Episode 156: I Will Praise You in the Fire

What do you do when the place where God once began restoring your heart suddenly goes up in flames?

High in the Colorado Rockies sits a small hand-built cabin overlooking a valley that has become one of the most meaningful places in Brent’s life. Years ago, during one of the darkest seasons he had ever faced, Brent stood on that mountainside as a broken man—carrying layer upon layer of loss and wondering if life could ever feel whole again.

It was there that God impressed a promise on his heart:

“I will restore to you the years the locusts have eaten.”

Brent had not only walked these mountains, ridges, and valleys many times, but it was where he loved going to see the glory of God on display and to take his struggles and hurts to God.

Then, just days ago, Brent received a picture that stopped him cold.

The mountain was on fire.

Flames more than one hundred feet high were racing through the same wilderness where God had met him time and time again. This wasn’t simply a beautiful place on a map. It was a place deeply woven into his story—a place of memories, prayer, healing, and restoration.

In this deeply personal episode of Unleashed, Brent shares what wildfires, burn areas, biblical faith, grief, loss, restoration, and the fiery furnace have taught him about trusting God when the landscape of life changes overnight. Drawing from the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, the promise of Isaiah, and his own journey through devastating loss, Brent explores a hard but hope-filled truth: the fire may change the landscape, but it does not get the final word. God does.

Maybe your fire is a broken marriage. A diagnosis. A funeral. A betrayal. Financial loss. A child who walked away. One bad decision. One phone call that changed everything.

The ashes are not the end of your story.

God is still restoring. Still redeeming. Still bringing beauty from ashes and life from places that look dead. And sometimes, what looks destroyed today may become the most beautiful part of the mountain tomorrow.

This episode concludes with a brand-new original song born from the fire and written to bring hope and healing to anyone walking through the flames:

“I Will Praise You in the Fire.”

If you are grieving, rebuilding, questioning God, walking through loss, or wondering whether life can ever be beautiful again, this episode is for you.

Because God is faithful before the fire, faithful in the fire, and faithful after the fire.