Sips from the Fountain
Learning to drink from Jesus, the Fountain of Living Water, isn’t as hard as I thought, especially when you just start with sips, and those will change everything.
Sips from the Fountain
It's Never Too Late to be Happy: From Victim to Victor
What happens when the life you dreamed of falls apart, and the one you end up with looks nothing like you imagined? Allison Trice's powerful testimony reveals the unexpected joy she discovered in the midst of heartbreak, single motherhood, and raising a child with special needs.
After two failed relationships left her feeling broken and ashamed, Allison found herself a single mother to a son with a rare chromosomal deletion. Drowning in medical bills, battling financial hardship, and facing an uncertain future, she reached her darkest moments hiding in her bathroom to cry after putting her son to bed.
But everything changed when Allison made a profound choice – to own her part in her pain rather than simply blame those who hurt her. This shift from victim mentality to personal responsibility opened the door for deep healing and transformation. Through powerful prayer encounters, God removed her shame and gave her a promise that her nonverbal son would one day have "a mighty voice."
The miracle in Allison's story isn't that her circumstances magically improved. In fact, she continued to face tremendous challenges, including the pandemic isolation as a single special needs parent and the sudden loss of her mother. The true miracle is what happened inside her – a profound contentment that defies logical explanation.
"If anyone had ever told me that I would be a single mom in my 40s, raising a special needs child alone, and happier than I'd ever been, I would never have believed them," Allison shares in the moment that defines her journey from victim to victor.
Today, Allison ministers to others through teaching, supporting special needs families, and even speaking at marriage conferences – a testament to her complete healing. And her son, though not speaking conventionally, truly has found his voice through assistive technology, fulfilling God's promise in unexpected ways.
This episode challenges our cultural obsession with perfect circumstances and reminds us that true joy comes not from getting the life we thought we wanted, but from embracing the one we have with gratitude, purpose, and faith. Listen now and discover how you too can move from victim to victor, regardless of your circumstances.
Do you ever feel like life can get too complicated and maybe even overwhelming? Yeah, me too, and it's okay. My name's Martha Gannot and in this podcast we're going to talk about life, love, faith, family relationships, all kinds of things, and we're going to drink from what God wants to pour into us, one small sip at a time, because when it's the fountain of living water, small sips make all the difference. Sometimes it'll be just you and me, sometimes we'll have a friend join us. If we could have lunch together today, this is what I'd want to talk about. Hey, hey, hey, everybody, and welcome back to the podcast. So excited for you to hear from my friend today as we are in the midst of this series.
Speaker 1:Life wasn't supposed to be like this. This is my friend, allison Trice, and her story. You guys, I was listening to her share her testimony recently, actually at church, and she made one statement which I'm not going to tell you what the statement is right now. I'm going to wait until she makes the statement here as she tells her story. But that statement just blew my hair back, allison, and I knew that you had made this transition what you're calling from victim to victor in your life and you've had a really wow. A lot of things happen in your life and I just know that some people don't make the journey that you've made, but so many people want to be able to make the journey. They want to do what my mom calls making the trip. She made the trip, allison made the trip, and so I'm really excited about you guys getting the opportunity to hear her story and how she made the trip, what it looks like and, of course, our hope with this podcast series is that, whatever you're going through, that the testimony of the people who are sharing their stories, even if it's not the same situation that you'll realize oh, I can make it too. So that's exactly the kind of story Allison has for us today. So, allison, first of all, welcome.
Speaker 1:It is late at night as we're doing this podcast and you're a school teacher Hello, maybe we should make a disclaimer. We're not sure what's going to actually come out of our mouths this late at night, but Allison will explain why we're recording late. We should make a disclaimer. We're not sure what's going to actually come out of our mouths this late at night, but Allison will explain why we're recording. It's a part of her story and her life. But what if you just get us started at the beginning? Allison, you grew up in a Christian home. How about?
Speaker 2:start from there and let's just start OK. So, yes, I grew up in a Christian home, beautiful family, stayed very close to the Lord all through high school and college and, of course, like any young girl, I dreamed of what my future would one day hold for me. You know, I pictured the perfect job, the perfect husband, the beautiful children in all the photos, and so that was kind of what I was expecting, that happily ever after. But then that's not what happened, unfortunately, once I kind of hit adulthood, there just ended up being a lot of dark moments. In my mid-twenties I married a man that I believed was the one. Eventually, we sold everything and we moved to Ecuador, and while I was there I ended up having to deal with his alcoholism, his infidelity, isolation, and then I ended up coming back home divorced, broken, embarrassed and really just lost, and I still hadn't hit the age of 30 yet. And then, once I returned to the United States, I ended up in a relationship with another man way too soon. I had known him from high school.
