The Hope Hotline - The Hope Hotline - Names of God

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

The Hope Hotline - Names of God

real talk hello and welcome it is Friday and like I want to rub my eyes but I would wipe all my mascara off my mascara off and my eye shadow and go like, August 1st. I know. Like, am I seeing things correctly?

I just wrote that down. I just had to write the date down on some stuff. I was like, August 1st. It cannot be. It's nuts. We're, like, they say August is when they're going to be starting all of the fall coffee drinks. I think that's a little early. Pumpkin spices.

I think it's like August 20 something another. It's near the end of August. Right after school starts when everybody really needs a cup of coffee. Oh my gosh. Yeah, school starts in 11 days. Can you believe that? Kids must want to cry. It went by fast.

Yeah. This, I mean, if you're up north, it doesn't start until, you know, Labor Day weekend. Right after Labor Day, which I loved that. I think they go later though, don't they? No, we would get out. No, we didn't. I'd say to tell myself that. We'd start back in my day, my Gen Xer days.

You're a millennial, aren't you, Sarah? No. I am also Gen X. How dare you? Oh. I thought you were. But also, thank you. I thought you were way younger.

No, I was born in 78, so. So you're barely a Gen Xer. You're on the end, just like I am. I'm at the early side of it. I'm a couple years at the beginning. You're a couple years before the end. That makes sense. Best generation ever.

Ever. They didn't make them like, they broke the mold after us. They don't make them like us anymore. Neglect and hose water is what I say. Mm-hmm. And we were all right with that. Especially if you live in Florida with no air condition. Top that one.

That was me. middle of the state most people can't even do that but i but i'm different than you because i grew up in the 70s and the 70s were pretty awesome to grow up in as well as the 80s like i got to like my most pivotal years were in two of the greatest decades decades ever i mean 70s and 80s i don't care what anybody says they are music ever that's what i'm thinking 100% ever everybody pulls from those two decades a lot of times and those tracks always hit. Yep.

But oh my gosh. It's where a lot of the yacht rock is from. Oh, really? Like Christopher Cross. Christopher Cross. I love him. He maybe only had like four hits, but I don't care. Have you got off between the moon and New York City?

I literally want to drive down like some Malibu Road looking at the ocean on one side and the cliffs on the other one. I'm hearing that song. I don't care. Chaudet, same thing. You know you know, guys. If you know, you know.

So before we, the cameras came on, I was talking, me and the girls, it's really only, it's quiet on the set today. There's only a few of us in the production room or the podcast. It's three of us today, which is very unusual. And I think it's my first time with just Sarah by yourself with no other adults. we're the two adults in the room Sarah that's kind of scary I'm an adult not really I mean technically you're an adult you're still a teen ageer 19 you hit 20 let's talk

we call them fake adults and and and when that frontal lobe is fully developed then let's really talk what is that 25 uh huh I'm telling you I didn't even know about that frontal lobe at all but there is truth to it because I used to say before I knew about that I used to say like, man, I hit, I hit 25, and like, in sometime in 24, I started thinking, man, you're dumb. I thought it was 21 for girls and 25.

No, baby. Uh-uh. No, it's not. I would be like, man, you're stupid. How are you coming to this realization now? Like, you should have known that back when you read some really bad mistakes. Then you would have known, this is stupid, but I didn't, right? And then at 25, I was like, you.

you know nothing about nothing. You need help. Like, you need help. Which was great because then you start asking questions. Yeah. But before then, you just think you know it all. Like, even though you think you're smart making all these mistakes. Like, I literally remember saying to my dad, I'm, like, I think back on this, I'm like,

God, man, you're so stupid. But he would say to me, biblically speaking, the Bible says a wise person will take wise counsel from somebody who's already been there and if it didn't work for them it's probably not going to work for you and I'm like like you should learn from the older right I mean like I remember saying to him what just because it didn't work for you to mean it won't work for me I might have a different way that might work good luck and it's not like rocket this not like I was curing cancer and trying to do lab work and trying to do different scientific things to figure this is just like walking across the street and chewing gum at the same time yeah but that's the way of the

world i think isn't it like because my kids now are like oh mom you don't know anything i know it is the way of the world it is that's why train up a child in the way that it should go is super important if you understand that scripture correctly because you have a better chance of them tapping into what their calling is instead of sending them off to get their career which is where everybody goes wrong soon as they hit those college excuse me as soon as they hit the college life and stuff like that

or I didn't hit the college life but I acted like I was in college and you just act so stupid dumb but we were talking about life I'm going to answer these questions that have been sitting on my laptop

but it's just telling Sarah because and obviously Talia is involved in the conversation but Sarah and I were speaking specifically. But for both of us, life has thrown us some curves with family. And it's like life and death curves.

And like that's what's real. Yeah. That's what's real. And until it's on your doorstep, and I know that I was saying to her, I was like, I have questions. Today is names of God. What are all the names of God?

What do they mean? why so many different names and whoever wrote that question i am not bashing it at all i'm not and that that's biblically speaking those that's a really good question it's a really great understanding of what they are so that you can call upon them when you need them but i sat there and i said to sarah like more people will relate to if we just sat and didn't answer these questions and sat more and spoke more specifically to where things are at, not speaking specifically to our situations, but speaking about them in generalities,

more people would understand and get more out of that, I think, just because there are so many people have lived where we are or are living in what we're living in. Or have, it's already passed and when they did it, they didn't do it the right way. So they are still dealing with stuff. and it's so crazy how life's twist and turns and they take you in different places.

