Ending Well: Hearing from the Lord | Episode 381

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this special bonus episode, we close out the year by slowing down and reflecting on what it means to end well — not by hustling harder, but by listening closely to the voice of God. After a year marked by pruning, change, and growth, [Host] shares how the Lord has used silence, stillness, and surrender to shape her faith and restore her peace.

This heartfelt conversation is an honest look at what it's like to walk through a season of refining — where God asks you to lay things down, quiet the noise, and trust His timing. From learning to discern His voice through Scripture and the Holy Spirit's promptings, to recognizing His confirmation in everyday moments, this episode will help you reclaim ground that's been lost and realign your heart with His for the year ahead.

If you've ever wrestled with the question "How do I know it's God's voice?" or felt weary from a year that didn't go as planned, this episode will meet you right where you are. Together, we'll end the year well — remembering His faithfulness, celebrating His pruning, and preparing to hear Him more clearly in the new year.

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0:00.0	All right, surprise. We've got an extra episode this week, and there's going to be a couple of them.
0:12.1	We're going to end the year well together. Because I know I've been fairly honest, as much as
0:18.8	is appropriate online, that this year has kind of kicked my butt in a, oh my gosh, in so many different ways, like in personal ways, spiritual
0:25.4	ways, physical ways in my home, outside of my home. It's just been one of those years of like
0:30.3	wrestling and grappling. And I've told this story in the last solo episode that I did, which I think
0:36.9	it was in July. And we'll link that below.
0:39.9	But pretty much I went into this year asking God for fruit.
0:43.9	The phrase that I really was holding on to was let there be fruit.
0:47.9	And I was ready for it.
0:49.8	I was like, God's going to grow fruit, the spirit of me.
0:52.7	And then there's going to be fruit in my
0:54.2	life, and I'm going to be able to just love people. And I think I had the phrase, like, I want
0:59.2	people to walk by my table and be able to pick up fruit and keep walking. Yeah, that's great,
1:03.9	Blake, that's awesome, except that fruit requires pruning. And pruning is painful.
1:16.1	Pruning is painful, and it almost always involves loss and chopping and questions and maybe some confusion. And as we've come to the end of the year
1:25.4	and I'm coming out into the clearing a little bit on some of the more intense pruning. He's still, like I just the other day, God was like, hey, it's time to take a break from getting up at 5.30 and going to the gym. You need a slower pace. Why don't we try working out at home? So like the pruning is still coming. It's less like, ah, what is happening?
1:47.0	And I think that's probably some of that is acclamation as well, just being like, having seen
1:53.4	him prune throughout the year, you do kind of, I think I've kind of gotten to a point of,
1:58.3	okay, yep, that's got to go, that's got to go.
2:01.9	Like, I trust you, you know. But as I was thinking about that towards the end of the year,
2:06.7	I kept thinking that phrase, I want to end well. I want to end this year well. And along with that,
2:13.6	I started thinking the word, like, reclaim. I want to reclaim some ground. I want to
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