, with encouragement and ideas to make this season more than football games and shopping.Support the show

Do you ever just want to quit? You're just too tired? It's taking too long? Nothing is working out? You have had enough? Your strength is gone? Well, you are not alone. The good news is there is encouragement found in the Bible and hope for a stronger future.Support the show

If you were to tell me I could only take five things with me that would continue to stir up my faith and encourage me to move forward, I know exactly what I would take. That's what we are here to talk about on this episode of the She Yearns Podcast.Support the show

There are times when I doubt God is able to do what He says He can do in me and question Who He has promised to be. That's why I'm thankful there are places in the Bible that speak directly to that need and help us learn how to pray and trust in God's character and faithfulness. This edition of the podcasts leads us to Psalm 138 and provides a prayer just for you.Support the show

It's one thing to get to know your coworkers, your mother-in-law, or feel like you know a famous person through the media. But if the God of the universe finds pleasure in His people knowing Him, how does that work exactly on a personal basis? This episode looks at three key points of Scripture that help point us in the right direction for finding out just how God makes Himself known.Support the show

Do you ever just want to cry out for God to listen to you? Can we do that? The Bible contains beautiful prayers that give words to our emotions. This episode looks at two places that give us permission to do exactly that. I hope you will join us.Support the show

We pray for God to move but do we really believe He will? This episode takes a look at a real question most of us face and what it looks like to address it in our daily lives.Support the show

She Yearns so She Prays. This is what we have started doing weekly in short episodes. Taking about five minutes Cheri walks through a short section of the Bible, talks about it, and prays it over your life, making it a practical and hope-filled five minutes of your day.Support the show

You and I generally try to press our limits. Not only do we do this physically, but we don't tend to be very intentional about caring for our spiritual lives. Eventually, you and I need to be spiritually refreshed and in this episode, Cheri discusses what this can look like in our lives.Support the show

Allow Cheri to take five minutes to walk through a prayer from the Bible, talk about it and pray it over you today. Today's verses focus on the light God brings to our darkness as well as all we are able to do because of His presence in our lives.Support the show

The Bible uses the illustration of a runner or an athlete in a race to compare the Christian life often. Just as a runner devotes herself to her athletics, the Christian approaches her faith with intention, passion, and purpose. Using the analogy Scripture introduces, Cheri draws out aspects a believer is to embrace in order to run the Christian race well.Support the show

Something exciting is coming today. In this episode, Cheri introduces a different format to provide a taste for a new way this podcast will be utilized. An additional episode emphasizing prayer will be added each week. Try it out to see what you think and let Cheri know.Support the show

One of the most common experience shared with other women today is discouragement. Somehow we still get suprised by the derailements and forget there is nothing unusual happening. Before we become totally hopeless, Cheri offers three things to remember when we are feeling defeated to help pivot our perspective.Support the show

Most of us are in the need of some real rest. We want to just get away for a while. But what if we can't? Is there a way to find rest in the midst of all the activity, the chaos, and the difficulties regular life brings? And if so, what does it look like and how do we experience it? This PhD. mother to eight understands this need and brings to light four words of encouragement to anyone needing a more restful today.Support the show

You have likely heard it before. "Taste and See that the Lord is good." But what does it mean for you and me. And what does it look like in real life? How can we make it a reality that is more than a pretty verse to post on Instagram or inspiration found on a mug? These are all questions that Cheri addresses as she looks further into the topic in this episode through the life of Nehemiah.Support the show

What are you chasing that will make your life complete, successful, or maybe even close to perfect? Whether we realize it or not, most of us are looking in all sorts of places for fulfillment. Maybe it's in a relationship, family, a successful career, or an expensive home with a new car. You can acquire all of that, but it only works for a while. The emptiness returns. How do we come to know real satisfaction that is lasting? That's what Cheri Strange is address in this first episode of the third season of the podcast. Welcome back!Support the show

You take care of practically everything that must get done and you manage to get everyone where they need to be when they need to be there. But when it comes to taking care of yourself you tend to fall short. We are not talking about self-care, but something much deeper--tending to your soul. Don't let this summer go by without utilizing these five tips from Cheri Strange.Support the show

