Jay grew up in a normal secular household with no faith background and no interest in Christianity. His teens and early twenties were marked by partying, drugs, and living for the weekend, until meeting Hannah in a Brighton nightclub, a moment he now sees as God quietly intervening long before he ever believed.

Years later, married with children and living what looked like a settled life, everything is shaken when Jay discovers that Hannah has started reconnecting with her faith. He describes it honestly, it felt like finding out his wife was cheating, except “the other man” was God. Angry, confused, and convinced their marriage couldn’t survive it, Jay begins a reluctant and very private search for answers, on his own terms.

What follows is a rapid and unexpected journey. A visit to St Peter’s Brighton challenges everything he thought about church. Then comes a moment he can’t explain: a vicar shares words that directly quote lyrics Jay had written in huge letters on a chalk wall at home. It stops him in his tracks and makes him realise that God is real, present, and speaking to him personally.

As Jay starts reading the Bible, exploring Alpha, and wrestling with surrender, he reaches a turning point where he gives his life to Jesus and is later baptised in the sea. From there, he shares how faith didn’t remove every challenge, but gave him peace and strength through some of the hardest moments, including their son Jake being critically ill in intensive care and witnessing remarkable answers to prayer.

This episode is for anyone who feels like they have everything yet still sense something missing, for those navigating faith in marriage, and for anyone who needs to hear that God sees you and knows you.

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