Girls Gone Bible - Guard My Eyes | Girls Gone Bible

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

  Hiiii GGB! On this weeks episode, we dive into the importance of guarding your eyes; what we see, what we watch, what we take in what we let into our hearts. How to resist temptation before it ever comes our way by setting boundaries around what we let in. we love you so much. Jesus loves you more. -Ang & Ari ORDER OUR NEW BOOK! You can order our new book "Out of the Wilderness— 31 Devotions to Walk with God Through Your Hardest Seasons" at girlsgonebible.com/book   JOIN US ON GGB+  https://ggb.supportingcast.fm   COME SEE US ON TOUR:  Tickets for our tour are now on sale. Go to www.GirlsgoneBible.com/tour November 14, 2025 Atlanta, GA December 6, 2025 Los Angeles, CA    WE LOVE YOU AND CANNOT WAIT TO SEE YOU!   BetterHelp A convenient, affordable way to connect with a licensed therapist from the comfort of your home. Get 10% off your first month at https://BetterHelp.com/girlsgonebible.   Dose Daily A daily wellness beverage crafted with adaptogenic mushrooms for energy and mental clarity. Save 35% on your first subscription at https://DoseDaily.co/GGB using code GGB   Beam Visit https://shopbeam.com/GGB and use code GGB to get our exclusive discount of up to 50% off.   IQBAR Fuel your body and brain with IQBAR. Plant based protein bars packed with clean ingredients and functional nutrients. Text GGB to 6400 for 20% off plus free shipping.   NOCD Personalized, evidence-based therapy for OCD from licensed professionals. Schedule a free 15-minute call with their team at https://learn.nocd.com/ggb    Olive & June Salon-quality nails from home made easy with the Olive & June system. Everything you need for a flawless at-home manicure. Get 20% off your first system at OliveandJune.com/GGB http://OliveandJune.com/GGB   Grand Canyon University Earn your degree online or on campus with programs designed to fit your life. Enroll today and find your purpose at GCU.edu/MyOffer http://GCU.edu/MyOffer   Glorify App Guided meditations and daily devotionals to build your faith and fi nd inner peace on the go. Download the app for free at https://Glorify-app.com/ggb

Is that idea? Okay. No, Ariel. You guys can tell her. She's not chronically online. Okay, wait. What is that? It's just like, you just clock it.

Oh. Why are you kissing? I'm Ari. Why are you kissing all day today? All right, guys. Hi, I'm Angie. And I'm Ari. And this is Girls Gone Bible.

And we are a faith-based podcast where we talk all things, spirituality, mental health, the Bible. We're so happy to be here. We love you guys. so much. Thank you to all of our writers, day ones, who've been with us from the very beginning. You do that. You do the lip thing. Yeah, seriously? Thank you. We can love you. I love you guys so much. And I love more than anything, like the humor between us and you guys. First of all, Gigi Bing is the funniest. We send each other memes all day. I love all the Oh yeah

Oh yeah There was a girl that A sweet sweet girl And Ari meant to send me A video A reel of one of those Like large women Jumping into the pool

And she sends it to like a GGB audience Like girl And the girl Text it and messaged it to me And said LOL Ari didn't mean to send me this But I'm so happy she did it I'm like Ari

There's a lady diving off like a cliff And I'm like you're like floating and they i'm like you can't be accidentally sending things to the wrong people um i love how everyone's timeline is AI now i am so sorry i am so sorry okay and and i have another internet fiasco i'm freaking what i got a red light ticket yeah what's up with that i have to go to court oh i'm going to jail do you understand i got a I know I got something yeah I think it was like a red light ticket too we're both going to frigging jail I thought I slaughtered a man I was bawling my eyes out in the courtroom I was on the phone with my mom I'm like mom it's done like it is done she's like you're friggin all I had to pay was $65 I didn't even have to you thought you were going to jail I think I'm going to jail well I'm not going to go court is terrifying I and I grew up going to court I'm

We had to be in court a lot. That's a different, that's a story for another day, guys. Can I be? Okay. That's a story for GGB Plus. No, we should talk about our court stories. Can I be honest, Ari and I have had to go to court together for a family member, so I'll just leave it at that.

No one will ever understand. No one will ever know us praying in tongues in court. Just like, you guys don't know. know what we've been through. It's too much. It's too. We honestly, if we had a show, I can't even Well, if I'm being honest, I think that might be next. Can you imagine? Oh, you know what I want to do so bad guys? I actually asked our team and then Ari got mad at me. I want to go on like one of those Survivor shows so bad. Can you guys imagine me going on a Survivor show? Imagine you and me together. You would put me through hell. Well, because I'm not going to let us lose. You be screaming at me.

