Israel & Rachel Campbell "SOUP" Podcast
Join us for an exciting Season 2 of our podcast, which garnered over 7000 downloads last year! Your hosts, Rachel and Israel Campbell, are back to take you on an incredible journey. In this podcast, we invite you into the ongoing dialogues about life, love, parenting, relationships, spirituality, and whatever else sparks our interest!
Our motivation for creating this podcast remains unchanged: we believe that discipleship should encompass more than just a classroom experience; it should be a way of life. Drawing inspiration from Jesus' interactions with his disciples, we see that it was far from a traditional classroom setup. Instead, it was a continuous exchange of teachings and discussions encompassing all facets of life.
Imagine savoring a delicious bowl of soup – that's what our podcast is like. We're here to engage in honest and unfiltered conversations, covering a wide spectrum of topics. And now, we invite you to share this podcast with your friends, family members, or coworkers, just as you'd share a great meal. Just like Jesus and his disciples, we're here to explore the richness of life together!
So, come join us for another season of candid conversations as we dive into a little bit of everything – from the profound to the lighthearted!
Israel & Rachel Campbell "SOUP" Podcast
"99% Success Rate" Israel & Rachel Campbell SOUP | Season 2 Episode 9
Could your marriage benefit from a daily dose of divine intervention? We're unpacking a fascinating new approach to relationships that's showing a 99% success rate. This episode is a must-listen for married couples, divorcees and even singles who are exploring the transformative power of prayer. We're taking a bold look at how a couple's daily prayer can interrupt ingrained patterns, build confidence, and foster unity.
Ever thought of voicing your prayers with your partner? We're journeying into the realm of shared prayer, laying bare the incredibly potent benefits that come with praying out loud together. Unveil the subtle art of co-laboring with God in your relationship and the peace and trust that springs from focusing on God as your provider. You'll enjoy listening to the psychological and emotional benefits that this habit can bring, and how it can refocus and strengthen your bond.
Finally, we're putting the spotlight on the might of declarations and God's word in prayer. Remember, prayer isn't a chess game — it's a heart-to-heart with the divine. And we'll give you plenty of creative ways to engage with it. You'll learn how to pray for your spouse effectively, how to incorporate God's word, and even how to inject a little fun into the process. Discover how you can encourage a powerful, unifying force in your relationship with nothing more than a touch of creativity, a dash of laughter, and a whole lot of faith. Strap in for this faith-filled journey to a healthier, happier relationship.
I don't know about you, rachel, but I like that music. I kind of wanted to continue, definitely happy music Get you in the mood, have a good half hour. Yes, it is so good. Well, welcome back to the Israel and Rachel Campbell soup podcast.
Speaker 2:What's up everybody?
Speaker 1:Where we really do have a lot of soup, honey. I just want you to know that every time we have kind of a production meeting or we just start talking about what we're going to talk about, I always love looking back at the podcast, going, wow, that wasn't even on our notes, but it's always really good. So I hope everybody is liking that. Yes, shout out to those on their treadmills, those on their commute or wherever else. I know some people are even listening to it at work. Multitasking, which makes me nervous, depending on what your job is. If you're a surgeon, that makes me scared, or if you're a pilot, but other people maybe they can multitask. Are you a good multitasker, rachel?
Speaker 2:I'm the best. Think about my life. All I do is juggle. Yes, I could be, in a circus. I'm so good at it.
Speaker 1:Yes, you are. What about?
Speaker 2:you Do? You think you're a good multitasker?
Speaker 1:I try to do it while driving, and that is not good, and so I have.
Speaker 2:I mean this might. Word on the street is that your Tesla has already been in the shop to be fixed. That's all I'm going to say.
Speaker 1:That is where we'll stick and change the subject, because that wasn't on the notes either. But this morning we are going to talk about 99% chance of success. Now, that is a pretty incredible statistic to say that, hey, you can have a 99% chance of success if you do this one thing, and I think everybody would say yes, tell me, what's the secret? What do you do? How do you have a 99% chance of success? Now, there is a caveat to it, but I wanted to just say this.
