God's Perfect Timing: The Divine Setup You Didn't See Coming
If you've ever wondered whether God can use you, whether seekers still exist, or whether your past disqualifies you from the kingdom, this message will breathe fresh hope into your spirit. Desert roads are not empty. God meets people there. And He still sends Philips to reveal Jesus to the one who is ready. In this episode, we journey through one of the most intimate and supernatural encounters in the book of Acts as Philip meets the Ethiopian eunuch on a desert road. What begins with a simple command from God becomes a story of obedience, hunger, redemption, and identity rewritten by the gospel.
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The Power You Cannot Buy: Motives, Power, and the Making of a True Disciple
In this episode, we journey through Acts 8:9-25 and uncover one of the most overlooked but essential lessons in the Christian life: God is far more interested in transforming the heart than empowering the hands. Through the story of Simon the Sorcerer, we explore the difference between spiritual hunger and spiritual ambition, the subtle ways old identities follow us into new faith, and the danger of seeking the gifts of God without surrendering to the God who gives them.
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How God Turns Pressure Into Purpose
In this powerful episode, we walk straight into Acts 8 and uncover one of the most overlooked patterns in the entire New Testament. The early church was not expanded by comfort, strategy, or structure. It was expanded through scattering. What looked like persecution became God's plan for multiplication. This episode will challenge your comfort, confront your excuses, and call you into the kind of faith that turns chaos into mission.
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When Heaven Stands: The Hidden Power of a Faithful Witness
In this episode we walk deep into Acts 7, not as spectators but as students of a moment that changed the early church. Stephen stands before a hostile crowd, speaks truth with fearless clarity, sees the glory of God, and becomes the spark that ignites the greatest gospel movement in history.
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Alignment, Anointing, and the Battle for Your Focus
In this deep-dive, Chad breaks down Acts 6 and shows how the early church turned conflict into clarity, pressure into purpose, and chaos into Spirit-led structure. This episode uncovers the enemy's strategy to divide you in the details, the rise of Stephen as a model of ordinary faithfulness turned extraordinary influence, and the Spirit-led systems that sustain revival in your life. If you're feeling stretched, distracted, or spiritually overwhelmed, this teaching will help you get aligned, get filled, and get focused.
Welcome to Before the Noise with Chad Prather. Enjoy short, powerful, daily reflections designed to ground your heart and mind in God's truth before the chaos of the day begins. Each devotional unpacks Scripture with clarity and encouragement, helping you start your morning centered, focused, and filled with peace. Simple, practical, and deeply rooted in the Word, they set the tone for living with purpose in a noisy world.
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