Hearing God's Voice: Embracing Hope, Obedience, and Pioneering with Elissa Davis

In this episode, Kristin introduces her guest, Elissa Davis, a trailblazer in ministry and family life who shares her journey of obedience, faith, and hearing God's voice.

Elissa recounts her leap of faith from corporate America to becoming a stay-at-home mom, intercessor, and prophetic voice on Instagram. She describes how her ministry began humbly with a 12-minute Canva tutorial and a willingness to obey God's call, showing that perfection isn't a prerequisite for impactful work. Elissa emphasizes the importance of hearing God's voice, sharing prophetic words, and letting God guide her journey instead of striving for human-defined success.

This episode also explores themes of waiting, hope, and purpose. Elissa candidly shares her experiences with seasons of waiting—for marriage, children, and deeper spiritual gifts—and how God answered her prayers in His perfect timing. Kristin and Elissa discuss the importance of stewarding waiting periods with gratitude and faith, reminding listeners that it’s never too late to walk into God’s plans.

Listeners will be encouraged by Elissa's testimony of hearing God clearly, stepping out in faith, and blending ministry with daily life. She also highlights the significance of pioneering new ventures in obedience to God's leading, encouraging women to embrace their unique callings and create something extraordinary with Him.

Elissa's Contact info: Instagram "I arose a mother" 

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Chapters

• 0:14 Coaching and Pioneering on Instagram
• 4:36 The Journey of Sharing God's Word
• 12:33 Encountering God
• 22:27 Building the Church and Waiting Patiently
• 31:23 Pioneering a New Path in Motherhood
• 40:45 Finding Hope and Hearing God's Voice

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:14

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Speaker 1: 0:58

Enjoy today's show. Welcome to the Hope Unlocked podcast. I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host. I pray this episode is like a holy IV of hope for your soul. Please help me welcome my sweet friend that we met through the Instagram, Elisa Davis, to the show. I am just so excited to have her share, you know, part of her journey. The season is called Launching Pioneers, and I know that there's many of you out there who are ready to hear her story of pioneering and then some. So would you just be open to sharing a little bit more about yourself before we dig?

Speaker 2: 1:35

in? Sure, I'd be happy to. So thank you for that intro, friend. And I worked in the business sector for almost two decades and got married later in life and had children pretty quickly and felt like the Lord was calling me out of my job to be a stay at home mom and really spend time and prayer with him. And shortly after I left my job, I started hearing him more and more and he said I want you to start an Instagram account sharing the words that I give you, sharing the dreams and the visions and I don't consider myself social media savvy or super creative with marketing or promotion or even comfortable, you know, sharing prophetic words or visions. But yeah, that's what I've been doing the last two years from home while raising my children. So good.

Speaker 1: 2:29

Well, I would never guess that you would not have, you know, kind of that quote unquote expertise, because what you bring to Instagram is fire, and that's part of this. Pioneering, too, is he's giving us downloads, he's giving us ways to share that are are unique and outside the box, right.

Speaker 2: 2:54

Yes, and I think outside our box, what's outside that individual's box? But it's been built in them, you know, since before time. It's a gift at the appointed time that he's pouring out right now on his sons and daughters in different ways.

Speaker 1: 3:11

Yes. So when you stepped into Instagram, like, had you had an account, had you, like, really done anything with it prior? How do you really ever been on social media?

Speaker 2: 3:23

I had personally, just, you know, sharing pictures of what I'm doing. You know, very me centered, like here's me, my trip, my family, those types of things, and I set up a separate account and actually started out anonymous, so I just named the account. I arose a mother which he gave me that scripture and that title and I thought maybe four people would follow it, you know, like a couple of prayer partners and really trusted, close friends, yeah, and so I just said okay, lord, and I took, I watched a 12 minute YouTube video on Canva, while literally, I mean, I'm just gonna be honest I was breastfeeding my child with my phone, watching the YouTube tutorial, and just created a little logo and some pictures and just kind of went with it, so just on my cell phone with my infant at the time.

Speaker 1: 4:16

So beautiful. I want to just really highlight that to the listeners today that 12 minutes video that she watched to learn how to create like a logo, and it doesn't have to be perfect to get started right.

Speaker 2: 4:34

Exactly. I just I heard him say I actually started it on January 4th, so it's just now over two years, because today we're recording it, as you know, mid January, and he told me after Christmas, like over the holidays, so within a week and a half. I just thought I need to do this right now. I kind of had ideas in my head. I would go to bed and get ideas and images and then I'd wake up and hear like a sentence or a word or see a picture, and so about a week and a half later, on January 4th, yes, I watched that Canva video. I just was twang around on my iPhone. I'm not trying to promote those or not, I'm just being open, like that's what I did, and I think it was a short video. I mean, I think it was 12 minutes, if I'm recalling correctly and just there were my first couple of posts and I told a couple of friends, like really trusted friends, I'm doing this and just kind of went from there.

