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Manifesting with God vs. The Universe: A Conversation with Pastor Steve Kidd

• Dwan Bent-Twyford • Season 7 • Episode 391

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How does the creator of the universe view time, free will, and our spiritual journey? Do we need to "manifest" our desires, or is there a simpler path to transformation?

When third-generation minister and book publishing expert Steve Kidd joined me to celebrate our one million download milestone, our conversation quickly evolved into a profound exploration of faith versus modern manifestation practices. Steve cuts through spiritual complexity with refreshing clarity: "The creator of everything in the whole world wants more than anything else to just hang out with you." This perspective challenges our tendency to complicate spirituality with "woo-woo" concepts when the fundamental truth is beautifully simple.

Steve's explanation of God's relationship with time provides a fascinating framework for understanding prayer. "We are time-locked beings traveling through time from yesterday to today to tomorrow. God exists simultaneously across all possible realities." This concept, combined with free will, explains why prayers aren't always answered in our expected timeframe or manner. The divine operates outside our linear timeline while respecting our freedom to choose.

Beyond theological insights, Steve shares his expertise in helping nearly 5,000 people write and publish bestselling books through his interview-based approach. His message that "someone is waiting for your unique knowledge" resonates deeply—we often undervalue our experiences not realizing they could be exactly what others desperately need. Steve introduces us to "zaraz," an ancient Hebrew word meaning "the light of transformation," perfectly capturing how authentic faith naturally radiates from within rather than being forced.

Whether you're questioning your spiritual path, considering writing a book, or simply seeking meaningful transformation, Steve's wisdom offers a refreshingly straightforward approach to life's biggest questions. Visit AskSteveKidd.com for a free consultation about publishing your story, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear that their light matters.

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Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Hey everybody, welcome to The Most Dwanderful Real Estate Podcast Ever. I'm your host, Dwan Bent-Twyford. I'm America's most sought-after real estate investor. I have some super exciting news. We just reached a million downloads this week. So I'm so excited. So, thanks to all of you, I finally cracked a million downloads. So now we have to work on two million. So like and share and tell everybody that you know that we need two million downloads right now. So isn't that exciting.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I was so excited, steve. I got a thing from Buzzsprout that says you have reached a million downloads. I was like, ah, because I've been close, like hanging around it, you know, but like didn't quite get there. I was so excited and the weird thing is, when that happened, like within two days, I had like 25,000 more, just like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So super excited about that. So I want to welcome my awesome guest today. I have Steve Kidd. He's AskSteveKidd. com, he's AskSteveKid. com, and we're going to find out what he does and find out how he can help all of the wonderful people. So, Steve, I really just kind of like to throw people in and have you give us your name, how to contact you directly and what you do, just really short, and then I'm going to ask questions to find out how you came to be Steve Kidd. Syndicated Radio.

Steve Kidd:

Yeah, my name is Steve Kidd. I'm a third generation minister, an international best-selling author of now 36 books and counting. I've worked with just shy of 5,000 people, helping them write, publish and then, most especially, marketing their books to bestseller and everything that goes beyond that. To contact me that's why I've got it on the screen askstevekid. com. You can jump straight onto my schedule. I'll give you 15 minutes for free talking about anything to do with the. You know all we've learned in the 38 years of marketing and any of that.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Anything I can help you with.

Steve Kidd:

I'd be glad to.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Yeah, you know what, now that you said that, I do remember us having the ratings. You talked about helping with books and after all the stuff Bill and I have been through the last couple of years, I feel like now is the time I'm going to sit down and I'm going to put together a book, because, you know, my husband went through a bone marrow transplant. I mean it's the craziest thing. I just I had never even met anyone else that's been through all that crazy stuff. I'm like you know that needs to be in a book. And also about you know, our 35 years of real estate investing and and all the stuff like that. So I love that you're a minister.

Steve Kidd:

Yeah, absolutely. My grandfather was and my father was his whole life both of them.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I've been a Christian, saved and baptized, got a little wild in my 20s, looped back to God. So now I'm like 35 years, like just hardcore back into it and I just love to talk to other Christians and especially you know all the great things that God can do and help you in your businesses. If you're just like, let him do it, instead of everyone trying to do everything on their own all the time.

