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Overcoming Fear & Cancer | Interview with Judith Maria

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What happens when life takes an unexpected turn?

In this heartfelt episode of Hearing God's Voice, Jeffrey Paul sits down with his sister, Judith Maria, as she shares her remarkable testimony of overcoming cancer through faith, prayer, and learning to trust God's voice. From the moment she received an unexpected diagnosis to witnessing God's miraculous faithfulness, Judith reveals how Scripture, prayer, and a personal relationship with Christ carried her through every step of the journey.

Whether you're facing illness, fear, uncertainty, or simply need encouragement, this conversation is a powerful reminder that God is faithful, His peace is available, and His promises never fail.

📝 What You'll Learn

• How to overcome fear through God's Word
• Learning to hear God's voice during life's greatest trials
• The power of prayer and a faith-filled community
• Taking every thought captive through Scripture
• Trusting God when life doesn't go as planned
• Finding peace in the middle of uncertainty
• Why daily time with God prepares you for life's unexpected moments
• How your testimony can encourage someone else

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Introduction: Hope Through Every Trial

SPEAKER_01

Just press into God. Press into God and trust Him that He is going to, you know, wants to give you a life of abundance. And He loves you unconditionally. I don't, I don't, no matter what, unconditionally He loves you. And just keep seeking Him.

SPEAKER_00

Hey, this is Jeffrey Paul with another interview. I'm going to share with Judith Maria, who happens to be my sister, but also the relationship of what her walk has been.

Meet Judith Maria

SPEAKER_00

So let me not hold back some of the good stuff that's going to come by just talking to you. Let me introduce you to Judith Maria. Judith, welcome today.

SPEAKER_01

Well, thank you. Uh this is really great. I'm so excited to be here and to be able to give my testimony. And it's really just to encourage and inspire people, you know, um, that maybe have gone through a walk or is going through a walk or, you know, down the road, you know, it just is it it it's amazing how you have to have that support behind you.

SPEAKER_00

Oh yeah. And you know, we'll share with the audience uh what you went through with your fight with cancer and the elements of doubts and fears and anxieties because I want the audience to really hear what it's like because you know, if you see a preacher or you see somebody teaching or you see somebody who seems like they've got their front stage all the time, which means everything is perfect. Uh, in the real world of Christianity, that's not true. There's challenges every day, otherwise, you're not being very effective and empowering to the world by your testimony if you weren't being attacked, if your doubts weren't there, fears weren't there, anxiety that there. And so often we miss that because we just see that front stage. And I remember somebody telling me about uh there's a wonderful book uh that talks about from a pastor in Australia that talks about the relationship of social media just showing the front of everybody. Now we're not talking just about Christianity, just the front of everybody's house is perfect, everybody's meals are perfect, everybody's hair, new you know, selfies, and then you go behind stage and it's a different world. There's a lot. So, first of all, tell everybody what happened and how the beginning of this step uh of uh diagnosis of cancer took over your life for a little period of time.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, it did take over. Um

The Unexpected Cancer Diagnosis

SPEAKER_01

well, actually, back in March, uh March 13th, actually, um, I had a doctor's appointment, kind of just a normal checkup. I was having some issues, but you know, nothing major, just minor. So I went in and didn't think anything of it, and doctor examines me, and um she she after she examined me, she said it doesn't look good. Those were the words that came out of her mouth. It doesn't look good. And I like, well, what do you mean it doesn't look good? She said, I suspect cancer. And it just literally, Jeffrey and the audience, it literally, this dark cloud, as soon as I heard those words, because I was never expecting that, because I was coming out in, you know, um 2020. I mean, I was ready. It was my year. I wanted to just tear things up and just get my workshops going and just inspire people and encourage people and empower people and challenge them. And I just I had my whole workshops ready to go. And I say God took a left turn on me. So, anyways, when she had told me that I had cancer, she suspected cancer, and I looked at her and I said, Are you are you sure? And because then she took a biopsy, and she said, Yeah, she's I suspect you have cancer, and we gotta move quick on this. So again, I just I had this, I had this black cloud come over me. It was it was ugly. It was the the thoughts in my head just ran away with me. It was like she stopped, like time stopped, and all of a sudden my thoughts just ran 100 miles an hour, and it was, you know, you're gonna die, you're not gonna make it, you know, the fear set in,

Overcoming Fear with the "5 Second Rule"

