The Hope Hotline - The Hope Hotline | S02-E28 | 05-08-2024

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

The Hope Hotline | S02-E28 | 05-08-2024

Real Talk Hello and welcome to the Hope Hotline. Thank you so much for joining us today. I am super excited about today. We have great questions, but also I was telling the girls the Lord dropped something down in me last night when I was spending some time in prayer, getting ready for today. And so I'm excited to share it. And so I'm going to let Tracy just do your thing and then we're going to go right to it. All righty.

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It's been a little bit quiet, so please send in your questions. We're still backtracking from other ones, but we would love to hear new questions, anything that maybe you're listening to. And sometimes you start to dabble in different pastors and you're just not really sure that they'll say it a certain way. And you just want to make sure that it's aligned with where you're at, what the Bible says. And maybe you just have a question and it's a little bit off what you've always heard. And so we want you guys to send it in and we'll make sure that we get you guys the right verses and Hope's perspective on it.

And very exciting. This is going to come before we know it. It is already May and then it's going to be June and then it's going to be July and then it's going to be August. So I know it seems far away, but it's not. We are going to have our beloved ladies conference called Victorious.

We are, everything's in the works right now. So we're excited to do that. We have to save the date, August 22nd to the 24th and it's going to be so much fun. So please, please don't miss out.

It'll be a really powerful time together. And yeah, we just can't wait i got three amazing decorators yeah this year yeah oh my gosh well vanessa's one of them so of course she's but i'm just saying over the top can't wait oh i'm so glad. Yep. You cast a vision, they grab hold of it, and they run with it. There's nothing like it. Nothing like it.

It's going to be like, and everybody always says, and I love this because it's a challenge. I'm up for a challenge. But everybody always says, how are you going to beat last year? Yeah. How are you going to overdo? God always does. I know. I know.

Every single time, he'll take it. He always takes it to the next level. He always gives you a good vision. Like Christmas, I already know. Oh. I already know what's going on in there. I'm pretty sure that's what we're going to do. Obviously, I'll confirm it, but it's going to be good, girls.

Yay. I'm excited. Very excited about Christmas. Oh, look at you. You're ready. Actually. All right, girls. Let's go. You are. Oh, look at you. You're ready. Actually. All right, girls. Let's go.

You are. And so, were you done? Yeah, I'm done. Because I didn't mean to interrupt you. I will tell you this. Dare to Be, we're going to do one at the end of June. It'll be Friday night again. And I'll get the date because I'm deciding on that just yet.

But the Lord has told me, laying hands, we're going to heal the sick, prophesy. It's going to be very, very different than, not that it's different because I did that not last time, but the time before that. But this one is going to be next level. So pretty excited about that. And if you missed there to be last time, let us know, either email us or drop it in the comment.

Why did you miss it if you didn't know about it? Because we would love to make sure that that doesn't happen again. We want to make sure everybody knows about it. And I don't know if we have to do it more often, like just share it more often. Or where we're sharing it. Where we're sharing it, yeah. So we just want to make sure everybody's there. Because this one's going to be good.

Friday night's a toughie. It is. And that's fine if you just can't make it. And there. Because this one's going to be good. Friday night's a toughie. It is. And that's fine if you just can't make it. And I knew that going into it. Yeah. Friday night's tough because people got stuff to do. Right. So.

Okay. But you never know. We do want to know. Because some people did tell me. I was told. I totally didn't even know. Or I forgot. And that happens.

I know. Or they thought it was on Monday. Right. That one. Yeah. Yeah. So just. I don't do that position was on Monday. Right, that one. Yeah. Yeah, so just leave. I don't do that position anymore on Monday. That's Sarah's.

Sarah's taking over the fifth Monday. Right. Which there is a fifth Monday this month, correct? Isn't there five? In May? In May? I'm pretty sure there is. No.

I might be wrong. I might be wrong. Well, it depends on where the Monday landed this month or this past week. Maybe I'm wrong. Because there's five Fridays. There's five Fridays. Yeah. I knew there was five Fridays.

That's because I was looking up different stuff. Okay. So I am wrong. Don't come on the fifth Monday of this month because there is no. The next one is July. Yeah, July. There we go. Which you do the Fruits of the Spirit.

Are you going to do the Fruits of the Spirit on that, on July? I'm pretty sure we got a lot to go over, to dig into there. Yeah. So Righteousness on the other Monday. Second Monday. Yep. And then Fruits of the Spirit on the other. Good stuff.

And then Teresa does Hebrews. Is she still in Hebrews? Romans. Romans? Ooh. I think she's in Romans. Yeah. That's a good one. I love Romans.

Love it. Me too. So. Yeah. Are we done with all that? We're ready. We're all good? Yeah.

Do you want to have anything to add, Sarah, about your little hub girl? I don't want to cut you off because we were talking about it. No. Last time, though, it was. Powerful? Yeah. I don't remember a lot of it. It was like.

Yeah, you taught it. So that's kind of scary. Well, I had a plan going into it and it kind of switched. And I like gave a salvation message and we prayed for people and people got healed. And it was it was awesome. That's you know what? That's one of the things that I love. And I think I was talking to Pastor Clover, my girlfriend, that's River Fort Myers.

I think we were talking about we go to lunch pretty frequently. But I was, one of the things about our hubs is they are actually like a service to a certain extent. Even the men, men are laying hands on men. Are the women, we're learning, we're discipling, we're iron sharpening iron. But like, just because Tom's not there, doesn't mean that the anointing and God's not moving. Like I was saying to Tom today, like if people wanted to come to church almost every single day here at the church, they could. There's almost something every single day here at the church that you could go to if you wanted to.

