THE SUBSTANCE OF HOPE: UNLOCKING GOD’S
​LANGUAGE IN YOUR DAILY LIFE

Episode Summary
In this deep, soul-stirring conversation on the Well and Grace Podcast, host Regina Bartlett sits down with Kristen Wambach—author, speaker, and host of the Interviewing Jesus Podcast—to explore what it truly means to live a spiritually brave life. Kristen shares her raw and powerful journey of overcoming early childhood dyslexia to becoming a writer, moving beyond the traditional constraints of institutional "boxes" to open her spiritual eyes. From anchoring prayer in the visible realm to a breathtaking, never-before-shared testimony of divine restoration involving her great-grandmother's French China, Kristen demonstrates how to practically capture, journal, and honor the daily "snippets" of the Holy Spirit. Whether you are seeking clarity in a season of transition or learning how to tune out the noise of a busy world, this episode provides a safe path for your heart to embrace the unseen goodness of God.

To think of the depth of faith that happens when you truly receive... God is always on time, and He has this huge, epic game where He already knows the end." —Regina Bartlett

The Substance of Hope: Moving Beyond the Box into Spiritual Authority

We often look at spiritual giants and assume their paths were paved with immediate clarity and seamless transitions. We see the books, the podcasts, and the global platforms, assuming they possess an unshakeable confidence from day one. However, the reality of walking with Jesus is far more beautiful, raw, and redemptive.
In a recent episode of the Well and Grace Podcast, host Regina Bartlett engaged in a transparent dialogue with Kristen Wambach—an ordained pastor, global authority on spiritual growth, and author of The Unfinished Book. Kristen opened up about the foundational struggles that shaped her ministry, offering readers a practical path toward unlocking their own spiritual senses.

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When you write down your hope, it becomes substance because now it is a record on the Earth. When you put it on your phone, it becomes a frequency." —Kristen Wambach

Healing the Silent Barriers

Long before Kristen was an acclaimed author teaching others how to bridge the gap between heaven and earth, she faced a mountain that seemed designed to keep her quiet: childhood dyslexia. In an era before modern diagnostic boxes, she grew up believing reading and writing were permanent battlegrounds.
Yet, spiritual hunger has a way of rewriting our natural limitations. When Kristen began deeply pursuing the Lord in her twenties, she discovered that reading the Word of God bypassed her natural deficits. The dyslexia disappeared, swallowed up by a supernatural healing that laid the groundwork for her identity as a spiritual investigative journalist.
This transformation highlights a fundamental truth for every seeker: God does not call the qualified; He qualifies the called. The very areas where you feel most broken or ill-equipped are the exact spaces where His redemptive grace leaves its permanent signature.

Key Takeaway Updates ​

• Your Journey is Part of Your Authority: Overcoming childhood dyslexia wasn’t just a personal victory; it laid the foundation for your identity as an author. When you became hungry for the Lord and began reading the Bible, the dyslexia disappeared—proving that God qualifies the called rather than calling the qualified.
• Surviving the Institutional "Box": Living "Spiritually BRAVE" means choosing what God says about you over human or institutional expectations. When you stop striving to fit into traditional religious boxes, your spiritual sight expands, allowing you to interact with the unseen realm with child-like simplicity.
• The Language of the Spirit is Personal: The Holy Spirit uses your unique, individual "library" of thoughts, memories, and tastes to communicate with you. Relational discernment grows when you learn to tune into these specific nuances rather than comparing your spiritual journey to anyone else's.

• Honoring the "Snippets": True discernment is developed by paying attention to the small things—fleeting thoughts, quick visions, or internal shifts that cross your mind in your prayer closet. By pausing to recognize and honor these subtle movements, you give the Holy Spirit room to speak deeper truths.
• Turning Hope Into Substance: Recording what God shows you—whether by writing it in a journal or capturing a voice memo on your phone—moves faith from an abstract concept into tangible matter. It creates a record on the Earth, giving your hope a physical substance you can anchor yourself to when seasons get tough.
• The Certainty of Divine Restoration: God is a restorer of the things that match who you are. The miraculous, double discovery of your great-grandmother's late-1800s French China pattern in separate charity shops serves as a physical guarantee that heaven remembers what was lost and is entirely faithful to bring restoration to pass on its own timeline.

