DRIVEN by Dreams ➤ Through DISTRACTION and REJECTION | the Gift ❖ 267

We are God's kids with big dreams, committed hearts, and a world of distractions to overcome, but He is always our rear guard to advance the kingdom safely." - Kristen Wambach

"There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans." - Corrie ten Boom

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

• The Reality of Overwhelm: Navigating the heavy to-do lists, daily distractions, and the spotlight of shame that tries to entangle our calling.
• Nothing Can Separate Us: A deep dive into Romans 8:38-39 and the unshakeable truth of God's love.​

• The Out-Loud Dismissal: A practical activation to shut down the buzzing of the enemy and create a pocket of peace in your mind.
• Your Divine Rear Guard: Understanding the tactical, military reality of Isaiah 52:12 and how Heaven completely secures your blind spots.
• Stepping Into Oneness: Releasing the pressure to fight in your own strength and resting in the active, breathing presence of God.

SECURING YOUR BLIND SPOTS IN THE MIDST OF THE NOISE
Are you pressing through a crazy week, juggling endless to-do lists, and feeling the heavy weight of distraction? You are not alone. In this incredibly raw, unscripted episode of the Interviewing Jesus Podcast, we are letting our hair down to have a real conversation about the overwhelming seasons of life. When the noise gets too loud and the spotlight of shame tries to tell you that you are unworthy of your big dreams, it is time to remember exactly who is backing you up.
As a spiritual investigative journalist and an ordained pastor for over 30 years, my heart is to provide a safe path for you to experience Heaven's reality today. In this episode, we dive deep into the beautiful truth of Romans 8 and the tactical promise of Isaiah 52:12. God is not just leading you; He is literally your rear guard. He completely secures your blind spots. Together, we will discover how to verbally dismiss the enemy, step fully into the Oneness of God, and put on your kingdom Superman cape.

SUMMARY

Discover a practical path to secure your blind spots and silence the noise of distraction in this raw, unscripted episode of the Interviewing Jesus Podcast. When big dreams collide with the overwhelming to-do lists of daily life, it is easy to feel frazzled and bogged down by the spotlight of shame. Drawing from over 30 years of experience as an ordained pastor and spiritual investigative journalist, Kristen Wambach shares how to step into a Monday-morning reality of peace. Learn how to verbally dismiss the enemy out loud, embrace the Oneness of God, and apply the tactical promise of Isaiah 52:12—that God is your rear guard. Tune in for raw stories, prayer, and simple activations that will help you put on your Superman cape, push past self-imposed limits, and trust that Heaven has your back, your forward, and your absolute best interest at hand.

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SECURING YOUR BLIND SPOTS
​AND SILENCING THE NOISE

As a spiritual investigative journalist, an author, and an ordained pastor for over 30 years, my goal is to document the raw truth of what it looks like to walk closely with God. I want to take the profound mysteries of Heaven and translate them into a Monday-morning reality for you. Let me be completely honest: this week has been incredibly frazzling. As I prepare to publish my new book, How Good is God?, the sheer volume of tasks has felt overwhelming.

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⏱️Chapters
00:00 Connecting Through Distractions | Practical Spirituality
06:55 Finding Purpose Amidst the Noise | Hearing God's Voice
12:59 Overcoming Shame and Rejection | Healing and Transformation
18:32 God's Support and Protection | Biblical Insights
24:00 Sharing the Love of God | Bridging Heaven and Earth
29:57 Blessings and Encouragement | Christian Spiritual Growth
30:51 Interviewing Jesus Podcast Intro

FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
Kristen Wambach
Hello family and welcome. Yay. I am so delighted that You are here. Let me give You a precursor for today's episode. It is off the cuff. I'm pressing through a crazy week, a crazy month. And I just wanted to sit down and chat with You and talk with You and You talk with me so that we can get to that important destination that lives in our hearts. Amen. Let me just shore that up a little bit. No script here. Just trying.
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Connecting. That's the word I want. Connecting. I need You. You need me. Connecting in His oneness. Amen. Let me share scripture with You. This is going to sew us up and connect us together today. Neither death nor life or angels or principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature Shall be able to separate us from the love of God not even ourself Amen, that's Romans 8 38 through 39. Today we're going to discuss being driven by our dreams. Yet sometimes the world and life, there's just this distraction and rejections. And You go, help me Jesus, right? Well, I'm in that spot today. Help me Jesus. And that's what I bring to the microphone today. I bring it to You. I need prayer. You need prayer. We desperately need to feel the tangible love of the Father cheering us on. Amen. Let me kind of wrap up where I'm at, where I'm at. How did I get to this place today to talk to You? And no, I don't think that were...
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I don't think that there are differences in our life per se. There's similarities of distractions of things going on that You and I share. Y'all know that I am in the process of publishing my second book. How good is God? And, and, my gosh, it's so much work. And I'm pressing through to, April 1st deadline to hit that publish button, to be able to share it with You. And, at times it can be terribly frazzling and overwhelming and I just needed to lay that on the table and talk to You today. Can we do that? Can we just not have an agenda and talk today? Amen. Let's invite Holy Spirit here. You pray for me. I pray for You. Put our hands together in the oneness, one faith, one body in Christ and just exalt who He is amen. Father God I thank You for the bandwaves of your goodness that just reaches around the entire world takes this satellite communication to touch each and every one of our hearts today the listener my family of listeners. Right into my heart. We just need to be encouraged today and we just lay down our stuff and we submit ourselves to say, Father here we are. We're spending these valuable moments focused on You Amen. Cause remember neither death, no life, nothing. Have You ever thought about that? Nothing can separate us from the love of God.
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But today we're going to talk about some of the distractions that certainly attempt to try, right? As a spiritual investigative journalist, that means I write down what I experienced and what I feel. And this is the raw truth. There's that empowers You and I to put on a Superman cape today to experience His dominion in heaven and on earth. And we sit right next to Him and squeeze right between Jesus and the Father. And we just share that intimacy, share that dominion, figure out those keys, turn the keys and open the door, right? And refuse to let the noise stop the calling that's in your heart, the calling that's in my heart to keep on moving and pressing it. Let's highlight. I have a few notes highlighted here. Finding purpose amidst the noise of distraction. And there's a few of them that are distracting or attempting to distract us, right? It's easy to feel inadequate or distracted by people, the environment around us are to-do lists. And here we are, we're parents juggling our schedule to nurture, love and support our kids. I remember when my boys were young and we had four different little league baseball teams that we had to be there and support. How did we ever get through that? I understand. Many of us are entrepreneurs. We're our own boss and we're pressing through the days that we wish...
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Hey, don't I have a little sick leave here, a little sick time? Can I take a day off? Do You hear me? And we're spouses, right? Yeah. Wives, we're needing that special hug that says that You see me and I feel safe, right? And His husband's... They need our pom-poms, ladies. We need to cheer and we need to affirm their manliness. Amen. We are God's kids with big dreams, committed hearts with a world of distractions to overcome. My new book. I'm so excited to share a portion of it with You today. How good is God? I'm ticking the boxes for that release date on April 1st. Help me Jesus. Okay. Breathe in, breathe out. Do it again. Breathe in and breathe out. I know that I'm not alone in this. We all have big projects. We all have big dreams, all have big desires. Some of us might just be starting to walk into that and others could be like where I am in this season and we're just ticking the boxes and finishing all the dust jackets and book covers and drafts and PDFs and editing. We're just finishing it up. But God is right there with us. Amen. Now some of the things that I have noticed in this particular season, how to protect your dream from the spotlight of shame. I've been listening to some of the things that have been going on around me and the flavor...
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of the distractions that are presenting themselves. One of my favorite ladies, Brene Brown, defines shame as the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love, unworthy of our dream and belonging to something that we've experienced, done or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection.