Steve Kidd:

Absolutely. I agree completely.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Right. So what's some advice? Give us a few tidbits of advice, since you are a minister and I want to talk about your, how you help with the books and stuff too. But what are a couple of things like for people you know that are lukewarm, they backslid, they need to come back. They're not ready to come back. You know how everybody is. What are a couple I don't know, like a little tidbits about people that are following. I'm assuming you're following Jesus, yes, okay, so let me just make that clear before I start ranting off and you're like oh yeah, no, I'm, I'm a minister and something else.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

So because my uh, my sign off, at the end of my podcast I say the truth is in the red letters. And so some people email me and go what does that? That mean? I'm like, well, what do you think it means? And so, of course, everything Jesus said is in the red letters. So I try to, like you know, drop seeds, and I do a few times a year I'll do a podcast. That's just about a Bible study. You know, just something like that. So what are a few ways for people that are now I have a good run people that are like manifesting and like it's talk. Can you talk about like the universe, manifesting versus like what the bible actually says?

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

oh, okay without too much. Is that too broad? No, no, no.

Steve Kidd:

I was just going to say, without going on too much of a rant on you here, we work so hard to make the easiest of all things possible. We know the world existed before we came into it. You know before we were born. You know we have enough historical proof, archaeological proof, whatever, that it was here before we were here. Ok, and without going deeply into exegetical explanations of why you know, I believe God created the earth. I think it's just, you know, real good common sense to say there's something bigger out there than us. So that's the first step. Step two in that is stop trying to make it so hard. You have the creator of everything, who created it all for one purpose, and that was so that he could get to know you so much so that he created this incredibly, wonderfully horrible thing called free will.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Yes.

Steve Kidd:

Because and people really struggle with it because they want God to give them free will, but everybody else not, yes, not. And I always tell people it's like God had to give us free will, because the only way we can choose to love him is if we actually truly have a choice. If there wasn't the option of option A and option B, it wouldn't really truly be a choice, and that's where free will comes in. Yes, All of this was done by the creator of everything, just so that he could get to know you and hang out with you and be your friend. That's all he's looking for. And we try so hard to come up with all these woo woo outside. You know extra I use the word woo woo Like.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

stop with all that woo woo stuff?

Steve Kidd:

What do the numbers on the clock mean? You know all those kind of things. To try to explain the simplest of all things, and that's that the creator of everything in the whole world wants more than anything else to just hang out with you. Yeah, and if that doesn't blow you away, I don't know what else is going to.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

You know, I can't even tell you how much I agree with that. I have friends, and you know, and I love them dearly and they're, you know, christians, you know, and they're like, oh, I'm sending you love and light and that I'm like, listen, please stop sending me love and light and all that stuff. Like that. Like, do you want to send me anything? Pray to Jesus, you know to send me whatever.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

And one of the things I've had a couple of people on the show that are really big into manifesting. So I was asking them like, oh yeah, no, you know, we like to the universe and Mother Earth. And I was like, oh my God, I freaking invited a Wiccan on my show and I'm like, listen, the Bible says, speak things into existence as if they're already there. It's like, okay, god is telling you, I'm a successful real estate investor, I lost 50 pounds, I'm married to the greatest person on the face of the earth. Like God is saying, speak it into existence like it already happened, and then God will work with you and, you know, hopefully, bring all those things to fruition.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

So I have so many people that have been a guest I just really didn't know enough about, I guess, and I'm just like, oh my god, this conversation is not what, anything that I believe, like that. But you're right, it's like you know Jesus is there, god's Holy Spirit's living inside of you, like you got all the stuff you need right there. If you're worrying about depression or anxiety or you're in a bad marriage or whatever, you can just speak things and just keep saying, all right, lord, I'm speaking this into existence. These are the things and God can do remarkable things and change anybody's heart and so many good things. And people just like, I don't know, people want like the woo-woo stuff and they want like everything done today and it's like, but God doesn't answer prayer, like that. It's like yes, no and maybe, or you know it could be a yes and you're like, oh great, this is going to happen tomorrow and that yes could be, oh no, 10 years from now. Yes doesn't mean tomorrow.