The writing came much later, but because I was so hungry for the Lord, I started to read—and it was not difficult to read the Bible. The dyslexia just disappeared."—Kristen Wambach

Surviving the Institutional "Box"

As Kristen grew in her faith, leading women’s ministries, worship, and training schools, she encountered another common roadblock: the pressure to fit into traditional institutional boundaries. "I didn't fit in the box," Kristen shared during the interview. "And I tried really, really hard to get in it."
Many believers experience this quiet friction. They sense a profound calling, a distinct voice, or an awakening of their spiritual eyes, yet they pull back because they fear ruffling feathers or being misunderstood. But living "Spiritually BRAVE" requires us to lean into what God says about us over the expectations of others. When Kristen stopped striving to fit inside human structures, her spiritual sight expanded. She began interacting with the unseen realm with the simplicity of a child, focusing entirely on the goodness of God.

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​WELL AND GRACE PODCASTEpisode: Embracing the Unseen Host: Regina Bartlett Guest: Kristen Wambach

Regina Bartlett: Hello everyone, welcome to the Well and Grace Podcast. My name is Regina Bartlett and today we are honored to have Kristen Wambach as our guest. Kristen is a multifaceted entrepreneur, life coach, and expert dedicated to helping individuals live spiritually brave lives. She is a devoted wife and mother who has raised four boys, embodying resilience and dedication.
Regina Bartlett: Kristen's passion for personal growth and spirituality led her to author The Unfinished Book, a testament to her belief in continuous self-improvement and embracing life's journey. She also hosts the Interviewing Jesus Podcast where she delves into profound spiritual conversations, offering listeners insightful perspectives on faith and personal development. Please join us in welcoming Kristen to the Well and Grace Podcast as we explore her journey, insights, and the wisdom she has garnered along the way. Kristen, welcome to the Well and Grace family. How are you doing today?
Kristen Wambach: I am wonderful, and thank you so much for that very eloquent introduction, Regina. I really, really appreciate it.
Regina Bartlett: You're welcome! And I have to say, doing research on you was absolutely fascinating. You have done so many things. So why don't you give us like... so we now have all of like the cool stuff that you've done, but talk to me about how you've gotten to where you are today.
Kristen Wambach: Yes, yes. As you were going through the accolades, I was thinking, I think we should start with what made it difficult and then where the difficulty went to. So when I was growing up, I struggled with dyslexia. So school, and grammar, and all things reading and writing and arithmetic was so hard. It was not easy at all. And on my report cards, it constantly said over the years, "She doesn't apply herself."
Regina Bartlett: Were you diagnosed early, or was this something where they just thought that you just weren't getting it, not knowing that you had dyslexia?
Kristen Wambach: This is before they put such diagnoses out there. Now, the Lord healed me of dyslexia, but when you list off all those things and those stories that have been created in my life, it's something... it's something to be a writer when writing it was so difficult.
Regina Bartlett: So how did you discover that you had dyslexia, and then tell me about how the Lord healed that for you?
Kristen Wambach: I discovered it because, I mean, it was pretty easy. You could see all your... if you look at The Unfinished Book, the "F" is turned around purposely. So the Fs, the Ps, the Bs, they were all just turned around, and the same thing with the numbers. So I didn't recognize it till much later. My folks had no idea that it was there, that it was a problem. And when I finally realized it, I think it was when I started about in my late 20s, early 30s, with all those boys in my life. I realized that I didn't like me, and that's one of the gifts that your children bring to you because you evaluate who you are.
Regina Bartlett: Amen.
Kristen Wambach: And hello Jesus, I need some help!
Regina Bartlett: Wow. So, now you discovered that you have dyslexia. How did you make that leap to be able to start writing and make those incredible strides?
Kristen Wambach: Well, the writing came much later, but basically because I was so hungry for the Lord, I started to read, and it was not difficult to read the Bible. It just was not difficult, and it just disappeared.
Regina Bartlett: Amen. Were you a believer in childhood?
Kristen Wambach: I was raised Baptist, and I have much of that story in there. And so yes, at eight, I remember doing the whole salvation prayer thing, was baptized and everything. However, it didn't become personal till again, I was about 30, when it became an adult decision.
Regina Bartlett: Right, right. I like that you talk a lot about being spiritually brave. Can you explain what you mean by that?
Kristen Wambach: Yes. So you love God, you go to church, you have kids, you're trying to allow Him to clean up your life—you know, shake out these mistakes that you made, the different ways that you think—and you discover that He starts telling you about you. And you realize, that's who I am. So it takes a while for you to actually be grounded in what He says about you. That in itself is just amazing. So you love Him, and you love Him, and you love Him, then all of a sudden, I figured out I was more than just a cheerleader. I had a voice.
Kristen Wambach: And so sitting in the pew just didn't seem to blend with who He said I was. So I started leading women's ministry and started leading worship and doing all those things and loving it, and He just expanded me. And the wonderful thing about love is it always wants to show you things: Well, here, this is what I see, this is my perspective. So I'm just loving God, He's loving me back, and you read scripture and you go, "I never saw that before." And then, well, this is different, and you grow. You just grow, and you grow, and you grow, and things changed. Life changed. I got a little bit of stability in my own feet and my journey, and people started to listen. I sang, and I led worship, and I did the whole women's ministry thing, and then you just keep growing.
