Followed By Mercy
The Followed By Mercy Podcast
Real Grace, Honest Hope
You might notice a new name and a fresh look, but the heart behind this podcast is the same. After years as the World Evangelism Podcast, I sensed God leading me to a deeper, more personal path centered on His relentless mercy and the kind of honest hope that can reach into every hurting place. That’s why this show is now called Followed By Mercy Podcast. The format may shift, and the tone may be a bit more personal, but my mission hasn’t changed: I still believe the world desperately needs to hear the good news of God’s love in Jesus Christ. You are welcome here if you’ve been with me from the beginning or just found us now.
What if God’s love is more personal, stubborn, and relentless than you ever imagined?
Welcome to The Followed By Mercy Podcast, where we get honest about pain, hope, and the kind of grace that finds you right where you are, five days a week. This isn’t about religious performance or church routines. It’s for anyone who’s ever felt worn out, unseen, or unsure if they belong in the story of God’s love. Every conversation is rooted in this reality: God loves you right now, just as you are, and He isn’t giving up on you.
Here’s what you’ll find in every episode:
Experience God’s Relentless Love
Every show starts by reminding you that the Shepherd knows your name, cares about your story, and isn’t offended by your failures or questions. This is personal—it’s about God’s unwavering affection for you.
Find Your Place in His Heart
Once you grasp how fiercely you’re loved, sharing that love with others doesn’t feel forced. It becomes the most natural thing in the world. Real grace overflows.
Prayer That Changes You
We pray together—not just for the world “out there,” but for the battles and hopes you’re carrying right now. These prayers are honest, rooted in Scripture, and meant for hearts that need a gentle touch from the Shepherd.
Discover Your Unique Role
Whether you’re called to go, give, serve, or show kindness in your corner of the world, God’s mercy meets you where you are. You’re not just a bystander. You are His beloved, invited into the story He’s writing.
When life knocks the wind out of you, this is a place to catch your breath. You’ll hear the encouragement that meets you on your hardest days, and your honest questions will be welcomed. No pretending, no heavy-handed advice—just the reminder that your Shepherd is right there with you, walking every step with you, even when you feel like giving up.
Why does this matter? Because some days, it feels like nobody sees you or cares what you’re going through. But the truth is, you have a Shepherd who never takes His eyes off you, lets you slip through the cracks, and never gives up on you. That kind of love can put you back on your feet, and it might be the hope someone else is waiting to see in you, too.
If you’re longing for more than just religious talk—if you want to know you’re not alone and that God’s mercy is following you all the way home, you’re in the right place. Whether you listen in the car, on a walk, or in a quiet moment, let every episode remind you: God’s mercy is after you right now, ready to bring real grace and honest hope.
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Followed By Mercy
Learning To Live Today With The Good Shepherd
If peace always feels one step away, this conversation invites you to stop chasing the horizon and meet the Shepherd who stands in the room. We talk about how a certain kind of “spiritual hunger” can disguise plain restlessness, and why the Lord is my shepherd only changes us when we hear it in present tense. Drawing from Psalm 23, the Lord’s Prayer, Lamentations’ new mercies, and Jesus’ warning about tomorrow’s troubles, we explore a quieter way to live: trust God for this day, not the imaginary future we try to control.
You’ll hear honest reflections about illness, uncertainty, and the habit of mentally abandoning the moment, how being physically present but emotionally elsewhere starves both relationships and prayer. From the wilderness lesson of manna to the reminder that grace can’t be stored up, we talk about why God’s provision is always sized for now and how contentment grows when our attention returns to the I AM who meets us here.
Expect gentle, practical steps before the day ends: breath prayers rooted in Psalm 23, gratitude that names small gifts, and one act of obedience that trades anxiety for trust. If you’re tired of waiting for life to change before you can feel okay, come learn how daily bread, new mercies, and the Shepherd’s steady care can help you say, even with problems still in view, right now, I am good.
