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The Ultimate Key to Prayer — Stop Striving and Receive What's Already Yours | He's Better Than You Think (S4E5)

What if the reason your prayer life has felt like an uphill battle for years — or even decades — isn't a discipline problem, a consistency problem, or a faith problem? What if it's because no one ever told you it was already guaranteed?In this potentially series-defining episode of Face to Face with God, Rick Osborne shares the single key that transformed his own relationship with God from what he describes as "a three to a forty-nine" — not through more fasting, more studying, more volunteering, or more striving — but through understanding one word: grace.Rick opens with a confession. For decades he cried out to know God. He prayed longer. He showed up earlier. He wondered if he needed to fast more, serve more, be more. And the whole time, he was working for something that had already been freely given to him the moment he was born again.In this episode Rick unpacks:Why Adam was called "a prototype of the coming One" in Romans 5 — and what that means for everything you inherited in Christ vs. everything you inherited in AdamThe doctrine of justification explained simply and powerfully: you didn't sign up to be born into Adam's broken relationship with God — so by God's justice, you don't have to earn your way into Christ's perfect oneWhy Romans 4:16 — "this is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants" — contains the word guarantee, and why that changes everything about how you approach GodWhat Hebrews 4 and the "throne of grace" actually mean — not a place you approach cautiously, begging for mercy, but a place you enter boldly because everything there is already yoursWhy Galatians 3:3 — "after beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh?" — is Paul's rebuke of every Christian who got saved by grace and then went back to strivingThe beautiful oxymoron of Hebrews 4:11: "strive to enter that rest" — the only striving God actually invites you into is the striving to stop strivingJohn 10:14-15 revisited: Jesus said His sheep know Him in the same way He knows the Father — not just the mature sheep, not just the disciplined sheep — all of them, including you, right nowAnd then Rick stops the teaching entirely — and invites every listener, whether watching live or years from now, to close their eyes and simply receive what they've just heard. Because the Holy Spirit doesn't go anywhere.You didn't work your way into Adam's broken relationship with God. You don't have to work your way into Jesus' perfect one.📚 Want to go even deeper? Explore life-changing courses, books, and seminars at Rick-Osborne.com🌐 Full Bible course available at TranzformU.info🎙️ Face to Face with God with Rick Osborne — transformational New Covenant teaching every week.🔔 Subscribe and never miss an episode.

"I Will Only Interact with You Based on Your Love, Not My Need" - Jason Clark on the Father's Measureless Love

What if desperation is not the high watermark of spiritual maturity - but actually a sign of a dysfunctional relationship with God?That's the question relational theologian and storyteller Jason Clark brings to this extraordinary episode of Supernatural Prayer Stories - and the answer he discovered through two of the most raw, real, and ultimately liberating seasons of his life.STORY 1 - THE HIDDEN YEARSNineteen years ago, while out for a run with life going beautifully, Jason heard his heavenly Father say: "Jason, I'm going into hiding, and I'm removing all your friends." What followed was two years of silence, a collapsed construction business, and 18 months without being able to pay the mortgage. In the middle of it, driving his two-year-old daughter through Charlotte - she calling stop signs "octagons" and the restaurant "Fat Bamito" - Jason cried out to God between her observations and had a sudden epiphany: "I'm intimate with her language, but I'm teaching her mine. Maybe God has better language for me."Two years later, out for another run, the tap turned back on. God took Jason back to a moment at Bible college when a woman named Sister Sylvia had prayed over him: "You feel like a spiritual dwarf, but God sees you as a spiritual giant." Jason had wept then - the ugly, embarrassing kind - because he wanted it to be true but didn't believe it. Now God said: "Before the foundations of the earth, I have seen you in Christ. You can keep living insecure and desperate - or you can decide to agree with me today." And then: "Hey Jason, am I a good Father? Then if there's dysfunction in our relationship, it's not on my end."Jason prayed what he calls the most transformative prayer of his life: "From this moment forward, I will only interact with you based on your love - not based on my need."STORY 2 - THE TIRE, THE $1,000, AND THE TIMES TWO LOVEStill in the aftermath of the hidden years - $200 to his name, dangerous tires, driving three hours to a conference where he felt completely invisible - Jason refused to pray desperate prayers. Instead: "Father, you're aware of this, and I trust in the measureless nature of your love that you'll provide." The front driver's side tire blew in the Walmart parking lot as he handed over his keys. The attending said: "You've got somebody driving with you, man." A stranger pulled his truck onto the sidewalk and handed Jason an envelope - exactly $1,000. And while laughing about the tire getting every last inch it was designed for, Jason told God: "I want you to feel about me at the end of my life the way I'm feeling about that silly tire right now." God interrupted him immediately: "Son, since before the foundations of the earth, I felt that about you. Well done. It's already yours."PLUS IN THIS EPISODE:- The "times two" game with his five-year-old daughter and why it became his picture of the gospel- Why desperation in a child-father relationship is dysfunction - not devotion- The "ultimate prophecy" download he received at a conference and why it's nothing but Scripture- John 10:14-15 and the revelation that Jesus gave us not just His joy and peace - but His position with the Father- Why tacos are a universal love language and why everything good happens around a tableJason Clark is the author of Leaving and Finding Jesus, Prone to Love, God Is (Not) In Control, and Rethinking God with Tacos. He is the lead communicator at A Family Story and co-host of the Rethinking God with Tacos Podcast (1M+ downloads). Find him at afamilystory.orgWatch live every Wednesday at 12 PM Pacific: www.youtube.com/@getfacetofacewithgodTranzformU Online Bible School: TranzformU.infoBehind the Curtain membership: www.joinbehindthecurtain.comGet in touch with Jason: www.afamilystory.org