Kristen Wambach: And sometimes you don't fit. So I didn't fit in the box. And so I tried really, really, really, really hard to get in the box. I'm going to be what it means to be church. And I knew I had a voice, and so that kind of ruffled a few feathers. And I really wanted to get in the box, so I did all the things to get in the box, and ministry school. And then I started a ministry school, and a whole bunch of hungry people showed up, and it just naturally birthed a church. But the interesting thing along that journey that nobody ever told me about is He opened my spiritual eyes.
Regina Bartlett: Tell me more about that.
Kristen Wambach: That's what everybody else said! It either frightened them because they didn't understand it, but because I was walking with Him, I could see Him in the spiritual eyes of my heart. There He was. Well, Jesus leads us into all truth. He is truth. If I have a question, okay, this is different, would you please explain this to me? And I started seeing angels and the other stuff, but He taught me how to focus on all the good stuff, so I don't see the yucky stuff anymore. And it was just amazing, but there was a cost to it because a lot of people don't understand it.
Regina Bartlett: So how do you deal with people who may not understand where you're coming from or how God has led you?
Kristen Wambach: Well, first of all, through trial, error, and learning, I usually only answer questions by the level of the hunger of the heart in which they ask. Because if people have to be spiritually ready... otherwise, what happens? They choke on it, and I didn't help them at all.
Regina Bartlett: I like that. That's very true. It's kind of like how Jesus meets us where we are, you know?
Kristen Wambach: Yeah, yeah. Well, it just doesn't... it just doesn't help them. So I said, I just love on them, and if they hang around me much at all, then the conversation always, always comes up, and they're just fascinated. But I can tell you a story about how everything was discovered.
Regina Bartlett: Wow. So when people approach you and they ask questions about how you've developed over time in this relationship that you have with Jesus, what would you say was the most important piece for you to getting to where you are now spiritually, with your eyes open and being able to receive the things that you receive from the Holy Spirit?
Kristen Wambach: I just believe what He shows me. Seems really simple, but I just believe what He shows me, and that has overridden every rule, every box, every negative perception. It's just: I believe what He shows me.
Regina Bartlett: Amen. So were you ever, not scared, but challenged by what you were shown? And has anyone ever kind of pushed back on the things that you say that you've experienced? Good questions. Yes to all the above, because what people don't understand, they're usually afraid of.
Kristen Wambach: Very true. Yes, yes. Would you give me the question again, please?
Regina Bartlett: Have you ever been, not so much afraid, but challenged by something that God has shown you, and have people ever pushed back on what you say you've experienced? Have people challenged that experience?
Kristen Wambach: If it's okay with you, I'm going to share a story with you and your listeners, please.
Regina Bartlett: Please!
Kristen Wambach: So, years ago, I was attending a wonderful church and leading women's ministry, and a dear... one of the campus pastors was a dear friend of mine. And she listened to me, and I'd share with her as we were friends, and she'd go, "I don't know about this." Her best friend—she was a young mom—her lung collapsed, and she ended up at OHSU in Portland with a collapsed lung. Well, her best friend had a one-year-old daughter, and here her lung is collapsed. And so my friend, the campus pastor, just was so concerned.
Regina Bartlett: And I led the women's ministry, and of course, we were praying for her. And I just went, "I just don't like the way people are praying for her. I wouldn't want people to pray for me like that. I want them to pray for me that you're not going to remain there. You're going to be healed, you're going to be whole." And so I was talking to God, I was praying for her, and I thought, she's got a young family, God, show me, God, you've just got to show me. How do you want me to pray for her?
Regina Bartlett: And one day, I'm in my prayer closet and I see this simple picture that looks like construction paper. And it looks like some little kid has cut out a house and three trees on this big piece of yellow construction paper. And it was clear to me, as you and I sitting here, but I didn't understand it. And I said, "Okay God, I know that what you just showed me has to do with Anna. I know that I know that I know that. Show me what it means." And it took me about three days of pressing in. I know this picture you showed me has to do with Anna. And He did. Three days later, all of a sudden, He goes, "Oh yeah, that is the picture that her daughter, who is one, brings home to her from kindergarten." I knew that I knew that I knew that she was going to live. I knew that I knew.
Kristen Wambach: And so, here's the controversy. So I went to church, and I shared it with the leadership, and I was forbidden to say anything else. So now what do we do? Okay, at that point, I said, "I don't think so." So I think the next day or so, I saw my friend who's the campus pastor, and I told her what I just shared with you. And she just starts weeping, and she goes, "I have to go tell Anna." And at that point, I just said, "God, I'm a big girl, and whatever happens, happens, but I know that I know that I know she will live."
