Road To Redemption
Road To Redemption
Cody Boyett - Saying “Yes” Without All the Details Changes Everything - Audio Podcast
What if a simple yes could turn a closet into a pulpit and a front porch into a sanctuary? We welcome Cody to share a sweeping story of surrender, from notebook sermons as a teenager to spontaneous live streams that drew thousands during lockdown, and the porch gatherings that sparked salvations, deliverance, and a growing church family. It’s a journey marked by purity of heart, humility before God, and a fierce refusal to let fear silence the voice inside.
We explore how real transformation begins with availability—Hineni: here I am, and I’m willing. Cody unpacks the power of doing the next right thing when you don’t have all the details, and why heaven here now is more than a phrase. We talk about cultivating a pure sound in a noisy age, resisting performance religion, and guarding the wells of living water within. From blue tarps in a thunderstorm to people driving over a hundred miles for prayer, every scene points to the same truth: God brings the beauty when we keep him at the center.
You’ll hear practical steps to move from fear to freedom—daily Scripture habits, finding a Christ-centered church, and joining a small group where honesty and healing can flourish. Expect a clear call to surrender, a challenge to speak when God says speak and be still when he says be still, and a reminder that you’re not responsible for self-promotion. Your yes matters. If you’ve been waiting for perfect conditions, consider this your nudge to begin.
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Welcome to Road to Redemption. I'm John Martin. I'm so excited to be here today with my new friend Cody. How are you?
SPEAKER_00:I'm great. How are you?
SPEAKER_01:I'm so excited to meet you. I've heard about you from Val and Bon Bon and Eddie, and we have so many mutual friends through the Path and Grace Ministry, which I love. We've had had a lot of the girls and Eddie on the show, and just I've been so blessed by hearing from all of them. I mean, it's just touched me so much.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, it's an incredible, it's an incredible ministry, um, incredible kingdom work that is being done. Um truly that place everywhere that they go becomes a sanctuary for the presence of God. It makes it makes the workings of what we think would be in the only secluded to the church. It makes it come alive in every area, in thrift stores, in homes, in um just restaurants and places. Everywhere that they go, the presence of God is on display. It's incredible.
SPEAKER_01:Wow. Well, our mutual friend Bon Bon was telling me about you, and I was like, wow, I mean, I just got to hear a little bit, but he was telling me you started hearing from God at a young age, maybe even like eight or nine years old. You started writing sermons. I mean, these things that just aren't normal, you know, and I was like, but so great, you know. So t tell us a little bit about your background.
SPEAKER_00:Um, well, I have been um in the church or in the presence of the Lord uh since since I was in my mother's womb. Um, you know, I used I say a joke sometimes, you know, that I came in the house before she did. Um, but I've really been been in the presence of the Lord since since birth. And um I grew up in services and prayer meetings and all of those things, but the Lord really began to make himself real to me at a young age, and I gave my life to Jesus when I was eight years old, and I was baptized um with the evidence of speaking in tongues when I was eight years old, and I would sing. Um, man, but I was afraid, like I would not talk or speak. If they were like, testify, say your name, I would be like, uh, and I would, but I would sing my heart out. Um, but around 15 years old, I was on a field trip. We were our whole eighth grade class was going to like Universal or something, I don't remember the theme park, um, but I had an encounter with the Lord on that bus. My parents weren't there, nobody was there. Um, and I began reading in Jeremiah. Um, before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. I set you apart, I ordained you a prophet to the nations, and then I said, Behold, Lord God, I cannot speak because I'm a child. And he said, Do not say you are a child, for you will go and do all that I send you to do. Don't be afraid of their faces. You know, I've called you to the nations to tear down and to build and to plan and to pluck up and set things in order and to establish. And um, I knew that day that the Lord had called me. And um, I would be in my room in my secret place with God, and I would go to school, and when I'd get off the bus, I'd just go straight to my bedroom, I'd shut the door, and I'd just be alone with God. And I had all of my Bibles, I had concordances and um, you know, just Bible dictionaries, everything would be scattered, and then have my notebooks and I'd be writing down all of these things, and later on I come to realize that I was writing sermons, you know, um, I was preaching, but I was preaching in my notebook, and um May the 23rd, 2003, the Lord opened a door for me to preach, and uh they were making fun of me. They were like, you know, your first time, you're gonna, you know, it's gonna be like five minutes and then it'll be over. And um 25 minutes later, they were like, Oh my goodness, we've got a long-winded lady on our hands. Um, but I've been preaching uh since 