Unfiltered Christian Podcast
Welcome to "Unfiltered Christian," a podcast where faith meets authenticity. Join me as we share the raw and real experiences of our Christian journey, navigating the highs and lows of life. Through heartfelt testimonials and candid conversations, we'll explore the challenges and triumphs of living a life of faith. Whether you're struggling or soaring, this podcast aims to uplift, encourage, and remind you that you're never alone in your walk with Christ. Tune in for genuine insights, relatable stories, and a community of believers striving to grow together.
Unfiltered Christian Podcast
Ep 6 - Being the only practicing Christian within your family.
How do you stay true to your faith when your closest loved ones don’t share your beliefs? Journey with us on "Unfiltered Christian" as Cece opens up about her unique experience of being the only Seventh-day Adventist in her family. She candidly recounts how her great aunt and uncle introduced her to Adventism and how observing the Sabbath from a young age has profoundly shaped her spiritual life. Now married to someone who doesn’t fully understand her practices, Cece navigates the complexities of maintaining her faith while respecting her spouse's perspective. She emphasizes the powerful impact of sticking to her beliefs without imposing them on others, illustrating how her steadfastness influences those around her.
We then transition into the challenges of upholding Christian traditions among non-believing family and friends. Hear personal stories of both support and tension, the resilience required to stay true to one’s convictions, and the power of prayer in overcoming spiritual trials. Delve into the cultural pressures of alcohol consumption within the Caribbean community and the journey of giving up drinking, even when faced with social expectations. This heartfelt episode is a testament to perseverance, respect, and the unwavering commitment to faith amidst diverse cultural and familial landscapes.
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Welcome to Unfiltered Christian with Cece and Shea.
Speaker 2:Come and join us on an authentic journey through the highs and lows of our Christian faith.
Speaker 1:Where we'll be holding nothing back.
Speaker 2:Hey guys, good morning, good evening, good afternoon, depending on where you're listening to us from Welcome, welcome. Welcome, I'm Shay.
Speaker 1:And I'm Cece.
Speaker 2:All right, so let's get straight into our episode. So, Cece, what is it like to be the only Adventist in your family?
Speaker 1:Do you know what I wasn't? I am the only Adventist now.
Speaker 1:However my grandma's siblings, two of them were Adventists, which I didn't know about. So when I used to go back home, from when I was 18 months old to I'm trying to think, when I can remember, like when I was seven, we actually used to, when I used to stay by my um great uncle I didn't know he was seven day Adventist, obviously, because we're just going to church. I didn't know that we was going to church on Saturday. I didn't even understand that we was observing the suburb. I just used to know that he only ate fish because we used to go to the fish market. So I just saw it. I didn't even know what word that was back then. Do you know what I mean, like as a pescatarian? So he was the first seven-day adventist.
Speaker 1:And I don't know if my great aunt who I see as my grandma um, who's passed away too because they're both deceased um, I don't know if she got it from him or the other way around. So with my great aunt, she was adventist, which is why I went to a seven day adventist secondary school. Um, I've spoken about her, I don't know, I think in episode one of why you're a Christian. Yeah, um, so then that's how I became an adventist, so there was, so it was their generation that was seven-day adventists, but I'm now, technically from what I know, of the only adventists right now in 2024, within my family. What was the question? How does it?
Speaker 2:feel, yeah, what is it like, should I say, to be at this point in time? So that's older generation, because technically, if they were still alive in your circle, you would have still been the only Adventist, if that makes sense, because you know, like older generation would have been doing their own thing but I think to answer that question is do you know what?
Speaker 1:For those who know me knows that I don't really care. And I think because Adventism is so different to Christianity in terms of observing the Sabbath, which is not doing cooking, watching television, basically not doing anything, yeah, from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. So I was kind of introduced to that at a young age from my great aunt, so that was easy, and then my school used to finish on Fridays at 12 o'clock or one o'clock, but again, I didn't know that was for the sabbath.
Speaker 1:I was just excited to come home early, um, so kind of it was like the Lord was prepping me already. Um, I think the first time it was a shock was when I cut out Christmas. Um, because it was just like why are you celebrating Christmas?