Speaker 1: 5:31

So what did those friends say when you?

Speaker 2: 5:35

They were supportive. And one friend who has become a friend just solely on social media, just full disclosure. She had an account. She has an anonymous account and I told her I was starting it and she was one of my followers. We would just message back and forth, just very spirit led, I think. Now because she ended up sharing a lot of my posts and it got to some other ministries and just kind of built and grew. I didn't really have to promote it. I just would tell friends and family as led. But other people it was more like very strategic people that the Lord wanted to see it and supported it kind of got it out there where I didn't have to promote on my own.

Speaker 1: 6:20

Okay, so there's another key there, right? I hope so. Yes, yeah, that you weren't like, you weren't striving, it wasn't something that you were trying to like build a big platform and go follow marketing methods to build your Instagram following.

Speaker 2: 6:39

That's exactly right and honestly and I'm not saying it's wrong if other people feel led to do that. I feel the opposite, that I am not to do that and I am to let the Lord do it.

Speaker 1: 6:50

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 6:51

And get the right following at the pace he wants, with the numbers that he wants, completely not caring about that. Yes, it's not about that, it's just obedience and sharing what he's saying, and I'd rather have a quality following than just a bunch of numbers.

Speaker 1: 7:07

Yes, amen, girl, I'm with you. Yes, I'll tell you a funny story, because I love sharing on social media, and sharing like graphics or words that he's given me or other people's words, versus just a whole gamut it depends on the day. And I have teenage boys and they both are on Instagram and this is just kind of a funny story. They said, mom, your account is upside down. I'm like you have more posts than followers and I'm like, okay, well, that really doesn't matter to me because at the end of the day, like, I'm just putting out what I'm inspired to release, what I feel like he's given me to put out at a certain time, whether it's a real or random. You know Instagram live, but it's not about the followers. You know, like you said, it's really. Am I following Him?

Speaker 2: 8:10

Yes, and I'm glad you said that, because I don't even like the word followers. I don't like that they call it that because we should follow Jesus. Jesus has followers. There's even the scriptures. We don't say I follow you know, paul. It's like we follow Jesus and I think even calling it followers is maybe intentional. There's something not right about social media. We're followers of Jesus and that's it, but that's what it's called. We are operating in that system, but it's also a great responsibility to think of that. Okay, if you have followers, somebody's listening to what you say. There's a following there that should carry great responsibility with what you're even putting out there. Like is it something the Lord says? Are you trying to stay close to Him, obey Him? Does your life and character look like you follow Him? You know if you're going to be speaking scriptures and saying you're a disciple of Christ. What does your account look like?

Speaker 1: 9:09

Yeah, amen. So what does that like, tangibly look like for you before you put out maybe a post or what have you, because I know that you know the lot, of, a lot of the prophetic words that you put out? There are just so on point, and you know that process for you. And releasing a word, what does that look like for you?

Speaker 2: 9:31

Oh gosh, it can look different every time and I think that's where when it's his and nobody's 100% accurate or perfect. So I try to be so spirit led, only say what he says when he gives it. But sometimes real life will just interrupt it where it gets the way. Because I do have children, you have children, we don't have three small children, we don't have childcare, so this is kind of on the fumes of what's left with my own time with the Lord and taking care of my family. But he gives a word and it's just just walking with him my whole life. I just know that, I know that. I know is this public? Should I release it now?

Speaker 2: 10:09

I just stop and ask him and try to hear the best of my abilities and I really make sure I'm not posting just a post right, like there's no pressure to post or be active every day or just put something out just to put him out. Is it truly something he said and he said post it. And sometimes I can write it immediately. There's like a real anointing for now and a grace to get it out there. And other times I might sit on it and he say, okay, now go.

Speaker 2: 10:35

Or I mean to research something deeper, and I just get interrupted with either another word or my children or life or something, and I just you know, I'm not really you know, but the process very much is like write it out on my phone or on a notepad and really pray over it, share what I think he's saying and always go back it up with the Bible, like is this is any way contrasting to what the Bible teaches, because that's the ultimate word of God. And then however long that takes is really dependent on the word or him, or if he says release it or don't, so dependent on hearing him. I have nothing to post unless he says which is okay. I mean that's why some people might not hear from me for a few weeks. It might be he's not said to say, or I just got really busy in my real life.

Speaker 1: 11:27

Well, I love that you have released that. You know there's no pressure. It's not like you're striving to release words, right? I literally can't.

