The Word Became Flesh
Welcome to "The Word Became Flesh," where we focus on John 1:1 and dive into the transformative power of Scripture. Join us on a journey of spiritual discovery as we explore how the Word of God can reconnect us with our faith, inspire us to deepen our relationship with Him and build a supportive community of believers. Each episode features heartfelt testimonies from guests whose lives have been changed by the Word, offering insights and encouragement to listeners on their spiritual paths. Whether you're seeking guidance, inspiration, or simply a sense of belonging, "The Word Became Flesh" is here to guide you on your journey of faith. Tune in and let the Word come alive in your life.
The Word Became Flesh
Church Hurt/Freedom
What happens when a five-year-old girl's innocence is stolen, setting her on a path of rage, addiction, and self-destruction? Meet Jolene, whose raw and unflinching testimony reveals the darkest valleys of human experience – and the astonishing light that can break through when we finally surrender.
Jolene pulls no punches as she shares her harrowing journey through childhood trauma, teenage homelessness, and a decade-long intravenous drug addiction that nearly claimed her life. "Every time I used the needle, I knew it was a 50-50 chance," she reveals. "It could be good dope, it could be bad dope, I could die – but I didn't care." After losing her father and brother in a tragic accident, her spiral accelerated until her body began shutting down.
But this isn't just another addiction story. When Jolene falls to her knees in desperation, something extraordinary happens. Through an unexpected encounter with a father and son who arrive at her door to buy a couch, the spiritual chains begin to break. "I was this way, but then I was another way," she explains. "Two weeks ago I was in trap houses, and now I was headed to churches."
Today, Jolene works at Karis Center (meaning "grace"), mentoring women who struggle with the same demons she once faced. Her transformation is so complete that she describes herself as "a walking prophecy," living proof that "if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed" (John 8:36).
Whether you're battling addiction, processing trauma, or simply feeling trapped in circumstances beyond your control, Jolene's testimony offers a powerful reminder: your past doesn't have to determine your future. True freedom awaits when you surrender your burdens to the One who promised to complete the good work He's begun in you.
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Welcome to the Word Became Flesh podcast. Saints, happy Monday. This is your last Monday of the month. This is your last Monday of August. You're welcome. Now, before we go further, let us start with the word of prayer, as we invite the presence of God in this place to be with us, and then we have some exciting things that's happening today, so I'm super excited for you guys. Okay, let us pray.
Speaker 1:Father, in the mighty name of Jesus, lord, we want to say thank you, thank you, god, for your glory. Thank you, jesus, for the month of January, oh God. Thank you, lord, for the month of February. Thank you, lord, for the month of March, oh God. And thank you, lord, mighty God, for the month of April. And thank you, father, for the month of May and June, july and, father, now we have reached to the month of August, father, we are so grateful, mighty God, for how far you have brought us, my Father, god, for this month of glorious August. Oh God, father, we want to thank you, my Lord, mighty God, because your word says my Father, god, who the Son sets free, he is free indeed. Oh God, father, we want to thank you, my Lord, mighty God, because you have given us, my Lord, the privilege, my Father God, to walk into the blood of Jesus. You have given us the privilege, my Father God, to call upon the name of Jesus. When we call upon the name of Jesus, all things are possible. When we call upon the name of Jesus, oh Lord, father, there is healing in your name, my Father God. So, father, we are declaring that today, my Father God, this month of August, lord, every person, that who's screaming Jesus, jesus, oh Lord, may you come into their door, my father God, may you enter into their door. Jesus, oh Lord, may they receive that restoration, that answer that prayer, lord, that they're waiting on you, mighty God, oh Lord, father, we declare freedom in the atmosphere. We declare your freedom because, where the presence of the Lord is, my father God, it is full of your joy, it is full of your peace, it is full of your grace, it is full of your kindness, it is full of your passion. Oh Father, we ask, mighty God, right now, in the mighty name of Jesus, as the voice are crying out my Father God, oh Lord, where is Jesus? Oh Lord, father, let them see you. Let them see you, my Father God, as they hear us, o God, let them hear you, o God, as we speak. O God, speak through us. O God, father, that we are just your vessel. My Father, god, we surround ourselves unto you, we surround our words unto you, we surround our mind, we surround our thinking and everything. O God, we just surrender unto you According to your will.
