Jay grew up in a normal secular household with no faith background and no interest in Christianity. His teens and early twenties were marked by partying, drugs, and living for the weekend, until meeting Hannah in a Brighton nightclub, a moment he now sees as God quietly intervening long before he ever believed.

Years later, married with children and living what looked like a settled life, everything is shaken when Jay discovers that Hannah has started reconnecting with her faith. He describes it honestly, it felt like finding out his wife was cheating, except “the other man” was God. Angry, confused, and convinced their marriage couldn’t survive it, Jay begins a reluctant and very private search for answers, on his own terms.

What follows is a rapid and unexpected journey. A visit to St Peter’s Brighton challenges everything he thought about church. Then comes a moment he can’t explain: a vicar shares words that directly quote lyrics Jay had written in huge letters on a chalk wall at home. It stops him in his tracks and makes him realise that God is real, present, and speaking to him personally.

As Jay starts reading the Bible, exploring Alpha, and wrestling with surrender, he reaches a turning point where he gives his life to Jesus and is later baptised in the sea. From there, he shares how faith didn’t remove every challenge, but gave him peace and strength through some of the hardest moments, including their son Jake being critically ill in intensive care and witnessing remarkable answers to prayer.

This episode is for anyone who feels like they have everything yet still sense something missing, for those navigating faith in marriage, and for anyone who needs to hear that God sees you and knows you.

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Michelle is a 22 year old content producer and presenter at The Way UK, but her journey here has been anything but straightforward. Born in the Lake District, moving to Mongolia as a child and then back to Scotland for school, she grew up around church without really knowing what it meant to walk closely with God. That began to change as a teenager when she picked up her brother’s study Bible and started to recognise the voice of God for herself, including an unforgettable moment at a bus stop where she felt physically pushed by the Holy Spirit to pray for a stranger.

At university in St Andrews, studying neuroscience, everything on the outside looked promising, but inside Michelle was struggling. Anxiety, panic attacks and a toxic relationship left her feeling far from God and far from herself. When the relationship finally broke down, she hit a low point, yet in the middle of heartbreak she began to see how God was answering the very prayers she had cried out - healing her heart, drawing her back to his presence and surrounding her with a new, healthy church community.

From there, God led Michelle out of university, back home to Edinburgh, into a season of serving at Starbucks, creating content online and learning to be still instead of striving. He then opened an unexpected door to a discipleship year in London and work with a Christian production company. During that time, God gently brought deep healing to buried pain, especially around her relationship with her dad and mum, restoring what felt broken beyond repair and teaching her what it really means to live as a daughter of God.

Today, Michelle works full time in creative media, growing in the prophetic and using her gifts to serve the Church and reach the digital world. Her story is a powerful encouragement for anyone wrestling with questions about calling, creativity, university decisions or church hurt. If you are wondering how to hear God, how to trust him with your future or how to step into who he has made you to be, this episode will really speak to you. Stay to the end as Michelle prays for those who feel confused, creative or called, but are not yet sure what their next step should be.

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Nineteen-year-old Brandon did not grow up around faith. In his home the name of Jesus was never spoken, and rugby became his identity, his purpose and the thing that bonded him with his dad. From a young age he chased the dream of professional sport, eventually joining the Harlequins Academy and building his life around performance, pressure and the culture that surrounded it.

Everything changed when he was unexpectedly released from the academy. The loss shook him deeply. His confidence fell apart and, while trying to cope, he became distracted by a relationship that left him even more empty. During this season he began searching for something real, something that could fill the growing sense that life had more meaning than he was experiencing.

Throughout his journey, God kept breaking into his life. He protected him in moments where he should have been seriously injured. He stirred questions in him when fear overwhelmed him. He placed Christians around him whose lives looked different and who gently invited him into conversations about faith. A school Bible study opened the door to understanding Scripture in a new way, and later an old friend reached out out of the blue and invited him to church. These moments led to powerful encounters with the presence and peace of Jesus that Brandon could not ignore.

Bit by bit, his life began to change. He rebuilt after heartbreak, started to walk in freedom from old habits, launched a business, chose baptism and discovered a level of joy and clarity he had never known before.

Today, Brandon is passionate about helping other young men find the hope and transformation he has found in Jesus. His story is a reminder that God is often pursuing us long before we recognise it, and that even in our most confusing seasons, He is already at work.

Stay to the end as Brandon prays for anyone searching for purpose, struggling internally or longing for something genuine and life changing.

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