He's in the details; Parker's testimony

Join me today as Bekah Sandlin shares her son's testimony. Trust me, you don't want to miss this! And speaking of trust, it is the theme of this episode. Parker's life is truly a miracle. Listen in and put yourself in that hospital room the day everything changed. Know that God is in the details, and He truly cares for you and me. From what the Doctor called "The worst baby in the NICU," to what the pediatrician called "Normal," this is Parker's testimony.  

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hello, everybody. This is Keisha with Shining the Light Podcast. I have a treat for you today. So we have a special guest. We have Becca Sandlin in the studio today. And I want to thank her so much for accepting the invitation to speak. She's going to share her son Parker's testimony along with some things about her life as well. So everybody, please welcome Sister Becca Sandlin. And we've been friends for many years now. We're Sisters in Christ, and it's a privilege and honor to welcome her to the show.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

Thank you so much for having me. I've been so excited ever since you've asked, and I really appreciate the opportunity.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

I am so happy that Becca joined us today. And Becca, I want you to tell the audience a little bit about yourself, about your family, how you came to Christ, whatever you're comfortable with sharing today. So as Sister Keisha said, I am Becca Sandlin.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

I am a mama of three, a preacher's wife, married to my absolute best friend. I grew up in church, got saved as a little girl, but as most teenagers do, hang out with the wrong crowd, and I ended up backsliding and turning away from the Lord. I met my husband in high school. We went to school together, started dating as sophomores, and then I just started going to church with him, and that's where I met Sister Keisha. We dated for almost two years, and um Easter revival 2012 as 17-year-old seniors in high school. Um I rededicated my life and got saved, and um I've never looked back since. And like I said, now we have three beautiful children. He's a minister, and we're doing trying to do a work for the Lord, and that's where we're at now.

SPEAKER_00 1:43

So that is awesome. Um, yeah, I met Becca when she was starting to come to church with Bobby, and um she was just a really sweet girl, and I got to see her grow and flourish as a um as a person and as a Christian. It's like watching a flower when it buds and it blooms, and you just kind of get to see the fullness and how much it grows and how vibrant it becomes. And that's that's what I think of when I think of Becca's life, because I got to witness Becca, um, a younger version of Becca, and then I got to see how far the Lord has brought her and her family and what he's doing in their lives, and it's just amazing to watch. So I really appreciate um everything that the Lord is doing for them. And I also wanted to ask Becca. Um, she mentioned, you know, her husband is a preacher, and so I wanted her to kind of give us a little bit of insight on what it is like to be a preacher's wife. And this is um, I don't know how long he's been preaching now, how many years, but um at one point in time this was a whole new journey for her. Um, so I'm kind of just excited to hear about the challenges that she's had to encounter and overcome as you know the preacher's wife. And yeah, tell us a little bit about that, Becca, whatever you want to share there. That was so sweet of you.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

Thank you. Um I I really appreciate that. The Lord has, you know, definitely taken me a very long way, and I'm extremely thankful for that. Um, Bobby has now been preaching. Um, August will be four years, and um, it's definitely been a learning curve for the both of us. Um, you know, we've always had a lot of respect for the ministry and for ministers, but you know, when you're put into it, you get a whole new perspective, a whole new respect. So there wasn't a whole lot of hurdles or um major challenges yet in our ministry that we've had to overcome as a couple, but um, we have sacrificed a lot, um, more so Bobby than me. Um, a lot of times it feels like it's our time with our children or or even time together, um, with him studying to and praying to get a message ready. And of course, it's nothing that we would change about it. We make sure to um spend extra time with the children when the opportunity arises, and outside of getting um, you know, ministry things ready. But yeah, we love everything about it. It's it's been more fun than um not, and it's definitely an adventure, and we are both so thankful that the Lord called us into the ministry.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

So, Becca, I love how you said that it was fun because that really shows where your heart is, um, that you enjoy what the Lord has called you to do. And when the Lord calls you to do something, he equips you to do that. And it's just um again, it's just beautiful to see the transition in people's lives when God starts working. I know you um mentioned that you've had to, you know, sacrifice time with your kids, uh, but you've tried to make up that time um in other ways when you've had the opportunity to do probably extra things with them, spend the little extra time to the little extra things um to make up for that. But of course, God understands that because that's all part of it, and I'm sure your kids do too. I want to focus in on something that you said. Um, you said that Bobby has to sacrifice more than you, and you are probably right in aspects, I'm sure, as far as you know, he has to preach, so he's got to prepare for the message. He's gotta do a lot of praying, probably fasting, you know, um getting in tune with God and what God has for the service, like every good preacher would do. But I don't want you to cut yourself short here because preachers' wives do have a big responsibility as well. And I'm sure that you know um behind every good man is a good woman. So I'm sure that you have had to sacrifice in other ways as well, not just with time with the kids. And what comes to mind is, you know, all of the youth camps and all of the packing, the trips, all of the things that go unseen, getting everything ready, making sure that your heart and mind is right when your husband's up there preaching. Um, because you know, if you're not in the right spirit, it could really put a damper on things, you know. So it's not just um the preacher that has to be in tune with God, his wife does too, I do believe. Again, I think that a preacher's wife does have a big responsibility on her shoulders as well, a lot of times in the background, but it doesn't go unnoticed with God. And I want to ask you Um in your ministry so far in the last almost four years, has there been any happenings, anything that's taken place that has been like, whoa, that's gonna be a memory? Um tell us if anything has happened in your ministry that's really stuck out to you.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

So obviously a lot of things have taken place, um, just traveling and stuff that's bound to happen. Um but the most memorable, if you ask my children, and definitely for me and Bobby as well, um, was last year in May in London, Kentucky, the big F4 tornado that blew through there. We were there. Um, we were actually driving on our way back from Hazard, Kentucky, and um on our way, we had no cell service on that House Roger Highway there. And um uh we had no service from Hazard all the way to Manchester. And as soon as we got into Manchester, our phone started going off that we were under a tornado warning. So I was driving, it was pouring the rain, and I told Bobby I just wasn't comfortable driving in this rain with our children. We had friends following us. I said, can we just stop at this McDonald's and um, you know, just kind of wait out this rain. So we go in there, the lobby's getting ready to close. Um, the war so we walked in, and and the workers really weren't too happy with us at first because they thought we were there to order food. Um, we just told them, you know, we don't want any food, we just want to ride out the storm if that's okay. And they were like, well, you know, we'll have to call the owner and make sure it's all right. So they called, they said, Of course, but you're gonna have to sit here in the men's restroom with all of us. So we had to hunker down in the men's restroom. All of a sudden, our phones started going off with warnings that we had never seen before. Um, extreme warning, extreme danger, take shelter now. Um, our children are, of course, scared to death. So the McDonald's workers were bringing home ice cream and McDonald's toys and whatever they could to help calm their nerves. So the it blew through, and um, we chanced it after the tornado had gone through and drove the rest of the way back to London. And um, when we got to our hotel where we were staying, um when we walked in, there was a lady there, and she was standing at the front counter and she was full head to toe, covered in insulation from her home being destroyed. I mean, it was stuck in her hair, she was covered in mud, and the look on her face, even now sitting here with you, it literally makes my stomach hurt. I I had to hold back tears, and it literally has traumatized my children. And then, of course, that day when we woke up that morning, there were vehicles everywhere that were completely demolished. Um, there was ambulances everywhere that whole day. It it was just it was a mess. And um, my kids are still very traumatized from any kind of storm. So if you ask them, that is their greatest memory thus far. And uh yeah, they're that's one to be remembered for sure.

