Revival at Home: How Surrender, Faith, and Everyday Obedience Unlock Breakthrough with Alyssa Rahn

On Hope Unlocked, host Kristin Kurtz and guest Alyssa Rahn, host of the Revival Mom Podcast, dive into how revival truly begins at home. Alyssa shares her journey from striving to surrender, learning to rest in God’s timing and say yes to small, Spirit-led nudges. They explore practical ways to hear God’s voice, create space for worship in everyday moments, and lead families through love and example. Alyssa also opens up about faith in an unequally yoked marriage and the power of quiet obedience, prayer, and declaration. If you’ve been longing for breakthrough in your home, this conversation will fill you with fresh hope and encouragement to believe again.

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Chapters

• 0:16 Welcome And Guest Introduction
• 1:35 Alyssa’s Story: Motherhood And Calling
• 3:12 From Striving To Surrender
• 6:36 Obedience, Timing, And Trust
• 10:31 Learning To Hear God’s Voice
• 14:47 Encouragement As A Daily Practice
• 19:04 Staying Filled: Worship, Word, And Flexibility
• 23:30 Spirit-Led Pivots And Bold Moments
• 27:37 Revival Defined: Why It Starts At Home
• 31:51 Unequally Yoked: Hope And Persistence
• 36:57 Leading With Conduct And Declaration
• 41:54 Guidance For Wives Facing Resistance
• 47:04 How To Connect With Alyssa And Resources

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:16

Welcome to the Hope Unlock Podcast. I'm your host, Kristen Kurtz, and I'm also the founder of New Wings Coaching. I help and empower wild-hearted and adventurous women of faith feeling caged and stuck, unlock their true purpose and potential, break free from limitations, and thrive with confidence, courage, and hope. If you're curious to learn more about coaching with me, head to New WingsCaching.net and be sure to explore the show notes for ways to connect with me further. Get ready to dive in as we uncover empowering keys and insights in this episode. So tune in and let's unlock hope together. Welcome to the Hope Unlocked podcast. I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host. I pray this episode is like a holy IV of hope for your soul. Please help me welcome Alyssa Ron to the show. I am so excited to have her on today. I just love everything she is doing. We've had a moment to just connect a little bit more before we um got started today. And I know that she is going to have so much fire to bring to the listeners. So, Alyssa, before we get into um your story and what you'd like to share today, could you just tell us a little bit about yourself?

SPEAKER_00: 1:19

I would love to. First of all, thank you for having me. Um, I'm excited just to see what God does with this conversation. And um, I feel like it's already just in our pre-conversation been amazing. Yes.

SPEAKER_02: 1:33

I agree.

SPEAKER_00: 1:34

Yes. So I am from Michigan and I live here with my husband of almost 14 years and our three young boys. They're all eight and under right now. And I always just like to joke that you know, they're a whole lot of fun. Um house can be a little chaotic and inky.

SPEAKER_02: 1:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:56

And um, I'm a little nervous about that because they are still so little. I'm like, what is going to happen when they're teenagers? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01: 2:03

Well, I could tell you, but we won't go there.

SPEAKER_00: 2:07

Oh, I love it. Yeah. So um, you know, it it's awesome. Life is just amazing with them. They keep everything. Um, they give me a whole lot of stories to share. So that is good. Um, but I am the host of the Revival Mom podcast. And uh I speak as well and do coaching and um something that I never pictured myself doing uh until you know a couple of years ago when God was like, Hey, Alyssa, revival starts in the home. And um, I was just like, Oh, that sounds really awesome, Lord. You know, I'll pray into that. And so it started there and it's been a wild ride ever since.

SPEAKER_01: 2:52

Yes. I love that you said wild ride. I often say wild adventure, wild ride.

SPEAKER_00: 2:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 2:58

And you you heard you heard the word and then you ran with it. So prior to hearing that word, what like what were you doing? What were you up to?

SPEAKER_00: 3:08

Oh, I love that. Um, such a good question. So for me, I what was I up to? Um, I had just I had been at home with my boys, and for many years I had been an entrepreneur. And at this specific time, I had found myself spinning my wheels and just striving um to make something work while I, you know, had these young boys at home and feeling just really frustrated and everything else. And so I just kind of I had to let it let things go. I was like, you know what, I'm not doing anything um besides staying with my boys and taking care of the house and taking care of them. Um and you know, I feel like sometimes in our surrender, that is when we allow God to show up because I had been just asking him one, you know, praying into Lord, what is it that you want me to do? Like I want to be happy and content with being at home with my boys and taking care of the house. But I just feel like there's something within me, Lord, it just keeps stirring and it won't go away. And, you know, almost begging him, you know, to like take away this desire um to do something along with, you know, being a mom and taking care of my kids. And um and so right at that time, you know, he just really showed up to me. And and I'll be honest, I didn't really know what revival was or hear the word revival, or even, you know, like see those things until maybe a couple weeks before he spoke that word to me. And so I truly believe it was just in that like surrendering and just letting him start to move.

