Daily Bread
Daily Bread with Dr. Jerrell & Angela Stokley offers inspiring biblical content designed to educate, empower, and engage everyone to seek God's Word as daily bread for the soul and live a life of purpose in Jesus Christ.
Daily Bread
Navigating Uncertainty - PT 1
When Angela and I sat down to record this heartfelt conversation, we never imagined just how much our journey through scripture and daily life experiences would resonate with others. Our inaugural episode of Daily Bread takes you on an intimate exploration of faith, struggle, and the sustaining power of God's Word. We share our personal anecdotes, from my mother's illness and passing to the divine messages that have guided us, all while tying these experiences to the biblical narratives that inspire and instruct us.
Our discussion doesn't shy away from the realities of life's appetites and the discipline required to align them with spiritual goals. Angela and I recount moments of temptation and choice—how a simple craving for McDonald's became a profound lesson in vigilance and decision-making. We weave through the stories of Jesus’s temptations and David’s trials to illustrate the importance of feeding our souls with daily scripture, and how this sustains us through every twist and turn.
Concluding our episode, we leave listeners with an invitation to consider the manna of their own lives—the daily sustenance provided by God's hand. Our conversation is a testament to the transformative power of embracing limitations and challenges as mechanisms for growth, teaching us stewardship and maturity on this unpredictable path of life. Join us and be empowered to find clarity and peace in the midst of uncertainty, one day at a time.
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All right, welcome everybody. This is amazing. This is amazing. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Daily Bread. I am here with my amazing co-host, angela Stokely, my amazing wife. This is actually the most amazing woman that I know, so I want to get you started here. This is the most amazing woman that I know. I've been prepping this thought in my mind about how I was going to introduce you to the audience on Daily Bread today. As a matter of fact, audience, we want you to know, this is our first episode of Daily Bread.
Speaker 1:Daily Bread is designed to feed your spirit and feed your soul. The Word of God that will nourish you. Not only the Word of God, but practical and relevant information, inspiration, revelation that would empower you each and every day to conquer and be who God is. God has called you to be and overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy and do your great and be great. But Daily Bread is intended to hit home in a special way in your life and to be a blessing to you. So, again, my co-host, my amazing wife, who I could have no success without this amazing woman being right here with me every step of the way. So, none other than Angela Stokely. Angela, you want to greet our audience.
Speaker 2:Hello and thank you for such. First of all, thank you for such a beautiful, heartfelt introduction. I kind of had to hold a couple of tears back there. That almost made me teary, but thank you for such powerful words, such kind words, and I felt all of the sincerity to that. I am elated to be here. I am excited about what God will use us to share and, as you know, my motto is, if it's only one that God gives us a word for that helps to change their life, helps to change the trajectory of their thought process, even if it's just about their relationship with God, I'm here for it. So, hi everybody, I am glad to be sharing this space with my intelligent and amazing husband, dr Jarrell Stokely Jr, in the house, and I'm glad that we are here and I look forward to sharing with you and you sharing with us as well. So jump on this journey with us All, right, yeah, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 1:It's a great introduction for me, easy because of who you are. So what I say was honest. It was authentic because of who you are and you're an amazing person. Thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2:All right, you know I wanted to say something. You know how sometimes I'll read something, or typically in these types of settings for us, we bounce off of each other really well. And when you started talking about daily bread, it immediately my mind went to the scripture that talks about man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. And that is what this is about providing that word out of the mouth of God that we can truly live on day by day, by day.
Speaker 1:That's amazing, and I always do that kind of stuff through discernment, because that's actually the foundational scripture for this program that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. And what makes it so relevant is that Jesus made that statement when he was facing purpose and destiny. He came out of the wilderness, he was being tempted by the enemy, and what better time than to decree for himself and in the face of the enemy, that I would need every day is the word of God to live by and to survive by and to thrive by. And that's exactly what we need in this day and time to make a statement, put a stake in the ground to ourselves and before the world and to the enemy, is that the word of God is my daily bread and that's what I'm going to live by, and that's going to be more than enough for me.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, you know. I think what also brings additional power to this is that that's our testimony, that's our life, you know, is that we look for the word of God every day and everything that we do, and I feel like that, that reality for us, that testimonial peace, I think it will translate so powerfully as we share, because not everyone has really sold out to living by the word or looking for a word to even live by that comes from the word of God.
