Episodes

Episode 137: Recovering The Axe Of Jesus When a young prophet lost his axe, he mourned in the presence of Elisha and begged him for supernatural intervention to recover his only tool that would get the job done. While this is an exciting story from...

Episode 136: Discerning & Defeating False Prophets Who do you allow to speak into your life on behalf of God? None of us are without outside voices which work to shape our views of God, His Kingdom, our own identity, and our life purpose....

Episode 135: CHURCHES: Factory Reset What kind of local church are you a part of? Who is leading you? Do things like leadership structures, spiritual gifting, personal callings, and cooperative ministry vision really make a difference? Well, if you...

Episode 134: What If I'm Not Really Saved Some of what we see right now happening in our churches is an evangelistic call being released by Holy Spirit to church members. Yes, that’s right: God is offering those who have sat in churches for years an...

Episode 133: Word Curses & The Spirit Of Shimei Everyone who listens to this episode of Mavericks & Misfits will have an experience with their own personal Shimei. Do you know who this is? He is one of the most despicable people in all of the Bible....

Episode 132: A Prophetic Urge To Prepare Sometimes Holy Spirit hijacks the podcast episode. Originally, Episode 132 of Mavericks & Misfits was slated to focus on the issue of spiritual warfare through word curses. Within the first three minutes of the...

Episode 131: Kingdom Danger Zone In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff Lyle welcomes his wife, Amy, into the studio to discuss a word that God gave Amy in December of 2022. After pondering this word privately for a few weeks, Amy shared it with...

Episode 130: Is The Local Church Still Valid Have you noticed the increase of people abandoning their commitments to local assemblies? Since Covid put local church gatherings on a temporary pause, we have discerned that many have since then seemingly...

Episode 129: The Spirit Of The Age Has Infected The Climate Of The Church It is a long title, but there was not a better way to describe what has happened to the Church in America. Jesus once rebuked two of His closest followers for not discerning...

Episode 128: What God Said To Me Sometimes we feel compelled to put our latest favorite song in our playlist on continuous play. It impacts us, speaks to us, stirs us, or settles us. We just want to hear it over and over in a loop. In the late Fall of...

Episode 127: Dethroning Jealousy & Envy Jerry Bridges once wrote a book called Respectable Sins. I read it in 2010 and was both blessed and convicted by what God had the author reveal. More and more, many Christians are realizing the widening gap...

Episode 126: It Is Not Hopeless Some people were born to run marathons. Some were even born to win them. Most of us, however, prefer the short route and the quickest route from one point to another. Marathons just are not our thing, so we never enter...

Episode 125: Out... But Not In Most Christians know what it feels like to be stuck for a season. The in-between moments are not always easy to understand for those who are on their personal faith-journey. Others around us seem to motor on into a life...

Episode 124: What Happens When We Won't Forgive? In the days wherein Christianity has been consistently presented as a relationship solely between God and an individual, we have all but lost the concept that to be a Christian is not only to become one...

Episode 123: The Impossible Love The ways, works and words of Jesus are repeatedly revealed in Scripture in such a way that we feel compelled to both learn and emulate all that He says and does. Jesus’ sermons...

Episode 122: Why Closed Doors? It can be a challenging thing when the zeal inside of you is not matched with opportunities outside of you. The closed-door season can become one of the most frustrating episodes in a believer’s life if we do not...

Episode 121: Milky: Stunted Spiritual Growth Perhaps one of the most eroding forces in the Church today is the issue of prolonged spiritual infancy and adolescence. If a fourteen-year-old was known to still be breast-feeding, we would all discern that...

Episdoe 120: Jeff & Amy Lyle Discuss End-Time Courage In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Amy Lyle joins her husband, Jeff, in the studio to discuss what we need to live with courage and endurance in the end of the age. Amy is soon to launch a...

Episode 119: Four Essential Words You Must Receive   From time to time, people will ask a spiritual leader what the keys are for a victorious, satisfying life that brings glory to God. Often this type of question comes from a newer convert or...

Episode 118: Beating Bitterness & Overcoming Offense   Here is something that few will tell you: God will allow things in your life that are potentially offensive and embittering. That is right – God will permit injustice, mistreatment,...

Episode 117: Getting Promoted One of the intentional ways in which God moves involves Him facilitating an internal promotion within the Christian’s spirit while not yet offering an external circumstance that matches it. God works and moves within...

Episode 116: Your Window Of Opportunity It is important that all of grasp some level of discernment about how God is presently moving among His people, and also what He is preparing in the unbelieving world. While none of us can fully fathom ALL that...

Episode 115: Our Ignorance At The Altar When people come forward during altar calls at the end of Christian gatherings, most come seeking something which they need from the Lord. They come in faith. They often come in desperation. Some come forward,...

Episode 114: Why Your Opposition Will Fail Christians living for the glory of God will be assigned territory to claim for His glory. Sometimes this territory is geographical. Sometimes it is relational. Sometimes it is cultural. Regardless of how the...