With The Perrys - Real Christian Maturity and How to Have Lasting Fruit with Christine Caine

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

Today’s guest, Christine Caine, says that one of the greatest testimonies in our generation is a resilient, enduring faith. No matter what is happening around you, you can continue to flourish when you are rooted and grounded in the love of God. Christine and the Perrys discuss what it looks like to lean into sanctification rather than run from it, what the imagery of the olive tree in Scripture teaches us, and why followers of Christ can flourish while still grieving the darkness of our world. This life is hard. It doesn’t get easier. But what’s on the other side is worth it: intimacy with Jesus. Check out Christine's new book, The Faith to Flourish: God’s Design for a Rooted, Resilient, and Fruitful Life – https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Flourish-Design-Resilient-Fruitful/dp/1400255252 https://weekendtoremember.com — Save $100 with code Perry! https://meetfabric.com/perry — Help protect your family today with Fabric by Gerber Life. You could be offered coverage instantly with NO health exam required! Scripture references: Psalm 52:8 John 15:1-2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, Saints and names. How are you? I hope you're blessed. I hope you're happy. What's good with you all? If you're not happy, I'm sorry. Because I'm happy. You know, I was talking to somebody. That song was a, that song was like a vibe. It was a good song. I was talking to somebody the other day, and I was like, yeah, I don't really like happy songs like that. I'm so shocked that you don't like happy songs. I don't. I like songs in a minor key. I want there to be a tone of darkness there. Not demonic darkness. Not demonic. Like what? Just like moody. Like I like I like I like to feel I know you ain't lying because when that Yeba song came out one that one year was song. Mama. Mama. No no not that song the song um about her mom. October Scott. October Scott. I'm like

why are we listening to this over? Yeah it is about her mom committing suicide. But it was very very creative. Yeah, it was a beautiful, it was a hard, beautiful song. And I think life is hard. You don't like some happy songs like the, some? Like, like, I like for, I like for real's happy song. I got, I just can't imagine getting in my car and be like, shoot, let me find his like, for real song. Now, I will say

what does bring me joy is shout music. Okay. So if I'm going to listen to anything, happy is shout music. And I remember I had a conversation with the cray and he was like, what's like one style of music, useless to outside of people I wouldn't expect. I think if you follow me, you know I'm churchy. But that music, it does impute joy into me. You know what I'm saying?

That's good. Like when you're a person who has a melancholy bent, you kind of do need to find, like, outlets. I just want to say it's, most of our listeners, no, I didn't grow up in the church. Correct. The first time I saw shouting, I was so confused. You thought they were obsessed? I thought, I was like, Lord. Yeah, like, even... I don't know what's happening.

Even clapping on the two and four is still a little hard for you. You didn't have to say that. It's not shade. I can clap on beat. Try. Ain't no music. So? It should be an internal.

Look at you. It's you when you're... You need a metrono. Welcome to the basement. Not the basement. That's another podcast. With the Perry's Mrs. Christine Kay.

How are you? I am awesome. How you doing? Have you ever shouted in church, Christine? You know, once or twice? Yeah. I feel really good that my beat is right up there with Preston. Okay.

She's trying to shave me, Ms. Christine. I'm not shading. I got, I got rhythm. I didn't say you didn't have rhythm. Okay. I'm saying there's a, there's a. I'm insecure now. You are secure in Christ.

You are an olive branch in history. Okay. Miss Christine is here. I don't know if I ever told you. I don't know if y'all know. I used to be a part of a traveling conference. Ms. Christine Kaine was doing conference. propel. COVID shut all that down. It just completely stopped. But one thing that Christine did to me

that completely helped me, it scared me, but it helped me, is one time, I don't know what city we was in. She on stage, exhorting the people. And she's like, Jackie, come up here and share with the Lord, what you're discerning in the room. And I'm like, why is she doing that to me? Like, what are you doing? She saw a gifting it. But legitimately that day, I was discerning, all types of stuff. So it felt like, I felt like Christine, I feel like my time with you at Propel, like was at kind of the beginning of me traveling more

and teaching more and leading more. And I feel like she was using Propel as a way to, like, train me without my permission. That's beautiful. So thank you. I'm so grateful. You know, I think it landed pretty well. Yeah, it did.

Every time I go to Australia, I think about you. Really? Yeah. I can go to. You like the first person I think about because you're the first Australian that I made. And you always look so cool and so swagger. I'm like, man, I gotta go to Australia.

That's a compliment for you. I need to say, have you, I have never asked you this. Have you eaten vegamite? Veggie mite. Uh-uh. That's Australian thing? Mate. Okay.

Yeah, no, we go. What is that? What is that? It's a black yeast paste. Oh, I never ate that. No, I'm going to send you a jar. You put it on hot toast, and here is the secret. You're really only supposed to put a tiny,

tiny thin spread, like hot toast butter, thin spread of vegetamite. But what we do to Americans when they come over is we put like an inch and they like throw up. It's awesome. Okay. Oh, I don't want to throw up. I want to eat it. No, I'm going to give it to you to eat. Like just a tiny thin spread.

Yeah, we never did that when we went to Sydney. Yeah, they always take it to like nice, like Americanized restaurants, it seems like. But yeah, I want to, yeah, next time. How are you, Ms. Christine? How are you today? I'm feeling awesome. Okay. You know, this is my 60th year of life, so I'm happy.

Praise the Lord. Yeah, that's right. I'm celebrating all year. It's not until September at my actual birthday, but I figure if you live this long, every day this year, I'm celebrating. And how long have you been a Christian? Since really a fully devoted follower of Jesus since I was 22. Wow.

Quick question. Yeah. What has been the secret of enduring? Staying very connected to Jesus. Through his word. So for me, it's the word. Because I asked that because I think we talked about. talked about this on your podcast, just about how I think the longer I've been in Christ and even

experiencing people fall away for lesser things, I've just seen how like, oh, like the longer you're with him, it doesn't get easier. And so like, I appreciate people who keep going more than I used to. You know what I'm sure? And the older you get, the more you will, because the enemy is not nothing but patient. So he, um, you know, pretty much in my life in the last maybe five years, most of the people that I personally know, not all, but most that have not finished strong or fallen away, are actually older than me.

So my husband and Nick and I were talking, even last night, and we're like, man, we've got to be more committed to finishing strong because a generation needs to see people that finish well. And, you know, Paul said I run my race and I have finished my course. And so I don't know how many really have finished their course. So I'm committed to that. And my mentor said to me really early on, she said, Chris, be really careful what you pray for.

