When Gloria Miller, known to many as Glow, joined our prayer circle, little did we know the roots we were planting would blossom into a business that styles not just hair, but souls. This episode is a celebration of that growth, marking the birthdays of our beloved Akisha Jones and Tyler, and sharing the cherished morning affirmations that set the ISI ladies' days alight. We unfurl the secrets of living a life steeped in faith, with scriptures from Proverbs and Matthew serving as our guiding stars.
Our heartfelt exchange with Glow reveals the essence of guarding one's heart, an ageless wisdom that continues to shape our daily lives. We recount tales of spiritual awakenings and the strength discovered in introspection, reminding listeners that a pure heart navigates life's waves with a faith-driven compass. The dialogue expands to embrace the courage and favor sourced from a steadfast divine relationship—stories from Samuel and Saul intertwine with the honest trials of entrepreneurship, affirming that wisdom often whispers from within.
Wrap your spirit in the power of these testaments; let our conversation on living a faith-inspired life elevate you. We dissect wisdom's role in heart posture, exposing the inner challenges of hidden faults and deliberate sins. And as we traverse the teachings of Jesus against hypocrisy, we unveil the transformative power of anchoring our actions in faith, even amidst adversity. This episode isn't just an exploration—it's an invitation to let faith infuse your everyday, guiding your steps to a life that sings with purpose and inspiration.
When Gloria Miller, known to many as Glow, joined our prayer circle, little did we know the roots we were planting would blossom into a business that styles not just hair, but souls. This episode is a celebration of that growth, marking the birthdays of our beloved Akisha Jones and Tyler, and sharing the cherished morning affirmations that set the ISI ladies' days alight. We unfurl the secrets of living a life steeped in faith, with scriptures from Proverbs and Matthew serving as our guiding stars.
Our heartfelt exchange with Glow reveals the essence of guarding one's heart, an ageless wisdom that continues to shape our daily lives. We recount tales of spiritual awakenings and the strength discovered in introspection, reminding listeners that a pure heart navigates life's waves with a faith-driven compass. The dialogue expands to embrace the courage and favor sourced from a steadfast divine relationship—stories from Samuel and Saul intertwine with the honest trials of entrepreneurship, affirming that wisdom often whispers from within.
Wrap your spirit in the power of these testaments; let our conversation on living a faith-inspired life elevate you. We dissect wisdom's role in heart posture, exposing the inner challenges of hidden faults and deliberate sins. And as we traverse the teachings of Jesus against hypocrisy, we unveil the transformative power of anchoring our actions in faith, even amidst adversity. This episode isn't just an exploration—it's an invitation to let faith infuse your everyday, guiding your steps to a life that sings with purpose and inspiration.
New, new, new, everything new, new, new, new, new, everything new. I'm ready to go, ready for more. Hello, hello, it is Stephanie and you are now listening into Inside Beauty Inspires. We motivate, encourage and inspire. I hope you guys have been enjoying the show just as much as I have.
Speaker 1:Shout out to Akisha Jones. She was here last week, one of the ladies of ISI. She left you guys with some nuggets. She told you guys this was her birth month. Also, shout out to Tyler. And this is his birth month.
Speaker 1:You know, nowadays everybody's celebrating their birthdays all month. You know it's not a one day thing now, so you know it's their month. So I still want to shout those ladies out in the, in my son, you know. I want to still shout them out for the month of March. I'm going to jump ahead, go ahead and jump into this word this morning, this evening, whenever you're listening to this.
Speaker 1:This is a podcast. Instructions, instructions, instructions. First and foremost, I always want to shout the ladies of ISI out because, number one, we wouldn't Inside Beauty Inspires, wouldn't be Inside Beauty Inspires without the ladies of ISI. Each and every single morning at 6 am, we get up, we see guys face, we say these affirmations and it makes the hugest difference in our lives, which leads me up to letting you guys know that I have a special guest in the house today. I want to go ahead and bring you on Gloria Miller, also known as my glow, because that is my glow. Go ahead and introduce yourself to the people, let them know who you are, what you do and tell them a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, beth. Well, first, stephanie, I do want to thank you so much for allowing for me to come on to the show. You're welcome, thank you. My name is Gloria. I go by glow. I do have a podcast that's called Conversations with Glow Podcasts, where you can find it on all platforms and also on YouTube as well, where I basically discuss everything. I have been with Stephanie now about going on seven years in regards with the prayer call, so I have seen the growth within Stephanie, such as she has saw within me as well too, and I'm just happy to be in this place with her and just getting closer to God and just learning and just knowing that the Bible is really a dope book.
Speaker 1:Man, listen, it is the dopest book of like. I really do enjoy reading the word glow, and I know I'm not by myself because we talk about it. You know, like me and glow, we have conversations throughout the week. You know, it might be like six o'clock, eight o'clock, god might speak to us about something and you hit me. You know, or let me know what's going on. I mean. So again, you know, glow, and also let them know what you do. You know, because people out here getting lost, she tripping y'all, she tripping at the brink of that, at the brink of that my bad y'all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do lots. My business name is glow the growing hands, which I really do believe that I do have growing hands. So if you are in the Greenville, South Carolina or Taylor's area or whatever area that you may be in that's close to Greenville, South Carolina, be sure to hit me up. You can go on styleseatcom for slash Gloria Miller. I missed some numbers behind that. I'm pretty much sure that Stephanie will have that, but make sure you hit me up so that far I can do you up if you have locks, hey hey, hey, and that's what everybody's doing now.
Speaker 1:I mean, you know, it's more of a natural thing which leads me into and say it still leads me into it because a natural state of things Okay. So, things being in their true nature, I'm going to get into this word. But the reason why I said it's leading up to this because we have to follow instructions right In order for us to really see God's hand. You know, you told the ladies and gentlemen that you've been with me for well, seven years. You know, you know, seven years getting in that place has it not made a difference in your life? Definitely.
Speaker 2:Like I can't even get it out, the faith like within itself. God has really shown up and showed out about me, about the people around me and also, with him, allowing for people to go as well too. I no longer look at like, oh, what I've done, what I've done. I look at it as you know, it is basically basically God's plan, and just to be able to know that God is really going to be here for me and being able to actually read it in a word and he's giving me an understanding and also confirming things that I also talk about as well, Like is, is I don't know, is the feeling is it's kind of hard to explain.
Speaker 1:It's indescribable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like you, you gotta, you gotta be in it, to know it, that's it.