How much do you know about the apps on your teen's phone? What do you know about the geolocation tracking ability of these apps? What types of conversations are you having? What is it that you and I need to know today about those devices we carry around and allow those we love to possess? That's what today's episode is all about. We hope you will join in on the conversation.Support the show

Studies show that most Americans believe in prayer and pray for those close to them. But what would happen if we really got serious about praying for our husbands and learned how to do it more effectively? That's what Cheri is talking about in this episode of the podcast today.Support the show

It's the summer! Yea! We've all been looking forward to it. Now what? How do you and I make sure we embrace all that there is for what it's worth? How do we make the most of every opportunity? Today, Cheri offers 5 of the Best Things that you need to have on your Summer Bucket List.Support the show

So you know you need to pray but keeping your focus and staying on track is difficult? Need ideas? Want to share your requests with others? Want to organize your prayers and keep a record or what is going on in your spiritual life? In this episode, Cheri introduces a great app she has discovered that is just what you need.Support the show

In this short episode, Cheri takes a quick look at a powerful question we face in everyday life. When things don't go our way or when the days get crazy, who are we going to believe? Stop in. We think you will be encouraged. You are always welcome here.Support the show

How can we recognize if you and I are where God wants us to be? Although it may prove different for everyone, the Bible can help bring clarity to this question for every believer. Today, in the She Yearns Podcast, Cheri looks at one example that draws out this question and helps apply it in everyday life.Support the show

Without the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Christianity is reduced to just another religion. Jesus becomes a good teacher or at best, a prophet. The resurrection changed everything. What makes the resurrection of Jesus believable? And how can knowing this make an impact in your daily life? That's what we are talking about in today's episode.Support the show

This season often marks the change from one era to another. Last year I released an episode outlining the benefits and importance of celebrating those in your life and sending them into the next thing God has planned for them with a blessing. The episode tells you how and equips you to do it confidently, even if you are not into parties or big gatherings.Support the show

Let's face it. Some of us have a love-hate relationship with the kitchen. But it IS a fixture of life, as well as part of how we take care of ourselves and others. We might as well find some better solutions and creative ideas for making the most of our time and energy. This mom of eight is here to offer five tricks of the trade in this episode and hopes you find it helpful and even inspirational.Support the show

In this episode, Cheri focuses on five essential elements for developing and sustaining a healthy relationship. It's not exhaustive. And it's not clinical. Just a good, sound voice of experience speaking from a biblical worldview.Support the show

Did you know you and I are much more concerned about what people think about the external factors of life--our appearance, our wealth, and success? And we are much more susceptible to outside criticism while at the same time less able to receive it. In general, if we were to represent cultural norms, we play the victim rather than take responsibility and grow in character. But did you also realize God made us for more? And the only way you and I will begin living out His purposes for us is when we reject cultural norms to embrace His best for our lives. Here are three strategies for getting off this merry-go-round to stop playing the victim.Support the show

Jesus calls His disciples to pray with no doubting and when they did they could even tell a mountain to be thrown into the sea and it would have to obey. James tells us that the prayers of a person who doubts render them completely worthless. We seem to be people who ride the fence on trusting God and hold tightly to uncertainty. How do we move beyond doubt and possess a believing faith? This episode offers four strategies for overcoming doubt because we need it.Support the show

With a family of TEN, the most asked question by women is about laundry. How in the world do you get all that laundry done? Well, it has taken a while to get a handle on the chaos but today I can offer some tried and true tips for making the task easier yet making the most of the experience. This episode is completely practical and hopes to help all of us learn from each other.Support the show

Sometimes you and I need to be reminded that God has a purpose for our lives. It's not that we need to dig deeper within to make something of ourselves. There is truly a higher calling to be a part of His Plan and His purposes. This episode is meant to inspire and encourage.Support the show

Everyone knows the feeling of getting an ice cream cone, taking two licks, and watching it fall off the cone onto the pavement. Your heart sinks while you stand there looking at an empty cone, wishing things had turned out differently. Maybe this has not been your experience - but you are familiar with disappointment. REAL LIFE disappointment. The kind that causes you to doubt and question if God is there, if He is listening, or if he even cares. How do you and I trust God in the middle of the disappointments that come? That's what we are talking about today on this episode of the podcast.Support the show

