Ep 25 | Friendship with God

Ever wondered why Moses was so special to God? Was it just because he led the Israelites out of Egypt, or did it have more to do with his profound friendship and intimacy with YHWH?

Well, we're excited to bring to you an episode that explores this deep connection and how you too can cultivate deep intimacy with God.

We journey into the realm of the divine and human connection, shedding light on the powerful impact that friendship with God brings to your healing, deliverance and personal connection.

We delve into the  power of seeing Jesus not just as our Savior but as our friend.  This episode is packed with rich insights that will inspire you to heal your own wounds around friendship while deepening a beautiful intimacy with God.

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Transcript

Friendship With God

Speaker 1 0:00

Well, you got a friend in me. I don't good, don't good, don't? Yeah, got a friend in me. Okay, don't come for me. I do not own the rights to this music. Is that what people post in their Facebook like post? I don't know why people do that, but anyways, I just felt like singing.

Speaker 1 0:17

Today we're talking about Friendship, but not just the subject of friendship. We're speaking specifically about friendship with God. One of the core issues that women seek my help with as a therapist and mentor is around Relationships and feeling so wounded, this inability to really get past the stuckness in that area. And a lot of that stuckness has to do with relationship to friends, friendship. Today we're gonna dig around in that wound, all for a purpose. We're gonna dig around in there and get to the roots of this thing.

Speaker 1 0:50

In reality, your intimacy with God is the most intimidating thing about you in the realm of the spirit at least, to the kingdom of darkness. Right, we know that we're in this war. People talk all the time about generational curse breaking and All these things that they want to do. You know gotta say this perfect special prayer, but the reality is this your friendship with God, your intimacy with him, will solve so much of your problems, that sin, that you can't break free from all of these things that you're battling with all the generations. Your friendship with God and knowing what it needs to be a friend will break through that stuff. Let's dive right into it. Hey friend, welcome to a new creation podcast where we're pointing women towards victory in Christ, one Jesus story at a time.

Speaker 1 1:43

My name is Jimmy Sushel. I'm a Christian trauma therapist and mentor for women. I'm so excited that you're here with me today. Let's dive right into today's episode. Well, hey guys, welcome back to another episode. If you're watching on YouTube, what's up I'm not on here very much and if you are joining me on the podcast, on your favorite podcast app, what's up?

Speaker 1 2:07

Today we're talking about friendship with God as a pathway to presence. Friendship with God. Before we get into that, I want to pray Most gracious and heavenly father, oh Lord, how we just give your name glory. You are worthy to be praised. We thank you, lord Jesus, we thank you, holy Spirit. We thank you that you will pour out your spirit on all flesh and I ask you, god, to Pour out yourself over the listener, even this day. Lord, meet them right where they're at and that place of need. Lord Jesus, I pray for a great and mighty healing, deliverance. But, jesus, whatever that person needs, whether it pertains to this topic, whatever reason, and click yes on this podcast. Whatever they're trying to find as they seek you, as they hear the word that you'll meet them there, lord, but even those unspoken things that they need healing for deliverance, for Lord Jesus, I just pray that you will meet them there. God, I bless you. I ask you to open up their ears, that they will have a hearing ear, that you will open up their eyes so they would have a seeing eye, lord Jesus, to to see you, lord God, to see you and what you're doing and To know you. Lord, god bless me to deliver this message of hope To the women that you have sent me to, to the people that you have sent me to, in the name of Jesus, I pray.

Speaker 1 3:41

Yeah, so I want to talk about friendship, and that's such a sticky topic for so many people for a lot of reasons. Right, I Don't know what it was like for you and your former years. What friendship looks like for you now? People say like it's harder to make friends in your thirties, it's harder to make friends in your forties. It's harder to make friends as a grown-up Compared to when you were on like the playground right, and I have such a beautiful story. I'll never forget it.

Speaker 1 4:11

I remember being in elementary school must have been like first or second grade and playing by myself, and this new girl came out and Instantly we were like, hey, do you want to be friends? And yeah, I want to be friends. And we were friends for years and years. We were friends for many years until you know high school, and sometimes that thing happens where people are kind of splitting up to as they're finding themselves, whatever that means, but we remained friendly.