Speaker 1:That's it and you. One of the most important takeaways that I'm realizing with this word is that we have to follow instructions. We really do. God gives us instructions and that's the word of the day. Instructions are wanted to touch on that because in Proverbs 413 it says hold on to the instructions, do not let it go. Guard it well, for it is your life, and I think I might have spoke on that last week because, really truthfully, it truly is. You know when, shout out to Demetria Williams, because Demetria gave me her information she brought us here together.
Speaker 1:She brought us together.
Speaker 2:She gave me your information. She was like, yeah, my, you know Stephanie, and I was like I don't know, I don't know. And she was like, yeah, I'm going to give you her number so you can start getting on a prayer call. Because I can remember we were sitting in a car, we was at work and we were sitting in the car and I can remember I was talking to her about some things and she was giving me some insight because it was more of me talking about like my great grandma and stuff. And she was like here you go, my homegirl, stephanie number. She got a prayer call. This time he was like Monday through Friday.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it was like at six o'clock. I was like, okay, that's cool, I get up around that time and I can remember my first time just getting on a call and what pulled me so much close to you was your prayer. I told it was just like I love the way she prayed, like I'm, I'm here, like I love the way that she prayed, because it be times that I be wanting to pray like that, like you're, I don't know. It's something about your prayer, that's something about your. That's what's up man.
Speaker 1:I never knew that. So to God be the glory. You know, I really believe, though I feel like that's what it is. You know, when you truly, you know, get acquainted with God and you do believe, you see his hand on your life. Matthew 633 is one of those scriptures that I love to quote because it says see first the kingdom of God and all of his righteousness, you know, should be given to you. People don't understand how real that is, but that is real, you know, and I know that it's like I just jumped into it because you gotta understand, glory has a podcast. I have a podcast. We are talkers, you know. So we know that. So we know. You know we're not trying to be all over the place, but we're just telling you guys, at the end of the day, this word it is a dope book. When you get into it, the stories man, listen. Remember when I called you and told you get into the book of Daniels, you told to tell him.
Speaker 2:I mean, what is it not interesting? It is interesting and that's why I was just like wow, like it. It the the stories that I read in a Bible just only makes me reflect on what's going on today.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen, because that's it. There's nothing new under the sun, it's nothing.
Speaker 2:Nothing is nothing new up under the sun, Absolutely Nothing for real Like, and it's just like. How can you not believe it when it's in your face?
Speaker 1:And here's the beautiful part about it Our dad is so strategic that he did put the words in a book, a book of instructions. We take him seriously because, again, you know, in January we was in a book of Proverbs, right, the first sign of fear is what? The first sign of wisdom is what? To fear the Lord. And so the fact that we fear him means we take him seriously. So when we start to take him seriously, guess what he does? He takes us seriously. You know, it's a, it's a dual effect. I'm going to get into this devotional real quick because I'm getting excited. I'm getting excited about the word it says here, spilling over. It says, above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. This is Proverbs 423. And we've been talking about the heart posture just about every single day that we've been doing the prayer call every night.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's been a prayer of mine and you told me God told me you don't need to pray about your heart. You're a good person, but it's just more of like just fix it in in in areas that I need for the heart but my heart to actually be in.
Speaker 1:Well, that's, that's, that's our honest truth. And the reason why I told it you know, like you know you're good is because I know the purity of who you are. See, a lot of times people project things upon us and it causes us to second guess who we are. And that's what the enemy does. You know he uses minions. I call them minions because you know we know those minions that's what they are Little demons. And you know he uses them jumping people next day. You know you made me feel that. You made me feel no, I didn't. And that's a projection, you know, and people do that all the time. They do it all the time. But let me just jump back in here, because the reason why I said that to you even then is because people do try to project things upon you and you'll be second guessing yourself like it's something wrong with you, and it really truly is.
Speaker 1:But let's read this word. It says we must be careful what we invite into our hearts. We can't hide the contents of our hearts for long, because words and actions seep out from them. And I guess I understand that because you said it. You know, you know you are with yourself all the time, so you know that, if I know what you're saying, but you didn't know what I was thinking and you didn't know what I was feeling and you didn't know what I did. So clean my heart, god, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 1:It says here as children of God, we need to live intentionally. God has a purpose for us, and when we allow ungodly influences into our hearts, they distort our purpose and cloud our judgment. Let's take time to tend our hearts and be filled with God's love. Joy, generosity these are the attributes feeding for children of God. What if kindness, peace and hope flow from our hearts into our actions and words? What sort of impact would that have on those around us? It says Lord, guard my heart. I want to be so full of your joy, love and mercy that they spill out on everyone around me.
Speaker 1:Keep me free from influences that try to tell me I should only be concerned with my happiness. I want more happiness than I want to be. I want to be filled with joy and generosity. I want to be filled with joy and generosity. I want to be filled with joy and generosity. I want more happiness. I want more happiness, god. I want more wholeness. Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, which which this makes so much sense to me because remember earlier we were talking about this and I was telling you a lot of people think that seeing is things that you do not realizing that it's things that are on the inside of your heart and those things come from being around influences of people weighing on that. What do you think about? You know, when you think about the influences or the things that are lurking in our hearts.
Speaker 2:It's crazy that you you say that because I actually just did an episode on Conversations with Globe Podcast slash radio show for influence in the music right, and so basically, if you take the Bible and you go by what's in a Bible, well the Bible will influence you, but it is also depending on how you take in that word also, so you gotta be able to receive what you're reading Come on now.
Speaker 1:Well, you can't just be a hearer of it, right, you gotta be a doer.
Speaker 2:You gotta be a doer.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And you taught me that, like you can't just just sit there and just be, like you know, just say the affirmations and then, when you hang up the phone, like you, just go on by your day, me personally, like with me, I feel, like with being a doer, like I reflect on the affirmations yes, it just be some of them out of all of them that we do say you know, and what you have stuck with me. Like you know, I work for God and you know, at the end of the day, I am a lender and not a bar and you know it's more of me being fearless. God is allowing for me to be more fearless, as much as I keep saying these affirmations, because I am believing it because of where he has me at now.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen, amen. What's your favorite affirmation?
Speaker 2:I don't even have a favorite. I think I like all of them, All of them. You were like all of them.
Speaker 1:Well, you know it's true, because we've been standing for so long that it's a part of who we are. We are problem solvers. We are intelligent. You know God surrounds us like a shield.