Let's go, Ari. Ariel, come on. I'm like, I'm putting my lip liner on. I would be putting on. I know. They would take our lip liner away. No concealer. She wanted to go on the military show.

What's that called? Can you imagine us crawling through tunnels? I would have the time of my life. I know you would. I know you would. What does that say about me? I'd be freaking trying to find an extension court to dice in my banks. To dice in your bag.

I know, but I'm the same. I would also want to. the dice in my bangs, but then I'd also want to go hard. I know you would. Just tell everyone, though. Why don't you tell everyone how, you know, I don't lose a game. What game? You know that we've played games at Bachelorats and I'm very competitive and I win.

Tell them. Yeah, she is, oh, Ari's actually very competitive and she wins games. What else? She's also gorgeous and. I don't want it. Can I have your resume? I want to rape you up. She's actually amazing, and she's also...

I said that I might go sit in a Catholic church and find a Catholic man. I think your husband's Catholic. I think he is too, honestly. I think he is, too. You'd love a nice Catholic in a suit and, like... Can't you see it? I see a Catholic in a suit. He's got a rosary in the pocket.

Like, always, he's like... Brain a man. He's not a... I see it for you. I know. What's he look like? I don't know, I don't want to play this game. You've been making me play this game for three years.

Tell them this story about when I was manic and depressed. I thought she was a psychic. She thought I was psychic. So when we first met and I told her like, I, you know, I hear from God. You can hear from everybody hears from God. She took that as I was psychic, and so she would, she wanted me to, like, get the crystal ball out. And ever since then, she's been asking me what her husband looked like. You know, when you're just, like, so desperate and you're, like, going out of your mind, you need dancers that you'll call a psychic because I did.

That was, I can't, how could I? I broke those curses, though. You did, didn't you? You did full deliverance. I did. No, I wouldn't. I said, when I, when they, when the, my friend did deliverance on me, I said, I honestly, this was like dead serious. I was like, I might start throwing up green and like my head might, I might start calling up your walls.

My head's been, ah! That is so unbred. What does that movie called? The, uh, the exercise. I don't know. Those are awful. Awful. Awful.

You are so creepy, man. Oh, listen to this, you guys. So creepy. So Ari and I, you guys remember that one episode where Ari goes, you're so creepy, man. Ari and I started saying that all the time, like to anything, anybody, oh, you're so creepy, man. Like, we don't actually mean it. We're just saying it. It's just like that thing.

You're so creepy, man. And we're on tour. And our poor tour manager, what he puts up with with us, I wish you guys could be on a fly on the wall. We put him through hell. We put him, I mean, we are nightmares. It's not like divas. It's just like we can't, we don't know what's going on. We don't have our heads on our neck. You know that. And especially if we know somebody else that's responsible is involved. I mean, it's all. Like, if we know someone else is responsible in the room. Yeah, we really don't use my brain. Because if they're not, then I know I have to like step up. That's what it is. Yeah. And then, yeah. And so Chris, so our tour manager is texting us what we want for lunch for Suikri. For no reason. And I go, you're so creepy.

And he thought you was serious. He's like very A-type and literal. And so he obviously doesn't hear it in the accent. He just reads, you are so creepy. And he takes back and goes, I'm so creepy. I just ask for your sweet green order. He's so creepy, man. There is nothing funny about that.

Can we make that with that new merch? You're so creepy, man. Yeah, that and my mugshot of the red light ticket. Yeah, on the mugshot I took of you today. Okay, guys, we are playing heads up, friggin, Bible edition, let's go. Old Testament women, no, let's do Jesus. Or do you want to do David because you love David? Well, I do love David, but I'm really into Paul right now, so.

Oh, shoot. Oh gosh Paul's my favorite Paul's your favorite okay I'm just I love Paul Scared David I am

Scared nervous anxious What if it doesn't work out Doubtful Doubting Thomas It's a word What I don't know if this is gonna work Waiting season

Will it happen I don't know Is Are we Okay. Worry! Oh, man. You are a...

Angel. Oh, gosh, I'm so embarrassed. Is that not what you're saying? Shoot, okay, that's not what I meant. Okay, you are a genius. Wait, I don't know what happened. Shoot, star. Star.