But still people have questions about this one thing and then questions about, I don't know, for me, it's just amazing how questions, questions, questions. But how do you deal with those things? And I think I'll answer these questions today, but it would be more relative, even though nothing about what we were talking about was a question, it'd be more relative to people if we did talk about that.

specifically you know agreed Sarah yeah and I also think that sometimes like what are the names of god and what do they mean and why why are they like for me personally I get more out of those kinds of questions when I study them out myself rather than asking someone to tell me what you know their revelation has gotten like me sitting with the Lord and studying those things out myself but I think a lot of people and then they're done this with what I'm about to say so I'm not

I'm just saying I can relate to the person who wrote this question see the thing is is like you've always been smart right like you've never like you've looked at things you've been a good writer you like you've been a smart person all your life like to

look at something on a piece of paper and try and comprehend it and work a problem out or whatever for you, it's always been like, yeah, I can do that. Pretty much. It's not a challenge for you. It's not intimidating to you, correct? Right.

Yeah. But for someone like me, like sometimes, not anymore, not anymore, but there were as a time in my life, I was like, can somebody jumpstart me on this? Because I don't know what the heck I'm looking at or understand it. Do you know what I'm saying? So I think sometimes that's why people ask these questions is because they don't even know where to begin. And it's super challenging for them.

Like, I can't, and you know this is true, Sarah, because you know how many people have said to you, I open up the Bible and I don't understand what I'm reading. Countless. Countless. Here's the thing. In some ways, I think it's a cop-out. I don't buy it. I think it's a complete cop-out.

But then there's people who actually have reading comprehension problems. And I'm like, it's not really a cop-out for them. How do you discern which ones are just lazy and which ones, like, look at it and it's like watermelon and watermelon or like the peanuts teacher while they're reading it? Because they just don't get it. So somebody telling them, like, what these are, they hear and learn better than they read. Do you know what I'm saying? That's for sure. I do get it.

I do get why people do ask these, but I agree with you. I think if people really sat down and weren't afraid to jumpstart, they would get way more out of it than having somebody kind of break it down for them. Well, and one of the jobs of the Holy Spirit is to be our teacher. So just having that awareness when you start to study and read like and asking, Holy Spirit, teach me and show me. And sometimes, I mean, I'm in the middle of Isaiah right now. I don't understand all that at first read.

And another thing is that you don't have to understand everything. Like there's a spiritual aspect to it where if you're consuming the bread of the word of God, like you may not have knowledge and understanding in your mind, but you'll find that when you get into a place that requires it, all of a sudden it's there and you have it. Agreed. It's so crazy because you, if you, The more you read it, which people only read the Bible maybe once or twice their whole entire life, if that.

But I would strongly encourage you, the more you read it, the more you comprehend it, and the more you can conceptually understand it. And then when you go back and you read something and you go, wait a minute, wait a minute, I get that now. Because something else, like in the New Testament, if you're looking at Isaiah, something you read in the New Testament, when you go back to read Isaiah again, then you're like, I get that now, whereas, you know, it's like you said, it's spiritual revelation. But reading it once through, twice through, and going, oh, I'm done, I know it, you don't know it. But a lot of people don't even, they stick in either of the New Testament, which I get, but the Old Testament is what foreshadowed the New Testament. So you might want to know that to you.

you want to go to do your thing and then we'll get on this so what's happening over here on this screen do you know what's going on it does that it's just flashing different colors and I'm like oh the pretty pictures what's happening that's okay I just was like does this mean I'm supposed to do something no you're good they're it's like you're telling me something but I don't know what you're saying oh my gosh that's fucking funny all right Okay, guys, if you are on Facebook seeing us, make sure you like and share, comment, and then head on over to the Rumble chat, because that is where it's at.

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Wow. I'm getting there. 672 followers. I'm getting there. You better become friends with her now because once she hits a thousand, she doesn't have time for you. I already told, I sent to Tracy a text this morning because she said only two more or something like that.

That was before the 672. And I said, I text. This is what she said to me last night. I texted her this morning because I had hit the number. I said, I don't know who you are and I don't recognize you or something like that. Texting only, please. Who this? But see, Tracy's like, thank you.

You speak my love language. She doesn't want to place a call. She doesn't want to talk. She's like, texting's fine. You're not punishing me. I'm like, dang it. If you've ever received a phone call from Tracy, you'll know that that is just a miracle of the Lord. Exactly.

also follow the dot hope dot hotline on TikTok and all of us also have TikToks too there's Vanessa and Tracy's um I posted a video thinking this is going to be it this is it I'm going to go viral oh my gosh I got 12 new followers so that's good exciting news that's good girl yeah so I mean make sure if you're on TikTok listen you don't have to people go I don't want to be on TikTok I can't make videos you don't have to you just come over and you watch everybody else's videos yeah there's a lot to learn a lot to learn and then you know the algorithm it'll hopefully you'll get some stuff that's that's good I am into the cooking stuff right now and I'm it's it's not it's a situation well though I think that it could actually help you with

your business depending on oh perhaps yes perhaps you are that's where you have to like maybe you're into them and you're going to get like a little revelation of how do I do this because sometimes when I get hooked on something I'm always like why do I like this so much is there's a nugget here of something that I can use for the church, for myself, whatever. Is this like a marketing thing? I know that's bad, but I do a lot of advertising marketing, creating things like that. Or is this an idea that I can you place somewhere else? Sometimes I jot them down, but most of the time I hit that little save button.