Speaker 2:The favor surrounds us and every time I feel like somebody have done something for me, I'm like boy, that's nothing but favor. I said but that's God, that's favor, that's favor, that's the favor that God be talking about right there. Yes, especially if you're not looking forward.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, I want so many more people to experience God's hand on their life. It's something you said that I always say I work for God. So when you said that, I was like, yeah, globe, we work for God. Is it not rewarding to work for God, though? Of?
Speaker 2:course, of course. It is Like you remember I told you when I told that dude, like I work for God, and he started laughing, yes, and I was like no, I'm dead serious, I work for God and I get up every morning. It's his clock AM and placing fires. Yes, and I mean I work and I'm working for God.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen. But that's what it's it, that's just it. He leads you to those places, he shows you what to do. You know, I think that's such an important piece of the puzzle too, because you spoke about something you said I'm fearless, which means you're bold. Well, that's what God is raising up. He needs fearless, bold servants who are not afraid to speak out about what the word says.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're not talking with me being in that environment. Yes, I don't understand why he always come up when I'm in that environment and it's just be like. You know, sometimes I want to step back and not say nothing, but it's just be like a nudge, Like you better say it and I'll be like well, OK, well, you need to get in your word more.
Speaker 1:Amen.
Speaker 1:And then listeners were talking to you Get in your word. Well, you know what? Because he didn't listen. This was a revelation that I got. This was my revelation.
Speaker 1:God never hung out with sinners. Sinners like to hang out with God. I mean Jesus. Sinners like to hang out with Jesus. You know why? Because he was different, he was nothing like nobody else. He came in with a whole total different agenda to fulfill the Old Testament. Because, of course, the stories are speaking about him from the day one. You know, when you start to really get into it, he's speaking, he's speaking through the scripture, he's speaking his spirit.
Speaker 1:But I noticed that, you know, these men were chosen by Jesus. They were, but he was a what I've been calling attractive outcast. Well, I say that because everybody was attracted to the anointing. But they also outcast him. They also was like who is this, you know? And coming in, changing our customs, in the way we're doing everything Pretty much, saying that he was blasphemy his father, when they had no idea that his father was actually on the inside of him. So, even in those environments and I know you're talking about the club scenes even in those environments, god still is God, the spirit of God is still alive and when he rests on you. That doesn't change who you are, because that's where you are at heart. The spirit lives on the inside and so many people have this misconception of God, wanting you to be cross this T and die this I.
Speaker 2:But that's why they want you to be perfect. You're not Perfect, you know, like it's just that's because that's how I grew up. Yes, it was just more of oh. If you do this, then you know you might go to hell and be like what.
Speaker 1:What? And it used to weird me out to I ain't lying Used to weird me out. I used to be like, wait, what? So I'm going to go to hell if I do this, I'm going to go to hell if I do that. So you know, glo, the thing about the heart posture is it really truly does matter. And you know the story, you know from whether, from my devotion on the day. It made me reflect on the story that we did last week.
Speaker 1:Last week, me and Keisha talked about the anointing and how you know instructions. Being obedient is very important piece of the biggest piece of the puzzle, you know, in order for you to get those rewards and the things that God has for you. And so we talked about how you know. Samuel the prophet anointed Saul at the time and gave Saul instructions on what the Lord told Saul to do. Saul thought he had did everything God told him to do right, but he didn't. Which was in what? There was consequences there's consequences to everything in life, right, and so the anointing came off of him. So we're picking back up in 1 Samuel 16. And we talked about it then because we already know what ends up happening. Here's where David comes into the scene. So if you would for me read verse Samuel, chapter 16, verse 1 through 4.
Speaker 2:Ok, now the Lord said to Samuel how long will you mourn for Saul Sin? I have rejected him from reigning over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse the Beth of Beth of might, for I have provided myself a king among among his sons. And Samuel said how can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me. But the Lord said take a heifer with you and say I have to come. I mean, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice and I will show you what you shall do. You shall anoint for me the one, the one I named to you. So Samuel did what the Lord said and went to Bethlehem and the elders of the town trembled at his coming and said do you come peacefully? Peace, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, come in. Yeah, so listen to this. A couple of things that I can just based off of you reading. He followed instructions. Ok, that's number one. He followed instruction. Well, that's not totally. First, because he asked him how long were you mourn for?
Speaker 1:So the commentary says Samuel's grief over Saul failures. Failure was understandable, but apparently God felt it had gone on for too long. He roused his elder prophet to action, giving him the most important assignment of his ministry. He sent Samuel to the home of Jesse in Bethlehem because he had selected a king from his son. Saul replacement was at hand. So Samuel was afraid of Saul's reaction because of the king's suspicion nature and violent temper. But God told Samuel to go to Bethlehem to offer a sacrifice to the Lord and invite Jesse to join him. Ironically, the elders of Bethlehem trembled with fear at the sight of Samuel, perhaps expecting him to deliver some message of judgment. But Samuel put their minds at ease and called everyone to sacrifice.
Speaker 1:Now I want you to continue reading, but I want to say, I want to say this OK, when a prophet comes, this is the response. Why do you think that's the response? When a prophet comes on the scene? Well, I'm going to tell you. It's OK, that's the honest. It's because prophets know they're seers, so you know. That's why they're like do you come in peace? Why are you here? What's up? What do we do? What are we doing? What have we done? We've done everything that we're supposed to be doing. Where do you come from? So that's one thing that I noticed from there too. Anytime someone that's anointed comes on the scene, that does cause a little bit of a fear. Because they are seers, they see things, because they're God's messengers.
Speaker 2:OK.
Speaker 1:Also, you know, of course, it's like how long are you going to mourn for Samuel? God has a place. People don't think I get tired. People don't think I get tired and get fed up. They don't. But I'm here to tell you. I'm here to tell you, he does, he has another side. Yeah, does he not?
Speaker 2:have another side If he was human, just like us, of course. Come on, man.
Speaker 1:He created everything Exactly, so if there's nothing new under the sun, there's another side. That's why it talks about blessings and curses. But let's keep going. Let's keep going.
Speaker 2:Which verse did you stop?
Speaker 1:on. We stopped at verse five.
Speaker 2:Verse five yeah, ok, so it was then. It was then I mean so it was when they came that he looked at Elab and said surely the Lord's anointed is before him. But the Lord said to Samuel do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him, for the Lord does not see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.
Speaker 1:Stop right there.
Speaker 2:The.
Speaker 1:Lord looks at the heart.