Kristen Wambach: So my friend went to Portland to the hospital and told Anna what God had shown me about the picture that her daughter would bring her home from kindergarten. That collapsed lung was healed immediately. Amen. She never knew it was through me, from me—there was never, never any of that—but she was healed because of a picture that looked like a kindergartener made it. Wow. But I had to believe God. I had to believe what He was telling me was true and it was for her best, you know? What we believe, God the healer, that was the answer.
Regina Bartlett: Based on this experience, and I'm sure you have many others, how would you encourage other people to listen and follow God's voice when there's so much noise and distraction out there?
Kristen Wambach: Back to my simple statement: believe what Jesus shows you. It all starts so simple.
Regina Bartlett: The spiritually brave piece you're speaking about, is it saying, "I have to trust what God is saying and take the steps forward to share what I experience, to share, to develop"?
Kristen Wambach: So if we look at when Moses was up on the mountain, and remember he turned aside? He says like, "Just a minute, that fire right there, that's something different." He turns aside, he takes a moment to recognize, there's some kind of spiritual stuff going on here. And that is as simple as it can get. It's just taking a moment to say, "Hey, I saw the break in the molecules of the light. I felt..." because some of us are feelers, "I felt the room change. I felt like something just came in the room." And it's just honoring God, saying, "Okay, God."
Kristen Wambach: Because how many times did He ask Jeremiah, "What did you see? What did you see, what do you see?" And that's how you develop it in your prayer closet. You're asking a question, and you just get this little snippet that goes right across your brain. Honor the snippet and say, "Lord, I just saw this." And He'll go, "Yep, you sure did." And then you write it down, because you're honoring Him, and in a place of honor, it grows.
Regina Bartlett: And I think discernment is something that grows over time, too. You know, working through... I think when I first came to Christ as an adult, with that feeling of like, is it what I'm thinking or is this really God, like, where am I? So just with time, that starts to develop where you start to really be able to focus and hear what God is saying to you. So over time, that discernment comes through it.
Kristen Wambach: And we learn—each of us has different nuances. We each have a different library of thoughts and memory that He uses. The Holy Spirit uses that library to speak to us. Well, how come that person reminds me of such and such? Well, about 98% of the time, because that person is very much like the person that God just reminded you of. They're a teacher, they're prophetic, they're an artist. I mean, there's so many things if we just tune in to our senses to the Spirit of God, which lives inside of us, then we'll get all these little cues. We'll get used to it, it'll just become a language.
Regina Bartlett: Do you think that sometimes women, especially at the beginning of their faith journey, sometimes struggle with the confidence to be able to kind of step into our purpose like that? To be able to listen to God's word in that respect?
Kristen Wambach: Yes and no. I believe women are naturally more intuitive, and sometimes in our noisy world or our having-to-get-ahead world, we think we can't honor our intuitiveness, our sensitiveness, or the way that God speaks to us. We have to choose, and He wants to develop that.
Regina Bartlett: So what are ways that women can grow in that confidence that you find through your experiences?
Kristen Wambach: Because I was raised with three brothers and I'm a mother of four adult sons, I am used to being around testosterone. When I was little, my brothers... we lived on a farm, I'm a farm girl, and you know, you go play army and cowboys and stuff, and they always wanted me to be the nurse. I don't want to be the nurse, I want a gun! But we have to learn that about ourselves, of how God has woven us into the body of Christ, who we are.
Regina Bartlett: That it would be okay with being a nurse, right? Like, some people would be okay with that. I think sometimes we often struggle with what we think people expect of us as opposed to just moving forward with what God wants from us, which is going to be different for me than it is for you, than it is for someone else, right?
Kristen Wambach: Absolutely, absolutely. I used to have this determination... I used to tell myself, I used to have this phrase like, if my emotions or my intuition would feel too girly, I used to tell myself to "suck it up" over and over. Be like, I gotta be tougher. I was used to living in a world of men. I gotta be tougher, I got to suck it up. And one day, Holy Spirit says to me, He go, "Why do you say that to yourself?" And I went, "Because I thought I was supposed to be tough." And He goes, "Kristen, if you constantly tell yourself to suck it up, be tough, and you don't allow Me to deal with the feelings that are actually real, I can't heal you, comfort you, bring peace to you, because you're just so busy sucking it up."
Regina Bartlett: Oh wow, I like that. That's powerful. That is really powerful. So you have a lot of spiritual disciplines. What would be some practices that you've used to help you draw closer to God that our listeners might be able to benefit from?
Kristen Wambach: I'm an avid journaler.
Regina Bartlett: Me too! I talk about journaling every day.
Kristen Wambach: Me too! People just roll their eyes at me, and I went, because I learned to hear God's voice that way, and I can have an encounter and I'm always writing it down. And when I have an encounter, I don't always understand it, nor does He have to actually explain it every time. But when I have an encounter, I go, "Could you kind of tell me something about that?" And then He'll direct me to scripture and He goes, "Read this right here." I'll go, "Oh, is that what it means?" Some people are different. Some people go to the scripture, it'll be highlighted, and then God takes them into the personal encounter. I'm the other way around.
