Table Talk, Kingdom Walk

How do ordinary conversations shape extraordinary faith?

In this episode of Woman in the Word, we explore Deuteronomy 11:18–21 and God's call to weave His Word into the fabric of everyday life. Moses instructed Israel to place God's commands in their hearts, teach them diligently to their children, and speak of them throughout the rhythms of the day—at home, on the road, in the morning, and at night.

Join us as we discuss how "table talk" becomes a powerful tool for discipleship and how intentional conversations centered on God's truth lead to a faithful "kingdom walk." Discover practical ways to cultivate a Christ-centered home, pass on a legacy of faith to the next generation, and live out God's Word in the ordinary moments of life.

When God's Word fills our hearts and our homes, it transforms the way we walk in His Kingdom.

Scripture Focus: Deuteronomy 11:18–21

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Welcome to Woman in the Word, the podcast where we dive into scripture, ask real questions, and walk through the Bible together, one honest conversation at a time. I'm Felicia Parker, I'm your host, and I'm so glad you're here. So whether you're new to the Word or you've been studying for years, there's a seat at the table for all of us. So grab your coffee, open your journal, or put on your walking shoes, and let's get into it. Hey, welcome to the Woman in the Word podcast. I am so excited that you are joining me today as usual. Thank you to everyone that has been listening with me so far this year. And I just wanted to say thank you so much and welcome the new folks that have just joined us. So today we are talking about Table Talk Kingdom Walk. I'm so excited for this conversation. Let's get into it. Have you ever been at an event or in a class or at maybe at a family gathering and you sit back and you listen? And not just listen to respond, but listen. Listen to the words that are being spoken, listen to the conversations that are being had. Have you ever sat back and really absorbed what was being said? And I think it's so important, and I don't think we do it enough. I think we talk and we listen, but we don't listen with the intention to really lean in and say, okay, is this conversation honoring God? Is this conversation drawing me closer to the Lord? Is this conversation taking me in the direction that I'm supposed to be going in? And I think for me, it was a conversation at a recent event, and the conversation, it was interesting. It wasn't horrible, it just wasn't as God honoring as it could have been, maybe as encouraging as it could have been. Because every word is a seed and it's going to produce in your life. And it ties right into exactly what we're talking about today. Whatever is being talked about at the table of your life will determine the success in which you walk in the kingdom. You cannot walk in the kingdom and not know what the word says or be believing something in opposition to what the word says. You won't have the strength to do it, you won't have the confidence to do it, you won't have the power to do it, you won't have the faith to do it because you are now eating at the table something that is unhealthy for your spirit man. It's almost like sitting down at the table and all you have is a buffet of candy and junk. And trust me, my kids would probably enjoy that, but Lord have mercy, I wouldn't appreciate the dental bills, the sick stomachs, the you know, up all night not feeling well, but it looks good in the moment. But what they're doing is they're feeding their body something that is going to actually destroy them over time if that's all they sit down and eat. And the same goes for our spirit man. If we are sitting at the table of our life and we are consuming the truth of the world, the enemy, our fear, our doubt, whatever it is, anything in opposition to the word, it is going to produce something in us that will over time destroy us from the inside out. And so I am so excited for this conversation because I I truly believe that what we take in will be shown in our life in some way, shape, or form. I even have a line written in the woman in the word book, and it says, What you eat will tell on you one day, not just physically, but also spiritually. What you're consuming, what you're taking in, what you're digesting, it is going to go in, it's going to produce, and then it's going to come flowing out of your life. And we know that by scripture it says in Proverbs 4.23, guard your heart above all else, because out of it flows the issues of life. Meaning whatever goes into your heart is going to take, or the seed will take root, it's going to produce and it's going to flow out into your life. So if you're sitting at the table of your life and you are consuming doubt, fear, rejection, comparison, all the things, that's what's going to be produced in your life. And in that place where it's producing rejection and fear and doubt and anger and comparison and all the things, there isn't any power. So the enemy wants you to stay sitting at that table because he knows when you sit there, you won't be the kingdom woman or man that God has called you to be. You won't walk in assignment like you've been called to walk in. You won't stand in the face of fear and doubt and say to it, to this mountain, be lifted up and cast into the sea because you don't have any doubt in your heart like it talks about in the book of Matthew. We cannot be who God has called us to be. We can't do the great things that God has called us to do if we are not sitting down at the table and consuming the right thing. Hey, I just wanted to take a quick pause in our conversation and introduce you to the lover of your soul if you have yet to meet him. I would love to lead you in the prayer of salvation. So if you'd repeat after me, that would be awesome. Dear God, I know that I am a sinner and I'm in need of a savior. I confess that Jesus is Lord and I want him to be the Lord of my life. I believe that you raised him from the dead to rule and reign for all of eternity. Forgive me of my sins and cleanse me with the precious blood of Jesus. I thank you, Lord, for dying on the cross just for me. In Jesus' name. Amen. Hey, if you just prayed that prayer, I want to welcome you to the family of God and just say congratulations. So we are going to jump right in to Deuteronomy chapter 11. And this is where God is giving instructions to the children of Israel. They are getting prepared to go into the promised land. And so God is letting them know you need to obey these decrees, these commands. And if you do so, then there is the blessing on the other side. So we're going to jump right in at verse 18. It says, So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands, wear them on your forehead as reminders. Verse 19. Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you're at home and when you're on the road, when you are going to bed and when you're getting up. Verse 20. Write them on the doorpost of your house and on your gates. Verse 21. So that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the Lord swore to give. So let's break this down. God says, so commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words. That means don't do it partially. Don't do it when you feel like it. Don't do it because you're moved by it. Don't do it just because it's a good day. No, he says wholeheartedly commit to it, whether you want to or not, whether it's a great day or not, whether you're seeing all that you want happening in your life or not, commit wholeheartedly to the things that God is calling us to do. And what is that? His word. He is asking us to wholeheartedly commit to it. Then he tells us how serious it is in committing to it. He says, tie it to your hands. Wear it on your forehead as a reminder. So when you look in the mirror, you see it. Verse 19, then he says, Teach it to your children. Don't just leave it to the world to teach your children. Don't just leave it to Sunday school to teach your children. Don't leave it to others. He commands us in his word to teach it to our children, to talk about the word that he's given us when we're at home and when we're on the road, when we're going to bed and when we're getting up. So God literally covered our whole day. When we're at home sitting at the table, talk about it. When we're driving in the car and we're going about our day, running our errands, going to work, dropping kids at school, picking kids up, talk about it. When we're going to bed at night, talk about it. When we're getting up in the morning, talk about it. It's letting us know his word should constantly be in our mouth, on our mind, flowing out of our heart. Then he says, verse 20, write them on the doorpost of your house and on your gates, so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land that God swore to give. So he's saying, hey, not only do I want you to talk about it, not only do I want you to tie it to your hands and put it on your forehead as a reminder, he's saying, hey, the doorpost of your house, the entrance to your home, cover that also in the word of God. As we see in Deuteronomy chapter 28, it goes on to say, if you obey the Lord and carefully keep all his commands that I'm giving you today, the Lord will set you high above all the nations of the world. You will experience all the blessings if you obey the Lord your God. Your towns and your fields will be blessed, your children and your crops will be blessed, the offspring of your herds and flocks will be blessed, your fruit baskets and your breadboards will be blessed. Wherever you go and whatever you do will be blessed. As you come, as you go, the doorpost of your home is the welcoming and the exiting. So it's welcoming in the blessing, it's sending out the blessing. The gates of your home, the entrance, the welcome in before they even get to the doorpost of your gate, should have the word spoken over it. Lord, I declare in the name of Jesus that my house is covered by the blood of Jesus. That represents when when we see it in scripture and God is saying, Hey, your doorposts and your gates, the doorposts, when it was Passover, they put the blood of the lamb on the doorframe of their homes. So that when the death angel was coming through the city and taking the firstborn, the last plague that God sent, it would pass over the homes that had the blood of this slain lamb on their house. So now God is saying, Hey, I want you to write on the doorpost of your house. Now you don't have to go out and put blood on it, but I want you to do is I want you to take the word of God and speak that over the entrance of your home. I want you to take the word of God and cover your home in it. I want you to take your property that your house sits on, that your business sits on, and I want you to cover it with the word of God. And that's what the Lord is reminding us here in Scripture. And it's so important to understand that God says there's a blessing attached to you tying the words to your hands and writing them on your forehead to teach them, to share them, to talk them when you go in your home, when you're out of your home, when you're going to bed, when you're waking up, when you're on your way. There is a blessing attached to it. And the promise is to flourish you and your children in the land that God swore to give your ancestors. That's the promise that's attached when we obey and when we lean in to what God is calling us to do. Hey, I just wanted to take a quick break in our episode and share with you some really exciting news. This year we are hosting our first ever outreach experience. This is an expansion of the gathering, and it is hosting 12 to 20 year old young men and women. I'm really excited about it. The location will be UNLV Student Union Ballroom. It's gonna be a great time of word, worship, connection, free merch, free food, a great concert, and you don't want to miss it. And it is totally free. So all you have to do is jump on our website, purpose-promise.com. Click on the gathering, drop down, register, and we look forward to hosting you. All right, let's