Speaker 1:You know when I read this I was like OK, god, what are you saying? Because he gives us Elab, first Samuel. To me, I laugh at it a little bit because I'm like OK, first of all, god, samuel's a prophet. So he's thinking this has got to be it, this has got to be it Until God corrected him. Sometimes people think outwardly that that's going to get you approval from God, not realizing that it's internal.
Speaker 1:The commentary says this. It says as soon as he looked at Jesse's son, samuel began sizing them up. He may have recalled when Samuel was identified as king of Israel, he stood a head taller than anyone else. It certainly seems Samuel had physical characteristics in mind when he took one look at Jesse's first born, elab, and said certainly, the Lord's anointed one is here. But, as Samuel would find out, that selection wasn't based on physical appearance or stature, people tend to see what is visible, but the Lord sees the heart. The Lord sees the heart. You know. I want people to understand this, because what I'm realizing about the word is this those invisible traits that cause you to stumble. It's those invisible traits that you can't see when we go to Psalms 19,. I'm going to go to Psalms 19 real quick, and the reason why is because I want you guys to understand what I'm saying. Go to Psalms 19.
Speaker 1:Now, this was an eye-opener for me when I discovered this word in Psalms 19. This is what it says. It says the heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship. Day after day, they continue to speak, night after night. They make him known. They speak without a sound or word. Their voice is never heard. Yet their message has gone throughout the earth and their words to all the world. God has made a home in the heavens for the sun. It bursts forth like a radiant bridegroom. After his wedding. It rejoices like a great athlete eager to run the race. The sun rises at one end of the heavens and follows its course to the other end. Nothing can hide from its heat.
Speaker 1:The instructions of the Lord are perfect, reviving the soul. The decrees of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The commandments of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart. The commandments of the Lord are clear, giving insight for living. Reference for the Lord is lasting forever. The laws of the Lord are true. Each one is fair. They are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold. They are sweeter than honey, even honey dripping from the honeycomb. They are a warning to your servant and a great reward for those who obey them. How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults. Keep your servant from deliberate sins. Don't let them control me. Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you. O Lord, my rock and my redeemer, where did you get out of that? What stuck out to you out of this world?
Speaker 2:What really stuck out to me the most is how it I want to be honest, it was like everything.
Speaker 1:It's okay, yeah everything.
Speaker 2:Everything really stuck out to me because it really is, I just kept ringing in my head was heart posture, heart posture. Your heart really has to be right for real with God In order for you to receive what he's really trying to give you. Therefore, he can know that you're going to handle it the right way If your heart is not good. Yes speak to the people. If your heart is not good, then you're going to drop what you did receive.
Speaker 1:Come on Glow and then people aren't patient. They're not patient. You think that sin is this, when, if you get into the word, you see that it's invisible. It's really the stuff that's in your anger, rage, malice, jealousy, envy, all of these things steer up hatred.
Speaker 2:Now it makes sense why I pray for my heart posture, not saying like this is what I have in my heart, but just guard my heart.
Speaker 1:Amen.
Speaker 2:Therefore, it won't be. I have a tendency of being jealous of someone or envy someone or having to put my mouth on someone. Just guard my heart for that. Because I don't wake up every morning and be like, well, who I want to destroy today? Because that's not who I am as a person. I wake up every morning placing God first and just knowing that he's going to guide my day. I don't wake up and be like, well, you know who I just want to talk about today, or what's this or what's that, because it's no longer there.
Speaker 1:That's how it's supposed to be. You know, when I read it, I thought about everything that we've been talking about, for real, everything that we've been talking about. He said go to Psalms 19. That's what I'm talking about. The steps of a good man is ordered. He's directing our steps even as we're sitting here right now. He said go to Psalms 19. When you read Psalms 19, it sums it up and you don't know all of the sins lurking in your heart. It says there's. When I Googled it on Google, just to see and glow, it gives you 30 Bible verses about your heart and you said that's why I asked God to guard my heart. Okay, I'm going to read a couple of these, all right, okay, so Proverbs 4. Let me go to Proverbs 4. That's the first one that he gave me, proverbs 4. You want to read the book of Proverbs 4?
Speaker 2:Yeah, sure. So the book of Proverbs 4 is security and wisdom. Hear my children, the instructions of a father, and give attention to no understanding. For I give you good doctrine do not forsake my law. When I was my father's son, tender and the only one in the sight of my mother, he also taught me and said to me let your heart, retain my words, keep my commands and live and live.
Speaker 1:And live Get wisdom, get understanding.
Speaker 2:Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her and she will keep you. Wisdom is the principal thing. Therefore, get wisdom in all your getting. Get understanding. Exalt her and she will promote you. She will bring you honor. When you embrace her, she will place on your head an ornament of grace, a crown of glory. She will deliver to you. Hear my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be. The years of your life will be many. I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in the right paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hindered and when you run, you will not stumble. Take firm hold of instructions. Do not let go. Keep her, for she is your life.
Speaker 2:Do not enter the path of the wicked and do not walk in the way of evil. Avoid it. Do not travel on it, turn away from it and pass on, for they do not sleep unless they have done evil, and their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall. Unless they make someone fall, for they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. But the path of the just is like the shining sun that shines ever brighter until the perfect day. The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.
Speaker 2:My son gives my son. Give attention to my words. Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart, for they are life to those who find them and help to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence for, out of spring, the issues of life. Put away from your. Put away from you at the seatful mouth and put a perverse lips far from you. Let your eyes look straight ahead and your eyelids look right before you Ponder the path of your feet and let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or the left. Remove your foot from evil. Get your foot out of evil y'all. Get your heart right, come on man.
Speaker 1:Does it not make sense? It's instructions right and it's all right here.
Speaker 2:It's telling you to just be good. Be a good person, y'all that's it Be good.
Speaker 1:Be good Like when you were reading that. The Spirit said go to Matthew 15, because guess what it talks about? Everything that you just if we get in this word, we will be all right. But the problem is nobody's in their word. So they don't know what it says about this. It doesn't know what they said about that, and then they start using the world's wisdom and that is the opposite of God's wisdom. When we get into it, you can see the difference. I'm in the book of Matthew, chapter 15.
Speaker 1:Listen at what Jesus says to the Pharisees, because this is what people got to understand. It says some Pharisees and teachers of the religious law now arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus. They asked him why do your disciples disobey our old age tradition or they ignore our tradition of ceremonial hand washing before they eat? Jesus replied and why do you, by your traditions, violate the direct commandments of God? For instance, God says under your father and your mother, and anyone who speaks disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death. But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents sorry, I can't help you, for I have vowed to give to God what I would have given to you In this way. You say they don't need to honor their parents, and so you counsel the word of God for the sake of your own tradition, you hypocrites.