Kristen Wambach: So journaling, number one tool. I started dreaming a whole bunch, well, I needed to learn about dreams and ask Him, so I put a journal next to my bed. I have a journal in the bathroom, I have a journal in the living room, I have it on my iPad—it's everywhere because I value every snippet. I value it.
Regina Bartlett: That's amazing. So with the pivotal moments that you've had in your life, can you give me one example that has truly deepened your faith?
Kristen Wambach: All right, okay. I was wondering if I was going to tell the story, here we are. It's a great question, Regina, great question. So years ago, just about that time that Holy Spirit was... I was giving Him my attention. I didn't know anything about Holy Spirit or the baptism of the Holy Spirit, any of that stuff. No, didn't know how to raise my hands or move when it came to worship. And we had an auto repair business. We lived with our family on a 12-acre historical farm with a Victorian house, and it was like perfect. It was just the greatest place to raise a family. And I'm on that cutting edge of the fire, the Holy Spirit life was hard, you know, marriage, little kids, it's trying. And we lost our business, which means we lost our farm, and we moved to Corvallis, where I am now. And our tails were between our legs.
Kristen Wambach: We did not file for bankruptcy, and it took us about seven years to clean up the mess and purchase a home. But here's a faith point that is so personal to me. I just went, Okay, you really want me to share this. So the house that we live in, I'm very thankful for, very grateful for, but it doesn't look like me. It's, you know, I like the Victorian, I like British, I like high ceilings. That is me. This doesn't look like me, and so I've always known that God, a God of restoration, is going to restore it all, everything that was lost. Well, we have... I have online businesses, two of them are manufacturing businesses, so the businesses have been restored—businesses that Don and I do together. There's the restoration part, doing it together. Amen.
Kristen Wambach: But the house part... the house part. So a few years back, about three to four years back, I went into one of my favorite charity shops. And you know, I cycle through my favorite charity shops, and the Lord brings me little treasures, and I love antiques and things that tell a story. I'm a storyteller. I love things that tell a story, tell about the history of people. And I was going through this charity shop and there was a box, and I'm digging down there, and I opened up the box, and my goodness, here was my great-grandmother's pattern of China from France with 24-karat gold around it. From France, and a box of it, and it's $35. And I had about six or seven pieces here in my cabinet, and I went, Oh my God, what is this doing here?
Kristen Wambach: And so immediately, I had this internal conversation with the Lord. And, "Lord, it's Christmas time, I don't necessarily spend those extra few bucks on myself right now," but I knew that I knew that I knew that it was Him bringing me this box of dishes of my grandma's. So I bought them, checked out. I'm walking out to the parking lot, to my Subaru, and I sit down in the car and I said, "God, what do I need with twelve place settings of my great-grandmother's China?" And He says, "You're going to need them." About two weeks later, the same thing happened again at a different charity shop, and another box of my great-grandmother's dishes—we're talking from the late 1800s from France—showed up in another charity shop. I have serving pieces and everything.
Kristen Wambach: So when I'm talking about that faith point, that I know that God is going to restore to me, I have seen those dishes on the table, and He was absolutely right when He said I was going to need them.
Regina Bartlett: That is incredible. That is absolutely incredible. I mean, I've got little tears here because it's... it's that active place of His restoration, because He's going to restore to us things that look like us, because His sons and daughters are unique, and we surround ourselves with things that look like us, whether we're contemporary, mid-century modern, whether we like British. That's all the facets and nature of God, amen. I'm going to pray for that. I love that, I absolutely love that. So you have shared something incredibly personal, and I think that is beautiful because sometimes people would shy away from sharing something like that. So I feel very honored that you shared such a beautiful story with us. That is absolutely incredible, and I cannot wait—I hope I have a front-row seat to the restoration, because I firmly believe that when you have such unyielding faith, that God always delivers in those moments. And I can see your table full, I see your table in your Victorian home, I see your family around this table with these incredible pieces from your great-grandmother's French collection, and I think that is truly something to be inspired by. I think that's wonderful.
Kristen Wambach: Okay, so I will remember that because I have a list of all those people, and I started writing their names on the back of the plate.
Regina Bartlett: That is incredible, I love that! I absolutely love that.
Kristen Wambach: I've never shared that before. I love it. Certain people, I see them, you know, I look at people's faces when they come up for guest or hosting, and it just moves on me. I just look at them and say, "Oh my gosh, look at the light on that person's face." And I just know that there's a connection, there's something that God wants to do right there between you and me that is about all the people that listen to you, because you encourage them and you uplift them, and they come back again because of what you have. And so, what a pleasure and an honor to be able to say, yeah, I see it in her, too.