Speaker 2:He was my very first kiss and I just saw yes, and I saw our reuniting as just the perfect love story. There were so many red flags, to be honest, from the beginning, but I think I just let my desire for this rom-com worthy, beautiful love story just overtake my vision and the pain of my divorce also, that I was ignoring, just made it worse and I chose to dive in. Wow.
Speaker 1:And I want to pause right there because I think this is really important. You know we were talking about this as we were preparing to, prepare, you know, to produce this episode, just about the fact. Well, first of all, I was like, when you mentioned every rom-com romance and it was your first kiss, I'm like trigger every Disney princess movie ever, like, of course it's going to be amazing, perfect ending. But I think that I don't know if it's like this in different cultures I guess we can only speak to ours intimately, but in our culture, this American mindset, we actually are so attached to the American dream.
Speaker 1:I think life, liberty, happiness, that we've actually kind of twisted it into God deserve, or we deserve for God to give us happiness it, we're entitled to it and we've put Christianity on it, and so what that means is, you know, we we're actually chasing circumstances to bring us happy and in the process, it's like what you said, you ignored things you shouldn't have ignored and you probably inflated things that you thought were wonderful and attempt to validate that this was circumstance, was going to be the solution, and I think, I think that's the enemy that keeps us busy chasing circumstances so that we never actually find our purpose, which you're going to refer to later, because I've already looked all the way to the end of what your story is.
Speaker 1:We're walking in our identity. That's the only thing that actually brings us truth Walking in our identities as a daughter. But if the enemy can keep us chasing circumstances and then pitching temper tantrums if we don't get them, and making more and more poor choices to get that desperate attempt to get the right circumstances, then it can keep us distracted and away from our true purpose, which is daughter. So yes, I just wanted to pop in there and say preach it, sister, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Okay, so first kiss, you get back together with first kiss. That's where we were.
Speaker 2:Not a good decision on my part, not a good decision on my part. And so, about five years later, after I thought we were getting married and that we were both on the same page with starting a family, I found out that I was pregnant and after telling him and mentioning, you know, we'd already planned to get married that summer, he commented well, why should we rush into things? And I think it was at that moment I realized, you know, we had had different expectations from the start and I had probably been blind to that or ignored that, wanting other things, and at that moment I could no longer avoid that truth that I had already known. I still tried very hard for the next two years to make our relationship work because we were having a child together. I prayed and I prayed for God to make our relationship work because we were having a child together. I prayed and I prayed for God to make it right. But he made it clear to me that the relationship had to end.
Speaker 2:And meanwhile, while that was all going on, at my first ultrasound I was told that I might need to terminate as my baby seemed to have some kind of chromosomal problems and would likely not go full term. That was a whole crisis of beliefs and figuring out as well, but the pregnancy did have a variety of problems throughout, but I ended up giving birth to a healthy baby boy. But then at three months old he was labeled failure to thrive. We had to do some genetic testing. We found out he did have a rare chromosomal deletion, and so at that time in my life I was so miserable in my home because my relationship was not right with his father and my relationship was not right with God, and so my home was not a place of peace for me. I would, even in the evenings, just hide in my bathroom after putting Tyson to bed and just cry and avoid conflict, and so it was just a really dark time.
Speaker 2:So by the time Tyson was two, I was a single mother. I was drowning financially. We had medical bills special formula, it was just one income collections agencies, glasses. My baby got glasses at seven months old. I still remember being asked if I had vision insurance for my seven months old. No, in addition to obviously just the other. You know, normal baby needs diapers, daycare, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so when I just think back to that time, I just I realized what a dark place I was in. I was so unhappy. That was definitely not what I viewed my life being. I felt alone, I felt ashamed, I felt overwhelmed and, to be honest, not only was I dealing with the pain and hurt from the two failed relationships, as well as the new realities of a new baby, with some more challenges than I felt prepared to handle. I also had to confront and face my own role in the fact that I had made really poor choices and I put myself into positions for unhealthy relationships. I had to own that I had been trying to please the men in my life more than I had been trying to please God, and that was a very tough pill to swallow when it was a lot easier to just blame the people who had hurt me instead of taking ownership for my part in it as well.