Speaker 1 4:38

And then, like now Facebook has made everything weird because those friendships that you might not actually have ended or you know, those connections that would have naturally ended in life, well, people can send you a friend request and so now you kind of know what someone who was your elementary playmate is doing in their life and it could kind of give this false sense of Relationships, or how do I want to say? It gives us false sense of true intimacy. Being able to have thousands and thousands and thousands of people on your friends list, for example, can sometimes create this complex moving out into the world where we want to take that same mindset of. Oh well, you know I got tons of friends on the social media, but the reality is that many people do struggle with applying what does friendship really mean in real life? You go out in the world and you may find that it's not as Easy to make friends. You don't have somebody who can call to Go out for lunch and like. It's kind of this weird cognitive dissonance that happens just because of this digital world that we're living in. Enters the word of God, because you know I'm gonna always bring it back to Jesus. God has really just been impressing upon me Just the intimacy of being a friend, friendship with God. Can we talk about that? We know God is holy, we know God is Love, but do we know that God also wants to be a friend?

Speaker 1 6:33

I'm gonna read out of Exodus Exodus, chapter 33, starting at verse seven, really Highlighting on verse 11. So I'll paraphrase the beginning part, starting at verse seven, my Bible says Moses meets with the Lord. That's what the heading says Moses meets with the Lord. Let me start at verse 933, 9. And it came to pass when Moses entered the temple, but the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle and the Lord talked with Moses and they stopped there.

Speaker 1 7:13

What's so beautiful is, in this time, an Exodus. What we're witnessing in the scriptures is Moses essentially be becoming a mediator for these people. We can talk about the reasons why, but the people really struggle to know God Intimately. They were very familiar with his hands and what he was doing. They were very familiar with the manna from heaven. They were very familiar, but that familiarity did not translate into knowing him. That familiarity did not translate into Truly loving him. That familiarity just translated into Basic provision. There's more I could say on that, but I want to continue, starting at verse 10,. All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tabernacle door and all the people rose and worshiped each man in his tent, door 11. So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as the man speaks to his friend, and he would return to the camp. But his servant, joshua, the son of none, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle. These scriptures are so beautiful because what they do is they highlight the character and the nature of God and they highlight the difference between merely knowing Him, knowing of Him, knowing His hands, knowing Him to provide, knowing His goodness and actually knowing His heart. Moses was a man who knew God's heart. What is so profound to me about this is that Moses was someone who had a very sorted history.

Speaker 1 9:12

Ok, I think sometimes we fall for this lie. There can be this lie because really the enemy lying to you, saying that you have to come to God in perfection, that only the pastor, a preacher, someone who looks more Bible-y I made that word up someone who talks more Bible-y, someone who is a better Christian, whatever that supposed to mean, those are the people who get to have that relationship with God and you can, without even realizing it, sort of elevate other people in such a way that got never intended. We are to humble ourselves, we are to think of others as more important than ourselves. That's absolutely biblical, but we're not supposed to believe it in our mind, that so on. So can have a better relationship with God than I can, because guess what? The Lord is our God. He does not just our God, he's our King. But he's not just our King, he is our lover, the lover of our soul. He is not just the lover of our soul, but he desires to be a friend.

Speaker 1 10:28

When we have friendship with God, we have intimacy with him, and when you cross the line between just being familiar with the things that he can give you, what I mean is you know how you'll go to God in prayer, and immediately it just becomes this long, long list of all the things that you need from him, and it can be very well-meaning things that you need. You know what I'm saying? I got a loved one in the hospital right now. I have every right to come boldly to my God and be like God. I need you to heal, I need you to heal her. I need you to do this, that and the other. I need money for this, that thing.

Speaker 1 11:11

We approach God this way and our prayer time so often, and it's not wrong to do that, because he did tell us to cast our burdens on him, literally imagining a fishing line and throwing it over to the Lord Jesus. Right, we're supposed to do that, but it's so much deeper, it's so much more profound. Don't just stop there, because before we ever get to that point, let us have it in our height. But we're not just calling on a God who's a far off somewhere. We're calling on the Lord, god Almighty who is a friend, and I believe the reason so many people have trouble with approaching God in this way is because there's wounding in your own relationship, in your own heart, around.

Speaker 1 12:07

What does that word friend even mean? So I looked it up. I love definitions. I use a blue letter Bible to find out what do the words mean in the Hebrew and the Greek. So friend means companion, fellow, intimate lover, neighbor. There's a form of intimacy that we have whenever we call someone a friend and the reason why a lot of you listening today have trouble knowing God as a friend and allowing that to feel like a home to you is because you yourself have been a terrible friend. I'm not sorry, I've been there.