Speaker 2:but I feel like the fact that we function in that capacity not in perfection, but that is our heart's drive that daily, situation by situation, difficulty by difficulty, we're looking for the word of God and not our own word. And I feel like that that will create so much more power in our sharing of the word Right, right.
Speaker 1:And I don't want to get you too far into this, but this is so good because it lays the foundation and I think that's important for our listeners and audience to hear it, because what you're really talking about and when you talked about how we run to the word daily and what every believer and every human being needs to know that you need the word daily and sometimes the reason we don't get the word daily is because we have so many competing voices in our ears and this is how Satan deceives us out of putting in the time and carving out the time to get that daily bread before we launch our day and get out and go do whatever it is that we have to do.
Speaker 1:And even if you don't do it before you launch your day at lunchtime or at some point and I think it's best to do it in the morning man to get your word in and your devotion time to hold on to. And, of course, you have the word in your heart, to hide it in your heart so that, no matter what comes up, the word of God is richly in your heart, that you may have light for your path and direction, for what you're facing. And it makes me think about how Eve was deceived by the enemy in the garden of Eden by a word. She had a word from God, through her husband, that we should not eat of this forbidden fruit. She had a word she was with, but look at what happened. The competing word and that's what happens with us with commercialism and success and celebrities.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to sit here calmly, dr Stokely, but I just want to emphasize how powerful that comment was. Go ahead.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying this is how we slip into the trap. Yeah, we'll lullaby into it. It's not like we're doing. We're not bad people, none of that. We love God and we want to get into the word, but the importance of the word is lullabied by the drama and the news and the commercialism of everything else that's coming in through our eye gaze, through our ear gates, through our appetite and our desires, the desires of the heart, and that's how we end up not getting that. But I didn't want to jump, but that's what you took me with. That's so important.
Speaker 2:That's what happens. But that was beautiful because again it goes back to the importance of the word, not only having that word but being mindful to keep that word and not to trade that word for some other word that does not come from the mouth of God. You know what I mean. So that was so powerful because, you're right, she had a word, but then she allowed herself to take on a different word. You know what I mean. And so that's beautiful.
Speaker 2:That is such a beautiful way to lay the foundation here, because we do have to be careful about the different voices that we're listening to. We can't have 15 pastors. We can't have. You know, listen to every prophet and every this and every that, because eventually we're going to become confused. We're going to become confused as Eve became confused as she listened to the wrong voice.
Speaker 1:Right, right, you know this is amazing. This is, this is powerful because, as you were speaking, I thought about the reality that, even though we hear competing voices, there has to be a hunger for the seed of that voice to be planted in. And if Eve didn't have a hunger, what Satan used the serpent to say would have had no impact on her.
Speaker 2:That's my first thought.
Speaker 1:But she had a hunger inside, not like hungry for the fruit, but she was hungry for something else. And the enemy came in and planted a seed where she had hunger. And if you think about it, we have hunger for acceptance, we have hunger for importance, we have hunger for wealth, we have hunger for identity, we have hunger for each other and relationships, and so there's always going to be a competing principle in those areas of our hunger, fighting against the principles of God's word in our life. So we have to be mindful, check your hunger. And how are you seeding that hunger? Are you seeding it with the word? Are those competing thoughts beginning to seed that hunger that you have? So the enemy has to come in for a. That's how he attempted Jesus, when Jesus was hungry after he fasted for the days and for the night when he was hungry.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's so good, holy ghost, the way you wrap that back in. When he was hungry, satan came and said propose to be mindful of proposals. Don't ever take a proposal, oh God.