Okay. What's going on? you brilliant angel okay I'm I'm gonna not eat and I'm not gonna starve fast yes to my feet he is a lamp on to my feet yeah yeah Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior yeah you were once this that could be a lot of You were once, ah. Juggie? Gossip?

Pharisee. I was a Pharisee. Wow. Oh, man, that was so good. Um, oh, she is a good... Girl. Good? Um, at the well.

Woman. The woman at the well. What was she? She was a good. Samaritan. Good. Um, what did they do to Jesus? Crucified him.

Christ crucified. They nailed him to a cross. They put him in bondage. Yeah, they tied his hands. hands. Where did they do? Handcuff. I'm going in the car.

The cop car. Arrusted! Wait, that's okay. Okay. Oh, oh, oh. Um, uh, you, you reap what you. So? But it's a person that, so, yeah, yes, you got it.

You got it. You, oh, Jesus goes out onto this thing and it's on the water because they want to do this. They want to fish. Yeah, but it's a, bluish. Blank, the first word, second word, the thing that they're in. A boat. Yes. Oh, way maker, miracle worker.

Promise keeper. That word. Light in the dark. Okay, okay, but that word. Blank keeper. Blank keeper. Yes. Okay.

Oh, make me a, mm-hmm. Miracle. Make me a, Mary of, she poured the oil on Jesus' feet. Alabaster jar. Mary of, it's a place. Mary of Bethany, make me a Bethany. Okay, let's go. Oh, wait, why am I forgetting his name?

That's it. Matthew. What was his job? Money. Matthew. Tax collector. Yes. Yeah!

Come on, come on. Oh, he nailed him to a cross. What is that act? What is that? Sacrifice. No, when they nailed Jesus to the cross, it was Christ and Christ crucified

but it's the crucifixion sure yes he didn't oh Jesus turned blank into blank water into wine yes girl

oh that snake that rat yeah yeah that Judas yes um oh

I have so much empathy compassion close Thank you for thinking that about me. I have the gift of faith. Yes, girl. Okay.

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Guys, today we are talking about how to guard your eyes, your mind, your heart. Because eyes are the gateway to the heart. The scripture says that the eye is the lamp into the body. Like literally everything that we see, everything that we take in, everything that we digest makes a massive impact on our life. And I think Ari and I are so, so passionate about this because not in a weird religious way, not in an annoying way, not in like a, you have to be super fearful of everything in the world type of way, but genuinely, it is one of the most important things for me, and I know for you too, to guard the things that I watch and see

your gates i gates because you can go down a funny slippery slope very quickly and yeah what's been like for you well it's been I think what's been interesting for me is how sensitive I've gotten the closer I've gotten to Jesus oh my gosh that's so true right praise God that's a really good thing I see one little something something and I'm like oh that does not feel good. That makes me feel something so quickly. And I think the further away you get from sin and from darkness and from just like anything that doesn't glorify Jesus, you become so sensitive to it. I never want to be desensitized to the things that I see because, yeah, I've just seen such a major transformation in my life when I really took it seriously that I don't

want to see anything dirty. I don't want to see anything weird. I don't want to see anything, even, not even like anything necessarily sinful, but being on social media is really detrimental because it's like you fill your mind with scripture. You fill your mind with the things of God. And then you get on Instagram two seconds later and you're sent completely opposite messaging, you know? Do you know, I was on social media the other day. And I just was like, I had a day off. So I was just like scrolling for about an hour. And I got off it and I felt so sick. Yeah. Like I didn't feel good. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? I believe it 100%. That's how I feel. And I've been on social media. I told you guys I took that fast and it was amazing. And then I get

back on social media. Like I said, just like I never left. And it's the hardest, it's the hardest thing to balance, especially for us. Like our job is on social media. We're supposed to be on there. And it's so detrimental. So obviously it's not completely avoidable, but I think awareness is key, awareness to how easily we're influenced and manipulated. And I have a little story before we get into scripture. I, you know, you guys know I'm on like a journey with body image and food and just like a lot of, you know, disordered eating stuff. And I have, I'm like in shock blown away by the improvement that I've made in relationship to my body. And I'm so grateful to Jesus. It's crazy. You really have. I've made so much improvement. And I, like, never thought that I'd have

breakthrough. I have such a healthier relationship to my body. And that's not obviously to say it's perfect, but I definitely don't fiend for thinness like I used to. Or, yeah, just put such an emphasis on that like I feel so much freedom in my body I feel so much freedom with food it's crazy I still have like safe foods not even safe foods anymore I just I'm plain and I like what I like but I will eat things that I wouldn't have eaten before I've got I don't think about food the way that I used to it doesn't I never feel stressed out I never feel um I never feel like oh man was that bad what I just ate? Should I have not? Like, I have just food freedom. And freedom doesn't mean that you just eat like necessarily whatever you want. It just is that I don't think