SPEAKER_01

all those things that I know that is not of God. So I knew I I do this, what we call a five-second um uh rule, and it is I have five seconds to hold on to that thought of that fear, of that ugliness. I have five seconds to either take it and allow it to control me, take it and allow it to live it out. It's like five, four, three, and that's what I did when I was sitting on the table. It was five, four, three, two, one, no. And it was like, Lord, bring me a scripture. Immediately he brought the word peace. All of a sudden, when he gave me that word, the cloud went over why just left me. It was like, okay, now I was able to come down and I was able to say, okay, let's let's get all the facts now, you know. But that first moment of that happening, and I can see how if I would have taken that and entertained that, that would have affected my emotions and my thoughts. And, you know, I would have had probably a lot more trouble as I did, uh, as you'll hear. But I I I I had to grab a hold of him. And that's again, thank God I I have Christ that lives within me, that I know that the Spirit is going to be able to give me a word that I can hang on to, you know, not knowing what what direction I'm going yet, but to hang on to that.

Hearing God's Voice Through Scripture

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Now let's let the audience um recognize that you've been a Christian for decades now. You've learned to hear the voice of God, you studied scriptures, you've taught scriptures, you then got a peace. And a lot of people, when they hear people say, I got a scripture, really don't relate to that a hundred percent. They you know, they think you want to open the Bible and all of a sudden it fell that. But Philippians chapter 4, verse 7 is the peace that transcends, lifts you up out of that situation, or takes the cloud away that brought you that voice from the scriptures that connected to that inner voice that said peace, and now you're able to really capture it. Because if I just heard peace and I didn't have a scripture to really put my anchor into, right, then I'm gonna doubt. And all of a sudden we got the battle continually going on and continually going on, which was there at that point. Right. The other thing is that you took captive, called the five-second rule, but in 2 Corinthians chapter 10, verse 3 through 6, you took captive, but you can't do it on your own strength because you're fearful, your anxieties, all the your your legs were knocked out of underneath you. And the reality is that Holy Spirit has to be engaged to be able to help you take captive. You had the disciplines of doing the 4, 5, 6, or not 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and that was what gave you that. So again, you were using disciplines that you had learned and participated in throughout your walk. Uh each day it takes continual practice, as you know. And you're going to share with us how that practice started to really be challenging at times, but really was able to be paid off. So for the listening audience, this is real. This is the real story that we live each day as Christians. You know, Paul went through awful, awful, awful issues of life, but he continued to rejoice in the Lord. He said, Rejoice again, I say, rejoice. So as you listen to this, I want you not to say, wow, Judas' faith was so big, or I failed when I had an issue. No, there's no condemnation of Christ Jesus. That's Romans 8.1. Put that one down in your notebook or your journal. But in turn, now you had this piece come on you, the first doctor's report. Now you began to walk through this journey of more examinations and then beginning the prognosis of a treatment series.

Beginning Cancer Treatments

SPEAKER_00

Tell the audience what happened next.

SPEAKER_01

After they had told me five days, five weeks for chemo and radiation at the same time. Um, so I got through to about a week and a half that I started and I took a nosedive. I took a nosedive in the point where I got became very weak. I I really I just was feeling sick. I just things were not right. And I literally deteriorated and stopped eating for several weeks from that. And as I was going through that, all the not doctors and the nurses were going, what you know, what what's going on? And I'm trying to keep my spirits up and trusting in God. And I'm hanging on to, He had given me four scriptures, so I'm hanging on to these four scriptures, you know. And that at that point, that because it's like it takes over, you know, no matter, no matter how long you've been walking, like you said, with Christ, you have to continue to read his word, continue to stand on this. We may not know why we're going through this, and one thing I didn't do is I didn't say, God, why are you putting me through this? That was not one of my things. My thing was teach me what you want to teach me, show me so we can get through this, okay? Because I had big plans. I mean, come on, uh, 2020. As I began to um, I got through all the treatments, um, and then the day that was my last treatment, he's been my advocate all along, um, but you had taken me there and ended up putting me in the hospital with COVID-19 going on at the same time. So I had two storms going on, okay? So, and that ended up being in for several weeks. So, but nobody could find out what was the problem was. And then we had what six teams of doctors going on, yeah, yeah, and they were giving me all