Jesus Actually Promised to Reveal the Father to You — Are You Letting Him? | He's Better Than You Think (S4E4)

What if the reason knowing God feels so hard isn't a discipline problem, a faith problem, or a prayer problem — but simply that you didn't know Jesus already promised to fix it?In this revelation-rich episode of Face to Face with God, Rick Osborne digs into one of the most overlooked passages in all of Scripture — Matthew 11:25-30 — and uncovers layer after layer of gold that most believers have read right past for years. Because this passage isn't primarily about having a childlike attitude. It's about what Jesus personally committed to do for every one of His own: reveal the Father.Rick opens with a reframe that changes everything. When Jesus says the Father has "hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children," He's not contrasting attitudes — He's contrasting covenants. The wise and understanding are those still in Adam, trying to figure God out on their own. The children are God's children — returned to the Father through Christ, with Jesus Himself appointed as the one who reveals the Father to them.In this episode Rick unpacks:Why Matthew 11:27 — "no one knows the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him" — is not about being specially selected, but about Jesus taking on the task of revealing the Father to everyone who comes to HimThe stunning connection between Matthew 11:28-30 and Exodus 33 — where Moses begs God to reveal His ways, asks to see His glory, and God answers: "My presence will go with you and I will give you rest" — the exact same rest Jesus promises in Matthew 11Why "the cleft of the rock" where God hid Moses isn't just a physical location — it's a prophecy of you in Christ, yoked with Jesus, covered and revealed simultaneouslyHow John 1:18 — "No one has ever seen God... but He has made Him known" — means Jesus is literally doing right now, as your high priest, what He's always been appointed to do: take the cover off the Father for youWhy the struggle to know God, hear His voice, and sense His presence is often not a failure of effort — it's a failure to ask Jesus to do what He already promisedWhat it means practically to "yoke yourself with Christ" — not as a metaphor for hard work, but as an invitation into the same rest Moses longed for and Jesus now providesAnd then Rick does something simple and powerful: he stops and invites every listener — whether watching live or years later on recording — to quietly tell Jesus "From now on, I want to yield to you as you reveal the Father to me."Because the Father wants a relationship with you more than you want one with Him. He didn't just provide the way. He provided the teacher. And that teacher is still working.You don't need to grope around trying to get God's attention. He's already arranged everything. Ask Jesus to show you the Father — and then get out of the way.🗂️ Want to lead a small group or home Bible study through this series? Leader's guides for the first two seasons are available now at Rick-Osborne.com — click Shop.🌐 Go deeper with the full Bible course at TranzformU.info🎙️ Face to Face with God with Rick Osborne — transformational New Covenant teaching every week.🔔 Subscribe and never miss an episode.👉 Hear God's Voice Workshop: www.HearGodsVoiceNow.com Starts August 7th. Register today! (recordings available)

