Girls Gone Bible - The Prayers That Saved Us | Girls Gone Bible

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

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Hey guys, I'm Ange and I'm Ari and this is Girls Gone Bible. We're a faith-based podcast where we talk all things, spirituality, mental health, relationships, most of all, we talk about the Bible. We love reading the Bible because we love Jesus. And we always say, come as you are. Just don't stay that way. You're welcome here no matter who you are, where you come from, what beliefs you have. Yeah, we want you to come here and feel really safe. to discover the love of Jesus because he will absolutely transform your life. Anything you're facing, God can redeem, restore, rescue and we know that because he did it in our lives. So

what's up, Ar? What's up, Vange? We released an episode last week that was an older one that we had filmed months prior. But this is the week back from obviously the death of Charlie Kirk and just

even the stabbing of that beautiful girl on the train and just all the horrific evil that's been happening, the school shootings. There's just been so much going on. And Jan and I are both just, we've just been grieving this week. And I'm sure all of us are just, the world is just so heavy right now. The things that we're being exposed to, online we're seeing everything like we're in front of our eyes and so if you're anything like us which I know you guys are you're just you have a heaviness you feel scared you're tired you can't get out of bed and of course you can't it's heavy right now and the things that we are being exposed to when we have to see and the evil is just it's it's too much to bear and then on top of it you know

we're grieving for the families and Charlie's wife and it's too much. Yeah. It's too much. Yeah. Yeah, it's just such a weird time right now with the internet and like how exposed we are, like you said to everything. And we just obviously first and foremost want to say like we just really truly bless Charlie's family. his wife Erica, his two children, we mourn with them, we grieve with them, and we stand in the gap

for them and pray for them like everybody should be doing really all you can do during a time like this is pray your absolute heart out for anybody and everybody. And yeah, I just think, like Ari said there's a lot of stuff that goes on every single day that we're not even aware of is taking place and it's so devastating and it's so scary I know I've experienced I've been tempted to lean into fear a lot because it's just unexplainable the evil that takes place I think I felt really confused, really angry. And, but what I've really realized more than anything truly is that, like, we have to pray for unbelievers.

We have to pray that everybody on earth would come to know Jesus. It's literally the only answer. Fighting people, arguing, like, nothing, there's no answer other than Jesus. It's literally just praying that everybody would experience the love of Jesus because it's the only way to. extinguish evil period it's literally the only way that everybody on earth every pair of eyes would open up to the truth of jesus yeah that's all i know like that's literally all i know yeah and a time where you could mock evil and be angry and just sit and you know even write comments

online and be enrage like we have to be the light yeah and we have to be the light yeah and we have have to be the family that says send us and we have to be in unity and it it is so beautiful seeing everybody come together in prayer and it's just it really is beautiful i've been seeing it so much everyone coming together they're doing their little worship and praying for the families and Erica and it's awful and if you've been through grief you can only imagine what these with the wife and the babies and the families are all enduring it's it's brutal and so i just say like i wrote on my instagram story the other day but it was even comforting to me to even spill out and say that like if because i spent i couldn't get out of my bed for literally three days like

i was so tired i my heart was just and it's just the world right now so if you're anxious if you can't get out of bed if you're just trying to get through the day right now. Like we want to let you know that that's okay. Yeah. Like it really is okay. And it's normal and it's normal to feel anxious. It's normal to be scared. It's normal to be so grieve that you can't even get your head off the pillow. Yeah, totally. We're seeing and being exposed just so much right now. And I just, we want to let you know that it's okay and it's normal. And it's going to take a little bit to get back to normal. Yeah. And so let your heart grieve and we're all in this together. And we just have to be a family and we have to be um we have to be people who who are like Jesus who send out love and

be like you said relentlessly pray and be kind and and and be people that people look at and say they have something they have they have something special in them like we have to carry the light especially right now in this darkness exactly so that's that's our job right now and I I know that's hard, but we are to be the light and to stick together and be a family. Yeah. And one other thing I would add is, and this might, I don't know, Pete, maybe not everybody would agree with this, but I believe it wholeheartedly that like you don't have to read and watch every single thing that's online.

Your other job, along with what Ari said, is to protect yourself, to protect your mind. and that doesn't mean bear your head in the sand and not be aware of what's going on in the world but you are allowed to log off the internet and stop looking because I think I even felt a level of guilt getting offline

because I felt like I should be watching the news and everything happening every five seconds and I'm like this isn't good for me yeah it's too much for your brain it's too much So I just want to give everybody permission to get off of TikTok, to get off of Instagram, to get off of the articles. I know it's very like you want to know what's you want to read everything.