SPEAKER_01: 4:56

Yes. Well, I love like just kind of the capture of, you know, from striving to surrender. Um, you know, I've I've had even myself kind of walking through that process many years ago of like I called it the unwinding from grinding experience. And it was so challenging. Did you find that there was like a challenge to release and let go and and surrender?

SPEAKER_00: 5:21

100%. Um, so the surrendering didn't really, I guess I should have said it differently. So I surrendered the idea of having something else or doing some sort of business or whatever it was. But when God called me into Alyssa, like equip moms to see revival in their homes, I still had a habit of striving. Okay. That is just how I had, you know, grown up, been programmed. You know, we we live in a culture where it's work harder, work harder, do more, do more, so you can get more and have more and all these things. And it's um you can't, you won't see if you want something, you have to work for it. So it was always back on me. And so even throughout the last two years, uh, God took all of last year to get me into a space of not striving, just um obeying him, resting in him, and watching what he does, what he does with it. And that was so hard because it felt like every other week, you know, I was like, Oh, but I should be doing more. I have to be doing more. Like, you know, yeah, great. You know, you called me to do this podcast, and you called me like that. And I remember him clearly, I believe it was even the beginning of this year. I made this list of all the things I'm going to do, right? Like I should have this event and I should do this summit, and I should this, this, and that, and the other thing. Yeah. He said, Alyssa, what did I ask you to do? And I was like, Well, Lord, you asked me to, you know, start the podcast, but that was last year. And he's like, uh-huh. So uh would you just focus on that for me, please? Yes. And I'm like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 7:08

Wow. So you had like the list of shoulds.

SPEAKER_00: 7:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 7:12

Yes. And then he took you back to the one thing that was from the previous year. Was there um I don't, I don't, I'm using S words, but like, was there a stall on it? Like, was there a reason that you waited to start it until um the time that you did?

SPEAKER_00: 7:31

Um, so what's interesting is I got the word to start the podcast. Um, what was last year, 2024? So December 2023. And I pushed it off for about a month and a half until my husband randomly said to me one day, we were in a conversation about something completely different. And he goes, Alyssa, you know what you should do? You should start a podcast. And I was like, All right, Lord, I hear you. I'm gonna do it. And um, so from that point, I was like, okay, I'm gonna get this started. And I I started fast. Like I started to book interviews, like get everything set up within that month. And then it felt like our family was sick for about three months and it completely stalled. I could not move forward on anything, could not do any of it, and until June of 2024. Um, but it wasn't a it felt like it wasn't a stall on my end, you know, but it was God's perfect timing. And I think because I was still in that strive mode, he to kind of stall me out, you know, like, hey, let's uh let's just wow.

SPEAKER_01: 8:44

And I mean, even before that, like for you and and for me as well, like prior to starting this, there was um just a lot of warfare over getting this thing out the door. Yeah. Um, because what what you carry is so powerful. And I would love, you know, as we kind of move into the here and now of what you're doing, um, you had this word, you walked into it. Um, what does it look like for you to like have like a grace-based approach now into releasing what you're called to release to the world?

SPEAKER_00: 9:20

Such an such an interesting question. Um, this grace to it. Uh there has been a lot of gosh, just sitting in obedience and doing it kind of almost kicking and screaming. So I don't know if that can be an obedience.

SPEAKER_01: 9:41

I think it actually is. I mean, look at how many in the Bible, like Gideon and right? I mean, how many more? It could go on and on, right?

SPEAKER_00: 9:50

Yeah. And so there has been, and even recently, you know, he he continues to show me new things that get to come along with it. And things I'm like, Lord, I don't know about that. I don't think that, you know, I don't think I want to do that. I don't think that I should do that. Um, and he just continually encourages and uplifts and just moves me into this place of with every step, right? It's like a trust. It's okay, Lord, I'm going to have faith and take this step. Um but over the time, and it started little, and it's and so it started in with these little steps, and then it has gotten into these bigger steps. But he is so faithful that he like builds trust with us almost. You know, it's like he knows that okay, if I ask her to do this really huge thing right now, you know, she may not feel like you know, she can, but if we start with these small steps and then they grow, he's able to build build trust with us. And I think he knows that our human mind sometimes. I'd love to say that, yeah, we just jump in and we're like, okay, Lord, let's do this. Um, but I think he knows, like, we get to build that trust and feel comfortable with that.