Speaker 1:Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote these people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is farce, for they teach man made ideas as commands from God, and so he and Jesus called the crowd to come in here. Listen, he said, and try to understand. It's not what goes into your mouth that defiles you. You are defiled by the words that come out of your mouth. So of course, the disciples are like us. They want to know what do you mean it says. Then the disciples came to him and asked do you realize you offended the Pharisees by what you just said? Jesus said this every plant not planted by my heavenly father will be uprooted. So ignore them. They are blind. God's leading the blind, and if one blind person God's another. They both fall into a ditch.
Speaker 1:Then Peter said to Jesus explain to us the parable that says people aren't devout by what they eat. Don't you understand yet? Anything you eat passes through the stomach and goes into the sewer. The words you speak come from the heart. That's what defiles you, for from the heart comes evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying and slander. These are what the value eating with unwashed hands will never defile you. What do you say to that? What do you say to this glow? Because I mean again, it's written this is our brother, jesus is speaking, he's giving it to us. It's clear as day.
Speaker 1:People try to come at you with all of these man-made rules yes, it's got me on one because I'm over it. Get into your word, read your word. These are seasoned people doing this. These are people that you would think know the word doing this. Then somebody like me, who taught me, god taught me. He showed me where it was at. That's why I kept saying yo, your heart matter, your heart matter, like Steph always said, my heart because out of your heart flow the issues alive For real.
Speaker 2:for real because your heart is what it's like, your heart connected to your mind and then your mind connected to your mouth, and then whatever is on your heart is going to come to your mind, is going to speak out.
Speaker 1:Right, so can we change our minds, or what do we truly need to change Our heart? That's it. People always change in their minds because your fickle people change their minds every day. But once God gets into, that's why he says to hide the word of God, we're in your heart, we take God's word to heart, meaning like we know that it's real, we know that it matters, we know that it changes the way we see things, bro. Has it not changed the way that you've seen it? We even it even started talking about the parents in the very beginning, Like y'all, y'all want people to do this, but y'all not enforcing what the God, what God told you to do. Right, You're only talking about man-made rules.
Speaker 2:Talk about it. Yeah, when you, when, when that came about as far as like with the man-made, that made me think about the books that we have out here. In regards with the what is it laws of attraction.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, power.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I've read that book or whatever. But when you you also said like what they have done in that is that they have taken words from out the Bible to create it themselves. That's man-made, yes, it is. So if you just read the Bible and know that it's in the Bible, you would get whatever you read out of the laws of attraction and you can reflect that like, no, you know this, this is really coming out the Bible for real.
Speaker 1:Listen, I'm so glad you said that. The reason why I'm glad you said that is because, people, because you read the other side, you know what it says. You know what the other books say. When you come back to the Word, it's saying the same thing. Why do you want to say Jesus out of it? And then you know. Of course, let's go ahead and dress the elephant in a room. A man wrote the Bible.
Speaker 2:A man wrote who else read it? The man wrote Laws of Attraction. Oh, they did. I just want to make sure they was the same man.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm talking about. They be like they. Who is they? A man, a man, and so who had the anointing? Who did it? That's what it boils down to, right, right, it really does.
Speaker 2:If you think about it, god had the anointing the whole time. That ain't changed. It's just where you want to place your mind in. That's it. That's it you want to. If you want to be out here being, you know, living a worldly world, then that's fine. You know that's something that you choose to do.
Speaker 1:Everybody got choice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but being more in a spiritual realm and just knowing that this is all of God's work, I'm not turning to know. I read books but it's not going to be any, not no Law of Attraction, when I know that I can actually go into the Bible and actually read the same thing, because, again, the Bible is basic, basic instructions before leaving earth.
Speaker 1:And it's the truest thing ever. When you said that you just boy, boy, y'all should see me over here. I'm just like, yeah, you know, because I get, I'm over it, I'm over it. Spirituality, but you're not even in your word. How can you be spiritual without being in the word of God? Do you not understand that there's an anointing for real, for real. People think that you can just learn these things. Some of these things are gifts. They're given. It's in first Corinthians. They talk about it all throughout the book the gifts. The spirit gives these types of gifts. So now we want to go and put man made things and put spirituality on man made things. How do you think that that makes our father feel? You know, that's kind of sort of what they did with Moses and Aaron with the calf. Remember the golden calf when they had? You know, he didn't produce this golden calf and he's, like Moses, been leading y'all the whole time. Yep.
Speaker 2:Y'all needed a calf. Y'all needed a calf, a whole cow.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm just saying it was.
Speaker 2:But you know, that's what heifer means.
Speaker 1:I mean yes, yes. And here's the thing too. It's like people, people, people, they do. They do this because of the people they have in position. So you know how people want the money, the cars, the system. They want all of these things. So the world tells you to get these things by any means necessary.
Speaker 2:Chase a bag chase a bag, and I'm not chasing a bag, I like the bag chase me.
Speaker 1:Come on, man, talk to the people, let them know.
Speaker 2:Chase again. That's worldly things. We chasing a bag, but you, you, are you not understanding that you need res? You people be like oh, I sleep when I die. No, you need rest, you need rest required for you to have red.
Speaker 1:Yes, he does.
Speaker 2:God actually say what? What? What people say on Sunday, sundays is rest day Rest day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so while we sit up here, trying to always chase a bag, but because, because of the system think about what the media is pushing out, though. I mean, we're in it, we're in it so we see. You know, it's like the have and have not, and the true meaning to me, the true way that I see it, is that you do have people in this world that are truly anointed by God, that God has called to do these things, even while we're reading the word, or whatever. These were the prophets of that day that wrote these things. They followed the instructions. Think about it. God was ready to do away with all of the people because they were down there and make. I mean, can you think about how that would make God? That's just like. That's just like you're not giving God praises for you. You're an entrepreneur and God is giving you the faith to step out, yes, and to do yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know what I would do with that.
Speaker 1:Guys, you know what God was wrong with you, but it's giving you the faith to really depend on you. That's just like you giving praise to something that hasn't helped you at all. You know what I'm saying. You know where your help comes from. You know who wakes you up every morning. You know who gets you started. You know who's sending the people because of your prayer life. So when God is who he says he is, how can we combat that truth, Do you?