Speaker 1:So last month of July, we had an amazing time. I know some of you guys in there. You guys were rich. We talk about prosperity, we talk about church hurt, but then we talk about that. Jesus is interest of giving you prosperity. We had a wonderful guest speaker sitting right now we're right there on this couch on July. All right, she taught, she taught us about, she took us to a walk about prosperity. She took us to a walk how to find prosperity. You know in your business. She speak upon your business. Your business shall live again.
Speaker 1:Now, today is a special day because the Lord has said okay, grace. Now we. We have jumped into, we have. We have erased the past of church hurts. We have put prosperity, we have put money in the people's pocket. Now, today the Lord is interesting of your freedom. Okay, today the Lord is interesting of your freedom. I'm so excited today for us to walking into the freedom that God has for us.
Speaker 1:But before we go further, let us open up with the word of prayer, let us open up with the scripture. So there's two scriptures that today that we're going to be standing on, and I'm so excited about this. These two scriptures, the first scriptures that we're standing on, it's John 8, verse 36. It says so if the son set you free, you will be free, indeed, okay. And then the second. The second scripture that we're talking about today is Philippian 1 6. It says, being confident of this, that who begin a good work in you will carry, will carry it on to a completion until the day of Christ has come.
Speaker 1:So, guys, today I have a special guest who's going to walk us through those journey of those two scripture, how those two scripture literally became flesh into her life. I'm so excited to have her here because she's an amazing, amazing, amazing person. I connect with this person immediately. She was my coworker. She was my coworker. I connected with her. My spirit connected with her with her joy, the way she serve other, the way she. She just always so joyful in her presence. You always walk in joy. You will never, you will not. Your tank of joy will never leave empty, by the way. Okay, so I'm super super excited to have her on this couch. Guys, please, saint, rise up and welcome my sister, jolene. And the word became fly Jolene, how are you? You're so cute. Thank you, you're welcome, so good to have you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel honored that you've asked me to be here and just to share my life. Yeah, and yes, my, uh, I also love you as well, oh, and feel a ton of joy in your presence. Oh, I thank Jesus for those things.
Speaker 1:Thank you, lord. It's so good. Now, ok, I talk. So I already talked to the people, like how I connect you. You know how I know you a little bit. Now can you please tell me who is Jolene? Let the word know who is Jolene. Who is this beautiful soul? Let the world know who is Jolene, who is this beautiful soul.
Speaker 2:You know, it's funny, like you know, as I was meditating on who I am and where I come from, and where God has brought me, from the things Jesus has done in my life, the things I've laid down, and it was a tough question to ask myself who is Joanne?
Speaker 2:Because I've been clean and sober for almost four years, going on four years almost here, and so it's like I'm just kind of rediscovering who I am because the person who I was before has died. The things I like to do, the people I was hanging out with, the places I was going to, all those died when I came into a relationship with Christ. So who I am now would be a woman of strength, an overcomer. I have boldness now to speak the truth into people's lives. I have boldness now to speak the truth into people's lives, also, just this woman who has endured this trauma. I have to hold space for that woman because she has brought me to where I am today, where I sit today. So I have a lot of courage, you know, and these things don't come from just me. They come from Jesus.
Speaker 1:He definitely has resurrected me into a so-called beautiful butterfly, beautiful, joyful butterfly you are.
Speaker 2:I experience a ton of joy now, but it came from because there was a lot of pain in my life and a lot of trauma. It's hard to go over those things, which I know that we will today, but those things are hard to revisit.
Speaker 2:It never gets easier. But I know that this testimony that I have, there's people out there that need to hear it. There's people out here that will be getting set free because they see if she can do it, if God do it for her, he can do it for me. So that is why I sit here and that's why I will share.
