Crystal Sparks's Podcast

This podcast is continued from a Q & A series I began from a prompt on Instagram. The question we discuss in this episode is, "how does a godly wife practically serve her husband?" SAVE THE DATESisterhood 2023March 9 & 10Tickets coming soon! My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!

This podcast is continued from a Q & A series I began from a prompt on Instagram. The question we discuss in this episode is, "if you walk away, can you walk back?"  SAVE THE DATESisterhood 2023March 9 & 10Tickets coming soon! My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!

This episode is the first of a new series I am doing of Q&A! I asked you all on my instagram account what you want to talk about, and the first is 'How to Hear God's Voice.' How to Hear God's Voice: Get Quiet (Mark 7:33)Journal with the Lord Spend time in God's WordBe sensitive Have a routine Scripture mentioned: Revelation 10:4Revelation 1:19Revelation 1:10Mark 7:33My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!

CHARACTERISTICS OF WISDOMIs the beginning (4:7)Is to be sought after (2:4)Is received (2:6)To be protected (2:7, 17:24)Is a shield to protect us (2:7)Speaks (8:34, 16:23)Can be heard (5:1)Is found (8:35)Builds (9:1, 14:1)Stands (8:2)Receives counsel (13:10)Gives rest (14:33)Gives favor (14:35, 17:2)Is a path (15:24)Allows me to love my life (19:8)My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!

This episode is from a message I spoke at 414 Church. I hope this encourages those who find themselves in a transitional season.  There aren’t a lot of things that are guaranteed in this life, however change is one of them! Faith is a PerspectiveFaith is a PostureFaith is a PursuitScriptures Mentioned: Luke 17:32Genesis 19:15-261 Timothy 1:12Luke 24:21Philippians 3:13-14Hebrews 11:1Proverbs 4:18My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!

This episode is a behind-the-scenes type of conversation around the previous episode titled, "What Shall We Do?"SAVE THE DATE: Sisterhood 2023March 9-10thMy hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!

This episode is a message from our First Wednesday service. In the message, there are 5 different groups of people who are baptized then ask the question, "what shall we do?" They all knew that baptism wasn't the final step in their faith journey, but just one of the steps in their faith journey. It's important that we too ask the question, "do the people in my workplace know I am a Christ follower without telling them?" 5 Fruits of Repentance: The fruit of repentance is generosity where there was selfishness.The fruit of repentance is honesty where there was dishonesty. The fruit of repentance is contentment where there was dissatisfaction. The fruit of repentance is love where there was selfish gain. The fruit of repentance is living a life led by the Holy Spirit where there was my own plan. Scripture Mentioned: Luke 3:3,4 10-14, 21-23 AMPCMy hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on Fac

In this episode we discuss the different types of gift givers and gift receivers and how it relates to our relationship to God. Could it be that the way we receive gifts from people correlates with how we receive gifts from God?TYPES OF GIFT GIVERS: The Genuine GiverThe Status HoundThe Wolf in Sheep’s ClothingThe Power PlayerThe ComplainerTYPES OF GIFT RECEIVERS: Sensitive Asks questions DiscontentThe hype one The grateful oneMy hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!

In this episode I study the song of Mary in Luke 1. The true message of Christmas is that God wants to change us from the inside out! Mary sang because the Lord had made such a deep impact on her life that she couldn't help but sing and exclaim who He was. God desires to change our lives in a profound way that impacts not only us but the generations to come. Scriptures Mentioned: Luke 1:45-55My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!

In this episode I encourage listeners to stir up a heart of gratitude. Criticism is almost always easier to remember because it's given with more detail. When we criticize, we say exactly why we didn't like something, but oftentimes our praise is given generically. Following this podcast, I want to encourage you to find someone you're thankful for, tell them why, and be very specific! Scriptures Mentioned: Luke 17:11 Psalm 10:4My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!

In this episode I talk about the difference between anointing and gifting. The gifting does not go away it is without repentance. The anointing can go away and it can increase. Anointing is not how long a service is or how loud you speak. It isn’t when people fall out under the power of God. Recipe for Anointing (Exodus 30:22-24): Meekness & SubmissionUprightnessHumilityInner-cleansingFresh Filling of Holy SpiritScriptures Mentioned: Numbers 4:16Leviticus 16:321 Samuel 10:12 Samuel 19:10Isaiah 10:271 Chronicles 16:22Isaiah 61:1 Luke 4:18My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!