Because as many people as the Lord allows you to help, that's how many you can hurt. And so the enemy will make sure until you can maximally hurt the most to try to take you out, which is for all of us. Wow, that's amazing. I know we're not talking about this, but you just spark like seven questions in my mind. Being a Christian for so long,

seeing, you know, I've had a great amount of friends who've fallen away too in my short time of being a Christian. You've been a Christian almost 40 years? What are some of the things, he talked about the enemy being patient. What are some of the things over the years you saw the enemy kind of wear people down with that caused them to walk away from the faith? And what are some things that people can look out for as they grow in their faith? We don't like small talk.

No, I'm Lord neither to why. The one thing why you and I really get on is we're just like straight. That's it. But, you know, when you are no longer committed to like ongoing sanctification, so you either think a position title or a gift or a talent can carry you more than God's sanctifying work through and through. So the minute you start thinking, I don't have to deal with that. And it's not, I think initially in my, again, just my experience from the people that I know, you kind of go, that's okay. And I'm going to shelve that or I'm going to bury that rather than allow the Lord to shine his light on it.

That's good. And here's the other thing. I think the longer you walk with the Lord, you really know how painful sanctification can be. So, you know, covering something up rather than really allowing the Lord to go in deep and deal with it. You know, I fractured my knee. I was skiing, you know, years ago, and I snapped my ACL, tore my MCL, tore my meniscus, did all the things. Wow. And I had a hamstring graft, and the PT came in straight after my surgery.

And he said, Christine, the level of damage you've done, most people don't normally fully recover. I get their full movement back into their knee. He goes, but actually technically, your right knee is now much stronger than your left knee because of the hamstring graft. But because of all the scar tissue, and it's going to take at least six months of intense and very painful therapy for you to get that thing healed and whole. And he said, so the injury happened in an instant, and so it was deeply painful. But the pain of recovery is going to be far greater than the pain of the injury. So you can either recover quickly or slowly, completely or partially. It's entirely up to you.

But the degree to which you're willing to embrace the pain of recovery is the degree to a degree to recover. which you'll recover. And I think, to answer your question, eventually you stop wanting to embrace the pain of recovery. And so you allow your gift to carry you to a place that your character will destroy you. And that's happened time and time again. And the Lord doesn't care how big your name is or the brand is. What you've got is a whole lot of people building monuments to themselves rather than to the Lord. And it says in 2nd Samuel 18 that because Absalom had no sons to bear his name in remembrance, he built a monument to himself. So if you're no longer allowing God to sanctify you, it's easier to build a monument to your name rather than continue to let the Lord's

work go forward. So I think that it will take you out. It doesn't matter if you're 60, 70, and the enemy will wait till you can have maximum impact to hurt the most amount of people in God's body. We literally can do the benediction after that. You just preach. What else are there to say? Christine. Yes. Wow. That was great. Great marriages really don't just happen. They take work and intentionality and prayer and fasting and conversations and travailing and endurance and love and picnics and dates and conversations and Gabriel and Michael and Daniel and Zachariah. And that's why I want to tell you that the weekend to remember marriage getaway is coming to a city near you.

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God's Designed for Rooted. Hey, we don't brand, actually. Rooted, resilient, and fruitful life. Not season, life. This is what it looked like. So we're just going to talk about your book. One of the interesting things I was sharing with you is that you're kind of like, I don't, like the platform you use.

used to kind of communicate these ideas on how to be faithful and how to flourish is the olive tree and olives and all the stuff. I personally, I don't like olives. I don't think they taste good. Do you like olives? Jackie. You like them? Well, you eating vegemite and things. Christine, look mad. She said, I'm Greek. How can you say? I don't like them. Okay. I like olives. You've never found an olive you like? Nah. It just, well, I ain't going to hold you. I've only had them like on Papa John's pizza. Listen, you're good. I got people that eat, you know,

olive martinis. I cook with olive oil. You have such a great palate. I do. You post the best pictures of the best food. Correct. I guarantee you you've had olives in your stuff. It's like John Legend. I feel like I want to like it and I don't. Okay. Or like Alicia Keys. No, you shouldn't. Anyway.

Would you come to Greece with me and try different olives? Yeah. That's probably the part when we use of these Americanized Costco. Broger olives. That's it. That's the problem. But Jackie, she has a gray palette.

She's made me a foodie. Yeah. But Jackie, she just, she could be kind of like, eh. Like Jackie won't eat lamb. Yeah, yeah. Wow. That's beside the point. You talk about how you went to the Parthenon.

Yes. Tell us the story. You're going to the Parthadon, seeing the Isle of Tree and just the rabbit trail that that took you down. Literally. So, I mean, I've gone so many times. And there is, at the top of the Parthenon, there is what they call.

the sacred olive tree. I mean, there's just so much mythology around it. But what is startling is it's the most arid, dry place and nothing else is growing. There's nothing else there except for the, you know, the Parthenon that's been there for however many thousands of years. And you look around and go, why is this the only plant that has kind of survived? And it grabbed me, and why really grabbed my attention this particular day of all the times I'd gone? I had been reading Psalm 52. And so, you know, which is just so full on. And David was, you know, again, running away from Saul and he'd been betrayed and there was gossip and slander

and he'd been lied about and he's hiding in a cave, trying not to die. And then in the midst of all of this, he says in verse 8, you know, but I am like a green flourishing olive tree. And it really, it stuck to me. So of course, sometimes, you know, that's what happens. You read a scripture in the morning and then you're out there in the day

and you're going, okay, and now I'm looking at a green. You know, flourishing olive tree. And then it really caused me to go in. I thought, why? Of all the trees, because there are so many trees listed in the, and you hear so many sermons about different trees and the cedars of Lebanon. And I'm like, who wants to be an olive tree? It's not like a big oak tree.

It's not, in some ways, it's not grand. It's not majestic. And yet, then I go down this rabbit trail of, you know, over 200 mentions of olive tree, olive branches, olive oil in the scripture. and the nerd side of me. And then, of course, I thought my mother was right. Because, you know, you guys grow up with like milk in your bottles to feed your kids. I, like, had olive oil.

Like my olive oil, Windex and olive oil was the answer to life, the universe and everything in a Greek household. And I remember all the times I'd go to school and I'd have like, oh, here's you, you don't like them, olive sandwiches and feta cheese sandwiches. Olive sandwiches? And, you know, 90s, I just got to say in 1972 in Australia, that was not cool. Like, I was so, I had to throw my lunch out on the way to school so the kids wouldn't ridicule me. I mean, nowadays, the Mediterranean diet is everything.