Speaker 2:I mean can you combat it? No, I told you, I choose not to.
Speaker 1:How can you, though? If it's the reality of it, we're in the. We'll see some people do it.
Speaker 2:I look at it as living proof. My mom is gonna prove.
Speaker 1:Come on now, talk about it. Talk about it.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna live and prove. I feel like God has everybody be having praise reports and stuff. Yes, so it's just the fact of you know me putting it that's like you know when I bought my house. Oh, I wanna give a shout out to Stephanie because my wife no God did Come on now. That's right. But I know that I did it because you helped me.
Speaker 2:Amen, amen and actually get closer to God and actually believe and really have faith in what he can really do for me, girl, god is amazing and just what you just said.
Speaker 1:You took it back. You took it back some years and I'm glad you did, because and we're not deviating from the heart posture, but we're just showing you, when you have God inside of your heart, what that looks like, because it makes the difference. You see, a lot of people are going through things right now low, and they don't know which way is up, which way is down. They don't know which way to turn. I mean, look at the economy. You know the prices are getting higher. Everything, everything people are really. You know the suicidal rates are going up. You know all kinds of crazy thoughts are being pushed, but this isn't being pushed.
Speaker 1:The agenda of the word of God isn't being pushed. When you started seeking his face, I watched God do these things for you that you just mentioned. You said something about your mom. You said something about the house. Talk to the listeners, you know, just so you guys can understand why we are going hard, the way that we go hard when it comes down to the word of God. Talk to them about what God actually has done and did in your life since you put the word in your heart.
Speaker 2:I really can't point out one thing. It ain't one, it's just everything, everything, everything. It is Everything. Like, of course, like I tell you all the time, of course I was going to church when I was younger, and then, as I became a younger adult, and then I had my kids and you know, like going to church but actually like just being on a prayer call and just really being into it and then me really getting into my work, yes, and just knowing like okay, anything that I do speak of in regards to God, he gives me confirmation right behind it.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen. I mean, it is immediate. When I thought about what you said about your house remember, I remember this like it was just you were like I'm looking for an apartment. I'm looking for an apartment. I said I want to get you out.
Speaker 2:Yep, you said that because it was. It was cause I can remember going to go fill out an application at this townhouse that I had seen, and I was cause I knew why I wanted to move. And I went to go fill that out and I was like, okay, I just want to be in this area so my kids can go to the same school, whatever. And when I went to go fill it out and that lady never contacted me, I was just like, oh, okay. And so that's when you said, well, well, god wants you in the house. And I was just like, well, okay, well, I don't know.
Speaker 2:And then what happened is that it's so crazy because my friend I call her JoJo and she told me she had I think she tits me or came up to me at work. It was one of them and she was like, have you called the realtor yet that I gave you? And I was like, no, and she was like, well, I think you need to, but in the reason why I didn't call was because I was still trying to give one of these realtors a chance. And when I realized that it's been three years, nothing is progressing, like what's going on. So when she came up to me and she told me, call that realtor. I called and then boom, like it seemed like she got right on it. She was helping me and she also moved me out of like a comfort zone, like I stayed somewhere. I don't have no family members up there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, wow.
Speaker 2:Probably one. I'm gonna take that back. I got one, but it's not like I talk to this particular person every single day. So now, in a physical sense, like I'm by myself with my kids, so it's just like, oh, you're moving way up down. What made you move way up down? I was like, well, I stayed here, so it's not that far, I'm just go there. It was more of God just really leading that path for real. And then, like when it comes to my mom like I always talk about this as well, too to the audience, like my mom, she was shot nine times.
Speaker 1:I remember.
Speaker 2:And yeah, it was December, December 10, 2019,. My mama was shot nine times and I can remember being in a car that day and usually when I used to like pulling up at work really early. So therefore, I can get a reading, so I can journal, and before I actually walked into the building this particular day, I had read and I had wrote down in my journal and at the very end I had asked God to protect my family. I asked them to protect my family. Not knowing that my mom was. Who's gonna think that their mama get ready to get shot nine times?
Speaker 1:Girl, girl, I remember, I remember.
Speaker 2:And you know how calm I was when I came on the phone and called in this day.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, because you already, because it was. It was like God was, it was leading you and guiding you, even when you that's what I'm saying like you don't even know that you're there's. There's an invisible force, that there's angels that are all around us that are leading us and guiding us and showing us what to say, what to do, where to go, because we're connected. There's a difference when there's a disconnect. How can I get you the word if you're not listening? How can I get you to do what God is asking you to do if you don't follow instructions? Right, you know what I'm saying. But because you followed the instructions, you got on the prayer call that morning, too, and asked for prayer for protection for your family. Because you do it. It was something that you were doing so common. When you came back on the prayer call, it was like you when you gave it to us.
Speaker 2:we're like what you y'all was like what? No, run that back what you saying Glam?
Speaker 1:Did you say what did she say nine times? She said her mom was shot nine times.
Speaker 2:And I'm going to tell you this, and I told my mama this too, and it was just like because when my it it was, it was rare that my sister was calling me back to back and I'm like my sister don't ever call me back to back it. It it gotta be an emergency. And I was in the middle of something that were, and when I stepped out the door she, she was crying so bad and she was like mom, I'm being shot. Then I took it to the hospital, blah, blah, blah, and I was like, oh no, I got to go, like I don't know what's going on, but you know, I got to go.
Speaker 2:And I can remember like I couldn't even decide whether or not, if I want to get on the elevator or take the stairs, like which one is going to be quicker for me to get up there and go get my stuff. Yeah, so I can remember a supervisor came out and she was like, well, what's wrong? And I I told her she was like, okay, calm down, calm down. And so I'm like, you know, I'm on the elevator, like my leg, I'm, I'm shaking my leg because, again, this my mama like who? Who want to hurt my mama?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you mean, my mama got shot.
Speaker 2:For real, and so I can, I'm leaving out, and I had called my boyfriend at the time and I was just like, look, I need you to drive me to the hospital. And I told him what happened. And on the way to the hospital I kid you not like I felt this sense of calmness and peace coming over me and basically that it was letting me know that my mama was okay, Like I got it was. I got calm, Like it was all of a sudden, all of a sudden, got calm.