"Every organization is perfectly designed to get the results it's producing." That's what they say in the corporate world. The same might be said for relationships. Our results often stem from how we approach them. Do we keep people at arm's length? Do we make them feel important or small? All of this carries into our relationship with God. The bottom line is this: the God who is LOVE wants nothing less than for you to come in closer.Support the show

Is yours a faith that can move mountains? Would you like to have a better understanding of how to make your faith work? It's not for the faint of heart. Or the cowardly. But there is nothing to be afraid of because the Word of God is clear. God's desire for your life is that it bears much fruit. Fruit that will last. But where does faith end and works begin? Or do they intersect? What's the deal? In this episode, Cheri takes us beyond the surface to discover how we can make our faith work.Support the show

Often we find ourselves in situations beyond us. We don't have all the answers. Sometimes it's relationship woes or even disasters. Maybe it's something at work. It could be money issues. kids, parents, friendships--all of it can leave us breathless and without resource. What do we do when we don't know what to do? James gives us some practical advice for where to go and what to do and it all centers around something as simple as prayer. This episode looks intently at what James calls us to do and helps us walk it out so that we can practice prayer that works in any and every situation.Support the show

Oh, Mylanta! Do we need help when it comes to controlling our tongues? If we want to get serious about leaving behind timidity and marginal living, the key has something to do with how well we gain control over our mouths. James leaves his bulleted style to camp on this one issue for quite a while which should tell us, it's pretty important. We need it in every facet of life. This is an episode you won't want to miss.Support the show

Have you ever felt stuck? Struggled with timidity? Felt like you couldn't put your finger on it, but something is holding you back from moving to that next place with God. Maybe God is beckoning you to live more courageously for Him. James calls us to do just that, developing a faith that is able to stand in the face of difficulty. But this requires bravery and the ability to encounter badness with joy. How can we possible do such impossibilities? And what are the benefits? That's what this episode is all about.Support the show

If you are looking for practical ideas to express gratitude to God and others, this is your episode! You and I are supposed to be thankful and able to articulate our gratude. But sometimes it's just not so simple. Sometimes we are simply unable to articulate it or express our thankfulness adequately. Forget helping others do so when we are in such a rut! Not anymore! Cheri guides the listener through eight practical ways you and I can practice gratitude from the Psalms and also offers ideas for expressing our thanks in creative, yet meaningful ways.Support the show

You and I know we are supposed to be thankful, but sometimes we can feel indifferent. The chaos of daily life drives us in the fast lane and we often lose sight of what matters. The Psalms are filled with the words we forget. In this episode Cheri focuses on seven reasons each of us has to be thankful as an encouragement as we head into the next few weeks.Support the show

There is so much for which to be thankful. This episode marks the beginning of a new series on the She Yearns Podcast called Psalms of Thanksgiving. In this opening, Cheri focused on what she considers her own Psalm of Thanksgiving by making it personal with refreshing honestly and candid openness about her own experiences dealing with a sense of insignificance or invisibility that lingered for decades. The Psalms are perfect for illuminating God's faithfulness by showing us God does not leave His own lost in the shadows but draws them out in Truth.Support the show

How Do I Start Again? It's the final question in the "How Do I Do That?" series and this is a Bonus episode to finish up the series. What we can take from this time is the assurance that God has a history of helping His people get back on track. What He has done in the past, He can do in your life and mine today. The Bible provides examples and Cheri helps articulate steps for taking up whatever we have put on the shelf --even if it's us--to begin again.Support the show

We've all experienced it. Sometimes you and I can find ourselves off track, distracted, or maybe even in a mess of our own making. Let's say we know to run to God for forgiveness and restorations. But how do we start again? That's a whole different dilemma. Because everyone needs a re-start from time to time, this is a genuine question we face. How do I start again? Because we need to know how to get moving down the road to experience the fruitful lives God intended. This is where we can learn how we do that.Support the show

You have probably been there like I have. There are times when you and I can go through experiences that cause us to distrance ourselves from God. Just like in any other relationship, in order for it to grow beyond the WHATEVER has caused the relationship to cool, barriers develop. We find ourselves wondering if we can find restoration and if so, how do we obtain it. Even in these wonderings the Bible offers hope and direction. God has a history of restoring all sorts of people from various predicaments. How can my relationship with God be restored? That's the all-important question Cheri addresses in this episode of the She Yearns Podcast.Support the show