Speaker 2:Christmas is to do with Jesus um, yeah, we touched on that before.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, so it was that and um, I think now it didn't really, it didn't really bother me because it was just me and mum and I just used to go church, come home, observe the Sabbath. She did her own thing. I think it affects me now more that I'm married, um, because he doesn't get the Sabbath, um, and so it's like when he's listening to music it's like, oh well, you know, it's the, but I'm not saying it affects me a whole great deal. I think that's the only thing that I can think of. That is just like it's different, because he goes to church with me, like once a month, and then I well, I go to church every fortnight ever since lockdown, because lockdown made me lazy guys, um, and I don't want church to feel routine at the same time.
Speaker 1:So I think, being seven day adventist, now, a lot of my family are aware of it and my friends are aware of it. Do they understand it? I don't know, um, but for me it feels okay because it's like my truth and if, if you don't understand it, that's okay. I'm not going to try and force it down your throat to make you understand. It's like this is what I do and it's different for you Like, and that's where you are in your life, and this is where I am in my life, and that's okay. But one thing I would say, sorry. One thing that I would say, though, for those whoever in your Christian walk, that people are watching you, so you know, when you start to do things out of what.
Speaker 2:God has called you to do yeah, yeah it kind of makes them question.
Speaker 1:So if I start now going parties on a sabbath, then it's kind of like they would think that's okay, like during within hours, which is not um. So that was another thing that kept me true to my faith as well. Like you know, I'm being a steward for God, so other people are watching me, so I need to be on my p's and q's and I'm not perfect, but I'm just saying yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think I love that mindset um that you have about it, and that's one thing I've always admired about you, um, before I even started practicing the sabbath, um, or even went back to church, that's one thing I saw in you, consistently, um, and you're right, people are watching you. But also, I never felt forced because I feel like I was fighting being.
Speaker 2:Adventist, but I never felt forced by you to have to. That makes sense, even though we went through that journey those years ago. We got baptized together and stuff like that. I never felt pressured by you that. Oh, you know, like you're sinning and like what are you doing and you're not in church. You know, you know, I never felt that way and, um, I feel like I, if I can, I feel like I can speak for your other friends as well, where I don't think they have that with you as well.
Speaker 2:They just know you as you, they know you're a cc, um yeah but who you are is a child of God, if that makes sense and it's like, that is your character and that's you um yeah it's not separate, it's not like a different like you know, I mean, like that is who you are.
Speaker 2:Um, and that does take time, because even me, when I restarted my journey, it took time for my family to get used to me choosing to commit, to be a Sabbath keeper, an Adventist, and it was difficult because I was still living at home and my family, my immediate family, is bigger than yours, whereas, like your siblings are older, they're not there, whereas me like.
Speaker 2:I have. I'm the oldest one, I've got younger siblings. My mom and dad is there, um, and even though they used to practice the sabbath with me, um, like my mom had a bit more of a better understanding than my dad did when it came to practicing the Sabbath. I feel like the only time where when I started to take the Sabbath seriously and I feel like my dad was in tune with it was during lockdown, because then I was able to like expose him to there was a couple I used to watch that was Adventist um on YouTube and he liked watching them and that's how I drew him into kind of building that respect for my Sabbath because, um, oh my gosh- just throwing you on the spot.
Speaker 2:I know right, um, I was trying to remember it while I was talking um. Oh my gosh, what's that day called? Um when it comes to you, some fic marriage uk, what is it called again? Oh, you're talking about, um the instagrammers no, not the instagrammers, actually um, they're adventists, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about they've got like this is marriage uk um on instagram. They were on youtube as well. Yeah, yeah, but I'm talking about they've got like this Is Marriage UK on.
Speaker 2:Instagram. That's it, thank you. Oh, they're on YouTube as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's where I used to watch them. I used to literally like wait for episodes to come out and because they did more episodes during lockdown, I used to watch like I'd watch church in the morning and then like, if I I might watch like a Christian movie and then I would look for their videos.