You want it's like very in a weird way. It's like addicting. It's enticing. Like you want it's not good for your brain. So like just protect yourself and understand like you are allowed to protect yourself because that's that's what matters. That's what really matters is that you protect yourself and protect your mind. let Jesus guard your mind during this time and just pray. And what I've seen, with every pastor, with every leader that I respect, they're all

preaching the same thing right now. And it's urgency. It is, this is not the time for lukewarm Christianity. If there's ever been a time to go completely all in with Jesus and stop being one foot in, one foot out, it's today. If there's ever been a time to get rid of this. idea that there's like relaxed chill Christianity, it doesn't, there doesn't exist because we are seeing the evil that exists in our world right before our eyes. And we haven't even

seen this much of it. That's the scary, but it's not scary. We haven't even seen this much of it. But our job is to be so on fire and so on mission that everywhere we go, we're telling people about Jesus. Like this is like this is the urgency that we're meant to be living with that we walk along the sidewalk and see someone and know that this person might be really struggling or going through something and you have no idea where they might end up in life. Go get them. Yeah. You know what I mean? Ministry doesn't need a microphone. Somebody said that and I was like, yes, we need oil in our cops. Like we need to be ready. We need to be prepared, especially seeing what just happened. Like it's time to to get.

get right. Yeah, exactly. I love that you said that. Yeah. And don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Read the word, know who God is, read the Old Testament, read about who the Lord is throughout the entire Old Testament, who he is as a protector, a provider, a defender, and how many times he tells us, do not be afraid. That's the call of God on our lives, is not to be afraid. So, So, yeah, we say all that to say that we're with you guys. I don't think as believers, we've all probably felt more unified than right now. And I'm grateful for that. I feel unified with you.

I feel unified with leaders and pastors and other believers all across the world. Like, we're all one right now. I agree. You know? I really agree with that. Yeah. Yeah, we need Jesus. But if you guys could just.

If you guys could take this next week, honestly, it was a heavy week. Try and do something that's light. Go to the beach. I'm not kidding. I'm going to just like go to the beach. Like try to relax. I love that you say get off Instagram. Get off.

Go, just go rest your mind right now. You need to do things that bring you joy right now. Grief is like, you want to read your thing? It's so heavy. Yeah. I wrote something this past couple days when I was in the whole grief thing and just feeling everybody's grief and anxiety. And I just wrote something like a little poem. Grief aches like a wound that never closes. A constant throb that whispers. It will never go away. Anxiety coils around your chest. Thoughts spiraling, unbearable. Each one louder than the last.

the pain is relentless a storm that does not pass denial grips you this cannot be my life you find yourself on the bathroom floor too weak to rise too broken to breathe wondering if you'll ever stand again and the weight of it all presses you into the ground too heavy to bear too much to survive but then a presence in the dust Jesus kneels beside you not disgusted by your ruin not afraid of your rage he places his hands on your shoulder and your storm does not scare him. He lifts you piece by piece from the floor of your sorrow. He takes your pain and bends it into purpose. He takes your wounds and plants seeds of glory within them. Through grief, he shines. Through your cracks, his light spills. The darkness that devoured you becomes the canvas of his redemption.

And you rise not by your strength, but by his. yet even as you rise he does not rush you He sits with you in the ashes He holds you in the silence And loves you when you feel unlovable Your grief is not too much for him It is the very place he chooses to show his heart For what the enemy meant for evil

God has meant for good Not only for you but for the saving of many lives Because through your grief Others will find comfort Through your story others will find hope and through your pain others will see his glory wow wow wow wow that is a couple of thoughts yeah it's true so hope that makes you guys feel a little bit better and carries you through yeah one last thing I swear last thing I'm committing every single day and I want you guys to hold me accountable to pray

for unbelievers like I don't pray that like I don't cry out to God every day and say, God, like, sweep across the globe and save every believer or save every human that's alive right now. You know what I mean? Like, I don't, I don't pray that. I pray very close prayers. Like, people, there is, like, a world beyond the people that we know. And, like, we can pray for them. So you can pray for the people in your city, in your school, in your nation, in other nations, ask God, Lord, is there like a nation you've called me to pray for? I personally feel called to pray for the Middle East. I haven't started doing that yet. Why? I feel it. I know I'm supposed to, and I haven't started. And so I just think we can

