Jameka Leap of Faith: Recent Episodes
Jameka Jones
This is an accompanying podcast of content from Jameka Leap of Faith.com- a faith-based blog of lessons Jameka has learned and/or is learning on Jesus, relationships, singlehood, purpose, and more. Audio content may or may not be identical to posts on the blog.
Oftentimes, if we stop and listen, God gives us "songs of the season" that we need to cling to as He grows us. Travis Greene's new song, "Good and Loved" is that song for me!
Listen here
That's a wrap, folks! Season 2, focused on the enneagram, is O-VER! To wrap it up, I discuss:
- what happened to those last 3 episodes I promised
- what the enneagram has taught me about the gospel, my flesh, and the Holy Spirit
- why I am on a "doing detox"
- some insight into season 3
Keep your growth journey going!
- Becoming Us: Using the Enneagram to Create a Thriving Gospel-Centered Marriage
- The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships
- The Complete Enneagram
- The 9 Types of Leadership
- Podcast: Enneacast
Mark is a SEVEN on the Enneagram. Type 7's are known as the ENTHUSIASTIC, or ENTERTAINING, OPTIMIST
In this interview, we discuss:
- Why Mark was against learning the enneagram
- Why the future can be so much more exciting than being present
- Mark's passion for education because of his love for inclusion, hope, and resilience
Charity is a SIX on the Enneagram. Type 6's are known as the LOYAL GUARDIAN.
In this interview, we discuss:
- How the enneagram gave her necessary language to better advocate for herself and understand others
- What it's like to have an inner committee constantly impacting her decision-making
- How she manages being thinking-dominant and what others can do to better support Type 6's
Clarke is a FIVE on the Enneagram. Type 5's are known as the OBSERVER or ANALYST.
In this interview, we discuss:
- Type 5's "manna energy"
- The dire need for processing time
- What type 5's are trying to communicate that other types can't understand
Mariah is a FOUR on the Enneagram. Type 4's are known as the ROMANTIC INDIVIDUALIST.
In this interview, we discuss:
- Navigating the emotional intensity and depth of Type 4's
- Growing up as the "Crybaby"
- How her writing helped with healing from her childhood wounds
- How to love an emotion-filled Type 4
Mariah's book, "Crybaby," can be purchased here on Amazon and her blog is www.readbone.com
I had a hard time finding a type 3, so my friend Charity interviewed ME! I am a THREE on the Enneagram. Type 3's are known as THE PERFORMER, THE ACTOR, or THE ACHIEVER.
In this interview, we discuss:
- How Type 3's core fear of failure stops Jameka from living life to its fullness
- How childhood divorce and codeswitching contributed to having different personas
- Why some might see a 3 and think they're short, not present, and/or stuck up
- The difficulty of vulnerability for type 3
- The value of the enneagram
Jessica, one of my BFFs, is a TWO on the Enneagram. Type 2's are known as the HELPFUL ADVISOR or SUPPORTER.
In this interview, we discuss:
- How Type 2's core fear of rejection and being unwanted was elevated for her by being biracial
- How Daddy issues only played in to Type 2's core struggles
- What it's like when a Type 2 takes on Type 8's unhealthy characteristics in stress
- How to balance loving others while setting healthy boundaries for self care
- The value of vulnerability and community
Monica, my officemate, is a ONE on the Enneagram. Type 1's are known as the MORAL PERFECTIONIST.
In this interview, we discuss:
- How we grew from forced officemates to sisters
- What Monica wishes her mom and dad could have done to better support her in childhood
- Reactions when she does things like return excess change at Starbucks (Type 1's value ethics and morals)
- Being shamed by Type 1's inner critic
- The gifts type 1's offer to the world (and career paths we need them for)
- How to offer feedback versus criticism
- The Perfectionist (Type 1) vs. The Achiever (Type 3)
- Determining your enneagram type vs. your wing behavior
- Growing through the hard stuff instead of complacency and justification
Limil, my brother-in-law, is an EIGHT on the Enneagram. Type 8's are known to be the most high energy, justice-minded, and intense numbers on the enneagram.
In this interview, we discuss:
- Childhood wounds that forced growing up too soon
- What it takes for him to genuinely open up to others
- Vulnerability and betrayal
- Avoiding feelings at all cost
- Ways to engage (and not to engage) with type 8s
- Clarity to better self-advocate in relationships based on knowledge of the enneagram
We're back for part 2! This episode continues an interview with my sister, Levette, who is a 9 on the enneagram, married to an 8.