Hospitalized During COVID-19

SPEAKER_01

kinds of drugs. I mean, I was like drugged up. I can't imagine being a drug. Um, but at the same time, I had I never gave up on God, but it was like, give me the strength. I needed strength to be able to pull myself out of bed. I couldn't even roll over. They had to come in, they had to roll me over, um, they had to get me out of bed. I mean, it just was, it was a nightmare, and they've never seen anything so bad. And I truly believe that um death was knocking at my door because nobody, I mean, they they I think they, I don't want to say they gave up, okay, but they couldn't find out what was happening and why they couldn't stop certain things that was going on internally in my body. And then um they sent me home two days later. Um, you were there, of course. Um, and I mean, I was in excruciating pain. And you had the nurses that was at my house and talking with them, and it was like, Jeffrey, I gotta go back to the hospital. And you made that arrangement and got me back into the hospital. And um, so they kept me another several weeks. So as we were going on, it was I think the second uh time we went in that you finally had called the doctors because something just wasn't right, you know, and it was doctors were not communicating and what they were giving me, you know, with the drugs, because I had so many different doctors. And uh, and of course I was out of it, so I I didn't know anything. So whatever you said to them, it like turned them upside down. Um I don't say upside down, but it was like, oh, wait a minute, we need to see what what what's happening, what everybody else

When You Can't Pray for Yourself

SPEAKER_01

is doing.

SPEAKER_00

Let's let's turn the the dial and open some more of the curtain for the listening audience. What was happening is you became enable to even really pray.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Uh unable to, I think that's the right word, unable to really collect your thoughts because you had the drugs going on, you had the pain going on. And I want you to hear this. I do want you to hear this because so often during that time period, you start to you you start to doubt where you at God. Um then you can go to WyMe and you can ask those questions. Those there's nothing wrong with asking those questions.

SPEAKER_01

But I was always afraid to ask that question.

SPEAKER_00

Exactly right, exactly right. I mean that that fear just comes on you. Yeah, right. The key is that behind the scenes, dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of people were praying unceasingly. We were keeping a report going every day of Judas' you know progress or you know, problems. And the reality of that unforeseen prayer energy kept

The Power of Prayer & Biblical Community

SPEAKER_00

pouring. And that's why community, or what is Kunaniya. Kunaniah is not just the church, it's really the relationship of those called out, the called-out ones that have that heart to pray, hear God's voice, pray the scriptures, pray the prayer of need, listen to God of what you need. And really, that is really amazing because I'll share sometime with you all the correspondence with everybody. But that's happening behind the scenes. That you need. I'm going to share with you. You need. Paul said, I beg you to pray for me. Uh, you know, Jesus was begging those three guys to stay up and pray with him in Gethsemane, because there's the point, even like Jesus, who got to the point in Gethsemane, Lord, let this pass me by, sweating blood out of the intensity of, you know, of the intensity of the situation that was going to go on in the next day, then you need that support system to get through that. The greatest support system is, of course, Christ is there, but what happens is we can't hear them, can't see him, and all of a sudden that enemy of doubt tries to step in. But with the support of people who love you, love God, and are really faithful in their prayers, that really is the behind-the-scenes power source, as the power source within us, which is Christ, really engages. Even when you are weak, it says he is strong at that point. So what happened next?

SPEAKER_01

Prayer. You're absolutely right. I felt every prayer. And I also felt so loved because I know I know those people that were praying, they were praying diligently because you were keeping everybody uh informed. And I always say, you know what, prayer is so, like you said, so powerful that you need that to surround you. You need to wash yourself and believe that that those prayers are working and that God is hearing them, you know. And you know, I I know with Pastor Jim and Pastor Jen at Journey Church, they had all the campuses praying. I mean, people I don't even know, they were all praying. So, you know, it just it just that prayer, I felt it. I literally felt it. And like you said, it was that energy that was coming through. And maybe at the time I may not have realized that because I was half out of it anyhow. But at the same time, I had an I I felt that I was reassured that they were all praying, that if I couldn't pray, that was okay because everybody else was praying for me.

SPEAKER_00

Right. You know, so right, the diligence of prayer. Yeah. Prayer is there. So now uh all of a sudden things begin to change because you end your last 25 treatments and five chemotherapies, radiation and chemotherapy. Um, you come out at 90 pounds, as you stood on this scale, 90 pounds from 118 at the original startup. Oh wow, you really told me a brother can do that. So you you went through that process. Now you started to feel a little bit better. Give us that that next step of the next challenge that began to face your steps into your faith walk.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know if I should jump over to being in the hospital again. You know what? It it was it you were isolated as well. I mean, there was nobody. Nobody could come in, you couldn't come in.