But you might be shocked at like how I just watch this chef, this private chef, and it means nothing to me because it helps me in no way for now. But what she did is she goes and she takes you And she shows you how she makes all clean Like she goes into people's homes and she'll make them their meals for days And even like their juice their protein drinks and things like that Oh wow yes which I have learned a lot But then what she did is she took people into the grocery store and then she showed him how she shopped

Which I was like this is a flippin brilliant idea Yeah. But then, and she's like, I don't ever make, I don't ever buy salad dressing. I make my own all the time, right? That's what she said. She pulled one out and she was like, she was showing how you don't want to do that. But she's like, if I'm in a hurry and I don't have time, this would be the one, and she showed why, this would be the one that I would use. So I was like, well, that is a really great idea in how she shifted cooking.

and someone's home to now branch out from that still staying in that niche. And adding value to the viewers, like something that they can go, that doesn't cost anything that they can go and grab. Now, but that's what I do like it? So what is it? Because that's why we're on TikTok and why a lot of us are trying to grow our accounts is to expose people to, or there's nobody that I know of, really to speak of. And God never makes a snowflake the same.

So this isn't an insult to anybody, but there's nobody that I really know of. that preaches or teaches or even has worship like we do. Because even our worship challenges people to, like, spiritually speaking, Holy Spirit-driven. It is very, very different. Like, to the degree in which we do it, do other churches do it? Yeah, I'm not saying that they don't. And I'm just saying our church is very, very different in a lot of ways. So for me, I'm like trying to get out there, win the loss, and then help people to grow and actually see scripture.

So that's one of the reasons why all of us are trying to gain our Tick-Tock. So I'm like, how do we, which we are going to make some shifts right now and that. But watching those videos, sometimes you feel like it's a waste of time, but actually, like, makes you click into things that you're like, wait a minute. If she can do that with that, what if I did this with that, with what I'm doing? I love it. So that's what I'm saying to you. I know you, because you value your time and you're like, I'm not wasting my time. But actually, Sarah, that might be helping you, you just don't know it.

Like, do you know what I'm saying? I will agree with that and I will receive it. Yeah, bigger picture. Because I already am thinking of something for you with that. Okay. Yeah. With what you do. Which could be really good.

Yeah. TikTok is a little bit of a struggle bus. It is. Facebook, I am super cool on Facebook. I have like, I'm close to 4,000 followers, but Instagram is also another, But here's the problem with both of those, just so you know. TikTok and Instagram and Facebook only allow you to, they confine you to the people that you know and then those people that they know. This is the thing that like Tracy has really taught me a lot about like, but she's had to learn TikTok too.

But the one thing that she's said to me is, and using it as a tool for ministry is she said, she said, TikTok is a way to reach people that you would never meet or never know because you're exposed, they don't hold you back from exposing you to people. It doesn't have to be your friend group or your friend's friend group. You're reaching people all over the place that you never would have ever come in contact with from in the United States to outside of the United States. That's why business-wise, there's a lot of opportunity. there and spiritually speaking wise because there's not a lot of there's not a lot out there spiritually

going on in TikTok and especially in the vein in which we're moving and there's just not a lot and it's amazing like like I so Tracy's um Tracy had one she talked about how about fear and it really spoke to people. She spoke to people about fear and not to be afraid when all of the stuff was going on with Israel and Iran. And it was so good and it was nine points. And not even everybody watched till the end. Actually, she has a low percentage rate of how many people watched to the end. She gained almost, I think, 600 followers just from that one video. Because people, she was speaking to people that were living in fear and didn't know how to not live in fear and they she was giving them hope that made them go i got to follow this girl because like

she's me giving me peace yeah not a lot of people are doing that that out there on ticot and if they do they are so off biblically speaking on the things that they're saying it's like so it's really a great way to like spread the gospel in the true like i i mean i just tick people off that's how i grew mine and it's over 100. I took people off but it was it was actually people I took some people off that are easily offended but then there were people that literally said to me oh my gosh like I've never looked at it like that before like they are I'm sending this to turn my prayer group because this is like I was I've been dealing this with with this for the past week and I could not figure out like I cannot get my brain to wrap itself around this like in just this one video

you solve the whole entire thing like it's crazy how ministry wise you can like really open up some doors for yourself but you like business wise it's pretty good too so you can you know kill two birds with one stone yeah so but it is confusing it's as Tracy says it's the wild wild west but it's a great way to get some people saved that's the intention that's the intention with tic-tok let's get some people saved because they need the lord bad so make sure you're following us on instagram as well so shut up hope no that's okay it's your show it's literally called the hope hotline it's all about no but i interrupted you no it's okay um And then, remember, we've got merch.

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Make sure you get registered. And remember, there's a separate registration for the breakfast. Again, RIP, I won't be here, but I'm sure that someone will be here to shake up the tickets and spill them all over the stage. Like I did like to do. Ridiculous. Even that's, that's, I got to talk to Teresa. I'm stirring that up a little bit. I'm changing things up even on that a little bit.

So that's going to be fun. I'm not doing the stir it up, shake it up. Stir it up. Shake it up. Not doing it. It's okay for some. It's not my cup of tea. I'm like, can we just...

Stay in your lane. Yeah, I'm staying in my lane. You do that. Like, can we just, like, pull the name out of the bucket or the number of the bucket? Like, 10 minutes on my feet with stirred up, shake it up. I'm done. Yeah. My feet were screaming.

