You have never been a person who splashes around in the shallows. You swim toward deeper. Buoy is about moving through life with a resilient, unsinkable witness anchored in the power of seeking God’s nature. Faith that rocks. In open water. Spend a few minutes navigating a deeper perspective on how our faith is God&#39;s divine persuasion in our deep blue lives--how we witness to each other. 99 episodes. Because Jesus will leave the 99 to find you when you have lost your way (Matthew 18:12). If you want to buoy your life, or your swim brought you to this open water but you’re not sure why, we are on the same journey. Hello human.

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Episode 98. I Want to Live All of Life Coram Deo (show me your Glory, Lord) It is all about the knowing. About a relationship with our Creator that answers to, that fulfills all the shortcomings of our earthly connections with each other. From the beginning of creation, the Genesis of what we know as part of humanity, we seek and seek and seek—from within our soulful depths—to know Him.  Like Moses, who said “show me your glory, Lord.”Like Paul, who said “I want to know Christ.” Because of Jesus, who asks, “Don’t you know me?”  I answer “yes, I know you, Jesus. But being human is never enough. I know you are God’s beloved Son. I know you love me. I know more and more what you do for me every day. But I want to know you more deeply. I want to know your every goodness, your full honor. So, I ask you, my Savior, like Moses asked your Father: “Cover my face with your hand, so I can see your goodness pass by.” Exodus 33: 18-19 18 Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.”19 And the LORD said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. #Mosesmountain #coremdeo #inGod’presence #thefaceofGod #themysteryofChrist #Paul’stransformation #theroadtoDamascus #podmatchcommunity #humility #eternity #suffering #loveunconditionally #God’smercy #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

I Want to Live All of Life Coram Deo (show me your Glory, Lord)

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Episode 97. From Him, Through Him, and Back To Him (I am a Glory girl)  God gives us what we need to bring His glory back to Him. I have never thought this before. I did not know this until He put it on my heart.  My life purpose is to be obedient to what is from Him, and take the “from” to serve others through Him, so His glory returns to Him.  I am a Glory girl.  I have His Son to make God’s reconciliation possible through my life.I have the Holy Spirit to connect the from, through and to in my earthly life.   From. Through. To. What is not as easily understood, but one of the most powerful principles of this is that so much of what we think is needed to live just falls away. When I position the From-Through-To as a question, that builds on itself, it is like the lightning in a summer storm sky. A revelation, my inner apocalypse. Clarity at the beginning of my every next step that is about to be reconciled by God. The Question: Am I obedient to what is from God?Am I obedient to what is from God to do this thing through His Spirit?Am I obedient to what is from God to do this thing through His Spirit to bring glory to Him? Romans 11:36 36 For from him and through himand to him are all things.To him be the glory forever. Amen. #everythingfromGod #forHisglory #toGod’sGlory #God’sGlory #themysteryofChrist #Paul’stransformation #theroadtoDamascus #podmatchcommunity #humility #eternity #suffering #loveunconditionally #God’smercy #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

From Him, Through Him, and Back To Him (I am a Glory girl)

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Episode 96. I Know God by His Revelation (my soul stirs for reconciliation of the heavens and earth) I spend a good portion of BUOY in the scripture. I believe it’s the most powerful place to hang out together. I suspect I lose humans long before I say “His grace, my gratitude...” because of all the scriptures I note. But I do so as if studying the stars, like the shepherd David. The more I study His Word, the less I want to rewrite it. That’s a hard-fought truth as a writer.  God redeems my life through my witness. I can write about that because the more I study His Word, the more I want to live in His bigger story where the heavens and earth unite. And He gives me a medium for sharing my spiritual gifts. God gives me, gives all of us one way to boast. Jeremiah says in Chapter 9: 23-24: Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.” God delights when His people truly know Him. Because to know Him is to love Him. That’s how we witness. We boast in God’s sovereignty, His steadfast love, His bigger story, His everything. A powerful witness is born out of my own inner apocalypse, so I ask this question: Is knowing God through Christ the most valuable thing to me? Is it the most valuable thing to you, human?  #innerapocalypse #meditationwithGod #livinginHisword #theheavens #reconciliationofheavensearth #Godreveals #wisdom #spirit-led #wisdomandrevelation #apocalypse #themysteryofChrist #Paul’stransformation #theroadtoDamascus #podmatchcommunity #humility #eternity #suffering #loveunconditionally #God’smercy #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

