The Power of the Holy Spirit

In this episode, Keith and Megan Peeler share how they are learning to trust the power of the Holy Spirit more and more. It is their story of faith and encourement in the midst of family trauma.

Transcript

Hey friends, welcome to the Everfree Podcast.

This is Season 2, Episode 4.

Hey friends, welcome to the end of Season 2, short little season.

It's intentional and on purpose.

This is Episode 4 of Season 2, and we're wrapping up this series with trust in the power of the Holy Spirit.

And what that means is, as we are telling our story, there's a couple things that we wanted to share about the family.

We're a little bit more guarded about what our kids go through.

We don't want to share their story, but we want to let you in without giving you their details and their story to share.

Wimberley has not been an easy place for our family to connect.

And so as we wrap up, what we want to share is we want to finish the whole story of this in-between season for us from Montana to Texas and the 2019 to 2022 gap.

So we wanted to give you our story and where have the painters been.

But then also because it's been such a traumatic season and such an opportunity for growth, we also have wanted to be able to share the nuggets of wisdom and encouragement that we have received from the Lord in that journey.

And so we're going to wrap up this season by kind of finishing the story.

Okay, surgeries are over.

That was the last episode.

So let me tell you a little bit.

I'm going to start here, and then Megan's going to fill in the gaps with, again, we said in previous episodes, at least in my heart, as the Lord was saying the whole time, it's going to be better than you think.

And then cancer and then other stuff.

The kids have had their own traumas that they've been through as well.

There's the traumas of being in three different schools in three different years.

There's the traumas of the joy of leaving certain things in Montana and the trauma of leaving things that we didn't want to leave.

Lots of very significant things happened positively as well in Montana, and we left those behind.

So that's been there.

And they had a different school and all that stuff.

And so for me, it was like, okay, well, Wimberley was supposed to be the place of retreat.

It's a beautiful place.

Again, for those of you that are not around Texas or don't know Texas, Wimberley is a bed and breakfast community before Airbnb was a thing.

Bed and breakfast were a thing.

And this is a community where people come from all over the world to visit Jacobs Well, the Blanco River, and other places in our area that are natural phenomenons, beautiful water.

So you get the best of Texas sometimes, I think, in the hill country.

So coming there to me was, okay, we're going to live in Wimberley.

It's a small town, 2,500 people technically, probably 4,000 when you include the incorporated little town next to us.

40 minutes from Austin, 25 minutes from San Marcos.

And it's in between cities, but it's a place of peace and rest.

So the idea was like, okay, we go to battle and we go to war in the supernatural realm, so to speak, on a daily basis in prayer.

So we want to live in a place that's comfortable and a rest.

So the schools will be small.

There'll be, you know, you know, it'll be a great place to get connected to my football and maybe cheerleaders and all these nightlights.

It is Friday nightlights.

That's what we thought.

It is a Friday.

In fact, actually, you remember, I went back and watched the Friday night lights and I was like, my kid's going to play football and she'll be a cheerleader.

It's going to be awesome, man.

We're going to go to state.

Has been completely the opposite.

Has been the opposite.

Yeah.

And here's what's interesting.

So when we lived in Dallas, if you didn't know our Dallas context, we lived in a historic district.

We call it the Hood-Storic District because it was a low-income neighborhood.

A lot of gang activity.

We had the mountain patrol patrolled our neighborhood constantly.

Police were in the neighborhood constantly.

We were cultivating a Jesus way of living in the midst of this.

And we loved it.

The schools were better there than here in our fine little town.

Everything that we thought was going to be hard for our kids, like being in a more crime-ridden area, lower income kind of family kind of area neighborhood was wonderful.

But now we've experienced again, kind of this outsiders thing.

The good old boy system is alive and well.

Well, in the season of the ages of our children is also complicated with having teenagers.

Yeah.

Sneaking out.

Middle school and high school and all the exploration that that involves has been complicated in a small town.