all start praying for unbelievers and for like regions and like specific places. God, save every person in Boston. You know what I mean? Save everyone on the Northeast. It's just let's all do that together. And if you feel called to pray for a certain city, you can just do that or you can comment it if you want it and we can all just do this together because I think that's like, that's the most beneficial thing we can do right now. Let's all come together and let's be in relentless prayer. Yeah. Charlie was just such a, he was such a incredible man of God. He was an incredible husband, father, and just a, solid man of faith really loved his family really loved his wife and he really loves his kids

you know what I always said about Charlie I always said I every time like someone would say like what kind of guy do you want I said I want a Charlie because he just he was he represented a provider

like he like marriage and children were at the top where her name would were his number one priority. He was like being a father and a husband and he was 31 years old. And this, like, for a 31 year old

man to be like, that is the most precious thing in this life. And that's what he always said in his videos to men. And I just loved how he was such a voice to men to be like, get married and have a family. It's the most important and precious thing you'll ever do.

And so, yeah, we just honor him. And we just honor him. we dedicate this episode to him. All right, guys, we're sorry to interrupt this episode. We just want to remind you guys that we're on the Girls Gone Bible Live Tour. Tell them about tour. It's the best thing ever. We get to be face to face with you guys.

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Honestly, I'm going to think about it. I might put a picture up here. Please do you have to, right? I mean, my eye, it looked like I had a child growing out of the lid. I mean, it was something I've never. It looked like my eye was having a baby. It was. And, yeah.

So she had a sty slash a chelze, something that's her to see. Chezillion or something like that. I thought it was a sty. The doctor gave me oi men. He said it'll be gone by three days. I wake up three, four days later. I can't see. I said, we're going to all have to wear pirate patches at the show because you said, I can't wear makeup on it.

And I said, I will go on stage with only one eyelash on with you. I said, and I'm cock-eyed. And there's pus coming out down my cheek. And I said, okay, we're not. So we basically had to cancel the first two nights of tour. So we're so sorry to anybody who is affected by that. We've already rescheduled those dates. I was dwelling for freaking a week.

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Yeah, we're going to just hang out with our friends, and we want to tell you stuff that you may not know about us yet. Tell us about Grandma Dula. No, no, no, me first. please. Oh, I'm not going first. You won't even pay me. Oh, no.

We're talking about Grandma Dula. I don't even... Who's Grandma Dula? Her name's Nannadaya. Oh, my gosh. I apologize, Nanny. No, it's okay. I'm sorry, Mom.

Tell me about Nana Daya. Nana Daya is my mom's mom. And so a lot of people don't know this. But I come from a really long line of great women. Very strong women. strong warrior Albanian women my mom is one of the

most resilient tough as nails strongest smartest quickest woman I know and her mom was so strong and so warrior-like and so tough

mine on Adaya had like five heart attacks throughout her life survived them all she just like got right up and she was like a little lady you're like a 4-11, like beating on her chat being like, come, come at me. She was super small. 4-11. Do you mean 5-11?

4-11. Yeah. She was a petite little lady and she was just a force. Like she was a lion. She beat every heart attack. She beat every heart attack. She lived until she was in her 90s. And she was just the best mom in the

world. The best mom, the best grandma. I miss her so much. And she's like, she's my mom's mom's mom. Yeah. You know? And so, I just have such a special relationship with my mom, and I had such a special relationship with my mom's mom. So you were how old when she passed? I think I was 16 or, you're young.

Yeah, or no, I think I was already in college, so I must have been 18 or 19. I think before I was 20. Grandma's, let me just say, grandmas are everything. Everything, because they love you, like your parents. Yeah, but more. But they don't discipline you like your parents. So it's just the best relationship. I miss.

So you said, when you said nanadoya. Nanadoya. Nanadoya. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay. And then what did you call your grandfather? Babadisha.

Babadusha? Yeah. I love that. I love him too. He's passed. He passed too, yeah. He lived until his 90s, too. So they both lived really rich, long lives, really, and, you know, left to Albania.

through all the things that my parents said. But anyways, I say all this to say, there's just so much power in praying for your children, for your children's children. And I feel like oftentimes when we pray, we want to see instant results. But you have no idea what praying for a baby does for their lives. You have no idea how God answers those prayers

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and it's crazy because it's just such a major. part of my life. My mom grew up in, and my dad, both grew up in communist Albania. And during this time, I want to read this because it's so crazy, between 1960 and 1990, Albania went through one of the harshest anti-religious campaigns in the world. In 1967, Enverhoja's communist regime declared Albania the world's first atheist state. Oh my gosh. Albania?