about it. It's not something that hangs over me that I worry about. You know what I mean? I know this isn't part of the episode, but I want to ask you for some people that are struggling with eating disorder. What have you done? Like, what are the steps and stuff? Yeah. I'll tell you the one thing that I've done other than fast or not fasting other than praying and bringing it to Jesus every day. I've spent a long time praying over my body every day, laying hands on myself. And I think I've said this before, but just blessing my body to eat and to receive nutrients and like to enjoy food and praying over my mind, praying over my stomach, just like praying over those neuropathways that have been so manipulated all these years and just praying,

praying, and don't stop praying. And even if you feel like nothing is changing, you keep praying because I promise you your prayers are working. And even the intention of praying that there would be a shift in your mentality towards food, I believe is like you coming into agreement with that reality. And it does something to your brain. You know, I've been doing that with my mind. Let's go. Every morning. I, I think. will literally physically put my hands over my head and pray over my mind and it's even it's you're coming into agreement that this is the reality that I want to live in that's so good so what what were you saying um and so obviously praying accountability having people help me like you know and and

call me out if they're like everything okay like but the one thing that my friend johnny put me on that I'm so, like, so grateful to him for this is he encouraged me to track my protein. I think I've said this before, but to track my protein and eat my body weight in protein every single day. And for me, I could not, I can't believe the impact that it's had on my life that just hitting 120 grams of protein a day. I thought I was doing it because my body needed that food and it needed those nutrients, which it did. But I had no idea the psychological effect that it would have on my brain to switch from always thinking about how can I eat less today?

Because that was always my mentality. How can I like portion my meals and spread them out to where I can eat as little as possible to get through the day? And then I shift to how, oh my gosh, it's 3 p.m. and I've only had 40 grams of protein. I have to eat. So it's like an app? No, no, just you track it yourself. You see the nutritional facts, like a piece of chicken is whatever, however many grams. So you track it throughout the day.

And now that I've been doing it so long, I don't need to track it because I know I can tell now. But again, going from how can I make sure I eat as little as possible to switching completely and having a goal to eat more because I would realize every day, oh my gosh, I still haven't hit my goal. I need to eat more by the end of the day. I'm like, oh, got to get in another 40 grams. So that mental switch of eating less to hitting a goal to eat more has been astronomical. It's changed everything. It is so simple. It's one little practice that you track your protein and you hit your goal, which is your body weight in protein. I'm not a doctor. I don't figure you know what other people should be eating. This is what worked for me. But it's that one little switch. So it's like,

It's all mental. Everything is so mental. And so that is how I have gained so much freedom. And, yeah, like truly giving it to Jesus that I don't have to look like anything except what I look like. And asking God to put love in my heart for that and heal those. Anyways, so this is what I was going to say. So I am off of social media and I come to such a good place with my body. Like I'm like I love my curves. I love my body. I love what I look like. It might not be like perfect 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but it's my body. And it doesn't, I finally got to a place where it's like it doesn't need to look like anything. Like it could just look like what it is. I exercise. I eat well. I don't need to think about it more than that. I'm not a model. I'm not a freaking bikini model that needs to show my, you know what I mean? There's no reason why I need to.

look a certain way other than how I look you know whoever I marry one day is not going to be like oh yeah you have a six pat like it's just so I finally got to a place where I was like okay I don't need to look like anything except what I look like there's no goal to reach um I don't have to be so sickly thin and my body can't look like that anyways that's not my body so you have to accept your body like you do if your body looks a certain way you have to accept it i get to such a good place and i just remember this being such a specific moment for me i get to such a good place and i go on social media and i see one girl who is so thin and she's like a model and that's probably what this girl looks like that's probably her natural weight like she should look like that you know or not maybe i don't

know but there are girls who are very thin who should look like that because that's their body I look at that and all of a sudden immediately my mind is flooded with I need to starve I need to be thin I need to look like that I want to have separation in my arms I want to have my ribs showing I want to like immediately I was actively aware of what was taking place in my mind where I was like I don't feel this way anymore I love my body I genuinely when they do but seeing one uh seeing one girl who looked away that i used to think that i should look immediately brought me back to that place yeah and it made me realize this was my first thought because i'm able to control if i feed my mind that stuff too much i will go back to that and i and i

