Here’s a new video on the power and importance of forgiveness.
The Power and Importance of Forgiveness
CELEBRITY CULTURE VERSES A CULTURE OF CELEBRATION
THE PODCAST SHOW HITS THE ROAD
On October 12th, we are embarking on a podcast tour from Seattle to Hollywood, California.
For two days, we will be conducting 10 video/audio podcast conversations with a diverse group of cultural influencers.
Our vision is to answer the question, "What is Jesus doing in in one of the world's most influential cities?"
Our list of guests include actors, comedians, screenplay writers, music producers, television producers, models, and church planters.
On our way to LA, we will be stopping by Bethel Church, in Redding, California, and conducting three podcast conversations with revivalists and cultural influencers. It’s going to be amazing capturing the stories of these modern-day reformers.
THE HISTORY OF THE PODCAST
We have been hosting the Supernaturalist Podcast Show since 2015. The purpose of the show is to connect, equip, and promote emerging supernaturalists on a global level.
The show consists of Darren Stott and Charlie Shamp sitting down with movers and shakers and conducting long-form, unscripted conversations. The average podcast is 60 minutes, and the most extended episode is #100 with Bobby Conner and runs just shy of three hours.
Links:
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv0Q7EpCvN_vlK7FZyupcXw
iTunes Link: thedarrenshow.com
IN 2019, THE SHOW HIT THE ROAD
In 2019 we took the show from audio to video, investing a significant amount of money into quality and portable equipment so that the show could easily travel and capture content from supernaturalists all over the World.
On June 24th, we captured an interview with Pastor Surprise in South Africa.
On September 1st, we took all of our equipment to Moravian Falls where we recorded an amazing conversation with Bonnie Jones.
On September 26th we traveled to Nashville where we recorded podcast conversations with Lee and Cindi Whitman, Alex Parkinson, and Corina Toncz-Pataki.
SOW INTO THE SHOW
We would like to invite you to join us in this supernatural media adventure. If you believe in what we are doing, please pray and consider sowing into the show.
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Funko POPS! and Ivan Roman
I love how this podcast turned out.
Ivan and I sit down to discuss everything from soaking, lucid dreaming, revival past (present and future), the difficulty of stewarding a dual calling, what it means to be a spiritual father, and Funko POPS!
It’s raw, vulnerable, and inspiring.
Give it a listen and let me know what you think.
Connect with Ivan on social: @IvanRoman07
Web: www.ivanroman.org
Happy 2019!!!
What if 2019 was YOUR year to radically grow in your intimacy with Jesus and your understanding of who you REALLY are?
What kind of tin-foil-hat-wearing-nutjob-show is this?
No
regrets!
Capturing the data from this previous media/radio adventure.
We are nearing the completion of our one year contract with KKNW 1150 AM. Upon much prayer and conversation, we have decided not to renew our contract.
For twelve months, every Wednesday, from 3-4 PM we flooded the air with Jesus centered supernatural content.
Two weeks ago I went into the studio to record a show with Paul Graves. A lady was waiting for me at the door.
“Are you the pastor?” She asked.
I must have had that “pastor” look. After confirming her suspicion, we agreed to meet after the show.
She informed me that when she first heard of my show, she thought, “What kind of tin-foil-hat-wearing-nutjob-show is this?” Then she listened to it.
“These guys are Holy Spirit filled, Jesus loving, believers!” She said. She was so excited because she works for the finance department at the station and she knew that there isn’t any other content like ours on the station. I believe this was a gift of encouragement from the Lord.
Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve always wanted a radio show. This adventure has been a dream come true.
I want to thank everyone who sowed into the show. So many of you made contributions. Thank you! Your gift helped us do something that may have never been done before, host a Christocentric Supernatural Show on a secular radio station.
I also want to thank Seattle Revival Center, who made a monthly contribution of $150 a month. I believe we planted large seeds in a field where there’s not a lot of seed.
To be transparent, I didn’t go into this with a long-term sustainability plan in play (basically I didn’t have a business plan). I knew the cost up front, and I knew that Supernaturalist Ministries could afford to take on the financial risk for the first twelve months. I had hoped for advertising opportunities, but I didn’t have the plan or the time to pursue them.
