This session is about learning to meet Jesus where change actually happens—in the emotional, experiential places of the heart. Many of us are fluent in analysis, explanation, and “figuring it out,” but God often begins His change work through strong emotion, unmet desire, and the places we feel touched.

In this gathering, we’ll practice shifting from the rational pathway (words, concepts, precision) into the emotional pathway (experience, image, impact). As we learn to name what we feel—and stay present with it in an honoring way—we create room for Holy Spirit to meet us in our grief, our triggers, and our longing. This is a core “Choice to Engage the Heart and Encounter God There” moment in God’s Change Process.

This session trains one of the most central spiritual formation skills in the entire journey: learning to follow strong emotion down to the desire beneath it—and then inviting Jesus to meet that desire in relationship with Him. Instead of managing symptoms, we learn to partner with Holy Spirit at the root.

For many people, this is where God’s Change Process becomes tangible: “I can feel what I feel, tell the truth about what I want, and let Jesus be the One who fills it.” This is not comfort-centered work—it’s formation work. God often uses discomfort to reveal desire; and as desire becomes filled by Jesus, hearts become steadier, less driven, and more aligned.

This session puts a name to something most of us learned to do long before we had words for it: when a deep heart-desire goes unmet, we often try to feed or protect it ourselves. Sometimes that looks like pain avoidance (twisting a desire from wanting a positive to fearing a negative). Sometimes it looks like unhealthy pursuit (latching onto a worldly object we believe will finally satisfy us). Either way, the result is the same: we end up more driven, more weary, and less free. And because God is jealously in love with us, He ensures we never get the object. He wants to give you something much better – Himself!

In Jesus, we’re learning a different way. He doesn’t shame desire—He redeems it. He meets us where desire got twisted, brings clarity to what we’re really longing for, and begins restoring us into true desire filled in relationship with God—so we can live from His overflow, with increasing clarity of purpose and love for others.

This week is a turning point: we don’t bypass suffering—we learn to meet Jesus inside it. Instead of “fixing” pain, we practice staying present, honoring what’s real, and listening for what your heart most needs. As Jesus meets unmet desire in the middle of hardship, twisted desire begins to loosen its grip—and a deeper security in relationship becomes possible.

In God’s Change Process, we learn how to reframe to get Heaven’s perspective and discover a surprising mercy: the places of suffering that we most want to avoid can become the places where we can experience intimate fellowship with Jesus. In any place of suffering that we experience, Jesus experienced something similar. We are no longer alone in our pain – He meets us there. We no longer need to rely on self-protection and we’re being empowered to live from His overflow.

This session turns the lights on in a place most of us never learned to explore: the belief-world of the heart. We all carry expectations about how life “should” work—especially when we’ve been wounded, disappointed, or stretched beyond what we can manage. Those beliefs aren’t random; they often form as the heart tries to stay secure and honored in a broken world.

In God’s Change Process, Jesus doesn’t start with behavior modification—He starts with encounter. So today we learn to recognize beliefs as part of the heart’s protection strategy, and we practice creating space where Jesus can speak truth that doesn’t just inform us, but re-forms us.

You’ll see how beliefs and identity connect, and how a belief can quietly shape reactions, relationships, and spiritual life. Then you’ll practice coaching in a way that invites Jesus into the very place where the heart has been bracing—so transformation can become relational, not exhausting.

This week we name something truly hope-filled: your identity can be transformed because Jesus gives you different experiences—and those experiences reshape what you believe is true about you, God, and life. We’ll explore practical “identity update” tools that cooperate with the Holy Spirit’s inside-out work: bringing beliefs into the light, letting Jesus speak, and replacing what’s false with what’s true—so you can live (and lead) from God’s overflow.

Beliefs can feel absolutely true to the heart—and yet, when they’re unexamined, they often shape our reactions, relationships, and spiritual life more than we realize. This session helps participants gently notice what they believe, and then learn how to bring those beliefs into the light of Jesus.

In encounter terms, this is where we stop treating beliefs like “facts” and start treating them like heart-formation material. We practice evaluating beliefs in a way that is secure and honoring—not minimizing pain, not getting harsh with ourselves, and not rushing the process. Instead, we learn to let Jesus speak truth that lands in the heart and begins to realign us so we can live from God’s overflow.

As we close this 20-week journey, we’re not trying to “graduate from the process”—we’re learning how to live inside it. This session gathers the threads: God changes us through an experiential process, and our role is to recognize what He’s doing, embrace it from the heart, and extend it into everyday life.

We’ll practice what it looks like to lean in—renouncing and replacing old beliefs, using tools like dangerous prayers and declarations, and designing action steps that keep our hearts filled by Jesus. We’ll also build a “success team”—a small circle of like-hearted people who will help you stay aligned with what God is doing next, so you can keep living from His overflow with growing clarity of purpose.