SPEAKER_00 9:30

So I have been through that area since the storm, and you can still see where there is houses missing everywhere. Um, there's still a lot of damage. Of course, it's gonna take a long time to recover all of that. Um, yeah, so I do remember that. I didn't I don't remember it like you remember it. Um, something that stuck out to me with that story is you said you guys had to hunker down in the men's bathroom. So I'm just wondering why the men's bathroom. I mean, to be quite honest, if I had my choice, it would not be the men's bathroom. So tell us a little bit about why um why you had to go in there. I mean, it's probably the last place I'd want to go.

SPEAKER_01 10:11

So uh they told us that was the most center point of the restaurant. Um, there was no windows and it was fully enclosed, so it was the safest place. Of course, if I had to choose, I would not have been taking my children into the men's restroom the whole time we were in there. I'm like, do not touch nothing, do not sit down, do not nothing. So, yes, that's why it was the men's restroom.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

And I'm sorry for all the fellows that might be listening to this today. Um, you just gotta be real with yourself here and just be quite honest. I mean, I'm sure that the men, the man population probably has good hygiene, but you know, I mean, I've passed the men's bathroom. I'm just saying, you know, just saying. And also, um, I stopped the video clip and me and Becca was just chatting a little bit here, and she said something else that I really want her to share with you about this experience. Go ahead and tell us what you just told me, Becca.

SPEAKER_01 11:05

So I was telling Keisha that actually after the fact, Bobby had preached um that very next morning at a church, and they were so surprised that we stopped in Manchester, and they were saying, You I cannot believe you stopped at where you stopped. Do you not realize how dangerous that was? They said that Manchester, and specifically that McDonald's, is so dangerous. And I was telling Keisha the most amazing thing from that whole experience was that they treated us like we were angels. Like they didn't hardly want us to leave. They kept mentioning and emphasizing to Bobby that you're a man of God. Uh, God's on your side. It was almost like they felt safe with us being there. And um, they were some of the sweetest people we had uh we have met. We've actually said we would love to go back and see if they remembered us. And um, yeah, it I mean, God's just always in the details and he's just always watching over us.

SPEAKER_00 12:06

I think that's absolutely amazing. Like in the middle of a terrible tragedy, in the midst of chaos, God is still working, like you said, in the details, leading you to a place that you wouldn't normally choose to go to. And you was able to minister to those people that were around you, not by preaching to them, but just by your presence, by being there, and they could feel that. So that's pretty amazing. And one last thing I wanted to ask you about the ministry. So, of course, the ultimate goal is getting people to heaven. So just tell us, you know, a little bit about how you feel when you see your husband preach the gospel and you see people respond. How does that feel to know that you are being the hands and feet of Jesus and really reaching people where it counts? So, good question.

SPEAKER_01 13:01

As a wife and as any human, um, the with the ones you love, you want to see them succeed and you want to see them do their absolute best. Um, you know, seeing my absolute best friend, you know, pour his heart and soul out to the lost and to God's people, just trying to help encourage and, you know, win them over to heaven, you almost feel the burden with them while they're up. So I tried to explain to him very often that I carry this burden with him. It may not be his burden, but it is a separate burden that is for his ministry. Witnessed him be such a tremendous help to so many people and be such an encouragement. And, you know, I've heard so many people tell him how his messages were right on time and exactly for them, right from the Lord. And I'm just looking for the day that the Lord uses him to help win someone over, over to the Lord.

SPEAKER_00 13:57

And uh I I can't wait for that day. Thank you so much for sharing that, Becca. Um, I really appreciate you having an honest heart and just being real and letting us know a little bit of the insight um on what the details of a pastor and pastor's wife's journey. One thing I would like to say is you never know what takes place entirely in a service. You only see what you see. And I want to say that because I have sat in services before whenever the preacher was preaching right down my road, right to me, I was discouraged, I was battling oppression or depression, or I had things in my life that wasn't exactly going the way that I wanted them to, and I was having a really hard time with it. And those messages were so real to me, they helped pull me out of the darkness that I was facing at that point in time. But most cases um I would ponder it, I would think about it, I would chew on it for the rest of the week. I wouldn't go up to the preacher and say, Thank you so much. I needed that. I have done that before, but not always. Sometimes when people are in a dark place and they're needing encouragement and they're needing help, they don't want to admit that. They don't, they're already feeling kind of low in life, and they just don't want to expose the wounds to everybody if I can say it like that. So I want to encourage your heart if I can and your husband um to tell you from the other side of the pulpit, being a member of the church under the preaching, how tremendous of a help it can be just delivering the message of God at the right time uh to the right person. And you don't always hear about it, but it can change people's lives. And I do believe that God is doing a great work in your lives. Um, and I have no doubt that you have touched a lot of people through your ministry, and even maybe got some people to salvation that you don't even know about, and that's just the beauty in it all. And that I believe that's the part of the trust journey that um I was just thinking about this today, actually. Um, even with the podcast, I was thinking to myself, you know, I don't know how many people that I'm reaching. I might be reaching a few. Um, maybe it will grow, maybe it won't, but that's not my responsibility to worry about. It's my responsibility to cast my bread upon the water and let it return how God intends it to. And I get that from Ecclesiastes 11 and 1 says, Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days. And we just don't know the effect of what we do entirely. We just have to trust God that He's got it all and He's taking care of all the details, like we've mentioned before. That seems to be the theme for today. And I don't mean to talk so much here because I really want to get Becca um in here and expound on the testimony that I so want to share with you guys. But I think it's worth mentioning. Um, we were all created for a purpose, and finding that purpose sometimes, I know for me, has been a little bit of a struggle. God, just reveal it to me, speak to me, tell me what to do. And sometimes he just wants us to trust him on a daily basis because when we trust him, he can lead us and we can follow after him. Sometimes it's not like a banner that's held high in the sky that says, This is what you need to do with your life. The Bible tells us to seek first the kingdom of heaven, and then all these other things are going to be added unto us. So we just gotta trust and follow after God, and he'll just lead us where we need to go. Um, and some of us are not meant to preach, some of us are meant to um do other things, and I think it's great whenever you can be called to preach, and you can also be called to be an encourager. And I feel like that's what a lot of what they're doing is they're ministering and they're also being an encouragement, and that is so important because not only is it dire necessity to try to get people to salvation, but it's also a dire necessity for the ones that are in that salvation to continue in that salvation and moving forward for the Lord. Life brings so many challenges, and it is so important to be able to reach those people also that maybe are saved but are really struggling and need help because none of us are too good to fall. Um, so that keeping power is also uh very, very important.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