I'm like, give me the bucket. I'll pull the. freaking number out. I know, start with your hand and then pull it, like two seconds. Oh my gosh. Just not my cup of tea. That's all I'm saying. The intention was to build up the, you know. I know. Oh, my gosh. Anticipation, but. And it does. But I don't care about that. It does build up the anticipation. I get, hey, listen, crowds love it. They do. Otherwise, I don't. Otherwise, they wouldn't do it. Crowds love it. Not me. not me not all of us but you can't please everybody all the time that's just the way it is

I've learned that and you try as you may but you're not so get as many as you can and then go on from there by the way I just gained three new followers on TikTok boom that's right you're welcome that's right I'm almost to 7700 okay not that you care not that you even wanted to know I'm here for you though let's do the names of God. So names of God, what are all the names of God? What do they mean? And why so many different names? I know those feet. Yes. Beautiful feet. What's going on, girl? Oh, thank you. Hi, girl. It's my other child. We are. This is not Norma. It's my other child. My creation from when we painted pottery. Oh, is they're already out?

Yeah. It's nice, right? I love that. What is that? It's just a little catty. Like, you can put silverware in it or whatever. But I made it from my sweet old dad because his birthday's on Sunday. Oh, that's sweet. So hopefully he's not watching or, spoiler alert,

there's your birthday present. Oh, my gosh. Happy birthday. Oh, well. It's the thought that counts Sarah, isn't it? No. You and I are the only ones to agree on that. It's not the thought that counts if it's a dumb thought.

Thank you. So the names of God. Why are they, why so many different names? You know, I mean, it is such a great question because, like, I don't even have all of them memorized. I had a book that I did a Bible study on, which I never used books for, did I have this book or did it? Was it somebody else's Bible study that I went to? It was somebody else's Bible study I went to. But it was a really good Bible study.

This girl would use books. But first of all, she was a really good teacher. And that matters because I'm big on just doing the Bible. But if you're a really good teacher and you can use the book with the Bible, then that's fantastic. Because a lot of times that's the only thing people use correct. They only use the book and they never use the Bible with the book. So, but this book was full of all the names of God, all the names of Jesus, and something else. And it really, it really opened your eyes to that in biblical times, names mattered.

And people named their family or their children or God changed people's names specifically on purpose because they were going to be that name. And I think one, that's one of the reasons, like when my parents, like my, there's four of my family, four kids in my family. And my parents, when they got saved, they, like, my sister or my older sister, her name's Sandy, right? Like, that's generic. And, but they got saved shortly after having her. And then they decided, like, we're going to ask God what each child's name should be. Because, first of all, they were super, like, gung-ho. You know, when people get first to get saved, they're like, yeah.

and then you kind of like take a chill pill after a little while. Should we stay like this? Probably. But even some of that ain't right. So I'm not saying my parents didn't do that. But what my parents did is everything. Everything. In every part of my parents' life, God had something to do with.

I don't think that like should we go to Burger King or should we go to McDonald's to that extent? let's ask the Lord, but, like, there was so much. She would say neither. Exactly. Well, back then, they actually had real meat. So, Sarah, I don't know. That's true. They might have been like, it's okay.

Like, if you go over to South Africa and you go to a fast food restaurant, it's real meat. Everything's real in there. From real potatoes to everything. And it's almost fresh. Their fast food restaurants are like our five guys. So even like Norma says she had ate at a McDonald's there. I'm trying not say McDonald's. She ate at a McDonald's and she's like, it was real.

It was actually a real hamburger and everything tasted way different. Like if you ate it from home. That's because there's a difference. I just saw on TikTok where they had three. They took three different meals from three different places. One was five guys. One was Burger King and the other one was McDonald's. I'm trying.

I'm trying. And they put it, the person left everything in the bag for like, I think it was four weeks. Five guys, he was gagging. He was literally gagging from the smell and everything that had grown on. the food he was like beyond he's like he opened it up and he was like he's like I got to get it back in the bag it stinks so bad burger king had burger king did not smell good and it had like stuff growing on it too I know like he was shocked he legitimately was shocked but McDonald's look the same exact and we know like people have been doing all those little tests and

scientific experience, experiences, experiments on different meals from McDonald's, but it's pretty shocking. I was shocked that Burger King actually had hair growing on it. Disgusting. I know. I don't know where I'm at, but on the names of God. Oh, your parents. That's true.

My parents. God bless, Sarah. Thank you for being the thinking one in the room. so my parents that's how my my brother and all of us got our names like obviously my name's hope my brother's name is john um biblical name but and then my sister's name is faith but they absolutely felt like those were each person's name that they were supposed to go with and they felt like we would live out our names i think they made a big mistake on mine but because it means encourager i don't know how much i don't know if i'm the greatest encourager

I'm pretty sure I'm not, but I think that I don't think I walk in the room and encourage people. I think, though, that if I'm speaking to a group, I can bring encouragement to that group. Would you say, Sarah? I think that you are an encourager. It's just a very specific type of person that can receive your encouragement. and so it's it's kind of a niche encouragement not everyone's going to be encouraged like when you correct and when you teach and when like it encourages me and I know it encourages a lot of the women that you know like from abide and things like that so but it all depends on

how you feel really like honestly I'm just not one of those like I will I if I see somebody with a cute hairdo or a cute outfit or whatever I I will say, oh my gosh, I love that. But you also operate, you flow in the prophetic too, which is, that's hope, that's encouraging. So maybe you just need to spin the, maybe I do. The way you're looking at it a little bit.

