Cage Free Voices Spoken Devotionals

Healing By Design: The Biology of Sin and the Theology of Restoration: Day One: Order, Pride, Disorder, and the Conditions for Healing

The Queen Bathsheba presents Healing by Design, a six-part devotional series exploring the connection between Scripture and the body’s biology. The series shows how pride disrupts the natural order, creating stress and imbalance, and how God’s grace restores alignment and wholeness.

In this first episode, she examines how pride triggers the sympathetic nervous system—the body’s fight-or-flight response—leading to tension, dysregulation, and vulnerability. Humility, by contrast, reactivates the parasympathetic system, allowing rest, repair, and healing to take place.

Listeners are encouraged to reflect on where they live in constant alertness, what burdens pride has imposed on their bodies, and how embracing humility can open the door to restoration and renewed balance.

From Milk and Honey to Living Water to Resurrection: Understanding the Kingdom of God in Covenant and History

This episode examines the biblical images of milk and honey, showing how they illustrate God’s promise of provision, land, and freedom. It then follows how these promises shift inward to living water and the internal kingdom. The episode explains that covenant life sustains faith under empire, but on its own cannot end oppression. Finally, it demonstrates why resurrection and new creation are necessary to make God’s kingdom fully visible, restorative, and public for all creation.

The episode connects these themes to history and present-day realities, calling listeners to hold to covenantal allegiance, resist imperial pressures, and live in hope of Gods final restoration.

Phobias, Schisms, & Isms: When the Scales Fall Off

The Queen Bathsheba examines how fear-driven readings of Scripture have justified racism, homophobia, sexism, and exclusion, and calls listeners to unlearn harmful traditions.

She urges a faith rooted in context, compassion, and the inclusive love of God that honors diversity and welcomes the marginalized.

Words, Judgment, and the Call to Love

The Queen Bathsheba explores judgment, social media criticism, and the biblical call to love and gentle restoration, urging listeners to prioritize relationship and compassion over public shaming.

Drawing on Matthew 7 and Galatians, she encourages speaking thoughtfully, correcting with care, and letting the Spirit guide conviction and reconciliation.

God vs. Humanity: Why We Cannot Judge the Creator

The Queen Bathsheba responds to a TikTok claim and explores why humans cannot judge God by human standards, using the Immaculate Conception and the Virgin Mary as a case study.

She explains that God exists outside time, is the Creator while we are created, and that measuring divine action with human reasoning leads to error, hubris, and spiritual danger.

The episode calls listeners to humility, trust, repentance if convicted, and a willing participation in God’s plan—emphasizing Mary’s free consent and God’s perfect holiness.

Cannabis: The Plant They Tried to Hide

This episode of Cage-Free Voices Spoken traces the history and meaning of qaneh bosem/kaneh bosem in the Bible, exploring translation choices, ancient botany, and the role of aromatic plants in worship.

It connects biblical language to the historical criminalization of cannabis, examines how racism and political power shaped laws, and calls for justice for communities harmed by prohibition.

Delivered from a spiritual, historical, and educational perspective for listeners 18+, the episode discusses stewardship, safety, and the ethical use of plants without providing legal or medical advice.

Robbing God? A Biblical Re-Examination of Tithes, Trust, and Sacred Responsibility

Hosted by Queen Bathsheba, this episode reexamines Malachi 3:8–10 and the biblical history of tithing. It argues that tithes were part of a land-based covenant and temple system meant to support Levites, protect the poor, and preserve covenant integrity—not a universal, fear-driven rule for all Christians today.

The episode contrasts corrupt leadership and mishandled offerings with voluntary, generous giving in the New Covenant, aiming to free listeners from guilt, coercion, and fear-based practices while encouraging responsible, joyful generosity.

Powerful Women of the Bible Series: Phoebe the Deacon: The Quiet Power Behind Paul's Mission

In this episode, we uncover the life of Phoebe—a devoted and often overlooked leader of the early church. A diakonos and trusted patron from Cenchreae, she carried Paul’s letter to the Romans and advanced the gospel with both resources and recognized authority.

Join us as we reflect on her quiet courage, faithful stewardship, and the sacred trust God places on those who serve—inviting us to reconsider long-held assumptions about gender, leadership, and calling within the church.

Powerful Women of the Bible Series: Susanna: The Quiet Power Behind Yeshua’s Ministry

Susanna, named in Luke as one of the women who supported Yeshua and the Twelve, exemplifies faithful discipleship through practical, often unseen acts of service. Likely a woman of means, she used her resources, hospitality, and influence to sustain Jesus’ itinerant ministry, demonstrating the vital role of quiet, essential support in God’s work.

Her story reminds us that Kingdom work takes many forms—financial, logistical, and sacrificial. This week, consider one tangible way you can contribute to ministry with integrity, generosity, and faithfulness.

Powerful Women of the Bible Series: The Samaritan at the Well: A Radical Theological Conversation

This episode explores John 4:1–42, focusing on the unnamed Samaritan woman who engages in an extended public theological conversation with Yeshua. It highlights the cultural and covenant context—Jewish and Samaritan tensions, Second Temple norms, and prophetic language—showing how Yeshua treats her as a legitimate interlocutor and reveals his identity as Messiah.

Her encounter leads to mission: she leaves her water jar, testifies to the city, and many Samaritans believe. The episode emphasizes God’s practice of entrusting truth to marginalized voices and calls listeners to worship in spirit and in truth.

 

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