- How we handle family conflict
- The enneagram as a tool to strengthen relationships
- The intensity of being a 9 with wing 8 behavior (9w8)
- Stubbornness and rage for a 9
- Not aware to feelings (feeling repressed) vs. Unproductive actions (doing repressed)
- Enneagram stances include: 3s,7s,8s are feeling repressed, 1s,2s,6s are thinking repressed, and 4s,5s,9s are doing repressed (Click here for more)
- How your enneagram type impacts the time it takes to make decisions (i.e. tattoos)
- Why we love and NEED 9s
Kicking off the series with an interview featuring my sister, Levette. She is a NINE on the Enneagram. Type 9's are known to be the most laid back, easy going, unselfconscious number on the enneagram.
In part 1 of her interview, we discuss:
- The beauty of knowing the enneagram personally and professionally
- Why and how type 9s conserve their energy
- 9s as introverts or extroverts
- Shame from being in her shadow growing up
- Being more self-assured to understand the 9's core desire to know "YOUR PRESENCE MATTERS"
Stay tuned to part 2 of her interview when we discuss having wing 8 behavior, her marriage to an assertive and aggressive enneagram type, and more
In this episode, we dive into the final Fruit of the Spirit: Self Control (Temperance). Despite all we have access to in this world that impacts our feelings, emotions, actions, use of time and resources, etc., how can we honor God through self-discipline?
Related Posts
- FREE Downloadable Study Journal
- http://traffic.libsyn.com/jamekaleapoffaith/Fruit_of_the_Spirit.pdf
- (DEVOTIONAL) Self-Control https://shereadstruth.com/2015/05/21/self-control/
- (VIDEO) Flip the Switch: Transformation Church https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW7xpxdavMw
When in high stress situations, do you escalate them by bringing the same energy and going off? Or do you surrender your strength to God and live a life of meekness?
This episode dives into the idea of being meek and gentle, not that meekness is weakness, but that it's strength under control. We talk sacrificing purpose and unity to go slap off, and the lack of tools we often have to deescalate situations.
- She Reads Truth- Gentleness- https://shereadstruth.com/2015/05/20/gentleness/
- Schedule
- http://www.jamekaleapoffaith.com/2019/02/join-4-week-fots-study.html
- Journal http://traffic.libsyn.com/jamekaleapoffaith/Fruit_of_the_Spirit.pdf
Ever find yourself doing something and having no idea why you do it? Listen as I share a recent experience where I actually became upset when someone simply did what I asked: gave me feedback.
Then take a short dive into the Enneagram pool as I share some of my biggest aha's from being an Enneagram 3 and how that played into my recent job interview blunder.
Related Posts:
- FREE Enneagram Test
- (IG Account) Your Enneagram Coach
- (PODCAST) Your Best Self + Enneagram
- (PODCAST) Becoming Your Full and True Self
- (IG Account) Enneagram Memes
Anyone else struggle with following through on your commitments? Do you start well and never actually finish? ME! Faithfulness is actually achievable with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Don't think you struggle with faithfulness? If you struggle with tiredness, laziness, hopelessness, PROCRASTINATION, rationalization, apathy, or rebellion... you, too, could benefit from faithfulness.
Take a listen!
- (DOWNLOAD) FREE Fruit of the Spirit Study Guide Journal
- (DEVOTIONAL) God is IMMUTABLE- She Reads Truth study
- (PODCAST) Can vs. Should
I LOVE B2K and was SO excited for the Millennium Tour, but after the experience, I recorded this episode. It really got me thinking about this idea of "chasing nostalgia" and how so many of us fall prey to it.
Related Posts:
- (BLOG) Chasing Nostalgia: 2002 B2K, 2019 Jameka, and the Millennium Tour
Kindness and gentleness seem like the easy fruit, right? They're actually harder than we think.
In this episode, Jameka shares this is the fruit she shows the LEAST! Perpetual kindness means forfeiting sarcastic wit and pettiness, especially when it doesn't build the other up.
Listen as Jameka shares thoughts on kindness, showing yourself friendly, and the danger of introversion as an excuse to isolate.
Related Posts:
- Schedule
- FREE Fruit of the Spirit Study Guide Journal
Hands up if you know sometimes the problem is YOU, not someone else. raises both hands
Continuing our discussion on patience, this episode covers:
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Restraining your petty.
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Fighting deflection and projection by listening instead of instantly responding
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How Jesus practiced patience OVER and OVER with his disciples
and more.