Speaker 2: 11:37

No, and I don't want to. I don't want to take people's time either, like scrolling to me. If you're, if you're taking the time to watch my stories and read my words, that's time out of your life. I want it to be that he wanted your eyes to see it and then it's worth your time.

Speaker 1: 11:52

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 11:53

Not just getting my name out there or sharing just to share.

Speaker 1: 11:57

Well, you mentioned that, like you've been a believer, it sounds like most of your life, right? Yes, what was your journey like with the Lord to you know? How old were you, and what does that journey look like, as you know, progressing into being, you know, prophetic voice, was that something that you've always had within you, like just a clear, you know word from him where you have been more prophetic most of your life? What does that look like for you?

Speaker 2: 12:28

specifically. No, it looks very different for me. So I found him at a young age. I think some people might argue, did you even know what you were doing? Because I was practically a toddler like three or four, where I just felt something in my heart and I went to my mom and she said Jesus wants to be in your life. That's Jesus talking to you. And we prayed and I just always knew that God was there and he was talking to me and I just wanted to read the Bible or read Bible stories. So my salvation looks different, because it looks different for a three or four year old versus, you know, a 30 year old or 40 year old. But I just always knew him and have always walked with him.

Speaker 2: 13:08

Now I have had more lukewarm I call it lukewarm times, or maybe I wasn't as obedient or it might not have been as obvious in my life that I followed him as other times, like, did I really obey and have a, you know, consecrated, sanctified life, some years more than others? But I've never not followed him. And I got baptized in elementary school. Very much knew what I was doing, you know, water baptized but I didn't start hearing his voice and having visions until I was 37 years old and I'm 43 now. I just turned 43 on December 31.

Speaker 2: 13:45

So it's been the last almost six years that this has really poured out and, looking back, I mean, I've always been a Christian. I've always loved him. I realize now he was speaking to me more than I've recognized, but it just something just really got awakened for me in 2018. And then, shortly after that, I got married and became pregnant and it was just like a water I'm seeing, like a vision of, like a sink, a kitchen sink turned on and like water gushing out, like a sink at full blast, like it was just some elf got turd where all this water started gushing out and I started really hearing in and having visions and dreams and it kept increasing. And when I left my job and started praying even more, it just gushed out even more. Where, about five or six months after I left my job, I started the Instagram account. Okay, this is relatively new.

Speaker 1: 14:39

It's around the same timeline for me too. I think it was about 2017, and then really in 2018, for me as well, which is interesting. Do you remember like? Do you remember like, an encounter that you had? Was there something specific that you can pinpoint where you I Don't know? Is there something that you can remember?

Speaker 2: 14:59

I do and I actually and I'm not trying to promote myself, I talk about this in more detail I recorded a free audio that's on my page Going into more detail about this and I'm happy to share it where there was one year where I just decided I wanted to make him a priority more than ever before and I started learning to pray in tongues. After that year and all of a sudden, that's, that's what did it and yes, I just heard him audibly once. It was kind of like I needed a year of more consecration and drawing closer to him and studying him. And then I said I want to hear you, I want to have dreams, I want, I want gifts if you're willing to give them to me. And I started speaking in times, just just being fully honest and open about that.

Speaker 2: 15:47

And then, like, immediately after that, there it came and, yes, I did have an encounter with him where I heard his voice. And then, a couple months later, I had my first vision and it's just really taken off that, when I heard his voice and had the vision was like spring and summer of 2018 and I was 37 years old. Wow, almost 30 years after I get saved. You know, here it comes. But I think that's okay too. It's for the right time and he's more than made up that time, because it's like I've always lived this way and it just keeps growing and Increasing. He's really blessed it to where. That's okay that I didn't do this for most of my life, because I'm doing it now and you can it's never too late to start and just run with things.

Speaker 1: 16:31

Yes, well, that another key right there. What she said was it's never too late, right? I've been really meditating on that quite a bit because I'm I'm 46 now and I just kind of look back on, you know, I was saved from addiction when I was 25, had kind of an opposite life of you, not growing up in church, and you know I, as much as I could look back and go gosh, I sure missed out. It's like no, just like Sarah, waiting on that promise of having a child and being able to now step into this new life in Christ. It's been 20, how long has it been? How do I? 44 x minus, so like 21 years of Walking it out and it it looks different for everybody, like it was a very, very Basic. I mean, I had a radical deliverance from addiction to being saved like rescue. But it wasn't until you know, many years later, that I, similar to you, like had that audible voice of like I literally heard be, still know that I'm God and you're not, and I'm like, oh, are you talking to me?