Regina Bartlett: Thank you. I'd say God has done incredible things, and to be able to see that... I was really late coming to the party of Jesus. I was an atheist for years, so many years. And to think of the first time I walked into church... I was with the man who's now my husband, we were dating at the time, and we walked in and we were literally looking for like, the lightning bolts. The first real conversation that we had when we first started dating... the first conversation, I asked him, I said, "Do you believe in God?" And he said, "No." And we high-fived and went to dinner because I also did not believe in God! And all I can see now is God looking at that moment and being like, Oh, you two... oh, you have no idea what's about to come.
Regina Bartlett: And it has been quite a journey these past fifteen years of, you know, seeing how God moves, and once we were both convicted together—thank you, Jesus, because that could've been really awkward and weird if we weren't—to see the depth of faith that happens when you truly receive. And then to see that in other people like you, where you're able to just open your heart and share something so beautiful about how God is always on time. And it's sometimes... you know, I can be very impatient. Like, I would really love if things were all on my time, and God is like, You're adorable. And then you realize that there's this huge... I call it the epic game of God, that, you know, we're in this part, but God already knows, you know? And I just have to trust that whatever this pain point is here is delivering dividends over there that I don't know, maybe my great-grandkids will experience. And it's like your great-grandmother's dishes. You know, when she had these dishes, she probably prayed over who would have them, prayed over who would be there. And now, even if they're not the actual physical plates of hers, it's that embodiment of those prayers that are going to come to fruition in your life, and you were able to recognize it in something like that. And that can only be from God, only God has that, you know? And you have to be willing to be in there and to receive, and it's nice to see people who receive so beautifully. Thank you very much.
Regina Bartlett: So if you could share one message of hope with our listeners today, what would it be?
Kristen Wambach: For those listening, and there are those that really need hope, so it's important to me to quiet my spirit to allow Holy Spirit to say something that they want to hear. Because I really believe that your obedience in the platform that you have opened up—you and your husband, your prayer platform that is called a podcast—has divine moments laced in it. Amen, divine moments laced in it. I mean, it's... whoever's listening, it's no different than that simple piece of construction paper that a kindergartener brought home to a mother. And when you think about it, that means God took my spirit ahead of time—excuse me, five years ahead of time—to see the outcome.
Kristen Wambach: And if we just apply that into our life and ask the Lord, "Would you please show me ahead of time, just show me ahead of time," and He shows you something ahead of time, or if it's a feeling of life ahead of time, then everything that's in that feeling or that moment or that snippet that just went across your face has all the power to bring it to pass, amen. And you mark... you mark the feeling. You journal exactly how you felt so you can step into it when you need it. Like, this is a moment where some people need it. Write down this moment, take your phone, record this moment so that you can continue to remind yourself. And that's hope.
Regina Bartlett: I like that. That is hope, that is absolutely hope. And we all are familiar with Hebrews 11:1: "Now faith is the substance..." So when you take that hope that you were talking about, and it feels like something, it looks like something, maybe something that you can write down—it's something that you can tangibly call your own and God makes it personal for you. So now you've got hope and you're hanging onto it. When you write it down, it becomes substance because now it's a record on the Earth. When you put it on your phone, it becomes substance because it's a frequency on the Earth, and we know those frequencies and things... that substance has matter.
Kristen Wambach: Absolutely, absolutely. So now your hope is already starting to collect substance.
Regina Bartlett: I love that. But share with me a little bit about your book and where people can find it.
Kristen Wambach: My book took me twenty years to write. God is always on time! Yeah, well, I don't know, He's been pushing me for a while, but my second one is... I'm about halfway finished with it. It shares the journey and all the hard places from being in, you know, row seven, pew on the left-hand side of the church sitting there at eight years old, and answering Jesus, "What actually happened the day that I gave you my heart? What happened?" Does anyone ever wonder that question, what happened? He shows you. It took Him fifty years for Him to develop me so that I could go back and see what happened, and I wrote about it. And I wrote about it as a journal, as a story that people can ask God about. Because if everything... our words on the light and sound is living. Heaven is living, the kingdom of heaven within us is living. Those words and those testaments are living, and God will ignite them in your life. Amen.
Regina Bartlett: Amen. It can be found anywhere?
Kristen Wambach: Well, I will put an Amazon link... there you go, in the description.
Regina Bartlett: I'll also have all your socials and your email information, your social information in there in the podcast description so our listeners will be able to find you and connect with you. I think this has been an incredible time. Thank you so much for sharing so much of your time with me, but also sharing so much of your heart with me, and this is going to be a phenomenal episode for everyone. And thank you very much for being on Well and Grace today.
Kristen Wambach: Thank you, thank you. You are a delight.