I absolutely agree. And uh, like you were saying, with um us all being created for a purpose. Um, us as children of God, we all, you know, that's the one thing we you know we ask God and seek God for is his will and our per and our purpose for him. And um if we'll just keep seeking and holding on, and he'll uh he'll reveal that to us. And um yeah, I'm just just thankful for his his keeping power.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

That's so very well said. Yes, we are all created with meaning, and God will reveal that to us if we keep pursuing after him. Absolutely. So I'm gonna switch gears here, and the main reason why I asked um Becca to join us today, besides the fact that she's a great gal and all, um, and she's got other wonderful things to share with us, but I wanted to hear Parker's testimony. I heard the testimony that she gave on her own podcast, and I'm gonna um here in a little bit I'll have her give you the information on that because you really need to check that out. But I heard it on there and I thought, wow, how wonderful. Um, so it was too good not to share it on my podcast. I really wanted her to give me all of the details and share it with you. So, Becca, I'm gonna turn it back over to you. Take as long as you want. I just really want to know all of the nitty-gritty details and feelings and emotions and prayers and everything that encompasses this wonderful testimony. So the floor is yours.

SPEAKER_01 20:05

Okay, so um Parker is the oldest, our oldest of three children. Um, he is 12, just turned 12 in January. Then we have two daughters, Ava, who will be 10 actually next weekend. And then Mila, she is seven, or will be seven in a couple weeks. So me and Bobby got married very young. We were 18, he would be 19 in two days. We were fresh out of high school, really. If if you want to use these words, young and dumb, but you know, hey, to each their own. I wouldn't trade it for the world, but anyways, we were young. Uh, we were married a year and a half, and Parker was born. It was a very snowy year, of course. Actually, on our way into the hospital, we almost wrecked. We slid off the road. It was it was icy, full of snow. He was born January 17th at 6 44 p.m. I had a perfectly beautiful pregnancy. Um, I couldn't have really asked for any better. I was sick a little bit at the very beginning, but everything after that was so smooth. I mean, honestly, other than having the belly and just normal pregnancy symptoms, I would have never even known I was pregnant. So all the way up, everything was great. And then we get to the hospital, we go, the labor was great, everything was just, I mean, couldn't ask for better textbook. When it came time to start pushing and start the actual delivery process, that's when everything went downhill very fast. Parker was coming out sideways, and he had um a sh what they called a shoulder dystocia, um, which was where his shoulder got stuck on my pelvic bone. That is an issue by itself, but what made it um even worse was his umbilical. Cord was wrapped around his neck, so which put the placement of his umbilical cord by his shoulder. And because my pelvic bone and his shoulder was getting stuck, it was clamping the umbilical cord, and he was without oxygen for so many minutes. They never actually told us the exact amount of time, but it was enough to cause issues. He was born 6 44 p.m. And when they pulled him out, he was blue, he was purple, he looked very lifeless to say the least. And I remember just looking across the room and you could feel the tension in the air. First time mom, you know, what was supposed to be the most beautiful, happy, joyous time of my life was the scariest moment. And, you know, as I looked around the room, there was my mom, my mother-in-law, my sister-in-law, all the doctors and nurses, and everyone was silent. Um, the only thing I remember hearing was the doctor kept asking the nurses, where's his cry? Where's his cry? And um, the look on my mother's face and my mother-in-law's face of just pure terror, because they knew something was wrong. We all knew something was wrong. So before I knew it, they rushed Parker out the out the door, never got to hear us cry, straight to the um NICU in the hospital. They, you know, they finished getting me cleaned up. Everybody rushed out the room. Bobby went out and my mother-in-law and sister-in-law went out to the waiting room to inform everybody that was out there. Of course, we had a room full of people, and um, I was left by myself. Me and my mom sat there in that room with the doctor as they cleaned me up. You know, as time went on, they brought me in a wheelchair and asked if I'd like to go see my baby. So we get back there and they wheel me to the NICU, and there he laid, his arms all curled up, his feet all curled up, he was so swollen. But to me, he was beautiful. That was my baby and the most precious thing I'd ever seen. Um, but when we got back there, they said, We hate to tell you um that we are gonna have to probably send him to Dayton Children's. It's still up in the air, we're not really for sure yet, but we're thinking we're gonna have to send him to uh another n uh hospital for further testing. We think he has brain trauma and it looks like he's having seizures. So in the, you know, the adrenaline just running through my my body and my mind, I couldn't hardly process it. I couldn't process how bad of shape my baby was really in. And, you know, I just got to sit there and just gaze at my beautiful little boy. And um, they did tell us once we got back there that as soon as they got Parker back to the NICU, he started screaming. They said he's definitely got very healthy lungs. He was loud, screaming, which was a good thing. So the next thing we waited on was Dayton Children's to come transport Parker. So they came and uh they put him in his little incubator and they gave me a little snuggle that was supposed to stay on on my skin. That way, when I got there with him next, when I would leave in the evenings, my scent would be there with him still in his bed. So um they gave me that and I got to say my goodbyes, and they left. Bobby left, all my family left, and I was left in that hospital room by myself with my mom. And I remember after the adrenaline finally wore off, I remember just sitting there and I bawled because it finally smacked me in the face of all the worry of what in the world just happened. You know, what like I said, what was supposed to be the most wonderful time of my life. I am now stuck here by myself without my baby and my husband, and I have no idea what's going on. He's in a completely different hospital, and um, I just cried. And my mom just looked at me and she was like, I I knew it was gonna happen. I just didn't know when. And um, she comforted me as mamas do. She's the most precious thing to me, other than my husband and my children. And um, so she helped me get ready and she stayed the night with me. And that very next morning I demanded probably wasn't good of me, but I did. I said, You sign me out of here, I'm going, I'm leaving this hospital. So they I don't think they really wanted to let me leave the hospital, but the nurses and staff I think just understood, so they let me go. So we drove um to Dayton Children's, and when I got there, it was the most horrific thing I had ever seen. I walked in there and he had wires all over him, he had tubes in him, he had a cap, some kind of I know what it is now, but at the time it was just some kind of hat on his head. He was in the dark, they had him surrounded with um dividers and blinders so that other people couldn't see, and it it literally shocked me to the core. And I remember just standing there like in a complete amazement of this is way worse than I even realized. So when I got there, they informed me that Parker had definitely had brain trauma. They thought for sure his brain was bleeding. Um, he had lost his gag reflex, which they told us was medically impossible to ever regain, so we would for sure go home with the feeding tube. He'd have it the rest of his life. Um, they said he was having seizures. They said that he would be paralyzed on one side of his body. They said he'd have really bad vision in his eyes. And this was all affected by the certain part of the brain that was damaged during delivery. And, you know, I get there and I'm they're telling me all