Speaker 1:So and that's what the word became flash podcast is it is. It is all about, um. What the word became flash podcast? It's all about scripture. You know the scripture that they're coming back to life. But then we are rewriting the Bible in this DNA time to continue showing that Christ still exists and Christ is still doing miracle and Christ is still resurrecting people. You know so and that's. And when?
Speaker 1:So when God asked me, he's like OK, you're going to do, you're going to, like, literally, every guest that I have here, I don't invite them. The Holy Spirit, literally lead me. So, like I'm going to share a beautiful dream I had about you. Like, when God asked me about, okay, you got to do the topic, you got to do freedom. And then I was like, okay, holy Spirit, freedom, who am I doing freedom with? And then, so when I said to the Holy Spirit, who am I doing freedom with, a song came, a song came, a song came.
Speaker 1:And then in that song, all this happening during when I was in, I was in meditate because, because as a child of God, I meditate, and when I meditate I don't just meditate, you know, I meditate with, with scripture, I meditate in the word. So, as I was, um, I was, I was sitting in my meditation and then I asked God. I was like freedom, who are we talking about freedom, and who is this person who's going to come talk to us about freedom? And then a song came in who the son sent free. And then in that song, in that vision, I saw you.
Speaker 1:You were there standing with God, just worshiping, freely worshiping as you always freely worship, and God's like that's the person that you're going to talk to freedom about. And I was like what? So when I reached out to you and you were hype and you were excited and I was like okay, so you know. So literally what you're going to share today, know that you just walk in your purpose, walk in your freedom, because you're already free. I know it's a traumatic experience story, as if know the story, but please just take the people a little bit about your story, like where you come from before your transformation yeah, before Christ.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you know like my life started. My very first memory was of me and my brother, my little brother, his name was Chad, and my mom had gotten a babysitter. Her and my dad were heading out you know it's a regular thing to do, you know, to go out when you're a young parent and so they had gotten a babysitter. And you know, this babysitter wasn't just a regular babysitter, one with love and care, he was a devil in disguise and he was a pedophile and he ended up molesting me when I was just a five-year-old little girl and you know that had shaped my life, my adolescence. It had shaped how I related to people, how I trusted people, or lack of trust, because I didn't trust people after this, and you know, it was just like every predator would say, to keep the secret, keep it hidden. And I remember as a young girl running under my bed, you know, not running out to get help from a neighbor, and even that I had guilt for because I didn't do things differently. And so I ran under my bed and I hid from this man and he ended up finding me and putting me, tucking me in and kissing me on the lips, and I knew better in the morning to tell my mom, and so my mom did call the police and the police were, you know. They came and they gave me whatever, whatever it's called, they made me do a statement and then we got a lawyer and you know, as a five-year-old little girl on a stand being told I was a liar by lawyers and made to feel like it was my fault and just being gaslit, and that is ultimately where me getting abused from adults and not trusting people Like that was the first point of demonic entry that I know now that that's where that came from.
Speaker 2:The lust, the other things that I was going to want anger, the rage, the mistrust, the suspicion, all these kind of spirits that attached itself. I forget what the other ones are, but anyways, all these spirits that have attached themselves to me in that one moment. You know, it changed the trajectory of my life and I had so much rage. I was mad at my parents for putting me in that situation. I blamed them for a lot of years and I carried that and it put a drift into our relationship and I carried that and it put a drift into our relationship and you know. So that sent me down this road of seeking love and validation, acceptance in all the wrong avenues In men. Drugs, alcohol I started to use when I was 14. That's when I first started to drink alcohol, and it wasn't like I was drinking for fun, it was.
Speaker 2:I was drinking to escape the torment that I was feeling the pain nobody else knew I was going through all this torment, the mind chatter, the demon, the demon. Like I didn't even know that I was had demon possession until now when I look back. But um, so there was so much hate in my heart. I was just. It was really hard as a young person.
Speaker 2:So, then my family, I mean, they couldn't handle me. I was just too much. And that's always what everybody told me Jolene, you're just too much, you're too loud, you're too this, you're too that. So you grow up with all these labels and all these words that people speak over you and you take them on as your own identity, and so then I ended up getting kicked out when I was 15.