Speaker 2:So because I discovered them late, I would go through this stuff. So my dad likes watching it because like it gave like marriage advice or like the perspective on different things and that's what got him into like I guess when he got home from work he would sit there and watch it with me and then sometimes he'd come and be like, um, where, where are the people? Are you not watching them? You know like he's actually arc.
Speaker 1:I even forgot the husband's name, but the wife is called Renita, and that's it yeah so they used to go live on Instagram during the lockdown so maybe they used to stream it and put it on YouTube.
Speaker 2:Okay, I think so, yeah, and then we used to have guests and stuff, yeah as well. And then, um, it was really good. That's how I found that other couple meet the thoughts, because they interviewed them as well. That's how I discovered them as well, um, so, yeah, I feel like with me it has been a struggle with my family. Like you said, the biggest one for me was Christmas, um, and my dad, like he, has struggled with that and he's now got to the point where he's accepted it. I think my parents swapped roles.
Speaker 2:My mom has now struggled with it, so my dad was struggling with it at the beginning and then they swapped roles where, like, he was fine with it and then my mom was struggling with it, and living at home made it harder. I feel like now being able to be in my own space and I don't have any excuses and I can practice properly. And the one thing that affects me is like being in a non-Adventist home on Sabbath, so sometimes, like even being there, like I feel conscious of leaving a cup or leaving a plate, but at home I wouldn't wash that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what I mean like I would wash it.
Speaker 2:It would go in the sink, like my mind got used to ignoring that, whereas that used to bother me. Um, but um, I feel like it's going to be interesting because I'm going back home soon and it's going to be, interesting to be being my be basically kind of living with my gran for a couple of weeks when she's talking about going home, she's talking about going to a whole nother country.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, I mean, you know heaven is home too, but you know there's not time for that yet. Um, but earthly home, uh, going back home to to guyana, um, I'm thinking about how that's gonna be, even though my gran keeps saying, oh yeah, it's fine, it's fine. In reality it's different. So I think I'm going to really have to sit with her and talk to her about what I do.
Speaker 1:What is that? When you go away on holiday like you forget you're a Christian.
Speaker 2:Oh, do you know what I'm reminding myself? I am a Christian. That's actually what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to remind myself you are a Christian, it doesn't end. You're still doing the same thing that you would do at home. But when you're in someone else's home it's now difficult, because then they feel like you're trying to mess up their house. Or do you know? I mean because they don't understand that mindset of it. Like you, you know there's no laboring on the Sabbath and that involves washing a cup, washing a spoon or whatever. And then for them, because they're not used to that, they're like they feel like, oh my gosh, my house a mess. Like what are you doing? Do you know? I mean you're bringing in ants. Yeah, exactly, you know, I mean, it's like a whole thing.
Speaker 2:So it I felt that way last year when I went went to Guyana as well, because that was also a struggle with trying not to do things like washing up. But the one thing my family did that I found really powerful is that they didn't go anywhere or plan anything because it was the Sabbath. Oh, wow, that's good. That was huge for me. Like I remember my dad saying to me oh, like, normally they would go to what we have called the seawalls, where everybody goes to hang out, and he was like oh, we're not going because of your day and I was like, oh, because they could have gone, do you know? I mean like I'm not stopping anyone to do what you like to do, because me and my son are used to. He's used to it, he's had it all his life. So for them it like the fact that they wanted to do that with me.
Speaker 2:I thought, oh, that's huge, but it's still an ongoing journey, because one time my family seems cool and another time you're just like oh, you know, they shock you, you know something comes out that they say that might feel offensive, you know towards, you know my practice and stuff, and you kind of just have to swallow it because you know, Jesus got crucified, Jesus got condemned. So who am I?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:If someone says any little thing about me by his own.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I think that's a key thing that Jesus was crucified by his own. So our own too, will condemn us the most.
Speaker 2:Right, exactly, and that's anybody your family, your friends, your closest and dearest to you. You know they will condemn you and it's tough, it is. That is the.