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Well, that just is not true, but there is a tangible feeling sometimes that we can feel in our heart. Amen. We can, we can feel it in our heart and sometimes it feels difficult to separate it in our lives. Sometimes shame can feel like a fishing net, a fishing net in the mouths of others. Have You experienced that? Bullies push their own fears and unresolved unworthiness. It just, it just seems to vomit right out of their mouth and it tries to catch us in the net. Where overwhelm and disconnect can compromise the core values of our loved ones. What do You do when they are being challenged their own core values are being challenged and that's the place that they're talking from. How do we protect ourselves, lay healthy boundaries and keep focused and keep moving forward and feel ever so close in the oneness with Him? Number one, talk to God. Every moment through every feeling, just like this episode, talking to God in talking to You.
Kristen Wambach
letting it out, having the conversation that God is so much a part of. We can't just hold up the pretty white fence of promise. If a offense is circling like a buzzard in our thoughts, we have to deal with it. We have to talk to Him about it. We have to put our finger right on the thing and say, God, this feels like crap. It doesn't feel good. And I need to talk to You about this. And He's always there to support us. We give it to God. We release it into His charge. We have a conversation with Him and we allow ourselves to feel in His presence because when we allow ourselves to feel in His presence then it doesn't seem to bubble over into others like in the home and in our relationships because we don't want all those feelings to bubble over to our spouses. Amen. And my husband say, thank You very much for saying that. And it's not always so easy. We give it to God, we release it, we take communion with Him and we trade it. Let me ask You this. When was the last time that You told the enemy You are dismissed? There You are. You're dismissed. And what's really true about this statement is I usually say this when I'm in the bathroom standing in front of the mirror and my head is going off on...
Kristen Wambach
What was said here and my to-do list. So I'm trying to balance those things and, how shut my mind and all of a sudden I'll go, I'll go devil. You are dismissed by, and it just works. It just, it goes away. It shuts Him up. And all of sudden I find this peace in this quiet in my brain. And then that allows me to re-queue. God. Your goodness has my back. And what do I mean by having my back? I feel His support. I know His support. I'm aware of His support. In Isaiah 52 12, it says, but You will not leave in haste or go and fight for the Lord will go before You. The Lord God of Israel will be your rear guard. I need to feel Him. As our rear guard, looking at this as a spiritual investigative journalist, I'm looking at it. I'm tangibly touching it, feeling it, writing it down. God is speaking to You and I all day long. For Him to be our rear guard, literally means He's a tactical military position of protecting and advancing armies back. You and I were going forward and He is protecting our back. God doesn't just clear the path ahead. He completely secures our blind spots.
Kristen Wambach
can we just think on that for a minute here? He completely secures our blind spots. In Isaiah 58, eight, says, then your light will break forth like the dawn and your healing will quickly appear. Then your righteousness will go before You and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. Think on that. The glory of the Lord right behind us. Maybe it's the chair we're sitting in. Maybe it's the seat. If You're driving down the road, hanging onto the wheel, it's your seat. Imagine the glory of the Lord behind You. Deuteronomy 31, 8, the Lord himself goes before You and will be with You. He will never leave You, no forsake You. Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged. And then this season, if discouragement tries to duke it out with me, and sometimes, yeah, sometimes we put boxing gloves and attempt to duke back. We attempt to strike back. But if we just quiet ourselves and realize that it goes before us, behind us, He's inside of us. He's on the right. He's on the left. He's everywhere.
Kristen Wambach
today declare with me, I believe God has my back, my forward and my best interest at hand. Let's say that together. I believe God has my back, my forward, my best interest at hand. One more time. I believe God has my back, my forward and my best interest at hand. We are putting on our Superman cape amen true revelation climbs across boundaries and pushes us past our Self-imposed limits limits. I mean sometimes we allow the noise Sometimes we allow noise to press in on us instead of saying to ourselves God You have my back You have my forward You have my best interest at hand. God You have my back, You have my forward, You have my best interest at hand.
Kristen Wambach
to overcome these hurdles of distractions. Sometimes they're rejections. We have to be willing to put our Superman cape on. Step into the reality that Kings rule kingdoms. Amen. Recognize that You and I are transformed self because of Jesus Christ's gift to us. The gift to us it keeps us driving and moving forward because our spirit is without borders or boundaries think on that our spirit our spirit within His spirit You You can't separate it out it's not like a pie God the Father God the son God the holy spirit than us no there's not four sections of the pie You cannot Cut out portions and say, this is You and this is me and this is Him. No, we're in Oneness.
