Free To Be Real

05/17/2026

Fervent 2026! Who is going?

Join renowned Bible teacher, NY Times bestselling author and actress, Priscilla Shirer and her brother, worship leader and songwriter Anthony Evans for FerVent 2026! This engaging, impactful event is back for just six consecutive nights in 2026!

05/05/2026

After 10 years of pouring out, building, gathering, and growing, we feel the Lord inviting Free to be Real into something different for 2026.

A Sabbath year. ⚔️

Not because anything is wrong but because something deeper is being formed through the refining.

In Scripture, God called His people to let the land rest (Leviticus 25). God was asking them to trust that even in the pause, He was still providing, still working, and still preparing what was next. 📈

This biblical blueprint is what this year will be for us. A Sabbath year to trust, walk in obedience, and tend the ground F2BR was built on.

A year to:
– rest
– receive
– recalibrate

For those of you who attended F2BR 2025, you know I shared some deeply personal things, so this season holds a lot of transition for me, and I sense clearly that I’m being invited to tend to a personal reset, deep spiritual heart work, and ministry evolution. 🐝

And here’s the beautiful part…

I don’t believe this is the end of anything.
I believe it’s the cultivation of something sweeter. Acceleration is at hand. 🌟

> “Taste and see that the Lord is good…” — Psalm 34 34:8
> “I would satisfy you with honey from the rock.” — Psalm 81 81:16

So we’re trusting that 2026 is where the hidden honey forms… 🍯
and in 2027, we’ll come back richer, deeper, and carrying a sweetness that could only come from Him.

If you’ve been watching from the outside and feel drawn to what God is doing through Free to be Real, we would love to invite you into whatever He has for us in the next chapter. 📖

We may be resting publicly and privately… but God is still building the team.

If you’re interested in being part of what’s ahead, send us a message or email us ([email protected]). 🤍

The ground may be quiet but God is cultivating in the quiet.

Something is growing. Something sweet is coming. 💛

05/01/2026

“Don’t allow your circumstances to get between God and you. Instead put God between you and your circumstance.” - The Circle Maker

04/23/2026

That’s on them.

I think one of the hardest things, at least for me, is to allow someone to have a bad opinion of me. I want to defend myself. I want to explain why they’re wrong. I want to convince them that I’m a decent person and I am worth liking.

I don’t want my reputation left in their hands, because their hands are fickle.

But the truth is. The very, very hard-to-swallow truth is that I’m not in control of their opinions about me. I’m not in control of the view they have of me, the light they choose to see me through and unfortunately, even what they say about me to others.

Peace is letting go.

Peace is accepting that they’re entitled to their feelings about me.

They have every right to not like me. They have every right to not choose me, to not invite me or to label me as the villain, the bad guy, or whatever else they want. They don’t have to forgive me, give me grace or even attempt to understand my point of view.

But at the end of the day, the thing is, my reputation is who they think I am—whatever version of me they have created in their mind. It may be about me. It may involve me, but it’s not really mine to hold.

My character, however, is who I actually am.
My character belongs to me and me alone, and I take it seriously, so I guess they can have their perceptions and they can have their own ideas about who I am and why I do what I do. I release their opinions about me, but I hold tight to my peace.

We all have to take responsibility for the words we write. That’s on us, but we don’t have to exhaust ourselves trying to be responsible for the way people choose to read them. That’s on them.

Love,
Amy

04/13/2026

… the place of your birth

The season you are trying to fast forward through is the very season God is using to birth something in you.

So many believers right now are looking at the clock of their circumstances and praying, “God, can we skip this part?”

Skip the pressure.
Skip the waiting.
Skip the pruning.
Skip the breaking.

But, you cannot skip the season that produces the promise.

What you thought was going to bury you was actually God planting you.

A seed looks buried before it ever looks blessed.

When a seed goes into the ground it disappears into darkness.

It is surrounded by dirt, pressure, and weight.

From the outside it looks like death.

It looks like the end.

But heaven understands something the seed doesn’t yet see, burial is often the first stage of birth.

What felt like confinement was actually cultivation.

What felt like loss was actually preparation.

What felt like silence was actually formation.

Because God does His deepest work in hidden places, where no one can see it.

Do not despise the season of refining.
Refining is not rejection.

Refining is proof.