Complicated.

Everybody knows your business, right? Yeah.

Everybody knows your business.

So in that, what we've been feeling lately is we've actually only lived in Wimberley about six months because COVID was happening.

Megan's sickness was happening.

School was not meeting.

And so we just didn't have the capacity to make friends with neighbors.

The neighbors weren't out and about like they were.

Or if they were out, you'd be walking down the street and they would cross to the other side to avoid you.

Either because they're worried that you're freaking out about COVID or they're freaking out about COVID.

We just did it.

Polarizing on opinions.

Such a different, like it's hard to, it's hard to make friends in a new town in the middle of COVID other than the CrossFit gym.

They didn't care as far as the CrossFit gym was because COVID wasn't real.

That's right.

So that was a place of safety and security.

But anyway, that's a different story.

Again, a podcast for another time.

But in that, what we've, what I thought we talk about is how we have as parents are dealing with the reality of trauma and prayer and kids who've been wounded by the church who, again, and I'm not going to share their personal details other than to say their faith life has been impacted.

Okay.

I'm going to leave it at that because that's their story to share.

And I'm not going to embarrass my kids on a podcast.

I'll embarrass them in public at a football field, but I'm not going to embarrass them on this podcast.

I want to talk about what the emotions have been like to have, this is going to sound interesting and strange, but you're going to follow me people.

If you know what we're about to feel such authority and power in commanding demons to flee.

And at the same time, complete insecurity about my ability as a father to take care of my children or to quote, control their behavior.

It's a very vulnerable place to be.

Yes.

Yeah.

And because Keith and Megan Peeler are the personality types that we are.

We love people.

We love to tell our stories.

We're bold.

We're confident.

People don't believe that Keith and Megan Peeler, uh, struggle.

Yeah.

Or like they see our personality type and they go, I mean, we've had people say like, you guys are just crushing it.

I'm like, uh, not if you knew all the things my kids are up to or not.

If you knew the things that I was up to or like, I mean, like we're not crushing it.

We're, we're just, we know we're, well, I tell you what we are, we are confident in our authority and we know the tools to use to help us get to a place where we can freedom.

Yes.

And we use it regularly.

Right.

And again, all of this inner man challenge of inner healing is about developing vulnerability.

And I'll say this, we haven't said this in this podcast series yet.

I'm surprised it didn't come up.

The thing that we have learned the most in this journey is, is, is that faith is simple, but not easy because here are the two words that we know are to be true here and obey.

Every bit of inner healing is listening to the Lord hearing from him and then doing whatever he's asking of us.

So as mom, okay, you were, you were parenting with me, even in your healing journey.

Fortunately, in the days of your surgeries, the kids were, you know, behaving, right? They were doing online school.

Well, they didn't have any friends to get in trouble with.

Right.

And they're not being in trouble.

I don't, I want you to hear me say they're doing normal teenage or kid things or figuring out testing boundaries and that kind of stuff.

I'm, I'm having some fun with them.

But, um, but as parenting challenges have come up and, and you are well, we're not praying about the woundedness of your surgery.

I mean, yes, we're still learning the nuances of your body.

We kind of, we talked about that in the last episode, but as a mom now with kids that are dealing with trauma, kids that we pray for, um, kids who are developing in their own faith journey, wherever they're, whatever that means for them, we can't see inside our kids' hearts.

We can't see inside their minds to know what they're really thinking about, what they're really up to.

If they're, if they feel loved, if they don't feel loved, if they're feeling accepted or not accepted, if they're getting along well at school or not getting, I mean, we asked them these questions, but there's, you never know.

Yeah.

Right.

So as mom in the midst of your, the cancer journey, that's part of the story.

What, what this is really is as parents and people who have children or love children, uh, you might be listening to be a single person that, that maybe hasn't been able to have children or a couple that hasn't had children or there's a variety of people who might be listening to this podcast.