Albania. Yeah. Wow. All churches, so the leader declared Albania the world's first atheist state and said no one's allowed to, it's control. Wow. And so no one's allowed to practice religion. In what year? This was in 1967, three years after my mom's born. All churches, mosques, and other religious buildings were closed, destroyed, or turned into secular spaces, such as warehouses, gyms, theaters.

So my mom growing up, my mom didn't go, get stuff. step into a church until after my first brother, my oldest brother was born. So she was at least 24. And still living, and not living in Albania. She was living in Albania. Yeah. How could they have Albania and churches if it was atheist? They didn't have Albanian churches. So no churches, they didn't practice religion. So any churches or mosques, they would be turned, like my mom said that she would go into a church and it would be like a playground. Like, they would be playing basketball. Wow. So you weren't allowed to practice religion. And then it said that, priests and other religious leaders were arrested, imprisoned, or even executed.

Oh, my gosh. Isn't that insane? My mom was alive this whole time. Like, it was not that long ago. This is what happens in the church and other places. Like, by the way, this happens today, today. Yeah. Not in America, but in other places in the world and we're so unaware.

You weren't allowed to own a Bible across a prayer book. Like, you were not allowed to have any of that. The government promoted atheism through schools, media, and youth organizations. So, like, even there was propaganda. So, like, every messaging that you heard was God does not exist. God does not exist. Like, it's a, like, even in America, like, you see media, Hollywood. Like, the messaging that they send is all propaganda trying to get you to believe a specific message.

That's what they did. Teaching that religion was backward and against socialism. So crazy. Anyways, only after the fall of communism in 1990, 1991, four years before I was born, uh, were Albanians allowed, no, six years before I was born, were Albanians allowed to practice religion freely again. And many churches and mosques were rebuilt or reopened. So that's like, even what my mom and her mom had to go through to love Jesus and worship Jesus. Like, we just, like, we're not even aware of the sacrifices that.

that were made before we were ever born for us to be able to freely love Jesus today, you know? And like even before my family, like the millions of people who died for the gospel, who gave their life, who were imprisoned for the gospel, you read the New Testament, all the disciples who literally gave up their lives so that the gospel would reach the ends of the earth.

It's just so crazy to think about. And then so my grandma taught, My mom about Jesus and my mom's siblings and the whole family taught her about Jesus in the privacy of their own home, would teach her how to do the sign of the cross, would teach her our father, would teach her Hail Mary, like, she never went to Catholic Mass. She never went to church. She never experienced religion. But my grandma told her about Jesus and like would teach her who Jesus is and about like there's a God. His name is Jesus. He died on a cross. And so, like, that's where my, so if you look at my mom, my mom has one of the most special faiths I think I've ever seen. My mom says what most Catholics say, and it's my favorite thing. She goes, I was born Catholic and I will die Catholic. It's my favorite thing she says. And she is the most spirit-filled woman.

She literally is such a presence person. You guys, my mom closes her eyes and goes, he's here he's here you'll see my mom throughout the day just in the corner there's a crucifix on the wall

and she just has her hand on Jesus she's just like hang it out and she's so like you see my mom she'll go to these meetings where it's just like the power of God

is in the room people are getting healed demons are being delivered like it's like so hyper spiritual power of God and my mom is like

she grew up Catholic, she didn't have these things, but she's so open to the gifts of the Spirit. Like, she's so open to, like, the power of the Holy Spirit. And I just think her faith is so interesting to me because she's so open because her faith was never established in, like, some sort of religious environment. Like, it was just, like, I believe in Jesus. Yeah. You know?

Yeah. So really cool. And then I just, like, I love, yeah, I've just always wanted to talk about my grandma, Nunadaya, because she's the reason why I'm here. She's the reason why I'm alive. And would she pray with you when you were a bait when you were little? I mean, you were 16, but. Well, I remember she would always tell me about Jesus in Albania.

She would always, I didn't have ears to hear then, certainly. Like, I didn't get it. But she would talk to me about Jesus. But she would always, like, she would, it was so innocent. It was so tender. She'd be like, like, call on Jesus. Jesus will help you. And did you ever?