and i do sometimes however i have enough awareness to be like i don't want to live that life so i i can balance it and i'm careful i immediately thought about a man or a woman who goes on social media and sees a girl or a guy in an outfit or doing something or in a pose that is like provoke something in them and how easily imagine a man who hasn't masturbated hasn't watched porn hasn't like seen anything immediately goes like like the temptation that you face and how easy it is to go to a place in your mind that you don't want to go to this is why we're talking about this today because guarding your eyes is absolutely everything you know I know it's I know I know I think about how much I had to change my life not because I had to it just naturally like I I couldn't watch certain things anymore like I love that you said that because it's true it's just your appetite really does change um yeah i think for me you know i don't know you think because i'm single i wouldn't struggle with

this yeah but i do struggle with loss sometimes i do yeah um and so yeah i just really have to I really watch what I watch on TV. I really watch what I listen to. I really try to guard my eyes. I mean, I remember a couple times a friend had put on the show and, yeah, I just, it's, I can't do it. It does. It makes you feel really lustful. Like certain things will make you feel really lustful.

And you just, I don't know. I just, I want to be as holy. as possible i do i think it's the most beautiful thing and i i i want to live a really holy life and i want to honor god behind the scenes and i know how how fruitful it is and how good i feel when i um when i don't live like the world does love that you say like honor him behind the scenes what we do in secret is just the most important thing what we do in private how we do in private how we protect ourselves in private when nobody's watching it's not about what anybody else thinks it's not about other people thinking you're holy i think a lot of christianity can be performative at times where

you want other people to think that you are holy or pure or blah blah blah but you we should all get to a point where what we do in private is so much more important than what we do in in public like I want to be someone who genuinely does the right thing when nobody's watching. Me too. Me too. You are. You are too. No, you. No, you. No, seriously. Yeah, I think I've, yeah, I, it's, it's, again, like, it's, it's, it's so hard living in the world. Yeah. Talk about it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, everything that we see is crazy. Every movie. I mean, I can't even

freaking watch TV anymore. You can't watch anything because the messaging is so dark and like guys, I can't watch a freaking kissing scene. I can't do it. Like, I literally can't, I can't do it. I can't see people kiss on Instagram. I can't see people kiss any of it where.

I don't want to see it. Matthew 6 verse 6 is, then your father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. And I will tell you when I resist those temptations of living like the world and really guarding my eyes and all of those things, I feel so rewarded. Yeah.

Like, it feels good. You know, like, when, when God says, I'll turn beauty from ashes, it's true. Like, people think we're crazy, like, us crazy Christians, like, we can't do this. You can't, no, like, no, he really does make beauty from ashes. What you thought and lived for when you lived of the world, it, you know, it's, like, for like, for me, I remember being like, how am I going to let all this stuff go? Like, I've been living this way my whole life. And now I look back and I'm like, how did I ever live like that before?

How did I ever watch that and listen to that stuff? How did I live like that? How did I go to these places? How did I talk like that? That's another thing you need to guard. Like the way you talk, the way you speak, like we have to, yeah. And just it's just the closer you get to Jesus, the more that stuff just becomes gross to you. And there's been times where I fall.

and back and I've watched certain things and I, you know, get a little crazy with the music. But yeah, I think as a, it's, I think I, I don't know, but it's hard as a human being not to feel lustful at times and not to have thoughts. And so I have to guard my mind extra, you know. A hundred percent. I mean, dog, look at David and Bathsheba. No, seriously. I'm being serious. David, sweet. David saw Bathsheba bathing and a homeboy gave up every like he threw it all out the window because of what his eyes saw. I don't want to see nothing that puts me in a position like that. And seriously, I know we're kidding. But like, and it's not even just about lust. It's about anything. It's about

anything comparison. You're on social media and you're looking at things and you're looking at their life, their relationship, their job, their house. And then jealousy comes. up and covetedness and covenantness yes thank you are no seriously and all this stuff comes up and you start comparing yourself and you're tempted to compare and you're tempted to covet and you're tempted to do all these things because of what you're seeing and like you can't live in fear you can't live but to be aware that like at any moment the things that I'm seeing and the things that I'm watching are going to make me feel something that might not necessarily be the best thing. And it might not even be something sinful. You see somebody else on