Steve Kidd:

Yeah Well, the problem is we are time-locked beings. We travel through time from yesterday to today to tomorrow. God exists simultaneously across all possible realities, meaning that when you say yes to something, he lives in both the if you had said yes and if you had said no at the same time. That's why the Bible says there's no temptation, except that's common to man that God has already provided a means of escape. God spends all the time trying to help lead us back from the times when we went left, when we should have gone right, because he loves us and he wants to be in that relationship with us. But he exists in all those. So when God says yes, his yes is right now, because right now is all of eternity, in an instant in his space.

Steve Kidd:

It doesn't necessarily mean that it can happen that quickly, because then, in addition to that, there's that crazy thing that I talked about before, and that's free will, because often you know, especially when we start talking about money, but you could also use having your spouse be the best spouse in the world. You know, you can pray that for them. At the end of the day, they have to choose to be the best version of themselves, them, at the end of the day, they have to choose to be the best version of themselves. They have that free will to not be. You know, to be able to do that, if you're going to pray, to be successful, you've got to go out and work. You know, I mean people.

Steve Kidd:

I'm sure that, with as great as you are and maybe you've had a few people do it but very rarely do you have somebody that comes to your house, knocks on your door and says I have this amazing property that I'd like for you to invest in. You know, now you can put out things on the internet that dry in leads and things like that, but if you're just sitting in your house just manifesting it, just sitting there waiting for that person to come in and knock on the door, it's never going to happen. You know, and that's, in fact, fact, the cool part about it is, I've actually interviewed most all of the people from the book in the movie the secret um and uh. Most of them got together and wrote a second follow-up book to that, called how thought, how thoughts, become things, and every single one of them talks about that in the fact that, yes, you want to believe, but yes, you also have to put action to the things you're believing in. You can't just sit around and expect you or nothing is going to create something.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Yeah, no, I'm with you all the time. I mean, I've got a prayer board with a list a mile long and most of it's about other people actually. But I just figured, you know, know, I do the work, I trust god, I tied, I do my part, then god's gonna open those doors for me. I mean, look at me, I'm talking to you today. Yeah, absolutely, that's how the magic happens. All right. So I love that I, I love that you're a minister and you're from a family of ministers. I'm, I just uh, I just love that. I watch tv preaching all the time. I always read my bible and there's just so many gifts and things that god can do for people. But I think people just don't want to wait, like, oh, I want this, I want today. Because you know, we're like a, we're like a microwave society. Now you can't drive through and get your food in two minutes. People have a meltdown. It's like, literally, that was two minutes since you ordered and now you have a bag of food.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Slow your roll, slow your roll and do the right things. So let's talk about these books. So I love the fact that you help people write books.

Steve Kidd:

Yes.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

So someone's on here. They're like Dwan, I'm brand new, I've barely even invested. How could I possibly write a book? What are some ideas? How do you help people like pull a book out of themselves?

Steve Kidd:

Well, and we do, or at least we suggested doing all of our books via interview. We just literally hop on a Zoom call and encourage a person to begin to start talking. There's a process to a book and I know all of that well enough that I can walk them through that. But I just want to get them in conversation because, no matter who you are, whether you are, my granddaughter, who is now, you know, getting ready to turn 15, can't believe she's that old um, but you know, when she was eight, she wrote I also understand.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I'm like, oh my god, she's that old. But you know, when she was eight, she wrote I also understand. I'm like, oh my God, she's in puberty. How is that possible? She's 10 years old.

Steve Kidd:

Oh, I know, you know, but when she was eight she wrote a book and the only thing she knew is that you know her best friend and that you know they were just the bestest of friends and how she had met her. And that's what she wanted to tell. The whole world was about her best friend and how she met her and you know all the good times they had together. You know, and if you think about some children's books, some of the best ones of them are just that really simple of a structure. So, no matter where we're at what we're going through, what's easy for us is something that somebody else is struggling for, and somebody is waiting on you for the exact thing that you are right now. There isn't any of our time of our life that's throw away. Training is about doing and getting better and doing more. It's not about you reach some kind of perfection and then you're ready to be able to start doing things.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I agree, and you know everybody, everybody's got a book in them.