Speaker 1:I think we should just pause for a moment of silence and I'm actually going to ask you to repeat that last couple of sentences. The tough pill to swallow part because here's the thing that you guys, that Allison is about to release to you is when we acknowledge what she acknowledged, then she's prepared to move into being a healthy person instead of an unhealthy person. So, even though it's incredibly painful and difficult to admit, it's freeing. Will you repeat that last sentence?
Speaker 2:Yeah, just that it was a really tough pill to have to swallow, that I realized it was easier to blame the people who had hurt me instead of owning my own part in those relationships.
Speaker 1:Really, really powerful, really powerful. So hard to say. It feels counterintuitive. It feels like you should have to defend yourself and you have a right to being angry and offended. But as long as you stay with that mentality, you stay a victim. You cannot move into victor with a victim mentality and that was the choice you made. So, all right, wow, we got a picture of where you are. That's tough. What came next? God, hallelujah.
Speaker 2:God came next. Yes, so it was probably the end of 2019, early 2020. There were just these two. When I think back, I realized, like I don't know that at the time I noticed how close these two things happened, but these two really important moments where God spoke so loudly to me and it just changed the trajectory of my life for sure, and my faith. I always joke that God has to speak loudly to me because I'm maybe a little hard of hearing.
Speaker 1:I feel like we must have our decibel set at about the same level.
Speaker 2:He has to make sure I hear what he's saying. So yeah, the first was in November of 2019. There was a weekend conference that I was doing at my previous church. At the end of it there was this culmination of that study where we had kind of just a praise and worship. We had speakers and things like that, and then at the end of each speaker, there was time for prayer on each of the individual topics.
Speaker 2:And so, after we had listened to someone speak on the topic of shame, I went down for one of the prayer team to pray over me. I went down for one of the prayer team to pray over me and this very kind woman began to pray over me and she said God, remind her, you have been washed in the blood of Jesus and you are now clean. You are not a dirty woman, so walk with your head high and miraculously I let go of the shame that I had carried from my two failed relationships. Right at that moment, I did not carry that shame anymore for that part of my life. God immediately started working on me as a woman. It was exactly what I needed to hear.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I want to pause right there because, allison, I believe that there are people listening to this. It may be women, it may actually be men who have been carrying shame, it may be women, it may actually be men who have been carrying shame, and the truth is that what that woman prayed over you and declared over you is because Jesus already paid for all the shame. There's no more shame that ever needs to be born again by any follower of Jesus, and so if you're bearing shame, it's a lie of the enemy meant to crush you, and the enemy has no right to burden you with shame. It's a lie of the enemy meant to crush you, and the enemy has no right to burden you with shame. So, allison, I wondered if you would say over our listeners anyone who needs to hear this exactly what that precious lady prayed over you. Would you just declare that and pray that over our listeners and just pause right here in the story for that?
Speaker 2:Yes, you have been washed in the blood of Jesus and you are now clean. You are white as snow again, you are not dirty, and so you can walk with your head high. The price was paid in full. Wow, hey, how about some prayer ministry right in the middle of your story? Okay, I love how you finished that part.
Speaker 2:That God immediately and get me in the right place before he could move anything else. That was part of my life, and so I think that he had to start making me the woman he needed me to be and letting go of that shame so that I could know I was worthy to be used as part of His kingdom again. And I'm going to throw this in we didn't talk about this before, but a few months ago I was also reminded of all of this because when we were singing the song about on that day, we joined the resurrection and stand beside the heroes of the faith. It's just such a reminder that I had a moment of saying you know well, gosh, I'll be over there with Mary, magdalene and Rahab and some of those ladies. I'm not going to be standing next to Mary and Esther, and yet we are right. I mean, we're all just women who love Jesus and love God and are, you know, living our lives for him um regardless of any past Powerful really powerful, okay, so keep us going with your story.
Speaker 1:We're ready, okay, so that was my first moment of God speaking.
Speaker 2:Um. Then, about two months later, um, in January, after um, we had prayer and fasting time. Um. And at the beginning of the year, um, with that with year, with my old church, we had a healing service. And I've really been struggling with that because at the time I was realizing that Tyson was probably going to be nonverbal and I just felt so overwhelmed by that. It was just. You know, the sadness of it really overwhelmed me. And so, as I walked down to the front of the church with Tyson, I went and got him with me to receive prayer.