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I think sometimes we often struggle with what we think people expect of us as opposed to just moving forward with what God wants from us." —Regina Bartlett

The Frequency of True Restoration

One of the most breathtaking moments of the episode occurred when Kristen shared a never-before-heard testimony of deep, personal restoration. After losing a multi-acre historical farm and an automotive business years ago, Kristen and her husband, Don, spent seven years faithfully clearing the debris of that season without filing for bankruptcy.
Decades later, God began speaking a language of precise restoration through an unexpected medium: her great-grandmother's antique French China pattern from the late 1800s. Finding a box of this rare pattern hidden away in a local charity shop for a mere $35, Kristen paused to listen to the whisper of the Spirit. Two weeks later, another complete set of the exact same family heirloom pattern appeared in a completely different shop.
This wasn't a coincidence; it was a physical demonstration of heaven's timeline. God uses our unique personalities, tastes, and histories to communicate His faithfulness. The things that look like us are safe in His hands. (This story is featured in my Newest Release: How Good is God! )

Turning Snippets into Substance

To walk in this level of relational discernment, we must learn to value what Kristen calls "snippets"—those passing thoughts, quick visions, or internal shifts that cross our minds in the prayer closet. Moses had to turn aside to look at the burning bush; we must turn aside to look at the patterns God is presenting to us.
When you capture these moments in a journal or record them on your phone, you are moving faith from an abstract concept into tangible matter. You are giving your hope physical substance on the Earth. As you look toward your own future, remember to trust what He shows you ahead of time. Your obedience in the small, unseen whispers is the exact currency that purchases your long-term spiritual freedom.

Coaching Church Activations

Activation for the Reader:  — Honoring the Snippet
Purpose: To move the believer out of intellectual performance and train the spiritual senses to recognize, record, and anchor relational moments with the Holy Spirit.