So this is not just a husband and wife podcast for husbands and wives out there.

These are the same principles and tools that every follower of Jesus needs, or at least we think they need, um, in the midst of learning how to hear from the Lord and obey Him in a way that we're really becoming free, Everfree.

The tagline has always been prayer that sets the captive free.

Right.

It's primarily interhealing and deliverance, but we do more than that, but that's the hook of it is prayer that sets the captive free.

Mm-hmm.

So as we round up season two, which is our story, this is the mom and dad part of the story as mom, what would you say in these last, well, since 2019, watching them transition the trauma of the church stuff to home stuff, to losing ma to moving my parents and changing schools, COVID cancer, like we've had a couple of car accident kind of things along the way.

We've had some other kid trauma kind of things that have been significant that have affected our children.

What would you want to say about inner healing prayer? 

Because again, we've talked about how do we do this as a couple.

Yeah.

And we've said, you've said many times, I don't know how couples who don't do this together even survive.

Yeah.

So what's, what's the key to survival? 

If you react in fear, they're going to know.

They're smarter than they look.

And I will tend to react pretty intensely.

And so I have, yeah, so I have to step away from the behaviors and really sit with the Lord and ask him to show me what to do about the situation.

I'm always praying for our kids specifically and for any situation really that nothing would stay hidden, that everything would be exposed and be to be brought into the light.

And typically that means while the kids are away, I'm gutting their rooms and cleaning it and snooping to find any things that shouldn't be there.

Right.

Which has been beneficial to us knowing some things.

So that's one thing.

Another thing is, is as a couple, I have to realize that I was raised differently and so I respond and react differently.

And so Keith and I have raised differently than me is what you're saying.

Right.

And so when we're parenting or we're disciplining or we're reacting, we're really having to be prayerful about our kids.

And we have found that taking communion every day as much as we most often is that we are laying our children at Jesus's feet.

We're putting them in his lap and saying, well, you hold our kids for us because we don't have all the answers obviously.

And we need you to cover them.

And something about taking communion and acknowledging the power of Jesus's body and his blood being shed.

And it puts everything into perspective in a way that says that he's got them.

And that is so reassuring for us as a couple and as parents to them.

And there's this like surrender that we're constantly doing, because there are things that we have zero control over.

And it takes me back to when I was 16.

And then I'm reacting based on things that I experienced and worry that they're going to be pulling same kind of tricks, which they are maybe even better.

But we're navigating that.

And Keith and I are saying like, why are we being triggered?

What is it in us that is responding or reacting in a way that is a little more intense than it should be? 

Or if we're in a good place, we're tagging out.

He's going in to address something and I step away and let him do it.

And vice versa.

So I think it really in a relationship, it really requires clear lines of communication and trust that you have my back and I have yours.

Even if it doesn't feel like it, right? 

I think that's the key because we do parent differently.

And if you're not careful, you know, one parent can feel like the bad guy and the other can feel like the good guy or vice versa, or, or there's even that comparison.

And we've felt that we've had to vulnerable talk about why those dynamics feel that way and where that's coming from and what's going on inside of me that makes me feel this way and what's going on inside of you that makes you feel that way.

And the enemy is the enemy is not creative.

Okay.

But the enemy is repetitive and sneaky in that, you know, the enemy knows scripture very clearly and we'll use it and take it and distort it just a little bit to just make the scriptures that you know, enter your mind in a little way.

That's not exactly what the Lord says it is.

It is and how true it is.

And in the same way, the enemy watches our, our behaviors and our patterns and can use those patterns against us.

And so there's a difference between me dealing with a dysfunction that's just Keith because of who he is and the enemy kind of amping up the pressure of a broken place in Keith.

And so, so are the vulnerability, I think of, um, acknowledging, you know, when I'm, I'm angry at Megan for not behaving in the way that I want her to behave.