Speaker 2:The preacher, who didn't even know us personally, did not know our story, you know anything about that. He put his hands on Tyson and he prayed God, may you give this boy a mighty voice. And it was such a powerful reminder for me that God also had amazing plans for Tyson, and I think that freed me up from looking at his disabilities and his struggles as struggles and more as God's still going to use whatever and do mighty things with him as well. Hallelujah, yeah, so, so, yeah so.
Speaker 2:God just spoke so clearly to me in both of those situations and it was one of those things where I didn't just hear and believe it. I mean, I heard it and I believed it deep down in my spirit. I said, okay, God, if you're telling me these things, my shame is gone. My child is going to have a mighty voice. I'm going to live that out. I'm not just going to point at my beliefs, as Pastor Jason at Urchurch has said. I'm going to live in it and I'm going to build my life going forward on those two beliefs and promises from God.
Speaker 1:So you make the decision. God changes, and we were talking we're talking earlier about how we know the father has good gifts for us, but sometimes I think that we misinterpret what we decide the gifts should be and the gifts should be. Well, this is where you got the wonderful husband and the white picket fence and the perfect wife, right? Is that what happened Right? Rightet fence and the perfect life right. Is that what happened, right? Right, that's what you were talking about, right?
Speaker 2:Right, that's what my blessings were supposed to look like.
Speaker 1:But it's a different kind of gift that you discovered. Right, it's not the circumstantial gifts that we define God's goodness by. Often it was a different set of gifts. What did that look like for you?
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, it was just that life didn't change miraculously. It kind of kept going, and, if anything, it got harder. The world shut down a few months after both of those events because of the pandemic, and that was really really hard on a single mom of a special needs child with no family in the area. I felt isolated and there were no breaks, there were no respites. My brother even insisted that next Christmas on keeping Tyson, because they knew I was about to just have a complete meltdown, and so it took another couple of years for God really to grow and strengthen me.
Speaker 2:But I knew he was always working, and so after about a couple of years I just began to experience true contentment in the life I was living, not in the life I had been searching for or had been hoping for, but in the one that I was living. And so it was about this time that I just realized I did love my life. If anyone had ever told me that I would be a single mom in my 40s, raising a special needs child alone, and happier than I'd ever been, I would never have believed them. In fact, I think I would have worked really hard to avoid that fate. But it was true, it was true, there it is.
Speaker 1:That's the statement that blew my mind, that I was like right there, like there is a secret in what you've discovered in your journey that very few people get in our culture, and even very few Christians get, because we keep chasing the circumstances and we don't understand that God wants to form a character in us that finds contentment and happiness even despite circumstances that we are. No, you're no longer a slave to your circumstances, allison, because you're connected with the one that can give you true fulfillment and deep meaning.
Speaker 2:Yes, and once you're that, you see the beauty, no matter what. Yeah, one of my favorite memories is around that time when I was kind of getting to that place. It was a, I think, a Friday night. I was sitting on the floor of my kitchen. There were toys all over and mess everywhere and we had eaten Sloppy Joes for like the third or fourth night in a row.
Speaker 2:Because I couldn't afford and that was, you know, I had to eat all the leftovers up and I was just and Tyson was playing and I'm like, wait a minute, no, it doesn't, I'm really happy, like this is beautiful. And we took a lot of little photos. They're my favorite photos now and I just realized, wait a minute, there's a peace to where I am right now and this is lovely. And really, once I started truly living like that life and being kind of in pursuit of God and trying to live in obedience to where he wanted me to be, then I feel like the victories, if you will, and opportunities showed up for me how opportunities and victories started showing up for you.
Speaker 1:But this is the shift that you're talking about, where you went from being the victim of circumstances to deciding no, I'm going to be a victor in my circumstances. And you made that conscious choice to shift your perspective because you could have stayed in. Oh, I'm miserable, I'm miserable, I'm miserable. It reminds me of a story I heard in a in a. It was actually a business coaching program that I was taking, and the storyteller told the story of two little boys and they performed an experiment and they put one little boy in a room full of every toy you can imagine. And they put another little boy in a room full of manure and they shut the door and they left him for an hour. And when of manure, and they shut the door and they left him for an hour. And when they came back, as the story goes, they opened the door to the boy in the room full of toys and he was crying because he never did find the toy that he wanted, that he was looking for. And then, as they were walking down to the room of the boy in the little boy in the room full of manure, they hear whooping and hollering and screaming and yelling and laughing. And they open the door and he is just throwing poop all over the room and they said what are you doing? And he said well, I figure, with this much poop in the room, there has to be a pony in here somewhere.