Are you like, did you even think about it? it are so what's weird about my journey is i always talked to jesus because i eastern european culture it's like very interesting i've been like trying to put the pieces together myself and and because eastern european culture where i come from is a lot of there's a lot of, I mean, in all of Eastern Europe, not just Albania, there's like magic, there's white magic, there's like, they read cards, they read cups, there's like... Toler's in Massachusetts. Yeah, it looks like a lot of new age, it's new age spirituality. It's like psychics and

mediums and all these different things and using spiritual power outside of like the authority given to us by Jesus. it's a lot of that and so growing up in albanian culture what i perceive it was kind of like a very mystical spirituality so it was jesus but it was like mystical jesus like jesus like jesus like jesus will save you and change everything so it's like real like but do you know that what i'm trying to say yeah it was like like the charismatic right charismatic but a little too much like not grounded in biblical theology you know what i mean so that's the issue it was like very much like out there yeah and it wasn't grounded okay and it was yeah it wasn't like they don't teach you like

obey jesus because you love him it's more so like call on jesus because he'll save you which is beautiful so that was my theology was like call on jesus because he'll help you in hard times, but that's it. I don't have to do anything for him. I don't have to be anything. Like, I can live my life. There is no such thing as purity or holy. I didn't even know what those things were. But yeah, my grandma would tell me, call on Jesus. And I remember my family has always suffered through a lot of crisis and just a bunch of things. And I remember my grandma would always call out, like in times of distress, just like what my mom did. She would call out like, Jesus

Jesus No, she would say this In Albanian Uncom Christian I have Jesus and she would like never be rocked by anything She was the most faith-filled woman

And she would just And so my mom today goes Uncom Christian I have Jesus So I say all that to say Thank you Jesus for my mom Thank you Jesus for Nanadaya Who are the reasons why

I'm sitting here today a faith-filled woman and all her prayers are why you're sitting here right now. Yeah. And she planted the seed for you. Yeah. And guess what? It took a long time. It doesn't matter.

It took a long time for anything to bloom. I bet you heard her, I met you heard Nana Doya's voice saying, call on Jesus. Yeah. Seriously. Like you remember that. At the time, isn't it funny how, like, people can say soft to us and it doesn't have a mark on us in the time, but then it's like God will remind us of that. That's literally what planting a seed is.

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and see how much you could save. That's policygenius.com slash GGB. It is interesting how, gosh, what you model your children, what you model your children's children, like they pick up everything and guess what they become like you. Like the faith that my grandma had of being, I have Jesus in hard times. My mom, my whole life in the worst. I have seen my mom in some really bad situations throughout my life. And all I hear out of her mouth is I have Jesus.

And guess what I say today? I have Jesus. It's that simple. Like they become you. They take after you. They believe what you believe. So, yeah, it's so important what we model to our kids, what we model to our grandkids. And by the way, I might not have kids yet, but I know one thing, they hear everything.

Everything. From a very young age. I think our parents' generation, we're very much under the impression that they're just kids. They don't. Right. Yeah. They don't get it. They don't hear us, whatever.

We heard everything. Our kids will hear everything. It's crazy. All right. we are we just have to be you have to be so care i can't imagine what it's like being a parent i truly can't it's your i can't it's like you're the day that baby comes out your whole life is like protecting this child watching what you say i just i can't imagine the responsibility of being a mother or father it's it's a but yeah it's the biggest responsibility

responsibility you'll ever. You shape them. It's your job. It's your job to make sure that they turn out. I was talking to Bobby, and he said that to me yesterday. You said, just know, the minute that baby comes out, your whole life is that, that child is your entire life. I can't wait. Yeah.

So crazy. I can't wait. I know. Loosh. You do loosh. You do a luge. We do looge. All right.

I think you're going to. I think so, too. You do? Every time, every time I have a meal. A meal? I wake up every day and I put my hands on my body like this and I say I bless my body to eat today. I bless my body to be full today. I bless my body to be nourished today because I'm going to have a child who's going to first of all have to be in this body and this body needs to be healthy for me to carry her. And then she's going to come out and she's going to watch everything I do. And if I'm being weird about food and not letting my body be blessed by the food I eat, like I am going to curse my daughter with that. So literally, it's like having children has been the driving motivation for me and getting healing

in like every area of my life. And you're going to be the best mom and the healthiest. I love you. I can't wait to be an auntie. I can't wait for, I can't wait to be an auntie for us kids. I can't be the best aunts. I can't wait. You're going to have a whole army kids. I can't wait.