That's just being honest or her anger and frustration when I'm not responding to her in the way that she wants me to respond, sorting that out and letting her be her and me be me to respond.

I am not her.

She is not me.

I would be a fool to think that she would behave and act like me.

Um, I don't really want that now.

I want my flesh wants it because then if she's like me, she does everything the same way I do it and then there's nothing to be challenged.

I do things pretty awesome, at least in my head.

Um, and so that place of then sitting together, because this is the concern that we have is the number of families or specifically the parents or couples.

And this is where this is a strong message for couples, everyone else that's not in a, in a married relationship, this might apply to you in the way of having a prayer partner.

Um, let me say it this way.

This is, if we don't have a place where we can have confidential, vulnerable conversations where the person that's a part of that conversation may be a spouse or a prayer partner or friend, if they're not giving us the honest, active, vulnerable feedback to help us become more like Jesus, then we need that in our lives.

Yeah.

And so from an inner healing kind of bent from this, what does that look like? 

It doesn't, I tell you what it's not.

It's not just having somebody you can vent to who loves on you and tells you hard things.

That's a good thing.

I need that.

I want that.

I've got a couple of older brother type people in my life that I can sit with and just dump.

I just need to dump it out.

I get it all out and they go, okay, you're going to offer some reflections on this.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And they can speak into that.

I'm not talking about just that.

That is the start.

But if I don't have people who would do that and also go, all right, now that we process this with our obviously brilliant brains, what is the spirit of God want to say to us about this? So then we take that topic, we take that parenting decision.

Let's just go back to you and I real quick, take this parenting decision on how we're going to discipline, how we're going to react to something that's clearly outside the rules of our house.

All right, Lord, how do we do that? 

Well, we talk about it.

We kind of figure out what's going on with us.

And then we say, our Holy spirit, what do you want us to do? 

And there was a certain thing where one of our children had a behavior that was not allowed.

And we're like, okay, do we take the phone away? 

We do.

And, and it was like, we just prayed and Megan goes, Hey, I got an idea.

And she shared what she shared.

And, and when we went to the child that it affected, they thought we were going to take the phone because that's been the Emma because that's, you know, these, these young children, that's their whole life is in the phone.

He kind of walks it.

All right.

Yeah.

There you go.

So it's cold.

So trying to protect him, but he's the only, he's the only son we have.

Anyway, it doesn't matter what it was.

He throws the phone and says, okay, good.

How long you take my phone? 

So we're not doing that this time.

This is what we're doing.

We shared and he was like, wait, what? 

And it was a, because it was different, it got his attention.

And again, when we talk about specifically a parenting thing, we're not, we're not trying to punish our kids.

We want our kids to learn by experiencing the consequences of life.

And we want them to grow, to learn how to deal with life.

And so the consequence was not what he was expecting, which got his attention, which meant he had to pay attention more to the issue at hand of why that behavior in the future wasn't going to be a good idea for him.

Um, and I think that for me, like the cause if you guys know me at all, I mean, I have a strong personality and I don't think I'm right all the time.

Okay.

I don't have to be right, but I am very opinionated.

So I come off communicating if I, like, I think that I'm right, which I don't do on purpose, but it comes off that way.

Okay.

So I have very strong opinions and a lot of times I think, yeah, this is the, probably the best way to handle it.

That's why I have the thought.

But then if it gets pushed back on, I'm like, Oh, where'd that come from? 

And then I have to simply go, Oh, I didn't consider that part, right? 

That's the benefit of that push back.

But then when we sit in that space to go, okay, Holy Spirit, this is how Megan sees this.

This is how I see this.

Like, what, what do you want us to do? 

And, and that's where that listening kind of prayer and that act of faith and that, that, that, well, here's what I hear people say, like, well, God's too busy.

He's got bigger fish to fry than this little problem.

Like, I'm not going to pray for that.

And I'm like, I'm like, no, no, no, no.

There's nothing too small or too big for God.

Like he's involved in everything.