My mother was just. You had like a probiotic lunch. My mom was just way ahead of the time. I was like on the Mediterranean diet when it was not cool. And, but then, you know, I really went in and looked at the tabernacle, looked at the temple and just went, oh, my word. there are so many, all the wood in there is from the olive tree. And it sent me two years down this trail. I went to eight different countries, olive farms in eight different countries around the world,

Morocco and Slovenia and Italy and Greece. Do you go to South Africa? No, I didn't go to an olive farm in South Africa. I wish I did. It would have because. I thought I saw one when I was there. You would have, because there's the vineyards down there, which are awesome. We visited a vineyard our last day and I think we saw a couple of,

Oh, my bad. Yeah. And so that was, yeah, so they're there. You're thinking they're not there. But it was amazing to me then to go, there's a reason why this imagery. I mean, you're talking everything. Like from Romans, when we're grafted in, it's an olive branch when we've been grafted in. I mean, in the Bible study that I wrote with a book, that's where, I mean, I really went to all those texts that people sort of leave alone, you know, what does it mean to be grafted in?

And the Lord uses an olive branch. It's an olive leaf when Noah and the flood comes in. And so, you know, I really unpacked Genesis Ait and go, what does it mean in this crazy world to extend an olive branch? And why after the flood was it that? Why did, of all of the trees we could have been grafted in when we got grafted in? And what does this mean that we're connected to the promises that we're given to Abraham? And how can we unpack all of this for a world that's burning down as we speak?

That's beautiful. What I love about that is like symbolism in the Bible isn't arbitrary. Right. You know, like it really is communicating something helpful. I want to read Psalm 52 again. I would love if you could unpack it for us a little bit. If we can, yeah. Psalm 52 verse 8 says, but I am like a green olive tree in the house of God.

Like, are they all green? Are someone brown? Olive trees. You know what I'm saying? Like, is green important? Green is important because it's the flourishing side of it. It means everything around it is brown, but it is. green. Wow. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever. So yeah, tell us about what is he

trying to say and how does that, I guess, serve our ability to flourish? Well, I think in, well, I mean, the key to me there, even more than the olive trees, the steadfast love of God. So it's the faithful, he is so rooted and grounded in the faithfulness and the love of God that that is what is going to sustain him. I mean, you've got to remember where we are. And I think if you go back, I'm pretty sure it's First Samuel 21 and 22, you know, he goes and he goes to the priest. and he's given Goliath sword and, you know, the shoe bread and Doegg goes and tells Saul and the priests, 85 priests, are killed. I mean, it's pretty rough what has happened. So all of this is happening around him. He's in a cave. And I think the big message is whatever is happening

around you, you can still continue to flourish if you are rooted and grounded in the faithful love of God. And I think we need this message. You know, we're recording this in 2026. I mean, In the last 10 years, so I'm 60 this year, I've seen the world change a lot. You know, I lived in a world where there was no computer and there was no internet. My children didn't even know the world existed in those days. So the world's changed. The church has changed, but the faithful love of God hasn't changed and the promises of God haven't changed.

And if all the promises of God are in Christ Jesus, yes and amen. And Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, just because everything else has changed and just because everyone else is losing their minds doesn't mean we have to. And so if we can again go, what does it mean to be rooted in the faithful love of God? And what does it mean to be a flourishing green olive tree when everything in the world is dark and only going to get darker? It's, you know, if you're reading your Bible, you know it's not going to get better. And we have a world and I'm hearing people everywhere I travel, you know, amazing things are here.

Like either, you know, when this changes, then this promise of God's going to come to pass. Or, you know, people still are referencing their life. Well, Christine, you know, before COVID, my life was da-da-da. And I'm like, there was a time that BC stood for before Christ. But it's almost like nowadays we are. I'm going, okay, if Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And all the promises of God are in Christ, Jesus, yes, and amen. in and we have been grafted in.

And the promises that God gave to Abraham are still for us today. Why shouldn't we flourish just because economically, politically, socially, morally, environmentally, the world is, you know, spiraling out of control. For a believer, we should still be flourishing. Now, that does not mean there's no grief or pain or loss or so. I'm not in any way minimizing. And the book is very clear in this world, you will. Not you might have trouble.

yet we're still supposed to flourish in the midst of it. That's great. That's very fascinating. I love how it's so much symbolism as it relates to olive trees to our sanctification. I think that's dope. In the book, you don't just talk about roots, but you talk about the importance of strong roots and how an olive branch has strong roots. Like, what does it take for the Christians have strong roots in Christ?

Like, what does that strength come from and how do we gain it? Yeah, I love that. And it's not only strong roots, they're very interconnected. That's what keeps them going. so the value of community. So we're saying so, you know, he says, I'm flourishing planted in the house of the Lord. So strong Christian community, the house of the Lord. I think that is what keeps us rooted and grounded.

The enemy has run rampant in the last decade, causing so much division and chaos and distraction and getting people uprooted. And there is sometimes. And I mean, of course, I talk about Jeremiah because, again, he uses the olive tree and the uprooting and the burning to the ground. And a lot of that we've watched in real time. It's like, look at what has happened. But out of that, our root system should be so strongly grounded in the word of God and in the promises of God. Again, I keep coming back to the promises of God. What I hate is that the prosperity gospel has hijacked the reality of biblical flourishing and

fruitfulness. And I loat that. And I feel like part of why I wrote this, book is to say, I want to bring back biblical flourishing. So Christians are unapologetic about what it is to flourish, but that it's not hijacked by the prosperity gospel. And a lot of us are scared to talk about flourishing because we don't want to be misinterpreted about, you know, the hyper-prosperity gospel. And so I thought, but in the midst of that, so many Christians are languishing because their roots are not going deep because they're not realizing our very spiritual disciplines, which are the means of grace to keep us connected to God. We're throwing them away. And then we're wondering why we're languishing and why we're not flourishing. And then we don't want to be misinterpreted and go, well,

we don't want the great American dream and the hyper-prosperity gospel. I totally agree. That's not what biblical flourishing is. But we need to talk about what it is to flourish and what it is to be rooted in Christ because that is such a strong part of our witness in this dark hour on the earth. And if Christians are languishing like the world is languishing, why would anyone think that there's any hope in Christ? Wow. That's beautiful. I'm sorry, I just want to say that that was a dope visual for me, from when you talked about how they just don't grow, but they grow together. Yeah. Because it's like when you first plant an olive tree, I'm assuming, the roots are not connected. But I think as Christians, as we continue to grow in Christ,

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and then talked about spiritual disciplines, what I see particularly on social media and I'm sure it's present within our churches is a misunderstanding of how, maturity happens. Right. Wow, yeah. You know what I'm saying?