Gold is not proven when it shines, it is proven when it survives the fire.

The fire removes what doesn’t belong so the purity can emerge.

The heat exposes the mixture so the authenticity can remain.

Scripture says the trial of your faith is more precious than gold that perishes though it be tried by fire.

God allows the fire not to harm you, but to reveal what is real inside of you.

And many are also in a season of radical pruning.

Things are being cut away.
Relationships are shifting.
Opportunities are closing.
Comfort zones are disappearing.

And it can feel painful because pruning always looks like loss before it produces life.

But, the season of radical pruning always precedes a season of radical fruit.

God prunes what He plans to increase.

So if things are being cut away in your life, it is not because God is done with you, it is because God is preparing you for a level of fruit you have never carried before.

Don’t rush the season.
Don’t resent the process.
Don’t curse the ground you’ve been planted in.

Because the same soil you thought was suffocating you is actually nourishing you.

The same pressure you thought would crush you is actually causing roots to go deeper.

And when the time of emergence comes, when God says “Now,” what comes out of this season will not be weak, shallow, or temporary.

It will be rooted.
It will be refined.
It will be fruitful.

Because the place you thought was your burial, is actually the place of your birth.

-Jessica Jecker Simply Jecker

04/07/2026

Jesus is God’s plan …

"Fruit that a tree produces is eaten by others.
When you create, you are creating something that contributes to the flourishing of other humans. The Bible speaks harshly about laziness. Slothfulness (O.T.) is selfishness. It's a refusal to create something that will benefit others. If people don’t want to eat your fruit, those people are not assigned to you. "
-Pastor Dharius Daniels

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04/04/2026

What generational cycles, behaviors, bents or beliefs are you breaking? It stops with you.

04/04/2026

Teaching begins at 54:30

“Resurrection is on the move … He is coming for us.”

“We are fools if we don’t live life as bravely and beautifully as we can.”
- Frederick Buechner

Let your Hope crash into someone else’s hopelessness.

Kristi McLelland continues our "Seven Signs" series opening the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead giving us hope with the reminder that "Jesus is ...

04/02/2026

Friend, your worth is intact. If you need the reminder, message us. We’ve got you.

03/26/2026

… so the ones behind us go further than we ever imagined.

My heart wants to shatter for teenage girls today.

I can’t imagine feeling that kind of pressure starting so young. And it’s not like the pressure is coming from one place. It’s coming from everywhere: school, celebrities, social media, friendships, relationships, EVERYWHERE.
I am 36 and even though I’m fairly confident in myself, I know how I feel when I see a picture of friends out without me, and it’s not great. When you see a group together and they flash across your Instagram stories with the caption “all the girls are out tonight.”

What?

They are?

Weird, and ouch, cause I thought I was one of the girls. Guess not. Let me go back to my home with a snuggle blanket and a bag of Doritos.
I can’t imagine feeling that when you’re a teenager. Can’t. Even. Imagine.

I can’t imagine comparing yourself to fashion bloggers, or celebrities and their perfect bodies. I can’t imagine feeling like you constantly need a filter. I can’t imagine being bombarded with these messages of “Do this. Be that. Fix this. Fill that. Diet this. Workout that. Contour this. Suck in that. Tape in this. But that. Be enough. No not like that. You’re doing it wrong.”

I can’t imagine feeling like the only way to be worthy is to be Instagram-worthy, the only way to be loved is to have likes, and the only want to have friends is to have followers.

Y’all.

We’ve got to help these girls.

That’s what the sisterhood is about: walking together and clearing the path, so the ones behind us go farther than we ever imagined. We need to stage an intervention for the teenage girls today. It’s too much you guys, it just is. Let’s tell them. Let’s tell them it’s not okay to be under so much pressure. Let’s tell them that they’re so much more valuable than a like or a love or a follow. So. Much. More. Valuable.
Let’s tell them and let’s show them. Let’s show them by holding our own heads high.
Let’s stop obsessing about our looks, berating our every flaw, and believing that our worth is tangled up in the opinions of others, the size of our paycheck, and the number on a scale.
Let me say that again, because it’s just so dang important:

Let’s tell them and let’s show them.

They need us. Let’s grab their hands and pull them up. Let’s find freedom, and let’s find it together.

Love,
Amy & Jess