May 3, 2025 • 12 mins
Ever feel like your spirituality has been buried beneath grocery lists, laundry piles, and lukewarm coffee? In this episode of The Forge, we flip the script on sacred spaces and learn how to build altars in the middle of everyday chaos. Because Scripture doesn’t say God only shows up in temples—it says, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it” (Genesis 28:16). Join us as we dive into:
- Why the mundane isn’t void of God—it’s full of Him
- The lie of the “big spiritual moment”
- What Elijah, Hagar, and a Samaritan woman teach us about finding God in the ordinary
- Three practical ways to see the sacred in your daily life
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is in a podcast. This is a pressure chamber.
You've entered The Forge, a space built by women, forge
in fire, carried by legacy. If you came looking for comfort,
I suggest you exit now. But if you came to rise,
to rebuild, to reclaim your calling, even in the middle
of Vakiro's you're in the right place. Welcome to our
(00:24):
first episode titled Altars in Out five. I'm your host, Iris,
so let's get in. I think this is a good
time to talk about the Forge and why this podcast
is named The Forge, and how the Lord gave me
this vision to build it just for women. The Forge
(00:47):
was born out of my fire, not the cue kind
like where we could get by the fire pit and
burn some s'mores and sing a song. It's see the
kind that burns everything soft and fake, was burned down
to the bone. This space is for women who've been
(01:12):
through something, who lost comfort, lost certainty, maybe even lost
faith in what church said God would be. But you're
still here, still standing, still asking what now. The Forge
is a space for spiritual architects, prophetic builders, legacy minded
(01:34):
women who want more than vibes and vision boards. We
don't do spectators here. We do sacred resistance. You won't
just listen, You'll train, you'll rise, and you'll build. So
why start a podcast with target laundry and the boring stuff,
(01:58):
because most of us are out here waiting for a
dramatic God to show up with dramatic ways. Meanwhile, God's
already whispering in our five while you pretend to shop
and mentally rehearse your emotional breakdowns. You know what's holy,
(02:19):
folding a towel while asking God, is this really it?
You know what's sacred holding your tongue during a carpool
drop off because you feel stretched thinner than your theology.
If we don't train our eyes to see the sacred
in the mundane, in our everyday moments, we're going to
(02:43):
keep missing him. So Episode one isn't just about knowing
God out there, It's about noticing Him right here. I
was folding towels the other day. You know, nothing dramatic,
no music in the background, just a mountain of clothes
(03:04):
and a power of resentment. And I said it out loud, God,
why does this feel so far from my purpose? And
you know what I heard next wasn't audible, but it
was undeniable I'm here. That's it. No vision, no lightning,
(03:30):
just divine presence dropped right in the middle of my
target brand towel stack. That's the day I realized altars
aren't made of gold. They're made of attention. You're walking
past altars every day, you just haven't been trained to
(03:50):
name them yet. Here's how we train for that. Pick
one piece in your life that feels invisible, your sink,
your steering will, you're inbox. Claim it as an altar.
Not by decorating it, of course, because nobody wants to
(04:12):
decorate a sink in the kitchen, but by paying attention
every time you're there this week, whisper one thing to God.
It could be like a breath prayer. You are here
and so am I. It could be gratitude, thank you
(04:37):
for this moment. It could be messy. I'm tired and
I need you. It's about being holy. It's about being present,
because presence invites presence. The Forge is more than just
a podcast. It's a movement. It's a community of women
(05:02):
who aren't asking for permission anymore, who are done shrinking
their voices and minimizing their gifts or sanitizing their obedience
to make others comfortable. We don't need another group chat
kind of over that too. We need a gathering of builders,
(05:24):
builders of calling, builders of legacy, builders of altars and
grocery stores, boardrooms, classrooms, kitchens and pulpits. If you're ready
to stop waiting for the next mountaintop movement and start
naming the sacred ground you're already standing on, then this
(05:44):
is your space. Want to go deeper than this podcast
than join the Forged community, head to the link in
my bio. We've built the space off of social media,
off the noise, where women are sharing truth, tools and stories,
back hours, no algorithms, no plat form performances, just presence, power, purpose,
(06:13):
join the fire and be a part of the legacy.
So now that we got the commercial out the way, yeah,
I wanted to go back to where. You know, we
expect God to show up in big ways, right, revivals,
conferences fire from heaven moments, But you know, real life
(06:35):
is not a conference. It's a cold coffee, maybe spilled
Cereal scripture reminds us that Elijah didn't hear God in
the wind or in the earthquake. Remember he heard God
in the whisper. First, Sorry, first, Kings nineteen twelve. Even
(06:56):
though I do enjoy the Book of Corinthians, most of
our Bible, and majority of the Bible is not full
of all like spectacular moments. It's full of faithfulness, faithfulness
in kitchens, in the fields, in prison, and of course
(07:16):
at that well. So the problem isn't that God isn't
showing up as often as we would like him to.