Speaker 2:That's what happens on the narrow path yeah um, and a lot of the time it really isn't them. You know we're battling between spirits and principalities and the enemy knows who to use to get to us. So, guys, think about that. You know the enemy will use your own husband, your children, and that's when you get down on your knees and you pray harder, you call upon your sister, your brother, whoever it is that you can lean upon, to pray together or to pray on your behalf, your brother, whoever it is that you can lean upon, to pray together or to pray on your behalf. And that's why I call on Cece a lot, because, my gosh, the world we're in now, you know it's crumbling right in front of our eyes and Jesus is all we've got to hold on to.
Speaker 1:And we can't give up on praying.
Speaker 2:You know we have to hold on, and especially our faith. That's what the enemy wants to shake. He wants to shake your relationship with elohim he wants to shake that because he knows that's what's going to sustain you to the end.
Speaker 2:He knows that god is all you need you don't need anything else, everything else will follow and that's why he will come for you. When it comes to what you believe, especially what you believe and your growth in in Christ as well, like when I'm being condemned, I'm just like Lord. This is a lot, and like that condemnation it's not in a negative way, it's like when God is can, uh, convict to me. Should I say that's the correct word, not condemned. When God is convicting me of something that I need to work on or change, it can be such a battle, but sometimes that conviction is more powerful than any other noise. You will be obedient, but that comes over time. That comes over your time building your relationship with the Lord.
Speaker 1:I also feel like it's patience as well, because I feel like that's true when you come to your friends and your family. If they've been used to you being there for something and you're the life of the party or you are that person that brings the joy or whatever, it is hard.
Speaker 1:So, it's kind of like, for example, it's so funny because I had a flashback that, and also, as we're being unfiltered, wait with your Christian walk. Yeah, there's certain things that you'll do more than some, because I realized I stopped. I, I was a carnival girl.
Speaker 1:Yes, I've been doing costume for a long time and since I was like six, seven, I've been in carnival back home and I've been doing Notting Hill carnival since I was seven and I realized that this year will be six years since I last wore a costume, since I stopped going carnival full stop, wow, and for a lot of my family. I remember when I said to them oh, I'm not doing carnival. They, they were laughing, they were just like you, like you. You brought us in Like do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I was just like no, I'm not, I'm be it like that part of my life now I'm taking seriously. Yeah, and then, like for those who don't know, in England carnival children's carnivals on Sunday and on a Monday is the adults' carnival, so it didn't interfere with Sabbath at all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then another thing, that why it took for those who's up and why did it take me so long after I got um, baptized that in my 20s? It took me so long because it was culture. Um, yeah, it was hard for me to separate carnival yeah, and my walk with the lord, because it was something that I've known all my life. I didn't see it as wrong and the whole meaning of carnival, in the first place, is breaking away from slavery. So it was a day where you celebrated that you now have your freedom yeah
Speaker 1:so it's, and it's the same for, like notting Hill Carnival, like not being harassed by the police when the Trinnies came and started playing steel pan and stuff like that, that it became a day. So I kind of saw it as like well, my mind forced me because I didn't want to go, I didn't want to stop that. It was kind of like do you know what? This is a good thing, and I praise the lord that costumes now got skimpier and skimpier, that I was just like yeah, it just cut you off yeah, I was just like I can't be wearing that it's true, it is very true so six years ago I stopped.
Speaker 1:So, bearing with that being said, when your friends and family are used to you like going, raving, going, partying, drinking, listen to music, whatever it may be, and then one day you decide to stop, you have to give them patience, because it's all they know, because the first year everybody was shocked, like when I didn't turn up.