Speaker 2:My mom sent me packing with two garbage bags and you know that was hard because I couldn't take care of myself. I think I went to my cousin's house where, like, there was partying and drinking and that, but that didn't last long and I think I was in the city by the time I was 17, homeless, couch surfing anybody that would take me. That's kind of how I lived my life. So you know you can feel other people's energy and how they feel. So you could tell when you had to kind of migrate to the next place. And I ended up coming back home to my hometown and being able to like get a job and it seemed like my addiction to alcohol and drugs. I think I did my first snort of cocaine when I was 17. And then things snowballed right. But I was able to settle down for just a bit and thinking that my addiction had gone because I knew I was addicted. My first treatment center, I think I was 17 or 18. And so my addiction was kind of dormant. You know it would flare up every once in a while and then I was what they would call a binger, so I would only drink or do hard drugs once a month, you know, and so I thought I was doing really, I was really proud of myself for those things. I remember this one time. This was a time that my parents had to come pick me up. I was getting high with this guy and we did all the drugs and he wanted to have sex with me and I didn't want to and he ended up throwing me out into a back road like I was garbage and this is how I was was treated. And so it was in the middle of the winter, by the way, and I remember having to pick before my mom and dad come get me and they and they took me to a treatment center so I was able to stay sober for a bit, but never a never a long length of time. Um, um, I got met guy which would be my daughter's dad, and we had dated for nine months and then I got pregnant and you know we would just drink on the weekends. I had a regular job. I worked on the weekends at a bar. You know things like that. I seemed to be doing okay, I wasn't doing hard drugs anymore, just the alcohol.
Speaker 2:And something happened in our relationship after Meadow was born and and I wasn't able to there was infidelity and I actually caught him doing that and it was really hard on my womanhood, you know, like just to know that I wasn't wanted or that people just always wanted to hurt me, and so we ended up breaking up and then I just became a single mom and so I was a single mom for a lot of years and throughout this time I maintained this double life. I worked building houses and was a mother during the week, and then on the weekends I would get my mom and dad to watch my daughter and I would disappear, and sometimes for days, you know, miss, monday for work, smoking crack, cocaine and just living this chaotic life. There was a lot of lies, a lot of deception, a lot of running, a lot of hiding. You know, like there was just so much darkness. And I didn't because I was binging at this time, I didn't know that I had been overtaken by this addiction Like um, it didn't.
Speaker 2:It happened to be later on, um, uh, when my, my dad and my brother. They ended up going to um like a fishing cabin and they were going to meet me and my boyfriend at the time there the next day so he could go with them and I would go home and move. I'd been sober for three months. This was big for me. Three months of sobriety was really big, and this guy that I met was a guy I met in treatment. So that's never a good thing, but it is what it is, that's how it happens. So, anyways, my dad and my brother. They never showed up, they never, ever came home. They had died.
Speaker 2:That Friday in the cabin there was a fire and that was what really shook me, destroyed any sobriety that I had, any life that I thought I was building. It crumbled, it completely crumbled. I remember being so angry at God, just hating Him, you know, yelling at Him in the sky, how much I hated for what he had done because I blamed Him, because this is kind of a pattern in my life, done because I blamed him, you know, because this is kind of a pattern in my life that I would blame everybody, blame God. I never took any accountability kind of thing. But the picture that is hard and still to this day to get out of my head is watching my mother fall to the floor after we got the news that my dad and my brother had died, her screaming like you could still hear those things right. There was no words exchanged, just we opened the door and we knew. So that was definitely really, really challenging and that was I was able to stay sober for three, three more months, you know, off of hard drugs.
Speaker 2:I was still drinking, I was drinking very heavily actually. Yeah, I was just drowning the pain in in of losing my dad and my brother in in the bottle and uh. But it wasn't until, like, the shock wore off of losing them that I decided that I wanted to explode my own heart with a needle. So that's what I tried to do and I and I actually manipulated my best friend into doing it. I told her, if she didn't do it, I was going to get the old drug dealer down the road to do it. And I mean, I carry these things, I've released them to Christ.
