Armor Off: Rapid Fire

⚡ Honest answers. No overthinking. Just real talk.

This week, the girls switch it up with a rapid-fire girl chat — answering a mix of fun, real, and faith-filled questions on the spot. No scripts, no long pauses, just honest responses and a whole lot of personality.

From lighthearted moments to deeper reflections, this episode gives you a peek into their hearts, their thoughts, and the way they navigate faith in everyday life. It’s the kind of conversation that feels like laughing, learning, and growing all at the same time.

Real questions. Real answers. Real life. 💛

Scriptures:

2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV 

Exodus 33:18-23 ESV

Exodus 34:29-31 ESV 

Exodus 34:33 ESV 

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Once again, welcome to the Armored Garden. We're doing a little different episode today. We're gonna every now and again do episodes that are just literally giving you a peek inside of our girl chat. We're calling them our armor off.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Ooh, I like it.

SPEAKER_02 0:15

We have no armor on. We are really just raw and real and true girl chat, which always ends up happening between our episodes, anyhow. So you really get a peek into what our before church conversation is like, our after-church conversations. We end up talking for quite some time. So our genius producer, Lindsay, was like, let's make those into real episodes. Cause a lot of times what happens is you when you're raw and real like that with kingdom-minded friends, you get such revelations from the Lord too, in that. And it's also sometimes something that you're struggling with or dealing with that you really need help with in the moment. So we're gonna do a little, we're making it into a bit of a game for y'all.

SPEAKER_03 0:52

I'm excited.

SPEAKER_02 0:54

This is so Tony Teacher. We're so excited. So we randomly generated like 25 ideas of what we could chat about. If you watch one, we did have one already. We're gonna randomly. I don't know if you can hear my wheel. Oh dun dun. The suspense. We don't know what these are, by the way. Number one. Yay!

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Oh and we're only allowed two pass cards. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:21

Okay, so number one is kind of good for us. It is what worship song makes you drive faster? So you know, have like the one up your boots.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

Put on your back 100%. I might need to, I might need to. I mean, that's like a OG drive faster. Like we've that's not like a new news to either of you.

SPEAKER_02 1:43

We are very to be um, we are very eclectic worship listeners. Yeah, we are. We go like so overly like I have one worship song that I sometimes listen to that's 20 minutes and it's almost all spontaneous worship. But then I will put on a whole V rap track in a moment. But they do the same thing. Like Tony will get, we're all very eclect the hymns. Oh, bring me a hymn. Yeah, yes, this is true too.

SPEAKER_00 2:10

But currently, what is your like go-to? I mean, it's OG, but and I'm gonna share it for the people in the back who maybe hadn't heard it before. Lace up your boots, spontaneous. You gotta get the spontaneous one. I mean, you could you don't have to, but by circuit writer music, C-I-R, C-U-I-T on Apple Music, it's going to split them. So just hit up the YouTube straight up because it splits it in half. What's that? Like twice. It's like 15. I think it's like 15 minutes or something.

SPEAKER_02 2:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

So make sure you got a good drive into town. If you live in La Belle, that's just a drive into town. Going to hit up the McDonald's or wherever you're going. Touche. Because there's like, I will follow Jesus, and then she spontaneously just has this little anthem that'll just give you a good pump up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:57

I love that one. I forgot. And we found that one so organically. We were getting ready for women's conference, and then that be literally has now become an anthem. Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_01 3:11

Honestly, that's so be it by elevation right now. Oh, yes. Oh yeah. Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

100% agree.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

It depends on my it depends on what I'm working through. This is true, too.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Do you need some deep down or some like peppa?

SPEAKER_01 3:24

Yeah. Yeah. And I have like, I was just telling the girls this the other night at Wednesday night because we were talking about music and like, you know, all that. And to be careful what you listen to. And um one of our girlfriends, poor girl. I think I like completely broke her heart. But I was like, just be careful what you listen to, you know. And so they're like, Lindsay, can you make us a playlist? And Lindsay's like, uh, yeah. And I was like, well, which one do you want? Because I've got like 5,000. She's like, Yeah, you should probably ask Madison. I'm like, depending on the mood, depends on which playlist you need. So you just tell me what you're feeling and I'll send it to you. But I do have like a master one, I just sent it to him called Jesus. So like that's my like kind of hits all areas, all the departments. Yes.

unknown 4:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:06

I was playing my one so I get you the song. I couldn't remember the name of it. Worship is actually really worship music. When we say worship, and what we mean by that is it's songs that are supposed to be glorifying and edifying to the Lord. Yeah. The reason once you kind of get the whole connection of why worship feels so good, is because it's truthfully our purpose.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

It's what we are meant to do, it's what we're gonna be doing for all eternity.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

Go and watch our last armor episode if you want some more information on that. Because we literally, Lauren does such a good job of like that. Is her like I love she brought that thought to the like the Holy Spirit brought it to her, she brought it to us.