How can I be restored? It's a question many of us hold but few want to ask. Sometimes the state of our relationship with God is not what it should be or anything like we would want it to be. We want to ask but we can't or we don't. If this resonates, know you are not alone. A quick Google search proves it is a common quandry. Cheri brings it to the surface and talks about the Who God restores and helps us see how to get there.Support the show

At the heart of the basic questions we can ask in Christianity lies this fundamental one: How do I hear God's voice? How do come to recognize it? And on the heels of this one rides another one: Does God even speak today? How can we be certain? Lean in and listen as Cheri Strange helps answer these questions and more in today's episode of the She Yearns Podcast in the series, How Do I Do That?Support the show

Part of living out the Christian life is stewardship. It's not simply about writing a check to the church. It's more about how we view the One we serve and how that perspective causes us to live. How do we become good stewards in discispleship to Christ? This is the next in the Series, "How Do I Do That?" that Cheri addesses to help bring clarity to a befuddling question. There is encouragement, here too, as we walk together along this journey.Support the show

Let's face it. There are a lot of options and out there in the realm of Christianity when it comes to how we should worship God. Some of the differences are personal style and preference. But there are some truths we absolutely need to get right. What does the Bible say about worship? This is the question Cheri addresses in this episode as part of the series, "How Do I Do That?" Find out what worship is not, what we can do that hinders our worship as well as how you can incorporate worship into in all areas of your life.Support the show

Have you ever known someone who seemed to be able to pray for something and God answered their prayer? Like, every time no matter how serious or trivial the request may be they seem to have a direct line to God? How do they do that? Although it may seem they are special chosen ones from above, there is method to the madness. You and I can experience effective prayer just like those we hold in awe. This is exactly what Cheri addresses in this series, How Do I Do That? Today we look strategies the Bible provides for answering this question specifically, How Do I Pray?Support the show

Have you ever tried to really focus and get serious about reading the Bible on a regular basis but life seems to happen interrupting your good intentions? Or maybe you are interested in reading it for yourself and don't know what to do. How Do I Read the Bible, Part 2 fits within a new series by Cheri Strange that helps us tackle the question, "How do I do that?" when it comes to basis spiritual disciplines, practically and at a foundation level.Support the show

It sounds so basic but many of us are wondering how to read the Bible. You might be eager to learn what it says and have no idea what to do. Or maybe you are searching for a deeper and more meaningful relationship with God. You know you should read the Bible. And you've tried. Maybe you have made many prior attempt, but the consistency to stick with it is not there. You know people who are actually doing this well. What's the secret? You ask yourself, "How do I do that?" This episode will help you answer this question and more.Support the show

When you and I live in a world where children are toting devices in their hip pockets more advanced than what put a man on the moon and when laptops are replacing textbooks before they can play junior high football you and I can't afford to sit back and raise our kids like we were raised. These children need parents to help them learn to love Jesus while navigating through this ocean of technology. This episode completes the series, More Than a Blur: Making Motherhood Matter with a very practical and essential discussion that meets most of us right where we live--on and with our technology.Support the show

Most of the time you and I are content to remain in the trenches. Living life, wiping noses, checking our social media status, and keeping up with the Jones. But that's not what God intended for your Mom Life. This episode lifts our eyes to who and what God intends us to be in all it's beauty.Support the show

What can we do, as moms, that makes the most impact on our present and for our futures? In this episode Cheri proposes it is what happens while they (the children) are sleeping. What does this mean and how can it impact your life? That is what awaits you. Take a listen.Support the show

Not everyone jumps into motherhood like it's their dream come true. Sometimes there is a struggle involved and we fight losing ourselves in the transition from our life BEFORE Momville and our life AFTER. Other times so much life falls in around us in the Mom years we almost get buried alive! How can we enthusiastically embrace this calling to motherhood without losing a sense of who we are? That's what this episode in the series, More than a Blur--Making Motherhood Matter is all about.Support the show

Let's face it. Mom life can seem boring at best and, well, we've all experienced the endless cycles of dirty laundry, messy floors, and saying the same thing a thousand times to a seemingly deaf and defiant audience. How do you and I live past all the mundane endeavors of motherhood and parent beyond ordinary? In this series, More than a Blur, Cheri brings three helpful steps to the forefront for moving toward attaining this goal.Support the show