I Know God by His Revelation (my soul stirs for reconciliation of the heavens and earth)

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Episode 95. What I Keep Asking God to Give You (the mystery of Christ) Ephesians 1:9-109 he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10 to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ. Paul starts with the “mystery of His will” for the purpose of what? “To bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.”                                                                      Where do I start? Stand beside me for this, human. We start by taking the timeline away, that perspective that thinks earth is now, heaven is later. That perspective contradicts that God is timeless. That perspective contradicts that the heavens have always existed.  We live in both realms now. One day, the heavens will reign in the fullness of Christ.  Why is this so important to how we witness?  #wisdomandrevelation #apocalypse #themysteryofChrist #Paul’stransformation #theroadtoDamascus #spiritualhostages #sin #Eden #thefall #theapple #Eve’sapple #humility #eternity #suffering #loveunconditionally #God’smercy #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

What I Keep Asking God to Give You (the mystery of Christ)

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Episode 94. The Questions Jesus Gives Us to Ask (because He never met a stranger) Jesus has never and will never meet a stranger. I am following the man who knows everyone. And it is through His eyes I want to see those who I do not yet know.The Gospels give us the roadmap for how Jesus did it, and how we are to do it. The beauty of asking the question that speaks to someone’s heart beyond what the person asks for. Or thinks is needed.The questions Jesus asked are powerful cues for how we connect with those He has put in our path to love. On a first take, it might look something like this.Jesus said, “Who touched me?” – aka, I say, “How can what I have help you? What do you need from me?”Jesus said, “Why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” – aka, I say, “I see you are hurting. I see you are searching; I know where He is.”Jesus told us and tells us His love is one question away from a conversation at the well, in the garden, outside the temple, and all the places we put one foot in front of the other. #themiraclesofJesus #Jesusmiracles #Jesusknowsmyname #questionsJesusasked #spiritualhostages #sin #Eden #thefall #theapple #Eve’sapple #humility #eternity #suffering #loveunconditionally #God’smercy #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

The Questions Jesus Gives Us to Ask (because He never met a stranger)

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Episode 93. Eve’s Apple and God’s Question (I fell with her—separated from my Creator)  Choices shape our spiritual journey. What happened in the Garden is part of the DNA of what happens in our lives. We are part of The Fall. In my life today, I accept that when I stand in front of the tree that makes me my own god, I need to do this: Pray for clarity.Seek God’s truth.Seek spiritual consequences that are eternal.Loop this question throughout my day: “Does this action separate me or bring me closer to God?”Answer the Lord’s question “Where are you?” with my witness.Genesis 3:66 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. #sin #Eden #thefall #theapple #Eve’sapple #humility #eternity #suffering #loveunconditionally #God’smercy #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

Eve’s Apple and God’s Question (I fell with her—separated from my Creator)

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Episode 92. Give God Your Problem Through Praise (a DIY Psalm for bringing your humility to His solution) What % of your time would you say you hold on to your problems, every day? 10% or 75%, 30% or double that, at 60%? This scenario is something God frees us from. Seems appropriate to think about during freedom week of 2024. I hadn’t thought about freedom in the context of praise until this BUOY.  When I think of praise I think of David. Psalm 145 gives us a DIY approach to bringing our humility to God’s solution.In Psalm 145, David uses 15 verbs to praise the nature of our Lord.In Psalm 145, David claims what God does when we bring our problems to Him. 14 The Lord upholds all who fall    and lifts up all who are bowed down. 18 The Lord is near to all who call on him,    to all who call on him in truth.  (that takes humility, human) 20 The Lord watches over all who love him,    but all the wicked he will destroy. He upholds us when we fall.He is near when we call.He watches over when we love. This is a pretty amazing definition of His presence in my life. Psalm 145: 21 21 My mouth will speak in praise of the Lord.    Let every creature praise his holy name    for ever and ever. #God’sWay #praiseGod #praiseGodwithhumility #humility #eternity #suffering #loveunconditionally #God’smercy #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