jump back into the episode. There's joy attached to it, there's God's power attached to it, there's freedom attached to it, there's confidence attached to it. There is so much attached to speaking the word of God and allowing the word of God to consume your life. And the opposite is said for when we don't speak the word of God, when we aren't spending time in his word, when we aren't consuming the daily bread of his word, and we're consuming the daily bread of the world, of the enemy, of the culture, of whatever we are can allowing to be consumed in our life, it's going to produce. But I'm telling you this, it's not blessing tied to it, it's a curse. And it says that very clearly in Deuteronomy chapter 28. This is verse 15 of chapter 28. But if you refuse to listen to the Lord your God and not obey all of his commands and decrees that he's giving us today, all of these curses will come and overwhelm you. Your towns and your fields will be cursed, your fruit and your fruit baskets and your breadboards will be cursed, your children and your crops will be cursed, the offspring of your herds and your flocks will be cursed. Wherever you go and whatever you do will be cursed. God basically says, Hey, you have two choices. You can sit at my table and eat and you can eat the daily bread of my word, and you can do what I'm commanding you to do, and there is a blessing. Your children will be blessed, your work will be blessed, the things that you produce will be blessed, your life will be blessed. Everything about your life will experience the blessing of God. But he says on the flip side, if you want to sit at the table and you want to consume the daily bread of the enemy, there is a curse. Curses will be on your work, on your finances, on your home, on your children, on your whatever you're producing, on the works of your hands. There is a curse. In John 10:10, it makes it very clear. Jesus says, the thief's purpose is to steal and to kill and to destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. So that's what I need you to understand. There are two tables that you sit at, and there are two outcomes that will happen when you sit at those tables. So let's say that one more time. Jesus says the enemy, the purpose is to steal, kill, and destroy. So when you sit at his table and you consume what he's feeding you, the goal, the ultimate goal is to steal from your life, to kill things in your life, and ultimately destroy you and your life. But Jesus says his purpose is that you can have a rich and satisfying life. So when you sit at his table, he wants you to have a full, overflowing, flourishing, prosperous life. When you sit at God's table and eat his daily bread. And the question is, what are we going to consume? What are we going to eat so that we can get the outcome that we most desire? God desires for us to look more like him each and every day, to walk more like him each and every day, to talk more like him each and every day, to forgive more like him, to serve more like him, to love more like him, to care more like him. We can't do that sitting at the enemy's table. The only way we can become all that God has called us to be, do all that God has called us to do, like it says in Ephesians 2.10, to work the good works he's called us to work. The only way we can do that is we sit at his table so that we can walk in the manner that is worthy of the calling that he has given us. Y'all, you have to hear what I'm saying. The talk in which you are engaging in, the things that you're listening to, the things that you're consuming, whether it be podcasts, music, TV, movies, whatever you're consuming, it's going in and it's going to be produced in your life in some type of way. And one challenge I want to pose to you is sit back for the next week and listen to what you're saying and listen to the conversations that people are having with you, or listen to the words that are being spoken through the podcast or the TV shows or the songs, and ask yourself: is this a table that if I continue to sit here, it will produce the rich and satisfying life that Jesus died for me to have? Or is this the table that will eventually kill, steal, and destroy my life? It's plain and simple, y'all. What table are we sitting at? And is it taking us where we need to be going so that we can be who God called us to be, do what God called us to do, and allow heaven to meet earth through our hands and feet being that example of Jesus? We're called to be disciples. We're called to be set apart ones. We cannot sit at the table of the enemy and be set apart. We can't sit at the table of the world and be set apart. We can't sit at the table of comparison and doubt and fear and all the things that the world is trying to get us to consume and be who God has truly called us to be. It's time to take a stand and say, I am going to sit at the table where God dwells and consume his daily bread so that I can walk this kingdom, walk like I've been called to do it. We have so many spiritually emaciated Christians. Why? Because we've been sitting at the wrong table. And I'm talking about myself as well. There have been seasons of my life where I have sat at the wrong table and I'm wondering why I have no power. And I'm wondering why I have no confidence. And I'm wondering why I have no faith to walk out what God is calling me to walk out. And y'all, I need to under, I need you to understand it starts where you sit, wherever you're sitting will determine how you're walking. Psalm chapter 1, verse 1, it says, Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, who don't stand around with sinners, who don't join with mockers. Who I love this verse 2, but they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night. I'm gonna take out that word meditating. I'm gonna say eating. I'm gonna say sitting at the table day and night, verse three. They are like trees planted along the riverbanks, bearing fruit in each season, their leaves never wither and they prosper in all they do. Y'all, that is a glimpse into what it looks like when we sit at