Speaker 1:This is a stat that has been recently put together and this is what the stat says. It says this marriages, whether you're a Christian, christ follower or not a Christian, are almost the same. When it comes to marriages actually making it, not getting a divorce, right now our country's at the 50% mark. So half, that's you get married and you've got like 50-50 that it is going to work out. And we're not trying to declare that over here whatsoever, you're just saying that's what the stats in the United States currently are. If, by chance, you've been divorced, your chance for divorce again jumps up to 78%. So we all start out at 50. If you get divorced, it goes up to 78% chance that you will get a divorce again.
Speaker 1:And of course we're not anti-people that have gotten a divorce. We are for you, we love you. But what that stat is letting us know is we don't necessarily get better because we get another marriage and in fact the stat says we actually can sometimes do worse off in another one. But here's the good stat 1% of couples. There is a little tiny stat in here that's 1% of couples never get a divorce. So flipping it around, 99% success rate for couples, Only 1% get divorced. And this is how they get the 99% is couples that pray together daily for their marriages. Is that incredible?
Speaker 2:It's awesome and you know, I want to just say something before we even talk through it is it's the same statistic for a lot of things. It's not just divorce, you know. We don't want to be discouraging and say, if you've been divorced, there's no hope for you. Now you have, you know, 75% chance next time of getting a divorce. But it's like that with everything. If you're dieting and you just go and binge sugar, you have a 75% chance of eating more bad things throughout that day and the next day because you already gave up.
Speaker 2:If you quit a job, do you know that you have a huge percentage that you'll quit another job? Because really, what's happened is you started a new pattern and the patterns might not be the most positive pattern. And so we have these things in our life where, when you get married, you're making this covenant and you're like I, before God and before my friends, till death, do me part. And then life happens and things fall apart. Sometimes it's out of our control, and so then we are stuck in this divorce, whether maybe you had to for your protection or whatever your story might be. There's so many stories that and we know God is the restorer of those kinds of things. But basically what Israel is saying is, once you've started these patterns and you cross a boundary line that you have set, it's easier to cross it over and over and over, and because you've set a new pattern, and so this 1% really is the way to start a new healthy pattern, to interrupt the pattern. Maybe that was begun.
Speaker 1:Well, and I love that because we are going to talk a little bit about praying for our spouses, because that was the stat A 99% chance of success If you pray out loud with your spouse but maybe you're single, like don't go, oh, turn it off now. No, this is actually something that I wished I would have been taught when I was single. Like get ahold of this, because you can spend time even now praying for your spouse. We can talk about that. Or, like you said, rachel, really it's the power of prayer and so we're going to talk about the power of prayer between our spouse. But it's like what you said about anything you add, this prayer. I bet you we could see some stats that would also show 99% chance of success in different areas if we would be consistent in prayer.
Speaker 1:But today we're going to start out just talking about, before we get into the soup. We're going to talk a little bit about praying for our spouses out loud and the power in that and why. You know, I could maybe say, yeah, well, I pray for Rachel. You know, on my way to the gym by myself, you know, I pray for Rachel. God bless Rachel. You know all that kind of stuff, but that wasn't that caused the stat. The stat that actually said 99% success was praying out loud together my going to God for you. And whether it's eloquent or it is, greg Focker from Meet the Fockers and it is not eloquent.
Speaker 2:My father.
Speaker 1:three things yes these things we pray to see, the more clearly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you get it, but that, even if it is, it's not like this King James or Bishop Jake's powerful prayer. Never. That was never what was measured. What was measured was just an out loud prayer for your spouse. And why is that so important?
Speaker 2:I think for me, when you pray for me out loud, it makes me feel safe. It makes me know that you're depending on a God who's bigger than our current situation. When I hear you praying over me vocally, I feel like I'm covered, I feel like I'm blessed, I feel like I'm protected and there is a safety in the word of God and Israel. I think you're going to talk about this. I won't talk about your point.
Speaker 1:Thank you because I would never steal yours. I'm thankful you don't steal mine.