Give God Your Problem Through Praise (a DIY Psalm for bringing your humility to His solution)

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Episode 91. I Lost Someone Twice (who I am not done loving in Christ Alone) ...think about the emotional shards in your relationships that leave parts of your life broken, bleeding, splintered by conversations unspoken, dialogues that went downhill, moments and memories on hold, and for some, the abrupt call of mortality to cut it all short. Think about how you are not done loving. ... it is in the middle of all this that Jesus administers His peace, long before any resolve settles in. Before He brings any enduring connection back to a relationship. A peace that requires only Him.  ...maybe this will prompt you, human, to go to the great Comforter to heal, to find His way to connect your fragmented heart to His wholeness. To sustain an enduring connection with someone, we must first connect with the One.Solus Christus.Because Jesus is our peacemaker.  John 16:33 33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” #Godofcomfort #Godofpeace #JesusPeacemaker #peaceofheart #brokenhearted #mortality #eternity #suffering #loveunconditionally #God’smercy #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

I Lost Someone Twice (who I am not done loving in Christ Alone)

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Episode 90. I Rode the A Train to Eternity (a garden conversation at The Cloisters that stirred my soul)Earthly life teaches us what part we each have in the story of God’s Genesis. How we work through our mortality in God’s story about His eternity. And the one most jarring earthly collision with the soul, that feeling of spiraling isolation when death is at someone’s door. Someone you love is leaving you alone in this world.That “deep knowing” we gain. A painful epiphany that cannot be debated. Being mortal is a solo act. For everyone.After a few minutes of sharing the presence of a mighty God, a God who brings peace, comfort, wisdom, and all the promises of His heavenly kingdom, somehow—and to this day I do not know how we went from mortality to moving—somehow we found the timing to get up from the bench, and continue walking. My soul was stirring. My soul was spinning. My soul told me what I knew in that moment. Mortality is when someone whose terminal illness is imminent tells you they can&#39;t get their head around not being on earth in a few short months. We just don’t get the end of earthly life. We just can&#39;t mentally write the end.What was spiritually sobering for me in this conversation was hearing a human accept mortality in the only way possible. Personally. A given. With an estimated time. The time at hand. And it is not that realization that was of eternal value to me, it was sharing that moment, that moment when being mortal AND being eternal held us together.James 4:1414 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.#thecloisters #mortality #trustGod #serveGod #keeploving #suffering #love unconditionally #God’smercy #myinheritanceinheaven #God’spropheticvoice #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresenceFind today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a>Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

I Rode the A Train to Eternity (a garden conversation at The Cloisters that stirred my soul)

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Episode 89. Solus Christus. In Christ Alone (I am not alone).What “in Christ alone” means to me and how I fight it with the futility of my human nature. I know that sounds a little too weighty. Maybe this. I fight it with trying to help Christ save me. As if He did not. I think of “casting shade” as not living as if Christ has completed the story. Bringing things like fear, anxiety, worry in to help me fight a battle that has already been won. Over-exercising verbs like striving, pursuing, chasing goals, ambitions, and earthly measures of spiritual success. Yes, letting the shadow of earthly pursuits darken the spiritual light of my witness to love one another, one by one. By allowing earthly gain to re-define His victory.Casting shade by looking for grace, faith, redemption, salvation from anyone or anything but Jesus. We look to others for confirmation of our worth. I cast shade when I turn away His love, when I turn away from opportunities to love others, when I throw darkness on the light He is shining within me. I cast shade when I do not accept His presence, His power, His sovereignty in my life.Hebrews 7:25 Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.  #soluschristus #inChristalone #christismymediator #trustGod #serveGod #keeploving #suffering #love unconditionally #God’smercy #myinheritanceinheaven #God’spropheticvoice #thesovereignty of God#God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

Solus Christus. In Christ Alone (I am not alone).