Steve Kidd:

Oh yeah. Most everybody that does a book has multiple books in them.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

It's just, everyone's been through stuff and things and businesses and I have successfully written the short sale, pre-foreclosure investing, which is the best seller. How to sell your house when it's worth lessclosure investing, which is a bestseller. How to sell your house when it's worth less than a mortgage, which is a bestseller. I did a chapter in a book with Steve Forbes. My husband did a chapter in a book with Dan Kennedy, and the last four or five years I'm like you know, we need to sit down and write a book, like about all the stuff that we went through and just really how trying and how much we really truly had to rely on not that we don't rely on god, but like I mean this like puts your faith to the test, like hardcore puts your faith to the test, and just all the things.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I'm like you know we need to sit down. Bill's like I, you know. He's like well, write whatever you want. You know I'll throw in some stuff. It's like, no, we, we need to write a book and um, so I we're gonna start working, so I'll probably call you and say, hey, listen, I need y'all to help me get put a book together. I feel like I have so much to say right now. I don't like when I wrote the other books I I organized the chapters first. It kind of got my head, but I feel like I have so much to say right now. I'd have a hard time putting it into like chronological and chapters and it's like my mind's like blowing up with things. So I'm going to have you help me do that.

Steve Kidd:

Well, one of the best things you can do is just brain dump all of it.

Steve Kidd:

In fact, what I tell people is, when you're doing that, everything that comes to mind, just say all of it. You can always get rid of things. But even if because when we go in that active memory type of a space anytime we try to stop it or edit it while we're doing that, we also stop the creative flow. So I tell people, even if like something totally random, like, oh my gosh, did I remember to do the laundry? Oh, I got to remember that I got to go pick up the kids at three o'clock, you know those kinds of things that have nothing to do, you know they're not going to make it in the book, you're not going to be like. And then the author said I mean, by just saying that and then continuing on, we continue in creative space. When we stop and try to force that thought to go away, we actually we stop and try to force that thought to go away, we actually also stop the creative flow. So, yeah, we can totally help you with that.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Yeah, I told Bill. I said I'm down here in Florida for a month now, so I think I'm going to start and I can't even come up with a title at all yet, Like a title, and I pray about everything. Like when I started my podcast, I wanted to have like a really cool sign off because, like you know, like like Sean Handy says, let not your heart be troubled. And I remember, like Walter Cronkite, I'm way back, this is a show my age. He'd say like something like good night and tomorrow, whatever. I thought I need a sign. That's the way it was. Yeah, and I remember that forever.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

And so I had the title at the concept and I was like, and I was like, lord, listen, I got to have this really good sign up and it's got to like, it's got to talk about you, but it can't be like too much, it's got to be me. And I mean honestly, I had the equipment. I had everything ready to go for like three months, the equipment. I had everything ready to go for like three months. And I was just like, come on, give me a title and I'd say things or write things down. And it's like I don't know, it doesn't fit and then just like out of nowhere, I was like, oh, the truth is in the red letters. Jesus said everything in the red letters. That's the truth of life.

Steve Kidd:

I was like, thank you, lord, that's brilliant, I wrote it down and I recorded the next day.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Awesome, I'm not recording till I have a sign off. And I know that's such a small thing and people are probably like, oh yeah, you could have gone. It's like, no, I need something. And I just couldn't. I mean, I can't tell you how many times I prayed and I was just like I can't get it. I can't get it.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I wrote all kinds of things. I was like no, it doesn't feel right. And then I did that. I was like okay, that would be like a little bit like people might not know what it means, so they might ask me. Then I can say, hey, jesus said everything is in the red letters. Like, if you don't know anything about the bible and you want to start, don't start at genesis, read all the red letters and then see where the bible takes you. Like, that's, if you learn about Jesus, you got it. And I have had pastors call me and say, when the people at my church get saved, I now tell them to start with the red letters. I was like, seriously, they're like yeah, because honestly it's so simple. And I was like, wow, all right, thank you, lord. So now, 450 episodes later, I still say it I love it.