I can't wait to be an aunt to your kids. Anyways. What about you? Yeah, I have my, my Nan's sister, my auntie Barbara, she is, oh man, she's like the most devout Catholic. Her whole life has been devoted to the church since I was just a baby. I talked about her a little bit, but her whole life is just, she's given her whole life to others. She helps. She's your dad's mom or her sister? She's my grandmother's sister. Okay. My auntie Barbara. Barbara. She's in her 80s and she probably looks like she's in her 50s.

Wow, that Jesus glow. She's just her whole life has been dedicated to others and helping people. people and all she would do is talk about Jesus. Is she Catholic? She's a, yeah, her whole life is to the Catholic church. Stop. Her whole life. I love it. Yeah.

And she always talked about Jesus. Always talked about Jesus. I just would watch her and I didn't understand. Did you think it was weird when you were younger or did you kind of like it? I think everybody. Did people think she was a little kooky? Yeah, a little. I love her.

I would just kind of like, you know, listen to her. I, she, it's just crazy how my life, I'm in ministry now. And so I talk to her, and now when we're together during the holidays, her and I are in a corner and we're just like, Jesus. And she has been praying for me all these years. And so now I just, that's why prayer, praying for her. And it's crazy. I love what you said about family members because I've been praying for,

three years for family members and now I see and I'm just like oh my gosh yeah and so you just don't stop praying even when you don't see it because he hears everything I was in line I was in line at Whole Foods the other day and I saw this kid and he just like he was different like he just had this energy and he was talking to everyone and he was like asking everyone questions and all these things and I'm like four people back and I'm just looking at him just like hearing how he's talking to everyone and he's brightening these people's days like this one guy didn't want to talk but he was like man you're just so like he's complimenting him and stuff and I'm just like I bet you that guy knows Jesus yeah right and so I get to the front and I'm like hey and he's

like how are you and I was like can I ask you something I'm like do you Are you a Christian or do you know Jesus? He goes, oh, you know I love Jesus. Yeah, it's my guy. And I was just like, this is who we have to. Oh, I love that. This is who we have to be like. Like this is, you want people to look at you and be like, there's something different

about that person. Oh. You want to carry that light like I was saying earlier. And so, yeah, when I think about my auntie barber, she just always carried the light at every family gathering where there would be so much darkness and she would be the light in our family. How did she, I'm just so curious, how did she relate to everybody else who wasn't a believer? Like, was it?

She just loved us. She just loved. Yeah. She loved and she prayed. And that's what we do, right? Yeah. She just loved and she prayed. That is so cute.

I'm obsessed with her. Yeah, my Anni Barbara. She would buy me little saint things all the time, St. Anthony things. But her planting that scene. yeah always talking about Jesus always praying for me I remembered that later I remember that later like so it's like yeah you have no idea what's taking place even if someone completely rejects your like proposal or invitation to Jesus are you talking about like it doesn't matter it doesn't actually you have no idea what God is doing with that them even hearing this much about Jesus this

much of the gospel. You have no idea, even seeing your kindness towards them. Like, see, feeling the love of Jesus through you to them. That did something. It opens something in there. We don't know how it works. There's mysteries to the kingdom. So we don't actually know, but something happens. That's why I love earlier how you said, like, let's all pray for the unbelievers and pray for each other because we may you know, have family members that can pray for us, right? Yeah. Yeah, I just think right now is the time to really be praying for each other because it works. It really, really works.

Gosh, it's so works. Plant that seed everywhere. I'm reading Jeremiah. I'm at the end, and all he did was weep for the people, cry out for the people, and God heard him every time. I honestly, it's hard at times because it's not like, it's not easy to read some of the things. Yeah, because it was like bar, it's hard for me sometimes to read about like the wrath of on people. It is. Like, it really is.

Like, I really do weep when I read it. But I think it was so, well, I know it was so barbaric back then. Yeah. Like people were just crazy. Like sometimes people would be like, well, why did God like destroy things? Like, if we knew how crazy it was back then, like it was, people were destroyed. destroying and raping each other and doing all this just barbaric stuff. And so they were all just turning against God.