So that's pretty awesome that we have that big of an army and that many trusted leaders that can do these things and that actually believe the same things we believe and teach the same things we teach. It's pretty powerful. It is. Pretty awesome. I love it. Yeah, it's great. It's even like, if you think about it, like Saturday, even with soul winning,

they are like laying hands on people. I know. I love it. Like lots of churches don't even, I mean, they're not, when Tom's talking about door knocking, like the Mormons, he's not talking like what we do. Right. Like we're going and actually saying, is there a need? Right. Let us take care of that need for you. Yeah.

But we're not door knocking, actually. They go to a lot of places that nobody wants to go, and they'll go into those places and minister, which kudos to that group. Amen. And to their leader, which he does a really good job. So Eddie does a really good job. And I say this, if somebody doesn't know how to win the loss, everybody should know how to win the loss. Everybody should know how to win the loss. But even if you're too afraid to go and step out and do soul winning, like maybe your first several times, go and learn how you do it. Because you'll find out it's not that hard. And then when somebody comes across your path privately, you'll actually be able to do the Roman's road with them. You know, you'll lead them down that road of salvation. So super important, super powerful.

But we have somebody at the church that will teach you. So take them up on that. So that's a really good thing, which I talked about. I brought that up at my Dare to Be. And I hope people took them up because he just did it on Saturday. So I hope some people showed up for that. Because he had a good, he sent me the stats. And they went into a rehab place. And they talked to, like, I don't know, 35 people and 19 got saved or something like that. Like, hello.

Yeah. Amen. That's what it's all about. That's awesome. And they don't go, they go back to these places. Yeah, right. So it's not like high by. Yeah.

If somebody wants to still be ministered to, you know, they go into retirement homes, like nobody wants to go into those places. They sit and they talk to them. I mean, he's got young people, he's got older people, he's got mature people, he's got everybody. That's really good. Take us up on everything that we offer. If you are in the area, get involved. Be a part of these groups. They're powerful, and they will keep you sharpened.

Who knows? Through that discipleship, which I'm going to talk about. Actually, I wrote something in the newsletter about this, but it's about the parable of the sower. There's only one seed that landed on good ground, and it said that it multiplied itself, right? And so that's what we want to be doing. So these groups are what disciples you so that you multiply,

and that's really what it's all about. But last night when I was praying and I was, I spent a great deal of time, like I would say the past two months, the Lord has had me doing major spiritual warfare for the church, which is not a bad thing. I think there's other people that are constantly doing that for the church,

the praying over the leadership of the church, which thank you very much. If you pray for your pastors or the hub leaders or whatever, thank you for that because, listen, those are the ones that Satan comes after fiercely. I mean, he ain't going to win, but he loves to come after them fiercely. So I thank you. If you pray for Tom and myself and all the girls over there,

as well as, like, Heather and Travis and Aaron and Naz, anybody, like, any of the hub leaders, I'm not going to run down the list, but if, or if you don't live in the area, but you tend to another church and you're praying for your pastors, I can promise you right now, if they knew they'd be thanking you for it because there's, you know, a lot of people think that financially blessing them is like the end of all be all. And I'm sure for some it is. But I will tell you, the ones that are diligently going after and trying to win the lost and trying to heal the sick and really doing the works of what the Lord called us to do. Those are the ones that are being attacked.

And Satan's trying to go after them. And your prayers are thwarting so much that you don't even know. That's far better than any money or materialistic thing or whatever people think that people are longing for. I'll take a prayer all day long over anything. That's like money in the bank to me, a prayer is. But I have felt such a heaviness for, and the Lord was sharing this with me, but what I want to do is talk about encouragement. Because I feel like so many people are heavy laden, downtrodden. They have a weight on them and they're walking through maybe not the worst experience, but they're walking through some pretty tough times. I mean,

if you go to the grocery store for crying out loud, that's pretty tough. The prices have gone up so much that people are sitting there going, okay, do I get the milk or do I get the diapers? You know, for some people it's that bad. Pay your tithe and it won't be. But for some people, they're on shoestring budgets where two years ago, three years ago, it wasn't that bad. So people are really having to evaluate things, spiritually speaking, and they're having to maybe go through things that they might not have thought several years ago that they are, or

just life circumstances brings things your way, right? Like I think about Tracy with your daughter being in the car accident on Saturday. That was God, the angels around that car, they should not be here. Some of them could have been killed. When I see that vehicle, pictures of it, it is a miracle that every single one of them came out alive. There's four people in the vehicle. But you sit and you look at those situations, and, you know, there are people who didn't have four people walk out of a car. And they're having to deal with either the circumstances of that situation

or what have you, you know, loss of a family member. Yeah. The vaccination has done so much damage. So there's a lot of things going on in this world that I just think that so, so many people are discouraged. And I want to bring encouragement to you because, and I'm going to have the girls chime in anytime you want to, if you feel like you got something to say, please say it, because I feel like there are people.

I feel like everyone in that group right now can add so much to what I'm about to say that will help people that are listening or will be listening to this on the replay. And the word is clear that we will walk through many trials and tribulations in this lifetime. And I'm paraphrasing it, but the Bible says that he said he will deliver us from it all, right? So you may be walking through a trial or something like that, but you need to understand that on the other side of it is victory. So don't be so focused on the trial. Be focused on the victory. And that's where I want you to go.

Because listen, everybody, everybody walks through tough times. Everybody has to deal with things that make them feel like, have you ever like had a situation that came up and you're like, everything made you feel sick inside. Like you couldn't even eat because you're like, I use Tracy again. I'll use Tracy again because like you own a business. I'm going to use this because this isn't necessarily the truth, but I will say people

own businesses, right? And their employees start quitting because they're gossiping amongst each other. So they start quitting and they're like, oh, well, we'll show them. We'll all leave. And then because I've known people who've owned businesses and it's happened to them. Right. And then that that business owner is kind of like, yeah, and now you can't eat. Well, you should be able to. But the trials of this life and the unseen, like how are we going to walk through this kind of situation, it's kind of scary for people. It doesn't have to be, though.