SPEAKER_01: 11:14

Yes. Yeah. So, like, for somebody who's listening, like the tangible of like for you sitting and um, you know, leaning in with him, like, what does that look like for you to hear his voice? Um, I know some people are like, well, I don't hear his voice. I don't hear like next steps. I don't, what is she talking about?

SPEAKER_00: 12:12

Yeah, I I have I was that way before in my walk where I remember just asking, I remember just asking, asking God, like, Lord, why don't I hear you like so many others do? What they they like get what you want them to do with their day. Like, how do they hear that? You know, it it did not make any sense to me. Um but what I've found is that his sheep hear his voice. He says that we hear his voice, that he is always talking to us. And to to step into that trust and to step into that knowing, like he is talking to me. Um, so how can I how can I hear him? And it's learning how do you hear him? It's recognizing all the little things that feel like a coincidence that aren't a coincidence. And when we can lean into that, and you know, for me, when I hear him, it's not like an audible voice, which I think can be hard, you know, because we're talking about like you're hearing him though, so it should be audible. Um, but for me, what I have found is sometimes it can be like I can kind of see an image or something like in my in my mind uh type of thing. And then sometimes it just kind of sounds like it sounds like my voice, but just a little bit different, like in my head. Um, it's like a thought that comes. And but it's a little bit different, you know. It's it's like I wouldn't have thought of that, I wouldn't have said that, um type of thing. And then it's just taking the step with it. Um, there was one time I was at uh the grocery store and it was right at the beginning when I really when God was like, okay, listen, you get to be more bold with your faith. And he's like, I want you to tell this girl that was a cashier, tell her that Jesus loves her. Um and that he has, you know, I have great plans for her life. And so I'm in a conversation with her, talking to her. So it wouldn't have been really weird for me to add that in, but that in my own head, and we finish the conversation. I finished checking out and I walk out the door. And as soon as I get to the parking lot, I'm just like, Lord, forgive me, forgive me. I knew, like, I know that you asked me to do that. Like, give me another chance. And so the next week I went back to the same, to the same store, and it's a you know, bigger store. So there's like 15 different aisles and all the things, um, like checkout lanes. And so I'm like, okay, which one, which checkout lane do you want me to go to? And I'm walking, walking, walking, and I just I didn't hear a voice, but it felt like okay, this one, you know, it just like I felt something in me. So I turned down this this checkout lane, and there's a couple people in front of me, so I didn't see the cashier. Well, don't you know? I get up to the cashier, and it's the same girl from the week before. And um, so of course, that time I, you know, I said, I just I was supposed to tell you this when I saw you last week. Um, you know, Jesus loves you, and she was so grateful. But what he showed me from that is that we, if we are going to learn his voice when we hear those thoughts, even if we're like, wait, was that me or was that take the step because here's what I know about God is that if you take the step and it wasn't, you know, it wasn't him. If you're loving someone, if you're showing them love, if you're um moving towards something that feels like that God-sized dream, then he he's going to like show you, yes, that was me. Or if it wasn't, he's going to pivot you. He's going to be like, nope, go back this way. I actually didn't want you to do that specific thing right now, type of thing. And so it's just taking those steps so you can start to learn. Like, oh, yes, that was his voice. And I know that because of the fruit that came out of it.

SPEAKER_01: 16:06

Amen. So good. I I know that you just blessed so many people who heard you share, just even, you know, especially the story of the woman that you're to encourage, there's there's that marker of like, are you encouraging somebody? Are you showing like love, joy, you know, the fruits of the spirit? Like, I like to call it serve fruit. Like, if you're serving fruit to people, that is amazing. And there's never gonna be um an issue with that, right? How many people in this world need like encouragement in this day and age? What would you say?

SPEAKER_00: 16:40

Oh my god, everyone, everyone needs encouragement. Every single person, even the person that you're like, oh no, she's so confident, she's got it all together, she doesn't need encouragement. Yes, she does.

SPEAKER_01: 16:52

Exactly. And like for you, um, I know you're a huge encourager and you want to see people, you know, have like breakthrough and all the things, right? I don't know about you, but sometimes I think that those of us who are out there pouring out and are the encouragers actually sometimes need more encouragement.

