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Resilient Faith Podcast

Resilient Faith Podcast

By: Michael D.Davis-Thomas
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 Welcome to the Resilient Faith Podcast, a space for honest, heartfelt conversations about navigating life’s toughest challenges through faith, resilience, and personal growth. Each episode dives deep into real-life struggles and triumphs, exploring topics like hope, despair, forgiveness, trust, and the power of resilience in our everyday lives.

Hosted by individuals who have walked their own journeys of faith and resilience, this podcast brings relatable stories, practical insights, and spiritual encouragement to listeners from all backgrounds—whether you’re a long-time believer, new to faith, or simply seeking strength and guidance. With a blend of personal reflections, faith-based wisdom, and open dialogue, we tackle questions about finding purpose, healing from pain, and building a resilient spirit in a world full of uncertainty.

Join us as we uncover how faith can anchor us, how resilience can carry us through, and how we can find hope, joy, and peace even in life’s hardest moments. Whether you’re facing challenges or just looking to deepen your spiritual journey, the Resilient Faith Podcast is here to support you every step of the way.

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Episodes
  • Dating While Devoted: God, Lust, and the Wait

    Dating While Devoted: God, Lust, and the Wait
    Jun 1 2025
    🎙️ Resilient Faith Podcast Miniseries: Built on the Rock
    EPISODE 2: “Dating While Devoted: God, Lust, and the Wait”
    Hosted by Carrie Davis | Featuring Michael D. Davis-Thomas
    Produced by MDDTSpeaks Media

    What does it mean to date while devoted? In a world where hookups are easier than healing and standards are often sacrificed for attention, this episode tackles the real tension between honoring God and navigating the emotional landmines of modern dating.

    In Episode 2 of Built on the Rock, host Carrie Davis and guest/co-host Michael D. Davis-Thomas, CEO/Founder of MDDTSpeaks and host of the Resilient Faith Podcast, take us deep into the heart of spiritually-centered relationships. This isn’t a “Christian dating advice” episode—it’s an unapologetically honest conversation about lust, loneliness, spiritual boundaries, trauma, discernment, emotional sobriety, and waiting well.

    Michael and Carrie dismantle the myths of godly dating being boring or repressive and instead frame it as a form of spiritual protection and emotional maturity. They address how trauma can distort clarity, why silence and secrecy in relationships can be spiritual warfare, and how to differentiate between desire and discernment when it comes to love and lust.

    🔥 “If they’re fine, saved, and toxic—that’s still a no. Being equally yoked means more than just claiming Jesus. It’s about whether their life reflects Him.” – Michael D. Davis-Thomas

    Whether you're single, dating, waiting, healing, or reevaluating what love even looks like for you—this episode will convict, challenge, and comfort you all at once. You’ll walk away with a clearer picture of what it means to be anchored in God before ever swiping right.

    Key Talking Points
    • Why God must be at the center before any romantic connection
    • Spiritual identity and emotional sobriety in dating
    • The difference between desire and discernment
    • Boundaries as protection—not punishment
    • Recognizing red flags we often spiritualize
    • The impact of trauma, casual sex, and secrecy on spiritual alignment
    • Navigating loneliness, lust, and the longing for love without compromising your call
    Featured Scriptures & Contexts
    • Proverbs 4:23 – “Above all else, guard your heart...”
      → Hebrew root for “heart” means your full inner self: mind, will, emotions.
    • 2 Corinthians 6:14 – “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers...”
      → Paul was speaking to spiritual alignment, not just spiritual labels.
    • Song of Solomon 2:7 – “Do not awaken love until the time is right...”
      → An ancient warning against rushing emotional and physical intimacy.
    Reflection Prompts📝 Journaling:
    • What patterns am I calling “preference” that are really unhealed trauma?
    • Am I emotionally attached or spiritually aligned?
    • Have I awakened love too soon out of fear of being alone?
    🙏🏽 Prayer:

    “Lord, align my heart with Your truth. Heal what I hide. Guard me from counterfeits and distractions. Teach me to wait with expectation—not desperation—and to recognize Your voice over my own desires. Amen.”

    Action Items for Listeners
    • Reevaluate your dating boundaries through the lens of God’s Word
    • Hold yourself accountable to the emotional and spiritual fruit of your choices
    • Examine who’s in your life: do they push you toward God or pull you away?
    • Reflect on your waiting season: is it refinement or resistance?
    • Share this episode with someone silently struggling with dating in faith
    Host Notes

    Carrie Davis and Michael D. Davis-Thomas are unfiltered, faithful, and fearless in this conversation—reminding us that if God’s not first, everything else falls apart. Their synergy, scriptural depth, and lived experience offer a roadmap for listeners ready to date with intentionality, maturity, and most importantly, resilient faith.