Right. I mean, it doesn't have to be. I think every single one of us that is sitting at that table has had to deal with something that we've, or deal with things on a regular basis. I do all the time. I deal with stuff all the time. Virtually every day something comes my way. Virtually every single day. And it's what do I choose to do with that? And then sometimes, you know, you go through and you deal with things every day, but they're small, small, small, small, small. And then it gets to be big, big, big, big, big. And then you just have to overcome them. How do you do that? You use the word to do

it. And that's how it happens. But nobody is exempt from this. And the more you're doing for him, the more it's going to happen. You just need to understand that. That means you're doing something right though. And there's scriptures for that. So what I want you to do, I want to, I want to share with you like how I handle it do, I want to share with you like how I handle it. I'm going to share with you how I handle it. Not that the way I handle it is perfect or the best. Maybe you have something different. The girls will probably chime in and they're going to tell you how they handle it. But what you have to do is you have to see things for what they really are. You cannot bury your head in the sand.

You can't pretend like it's not happening because then you can't pray over it. Spiritual warfare is real, and you've got to be able to attack it. So see things for the truth. But even though it may be truth, you've got to overcome what your eyes see. Because the word is true. What we see is temporary, but what we have to come is eternal. That is what's real. What is real is eternal.

But this is temporary. And you have to put things into perspective because that's really what it's all about. And if Jesus says he has overcome the world, then this situation has been overcome. You just have to walk it through, not let it get the best of you. Come out on the other side where you pass the test with minimal failures. And like every time you do that, you get stronger and stronger and stronger. Your faith gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And then, you know, every single time you win, that's how you do it. So let's look at James one, two, three, four. And the girls, do you want to add anything to what I just said right there? One thing I wanted to add is that when trouble times do come and hardships come and spiritual

warfare comes, how you respond is very telling of what's going on. So if your first reaction is to fear or to worry or to have anxiety, then there's some holes in your armor. And so if you're being squeezed and Jesus isn't coming out, then it's time to pivot. Yep. Yeah, absolutely. Course correction, course absolutely. Course correction. Yeah.

Course correction. Yeah. Course correction. Yeah. Because every single time, like, that doesn't mean, I'll give you an example. Like, when I go, when sometimes, depending on how bad it is, like, I literally give myself 30 minutes sometimes. Okay, I'm going to, 30 minutes, I know I'm overwhelmed. I know I don't like what my eyes see. I may be very angry and irritated right now. But Mark 3 says that Jesus

was angry and mad at the Pharisees because he asked them a question. And because of the hardness of it, it says because of the hardness of their heart and their unwillingness to reply and their stubbornness, it said, he was angry. So I'm not going to like, I'm not going to be so mad at myself for being angry in the moment. It says be angry and sin not. Okay. So it depends on how you're angry. I give myself 30 minutes. After that, I move on. And listen, most of the time i don't need the 30 minutes but there are times where i gotta have it and i take it and i allow myself yeah now tom he usually takes more than 30 minutes he don't move as fast but he does overcome but for me i'm like now you're only getting 30 minutes, girl. That's it. Yeah.

I'm not allowing it. Anything else? No, that's good. I like that you're sharing because I think some people deal with stuff weekly, and they don't even know how to handle weekly stuff. So the fact that you're dealing with stuff daily, I think this is really important that they're hearing how you handle it because it is. It's probably a daily thing because you're a pastor of a church.

And I know, like I only know a couple of things that I'm dealing with as being like a leader. And I know that you have to deal with, and then it's like, you know, just throughout the last three years. And I know that that's not just what you deal with,

you know? Well, you do, you have people problems, but then you got insurance problems and you got building problems. Right. You know, then you have ministry problems. Right. And then you got your problems. Then you got building problems. Then you have ministry problems. And then you got your whole house.

Then you have your house. That's what I mean. And then you got your family. And then you got your extended family. It never ends. Bills have to be paid, whether it's here or there. That's what people don't understand. To whom much is given, much is required or demanded, right?

And so he who is faithful to the little will be faithful to much. As you get more and you've proven yourself, that doesn't mean the problems get less. That means the problems get more because you've been faithful in handling the lower or the lesser. Yeah, absolutely, right. Okay? And so, but how do you handle those things? Right, exactly. And so for me, it's been a very amazing learning experience that has been at times grinding my teeth

and tougher than I would care to say. Yeah, I imagine. But again, victory is always on the other side. And the things that Tom and I, I say ministry is bittersweet. It's just like raising a family. There are bittersweet moments when you're raising small children

and in a marriage, like some marriages are super tough. I'm blessed. That's not my life, okay? But I guard that thing. I'm not, I'm blessed. That's not my life. Okay. But I guard that thing. I guard that thing. My marriage, I guard more than anything else because I know if that stays intact, the rest of everything below that stays intact. You make that unstable, everything, the stability of everything else is very unstable. And so for me,

I guard that marriage, biblically speaking, with my life. And so, but James 1, 2 through 4 says, my brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials. So count it all joy. How many of us hate it worse than life itself? And if we go through a trial, we are cursing it every step of the way. That's not what the word says. It says to count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience, but let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Get that, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. So if you don't face various trials, you don't become perfect, you don't become complete, and you lack everything.

And you have to think about it like that, because that's what the Word says. And then on top of that, you've got to put on joy. Right. Like, not be happy, because that's a of that, you got to put on joy. Right. Amen. Like, not be happy. Right. Because that's a feeling. Right.

You got to put on joy. Amen. Which is a whole nother thing, which is a fruit of the spirit. Amen. I say that for Sarah. So you got to pass tests. You do. But at the end of it, you're complete, you're perfect, and you lack nothing.