Related Posts:
- Schedule
- FREE Fruit of the Spirit Study Guide Journal
Whew! Patience. Longsuffering. How many of us have it? Ashley and Jameka had SO much to say about this fruit that the episode has to be divided into TWO parts.
This episode covers:
- How our generation has been set up to NOT be patient
- Why avoiding someone only hurts you
- How bearing fruit of the Spirit requires confrontation
- Why we don't want to reap what will come from seeds of impatience and unforgiveness
Related Posts:
- Schedule
- FREE Fruit of the Spirit Study Guide Journal
What does it mean that Jesus is "peace in the time of storm?" It is absolutely achievable to be calm in spite of chaos when you surrender to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Related Posts:
- Schedule
- FREE Fruit of the Spirit Study Guide Journal
If we're honest, sometimes we get stuck in situations where all we feel we can do is just... complain. That's where I found myself recently. So frustrated that anytime you talked to me, it was me complaining about the same thing OVER and OVER again.
Today's podcast episode and blog post is written from me to me, but includes some practical tips to you if: 1) You, too, find yourself in a perpetual state of complaining or 2) Want some tips on how to help a friend move past the complaints.
Related Posts:
- (BLOG) Me to Me: I'm Sick of Your Complaints
What is joy? Often paired with happiness, but happiness is a feeling that changes from day to day. True joy, as fruit (evidence) of the Holy Spirit, is a state of stability from resting in the character of God despite shifting circumstances.
Today's episode is a conversation featuring @ashleyd_hill
Related Posts:
- Schedule
- FREE Fruit of the Spirit Study Guide Journal
LOVE is the first to be named in Galatians 5:22-23. What does truly godly love even look like? How can I love everyone when some people don't deserve and continue to mistake my kindness for weakness?
Related Posts:
- Download the Fruit of the Spirit Study
- View the schedule for what to read and when
- (DEVOTIONAL STUDY) Hosea by She Reads Truth
Let's grow in community! Download the Fruit of the Spirit study guide and let's dive into this 4 week (March 4- April 9) study together.
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Print the study guide for your own devotional time. Amplify the experience by doing the study with others in your community circle.
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Each week, work your way through each fruit, making notes about what scripture says about each.
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Listen to the podcast episodes by subscribing to Jameka Leap of Faith. What continues to resonate with you? Set a goal for how you'll apply the content to your daily walk.
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Share what you're learning on IG using this image. Tag @jameka_tjones. DM for accountability.
I am my sister's keeper and vice versa, right? So just as I am working on sustaining personal boundaries, I want to see everyone around me have healthy boundaries so they can live their best life. Here are 6 tips I am learning.
Need the content quick? Listen until 3:30.
Want the full audio? Continue listening past 3:30.
Related Posts:
- (BLOG) 6 Tips for Sustaining Personal Boundaries & Helping Others Have Healthy Boundaries
If you know me, you know I typically have a plan with AT LEAST 5 steps to accomplish anything. It is a strength of mine. The only downfall is, sometimes it can keep me from letting God be God.
Related Posts:
- (BLOG) The Process Matters: Growing in Faith
- (BLOG) Moving Ahead of God
- (BLOG) Why I Had to Take a Break From My Doctorate
- (BLOG) 6 Ways to Balance Your Grind and Self-Care
This episode is for anyone who feels passionate and God-led to do something, yet is feeling intimidated by how to get it accomplished. Sometimes, what makes sense in the culture and realm of your purpose doesn't seem to match the direction God wants you to go in... so what do you do to still accomplish what He desires of you successfully without feeling compelled rely on culture's methods?
What I'm Advocating For:
- Discernment
- God-Led Methods and Actions
- God-Aligned Authenticity
What I'm NOT Advocating For:
- Laziness in your calling
- Copying someone else's methods because you want what they have
- Planning next steps independent of God's direction
Happy Valentines Day! What better way to celebrate the day to sharing how the 5 Love Languages theory revolutionized how I view relationships: familial, romantic, platonic, and professional.
Related Posts:
- (WEBSITE)- Love Languages Test
- (VIDEO)- Pastor Todd- Daddy Issues
- (VIDEO) 5 Love Languages Explained
- (CHART) 5 Love Languages Chart
- (BOOK) 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
- (BOOK) 5 Love Languages: Singles Edition
- (BOOK) 5 Languages of Appreciation
Emotionally driven? Feeling overlooked? Feeling incapable? Low self-esteem? These are all characteristics that may have described us, AND the same can be said for Leah in Genesis 29.