SPEAKER_00: 17:12

Yes, I yes, I agree with that 100%. Um, I have a friend who she is always like it feels like she's always on, right? She's always on, she's always excited, she's always encouraging people, all the things. And being close to her, you know, I can hear sometimes the behind the scenes of it of like, oh my gosh, I woke up this morning and I just wanted to throw in the towel. I wanted to quit. Like I feel like, you know, the world is crumbling and and but yet she still can go out and encourage others. And and um, and so it's it is it's so important it just to encourage everyone because we just really never, you never know. You never know, you know, how the if the enemy is attacking them in one specific way, if there's something crazy going on in their family, if they're really just feeling defeated or self-condemning. Like we just never, never know. So yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01: 18:07

Well, how how do you get um poured into the most? Like what is your what does your day look like so that you're staying filled up, so that you can, you know, get into the overflow with others.

SPEAKER_00: 18:19

It is definitely being with being with the Lord, and that can look different every every day, every week. Um, I remember I I really love to exercise, and God talks to me a lot while I'm exercising at the gym, even with music on and everything else. Like he'll just drop little nuggets into my into my head. Yeah. And uh last year I hurt my shoulder and I was unable, I hurt my shoulder, then I hurt my back. So for eight out of the 12 months, I was unable to exercise and lift and do all the things that I normally do. And so I started going on walks, and it was the most amazing time because I would put worship music in and God would just get, you know, like give me downloads, give me things to pray. Like I would pray the entire walk. It was so beautiful. Um, and I kind of miss that. I I I get to maybe go for a walk soon. Um, but you know, it changes and recently um it's just been okay, get in, get in the word, um, spend some time in worship and just kind of ask him, you know, what do you want me to do, Lord? What do you want me to do? Just even this morning, last night, really, I was um awake and God just said, Alyssa, like this is right now is one of those moments where you will you will see victory from your worship. And I thought that he was telling me, Kristen, to be completely honest, at first I was like, Do you want me to like cancel everything for the day and just worship? And I was kind of pondering that. And then he was like, No, Alyssa, he said, um, because I have a uh before this call, I had a meetup that I called them with some of the women surrounding me. And he was like, No, they are currently facing battles that's on that will only be overcome by worship, and so they get to be led out on the battlefield of worship where they are now going to see breakthrough because of it. And um, that so I spent my morning in worship. Like, I uh didn't cancel this, obviously. I didn't cancel the meetup, but the chores, everything else, like I just I just spent my morning in worship with my three-year-old right next to me singing, you know, he's playing with the dog, all the things. And so um, it really can just look different. And I I try not to have a what's the word I'm looking for? Like a strict structure surrounding it.

SPEAKER_01: 20:55

Yeah. I love that. And it, you know, just reminds me of like Jehoshaphat's army too. Like they they went out with their their band, you know. I just imagine like the band going out in front of um, you know, the warriors to overcome and win the battle, right?

SPEAKER_02: 21:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 21:12

And I I love that you said you don't have, you know, like a strict regiment, right? It's you have your tools, but the tools change every day.

SPEAKER_00: 21:22

Yes, that's such a great way to look at it. It definitely is. It's it's the tools, and what one am I using today?

SPEAKER_01: 21:28

Yeah. And the fact that you can, you know, kind of like I'm I'm similar with you. Like I have things on my quote unquote to-do list, um, but things get moved and they pivot. And, you know, it's like that verse, um, Proverbs 3, 5 through 6. It's like we can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps. So to be willing to be um fluid in your day and pivot and be available. I like to say, like, be available for what's coming down, you know, the track the path. Like you might run into somebody that needs to hear a word from you, whether it's on the phone or however it looks. Um, I think that there's there's so much to that. And um, I would love for you to just share. I know you mentioned a lady at the grocery store, but um, have you had a recent time where you did make a pretty significant pivot in your day? I know today was one as well, in essence. But a a a pivot that you did that kind of was like, really, Lord? Like this doesn't really make sense.

SPEAKER_00: 22:31

Hmm, one that didn't make sense.

SPEAKER_01: 22:33

I know on paper, quote unquote.