2003, and I will be 38 this year, and uh, so it's it's been a long time. Um, our family traveled singing southern gospel music uh when I was eight years old. So I'm literally been in in ministry of some capacity for 30 years and um been preaching, and God just he's just opened up door after door after door, and did a lot of evangelism, a lot of preaching in different cities and states when I was uh coming up and a teenager. Uh grew up, got married, had some kids, and uh God began to open up the door at Path of Grace uh through uh using Von Bon. Um we lived in the same town. God moved me from the town I grew up in into the town that I married my husband. And I'd heard about Von Bon, but I'd never like met him. But we had a meeting, and from that God just sparked a just a kingdom relationship and it opened a lot of doors. We ministered in jails together, ministered at Path of Grace together. Um, and in 2020, when everything kind of like shut down, um he the Lord was like, Um, you know, the world might be shut down, but you're not shut down. And I was in my living room in March of 2020, and I was just playing keyboard. My husband had gone coon hunting. I don't know if you guys do a lot of coon hunting down here, but um, he went coon hunting, and me and my daughters were sitting in the living room, and I just began to sing, and I wrote this song, and my daughter turned around and she said, Mom, that's the most beautiful song I've ever heard. Um, and I so I I sent it, I had voice recorded it so I wouldn't forget you know the words or whatever. And I sent it to my friend, and she called me and she said, You have to, she said, you have to make a video, you have to post it on Facebook, you know, people need to hear this right now. And I was like, I am not that person, like I am not a camera, like let's do all the things, but um, I really felt the Lord in it, and we did that. And um by the the end of the time frame or whatever, it had like over a hundred thousand views, and people from all over the world were watching, and she was like, now preach to them. And I had just asked my cousin, uh, my husband, uh, because in 2020 there really wasn't anything that you could do besides just um be at home or build something, and I needed some closet space, and I'd asked my husband to turn our bathroom in our bedroom into a closet because I needed uh closet space more than I needed a bathroom, and he did, and I went in that closet and I set my keyboard up and I just started ministering and turned Facebook Live on on my phone. I had no idea what I was doing. Um, but sometimes there would be 5,000 people that would be listening, and God just he opened doors, and then my husband built me a porch, and uh it was really hot in that closet, so I started going outside and preaching on my porch, and then people were like, Hey, can we come to your yard? And they would drive over a hundred miles one way just to come sit in the yard, and the presence of God would pour out, and people would be slain in the spirit, and he was just doing incredible things, and um he opened a door to where um because one night it rained and I was gonna have to cancel. And um, I worked at a hardware store at the time, and the Lord said, Don't cancel. Um, he said, Get these tarps. And so I had my husband put all these blue tarps and enclose this porch, this beautiful porch he had just built me. And uh we had service that night, and three people wound up coming in the middle of the pouring rain and giving their life to Christ. Um, and he just showed me like whatever I say, just do it, it will work. You know, it's not about the beauty of of what's around you. He said, I'm the beauty, I'm I'm the thing, I'm the main thing. Let me be the main thing. And um so I started praying. I was like, God, if you're gonna send me these people, you know, I we need a place to put them, you know, and and so he just started opening doors and he put us in the building that we're in right now. And um, he's just he's been saving. We started out with 10 people and in our little tiny town. There's over 300 now, and we're running two services on Sunday mornings, and and I I just God is doing amazing things, he's been saving and delivering. We're seeing families restored, prodigals return, um, just going into different cities and and seeing God manifest himself and just he's real. Yes, he's really real. And whoever wants to be a part of what he's doing, if you've got a heart that says yes, you can be a part. Yes, and um just open your mouth and he'll fill it. And he's just he's been faithful to me. And he is good and he has done great things, and I just pray that my life points people to him.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you are so wow, you're ministering to me. I could you could keep going on and on. I'm I'm so blessed. And w well part of what we're with this show, Cody, is is we're really trying to bring people hope um through these conversations, testimonies. Because we we find that a lot of people in America, especially and even this region, identify, they say they're a Christian. Yeah, you know. But we're not living a sold-out, surrendered, you know, we're we're we're living in fear, anxiety, depression, addictions, you know, so we're not doing what the Bible's telling, you know. So we're trying to provide people hope. Um what is your message? You know, if you had to say, I I know you're preaching a lot, but is there one overall message that you're speaking today?