And so I guess I see two things. One is this thinking that the more knowledge I gained communicates the more maturity I have or the more prophetic insight I have communicates the maturity and the intimacy that I have. All of it is kind of rooted in just a misunder, like God is actually using very normal, boring, natural means of grace to mature us, community, fast, prayer fellowship. I guess I want you to talk to the people who feel like, no, like, I went and saw the prophet and, you know,

I'm strong in the Lord, or I'm in seminary. Right. And I'm strong in the Lord. Like, talk to the people. Yeah. I love that you're saying that. You know, it takes about 10 years for an olive tree to bear the first fruit. And so it actually takes a whole lot of time.

And I think this misunderstanding of, fruit and root is because you can't see the roots, nobody wants to allow that to be formed. And so what is happening? Either we think my high intellect, I'm in seminary, or I can just get away with sort of gifts, as if we gave ourselves our gifts anyway. This is what always amuses me. I'm like, your gift actually doesn't tell me anything about your relationship with Christ. It just shows me that God has distributed his gifts to his body as he sees fit.

It tells me about God, not about you. So I'm like, God has got gifts. How dare you say that to us? That to me is like, but the gift that is on you will destroy you if the character in you has not been formed. And so you can be in seminary and getting head knowledge, but not building any character and not allowing Christ to build character in you. I mean, even, you know, I mean, when it's written that, you know, you nullify the power

of the word through your just religious. tradition. So you could, you could just go through the form and there's no power in the word of God. You can know it inside out, back to front, in the Greek Hebrew and Aramaic, but there's no power because the power, the spirit of God, you're not allowing him to have his way in you. It's not, you know, that you get more of the spirit. Hopefully the spirit's getting more of you. And that's the sanctification process. So I think even so you get maybe into some of the charismatic circles and it's like, I want more of you, more of you. It's like, well, you've got all of him that you're going to get when you say what he needs is more of you. And that's really

the sanctification process. But if you're running around chasing the latest word, so you've got two sides, you're either chasing the latest word from man that says it's from God when you could really read what God's got to say. And then a word can sort of confirm what the Lord's are already saying. But it's just either laziness. And if you're lazy in going to the word, you're probably lazy for allowing the Spirit of God to really do the work in you as well. The other side is, and I think most of this has got to do more with personality than anything.

Some people are wired up. They like to study. They like to, so you can hide behind that. Other people are lazy and they don't want to, so they want to sort of hide behind the gifts. And I'm like both, it's God's word, number one, and it's God's gifts. So at the end of the day,

they are both more to do with God than you being sanctified. At the end of the day, both can be an escape. from the hard work of allowing the Lord to do what he wants to do in you. And both those things are God. It's his word and it's his gifts. So, you know, don't use God to put yourself forward. You've got to allow God. Again, the whole bottom line is surrender.

You've got to allow God to produce that fruit in you. And if you confuse a gift with fruit, you're in really dangerous territory. Yeah. Talk about using your fruit, like using your gifts before it's time. Because I think about an olive. Yes. I haven't studied olive branches, but I know one thing about like grape vines or whatever.

Like when it first started to form fruit, it doesn't mean it's ready to be picked, right? It has to mature, right? And it tastes terrible. You'll spit it out. And you'll spit it out, right? And so, like, I think sometimes we treat our spiritual walks like that. As soon as we see a little fruit,

we're trying to be useful to the world, it doesn't necessarily mean we're ready, just because we're marrying some type of fruit. And so talk about the maturity of knowing. when you're ready to actually go out to be used. And it's a greater challenge in this generation because even if you have an ounce of fruit, you can actually take a screenshot of that, edit it, crop it, upload it, and ride that for 10 years. And there's no oil on it, there's no anointing on it.

It's one little thing. And the Lord, number one, you've got to remember, the fruit is the Lord's. Anyway, it's like it's his. He's the one that produces the fruit. fruit in us. Now, I'm a big advocate. Why I want people to flourish is because it is to our father's great glory that we bear much fruit. So glory is at stake. This is what I think is at stake at the earth. So what we're seeing at the moment is not necessarily a whole lot of fruit. Maybe something God once did. We've sort of like, I don't know, we've branded that one thing.

That's not like ongoing fruit. That's not fruit that keeps producing all the time. It's this one moment in time, this one thing that happened that the Lord did, and somehow we're trying to build a brand out of that or we're trying to build a platform out of that. And you're like, hang on a minute, this is all back to front. The Lord is the one, number one, promotion doesn't come from the north, southeast or west. It comes from God. If you put yourself there, you have to keep yourself there. So you're no longer relying on the oil of God. You're relying on a marketing plan. And it's better to be marked by God than marketed by man. But to be marked by God, you've got to be submitted to the process of ongoing sanctification,

which means there's ongoing crushing. That's how oil is produced. And the fact is that it's the oil, Isaiah says that it's the oil that breaks the yolks and chains, not the gift. So a gift will fill a room and a gift can entertain a room, but a gift will not break yokes and chains and bondages. Only oil does.

To get oil, you've got to have Gassimini moments constantly. I'm 60. It doesn't change. You've got to constantly be on your knees, nevertheless, not my will. but thine be done. That is ongoing and that is what people don't want to do because then, but that's the only way the oil stays fresh. So my value isn't, you know, if you don't have a discerning audience, based on my gift, 40 years of, you know, longevity, pretty much stability,

not perfection, mistakes, but stability, ongoing repentance, moving forward. I probably, this had a little discernment that as long as I don't do anything major, I don't, Nick and I stay married to Nick and don't do anything stupid and, you know, I could probably ride on my gift into eternity, but probably not be producing any more fruit. I have to be on my knees in Gisemone, submitting to the process of crushing so that there's fresh oil every day. And that is what gives my ministry, longevity and life and change in people's lives. That's beautiful. Sheesh. This feels oily. I'm a read a text. in light of what you just said.