I mean, that what's the scripture, he numbers the hairs of our heads.

Like what that makes no sense to me.

So if he's that intimately involved in us, that he does care about these things.

So when you're thinking about the things that he cares about in our children, um, in the reality, you said it like, you know, Wimbledon has not been everything we thought it was going to be.

It's been different.

Like life is what happens when you expect something else to turn out the way you thought it would as life has happened.

How would you then say that, that like what's going on in your head and heart in regards to how the children are coming into this space? 

I have one thought I want to share afterward, but, um, but how, as we as parents, like what's making sense to you about where we're at in life right now? 

I think there is a balance of knowing what's really important and academics matter, but it's not what's important.

What's important is that they are alive and well, and that they love Jesus.

And however that looks, I'm having to trust the Lord in that process.

Cause sometimes I can't tell.

Yeah.

Um, and so I'm always asking the Lord to ask, I'm asking Lord to tell me what he sees in my kids so that I can call those things out.

So if I see that my son is compassionate or appreciative or gentle, I will say those words to him so that he can hear how God's made him.

So I kind of feel like I'm listening on behalf of them for what Jesus put in them, that they can't necessarily see for themselves because their brains aren't fully formed and functioning at an old enough level to understand who they are.

And so I think as parents, that's what we're called to, is to call out those things on how he's made them.

Yeah.

And I think in the, in regards to the children, the hard message that I've gotten in this season is the Abraham and Isaac story.

Yeah.

Right.

It's the most, in my mind, one of the most brutal stories in all of scripture.

Um, Abraham's told to sacrifice his son on the altar.

He's told, let me say that again.

He is told the Lord tells him to sacrifice his son on the altar.

Yeah.

I can imagine.

So as I've considered that story, as the Lord's brought to me is, are you willing to do the same Keith? 

And how does that fly in the face of modern day parenting where everything in society tells me that it's my job as the parent to give them the most opportunities for success, that you got to make sure they get in a good school.

You got to make sure that they get the extra, quickly activities that they want.

You got, you got to make sure that you're going to give them the tools that they need to succeed in this life.

Right? 

These are all good things.

Don't, don't misunderstand me friends out there.

Okay.

But that's not what Abraham did.

He brought him to the altar and raised the knife.

And then in that final moment, the provision of the Ram was made.

And so at these different steps along the way where we've been asked to do things, my daddy brain says, don't do that.

It could harm the children.

My obedience says, Lord, wherever you go, wherever you asked me to go, I will go here.

I am Lord send me.

And I've had to, I've had to crucify my flesh of wanting to protect my kids.

And don't get me wrong.

I'm not trying to hurt my children friends as you're listening, but the question is real.

Am I going to trust the father or, or my instincts? 

Because if I trust the father, the provision of the Ram is always there.

Right.

It may not look the way I wanted to look.

It may not come in the way that I thought it was going to come.

I am not the provider.

The father is.

And so my prayers in these moments of transition, when, when we were leaving Dallas and going to Montana, there was a big sacrifice and leaving what we knew when we had to leave Montana, there was a big sacrifice.

The environment that we, we are prayer warriors.

We enter into spiritual battle constantly.

We are on the front lines of spiritual warfare.

The demons know who we are.

They come after us because of the work of this ministry.

They also know how hard it is to parent in 2020 and 2022.

And so there've been so many times, I mean, we have literally had manifestations of demons in prayer appointments or in other challenges of our life where we've basically been challenged by the enemy and said, if you'll stop doing this, I'll leave your kids alone.

If you'll stop doing what you're doing, I'll leave your kids alone.

The enemy wants to intimidate and threaten and appear to be more powerful than they are.

But if someone's looking into our life and people who know us know that we've, we've been hit pretty hard several times.

And here's why I'm bringing it up.

I'm bringing it up to say the encouragement and the strength that we have found in the presence of Jesus through prayer and through the intimate relationship that we have developed with our father because of these traumas has, has now put things in our children that are yet to be revealed.