You lack nothing, which is crazy. That is amazing. You lack nothing. Girls want to add anything to that scripture? No, man. Okay. Sarah? I always know.

You do. I know you do. I always sense it. I don't move yet I wait so I was just studying when Jesus talks to the disciples about

you know their littleness of faith when they couldn't heal that boy or cast out the demons and the words yeah he says but it says actually no faith but the actual greek word there is oligos which isn't a lack of faith it's a it's more and i've been studying out like the

parts of speech and how it's different in greek and it's really more about persistence about not stopping your faith. It's not about the amount. He didn't look at them and say, all you had to have was a little tiny mustard seed and you had even less than that. No, he was saying you just didn't persist. You just didn't stick with it long enough. Well, because that's where he also says it does not come without faith, without prayer

and fasting, which prayer and fasting makes you persistent. It causes persistence. So that's good. But if you look at it, I think it's the King James, it says no faith. So they started out with nothing. And what a lot of people don't know is just before that happened, Jesus had sent the 70 out.

They were part of the 70. Sent the 70 out to do what he had been doing, which is lay hands on the sick, deliver demonic, the ones that were demon-possessed, healing and delivering and sharing about Jesus, right? They had just come back and they had seen, that's why they were so perplexed because they're like, we just were gone.

We just healed people. We just saw the blind eye see, the deaf ears open, the lame walk, the demons cast out. What's up with that kid? And that's where what she just said goes with it because persistence. And I've heard great men of faith tell stories of where they prayed and saw instantaneous healing. And then they prayed and the Lord would not, they didn't see the healing. They prayed 45 minutes. They prayed three hours and the Holy would not, they didn't see the healing. They prayed 45 minutes.

They prayed three hours and the Holy Spirit was telling them, that's not the problem. That's not the problem. That's not the problem. And it was only until the ears were open to hear, okay, you're praying for somebody's eyes to be open. They have no cataracts. You got to pray for a miracle, not for healing.

That's the difference. That's where persistence pays off. Understanding what are you praying for? Fasting and praying actually makes you be able to hear the voice of the Lord better because your carnal nature is dying. That's super important. So you can do all these mighty things for the Lord, and then all of a sudden, what the heck?

Why am I not seeing this? Happens. It happens to the best of them. So, but let's get back to that. Anybody got anything to say? Because I'm going to read a scripture. Okay. What I want you to remember is John 10.10.

At the end of the day, you're going to face many trials in this lifetime, right? And it says to count it all joy when you face various trials. But John 10.10 says that the thief does not, I didn't do it the right way. I haven't memorized. The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. But I have come to that they may have life and then they may have it more abundantly. So just remember when you're facing a trial, where it's coming from and who's going to see you through.

Because Satan's the one that has set you up. He's trying to destroy whatever it is. But Jesus came and he came and he brought life. And his plan is so that you have an abundant life. And on the other side, when you get through everything that Satan's trying to throw at you, and he loses because he's a loser, you win. And that's all that matters. You got to just fight the good fight of faith.

You have to fight spiritual warfare. Remember who your real enemy is. And listen, I made a list. And just remember, nothing pleases the devil more is when he can tear a marriage apart, a friendship apart, family apart, work relationships. How many times have we seen people like there? I used to work for corporations, right? And there would be like teams. We would be such strong teams and something would happen. Someone would get in there. And then that cohesive unit was no more. Like

Satan doesn't want businesses to flourish, especially if it's a Christian business. He wants to tear that thing down because what happens? Those people are usually tithing and giving to the kingdom and seeing things happen. People's lives are being changed. Their souls are being won. Satan will come after a godly business quickly if he can and try to destroy it within.

Sometimes I listen to people who have businesses and it's like a church. I like, it's like sometimes I've heard people who've done, been coaches of these sports like baseball or whatever. And they're a Christian, a Christian coach. And so they're trying to implement Christian principles and they'll have

Christian parents. And then while they're doing this sport, it's like all hell breaks, Christian principals and they'll have Christian parents. And then while they're doing this sport, it's like all hell breaks loose. And it's just, there's stories that they share, like what they deal with. It's like dealing with church. Business is the same thing because sometimes like the stories that I hear from business owners, I'm like, it's no different than dealing with people in church. It's really no difference. Yeah.

Because a lot of believers are extremely carnal. Yeah. So true. I know. So if you're very carnal, just know Satan wants to tear your marriage apart, your friendships apart, your family apart, your work relationships apart, your ministry. Because listen, there are a lot of people that have ministries that they don't even do in the four walls of the church, but God is making, it's like your job is your ministry and you're doing mighty things for him while you're at work. He wants to hurt that. He wants to kill that.

Your calling, If you're called to be in ministry, he will do everything. The average pastor, and this is an old statistic, it's gotten worse actually, the average pastor does not make it past seven years of ministry. And then he quits. Yep. You know why? Because of people. And people think they're so right, and they're so righteous. You're not. You make it very difficult for pastors to pastor. And there are, listen, there are probably a lot of pastors

that shouldn't be pastoring. I would agree with you. But I will say, people make it very tough to pastor. I mean, Vanessa, how long did Jeff pastor? Like, gosh, eight years, probably. Vanessa, how long did Jeff pastor? Like, gosh, eight years probably.

So we're right there. Yeah. Yeah. And then the church that you were with, the church that let you go, which brought you to us, thank you, Jesus, you know what their problem was? They were growing too fast. It was unhealthy growth. It was unhealthy growth, yeah.

And in that moment, the Holy Spirit was like, you're released. Yeah, they didn't like it. They wanted to stay small. That's biblical. Yeah. That's biblical. Nope, it's not. Not at all.