This is John 15. I am the true vine and my father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. And every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes that it may bear more fruit. Being crushed and being pruned is very painful. Very. And I've seen that there can be within me and in others the temptation to escape the pruning by finding other ways of comfort, you know, other avenues of escape. But there also is the temptation to

withdraw from the thing. So, for example, like, I think last year was one of the most tempting years for me to not want to do ministry anymore because I was like, this is costing me too much, right? Which would be disobedience for me to, like, be like, yeah, it's too painful. I don't like dealing with what it comes with being useful and da-da-da-da-da. Like, what is your encouragement, I guess, into, like, how do you lean into the crushing? How do you lean into the pruning instead of running away from it? Yeah. Now, the good news is as you get older, it doesn't get easier, but you do know that what's on the other side is worth it. And what I mean by that is the intimacy you have with Jesus is worth it and he's worthy. So here's what you're

pruning does, because it says every branch that does bear fruit, that doesn't bear fruit will be cut off, and the branches that do. So you pruned if you do, you pruned if you don't. That's the bottom line. And you don't really know whether you're in it for yourself or for God until the next round of pruning. And at every stage, that's what's revealed. Because, I mean, I got to a similar place a few years ago where, you know, I said to Nick, I know I can do it. I just don't know if I want to because I'm so cognizant now of the price. And then the Lord is like, so you thought when you just said yes to me and I'm laying everything down, you know, 40 years ago? Yeah. That I was dead to self and then I would deny myself, take up my cross and follow him. And it's like that's supposed to be a daily process. It's not like when you get to 60 and have a certain amount of whatever, you're at a certain place of comfort and ease. Are you still denying yourself? Are you still taking up your cross?

Are you still following him? and you don't really know you are. We hide it behind, I've got to pack a suitcase, and I've got to go to six cities this week, and aren't I doing all this for the Lord? And then it's like you go through years like you went through last year. And then it's like, what am I really in this for? Because it's no longer for either more followers or more impact or more,

where else do I want to speak? What else? I mean, at this point in my life, you know, it's not. It is now purely, hopefully, to run my race and finish my course so that when I get to the other side, I do hear, well done, good and faithful servant. This is actually what it's about.

And I really wouldn't have known, is it really about that until you get to hear when I can hide now behind, you can hide behind success or you can tap out because it's just too hard. But the fact is that the things, where I want to stop going, these are the things that I had prayed for,

that I'd prayed that God would allow me to be used for his glory, that, you know, he would move through me. Well, the fact is now I'm living in the result of those prayers. When I had one A-21 office, it was really different to delivering programs in 22 countries and having hundreds of staff and all the stuff that comes with all of that. When nobody knew me, that was awesome compared to now millions of people who got their different opinions. And depending what, you know, so you're viewed now through the lens of everyone else.

Does it still really only matter to me? Do I care more about what God knows about me than what people think about me? Now, I don't really know that until I find out what some people think about me. Then I'm like, oh, okay, God, but you know this. And I guess, is that enough for me? And I didn't really know that until the other flared up. That I'm in it for his kingdom and not for me. Because until you get to a certain point, you probably are in it for you,

until then you can live in the comfort of being there and you have just enough Christian verbiage that you can get away till you go home with like, I'm very spiritual, but you stopped dying daily a long time ago. And God knows that. And that's why I said, I remember with Nick and I was such an emotional night

and I said, nobody would really know. I could just, you know, I said, but Jesus would. Yeah. And at least as painful as it was, that's my most recent bout of pruning. I still knew I was in it for him. That's beautiful. I was going to bring her real quick how just put some flesh on it too.

It's like, I think it was a couple of days ago. Preston came in the room. It was like, how do you feel about ministry? And I was a little offensive, offended, because I felt like, I was like, what are you trying to say? I don't love ministry no more. And he was like, that's not what I'm trying to say. I'm just curious about.

And his reasoning was, you used to be doing a lot. lot more. You used to be have these ideas and this vision and execute that and like and I was like yeah I think for a long time there was a level of ambition I had. But now it's become so costly that I've died to the ambition where I only want to do the things that I know I'm graced and called and commissioned to do. And I think there's something good about that. I think that's part of the sanctification process. I would agree. I have a lot less ideas because I don't want to come up with ideas. I want to be faithful to what the Lord's called me to do. And Paul says, I mean, you know, ambition is, you know, ambition is he says, do nothing out of selfish ambition. And it's

actually very sobering to go, oh, how much of what in my early years was selfish ambition. But he also, three times, is very strong about godly ambition. And, you know, I make it my ambition to make the gospel known where, you know, where it's not known. I don't want to build another man's labors. And he goes on and you go. You read the Bible a lot, huh? Oh, yeah. Because you're just, you're just spouting about.

But it's, but when you look at what is selfish ambition, what is godly ambition, the line. And your talk, you know, here's someone talking that I want to, you know, I speak to people's purpose and destiny. I mean, that's what I'm known for. That's what I, I want to see people flourish, but I'm watching a generation in many ways destroy themselves because selfish ambition will take you out 100% of the time. Godly ambition is where you're flourishing.

The truth is, this is not a downer. I'm hoping that I'm positive to people to go, oh, you don't even tap into life until you get into the godly ambition zone. And I would hope that people get into it younger rather than older. Some of that will just come with age, but social media is not helping because what we're doing is scrolling through everyone else's life and then comparing. And Paul says, you know, do not compare yourself amongst yourselves. That is not wise.

So there's such a lack of wisdom in comparison and competition because fruitfulness and flourishing and joy is found when you step into doing what the Lord actually has called you to do, whatever your field is. And whether you have one talent or you have five talents, the joy of the Lord and the joy of the Lord and flourishing in Christ is no different. But those of us that maybe, if the Lord's given us five talents, then we have a responsibility to make sure that we yield all the fruit. And that comes at great cost because people will question your motives.

And people will, you know, a whole different thing. So then you have to get into a place, and that's where silence and solitude is crucial. Because there's fewer and fewer people that will really understand that at many levels. And to stay faithful and go, no matter what, think. So even as I get older, you know, well, haven't you done enough? And haven't you? I go, well, I don't know. Are you measuring that or is the Lord? And it's him that I'm going to stand before on Judgment Day. I have to give an account for every idle word, for everything that I've done and not done, which makes me a lot more circumspect on social media because I will give an account for every

idle word that I've done and said. And I will give an account, did I run my race and finish my course? Not anybody else's, but did I finish my course? Not, what have women done before me or what are women doing around me. And that's really sobering, I think, for all of us. Before we move on, I kind of want to stay on this topic of pruning a little bit. Because I think pruning is so vital to our flourishing. Right? When I was doing the pandemic, I got into a whole bunch of hobbies like everybody else. Things that I don't do now. I feel like we stopped doing those hobbies. We picked up in a pandemic. But one of the things I picked up was gardening. I stopped planting stuff in the yard.