Speaker 2: 17:41

Oh, goodness and I, when you said you know, I just got chills as you were sharing that all over my body. So that's one way I hear him and, granted, is truly here today, but not in my home I just got just felt so much. When it's when you, I was thinking in my head, it's different for everyone, and you said it, it's different for everyone, and then I just got so many chills. So I think it's important not to compare ourselves. That he's gonna come at people at the right time and speak to them in ways they understand, at the right case, when they're ready for it, and people can also have a radical encounter and then immediately start having dreams and visions. It need not be that aids or Years, you know it's. It's what that person is ready for and how he wants to move. Are they seeking him?

Speaker 1: 18:35

And I love how you also mentioned, you know, asking for the gifts, asking for dreams and visions. I think that's huge, it's a huge key because we can ask for those gifts. I don't know about you, but Well, tell me a little bit more like Were you going to a church around that time when, when your water valve started turning into a hose?

Speaker 2: 19:00

Yes, and I was. And yet I think I don't know that Many of the churches I went to I don't think encouraged people to ask to hear for yourself. I think we've had and man, I don't want to criticize church Many have been Cessationists, where that's special, that's for special people, that was for a special time and place in the Bible. So we didn't necessarily grow up in churches saying you can prophesy, you can hear God for yourself, you can have visions, you can have encounters. But it's something in me thought I want to ask for this. I also want to be careful and point out, you know when you ask for something to get to that there might be something we're missing. So there's probably a preparation process to be able to handle that and steward it, or just Pruning in our lives if there's a blockage to hearing. That it's different for everybody. But I think about you know People.

Speaker 2: 19:57

He says, and I think Psalm 25 he revealed his secrets to those he calls friends. I think it's in Psalm 25. I'm going off memory, but that's one of my favorite scriptures because like are you a friend of God? Are you seeking him? Are you and nobody's perfect, we all have things in our life Are you truly trying to obey what he says and just approach him with humility and love, and I think those are the types of things you know. He resists the crowd, but not the humble. So it's like if you you might have to go through a purification process or build your character Before he'll speak, but he's going to take care of it and speak and other times he might just totally leapfrog that, just jump right over it and start speaking, so Disappend.

Speaker 1: 20:41

I Love that you mentioned that because, again, like I said, it's it's so different for everybody. It's it's no two Journeys are the same, but there can be threads of similarities, right? Yes, I never, I'll never forget. I think it was back in, oh Gosh. I think it was back in like 2017, 2018, when I was introduced well for sure, 2017, I think to like Lana Vazer and Nate and Christie Johnston, and I started reading prophetic words and I don't know about you, but you know there was different people that I was, you know, I don't like to say following, but Preaching attention to right my eyes were opening to these voices that were out there Sharing these prophetic words.

Speaker 1: 21:35

That would almost be like I'd be writing something in my journal and then the next day there'd be just this Overflow of confirmations and I'm like, wow, this is incredible. And I remember starting to Like hear words you know for myself that I would share with other people and they're like, oh wow, like thank you are prophetic, and I'm like I don't really know what that means, you know, and I would start, you know, maybe asking some questions, you know, with people I was surrounded with and the circle that I was in at that time, and I would get like kind of these side eyes of like what, like that's not, like that's not. We don't really go there in this time and, you know, gifts of the spirit wasn't really welcome where I was, you know, going to church and, again, no faults, you know I'm not.

Speaker 1: 22:27

I Think the thing that we at least for me, that I'm being really attentive to, is Like the building up of the church. Right, we don't want to, you know, talk down the church, but I believe that there is a Just. You know, we're in a time of shaking and we're in a time of Rebuilding and ways that you know maybe have been. And what's the word? What is the word I'm trying to say? You know, just not welcome, but we are being called into this new era and using our voices in ways that the Lord is calling us to. And I don't know about you, but do you have a church that is like, are you going to a church right now that welcomes this? Where are you guys at right?

Speaker 2: 23:19

now yes and no. I think some churches also say they welcome it, but is it happening? Are they really moving in it? Why is that? And that's kind of what I was trying to portray too. We can pray for those things, but God might say, okay, before I can do that, let's work here. You know, whatever that might look like, like, let me work with you, let me build your character, let me take care of some things, let's have repentance or whatever he wants, so that I can come in and speak, so that I can come in and pour out, you know, signs and wonders.

Speaker 2: 23:53

So my husband actually recently started a church and it's kind of a new one and it's very traditional. It's a part of the denomination and I've not attended a traditional with Turgical church before, but I've just found, anywhere I go, the Holy Spirit is moving because he's in us. Like where I go, he moves, whether it's church or the grocery store or whatever kind of church it is, and that's a word I keep hearing just leapfrog, like he's going to leapfrog over whatever he needs to. That's a barrier to him moving. And the church is smaller. They very much love God. We believe. My husband loves God and believes in spiritual gifts.