It's that we have not stopped to notice when He
shows up as often as we should. So you know,
long ago when I told you about that spiritual breakdown
(07:39):
and folding towels. Yeah, that moment, I was tired and
I felt invisible, and I was frustrated, and I was
thinking to myself, how is this salvation? How is this
my purpose? And there was no lights worship track playing,
(08:02):
just that small whisper Hagar in Genesis sixteen. You know
that she was cast it out, invisible, frustrated and tired.
But God found her, and she says, you are the
(08:24):
God who sees me. El Roy. I remember when I
had that revelation and I was undone because God didn't
wait for me to become spiritual enough. He found me
right there in my mess and began to give me
(08:44):
this revelation. Just ram a word of his name, el Roy.
You know Jesus did the same thing to the woman
at the well in John four. He met her during
her chores. You know it was her time to do
the water chore. He knew it the timing and where
to show up. He revealed his identity not to a rabbi,
(09:13):
but he revealed his identity to a tired woman running
errands who was done up with life. And God shows
up right there, right in the middle of our mundane.
You know, we've been trained to think sacred means spectacular,
But what if sacred just means surrender Romans twelve to one.
(09:37):
Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, and this is
your spiritual worship. That means that our daily routine can
become a temple. My steering will is my prayer altar.
That kitchen sink can be holy ground. I can't tell
you how many times cleaning out that oven I would
get a tremendous amount of revelation and wisdom about the
(10:00):
creation of man. We don't need to escape our lives
to me God, we just need to see things differently.
If I were to implement anything this week, out of
all of this that was given to me from our five,
I would say the first thing is take more breath. Prayers,
(10:25):
pray as you move in hell, whisper you are here, Exhale,
and so am I root it in first Thessalonians chapter
five seventeen. Pray without seizing. The next a gratitude glance.
Pick one random object, your coffee mug, your socks, a canopies,
(10:50):
and thank God for it first Thessalonians chapter five eighteen,
which is the next verse after it. It's just that
it's reminding us to give thanks in all circumst dances.
And the last thing disruption blessing. When your plans they
fall apart, because they will, and your kids are screaming
(11:10):
the traffic kits and the coffee spills. You need to
pause before you do the next thing, before you open
up your mouth, pause and say, even here you are
Holy Genesis twenty sixteen. Sure that the Lord is in
this place and I did not know it. These are
(11:32):
not your spiritual hacks, but your reminder got God's not
hiding or just distracted. Let it be clear, you don't
need another retreat to experience God, even though we love retreats.
You don't need another perfect schedule or quiet house, even
though we love both things you need to alter. You're
(11:54):
carrying sacred fire in your lungs. The Holy Spirit doesn't
wait for a church service to speak. It's already speaking
the whispers while we're driving, the whispers while we're crying
in our five. So don't wait for the holy moment.
Make this moment holy. If this stirred your spirit, subscribe
(12:14):
and share, and remember, sacred doesn't mean shining. Sometimes it
looks like burnt toast and whisper prayers. This is the forage.
This is how legacy is built in our five, in
your ordinary and in your faithfulness,
This is in a podcast. This is a pressure chamber.
You've entered The Forge, a space built by women, forge
in fire, carried by legacy. If you came looking for comfort,
I suggest you exit now. But if you came to rise,
to rebuild, to reclaim your calling, even in the middle
of Vakiro's you're in the right place. Welcome to our
(00:24):
first episode titled Altars in Out five. I'm your host, Iris,
so let's get in. I think this is a good
time to talk about the Forge and why this podcast
is named The Forge, and how the Lord gave me
this vision to build it just for women. The Forge
(00:47):
was born out of my fire, not the cue kind
like where we could get by the fire pit and
burn some s'mores and sing a song. It's see the
kind that burns everything soft and fake, was burned down
to the bone. This space is for women who've been
(01:12):
through something, who lost comfort, lost certainty, maybe even lost
faith in what church said God would be. But you're
still here, still standing, still asking what now. The Forge
is a space for spiritual architects, prophetic builders, legacy minded
(01:34):
women who want more than vibes and vision boards. We
don't do spectators here. We do sacred resistance. You won't
just listen, You'll train, you'll rise, and you'll build. So
why start a podcast with target laundry and the boring stuff,
(01:58):
because most of us are out here waiting for a
dramatic God to show up with dramatic ways. Meanwhile, God's
already whispering in our five while you pretend to shop
and mentally rehearse your emotional breakdowns. You know what's holy,
(02:19):
folding a towel while asking God, is this really it?
You know what's sacred holding your tongue during a carpool
drop off because you feel stretched thinner than your theology.
If we don't train our eyes to see the sacred
in the mundane, in our everyday moments, we're going to
(02:43):
keep missing him. So Episode one isn't just about knowing
God out there, It's about noticing Him right here. I
was folding towels the other day. You know, nothing dramatic,
no music in the background, just a mountain of clothes
(03:04):
and a power of resentment. And I said it out loud, God,
why does this feel so far from my purpose? And
you know what I heard next wasn't audible, but it
was undeniable I'm here. That's it. No vision, no lightning,
(03:30):
just divine presence dropped right in the middle of my
target brand towel stack. That's the day I realized altars
aren't made of gold. They're made of attention. You're walking
past altars every day, you just haven't been trained to
(03:50):
name them yet. Here's how we train for that. Pick
one piece in your life that feels invisible, your sink,
your steering will, you're inbox. Claim it as an altar.