I was doing all kind of. Yeah, I was out there every day. I was out there every day. And the Lord, the Lord began to speak to me a lot. Yeah. I fell in love with planting these, like, elephant ear, like plants or whatever. And when they started to grow, I felt really proud. It was like, wow, that was my work, my hard work or whatever.

And I remember the first time one of my elephant ears got really stronger, came out, side one day, and, like, three late leaves were dead. And I felt sad. And what I kept trying to do is water it, water it, water, water, and it got worse and worse and worse. And one of the things I googled, it said, man, if that thing is dead, cut it off. Because one thing it said is the longer, as long as that dead thing is attached to the plant, that plant will continually try to give that dead thing life and take life away from the other leaves. And not only that, it prevents other leaves from growing.

And so I think a lot of times when it comes to pruning, I think, think we're afraid to cut things off because we're holding on to their things. Totally. And so talk about that fear, get underneath that fear that makes people afraid to be pruned to begin with. And how can we overcome that so that we can flourish for sure. And I think, well, it's our attachment. It's because faith is predicated on trust and not understanding.

And so at least if something's even dead and we want to deny that it's dead or at least, you're hanging out with people that you shouldn't be hanging out with, but you think at least I'm hanging out with somebody, you know. And until you can trust that God is going to bring into your life, who he is going to bring in for your good and for his glory, the constant test for pruning is, do we trust God more than the thing that we see, even when we know that the thing that we see is not good?

So whether it's a relational thing or, you know, other stuff in our lives. And I think it all keeps come back to, and I'm coming back to Psalm 52A because David said, I trust in God's unfailing or faithful or steadfast love. If you can trust that God loves you and if he's going to cut this area off that's not, that's dead because he's going to bring something that's alive or something that's going to breed life into you. But the bigger that, when you said get to the root of it, the root is do we trust God enough for that? That's good.

Preston, I would say an equally big challenge. So, you know, when I was first, when I first came to faith in Christ, it was hard to let go of things because, you know, I mean, I came from the background of abuse and abandonment and adoption, all the things. So even though there were a lot of unhealthy attachments in my life from someone that was like left in a hospital unnamed and unwanted when I was born, you know, attachment was a big thing. So even if it was a bad attachment, it was an attachment. So for me to detach and allow God to cut things out of my life so I could attach to him more

and more. None of that was easy. Over time, as I trusted, I mean, it was so scary, terrifying in so many ways for me to learn to attach to him. The challenges as you get older and more sanctified, there are less sort of like the big sin detachments that need to be made. So then it becomes heart issues, motives. And then it becomes fruitful things. Because it says every branch that bears fruit will be cut off as well. Then you start going, so at this point in my life, well, this is bearing fruit for God's glory, this is bearing fruit, this is good,

there's no obvious sin or evil attachment or thing. Man, then you go to deeper levels of trusting God going, I'm going to let you cut that thing off. And I'm trusting so that it will bear more fruit in other areas. And you'll find that as you get older and go more, it becomes increasingly good things that are no longer the God thing for your life. that needs to be cut off.

So you never get exempt from it. And you have to walk closely with the Lord. And you have to continue to trust him. Because most of the stuff that I'm letting go of at this stage and allowing to be pruned is really good. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. When I was young, I write about this in my,

I think Bob's studied about Jude or something, maybe. I don't know. I talk about my Aunt Merle, who anytime we left her house, she would grab this little vial of oil and then like I just remember the whole problem she was like turning it over like that and then put a cross on my forehead.

I'm five, six, seven, eight and I'm just not understanding why my forehead is shining now. You know what I'm saying? I don't really understand why. And she did it every time we left her house. You have this chapter where you talk about the production of olive oil and needing the Holy Spirit and anointing.

And I think there's a lot of conceptions and misconceptions about what anointing is. Right. Can you speak to that? Yeah, and I'm so glad you ask because I think, you know, and particularly in some of the stream of the church that I've come from, there's been such a misappropriation of that term. I mean, of course, it's the divine enablement of the Holy Spirit of God.

And we're all once we're, if we're saved and we're in Christ, we're being filled with the spirit and we're sealed until the day of redemption. But I'm saying that anointing, I think somewhere along the line, many believers forget that we have, we serve a triune God. The Godhead, like the Holy Spirit of God, the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives in us. And we need that because we weren't designed to do this thing alone. So the fact is many believers sort of either have their triune God or their Trinity is

the Father's Son and Holy Scriptures, not the Father's Son, Holy Spirit. And so I think that that's on one side you could have that. On the other side is some people forget that we have a triune God and then they're using the Holy Spirit more of the way that Simon the Sorcerer did in Acts 8. So the first time the gospel leaves Jerusalem and goes out into Samaria, where it's supposed to go towards the outermost parts of the earth. It signs, wonders, miracles, that's normally what God uses for the expansion of the gospel into new territory. but every time there's the legitimate, there's always a counterfeit. And it's right there from AXA. It's not going to go away.

It's going to be the same in the 21st century. But what happens then is you can get charlatans that are out there, you know, send me, you know, 500 bucks and I'm going to send you some anointing oil and I'm going to sneeze on a handkerchief and like all this thing is going to raise your dead cat from the dead. I mean, I'm being very facetious with great intentionality. because all that is just Simon the sorcerer nonsense. And so that's given in some circles. People like, what is going on? You know, you're snake handlers and there's this anointing. And I'm like your aunt, though, because I've got my anointing oil in my bag.

I'm going into my hotel. My kids will laugh. I send my daughter back to Paris to college. I'm like, you anoint everything. They're like, they're scared of me. I'm not sure that they're really into the Lord. They're like, okay, mom, here's the video. But I think if there's no power in the oil in and of itself, that thing doesn't have power.

But I think if he can get you to with great intentionality be praying in the name of Jesus. There's great power. I believe there's great power in the name of Jesus. And so to me, that's what that oil does. I mean, the oil is all through the Old Testament. So I'm going, we have gone so far the other way that we're no longer talk about anointing or oil because of those excesses in that. way. But I don't know how we could do any. I don't know how you could raise your kids without the anointing of the Holy Spirit. I don't know how you can stay married without the anointing of the

Holy Spirit, let alone doing our ministry. And I'm talking then as much as going to work every day. I don't know how you would survive in this world. I wouldn't want to do this alone. So I guess with two chapters of great intentionality, I talk about the Holy Spirit being our guide. And I'm saying, And can we remember if Jesus, God incarnate himself said, it is better that I go. Just wrap your head around that, that it is better that I go. And then so that another will come. So, you know, and then we will receive power. And I think this is where we forget in Acts 1-8.