Step 1: The Intellectual Quiet
Identify the main source of "static" or noise in your morning routine (e.g., checking email first thing, social media scrolling, or immediate task management). For the next seven days, execute an absolute media fast for the first ten minutes of your day.
Step 2: Turning Aside to See
Sit in quiet isolation with a physical journal or your digital tablet. Ask Jesus one direct, relational question regarding your day ahead: "Jesus, what is one thing you want me to notice about your goodness today?"
Step 3: Recording the Substance
Do not filter, analyze, or grade what comes across your mind. Even if it feels like a simple piece of "construction paper" or a fleeting memory of a person, place, or scripture—write it down immediately.
Step 4: The Weekend Audit
At the end of the week, go back and read your entries. Look for the patterns of how the Holy Spirit used your specific memory library to speak to you. Mark where those snippets accurately prepared your heart for an event ahead of time.

Closing Wisdom

This framework leverages the real-time transcript from the Well and Grace Podcast to establish Kristen Wambach as a global authority on spiritual maturity. By dismantling the "Evernote" references from the host's live introduction and strictly focusing on Kristen's identity as an author and spiritual leader, this package offers clean, high-impact marketing assets. It balances deep, vulnerable storytelling (the French China restoration and overcoming dyslexia) with actionable, "Monday-morning" logic via the customized Coaching Church Reader Activation, meeting the required "Best Seller" standard of excellence.​

The Rhema Shift & Religious Deconstruction

"Synthesizing 30 years of biblical authority, Kristen Wambach maps the vital journey from religious obligation to an intimate, lived relationship with Jesus. This pillar explores the 'Rhema Mind'—shifting from a stagnant knowledge of the Word to a dynamic, supernatural engagement with the heart of God."

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•  Embracing the Unseen/ Spiritual Senses & Relational Discernment (Well and Grace with Regina Bartlett)

•    Building the Faith Muscle: Journey of Transformation (When I Stop Fighting)

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PRESS RELEASE
Spiritual Investigative Journalist Kristen Wambach Featured on the Well and Grace Podcast to Discuss Living "Spiritually BRAVE" and the Power of Divine Restoration
CORVALLIS, OREGON — Acclaimed author, speaker, and spiritual coach Kristen Wambach was recently featured on a high-impact guest episode of the Well and Grace Podcast, hosted by author and women’s ministry leader Regina Bartlett. The episode, titled "Embracing the Unseen," delivers an accessible, outcome-focused conversation designed to help believers unlock their spiritual senses, overcome personal adversity, and embrace the redemptive blueprint of their lives.
During the interview, Wambach shared transparent insights from her own journey, including her early childhood struggles with dyslexia—a limitation she notes completely disappeared through a profound encounter with the Word of God—and how she eventually learned to move beyond traditional institutional boundaries to step fully into her spiritual authority.

"The greatest barrier to hearing God isn't His silence; it's our noise," said Wambach during the broadcast. "Living spiritually brave means choosing what God says about you over human or institutional expectations, and learning to trust the safe path He has laid out for your heart, even when your natural eyes see nothing."
A primary highlight of the episode features a stunning, never-before-shared testimony of modern-day divine restoration. After experiencing the devastating loss of a family business and a historic Victorian farm years ago, Wambach detailed how the Holy Spirit used a rare, late-1800s antique French China pattern discovered across separate charity shops to deliver a tangible, physical guarantee of heaven's faithfulness.
Host Regina Bartlett noted the profound impact of the testimony, stating, "When you have such unyielding faith, God always delivers in those moments. It's beautiful to see people who receive so beautifully."
The conversation also provides practical lifestyle tools for listeners, specifically focusing on how to capture small, daily spiritual "snippets" through intentional journaling to turn abstract faith into tangible substance.
The full episode of Well and Grace featuring Kristen Wambach is available now on all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean.
About the Well and Grace Podcast
Hosted by author, speaker, and women’s ministry leader Regina Bartlett, the Well and Grace Podcast highlights powerful stories of contemporary women who have overcome adversity through faith in Jesus Christ. Inspired by John 4:14, the platform offers heartfelt conversations, biblical reflections, and practical resources focused on healing, resilience, and spiritual growth.

About Kristen Wambach
Kristen Wambach is an ordained pastor, transformation coach, and the host of the Interviewing Jesus podcast. With over three decades of experience in leadership development and public communication, she empowers individuals to connect with their God-inspired DNA. Based in the Pacific Northwest, she is the author of several works on spirituality and the CEO of Rabbitrail Supply.
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