this new information. I can't even process what I'm seeing here and my baby, and I just overwhelmed. And they checked us into um the Ronald McDonald house, and which, if you have never been a part of a Ronald McDonald house or don't really understand what that is, I will be the first to tell you that is the biggest blessing that anyone could receive when it comes to having a child in the NICU or in the hospital like that. They provided us food, um, a warm place to stay with showers. Um, I mean, our everything was just given to us and such a blessing. But anyway, so they checked us in over there, and that night, um, once everything finally hit, Bobby and me were in our bedroom, and he looked at me and he said, He said, Beck, do you remember the prophecy that was given to us just m about six months prior? And it hit me. I knew right then this is it. This is what God warned us about six months ago. See, during that time, my family was actually going through a very big issue, and I thought for sure when we were prophesied, I thought for sure that's what it was about, and I never thought anything more about it once God moved in that situation. Little did I know it it was gonna be with my baby. I had I had no idea. But one night at church, Bobby's uncle Carter prophesied to us and said, You'll be going through something big, but if you'll remember my words and hold fast, I'll bring you through and you'll see that I will. And he gave us John chapter 14, verses 1 through 3, to keep in our hearts and to read and remind ourselves. And this is what it says, Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also. So when Bobby spoke this to me and told me that this is it, this is exactly what God warned us about, I knew right then and there he was gonna be all right. I just I knew it. And I tell people, you know, the the scripture talks about that God he'll give us a peace that passes all understanding. And I've never once experienced that before, and I have yet to ever experience it again. But the peace that I felt right in that moment and for the rest of the time, I can't explain. It definitely passed all my understanding. And I knew without a shadow of a doubt that he was gonna be okay. You know, my my spirit was uplifted. I was I was fine, like I felt great. My whole, you know, no matter the sight I seen, no end from here on out, I knew he would be all right. So we went to bed, we were, you know, rejoicing because we knew that God, you know, God told us he was gonna bring him out and he was gonna be okay. So we went over the next day, and um, there he was, still laying in the bed. Not much had changed. Um, he still had his cold cap on. And they told us, they said, now every baby that has this cold cap treatment, every baby will go on a ventilator. They said, when you come in, if you come in unexpectedly and he's on a ventilator, we don't want you to be alarmed. Um, it's protocol, like it just happens where the cold cap treatment it freezes his brain and it slows down brain activity. They said because the brain, when it has an injury, it will relapse after so many hours. So it says they said that the cold cap treatment will freeze the brain and it slows down brain activity. So because of that, it will tell stop telling the lungs to breathe. So if he goes on a ventilator, he's completely fine. It's just it's normal. So, you know, we we were like, okay, you know, thanks for the warning. And um, but they said, please, whatever you do, don't touch him, don't talk to him, don't mess with him, just look at him, and that's it. So I wasn't allowed to hold him, I wasn't allowed to anything because that would produce brain activity. So, you know, not much had changed that day. We just sat around really. I mean, there's not really much you can do, just wait on the cold cap treatment to work or not work. And um, so we go back to the Ronald McDonald house, come back the next morning. Again, not much has changed, and but he was still not on any ventilator. And he was supposed to be on this cold cap for three whole days, 72 hours, and we were nearing the end, and he was not on any ventilator. And so we were we were taking each little victory as we could, as it came, and um we went back to the Ronald McDonald house. And Bobby tells this testimony way better than I ever can, but I always love to give it because it's such an encouragement to me, and it's to me it's such a vital part to the story. But he said he went back over to the Ronald McDonald house, and we woke up that morning and he said he had no strength to even take a shower, but you know, you have to take a shower. And he got in and he said, I just he just sat in the water and just let it hit him. And he said, in the shower, being so depressed and so burdened and so overwhelmed with everything that was going on, he said he just all of a sudden felt the Lord just come in the bathroom. And he said he just began singing the words to one of the Isaac songs. And if you know Bobby, he does not remember lyrics to songs at all, but it's just uh just the for me, it's an amazing part to the testimony because he knew word for word. But he started singing the song to the Isaacs, um, one of the Isaac songs that says, I don't understand the reason for this trial, but all I know is I can't make it, Lord, without you. And he said, as he started singing that song, the Lord just filled that bathroom and just filled his spirit and just uplifted him. And he said he got out of that bathroom so revived and so renewed to go on another day. Well, we went back over to the hospital from the Ronald McDonald house. And um later that day, um brother Jeff Isaacs, if anybody knows who that is, met us at the hospital. We were getting onto the elevator, gonna go downstairs, and he met us in the elevator. He was coming up, and you know, all of us were like, Hey, brother Jeff, so glad to see ya. And he's like, he stopped us. He said, I'm not here to visit. He said, I'm here with a message. He said, The Lord told me to tell you that you're facing giants, but your giants are getting ready to fall. To me, I was unfazed, unmoved. And I that sounds awful, but I already knew in my spirit that he was gonna be okay. So it I almost felt like he um was telling me something that I already knew. It doesn't diminish the um power of those words. Uh that was such a powerful message for myself, especially now, but also for all the loved ones that was there, for Bobby, for for my mom and Bobby's parents and our siblings, and it was it was needed. Um, but for me, it was just like, you know, I I thank you for telling me that, but I are I already know that. And I know that sounds awful, but that's just where I was in that state. So Brother Jeff gave us the message, and that was great, and um, that was near the end of the 72 hours. Well, 72 hours were up, they took the cold cap treatment off, and everyone remembered he was supposed to go on a ventilator, and he never did. And I remember the staff being so amazed because they said of all the years that they've been doing that treatment, Parker was the very first baby to never be on a ventilator, and they were just they were so amazed. As much as I already knew that God was gonna work it out, and as much as I already felt the peace about it, in those individual little moments, God was just proving again to me, see, I'm working it out. And uh it it just it amazed me. Parker, Parker did a lot of preaching, um, just laying in that bed, letting God work through him and just show his power through him. So they took the cold cap treatment off, and oh, I forgot to throw this in there. Um, they actually said, in order to even do the cold cap treatment, you have a I think it's three or four hours. I'm sorry that I don't remember that exact time, but it's three to four hours space from the time that the first brain injury takes place to getting the cold cap treatment on. Um, and that's from, like I said earlier, snowy day. So that's from um the location we were at to Dayton Children's, which was about um on a good day, about a 30-minute drive, and not counting the time that they decided, okay, we need to send him. So all this taking place, him getting there, they had to drive slower because of the snow, getting the cold cap on and everything. Parker was um, they were he only had 30 minutes to spare at the very end. He barely met the time limit to do even do the cold