Speaker 1 13:00

The Lord has had to sanctify me and the area of friendships. It isn't his sanctification Beautiful. It never comes with condemnation. It always comes with love. Sometimes it looks like discipline and it doesn't feel pleasant, but we want God, who created us, who is the lover of our soul. We want him to show us what's inside of our heart. We want to go low before him and humble ourselves so he can show us what's really on the inside of us, because when we are a bad friend, that's like a dagger in the heart.

Speaker 1 13:44

A lot of women, especially coming to me for work in the area of trauma therapy, may have had an experience where, by all every right, it makes sense that they would be a little guarded because of the heinous thing that somebody did to them, the betrayal. But the beautiful thing about being set apart in a holy Is that the things that happen to us in the world but they don't have to pollute us, they don't have to corrupt us, they don't have to change us, but rather, because we have the spirit of God on the inside of us, we get to start changing the world. We get to respond in a different way. Someone called you out of your name. You get to confound the enemy by choosing to love them. Anyway, father, I forgive them. I forgive them.

Speaker 1 14:48

Forgiveness isn't always reconciliation, forgiveness is just. Lord Jesus, I trust you to avenge this situation, whatever that's supposed to look like and sometimes the thinking that situation is going to look completely different than you would expect. Sometimes it will look like God pouring his spirit out at a greater measure on them. There's a beauty that is to be had by mastering this part of our life and our relationships the ability to be a friend. We struggle sometimes with friendship with God because we don't know even how to be a friend and the natural. And if that's you, I really, really, really, really encourage you to be honest about it.

Speaker 1 15:32

Because if you want to get healing from your trauma that you've been through okay. If you want to get healing from this experience that happened to you, if you want to get healing from whatever that that sticky thing is that you just keep like you're like I don't want to deal with this anymore. You want to get healed from that. You got to be willing to get real and we got to look at ourselves and so often we want to turn the mirror outward and say, like you know, this person did that and I'm like this because that, that, that, that, that, that, that. And of course, as a therapist, of course we're going to look at your history. You're going to see what are the things and patterns that you learned from your childhood. What did your caretakers do or not do that may have produced like maladaptive behaviors or that may have impacted you and essentially, you and it's absolutely fine to right chest Lee judge those circumstances according to what they are, but at the end of the day. It's not those circumstances, it's not the other person, not your mom and dad, that you're going to have to come before God and glory at the end of your life and stand before him. It's going to be just you. It's going to be you, your heart, it's going to be. How did you handle it? God already knows what you've been through, honey. He already knows what you have endured. He already knows how that person betrayed you.

Speaker 1 17:09

There is a doctrine, there's a lot of teaching that we've all heard about just trying to produce fear around the last days, trying to produce fear around meeting Jesus face to face when we pass from this life onto the next, before the believer. His goal isn't to play back the tape to you of every little meticulous thing that you've done wrong. His desire is to say well done, my good and faithful servant. You handled it well. And our job is to live this life between now and then as though that's true, as though we have the Holy One on the inside of us, as the believer helping us, as though we have the Holy Spirit on the inside of us helping us, helping us in our relationships. Let us not get to the end of our life and show up there in a place of fear, as though we don't know where we're going to go.

Speaker 1 18:18

Some of us are in fear about that. Let's be real about it. This is the stuff people don't talk about. Come on now. But if God makes you a new creation and if he gave you salvation, and if you're in the Lord Jesus' hand, you're going to be the Lord Jesus' hand. And if you're in your father's hands, nothing can snatch you. Nothing can snatch you from your father's hand, and that's just the truth. That's just the truth. And if you're believing a lie that says otherwise, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you believe that, but let me tell you that that's not true. God is your keeper. It doesn't matter how many times you fall down, it doesn't matter how many times you sin, it doesn't matter how many times that you've been betrayed or that you even betray someone.