SPEAKER_02 4:43

Um, it is really good. But it and then it makes sense also why other music feels good too. I think that's a super important like note to make. Other music, if it does, if it does not edify and glorify the Lord in any way, it's unfortunately as good as it sounds, like to your ears and to your it's because it's making your flesh feel good.

SPEAKER_01 5:04

I was gonna say, is it not meaning your flesh or your spirit? Yeah, that's a good question.

SPEAKER_02 5:07

Which is really hard for me because if I I have an extremely eclectic music and I love music, love music. I don't know why I just repeated twice. I love it. I went on repeat there, but it was really hard for me not to listen to the stuff that I love listening to. But when I say I'm super eclectic, I seriously mean that I will listen to Pink Floyd, and then the next moment I'm literally listening to Pink, the singer. I like go, I have no organization to what I lurk, like prefer. And having to not listen to the stuff that I love to listen to, truthfully, was really, really hard for me. But the Lord brought me to a lot of like really good, but I think that's why I also like really like I go, like I've said, all the way from like NF, which is a rapper, a Christian rapper, all the way to I will, I love listening to how great thou art. Like I will go from one to the other and feel no worried about it. Currently, I found this just the other day. It's called Names of God, and it's the YouTube video is Mercy Culture Worship. It's a live video. Personally, I love listening to live videos like that. It's such spontaneous worship, and I drive a lot, y'all. I can't even explain to y'all how much I drive. I drive a lot, and I usually put one bud in just so I can still hear the boys, but they're listening to a movie, watching a movie. I just want something in my ear that is like worship music, and I can't play two tracks at the same time. It's either I'm listening to Mario or I'm listening to my earbud. But that one is so good and it's mostly spontaneous worship. I'm assuming it is a song of theirs. I just don't know where the song ends and the spontaneous worship begins. I don't know, but it that song wrecked me. I love a good percussion too. Give me a good worship song with some like drums going crazy and whatever.

SPEAKER_01 6:56

Oh, so the other ones for that stuff is uh like Maverick City. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:02

Oh, God, I'm just grateful for you. Yes, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

That's a pedal to the metal.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

Yes, it is. It's good. So good. But I um and I think music is one of those places the enemy will try and trap you and say, look what he's taking from you. All this stuff that you like, all this music you've listened to your whole life, because he definitely did that to me. But there's that it is a good example that the Lord just has something better.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

He redeems, he will always redeem it. So like he took it, but then what you get in return is like like those songs made me feel good, but this like feeds my soul in a way that good can't even describe, right?

SPEAKER_02 7:46

And then you can listen to a song, listen and enjoy the musicality of it, and like whatever, and then you hear certain phrases in it or certain words in it, and you're just like, Oh my gosh. In our Bible study that we're currently doing at church, I threw an idea out to them, and I'm like, I know I'm crazy, y'all. But we're studying Jesus, and obviously you have to begin with his birth, it's pretty miraculous. So one of the sections is his birth, and I said, I think we should do Christmas songs. The Lord really laid it on me to sing Christmas songs in pre-summer. And I know that's in the middle of crazy beginning of April. But when you really listen to Oh Holy Night and listen, that line that says when the soul felt its worth, it wrecks me every time. I love how you put three syllables in that. Yeah, that's how bad it tears me down. So next worship music is good. You want to do one more?

SPEAKER_00 8:43

Yeah, I think we should do like five.

SPEAKER_02 8:45

Yeah. Where's my picker? We get my picker.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

You had 20 in total, right?

SPEAKER_02 8:50

Next at wrapping.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

We're gonna remove choice one. Oh it's like my favorite classroom tool.

SPEAKER_02 9:02

What is it? Five. Listening. I turned the um electronics off. Oh, I don't even know how to say that. Oh, I like this. Okay. The let me say this word a couple times. Christine's Christineese, phrase I think Christianese. Christianese, I need phrase, I need to retire. The Christianese phrase I need to retire. So something like just pray about it. Or um, you're covered in prayer. Like things that I would say that you just repeat on autopilot and don't actually know what they mean. But which one would you want to like phase out?

SPEAKER_01 9:45

Hang on, because I just thought of one of these the other day, and then Josh Howerton, I like clicked open my phone and boom, he was wrecking this phrase.

SPEAKER_02 9:52

And not only what would you what one would you maybe take and maybe make it more meaningful instead of just because the context of it might be okay. Covered in prayer is good.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

Well, I think a lot of times they start in biblical formation and then like we turn them like oh, like um, sprinkle confetti, like or sprinkle kindness like confetti. I thought about that one the other day. Um not that that's like a it could be. I mean, we are called to be kind, right? Right. But like we shouldn't sprinkle it, we should just pour it out. Regardless, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:22

Dump the bucket, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Oh, dang, there was a.