SPEAKER_00:Um, well, a lot of what you've just said is just to sell out, to believe God, believe that He is who He says he is, and He will do what He says He will do. Um, there were a lot of times that people, especially in 2020, they were like, Well, what are you doing right now? And and I want to let you know, like, it's okay to not know what you're doing. Um, as long as you know who you've said yes to. You don't have to know. Um, I Isaiah, he said this, he said, Here am I. The Lord said, Whom will I send? Who will go for us? And Isaiah said, Here am I, and in Hebrew, that word is Hanaini, Hanaini Adonai, here I am, Lord. And it doesn't just mean that I'm here and I'm present, but it means that I'm available. Yeah, whether I know what my marching orders are or not, whether you give me every detail or not, you have my yes. And um just do people would say, Well, what are you doing? And I said, I'm just doing the next right thing. You don't always know the whole path that is set out before you, but you do know the one who has ordained your steps. So you don't have to have all the details and all the little pieces and all the parts. That's his. Yeah, that belongs to him. Your life, your steps, and he will use, he will use anyone. If we've seen anything in the last several weeks, it is that the enemy is coming after the sound. He he wants to keep us in fear. He wants to silence the voice of the people of God. He wants to silence the voice of hope from the least of these to the greatest of these. He said, My voice is the voice of many waters. You know, and in John, he said, I've put deep wells inside of you. There is a well spring that comes out of all of us, and the sound that comes from you, the sound that comes from me, the sound that is released out of every single vessel that he has created, out of every single well, all of those rivers of living water make up the sound of the voice of God. What we release in this hour belongs to him. The sound belongs to him, the message belongs to him, the past belongs to him, the provision belongs to him, and he will release it into the hands of any of us. It doesn't matter. He didn't wait for the prodigal to clean up and be amazing. You know, he just said, put a robe on him, put my ring on him. He's automatically restored. You know what I mean? So whether you've been in the kingdom for a long time and you've been living in fear and you're like, who am I? You know, who am I? I'm nobody. I'm just some little girl from nowhere. You know, but he made himself real to me. Um, you know, if if you've been in addiction, if you've been, you know, if the enemy has hijacked your life, take it back in Jesus' name. You know, you don't have to wait on this certain thing right now. It's right now. It's it's not later, it's now. And and the people need to wake up to that it's it's now. And um I just, whoever you are, wherever you come from, none of that holds any bearing on God's ability to use you, God's ability to flow through you. And when I say use you, I don't mean like the world. The world wants to use you and use you up and spit you out and move on to the next. But God desires to use you in the fact of that we are conduits. As it is in heaven, so shall it be in the earth. We are just here to get heaven here now, to let people see him now.