Steve Kidd:

Yeah, and that's one of the one of the ways where doing your book writing via interview works so well, because during the course of that conversation, something amazing that you're going to say is going to come out just kind of naturally like that, and it's going to be like oh yeah, that's it, you know, and then yeah, so yeah, no, I'm with you.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I'm with you, all right. So, um, now, are you involved in the real estate industry? You're, you're mostly the menace. Now do you preach and like have a church? Are you like actively a preacher?

Steve Kidd:

I am no longer working in a church. I mean, technically, my gifting is evangelism. So much of what I've done have been outside of the doors. But you know, I've worked as a youth pastor and worship leader and stuff like that. My last staff position was oh gosh, it's almost 12 years ago now, but I was actually the youth pastor at 45. You know, that gives you an idea how old the congregation was, and a really cool little church in Ocean Park, washington, and that was the last staff position I've had.

Steve Kidd:

But everything that I do is really just an outpouring of my ministry and myself and some of my business partners. We have a lot of things that we do. And then of course, there's the books that I write that all of them have a whole lot of Jesus in them, whether I'm quoting Bible verses or not. And then I have my radio show every week and you know I say at the beginning of it you know that I'm a third generation minister and I tell people that and that's why I always do that in my intro too, because I will say you know it's like hey, you know, I warned you, I'm a third generation minister, so if a Bible verse pops out of me while I'm talking here to you you can't be really shocked, you know.

Steve Kidd:

I mean, it's kind of just part of who I am.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

That's what makes me love you more. I love it, I love it, I love it. And you know I can remember. So I got saved and baptized when I was 12. Went to church faithfully. Then I could get 18, you move out, you know, and in my 20s it was the 80s, and I became probably as heathenistic as any person could be. And then, 32 or three, I was like you know what? God hit me with a hammer and get your butt back, and you know so I like rededicated. And then now it's like I look back. I'm like, oh my god, god must listen to, shaking his head like girl, what is wrong with you? What are you doing? But I'm forgiving and I bring you back and you know, do good things.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

That always when I do podcasts, I always talk about God and some people are like, oh, you know, we don't really talk about that. I'm like dude, it just falls out of my mouth. I talk about all the time I'm teaching in the class I say God's good to me, god did this, god did that, and some people they get offended. I'm like, hey, listen, totally cool, you can stay or you can go. I'm not changing what I say because I'm standing on the words and I've had people leave.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

You're too preachy when you teach. I'm not preachy, I'm just like, hey, god brought me this path and God brought me that path and God brought me this husband. And da, da, da, da da. And I've had a few people and I'm just like I'll pray for you and I'm like it's this day. Now let me talk about God. I got you. I don't want to force it on you, but you know you heard the word. So someday when you're standing up at them, pearly gates, and say, remember when you heard the words and you ignored it. So All right, so let's talk about you. What's your favorite band of all time?

Steve Kidd:

Oh, goodness Of all time and I only have to pick one.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Only one, all time.

Steve Kidd:

Oh, that's so tough. I've broken it down to two and I'm trying to decide which one of the two Probably. Yeah, I'm probably still going to have to say Bon Jovi.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Ah, I love Bon Jovi, and what a good choice he is. God, bon jovi's. And you know that's the one concert I have never seen. I I'm a major concert person. I've seen literally almost everyone from the 70s, 80s, all the way. I go to concerts all the time and, for whatever reason, I've never seen bon jovi and I was like next time I tour I have to go because I love all of their music, all of their music. Okay, what's your favorite food?

Steve Kidd:

uh, definitely pizza, yeah, I love pizza too.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I I don't know how anyone could not love pizza. We have one of those uh pizza cookers, you know, it just spins underneath the lights and it cooks your pizza top and bottom. I have pizza at least twice a week. It's like how can you not love pizza?

Steve Kidd:

Well, the worst of it for me is I'm on a diet right now where I'm no sugar, no flour. I've lost over 100 pounds in the last about eight months, and so these days when I eat pizza, I tear the toppings off and just leave the crust, which my dog loves, you know, because then she gets the whole crust which she thinks is cool, and then she hides them all around the house for like oh my god well, congratulations um.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

So you're doing like something like keto I'm actually uh.

