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What does it really mean when God promises to provide?

In this episode of God’s Promises, we look at Jesus’ simple but powerful prayer: “Give us this day our daily bread.” This promise was never about wealth, excess, or guaranteed financial success. It was about trust — daily, faithful dependence on a God who sees and cares.

From manna in the wilderness to Jesus pointing to the birds of the air, Scripture consistently shows that God’s provision is intentional, sufficient, and personal. God promises to meet our needs, not to provoke a desire for riches or turn faith into a financial transaction.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why God’s promise of provision is not a promise of wealth
• The biblical difference between needs and wants
• Why daily provision builds trust and dependence
• How God’s care often shows up quietly and faithfully
• Why God’s faithfulness isn’t measured by our bank accounts

We’ll also share practical challenges to help you release worry, resist unhealthy pursuit of “more,” and learn to trust God for today’s provision.

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Have you ever been going through something hard and realized the problem wasn’t that you didn’t have answers — it was that you felt alone?

In this episode of God’s Promises, we focus on one of the most repeated and most needed promises in Scripture: God’s promise of presence. From Joshua standing at the edge of the unknown to Jesus’ final words to His disciples, God consistently promises not explanations, not ease, but Himself.

Did you know, astronauts aren’t kept from loneliness by coming home early but by staying connected where they are — we explore what it really means when God says, “I will be with you.” This promise doesn’t remove fear or uncertainty, but it changes how we walk through them.

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Episode 2: God’s Promise to Abraham

What happens when God makes a promise… and then asks you to wait?

In this episode of God’s Promises, we turn to the story of Abraham and the promise of Isaac — a promise that took decades to fulfill. God spoke clearly, repeated His word, and never changed His mind — even when time passed, faith wavered, and human impatience complicated the process.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why God’s promises are not canceled by time or delay
• How Abraham and Sarah rushed the promise instead of waiting
• Why God allowed the fulfillment to become humanly impossible
• What it means to trust God’s word when nothing seems to be changing

If you’re waiting on something God has spoken… this episode is for you.

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What happens after the storm has passed?

In this first episode of our new series, God’s Promises, we begin where Scripture begins again — not with excitement or certainty, but with mercy. After the floodwaters recede, Noah steps into a quiet, broken world. And it’s there — after judgment, after loss, after survival — that God makes one of His most foundational promises.

The rainbow covenant is not a promise that storms will never come again. It’s a promise of restraint. A declaration that God will not abandon His creation, even knowing humanity is still broken. It’s a promise God makes not because people improved — but because He chose mercy.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why God’s promises often come after the storm, not before it
• What the rainbow really represents in Scripture
• How God binds Himself to faithfulness, even when the world isn’t fixed
• Why this promise still matters as we step into a new season

We’ll also leave you with practical challenges for the week — simple ways to recognize God’s mercy, practice restraint, and trust Him in the quiet spaces between what was and what’s next.

If you’re standing on the other side of something hard. If you’re grateful to have made it through, but unsure what comes next…This promise is for you.

Take your shoes off. You’re standing on holy ground.

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We’ve walked through miracles of healing, restoration, provision, and resurrection but every miracle we’ve studied traces back to one holy moment: the birth of Jesus.

In this final episode of Shoes Off, Ray and Isaac look at the manger to reflect on the miracle behind all miracles. This is not a work Jesus performed, it is a miracle God performed for the world. The infinite stepped into the finite. Eternity entered time. The Word became flesh.

Jesus wasn’t just away in a manger — He was THE way in the manger.

"The Way In A Manager" is an original song written by Ray Slavens.

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This week on Shoes Off, we step into one of the most known miracles in Scripture — the healing of the woman with the issue of blood. For twelve long years, she suffered physically, financially, socially, and spiritually. She tried everything, spent everything, and instead of getting better… she grew worse.

But desperation led her to Jesus and faith pushed her through the crowd.

In this episode, Ray and Isaac (with guest Rylan) unpack the incredible moment when she reached out from behind Jesus, touched the hem of His garment, and was instantly healed.

This miracle reminds us that Jesus meets us in our desperation, honors even trembling faith, removes shame, restores identity, and calls us His own.

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This week on Shoes Off, we step into the miracle where Jesus stops a funeral procession and raises a widow’s only son from the dead.

Two crowds meet at the city gate of Nain: one carrying death… and One carrying life. And when Jesus sees the grieving mother, everything changes.

In this episode, we explore:

• The significance of Jesus seeing the widow before she ever spoke
• How compassion, not request, initiated resurrection
• Why touching the funeral bier reveals His authority over death
• The beauty of the phrase: “He gave him back to his mother”
• How this miracle foreshadows the resurrection of Christ

What looked like the end… became the beginning of a miracle.

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Faith didn’t wait for an open door — it made one.

In this week’s episode of Shoes Off, we step into a crowded house in Capernaum where four determined friends tear through a roof just to get their paralyzed friend to Jesus. What unfolds is one of the most vivid demonstrations of bold faith, deep community, divine authority, and life-changing transformation in the Gospels.

Jesus doesn’t start with what the man wants. He starts with what the man needs. Before healing the body, He heals the heart. Before restoring strength, He restores identity. And when the man finally stands, Jesus tells him to take up his bed and walk home carrying a testimony the whole town could see.

Because when Jesus moves, you never leave the same way you came in!

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