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.
Subscribe today and join a community to discover what happens when loved people become loving people. The journey’s just beginning, and there’s a place for you here.
Followed By Mercy
Resting In I Am: Letting Tomorrow Stop Stealing Today
What if the loudest thief of joy isn’t failure or chaos, but tomorrow? We open with a poem that names what hurry hides, the way our plans and spiritual hustle can masquerade as faith while quietly draining the grace found in the present. From there, we get honest about how living split between what is and what might be creates anxiety, and we offer a slower, steadier way: gather today’s manna, trust the God who names Himself I Am, and rest in a peace that doesn’t depend on outcomes.
Through story and Scripture, we reframe faith as relational trust, not as outcome control: Matthew 6’s daily bread, the name I Am, and the promise of new mercies at sunrise. You’ll hear how the line “I called it hunger; heaven called it hurry” became a turning point, why real peace isn’t an emotion but a relationship with the Father, and how the Holy Spirit gives plans that come with peace, not pressure.
We name the “edge of when” mindset that keeps us waiting for life to start and recover the joy of loving God and people now, without waiting for perfect conditions. Across reflection and practice, we offer simple shifts: plan without living divided, stop seeking strength for imaginary troubles, and let waiting become the classroom of grace.
If you’re tired of bargaining with peace, this conversation invites you to breathe, to receive, and to live from the sufficiency of Christ in this very hour.
We share a poem and a practice for living in the present with God, trading hurry for rest, anxiety for daily bread, and striving for the steady presence of I Am.
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Welcome back to Followed by Mercy. I am so excited to be talking to you about what the Lord's been leaving my heart about. I took my truths that I wrote out and put it through AI, and this is the poem they came up with. When tomorrow steals today. I've lived too many mornings ahead of their dawn, building plans on the mist of what might come. I called it faith, but it was fear. A restless soul trying to control the sun. I prayed for bread tomorrow while today grew cold, ignoring manna fresh and near, eyes for light for days not yet born. While the lamp of grace burned quietly here, the I am does not dwell in the far horizon. He is not waiting at the edge of time. He walks the garden of this breath, calling my name in the rhythm of now. I thought trust was climbing higher, stretching, striving, pushing on, but trust is resting where his feet have stood, knowing he has already gone before. The God who said, I am that I am, does not build his house in some day. He fills this hour with mercy new. He writes his peace across today. I've hurried through holy moments, blind to the presence beside me. I looked for him in tomorrow's not yet born, and missed the miracle that he was here. He whispers, child, stop running. You cannot chase what already holds you. You do not have to find my will. You're already inside it. His love does not arrive by appointment. It breathes through every ordinary scene. In the pause between one heartbeat and the next, the I am is saying, Be still and see. The future is not empty space, it is covenant ground already blessed. Every unseen day is written in grace, every path prepared in faithfulness. I have learned that peace is not a prize. It's not earned or chased or bought, it's the quiet of God within my soul. The rest that comes when I stop. I used to pray, Lord, make it happen. Now I pray, Lord, make me aware. For the miracle is not in what will come, but in knowing you are there. So I gather the manna with open hands, I eat the bread of now, I drink from wells that never run dry, and I rest in the I am somehow. Tomorrow I cannot steal what he has given. The unknown cannot undo his grace. For Christ, the faithful lives within me, and every moment is his place. So I lift my heart in quiet praise for this hour, this air, this light. The I am is here, and that's enough to make this day perfectly right. I think the Lord has really been dealing with my heart about how I have allowed tomorrow to steal today. I can also say that about yesterday's stealing today. I need to learn how to rest in God. I am. He already holds what comes next. Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof. You got enough problems to deal with today, just handle today. I've already mentioned this yesterday, but it's just daily bread. And I need to learn to trust in the Lord with all my heart and lean not to my own understanding. I need to acknowledge him and he'll direct my path. For many years, I've thought about stretching out, reaching for more. I thought it was a visionary. I thought that I was trying to do more. I called it hunger, but I'm afraid heaven called it hurry. I didn't realize that my restlessness was not faith. I wrapped it in religious language. But the Bible said take no thought for the morrow. He didn't say stop planning. He meant to stop living divided. You see, that's what happened. My soul was pulled apart. Anxiety, worry, fear. I was trying to