They're hidden in clay, jars hidden, right? 

But the provision of the Ram, when you go to the altar and you are willing to sacrifice what you love most, you could also say like the rich young ruler, I want to, what's it going to take to follow the, you know, sell everything.

Get rid of it all.

Everything.

And he walked away.

One had the opportunity to follow the Lord and was not obedient.

Scripture is not clear what happens to that person, but we do know what happens.

The provision of the lamb was there.

And so as, as we minister to each other, as parents, as we minister to friends who are also parents or who don't have kids or who are just struggling with whatever they're struggling with, what I want to say, and as we're kind of wrapping up our thoughts from all of like what trauma has done is like the grief and the trauma and the loss that we all deal with is real.

It hurts.

And we can't avoid that.

And we're not supposed to, because we just love Jesus, we're not supposed to pretend it doesn't.

And we're not supposed to pretend like we can just get over it by memorizing some verses of the Bible.

Right.

We have to engage the mental, emotional, physical and supernatural reality of this battle.

Right.

When, when we have these conversations with other people, other Christians, what part of that is the most difficult for them to deal with, you think? 

I think the accepting the outcome because it's out of your control.

We don't have full control over the story of our kids, especially because they're adulting or trying to adult and failing because they're young.

But there is a tightrope balancing act that we play with wanting to discipline and guide and encourage them, but also not control the outcome and what could happen or make everything great and everything easy.

What I have seen through this journey that we've been on is that our kids are resilient and they have the ability to process just trauma in a way that is so raw and real.

And I feel like we're getting to watch them do that as they're going to counseling and they're getting the help that they need.

And so I think parents out there get help for your kids if they need to process trauma and I mean, get help for yourselves.

That's what we're doing.

We seek counsel, we seek help.

And I'm so grateful for the resources to have that option because we need other people to give us another lens to look through.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That that's always a question in the inner healing world that we live in is, well, what about counseling and counseling is fantastic.

We, we have sought it for the family and ourselves and all that, but the way Dr. Kraft, when we were being mentored by him, he would describe it is, you know, the way of counseling is identifying and dealing with bad behaviors of the mind.

So it's improper ways of thinking.

It's helping you learn how to process information.

That's all good thinking things.

Right.

But, but without doing the supernatural part without asking what Holy Spirit, where's the enemy using this against me and Holy Spirit does this, does the enemy have permission to stay here?

Is there some legal, you know, is there an agreement that I've made somewhere along the way that, that gives the enemy permission to torment me or something without dealing with that part of it.

We're only, we're only doing half of the battle.

And so the counseling can't do it all by itself.

Right.

And the inner healing, the deliverance doesn't do it all by itself.

It is the combination of the presence of Christ, healing our hearts and our minds.

Scripture is clear, be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

That is a study thing.

It's a discipline thing.

It's an enlightened thing.

It's a Holy Spirit thing.

But then also we have to deal with the, how we think, not just in terms of the biblical stuff, but you know, healthy emotional life.

Yeah.

And the coming together of those things, I think in prayer has really been a powerful thing for us as a family.

I agree.

Yeah.

Well friends, as we're wrapping up now season two of the, the, the cancer journey, the trauma journey, the whole, our family, you know, the last, I mean, people that have been even closer on the inside, you know, there's lots of little details that were also really difficult that we didn't want to share on a public thing, like a pro, like these podcasts, but we want to share is this, every step of the way the Lord has given us an opportunity to trust Him.

Sometimes we've done that well.

Sometimes we have it.

But in all of it, in the total journey, we know that we're more committed to marriage than we've ever been.

We're more committed to Jesus than we've ever been.

And we're more committed to the inner healing deliverance journey that the Lord has given us than ever.

And it's worth it.

It's worth it to go to those hard areas because the fruit that it produces in both of us and in those that we get to walk alongside is a beautiful gift that we get to watch.