SPEAKER_00 10:25

I feel like um, which how funny we this just kind of happened. And I had to like check myself in that moment, literally. Um, I'll pray, I'll be praying for you. Oh, like instead of saying, like, I'll be praying for you, like or let's pray right now. Physically, let's pray. Like we just literally, and but like we just had a friend call, and I could like I had to make a choice. I had to decide, like, oh, we're praying for you, we're praying for you. And I did, I said that because like the three of us were together. I'm like, we're gonna pray. And I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna go grab them, like, let's actually pray. Right now, yeah, because how many people have ever stopped you and just prayed? Like, how much more power, even if you are going to go say a silent prayer by yourself, but like just do it, yeah, and let them hear for sure.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Yeah, you come into agreement with them, yeah, together.

SPEAKER_00 11:10

Yeah, for sure. Because when three or more are gathered in your name, yeah, you hear.

SPEAKER_02 11:14

I like that. Yeah, I think we have a lot. The church unfortunately has a lot of like little phrases or things that we say, or but a lot of them just get used so often they lose meaning. Yeah, so retiring might not be necessary, but maybe when you hear someone say it, like covered in prayer, for example, someone who's not a firm believer might not even understand what that means. Right. Covered doesn't mean just like one person's praying. It's mean I've told my husband to pray for you. Yeah, I've told my children we're gonna pray together. I've told my ladies' group that we're gonna pray together, I've told my church. So rather than just saying covered in prayer, my husband is praying for you, my family is praying for you, our church is praying for you. Right, give it depth.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:56

As opposed to just be like, don't use it because it's good covered in prayer.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

Right. I got a good one. Everything happens for a reason. I hate this. Oh, because when you're in the thick of it, who actually wants to hear it? Yeah. I mean, you could flip it and you could say like what the enemy meant for evil, the learn it. The Lord is going to turn this down. Yeah, bring the scripture up in there. Yes. Yes, but to just say, Oh, every but everything happens for a reason. Yeah. And listen, like the reason stinks.

SPEAKER_02 12:23

Like, I don't want to be going through this, but to know you do say that in church a lot because there are so many people that believe, like, and I'm not saying that the Lord doesn't, he knows everything that's going to happen, will happen, has plans. Yeah. But you also are made of flesh and you make your own choices. Right. Every now and again, that pit you're in is self-made. So everything does happen for a reason. And sometimes the reason is my poor choices. Yeah. So don't be throwing that at people with because that in some ways could be telling them, oh, you know, you don't know what they've chosen to get there. I'm saying. Right. And if it is their personal choice, you're saying, don't worry. You're gonna keep going. Don't worry. God'll book God'll pull you out of something that you created yourself. Maybe he already made a way. He sent a ladder and you didn't climb.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Ooh. I love that story when people talk about how the dude was like drowning and the boat comes by and he finally gets it. And he's like, why didn't you help me? He's like, I sent you a boat, a helicopter, this person, that person, all the things, all the things you didn't choose to get on.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

Yeah, I do like that one. Next, I'm ready for the next one. Yeah, this is fun. I like it. Tony had a spring break, she's just in classrooms, and now she's like 19.

SPEAKER_02 13:36

Ooh, going down the list. Okay. What I'm learning to unlearn about God. Ooh, ooh. Cross-eye question. Lauren, can you answer that first, maybe? I need an example. I think for me, in my flesh, as a person in my personality, I am a tally keeper, a tally ticker. I do it just naturally. Something I had to work through in my marriage. We still work through, but we've dealt with the biggest hill of it. So every now and again a new hill will come. But I thought God was like that. Not in a bad way. Like he wanted to remind me of my good choices too. Right. But I had to unlearn that I heard someone say this just yesterday. You are already saved. So your prayers to him and your communication with him and all that is just reconnecting to him. It's not gonna get you anywhere. You're already there. He already believes all those things about you. He already trusts you. He already loves you. He already adores. Like all those things are true. And you get those the moment that you receive him into your soul. So I for me, that was mean. And I had to unlearn that about God because I applied that to everybody. So seeing it in my relationships was something I was like, but I thought God did that. That was really hard for me because I liked it, if I'm truthful. Because it made it look like I accomplished something, we accomplished something. I just I liked it. I had to, I definitely had to unlearn that about God. That He's not sitting there going, There is, I joke, there is no dojo system, there's no imaginary points. There's no points. And that was really, really hard for me because I'm also a I'm an achiever. Like, let's do. I want to do. I want points. I want to win.

unknown 15:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

I think as we've been digging into the Old Testament, like through the past year, like through the Bible studies we've been doing, like as a church, as a friend group, um, you know, like which we've talked about this. Oh no, we didn't talk about this year. Maybe we did. I don't know. We've talked about it at some point, all three of us, how God is maybe not always nice. Like you hear God is love, and everyone just wants to put, and he is like the most perfect version of love, but he's also just and he's also I mean righteous and sovereign. And so just instead of like, well, that's not like I you have to wrestle with things that happened in the old testament, right, and realize that like God just doesn't want you to know of him, he wants you to know him. And he doesn't just want you to know him, he wants you to yield to him. So for those things to happen, it's just not all always hunky dory because again, we get ourselves in messes, yeah, and then we want to say, well, it happens for a reason, it's gonna be fine, but I did this. There are consequences to sin and we have to wrestle with those sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 16:34