If I were to do it again, I would assemble a team to help me strategize a vision, advertising, marketing, evangelism, and community plan up front. It could have been far more successful and sustainable if I had first assembled a team around the vision, and then executed the concept with the team.
I share all these things not because I feel bad.
Honestly, I have no regrets.
It has been a stinkin’ blast.
I share these things because maybe you are about to take a leap of faith to co-create with the King on the Earth. I hope that some of the things I learned can equip you for the jump.
Maybe you are about to take a leap of faith that may have a hefty price tag on it.
For us, the price tag was $10,000 for a year of programming.
That’s a significant investment.
I am still totally in love with audio as a media platform. In fact, more now than ever, I am in love with podcasting.
Podcasting is the coolest thing ever. I can record ninety-minute shows. **[My latest podcast with Charlie Shamp](https://soundcloud.com/isupernaturalist/the-future-belongs-to-the-fearless-charlie-shamp)** is over two hours!!
I love long-form content, but we also produce short shows. For example, we have some shows that are only eight minutes long.
With a podcast, you don’t have to wait until 3 PM to listen to it. You listen to it when you want to listen to it. You can listen to it in your car and then pop on some headphones and take it with you as you walk into the office.
So, I’m going ALL IN with my podcast.
I’ll be buying some awesome new gear so I can have a three mic studio at the church. I want to continue to host transparent, supernatural conversations for the purpose of connecting, equipping, and promoting emerging supernaturalists on a global level.
Thank you for partnering on this journey with me. Your emails, messages, and conversations light me up.
I’m looking forward to partnering with you to instigate a movement of honest and powerful supernaturalists; a generation of Elijahs and Elishas.
I look forward in cheering you on as you take risks and create stuff on the Earth that has never been done before.
Life is such a gift, and we get to share it together. We are alive, in the same generation, for such as time as this. Let’s shake some things up.
Blessings,
Darren Stott
Accumulative Effect
“Wassup guys?! My name is Jeff.”
Jeff is ripped. His biceps are larger than my legs. He’s got no shirt on. The guy is rocking eight-pack abs.
That’s right, stinkin’ eight.
If I had Jeff’s body, I’d never wear a shirt.
“What’s up, Jeff?!” I think in my head, “What are you going to tell me that’s going to make my abs look like yours?”
“I’m going to show you something to do every single morning.”
The YouTube video continued. I listened intently. Jeff is about to recommend a new daily routine. I love routines. Just tell me what to do Jeff.
“I promise, if you do this, it’s going to help you a lot. You’re going to improve your posture, you're going to improve your abs, and you’re going to improve your grip strength.”
Nobody cares about grip strength Jeff.
He then turns around proceeds to hang from a pull-up bar in his closet for two minutes.
Here’s the deal, Jeff keeps saying these words, “This daily exercise is going to have an accumulative effect.”
“Accumulative effect.” There, he said it again.
An accumulative effect is the state in which a series of repeated actions have an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects (according to a Google definition).
In my own words, it’s compounded momentum that’s made possible only through consistency.
The Lord has been speaking to be about consistency and the importance of doing things daily, and as I’ve been practicing new daily routines, I am seeing results or compounded momentum.
I recently heard Drew Houston (founder of Dropbox) say, “If your workout time is not on your calendar, you’re not working out.” I smiled because mine is, and there are about four people who get to see how much I’m squatting on Monday mornings. Those four people get this email. That cracks me up.
I had a workout routine that was supposed to be able to generate results with just two trips to the gym each week. I was faithful to the method for about six months, and I didn’t see much change. I switched up my routine to a daily routine (four days a week) and immediately I could feel the difference.
Where do you need to grow?
What do you need to change?
Where does your life need a pattern interrupt?
Where do you need some accumulative effects?
If you take the time to answer these questions, you will see that the answer may be found in new daily routines, otherwise known as habits.
My recommendation is that you don’t invent a routine. Find one. Find one that REALLY works. Don’t be content until you are seeing measurable results in your own life.
