The Word and Prayer Room
Many believers want more of God but aren't always sure how to move beyond routine faith into a deeper relationship with Him. The Word & Prayer Room is a growing library of biblical teaching, prayer and discipleship resources designed to help you deepen your relationship with God and grow in spiritual maturity.
Through Scripture-based teaching, practical faith insights and thoughtful reflection, each study is designed to help you understand God's Word, strengthen your faith and apply biblical principles to everyday life. Whether you are exploring a complete study series or listening to a single episode, you will find encouragement, challenge and practical tools to support your spiritual journey. From understanding God's direction and purpose to developing greater confidence in your walk with Him, these teachings are created to help you move beyond information into transformation.
This is more than a podcast. It is an on-demand discipleship resource, providing accessible audio Bible studies that you can listen to at your own pace, wherever and whenever suits you.
As you commute, walk, pray, study or simply take time to reflect, our prayer is that each episode draws you closer to God and equips you to live out His Word with greater faith, wisdom and confidence.
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The Word and Prayer Room
Trailer | Faith Shame: The Hidden Struggle
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We're excited to be launching our new study series, Faith Shame, on The Word and Prayer Room Podcast. Here's a soundbite of what's to come.
The full Faith Shame series launches soon.
We're Calling It Out... Faith Shame.
Because healing begins where honesty becomes safe to share.
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We're breaking the shame because Jesus bore our shame.
SPEAKER_00What if I told you that some of the deepest shame in the church is not actually about sin, but about sincere born-again believers quietly wondering why their faith is not producing the outcome that they expect. Welcome to the Word and Prayer Room Podcast. I'm Sylvia Stevenson, and this is about we're calling it out faith shame. Because healing can only begin where honesty becomes safe to share. Now, over many years of being in ministry, leadership, teaching, and also having pastoral conversations, I'm noticing a pattern. Again and again I encounter sincere believers holding questions that they feel unable to talk about. Now what strikes me is that these are often some of the most committed people in the church. I mean, they're serving, praying, leading, worshiping, and encouraging others. Yet privately, many are wrestling with questions they feel unable to talk about. Questions like, is God disappointed with me? Or why do I feel disappointed with God when I know I'm not supposed to? And I don't even like myself, much less love myself. And as I listen, I realize that these aren't isolated questions. They're often different expressions of the same hidden struggle. A struggle that I'm now beginning to call faith shame. Not because faith is shameful, but because sometimes people begin attaching their struggles, disappointments, and delays to their spiritual identity. And once that happens, the struggle is no longer the problem. The meaning we attach to the struggle becomes the problem. So let me leave you with another question. And maybe it isn't about whether faith shame exists. Perhaps the question is how many of us have experienced it without recognizing it? Well, watch out for our new study series, Faith Shame, coming soon to the Word and Prayer Room Podcast.
