Faith Over Formula

Blessed + Bossed Up

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Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful installment of the Blessed + Bossed Up podcast, Tatum continues the deep dive into The Spirit-Filled Life by Dr. Charles Stanley—specifically, Chapter 4: “D-Day.” This episode unpacks what it truly means to be filled with the Holy Spirit, debunking common misconceptions about waiting, working, or striving to receive what is already promised.

Tatum shares her own personal reflections and struggles as she, like many of us, wrestles with the temptation to take control instead of surrendering to God. Drawing from Charles Stanley’s vulnerable moment of spiritual breakthrough and her own season of faith, she explores the liberating truth that the Spirit-filled life is not a formula—it’s a relationship.

You’ll learn:

Why striving, begging, or waiting for the Holy Spirit misses the point
The theological and biblical basis for understanding Spirit-infilling as immediate at salvation—not a second-hand experience
The critical distinction between being filled with the Spirit vs. being filled by the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18)
How to recognize if you’re living in survival mode instead of surrender mode—and how to switch postures
Why dependence and surrender are the prerequisites for Spirit-led leadership, peace, and purpose
How to study the Holy Spirit biblically: comparing Acts vs. the Epistles

This is more than a book club episode—this is a call to shift your spiritual posture from doing for God to being with God. Let this episode lead you into deeper intimacy, greater peace, and more powerful impact.

📌 Reflection Questions from Chapter 4:

Take time to prayerfully reflect and journal your answers:

Have you ever found yourself begging, bargaining, or pleading with God for some spiritual change in your life?
Have you worked hard trying to earn something from God that’s freely given?
Have you assumed it's your responsibility to wait on the Holy Spirit to fill you?
Have you been frustrated with how to be filled with the Holy Spirit?
Have you come to a place of total dependence and total surrender to God?

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0:26.2	An entrepreneurship podcast for Christians all about how to make God the CEO of your business.
0:32.8	Get ready to be inspired, challenged, but well equipped to live and build your destiny, his way.
0:44.3	Hey guys, welcome to another episode of the Blessed and Boss Up podcast.
0:52.6	We are continuing on with our discussion of our book club
0:56.4	pick, The Spirit-filled Life by Charles Stanley. Make sure that you click the link in the show
1:01.7	notes to grab your copy. I told you guys before, this is one of my top five or top three
1:06.7	Christian books. And it's really blessing me to be able to revisit it, especially in a time like
1:13.0	this where I feel like I'm really in the space that I should be of being dependent on the Holy
1:20.9	Spirit, but also a place that is uncomfortable in a lot of ways. And so I knew I needed to
1:26.3	revisit this book and I was happy to be able to do it
1:29.1	here on this podcast. And I pray that you guys are getting a lot out of it. Usually I try to do
1:34.8	every episode about a book chapter in a way in which if you are not reading the book, you still are
1:40.9	able to get something from it and be edified by it. But again, this is one that I
1:47.0	highly suggest that you get a copy of, a physical copy at that. I don't think listening to it
1:52.7	will even do it justice, but I want you to be able to mark it up right in the margins and really
1:57.2	take your time with it. So we are here on chapter four.
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