cap treatment. Regardless, if he wouldn't have, I still believe to this day God would have healed him. He said he would before any of that. But it just God was in all the little details from the very beginning. So they took the cold cap treatment off and now was um to start focusing on okay, let's see how much brain damage he's got. Where as far as we can do when it comes to treating the brain injury, let's see the damage now. So, like I said, they monitored his um seizures the whole time he had the cold cap on. He was having them. They were um monitoring his what they thought was a brain bleed, and now it was time to wake Parker up. He was no longer sedated. We were allowed to hold him. Finally, after three days, I was allowed to hold my baby. We were allowed to touch him, and and he was allowed to wake up, and it we were allowed to start seeing the effects. Well, every morning they would do their rounds, and doctors would come in and they'd tell you, um, they'd tell the nurses this isn't this and this is what we're doing today, this is what we're gonna monitor, this is what we're gonna try, and you know, his his list was endless. He had a lot of things he had to um be tested. They did an EEG on his brain, um, which would take multiple days for the results of that to come back. They did the um test on what they thought was a brain bleed. Uh, it turns out it was no longer bleeding, so there was another giant that was falling. As time went on, they started testing his gag reflex there for a while. He wouldn't gag, he couldn't gag, but they kept telling us, you know, medically it's impossible, so don't worry about it. We'll we'll train you on how to how to work a feeding tube, we'll train you how to um feed him properly. And so here we are with all these tests and you know, bombarded with all this information and um just you know all this stuff all at once. And now it was just gonna be a waiting game. We were gonna sit and we had to wait on the results of these tests. And um, you know, every day we would pass this little baby that was right next to Parker, and he had the exact same thing happen to him, and he was a mess, I to say it plainly. And um, you know, we were often reminded just walking by that, you know, this this could be our baby, this could be how it is, this could be our future. The only thing that was different was we had the hope of God. And I I don't know if this is appropriate to say, but this was a Muslim family, and they don't have the same hope that we have. So it it it was very devastating to see that that could be our baby, or what could have been our baby. So here we are, we're sitting and waiting. Um, you know, in in the there was a lot of sitting in the waiting room, a lot of sitting next to Parker's bed, a lot of hearing the beepings of of his monitors and just watching numbers go across the screen, and you know, what was really only three or four days felt like weeks of waiting. And um I remember as the results would come in um each morning and evening when the doctors would do their rounds, it was it was so funny but so amazing. Um the doctors would come and Parker would slowly eventually build this big crowd around him day by day. It turned out to be let's see what's something new that's happened today, what's something that's that's changed today. Um, as the results started coming in, you know, he uh his brain wasn't bleeding anymore, which I know I said the results are coming in, and his brain's no longer bleeding, and we were waiting, patiently waiting for the EEG, and that was it. That was mainly the biggest biggest test. So, in the meantime of waiting for those results, the doctors, you know, Parker's overall doing pretty well, um, responding to his medications and and just being an overall okay baby for considering. Um, the doctor that morning was like, uh nurse, why don't you um take that pacifier and uh see if that baby will gag? And that nurse looked at him so puzzled, like, what do you mean? Like, that's silly. Why do that? We know good and well that baby's not gonna gag. He lost that, he can't get that back. Well, the doctor said, just try it. So she's like, Okay. Boss's orders, sure as enough. She did it and Parker gagged. Everyone sat there amazed. And honestly, it shocked the doctor, and he was a little puzzled, and he said, do it again. And she did it again, and Parker gagged. And right away they're like, get this baby a bottle, let's let's get him practicing on a pacifier. Um, let him try to nurse with his mom, you know, whatever he can. Let's let's let's start getting this developed to get his gag reflex strong. So that was our next big project as we waited for this EEG results to come in. So Parker was doing great with the pacifier. Parker was drinking little bits on the bottle as he could. Um, he was able to nurse right away, and uh he was doing great. So before we knew it, they're like, let's take this feeding tube out. There's no reason for this baby to have the feeding tube. So we just we did our normal routine, just doing our thing, and um it was time to tell the results of the EEG. The results are in the waited time. We have been waiting days for this result. This was the one that was gonna matter. And the doctor, neurologist, came in and said, Um, we looked at all his scans, everything looks absolutely perfect. He's not having any seizures, there's no seizure activity, none. They said he is on a seizure medicine. We've had him on one since he's came in here. We're gonna keep him on that seizure medicine. You can't just um take him completely off. You have to wean it. So they said we're gonna slowly take him off of it in case something, in case something started, you know, started back up, he still has his medication. We know and knew that nothing was gonna arise again. God was healed had healed our baby, we knew he was going to. So she said, We'll go ahead and schedule him when he's three months old, we'll have him come back in three months. Um, but of but we're gonna keep him on his medication. So we said, fine, you know, that that's great. So the only thing left was Was we had to um watch these silly videos and we were free. We were able to go home. So eighteen days later, we left the hospital with a perfectly healthy baby boy. So they wanted us to have a follow-up with our pediatrician at our home. Um they wanted it like the very next day of arriving home. So we get that set up and we go, and our pediatrician, when we got there, looked at him, looked at us, looked at his charts, looked at him again, and said, You're telling me this happened to this baby. I said, I I we promise. We lived it. Believe me, it definitely happened. He said, This baby is as normal as any other baby that comes in here. He said, if it wouldn't be for your medical his medical records, I would never ever believe you that this happened. And we knew better. We knew it was the Lord, we knew God healed him. It's amazing how God, and I like Keisha said earlier, it seems to be the theme of this podcast. God was in so many details, even there. Like I said earlier, Parker got to preach from laying in his bed without even speaking a word. We got to witness so many times to other parents in the Ronald McDonald house. We got to witness to the Muslim family, you know, this is what our God can do. We got to witness to um there was an Amish family there. Um, and then just other just people there in the um NICU, just out in the waiting room. We got to witness so much of the miracle and the mighty hand of God. But even without us saying a word to the nurses and to the staff, they knew that there was something more than medicine that was doing the healing and the curing of Parker. And like I was saying earlier, by the end, Parker had such a crowd of doctors and nurses and staff that would surround his bed to see what knew he did that day, what had changed, what had got better, just because they were so amazed at where this baby was from. They at one point told us at the end that Parker was their scariest baby in the NICU when he got in there. And they said that it absolutely blew their mind that he left perfectly healthy. And uh it's just it's just amazing. My God's so good, and why people don't serve him is beyond me. But you know, I I I know he's always been good to me, and he's always been good to my family, and he's just a mighty big God, and uh, I can't thank him enough.