Yeah.

Somebody said this to me before the soldier and he said, you know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't choose cancer, but I wouldn't give it back.

And I can say the same.

I mean, there's parts of it that I'd like to give back when I think about it, but really I would not give up the fruit of what God's done and our intimacy of friendship, intimacy of connecting and our intimacy of like, just figuring out how to talk about these really, really hard things.

Yeah.

He's not going to waste it.

No, he will not.

So friends, we pray in your own journey that you would not waste it either.

Don't know who you are, who's listening.

We don't know where you're coming from.

We don't know what you're going through, but I would like to close out this particular series, this, this season, season two with this prayer of blessing, exhortation, deliverance over whoever it is that's listening.

So, in the name of Jesus, friends, as you listen, I declare that you are a child of the most high King, that your identity is rooted not in your experiences, but in the womb.

Psalm 139 is, he that you together in your mother's womb, that you are fearfully and wonderfully made.

And so I declare the truth of the word of your life.

And in the name of Jesus, I command all lies of the enemy to be revealed in this moment.

And now eradicated by the power of the Holy Spirit, that you would lose my friends from their fears, you would lose my friends from their anxieties, that you'd lose our friends listening from all of the attacks of the enemies poised against them.

And that by the power of your spirit, you would renew them, that the joy of the Lord will be their strength, that the Lord would restore joy within you in the midst of your pain, on the backside of your pain, or as you are journeying into maybe the most difficult season of your life, that you are empowered, you are emboldened, you are strengthened not by your own wisdom, not by your own encouragement, not by the right church, not by the right bubble study, but by the power of the spirit that is at work within you.

And I bless your body and your mind and your heart and all that makes you you to be transformed by the power of the Most High King, the knowledge of His glory through the word.

That you be empowered as you read His word to know what it means, to stand firm in what it means, to proclaim the truth of what it means to all of the people around you.

But over you I now declare as a minister of the gospel, that in the name of Jesus, whatever tormenting spirits are there, whatever lies in the enemy there, I send them to the foot of the cross right now as your brother in Christ.

As a priestly way of praying over you right now, I bless you in the name of Jesus to be set free, to become all that God has called you to be.

Not to be perfect, but to be yourself, but the more perfect picture of yourself in the way that He's made you.

So I bless you now.

Would you just listen with me? 

Holy Spirit, what do you want to show my friends now in this podcast as they're listening? 

Just take a moment friends, just listen.

Holy Spirit, what's the truth about my friends? 

What have you put in them that you want them to see? 

Remind them Lord, just take this moment.

Yes Lord.

And Holy Spirit as you're leading my heart now, I'm sensing a need for us to confess our sins and receive your forgiveness.

So friends, would you come before the Lord now, just take this moment now to confess any unconfessed sin that you have.

Thank you Jesus.

And so friends as you shared either out loud or to yourself or in your own mind those confessed sins to Jesus, let me proclaim the truth of the word over you.

The word says that He is faithful and just and we confess our sins.

He is faithful and just and removes those sins from us as far as the east is from the west.

You are forgiven.

So in Jesus name, wash and cleanse yourself in the flowing rivers and the waters of the truth of the word.

Wash yourself in the baptism of your heart.

Wash yourself in the blood of the one who sets you free, our great Redeemer Jesus.

And as you go from this place, be blessed.

Babe, is there a blessing you want to share with our friends before we wrap up today? I bless you to share your story that your testimony can testify the goodness of God.

So don't leave it to yourself, share it.

Our stories matter and they encourage others and that's what I pray that this season has done for you is encourage you to share your story.

So with that, we bless you in the name of Jesus.

We close up season two, episode four, short little season.

Pray it's a good one for you.

Blessings to you all.

We'll see you in season three for now.

Bye bye.

Thanks for listening to the episode.

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We'll see you in season three.

Take care.