How It All Began…
A story of faith, fire, and learning to walk by what God says—
even when we couldn’t see the whole path.
The Deep Ache
That Started It All
We never expected everything to change so fast…
There’s an ache no one talks about—the one that lingers when everything around you looks “fine”, but inside you know:
"This can’t be all there is."
For a while, I (Sheliza) had been feeling that quietly.
Standing in front of my class.
Marking books late at night.
Waking up before dawn to do it all again.
I kept thinking,
“Maybe this isn’t what I’m called to. Something’s off.”
Then one morning it sharpened.
I was heavily pregnant, dragging myself to school, feeling like the peace and authority I once had in my work were slipping through my fingers.
Maybe you’ve had that same thought on the way to work or class:
“Something’s off. This can’t be all there is.”
That kind of moment can become a turning point.
I remember stepping onto the school grounds as a warm autumn wind hit my face
.
Out of nowhere I felt:
“Change is in the air. Something big is coming.”
I couldn’t see it yet, but I knew
the old way of living wouldn’t stay.
That moment became a turning point for us.
It didn’t start because we had it all together.
Nor because we were further along than anyone else.
It started because we brought
that dissatisfaction to God—
and that’s often where real change begins.
We didn’t know what would come next.
We only knew this:
the way we were living wasn’t aligned with the God-dream inside us.
And that misalignment—though subtle—was enough to shake us.
Maybe you know that feeling too:
life looks okay on the outside
but inside you feel off, restless, or slightly out of place
The dissatisfaction you are experiencing today
is your victory tomorrow.
- Sheliza
🕊️ The Initial Shift
I (Sheliza) was heavily pregnant with our first daughter when things began to move.
Teaching part-time in a public school had drained me. Physically, emotionally, spiritually, I was done. Eli and I both felt it: this isn’t it.
I eventually had to stop working.
I remember writing my last handover notes for another teacher, knowing I was closing a door without seeing the next one yet.
At home in our light-filled apartment, things got quieter on the outside but louder on the inside. We started asking more honestly:
“God, what do You actually
want us to do with our lives?”
We talked, prayed, pulled out old dreams and ideas… and mostly felt more confused.
Then one day I heard Him clearly:
“I won’t show you what’s next until she’s born.”
So we waited.
When Hannah was born – her name means favoured – something in us shifted.
It felt like God was saying:
“Once you know you’re favoured,
you’ll also begin to recognise My will for your life.”
We still didn’t have a full plan.
But we knew the “old normal” was over.
The next step would be to actually live from what God was saying.
“Once you know you’re favoured,
you’ll also know His will
for your life.”
After Hannah was born and that word about waiting for “what’s next” had settled in, things slowly began to shift.
We both knew we couldn’t just go back to “normal”.
If we were really favoured, and God really had a will for our lives, then our choices had to start reflecting that.
One night in our Swiss apartment, Eli couldn’t shake the feeling that something had to change.
He went into our small office, took a piece of paper and wrote down one question:
“If money were no object,
what would I do?”
🏠 The Unravelling
It sounds simple, but it exposed a lot.
So many of our decisions had quietly revolved around money, safety, and what was expected.
As we brought that question to God, the answer that came back was clear and uncomfortable:
“Use your gifts.”
That meant not just Eli but also I, Sheliza now stepping away from the usual career path, and both of us choosing to serve with what we had—prophecy, teaching, creativity—even though we didn’t have any support net, nor did we have any promised donations.
Practically, we were living from our savings.
Nothing was flowing in yet.
We hardly told anyone what we were doing.
From the outside, our life still looked ok.
In the chaos of the worldwide covid outbreak, it looked like we were an adventurous couple simply spending some time travelling.
On the inside, we had already stepped off the safe track without a permanent home.
Slowly, the ground under our feet began to feel less solid.
Routines started to loosen.
The sense of “home” became less and less something we could even remember.
For me (Sheliza), every new shift felt heavier – I don’t like transitions, and it began to feel like we were always half-packed, never fully settled.