Speaker 2: 24:36

It just looks different for everyone. I think their priority of it, their comfort level with it, is getting addressed. You know, as far as God speaking, doing new things, kind of getting us to think of things different ways, to ask, well, why isn't this in our church? I don't know. Our churches look like acts, but when we ask for an ax, you know, to church, do we know what we're asking for? Are we ready for it? So yes, we do attend church as a family. My husband is the pastor and we would welcome a mighty move of the spirit and we hope we're building for them.

Speaker 1: 25:14

So has he like pastored a church before?

Speaker 2: 25:17

He has and he left a pastor and job to get his doctorate and that's how we met. He moved to where I was living in Texas to get his doctorate and we met there while he was in school.

Speaker 1: 25:30

Oh my gosh yes.

Speaker 2: 25:34

So were you in school at the time? I wasn't, I just actually. We met online a dating app. I felt led to do it, even though I hated dating apps and did not want to do it. And he did it for the very first time and I was his first date on his first dating app ever. So I just feel like he really lucked out not having to go through the drudge of that if anyone's done it and not cared for it as much.

Speaker 1: 26:02

That's incredible. So did you have to go through a lot of drudgery?

Speaker 2: 26:07

Oh my goodness. Yes, because I did not get married until I was 37. So I was off and on for a good over a decade. I'd like try it and then just delete it and not touch it for years or try again.

Speaker 1: 26:22

It was very back and forth, well can I feel like I'm just going led to go here. But for those like what was your waiting life? Were you in like I like to call it weight training? We talk about Sarah, just her longing to have a child. And what was your experience like? Were you longing to be married? What did that look?

Speaker 2: 27:28

like I was, and I wish I had stewarded that waiting better, looking back, because I was longing to have a child, but to have a child obviously wanted it in the confines of a marriage. You know, you have to be married first and there would be periods where I didn't even have a first date, like I wasn't even talking for lack of a better word, you know with anybody, or they were very dry seasons where I didn't even have so much as a date. Or maybe I had some dates here and they just didn't turn into anything. And I think I would get discouraged and wonder like, is this for me? Is this going to happen? And you know, you just, you see more and more of your friends get married. You get older and older. But I would have, I enjoyed those single years, you know.

Speaker 2: 28:15

I built my career, I got to travel, I got to do the things at church.

Speaker 2: 28:19

You know that maybe, I don't know, because I need to get my kids in bed or I need to, you know, be at home with them, or because they're so young I have four, two and 10 months right now. So it's just, I think, that season of just being able to go and do whatever you wanted to do and spend time with the Lord, and I started looking at dry seasons, as that's okay, because you want quality, not quantity. You don't want to date, just to date. You want to spend quality time with people that could be a potential fit for you. So just enjoy your friends, enjoy your family, enjoy being with the Lord, enjoy your work, like enjoy what you have without worrying about what you don't have. I wish I'd done that better and been more patient and just totally embraced it, because now my life is just night and day, and it's not that I miss my single days are long for it, but I appreciate what I got to do during that time and what it built for me today.

Speaker 1: 29:13

And I love how you said you know, enjoy what you have. I think that's a really big key for somebody today. I think a lot of times we can look around at our circumstances and, you know, the worst thing we can do is compare right. Yes, when you personally you know, I was saved from addiction when I was 25, a year after we got married.

Speaker 1: 29:35

And you know, those first few years were really challenging going to church by myself with my very young children because my husband wasn't on board and I would look around and just be longing for, you know, a yoked marriage. And I'm still 20, 20 years into this and I am like Lord. Why am I waiting so long? Why hasn't he come to you, lord? And what I've just been sitting with is, you know, again, everything is in his timing and I am to serve my husband fruit every day and be, you know, a catalyst and an example and not try to control it. Right, I can't control his walk in coming to the Lord, but I can control how I steward my walk with the Lord and it honestly and I don't know about you when you're in that time, it made me cling to him in deeper ways, but he is your first husband.

Speaker 2: 30:47

He is. And I think, regardless of the journey yes, there's a journey of waiting in there for different things for us but there's that commonality of you enjoy it, you serve the Lord the best that you can by giving people all of these and you serve with good fruit or you give fruit to your husband you know we just do the best that we can and enjoy it and know that you won't be waiting forever and that's for a great purpose. And I also had children quickly. You didn't necessarily ask this, but I've always wanted to share. You know I was able to get pregnant, one right after the other with zero issues, probably faster than we even thought possible or necessarily knew what we were in for.