Steve Kidd:

Yeah, it's a company called Energize Health that helps with cellular regeneration. Really great Christian couple that runs the company. Yeah, I couldn't say enough good about that.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Well, good for you. I mean, 100 pounds, that's nothing to sneeze at. After everything that happened with my dad and my friend and all this stuff, I put on 15 pounds, pounds which may not seem like a lot but when all your clothes fit the way they fit, like I can't. I can't button my jeans with 15 pounds because it all goes right to my belly. And I was like you know what? I'm missing the keto for a minute, because I really like that diet, I love the high protein, I love the fat of the vegetables, like I really love that diet. But there was a few times it's like, oh man, pizza or pasta. But then you know, I feel better when I eat like that. I feel better.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

And I did notice I had terrible headaches from withdrawing off sugar. It was like golly, it's like drawing off caffeine or stopping drugs or something. I had blinding headaches because I just no sugar and I still don't have sugar. Sugar. I mean I have things like with monk fruit or stevia, which probably still is sugar, but just like sugar, sugar and no candy, no, nothing. I was like, oh, I had headaches for two weeks.

Steve Kidd:

That's crazy.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Well, good for you, congratulations. What's your favorite part?

Steve Kidd:

of the day. I really like late evenings, you know, like nine, 10 o'clock. You know I currently am living. My brother and I bought my uncle's house when he passed and you know, about a year and a half ago now we had our mom move in with us. We're taking care of her too. We're kind of sort of in the process of remodeling the house. It's going very slowly.

Steve Kidd:

I'm not even sure some days if we can claim it as remodeling it with as slow as we're going, but you know they go up to the rooms or go to bed or whatever they do, you know, and I'm here in my room by myself, um, you know, and likely the phone's not gonna ring. I don't have too many clients that call me after nine or ten o'clock at night. Every once in a while somebody will, but for the most part, you know, and so that's when I can do my writing and you know, and I do a lot of singing then and just you know it's it's kind of really the best time for me. Plus I'm a night owl, you know I I don't do mornings.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Well, anyway, they say, night owls are the smartest people.

Steve Kidd:

Oh well, there you go, that's why I do it then.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

You know it's funny. I also am an evening person and I interview people all the time and I ask them you know which way, and they're like oh, want to have 4 am, be in the gym. And in my mind I'm like but why, like? Why do you want to be up at four in the morning? And and why? I don't think, even if it was quiet. I hang out with bill, you know, we talk, we chat. It's like oh, this is the peaceful part of the day for me too. So I'm with you and you know like 90% of people are super early morning people that I interview and I'm like no, y'all got to get in the groove like the night time. The night time's where it's at. That's how I feel. So I love that about you. All right, so I want you to um, is there anything you want to talk about that I didn't ask you or something that you want to impart upon the group?

Steve Kidd:

I mean, you know, mostly it's just a matter of somebody's waiting on you. You know somebody needs exactly who you are to help them with exactly what they're searching for. You know, I often use the example, you know, because we all search for things on the internet these days, you know, whether it be some kind of AI or, you know, google or whatever, and they're just desperately looking for the thing that often is so easy for us that if somebody asked you what you were gonna write your book about, you probably wouldn't even count. That you know. You just assume. You know that must be easy for everybody. And yet for everything that you can imagine, you know there's somebody that's struggling with that and they're waiting for you to be able to, to bring that out in the way that you're going to, because you're the one that was put on this earth to get to share that in a way that they can get it.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Yeah, no, I could not. I could not agree more. All right, so, Steve, the last thing, as I like all my guests to leave us with a parting word of wisdom, but it can only be one single word.

Steve Kidd:

Okay, well, I have a great word, okay, but you're not going to know what the word means.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Okay, give it to me.