So oh, I think that's hard for you too, right? Because and I'm not saying because you are such a kind person, yeah. Truthfully. I when I don't think truthfully, and I think that's hard sometimes because the other thing you do a lot to especially God is you attach everything that either you struggle with, or especially for girls, what our dads are like. And for me, that was another one, like that I had to that he's not like my dad. Yeah, he is and I loved my dad, I love my dad, but he wasn't a super dependable emotional person, and that was really hard for me to then attach that to the Lord because I'm like, well, first of all, he ain't even like standing here with me. So I'm supposed to like completely depend on you, and then that was really, really hard for me. That he is nothing like my earthy father, and he's not meant to be. That one was really hard too.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

That's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 17:23

Sorry, I gave you two.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

No, that's a good one. That's a good one. Trying to think what I'm learning to unlearn about God.

SPEAKER_02 17:32

Um you don't feel like maybe yours comes from like all of like the to-do, like yeah, task. I was gonna say, yeah, that he's a task.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

Right. That yeah, that he has a task list for me. Yeah, like no, he don't.

SPEAKER_02 17:46

That's hard.

SPEAKER_01 17:47

I have to constantly remind myself that he's got mercy and grace, but like in also in to reverse that to give that to myself.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

So that's kind of what I'm working through right now.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

Because I think that's like growing up in the religion or in the practice that you did, that's what it was. That's what it was. Make sure you do this monthly.

SPEAKER_01 18:03

Yeah, say this many our fathers, your rosary, ten commandments. Like, it was just drilled in and drilled in, like, and if you didn't achieve all this, you ain't going to heaven. And like, so then honestly, I feel like that's why a lot of people step away because they're like, if I there ain't no way I can do that. So peace out, Lord.

SPEAKER_02 18:22

Like it's like going back to the law, like living under the law, putting yourself there too. Like, not even I put myself there.

SPEAKER_01 18:27

And I I was gonna say, I put myself there. So I have to like I'm that's literally what I'm working through. There's a lot, there's a lot there.

SPEAKER_02 18:34

Which is never ending, which is good. It's okay.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

Oh, you laminated your Pokemon.

SPEAKER_02 18:43

I had to. That was so exciting. Yay. Oh my, okay. I like to see her reaction. Like, this guy's gonna be hard. A time I quoted scripture at my kids and then immediately felt convicted. Ooh. Well, I know I've said thou shalt not lie for sure. Which you should not lie. Right, right. But I was saying it because I wanted them to feel guilty that they lied. I wanted to convict them about it instead of saying, that's not your character, that's not how God made you, that's not how he made me. It was I wanted them to feel bad, right? Not like, because you shouldn't lie. Don't lie. But I did it like in a way of like, thou shalt not lie.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 19:37

For sure I've said that one. Dang. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 19:40

I don't know either. I think I'm gonna use my past. Yeah, I'm gonna use my past. I don't think my kids.

SPEAKER_02 19:45

Do you think one was used on you when you were like younger or something like that too?

SPEAKER_00 19:49

No, no, no, and it doesn't mean that I'm maybe I should quote more scripture to my kid. Yeah, maybe I don't want y'all to think that I'm just like this crypto scripture quoting parent. Nobody's so like three.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

I'm like, they're really young. They're like, what's that mean, mommy?

SPEAKER_00 20:06

And I'm like, We talk about being obedient.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

I know. I do I do quote that, but I don't I don't quote it in a scripture way. Well, I mean like I don't like oh no, actually, yeah, actually I did. I quoted 2 Timothy 1 7 the other day, and I was like, wow. You do do that with your kids. I ain't having no self-control right this moment. And I telling you to have self-control and be obedient, but I ain't doing that right this minute.

SPEAKER_02 20:29

So I think that's a lesson in that though. Like Tony said, don't you should not use scripture if kids, adults, whatever, yourself. You should not use scripture to convict anybody.

SPEAKER_01 20:40

Yeah, or just willy-nilly, like just to or condemnation, not conviction.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

You need conviction, the Lord convicts us.

SPEAKER_01 20:46

Yeah, remember, no, no, and victory.