Speaker 1 19:13

If you are a believer, the blood of Jesus does cover you and you have the Holy Spirit on the inside of you, always convicting you, convicting you, convicting you of righteousness. I am the righteousness of God in Christ. Some of us will get free just by declaring that over and over and over and over and over and over. It's a very good reason why to take communion on a regular basis, to remind yourself, come on, he said as often as you do this, remember why. Because all of these circumstances in life will sometimes cry to you, drown out what we know. We know that we're the righteousness of God in Christ. We have to be reminded of that. Sometimes you know to be the righteousness of God, of God and Christ. There's just such an invitation there. You've already been made holy. You've been made holy through the word and for many of us it's just as simple as this, choosing to believe that because of all of this, because of who he is, he's got a table spread laid out for you. He wants to come and dine with you and the presence of your enemies. He wants to sit with you and his friend.

Speaker 1 20:48

I love the Gospels of John and just hearing and reading about John and that's the revelation that John had of who Jesus is. He speaks so deeply about the love of God. They call him the love disciple, the disciple who Jesus loved. Why? Because once you identify yourself as being loved by God, as being a friend to God, that's the warfare right there. Come on now, that's it. You don't have to do this thing, or when you run out of things to pray, you just start like, oh God, I repent, I repent, I repent, I repent, I repent. You start flogging yourself. You start flogging yourself. We don't have to do that to feel as though we're worried that it come into his presence, because, if you're being honest, a lot of times when you do that, you're only doing that from a place of striving, you're not doing it from a place of surrender or from a place of his presence.

The Power of Friendship With God

Speaker 1 21:59

Intimacy with God, friendship with God, invites the most beautiful space for surrender and the most beautiful space for his presence. What does it mean to be a friend? I mean, come on, I want to hang out with my friend. I want to just go get I was going to say coffee, but I don't really drink coffee anymore Maybe a tea. Go get lunch with my friend, I just want to hang out. A good, good friend is someone who you can be with in the same room and you don't even necessarily have to be saying anything. You can just be together and it's not weird at all. I would encourage you to begin studying.

Speaker 1 22:45

What does it mean to minister to the Lord? Some of the deepest ministry that we can give him. It is running into his presence, lifting him and recognizing him as a friend. Scripture tells us that there's a point when Jesus says I don't longer call you servant, but I call you friend, because a servant doesn't know what the master is doing. Friendship with God Brings revelation. You know the heart of him, you have, you have familiarity with him, but not in the negative sense. We can't get so familiar with God that we just created him as though he's common. That's the reason why a lot of women have maintained the status of just running from him, running from God to relationships, to alcohol, to crystals, to some of these things.

Speaker 1 23:58

Even believers there's absolutely believers even who are running to things, objects, thinking about it's going to give them something that only the Lord, jesus Christ, can give. When you recognize yourself as a friend of God, you also see he calls you his friend as well. Exodus 3311 tells us the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Don't you know that's what worship is? Worship is honoring the Lord Jesus, fixing your attention on him, face to face. He's not afar off somewhere. He's right here in the room. If you're a believer, he's right here in your heart. You have the Holy Spirit of God on the inside of you, who is your teacher, he leads you, he helps you and he's your friend Some of the greatest healing that you can possibly get.

Speaker 1 25:32

You know, I come to women, come to me for help around issues related to trauma, issues related to relationship discord, relationship patterns that they want to break. But you ought to know that if you come to me, of course I'll set with you, we'll unpack it as long as it takes. I love to do that with. I love that work, I love it. But you better know that what I'm going to do is we're going to sit with God. We're going to point back to him Because he wants to be the one who heals you, because he is the healer.

Speaker 1 26:11

He's the healer, he's the healer, he's the crewiest friend you can ever have. He will never steer you wrong. He will never betray you. He will take those daggers out of your back that others have placed there. He'll begin to mend those and then he'll clean you up. He'll send you back out. You'll run, you'll fly, you'll soar and it will be as though that those days never even happened, that trauma never even happened. Everything that we need is found in him. It's found in friendship with him.

Speaker 1 26:55

Come on, it's time for us to move beyond Knowing him just as savior, which is so beautiful, my God, it's beautiful. Thank you, jesus for being savior. Oh Lord God. Thank you, lord Jesus. But come on, there's so much more depth to him. Don't get stuck there. There's an invitation to go so much deeper. He wants to know you personally. You might say, well, he's God, he already knows everything. But does he or do you keep something back? Is there something in your heart that you won't let him have? But he so. He wants to heal it. He's desperately wanting to heal that place inside of you, because you don't need to carry it anymore. But if you don't trust God to be your savior, you don't trust God to be your friend. If you would rather maintain and hold on to it, he is so holy, he is such a lovely friend. The many times you find he's not going to force you, he's not going to force you. He's going to help you over time To sanctify that out of you. He wants you to come to him and give it to him.