Steve Kidd:

All right, the word is Z-R-A-Z. It's spelled Z-A-R-A-Z. Spelled the same way Z-A-R-A-Z.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Okay, the first ones ever told me this. So first of all let me explain. So I tell everyone to leave us with a part, because if you ask someone to give us a parting word, they'll go on for 20 minutes and talk about something. It's like, oh my god, people can't process that. There's a word and then the word becomes the word of the week in the wonderful universe. So our word is zaraz. So we need to know first of all, what the heck does it mean? But what does it mean to you is the most important thing.

Steve Kidd:

So Zeraz is a English spelling of an ancient Hebrew word that comes from Isaiah 60, verse 3. Isaiah 60, verse 3 says your light will draw the kings of all nations unto me, meaning God, zeraz is the light of transformation that makes the impact and the difference. It's the light inside of us, that spark that is put there by God to change the world.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Oh, I love that. So when people see my light shining, that's my Zerahs. Yes, ah, okay, I did not know that word, so thank you.

Steve Kidd:

The book's almost done. I should have it out here within the next week or two oh nice, I love it all.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Right, everybody. Word of the week is a raw, so basically it's like let people see the light inside of you yes is that right, yeah or not, or a little bit more detailed?

Steve Kidd:

well, I mean in a little more detail. It's, um know, it's about being the light, so it's just living it versus yeah, yeah, I mean it, just it is. Zeraz is now. Zeraz is who you are. It isn't about I mean, there is a lot of activeness to it, but it isn't about being and doing anything. It just it is, you know, your light. Will you know I love it. That's the biggest thing, you know. Going back to the very beginning of our conversation, you know the Bible says Jesus said red letters. Let your light so shine before men that they will see your good works and glorify your father, which is in heaven, and that ultimately capsulizes. You know what Isaiah is talking about. You know, in to go back to what you're saying, the red letters.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Okay, so it's Hebrew.

Steve Kidd:

It's ancient Hebrew, so it's the dead language version of Hebrew.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I'm going to start using that word. People go why I'm like I'm just that smart. My friend Steve turned me on to a new word, but I like it because the Bible does like light, your light. And I've had people you know, we teach a lot of classes and we have people like God. When I walk through the room, you guys can just your light just shines, and I was like that's light, that's God, that's God, that's just because we're like, we're up there, and so I love that word. What's a rise? I'm gonna google it too and read a little bit more about it, because I did not know.

Steve Kidd:

If you google it, the only thing you're gonna find about zaraz until my book comes out. Um is. There is a polish word that's zaraz, that has um. That basically means to take action. Okay, so you want I mean very rarely are you going to find translations for ancient Hebrew words. It was about a four hour deep dive that I did on AI one night trying to find a word for the rebrand we're doing for the company.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Oh nice, no, I love it. Well, when the book's out, let me know. We'll have you come back on again and talk about your book, cause that I love stuff like that. When I learn something new, I get super excited to learn something new. All right, so, everybody, I want to thank you for being on the show today and what is the name?

Steve Kidd:

Is your radio show called? Ask Steve.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Kidd, it's Thriving Entrepreneur, thriving Entrepreneur, so I want you to did they subscribe?

Steve Kidd:

Like subscribe. Go to wehelpyouthrivecom and follow it on my website. Listen to it. It's on about 30 radio stations.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Okay, so say it in wehelpyouthrivecom.

Steve Kidd:

Wehelpyouthrivecom has all of the last 10 years, of all the shows.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Okay. So y'all to listen to this guy. He is wise, wise, wise. He's got wisdom. He's told Jesus I'm sure he's giving that really amazing information. So follow him and I always ask you to do me a favor. If you enjoyed the podcast, if you learned one thing I learned a new word. I want you to like and subscribe and leave a comment, because Steve and I cannot grow our businesses without you, so it is important that you like, follow and also Dwanterful. So I took my name Dwan and wonderful, and I made a new word that's D-W-A-N-D-E-R-F-U-L. It's wonderfulcom. Go over to my website and opt in. I've got a little real estate quiz that you can take and it'll tell you where you're at in your real estate investing career. So that's super fun too. So check me out, check him out Again. We cannot do it without you. So I'll be back next week, same bat time, same bat channel. And remember, the truth is in the red letters. I've got a guy that knows what that means. All right, everybody, ciao, have a great day.