SPEAKER_02 20:48

I screw, I switched that around. But I it's probably good to I I will say though, those people who like just put verses all over the place, like coffee, they become coffee cup right scriptures. If you're gonna use a scripture, you understand the context, where it comes from, and what it's for. That's my personal like Bible study thing, too.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Like, don't just throw stuff out there, like I did, I did quote this, so I'll I'll give us a scripture for this episode. Is um, and this is a good one to remember, 2 Timothy 1.7, for God has not given us a spirit of fear, but a power of love and of a sound mind. I also add in their self-control because he has given us that. That's one of the fruits. And uh yeah, I got some I got some conviction, not condemnation, but I got conviction because I was like, I definitely was not having self-control there a minute ago.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

And when you start teaching your children scripture, you'll actually be very humbled because they can learn it way faster than you can. I'm sure.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

Well, that and here's even worse. Okay, so um it says, How we have a sound mind, and I'll tell my kids, like, you're gonna make me lose my mind. And I'm like, I shouldn't uh the Lord's like, you should not tell them that. And I'm like, Oh, true, Lord. Like, here's my inner dialogue conversation with him. I'm like, Yeah, because I'm making them think that I don't have a sound mind when I'm here preaching it to them.

SPEAKER_02 21:59

Words mean. mean. Yeah. Like Tony said, words mean a lot.

SPEAKER_01 22:03

Yeah, they do.

SPEAKER_02 22:04

And if you're gonna speak words, speak life, not context fitting scripture. That's good. Yeah. I know I've used that one though. I didn't say it to Joe though, so that's good.

SPEAKER_00 22:21

I can't say that six.

SPEAKER_02 22:23

Oh my I don't know that I got an answer for this. A sermon I slept through and what I pretended to learn. Oh. We've all been there. What kind of sermon did you like literally get zero out of? And then you were telling people, oh yeah. Or let's flip that around. Because I think this is important for everyone too. The question is still the same but it's important to remember when you come to church the whole point is to be indwelled with people to be like fellowshipping. You might not get something out of church that day.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

Right.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

Not like a huge revelation or like an altar call moment but what's wrong with that? You're still in the Lord's house. Yeah. You're still around fellow followers like it might be that maybe that verse it was just the points for you to know that verse.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

But you might not a sermon might not hit. Well kind of like we talked about with praying too sometimes you go through dry seasons. Sometimes like there's just seasons that you're I heard this and I might have been Pastor Frank actually he talked about this in a sermon one time. I obviously did remember it. He was like you're not always gonna come in and get because a lot of people think that Sunday is just going to be your main course meal, right? And then the rest of the week you don't do nothing and so that's your only one meal that you're getting and you're trying to live the rest of the week off of that. So there's a couple places here. Mana for the day. Right. You need mana for the day okay provision each and every day and don't get me wrong I'm definitely guilty as charge on that. I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you. Lauren said not to lie. So I don't always get my mana for the day. A lot of times my mana is worship. I I just that's my that's a lot of my mana. Her hands are doing stuff. Yeah lots. Yeah I'm a busy person. I'm a busy bee I can't sit down. So um that can be your only meal but also sometimes kind of like when you go to dinner with friends or or for instance we have a lot of girl nights and Lauren's a picky eater okay oh man you don't enjoy any of the fine taste no they just like think that don't taste good. We come with all the foods that we can't that we don't necessarily like feed our blueberry goat cheese like salivating thinking about them right now like that cranberry jalapeno dip right out to me they're not like just cheddar cheese.

SPEAKER_00 24:57

So we come just bring Lauren a lunchable with really fine dining.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

And sometimes the sermon is like fine dining. And so like that might not be Lauren's sermon that day. Whereas like the next sermon might be hot dogs and mac and cheese and like Lauren's like this is for me for the people in the back like you know and so sometimes like yeah sermons are not and also we have to be willing and honestly I think it's a place of humbling and surrenderness too to acknowledge that it can't always be about us. I think I was gonna say that's for the best thing like that's it.

SPEAKER_02 25:37

That's if you're coming for yourself then why are you coming? Exactly exactly you're coming to be in his presence you're coming to so on the other side of that experience.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Yeah that is just obedience y'all like when you have a dry season when you have a season where it's hard to hit your knees and pray you're not getting anything out of church because trust me Luke and I did this one time we had a season where he's like I'm not really getting fed and I'm like me neither and like we just let everything come become an excuse and we're like ah so we shouldn't go and that was just lack of obedience and then now that we aren't we're surrendered it don't matter what even if you could always find something like some people be like oh he's just a salvation preacher out of like whoever it may be whatever I hear that that phrase is thrown a lot around a lot for preachers. I'm sorry but God's word can be a salvation a salvation message all day long but if you're a believer and you're surrendered the Lord can use that to dig you deeper. You can use that to dig deeper. Write them scriptures down and go go start studying the Hebrew yourself like something always been studying the Hebrew Bible. Go look it up in the Hebrew Bible go look it up and start diving deeper because things can look very surface level um because I think we tend to live in a world of surface level now that we have all this technology and don't really face to face communicate. And um so I think sometimes like they're yeah we get a little selfish and that happens. Give your fast food analogy it's so good. Yes it is so good.