Speaker 1:That's my joke that I didn't tell you I was going to toss in today. Right, like it's your perspective, use it. We get to choose it. So who I mean? That's the true gift is to stand in a kitchen with toys everywhere Sweet baby playing, sloppy Joe's dishes in the sink and say, what a blessing. How many gifts are in this one room, versus crying over the toy that you didn't get the one toy. Yeah, what started happening? You started walking toward the Lord, walking with him. You get through, yeah.
Speaker 2:And so some of the yeah, some of the victories or some of the I guess opportunities is really what I think of them as, like some of the victories or some of the I guess opportunities is really what I think of them as Like I had the confidence to share parts of my story.
Speaker 2:I'm a high school teacher and I even share parts of things not my whole business, of course, but like I share with my students that I love. You know my life and I am living a fulfilling life that I never thought I wanted and yet it's beautiful. And so I want them to see that. I want them to see the joy and strength of living out a comeback story, and I think a lot of them have said that's been something that has stood out for them and I think that's something a lot of them have needed to see. I also felt very called to help families, as my ministry, other families with special needs children, and so I started kind of creating that space here locally to kind of just provide different support and fun experiences, and so now that's been one of the best parts of our lives for the past several years. We have all kinds of events and parties together and just really support each other in really amazing ways. I've been presented at a marriage conference at my old church.
Speaker 1:Let's go, let's go. I mean, that's the true miracle. Come on, let's go Like a single mom ministering to married couples. That's what we call healed, healthy and whole. Right there, alex.
Speaker 2:And it was. It was fun. You know, that was what I thought. That was one of those moments that of course, I agreed to do it. I've got to teach Latin dancing, which is one of my favorite things, to couples, so they do something fun. And but what surprised me was how much joy I got from seeing them enjoy each other as couples, because that's what it should be, you know, like that they should be enjoying each other and and and that's healthy and beautiful. And I actually thought that, which you know, years earlier I'm sure I would have just been bitter and angry. So it was nice to see that.
Speaker 2:And then, really, kind of, for me, one of the biggest victories was, you know, I had years earlier prayed and prayed and prayed, asking God for a miracle in regards to Tyson. I either asked him to give Tyson the miraculous ability to speak or, miraculously let me be okay with him not speaking. Both were really just large miracles for me. And so over those years God changed me, he changed my heart, he changed my desires and he just made me have peace with the fact that Tyson might not ever speak verbally I don't need him to anymore.
Speaker 2:But about a year ago I was sharing some of Tyson's accomplishments and growths. As he's been learning to use a communication device we call it his talker I started to realize God actually gave me both miracles. I'm OK, no matter what, whether he does speak one day or not. He can say, mama, I'm good. But he actually is so good at speaking on his talker and a lot of times he won't stop talking and I have to wait on him Like how insane. And so God gave me both. Tyson does speak. God is working, that mighty voice in Tyson and that's given us a platform to share with others.
Speaker 1:I gave him a mighty voice and we echo that prayer we say yes and amen to Tyson's mighty voice. I cannot wait. Yes, how many ways God fulfills that, that word over his life.
Speaker 2:Yes, and so basically, I feel like God just showed me a lot of victories in being able to persevere, persevere, um, through a lot of continued challenges. Kind of, like you said earlier, the situations and the circumstances are not necessarily magically, happily ever after, better in in the way the world looks at it. But for me, I'm different, and so I realized recently a sermon that I heard talked about that a lot of times we have what they're referring to as a season 40 time in life or a chapter 40 season in life, and that that's kind of when you're not getting what you thought you were, you're not living the life you thought. There's a lot of challenges and a lot of difficulties because God is growing you. But after every chapter 41 season comes a chapter, or chapter 40 season comes a 41 season, and so of more victory, and what I realized that day was that I do feel like I'm living out my chapter 41, my victory chapter or season of life right now, after a very difficult one.
Speaker 2:And yet it's not what I thought. The past year and a half have been very difficult my mother passed away very suddenly, just a few and have had to struggle through what that has looked like for us as a school, and so all those things have been so challenging and so difficult and just really tough circumstances, but I still feel like I'm living in a victory season because I'm not the same person. God has blessed me and strengthened me and used me in ways that I had not before. Those things would have completely taken me out in the past, but God has shown up for me through all of those things.
Speaker 1:Well, and I think that you allowed the Lord to do the work that he did in your life, that you chose character over circumstances.