Bye. Bye. I know. Thank God. You just can't make it up, man. I know. You just can't make it up. I know. He wants to tear the church family apart.

Yeah. And the list goes on. Yeah. So, like I said, I give myself 30 minutes when I see all this stuff coming my way. And then I get on it. I start fighting spiritual warfare. I take the fight into the heavenlies. And I don't stop fighting until I see

breakthrough. And I like I haven't I think I've only ever told Vanessa and Tracy this, but I remember I mean, I literally can pray for hours. I mean, again, I just prayed for two hours before I came here. But I remember one night over Tom. People don't understand. They just don't get it. Vanessa does, but people don't understand what pastors go through. And if you know them, of a lot of them will never show it they'll never tom is super transparent but a lot of pastors are not transparent yeah even the ones that we talk about they're not transparent they are like

it's not it's you just keep things you don't you don't always share things because then people think you're weak or whatever and tom doesn't really care if anybody thinks he's weak he's he's him so he doesn't care but i remember one night i literally prayed um the lord told me it was at midnight i started at midnight i didn't go to bed i think it was 6 or 6 30 he said you will pray over him and i remember back and forth back and forth back as he slept back and forth back and forth over him. And I remember back and forth, back and forth, back as he slept, back and forth, back and forth over him, quoting scripture, praying over him, not touching him, laying hands over him for six,

six and a half hours. And when he woke up, he's like, are you still praying? I'm like, yeah, I'm going to bed now i'm i'm allowed to go to bed he's like that was the best sleep i have had in i don't even know how long that's the lord when he tells you to do something ladies men let there be nothing that you won't do to win and get to the other side and have victory you can lose some some sleep so that your family gets to the other side and has victory. Right? Yeah.

So everybody needs it. People are crazy if they don't think, if you don't think that there's not one person that's so strong that they got it all going on, there is nobody. Yeah. There is absolutely nobody that has it absolutely going on, and they don't need somebody supporting them, holding them up. As women, as I taught at the last Beloved, we are the pillars.

We are the pillars for our family. That's our job. So be about it, no matter what it takes. You know, you hear about back in the day, grandmas, kids would see their grandmothers or their mother sitting at the table, just praying and reading, praying and reading. And that was their, they didn't work.

So that was their job. They were the pillar for the family. And that's the thing that kept them in the faith because they remembered seeing that matriarch doing their job. Let that be us. Let that be us. Mother's Day is coming on Sunday. Be challenged to be the best mom that God's called you to be. And if you are going after him, seek ye first the kingdom, you will be the best mom. Hands down nobody will nobody will be able to touch what you what you do but you got to be willing like listen those six hours my hips were

starting to hurt in the last two i just remember shifting it's shifting like i'm not stopping god's called me to do it i'm doing it so you it. Yeah. And make sure you have an ear that can hear. So because a lot of people have family that they have kids that are not saved. Listen. Spiritual warfare. Listen, be about that. Like if that means that you stay up all night and you pray over your kid, isn't their salvation worth it? But a lot of times we're like, I screwed up. Ain't nothing I can do about it now. Bull crap.

Bull crap. Fight in the heavenlies. Like, it's spiritual warfare. Fight for that kid. They are worth it. And I know that you know that, but,, listen, it's been picked up. It's not here yet. Talia knows what I mean. So just whatever God tells you to do, be willing to do it, even if it's uncomfortable. Like sometimes the Lord has told me to go and do things that make absolutely no sense. And I'm like, Lord, I do not want to do this. I didn't ask if you wanted to do it. I told

you to do it. But it doesn't make sense. I didn't ask you if it made sense. I told you to go do it. And I'm like, okay. And even when I do it and after I'm done doing it it still makes no sense but it's like it still makes no sense and I might not even see the full thing to fruition but you know what the thing was is was I obedient and that's maybe all he wanted to see and that's the thing I've walked away with sometimes is like maybe maybe it maybe it didn't make sense. And maybe it was weird. But, like, he wanted to see how far weird will I go and how far will I do what he tells me to do.

I will do whatever he tells me to do. And that proves, you know, you prove, like, those who love me obey my commandments. Or obey me, right? You prove your love for him and what what he's he wants and expects from you ladies go ahead anything got anything to say nope okay so what i'm going to tell you is this what happens is um what happens is a lot of times when they're when you don't handle things with spiritual warfare and you don't go after them the correct way.

That's when fighting happens amongst people. I mean, I think we've all experienced that, right? Like in my family, we have. That's the truth. Not in my personal, like me, the four of us, that's never happened. In my family extended, we have not handled things correctly before.

And there was inner turmoil. It was bad. I've seen it happen in the church. I've seen it happen in business. It happens. I personally have been a part of it. So it happens. There's fighting amongst each other.

And then what happens is if it's two Christians fighting amongst each other, it makes unbelievers go, I don't want nothing to do with that. That's Christianity. No, thank you. When if we would have just handled it correctly, we would have seen a different outcome. Does that make sense? Of course. I mean, have you guys, you know what I'm talking about, right? we would have seen a different outcome.

Does that make sense? Of course. I mean, have you guys, you know what I'm talking about, right? As long as if you guys haven't had to deal with that crap. Inside my own immediate family. Oh, yes. What am I saying? Yes.

Absolutely. Yeah, no, there's been times where I'm like, oh, no, that wasn't good. But thankfully, we love each other. We forgive each other. We repent and turn. That's the big thing right there. And I have that highlighted in my notes.

That's the big thing, which I think has saved my family. Right. Yeah. And even my jobs, because I've had to go and say, listen, I screwed up. Yeah. Please forgive me. Right. Yeah.

