What if growing closer to Jesus doesn't require striving but resting? For today’s podcast, Stasi returns to The Ladder of Love, exploring its seven rungs—from clay in our Potter’s hands to the intimacy of being his bride. She shares how each one reveals more of God’s heart and our identity as his beloved, inviting us to receive the love already offered. Friends, come settle into His embrace and discover the joy of knowing the One who delights in us completely and loves us endlessly, right now.

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Order your copy of The Ladder Of Love: A pathway to emotional healing and spiritual intimacy with Jesus by Stasi Eldredge is now available! Visit this link to order: https://wildatheart.org/the-ladder-of-love

VERSES:

Proverbs 4:23 (NIV) – Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Isaiah 61:1 (NIV) – The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.

Psalm 19:1 (NIV) – The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Isaiah 64:8 (NIV) – Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Genesis 2:7 (NIV) – Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Ephesians 2:10 (NIV) – For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

1 Corinthians 13:12 (NIV) – For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

Psalm 23:1 (NIV) – The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

Philippians 4:19 (NIV) – And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.

John 10:11 (NIV) – I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Psalm 23:6 (NIV) – Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

1 John 4:19 (NIV) – We love because he first loved us.

Ephesians 1:4 (NIV) – For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

Hebrews 2:11 (NIV) – Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.

John 15:15 (NIV) – I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

John 15:14 (NIV) – You are my friends if you do what I command.

Revelation 19:7 (NIV) – Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.

Song of Songs 8:5 (NIV) – Who is this coming up from the wilderness leaning on her beloved?

Matthew 11:28 (NIV) – Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest

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What if we could know God more deeply, beyond what we know about him? In this episode, Stacey Burton turns the tables and interviews Stasi about what she is so passionate about - the message of her new book, The Ladder of Love: A Pathway to Emotional Healing and Spiritual Intimacy with Jesus, releasing October 6th! Together they explore how God draws us closer, rung by rung, from being clay in our Potter's hands to enjoying friendship with Jesus to, well, endlessly upward! Wherever you are on the journey, God is always inviting you closer to his heart.

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Ladder Of Love: A pathway to emotional healing and spiritual intimacy with Jesus by Stasi Eldredge (Oct 6, 2026)

Visit this link to preorder by October 5, and also claim your free Journaling Guide after ordering. ⁠https://wildatheart.org/the-ladder-of-love⁠

VERSES:

Matthew 11:28 (NIV) – Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Genesis 2:7 (NIV) – Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Isaiah 64:8 (NIV) – Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Ephesians 2:10 (NLT) – For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

John 10:11 (NIV) – I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Luke 15:4 (NIV) – Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn't he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?

John 10:27 (NIV) – My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

Hebrews 4:16 (NIV) – Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Romans 8:17 (NIV) – Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

Psalm 25:14 (NIV) – The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.

John 15:15 (NIV) – I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

Song of Songs 8:5 (NIV) – Who is this coming up from the wilderness leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I roused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who was in labor gave you birth.

Isaiah 61:1 (NIV) – The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,

Matthew 16:15 (NIV) – "But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?"

John 17:3 (NIV) – Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

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