But it is really hard to read. But I really love Jeremiah. I love him. He's a guy that just loves the people. He loves his people. That's how we have to be. We have to just love others. You know, when I took that 30-day month

off of Instagram. I've been reading through the Bible from the beginning for quite a while because I was like jumping back and forth, but I started reading Genesis. Now I'm in Kings. I was reading like six to ten chapters a day, literally because I didn't have Instagram, so it's all I, it's all I would do. And then because I was reading so much of the Bible, like what we all say, we preach it every day, but sometimes it doesn't become a reality again until you experience it yourself. Because I was reading so much of the Bible, all I wanted to do was read more of the Bible. I would be doing something, but I would be thinking about, I just read through first and second Samuel, and I would be thinking about Samuel and Saul and David, like, all the

time, all the time. It wasn't just like Bible stories that I was reading. I was like in that world with them. It became so real because, and I'm not saying you need to read 10 chapters a day, That's really hard. It's a lot of reading. But there is like so many challenges that you can do to get yourself reading a lot because when you read more than just one chapter a day and you read like through the Bible like that and you're reading so much, it all becomes a big story. So for me right now, like the Bible, the narrative of the Israelites and of God and

the Lord all the way in the New Old Testament, like it's an overarching story. like there's a storyline that I'm reading and it's not just like you know David and Bathsheba one day Ruth and Naomi another day like it's not just these little snippets it's like a full picture story that I'm getting and it's changed my life it is changing the way that I read the Bible when I was reading specifically like like eight chapters a day I would be like okay now I understand all of this as a full story and now I understand who God is like I understand the Bible better because I'm reading big chunks. Yeah. And I always thought that because I would do like one to two chapters a day and then I would listen to a comment. I would meditate. I would listen to a commentary and I would like break down the entire chapter. And I thought and that is really good, especially because we teach. However, reading so much of the Bible, reading all the way through, you don't have to read it out loud. You can and you don't have to remember everything. I don't remember everything. I don't remember. everything that I've read. But I know the Bible story as a full in full picture. I like to read. I like to read more too because I somehow forget. I'm like, I rather just read it through. You don't even

worry about remembering. Don't even worry about it. If you're going to seminary, that's different. Don't worry about remembering. Just worry about just like going all the way through. And the more you read the word, the more you want to read it. It's crazy. But anyways, I say that to say, I'm like, I feel so connected to God the Father right now. I've never loved God as Father more than I do now, reading the Old Testament. I used to love, I still love Jesus so much. But like, all I wanted was the Gospels. All I wanted was Romans.

I just wanted to hear about the blood of Jesus and the redemptive nature of Jesus. But like now reading the Old Testament, I'm obsessed with the Father. He is just and he brings judgment. But, like, there is a method to his, the way that he works. And it's because, like, he, God protects Israel. Israel is his baby. It's his bride. By the way, it's not modern day Israel.

It's Israel. We are the church. We are Israel. If you read the Old Testament, if you've been adopted into the family of Christ, like you are the Israel that God protects, delivers, redeems, and loves in the Old Testament. So God's whole purpose in the Old Testament, when he brings wrath and judgment, he's protecting Israel. Yeah. So it's like hard to understand because it's like he's protecting his bride.

And that's what he's actually doing for us today. So it's like, yeah, it's hard to understand. I'm still understanding. But it makes more sense when you realize like God's aim was to redeem Israel. Yeah. Because those are his people. Yeah. We are all his people.

We are all Israel. So anyways, yeah. I wish somebody could be a fly on the wall when I say some of the names. It is true. I'm like, are we said thither? I do the titha. Oh, I know. I'm like, just with a, sorry, does it.

Can you imagine how much he loves it when we're just trying our best? He's, tell us about your, what is it called? Tell us about your phone cleanse. oh she went on a 21 day has it's been 21 days right so i was going to do 21 days it ended up being over a month because i didn't ever want to go back um can you believe that guys my engagement tanked uh probably lost followers couldn't care less it's so crazy like i just don't want to be annoying about it because i don't know it's just why you're not guys i this people need to hear it the phone is the most social media is like sure a gift in so many

ways because we are on social media we talk about jesus on social media but it is one of the most poisonous toxic addictive things i've ever experienced in my life i took the 30 days off of Instagram. Like I said, I read so much of the Bible. I spent so much time with Jesus. You guys, I would be communing with the Holy Spirit throughout the day because I wasn't distracting myself. Imagine I heard this quote that's like most like profound world changing thoughts and ideas and moments of creativity are born out of boredom. It's when somebody's mind is completely empty so that they start imagining like they use their imagination when you're on your phone your imagination is not active you are completely absorbed like every single part of your brain

is like firing off because you're receiving so much information you don't have a moment to use your imagination like i believe that god speaks to us in our thoughts in our imagination he like downloads ideas and he's like he god is a creative genius and his desire is to create through us like you we're meant to partner with god in our creativity to make amazing things to make a cool podcast to write beautiful songs to do like amazing things he can't do that when we're in our phones um and i know that sounds really intense and really crazy but that's true and not to mention it Being on the phone, it fries your brain so bad that you're just, like, you're exhausted. Like, your eyes get heavy.