Speaker 2:But you know, manipulating people to do what I wanted to do, to destroy my life, to explode my own heart she knew what I was up to. She didn't want to be a part of it, but she also didn't want that other guy to do those things to me because she had a, anyways. So that led me down a 10-year intravenous addiction and that door was a big door open to a life of crime chaos like I've never seen before. Yeah, you know very dangerous people in my life, some good, some some totally bad. Um, like I've been shot at. Um, there's lots of sexual abuse, a lot of men that I did give myself to and didn't want to give myself to, and these things they left so many scars on me and uh, yeah, it was, it was hard, it was really hard okay so, with all these um, these things that you went through it, when was the like the first time like you literally left it?
Speaker 1:and because you do, you were doing everything by yourself. But when is the first time like you literally let it and then you just surround it to Christ? And then you knew like okay, jolene is, she's struggling. When did you leave it to Christ? When did you give the burden to Christ?
Speaker 2:Um, I don't remember. I remember falling to my knees Like you know, I used to have to wake up and use drugs right away Like I couldn't get up and do anything. My body was shutting down, my veins were. I have no veins left, and so I remember not being able to get high and like, and that was that was rough, like not being able to have your fix, and I literally remember just falling to my knees and asking God to save me because I knew I was going to die. Every time I used the needle I knew that it was a 50-50 chance. It could be good dope, it could be bad dope, I could die, but I didn't care. Like the lack of care.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you were fighting with suicide. Yeah, I was fighting with suicidal thoughts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So, knowing that I didn't want to leave my daughter with the same amount of pain as what I was going through, that was a one kind of sliver of hope that I didn't want to. I knew that I didn't want to die, you know, because if she was going to feel what I was feeling right now, I wouldn't want her to go through those things. So, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So, um, through through that moment, you went to recovering. You know you did. You did some recovering, you did some treatment. And also, too, I know you go to a beautiful church. Um, you go to a beautiful church summit. How did the church help you overcome, overcome those addiction and overcome those suicide thoughts?
Speaker 2:right, yeah, um, so the first church that I actually went to was, uh, christ city yeah and it was wild I love christ city yeah, it was wild that when, um, I actually got saved, I was on a relapse and I felt the demonic presence.
Speaker 2:I'd seen demons. It was like a no relapse that I'd ever been on. But I knew right from wrong. Now you know, because I had an encounter with Jesus, I knew right from wrong and I knew what I was doing was wrong. So I knew I had to break up with my boyfriend that I was seeing. I knew I had to get back into recovery and normally it takes a bit of time to get into recovery, but this time it took two days and that was like unheard of, because you make a decision yeah, I made the decision and Jesus was backing it up all the way. He was like you want this, I know you do, we're going to, I'm going to take you there.
Speaker 2:So it took two days and then within that, it was like probably a week before, he sent two men that attend Christ City to my door to buy a couch that I put on Kijiji and they just recognize the darkness and they were like let me, let us pray for you. And so you know it was beautiful, because when I opened up the door it was a son, like a man and I went to shut the door and he's like, oh no, wait, my dad's here. So I shut the door, the father and the son came in and I know the Lord was. He knew what was going to get through my hard heart and it was a father and a son that prayed over me. You know, like God knew that that was going to tenderize my heart and it did.
Speaker 2:And in the moment when those two men prayed for me, I heard the Lord say like Julian, you need to stop hurting yourself. You need to stop doing this to yourself. It's not your fault, you know, because for some reason I carried the guilt of my dad and my brother dying. I was the one on the phone with them, I was the last person that they talked to. So I carried this guilt and this shame that if I could have been there it wouldn't have happened. But I mean, that's not true, right.