    🎧 Listen now on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you get your podcasts. Don’t forget to rate, review, and share to help us reach more people navigating love, loss, and faith in a complicated world.
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • What a Relationship with God Really Is

    What a Relationship with God Really Is
    May 17 2025
    What if the reason your relationships feel off isn’t about them—but about how you see Him?

    In the debut episode of our powerful new miniseries, Built on the Rock, host Carrie Davis and guest co-host Michael D. Davis-Thomas dismantle the surface-level definitions of faith many of us were raised on. This is not a conversation about religion. It’s about relationship. Raw, honest, unfiltered communion with the God who wants more than your Sunday best—He wants you.

    Titled “Start Here: What a Relationship with God Really Is”, this episode digs deep into the foundations of faith that often get lost in tradition, trauma, and performance-driven spirituality. Through authentic storytelling, scriptural grounding, and hard-won wisdom, Michael and Carrie explore what it truly means to walk with God—not just work for Him.

    From breaking generational habits of passive belief to learning how to hear God's voice in the silence, this conversation is an invitation to rebuild your understanding of intimacy, identity, and intentionality with God. If you’ve ever felt like you were doing all the right things but still felt far from Him—this episode was crafted for you.

    Scriptures referenced:

    John 10:27 — “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.”
    James 4:8 — “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you…”
    Psalm 42:1-2 — “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God…”

    Real Talk Moment:

    “If you don’t trust God with your wounds, you’ll worship Him with walls up.” This episode explores:
    • The difference between knowing of God and actually knowing Him
    • How childhood faith becomes adult formation—or dysfunction
    • Learning to approach God honestly without performance or polish
    • Why your view of God shapes every other relationship in your life
    • Practical, non-performative steps to begin (or restart) a relationship with God today
    Whether you’re deconstructing, rebuilding, or just now searching for what’s real—this is your invitation to start here. Not with religion. Not with rules. But with relationship.
    Because everything else falls apart… if He’s not first. LISTEN NOW on the Resilient Faith Podcast.

    Stream the full Built on the Rock miniseries wherever you get your podcasts.
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    52 mins
  • “Trusting Through Uncertainty”

    “Trusting Through Uncertainty”
    Apr 19 2025
    Season 1, Episode 5

    Title: “Trusting Through Uncertainty”

    Theme: Learning to Trust God When the Path is Unclear

    In this reflective and spiritually grounding episode of the Resilient Faith Podcast, host Michael D. Davis-Thomas is joined by Carrie Davis for a vulnerable and truth-filled conversation about the complexities of trusting God when nothing feels certain. When life places us in liminal spaces—between what we hoped for and what is—we’re invited to lean into faith in ways we never imagined.

    Together, Michael and Carrie unpack the emotional weight of uncertainty:
    • How do we trust God when outcomes don’t align with our plans?
    • What does surrender look like when fear, doubt, and silence feel louder than God’s voice?
    • And how do we keep walking forward when we cannot see beyond the fog in front of us?
    This episode weaves personal stories of heartbreak, healing, and hard choices with scriptural truths that remind us: we don’t have to understand the plan to trust the One who made it. Whether you're wrestling with a delayed promise, a detour you didn’t expect, or a valley that’s lasted longer than you hoped—this conversation offers wisdom, compassion, and a reminder that God is present even in the pause.

    Highlighted Scriptures:
    • Proverbs 3:5-6 – Trusting God with your whole heart, even when the understanding isn’t there
    • Isaiah 26:3-4 – Perfect peace for those who fix their minds on Him
    • Jeremiah 29:11 – A future and a hope, even when the path ahead feels blurry
    • Romans 8:28, Psalm 37:5, Matthew 6:34 – How God uses every detail for our good and His glory
    Key Takeaways:
    • Trusting God is a daily decision, not a one-time declaration
    • Faith doesn’t erase fear—it outlasts it
    • Uncertainty can be fertile ground for spiritual growth and deeper surrender
    • Healing comes when we stop trying to control what only God can carry
    Co-Host: Carrie Davis

    Follow Carrie Davis for continued encouragement, community, and resources for faith-led living.

    Opening & Closing Prayers:

    Each prayer in this episode is written to usher in intimacy with God, reminding listeners that they are never navigating the unknown alone.
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    48 mins
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