Because I think, like, people who are encouraging are, like, super sweet, super nice people and that, but I also find them to be fakes and frauds. Yeah. Like, I would never say to somebody, oh, you look, I love that, or I love this, if I thought it was hideous. because you're authentic and you're like real you're the real deal it's so yeah i don't know for i don't know like i never thought i was an encourager though i'm like i think they got my name wrong because i'm not that great of encouraging people not my sister faith she pretty much you know she's had to

stand in faith for a lot of things or believe in faith for other people so like i'm like that makes sense to me i could have been faith too though because i do that too yeah that would have been fitting for me but whatever names of god they matter get off of there sir you're fine well i was looking at i wanted to tell the actual like definition of hope i thought you were like okay let's move on no no the feeling of expecting something desired to happen or to the thing itself that is desired so there's other ones that there's other ones that say encourage encouragement or encourage something

and it talks about how that you encourage others and I'm like I do encourage people but I don't give them false hope that's part of the thing and like I think that's one of the things that most people when they hear somebody who's an encourager

they're like a raw raw person and in some of the things that I've read it kind of makes it sound like that I'm like I'm not a raw raw person though the people in the comments think you're an encourager so well thank you you must not know me very well we probably said hi-bye a few times i love you for that but they did uh biblical names they really do matter and they were significant so let's look at some of the names elohim which is what god is called is god creator mighty and strong he fits that name

Genesis 1-1 says, Yahweh, Jehovah, the Lord I am, the Lord, I am who I am, Exodus 314, says, Most Sacred Name of God is often written as Lord in all caps in English Bibles, which is true, unless you have the message, the NIV. But if you go to Amplify Classic, depending on the one, it is some King James, the word Lord is capitalized throughout it, which is so funny, I was like, why is that? Then I understood. I understood why it was.

Adonai, Lord, Master, is what that means. Adonai means Lord or Master. Genesis 15th 2 says El El-Eon, which is God Most High. Genesis 14, 18, says El Shaddai, God Almighty. Genesis 171 says he is called El Roy, the God who sees me. Genesis 16, 13, says, Yahweh Jira, which is Jehovah Jira, the Lord will provide. That's the one I know a lot.

I do. If you, like, I think a lot of people probably know this one a lot, but if you've had to stand for the Lord to provide something to you, and I don't mean dollars, I mean, in general, life has a way of, like, I mean, everybody always thinks of finances, though. but the Lord has to provide for all of us in so many different ways and I have remembered saying you are Jehovah Jira you are my provider so I am not going to worry about whatever this provision that I am needing it's not always dollars though

and people think that it is sometimes it was a job that I was like really believing for I did sales so I would be like I want this job or how do I get this or what do I do? You will provide it for me. So just know, Jehovah Jira doesn't mean just dollar signs. Genesis 2214 says Yahweh Nisi, which is the Lord is my banner.

Exodus 1715 says Yahweh Rafa, which is the Lord who heals. Know this one very well too. A lot of people do. There are some names that most of us know. And they're like, yeah, I've called on that one a few times. and I think there's something special

when you call the Lord at a specific name then he knows like while you're praying he knows he already knows what you're going to ask but when you call him by that name it's like how many times have you called somebody the wrong name and they're like no it's actually this like a lot of people call me Heather they call me Holly

and depending on who they are I really don't most of the time I don't correct them I just say I answer the question you know but if somebody really really if it's my kids and somebody they really want something from me you might want to call me my mom or you know whatever it is because then i know that's that relationship right names matter do you want to add anything sarah hmm you don't have to i just don't want to keep talking and you have a little nugget that you would love to share i am absorbing i was thinking about when you said

And Jehovah Gira and how it's the provider and he's the provider and it's not always financial. I was actually thinking about my friend Eden because I, he provided for me a friend, a friend, like a very special, like where there's nothing that has to be filtered. We do business together. We do life together. and for years I had prayed for my mom was friends with or still as friends with Betty. They worked together for 40 years. So my sisters and I would jokingly always say like, oh man, I wish I had a Betty. Like that was always our thing.

And so. Now you have a Betty. Yeah, now I have a Betty. Oh, yeah. And God provided her to me. Well, yeah. And it's like I've known people who wanted children. Yeah.

Like, it's, but always people think of financial things, but he will provide anything and everything, you know, and you call on that name. That name means something. Right. It is significant for a reason. Like for me, if my kids called me hope, I'm not going to like it too much. Or brough? Yeah. I get that one.

Yeah. Brough. No, I'm your mom. Call me by my name. And I think that that's, yeah. Tommy still calls me that sometimes. mommy yeah it's so sweet every now it's usually when they want something not Tommy oh not Tommy he like Tommy really hardly ever asked for anything it's just he's um so sometimes he'll just do it