Feeling Alone During Isolation

SPEAKER_01

Um and I want to tell you what, that that puts some plays with your head when you had absolutely none. And we I was five, six weeks, seven weeks um in the hospital, and you had nobody. I'm telling you, I felt abandoned in a sense. And um, which I know my no my family wasn't abandoned me abandoning me, but I just knew that I had to rely on God. I had to rely, I had to rely on Him to be able to try to talk with Him while I was in bed or while they tried to sit me up or you know, so um that just that to me was was I would never want to go through anything like that. I wouldn't want anybody to go through anything like that, you know, um to just be so isolated, you know. So um and then worrying about COVID uh COVID-19, you know, it's like stay out of my room, even the nurses coming in. I did it was like, and the nurses were great, you know, they they were really there and they were praying for me as well, which I was just in shock because they kept coming in and we're praying for you, I'm praying for you, I'm praying for you, I'm praying for you, you know. So but okay, so if we jump over to this uh at the towards the end of my stay in the hospital when I started to um uh I really wasn't uh starting to feel better until I had a vision one

A Vision of Jesus in Gethsemane

SPEAKER_01

night. First of all, they never took a um another CAT scan. After the whole series was over, they did not take the the CAT scan to see how much the tumor has shrunk so they would know what the next steps would be. And I know all of our prayer was is that that tumor would be would be disintegrated, would be gone and never returned. That was our prayer um um for this journey. And I believed God because God told me, He had given me a scripture, he had told me that um that I am I'm restoring you, I'm restoring you back to health, you know, in in Jeremiah 30, 17. So I knew that he was restoring me, and I knew that I have so much, that he created me to to really be set apart, all of us are, to be extraordinary, and I have I have a purpose that he's put me here for. And I want to fulfill that purpose. That has been a desire of my heart, and I know that I was the only thing I could grab onto, and the only thing I had in the hospital was these two cards. Why I had them in my purse, I have no idea. But usually I keep them in my back pocket. But I had them in my purse. I couldn't, I didn't have my Bible, I didn't have anything with me because it I went in in an emergency, and but I had these and I just kept I just kept reading them over and over and over. And um so as we were, as the the time was was coming to an end in being in the hospital, I had a vision um one night when and I was in excruciating pain and I was crying out to God, and I said, God, I said, I can't take this pain any longer. You know, if you want to bring me home, bring me home. You know, I just don't want to go through this pain any longer. And um when he had shown me is when he was in the garden of Gethsemane, and he was he was weeping to his father. He as I was as the vision he had given me is I'm seeing him in the Garden of Gethsemane, and he take and I am like down by his legs, and I am like like Jesus help me, just help me. And I have Jesus that turns and looks at me this way, and I look up at him, and the tears, I'm seeing his tears, I'm seeing my tears. It was it was it was incredible vision. And when I looked back down, the serpent on his leg was crawling down his leg and underneath his heel, and he took his heel and went that point on, all of a sudden I started to feel better.

SPEAKER_00

I captured that scripture, which is Romans chapter 16, verse 20, that you'll crush the devil's head with your heel, and that heel obviously is the Spirit of God, the Word of God, the ability to really demolish those strongholds, demolish those thoughts, those feelings, and even the disease at that point. So go forward, what happens next?

SPEAKER_01

Well, I get up the next morning and I'm feeling better, and I'm able to sit up in bed by myself. So, and God gave me the scripture before, I mean, when this all happened, the first day that I was told, because that night I went in to the word, and so that's why and I hung on to that. So um I'm waiting for the doctor to come in because now we're waiting for the test results to come back.

The Miracle: "The Tumor Is Gone"

SPEAKER_01

And the test results, the doctor comes in and she says, uh, get your brother on the phone. I thought, oh no, now what? You know, I mean, like, okay, you can't tell me I'm the patient. Put your brother on the phone. And she was a woman of I mean, she didn't say a lot, but I was like, okay. So I get Jeffrey on the phone. And so I said, okay, he's on the phone, and she goes, Well, she said, uh, I just want to tell you that I've just released your um test. And she said, um the tumor is gone. I looked at her and I said, Excuse me. She said that the tumor is gone. She said, There is no measurement. She said, It it's gone. And so, of course, we're rejoicing. Oh, praise God, praise God, that's been our prayer. And you know, I'm just again giving God all the good all the glory and the honor on this. And um, so I said to her, I said, had has this ever happened to anybody else? Now, with her words, she didn't say it, but she went, so and I said, Really? I said, You're telling me that that tumor is gone. She said, The tumor is gone. They can't measure, there's nothing there. So, again, you talk about a miraculous miracle that God answered prayers, you know, and all of the steps that I have gone through and standing on his word and trusting in him and um even allowing the mind to just kind of have some ugly thoughts um but I was able to to grab my composure and and and be able to get back into you know the scriptures and to be able to know that oh my gosh all I can do now is just praise God for what he has done. So you know but I did still have to go through another another episode episode, right?