Speaker 1:That was the spirit of God and you know, I got her. Do you believe? I do believe this. I do believe that the people attached to, to people who are in their word, that we pray for, I believe that they are covered. I believe that and I believe, you know, I believe, because we do this corporately, we get to see his hand corporately, not just on my life, on your life, on Keisha's life, on Savannah's life. We get to see his hand on the ladies of ISI, because he's moving, he's shifting the atmosphere. We're none of us are where we used to be, none of us. We've all grown. We've all you know, grown into the word.
Speaker 1:And so when people talk about how, what you know white man wrote this you know, you know, you know the things that they say. So many things, so many misconceptions. If they get into it, they'll see how true it is. They'll see how God is a present help. He sends his angels. There's an invisible world, just like there's a world that we can see. There's an invisible world. I know about the invisible world globe because I have encounters all the time. I'm not afraid at all. I know that I'm different. I know that God has called me to a place as right now you know, so I'm only doing what he says. But do you not know that it gets people offended? When you talk about the power of God and someone like you you have a whole, you have like evidence why don't they believe when they see the evidence? What do you think that is? You don't know for the life of you, do you?
Speaker 2:They probably oh, you did, you know, like, of course, I did it because God gave me the man. You wouldn't get me the tools to actually go. That's what they do. You don't want them to go through it, but they know. You did it and you know, but God is inside of me, right, right, they, they, that's what they do.
Speaker 1:See if they got into the word. They all understand that there's a spirit, there's a real spirit and there's a real annoyance and there's different, many different kids, different, many different gifts for real.
Speaker 1:And, and and people play with God, not thinking that he is truly God until something happens. And when something happened, whole Lord, pray for me. Pray for me. I'm going to pray for you, but God wants you to get it. It's about a relationship. You know what I'm saying. That's why, when we talked about this earlier too, just to touch on this before we go, remember how we talked about questioning God. When you grew up, were you told not to question God? Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2:My mom would tell me that Awesome It'd be like oh you, you're not supposed to question him, you don't need to question him. Boom, boom, boom. I used to be like, but I'm the one that's like. But why Like? Why can't we Like if? If you know how they say, like God lay stuff on your heart. So if he laid it on my heart, why can I ask it? Why can I ask him and ask him for clarity on what? On the questions that I'm about to ask him? Right, it's crazy that I look at it as like aren't your prayers questions?
Speaker 2:In a sense, yeah, because you're asking, you're asking for him to do things for you Right and when you access the question mark at the end yes. And what we're doing. We're waiting for him to answer it.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:So it's crazy to say don't question God about anything, when God is the maker of everything.
Speaker 1:Jeremiah 33, verse three, and I know my listeners probably know this verse by heart, and you probably know it too. What does Jeremiah 33, verse three say?
Speaker 2:Um, I don't know it by heart, but it says acts.
Speaker 1:Look me, put it on the spot. It says call to me. I know it. He said call to me and ask and I will tell you on searchable things you don't know. The only reason why I know that globe is because I was just like you as a kid. God told me I always wanted God to tell me. God had taught me what am I supposed to do and which way do I go. Daddy, who is that? Is there a? Are they of you? Does she have my best interests at heart? Does she really like me? God? Why did he have that way towards me? Why are they treating me this way? I'm talking about as a child growing up, I wanted to know more about myself, about the things that were happening, but why? Well, who better than to ask God?
Speaker 2:Cause he didn't want it, created you. He know everything about you, right, and the other people that you have questions about, come on man.
Speaker 1:That's why the way I look at the word, I look at the word. Like these people, each person throughout, from Genesis to revelations, all of the people that God used his spirit was on those. It was his spirit. He was the one that was the navigation system. He was the one that was helping people get from where they are to where they wanted to be. He was the one giving instructions. Even there's a whole conversation where Moses going back and forth with God. People don't know, though they say what they hear the next person say. And then where does that leave us? What does that leave the world? So we look around the world. We see what's going on. The only thing that's going on is that you said this and I took what you said and I kept doing what you said and kept doing what you said and kept doing what you said, and it was passed on throughout the family.
Speaker 1:Was it right? No, after time, after time, some of the things that we were told, some of the things our parents were told Well, yeah, half the time, yeah, not. You know what I'm saying, not to just, you know, discredit our parents, or oh, no, you know what I'm trying to say. But like if you never get into it for your secondhand information is what I'm saying. Yeah, people like to go off secondhand information. I don't want to read.
Speaker 2:That's what's wrong with the world today. Like they don't even read Tell them to read.
Speaker 1:Open up your books and read For real. If you can leave the listeners with anything, anything on the, anything about everything, because we talked about so many things. I love it. It was beautiful, I love it what would you leave them with? What piece of advice would you tell the people in today's society what's going on in the world, all these things that they're having to face?
Speaker 2:ups and downs, just put your heart in God's hands. Amen For real.
Speaker 1:Amen, that's God and let God. God. Did you hear what she said? And mine is follow instructions, Follow instructions. If you follow his instructions, he's not going to deviate out the path that he has for you. Okay, Start by getting in the book of Proverbs. What's a good book that you? What's one of your favorite books so far? I mean, we've been in this book all over it Right?
Speaker 2:Um, what's my um? Uh, was it, was it, is it? No, I don't think Joe Joe was your favorite book. It's like kind of sort of my favorite book because it shows how God basically took away everything and gave him back more.
Speaker 1:Amen.
Speaker 2:And the and, like I told you, that's like a reflection of that. That. That mean where God is holding a bigger teddy bear, yes, and that little girl don't want to give it up because, oh, it's my favorite one. But not knowing girl, you got a bigger one behind them.
Speaker 1:Man, y'all better get that belt. Come on now. I'm God trying to God, trying to give you something you ain't never had before.
Speaker 2:You ain't now. I ain't never had this, I've never been an entrepreneur Come on talk about it. Of course I've. You know what I'm saying. Like I, I've done hair on the side and stuff, but I was always told you need to work, you need to work, you need to work, you need to work for you to. So, therefore, you can pay your bills, basically.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what they tell you to do live so you can work, pay your bills, that's it.
Speaker 2:So when I got in this, when I got in this area, I was just like, okay, especially from, like, the confirmations that I had from other people sometimes I hate that, you know it had a tape, but God was just only talking to me through through you and through a couple of other people, that was even through my mama, like he was just talking. I was just like, okay, well, god, I'm getting ready to do, I'm just getting ready to jump out in here.
Speaker 1:But you didn't jump out there by yourself. I didn't.