Speaker 2:I think, though, there's something, there's a unity it's spiritual, more than just the unity of okay, let's both get along as husband and wife, let's be better at not arguing, let's, you know, make some good, attainable goals for our marriage. But when you pray over your spouse, you're really switching into the spiritual. You're giving over to God what you can't do on your own, and you're creating an umbrella over your marriage that begins to take root, and those seeds that are sown, they really do start to produce a harvest, and I just feel like it makes. The word that I would say that I feel the most when you pray over me is trust, because I do trust you, but I even trust God more, and when you bring God into what you're declaring over me, it makes me trust you so much.
Speaker 1:Wow, so a couple of things. So I mean we this is. I don't know if this is a two week series or not, but so much to unpack. They're so powerful. So when I grab Rachel by the hand at, some point you've been doing it for 28 years, 28?
Speaker 1:Oh, because of dating. Yes, when I grab Rachel by the hand and I pray to God for her out loud and I begin to declare the things that I know she's going through, I begin to declare the things that we're in the middle of and I go to God, so many things happen as a man, those guys that are listening, every woman is looking for you to be the spiritual head of the house.
Speaker 1:And sometimes we don't know how. Number one way you don't have to have had the entire Bible memorized, you don't have to know all your eschatology or even be able to say it, you don't need to know who the mark of the beast is, all these things. But when you grab your wife by the hand and say, father, god, we're coming to you today because I know my wife needs healing in her body, she needs strength for her job, she needs us. You know all of these things Then what's happening is you're leading spiritually your house, and then you're also it's a weird thing but and I don't think it's maybe, rachel, you can help me.
Speaker 1:It's not necessarily psychological, but it's a remembering that Rachel now, as we pray, will stop looking to me as the source and really kind of shift, a little bit like oh yeah, yeah, I might have been looking at Israel as the provider or looking at, but it's actually God that's the provider, and so it shifts that automatically. Stress is going to come off your life because you're not feeling like you have to carry it. You're starting to lead, and then we are going to the only one that can actually fix these things. And then that's where I think I've learned to be more prophetic. I didn't learn how to be prophetic at the sanctuary. I learned to be prophetic praying for my wife, and so those are just a couple of things that just when you say that, then spark like this is what happens when I do it too.
Speaker 2:So what happens for you when I lay hands on you and pray out loud for you?
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness. Okay. So everybody sees on Sunday a confident, a very outgoing, crazy Israel. How many coffees did he have? But I'm going to be like probably every other man. There are insecurities that I have I will have doubts of. Can I lead? I'll have doubts. Am I anointed? I have doubts of man. Is what I said? Good, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:And so when you begin to pray for me, it begins to because you pray faith into me, you pray and declare God's word over me in some things that I'm not quite feeling yet, and you begin to pray some things over me that you know. The Bible says that when Mary and Elizabeth greeted what was in, elizabeth jumped, made her baby jump, and so sometimes, when Rachel prays for me, what's inside of me begins to leap Like yes, that's what, that's the call, that's the goal, that's where we're going. And so those are some of the things that happen. The other thing is just a piece of. We're together on this. The other thing when you pray for me is one can put a thousand flight. Two can put 10,000. I sense this. We're together, ride or die. You've got. Joab says to his brother I've got this side, you got that side. Back to back, we're going to defeat the enemy, and I feel like that is what happens when we pray out loud for each other.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I love how the Bible says that we are co-labors with God, because if I think of that portion of scripture, the thing that I think of firstly and mostly is our marriage and how I co-labored with God to create the man that you are and that was the honor that God gave me as your wife is that as a wife, I get to co-labor with God and declare what God says over Israel when maybe he's not seeing it. And there have been seasons where that has been God has really stopped me in my tracks, when there's been like a moment where Israel's going through stuff or where Israel's not becoming the man that I know he's called to become and all those things. And I've talked to women about this all the time. Maybe you're listening and I've talked to you about it, but, as a wife, what an honor to get to begin to speak the purposes of God into existence over my husband out loud.
Speaker 2:Israel, this is who I see. This is what God says over you. You're confident, you have the mind of Christ, you're good with our money, all of these things. You're an amazing father, you're creative. But one time we're going through this season and it really wasn't something that Israel was doing wrong, but we were going through a season where Israel was being attacked by another leader and there was definitely a jealous spirit going on and I could see it and it was for me, and I'm sure a lot of people can identify with this. It's so much easier to get over an offense if it's done towards you.