Speaker 1:You chose to trust that he is who he says he is, even when your circumstances were screaming the opposite to you.
Speaker 1:Even the choice to walk out of the shame, when in some sense it can be easier to stay in the shame because you're used to it and it's comfortable, and it can be terrifying to walk out of something comfortable even if it's unhealthy. And so all of those you know choices where the Lord invited you, I just see him stretching his hand out to you and you just reaching for his hand and letting him pull you, pull you out, pull you up, pull you higher, even when it hasn't been, even when it hasn't been easy. And so I just honor you for that and I'm so inspired I mean just the concept, such a powerful message here that we choose. We choose to not declare that we must have a certain set of circumstances in our lives that will make us happy, that that's a great lie that is marketed to us and that we buy hook, line and sinker and it's keeping us from our true destiny and true fulfillment, which is the plate. You found it. You found, you found it.
Speaker 1:Allison. You made the trip. Made the trip. You made the trip through the heartbeat. Well, I know you've had a little bit more that you wanted to share with us and I yeah I don't know if you want to share kind of where this came from, but just close us out with with the parts of it you'd like to share.
Speaker 2:So I started writing poetry I'm an English teacher with my students when they had to a couple of years ago and just realized it was very. It was just a good way for me to process and kind of think through a lot of my emotions or things, you know, just my life and my thoughts and also just kind of serve as a ministry of mine. And so this was actually part of a poem that I had written after the shooting at Appalachee and I kind of just just kind of how I view how things have, you know, kind of played out in a lot of ways in my life. It says the Bible clearly tells us in this world you will have trouble. All of us have those big things that we never wanted to be part of our stories. All of us have those big things that we never wanted to be part of our stories Unfair deaths of loved ones, cancer and disease, heartbreak and hurt, trouble.
Speaker 2:But John 16, 33 continues God is so much bigger than me and the plans I had for my life. I mean, look at Tyson. I would never have wanted all of this but praise the Lord that he knew better than I did, or I would have missed out on the most amazing blessing of my life, and you know what I realized? It's just not my story, it's God's story. I'm just a part of it. He can see the whole picture that I can't see, so he can work things out that I don't even know about.
Speaker 2:Romans 8, 28 tells us, and we know that in all things, god works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Sometimes I'm fortunate enough to see the blessing once I get past the hurt or the fear, and sometimes I may not be, but I trust that God is working things for good, even if they were meant for evil. I trust that, since this is ultimately God's story, he is in control and will have both the final victory and many, many smaller victories along the way. So I'm just trying to walk along with Him, soaking up His light and then reflecting it back to the world whenever I can and that's a wrap, folks.
Speaker 1:I got nothing else to say after that. And there's the miracle, ladies and gentlemen. There's the miracle, ladies and gentlemen, there's the miracle, amazing, I'm speechless. We've cried already some tonight. Praise God, I say hallelujah, thank you, god, for your story. Allison, not just for you, for you and for Tyson, and for every person that's hearing your story and your testimony, and for Tyson and for every person that's hearing your story and your testimony, because Revelation 19.10 teaches us that the testimony of Jesus is actually the spirit of prophecy, that what he's done for one, he's willing and able to do again and again and again.
Speaker 2:So if you're listening to this?
Speaker 1:story and you feel hope rising, then that's because you too can be a victor instead of a victim, and you can live a life where the circumstances circumstances don't define your happiness, that who god is and who he says you are, define your own happiness and personal fulfillment. So what a message, thank you, thank you, thank you again. Now you guys know why we're up late at night recording because we had to put three guys into bed and we were just thinking our brains were still on late at night. The only time we have that Allison could get a few minutes of quiet and get our message here out for you guys. On top of my head, right, she's about to go cry.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:For your vulnerability. Yeah, for releasing the testimony of Jesus in your life to everyone who's listening, so it can be the spirit of prophecy in their lives.
Speaker 2:In Jesus name Amen Amen.
Speaker 1:Amen. Well, thank you guys again. So much for joining us for this episode. We can't wait to see you next time. Thanks you guys. Hey you guys. Thanks for hanging out with us today. I hope you got some refreshment from this sip from the fountain. If you're curious to hear more, or if you like what you've heard, you can go ahead and subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to yours, or follow our Instagram account, sips from the fountain or our Facebook page by the same name. Special thanks for cover art photography to the Sarah D Harper, and I can't wait to hang out with you guys next time. Thanks so much. Love y'all. Thank you.