Instagram gain a massive accomplishment or do a big thing or get the thing that you've always wanted. And you got to watch your heart because you can so quickly be tempted to be jealous or be competitive or be compares. Yeah, it's just like you just be aware. You just be aware. just be so, so aware. And even what I said about the eating disorder, like, imagine how quickly I was feeling so good, so solid, and just seeing one thing threw me off track really quickly. And I was like, that was crazy. You know, I see, like I said, can't see anybody kissing. Like, I literally can't see. Oh, this isn't. And this is another thing, too. I think this is what obviously like modesty has been a journey and we've yeah like when we've

started of Girls Gone Bible there was pick like ways in which we posted and dressed and all the things that were not honoring to God and it's been the biggest blessing of our lives to walk this journey of like truly honoring God with everything we are everything we wear everything we post and I think I always do like a double, triple check when I'm posting on Instagram, because I think I hit a point at one point, I remember when I first started walking with Jesus and I heard like you don't want to make a brother stumble, right? We all are like, but it's their responsibility. It's their, like they should be able to control themselves, which, yes, that's not absolving them of the responsibility of controlling themselves and not lusting over a woman. However, God makes it so clear,

to not make a brother stumble, I think about like when I post on Instagram, like the idea of like genuinely making a brother stumble is so sad. And I know that might sound weird, but like making a guy feel something that dishonors God and being a part of that is so sad to me. And so like I even think about women. I never want a woman to be afraid of her husband,

like going to my Instagram. page you know um because i know um because i know that like men are so susceptible to like they can't they should not see things that they shouldn't be seeing does that make sense so it's just it's so imperative that we're so careful with what we watch what we see here gates eye gates yeah like i said we want to do we want to honor god behind the scene is brought to you by BetterHelp. All right, guys, let's talk about this season for a second. The days get shorter.

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Because you're going to be sick to anything that grieves the spirit. And that's a really good thing. Yeah. So it's a beautiful thing. So, guys, if anybody is making you feel stupid, because I know how, that's a whole other thing, by the way, when you come from the world and you have a bunch of worldly friends and then you start following Jesus and they're kind of making fun of you and saying oh gosh you're so dramatic you're you're such a Christian yeah I think I probably did that to you a couple times

I was so good are but um you know he called us not to not to be like the world's preach he called us not to be like the worlds it's just living a life empowered by the spirit you don't have to be like nervous you don't have to be scared truly you have not been given a spirit of fear but of power of love and of a sound mind the spirit empowers you fills you with love and then gives you a sound mind to where you don't have to be afraid because the holy spirit inside you leads you to the places you should go and away from the things that you shouldn't be engaging in and like i just think um like you said holiness purity For the love of God, if you are a GGB gang member, you guys, being pure is the coolest thing in the world.

It truly is. Like, you should have a value for purity that is so, so high and more important than anything in your life. Purity in what you see, what you put your hands to and in your heart, the motives of your heart. Like, to be, to pursue a life of purity and a life of holiness is not only the call of God on our lives, but it's the best and it's beautiful and to feel clean. To feel like you are glorifying God, to feel like you are turning away from things, even if they're not a big deal. It's just, it feels so good. Every time I make a decision to be like, that's probably not best for me. I actually don't need to see that.

I don't want to – I've been on social media for too long. I think I'm going to get off. It's just so empowering. Well, do you know what it does? Yeah. When God says the peer and heart will see God. Exactly. When you are living and just holiness, whenever I'm really guarding my eyes and I'm living in that, living purely, the way I can hear God, the way I can see God, the way I can, it's insane. Like, the way I can, there's a closeness you have to him when you're walking in true holiness. It is so true. Yeah. It is so true. You are absolutely right.

Something Kulianos always says, he's like, purify the eyes of our soul so that Jesus would be our greatest vision. Like we see with our eyes and then we see with our spiritual eyes. Our physical eyes need to be pure and our spiritual eyes need to be pure. And they're connected. They're so connected. I want to see Jesus above everything else. And I know that impurity dilutes my vision of him. I can't see him.

I'm like, where are you? If we're sitting here, taking on, numbing out on social media, digesting all this stuff, like this nasty stuff on television, music, all these music, like degrading, like all this stuff, how can we be pure in heart and really see God and hear God? You can't. I remind myself of that when I'm numbing out, looking at just weird stuff on something like big,

women. Oh, Lord, I'm like, no, but that's... Can I be honest? You can't say that. No, but I'm serious. They're not real people, are you? No, but one thing, no, listen. Yeah, I'm listening.