SPEAKER_00 27:06

Tony with the mic drop well my fast food analogy is it's the fast food analogy kind of people it's about being in your word like if you come for the meat and the potatoes like God's word is the meat and the potatoes. So like if you come but I feel like even just getting it on Sunday at church is not the meat and the potatoes because it's like the Holy Spirit spoke through the pastor who's now giving it to you. So it's that like second party like the meat and the potatoes is like when you open up the word yourself and you let the God God speak directly to you. And I love a good steak and I love a good potato. So like I want my meat and potatoes but like even just like even listening to us like we are drive-thru food for you. Like we are fast food because this is our meat and potatoes because we studied we're first hand like relying on the Lord but then you're getting that secondhand which is not a bad a hundred percent like right feed your mind body and soul with things that are of the kingdom yeah I like that better like appetizer like a little blueberry appetizer appetizers.

SPEAKER_01 28:22

But if you live your life on blueberry go cheese you may not have the best you know you may be you may be missing something in your diet well not only that but like we sit here and we get a lot of revelation because it's things that we're going through and not to say that other people don't go through them and that's why community is so important. I think honestly like this is probably the best example of that. Like community is so important is not to say that you shouldn't go to church on Sunday to get that meat and potato for sure but like also that is his relationship with the Lord. So the the preacher is giving you what he's now had revelation same thing with us like when we sit down and have these conversations whether it be on camera or off a lot of times this is what kingdom minded friendship looks like because we're getting revelation. We're iron sharpening iron and so then you're able to you know come from a place not to a place but pour out what you've learned to try and help somebody else but we're all going to go through things. So like that's where relationship is built not just on and I think that's how you said it like it's not just about getting the fast food where you came for a quick minute and got what you needed to get and you moved on like or even make like box checking like oh right do my evo all these churchy things that you hear us say like yeah or that not us hopefully but we're working on them. But like other people say like you know checking a box and things like that like that's what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

Like you're not just coming in listening to other people like like if you're listening to sermons and you're listening to podcasts and you're going on you um those are not bad things like we get fed that way. Right. But it but that's like but if you're only doing that right only doing that and you're not opening up your Bible on your own right and trying to let the Lord speak directly to you. Right.

SPEAKER_01 30:11

That's that's the that's the good stuff yeah yeah I like that she used one more she used that at a conference a couple years ago and I was like and I did not have that prepped maybe I did maybe I did but it was definitely like not of me even my cousin and he was a dude he wasn't at the women's conference I think he went and watched or I sent it to him or something.

SPEAKER_02 30:32

Didn't we just do six redo I forgot to remove it.

SPEAKER_01 30:35

But he's like what you what'd your friends say about fast food?

SPEAKER_02 30:37

I'm like That's true is that nine or six nine nine oh I don't like that one okay sketch if my spiritual wife were a home decor yeah no that was a bad one G G P Two I think oh man why don't you just pick your favorite one more I know I like this one but it's like it's convicting that's why here we go the Holy Spirit nudge I ignored and then what followed so it could have been a good nudge and good I was gonna say it could be a bad one but immediately when I read it I thought bad oh I have one well I followed because because um so the other morning oh it was on Luke's Sunday and I was like alright I'm gonna be quiet not gonna say nothing Lord and then as I'm walking up there for worship he was like go get your Bible and talk about Hosea and I was like ain't nobody want to hear about Hosea right now like I want to hear about Hosea I love it.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

Then then I get up there and I'm like I don't even know what I'm gonna say Lord like I don't even know oh no my nudge was I was gonna I got up and he's like if you don't do it I'll get someone else and I was like I just heard that in the back of my mind because I've heard other people in church say like oh I was asked to pray for somebody and I didn't and next thing you know I looked and there was someone else praying for them and I knew that I I knew that was the Holy Spirit after all like sometimes I think like we get a little nervous and we're like is that really you because that's me. I'm like is it you I just want to make sure it ain't me is it you that's Tony's bonfire question.

SPEAKER_02 32:32

She puts that question throws it in the bonfire yeah is that you I just want to make sure it ain't my flesh I think the first time he started nudging me to really pray for people I don't mind praying like and I would pray if someone was in front of me and I would pray but the first time it like I had to move to pray made me very nervous because I said no like all the way from the beginning of church to the very end it was the same people too and he does this thing to me he will literally make my eyes focus on that person oh and keep going back to them and keep going back to them and they sometimes are moving like they will go to the bathroom or they will their kid or whatever but that's happened to me a few times. That first time that I had to go not only did I have to go I had to go grab grab Joe and go. That was really uncomfortable because he's where you're going I'm like just come I didn't know those people I and they still come to church and I say hello and all that but I think that's the thing that we think also like especially nudging him nudging us very often is for another person.

SPEAKER_01 33:35

Yeah not for us.

SPEAKER_02 33:36

And we think it's yeah about us. Yeah those like couple of times where he was like little simple things pick out the piece of trash like that I've talked about before put that cart back. Like those tiny tiny nudges have now become go pray for them. Yeah go pray for her go pray over her.