Speaker 2:That feels very prophetic.
Speaker 1:But I'll pray and go and filter me through the word.
Speaker 2:You have to be careful of the proposal, of the proposal which takes, which just made me and this is such a sidebar as we were walking in today and I said, you know the we can be easily fooled by only looking at things on the surface and how, on the surface, things can look beautiful and they can look amazing and they can look like oh, that's the answer, and it's this and it's that. But the reality is, a lot of times, once you start peeling back certain things, or I can say it this way, the longer you engage with the people or engage with certain things, you'll start finding that that thing that you saw and thought was so beautiful absolutely was not. It was not. And so that just made that, you say, and what you said just just brought me back to that thought that I had earlier today. And how easy it is to be. What word am I looking for? Not even confused, but tricked. I guess I can say sweet and deceived.
Speaker 2:Yeah when we're only looking using our natural eyes, natural ears or a natural whatever. We need something and someone deeper. Yes we need the Holy Spirit, we need the Word of God. We need God's guidance. We need Jesus in order to see deeper than our humanity allows us to see.
Speaker 1:That is so good. That is so good Just piggybacking on the whole idea of our humanity and what. What I see as I begin to think more and more about hunger. And this is great for our first episode. I hope you all are enjoying. I hope you're listening and tuning in. We want to thank you again for being here. Let me just pause and recognize our audience. I welcome you to the first episode of Daily Bread. This is our introductory episode. I'm Dr Jarell Stokely. I'm here with my wife, angela Stokely, and we are, we are bringing you Daily Bread to help you.
Speaker 1:Amen, have a hunger for God more than a hunger for self, and have the word that you need to be successful and achieve. And so when you talked about hunger, it took me right to Jesus, right when he was being tempted at that moment to trade in his destiny for what the enemy wanted to give him. But look at what the enemy used first his hunger and and and so much of what we do goes back to hunger or appetite. We are eyes, hunger for things. We smell through our senses, our note. You smell some roast beef in the oven with carrots and potatoes and gravy and some scallions, and, and you smell the corn, the buttermilk, cornbread in the oven. Yeah, you know, and I'm not gonna, you know, throw back to my roots but you see the strawberry Kool-Aid on the table.
Speaker 1:Let's just say sweet tea, eliminate and pecan pie, and you just see the smell creates a hunger. What we hear creates a hunger. When we hear the success of other people, when we hear the romantic relationship that a person is having, when we hear the business strategy that someone is applying, when we hear a certain commercial about a car it creates, it taps into our appetite. That is already there. So so we're walking around as a speed, as a appetite driven species. So much about our decision taps back to our appetite. And here's what Jesus did.
Speaker 1:Jesus told Jesus chose his appetite for God over his appetite for himself. It took me a long time to get to that. I wish I could. I wish I could say things as quick as you do. And it says clear as the sink. But Jesus was at a crossroad. Do I submit to the hunger for me, but what Satan was offering him? Or do I? Do I lean to my hunger for God and choose my hunger for God over the hunger for for myself? Because he said if you are the Son of God, turn this stone into bread. And he said he chose God over himself. And that's the key to disciplining your appetite, all your appetites go ahead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, I was just sitting here thinking about suggestive selling and how that's a real thing. It happened to me just yesterday. I don't even eat McDonald's, but I was looking at somebody on TV and they mentioned McDonald's and immediately it took me back to ooh, mcdonald's. And I was like what? You don't even eat McDonald's. I know you don't eat McDonald's, so that's really true. You know that certain things can creep in. I mean, that's just a very simple example, but I could have gotten up and went to go get to McDonald's simply because someone said it.
Speaker 1:Someone said it.