Speaker 1:they thought I was was joking. They was like, yeah, we know you bought your costume, we know we're going to see you there, and they didn't. And then they was just like, oh, maybe year two, and they didn't. So by the time year three came, they already knew Like, wow, you stopped, like you've literally stopped going carnival.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, but does does that mean that I don't miss it sometimes? Yeah, like, I've been doing it since I was seven, so for me it's abnormal. Like when that day comes and I'm now in my house, it feels odd. But I'm also getting used to it, because I've never and I used to be by my cousin's house on Friday, like in in West London, so all of that, even though now it's taken up by the Sabbath, but on the Sunday, monday, it was like on Sunday, then I used to drive to my cousin's house instead, and then Monday we just used to do carnival. But now it's like, and my husband still does carnival, so he goes off, but it's now, it's now beginning to feel normal, it's now beginning to feel like another day, rather than it's carnival, it's carnival so yeah while we have patience for ourselves, we also need to have patience for them when they condemn us and whatever, because it's it's not a norm for them.
Speaker 1:But eventually it will become a norm and they will accept. Accept you for you. And sometimes they may not, and that's okay too.
Speaker 2:That's true, that is true.
Speaker 2:That's a good reminder for me as well, to just just to remember to have patience with those around you, because I just feel like with my friends, they'll just automatically be like cool, if that's what you feel like, do you know? I mean, like I feel like I really thank the lord for having those supportive friends that will kind of just not question me in that way, in that sense, even if they don't understand it or they're not used to it, they'll roll with it, whereas with my family it just feels like more of a battle, um, and more like you have to keep answering for yourself, um, or keep proving yourself, whatever it is. But, like you said, it's just giving them that patience, which is fine, and it's like I don't mind giving anyone patience and I'm saying this in general, but it's the even in the moment that you might not understand. I'm now going to speak as like being on the other side now, not being the person, that's like changing.
Speaker 2:Even if you're trying to give someone time, also be respectful in what you're saying to them as well, because that can be a lot, because even like, sometimes, that person going through that change, they're trying to get used to it themselves, but we're just trying to be obedient to the Lord because that's what we're trying to get used to it themselves. But we're just trying to be obedient to the lord because that's what we're called to do. But it doesn't mean that obedience is easy. It might look easy on the outside because we've just like click of a finger, decided to do something quote, unquote but that's not necessarily the case. It has been a journey, um, and it's just like drumming, like just to be mindful, because if you, if someone else comes to you and says, or if you go to someone else being on the other side and you go to them and you you know, as a person that doesn't understand.
Speaker 2:If you have come and said, I don't know, I no longer wanna, whatever it may be, and you would like someone else to support you with that, you know, think about that as well. You know it's the same way. Us, as Christians, we have to be patient with someone else that wants to choose to give their life to the Lord, but they're still dabbling. You know it's for us to not have that judgment, because we've had to go through that journey as well.
Speaker 1:I think an excellent example of what you're saying is drinking, because, like you know, like Caribbean, people like to drink and then you say, oh, I don't drink anymore. And they just say, oh, you mean, just have a little, just have a little piece. It's like they was drinking in the back of Jesus, come on yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know Jesus turned water into wine. You know why can't you drink. Or you know it's like oh, that's not. Some people have alcohol in it and they'll tell you it's not alcohol yeah and it's just like. But it is. It's a type of alcohol to drink. It's hilarious. I love that part um that. That was a struggle for me as well when I stopped drinking, but what I loved that the lord did with me. My body just rejects alcohol now I'm like yes this is so much easier.
Speaker 2:Like I love it, like I, even if I sip it, my head would just go whoop, like would you say it's the same for? Rum cake no and rum. Cake is black cake that is like made from fruits and stuff and it's submerged in like red label and rum yes, or depending on what rum, depending on where you're from, you know it'll be in our own traditional rum and I'll be left there for sometimes a year.
Speaker 2:Yeah the fruits are fermenting, yeah you know in that, and then boy, by the time you make that cake, je jeez. So it only comes out at Christmas or christenings or weddings.
Speaker 1:Not everybody likes black cake, but I love black cake, and that's what I'm saying Me as a Christian. I'm saying that I like black cake, so I don't drink alcohol, but I'll be eating that black cake, but black cake, yeah. So pray for me as well, like you know that, yeah.
Speaker 2:Just the same way I have. It's both of us. We thought we gave it to me last week, okay, yeah, I mean it's both of us, but it's like your mind has got used to eating it without feeling like it's anything, if that makes sense. But I do have someone in being respectful of the fact that I don't drink. Actually.