Which isn't always the easiest to do. Thank God. Thank God. Thank God. And some of the offenses weren't that easy to forgive. Like I have, like, I'll just give you an example. In my personal family, like on my mother's side, I gossiped about my brother and so obviously my brother found out of course but then it also happened towards me okay reaping and sowing right

i sewed it i got it back now i have a Now, my brother did not forgive me. It took him a long time to forgive me. He ended up forgiving me at my dad's passing. But I mean, I can't say that he was right for it. Because that's not what the Word of God tells us to do. The Word of God tells us to forgive. Yeah, like that's not an option. Right. But thank God he did. And we have a beautiful relationship. He is like, I will tell you, though, even when he hated my guts, which he didn't really hate my guts, but even when he didn't like me, there's nothing that man would never have done, would not have done for me. about yeah and I have I have choices to make but I've worked in companies where people have burned me to the ground and like you gotta forgive I know forgiveness is the key it is forgiveness because we don't have a choice no exactly and so much you forgive you're forgiven you better forgive I want to be forgiven that doesn't mean yeah now I did because it's my sibling, right?

That doesn't mean that you can't set boundaries because you can and maybe you should. But, you know, you feel so much better when you forgive and you don't harbor any ill will. It's so much better. And you don't harbor any ill will. There's it's so much better. 100%. And really, I can't think of anybody in my life. And maybe you guys are having to overcome it. But there is not one person in my life that I can't say that I have any unforgiveness towards. And hopefully that's not hopefully people. If I've done something to offend other people, they've forgiven me. But because, you know, I'm stupid and I make mistakes and I do do things that cause people to not, you know, that I have to own up for things. And they have to choose to forgive me. But sometimes you do things and you don't even think about it.

I can't tell you how many dumb things I have said. And then I'm like, I didn't, you're kidding me. I didn't even think about it. I can't tell you how many dumb things I have said. And then I'm like, I didn't, you're kidding me. I didn't even think of it like that. Like, like I've sent texts to people or emails to people like back in the day and ticked off a high school friend. She took it totally opposite of what I was saying.

Had no idea. I apologized, but I was like, that's not anything the way I intended it to be. But that's why I hate texting. I know. Exactly. But also, it's her responsibility to come to you and be like, hey, what was this?

And that helps clear the air. Well, she didn't, though, immediately because she was mad. But that's her goal. That's the goal. That's the goal. If somebody does something, go to them. And maybe if you're hot, you wait a second and you take it to the Lord first. We've been talking about first responders

and making sure God's our first responder and not going to a friend or a mom. But cool down. But yeah, the first thing should, I hate being at conflict with people. I just think nothing's worth it. Nothing is worth it. So I either let people just do their thing

and hope that at some point the temperature cools down and we can go back and have a conversation worth it. So either let people just do their thing and hope that at some point, like the temperature cools down and it just, we can go back and have a conversation about it. But I hate that. Like, I just want to live at peace with everybody if possible. I mean, I don't mind confrontation. Yeah. Do it. And I'll do it.

But, and my, my thing is this most everything you can move on. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. Almost everything you can move on. There ain't's what I'm saying. Almost everything you can move on. Eventually, you're like. There ain't much that you like. There's not much. There isn't.

That you can't. There isn't. Because it's not worth it. Yeah. And I always think of the person. Yeah. Like, and Tom talks about this somewhat frequently. Like, what have they done for you?

That's a lot of times I think about the person. And I go, okay. Mm-hmm. for you that's a lot of times I think about the person and I go okay like would they really maybe they had just a really bad moment same yep and they just did something really stupid yep because people have they have they have said not so nice stuff and I think to myself maybe they maybe it was misinterpreted right and if it wasn't whatever but but i'm like but on the whole that person really does love me right yeah and they really wouldn't bring harm to me right so like i'm just gonna like yeah it's a one-off like i'm just not gonna let it bother me

but a lot of people love to hold grudges. They thrive on drama. I don't get it. It's their carnal nature because they don't have anything spiritually really going on in their life. So when things aren't spiritually going on in their life, they love the drama. That's it. That's the key, right? Oh, my goodness. Because there's no entertainment. That's it.

That's it. They're bored. They're bored. So now you're their entertainment. Stir that pot. But it can't feel good. Like at some point, like I guess you get comfortable with the uncomfortable feeling. But like, I just hate, I don't like it.

Not even a little bit. I don't either. Yeah. But be encouraged because even in those, and I say, we're talking about this, but I can't tell you how many times when I've offended or hurt somebody or vice versa, it all works out. Right, right. God still wins. If you take the fight in the spiritual realm, if you take that fight to the spiritual realm, I'm just, and if you handle things biblically, then you're already on top.

You're already ahead of the game because when you are offended and you go to your brother, you've handled it biblically. So God's just going to keep piling on good stuff for you. Yeah, absolutely. That's the way it goes. and you go to them and they, you know, don't own up to it or they're not apologetic or they're not contrite, then you still take it to the heavenlies because ultimately, if they were something important to you before, then you want, I mean, I have aunts that hate my guts, like hate my guts.

I still pray for them. I want nothing but good for them. But it's because they're not, the light, the dark hates the light. They do. And they truly are very sweet people. It's just where they're at. And the dark hates the light. But I want them one to the Lord.

Amen. And they're family. But obviously things got to change. Yeah. But you do, you have to wage war in the heavenly. So Ephesians 6, 12 says,

we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness, this age against spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly places. Remember the devil uses people. He does. Yes, he does. And sometimes if it's a really carnal Christian, devil uses people. He does. Yes, he does. And sometimes if it's a really carnal Christian, he uses them.

Not that he possesses them like Judas. That's not what I'm saying. But if you're super carnal, then you can be, sometimes the devil doesn't even need to use you. You allow yourself to just be carnal. And so mind your words, mind your behaviors, and then you don't have nothing to worry about. But let me go move on, move on.