SPEAKER_00

One of the things that I think that is the the audience listens to a lot of times Christian thinks that you have to be healed in a particular way.

Faith, Healing & Medical Treatment

SPEAKER_00

You go to an altar call you're supposed to be healed miraculously and many people even believe that if you go get treatment you're not trusting the Lord. And if you're in your prayer time the Lord's going to tell you which road is best for you. As it says in Isaiah chapter 30 this is the way walk in it. You'll hear my voice listen to my voice when you come to that crossroads I will tell you the left or the right because treatment with faith or treatment without faith there's a whole lot of situations that take place and again in the revealing to our audience and to all each and every one of us Christ is there. We are strong for when we're stronger in good times but during tough times during illnesses during financial during you know catastrophes that we're going through in the country your strength is really what it really is it's human. But when you engage it with Christ when you engage it with the hope when you engage it with prayer when you engage it with the word of God that's why hearing the voice of God having the logos which is the scriptures having the the Rhema within you the Holy Spirit having the Kononia praying for you changes the game. Oh yeah but if we're trying to do this on our own or we're trying to hide and pretend we're doing it it's even worse because you're at you're deteriorating and behind the scene. And being able to be real is what I think Christ wants of us. He wants us just to be transparent. And when we're weak, he's strong. So we got an answer for that. When we're strong we're supposed to strengthen others. So those are the issues that I think that are missed in the front stage of all of the lessons or all of the teachings and all the things that we see whether it's social media whether it's TV whether it's just people around us the real world is what Christ went through what Paul went through what Peter went through what the disciples went through and there's the good times that they rejoiced in salvation and people come into the Lord. There was other times they were in prison but they still had their mind and their head and their eyes set on Christ as you went through.

SPEAKER_01

But now one last episode that you had to go through which was another radiation another five radiations but that's this radiation was internally they had to go internally so they

Trusting God Through the Final Treatments

SPEAKER_01

can focus in and the reason why they did that and I question whether or not I wanted to go through that. You know you and I and in in our family just it was like I I I didn't want to end up back in the hospital. My biggest fear and I know the enemy was telling me the biggest fear was is that I would end up with radiation that that's what I just came out of. And I know I could not have gone through that again. I just couldn't have. And um so but after talking with the doctor um you know he the doctor just made it very clear and he guaranteed me and I'm really surprised but he did he guaranteed me that I would not go through um the those side effects. Right. So we I ended up going through that and just finished up on the 7th July 7th and the reason why they did that was because just in case there was any tissue that was left that maybe the the the scans did not pick up that it kind of go and I look at it as going in and sweeping it out. Okay so it will never ever return back. So I chose to go through that and um I I thank God um I didn't have any side effects. My the doctor was right and um so I again I give God all the honor and the glory for what he has done for me is absolutely to me just miraculous.

SPEAKER_00

And now you're eating spaghetti dinners again.

SPEAKER_01

Now I tried to put the weight back on and I got back on the scale at the doctor's office the other day and it was like your scales broke.

SPEAKER_00

I haven't I haven't gained a pump but I feel like I I keep eating you know to wrap up a a testimony that you've gone through in a I mean an incredibly short period of time because this uh began like you said to us in March we're just now in you know mid-July or you know towards the end of July that's a lot of impact. If you had to share with the l the listening audience maybe three points or three very incredible lessons that were new lessons for you that that uh turned a page for you or went deeper into the the depth of your understanding your intimacy with Christ what would those be that you'd share with the audience or that you know the Lord shared with

Three Lessons Every Christian Needs to Know

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you?