SPEAKER_01:That's so funny because I was just thinking the same thing about we have the ability for heaven here now.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And and and and God wants us to have that, you know, and and and his children are you know are struggling, you know, and and we want to see them come into that, you know, to have heaven here now, and you can have that. What what what do you recommend? What how how do people do that?
SPEAKER_00:The Bible tells us that the pure in heart shall see God.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:And I believe that every bit of it goes back to purity. He met me in in my childhood, he met me in my innocence. Have I been perfect? Absolutely not. Have I fallen down? Yes, but it's not in the fall down, it's in the get up. You know what I mean? That's where that's where the win is found, is in the get up. I just believe that in this hour that we are in, it's going to be about the purity of the heart. The Bible says that there are people who are going to declare, Lord, Lord, have I not prophesied in your name? Have I not done all of these wonderful things in your name? And he will say on that day, depart from me. I never knew you. Um, and there is revival that is sweeping this nation, but it is going to be a grassroots coming from the nobodies kind of movement that is going on because we're the people who don't want the credit, we don't care. We want him to have the crown, we want him to have the glory, we want him to have the dominion. Because if you find me, what good does that do you? But if you find him because you found me, that's what you need. And so I just I want to tell people in this hour to beware for the pureness of the sound. He spoke to me last weekend and he said, if you don't rise up now with a pure sound, he said, you will watch the region that I've called you to inherit be swept away with a counterfeit. There are people who know how to do church, but they do not have pure hearts. And there are people with pure hearts that are sitting in boxes waiting for somebody to release them or somebody to approve of them when you already have the approval of Abba. You already have the approval of God. We can't live on our emotions in this season. People are searching and they are hungry. And we need people who are going to rise up and give them the genuine power of God, the dunamous power that you came to Him one way, but you are leaving a different way. That you have died and been buried with Christ and you are resurrected into newness of life. Old things have passed away, all things have become new. And you can't get that with the form. You only get that with the genuine, you only get that with the purity. And so, um, and that's I mean, that is something that is so important, I believe, in this hour. God is moving, but the enemy is going to be right there, trying to overshadow it every step. So stop waiting.
SPEAKER_01:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:Stop waiting. Do what is in your heart to do.
SPEAKER_01:That's awesome. Well, is there anything else you want to say before we go?
SPEAKER_00:Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and he will exalt you in due season. Whenever, whenever God places a gift in our life and the fullness of time comes, he knows when the fullness has come. Um and and when it does, he's going to pull that out and he's going to elevate it. We don't have to strive in this season. We can be seated with him in heavenly places, and we can just hear his voice. And as we humble ourselves and we submit to him in purity and integrity and in honesty and in pureness, holiness, consecration, sanctification, he will do the lifting, he will do the heavy lifting, he'll do the raising. And um, so we're not responsible for the trajectory, we're not responsible for the thrust, we're not responsible in the push or the shove to get us from where we are into where he would have us to be. Our job is to be holy, to be humble, and to wait on him to speak when he says to speak. Jesus said, He said, I only speak what I hear my father speak. I'm only doing what I've seen my father do. And if we will live in that example, to be quiet when it's time to be quiet, to lift up a sound when it's time to release a sound, and then just let him take care of the rest, he's going to do it. He will draw all men to himself.
SPEAKER_01:That's so good. Cody, wow, thank you. And as we come to the end, we always like to share our three key pillars of road to redemption, which is first to get into the Word of God. Just start reading the Bible today.
SPEAKER_00:Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01:And if you don't have a hardback Bible, get your phone. It's right there. Pull up the Bible app. Start reading the Bible and do it every day, every morning. The Lord will speak to you. And then get into a Christ-centered, Bible-believing church. And just go. Don't try to find the perfect church. Don't overanalyze it. Just go. Go to church. And then get into a group. Get into a smaller group within your church that you can do life with. You can just make yourself self vulnerable. And they can minister you in that group to go deeper with God. To receive that total surrender. Total surrender. And have heaven here on earth, as Cody and I said, it's available now.