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66. Monday Meditations: When the Enemy Knows Your Name
Sep 02, 2025 9 min

66. Monday Meditations: When the Enemy Knows Your Name

Spiritual warfare doesn’t always look like catastrophe, sometimes it looks like compromise, distraction, or slow drift. In this episode of Monday Meditations, we explore what it really means to “be...

65. Monday Meditations: The Mercy of Not Knowing
Aug 25, 2025 11 min

65. Monday Meditations: The Mercy of Not Knowing

What if the silence in your life isn’t a sign of God’s absence . . . but His protection?In this episode of Monday Meditations, we explore the quiet, often painful space between promise and fulfillm...

64. Monday Meditations: Bending to Serve
Aug 18, 2025 10 min

64. Monday Meditations: Bending to Serve

In a culture obsessed with control, performance, and platform, this episode is a call back to quiet strength, the kind of strength that doesn’t clamor for recognition but kneels to serve.This Monda...

63. Monday Meditations: The Seduction of Safety
Aug 11, 2025 14 min

63. Monday Meditations: The Seduction of Safety

We’ve dressed fear up as wisdom. We’ve spiritualized our anxiety. We’ve built lives around safety and called it discernment. But let’s be honest, fear has become a socially accepted idol, and it’s ...

62. Monday Meditations: Faith Before the Promise
Aug 04, 2025 11 min

62. Monday Meditations: Faith Before the Promise

This episode of Monday Meditations cuts straight to the core of what it means to trust God when nothing makes sense. Based on Genesis 15, Erika Kirk takes you deep into the story of Abraham, a man ...

61. Monday Meditations: The Hope That Outlives Disappointment
Jul 28, 2025 11 min

61. Monday Meditations: The Hope That Outlives Disappointment

This week's Monday Meditations episode speaks to the heart that’s grown weary. If disappointment has stolen your joy or loss has dimmed your vision, this message is for you. In her signature blend ...

60. Monday Meditations: Forging Faith
Jul 21, 2025 9 min

60. Monday Meditations: Forging Faith

This Monday Meditations episode dives deep into the fear we all feel when God seems distant. In a voice of fierce faith and tenderness, Erika Kirk reminds us that God’s silence is not His absence—a...

59. Monday Meditations: Beneath the Rage
Jul 14, 2025 7 min

59. Monday Meditations: Beneath the Rage

This week on Monday Meditations, Erika Kirk delivers a powerful reflection on one of the earliest heart issues in Scripture: anger. Through the story of Cain, we explore how our emotions reveal wha...

58. Monday Meditations: How God Reforms Our Routines
Jul 07, 2025 10 min

58. Monday Meditations: How God Reforms Our Routines

In this bold Monday Meditations episode, Erika Kirk explores the spiritual significance of habits through the lens of Exodus 16. Drawing from the wilderness journey of the Israelites, this episode ...

57. Monday Meditations: When God Says No
Jul 01, 2025 12 min

57. Monday Meditations: When God Says No

There are moments in life when God does not answer the way we hoped. When the doors stay shut. When the healing doesn’t come. When the timing feels late, and the silence is heavy. In this Monday Me...

56. Monday Meditations: Be Still
Jun 23, 2025 9 min

56. Monday Meditations: Be Still

In a world that never stops shouting, God still chooses to whisper.This episode invites you into the holy hush—into solitude, silence, and stillness—where the soul is strengthened and peace is rest...

S04: 08 Anchored: Revival to Biblical Womanhood
Jun 18, 2025 30 min

S04: 08 Anchored: Revival to Biblical Womanhood

Recorded live from the 10th annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit, this episode is a message straight from my heart to yours. I was deeply honored to speak at YWLS — and even more proud of my husb...

55. Monday Meditations: A Temple Worth Tending
Jun 17, 2025 10 min

55. Monday Meditations: A Temple Worth Tending

In a world flooded with noise, mess, and mental overload, this week’s Monday Meditations calls you back to sacred order. You weren’t made for chaos. You were made to be a dwelling place for the Spi...

54. Monday Meditations: When Darkness Tries to Claim You
Jun 09, 2025 11 min

54. Monday Meditations: When Darkness Tries to Claim You

There are moments in our walk with God when the light seems to fade. We stumble, not because the presence of God has left us, but because something has come between us and the Light.In this week’s ...

53. Monday Meditations: Anchored Beyond the Veil
May 19, 2025 12 min

53. Monday Meditations: Anchored Beyond the Veil

Waiting can feel like silence. Like stagnation. Like abandonment.But what if the delay isn't a detour — what if it's divine preparation?In today’s episode of Monday Meditations, we explore what it ...

52. Monday Meditations: Redemption in Tribulation
May 13, 2025 12 min

52. Monday Meditations: Redemption in Tribulation

This week on Monday Meditations, we walk through the holy fire of suffering and come face-to-face with the unshakable truth: our Redeemer lives. When life feels like a furnace, God's refining hand ...

S04: 07 The Sunset Always Sets in the West
May 08, 2025 8 min

S04: 07 The Sunset Always Sets in the West

There comes a moment — quiet, piercing, undeniable — when your soul whispers: “This isn’t working.”In this powerful episode, we confront the ache of misaligned ambition, the burnout of chasing...