SPEAKER_00 46:45

Okay, so I even hate to chime in here. Uh, that was so good, and I am telling you with a pure and honest heart here. Um, I feel the Holy Ghost even talking about this. I have literally felt chills going up and down my arms um while Becca was giving this testimony, and it is gonna be uh a task trying to pull everything out of this testimony because there is so much, but I'm gonna attempt to try to hit some highlights here. So, first of all, I want to start off with the beginning, the day of the birth. Um, I think I remember Becca saying that they almost ran off the road. Um, trying to get to the hospital, it started off a challenging day. Um, so then you get to the hospital, you start having complications with birth, another obstacle in the way. And then when Parker finally does come, then he's gone, you know, several minutes without having oxygen. Um, and that's a big scare. And they take him and you're left alone. And that's what I want to hit here. Um, a mother's heart being left alone in that moment in time, and all of those emotions you must have been feeling, and even maybe some numbness to it all, because it just happened so quickly, and there you are left. And I'm sure um I know I even asked you, I know your husband didn't want to leave you like that, and you said yes, he didn't want to leave, but you have your baby, they're taking your baby one way, and and you can't go, so he has to, he's gotta do that. Um, so that must have been hard for him too. And you have your mother, which was a great comfort to you, I know, uh, but still being left alone without your baby that you just birthed and without your husband, um, the closest person to you. I just cannot imagine what that must have felt like in that moment. But what you had was a solid foundation in Christ. So even though you felt a bit alone in that moment, you knew deep down that you was not alone because we're never alone with Christ. So you had that support from him. I remember, and this is a little off topic, but I remember um during COVID, there was a girl in church or a lady in church, and she was taken to the hospital during that time, and everything was unknown during that time. You wasn't supposed to be around anybody. They did not let her husband even be with her, and they didn't think at one time she was going to pull through, and there she was in the hospital all alone without her husband. Her husband wanted to be there, and I remember the testimony that she gave when she came through it that she was all alone there, but she wasn't alone. God was with her, and she knew that and she felt that. And it just reminded me of that because here Becca is in the same situation in a different way, but she's still alone. She feels that loneliness, but God is with her. Um, and then moving on from that, then she signs herself out from the hospital. I mean, what good mother wouldn't at that point in time, you know, I want to be with my baby, and that was a selfless act of a mother's heart right there, putting her needs aside because of course she needs medical attention. She just had a child and there was complications, and she signed herself out and she went to be with her baby, and that is something to be said. Um, and then the drive there. I can just imagine the feeling and the lack of feeling in that car ride going to the unknown, not knowing what you're gonna be walking into, what you're gonna be facing. She gets there, she walks in, and she sees her baby with tubes everywhere, and it just takes her breath away, and she stands there. And I'd like to ask her in that moment when she got there, she's trying to recover herself with no medical attention, and she sees her baby like that. Becca, let me ask you, um, what feelings, emotions, or lack thereof was you facing at that particular time? You may have already touched on that, but I want to highlight that again. Was there any prayers that went up at that time? Was there just a numbness that that was over you or um what was going on inside of you, inside your heart, inside your mind, uh during that time?

SPEAKER_01 51:07

So um I remember walking in and um there was definitely a numbness. Um it's not a numbness or like um like a disheartened towards the Lord by any means. It's more just um overwhelmed, you can't process numbness. Um, and I remember just staring at him and absolutely just amazed in the worst ways, really, um, of how awful shape he really was in. And I don't really remember saying anything. I just remember standing and staring at him, um, just trying to take it all in, and like you were saying, like needing really probably medical attention myself. Um, that got thrown out the window real fast because that I was not worried about myself. I was not worried about, you know, my feelings, how I felt anything.

SPEAKER_00 52:00

I was worried about my baby, and that was it. And I can certainly understand that. Um, not numbness to the Lord by no means, but just a numbness like really a shock. All of this has taken place so quickly and so fast, and you've never been at this moment before in your life. This is all new to you. Like you said before, your first child, you were 18 or 19 years old, and um you never experienced any of this before. Like you said, the most joyful time supposed to be ended up being one of the most dreadful moments, um, because everything that you loved and hoped for was uncertain at that time, except for your hope in Christ, of course. And so now you have a place to stay at the Ronald McDonald House, which is a blessing from the Lord, but you have a place to stay, you're with your husband now. That still does not diminish the fact that you needed help yourself, but now you had the support of your husband there. And what really, really stuck out to me was whenever you said he looked at you and told you, Becca, do you remember? Do you remember the prophecy? What God told us? It still gives me chills because it does not matter how long ago God told you something, you can take it to the bank. If he said it, his word is true and it will come to pass. And I just think that's absolutely amazing, that kind of trust that we can have because God is not the author of confusion. Sometimes life will confuse us with things that happen, but God is not the author of that. Everything is for his great purpose, a purpose to everything under the sun, and you can trust that. And when he said, Do you remember? Bring back to your remembrance the word of the Lord and what he said. And we can do that with scripture too. When we read something in the Bible, it's God's love letter to us. So when we read a scripture and it touches our heart, we can hide that. The Bible says to hide the words in your heart that you might not sin against him. So when you are facing something in your life, you can pull from that storehouse you have in your heart of all those words of the Lord and know that every word is inspired by God, is true, and it will come to pass. So that's just wonderful that you had that kind of comfort in your darkest trial. You had that magnificent comfort. And from if I understood you right, from that point in time, you did not have the worry. You knew that Parker was gonna be okay and you trusted that. And I think it's amazing that God not only gave you that peace and comfort, but he also came to your husband, to him, and gave him that comfort. It's just all around an amazing, true, wonderful story. Let's dive into some more here. So let's talk about the miracles here. No ventilator, miracle. Even getting the cold cap in time was a miracle. Seizures gone, miracle. No feeding tube, miracle, absolute miracle, and the gag reflex to top it off, icing on the cake, the gag reflex, which was medically impossible to ever get back. That's why I love sharing people's stories because the Bible says that what is uh impossible with man is possible with God. The Bible also tells us that there is nothing impossible with God. All things are possible to him that believeth. And you had a couple believers in the hospital, and when two or more are gathered together in his name, faith believing, God will do mighty, mighty acts. And that's what he did here. You overcome several obstacles this day, and and the days that followed. I'm just I'm still amazed. What do I say here? I want to point out I I wrote a note here while you were talking, the doctor, he must have had an idea that a miracle might take place, something good might happen. Why else would he ask the nurse to test the gag reflex knowing it was medically impossible? And what I was thinking about was um, what led him to believe this? What led him to wonder or think that there might be a possibility for Parker that wouldn't be possible for any other child? And what I thought of was he must have seen something different in your family, the the ones that were there, than what he had probably seen before. And that difference, folks, is God. And when a miracle takes place, God does it right. He just does it. He does it, that's it. He does it right, and that's what he did in Parker's life. And I was thinking about little Parker already being a vessel used for God's glory, already having a testimony at that little size, just what a comfort. Not at the time, at the time it was very um a trying time for you and your family, but looking back now to the past and w what you've came through and where you're at now, seeing that God chose Parker and chose your family to carry that testimony and to share that. And that's just amazing. And I'm having to hold back tears right now, seriously. This is this is amazing. Um, from the scariest baby to completely healed. It's it's awesome. What else can I say about this? What I want to ask you is I remember you saying something in your testimony um that you gave on your podcast platform. It was about your mother-in-law, and something had taken place in the hospital. And I want you um to tell me a little bit about that, what you remember. Um, I can't remember all the details, but it was it was just such a wonderful thing, and I I wanted people to hear what took place there. So please share a little bit about that with us.