Not by decorating it, of course, because nobody wants to
(04:12):
decorate a sink in the kitchen, but by paying attention
every time you're there this week, whisper one thing to God.
It could be like a breath prayer. You are here
and so am I. It could be gratitude, thank you
(04:37):
for this moment. It could be messy. I'm tired and
I need you. It's about being holy. It's about being present,
because presence invites presence. The Forge is more than just
a podcast. It's a movement. It's a community of women
(05:02):
who aren't asking for permission anymore, who are done shrinking
their voices and minimizing their gifts or sanitizing their obedience
to make others comfortable. We don't need another group chat
kind of over that too. We need a gathering of builders,
(05:24):
builders of calling, builders of legacy, builders of altars and
grocery stores, boardrooms, classrooms, kitchens and pulpits. If you're ready
to stop waiting for the next mountaintop movement and start
naming the sacred ground you're already standing on, then this
(05:44):
is your space. Want to go deeper than this podcast
than join the Forged community, head to the link in
my bio. We've built the space off of social media,
off the noise, where women are sharing truth, tools and stories,
back hours, no algorithms, no plat form performances, just presence, power, purpose,
(06:13):
join the fire and be a part of the legacy.
So now that we got the commercial out the way, yeah,
I wanted to go back to where. You know, we
expect God to show up in big ways, right, revivals,
conferences fire from heaven moments, But you know, real life
(06:35):
is not a conference. It's a cold coffee, maybe spilled
Cereal scripture reminds us that Elijah didn't hear God in
the wind or in the earthquake. Remember he heard God
in the whisper. First, Sorry, first, Kings nineteen twelve. Even
(06:56):
though I do enjoy the Book of Corinthians, most of
our Bible, and majority of the Bible is not full
of all like spectacular moments. It's full of faithfulness, faithfulness
in kitchens, in the fields, in prison, and of course
(07:16):
at that well. So the problem isn't that God isn't
showing up as often as we would like him to.
It's that we have not stopped to notice when He
shows up as often as we should. So you know,
long ago when I told you about that spiritual breakdown
(07:39):
and folding towels. Yeah, that moment, I was tired and
I felt invisible, and I was frustrated, and I was
thinking to myself, how is this salvation? How is this
my purpose? And there was no lights worship track playing,
(08:02):
just that small whisper Hagar in Genesis sixteen. You know
that she was cast it out, invisible, frustrated and tired.
But God found her, and she says, you are the
(08:24):
God who sees me. El Roy. I remember when I
had that revelation and I was undone because God didn't
wait for me to become spiritual enough. He found me
right there in my mess and began to give me
(08:44):
this revelation. Just ram a word of his name, el Roy.
You know Jesus did the same thing to the woman
at the well in John four. He met her during
her chores. You know it was her time to do
the water chore. He knew it the timing and where
to show up. He revealed his identity not to a rabbi,
(09:13):
but he revealed his identity to a tired woman running
errands who was done up with life. And God shows
up right there, right in the middle of our mundane.
You know, we've been trained to think sacred means spectacular,
But what if sacred just means surrender Romans twelve to one.
(09:37):
Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, and this is
your spiritual worship. That means that our daily routine can
become a temple. My steering will is my prayer altar.
That kitchen sink can be holy ground. I can't tell
you how many times cleaning out that oven I would
get a tremendous amount of revelation and wisdom about the
(10:00):
creation of man. We don't need to escape our lives
to me God, we just need to see things differently.
If I were to implement anything this week, out of
all of this that was given to me from our five,
I would say the first thing is take more breath. Prayers,
(10:25):
pray as you move in hell, whisper you are here, Exhale,
and so am I root it in first Thessalonians chapter
five seventeen. Pray without seizing. The next a gratitude glance.
Pick one random object, your coffee mug, your socks, a canopies,
(10:50):
and thank God for it first Thessalonians chapter five eighteen,
which is the next verse after it. It's just that
it's reminding us to give thanks in all circumst dances.
And the last thing disruption blessing. When your plans they
fall apart, because they will, and your kids are screaming
(11:10):
the traffic kits and the coffee spills. You need to
pause before you do the next thing, before you open
up your mouth, pause and say, even here you are
Holy Genesis twenty sixteen. Sure that the Lord is in
this place and I did not know it. These are
(11:32):
not your spiritual hacks, but your reminder got God's not
hiding or just distracted. Let it be clear, you don't
need another retreat to experience God, even though we love retreats.
You don't need another perfect schedule or quiet house, even
though we love both things you need to alter. You're
(11:54):
carrying sacred fire in your lungs. The Holy Spirit doesn't
wait for a church service to speak. It's already speaking
the whispers while we're driving, the whispers while we're crying
in our five. So don't wait for the holy moment.
Make this moment holy. If this stirred your spirit, subscribe
(12:14):
and share, and remember, sacred doesn't mean shining. Sometimes it
looks like burnt toast and whisper prayers. This is the forage.
This is how legacy is built in our five, in
your ordinary and in your faithfulness,
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