Speaker 2:But, when you mess with my husband. That's really hard for me to just be sweet about and I think it's harder to forgive when you're watching someone you love so much walk through something that's been done wrong to them and unjust. And there was a season of that and it was a season that we were in. It was a boss. It was not a good situation and for a little bit I failed because when Israel would come home, I would go off on that person, I would live into what happened and I would be like Israel you don't deserve this.
Speaker 2:And all of a sudden, I will never forget and I'm so thankful for the Holy Spirit. Because the Holy Spirit said to me Rachel, you can either be poisoned to Israel right now and fuel that fire. It's only gonna make him embittered, it's gonna make him resentful, it's gonna make him make wrong decisions out of anger and you could poison him or you could be purposed to him and I am asking you to partner with me and speak purpose to Israel. So I began to change my language and I was still frustrated over the same things, but I would just ask God to help me speak life in that, like Israel, what's being done to you is wrong, but it is shaping you.
Speaker 2:You will never treat another leader that's under you like that and that is a blessing and a gift that you're learning. You're on the front row seats of what I don't wanna become and I would just help him. You're gonna make it through this. You're gonna have the grace of God for it. He's gonna protect your heart through it. You need to just not let those words get into your spirit and I would just kinda like start speaking purpose in the exact same passion that I was starting to just speak poison. And it's a gift that when we pray out loud over our spouse, we're actually clothing them in purpose and blessing and protection before they go out and do whatever they're called to do.
Speaker 1:And I mean, in all honesty, that was a very pivotal moment for me where it could have said, yep, I'm gonna continue in ministry, gonna continue in this, or yep, I'm gonna go be a graphic designer. I mean, it was like that, those were my options, right. It was like I wasn't even a good graphic designer, all.
Speaker 2:I knew how to do was clip our-. Yes, you were in Jesus' name. Ha ha ha.
Speaker 1:No, and so I think that that was so good, as you built me up. And so, wives, there's two things that I would say about. This is, rachel, why we can form, help form our man with prayer, and what I mean by that is not control, this is not witchcraft, but what it is is speaking what God says over them and, like you said, either pray, either being poisoned to them or being purposed to them, and praying purpose. And you and words shape. We know words shape kids. We know words shape spouses. We know words shape friendships, and so you, as a wife, can pray for your husband, who maybe is struggling or maybe is insecure or maybe is whatever. Well, are you praying God's word over him, what he's supposed to be, and? But it comes with a caveat, comes with a little bit of. You can't pray all the things that are wrong with him over him, with him there, there he goes.
Speaker 2:he's stealing one of my points and he knows it.
Speaker 1:No, that was my segue to you, and you articulate it so much better. So how is that? I'm not stealing it, I'm palpating it off.
Speaker 2:I do wanna say. I heard this quote that was so good and convicting. It said what if you treated your husband when he came through the door the way you treated your son when he came through the door? And I thought about that, because when Silas comes through the door I immediately want to snuggle, hug, I want to ask him how his day was and I wanted to fuse any fiery darts.
Speaker 2:But when you come in the door, sometimes I'm just overwhelmed with a bunch of stuff. I'm like you have a, you have a to-do list, because I've been here doing it all day and now you're doing, you know, and we can get that way where we forget to speak life and protect and welcome and Love unconditionally our husbands like we would our child, where we're always as mothers. We speak life, we see the best week. It's hard for us to see the worst, but with our husbands it's. It's sometimes opposite and maybe, if that's for you, I know, I know that convicted me and maybe that should convict a few more of us. Can I just say one more thing too? When you're praying over your husband or your wife or your spouse, or in any situation, it's so important, like Israel said, you don't pray, god. I pray that you show Israel his wrongdoings, god, I pray that he will reap some of the meanness in his heart.
Speaker 2:You know, we can begin to be very manipulative in our prayer and we don't even real, yeah, and we don't even realize it, and when we pray over our spouse, we're speaking what God sees, not what we feel yeah and that's the power behind that punch. If we pray over our husbands to manipulate them, the Bible says basically that's witchcraft. The Bible says that that's witchcraft when we say God told me this about you or God told me this. I think that, if I could say anything, one of the things I've seen as a pattern in very destructive relationships in marriages and parenting is too many. God said and.
