In the morning
Start with one Scripture, one faith direction, and one sentence you can carry before the day gets loud.
A Deeper Faith with John Tesh
When the same thought keeps circling at 3am, you need one verse you can actually use.
Sample Audio
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This Mark 11:23 clip is the experience: one verse, one faith direction, and one next step you can practice right away.
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From the sample
Don't beg. Don't bargain. Speak to your mountain.
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Subscribe to John's Deeper Faith audio emails.
Get one short Scripture-based audio by email Monday through Friday: one verse, one faith direction, and one practical next step.
Previously $149/year. Now $69/year.
Trouble checking out? Email John@Tesh.com.
Monthly is $9.99. 30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime.
Two-minute Scripture audio by John Tesh, Monday through Friday. One verse, one faith direction, one practical next step — for the morning, the car, the sleepless night, the hard conversation.
Recorded audio
John records these as short Scripture-based audio clips you can put on in the moment you need them.
Why John made this
In 2015, when doctors told me I had 18 months to live, Mark 11:23 stopped being a verse on a page. It became something I had to practice out loud.
In the parking lot. In the chemo chair. At 3am. I needed Scripture I could say when fear was not theoretical and faith had to become something I could actually use.
That is why these clips are short. One verse. One faith direction. One next step. Not a sermon to study later, but a word you can put in your ears while you are living the moment in front of you.
A Deeper Faith grew out of that same place: holding the Word of God and wise medical care together, and learning how to keep speaking faith when the mountain is still standing there.
Listener proof
Listener responses from the Deeper Faith audio.
Enjoying these daily emails. Very beneficial and the audio clips are delivered with passion and authenticity!
I have Mark 11:23 memorized and say it often, speaking out healing. I like to speak to the cancer about my God, health, and wellness. Praying continuously and with friends speaking to this mountain.
Thank you John for your connection, guidance, and wisdom with God. I am beginning to understand the power of the Holy Spirit.
I can't even begin to explain how timely this was for me today. I have been getting so weary, feeling like I am fighting the same fight. Thank you for being sensitive and sending such encouraging thoughts!
Where it fits
For mornings, drives, hard conversations, and sleepless nights.
In the car
Use the drive between appointments, errands, or work to reset before your thoughts start looping.
Before bed
Let faith be the last voice in your ears when your mind wants to replay the day.
Before a hard conversation
Listen before the conversation where you need wisdom, restraint, courage, or grace.
When thoughts loop
Tap play when the same thought keeps circling and you need something truer to answer it.
Before a decision
Use the next step at the end of each clip when you need clarity before moving forward.
Faith and medicine
The Word of God and wise medical care do not have to compete.
- A cancer diagnosis in 2015
- 11 years of treatments, uncertainty, prayer, and medical decisions
- A practical way to hold Scripture and wise care together
John created the Deeper Faith Monday through Friday audio emails out of the same tension he lived through: needing God, needing doctors, and needing those two realities to stop feeling like opposites.
This is not a replacement for medical care, counseling, or wise professional help. It is Scripture-based guidance to help you stay grounded while you walk through real life with courage and clarity.
Questions
Common questions before you subscribe.
Is this denominational? Will it line up with my church?
A Deeper Faith is Scripture-first, not denominational. Usually one verse per clip — and applied to real-life moments. It's a short daily reset Monday through Friday. Each clip is about 2 minutes: one Scripture, one faith direction, and one practical next step you can use that day. Think of it as a friend handing you the verse and the action — not a teacher walking you through theology.
How is this different from a devotional app or daily verse email?
Most devotionals give you the verse and a thought. This gives you the verse, what to do with it in the moment in front of you, and an audio you can play hands-free in the car or on a walk — or even send to a friend. No app to learn. No screen to read. Just press play.
I'm walking through something hard right now — illness, loss, family stress. Will this help?
This is the audience John built it for. The clips were written out of his own 11-year cancer journey, so the topics include health stress, fear, sleepless nights, hard conversations, decision fatigue, and grief. It will not replace your doctor, counselor, or pastor — but it gives you Scripture to hold onto between those conversations.
How much time does it take each day?
About 2 minutes. One audio clip, Monday through Friday, by email. You can listen while you're making coffee, driving, or before bed. There's nothing to read, nothing to download, and nothing builds up if you miss a day.
What if I'm not tech-savvy?
If you can open an email, you can use this. The audio plays right inside the email — no app, no login, no password to remember. If you ever get stuck, John's team responds to support emails personally.
What if I subscribe and it's not for me?
You have 30 days to try it. If it doesn't fit, email us and we'll refund every dollar — no forms, no phone calls, no "are you sure." Cancel anytime after that and you keep access through the end of your billing period.
Who is John Tesh, and why is he the one teaching this?
John is a former CBS News Correspondent and has hosted Intelligence for Your Life on 350+ radio stations for 25+ years. He has built his career on research-backed practical advice. In 2015 he was given 18 months to live. Eleven years later he's still here — and the way he held Scripture and medical care together during that time is the foundation of every clip in A Deeper Faith.
What comes next
A sample of the moments John will walk you through.
Do Not Doubt in Your Heart
For the moment when your words say faith, but your heart is bracing for bad news.
Included in the series
The Prayer You Don't Want to Pray
For the prayer you stopped praying because you were tired of not seeing the answer yet.
Included in the series
Prayer With Your Feet
For the days when sitting still is not realistic, but you still need to stay close to God.
Included in the series
Forgiveness Heals
For resentment, pain, and the hard work of letting God heal what keeps replaying.
Included in the series
I Can Do All Things
For pressure, pain, or performance moments that ask for more strength than you have.
Included in the series
Cast Your Anxiety
For nights when anxious thoughts need somewhere to go besides your own nervous system.
Included in the series
Keep listening
Subscribe to John's Deeper Faith Monday through Friday audio emails.
If this sample made the idea clear, the subscription gives you short Scripture-based audio by email Monday through Friday so faith has a place in the rhythm of your actual day: waking up, driving, winding down, and getting ready for the next real thing.
- One short Scripture-based audio email Monday through Friday
- One Scripture, one faith direction, and one practical next step
- Built for health stress, family pressure, hard conversations, and decision fatigue
- A simple faith habit that fits the rhythm of your day
- Delivered by email, with no app to learn
Previously $149/year. Now $69/year.
Trouble checking out? Email John@Tesh.com.
Monthly is $9.99. 30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime.
Transcript
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I'm going to be telling you more and more about my favorite scripture. Speak to the mountain. Speak to the mountain. Don't beg. Don't bargain. Speak to your mountain. Mark 11.23, Jesus says, whoever tells this mountain to be lifted up and thrown into the sea and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Read that again. He didn't say ask the mountain to move. He said tell it. There is a difference. We've been trained to pray small, to hedge, to whisper. If it's your will at the end of every sentence so God can't be disappointed in us, we can't be disappointed in him. That's not what Jesus taught. He taught us to speak directly to the thing in front of us, with our mouths, with authority, expecting it to move. There's also Proverbs 18.21, death and life are in the power of the tongue. Researchers at Baylor studied patients facing serious illness and found that those who prayed with specific expectant language showed significantly better psychological outcomes than those whose prayers were vague or resigned. Expectation changes the chemistry. Expectation. Here's your takeaway. Whatever your mountain is right now, the diagnosis, the death, the broken relationship, stop praying around it and speak to it. What is it that my friend Andrew Wommack always says? He says, don't tell God about your sickness. Don't talk to God about your sickness. Talk to your sickness about God. There it is. Out loud, by name. Eleven years later, I'm still here. The mountain moved. Speak to yours and amazing things will happen.