SPEAKER_01 33:52

I'm like okay my biggest nudge and I did it because now I'm just like too scared to not do it after some of our elderly members were like I didn't do this and so now I just hear that voice but when he asked me to go pray over a man one time and I was like Lord am I allowed to do this for one but it's a man like and it's I've actually heard people say like I didn't go to a church where women and men were like praying for each for each other you know like men were over there women were over here and it was like a okay let's pray like it wasn't a hug on you love on you give you you know like share in what you've got going on and let's pray you know like let me let me get into battle with you type of thing.

SPEAKER_00 34:36

Um but yeah that was nerve wracking because it's been a few times and I'm like I don't know how to do that like I'm not a man where's my husband call on him and I would be like Luke did you feel anything today he's like no why and I'm like okay no reason I feel like the other ones like at our Bible study the other night I I felt the nudge and I ignored it and it's been like and because I I ignored it because I was like no Lord like this is a good thing like I want to go and honor you and worship you is when like during worship I like I mean we played the song show me your face and I was just like so the Lord was just I just think the revelation happened for me on Wednesday night of like from the garden through the tabernacle through the temple through Jesus like all the Lord has really wanted to do was to just dwell with us. Like from the beginning that's all he's ever wanted and that's all he still wants and I think just like seeing that theme like from the beginning to the end to where we will dwell with him like in the final garden like after like so good I so I was just like feeling that like I was like really like just enthralled by that idea and just felt so loved by him. And so when that song showed me your face on all I wanted to do was go fall on the altar and like on my knees worship him. And I could feel him saying don't go up there. Like don't go up there but I did go up there and I don't like I don't know why. And in in hindsight I was like well that didn't feel like it was supposed to feel God. I felt it empty this time. Like I wanted to go up there because like I'm just so but I felt him tell me don't do it and I did it because I like Lord but I want to because this is like I'm just like that was like a revelation like just to see that string through Genesis to revelation of like that's it's really that simple.

SPEAKER_02 36:26

You read and you read that section where Moses went up on the mountain and then he was so filled with the Holy Spirit oh which is like what the song I mean starts with. I love that though.

SPEAKER_00 36:35

So yeah I was just really feeling worshipful but he told me no and I did it anyway and I can like still feel not the con I don't feel condemnation but I feel the conviction I'm like okay I'll that's just one of those times you know when you look better next time.

SPEAKER_02 36:50

Baby girl I did I know you want to I know and it's a good thing. Yeah but is it a good thing or is it a God thing?

SPEAKER_00 36:57

You asked that question and that has stuck with me and I haven't prayed that prayer multiple times and he has answered it. Yeah of like nope it's just a good thing. Yeah and I think that was I didn't think about I didn't frame it in that question on Wednesday night obviously because it was like I did I just didn't but now I'm like okay I felt a little bit the same way.

SPEAKER_02 37:15

I think for us worship is so I get I love worship and we turn off all the lights and we're it's a very prayer closet feeling yeah but I kind of felt that way I went and kneeled too and it did not feel like I did the week before when we sang Yahweh manifest yourself I did not feel the same way and I thought but I wanted like that I literally had the same exact experience. I wanted to be down on my knees but it's weird.

SPEAKER_01 37:42

Funny because I did too and I was like should I go or should I not and I was like I'm gonna sit right here at my seat. For some reason he was like you don't go up there that's weird. Yeah you listen and we didn't listen no we were being brats.

SPEAKER_02 37:57

Well because then I'm like there's Lauren and I didn't even look over to you because I was just like oh I'm just felt like maybe it's because we're supposed to be now we've exampled and shown right and not saying we're the perfect examples but we've shown what it's like to be very raw and real in worship. Now it's our turn to like fall to the back and pray off stuff.

SPEAKER_00 38:20

That's 100% the way I felt in hindsight I was like I literally should have just gone to the back of the church and start praying things off of them.

SPEAKER_02 38:27

Yeah yeah like we need to start intercessing in that moment for those ladies yeah because a lot of them now we literally know for very well right and some of them still have not quite like just yeah that's just my children y'all if y'all could hear that it's fine. We're dual purpose here. Okay. This was fun.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

That was fun I like it was good.

SPEAKER_02 38:50

We should do a round two another day. In true Holy Spirit nudge fashion Madison's gonna read us that section of Exodus that we were talking about where the amazing Moses goes and actually dwells and spends time how he's definitely on my talk in heaven list.