SPEAKER_01

I would say number one, you really have to deepen your faith um you have to deepen your walk with God and you truly have to trust him. And that's why it's so important to be in in his word knowing his scriptures because you have to wash yourself I feel with with scripture so that when something happens you know we've got a pile of scriptures in his word and his promises because he's got 7,000 promises in his word for us. That's a lot of promises and my suggestion would be you know go out and get get into his word and pick four or five of them memorize them so you have them you know of what's pertaining to your life and just trust him trust him that he is going to be true to his word and he will always be with us and are we all going to go through trials we're all going to go through it no matter what he tells us that but it's all in how we get through it. The people also that you want around you the core people that you know that that is not going to sit in judgment of you or you know they're they're willing to be there for you, listen to you and give you scripture but allow you to dump because I I knew that being single I had to be able to dump to somebody you know and I had to be able to shed those tears and so if I'm shedding those tears you know it's like it's okay if I'm if I'm shedding tears it's okay. It it's more of a it's a it's a it's a it's a good thing. So it kind of cleanses you a little bit. So and I think you have to keep doing that and um don't isolate yourself. Like you said when you isolate yourself and I could have done that very easily I could have isolated myself and then I you know I don't know if I would have been here today.

SPEAKER_00

So now you took John 15 which is the remain in me and that you know no matter what the circumstances you remained no matter how strong or weak you were you remained in that faith walk because some people say how do I get more faith and the reality is all you need is a mustard seed which is hold on and he'll take through from that point. And then you said trust which is Proverbs 3 5 and 6 which is trust in the Lord with all your might with all your strength with all and lean not on your own strength not on your own understanding not on and that really changes the game and then the reality of come close come close to him and Matthew 1128 says when you're weary when you're tired when you're burned out come to me my yoke is easy my yoke is like so when you start to put the scriptures into life and a testimony especially the challenge you've gone through life and death I mean some of us may never have thank God to have to go through that level but you have the confidence now and knowledge that he would never leave you or forsake you Hebrews 13 5 and 8 he'll never leave you because he never did even when you fell into the the depths of sleep or pain or whatever it was. And as we start to see how real the scriptures are and that's what I think everybody learns through any testimony any type of they bec that's the living word. I mean it's it's you know 4,000 years old and 2,000 years old for the New Testament the reality is so contemporary so now if you take it personal you took these cards of scriptures and you took them personally you made them really what they are you know the living word of God. And that I think is what the audience has to really come to all of us individually have to come to and not just once. Right. We have to come to it and come to it and come to it because like the Israelites hear this I know nobody likes to hear this story. But the Israelites got taken out of slavery after begging God to take them out and X amount of deck you know century later they're back into slavery. And this repeats even today we go through a real acceleration with Christ we're excited we get born again and we get somewhere it's like some people's marriages they're all excited about the wedding and then they get flatlined. The only way to not say flatlined as you said journaling reading his word sharing his word and doing the things each day that you hear him to tell you to do so this is really a blessing.

SPEAKER_01

Any other thoughts you want to share with the audience that is spellbound I'm sure by your your testimony um

Press Into God Every Day

SPEAKER_01

all I can say is just keep following God and and you know what life life is short and I've learned that you know we don't we're only guaranteed today um today I want to do all I can for God um in impacting people's lives and if my testimony can impact I'll I'll go anywhere that God wants me to go to impact their lives. But I'm telling you journaling is and again I've been with you from the beginning to go back to my journals of when all of this started and even before that I can find in my journal of some of the things that God was maybe alerting me in regards to and I was running on my own as coming out of the gate as I told you for for 2020 I was coming out of the gate but I was running by myself and it was like he had to put the brakes on you know so you know what just just press into God press into God and trust him that he is going to you know wants to give you a a life of abundance and he loves you unconditionally I don't I don't no matter what unconditionally he loves you and um just keep seeking him and if you don't um especially with this group um you know what anybody struggling with anything you know let us know that way we can inspire you we can encourage you we can challenge you and because I felt I was challenged you challenged me in many ways and I'd go like oh Jeffrey you know um but it worked

A Final Encouragement & Prayer for Others

SPEAKER_01

I just want to say for I don't know uh where who's all gonna see this but all of those that did pray for me um there's so many of you I just want to say just thank you so much from the bottom of my heart um and if you need prayer please you know send me an email I'll be more than happy to put you on my prayer list and I will diligently pray for you every day. But I also want to report.

SPEAKER_00

I just good good good tie-in because so often people ask somebody for pray for me and that's the last you hear and if you're out there and you and technology with social media is really great for this you can capture hundreds of people or 10 people keep them informed keep them informed to the level of how their prayers are being effective and productive and powerful so that in reality they share this testimony they share the lesson for their life and how impactful it is for their life so until we see you the next time with more inspiration more empowerment more of the truth teachings of what the word has for your life personally remember that beauty and change all begins within where Christ lives in you if you've accepted him into your life. Have a beautiful day