You're not the screen is. Imagine you're scrolling like this, and within five minutes, you have taken in so much information. It's not normal. It's not good for you. I get off for 30 days. I felt amazing. John specifically maybe 21 days in He was genuine and I was neat

And he said like it's not like you were on your phone too much Or it was like got in the way of anything He's like but I can't tell you how much I appreciate your presence Yeah wow wow And he was like can we figure out a way for you to go back on it That's not like how it was It was amazing it was really amazing And then I go to download Instagram after 30 days because I wanted to, I had to post something.

And I got on my, I'm not exaggerating you guys, my whole body fills with anxiety immediately. Immediately so much anxiety. And then I find myself very quickly with it. I was on it for maybe 10 minutes. I deleted off my phone. I go, I just got addicted to Instagram like I never left. You think that the 30 days would have been like, okay now I'm not as addicted not really within two minutes of being on it I was right back to where I

was so yeah I feel where you at now so now I'm thinking I might just have it on a different phone that uses Wi-Fi that's a great idea yeah I know we were doing that for a minute what happened I lost I lost that phone I'm devastated all my stuff all my photos I have no photos on this one it's probably better that way yeah I don't need that pass on my phone yeah get out of you I think you and I got new phones on purpose for that reason remember I did Ari and I wanted to yeah anyways we got any phone oversharing I am going to do and Ari's going to do it with me right oh when um well I'll do another fast with you

I know guys should we you know it's I love my Pinterest at night it's not even so much Instagram it's like I really TikTok and Instagram you're not on a lot she really knows how to blow it up huh you really know how to crack the case with that shirt huh I am not a lawyer it's just a caller who Pinterest is fine it is

I think I don't know why don't you just start with Instagram okay Ari's like an all or nothing type of person what do you mean like you're like either we're gonna go all the way in or all the way like that's how you are that is how i am you i am not an all or nothing person you are like i'm even i'm either going to eat five protein bars chocolate chip

from quest today are they're out yes yes yes yes yes yes but you also are like you're either like i am going to eat like a carrot cake every single day or i'm not going to even eat eggs because i know I haven't seen you with a carrot cake in a while I know but I'm slim it out You're looking good You're looking good My I like to eat

I really do And you know what I don't I don't like try to diet And sometimes I get a little heavy-handed On the cakes I do Anyways I hope you guys learn so much

what did we talk about i hope okay basically what we're trying to say is pray for your kids pray for people pray for everybody you have no idea how far your prayers go pray pray pray pray don't stop praying keep praying pray that people get saved pray that people come to know jesus god will honor those prayers they don't fall on deaf ears don't stop praying don't stop praying I don't know what that's all I thought you were going to say Don't stop

Believe it Oh let's go CJ Let's go to the feeling A little lower Okay, wait a embarrass me in front of my friends Go ahead Don't believe

Okay, you're off key Hold on to the feeling Why did your mouth do that Hold on to the You just like wiggle your tongue and it looked creepy man you're so creepy

you're so creepy when it passes 8 p.m. man You look creepy with that big boy I know you were creepy I do I still have

the style on my eyes you see it it's staring at my baby can you see it go like that yeah I'm gonna do a close up I hate taking antibiotics

it make me sick Yeah, and you didn't finish them, so now I was going to grow over again. You know, like... Your antibiotics. What is that? I know, I know. Remind me when we get home. Okay, clear the bubble in your throat. Yeah.

Gosh, this is the first day, I have to be honest. Like, oh, good, go. You are rude. You are very mean. Listen, this is the first day. This is the first day. This is the first day. I'm actually, like, laughing.

Good. This is nice. I hope you guys got a little laugh today. Guys, I love you so much. May the Lord bless you and truly keep you. May he make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May he turn his face towards you and give you peace. Shalom, shalom.