Speaker 2:I believe in the prophetic, but you can slip into this place if you're the more spiritual one when you begin to put God said before things to get your way. How does anyone Argue with God told me, god said God showed me, and a better way to approach that would be? I was looking in the word and I was reading this in the Bible and I just believe that's something we need to start believing over our family.
Speaker 2:Or even posing it as a question, as a question, but the God said is actually strong spiritual manipulation and I think we need to stop doing that. I think we need to be Um, submitted to the word and submitted to our spouse enough not to always say we're hearing from God for moving Across country, we're hearing from God for job changes, we're hearing from God for where we should go on vacation. God said we should do this. Well, god told me I need some self-care and you need to send me to a day spa.
Speaker 2:It can get so stinking, manipulative and we don't even realize it, and so I think we need to be very reverent About not taking the Lord's name in vain by saying God is saying things that actually are just good ideas, maybe thoughts, but let's keep to the um. Reverence and sacredness of A God said is a big deal, and it doesn't happen that often and it definitely doesn't control our spouse.
Speaker 1:Wow. Well, that was a whole nother episode, but that was the greatest ingredient in soup.
Speaker 2:It's so true, calls it witchcraft.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's just when we're talking about prayer. I think that that's really good to talk about, as it can be. People can take it wrong and then they can kind of Do those kind of things and and try to. You know, like you said, just get their way and prayer is not.
Speaker 2:That usually happens. I hate to say it because you know, girls, I'm for you, but that usually happens with the women.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but this is what. So this is kind of don't do that. And if you do that, I will. If there is a 99% chance that God Keeps things going well if you pray out loud the right way, if you do that, I know there is also a large percentage that it will fail. We've seen that time and time again, unfortunately.
Speaker 1:Well, let me get back to something because, um, I think you, you were definitely on to something. I don't even think it was soup, I don't think it was spaghetti. I think you're on to something, um, but you mentioned something one time that maybe could help a person, maybe a spouse. If you say this is something maybe ladies would struggle with, like it would be easier to just kind of Pray manipulative, uh, or trying to get your way in a prayer. What was the thing I loved where you said God, how do you? What would you say to my? What are you proud of my spouse? Maybe break that down, because that, I think, can really help Navigate that kind of that one move. Like what? Manipulative? So how do you do that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we were going through a really hard season where I had lost four family members and I was under a horrible cloud. We were launching a church there's just a lot of outward stress on us and, um, our, our staff that we are part of All were required to go spend two hours with a christian counselor, and so we met with them and it was pretty awesome because I felt like I I needed five hours, ten hours.
Speaker 2:Maybe a month of like I would like to talk to someone. This is really healthy for us. So we went and talked to this guy and what the first question he asked me about our marriage is um? He said, rachel, what do you think that god thinks about israel? And when he said it, I just looked over at israel for a second and I just started weeping because what do I think God thinks about Israel? I think that God is really honored by Israel's life and, no matter what we might be going through, that's heavy and strenuous.
Speaker 2:When you begin to not think about what you think about your husband, but what God thinks about him, it changes it and think that we wanted to kind of throw that out to everyone is to maybe go on a date, go on a walk with your spouse and share with them what you think God thinks of them. With all that they've been through, all of the trials, all of the tests, all of the times that they've come home and been faithful and walked through times that should have taken them out, but you saw them turn to the Lord. Or maybe they are walking through a horrible custody battle and you're watching them and you're proud of them and you're like God, what do you think of him? God, you're so pleased, and when we start getting the heart of God for our spouse, our heart grows soft towards our spouse.
Speaker 1:So good and that is just such a like this is a great. Don't just listen to the podcast. This is a great. Do this very practical. Take a chance, just say and it's pretty easy to just say something like hey, I just was praying for you and I just started trying to think of what are the things that God thinks about you? And I just know that God is so proud and you just kind of go down some of the things that God shows you, it will change your prayer life on how to do it, cause sometimes we get stuck what do we pray, what do we do? And we're just kind of in the motion of it's a business, it's a business transaction instead of this love thing. So that'll do.