But looking back, this was the beginning of the unravelling: the point where our yes to God started to pull on every part of the life we had built.
✈️ The Flight
That Changed Everything
Right when Covid broke out,
we packed up our life in Switzerland.
Handed back the keys.
Sold and gave away most of what we owned.
Three suitcases. One newborn in our arms.
And a handful of things we were sure of:
God had spoken.
We couldn’t stay.
We had some savings, but no clear “next step” lined up.
On the plane, we looked at each other
with tears in our eyes.
It felt like both freedom and free-fall.
Eli was excited. Me too.
And I was terrified.
But we both knew we couldn’t keep living the old way and ask God for a new life.
Maybe you know that feeling:
Your heart has already left…
…but your practical life hasn’t caught up yet.
A world of freedom had opened up inside us.
Now our circumstances were about to catch up.
The next two years were brutal and beautiful.
We faced the very fears we’d tried to avoid:
Not having enough or any money.
No fixed home.
Moving from place to place with a baby we were responsible for.
Friends pulling away.
Being judged for our choices, even hearing: “This can’t be God’s will for you.”
We trusted God with little more than faith,
three suitcases and a handful
of things He’d spoken.
Some seasons we stayed in other people’s homes.
Other times it was short-term places or cheap hotel rooms, booked a few nights at a time, not always knowing where we’d go after checkout.
It was stretching, humbling, and at times honestly scary.
And still—somehow—He provided.
Again and again.
Often at the last minute.
Often in ways we couldn’t have planned.
And yet, in the middle of our own uncertainty,
people hungry for God kept crossing our path.
Sometimes it started with a single conversation.
Conversations in kitchens. Prayers in borrowed living rooms.
Some had encounters with God that marked them.
Gifts were activated. Clarity came.
We were being stretched on every side.
But something else was happening too:
God was quietly proving that He really is Provider—
even when the numbers and the roadmap say otherwise.
Uncertainty
didn’t stop God
from making Himself real.
🔥 The Refining
To people watching, our life might have looked
“radical” or “adventurous”.
Up close, it was often confronting.
The pressure of not knowing where we’d live or how things would work out didn’t just test our faith in theory.
It tested how we related to God,
to each other, and to ourselves.
We wrestled with questions like:
Is this really God, or just us?
Have we made a mistake?
What is God’s part here, and what is ours?
What if we miss His will completely?
His kingdom within
stayed steady
when nothing outside did.
In that tension, fear didn’t always show up as obvious fear.
Sometimes it slipped in through overthinking, over-analysing, or over-spiritualising everything.
It made things heavier at home than they needed to be.
We also felt the pull of expectations around us – the pressure to go back to something more “normal” or “responsible” or fit neatly into systems that didn’t match what God was saying to us.
We didn’t always get it right.
More than once, we stepped back into “normal” jobs, trying to make things safer and more predictable.
From the outside it looked like we were simply doing the responsible thing.
In reality, we were choosing what felt safer instead of what God had already said – and He still used that tension to refine us.
What God was actually doing
Slowly, God began to refine the way we walked with Him.
Instead of chasing formulas or trying to copy what others were doing, He brought us back to a simpler centre:
His presence in the middle of chaos.
His voice, as a Father speaking to His children.
His kingdom within, even when the outside looked unstable.
God wasn’t out to punish us.
He was gently removing
what was fake and shaky,
so we could stand
in who we are in Him, not in fear.
🎁 When Jonathan Was Born
With our third child came a new wrestle.
By then, we had done what many people told us was wise: we’d gone back into regular jobs.
We still carried the words God had spoken, but they felt distant.
We were tired from the back-and-forth — step out, step back, trust, then doubt.
More than once we asked God honestly:
“What about everything You said, God? Did we hear You right?”
When Jonathan was born, we brought those questions back to Him.
I (Sheliza) had left my teaching position again to be at home with our son, and together we stood in front of God with the same old question: “What is Your will for our life?”
In that place of honesty, we heard a new sentence:
“I entrust you with My business.”