Speaker 2:Someone said it. You know what I mean, and so I think it just like in that scenario, I immediately I was like it threw me. I was like what, why would I want that? I don't even eat that, why would I want that? And so, again, that those words sometimes can get in our ears and reroute. I love the fact that you said that he was trying to get Jesus to forfeit his destiny Right, because sometimes we don't recognize that those small conversations or at least we think they're small conversations we don't realize how life altering they can actually be. Because what if he would have given in to what the enemy was suggesting right and proposing right, you know, then things would have changed right would have looked very differently, you know.
Speaker 2:And so I think we have to be mindful that, even in the, the things that sometimes we say, oh, that's not a big deal, that's not a big deal, no, it's a big deal, because we could be one decision away from changing our entire life.
Speaker 1:One decision away.
Speaker 2:One decision away.
Speaker 1:Wow, yeah, and it's important to understand why. It is important to you know, be in the Word of God and live the Word of God daily and base your life and your life decisions, your life practices, your life goals and pursuits. See this thing about your life you got to understand your life is on the line, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:Your life, within your life, is your livelihood and the livelihood of your family, the livelihood of your business, the livelihood of your relationship.
Speaker 1:You are the nucleus, you are the core. No one else is responsible for the health, wealth and success of your life, but you and we. We, because we go through so much trauma and dramatic things in life and we'll get into some of that we lose sight of how important we are to everything around us. We are the steward of everything within our spirit of influence, within our spirit of power and within our lifespan. That dash between the day you're born and the day you pass away is the most important part of your life and what you do with that, so your life. I think we have to give God glory for life and our life, regardless of how bad it's been, how successful it's been. When you give God glory for life, you realize your existence is important. You are important and take the reins of your life in the, in a, in a divinely blessed favorite path, by living by the Word of God yeah, the daily bread that you need to be who God called you to be absolutely amen.
Speaker 2:And you know I was sitting here thinking as you were talking. I was thinking about how, living by the word, the irony of the taboo ism that's connected to that sometimes yeah and it's oftentimes in the Christian community you know.
Speaker 2:It can be family, it can be church members. Oftentimes when you have conversations that say, oh, I believe this is the word of the Lord for me and it doesn't look like, does it seem like what another human being thinks right, oftentimes the conversations about living by the word of God has some tabooism to it where people sometimes are standoffish or they second guess or they kind of give you the look out the corner of the aisle like are you really? Like, are you serious?
Speaker 2:You know and I think, as I thought about that, I think the reason why there is that awkwardness to it sometimes in those conversations is because a lot of us haven't seen a lot of believers live by the word of God for real, and I think that's what makes it strange and awkward, and sometimes that's what makes it a little difficult to have the conversations, even with young adults in this day and time, Because if we've not seen it in a lot of it you know in our generation then what have the generations after us, our children and their children, what have they seen?
Speaker 2:And I think that what removes, or what could remove that awkwardness to that is when more believers really jump on board and say my goal in this thing called life is to live by the word of God.
Speaker 1:Right, absolutely.
Speaker 1:And I think what has been missing out of that picture and of course, the leaders before us and those who've gone before us and our pastors and teachers are in some ways responsible for this what's been missing out of the example is transparency, absolutely Transparency to the pain of living by the word, the balance between the pain and the purpose, the balance between the pain and the promise.
Speaker 1:That's the part that's been missing. And so, if it was for too long, those before us and even now, you know we wear a mask, you know we feel like we have to wear a mask and live through a mechanicalism, a mechanical type of walk with God that says everything is fine, that says don't wear pants, that says you know a woman can't do this, that says you know, if you don't give, you don't love God. It's just, it's so many mechanical things, and on top of that's one half of the mask. The other half of the mask is a lack of transparency about the pain of it and that walking with God is not always a bed of roses. But you can go through that pain, praising Absolutely, and we don't get enough of that balanced picture.
Speaker 2:Because because to have to cry is again taboo-ish, you know, to it makes it difficult to be for some. To be transparent about the pain, because ideally it's, if you're a Christian and you're supposed to just be this all the time. Whatever this is right, it's you're not supposed to cry. You're not supposed to have a bad day. You're not supposed to, you know, have a bad day. You know you're not supposed to cry. You're not supposed to have a bad day. You're not supposed to, you know, have you're broken heart, oh my.