SPEAKER_01 57:59

Okay, so um actually I wasn't there when it took place, but I have heard the story over and over and over. So, to the best of my memory, I believe it was right after we got the EEG um results back, and my mother-in-law had come out. Um, they had told her that he was having no seizures, his EEG results were perfect. Um, there was no concern on the on the scans. So she had came out from the back room and into the um into the waiting room and just hands raised in the air, praising God right there in front of everyone who sat there in the waiting room, right there, walking up and down the aisleway, just praising God with their hands raised. And um, one of the little nurses in the back had came out and told her, honey, whatever you're doing, you guys keep doing it because it's working. And um, you know, there was often times we'd have church just sitting right there, just just thanking the Lord. And, you know, I sh she never cared to give God credit right there in front of everybody. You know, that's just it's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 59:05

So that is awesome. I yes, I remember you. It might have been maybe your husband that was expounding on that. I'm not sure, but you guys do the podcast together. So you guys were talking about this and uh talking about uh Sister Ella and how she was uh running the halls and shouting and rejoicing. That is so beautiful in the eyes of God, and I'm telling you, it's beautiful in the eyes of people too. Um, they they see that, they recognize. And the Bible tells us that, you know, if we're ashamed of God, he's gonna be ashamed of us. And it's beautiful to see Christians that are not a bit ashamed to magnify the Lord and to um thank him and praise him when he does wonderful things, even when, you know, there's not a lot happening at the time, um, still praising him through everything and how much greater uh the praise at the end of the trial. And it's just wonderful. I I wanted to add that part because could you imagine if you didn't know anything about church or God um or didn't believe in God, and you're sitting there in the waiting room and you're going through a trial, and you see this Pentecostal Hellenist woman running down the aisles of the hallway just with her hands raised, praising the Lord, not a shy bone in her body to give God the praise. And I'm just I'm just kind of wondering with myself, hmm, I wonder what them people thought. You know that they have had to have seen a light in that and that genuineness, and I just wonder how long after that they thought about that. It's just amazing um what kind of light we can be to people around us just by being us, just by being saved, just by being set free. Um, I know we all come out of the same junkyard of sin, but God gives us a new title, He makes a new creation in us, He does a work through us, and we're not meant to hide that. It's not about being seen or people looking at us or a big name for ourselves. It's not it's not about us. It's about God. And um it's about taking what he does in our lives and what he does for us and sharing that with other people, and that's what we're doing here today, and it's been so, so good. I just don't even want to get off this topic. I am still gleaning from this. Um, and I hope that you can feel this in this podcast. I know I prayed before we met, and I'm sure she did too, that you could um that that the Lord would be here and that you could feel that through this speaker, and I do believe that that's exactly what's going on here, and I just I want to give God the praise for that, all the glory for that. So, as bad as I hate to do this, I have to move on um and hit another point here. When you came through this trial on the other side of it, were you stronger in your faith? Was your faith increased? Did you become a stronger family, more unity? What extended from this trial that you came through that has benefited your family, not only by a testimony that can reach everyone around you, but what else? Um, what else has it done for you guys together as a whole?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:14

So um you asked if this increased our faith. Um, as a little girl, I I know I said at the beginning that I grew up in church my whole life, and I don't ever remember really w witnessing a miracle. I probably have, just as a little girl though, and you know, as a little kid, you don't really process. So nothing really ever stuck out to me as like a miracle. And Bobby talks about how he prayed. Mind you, we were newly saved, and we got this news deal for the Lord. And he talks about with this testimony how he prayed to the Lord at work, him and his time with God. Lord, give me a testimony that I can share to people. Give me a powerful testimony. Never once did he realize it was gonna be his child. Never once did he realize it would be this big of a trial. But because big testimonies and big miracles, they come from big trials. So I said all that to say our faith was increased tremendously, to say the least. This was the first big miracle I'd ever really witnessed ever in my life. And still to this day, this testimony, this trial, this blessing, this miracle has become such a solid foundation in our faith. And it never fails if something happens in our life, another trial comes as as life brings. We can always stand on if God did it then, and as big of a miracle as that was, surely he'll do it for this. He'll do it for us again in this little situation. So it has increased our faith tremendously. But not only that, you know, my unsaved family, our family um that is saved and has been in church for years, still talk about what a mighty move of God this really was and how it increased their faith and how it just really opened their eyes to the mighty hand of God. And um it's it's it's just been such a big effect on you know all of our family, immediate and extended.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:25

Yeah, so when we go through the thick of it, it's hard, but when we come out on the other side, it's absolutely life-changing in the best way possible. And Becca, I want to ask you, is there anything else that you would like to say? Um, and I want you to tell us about your podcast because I know that you have uh wonderful testimonies on there, I think from different people you interview, um, and you have a lot of really good things on there. Um, and I want you to tell the audience about that, where they can find you, um, how they can, you know, follow your podcast, because I think that it's really, really important to um dump good and positive things into our soul every single day. The world is full of negativity and um it's not hard to find. But whenever we purpose when we get up in the morning to listen to an encouraging podcast or um listen to church music, um listen to the word of God, uh, or read the word of God, read a devotional, whatever it is that starts your day off on the right foot. Um, kind of empty out, you know, the negative things and pour these good things into your soul. It will really, really help you every single day to have strength of face the day. I think it's always important to go to God in the morning. Um, make time, and I know I am guilty of this, so I am speaking to myself here as well. But make time in the morning, even if it's five minutes or ten minutes, or while you're getting ready in the morning, turn the podcast on. Um, just listen to it while you're getting ready, and then when you say Down, you can uh read the word of God and take a few minutes to pray in your morning. I promise you, it will make the best change to your day. But yeah, tell us about that, Becca.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:10