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Episode 88 When You Feel Like Jumpin’ Ship (honor the struggle of God’s work in You) Life is full of wanting to abandon the struggle. A struggle that is tethered to, grounded in, conversations, memories, love, respect, honor, collaboration, laughter, crying, caring, sharing the intimacy of human nature.  I am talking about the human cargo in every relationship. So you are on your boat, you are looking out at the horizon, thinking you can swim back. Toward shore. You are thinking about abandoning what you once invested in as good. Don’t, human.  Honor God’s work in you. The connections, the relationships on rough seas, the circumstances that test your character. Honor the struggle of it. Honor God’s righteousness within it.Sail the strongest winds in your life by His sovereignty. He will navigate. Do not abandon that which He started. Live the story He has put you in. This is how we witness. Proverbs 19:21 21 Many are the plans in a person’s heart,   but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. #God’sWillprevails #TrustGodwiththeoutome #trustGod #serveGod #keeploving #suffering #love unconditionally #God’smercy #myinheritanceinheaven #God’spropheticvoice #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn: <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

When You Feel Like Jumpin’ Ship (honor the struggle of God’s work in You)

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Episode 87. Obedience is the Path to God’s Presence and Provision (enough said) I think obedience is how we know God more deeply, how we connect to His presence. When He asks us to obey His commands, He is literally asking us to obey His nature. He created us in His image. This is a promise: that we take on His attributes when we do the things He does. When we are obedient, we are so because we trust God. When we obey, we deepen that trust. My BUOY today comes from deeper water. Seeking deeper trust. I will obey... Not because I want to be good. Although I do. Not because He tells me to. Although sometimes, this is the simplest way to get me off the spiritual couch.   Not because bad things will happen to me, if I don’t. I will obey because I want to know Him better.  I want His presence to flood my life, my heart, my soul. His distant swell that comes from hundreds of miles out at sea, where only He stands tall in bottomless waters.  Jesus, Luke 6:46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? #obeymycommands #obedience #obeyingGod #God’sprovision #God’spresence #thejoyofmysalvation #serveGod #lovingoneanother #suffering #love unconditionally #God’smercy #myinheritanceinheaven #God’spropheticvoice #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn: <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

Obedience is the Path to God’s Presence and Provision (enough said)

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God’s Providence through His Presence (His nearness is the provision for my future) The corners I put God in, are because I only see in part. I corner God when I can’t understand His presence, His reach, His provision for my life. I put my timeless, eternal God in timeout. I won’t belabor this.  When He asks me “Am I only a God nearby?” Even though He references hiding, which I know people may subconsciously think is possible, it isn’t hiding for me, it is that I don’t grasp the scale and scope of His sovereignty in shaping my future.  That His nearness is the provision for my future. Jeremiah 23:23-24 “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far away? Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the LORD. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the LORD. God’sprovision #God’spresence #thejoyofmysalvation #serveGod #lovingoneanother #suffering #love unconditionally #God’smercy #myinheritanceinheaven #God’spropheticvoice #thesovereignty of God#God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

God’s Providence through His Presence (His nearness is the provision for my future)

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Episode 85 ... do something from what you see. Do something for someone who needs more than they asked for... one time I helped get a spicy pepper product for a lady in a wheelchair at Costco, and when she said “this is the only pepper to use when frying chicken” I spent the next 15 minutes getting her recipe. Just time being with her, hearing about her chicken-frying technique that made everything right in the world, just time hearing about the children she raised, the good times, clearly now farther apart in her older age.  I could smell that chicken. I could hear it crackle in the pan. She uplifted me. My light glowed from it.  When we walk with an open heart, we let the light in from all directions. Jesus used a very clear metaphor for what we are when we follow Him, live in Him. We are a town built on a hill. We are full of light, and always positioned through His intent to be a beacon to others. If we live in darkness, it doesn’t matter how high we sit on that hill. His sovereignty, His power, His glory goes unnoticed.  When we shine His light, we are saying “I am open to helping you. I am open to casting my light on your space, your life, to help you see your next step. To help you solve an immediate problem. To soothe a little anxiety with my light.” Because Jesus is kind.

I need to show I am open to helping others more (Jesus said, “Your light is a house on a hill.”)