the table in our table talk moments so that we can have our kingdom walk exploits that God has called us to. That's what it looks like. When we're not joining in with the wicked, we're not standing with the sinners, we're not, we're not hanging with the mockers, but hey, we're delighting in the daily bread that He's serving us. And now we get to be like trees planted. We get to be bearing fruit in every season. Our leaves never wither and they prosper in all that they do. That sounds like a promise to me. That sounds like, hey, when you sit with me, when you dwell with me, when you sit at the table and consume my daily bread, you get to walk in seasons where others aren't flourishing, but you are. And it oh, I love this part too. It says, your leaves never wither. God says, I will do a thing that is impossible in the natural and make it happen in your life because you're sitting at my table. So picture this: a tree. We know leaves fall off most trees in the wintertime. It goes into almost like hibernation mode, like it becomes dormant, and then in the spring it begins to produce again all the fruit and all the things. God says literally right here, your leaves will never wither. Summer, spring, fall, winter, your leaves will never wither because you are connected to me. It says, because you're a tree that's planted along riverbanks of the living water. When you sit at the table and you consume the daily bread, you are connected to the living water. And therefore, in John chapter 4, Jesus says that he is living water. When we are connected to the living water and we sit and we consume the daily bread of this word, y'all, our leaves don't wither. We stay in flourishing mode every season of our life. Not only, hear me, not only do our leaves never wither, but it also shows us when our leaves don't wither, people get to see something different about us. So when every other tree has no leaves, they're looking at us and they're saying, huh, how does that woman still have leaves on her tree? How does that man still have leaves on their tree? We're connected to the vine, we're connected to the living water because we sit at the right table, consuming the right thing, so that our kingdom walk is put on display. Y'all, that's God's ultimate goal. He wants to put us on display for the world to see so that they can see a God that is real, that is loving, that is caring, that is powerful, that is mighty, that can save us, that can heal us, that can restore us. That's what God desires to do with our life. But the question is, will He be able to do it through your life based on the table you're sitting at? Based on the food that you're consuming, based on the things that you're listening to, based on the things that you're saying. Your words have power. Life and death is in the power of the tongue, and we have to be careful what we're speaking. On September 19th, 2026, women will gather at the UNLV Student Union Ballroom for a powerful day of connection, encouragement, and renewal. The gathering, 2026. There's a seat waiting just for you. Proverbs 1821 says the tongue can bring death or life. Those who love to talk will reap the consequences. Hear me. If Scripture says those who love to talk will reap the consequence, whatever table you are sitting at will determine the way you speak. And based on the way you speak, you will reap the consequence of what's coming out of your mouth. Because I need you to hear me. Whatever you're consuming will eventually come out of you. That's why God tells us in Joshua chapter one, we have got to meditate on his word day and night because he knows the power lies in our mouth. He's not gonna get in our life and speak through our mouth. He's going to do like he did in Jeremiah chapter one. He's going to put it in us. And then he's going to command us to open our mouth and speak. And the question is, what is coming out of your mouth right now? And if it's not what is honoring to God, nor getting you on the track that you should be walking on so that all of a lost world can see a great God, you've got to change your diet. You've got to change the table you're sitting at and change it up so that you can begin to speak the things that God has put on the inside of you to speak. And I heard it said like this Pastor Manuska Charles from Vu Church, she made such a great statement. She said, The power of life and death is in our tongue, and we always want to speak about life. She said, But sometimes you have to use your mouth to cause death to come to some places. Meaning, I need to speak death over fear in my life. I need to speak doubt to come to death in my life. I need to speak that anger to be put to death in my life. I need to speak to that insecurity for it to be put to death in my life. We have got to make sure that we are sitting at the right table so that we are consuming the right diet, so that we are speaking the right words, so that it's producing the right things in our life. So the question is, what table are you sitting at? What are you producing? What are you eating? And is it drawing you closer to who God has called you to be? Or is the conversation in the table you're sitting at pulling you further away from who God is calling you to be, closer to that still, kill, and destroy agenda that the enemy has for your life? I don't know about you, but I don't want to sit at his table any longer. I don't want to believe his lies any longer. I don't want to help him in destroying me by using my mouth to speak his words. I don't want to do it anymore. I want to sit at this table and have the kingdom talk that I'm supposed to have so that I can be powerful in my kingdom walk. And my prayer is that you desire to do the same. Thanks for hanging out with me in the word. I hope it encouraged your heart and gave you something to carry into the rest of the week. If it spoke to you, share this with someone who might need it too. And hey, don't forget to follow or to subscribe so you don't miss out on what's next. Until then, keep showing up, keep listening, and let his word lead the way.