I'm like do you realize you just said that and he's like uh yeah I probably yeah whatever just because he's he's Tommy Tommy and mommy that's just Tommy to know him is to love him he's his own he's own thing. But for me, if you're sick in your body, call on Jehovah Rafa. Right? I mean, the name means something. It's significant for a reason. He named himself that for a reason. Exodus 1526 is Yahweh Shalom, Jehovah Shalom. Yahweh means Jehovah. The Lord is peace. Isn't that amazing? You hear a lot of that in Israel. It's like they'll say shalom as they leave. judges 624 is jehovah sabos i don't know if that's right which is the lord of hosts first samuel one three is jehovah raw the lord is my shepherd same uh psalm 231 says he's called

jehovah sidiccanoo sidicanoe i look this up but i can't remember what it was sid cano what is the tea is silent it's sid canoe sit canoe perfect that's righteousness right how how power you because you you did that huge are you done with studying righteousness no you're still on right now if it will ever end it's there's so much to his righteousness yeah it's powerful i recite that almost every day psalm 23 like i meditate on that and i didn't know that that the first verse of psalm 23 is the lord is my shepherd when it says that like yeah that it's talking about the lord my righteousness so i just i just i just you just learned me something it's amazing though isn't it powerful it's just crazy if you just dig and not even that deep god will reveal himself to you but you had to

read uh psalm 23 how many times and a lot of people know some 23 okay but and then because you know it now every time you see shepherd you're going to say his righteousness or my righteousness You know what I'm saying? It's because understanding the scriptures, which opens up, it's so much more. If you really know the Bible and you study it out, there is absolutely no way you would ever turn from him. You couldn't. You couldn't turn from him because you could see the little details of everything. And then you'd understand the little details that he has about you.

And then you'd understand your value. And you could never, ever forsake somebody who value. you to the degree in which he does. It just couldn't be. It couldn't happen if you know the word. You can never turn your back. Am I wrong about that? Because the more I know it, the more I'm like, I'm solidified in my walk with God. It just can't happen. Jeremiah 236 is Jehovah Shama, which is the Lord is there.

Ezekiel 4835 is El Oloom is the everlasting God. Genesis 2133 says Oh, that's El L. Elam is the everlasting God. Okay, so you ask, why are there so many names? Okay, because God reveals himself through his names that match our needs. So if you have a need, he has a name.

And you can call on that name. And like, if you look at, if you look at, I'm going to give you some examples. Because everybody always goes to like Abraham was Abram, right? Abraham went from Abram to Abraham, which is a father to a father of many nations, I believe is what it went from. A father of many, it might have been. I don't remember. But everybody looks at the ones like they go Jacob to Israel. Like everybody has names. But here, Hagar, let's see. Well, no. She used, no, I'm going to talk about this. I'm going to change it. People in their personal experience and circumstances, what they did is they would call on the Lord and the name in which that experience they were working in. So let me go to that because I thought I was going to go a different direction, but my notes are telling me I'm not.

The names that Hagar used, when she, everybody knows Hagar, right? Hagar was the concubine for Abram. and that's what she had it rough that poor girl she first had no choice in the matter right your property so when sarah wasn't getting pregnant she suggests that abraham goes and sleeps with his concubine hagar who has no say in the matter whatsoever and then she becomes hated and mistreated by sarah all because of something sarah suggested and then the man she ends up falling in love with and having children by or child by is massively rejected by him i mean holy moly and all is like whoa didn't ask for this didn't sign up for it like that's rough hager called uh the lord elroy because he saw her in

her distress which was genesis 1613 elroy is the god who sees me isn't that beautiful that is beautiful That's one of my favorites. And a lot of people can sit there and go, I totally understand Hagar, not because you are somebody's concubine. But a lot of times people are brought into, like they're born, right? And they're born into some pretty rough situations.

Their parents are like jacked up. They're crazy. They're not great. And they're like literally like, I didn't sign up for this. I didn't sign up to be in this asylum. Can I just go somewhere where, life is normal and there's some like normalcy I feel for people that have to go through that

because again they didn't ask to be born and they didn't ask to grow up in that and then when they are able to exit out of it they're never away because they're always going to be their parents it's rough it's rough and like for me like shame on you mom and dads who don't you don't do right by your kids not cool not cool listen i i don't think sarah and myself could say listen do we do everything perfect no but the thing is is i don't live in it i don't say well that's just how it's going to be you got to deal with it no like you look at life and you say okay that was a big whopping mistake right there not going to do that that again and then you learn from it and you don't keep repeating those patterns so that you set a good

example and you live as holy as a life as you can and non-hypocritical life as you can for your children and I've known people who like their kids are you well I'll say this because I know there's somebody going yeah well that was me and my kids are out of the house so what I always I do with it because they're already gone. It's not too late. Okay, you can absolutely go and say, sorry, not, didn't do things right, but I am from this point forward. You're going to see a different me. And then you radically change so much that they don't even recognize the person that you were before and you win them to the Lord. I mean, I was a wild child. And if people judge me based on what I was then to who I am now I'd be in big trouble but as you go go farther and

farther away from that people actually learn okay this this person has changed and I do want to be around them and then I actually do want what they have am I wrong about that Sarah I mean because you've done ministry with a lot of people yourself and people are always like it's too late it's never too late. No, I also think there comes a time that you can't blame your parents anymore for just like you got to come to a point where, okay, I got brought up wrong, but now I have a decision to make. Am I going to do that with my kids or am I going to be the one that breaks that, you know, pattern and change my life? Like, you know, I have kids that are grown and out of the house and so um it's been a a learning curve for me like how do i now relate to them

after you know quote unquote the the hard work is done i would i don't i don't even know what i would do if i was in your shoes because most my kids are still home holy crap that's hard like you're saying that and i'm like that is true because that's a whole that relationship is so the dynamic of it and they live three hours away so i don't see them regularly like i i i think i texted my daughter like eight times in a row and she didn't answer me and so I called her boyfriend and I was like uh I'm just checking she good and she was like oh yeah I've just been working um so I just have learned that I have to it's the kindness of God that brings men unto repentance and so I'm not well you know you need to be going to church well you know you're living wrong it's all

love and if something comes up in my presence, I correct it, but then it's directly back to like covering. Love covers a multitude of sins. And that's different from the mother that they grew up with. I was a hard nose. I'm still kind of hard nose, but like I was rough when my kids were little. I totally get it. I am not the same person that my kids grew up with. Like I totally, I totally get that, Sarah, because I do have regret. I mean, I do have regret raising my kids. And they're great human beings. I mean, they're not perfect, not trying to sell that they are.