I would recommend that you don’t just listen to your opinionated friends. Seek wisdom from a professional like Jeff. If they don’t have the eight-pack, don’t bother writing down their abs routine (this is just a metaphor, apply to your own context).
Maybe you’re not excited about the things of God anymore. Who do you know that is? What do they do? What do they read? Who influences them the most? Find out, and set up your daily routine.
Maybe you’re depressed. Get on Google, get on YouTube, and get to your doctor. Get obsessed with your holistic joy strategy and setup your new daily routines.
You are at where you are at because of your consistency, or lack thereof.
I have to remind myself that the system isn’t rigged. There’s no supplement for consistency. I don’t get to blame people for where I am at. I have to take responsibility and redeem each and every minute that the Lord has given to me.
If the words “consistency,” “daily routine,” and “accumulative effect” is not a part of your vocabulary, and you are unsatisfied with your current geography, allow your frustration to drive you to the store so you can buy a day planner.
Don’t expect your parents, your employer, your pastor, or your spouse to be your manager. Manage yourself. Manage your time. Manage your soul. Self-management is not a threat to the Lordship of Christ, in fact, self-control is actually a fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Hang like a monkey from a pull-up bar. Make yourself a grass smoothie. Soak in the presence of God for twelve minutes before brushing your teeth. Swish coconut oil around in your mouth (without swallowing) for fifteen minutes. Practice the piano for thirty minutes. Write five hundred words. I don’t care, just do it, and do it daily, and you will see accumulative effects.
Let me know what you think. I’d love to hear what you’re up to. Email me at darren@seattlerevivalcenter.com.
Keep up the good work guys!
Much love,
Darren
Embrace the Process
Hardship is better than Harvard.
Believe it or not but the lessons you have learned through life's processes could not have been taught in a classroom. You learned not by listening, you learned by living. You survived, and now you’re stronger, wiser, and far more humble.
There is the kind of knowledge that you receive by reading good books, and then there is the kind of wisdom that is embeded into your DNA through time and relationship. It’s aged revelation, it’s valuable, and it's costly.
Our God is the Lord of the process. He is continually inviting us into a sequence of steps and actions where we get to learn about our inherent neediness for divine companionship.
Yep, Jesus was right when he said, “Without me, you can do nothing.” How else can we develop intentional dependency outside of the process? We are not talking about a soul quest for identity or significance as much as we are about the journey to the face of God; the very process and path into intimacy with Him.
It’s easy to get frustrated when God doesn't answer our prayers the way that we had hoped. We often think that the purpose of prayer is to get God to answer our requests real-time, but this isn’t the entire purpose of prayer.
There are times when Jesus prays, and the Father doesn’t answer his requests, and he’s the son of God.
The model given to us for how we ought to pray is The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13). When you pray, “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven,” most likely you aren’t expecting an immediate answer right then and there.
Why?
Because we understand that the Lord’s prayer is a declaration of intent that instigates a Heavenly and holy process; the ushering in of God’s glorious Kingdom.
Maybe you’re not going through hell. Perhaps you are going through a process.
Maybe this isn’t the end. Perhaps it’s the beginning.
Maybe this season won’t define you forever. Perhaps it will pivot you the direction you were created to go.
Another word for process is journey, and another word for journey is adventure.
What may seem like constant delays and disappointments may be an invitation from the Father to go on the adventure with Him. Sure, God could give us what we want, but sometimes we forget that there’s something that HE wants, something that HE is requesting, and that is for us to enter into deeper intimacy with Him.
Your life – the epic emotional rollercoaster that it may be - is an adventure by which you get to discover the layers, the complexity, and the simplicity that is your Father’s heart.
Don’t miss the opportunity to learn who God is from God Himself. Life’s greatest lessons can be gleaned from the King of all Kings when we have taken the time to get to know who He truly is.
There’s more at work than what you feel or see.
There’s more at stake than what you know.
Embrace the process.
Let me know what you think. Hit me back at darren@seattlerevivalcenter.com.
Blessings,
Darren