Speaker 2: 31:34

Because I think today a lot of society will say, oh, if you're after a certain age it's hard to get pregnant. There might be more problems. You know, there's more risk for a troubled pregnancy or perhaps birth defects, and that just absolutely was not the case for me. So I shout that from the rooftops that he can do anything and don't think it's too weight. You know he can give any time anyway, just because he's God and he can choose to bless someone that way. So he more than made up for my waiting period, because you know my husband, I celebrated our five year anniversary last month and we have three children and that's later in life Children what I think medical standards or society standards would say and we're just so blessed by that. So I can't not just say thank you, god for just giving us these children and it wasn't too late to have them and just have our family.

Speaker 1: 32:27

Yes, amen, thank you for sharing. I was actually going to ask a little bit about your, your kids, because, um, yeah, because, how old are you now? Yeah, I'm 43. Ladies, are you listening? You're too late and you know, similar to you, I actually was told I couldn't have children.

Speaker 2: 32:49

Oh, wow.

Speaker 1: 32:50

It was saved. I actually immediately had two miscarriages and that was honestly really shocking and hard, as you can probably imagine. One thing I tell people is I don't think somebody would have told me to do this, but I think, in desperation because I didn't even know the Bible, I flipped it open and you know just one of my crying fits and ended up in Job and, interestingly enough, I just finished reading Job again today and I just remember reading his story and his faith and even though he was faced with, you know, just unimaginable trials, he like stood firm, like I so believe in the restoration. That happened. Okay.

Speaker 1: 33:40

And so I was being told that I could not have kids. And I just remember, because I had read Job, even though I was such a brand new baby believer thinking, and I'll be honest with you, when I got saved I thought I was going to have a Cinderella life, like everything was going to go perfect. I'm like, wait, what happened here? And I ended up having my oldest, who's now 18, although he had a lot of health problems at first, he's thriving. I have a 15 year old who I almost lost at eight weeks long. He's thriving. So, just like she said, like we don't have to. You know, we don't first put our trust in the medical system. I'm just going to put that out there, right, right. He is above a doctor giving a word, and especially words like of death, like I believe that that was a word of death.

Speaker 2: 34:40

Yes, and I'm so sorry you went through that. And I will say also, there can be people who are used in the medical system I had. My doctors were so good to me. They never said, oh, you're going to have more risks, or oh, you're older than we like. They were just like this is great, you're pregnant, okay, you know, didn't make an issue of it. In fact, after I had my third, my doctor said are you going to have any more? Like it wasn't, like wow, you're really lucky to have had three by 42. He's like are you planning to have any more? I mean, it's like there's no limitations with that. So, despite our society, there's also so many wonderful people in the medical profession that believe with us and speak life.

Speaker 2: 35:22

What a blessing that you were able to encounter them it was a huge blessing because I knew they didn't need to say it. You know, we know, and I was praying and just trusting that they spoke life and never made me feel like, okay, here comes the advanced maternal age patient. We really have to be careful and make sure nothing's going wrong. And no, they would. They just were excited with me and never, never did that. So beautiful.

Speaker 1: 35:49

Well, I would love for you to share. I know you've got something coming down the pipeline here. We have a season that he's really wanting me to highlight women who are pioneers and launching, launching things that maybe you know kind of look like an arc right, no, it's arc. Or you know things that require a partnership with the Lord and how, how are you walking that out? And if you're led to share what that is, that he's calling you to create and launch, what that for you to share a little bit more.

Speaker 2: 36:25

Sure, and it might be a longer answer, but it was funny. When I first started hearing him in 2018, I was working a lovely job. I mean lovely company. They just took really good care of me and gave me a lot of favor. You know, I had a good job title, working my way up. You know which was good for me comfortable money and he whispered to me one day you're my little trailblazer. And I thought excuse me, I'm the most like cautious. You know, have my stable job with the stable company. You know, living by the rules. What do you mean trailblazer? I'm not doing anything creative, I'm working for a job.

Speaker 2: 37:02

Well, I mean, three years later, I left that job with two kids in my hands you know, two kids in my arms our first two and just walked into the unknown. And that led to this page and I started out anonymous even but I'm not anonymous anymore and it kind of led to not just sharing words but sharing more about who I am in my life. I've been blessed that people like yourself have invited me to come speak, either on their podcasts or in other forums. I've just been evolving and putting myself out there. You know, I left the workplace and then focusing on family and prayer. I started a ministry.

Speaker 2: 37:40

I don't. I don't I kind of view this as a ministry, I'm not sure what to call it, but I'm very passionate about people hearing the Lord themselves. So I've recorded, you know, trainings on how I hear him and how I learned and how to do that. That's helpful for people. I think that's pioneering, in a way to say, hey, you can do something you've never done. When the Lord tells you, when he's calling you to do it, there's a favor on it.