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And so we recognize in that oneness, sometimes it's just saying, help God. I need You to quiet my brain. Help God. I need to feel You supporting my back in this particular situation. In this conversation with a coworker, I need You to go before me, God, and let me see your light shine in this situation with my family. God, I need to feel your tangible strength when this diagnosis is just shaking me in my boots. Let's change out our boots and stand in His goodness. Amen. As an ordained pastor for over 30 years, a transformation coach who has spent decades teaching others to engage the spiritual realm. My heart, that is my heart with interviewing Jesus podcasts to bridge the gap between heaven and earth. And sometimes our journeys and the distractions can feel like rejection, but it's never a dead end. It's an invitation to expand our expectations of His goodness. Amen. We ask ourselves, God, how good are You in this situation?
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and then get quiet and allow Him to share with You just how good He is. Amen.
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It helps to talk. It helps to feel heard. It helps to hear.
Kristen Wambach
And that's what we're doing today. You and I are talking. I'm talking to encourage me to continue to press through, to rest and believe in the dreams that He's placed in my heart, in all those hundred thousand words written down to communicate the goodness of God to You, to me, to my husband, to my friends, to my family, to the world. He placed himself on the inside of You and I.
Kristen Wambach
I have a gift for You. My new book. Yes, I'm talking about my new book here. I'm asking for your help and your pom poms to help cheer me through, right? How good is God beyond the gates of hell to truly experience heaven? One of the most important and empowering keys for our own personal overcoming. And some of us, might just be just getting through today. A powerful key to encourage, to reach across the lines of distraction and divide and share the love of God is to share, is to give, is to believe the value that God has placed in your life, placed in my life. And share it. Amen. To share it.
Kristen Wambach
My goal is to make sure heaven's wisdom doesn't just stay in your headphones. But actually transforms from your Monday morning to your Friday morning to your Sunday afternoon. Those realities. I know many of You are listening from behind the wheel right now. Please keep your hands on the wheel, but I don't want You to miss out on a practical path with raw stories, prayers, and simple activations. This gift I've put together for this particular episode where we feel the tangible connection of oneness as we walk together. So let's use technology right now that's in front of us to advance the kingdom, but we want to do it safely. If You're driving or vacuuming, right? Just say out loud right now, Hey Siri or Hey Google, remind me at 6pm to go to KristenWambach.com / gift. That's it. I'll say it again. Hey Siri, hey Google, remind me at 6pm tonight to go to KristenWambach.com / gift. That's it. Let your phone do the work. And when You're safely parked tonight, when You've arrived in your driveway after a long day at work, that reminder will pop up and You can grab...
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your free gift. Amen. Yes. I thought about that today. I thought about all the different ways that You and I are listening to podcasts and gaining that continuing forward motion. Amen. Back to our conversation. Neither death nor life, nor angels or principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God. Not even ourselves, not even our busy brains. Nope. Nothing can separate us from the goodness of God and the love of God. Amen. So today I invite You to put on that Superman cape. I got my Superman cape on it and sat down. I said, I got to talk to my podcast family because I needed prayer. I needed encouragement. I needed that feeling tangible God walking behind You and I pressing us to the mark of the high calling of who each one of us are. You're calling my calling!
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And I feel that today and I thank You for that today. And I respond to You today with that gift to solidify our connection and our communion in Him. Amen.
Kristen Wambach
Thank You so much for allowing us to hang out, to let our hair down today, to just have a conversation that You and I just, we needed to connect to support one another. I needed You to hear my to-do list. I needed to hear the things that You are pressing through on. And we needed to validate that You and I are both spending this time together to know Him, to hear Him, to feel Him, to be encouraged by Him, to be loved. In a huge way. In a little way. But that He brought us together for this moment so that His love could move beyond borders and boundaries, move beyond the distraction. I know some of You still got to go make dinner and what is dinner? Grilled cheese sandwiches always work good for me or pancakes. I know.
Kristen Wambach
Just invite Him in to cook in those grilled cheese sandwiches. Invite Him right there at making the pancakes. Invite Him in your cup of coffee in the morning on the way to work. Invite Him there.
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and see if He won't open up another window of heaven. They're open, but sometimes we just need a new window, a new breath, a new light to shine deeply inside of us. Hey, I look forward to You opening your gift and I pray that the love of God just swims over You when You read it. Swims over You, touches You in a way. Oh my goodness, I'm tearing up. Touches You in a way. Took me three years to communicate what God has placed in my heart. And now I get to share this little gift with You. And for me, that feels huge. And it, isn't it amazing that this venue of podcasting would allow us to do that. I bless You. I bless You to press through this day. I bless You to press through this season. I bless You to rest in a season of rest and allowing Him to be our rear guard, allowing Him to walk before us, to sit on our right and sit on our left and bubble up like a living river of goodness from inside of us. Amen.
Kristen Wambach
Thank You. Talk to You again real soon. Bye now.

