70. What Blocks Our Intimacy with God? With Stasi Eldredge

Listen in and learn about The Ladder of Love by best-selling author Stasi Eldredge. Co-founder of 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’s book is a blessing and presents a beautiful path for closeness with Christ.

Stasi guides women into deeper intimacy with Jesus through a biblical progression of relationship--clay, sheep, servant, child, sibling, friend, bride - inviting them into healing, discovery, and the joy of being deeply loved by God. Whether you are familiar with these metaphors found in God’s word or this is your first time seeing the progression of these biblical relationship identities, The Ladder of Love presents a memorable framework for deeper spiritual intimacy with Christ.

Most of us long for a deeper, more experiential relationship with Jesus. While attending church, reading the Bible and prayer do help, why is it that often we may feel like we know God more in our heads than in our hearts? Shouldn't there be more? There is! There always is more to learn about Jesus.

Stasi reveals that scripture offers a beautiful, intentional progression of intimacy with God. These familiar metaphors aren't random images. They're rungs on a spiritual ladder that leads us closer to God's heart. As we understand them, we begin to understand how He invites us to relate to Him.

In this podcast, Charlotte and Stasi talk about:

• the heartaches that keep people from drawing closer to God and how to remove the roadblocks that prevent healing,

• how to recognize the difference between knowing about God and experiencing Him personally, and

• how to identify where we have "learned God wrong," how we can be in our own way and stay stuck, and how to gently step into learning Him rightly.

If you desire closeness with Jesus or are longing to rediscover it, both this conversation and Stasi’s book offer a path of healing, transformation, and the breathtaking joy of truly knowing God and being deeply loved by Him.

To purchase The Ladder of Love, click here.

To learn more about Wild at Heart, click here.

To reach Charlotte, click here.

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