SPEAKER_00: 22:36

Yeah. Well, this one, um, a couple weeks ago, I was on a call um in the morning. And so I took my boys because they were still on summer break. We went to the park, and I was on this call, and my three-year-old did something crazy, and so I got up to kind of help him, and there was this guy just like walking around the school um playground, and he was by himself, and he was like taking video of the school, and I was like, This is a little bit weird, but maybe they're gonna be like be doing something to the school. I don't know, you know, like my antennas were yeah, and um, and so I get up and I go to the truck really quick with my boys, and I come back and I'm still on this call, and it's a prayer call, right? So it's one like I'm in and I want to be praying for people and all the things, but this guy comes up to me and he goes, ma'am, he's like, Um, does this like playground get busy quite often? And I was like, Well, not really during you know, summer. We had this random conversation, and um and he started sharing that he was back, he he grew up here until he was about 12, and they had moved away when he was 12, and he was back with his father um after like 30, 30, 40 years. And so he was just going to places that he used to be as a boy. And um, as soon as he said that, like I had seen him swinging on the swings. Like when I walked to my truck, he was swinging on the swings, right? And I just felt like the Lord, like he has childlike faith. And so as I'm talking to him and he's talking about how this is the first time being back since he was a child, you know, I was just like, I just have to tell you this. The, you know, I feel like the Lord just wants you to know like you have a childlike faith and it's time to bring it back out. Yeah, and this conversation ended up being 30 minutes long. He just started crying because he he said, When I when we moved, I felt like my childhood was stolen from me because I had to start working. Um, where I moved to at 12 years old. And, you know, God's really been talking to me more about like just being that child again or like healing those childhood wounds type of thing. And so I was able to just pray for him and encourage him and pray for him and his son. And the most beautiful thing, like my three boys kind of like congregated around us. You know, they weren't playing, but they saw us talking and they kind of came and congregated around us.

SPEAKER_02: 25:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 25:05

And I just looked at my boys and I said, Boys, is there anything that you want to share with him too? Do you feel like God's telling you anything? And my oldest son goes, No, I don't think so. And my middle son, like just out of nowhere, he just stood there and then all of a sudden, like he sprinted and just hugged this man. Like he knew this man for his entire life, and just like threw his arms around him and just gave him the biggest hug. And I was just like, Wow, like I don't know all that you just did for that man right now. But thank you that you allowed me to be to be used, you know, and to turn off this call that I felt like I should have been on, and to be present with this man who obviously so needed to hear from you. And um it was just so beautiful.

SPEAKER_01: 25:57

That is incredible. So that's literally like revival on the playground. Like and and the the beauty in it is that your son didn't even have to say anything. No, no, he did not. He literally brought love to this man who I that's incre like I'm just getting a visual. I'm always thinking in pictures, so I'm just like, oh my gosh. I love that your son did that. Like the the Lord can can do so many things through our kids, and it's just those beautiful moments that they just like right, you just get so surprised by what can happen. So I I bet that this man will never forget that moment.

SPEAKER_00: 26:38

Yeah. Well, I just pray that it's you know him remembering God and what he did in that moment. And because I I don't know that I'll ever forget it. I think it was so beautiful, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 26:49

And your boys, too, to be able to see that. Um, so revival. You said you, you know, didn't really experience it or you didn't really know like the fullness of revival until a couple of years ago when he called you into it. So I'd love to hear you share more a little bit about you know what you've learned about revival, because it is a word that we hear a lot these days. And for the listener who um maybe similar to you is like, well, what is revival? Um could you just share a little bit more of like what you have um seen, experienced, and then um just maybe share with the listener what that might mean to you?