God doesn't just clear the path ahead. He completely secures our blind spots." - Kristen Wambach

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Maybe you are in a similar season. You are pressing through a crazy week, juggling your family's schedule, cheering on your spouse, or keeping your head above water as an entrepreneur. The noise of distraction presses in, and your to-do list makes you want to throw your hands up and say, "Help me, Jesus."

Here is the truth: when we are driven by big dreams, the world counters with distractions. But Romans 8:38-39 offers us a foundational anchor. Absolutely nothing can separate us from the love of God. Not even our own busy brains.

Here are the core highlights for finding your footing when the noise gets too loud:

THE REALITY OF OVERWHELM AND SHAME

• The Spotlight of Shame: Sometimes shame feels like a fishing net cast from the mouths of others. Bullies push their own unresolved fears and unworthiness, attempting to catch us in overwhelm.
• The Power of Connection: This noise compromises our core values and makes us question our calling, but leaning into the Oneness of God immediately breaks that net.

​DISMISSING THE ENEMY OUT LOUD

How do we protect ourselves and stay focused on advancing the kingdom? We step into a practical path with raw stories, prayer, and simple activations that actually work.

• Get Honest with God: You cannot just hold up a pretty white picket fence of promise while an offense circles like a buzzard in your thoughts. Put your finger right on the thing that hurts and talk to the Father about it.
• Use Your Voice: Sometimes, the most spiritual thing you can do is stand in front of your bathroom mirror, look at the exhaustion in your own eyes, and say out loud: "Enemy, you are dismissed." It shuts the noise down and creates a pocket of peace in your brain.

THE REAR GUARD REALITY

This leads us to a profound promise found in Isaiah 52:12: "The Lord will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard."

• Tactical Protection: For God to be our rear guard is a tactical, military position. He is protecting the back of an advancing army.
• Secured Blind Spots: As you move forward into your calling, Heaven does not just clear the path ahead of you; it completely secures your blind spots. The glory of the Lord is right behind you, tangibly supporting you whether you are sitting at your desk or making grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner.

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PUTTING ON YOUR SUPERMAN CAPE

As a transformation coach who has spent over 20 years teaching people to engage with the spiritual realm, my heart is to see you push past self-imposed limits and step into your true identity.

• Embrace Your Transformed Self: Step into the reality that kings rule kingdoms. True revelation climbs across boundaries because your spirit is without borders.
• Shift Your Expectations: The journey will have hurdles, but every rejection is simply an invitation to expand your expectations of His goodness.

Ask yourself today: God, how good are You in this situation? Then, get quiet. Allow Him to share exactly how good He is. Let His love bubble up like a living river inside of you, bringing you a safe path straight into a week-one outcome of peace.

You have big dreams. You have a committed heart. And God has your back, your forward, and your absolute best interest at hand.

Final Summary

As a spiritual investigative journalist and ordained pastor of over 30 years, my heart is to provide a safe path for you to experience Heaven's reality today. In this unscripted episode, we tackle the overwhelming noise of daily life and the spotlight of shame that attempts to derail your big dreams. By stepping into Romans 8 and Isaiah 52, you will discover the Monday-morning payoff of having God as your literal rear guard. He completely secures your blind spots so you can confidently put on your Superman cape. This conversation offers a practical path with raw stories, prayer, and simple activations to help you verbally dismiss the enemy, experience the tangible Oneness of God, and advance the kingdom without fear.

COACHING CHURCH ACTIVATIONS

• The Out-Loud Dismissal. Your week-one outcome is to instantly break the cycle of an overwhelmed mind. The next time your to-do list or an offense begins to circle like a buzzard, step into a quiet space like your bathroom, look yourself in the mirror, and say out loud: "Enemy, you are dismissed." Notice the immediate physical shift and the pocket of peace it creates, allowing Heaven's wisdom to bypass the noise and land directly in your spirit.
  
• The Rear Guard Posture. Your month-one outcome is a permanent shift in how you carry daily stress. When you sit down at your desk or grip the steering wheel of your car, take a deliberate breath and physically lean back into your seat. Acknowledge the tactical reality of Isaiah 52:12 by declaring: "God has my back, my forward, and my best interest at hand." Feel the tension leave your shoulders as you trust that He is actively securing your blind spots.
  

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As a spiritual investigative journalist and author, Kristen Wambach brings 30 years of ministry experience to the "Monday-morning" logic of spiritual life. By bridging the gap between deep mystery and practical daily transformation, she offers a "Best Seller" standard of
clarity for every seeker.
As the host of the Interviewing Jesus Podcast and author of the Coaching Church book project, Kristen is a trusted global authority dedicated to testifying to redemption and making the supernatural accessible
​for your daily life.