Speaker 1:I love this.
Speaker 2:So one of my aunts through not aunt through blood, but she's my aunt um, she made me a fruitcake that was non-alcoholic okay it was so nice like, but she really wanted to make it for me because I don't drink yeah, and she really proper, went out her way to get like 100% grape juice and all this stuff like proper proper stuff and it was actually so nice.
Speaker 2:I did not even miss the alcohol. It was really nice and I I love her for that like she made that effort to do that for me so we can do it it's just the fact that I'll be for doing, because I have someone at church that actually says I don't drink, but when it comes to black cake, oh you know, like she can't resist it. It's like she loves it. She said it's her favorite favorite thing, so yeah.
Speaker 1:And I think it's because we don't have it every day. No, you don't. It's like once a year, yeah, Literally, or special occasions. So it's just like when you see that black cake, it's kind of like I don't want those other cakes. Send me that black cake and I like marzipan. So most of them come with marzipan and that will be my thing Like pull off the icing and lick on the marzipan.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, yeah, marzipan is back in the day, day, day. That's been on a black cake for my gosh decades. That's a. That's not you know, it's very traditional and I forgot we have it at weddings as well. That's a big deal, man, the wedding cake. Yeah, a black cake. Um, if you're caribbean if you're caribbean, yeah I mean, not all caribbeans do it now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's true. Like the day when I grew up, your wedding cake what we know was yeah, yeah, well, we, you know what we knew when we were growing up it had to be. So we're still on our journey, guys. You know you, you know we're all like.
Speaker 1:The podcast is unfiltered because, right the christian, we're gonna be real.
Speaker 2:It's not easy, yeah yeah, I'm not gonna act like we don't do. I mean, that's not what this is about yeah, we don't do anything. We're just telling you what you're supposed to. No, no, guys, this is realness for you.
Speaker 1:So I think like anybody who is trying not a practicing christian, and you're now going to bible study or doing things that they just think that every this one, everything is church, church, church is because it's abnormal to them and just pray for them, and one day they would just yeah, and one day they would accept it.
Speaker 1:And you know, especially without saying, our ages, like the older generation, are quite stubborn, so if it's abnormal to them, it's gonna stay abnormal to them, because they're kind of. Only god can change their ways. So it's about just trying to just please the lord and pray for them and just to continue to do what you're doing, because we've heard so many stories, um, and testimonies of people being the only christian, like their family might be muslim, but then they're now christian, or like so many different ways of turning to Christ and being the only one within their household. And it's about praying and staying true.
Speaker 1:Because there was even like there was one story that I was watching on YouTube the other day and she was I think her family are Sikh or something like that. I'm not sure it was. It's one of like the Asian, but on the Indian side, what, what they practice, and they literally ripped her bible up and every time and it was so hard for her to get a bible, wow, um, because there was just like we don't believe in what you believe in, like this household, like, and she's young, I think, she's like 14 or whatever but she was given her story, um, and it made me privileged to know that.
Speaker 1:You know I can open a bible within my household um she doesn't have a phone, where we have easy access to have a phone, and now her parents has even stopped her from going, from leaving the household, so she just worship. She's forced to practice their religion because they're in the household, she's honoring her parents, but at the same time, she's still trying to be a christian, like behind closed doors. Um, so everybody has it hard in different ways. To some people might be like oh, what you're going through is not hard, but it's hard in different ways. Um, so we do. We need we also need to pray for our brothers and sisters around the world who have it more harder, and the fact that we have a privilege to either open our phone and go on the bible or open our physical bible, um, as well. But it's to just never turn your back. Um, yeah, what it's like when you. It's like when you become a christian or you be baptized.
Speaker 1:It's like satan is just on your back, like constantly he is though, because he wants you to fall yeah, sir, and he wants you to go back to your old ways, um, but it's just about holding on. As you can see, that's why we started this podcast, as we said, because it's not easy, but if we all hold on together, we'll be able to get through. I agree I agree.