Hold me to this. Okay. I want to study scripture. We should be studying scripture more than we're scrolling on the phone. It's okay sometimes to just, like, want to scroll. Let's try to study scripture and be in the Bible more than more on our phones. What's the scripture you got? I just wanted to read this little part from Job, all right?

You love Job. You know I love Job. You love Job. At the end of Job, he said. Ari goes through Eric. Well, I do it too. I'm sitting here talking about Saul and David for the past three months. I love this moment in Job 31.

I love the idea of setting boundaries. Setting boundaries are beautiful. Boundaries for purity. Boundaries for what you see. boundaries for the way you engage in social media, so important. And what I think is so important for everybody is to decide what type of life you want to live and what type of things you want to engage in, what type of videos, movies, things you want to see. Like truly, like setting a boundary means making a decision that this isn't good for me and I don't need this.

Job chapter 31 verse 1, I made a covenant with my eyes. not to look lustfully at a young woman. And I love this so much because Job sets a boundary to be proactive and resisting temptation. So he sets the boundary before the young woman ever comes. He doesn't wait until it happens that he's faced with the temptation. He decides beforehand, like, I don't, I know who I want to be. I know what type of things I want to engage in. And this is a boundary that I'm setting. And I wrote down that it was about purity and self-discipline. Those are my two favorite words, purity and self-discipline. Like, understanding that sin begins so often with what we look at, like so much of what happens to us, the sin that we engage in, like, the darkness that we involve ourselves in begins with what we see.

And then we get an idea, and then it's enticing. Like, it's just, yeah, it sounds vague, but I feel like it applies to literally every little area. I have had moments of seeing a girl who's so thin on social media and then decide that I'm going to go on a fast. Girl, God, Jesus did not tell you to go on that fast. Liar. You know what I mean? Wait, what? Oh, I'm so good.

I didn't get that joke. That's okay. Nobody probably did. Wait, because they're eating? yeah because the devil told you to fast so you wouldn't eat yeah yeah okay like like or i got the idea i saw a girl that was thin and then i'm like oh i should fast that i but it came from what i saw you know what i mean yeah and then i love this reflects what jesus later teaches in matthew 528 anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart

anybody who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery in his heart so job way before jesus ever teaches this says i will not look lustfully at a young woman and way later jesus comes along and says hey if you look at a woman lustfully you've already committed adultery which i think is just so crazy and jove valued purity he makes this covenant with god which is a sacred promise because he values purity and he's like this is what matters It matters to God, so it matters to me. That's the type of life that you're meant to live as a Christian. If it matters to God, it has to matter to me.

That's how I truly base my whole. That's why scripture is the most important thing to me in the world. It is the infallible word of God. It is the most authoritative thing that we have in faith. Even Jesus submits to the word. So technically the word is above Jesus. Isn't that crazy? So God honors His Word.

so I'm going to honor his word. God honors holiness. I'm going to, I'm going to value it as well. I'm going to honor and value purity as well because that's what he cares about. And so I think that is like what a true life of being empowered by the spirit is, is that you choose to love the things that God loves. You know? Yeah. And I love this too because Job's decision wasn't about public perception. It wasn't about other people. Nobody else saw the covenant that he made with God. Yeah.

It wasn't that he was trying to look good to people or be righteous or any of those things. It was between him and God because he knows that God sees everything. And nothing has put the fear of God in me more than knowing that he sees everything. Can you get away with things? Yes. But no, you actually can't. Because the only person that actually matters that you're truly responsible and accountable to, is God. And there's nothing that you can do that he won't see. And that's not in a fearful way.

It's in a reverent way of like, I'm going to live my life. That is the fear of God. Yes, because I love you and you're watching and you care. Every move I make matters to you. Not because you're going to punish me and you're angry with me, but because you think so highly of me. Like God thinks highly of us. He thinks we're amazing. He thinks we are capable. He thinks by his spirit there's nothing we can do. So it breaks his heart to see us fall short, you know?

And then we read this scripture earlier that it's Matthew 622 to 23, the eyes the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. Oh, that's crazy. Again, the eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. Doesn't it feel like that now that you're on the other side? Yes.

That when you consume with all that stuff, it just feels, you don't feel good. You don't feel good. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness? And just to break it down, the eye is the lamp of the body. So what you focus on and look at determines what fills your heart and mind. Your eyes are like windows. Either they let in light or darkness. And for some people, that might be just like, oh, that is so annoying.