This episode is a behind-the-scenes type of conversation around the previous episode titled, "Happy New Year." My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from me

This episode is a clip taken from my message at our Wednesday Night Revival Service.  Could it be that God is about to do something so monumental in your life that it creates a complete calendar reset?  When the enemy says:  You’ll never get out of this, we declare: HAPPY NEW YEARYou’ll always be addicted, we declare: HAPPY NEW YEARYou will never be free, we declare: HAPPY NEW YEARYou will never get your breakthrough, we declare: HAPPY NEW YEARScriptures Mentioned: Exodus 12:1-13 Isaiah 43:19John 1:29 Hebrews 11:21Revelation 12:11 Matthew 27:29 1 Corinthians 11:26 My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from me

In this mini series I talk about symptoms of someone who is drifting from their faith. No one ever begins their faith journey with the intent to one day backslide away from the Church. Even though we might not have deliberately set out to become distant from God, circumstances can cause us to slowly drift from our faith.You know you're drifting when: You stop trusting & start controllingYou stop following & start justifying your offensesScriptures Mentioned: Proverbs 14:12 TPT1 Corinthians 10:13My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!

In this episode I talk about symptoms of someone who is drifting from their faith. No one ever begins their faith journey with the intent to one day backslide away from the Church. Even though we might not have deliberately set out to become distant from God, circumstances can cause us to slowly drift from our faith. You know you're drifting when: You stop trusting & start controllingScriptures Mentioned: Matthew 6:28Psalm 119:681 Peter 1:161 John 4:7-8Romans 8:31Zephaniah 3:14-17Hebrews 10:232 Chronicles 20:15Psalm 50:6Psalm 86:15Psalm 86:5Psalm 139Psalm 18:30Hebrews 8:1Proverbs 3My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!

In this episode a friend and I discuss topics that I have preached in the past that I now share contrasting views on. Topics include walking on water, Jesus healing the paralytic, and Moses leading the Israelites. Scriptures Mentioned: Luke 5:17-39Matthew 14:22-33Exodus 32:1My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!

This episode is the third part of a message I spoke at Sisterhood Workshop 2022. The entire message is titled, "Invitation to Freedom," and the third and final part explains how the hurts we receive can block us from experiencing the freedom that is available to us. I have to trust what I do know about God vs. what I don’t know about the future.Scriptures Mentioned: Galatians 5:1My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture! 

This episode is the second part of a message I spoke at Sisterhood Workshop 2022. The entire message is titled, "Invitation to Freedom," and the second part explains how the sins we can't leave block us from experiencing the freedom that is available to us. Symptoms of a drifting heart: You make excuses for the is in your lifeYou avoid reading your BibleYou pull away from friends that are pursuing GodYou allow your emotions to lead youYou have lost compassion for peopleYou are easily offendedYou feel hopeless about the futureYou have stopped praying for God to help you with that area in your lifeScriptures Mentioned: Galatians 5:1Genesis 3:1Hebrews 2:1My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture! 

This episode is the first part of a message I spoke at Sisterhood Workshop 2022. The entire message is titled, "Invitation to Freedom," and the first part explains how the lies we believe block us from experiencing the freedom that is available to us. Every lie that the enemy tells us can fit into these three things:I am helplessI am hopelessI am unlovableScriptures Mentioned: Galatians 5:1My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture! 

This episode is a clip taken from my message at Sisterhood 2022. Have we gotten so busy doing everything in our lives that we have stopped answering the God invitation to our hearts? This message encourages listeners to hear the invitation God is giving us and let our hearts respond. There is an invitationThere are no rules to accept the invitationYour heart has a responseScriptures Mentioned: Psalm 27:8Romans 1:6Acts 10:321 John 4:19My hope is that this podcast helps grow your faith and equips you to accomplish your dreams and goals!Follow me on instagramFollow me on FacebookSubscribe to emails from meGet my new book, Understanding Scripture!