To what? Not to do witnessing, but to be witnesses. That's great. And so this is what we need in 2026 on the earth. We need Christians with the power to be witnesses. in this world that is falling apart. What we've done is change. And I'm an evangelist.

I mean, I love Preston so much. Like I'm to my bone. But giving someone a, you know, for spiritual laws tract and going, this is what I want to teach you how to do witnessing. I mean, that's not even in the Bible as in like, you know, but if I can teach you, if I can direct you to again call upon the power of the Holy Spirit so that you can be. a witness, which is what Jesus said, could you imagine how all the workplaces would change,

believers are, how colleges would change, how we act online. And how, like, you know, we, we either want to do witnessing and we don't even do that well, or we want to, you know, get out there and we just, you know, I'm going to take on every government structure and I'm going to take on this and I'm going to take on that. And I just think, man, if you just, in quietness, in confidence and in strength, relied on the power of the Holy Spirit to be a witness, it is amazing how that would change, I think, so much of the landscape of the church and the world. And so I think I'm more passionate about saying, could we rediscover the triune God? could we then say what might it be to have the power to be a witness?

And again, that's not separate from. There's a direct correlation between sanctification and crushing all of these things, the gift of the spirit and the fruit of the spirit. We have nine of each for a reason. So we've either gone, we're a fruit church or we're a gift church. I'm like, I don't know if either of you were a church then because we're actually supposed to have both. I'm a spirit person.

I'm a word person. I'm like, what Bible are you reading? We're both. And so if we could bring, and I think I've attempted to do this, can we bring them both together? Because that's how we're going to have the power to be witnesses in the world. I've had people say that to me over the years. It's like, you and Jackie got a teaching ministry. These people, they got prophetic ministry.

It's like, no, teaching is prophetic. And like, I think you're right. They're all supposed to be kind of together. And I don't know how we, over time, started to separate. So maybe because certain church nomination, they value other things. But I think that all of it should be valued because all of it is guys. Totally. And I think the more holistic we can present it, I think the greater that it is because

you've got people that are just like signing up for the dial a prophecy thing. And I'm like, I'm like, what? That is just causing so much destruction in the body. But equally, word without spirit is just causing a dryness. So you've got, you're dry. up or you're basically blowing up, you know, and that's not endurance. And what you learn from the olive tree is it endures. Like the thing is, I think the oldest olive tree, they say that's on earth is in Crete. It's 3,000 years old. They endure fires, storms. And so both extremes,

either drying up or blowing up, are not enduring Christianity. And because we want quick fixes, we're either going to go to whichever one is going to work best for us. If you're wired up a particular way. You're going to go more the academic route. If you're not wired up that way, you want instant answers or you want something that's going to confirm what you want to do anyway. And you're going to go for the easy path. And what I'm saying is there is no easy path. There is no easy path. So we need to be deeply rooted in the word of God and deeply empowered by the spirit of God simultaneously. And that is how I think we're going to appear flourishing in the world. So you've got this one stream that thinks if we can just be exempt from

pain and struggle and I'm going to give you a great word that's going to get you out of this. But you can't be exempt from it. Jesus didn't take us out of this world. We're in it, but not of it. So what does it mean to be in it but not of it? And to have an enduring, resilient faith, I think is one of the greatest testimonies in our generation. That's great. Before we started, we were talking about just kind of what's happening in the world with ICE,

with politics, with Nigeria, with Gaza. there's a lot going on all over the place. And you were saying how if this book doesn't work, or not the book, but if these truths don't work all over the world, then it's not true. And so I wanted to just hear you talk about how flourishing, fruitfulness, rootedness,

how that can help us be on mission or be rooted in about, like how does that help us when we think of global stuff? Does that make sense when I'm trying to. Yeah, it really does because I think sometimes we can become very myopic. I mean, we've all got our context and we've got to work this thing out. But for God's I loved the world, the whole world. And, you know, for me, this is so real every day. You guys know I run 821, you know, so it's global anti-trafficking organization.

I just think like even now as we're recording this, I have an office in Cambodia and in Thailand. Well, those two countries are just at war with each other. So you go, okay, this is real because I have staff, there's trafficking that happens in between all of that. How does this work? We've got offices in Cape Town. I've got offices throughout Europe, every continent in the world, South America. So I'm going, if flourishing only means, so here's where it goes wrong with the hyper-prosperity

gospel, if it means you've just got really good stuff, what does that mean for the people that are, like in my Cape Town office, you know, a serving communities in townships, like, that are never, not this side of eternity while I'm alive anyway, are going to have the kind of material stuff that we have in our everyday thing. If flourishing is just attached or the love of God is attached to what you have externally, then we can all pack up and go home because this thing does not work and it's not real. But nowhere to scripture say that's flourishing. Now, though if I can't reach into those communities and go, you can flourish. So, What does that mean?

How can you thrive? And also your material world can change as well. Like, you know, you go to those communities. They're asking me for help. Like, how can? And so we have work programs and we have great things because I believe God cares holistically about all of you, body, solid spirit. So I'm not just going to pull you out of slavery.

I want to stop the systemic injustice that leads to that and then give you opportunities to build business. outside of that so that you don't get back into that either poverty or trafficking cycles. So I'm thinking of it holistically because I think God does. So flourishing has to do with all of it. But we can get so caught up in thinking my issue in my corner of the world right now is the only thing that matters. Now it's really healthy to pause and think the world's been around for a really long time. Most things have come around in cycles. And this one thing is not. the be all and end all.