SPEAKER_00: 27:23

Yeah, when I first heard revival, I was picturing, you know, the revivalists with the tent revivals and thousands of people coming and and all the things. And um, so I was like, Lord, what are you talking about? Like, I'm not a revivalist. You're you know, like I'm at home with my boys, like you're crazy. And uh and then he was just like, no, Alyssa, it really starts with moms knowing who I am and who they are in me. And I sat on that for a little bit and I fought with him because I was like, Lord, come on, like my husband doesn't believe in you, um, doesn't want anything to do with you. My kids like don't really want anything to do with you. Like, there has to be someone much more qualified. There has to be a pastor's wife, there has to be, you know, someone who's gone to Bible school, there has to be someone who at least has a family who believes in you and follows you to do this. And he just said, No, Alyssa, like feed my sheep. Revival starts at home. And it was a few months later where we were driving through a bad part of town, and there was a man standing on the side of the road holding a sign. And my son, who was six years old at the time, said, You know, mom, what does that sign say? And I said, Well, it says God bless, buddy. And he goes, But why is he holding like, why is he standing on the side of the road? And so I shared just quickly why he might be standing there. And and this boy, who again would cover his ears or roll his eyes so hard, you could hear them hitting the back of his head. Like anytime I'd go to pray or get my Bible out, he said, Mom, should we pray for him? And I was like, Yeah, we should. So I turned around, I gave him some snacks, I prayed for him. And as we're leaving, my son said, Mom, I see why you love praying for people. And it was in that moment where revival begins at home became so crystal clear to me. It became so crystal clear because our children are watching us, they are looking for our example. I'm sure that you've heard, you know, more is caught than taught. And um, that is so true with our children. When we just lead authentically and they can see us praying over people, they see us um, you know, getting in the word and reading the Bible daily and worshiping and all the things. When they see that, when they see us in the hard times and we're just like, I need to spend some time with Jesus right now. Like, you know, they start to learn, they start to see, oh, this is how we handle life, this is how we live life. Oh, there's a person who doesn't have anything and is in need of food. So, oh, we go and give them food and we pray for them. Like they start to see that. And I am so reminded because I'm asked quite often, like, Alyssa, so like what do you do? What does that look like? You know, basically, do you have a checklist type of thing? And yeah, there are, you know, like we were talking about the tools. There are things, right? Like I pray over them at night, we pray on the way to school, we listen to worship music, all of those things. But what I have found is that it truly is by example. What did Jesus do? Do. Jesus said, I do what I see my father do. I say what I hear my father. I say what yeah, I say what I hear my father say. And think about the disciples, his 12 disciples, for three years, they've just followed him around, right? They followed him around. They heard him teach. They saw him perform the miracles. They saw the the healing. Um the majority of them, some of them saw him on the cross and then raised again three days later. Some of them didn't see him until, you know, a couple, like, I don't know, a couple weeks later. But the point is they were there. They saw it. So then when Jesus, before he went and ascended into heaven and he said, Go and spread the good news, and my believers will be, you know, my believers, they will confess it, they will be baptized, and then these things will follow them. Like they knew then what to do because they had seen it for three years. And it so it's just it gets to be simple. It really does just start with you connecting with God, you allowing him to transform you, you surrendering, you know, surrendering your children, surrendering your husband, um, surrendering whatever it is else, you know, where you want to see revival in your business, in your extended family. And it's just that surrendering and saying, Lord, I am yours, I will do what you've asked me to do. Because when he asked me to start equipping moms to see revival, I didn't even have revival in my home. It wasn't there. Yeah. And just a couple months ago, my husband finally said, I believe in Jesus. I believe that He saved, He came to save me. I believe that He died for our sins. And now we are planning His baptism. And it has been 14 years, well, that we've been married, but 10 years that I have been diligently praying for Him, two years that I have been living it out loud in hopes that the fire would be stoked within my home and that revival would happen. Wow.

SPEAKER_01: 32:51

This is so it's so encouraging for me too, because you know, my husband is a pre-believer, and I used to say an unbeliever. So for those of you who have a you know unequally yoked marriage, um I encourage you to flip the script and speak life over it. Um say pre-believer instead of unbeliever. Um, I I think I picked that up a couple years ago. It took me a while. But you know, as you've been, you know, walking this out, I know I I I know I've run across um several women, um, quite a few, I should say, in unequally yoked marriages. And there's different what what I've seen are different levels of acceptance for their spouse, um, the wife, to be able to, you know, maybe have scripture on the wall or even have a Bible sitting out, or um, you know, some some literally have to hide.

SPEAKER_00: 33:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 33:47

What what is what was your experience like throughout the years?

SPEAKER_00: 33:51

Um the only time my husband, in 14 years, mind you, my husband has ever raised his voice at me was the day I told him I was going to church. Um and so I understand. I hid my Bible. I hid my Bible. I wouldn't let him see me read it. When I was, I'd get up early in the morning, I'd read it, and then I'd hide it away. I'd put it away, I'd put it in like a little basket in the shelf so that it was out of sight, out of mind. Because I wanted to keep the peace. I wouldn't share my thoughts. At one point, my husband even said, because I said blessed one day. And he said, please don't use that word. He's like, We're fortunate, we're not blessed.

SPEAKER_02: 34:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 34:37

And um that was one moment where the Holy Spirit, luckily, was like, No, you no, you get to use the word blessed. And so I kind of pushed it a little bit, right? Um, but it was over the years, go like three years after I was saved again, and I was going through postperm depression after having my first son, and I was just feeling so lost, so depressed, like all the things. And God just said, Alyssa, you are not being who I called you to be. And because I, you know, I was like, Lord, save me from this, like, Lord, please, I can't do this anymore. Like it was just so dark, and and um, and he just said, You're not being who I called you to be. And at that moment, I realized like I was hiding my light under a bushel, right? I was hiding that part of me. And so I started to leave my Bible out. And then God would lead me to share just certain things. Um, you know, my husband was graduating from chiropractic school, and I was getting ready to have our second son. And our second son was only, I think, like six weeks old when my husband graduated. And so I was at home with them. He didn't have a job yet, like we didn't have our business, none of these things. And so you can imagine like the stress level on my husband.