It's so true. That's right. Like everything that you are is determined by what you take in with your eyes. And then if your eyes are healthy, which means that if you're focused on things that are pure, godly, and true, your whole being will be filled with light. Yeah, yeah. If you focus on the things of God, you will be a keeper of light. Your entire being will be a keeper of light so that others may find it. Yeah.

And then if your eyes are unhealthy, so if you fix your gaze on sin, greed, lust or envy, that darkness will fill your inner light. Pride, negatively, jealousy, lustfulness. If you're someone who's chronically negative, can we talk about that? Depression. Yes, guys. And obviously clinical mental health struggles are a different situation, and we're not talking about that. But just like an overall pessimistic, cynical, negative outlook on life or you're just looking for something to be wrong all the time, of course your life is going to be filled with darkness. I think I value joy so much.

I value positivity so much Jesus did not die on the cross for me to be miserable for me to be negative for me to look further to be something wrong you know I like you really will know them by their fruit

and like being negative is just not a fruit of the spirit and so if you're walking around and you're chronically negative and you're just living with that something's not right of course something's not right

you've got to make a change you've got to bring it to jesus you've got to go to therapy you've got to figure it out the more negative you are the like you will always be in the pit yeah let me read something yeah first john two verse six whoever claims to live in him must live as jesus did if jesus came down in human form and lived a perfect life sinless and holiness that is our goal to be like Jesus. And so we are to live like Jesus. We are to live like Jesus. Yes. And so yeah, it's not not a suggestion. It's something we have to strive to do every single day. And I know that sometimes the pruning process isn't easy. Yeah. You fall and you get back up. But Jesus really is so patient and he's got so much grace and he sees you and he deals with you and processes and he loves you so much

and again like we say this we're so far from perfect but it's just been the greatest it's been the greatest honor of our life to live in and impurity and holiness and to just get rid of all that junk get rid of it the world looks so appetizing but boy we lived of it and we we want we don't want you guys to make the same mistakes that we did so get out of it yeah cut it out and just protect your eyes protect what you're watching if you are like us and you came from the world and you struggle maybe with like wanting to go back to your old lifestyle or like you see people having fun and you're like oh I want to drink again I want to smoke again I want to do these things and like you're seeing people on social media maybe you need to

mute those people for a little while, if it's tempting you, if it's pulling you back into a place that you don't want to go. For me, even, I know for me, like, I don't want to see girls dressing provocatively because it could make me feel like, oh, I would love, like, if I could wear something like that. Yeah, no, it's true. Yeah. You start going back there a little and you're like, oh, maybe I can do that. Yeah, I mean, and, yeah, of course. You, you, you know, you, you're You'll start to justify. You'll start to say, oh, look, these people are doing it. It's not even that bad.

Even TV shows, you'll watch. You'll be like, oh, wait, that's, it's fine, right? Yeah. So, and again, not to live in fear, but to be empowered by the Holy Spirit. So you can start praying for yourself, Lord. Help me protect my eyes. Help me know what, convict me, and help me know what I should watch, what I shouldn't watch at all times of the day.

Let my eyes truly be a lamp into my eyes. my soul and let my whole being be flooded with light because of what I watch. Lord, like, keep me away from anything that brings darkness into my life. And that's even more of a reason to really make sure that you have mornings because it is so hard with lust, with the world, with social media, like to sit in that time in the morning and pray for that protection over my mind, protection over my eyes. It really is crucial. Yeah.

so good my favorite scripture the peace that surpasses all understanding will guard your heart and mind in christ jesus i love thinking about and this isn't even for like temptation but like if i'm struggling with my thoughts if i'm struggling with um anxiety or ocd ruminating thoughts i pray lord i receive the peace of god that surpasses understanding because right now it's guarding my heart and my mind in Christ Jesus. That's beautiful. Guard my heart and mind. Like it is God's job and the delight of his life to guard our hearts and minds. You know, we're not in this alone.

We're not meant to put a barricade on our eyes. We're not meant to put a barricade on our eyes. And God's like fend for yourself and you better figure it out. He is actively guarding our hearts and minds. We're in partnership with us. You know, we also have choices we can make. but to ask him every day, Lord, purify the eyes of my soul that I would see Jesus rightly, purify my physical eyes so that I can see Jesus rightly, and just keep me pure, purify me.

Search my heart, O Lord. Search my heart, O'Lour. I love you. I love you. We love you so much, you guys, where your aunties in Christ. We love being your aunties and Christ. We love you guys so much. May the Lord bless you and keep you.

May he make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May he turn his face towards you and give you peace. We love you. Shalom, shalom. Sorry.