live tomorrow, today, and grace for tomorrow doesn't exist today. The I am does not promise strength for imaginary trouble, only for today's real ones. The God who already lives in my tomorrow is my God today. Faith isn't about securing tomorrow, it's about knowing who is already there. When God told Moses who he was, he said, I am that I am. Not I was or not I will be. He is the eternal present, the God who fills every moment completely. He is I am, and he now lives in me. He doesn't come to visit on appointment. He made his home in us. When we worry about tomorrow, we're forgetting the one who holds all tomorrows. You do not walk into the future alone. You walk in union with the Holy Spirit, God, who already lives in your life. There's no uncharted territory for a child of God. You never step into a day that He has not already prepared. Jesus taught us to be worried about our daily bread, the substance, the sustenance, or substance of today, sufficiency, not scarcity. The prayer is not a cry of fear. It's saying, Father, you and I will walk together today. I will live from your hand moment by moment. You'll give the manna, and I'll just take and eat what I need now. You'll take care of me. You are the bread of life. You are my daily bread. You are all I need you to be. The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God. I live by Christ's own faith. I'm really not strong enough to believe, but Jesus is, and I am in Jesus, and Jesus believes God. If tomorrow feels uncertain, remember this. I don't have to figure it out. God already has. His faith has calmed the storms. His faith has faced the cross and he lives in me. That's what Jesus said. He said, I love my peace, I leave with you. I give you my peace. He did not hand us an emotion, he gave us a relationship with our Father, the peace. That's what it is. You see, we are trusting God. Every sunrise we hear God say, I'm faithful again today. I have new compassions. The Holy Spirit never rushes us into tomorrow. He gives us a plan with peace. So my job is to slow down and rest and breathe again. I need to stop trying to manage life and start receiving it. It's not laziness, it's worship. Many believers live on the edge of when. When things change. That's where I've lived, when the door opens, when I arrive, when that happens, when he heals me. The gospel is not about when, it's about who. The I am is not waiting at the end of your story. He's writing himself into your story. To wish yourself out of where you are is to wish yourself out of his will. Faith does not demand to know what's next. It delights to know who is near. If peace only comes when circumstances change, it's not peace. It's bargaining. Real peace comes when you see that the same God who was faithful in the past will be faithful in the future. We'll be faithful today. We'll have to chase him. We're not walking into uncertain tomorrow. We're on covenant relationship. His compassions are new every day. We wake up and we remember that he was good yesterday and he'll be good again today. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit live in me and give me new life. I am to be careful for nothing. I'm to not be anxious, not divided, not distracted. I'm not to worry. I'm not to live split between what is and what might be, where I am and where I could be. I am to have the peace of God that passes all understanding. And it comes not from figuring things out, but realizing who's in charge. It's not something we achieve, it's someone we trust. So waiting is not wasted time. It's the classroom of grace. And when it seems like God is absent and we're not getting answers, we can know God has not left us. We can trust Him. He is the God I am. And joy is not found in a perfect tomorrow. It's found in a perfect Christ. We are not content as in resignation, but in revelation. We know God is at work. We know that God is not silent. We know that He is always with us. The I Am never says, one day I'll be with you. He said, Lo, I'm with you always, even under the earth. Faith is not about reaching in tomorrow, it's resting in I Am, the one who already feels tomorrow. I don't know if this is helping you, but this is what the Lord's working on my heart about. That I need to live right now, right where I am, and accept things as they are, and to deepen my relationship with God. I've lived too much of my life wishing I was there when I was here, wishing this would happen, and not being satisfied, not being happy. It's like looking at your wife and saying, I'll love you if you have children, I'll love you if you lose weight, I'll love you if you cook. No, no. Let's enjoy the person, the person right now. Our God is good to us and He is working in our lives. Nothing like it. No one ever has been like it. I'm so excited that we serve the God of now. I am my shepherd. Thank you for listening to Followed by Mercy. We are surely followed by Mercy. I am learning more every day. I think all the things that happened in my life recently have been the greatest thing because they brought me to a place where I realized he is all I need. He is the person. It's not the place, it's the person. I love Jesus. He loves me more than anything. He loves me, and I can be satisfied. Thank you for listening. Share this with someone if it's a blessing.