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Welcome back to Followed by Mercy. I'm very excited to get to talk to you today. I want to share something with you that the Lord has really been dealing with my heart about. I think it will be a blessing to you too, because as the Holy Spirit deals with me, I'm sure he deals with other people also. I've spent a lot of my life hungry with a spiritual hunger. I called it a spiritual hunger of always wanting more. I want to be in another place. I wanted another answer. I wanted another tomorrow. I thought that was faith. Now I see in reality that was worry and restlessness. I wanted something that wasn't. I felt bad about what I didn't get. I always was losing because I thought happiness and joy and peace and contentment was just one step away from me. But now I am realizing more than ever, and I'm going to include this in a as one of the last issues of season two on the 23rd Psalm, that when you get a hold of the fact that the Lord is my shepherd, Yahweh, I am, is my shepherd, and I am is present tense right now, and is is present tense right now, and he is my shepherd. So it is God touching my life right now. It's not about tomorrow or about yesterday. Yesterday is just a memory, and I'm only imagining that there'll even be a tomorrow. God is working in the now. And God is working in the now. I find it interesting, about just sharing with you my meditations and sharing with you what the Lord's been teaching me, that I kind of like said, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want, but I do want. I mean, God, I mean, I I know you're my shepherd, and I know you provide all I need, but I do have cancer. I know you're my Lord, I know you're my shepherd, but I'd like to be there instead of here. I'd like for this to happen instead of that to happen. And Lord, I I do want. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. But then you said you gave me food to eat, but I'm not always getting the food I want to eat. And you gave me a place of drink and rest, but it's not always what I want. And you comfort my soul, you you refresh me, but at the same time, could I say, God, I had other things I wanted. I'm not being satisfied. I know you said you lead me in the paths of righteousness, but they aren't always the paths I wanted to walk in. It's not always what I had in mind. And I don't know if you can see this, I don't know if you understand what I'm saying to you here, but we have a massive problem in our lives. Not now. Yesterday we think about it a lot. Tomorrow we think about it a lot, but we don't enjoy God in the present. We don't enjoy the I am, who is our shepherd in the right now. I mean, today. Today. You know it's a Bible thing. Today is a Bible thing. The believer should live today. That's a Bible teaching. This is a day that the Lord has made, the Bible says in Psalm 118, 24. That always kind of rankled me just a little bit because it was like, I don't know, the you know, the prosperity, everything's going my way, guy, and kind of wake you up, give you positive thoughts. But it's a Bible thought, and I didn't always accept it, didn't always go with it, didn't always think like that. And so here it is today. I'm trying to tell you that you and I should be thinking, this is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it today. Thankful that God gave me today. I got to thinking about more Bible verses, and they just popped into my head like crazy. His mercies, his compassion, they fail not, and they are new every morning. That's amazing. I go to bed, I wake up, and God's like, I'm here, I've got new mercies for you. I have great faithfulness. I'm always here right now. The Lord is my shepherd right now, right where I live. Well, then I thought about another Bible verse. Give us this day our daily bread. Isn't that amazing? We're to live in the day. In the day. He didn't give them their weekly bread or their monthly bread. He didn't tell them what was going to happen in the future, but he said, I'm here right now and I am enough right now. Well, the Lord has dealt with my heart so strongly about that. You know, God, I'd be happier if you heal me. I'd be happier, dear God, if you'd work out this problem. I'd be happier. And God's like, I'm here right now. I am your shepherd. I am for, you know, sheep are dumb, but I think they're smarter than we are. They just look at their shepherd and say, This is good stuff. He's taking good care of me, but not us. You know, we're not to worry about tomorrow. There's enough evil for one day. Not evil like sin, but in other words, there's problems. I got enough problems right now. I don't need to be worried about what happened yesterday. I don't need to be worried about what happened yesterday. I just need to realize that sufficient to the day is the evil thereof. Sufficient of the day are the problems I got. I got enough problems right now. I don't need to be looking at yesterday's problems. I don't need to be looking at tomorrow's problems. You know, it's interesting that God is I am. Not I was, not I will be, not I would be, not I want to be. He is I am. He lives in the present. You can't store up, you can't hoard grace. His mercies are new every morning. The manna, if they tried to hold on to it and store enough for the next day, it bred worms and ruined. Because today is the day of reality. Right now is the moment of God. Satan wants me to be anywhere else than now. Satan wants me to live in the state of discontent. I often do. I'm not happy about yesterday. I'm not, I'm worried about tomorrow. I'm not happy, and God is working in my life today. Sometimes I waste now because I'm worried about tomorrow. Sometimes I waste what's going on in my life because I want control. And James said that we don't know what tomorrow's going to be. You know, our life is just a cloud, a vapor. It blows away. We ought to learn to say, well, whatever the Lord wants, whatever is His will. That's what we ought to say. So I need to live from the words that come out of God's mouth. You know, it's amazing when I think about it. I have to sleep every day. I have to eat two or three times every day. I don't have to, I guess, but surely like to, and I need to. You can't go too long without eating. I got to drink constantly. It's really built around now, today. Enjoy today. But I think what I do, and I don't really being harsh with myself and maybe with you, is I honor God with my lips, but my heart's not there because I'm not satisfied. Because I am looking for something else, because I'm looking for somewhere else, because I want God to do something else in my life. And I'm afraid you may have some of the same problem. I think it might be more than just me. I don't know if you've ever done this, but I have been known to be seated with my wife and talking to her and looking at her, but at the same time being thousands of miles away. I'm thinking about what's about to happen or what has happened. I'm not thinking about her sitting right here beside me. This distance that I've put between us seated together harms our relationship. I've done that to God. I've bowed my head in prayer and I've looked beyond him to another place. I've wanted something else, not now, not this moment. No, if you think about it, that's not love. That's rebellion. It's a silent rebellion. It's against the I am because I am putting distance between me and him right now. See, God gives us the grace for our life right now. I don't have dying grace. I don't have dying grace because I'm not ready to die. I don't have grace for tomorrow because I'm not there yet. And I had enough grace for yesterday. I got through it, and God has blessed me. It causes bitterness when we want what God isn't doing. We begin to rot in our insides. When we want stuff and it's not what God's doing, we contaminate our soul and all around us because we are not satisfied where we are with what's happening. I've been guilty of it, and maybe you have. So maybe the Lord would deal with your heart today, and I would challenge you. Let's live today, saying, I'm just happy. I may have a problem, but right now I'm good. At this very moment, I feel good. God is taking care of me, God's meeting my needs. Let's change the way we think. Thank you so much for listening to Followed by Mercy, because we are followed by mercy. Surely, goodness and mercy do follow me all the days of my life. And I will tell you something. God loves you. I know you're going through stuff, but learn to be satisfied. He's given you life, the air you're breathing, the life you're living. God is good to us all the time. God bless you very much.