Speaker 2:God, you're not supposed to experience rejection, or you're not supposed to, or, if you do, you're supposed to like be stone-faced. And it's like, realistically, when you think about that and when, as I was sitting here, thinking as you were talking, I was like I think a part of the problem is have we read the Bible? Have we read the Bible? Because those that we read about and that we champion and that were excited, that are in there, they struggled in big ways I don't know about you, but bless David's heart.
Speaker 2:The fact that you stepped out. He was minding his own business. The prophet came to him and to be anointed for something that you didn't even ask for, and then later be on the run for your life because the person that's over you, that you're trying to serve, is trying to kill you like whoa. That's hard, that's difficult. You know what I mean, and so I think that one of the things that I feel like we, in this day and time, don't do as believers is really look at the word and say, if I am struggling, that is not some foreign thing. Oftentimes, it is through the struggle that God shows me more about who he is.
Speaker 2:It is often through the struggle that God shows me who I am.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And so I think that that's always my go-to is are we reading the scripture? If we really believe that hard times and difficult times are not supposed to come to the believer, where did that come from?
Speaker 1:Right, you know, right, yeah, I mean you make a great point. Because Jesus, jesus, in a really healthy way, displayed all of his emotions of a human being. He was 100% Jesus, 100% God, and he displayed his humanity. His humanity was on display, his care for Mary at the cross. Mary, behold your son, son, behold your mother, that love and care that he had for Lazarus. You know he wept when Lazarus passed. He wept over Capernaum. You know, jesus, just, he practiced, he showed anger. He was rejected by all of his disciples. He showed what that was like In the Garden of Gethsemane. He had anxiety and stress, to the point where his capillaries and his forehead were dripping blood instead of sweat. You know, and so you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1:I think it's important how about say, sweetheart, I'm trying to. I think it's important, sweetheart, that as believers, we look at not just the man or the men and women in our Christian leadership and our churches or wherever. We gotta look at Jesus and the man, we gotta look at Jesus and the woman. So when you're reading the Bible, even though you're being taught by a pastor, a leader or a sermon, remember to look at Jesus. Look at Jesus, though. You can get that teaching, you can be a great teaching, but remember Jesus, because that's who we are to be focusing on how to live a life through the daily bread of God's word and live on our purpose and be who God has called us to be. This is really good, man. This is really good to turn this off. So just a few more minutes here, as we're gonna have to wrap up our first episode.
Speaker 2:That's fine, you know, if it's okay. I wanna share something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sure.
Speaker 2:I remember when mom passed.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I, you know, just in the process, when she wasn't feeling well and going through different things, you know, I remember in prayer I told the Lord that my prayer for her was that she would be healed. But I was wise enough to know that even if she wasn't on this side and she had gone to heaven, she was healed. So I said Just let me know what the plan is. I'm sharing with you what I'm believing. I'm believing for her healing on this side, but I want you To let me know what your plan is. You know what I mean, right? Sometimes I think that we get so focused on what we want that we don't leave room For God to let us know what he wants for us right.
Speaker 2:What does that mean?
Speaker 2:So that when he gives us a word, that word makes sense, right, we may not agree with it, we may not be the thing we were thinking, but when we leave ourselves open with that reality that at the end of the day, his plans for me are good and I know that whatever he does in my life, it's good, it may not feel good, right, and even if there's complications in whatever I know, god is able to work it all good, all for my good. You know, I mean, and I remember when, the day that she passed, I went into the she'd gone to the hospital, of course, as you know and I went into the sanctuary and I began to pray and I sat there and my question to the Lord because I'm trying to give this example about Needing the daily bread, right, and not falling apart and not going into, you know, all this other stuff that we could go through when things get hard I went in the sanctuary and I prayed and I said, okay, lord, what's the plan? That Translates, lord, what's the word for this situation? I sat there, an hour, I believe, and the Lord showed me her funeral. That was my word. Yeah, that was my word.