Born on Iran's Bloodiest Day — Now Fueling the World's Fastest Growing Underground Church | Lana Silk — Supernatural Prayer Stories

What if God chose the darkest day in a nation's history to birth the very person He would use to bring it light?Lana Silk was born on Black Friday 1978 — the deadliest day of the protests that turned Iran into an Islamic theocracy. At seven she was preaching the gospel from her balcony to strangers on the street below. At ten her family fled — not to escape, but because God told them He needed them to serve Him from outside the borders. Today, as President and CEO of Tranzform Iran, she helps fuel a revival that has grown from fewer than 500 Muslim background believers before the Revolution to an estimated 3 to 7 million Christians inside Iran today.In this episode Lana shares two remarkable stories — the baptism that became an unexpected commissioning the same day a beloved Iranian church leader was martyred, and the moment her 10-year-old daughter pointed across a room full of adults and called out a man too scared to deliver a prophetic word God had given him — a word that turned out to be Lana's answer to prayer about her calling.She also pulls back the curtain on what's actually happening inside Iran right now — and why the harder the regime presses down, the faster the church grows.Jesus is appearing to Iranian Muslims in dreams and visions. They're finding Him. And Lana's ministry is on the other end of the phone when they call.🌐 Learn more and pray informed: tranzformiran.com📰 Iran church news: fcnn.com🎙️ Supernatural Prayer Stories is part of the Face to Face with God broadcast with Rick Osborne.🔔 Subscribe and never miss an episode.Here more of the story here: www.behindthecurtain.com👉 Hear God's Voice Workshop: www.HearGodsVoiceNow.com Starts August 7th. Register today! (recordings available)

You Are the Temple — God Was Never Meant to Live in a Building | He's Better Than You Think (S4E3)

What if everything you envied about the Old Testament — the pillar of fire, the cloud of glory, the Ark of the Covenant blessing everything it touched — was never the destination? What if it was always just a picture of you?In this revelation-packed episode of Face to Face with God, Rick Osborne builds on the series theme — He's Better Than You Think — with one of the most expansive teachings yet: God was always supernatural, He is always supernatural, and He never intended to express that supernatural nature in a building, a tabernacle, or an ark. He intended to express it in you — as a partner, a co-laborer, a friend walking with Him exactly the way Adam walked with Him in the garden.Rick opens with a stunning reframe of Jesus's prayer life — not as something uniquely available to the Son of God, but as the exact model He left us. Because Jesus didn't come to demonstrate what God could do. He came to demonstrate what we could do, filled with the Spirit, partnered with the Father, carrying His glory.In this episode Rick unpacks:Why John 10:14-15 is one of the most staggering promises in Scripture — Jesus saying His sheep know Him in the exact same way He knew the FatherThe story of Obed-Edom and what happened when the Ark of the Covenant sat on his property — his livestock, his farm, his family, everything supernaturally blessed — and why you are now the ArkWhat Genesis 2:19 reveals about how God always intended prayer to work: not petition, but partnership — God bringing the task, Adam doing it with Him, side by sideWhy the last verse of the Book of Mark is one of the most overlooked promises in the New Testament — "the Lord working with them and confirming the word by accompanying signs" — and why that pattern hasn't changedHow Isaiah 4-5 prophesied the cloud by day and pillar of fire by night — not over a building, but over assemblies of believers — and why the word for "canopy" in that passage is literally the marriage canopy, pointing to the bride of ChristWhy Ananias — described simply as "a disciple" — received a crystal-clear vision of Jesus with specific instructions and didn't even act like it was unusual. Because it wasn't supposed to be.Why Rick can close his eyes in worship and be in God's presence within seconds — not because he's special, but because he understands whose temple he isThis isn't a message about striving for supernatural experiences. It's a message about waking up to what you already carry. The tabernacle was always a picture of you. The cloud was always pointing to you. The Ark was always pointing to Jesus in you.Stop looking back at the Old Testament and wishing. You are what it was pointing to.🌐 Ready to go deeper? Check out the full Bible course at TranzformU.info🎙️ Face to Face with God with Rick Osborne — transformational New Covenant teaching every week.🔔 Subscribe and never miss an episode.👉 Hear God's Voice Workshop: www.HearGodsVoiceNow.com Starts August 7th. Register today!