Speaker 2:But that was when the prayer, the deliverance prayer, happened, that the obsession to want to use and die and write off my life. It left and it was like so wild because I was this way, but then I was another way. So trap houses I was seeing two weeks ago and now I was headed to churches, as I was seen two weeks ago, and I was headed to churches, so I actually started going to Christ City Church and that church has a lot of love and it was beautiful. I let people love me, they were so kind to me and then when I moved over to the Summit Church, that's when my relationship with the Father, with Jesus, really started to get more intimate and I started to really learn about my beloved identity and and that's what I really am so thankful for that church okay so now you start learning your identity.
Speaker 1:Who is Jolene, who you are, you know, identity of forgiving yourself and stuff like that. So like the thing that I like about your journey, the thing I like, I like how you beautiful phrase your journey Now God is using you to empower what you went through. Now God use you to empower other women Absolutely. So like now, like tell us like you you run a um at work, you run a recovery yeah, I don't know Like kind of the group, like I'm a walking prophecy really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the lord has just placed me in this, this environment, yeah, of women struggling with same same thing. That you went through yeah, and they, he has placed me there and I'm loud, no, and I'm proud, and I am thankful that he has brought me there, because I do not hold back there.
Speaker 1:I mean, god cannot put you where you did not walk in through he cannot, he cannot put you into the fire, the fire that you not walk through. So that's that's the beauty, like when I see you how you walk these women's. You know, guys, as I say I work with jolene before, then the place that we work is very intense. Yeah, like it's a. It's a very intense space.
Speaker 1:But the way that you run the community, the way you run those women, the ways that you care for those women, the way that you preach the word to them, the way that you show them worship, you know that really that's the first thing that really attracted me about you. It was that light that drew me to you. I was like, oh, my goodness, but I never knew your story until when, you know, until when, like, we actually talk about it? And I was like, wow, you know, you're actually doing good. You're bringing, you're bringing back restoration to these women. You're bringing restoration back to restoration to Christ, how, how you walk to them. So, like, talk about that, your journey, how you know how you help each woman because it's a lot of women, that's that you run to.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, yeah, praise god um you know, I was given this uh opportunity to work um can I say you you can, you can say, you can say what you want opportunity to work for the caris Center, which Karis means grace, yes, and I literally feel the grace.
Speaker 2:It's just saturated there and God has given me space. My leaders have given me space. I was hired as a reception. I didn't really answer a lot of phones. I did whatever the Lord really wanted me to do. I mean I also do work too, but I mean like to, to be able to do devotions and and to just be a counsel for the women and to speak truth and life into them, to show them that there is something in, in, on the inside of them, that can bring them and rise them up, because this is truly what Jesus has done for me, like I never would have believed it yeah, I mean the little girl Jolene.
Speaker 1:At five years old, you never knew that that's where Christ is leading you, into it, right. So which, like it's, it's a full circle in the floor, right that every time I'm seeing you doing I'm just so in awe of you. You know, like, I really appreciate how, like, how you actually turned up to this woman's, how you actually care for this woman, and also to you guys lead meditation. You guys do a little bit of meditation, like as I said, I have to give siona all the credit no, as I said, you guys lead, you guys lead, um, you guys lead meditation too.
Speaker 1:But you use the hour of meditation by the, the only and the only one, dr apostle emmanuel adeusi shout out to my daddy, so you guys use the hour of meditation um to lead these women's, you know to, to their freedom, like so, talk about that journey, about well, I gotta be quite honest.
Speaker 2:uh, siona is definitely the leader in that and I have pulled back because I mean, my position changed now. At at the care center, I'm now a support worker. So you know, as the season shift, jesus wants to grow us up more, so I'm more intimately involved one-on-one, whereas before I was doing it at a group setting. You know, I thrived in the group, I love it. But he sees my weaknesses and he wants to conquer those weaknesses. Intimacy was very hard for me because of my fear of man and my fear of people and and what. And letting people get too close to me, people getting too close to me in the past is always proven to hurt me. So now it's shifted, so Siona actually is doing that, but I know there are women giving them their lives to Christ, day in and day out, yeah, and also you too.
Speaker 1:you use it too. Yes, Cause I send it. I actually use it too.