SPEAKER_00 39:08

Yeah like hey bro he's not he's my new favorite person what was that like when that water just went I think mine's Joseph I do love a Joseph I know I think mine's Joseph I mean that's such a loaded question like obviously it's Jesus but a Bible another Bible character I can truly and I appreciate all of them in very different ways but Joseph has been resonating with me for a while now. Joseph is like that he is the picture heart which Bible character has been resonating with you in a different way question. Stay tuned for that I'm not finding this it's 33 Exodus 33 verse 18 Moses said please show me your glory and he said I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before your name the L you before you my name the Lord and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. But he said you cannot see my face for man shall not see me and live and the Lord said Behold there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by then I will have taken away my hand and you shall see my back but my face shall not be seen. So then Moses goes onto the top in the cleft of the rock you can read all verse thirty four or chapter thirty four where they make the new tablets and renew the covenant but then when Moses comes off down from his time with the Lord pops up on chapter 34 verse 29 when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he has come down from the mountain Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses and behold the skin of his face shone and there they were afraid to come near him but Moses called to them and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him and Moses talked with them and it talks about hey he put a veil on his face where does it say that oh in verse 33 and when Moses had finished speaking with them he put a veil over his face I love too when he um encounters him with the burning bush before he sends him back to Egypt and he's like take your shoes off because you're on holy ground that's why I told Lauren the other night I was like we gotta take our shoes off.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

We're on holy ground I just Moses is one of my favorite dudes man he's good I mean obviously the Lord chose him to lead the people out of captivity and into the promised land we talked about too I think the Lord thinks so too yeah I love his ending though because Tony was like he didn't get to go in but I'm also like but but he went to see he got to see and look how the Lord used him yeah yes I know he but I like that he doesn't have the traditional bow on the end I know not the one that not the one that we humanly would think of and it's for sure and all what Moses probably expected where is that but hello the Lord oh you're talking about what the Lord did when he died I want to read him going to the mountain I don't there's some where he doesn't go in the promised land when the Lord kept him on the mountain.

SPEAKER_00 42:18

Oh is that in Deuteronomy? Yes probably or numbers hang on see y'all real life we've it's somewhere I know it's not Moses appoints that's in Deuteronomy it's right before Joshua so it's got to be in numbers or Deuteronomy I mean right here must be the back end oh the back end that's why yeah I would think so right here then he spoke to Moses um right yep it's Deuteronomy 34 I forget how big Deuteronomy is the only thing I wanted to read is I have a little sticky note from Seamless that Angie like it was I copied it out of the Seamless Bible study. She said moments after Moses was blocked from the promised land got brought him into an eternal life with his father the loss was momentary temporary it paled into comparison to what was next and if you don't know spoiler alert God actually buries Moses like and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite of Beth Pior but no one knows the place of his burial to this day. The same God who carried Moses to eternity will do the same for me as a believer in Christ I have that written down in my Bible.

SPEAKER_02 43:40

I also have even though God's hand may not dig our dirt they will welcome us to heaven but he dug Moses's dirt gosh that's literally took his body and buried it like there's not too there's nobody else that can say that other people left their physical bodies and God took them right and nobody got that title.

SPEAKER_00 43:56

No.

SPEAKER_02 43:56

That's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 43:57

Yeah like that just shows you like the tender Care of our father. So good. Amen. Wow. That was a rabbit hole, but it was a good one. That's what this basically is. This rabbit hole. Oh, hop over.

SPEAKER_01 44:10

And this is what our daily lives look like when we sit down and talk to each other. We want to know what our group chat looks like. Yeah. Yeah.

unknown 44:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:17

It's very emoji-filled and very it's either emojis or these big long things.

SPEAKER_00 44:21

Lots of songs. Lots of songs. Playlists.

unknown 44:25

Could you try again?

SPEAKER_02 44:26

Series won't talk to you. Thank y'all so much for coming in and joining, joining us for a little armor off episode. Please make sure you like and subscribe so you get that Wednesday alert to tell them a new armored garden is there and I want to go listen. Might be one of these, might be a new series. Who knows? Be sure to also join our social community. We have an Instagram and a TikTok. And we thank you so much for coming and joining us on our little armor off chat. All right. I'll pray out. Yeah. Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_00 44:54

Dear Lord, we are just um we love how fun you are, Lord. And we love how much fun we can have just focusing our conversation on you and learning more about your character and digging deeper and sharpening each other's iron, Lord, and how um our spirit feels so humbled and so fulfilled just by seeking you, Lord. Um it's so much fun. And I just pray over Lauren and Madison and Lindsay and all of the listeners, Lord, that are um kind of joining us in on this conversation, Lord, that there is something that you have supernaturally put into our mouths, Lord, that will speak to the people who are listening, Lord, that you have for them because that's how that's the tender care of you, Lord, that that is a characteristic that you have that you think of us all of the time. Each of us individually are constantly on your mind, Lord. So that is not out of your character for you to give us a word that speaks so pinpoint directly to someone that we maybe don't even know their names and we've never met in our entire lives. But because you are sovereign and because you have painted all of the canvases of our life story, Lord, that's just what you do. And every time that happens, Lord, that you just have a little smile on your face because you know, Lord, that um every time we get closer to you and every time we learn more about you, Lord, all you want to do is dwell with us. So it just brings you so much happiness and so much glory. We love you so much. We thank you for who you are. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 46:21

Amen.

SPEAKER_00 46:23

Boop. I was about to say we haven't booped yet. So I don't have any of that.