Followed By Mercy
The Followed By Mercy Podcast
Real Grace, Honest Hope
You might notice a new name and a fresh look, but the heart behind this podcast is the same. After years as the World Evangelism Podcast, I sensed God leading me to a deeper, more personal path centered on His relentless mercy and the kind of honest hope that can reach into every hurting place. That’s why this show is now called Followed By Mercy Podcast. The format may shift, and the tone may be a bit more personal, but my mission hasn’t changed: I still believe the world desperately needs to hear the good news of God’s love in Jesus Christ. You are welcome here if you’ve been with me from the beginning or just found us now.
What if God’s love is more personal, stubborn, and relentless than you ever imagined?
Welcome to The Followed By Mercy Podcast, where we get honest about pain, hope, and the kind of grace that finds you right where you are, five days a week. This isn’t about religious performance or church routines. It’s for anyone who’s ever felt worn out, unseen, or unsure if they belong in the story of God’s love. Every conversation is rooted in this reality: God loves you right now, just as you are, and He isn’t giving up on you.
Here’s what you’ll find in every episode:
Experience God’s Relentless Love
Every show starts by reminding you that the Shepherd knows your name, cares about your story, and isn’t offended by your failures or questions. This is personal—it’s about God’s unwavering affection for you.
Find Your Place in His Heart
Once you grasp how fiercely you’re loved, sharing that love with others doesn’t feel forced. It becomes the most natural thing in the world. Real grace overflows.
Prayer That Changes You
We pray together—not just for the world “out there,” but for the battles and hopes you’re carrying right now. These prayers are honest, rooted in Scripture, and meant for hearts that need a gentle touch from the Shepherd.
Discover Your Unique Role
Whether you’re called to go, give, serve, or show kindness in your corner of the world, God’s mercy meets you where you are. You’re not just a bystander. You are His beloved, invited into the story He’s writing.
When life knocks the wind out of you, this is a place to catch your breath. You’ll hear the encouragement that meets you on your hardest days, and your honest questions will be welcomed. No pretending, no heavy-handed advice—just the reminder that your Shepherd is right there with you, walking every step with you, even when you feel like giving up.
Why does this matter? Because some days, it feels like nobody sees you or cares what you’re going through. But the truth is, you have a Shepherd who never takes His eyes off you, lets you slip through the cracks, and never gives up on you. That kind of love can put you back on your feet, and it might be the hope someone else is waiting to see in you, too.
If you’re longing for more than just religious talk—if you want to know you’re not alone and that God’s mercy is following you all the way home, you’re in the right place. Whether you listen in the car, on a walk, or in a quiet moment, let every episode remind you: God’s mercy is after you right now, ready to bring real grace and honest hope.
Subscribe today and join a community to discover what happens when loved people become loving people. The journey’s just beginning, and there’s a place for you here.
Followed By Mercy
Stop Living Like a Pauper When You've Got Spiritual Millions
Are you living with boundaries on God’s grace that He never placed on you? Many of us have all we need in Christ yet walk through life like spiritual beggars, blind to the power already at work within us.
In this episode, we look at how easily we restrict God’s power in our lives, much like the early settlers of Manhattan who built a wall, never imagining the city would grow beyond it.
Paul, chained in a Roman prison, spoke of “the exceeding greatness of God’s power” with a freedom that no cell could contain. His secret wasn’t denial of suffering but a shift in perspective. He wasn’t Rome’s prisoner. He was the Lord’s.
The truth is life-changing yet straightforward: you don’t need to seek resurrection power. You already have it. The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is alive in you. The tragedy isn’t facing trials but going through life without realizing the inheritance that’s already yours in Christ.
This episode will encourage you to see your challenges through new eyes, to stop striving for what is already yours, and to trust that your past doesn’t have the final say. Resurrection power changes how you parent, how you work, how you face temptation, and how you love.
What would shift in your life if you truly believed that Christ Himself is alive within you today?
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Welcome back to, Followed by Mercy, where we really believe that our Father loves us unconditionally no strings attached, no conditions, no threats, no warnings. He loves us and we love Him, because he first loved us. It was Him that made the first step, and then he is still doing that and you are followed by mercy. I don't know where you are listening right now, whether it's in traffic, on the treadmill or late night. You're just laying around. But I know God has you here for a reason, because we're going to go to Ephesians, chapter 1, where the Bible says that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened. Bible says that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened. That's a prayer for you, that's a prayer for me, Not about more information, but about more revelation. It is us seeing clearly what's already true. You see, you already have everything in Christ. You just need eyes to see it. God's already given it to us. He gave us Christ. There's nothing he would hold back. So we ask God right now, and I ask you to ask him with me, to open our eyes, to take away our blindness, our excuses, but, alive, present and inside of us, God, flood our hearts with your light.
Austin Gardner:Years ago, a story is told and I've researched a little bit that when they were building New York City they were in lower Manhattan. The dutch went out as far as what they called a place called wall street, because they built a wall there and on the outside the indians could live there and they lived on the inside. That was what's known as wall street today. They had no idea that new york city would be much larger than that. They set a boundary on a city that would grow way beyond the bounds and the question would be is that what you've done with God? Is that what I've done with God? Have we set boundaries on his grace, on his forgiveness, on his power? Have we decided what's possible and then we stop there? Stop living on Wall Street? Tear down the boundaries. God's power stretches beyond anything you've ever imagined. That's what Paul wrote.