Speaker 2: 38:04

But I'm also going to branch back into the business world and I don't feel the need In fact I feel quite the opposite to separate the two. Like I don't want to venture back into, you know, part. I want to venture a little bit back into part-time work while doing my ministry and I don't want to separate the two. So I'll be announcing more of that, just that whole. You know, leave your job, focus on family, start a ministry Okay, go back to the workplace, but on your terms.

Speaker 2: 38:41

You know, I'm viewing myself as a founder of something new. So, almost six years later, I now understand a little bit more about what he said when he said you're my trailblazer, because for me that is outside the box, uncomfortable. Pioneering, is it? It is. So I think he's asking us to do things that maybe to someone else that might not look pioneering, but it is to us or it is, with all the changing times that we're in and the shaking. Because if you think about me working for a job for corporate America full-time and just totally going off into something else and maybe revisiting a business plan, but doing it, you know, working for myself, that's different, that's against the grain.

Speaker 1: 39:31

What do you look forward to the most in this upcoming season?

Speaker 2: 39:35

I think just continuing to help people hear the Lord and taking not separating ministry from business Like I have this whole background in business and I now have a history with hearing the Lord and you can use both mightily at the same time. We don't have to separate them. We don't have to put things in boxes, we don't have to hide one while doing another. They are converging into one.

Speaker 1: 40:06

I love that word, the convergence, you know, and keeping him as, like, the CEO and the founder.

Speaker 2: 40:14

Yes, and I think you know most people might think well, that's weird, do a business website or do you know an account for just your business? I'm like, no, I don't really want to separate it from what I'm doing now, because I think they're very much related, like I can either pray for you or if you're a business that needs the service I want to offer, you can hire me. You know it's the same. Alyssa Davis, yes, I wonder. I a Rosamother, and just think we don't have to compartmentalize our silo. And it's not having your hand in multiple things, it's things he's wanting us to have our hand in, to go, take back territory and start things to bless our communities and bless our families. That's the best start, like what can I do for my neighbors, how can I support my family, how can I add to my church and how does it spread and grow from there?

Speaker 1: 41:03

Yes, it's not. It's not just one thing that you're called to do. Yes, it's beyond.

Speaker 2: 41:10

Yes, and just kind of been asking him. Like you know, we all have multiple talents. We have a limited amount of time, so there's a time to really focus and be intensive in one area, and that serves a purpose. It's also okay to step back and go back to things in a new way or blend things together into one new thing.

Speaker 1: 41:32

There is a key right there, yes, a big one right. Well, what, like, over the span of your you know 43 years, what would you say would be like one of the biggest keys that the Lord has given you that has been so instrumental in just launching you forward to then? Because whenever we have a key, a breakthrough or breakthrough happens, it's not just for us. Can you think of anything that's been just so instrumental, like a key that you would be open to sharing? That might be something that would unlock something for somebody else today?

Speaker 2: 42:13

Oh gosh I hope I say this right Jesus, Jesus, jesus. I think that's what I've been talking about hearing for yourself, and if you feel a nudge or a word or coming across things, if you're in tune to the way he's speaking, it will lead you where you need to go and you will be in alignment with him. So, just being in your Bible because that's him speaking right there, in and of itself that's the most important word is his written word. But just prayer, worship, talking to him, you know, reading your Bible, inviting him into your day, he's going to tell you what to do. Like that's my key. Like there's times in my life, looking back, where I thought, did I really stop and ask the Lord or pray about it or did I just go with it? And now I'm much more intentional to stop and ask, to want to hear him. And that has made all the difference in the last six years of hearing his voice. It's like look what he's accomplished.

Speaker 2: 43:14

I met my husband right after I had my first vision. You know that waiting season ended. I grew my career, I stopped it, you know, had children, became a mother. He blessed me with motherhood. He's blessed me with this ministry and now I'm trying to re-enter the workforce it's still part time, still very focused on my family in a different way, and that's just hearing his voice and trying to follow him and honor him and just treat him like my father, my husband, my best friend, my co-worker. That is Jesus. To know him is to love him. I tell people, to know him is to love him and to hear his voice is so crucial and it's not just for special prophetic people or preachers or like a select few, it is for his children. That is the children's threat. We are his sheep and we know his voice and he wants to give us direction all day, every day, if we're listening and we're learning and seeking him.