And they've had their problems. Like, everybody, I don't know of anybody who has hit an age of the time where they have to discover, like, do I believe what I believe? because my parents made me believe it or do I believe it, which like your kids did grow up in church, Sarah, right? For the most part, they did. Not the whole entire life.

The early days, yes. Yeah, my parents, there were times where my parents were like we didn't go to church not very often, but I think that's, I'm not saying that happens to everybody, but there is times where people have a frequent time where there isn't any church. Well, I'm also, like, I'm a hot or cold person,

so when we weren't going to church, we were living the entirely different, life so that's me that's me I guess a good thing because we it's bad or cold I was never lukewarm well there's no hypocrisy there Sarah that's the that's the saving grace for your kids see I didn't I when I went cold it's when I literally had my moment in time where I said do I believe what I believe because my parents make me believe it or do I believe it because of me and I said I don't know I think I'm going to go do some wild living and figure it out, which was a huge mistake.

But at that time, again, I think I'm smarter than everybody else in the room. So I can make it out and there be no scars or anything that I have to overcome. And what the enemy meant for evil, God can turn around and use it for good. So there's no looking back. There is no looking back because there's no glory in that anyway.

Right. But the thing is, is I was just like you. So when I was cold, I was cold. But that's biblical. And rather than people who stamp Christianity on their lukewarm lifestyles all the while teaching people that they're saved when they are not saved at all and you're teaching your children to live like to live like a hellion and stamping the word Christian on it it's very very dangerous to do that but but hypocrisy

I mean hypocrisy is is like a cancer it really is but for me like I was a ruffin I was like I'm not patient, I'm not, I don't mince words. So my kids, like, they're pretty tough. They're pretty tough. So there's one thing that I could change is to have been, when they were a lot younger, be more kinder, gentler. I'm like, why don't you get this? Duh, they're kids. I also think that the Lord knew who their mom was going to be, and he did that on purpose. So that's something No, but I should have been more Christ-like. That's the problem. Like, I should have been more Christ-like

than they didn't have to overcome some of that nonsense. Because if I was who I was supposed to be, that would have made them, not that they're not better people, but even my kids, I will say, all, like, they even had to go through life and say, do I believe what I believe? And Norma was not as bad as me by no means. Like, like, she would tell you,

like Tommy had to figure it out, and his was pretty fast. Norma, on the hand, she did about six months where she was like, I don't know. I don't know. Their faith has to become their own. They can't, you know, they can't always just take their, your parents.

You want them to have a personal relationship with God, not just go through the motions and, you know, because my parents believed. And then there's like my nephew who just shared like he, like, it's just, I'm not surprised at all, but my nephew is more like me, my sister's son where he's like you know what I'm kind of going to do what I want to do because I'm kind of like burnt out or I don't really care about the Christian thing and he's come back

he's like he's doing a great job he's heavily involved in the youth group with Talia and things like that but if people knew him then and who he is now they would be sitting there like they would look at me like I'm a miracle they would be sitting there going and he wasn't near as bad as me but they would be like wow that's pretty awesome but he grew up in a Christian home it's like just don't lose faith because they just they'll find their way back they really really will and part of it is how my sister and my brother-in-law handled this situation which is very similar to what you did Sarah that's kind of what you have to do you have to confront what needs to be confronted and love through the whole entire process and then there are the people

like me who my parents were not believers so like tom well they would say okay they would tell you that they are but their lifestyle was otherwise it's not yeah it's not a um it doesn't reflect that in their way that they live their life so that's something that to me i continue to study out like raise a child up in the way that they should go well what happens when you don't raise a child up in the way that they go, because by the grace of God, here I am now. That's where the scripture says that unless he, with capital H, unless Jesus draws them in, they won't come to know him. And he draws all men to know him.

So you don't have to have Christian parents. Is it a better life with Christian parents and parents that love the Lord? And maybe didn't do it perfectly the whole entire time. but when they stepped off the boat, they went full bore, you know? I'm saying, like, instead of playing like they were, that's more dangerous to me. Biblically speaking, it says it is.

But he draws almond, but that's why you've got to be like, you have to know, like, you're not knocking every door down. You're going to know, like, my brother knew when I was getting soft to the Lord to say just the right things at just the right time. You will know the same thing about your own children. When the Lord is drawing them in, he will use you in the drawing. And until then, you do what you're doing. Because my brother was very, very, very sweet about the whole thing.

But at the same time, if he didn't like something, he'd be like, it's not going to work. And here's the reason why. But I loved and respected him so much that I was like, so it is a powerful thing. Like, never give up on anybody. there's hope for everybody but just look at the signs don't force doors down okay so I'm going to do two more

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life is good you just have one of those days that you're not like you're not like or hmm you're just like it's a steady stream but even everything is like I feel like I'm like that guy from wonder years that teacher that talk like this

and never really changed any inflection in his voice that's how I feel like right now that's a kickback right there you know what i'm talking about do you know what i'm talking about now the wonder years i loved to that show it's a great show now i'm going to tell you something i my one of my favorite comedians just uh started her first sitcom on netflix leanne uh morgan isn't leanne morgan Yeah. Lee Ann Morgan, a comedian, she just started her first, it's a sitcom on Netflix. It's like a regular. Netflix is weird because you can watch every show one right after the other. Like I thought I was going to have to watch this week. It's going to be the first one episode. Next week's the next one. No. That's binge watching.