Speaker 2:I jumped out there with him and I jumped out there with y'all and y'all, and on the prayer, call ISI, like the words of encouragement that I receive, and just lets me know that I know. And then for Ms Brenda to talk about how she hasn't worked in months it's probably now been a year.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:You're in some change now and she just is beautiful and happy as she want to be.
Speaker 1:Man, come on, man. Ms Brenda said and it's something that she said the other down the prayer call. She said that sometimes God asks you to do stuff that don't make sense, right? And you know, a lot of times he does just to see if you're going to do what he told you to do. And she did. You know, like she said, when she left the bank, people probably was like wait what?
Speaker 2:And that's what I was getting. That was like you leaving a good paying job. I was just like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And they couldn't believe it. They couldn't believe it, but are you not? What did you exchange? What did you get in exchange? What did God set you free from and what did God start to bless you with?
Speaker 2:I just want to say, like God said, give me this and I'm going to give you your freedom. Like that's just basically what it was Freedom, I feel free.
Speaker 1:And you know the Bible verse says who the Son says free is free indeed. So imagine being free overall. Yes, Is that not the best feeling in the world? Yes, you remember. Okay, let's just take it back.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you remember when I was on that prayer, when I was on the prayer, when was it, like last week? I was talking about like, oh, I got that email.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I had and I had.
Speaker 2:My mom was like give me some, give me some encouragement. Yes, I remember, help me not to feel discouraged. Yeah, so she did the best that she could and I took it in. But before, when I got the phone with her, I prayed to God because I had noticed that I didn't read none of my devotions for that day and I had prayed to God. And when, I tell you God, when it came up, it came right back down with God giving me the word of what he was needing to give me.
Speaker 2:And every since then it's just been like you know, and when I tell you I was like, look, I don't did three heads that made this much and I'm sitting up here worrying about it. It's a mouth, a money, a week.
Speaker 1:Did see, when God do it, it hit.
Speaker 2:Different it hit different, like it was just like oh, my god, I need to, I need to tell still, like, well, like, okay, boom, let me, let me. I Need to get this off my chest, because God is definitely Is who he say he is, amen and I know like you know what they say?
Speaker 2:like I just want people to receive my message. Don't look at me. Just just receive my message and just know that God Can do the same for you as well too. He's not a selfish Well, he, he is, but he's not selfish with with, with us.
Speaker 1:No, no, he's not selfish with his children. He wants us to have the best life.
Speaker 2:Is that he wants us to have life and have it abundantly, and so many people aren't even experiencing that and when I heard, when I heard One person say well, why do we have to take for me to die to experience, to experience, basically, a good life really?
Speaker 1:yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm just, like you know, have to die to experience a good life? Absolutely not, not at all.
Speaker 1:No but if you start to put God first, you will see, you will see. But that's the problem. Nobody wants to put God, everybody wants to tiptoe around it. And then, because they've heard a preacher say it, well, because it's preacher say that and I can tell you uh, no, you won't, because God will embarrass you, because guess what? You got to live on the same words that you are Giving you know sense. So he holds everybody accountable.
Speaker 1:I know we're getting closer to time for you to leave. I know a call has to go back in and do some hair today, but listen, I want to thank you so very much, glow, for being a part of the ladies of ISI. We're getting up every morning and seeking God's face because, again, she says the affirmations with me every single morning, and it's been seven years and I just wanted you guys to understand how important it is to seek God's face and, more importantly, how it is to hide the word of God in your heart, because out of your heart flows the issues. You have to replace them. Be a good person. I won't go to leave you guys with the word.
Speaker 2:This is a word for somebody it's definitely a word for somebody, and that word is comparison. Let's just go ahead and be what we were made to be, yes, without envious lead or pridefully Comparing ourselves with each other or trying to be something we aren't and that comes from Romans 12 6. As Hard as, as hard as it may be, to believe what God is doing in the lives of others has absolutely Nothing, nothing to do with what he is seeking to do in you. Comparison Cripples our confidence and compromises our calling For real comparison cripples our confidence and compromises our calling. So, therefore, you wouldn't know what your calling is if you walking in somebody else's footsteps. Okay, I'm.
Speaker 2:When we obsess about what others are doing, more limiting, limiting beliefs enter our mind in the spirit, of fear gets to whispering you're not doing enough, you're behind, is too late, you're not as talented, your life isn't as pretty, you don't have enough. You just aren't enough. Media images stir up the spirit of comparison every day. Hmm, we see airbrush images of children who do not cry and women who wake up with perfect lashes, flawless Skin and lots of vacations. While you're working, trying to pay the bills, keep the kids from tearing each other apart and somehow squeezing the bath, it seems as if everyone else is living a perfect life. Remember, the enemy will indeed use anything to explode an Insecurity that already exists. Hmm.
Speaker 2:The other danger of comparison is ego. Hmm, it can lead to competition and arrogance. We can start to feel like we're better than others. Because our life seems to be better, or in an attempt to keep up, we start striving, proving and showing off. No matter how you slice it or dice it, there is nothing good that comes from comparison. God wants us to look up, not around, and and there's a Bible verse that, yes yeah, yes, but I mean, it's speaking it plain as day.
Speaker 1:He wants us to look, look up and not around, not sweet, I always tell people to run your own friend, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Because what God got for me, it's for me, it's not me. God got for you, it's for you. But we can get lost in the souls. We can, and have we been there before? Of course. But when we start putting God first, you start seeking his face, you start Aligning spiritually Align. The true nature comes out of what you're supposed to have and who you're supposed to be. So that's why it's important to let God leave, because he'll take you to the places that you've never seen before, imagine, and I'm excited about your future. Are you excited?
Speaker 2:man, I'm, I'm excited it's, it's like a feeling of Overwomeness, but it's like a good Overwomeness, like, yeah, I am, I am so ready. Every day I wake up and just be like, okay, god, like what you have for me, like people, he be sending people my way to come and get their lots done. Like I, my book was empty this week. Hmm, like for real, like I, god, god, god is everything he is everything, I don't even know how to explain it, no more.
Speaker 1:Well it's. He's indescribable. When you have a real relationship with them, people don't understand it. But guess what your prayers allow? Your prayers allow because they can see that something's different in your life. That's why I want my life to be a reflection of my faith. My life is a reflection of my faith whenever happiness is your birthright. These are all the things that are written. They're supposed to be ours if we do what. Follow the word of the day instructions, amen. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for listening in to inside beauty. Inspires will be motivate, encourage and inspire through biblical principles. You guys have an amazing day on purpose. Please Thank you again, hello.