Speaker 2:And then I would add- and have your spouse do it back to you. Make it an exercise, cause it's beautiful.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Yeah, don't one person do it, definitely do that together. And then my thing is again going back to maybe, as a man or a woman, you don't know what to pray it is. It can be intimidating when you see certain people that are just so eloquent when they pray, and there's certain people that, when they pray, feels like heaven drops and then our words we could fumble, or we could just, you know, not necessarily, and so then it could intimidate us even more. Public speaking is one of the greatest fears. More people are afraid of public speaking than they are of spiders and sharks, and so maybe even praying out loud, even with the confines of safety with your spouse, can still feel. You could feel inadequate, and so one of the things that I learned to do early is just reading God's word and praying that over Rachel. So a simple thing, men. Grab Proverbs 31 and just begin to read. You could grab your spouse by the hand and just begin to read, verse by verse.
Speaker 2:I like it when you hold my hand and pray over me. My favorite is when you're massaging my neck and then you're declaring the word of one. That might be my favorite.
Speaker 1:Well, I can't do that right now in this small little podcast area.
Speaker 2:No, but just think about how you can be creative.
Speaker 1:Okay, so what you do is you grab your wife's shoulders and you pray and you just declare God's word. Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is more precious than Ruby's father. God, I just thank you for my wife. She is so precious, there's no value. I am so blessed that you. How did I find her? It had to have been you, Thank you, thank you, thank you. She is so valuable and so you don't might not know what to pray, but declare God's word and then you have some stuff to go on.
Speaker 1:The next verse is her husband can trust her and she will greatly enrich his life. You can just pray, Father God. I'm so thankful that I can trust her Of all the people in the world. I can let down my guard with Rachel. I trust her. She will greatly enrich my life. Father God, I'm so blessed because of Rachel. So many opportunities that I've had happened because of Rachel, my family and our kids. I am rich. This house is full of incredible things because of what a blessing Rachel is, and so I can just go through scripture by scripture and just begin to declare them. You could do one verse, you could do several, you could read the whole passage, but praying God's word can help change people's lives.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the same for me. I don't have like a whole Israel. Israel always has prayed Proverbs 31, unless God gives him something different, but the same for me. I'll just find scriptures that I feel the Holy Spirit leading me to, and so you know, there was a season where I prayed over him that he would be great in the land and that God would give him confidence not to give up and lose heart. And great peace have those who love thy law. Nothing shall offend thee, lord, even though he's walking through a season of peace. Listen to this. Let nothing offend him, you know, and we, just you, just begin to declare and ask God to help you, and again, just like we started this podcast. But there is something so powerful in bringing God into the relationship and co-laboring with him, asking God to give you a vision of what your spouse is called to become and then praying that instead of praying against all the things that they're not.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and I just would close with this again If you're single, you know you could begin to declare these things in prayer for your spouse that you haven't even met. Rachel Woke up. I forget how old you were 13 years old. God woke her up like in the middle of the night and she just felt like she needed to be praying for her husband. Well, what's weird is, when she was 13, I was 16 and my dad had just died and Going and it was making terrible decisions. So who knows what happened that night that Rachel you could have I.
Speaker 2:Used to cry in my bed because I knew that my future husband was going through something really hard that was trying to take him out, like take him away from God, and I used to pray God, whatever it is, whatever that hard thing is he's going through right now he's alive, walking through. I don't know his name, I know he's gonna be good-looking, but whatever he's going through, god, I just pray that you protect him and keep him close to your heart. I would pray that, and it wasn't every night, but I would get this like overwhelming feeling. And then I meet Israel. I hear a story and it was like I prayed you through that Before I knew you. God used me for that. That's crazy.
Speaker 1:So powerful, powerful, powerful. You know what?
Speaker 2:else is powerful. I know we're ending. I'm gonna end on this because we don't have 20 seconds. Laugh, israel praise and he does all these serious and beautiful powerful prayers. Then he adds the jokes and it's like take God seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. Sometimes we can be over spiritual and it can quench the spirit. So make sure you're laughing, you're lighthearted about it and you're bringing God into it.
Speaker 1:Laughter is like medicine is what. God says so we love you guys. Share, follow oh, comment all the different things.