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Episode 84. Who is Willing to Consecrate Themselves to the Lord Today? (calling all broken spirits and cedar logs) Psalm 51:17 17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;    a broken and contrite heart    you, God, will not despise. I am layer upon layer crazy about this... that the thing we can give to God through the agency of our free will, are the things that come from a broken spirit. A broken spirit requires everything we are. That we sacrifice more cedar logs than could be counted. To be clear, to seek clarity, to better comprehend, here is a start to what I choose out of my broken spirit.  Consider who we choose, and over what. Join me. I choose His provision over my prowess.I choose His sovereignty over my self-interest.I choose His love over my lament.I choose His grace over my good deeds.I choose His call over my captions. I choose His glory over my gain.I choose His will over my wanting.I choose His call over my creativity.I choose His story over my strategy. I choose His delight over my determination. I choose His strength over my stamina.I choose His bounty over my best effort. I choose His Son over my sovereignty. When we have a broken spirit, what we leave behind is what our sin nature tries to hold us captive to. ... all the earthly pursuits we try to power through on our own merit.  It is such a strain on our God-given soul. #brokenspirit #livingsacrifice #sacrificetoGod #sacrifice #greatisGod’sfaithfulness #sustainmyspiritohLord #thejoyofmysalvation #awilling spirit #serveGod #lovingoneanother #suffering #love unconditionally #God’smercy #myinheritanceinheaven #God’spropheticvoice #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faithrockyourfaith #mywitness99 #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

Who is Willing to Consecrate Themselves to the Lord Today? (calling all broken spirits and cedar logs)

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Episode 83. I Sing to the Lord a New Song (wake up to His faithfulness) Turning our face toward God, toward Jesus, focusing on His faithfulness, is the best possible training for singing to Him. We are made in His image, so our faith comes from His faithfulness. When we look to Him for the lyrics to a new song every morning, and throughout our day, it comes when we acknowledge His faithfulness to each of us, and His presence and power in our lives. Psalm 96 1 Sing to the Lord a new song;    sing to the Lord, all the earth.2 Sing to the Lord, praise his name;    proclaim his salvation day after day.3 Declare his glory among the nations,    his marvelous deeds among all peoples. It comes from getting good at naming new songs, new revelations of His renewing grace each day.#newmercies #newmercieseveryday #greatisGod’sfaithfulness #anewsong #sustainmyspiritohLord #thejoyofmysalvation #awilling spirit #serveGod #lovingoneanother #suffering #love unconditionally #loveourenemies #lovingeverysingleone #God’smercy #confessionstoGod #GardenofEden #myinheritanceinheaven #God’spropheticvoice #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christseekers #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faiththatrocks #mywitness99 #askGodforinsight #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

I Sing to the Lord a New Song (wake up to His faithfulness)

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Episode 82. I Pray Beyond the Healing (my suffering is parenthetical to His Glory)  So, what is so important to me, and for you, human, is to praise how God stabilizes us, so we can do His will for His glory.  I pray every morning—because this is one of my diehard fears, that something like vertigo will stand in the way of His purpose for my life—so I pray that God will manage my health. That every health challenge I encounter—my vertigo, my asthma, and the inevitable that comes with physical aging—will not stand in the way of His purpose for my life.  That my suffering is parenthetical to how my life reflects His glory. Steady me Lord, wherever I go. Because I go with You. Because I go for you.  With this I encourage you to pray beyond being healed. Pray beyond your suffering. Because you are praying to the One who reigns, the One who is sovereign, whose right hand will take you where He wants you to go. We are Christlike in our suffering, so we can be who we need to be to bring His glory to the lives of others.  Isaiah 41:1010 So do not fear, for I am with you;    do not be dismayed, for I am your God.I will strengthen you and help you;    I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. #prayersforthosewhosuffer #vertigo #praybeyondhealing #praybeyondsuffering #sustainmyspiritohLord #thejoyofmysalvation #awilling spirit #serveGod #lovingoneanother #suffering #love unconditionally #loveourenemies #lovingeverysingleone #God’smercy #confessionstoGod #GardenofEden #myinheritanceinheaven #God’spropheticvoice #thesovereignty of God #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christseekers #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faiththatrocks #mywitness99 #askGodforinsight #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

I Pray Beyond the Healing (my suffering is parenthetical to His Glory)