Okay. I'm never. I don't know. anything about anything because I don't first of all I don't watch a lot of TV but I have gotten myself into some documentaries which is pretty interesting about the whole thing but last night was or Thursday night was yes was last yesterday Thursday was the first was her opening of her sitcom and it's not good like it's like it's like watching Jerry Seinfeld when he first did Seinfeld? Oh. Like he's not,

what's wrong? No, you. I'm saying, oh, do you? Oh. Oh, I thought something happened. So, like, when he first started out, I mean, it was very different show, but you're like,

he's not that good of an actor. But it was funny, so you stuck with it. This one is kind of the same. And I watched, I watched, there's reasons why I actually watch for a while, but it doesn't matter. because normally I don't sit this long but I watch like

they're only 19 minutes long what's up with that it's like 19 minutes and 20 seconds I literally felt like I watched one and it was over I'm doing stuff while I do it though that's a regular show without the commercials I know that I didn't even know I wasn't going to get commercials

I don't watch TV that much for the record so like I was like I'm doing stuff while I'm doing this I'm like, seeing all the credits, I'm like, the show is over. By, like, the fifth one going in, she's sitting a little bit better at her acting. Oh, good for her. Isn't that interesting?

She's, and it's not that, it's not, um, it's not unclean. Oh, well, that's good. Like, it's not, it's not, well, when I say that in today's standards, it's not unclean. It's actually kind of nice to watch something. So, if you have Netflix. and you don't mind looking at some really bad acting for like five episodes. You might want to watch it. Something for a change.

Tom comes into bed sometimes. I have Leave It to Beaver on. I'm like, I know. I know it's Leave It to Beaver, but I love it. And he's like, I grew up on it too, so it doesn't matter. Like, there's something, I just don't really watch a lot of crap. Like, there's nothing good on TV. I mean, I walk in my daughter's room and she's got Talia in the middle.

and Kristen on the end and they're all laughing and watching some, I don't know, horrible show. Yeah, it's bad. No, it's not, it's like It's kind of inappropriate in a way. It's just like bikinis and stuff. What, Love Island?

Yeah. It's all the rage. Yeah. They're in there. And we only watch it because the drama's funny to watch. Talia made them all matching cups from Love Island. I did. Oh, wow.

They're all in there under the covers. They are, gay I'm like what what is going on in here and they're all so goofy it's unbelievable and they're so loud I can't even sit in the living room and watch it watch TV I got to go into my room they're screaming I've been trying to not watch it this is not helping me no there's your mom's watching it I've been I find a show and then I just will rewatch it don't waste your time I've watched New Girl probably five times, and I'm like back, I'm like season four right now, of New Girl. I don't know any of this stuff.

It's also something that I can watch. Is it bad? No, it's funny. No, I mean. It's got some parts, but it's not that bad. Yeah, it's definitely better than Love Island, I would say. It's just funny. It's got Zoe Day Chanel in it.

I don't know who that is. In the Elf movie, the Girl Elf Joel. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, so it's just, it's a very, it's. It's a certain kind of humor, though. Like, some people will be like, this isn't funny, but it's, I think it's hilarious. Okay.

But you laugh at everything, Sarah. You're an easy laugh. That's not true. You laugh, you're an easy lapper. You laugh at me, okay? Okay. You're funny, though. Not funny.

Yeah, you are. And your laugh is what makes me laugh. There are certain things that other people think is funny that I'm like, that's not funny but I also just choose joy you know there you go just choose joy you're on a higher level spiritually than the rest of us whatever on that note don't watch Love Island yeah amen just because my kid watches it doesn't mean it's good as well as her friends but and what is the other one new girl new girl it's old though it's like I mean it was over in like 2016 or

something so i will allow that it's funny though it is hilarious my mom's always looking for new stuff but she's her and her friend they she would not think it's funny she would not let's i don't think that miss i don't know i don't want to be the one too she loves hallmark is it anything like that no okay don't watch it mom no and don't call me right now to tell me whether or not watching them because that could happen. She'll call me when I leave here,

potentially. All right. Love you guys. Be at church here on Sunday. If you really want, you know, our worship team's killing it. I'm so proud of them.

Our worship team is killing it. They have like 1,400 people just watching the worship team. And then usually that's not how it works people. Usually people don't watch the worship until the preaching starts. But join us, watch the worship, watch the preaching.

Both of them are fantastic. And I don't know what I would do if I didn't have this church. And I'm not just saying that because I'm married to him. But I've never been, and if you can be in person, because I'm going to just tell you this. And Sarah can concur with me because she's told me this. But I wouldn't know what I would do if I didn't have this group of people. It's a large number of people, and there are no, this is Tom's biggest thing, no clicks, no gimmicks, no money grubbing. And that's exactly how this church is run.

You want to find friends. You want to find people who will, like, just love on you. Not if you're unlovable, but if you're lovable, if you want to find some people who will just come and stand alongside of you, you will find your group. You will find your group and make this church your home. and we will see you on Sunday, and I don't think there's anything else, right? That's it. And next week, we're back.

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