Jonathan means God has given.
And that is exactly what He had done.
He reminded us that He had already given us gifts, words, encounters, clarity.
He wasn’t asking us to wait for a more “stable” season.
He was asking us to build with what we had.
We still didn’t have all the details. And the doubts didn’t magically disappear.
But we made a quiet decision: we would treat His word as reality, even while our circumstances were still wobbly.
The sentence He spoke over us
is the same one He’s speaking over many in this season:
You’ve heard it many times: “Maybe not now. Maybe one day.”
Others may have written you off. And somewhere along the way, you quietly agreed with that. But today, God is speaking to you:
"I entrust you with My business.".
- God, the Father
🌄 The Final Push
Not long after that, God led Eli into a job again.
Not as a step backwards, but as a short assignment – a way of providing for us while He finished something deeper in our hearts.
Even there, the ache didn’t go away.
We were grateful for the income, but we knew there was more on God’s heart than just “surviving.”
That tension pushed us back and deeper into prayer.
There were moments when things got tighter, not easier.
We were one step away from not knowing where our kids would sleep, when last-minute accommodation opened up.
For a few months we lived together in that small room, yet we kept coming back again and again to what God had said after Jonathan’s birth –
”I entrust you with My business.”
If this really was His business, then we couldn’t just “manage” things any more.
We needed His blueprint, not just another short-term fix.
In autumn 2024, something shifted.
After crying out to God in fasting and prayer, He began to unfold His blueprint.It came like a wave—
visions, symbols, words, impressions, encounters with Christ.
And in the middle of that, we heard:
"You will build something that brings people home to Me."
From there, the picture got clear:
a family-based, Spirit-led home online and in real life –
a place where people learn to recognise God’s voice, live clean-hearted, and step into who they really are in Him.
💬 And the
Wildest Thing?
You’re reading this.
Which probably means something in our story sounds a little familiar.
Maybe you’re:
• Trying to trust God with money, but the numbers don’t add up.
• Torn between being “responsible” and doing what you quietly feel He’s saying.
• Afraid of getting it wrong – with your calling, your relationships, or God’s will.
That’s where we were too.
The “I can’t keep living like this” ache you feel?
That’s often where God begins to move.
We’re not here to give you a formula.
We just want to walk with you as you learn to hear Him clearly – in real decisions, real emotions, real life.
You’re welcome to start right here –simply you and God, in whatever mess or confusion you’re in.
If that ache is already stirring while you read this, you’re welcome to take one small first step with us:
Start the 5-Day “Hear God Clearly” Challenge →💎 Why We Share This
This isn’t about us being “radical”. It’s about what’s possible with Him.
God is real.
He speaks into bank statements,
house moves, and late–night what-ifs.
He leads ordinary people through uncertainty, step by step.
He provides in ways that don’t make sense on paper.
For us, His leading has looked very practical.
For years we had this quiet line in our prayers: “What if we could live somewhere warm, where the kids can run outside all year?”
Asia was never on our list. We just kept saying yes to the next small step He showed us.
Step by step, He moved us from Europe into Asia – into the warmth we’d only ever whispered about with Him.
Because He cares about the specific, hidden things your heart longs for – and He loves to surprise you with how He gets you there.
And the only thing God is after, is you: Your undivided heart
We’ve seen confidence in God grow fastest
when people learn to recognise His voice for themselves.
If any part of this sounds like your own story – the ache, the questions, the tug to trust God more than what makes sense on paper
– we’d love to walk with you in it.
Not as experts with a formula, but as a family who’s been there.
We’ve created two simple ways to start:
If you need a small, clear first step → begin with our 5-Day Challenge.
Short daily prompts to help you hear God in real situations – money, decisions, emotions, all of it. The starting point? “God, what’s on your heart for my life?”If you’d rather sit with God a bit longer → take our 30-day devotional.
Gentle, daily readings and questions to help you grow in peace, trust, and clarity.
Whichever you choose, our prayer is the same:
that you’d hear His voice in your story – not just ours.