So our podcast is called Raise a Hallelujah Podcast. Um, you can find it on any podcasting platform. Um, Spotify is my go-to. Um, but we have um, I want to say over 70 different um episodes on there, multiple different um categories of testimonies. We have healings, we have um salvation, we have even funny um stuff. Um, but you should be able to find that on any kind of podcasting um platform. Um, but I would like to add, if it's okay, um, a little update on Parker. Like I said at the beginning, he's 12 years old. Um, he's he absolutely loves to serve the Lord, plays drums um at home. His little bedroom is his church. He preaches almost every day. I mean, just has a heart for the Lord, and I love it. For a little boy that was told will never be able to use half the side of his body, um, sure does a really good job of banging on some drums. And uh, I know I'm his mama and I'm a little biased, but he does a great job, and um, I really feel like God anoints him when he plays. And um, you know, I I really think God has um a plan and a big plan for Parker's life, and what a testimony Parker will be able to use with whatever it is that God has in store for him. And yeah, I just I just love seeing him grow, love seeing how the Lord's using him, and you know, God's just when he does something, he does it right, and he's he did it right.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:40

So this is kind of something that I want to ask um every person that I interview. I think it's just a really nice way for you to share your heart with the world. So, Becca, this question is for you. Um, if you had one message to give the world, what would it be?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:58

Whenever someone normally asks me this, I normally always my go-to is to always give God a hundred percent. But when you asked me um to do this podcast and you told me, you know, what my one one thing for the world would be, um instantly what came to my mind was trusting in God. And no matter the situation, no matter um how big it is, we can always trust in God. And you know, life gives us a lot of uncertainties and it gives us a lot of reasons to doubt everything in this world, but God is not somebody that you need to doubt. He holds all the power in his hands, he owns it all. And if you would just trust him and just lean not on your own understanding and just just fully give it all to the Lord, he'll work in ways that just will blow your mind. And um, I've I've known that to be true so many times in my life, and not just in Parker's testimony, but if I could give a word of encouragement to anyone out there, no matter what you're facing, just trust God that he will work it out for the good, and he always, always does.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:19

God absolutely amazes me. Um, I'm just gonna tell you, I knew that Becca was gonna say that before she even said it. And I'll tell you why I knew that it wasn't because Becca told me ahead of time, but I felt it in my spirit. Um, the last interview that I did with Ashley, um, if anybody listened to that, I encourage you to listen to that. I asked her the same question. She went through the trial of her life um out of nowhere, wasn't expecting to go through what she went through. And when I asked her that, she said if I could tell the world one thing, it would be to trust God. And I just knew that that's what Becca was going to say because that is one thing that grounds every single one of us. It unifies us all because we really do have to, in order to be a Christian, you have to take the trust out of your hands and put it into God's hands. It's what brings us together. Like I said, not to repeat myself, but it unifies us. Trust in God. That just hit my heart really heavy right there. I think that that's going to be the theme for this entire platform is trusting in the Lord. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, like Becca said, lean not upon your own understanding, but in every way acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths. So you have to trust God, even with what you don't understand. You may be going through the trial of your life right now, but know that God is a mighty God, He's all powerful, He created the universe, He created you, and He's doing all these things, but yet He is so close. The Bible says that He's not very far from any of us, He is so close to you, and even though you may not realize it in this moment, He cares about every single detail that's going on in your life, even if it's something small that you don't think nobody knows about or would care about. God cares about it because He cares for you. And that's the message today. Trust the Lord with all your heart. There is no other way. You've got to let go and give that trust to the Lord. So I also wanted to mention that um Becca has her own CD out, um, her and Jess. I think it's called Beck and Jess, but yeah, they sing for the Lord, they do a great job, and that CD is out. Becca, tell us where we can purchase that, where we can find that. Um, I know it'll be a blessing.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:43

So we actually only have CDs. We have tried to get it on uh digital, we've also tried to get it on streaming, have not been successful in to do so. But if you would like one, just reach out to me um on Facebook um or maybe get up with um Sister Keisha and I she can get up with me or even give you my phone number. We we will get it situated and um I will be glad to give you one.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:09

And I am absolutely gonna put Becca on the spot here, because that's what good friends do. Um and I'm going to have her sing um a little clip of whatever song that she is feeling in the moment today. Maybe a song that you and Jess sing together, maybe your favorite, or whatever you're in the mood for, because hey, I'm not picky. I'm just wanting to give the audience a little bit of tidbit here, um, what they'll be hearing on your CD. So the floor is yours.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:37

So this one isn't on the CD, but since Sister Keisha put me on the spot, I will do this one. Um, I'll just sing a little bit of it. I think it's fitting, at least for me. It's always been a song that I sing from the absolute heart because the words are so true to me, and I just feel like it's fitting for uh the testimony.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:59

I'm sure everyone here knows it, but it's uh all my life you have been faithful, and all my life you have been so so good with every breath that I am I will sing of the goodness of God.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:31

Just he's so good, and I know that's just a little clip, but all my life, no matter the situation, he's always been so, so good, and I thank the Lord for everything.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:45

Okay, so I'm just gonna tell you that, yeah, it's me again, no more of that heavenly singing. Um, she is even better in person than um she does some video clips that I've seen on Facebook and stuff, encouraging things, which is wonderful. I'm telling you, she is she has got a beautiful voice, um, especially in person. So I just encourage you to um check out her platform on the podcast. And then if you're interested in a CD, uh hit me up for that, or you can um get a hold of her for that. And then yeah, um, that pretty much sums up the interview. I don't know how it could have gone any better than what it did. I just cannot believe the miraculous things God is doing. Um, and thank you so much for singing to us. I know that was definitely on the spot. Um, I appreciate you doing that for me. So, Becca, thank you for coming in today. It just done my heart so much good. Um, and I'm so glad for people that are willing to share the goodness of God. This is what it's all about. Um, the Bible told us um to spread the good news of the gospel. We're all commissioned to do that. That's what we're doing here today. So, on that note, thanks again, Becca, for joining us. I hope everyone that listens has just truly gleaned and enjoyed this and feast on this all week long, um, all month long. I mean, it's just that good. I hate to leave, but on on that note, um, we will see you next time. Bye bye.