Speaker 2:I've been thinking about that a lot recently, about the fact that, um, you know Christianity, you know it's a community, it should be a community. Um, we should be a community amongst each other and supporting each other. It is really well needed, especially in the world we're in now, where the world tells you, like you, your own whatever, like you know, telling you that you could do all by yourself and all that kind of stuff. But that's not what the lord um has taught us.
Speaker 2:Um, and even looking at the early church because I've been reading acts recently and looking at the early church of how much they had community, so, like, a lot of people gave up their possessions, even their home and stuff, and they used to go to one person's house and fellowship every day.
Speaker 2:Um, and like, this person brings food and this person, like everyone, brings bits and bobs and all that kind of stuff. Like that's what I would love to see in us again from that early church of the disciples' time. And so I guess, if you don't have anyone, we can be your community on your phone, you know like we're here and you know, depending on what you're listening to us on, we do have like an email address if you wanted to email us and speak to us or get any advice or anything, um, and we can just support you, you know, to the best of our ability, um, but you're not in it alone, um, and we get what it's like to be alone in, like in your walk, and so, yeah, just don't feel just like that the enemy wants to do what he did to Job, you know, like he wants to come to you and then, like, go to God and be like you know, he didn't do that with.
Speaker 2:Job. But he wanted that opportunity to be like, oh, you know, you see, like look at your child, like he's not listening, listening, oh, she's not listening, look what she's doing. You're like he wants to be able to bring you down. But you see, the same way you can have the determination in your job when someone comes to say you can't do it, you can't achieve this, you can't achieve that. It's the same mindset you need to have with serving the Lord, or even like greater, like show the enemy, you're not in charge of me, the Lord is in charge of me.
Speaker 2:Like don't even try it so man it's like and I'm saying that for myself, by the way, I'm not just speaking this for somebody else so don't let the enemy come and tell you nothing, because he can't. He really can't. Like you're the child of a king, like he owns everything in this domain, like who is he? Do you know what I mean? So see him as what he is a serpent. He's nothing. So like just keep pushing, just keep going, just keep holding on and remember to take each day as it comes, as Cece just reminded me before, like she just prayed for me before we came on this podcast, and she reminded me to not think about tomorrow but to think about today, because tomorrow is not promised. There's so many people I've been hearing about, so many deaths recently, so sudden deaths recently, so sudden, so sudden to some lovely, lovely people. So don't even think about tomorrow and the battle of tomorrow. Walk through today and live for the lord today. That's my little preaching two pence amen, amen.
Speaker 1:No, it's true. I feel like you literally um wrapped it up, yeah I think so I think so. You literally wrapped it up.
Speaker 1:You took the words out of my mouth, honey I mean the only thing that I want to add here is that your christian walk is like a roller coaster and um, I think nobody talks about that. Your family could accept what you believe in for four months and then it could just change. So be aware of that. Like family, friends, even your workplace they can, they can agree with what you believe in, and then I don't know, you know how black people like to talk anyway, and they might talk to somebody else and then their their, their thought process of what you said is now changed and they might come at you again and you just think hold on a second.
Speaker 1:For the past seven months you've been fine, like where's this coming from? So bear that in mind as well, that your walk with the Lord can go up and down and just stay true to yourself. He will never leave you nor forsake you. He's brought you far. Just keep holding on and just keep praying and don't stay in your feelings, because feelings are dangerous. Man, yeah, but that's for another podcast. Honey, yeah.
Speaker 2:Feelings are not of the Lord as well. I mean, he created emotions, but we can't live off of that Sure Bible says not to trust your own heart, right.
Speaker 1:Is it?
Speaker 2:your heart, right? So, boy, if you can't even trust your own heart?
Speaker 1:Well, Lean on your own understanding honey. There you go, yeah, yeah, and I guess we've come to the end, standing honey, there you go, yeah, and. I guess we've come to the end.
Speaker 2:I think so thank you for listening.
Speaker 1:Thank you, guys and continue your walk until the next episode, every fortnight. Guys, alright, guys, take it easy and stay blessed.