Captivated

In the final episode of our Radical Discipleship series, we explore the transformative practice of encountering and embodying the Trinity. Stasi shares how intimately knowing God—through creation, our senses, and stillness—allows us to rest in His goodness and be saturated by His love. This awareness leads to trust, worship, and ultimately embodying Christ. Through the Holy Spirit, we are invited to be filled with Jesus and live out His love. Stasi closes with a powerful time of prayer to help us encounter our King. Friends, we hope this series has inspired you to discover the many ways we can truly know, worship, love, and live intimately with God and partner with him, so that he spills over into every aspect of our lives.

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SHOW NOTES:
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VERSES: 
Psalm 46:10 (NIV) — He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

John 13:35 (NIV) — By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

2 Corinthians 3:18 (NIV) — And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate[a] the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Matthew 7:24–27 (NIV) — “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

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RESOURCES:
Part 1 – Radical Discipleship: Prayer and Scripture  https://wahe.art/3XD0hNw
Part 2 – Radical Discipleship: Worship and Fasting  https://wahe.art/3TBVOs2

ABLAZE: Stasi’s new 6-week online bible study. Coming January 2025. More information coming soon at WildatHeart.org

BLAINE ELDREDGE: 
BlaineEldredge.com
Substack: The Paradise King  https://wahe.art/4d6VkB5
Post shared from Apocalypse People – I: Embodied Faith  https://wahe.art/4ed5i4Y
“We do not speak great things but we live them.”

BOOKS:
The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives by Dallas Willard  https://amzn.to/3XGFjgM

Experiencing the Depth of Jesus Christ by Madame Jeanne Guyon  https://amzn.to/3ZnXQ2z

QUOTES:
Bishop Kallistos Ware from The Orthodox Way (NY: SVS, 2002), pp.11-23  https://amzn.to/3XokchJ
“... . Here then are the two least misleading ways of speaking about the God who surpasses our understanding. He is personal. And he is love. And these are basically two ways of saying the same thing. Our way of entry into the mystery of God is through personal love..”

Madame Jeanne Guyon from Experiencing the Depth of Jesus Christ  https://amzn.to/3ZnXQ2z
“When you are quiet before God, simply allow yourself time to enjoy his presence and be filled full in your spirit. Hearing is a passive rather than active procedure. Rest, rest, rest in God's love. Simply listen and be attentive to God. These passive actions will permit God to communicate his love to you. When your spirit is centered on God, all activities he initiates will be full of peace and natural and so spontaneous that it will appear to you that there has hardly been any activity at all.”

Eric Gilmour from Opening the Divine Treasure Chest: Your Pathway into God's Presence   https://amzn.to/3Tnm7SI
“Quietness in the absence of external noise. Stillness is the absence of internal noise.”

John Mark Comer from Practicing the Way – Vision Series Episode 1   https://wahe.art/4dZEHZj\
“If we are going to be disciples, we have to orient our lives around three goals. (1) Be with Jesus (2) become like Jesus, and (3) Do as Jesus did.”  

Background Music: Surrendering to the Presence from the album Soaking in His Presence, by William Augusto  https://spoti.fi/3XK9ZNY

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Creators & Guests

Host
Stasi Eldredge
Stasi Eldredge is an author, teacher, and the women’s ministry leader at Wild at Heart—a ministry devoted to helping people discover the heart of God, recover their own hearts in God’s love, and learn to live in God’s Kingdom. Stasi and her husband, John, live in Colorado Springs.
Producer
Stacey Burton
Stacey Burton has been a grateful part of the Wild at Heart team for over 10 years wearing many hats, including the Producer of Stasi Eldredge’s Captivated podcast and the ministry's Resources Manager. Stacey is continually learning what it means to fully rest in God’s grace and provision, enjoying nothing more than meeting with him in the boundless, quiet beauty of the outdoors. A native to Colorado, Stacey and her husband Eric anticipate becoming empty nesters as their kids, Jake and Riley, prepare to step out into their own adventure.
Composer
Tim & Laurie Thornton
The intro and outro music for the Captivated podcast is composed by Tim and Laurie Thornton, who have a passion to empower God’s people as they seek the kingdom and live into their destiny as a worshiping family that makes disciples and extends the dominion of God wherever they go.

What is Captivated?

Hosted by Stasi Eldredge, her desire for this podcast is for the revelation of the Love of God to so engulf the listener that they become exquisitely captivated by Jesus. Stasi wants to invite listeners to respond to the reality that they are the purpose of His pursuit, the desire of His heart, the intent of the Larger Story and the prize of Heaven. The King is captivated by them.

Episodes will be flavored with humor, passion, perspective, honesty, and personal stories both from Stasi and from guests that highlight the shared experiences of women living in these extraordinary days with hearts captured by Jesus.

Stasi Eldredge is a New York Times bestselling author, and her books have sold nearly 3 million copies and changed women’s lives all over the world. A teacher and conference speaker, Stasi is the director of the women’s ministry at Wild at Heart, a ministry devoted to helping people discover the heart of God, recover their own hearts in God’s love, and learn to live in God’s kingdom. Her passion is to see lives transformed by the beauty of the gospel.