Finding God Poddcast

Hello, my name is Keana W. Mitchell and I a singer, songwriter, podcaster, relationship coach and I am also a Christian. As a child I grew up in a deeply religious home where prayer and reading the Bible was encouraged. My mother had my sisters and I at church anytime the doors were opened whether it was for the actual church service, prayer meeting, week of prayer, choir rehearsals, or just a potluck after church you could count on my sisters and I being there. I remember holding many offices in the church from being an usher, singing in the choir, singing for church services to being a youth leader, anything that needed to be done in the church either my sisters or I were called upon to help with different jobs within the church. From the outside looking in it seemed as if all was going well in my life and to outsiders it looked like I had a good religious upbringing but what people did not understand is that I was afraid of God and that I was only doing these things because I did not want to go to hell. So, I did all the “right” things for all the wrong reasons. For years I went through the motions of going to church and acting like I was a Christian but deep down inside I was completely disillusioned with my religion and religious upbringing. I felt oppressed by all the rules and judgment of the religion that I grew up in. I felt that God was setting me up to fail because he had so many rules and no matter how hard I tried to keep them all I never could which would leave me feeling like a failure. I remember asking myself one day why I should even try to be a Christian anymore if I was serving a God that was impossible to please? Then one day after much Bible study and prayer it dawned on me that everything that I had been taught was a lie and that God was not this evil monster who delighted in my failures. I found out that God loved me and that nothing I could ever do could stop him from loving me. I realized that having a relationship with God is more important than being part of a religion or even going to church. God wants us to talk to him and he wants us to have a relationship with him. Regardless of whether you believe in God or even go to church God loves you and he is willing to help anyone who ask him for help it just takes us having that conversation with him and asking him to help us. My relationship with God is amazing and it is getting stronger each and every day, but it took me losing my religion to find God.  So, join me each Friday as we explore through songs and interviews how people found God.