Speaker 2:Yes, because I send it. I actually use it too and I'm so excited to go to this new conference. Yeah, I'm thrilled about it because, coming from where I come, from the background, when I went to a treatment center in Calgary they did meditation, but it was new age. But I noticed that something was settling in me like less racing thoughts, and ever since I've had a taste of meditation I didn't know how to get meditation in me, but not that meditation.
Speaker 2:Christian meditation yeah, so you actually introduced me to the home? Yeah, and it's been changing my life. It has been settling my spirit. The racing mind has been going the peace in me is rising, so it's actually phenomenal. I love the app. I do them on saturday.
Speaker 1:There's a conference coming so you don't want to miss this conference. This conference, we're gonna be outside. Yes, I'm excited for that. We're gonna be outside in the field meditative. So this conference is a conference. Like if you're in Edmonton or say, grace, I'm not in Edmonton, but you want to join, you can actually join us. You can join us online, you know. All you just have to go to go to the Hour of Meditation Instagram page, you know, join it for more detail, more information, because this conference it's going to be a life changing conference.
Speaker 1:Like every conference we have had, we don't leave the same. You were there for the last one. We were there for the river. We literally went through the river. We went through the river. There was the river of prosperity. Was the river of prosperity, was the river of holiness? Like he literally took us to the entire, the entire whole river and it was just like a life-changing moment.
Speaker 1:Like you, like, if you come there heavy, you don't, you're not going to leave there heavy. That's like you're not leaving there heavy, even though you're catching it online. Whatever you are, whatever you're just meditating. You know, because you're just you're, you're not meditating like whom, whom? Sugar buddha. You're actually meditating. You're actually meditating on scripture, y'all, like the word is literally, is literally becoming flesh into your life, like you're, you're, you're leaving the system of this word and you're connecting with the system higher above higher, and that's connecting with the system higher above higher, and that's where he's taking you. So, like, I'm really so excited about this coming conference, so I hope I will see you guys there. Be there, you know, be there online, be there in person. I mean, we will be in the field outside. Open heaven, I'm excited, open heaven. So I'm really really excited. Now you said Philippians 1, 6, open heaven, I'm excited, open heaven. So I'm really really excited.
Speaker 1:now you say philippine one six, he, who begin the good work in you which we're already seeing, the work that he's doing in you unrecognizable yeah, you're very recognizable like oh my gosh from where you came from, from where, when I look at you as I, when God said freedom is with her and like, literally, I saw you worshiping with Christ and then I was like God, I know her. That's Jolene, I will reach out. This was in my vision. I was like I know her, so like. It's so, so beautiful, so like, tell us the impact of how Philippian 1.6. It's literally playing in your life.
Speaker 2:Well, it gives me a lot of peace, knowing that he is doing a good work in me. Not that I have to do it, I have to be willing, I have to turn to Him, I have to surrender my ways to Him, but it's up to Him. I don't have to stress, I don't have to be all anxieted up, I, I just need to sit, be still and surround it. Yeah, and, and you know like I just yeah, that scripture keeps me hopeful. You know, when I, when he does, put his finger on something and I'm just like, oh my gosh, like that's in me, like, but then he says he does a good work in me, so he's going to bring it out. So there's been a lot of things that I've needed to take out, but he's replaced them with so many other beautiful things.
Speaker 1:That's the beauty of Jesus Once you surround you know the dark, the dark part. He surrounded with light, he surrounded with joyful, and that's who you really are when people see you, like even when community, when coworkers, we see you, jolene, we're already smiling Because you just bring so much light and so much joy, like I just wish you guys could see this woman when she worship Ah, she freely, freely, freely worship woman. When she worshiped ah, she freely, freely, freely worship like you're, freely, freely, you truly worship and you know who he is and and and that's the beauty that I like about that.
Speaker 2:So you know, because it he says, to bring heaven down. Well, I've already experienced hell, so like to know that I can come to him, stare at him in his face, look him in the eyes and he brings heaven down, like I mean, yeah, there's a ton of joy. Amen.