SPEAKER_02: 35:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 35:53

And I had just felt this amazing peace. Like I couldn't explain it. I just knew I'm like, it's going to be fine. Like, you know, everything's fine. And I shared scripture with my husband, and I was so scared because God was like, share this with him. And I was like, Lord, you know how he's gonna react. Like, he doesn't want to hear anything like this. Yeah. And I shared it with him, and he was receptive. And he was just like, wow. He's like, that makes me feel better. And so it has been gradual, it has been slow over the years until almost two years ago. When God was like, All right, it's time, you know, like you want to see revival. You gotta like be loud in your, you know, not loud, but like in your home, like start praying over your kids, pray over your husband, like share the testimonies with him. Do you know, like, and of course it was Holy Spirit led. If the Holy Spirit told me to be quiet, like I was walking. Um, but anything else, if it was like, share this, I shared it and I didn't hide it anymore. I started to just this is the way it says train your children the way they they in the way that they should go. And so I was like, I am training my children in the way that they should go. I can't control my husband, but I can control what I do, and um, I can speak life over my children and pray over them and and all the things. And so I really just started to do that. And um yeah, and that's how we started to see. And I asked my husband when he said he believed in Jesus and wanted to be baptized. I said, Why now? Like, what is it? Yeah, and he said, Well, I've watched you for the last year and a half, Alyssa. I've seen you praying and I've seen you growing closer to God. And he said, Nothing bad has come from it, it has only been good. Wow. And that is how God works. That is how God works when we allow ourselves to be transformed by God, you know, by the renewing of our mind. And when we allow ourselves to be convicted, when we allow ourselves to be refined, you know, by the Lord. Um, these things happen. And 1 Peter 3:1 actually says, you know, if you have an unbelieving spouse, or if your spouse does not believe, like wives, you can win them over without a word by your conduct.

SPEAKER_02: 38:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 38:01

And so it literally is just by how we are acting, how we are allowing God to move, how we are being that leader, that example in our home of I'm struggling, I'm going to pray, you know, or oh, this is the problem for you at work, honey. I'm gonna pray over you really quick, or whatever it is. Um it has just been a beautiful, gradual, like Lord just leading, leading it all.

SPEAKER_01: 38:31

Yeah, yeah, it's so beautiful. You know, I'm thinking of the woman who, you know, her husband is is just very resistant to anything she says, and she's trying to come out of hiding. And what would you say to her? Um you know, just kind of facing that resistance. What would you say to her?

SPEAKER_00: 38:52

What I would say is that you says that if you have an unbelieving spouse, that they can be made righteous through you and your children sanctified through you. I would say that continue to stand on God's word. Um be just learn God's voice more so you can know when to share boldly in your home and when to kind of, you know, let it be at ease. But continue, just continue in your walk with him. Have faith. Have faith that what God says is true, have faith that he has called you right now, maybe to be that leader, so that your family can be saved, um, so that they can know Jesus, you know, our savior. Uh, continue to stand on that and and uh speak truth over your husband, because right now in the we walk by faith and not by sight. So right now, your sight is seeing the resistance of your husband. Your sight is seeing that he wants nothing to do with God. Your sight is seeing that, oh, he's unbelieving, right? And Kristen just talked about changing that to pre-believing, which I absolutely love, by the way. But we walk by faith and not by sight. And so your sight is seeing these things and you get to, you get to decide to look in a different realm, I guess I would say, not looking at the natural, looking at who God created your husband to be. Because the truth is that God created your husband to be in relationship with him. The truth is that God created your husband to worship him. The truth is that God loves your husband and loves your children more than you even do. He wants his children with him. He wants them to run to him, to rely on him, to allow him to be the provider. He wants all of that for your family even more than you do. And so your job is one to focus on your relationship, keep your eyes on Jesus. You focus on your relationship with him, and then you declare the truth over your husband. I declared over my husband that he is a friend of the Lord because God called Abraham a friend. Um, I declared that my husband, like King David, is a man after God's own heart and that my husband will do God's will. I declared, you know, all these things over my husband that my husband um seeks God and finds him, that my husband seeks wisdom from God and it is given to him. Like I just started declaring these things over him in secret, like in secret to start, right? I didn't like decl go up to him and just like say, you are this and you are right. No. It was it was in my secret place in my prayer time. It was every day. Like he'd go off to work and it was, I'm praying over him. Um, I'm declaring the truth over him because we can get so focused in on what we see right now. And I don't see the fruit, I don't see the change, I don't see, and and God is saying, No, no, look at the truth. What do I say about him? What do I say about my children? And you just declare that over him because God's word does not return to him void, and life and death is in the power of the tongue. So as you declare those things, there's I don't know how to explain it because I'm not God, but there's shifts that happen, right? Absolutely. There's shifts that happen. Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 42:21

I mean, I've seen it time and time again. Like, I I don't even have to like pray over him. I'll pray in my home and I'll see like a shift like in a countenance without him even knowing.