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BUOY Episode 81. God Gives Me a Willing Spirit (when I bring my broken spirit to Him) Psalm 51: 11-12 11 Do not cast me from your presence    or take your Holy Spirit from me.12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation    and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. When I drift, I lose my joy. It’s the first thing to go... I remember having had it, I know it is still there, but I can’t fully access it because it comes from living in His presence. It comes from my Heavenly Father, my Savior, and the Holy Spirit.  I can’t long for it, or even want the joy of loving God without a willing spirit that comes from Him. And it is that spirit that keeps me tethered to His wind, His water.#sustainmyspiritohLord #thejoyofmysalvation #awilling spirit #serveGod #lovingoneanother #suffering #love unconditionally #loveourenemies #lovingeverysingleone #God’smercy #confessionstoGod #GardenofEden #myinheritanceinheaven #God’spropheticvoice #Godissovereign #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thegoodandperfectgift #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christseekers #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faiththatrocks #mywitness99 #askGodforinsight #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresenceFind today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a>Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

God Gives Me a Willing Spirit (when I bring my broken spirit to Him)

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Episode 80. .... It does mean we all make one binary choice. God, or man. God, or things, God, or fame. God, or fortune. God, or followers. Am I trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? There is a timely moment in your life, human, when you decide to take that one-way all-in ride to your abbey, your purpose according to how your Creator intended you to live. And a thousand moments in every day that we confirm that choice, over and over again.  Such a life is sufficient through Christ. Ask Mother Dolores. Galatians 1:10 10 Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ. #HollywoodtoHolyGround #serveGod #anaudienceofone #lovingoneanother #suffering #love unconditionally #loveourenemies #lovingeverysingleone #God’smercy #confessionstoGod #GardenofEden #myinheritanceinheaven #God’spropheticvoice #Godissovereign #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thegoodandperfectgift #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christseekers #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faiththatrocks #mywitness99 #askGodforinsight #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

An Audience of One (from Hollywood to Holy Ground)

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Episode 79. What we want is often not what Jesus was sent to do. Or for the purpose for which He was sent. Jesus asks me to get clear, be honest about what is in my heart, be honest about why I am approaching Him. Jesus is not the Savior of our selfish purposes. He is the Savior of our selfish nature. Jesus is not the Lord of our self-proclaimed life. He is the Lord of our eternal life with Him. So, I have been thinking about how I answer this question from Jesus: What do I want Him to do? Because whatever it is, it is built on the premise of what He has already done. He has already died for my sin.  Mark 10:49-51 49 Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” So, they called to the blind man, “Cheer up! On your feet! He’s calling you.” 50 Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus. 51 “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him. #healingtheblindman #resurrection #serveGod #lovingoneanother #suffering #love unconditionally #loveourenemies #lovingeverysingleone #God’smercy #confessionstoGod #GardenofEden #myinheritanceinheaven #God’spropheticvoice #Godissovereign #God’sstory #forGodsoloved #thegoodandperfectgift #thedivinegift #theperfectgift #fruitoftheSpirit #Iamfound #christianpodcast #christseekers #christfollowers #hopewriterscommunity #truthtotablecommunity #faiththatrocks #mywitness99 #askGodforinsight #buildingspiritualcharacter #growmyfaith #God’spresence Find today’s show notes and links at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://kathrynbise.com/category/buoy-podcast-show-notes/</a> Listen here: Pod LinkInstagram (link in bio)Never miss an episode  | subscribe at <a href="https://kathrynbise.com/stay-connected/" rel="nofollow">kathrynbise.com</a>Connect with Kathryn:  <a href="mailto:deeperwater@kathrynbise.com" rel="nofollow">deeperwater@kathrynbise.com</a>

When Jesus Asks, “What do you want me to do for you?” (answer Him)

Buoy provides perspective anchored in the power of seeking God’s nature to strengthen your spiritual stamina for deeper water. A buoyed life guides others to God’s divine persuasion and revelation.

A buoy thrives in open water. A buoy needs push back, wind chop, raging swells to do what it does. Buoy is about moving through life with a resilient, unsinkable witness. A buoyed life guides others to God’s divine persuasion and revelation. My goal is to provide perspective anchored in the power of seeking God’s nature. A perspective that gives you something to navigate around with for a while, that strengthens your spiritual stamina for deeper water. 

I am in that water too.