Speaker 1:All right, friends, we're coming to a conclusion. I mean, I pray you guys really listen to Jolene's beautiful testimony of freedom, because I'm gonna. As, as you guys know, we we started on a series. We call it church hurts. Like literally on February 25th, when God gave me all this topic, when God gave me these amazing guests, I did not know where we're going. I just follow instruction and I call each one of them and I say hey, hey, and they were willing. They were just willing to come on this couch and, and, and you know, and minister to us and and and share their amazing, amazing testimony.
Speaker 1:So I'm super excited on this journey of church hurt, um, so this is, this is the last episode, freedom. So I, I want you to be free. I want you to be free from any pain, any trauma that you experience. You know, I know it's not an easy walk. Trust me, I've been there, I am still. I uh, jesus, it's like an onion with me. God is still peeling the onion inside of me, you know, and like it doesn't take overnight, you know, for us to be coming over over our trauma, over our church hurt, over our church pain, why you don't go to church, why you don't see Jesus. You know it's not into the night, it doesn't happen into the night. It doesn't happen into the night but when you are willing and give God and just give him your burden, because the word says cast all your burden onto Jesus, for he cares for you. So once you're willing to give him that burden, he will peel that onion and he will turn into a beauty that he was creating you to be All right. So this, this is the journey of the word became flesh. Church hurt series. We're out, we're here in the building, but before we're out I'm not going to just be like, oh, we're out, we're done.
Speaker 1:Before we're out, I want to give you guys an invitation for those who, whether you know Christ, or whether you don't know him, or whether you just want to renew a relationship with Christ, you know, you were like me, I was like, you were like grace. You know, you know Jesus, but you didn't have anything to do with the church, anything to do with the minister, anything to do with the preacher, and then you're like I'll become a church of myself. As we know, we cannot be a church of ourself. We need authority, we need to be covered, we need to be under spiritual authority. You know when the enemy come in like a flood, know who is fighting for you, you know.
Speaker 1:So this is a great opportunity I want you to invite for those ones who do not know Christ, or you just want to renew your relationship with Christ. You know to simply say, because, simply, the Bible says if we confess and with our mouth and believe in our heart, you know he is willing. So Christ is willing for you and Christ is willing for me. So, if you can simply say this prayer with me right now, where you are, whatever you're listening, right now, where you are, just simply say Lord Jesus, christ, I believe you are the son of God and I believe you died for me on the cross of Calvary. I know I am a sinner and today I come to you to forgive me of all my sins and make me a brand new creation. I accept you as my Lord and personal savior. Thank you, lord, for forgiving me and make me a born again. In Jesus, mighty name. You have prayed, you have believe it, you have saluted, you have sing it. So receive it, receive your freedom. Okay, receive your freedom. Come on to Christ. Now. As I said, this is our last episode on the word became flesh. Church hurts freedom. Okay, we love you, guys, but there's something special is coming in September.
Speaker 1:As you guys know, september is our anniversary month. It's our anniversary month, so there's going to be a little something special coming up. But in order for you to know what is that, something special is coming up in September. It will be announced on our Instagram page and on our TikTok page. We'll be announcing it. All you just have to do follow us at TWF podcast, for you guys know what's coming up for September anniversary, because there's a little, a little something Jesus want to put in your pocket. Not me, but Jesus want to put something in your pocket. So, september, I encourage you, for the beginning of the month of September, follow us on our Instagram page and our TikTok page for you guys to know what is the great announcement, what does God want to put in your pocket, and be blessed. God bless you.
Speaker 1:Happy last Monday of August, and we will see you in September on our Instagram page, tiktok page to know what's coming up, what is big, because there's a big announcement just waiting for you, just waiting for you. So hold on to your seat. And also too, as you guys all know, in September we have the biggest conference coming in Edmonton. We have the Hour of Meditation conference coming in Edmonton. So if you're here in Edmonton or you're not here in Edmonton, simply you can go to Hour of Meditation Instagram page. Search Hour of Meditation on Instagram page for more details and more details we'll be putting here. Love you guys, stay blessed, stay with Jesus. God bless you. We will see you back in September for the announcement. Be blessed you.