Speaker 1 28:19

I don't know who I'm speaking to, but I know I'm talking to someone. This is what I want you to do. I want you to think about all the times that friendship has a failed deal. What do I mean by that? Think about the times where You've personally gotten it wrong. And friendship. The times when you're not going to be able to do it, the times where others have harmed you or gotten it wrong, and friendship. I literally want you to get out a piece of paper. I make a list, write it down. Write down the person's name in one column, and I want you to write down the offense. What do I mean? Write down what it is that happened. A funny example I have would be.

Speaker 1 29:08

Some of you listening may know this story. You knew me way back in the day when I had my little bobble head, little braids in my hair, when I was just a little little thing. Probably I want to say I was a third grade in this girl, I have this awesome sweater. Oh, am I really going to tell this story? I had this awesome sweater in, like it was beautiful, okay, and it was teal, because it was the 90s and everybody like the teal thing was in jungle green, was it? And on one sleeve of the sweater it was like a horse. So I had this big horse head coming across my chest and then the arm. If I hold my arm out, it had these like tassels, which was the main the horse is the main and I was flapping my arm everywhere. I just thought I was the baddest in this sweater. I love this sweater. And I went to the water fountain because we still drank out of water fountain back then. I guess it wasn't. It was probably just as gross back then, but we didn't know it because it was the 90s and maybe we just didn't care, I don't know. I was at the water fountain and one of my friends like pulled on my sweater and broke my sweater.

Speaker 1 30:33

Girl, the fallout, okay, the tears, the drama, and that actually didn't actually the relationship. You know this is the exact reason why Jesus says for us not to get attached to our possessions. You know these things are perishing. We're to store our treasures in heaven, where the moths can't get them, where they, the thieves, are. The thief can't steal our treasures in heaven. You know, I was really attached to the sweater and this girl broke my sweater accidentally and there was a period of time when I was so mad and the friendship I mean this was like third grade. You know silly stuff, but I was so mad at her that I really didn't want to be her friend and it took a little bit of time but I realized, okay, like I need to forgive this chick, it was an accident I did forgive her. You're out there shouting I forgive you. Yes, but that's the kind of stuff I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 31:31

I want you to go that deep. You may say is it really that serious? Yes, because what we need to do to cross the hurdle many times is we got to deal with that stuff on the inside of our own heart. But devil would love nothing more than for you to carry for a lifetime the weight of all of this baggage from the things that people have done against you and the things that you have done against other people. That now makes you feel like you've got to live in a prison. Now you're calling yourself an introvert, but really, deep down it's because psychologically, you don't feel safe to be around people, because you've gotten all insecure. There's all kinds of anxiety, there's all kind of weird stuff attached to it because of the things that you've been through in life. You know that's another separate for another day, but I want you to literally write down those types of things.

Speaker 1 32:22

Ok, write down the person, write down what happened, and once you get that list complete, I want you to set with God and really you ought to be sitting, I just assume. But we need to back up and say this Get with God first. Anytime that you're journaling, sit with the Lord Jesus first, invite him into it, invite the Holy Spirit into it to help guide the process. And once you get that list done, I want you to do this, I want you to do it and mean it. I want you to forgive each and every one of those things, each and every one of those offenses. Say this prayer, something like this Lord Father, I forgive so and so I release them into the freedom of my forgiveness. Lord, lord Jesus, I ask you to close any doors that were open as related to my unforgiveness, because unforgiveness, y'all unforgiveness will mess you up spiritually. It will block so many blessings. That's his on teaching for another day.

Speaker 1 33:32

But we don't want for any, any tiny little thing as it relates to friendship, forgiveness. We don't want any of that in our hearts and Jesus already sees it. He's just been waiting for us to get real with him. You see that you know, as you, it'll be like taking out the trash. As you take this stuff out of your heart what's going to happen. It creates so much more space. You feel your spirit get free and light. You know it's very beautiful and many times what you'll notice is it changes the way. But you're able to relate to God.