I will tell you this. Don't allow, and this is encouraging. You may think that this is not encouraging, but it is. And this is the things that I do for myself. Don't allow anyone to have any authority over you. Not one. Not one. The only one who has authority over you is Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, God himself, the Trinity. That's it. And when you walk like that, you walk in freedom because nobody's got nothing on you. Right. Nobody. No

thing. Even if it's a situation. Sometimes, you know, bad things happen. And it's a situation. But even don't let that situation have authority over you. Yes. Bad things happen to people. Yes. Yeah. Happen to good people. I mean, children get molested. Yeah. Okay. That's a bad thing. Now, you can be angry at the person. I understand. But the situation itself can also be something that's hard to get over. Don't let it have authority over you. Don't allow it to have rule and reign in your life.

Don't allow it to dictate your tomorrow. Right. You're better than that. Yeah. And you determine how you respond and how you walk through something. And be encouraged because Jesus, he paid the price for all of that so that you walk in freedom, you walk in authority, and you win. That's the important thing. So I will say this, life is short and it is way too precious.

Way too precious. So don't let anything own you. Don't let one thing own you. It's not worth it. Romans 12, 19 through 21 says, Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath, for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. Therefore, if your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap coals of fire on your head or his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Do not be a doormat. That's not what I'm telling you to be. But also don't be ugly to people.

And sometimes you might lose that one. You might lose that one. But on the whole, you should win it. If you see somebody who is in need, like I always say this as an example, but there is nobody that if I saw them on the side of the road that had a flat tire, I wouldn't stop and help them change that tire or pick them up and get them to a gas station to fill their gas can up or buy their gas can for them. If I saw somebody who couldn't pay their, somebody who hated my guts, somebody who could not pay their bill, I'd pay that bill. I've gone to restaurants, paid bills, paid for somebody to eat. They didn't even know it. Paid their dinner. They hated my guts.

I pay their dinner. You know why? No one's going to get authority over me. Nobody. I walk in freedom. And that's a beautiful, beautiful thing. So don't let that happen to you. Be encouraged because every time you do things like that,

you show who you are in Christ. You show what kind of winner you actually are. You show that nothing and no one's got anything on you, that your carnal nature does not beat you. Your spirit man wins every time. That's super, super important. And like I said, boundaries are okay. But I will tell you this, as as I always do and everyone knows that I hate it but do not quit do not quit on any person do not like even family don't quit on family don't quit on your friends family I say specifically because a lot of times parents have kids and their kids have just beaten them down so bad sometimes. Sometimes kids are mean.

You created that, so that's part of your problem, partly your problem. But at the same time, you're now saved. You weren't saved when your kids were, you know. I'm thinking of a couple in my mind. They're close to around my age, that their kids are all grown up. And they really didn't, they're a blended family,

so they really didn't walk in, they didn't walk with the Lord when they were raising their kids, right? So then they get saved when they're older, and their kids are giving them a beat down now, you know? Well, don't quit on them. Don't like throw your hands up in the air and say, you know what, this is a losing battle. It is not a losing battle.

Take it to the spiritual realm. I promise you. You will see things fast. Pray over them. You will see things that you be encouraged. There is answers. There is victory. A lot of times people just think there's no hope.

With him, there is hope in every single battle. The battle is won. There's the hope. It's just a lot of times we just think it's too big. It's not like it's not winnable. Everything is winnable when we don't quit. So with your family and your kids and things like that, no matter like what is said or

done with them, friends, like I think of, like I treated one of my best friends in high school horrible. I wanted nothing to do with her. Do you know that that girl consistently reached out to me, loved me, even when I rejected and was hateful and angry and bitter towards her. She just kept coming back periodically, coming back. She prayed over me religiously. We're friends to this. We, we are, we're, we're now friends again. We got, you know, fixed it many, many, many, many years ago, but that showed me what true friendship is. Right. Yep. Like, I'm like, that's how jesus is like that's how he is she showed me jesus so be like that no friendship people no friendship is worth losing if it can come back together spiritually speaking and be healthy absolutely if it ain't healthy don't do it but that also doesn't mean don't

love them and don't help them if they need help pro Proverbs 24.10 says, If you faint, and I love this scripture, write it down. If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Write that down. Proverbs 24.10. Don't quit. That's what that's saying right there. If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Don't quit.

I hate quitters. Quitters never win. Quitters always lose. It's true. Always lose. And I ain't no loser and neither are you. So don't quit. We are winners. We, and Aitley, because we are now God's kids, we automatically, more naturally, are winners. You know how some people are just naturally gifted and talented? You are naturally gifted and talented in winning. That's it. So you win every time. All right, a couple more.

1 Corinthians 15, 15, 7 says, But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Victory is yours. Isaiah 41.10 says, Fear not, for I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you.

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. And I will end with this because I got four minutes. Let's look at Paul, and then I'm going to have the peanut gallery say something. But let's look at Paul. Paul out of everybody yeah if anybody should have quit it's Paul yeah because the man was beaten right he was talked about really bad um he was treated horribly he was shipwrecked I mean like like car accidents yeah he had plenty of them. Yeah. Okay? Yeah.

And then gets off the boat and gets bit on top of that. Yeah. And all of that, he never quit. Amen. So if Paul doesn't quit, we don't quit. Amen. He was the greatest soul winner there is. Let him be the example.

Because he fought with Barnabas. I mean, literally made a righteous stand, fought with Barnabas because Barnabas wanted to keep his nephew, John Mark, with them when John Mark totally ditched him. And he was like, you know what? I don't know if we can make this work.