Speaker 2:Yeah you know what I'm saying. I said yes, sir, and I got up and I went back to my office and finished working, because I understood this is his plan.
Speaker 1:I had a prayer.
Speaker 2:I had a thought, I had an idea. But, laura, what are you saying? Right, you know, yeah, and, and so we have to be flexible.
Speaker 2:I feel like right right to say okay, god, this is what I'm asking for. However, I want your perfect will right to be done, right, you know? And so, in that very hard time, he gave me a word. He gave me, he gave me that word and then, the Sunday after, when we had the service, I walked in the sanctuary and you were preaching and he gave me another word. Every season, step by step right he will give us exactly what we need right you know exactly what we need, but we have to have the posture which includes flexibility.
Speaker 2:This is God. Even if you don't do it the way I, I think it should be done right, I will still be satisfied right. Because ultimately I want your word right and so for every time he's given me a word, it's giving me life.
Speaker 2:Right, it's giving me strength. Right, it's giving me hope. Yeah, every time I started feeling hopeless, he give me a word and I start feeling hopeful again, right, you know, until it's so powerful, so powerful to situate ourselves To say you know what I really do want to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, that reminds me that. That reminds me of the word of God. Living out the word of God will not remove Distress and difficulty out of your life, but it will remove the distress and difficulty out of you.
Speaker 2:That's so good.
Speaker 1:Say that one more time, though, the living a life in the word of God doesn't remove Distress and difficulty out of your life, but it does remove stress and difficulty out of you, and that's what's important, that's what the circumstance in a lot of cases doesn't change.
Speaker 1:They change sometimes. Sometimes they don't. We have to change in the circumstance and be not conformed to the world, but be transformed by the making new of our thought, life, the renewing of your mind. And we do that by the word of God. The faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God. When I hear a Revelation, a word, it empowers me, inspires me, heals me, delivers me from the anxiety and the weary and the concern about what I'm dealing with.
Speaker 1:I'm thinking about when you talk about bread and you talk about difficulty. I'm thinking about the children of Israel when they were coming through the wilderness and and God only fed them manna. For 40 years now, god sent manner as bread and I have to thank Dr James, dr Cynthia James of Potter's house, who broke down. You know a really clear way of how the children of Israel saw. They saw it as what, because manna means what God called it Bread. They called it what. And sometimes, when God is feeding us, we say what is this? Because what I'm, what I want to get at, is this. Sometimes, in difficulty, when you get a word, it doesn't remove everything, it just gives you enough. That's what matter was enough for the day.
Speaker 1:It was just enough prayer for that day and they had to go back and pick up some more off the ground than Omer. They can only get an Omer at a time, so an Omer was enough for one day's meal. And sometimes you can be going through difficulty and life is full of difficulty, and difficulty is not gonna go away. We're always gonna be facing difficulties. We're facing difficulty right now. That will be difficulty in our future, difficulty in your present, right now. But just like the children of Israel, in that difficulty, in that wilderness, you get the bread and they wanted it to be so much. More than enough for just enough. But sometimes all you gonna get out of the word is just enough inspiration for another day, for another day.
Speaker 1:Just enough revelation for the next day. So don't be disappointed, don't misunderstand the power of God's love in your life, all the word of God, simply because you read the word or you've been studying the word and your problem's not going away.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:That's what.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to get at and you did, and you did it beautifully and that was so amazing, that was so powerful, and that was so amazing because it's so true. And I like to think, when you said that it's how strategic God is, yeah, and how when he gives us that just enough, it positions us to go back again, to go back again Because sometimes, if he gives us too much too soon, too much too fast, he knows us. He knows that sometimes we'll disappear and we won't be as hungry for him.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:As if he only gives us just enough. Wow, you know.
