Getting answers to life’s issues sometimes can take some time and require you to do some digging. Many times we tend to give up because the answer is not coming quick enough. Is that you? Then take a listen to this podcast as I share how I had a very painful issue that I needed an answer for and I had to dig and dig and dig but finally I received clarity to my issue.
Welcome friend to my Podcast Giving you a Fresh Start After Trauma. Happy New Year and I’m praying that you all have a great 2026 as I sense this will be a good year. Let’s get started.
Podcast – Can You Dig Deeper For Answers?
“I’d Prefer to Read Your Message!”
Digging deeper is not something everyone has the fortitude to do. Over the years that I had been organizing clients; I had some that felt they needed to have everything right in front of them. Otherwise, they would not be able to “find it.” The thought of moving something to look behind it for what they were looking for was too overwhelming for them. They said if they don’t see it, they won’t find it or remember they have it.
But the problem is this strategy doesn’t make sense because eventually if you try to have everything out or everything in front of you for accessibility, you end up with a cluttered mess.
I would say to them when you need milk for your coffee you know you are to go in the refrigerator and get it. Or when you go to take a shower, you know where your towels are stored. It is the same with everything you have in life. There is a place for everything and if you put it in its proper place, you will find it. When we implemented this new organizing system, I would give them a Form that enabled them to list where items were now being stored that were being removed from the cluttered mess. This way they could find where the new home was.
Organization is not the point of my message but digging deeper is and finding things stored sometimes requires you to dig deeper.
Now let’s move onto the point of my message by sharing this story with you.
Thirty or so years ago, I was attending a Church that I struggled with. When I would attend a service, I no longer was refreshed or felt a sense of peace. I sensed that something was off at this Church, so I began to stay home on Sunday mornings. I did feel the Lord directed me to do this. My daughter joined me as we would turn on the TV and listen to a preacher teach us a lesson. I left the institution but never left God.
My ex (husband at the time) decided he was going to go to Church and bring our son who was just under 2 years old. Sadly, it was for show because I was the one that attended Church with my children most of the time without him.
After staying home for about a month, my Pastor called me one morning questioning what I was doing. I told him that I felt the Lord called me home for this season. He berated me, called me co-dependent, and said there was something wrong with me because now my husband was attending Church and I wasn’t.
Let me tell you, I hung up from that call a mess.
Being so confused from that conversation because I felt I was following the Lord. So, I prayed, “Lord I need to hear from You on this, and I need to hear from you now. If I’m wrong, please show me.” That particular day my daughter was gone with some homeschool friends and it was time to put my son down for a nap. I got on my bed with all versions of my Bibles, a Concordance and my journal and said, “Lord I’m not leaving here until you answer me.” There was such condemnation over me from my Pastor, and I needed to know the truth. (The condemnation I felt is for another teaching.)
Quietly alone, I began to dig into the Word and pray. A few hours went by and nothing. Now my son wakes up from his nap and my daughter comes home. I grabbed my Bibles, Concordance and Journal and went downstairs to the kitchen table. It was time to start dinner so I would cook and then go to the table to read and pray. Then get up and cook some more and go back to the table.
Finally!
Finally, after hours of reading, praying and digging, the Lord answered me. It was a passage from 1 Kings 22:17
“And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills as sheep that have no shepherd, and the Lord said, These have no master. Let them return every man to his house in peace.”
God did call me home because He know I felt like a sheep with no shepherd. He did call me home and He called me to be in peace about it. I even looked up the word “house” in the Concordance, and it meant where you live. Finally, I had my answer and I was filled with peace.
I stayed away a number of weeks more and it was in total peace.
(As a side note, after my Pastor berated me, he went into the sanctuary because they had a guest preacher there and the guest was teaching on something I don’t remember. As my pastor sat there, the Lord spoke to him and said, “Regina is being like Joshua staying outside the tent. LEAVE HER ALONE.” The sad thing is he never called me back to tell me this. He left me with what he abused me with. He told me this weeks later when I met with him again.)
What is my purpose in sharing this story?
To encourage you to dig deeper for answers to issues that might be on your plate. Dig deeper for answers to your life problems that might be causing pain or stress. Dig and dig some more until you have an answer … no matter how long it takes.
We live in such an instant society that we want things resolved quickly or we want instant answers. I can still go there sometimes. But being reminded of this event 30+ years ago has caused me to realize once again that sometimes we need to slow down, be still and most importantly listen.
Listen to that still small voice who is always speaking to us but sometimes there is so much clutter in our mind (like our homes or rooms can have) that we can’t hear what He is saying to our hearts.
Start this new year with a Fresh Start by getting closer to the Father, digging deeper for life’s answers and learning a new way to live.
Renew your mind to be in line with truth and that truth is God’s Word … not what the World tells us, but what the Father has spoken to us through His Word.
If you don’t have a relationship with the Lord, maybe this is the Fresh Start you need this year. I would be honored to pray with you if you would like to begin this Fresh Start. Just reach out.
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