Speaker 1 34:13

When we struggle with friendships in the natural, we, being like human beings, can sometimes be really carnal and it's not good, but it is what it is. You know we can be so carnal sometimes that we'll apply what we've experienced here in the natural. We've experienced backbiting, we've experienced hurt. We've experienced pain. It can harden us. It can harden our hearts against receiving the Lord as friend, but he says he wants to be a friend to us. We can go as deep in the Lord Jesus and our relationship with him as we want to. If you, if you want to stop At knowing him as savior. I never go any deeper. Guess what? You'll still get it. You'll still make it to heaven. But there's so much more that he wants to reveal to you of himself, of who he is.

Speaker 1 35:06

When I first got it's funny, I don't know how to really tell people because I gave I got baptized as at 12 ish. But it wasn't until I was well into my 30s that I I really came to know him and I really believe that that's when, the Lord, I received that baptism of the Holy Spirit and that real knowing him, like that personal relationship. Where was I going with this? I forget where I was going with that. Maybe I wasn't supposed to finish that story. Oh OK, maybe I was OK. I remember, thank you God, yeah, when that when I'm not first happened, this would have been around twenty, twenty or so what God did was I didn't even know this because I hadn't I hadn't read the whole Bible, but he began to reveal himself to me by his beautiful names. So one of the first ways that he began to reveal himself to me was Jehovah Jireh, god, my provider. He began to reveal himself to me as Lord of the angel armies. He began to reveal himself to me as Jehovah Nisi, my banner, all of these beautiful things, who began to reveal himself as my maker, my husband there's so many ways, there's so much depth to him will soon the rest of our life knowing him, being intimate with him, and that's what keeps the relationship with him so fruitful, so fun. You'll never get bored, you'll never get tired. There's never a better friend who there's no better friend that you can have than him. But yeah, if you're struggling with this, absolutely I would recommend I tell people this all the time. It's kind of like a thing that people know me for.

Speaker 1 37:05

I'm probably going to say get the audio but put the Bible in your ear AirPods and listen to it. This is what, as fast as you can. Some will argue and say, well, we need to study and stop and savor and yes, you absolutely do. But if you have never made it through your whole Bible, there's just such a fruitfulness that you will gain and having the whole word of God wash through you it doesn't take near as long as you think you'll be. You'll be Extremely blessed by committing to doing that. If that's something that you're interested in, I have a every word in Bible, every word in Bible, every word in 90 Bible plan that I utilize. I'm probably going to end up doing that once a year, but I'll put the link in the show notes so you can hop into a cohort who has already gone through. But yeah, anyways, I'm going to shut up because I believe that I have said what was needed to be said.

Speaker 1 38:06

Can we pray on our way out, on out of here? I just want to. I just want to bless you, father. I just pray the name of Jesus that you would bless the listener. I ask you, lord Jesus, to just continue to drop off little nuggets, little jewels, to the listener. Help them to know you, lord God, in a deeper way. Reveal to them the way in which you are showing yourself strong in their life. Reveal to them, lord Jesus, the beautiful names in which we can come to know you. And I just ask you, god, that everyone listening, everyone under the sun and my voice, would come into greater intimacy and knowledge of you. God, give us greater fear of the Lord. Teach us to be humble and, oh God, teach us to be a friend. Teach us to be a friend to you.

Invitation to Join Women's Faith Community

Speaker 1 39:07

First, father, I pray that anyone who does not know Jesus as their personal Lord and their savior, lord God, that they can pray this along with me, that they can confess right now in the name of Jesus. Lord, you are the Lord, father, I repent right now in the name of Jesus For my sin. I thank you, god, that you bore every one of my sins on the cross, I receive your salvation. I receive my freedom in Christ. I receive my victory in Christ Jesus. I will serve you as Lord, god. Lord, god, teach me. I praise you, god. I thank you, lord Jesus, in your mighty and wonderful name, amen. If you just said that prayer for the very first time, welcome to the family.

Speaker 1 40:06

I want to invite you, if you're a woman who's looking for a faith community, to join me and daughters of Abba. It is a support community that I am facilitating for free. You can go to jameslashelcom forward slash community and grab the link I'll also drop in the show notes. But we're just a group of women who are growing in grace, faith and freedom after trauma, really walking in that identity in Christ and just learning what it means to be in fellowship with them and each other. Don't forget to come and follow me on my Instagram. Actually, we're building out a beautiful community there as well. Listen, I just want to hang out with you guys. I love you to life. There's nothing you can do about it. I'll see you in the next episode.