Speaker 1: 44:11

Yes, you know one thing that I was just being reminded of as you were talking. You know just the hearing of his voice, one thing that I was going to kind of connect back to and maybe you can share maybe one of your favorite books that's been instrumental in your walk. Obviously the Bible for both of us, but I love reading One of the books that really helped me and I'm going to go back to Lana Vazer, but it was the prophetic voice of God. It really, really helped me in my walk because I do see, like repeating numbers or I'll see, you know, eagles all the time. At a time like the Lord causes me to like turn my head up and I look up and there's two eagles over my head. You know stuff like that where it's just like maybe it sounds, maybe odd or strange to people, but that's, he meets me out in nature a lot. What would you like say might be a book that's really helped you in your journey and you know your expansion overflow of hearing his voice.

Speaker 2: 45:15

Good night. So I think that's hard and I wish I read more with the little ones and being up on hours, you know, being pregnant, newborn, so much the last five years, I don't read, read as much as I want to, because I want to read the Bible first. Yeah, but the names that you're mentioning, I mean I, yes, I found those are some of the first prophets that I kind of found and followed and went oh, you can hear God, you know like, oh. So and shortly after I started having visions and I founded that she's book Intercessory Prayer I think it's called because I do also talk about being an intercessor and he's really being passionate about prayer and loving. This been time in prayer with God and I think his give him 15, his daily prayers and stories, prophetic words. That book really helped me learn how to prayer and understand spiritual warfare and I think that helps you hear him as well.

Speaker 1: 46:16

I will link that book in the show notes and also give him 15.

Speaker 2: 46:22

I do too. It's been. I think I found that book. Someone said I think you're an intercessor and I thought, well, what life to speak over me? And then I just got that book and ran with it and now have the opportunity to speak to you and have an Instagram account. But yes, and I tried, I also tell people. As for yourself, is this something I should read? Is this a voice I should follow? I don't want to muddy other people's waters, but just being transparent and this is what I do it might work for you.

Speaker 1: 46:50

Well, good work there, girl. Well, I'm going to wrap up, but is there anything that I always believe that you know? Obviously there's a beyond, but that I'm doing this for the one, for him and for one listener each time. Yeah, to imagine that there's a woman specifically sitting out there and what would you feel like you would want to just impart over her today Anything additional, and would you be able to just pray over the listener?

Speaker 2: 47:20

today as well, good. So what I just immediately started hearing and I'm kind of tearing up, which is the way I hear him is hope. That's just the word that's just reverberating. Since you asked me, that's the first thing that came to mind. He wants us to have hope for a good future. His promises are for us. They're not just for special people in the Bible, they're not just for special people in the church, it's for his children. We always have hope, and so how much more does he love us that we're here at this time and he shed his blood for us, you know. So everything in the Bible is for us today, and there's always hope. If there's a dream you have, there's hope he's going to do it. If there's something you've been contending for, praying for, believing for him, he's there's, there's hope he's going to do it, and so, yes, I would be honored to pray.

Speaker 2: 48:08

Father, I thank you for each and every person drawn to this to listen to this. I thank you for Kristen and her special voice and this way that she's pioneering and how she's pulling other women and like myself to get to share their stories. And probably meant to, but I want to leave them in out. But we just thank you for the mighty work that we're doing and, father, I asked that you would just touch the listener and sweet, personal ways, right now and in the days to come, so that they know that they can put every single bit of hope in you, that you can deliver on every single one of their needs and they can trust you with their dreams, father, god, and that, regardless of how things may seem around them for all of us in our world today and for what it might seem like in their personal situation, that you are moving mightily on their behalf and that they can trust you, that they can hope and they can dream, and they can know that their waiting season is going to be over and it's all going to be worth it, as they keep seeking you, spending time with you, that you're going to more than deliver on not just their needs but their dreams.

Speaker 2: 49:17

And so, father, I just asked that you would touch each and every person listening to this. He would let them hear what they need to hear, what's from you, and that you would just speak to them in a personal way that they know my father is speaking to me. I know his voice and I do not follow another. I just really speak John 10 over them that they are following the shepherd, and that is the voice, that is the loudest and the only voice they want to follow and nothing else can be heard. Father, they're just so solely focused on you. Just give them more hope in you and help them. Just lock on to you and new ways like never before. And your precious name. We pray amen. Oh, it's exactly to.

Speaker 1: 49:59

Well, thank you so much for being on today. You are a brave voice who sets others free. That is the just. The hope of this podcast is the voices that would come on here would be a catalyst of setting others free, and you definitely do that. So I'm going to close with the anchoring verse, which will be in alignment with what you shared about hope, being that this is the hope unlocked podcast. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing so that, by the power of the Holy Spirit, you may have found in hope, and that's Romans 1513. So thank you again for being on and for sharing your heart with us. I just know that it's going to bless so many who listen. Thank you for having me. Yeah, you're welcome, and thank you, listeners. I'll be back with another episode next week. Bye.