Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation
Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation is a daily Christian devotional and meditation podcast designed to help you slow down, breathe deeply, and experience God’s presence in a personal, peaceful way.
Each week begins with a guided Christian meditation, followed by five daily devotionals that explore Scripture, prayer, and spiritual formation through a calm, reflective rhythm.
You’ll find meditations for anxiety, rest, grief, spiritual direction, hearing God’s voice, and emotional healing — along with practical devotionals that help you walk with Jesus in everyday life.
The podcast also includes teaching conversations and micro‑church formation episodes for listeners who want to grow as spiritual leaders, disciple-makers, or house church planters.
Whether you’re beginning your day, winding down at night, or seeking a moment of quiet with God, these meditations and devotionals create space for peace, clarity, and deeper intimacy with Jesus. If you’re longing for a simple, Scripture-centered way to connect with God, this podcast offers a gentle, steady companion for your spiritual journey.
Episodes
421 episodes
Acts 1: Waiting on the Holy Spirit — Why the Early Church Started With Prayer | Daily Devotion Series
Waiting can feel like a closed door, but Acts 1 treats it like training. We walk through the opening chapter of Acts where the risen Jesus teaches about the kingdom of God, then gives a surprising instruction: stay in Jerusalem and wait for the...
The Book of Acts: Daily Devotional Series
A rigid blueprint can raise a house, but it can’t raise a microchurch movement. We’re coming back from real-world evangelism work with a fresh lens on what actually holds up under pressure, and we’re using that momentum to kick off a daily devo...
Micro-Church Formation Pt. 6 of 6: Leader Covenant | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Ten people on mismatched couches can be more spiritually demanding than a thousand people in a sanctuary. When you remove the building, the stage, and the professional buffer, you are left with unfiltered human dynamics and a simple question: w...
Micro-Church Formation Pt. 5 of 6: Finances | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
If you’ve ever watched church planning get treated like a business launch, you know the feeling: the mortgage, the blueprints, the complex budget, and the centralized “clean and categorized” machine that promises safety. We step outside that pa...
Micro-Church Formation Pt. 4 of 6: Safety Net | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
The most beautiful part of a microchurch is the intimacy and it’s also the fastest way a community can fracture. When six to fifteen people gather in a living room, every disagreement lands like a tidal wave, and leaders can carry crises, confl...
Micro-Church Formation Part 3 of 6: Starter Guide | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
If your faith life feels like watching from the back row, you’re not alone, and you’re not broken. We’re digging into a microchurch starter guide that challenges the “destination church” mindset and pulls us back toward the early church pattern...
Micro-Church Formation Pt. 2 of 6: Shared Living | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Handing someone the keys to your car after knowing them for a month sounds like a boundary nightmare. Yet that exact image exposes the core idea we explore today: radical, intentional sharing is the secret engine that powers a thriving microchu...
Micro-Church Formation: Pt. 1 of 6 | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
Stadium lights, smoke machines, huge crowds, a polished set you can only consume. Now swap that for a living-room circle where there’s no stage, no performance pressure, and everyone has a voice. That contrast is the heartbeat of our deep dive ...
We Are on Evangelism Vacation!
Hi friends, we are still preparing for our Live Virtual Guided Meditation Retreat scheduled for July 18 & 19th 2026. If you haven’t registered yet, there are still a few spots left. Click the register link below to register.
Countdown to Connection: Live Virtual Guided Meditation Retreat | 6 days
Life has a way of pulling us in a hundred different directions. We stay connected to our phones, our schedules, and our responsibilities—but often lose connection with God, with ourselves, and with the quiet place where His voice can be heard.<...
What to Expect at Our Virtual Guided Meditation Retreat | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
What changes when worship loses the crowd, the stage, and the subtle pressure to look “spiritual”? We explore a virtual retreat design that trades room energy for something rarer: unfiltered attention and a quieter, more honest focus on God. Fr...
What If Freedom Is Your Starting Point? | Friday Devotion
Freedom is not a dramatic leap you work up the courage to make. It is a daily way of walking, and when we learn to walk in it, we become more alive, more steady, and more present to God.We slow down for a short, focused reflection built...
What Happens When We Combine Faith & Works? | Thursday Devotion
Freedom isn’t just a feeling we hope shows up someday. We can practice it today, right in the middle of uncertainty, by taking one clear step of faith even when we don’t have “proof” yet. That’s the heart of this short, devotional Christian pod...
What If Your Thoughts Are Not the Final Say? | Wednesday Devotion
One stubborn thought can quietly run your whole day: I can’t, I’m stuck, nothing will change, God won’t come through. We slow down and face that inner script head-on, starting with a simple reflection question that helps you name the limiting b...
What Changes When Fear Stops Leading | Tuesday Devotion
Fear can feel responsible, even protective, but it quietly steals trust and drains peace. Pastor Robert Young leads a short, focused spiritual reset that starts with two simple truths: releasing fear makes room for faith, and surrendering contr...
What Changes When You See Yourself Through God’s Eyes? | Monday Devotion
Freedom doesn’t always start with a dramatic breakthrough. Sometimes it starts with a quiet moment of awareness, when we finally notice the thought patterns we’ve been calling “normal.” Pastor Robert Young leads us through a short but piercing ...
Breaking Limiting Mindsets | Deep Dive with Dan & Sheila
You can have a full tank, a powerful engine, and a clear highway and still feel stuck at 40 mph. That’s what limiting beliefs do: they behave like an invisible governor, quietly deciding what you expect, what you attempt, and what you’re willin...
A Father’s Day Blessing!
Father’s Day can hit nerves you didn’t expect. Maybe you feel thankful for a dad who showed up, or maybe you’re carrying the ache of absence, distance, harsh words, or grief. We slow down and make room for all of it, because your story matters ...
Rest: Daily Devotion with Dan & Sheila | Friday
Running on 1% battery with twenty apps open feels normal now, and that’s the problem. We talk about the quiet contradiction many of us live with: we treat exhaustion like a badge of honor, then wonder why our faith feels brittle, our emotions f...
Lament: Daily Devotion with Dan & Sheila | Thursday
Sweeping dirt under the rug works for surprise guests, but it quietly ruins a home and it does the same thing to your inner life. We get honest about the emotions we hide to look “put together,” and why buried grief and sharp anger don’t disapp...
Self-Guided Meditation Music
Now is your time to simply listen to God's prompting on your heart as you listen to familiar music from our Guided Meditations. God wants to speak to your heart and show you that he loves you despite our flaws and imperfection.&nbs...
Virtual Guided Meditation Retreat | July 18, 19, 2026
Summer is full of movement—vacations, plans, and noise.But what if this July, you paused… just for a moment? 🌿The Virtual Guided Meditation Retreat is your sacred space to breathe, reflect, and reconnect with God—right from ...
Community: Daily Devotion with Dan & Sheila | Wednesday
One lonely thought can snowball into a crisis when it only has your own walls to bounce off. We dig into Pastor Young’s idea that isolation creates an emotional echo chamber, and that Christian discipleship cannot be built on knowledge alone. S...
Scripture: Daily Devotion with Dan & Sheila | Tuesday
Panic has a way of hijacking your direction. One scary thought turns into ten, your body goes into overdrive, and you end up reacting instead of choosing. We start with that exact feeling, like being lost in the woods at night, then follow a su...
Solitude: Daily Devotion with Dan & Sheila | Monday
Silence can feel like the last thing you need when life is loud, but the noise might be the very thing keeping you stuck. We are Dan and Sheila, Pastor Young’s AI co-hosts, and we continue our series Jesus Wants to Shepherd Your Emotions by dig...
