The 2nd episode in the series bible study on 1 Peter.

1 Peter 1:1-2

What do you do when you know God is doing something new, but you don’t quite know what the “new” looks like yet?

Transition can feel lonely, uncomfortable, and even confusing. The things that once fit no longer fit. Old desires begin to change. Relationships, environments, priorities, and perspectives may start shifting. And sometimes God feels quiet in the very season when we desperately want answers.

In this episode of Impact Over Influence, we walk through 1 Peter and look at believers who understood what it meant to be scattered, displaced, and in transition yet still chosen by God.

We also look back at Israel’s journey out of Egypt. God didn’t simply deliver them from slavery and immediately place them in the Promised Land. There was a wilderness between where they had been and where they were going. In that wilderness, God taught them trust, dependence, obedience, and what it meant to live as His people.

And maybe that’s what God is doing in some of us right now.

Transition has a way of exposing what is still living in us. When the familiar disappears, we can start asking, Was the old way actually better? Should I go back? Do I really want this? But sometimes God is changing what is around us because He is changing what is within us.

This conversation is about learning to stay the course when you don’t have all the answers, refusing to confuse waiting with wasting time, seeking the Holy Spirit instead of constantly outsourcing God’s voice to everyone around you, and understanding that revelation eventually requires a response.

The question in transition isn’t only, “What am I leaving?”

It’s also, “Who am I becoming?”

God may be replacing old desires, developing deeper trust, teaching dependence, and aligning you with His purpose.

Displacement does not mean abandonment.

You may feel scattered—but you are not forgotten.
You may feel displaced—but you are still chosen.

Stay the course. God is still working in the transition.

Scriptures: 1 Peter 1:1–2, Isaiah 43:19, Isaiah 49:13, Exodus 14:13–14, Galatians 5:16, Psalm 46:10, John 16:13, James 1:22.

What happens when God asks you to lay down what He once asked you to build?

In this episode of Impact Over Influence, Jamie sits down with Shelli to talk about what’s next for the ministry—and why sometimes the most obedient thing we can do is stop, listen, and allow God to lead us into something different.

For the past five years, God has used Impact Over Influence in ways we never could have manufactured. But Scripture reminds us that anointing cannot be borrowed, manufactured, or man-made. We don’t want to keep something moving simply because it worked before. We want to know: What is God saying now?

Looking at the temple, Paul’s testimony in Galatians, and the seasons of preparation God used throughout Scripture, we talk about the difference between absence and abandonment, calling and title, testimony and transformation, and being faithful to what God is doing now instead of clinging to what He did before.

Paul’s story reminds us that after encountering Jesus, he didn’t immediately step onto a platform. There were hidden years—years of preparation, surrender, and transformation. Sometimes God creates space not because He is finished with us, but because He is doing something in us before He does something through us.

This conversation gets personal as we ask some hard questions:

Are we talking too much to hear Him? Are our eyes open to see what God is doing? Are we willing to lay down a title, platform, ministry, or familiar season if He asks? Can we celebrate what God is doing through others while trusting Him with our own closed fist?

The Gospel is still the Good News. Jesus is still enough. And whatever comes next, our prayer is simple:

“Lord, let it throw us forward—and lead us back to You.”