Speaker 1:I don't exactly remember the quote, but I remember this quote about the quickest way to failure is to get success too fast, is to get too much too fast because you can't handle it and you're gonna fail at your stewardship and your responsibility and your growth process and your developmental process around it. It's not what you have. We don't get the blessings we get just to possess them. We get them to steward them and sometimes even getting a blessing, getting big blessings, require you to grow up and mature to the level of discipline and responsibility to take care of that blessing, maintain that blessing and even grow. That blessing and sometimes a lack of what we need is also designed to help us understand how to be a good steward over little, oh my God, how to be mature with what you consider is not enough, absolutely. It's all about growth and faith in God. Wow, this has been amazing it has been.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, god is amazing, he is amazing.
Speaker 1:Wow, beautiful. Well, we hope that you have. You all have been amazingly blessed by our first episode of Daily Bread, as my wife and I, or on this journey to feed your soul every day, to empower you to be who God has called you to be. We're wrapping up our program, but we don't wanna do so Without, first of all, giving you a little information about what's coming next. But before we do that, before we do that, let me tell anyone who is listening to this podcast right now that if Jesus loves you, god loves you. He gave his life for you. Think about that. He gave his life for you that you would be the righteous of God, that you would be a son and daughter of the most high God and inherit all the grace, the blessings, the goodness, the mercy, the compassion, the purpose, the promises that God has in store for your life.
Speaker 1:If you're listening today, you just happened to stumble across this podcast or you intentionally came here. You're stressed out, you have anxiety, you have all these things going on. You need some daily bread, you need to get in the word of God and feed your soul so that God, amen, can empower you. What you need. Maybe it'll be just enough for your wilderness, or maybe you'll get a word that sets you on fire and it'll be more than enough for where you're trying to go and what you're trying to resolve in your life. But if you don't know Jesus, this is your opportunity to accept him, either on this podcast, either right now or afterwards. I want you to go in your quiet time and pray and invite Jesus into your heart. Let me help you right now, father, for the person who's listening, who haven't accepted you as a Lord and Savior, right now, as they're in agreement with me, I pray you come into their heart right now. I pray you feed them with your love and mercy, grace and compassion. I pray, god, that you turn your whole situation around and we rebuke Satan out of your lives in the name of Jesus. Receive them as your own, as you have sent your Son to do In Jesus' name. Amen, amen, You're saved. God bless you. I'm gonna do one more comment and I'm gonna have my lovely wife to sign us off, so we want you to join us for our next episode.
Speaker 1:Our next episode of Daily Bread is entitled Navigating Uncertainty. You don't want to miss this time in the word, this time in God and this daily bread of navigating uncertainty. We're all living in uncertain times and I believe it's gonna be more uncertainty as we look at the word of God and see what's coming in the end times and you need to be somewhere where you're getting a word about how to navigate the uncertainty all around you. So you don't want to miss our next episode Now be sure to download every episode. Be sure to spread the word about daily bread and share it with family and friends.
Speaker 1:We really want to be able to help as many people as possible. If you'd like to be a sponsor with daily bread or a partner, you could do so. Just write to us. That information is on the screen and you can email us. You can call us on how you can be a partner or a sponsor with daily bread. You also can go to covenantgracesturchorg. Find all the information about the podcast covenantgracesturchorg and on our YouTube channel, covenant Grace TV. All right, I'm gonna turn it over to my amazing co-host.
Speaker 2:You did so good.
Speaker 1:Just to sign off to you.
Speaker 2:Well, it has definitely been a joy and I just echo your sentiment that you know. We are hopeful that something has been said in this introductory podcast that has piqued your interest in desiring to live by the word of God each and every day, and we look forward to sharing with you every day as the Lord fills us. We wanna release that to you. How about that?
Speaker 1:All right, great, All right. I'm Dr Terrell Stokely. Yours is my wife, Pastor Angela Stokely, and it is amazing being with you on the day. Bye, bye. We'll see you next time on Daily Bread.
Speaker 2:Amen, that was fun.