Austin Gardner:He's in a Roman prison. He's got chains on his arms, guards by his side, but listen to what he says the father of glory, the exceeding greatness of his power. They may have locked his body, but his spirit was flying in the heavenlies. He didn't call himself Rome's prisoner, he called himself the prisoner of the Lord. He wasn't asking God why is this happening to me? He was asking God how can we use this for your glory? How will you use this for your glory?
Austin Gardner:That shift of perspective changes everything. What about you? What are you chained by right now? Is it fear, regret, insecurity? Those chains are real, but they don't get the last word, Because the risen Christ lives in you and he is more powerful than all the circumstances around you.
Austin Gardner:Go through your day knowing that. So what's Paul praying for? He prays that you may know, not that you may get because you already have it, but that you may know what you have. Think about it If I deposit a million dollars into your bank account and you never checked your balance, you'd live like you were broke. That's how many of us live as Christians. We have everything in Christ, but we still live like paupers, beggars. What if you live today as if what Paul says is actually true? What would change in the way you treat your spouse, raise your kids, show up at work or deal with temptation, If you really believe that you already had resurrection power at work in you?
Austin Gardner:Paul warns us about two mistakes about the resurrection Sometimes we treat it like a museum piece and we admire it from a distance, and once a year we trot it out and talk about the resurrection, but the resurrection isn't locked in the past. The other is that we treat it like a vague, impersonal force, like gravity. It's personal, not impractical. It's Christ himself, alive in you. We don't live like Jesus is an idea. He's a person and he lives in you. And if he's alive in you, what stopped you from trusting him with the part of your life you've been holding as off limits?
Austin Gardner:Sometimes we can't see what's right in front of us. You know, they say an old man, a man picked up an old Bible at a garage sale. He didn't realize he had purchased the priceless Gutenberg edition and somebody named Martin Luther supposedly had scribbled in it. And so he sold it cheap because he didn't know what he had. Isn't that what we do with the resurrection? Yeah, yeah, we know about it and we see it, but we don't see it as important as it is.
Austin Gardner:So God is saying, or Paul is saying, the Holy Spirit is telling Paul to write it, but he says open your eyes, Don't miss what you already have. So let's ask what difference does it make this morning that Christ arose? It means you don't have to fight your battles alone. It means that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is directed to you that believe. It means that your past doesn't define your future. It means that the chains of regret don't get the final word. It means you can stop striving to get what you already have. It means you can stop praying and acting like God doesn't want to answer you and he doesn't want to get you.
Austin Gardner:And oh how we've taught that. Oh how we've made it sound like God is not that interested in us and he's not going to answer us. And so we beg, and we beg and we beg Paul's prayer here. He said he ceased not to give thanks to him and he made mention of him in his prayers. And he said that the God of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance and the exceeding greatness of his power. To us who believe according to his mighty power, that's the God we serve. We can stop striving. We already have it.
Austin Gardner:If you really believe that's true, how would it change the way you're going to act today or this week. Is there somebody you are keeping at arm's length and you can't forgive them? Or is there a fear you're facing and you don't know how to handle it? I want you to say, Lord, I can't, but you can. Friend, here's a danger. You hear this and you nod and you move along. Yeah, you're listening to the podcast, You're just going to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't do that. Don't quench the spirit. Don't miss the treasure.
Austin Gardner:The greatest tragedy is for a believer to go through life never realizing what they have. Don't let that be. You Believe and receive, Step into what's already yours. You have victory now. You are more than a conqueror. You live victorious because Jesus lives in you. There are no boundaries. Jesus isn't somebody we talk about in the past. He's alive in you now, In the life that you now live. You live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved you and gave himself for you.
Austin Gardner:I just want you to know today, it doesn't matter what you're facing. I am praying God will open your eyes. You see Ephesians, chapter 1, God's laying out, through Paul, all that we have. We have grace and peace. We are saints and faithful. We are chosen. We are predestined to adoption. He's going to make us holy and without blame. We're accepted in the beloved. We have victory now, but our eyes aren't open to it, and that's the prayer for today that your eyes would be open to all that God is currently doing in you. He is at work in you. He has great things for you. He has already done the work. We simply live in what he did.
Austin Gardner:It is honestly like a child, like a toddler in your home. It's not theirs to wonder about whether the food's there. It's there. It's not theirs to wonder about if they're going to be taken care of. The parents are there. It's not yours to worry about. You're the sheep and he's the shepherd. He's taking care of you and victory is yours today. That's not positive thinking, that's faith thinking. That's believing the word of God. It doesn't matter if you have cancer, it doesn't matter what else is going on in your life. It just matters that God is going to work in you today. Would you trust him with it? Would you get off the podcast here just a second and say God, I will believe you. Open my eyes to see the truth you have set up for me. God loves you, You're his child. Oh, what a marvelous thing that he would consider you his child and now step out in faith, knowing how much he loves you. God bless you. Thank you for listening to. Followed by Mercy. If it's a blessing, share it with somebody.