And I think sometimes we have to, I think, always remember, there is a bigger God picture at play. And we have to set our minds on things above. And so to me, I view everything temporally through an eternal lens. So I'm constantly thinking of our telos, whatever major thing is on at the moment. And so, you know, in an accident, my friend is a first responder, they know when their ambulance turns up to an accident, the last person they go to help is the one that's screaming the loudest

because that person's going to be okay. They've got the energy. They're going to the ones that are out, that are quiet, that are done. I think sometimes, and because of social media, we've got to be really careful, some things are elevated and in an eternal perspective and what God in his sovereignty is doing on the earth right now, just because it's the squeaky wheel and it's very noisy and it's loud, you have different tags, like you put yellow tags, red tags, green tags on depending on

how serious something is. And sometimes I think we're running to the ones that we go, that's going to be okay. It's actually going to be okay. It'll run its course. And there are so many things happening and you need the mind of Christ to go, Lord, where are you? Where is the thing that really needs CPR? That's like triage. Very much. And so you look at that in the natural. That's how it's done just with ambulance is going to the scene of an accident. But we are, if we're ministers, that's what we are. So we go, okay, there are very real things. The systemic injustice in the world, and because I have offices on every continent, we could sit here and talk 10 podcasts on so much injustice in so many different places and racism in so many different countries and misogyny

in so many different countries and systemic abuse and in so many places, horrific genocytes. You know, my family ended up in Australia because of the genocides in Turkey with my grandparents, the genocide in Egypt with my parents. I mean, we can go on and on and on. So what I'm saying is it's very real. It's a very fallen world. It's a very evil world. And so we need the mind of Christ and we need to know where do we say what and do what

and where are we running to give care. So to me, I want everyone to flourish. And I go, I've got to be able. to look at the kids in Cambodia that are five years old, that we're helping to move out of a war situation and go, in Christ, you can flourish. Well, bombs are dropping and missiles are coming. And that's not easy.

I'm saying to really be able to believe, to do that, to the challenges, you know, we've got four offices here in America, and there's just crisis happening everywhere, really devastating stuff. I need to be able to hold their hands and go, in Christ, you can flourish. while some of you are experiencing the most horrific conditions in this moment. So there is not an easy answer is what I'm saying to all of this.

And yet, why am I smiling? Because all the promises of God are in Christ Jesus, yes, and amen. And therefore I believe there's a promise. And that doesn't mean you're going to have everything all the time in every circumstance, but you can have him at all time. So that means in this moment, the part of him that is going to be most resilient in your life is, I've got hope when nobody else has hope. I have peace when nobody else has peace.

I have joy when nobody else has joy. So whatever it might be in that moment, that's going to get you through as his overarching plan is going to play out in your life. Amen. That first responder analogy was so great. Because I think a lot of times we, and when I say we just people, on social media, we can become so passionate about the loudest thing. When you just talked about the whole world, and I think that, man, I always have people attack me every single time of something happens.

They feel like I should be talking about something. It's like, I actually want to talk about what the Lord wants me to talk about. Because to your point, it's a huge world. And I think God is going to give, like, we're a body of Christ. And he's going to give some of us more of like a passion to talk about this or to fight for this. but this injustice is everywhere. And I think the things that's the loudest,

I get the most attention and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. He's got the whole world in his hands. He's got the whole world. Y'all what I'm saying? In this hands. I don't have no rhythm. We got to listen.

He got to you, Preston. He got the whole world in his hands. Do you have any closing, encouragements, challenges, prayers, scriptures that she just want to put before the people. Yeah, I hope this is a wake-up call because I feel we've been languishing too long. And, you know, I've got a chapter in there about languishing

because, you know, if I was sort of to look at the body as I travel, I find that the West is where we're languishing the most, where we should be languishing the least. So so many other places that I go to there, and I think, y'all, I think I think I'm, I would be like tapping out right now if this, if this was, and yet the joy of the Lord, the peace of God that I see in believers, you know, whether it's, they're in abject material poverty or it's part of the persecuted church.

And I'm like, why have you not given up? Why are you still believing in Jesus? Like, am I even a Christian? Literally, there was a country that Nick and I went to just very recently. And I'm like, Nick, am I even say, do I even know Jesus like they need? Because they're like, let me end with this. I was once speaking to 500 leaders of the underground church. in China. And they had been brought out to a certain part of Southeast Asia. There's four major

streams of the underground church. So it was 125 liters from each stream. It was the first time they were brought together in this one room. Of course, it's so dangerous to do that. Anyway, as, what they had invited me and asked me to come was because they're hemorrhaging the younger generation because of urbanization, industrialization, globalization, internet, all the things. what had happened was when the revival hit, it hit mostly, I mean the greatest revival in the church in our generation is in the Chinese church where it's been illegal to be a Christian. And so that sort of revival spread amongst agrarian, uneducated workers because they had killed, you know, obviously a lot of the sort of educated class.

So they so depended on the Holy Spirit. And it would seem almost simplistic to, and so their kids are growing up. The faith of their parents, what the kids would have thought was the naive, blind sort of faith. But they're like, they didn't have access to reading and writing. They just needed God. Or even Nick back in the day, my husband smuggled Bibles into China. They would have maybe one verse or one chapter. That's all you had.

And that was what you built it on. So then the kids grow up. They have access to the world and education because their parents' faith has believed God and they put them through school. And then, but then they're feeling like, man, this Christianity is a bit. unsophisticated and the faith of my parents is so unsophisticated and now I'm more evolved and we don't need God. We have science. We have technology. We have all the things. And so they said, Christine, you know, could you help us maybe reach a younger generation and learn some leadership? Because we never learned leadership, but the only thing we ever learned was how to witness to our prison guard on the

way to our execution. So when they said that, I didn't think I heard it correctly. I got my translator to go, And they go, the most sincere, humble people, you know, no, no, the only thing we learned was, you know, how to witness the grace of Jesus to our prison guard on the way to our execution. Like, I start bawling. And I got on my knees right there. I said, I don't know what you think I'm here to give you. I can't think of one thing in this moment that I could personally impart to you that would in any way enhance your relationship with Jesus.

You know, Paul says, I pray that I might impart to you some spiritual. I don't feel like I've got anything. And I go, but would you lay hands on me? Because whatever that thing is that you've got, that faith, and that, you know, I would go so far as I say that flourishing faith, that would cause you to want to do nothing else, but talk to someone about Jesus as they're going to kill you. That to me is flourishing faith.

I said, I want that. That's what I want in my life. So I guess I want to say to someone, no matter what your circumstance is, because there is no way I can promise anyone, that anything's going to get better externally, economically, politically, morally. I mean, you know, insert whatever. But one thing I can promise you, Jesus is the same yesterday, today, today, and forever.

All the promises of God are in Christ Jesus, yes, and amen. Therefore, we can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens us. Amen. That's beautiful. Thank you, Ms. Christine. Thank you, Ms. Christine. You want to show the book. Yeah, man.

So this is the faith to flourish. God's design for a rooted, resilient, and faithful. faithful, fruitful life. It will be in the show notes. If it's anything that you want to, you know, follow us to know, like, we're to follow you. Any details about the book? I mean, you know, I mean, she Christine Kane. It's a big world.

It's a big world. It's a big world. It's a big world. She dope. Follow her. All the stuff is in the show notes. Thank you. Bye y'all.

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