So he and Barnabas split up. They reconciled. Super important. They reconciled and so did he with John Mark. So like all lessons, use the Bible. It's great. It'll teach you plenty of things. 2 Corinthians 12 and 9 through 10 says,

and he said to me, my grace is sufficient for you. And this is what Paul said to the Corinthians. If anybody knows about not quitting, like I said, it's him. And this is what he says. And he said to me, and this is Jesus said to Paul, he said, my grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. So what Paul did is he took what Jesus said to him, and he said, I'm going to apply that to my life. I'm not quitting. If you say your grace is sufficient for me, then that's the facts. That's the truth. I will walk in it.

And then it says, therefore, most gladly, I will rather boast in my infirmities. This is Paul saying that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities and reproaches and needs and persecutions and distresses for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. And that is us. Depends on how you look at it. And remember this, and I say this about myself.

Whenever I want to behave a certain way or I want to do a certain thing, I say to myself a lot of times, you are way better than that. And I am, so I don't do it. But we are way better than sometimes how we act, somehow, sometimes how we fight to win. We're way better. We don't put all of ourselves into the situation so that we win when we get to the other side. Victory is ours. Yes. Every single time.

It's what we put into it. Ladies, please. The only thing I have to say is I know this is like a stupid little saying, but it's like nobody knows the battle that somebody else is going through. And when you actually talk to somebody and you realize like what's going on in their life, like you have a level of grace for them. So I just, I do. I always assume the best in people I always assume they're going through something and that's why they're acting the way they are and then I I that then I leave it at that and that helps me just kind of stay like even keel with people you know and like you said don't

let anybody have authority over you so I don't it just I don't do the highs and the lows I stay here with people and I love people. But I can do it without them gaining authority over me. Yeah. So that was really good. Yeah. And there's just so many things in life that we're all walking through. Right.

Financial. Yeah. Healing. Yeah. There's so many things. I know. But at the end of the day, you win. Yeah.

Yeah. I used to be like that like I would let like every little thing like like hurt me and I would always take it like really like personally yeah and I had to learn that like it doesn't like I don't know I just had to learn that I can't dwell on it and I just have to move on and like for like literally forgiving people was like it's like the easiest thing ever and it feels so amazing. Yeah. I don't have a lot to share, but I will say that I'm not surprised that the Lord gave

you this word because I feel like it's a very timely word for this time for a lot of people. For a lot of people. It really is. I sense it in my spirit. It's like when that gossip thing start coming and we kept hearing about gossip and things. And it ended up being like, I cannot tell you how many people have come to me or talked about this or we've seen gossip

and it being so destructive. But God's never by accident. Nope. Yeah, but go ahead, Sarah. That last scripture that you read, I have that on my i have that on my tattoo that second corinthians oh i love it for when i'm weak then i'm strong i just finally memorized it too i was like i'm gonna have this tattoo on my arm people are gonna ask me what it

is so i didn't memorize it smart yeah but i just also thought of ephesians 2 but god who is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. By grace you have been saved. And he raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Amen. So if you listen, I really like we focus on we focus on some specific things, but be encouraged because listen, if you're walking through financial hardship, if you're walking through a health situation, there are scripture after

scripture after scripture that will encourage you. The devil doesn't win. He is a loser. And like, if you apply the scriptures, if you wage war, like I'm saying to you, it is spiritual warfare. When you do those things, you win every single single time a lot of times you're not winning because you don't know the promises of god you don't know the word yes you have not because you ask not why don't you ask a lot of times you don't ask because you don't know yeah yeah true so true so there is there's so much if you get into the word of God and you study it out, you will see everything laid out for you. You will be encouraged. You will be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might,

and you will win and take down the enemy who's trying to destroy you. And that's just all there is. So I'm going to pray over everybody right now. And let's leave this podcast encouraged and knowing that on the other side of whatever we're walking through, victory is ours. Heavenly Father, we just come to you. And Lord God, I just ask that everybody that is listening to this podcast, whether it be live or on replay, Lord, you know each and every situation. You know what people are walking through. If it be financial, Lord, I ask that, Lord, you would show them in the word what they

are missing or what they're not doing. Maybe they're doing everything and the provision is just around the corner. So, Lord, I just praise you and I thank you right now that the needs will be met and the wants will also be there and you will show them who you are through the victory of them receiving all that you have for them financially, that every need be met and even the ones on top of that. Your promises are true. Show them the promises for them and let them stand in them and get victory on the other side. If healing is needed in someone's body, Lord, show them in the word where they're missing it, where there's doubt and unbelief,

or Lord, maybe the manifestation of the healing is right there, right in front of them, and they just don't know it. So we praise you, we thank you, and we speak to whatever illness, sickness, or disease is in the body right now of whomever is needing healing. We speak to that right now in the name of Jesus. We command that sickness, illness, and disease out in the name of Jesus. And the next time they go to the doctor, or maybe they don't even need to go to the doctor,

right now they will feel your healing power, the anointing that you provide, and they will know, and they will feel, and they will be encouraged in knowing that they are healed in Jesus' mighty name. They won. They've beat whatever is trying to defeat them. And if there's an issue with, I don't know, disharmony or I don't know. I don't know exactly what I'm praying for and specifically with this. But if there be something that somebody is dealing with that they feel like something's got the better of them, whether it be a life circumstances or maybe it's a person, I don't know specifically.

But, Lord, you do. So whatever that is, show them what they must do, biblically speaking, to win this battle. Let them walk it through. Let them get to the other side and let them see the victory. And maybe, like, again, if it's an accident, if they got in a car accident and the insurance is saying they're only getting a certain amount of money, Father, bring in the rest. Let them see. Let them see the mighty work of God, that that circumstance isn't going to beat them, that you've already got the answer. And it is a winner.

In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. We thank you. We praise you. And we know that everything we ask, you will do. Because your word says, ask and it shall be given unto you. Amen. In Jesus' name, we pray. Thank you for watching. Thank you for praying with us. And if you need anything,

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