SPEAKER_02: 42:33

Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 42:34

I don't know if you've experienced this before too. I feel like he'll be like, what did you say? And I won't have even said something. That's awesome. Isn't that interesting? Um, I know we're coming to the end of our time here. I I I feel like I'll have to have you on again some time to share more as you continue on your journey. I would love for you to just share more about um, first of all, the podcast, and then also what are you doing with your, I like to call it a business tree. Um, like who who are you serving? I know it's moms, but could you tell us a little bit more about what you're doing and how somebody could reach out to you as well?

SPEAKER_00: 43:10

I would love to. Yeah. So definitely at Revival Mom Podcast. And there is where I equip moms to one go grow closer to God, um, lead their families spiritually, and raise kids who love Jesus. And um, so it is just so beautiful. You know, like I said before, it starts with us knowing who God is and who we are in him. And so that is my main mission is to help women to see like this is who God actually is, this is what he says. Um, but giving you tools to, you know, come in and pray over your home, to pray over your husband, to start to see the shifts, to make the word applicable to your life. And how do we actually use this and um to see changes and to lead in that way? And so definitely come come find me on the Revival Mom podcast. You can find me on uh Facebook and Instagram just under Alyssa Ron. Um, and I also, Kristen, would love to just give your listeners. I have powerful prayers and declarations to ignite revival um in there in the home that I would just love to love to give to them. And so I'll give that link to you.

SPEAKER_01: 44:22

Yeah, I'll be sure to link all of Alyssa's contact information in the show notes, her podcast link, um, and this beautiful um freebie that she's giving us. Thank you so much. It's amazing. Um, I I would love for you to as I do this, it's it's really for the one. Um, if you could just get into mind this one that's listening in today. Do you have anything else that you'd like to share? Any words of encouragement or wisdom that you'd like to speak over this one? And then would you pray us out today?

SPEAKER_00: 44:55

Yes. Um, you yeah, you have just something inside of you. And um it's that that stirring, there's something just that is there, there's something that is there. Um, and you're just you know that there's something else, there's something more, there's uh wanting to grow in the Lord, um, or just be more of that light. And there's just you you're feeling this fear surrounding that. Like, what will people think? What will happen? Um, you know, will Lord really will the Lord really have my back on that? And uh yes, yes, he will. I can say that yes, he will. Um, for he says he goes before you and behind you and he is, you know, on the sides of you, and he has his angel armies encamped around you. And um, when you partner with him, when you partner with him, whether it's in your home, in your business, um, in whatever it is that you are doing, you can know that you are going to go further faster because you're partnering with the Lord. Because he says that we plant and water, but he is the one who grows it. Um, and that is in everything in the re in your relationship with the Lord and in sharing the Lord with your family or strangers. Um God is the one who grows those things. And so just be encouraged by that, that he sees you and he wants to partner with you. And Lord, I just pray over these women listening today, Lord. One, I just thank you for how amazing you are. I thank you that you are um always with us, Lord. You say there is nowhere that we can go, no place too dark that we can go to hide from your spirit. And uh that you just you see us, you know what is going on in our hearts and our lives, Lord. Um, and that you are there to just lift us up, Lord. You are our refuge, our high tower, and that we can run into you and find rest. And uh so, Lord, I just pray that over every single woman listening, Lord, that there would be this place of being able to see revival um in her heart, in her home, um, from a place of rest, Lord, from a place of simplicity, Lord, that she gets to partner with you. She gets to trust in you. And we just um, I release just a new spirit of faith, Lord, a new spirit of that burning fire of desire for you, uh, for her to know more of you, to know more of what um you have planned for her. And Lord, just remind her that she is your sheep and that she hears your voice, Lord, and that she can trust that. She can trust that you are with her, directing her, directing her steps, Lord. I thank you, Lord. And we just declare revival in the homes of every single woman listening now in the name of Jesus, that the Holy Spirit would just come in and fill every crack, crevice, corner, every part of that home, Lord. Um, and especially in her heart, in the hearts of those around her, Lord. We thank you for what you are doing. We thank you that you call us sons and daughters. We thank you that you are um that your children, they are crying out for you, Lord. They are crying out for you. And it just starts with one simple yes from us, Lord. It can be that spark of revival. In the name of Yeshua, we love you. Amen. Amen.

SPEAKER_01: 48:20

Alyssa, thank you. This has been incredible. I'm sure the listeners are agreeing with me. Um, thank you so much for being a brave voice who's setting so many free. And I'm gonna close with the anchoring verse for Hope Unlocked. It's may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. And that's Romans 15, 13. So thank you, Alyssa. I will be back with another episode next week. Have a great one.