The story of Leah shows us that when our circumstances shape us as unloved and unwanted, we are ABSOLUTELY loved by God.
Related Posts:
- Leah (She Reads Truth devotional)
- Rachel and Leah (She Reads Truth devotional)
- (BLOG) When Insecurity Causes You to Question Everything
Hands up if you know you struggle with insecurity? Of all my biggest strongholds in life, none have been as detrimental insecurity. Every regretful decision I've made, honestly, is connected to having been unsure of who God created me to be, thus I looked to other people or things to tell me who I was.
Still on a journey to overcome it, here are my thoughts on how having more self- and spiritual awareness can help CATCH and CAST DOWN thoughts of insecurities before they take root and impact your actions.
Related Posts:
- (PODCAST) 07: Drop Those Fries! Combating Temptations with the Word of God
- BLOG VERSION: When Insecurity Causes You to Question Everything
- (YT) The Cover Up- Sarah Jakes Roberts
- (BLOG) 01: 4 Ways to Walk Authentically in Your Purpose
- (BLOG) Steps for Overcoming Insecurity
- (BLOG) Dear Future Husband
In our fast paced society, it's so easy to run on autopilot and lose sight on the true meaning of the tasks we're doing. As we start off a new week in a new month, let's reflect: "Are we focused on what truly matters?"
Referenced Text: Luke 10: 38-42
Related posts:
- Foolproof the Vision Board: 4 Tips to Increase the Likelihood of Reaching Our 2019 Goals
- This is Pham Podcast: S1E4 "When You Are Your Biggest Enemy"
- 24 Ever// Worship is Love Expressed
When God calls you to something that requires an incredible amount of faith, it's hard to NOT monitor the time it takes to actually see it come to pass. Recently, I joined my sister and her church for 21 Days of Prayer, and this episode is what I sensed as God's encouragement to stop selfishly monitoring my prayers.
Related Posts:
- Prayer Is Your Weapon
- How Much Work Are You Putting Into Your Relationship?
We can fight spiritual battles in similar proactive ways we fight food cravings when we're trying to be more disciplined. Listen to my notes from a recent study of Luke 4:1-13 as I share the importance of using the Word of God to fight against spiritual temptations that we encounter on the regular.
Related Posts:
- Luke 4 Study- She Reads Truth
- Joshua 1:8
Wondering what's the big fuss about social media fasts? Wondering how you can get some time to just focus and recenter? Consider a social media fast. This episode discusses Jameka's experiences with social media fasts and the benefits.
Related or Referenced Posts:
- Jonathan McReynolds- Comparison Kills
- Sarah Jakes Roberts- "Get Your Life Together"
- READABLE VERSION: 06: What and Why of Social Media Fasting
While every day should be for spiritual discipline, on the podcast, Monday's will be specifically devoted to (no pun intended) spiritual discipline by sharing a devotional from the word of God.
Many of the episodes will reference personal studies that I use SheReadsTruth.com for. I definitely recommend their resources if you're looking for ways to strengthen your bible study time.
Related Posts: Sometimes I Read My Bible and Pray, Sometimes I Don't
This is an updated audio version of Jameka's blog post: "Somebody Needs You Delivert!"
Struggling with some kind of secret sin or a shameful past? Jesus did not victoriously die on the cross for you to stay enslaved to your past. Someone is waiting on you to get free so you can testify and point them to Christ.
Related Posts:
- Step 1 to Christianity: Understanding Salvation
- Let Go of Your Shame and Guilt: Tell Others Your Testimony
- No Regrets: Jesus Changed My Life
This is the audio version of Jameka's blog post: "I Can't Even Handle What I'm Begging God For"
Listen as Jameka explains what God is teaching her about being able to steward what she's praying for instead of having a mentality that she can get herself together after receiving what she's praying for.
Sometimes, we look up and don't even realize we have taken on more than we should. We may have meant well but can't sustain the things on our plate. That's when it's time to reassess, with discernment, by asking, "Yes, I CAN do this, but SHOULD I, in this season?"
Related posts:
- 6 Ways to Balance Your Grind and Self-Care
This is the audio that supports Jameka's blog post, "4 Ways to Help Authentically Walk in Your Purpose." Audio and blog post are not identical.
Related Posts:
- Know Your Why's: Why I Blog
- 4 Ways to Help Authentically Walk In Your Purpose