Salvation

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Hi, Haley. Hi. So we're in season two. Yeah. It's been a couple months and we're excited to be back. Um, so if you will like, what's a rundown of what season two is going to look like? Okay, well, season two is going to be aimed towards the new believer. Um, because um sometimes we get on this walk and we don't really know where to start. We don't really know what the words that we are being told mean, we don't, we just don't really get a full grasp of it. So the idea is this season will be helpful to a new believer to learn what the words mean, to learn how to study your Bible, to learn a good breakdown of prayer, and um just to learn what it's like to walk this walk. Right. And I think even for people who are not um quote unquote new believers, I think I think sometimes we, and actually, in fact, we've learned by trying to break this down that we almost forget the simplicity of the gospel because we're so used to these big orates and the walk of God. And like we like we're used to this um this substance that we think is beyond just the simplicity of Jesus, and that's just not true. Like it is simple, and not only simple, it's beautiful, yeah. So, like, so it's good for new believers and uh you know more mature believers, just to even have a reminder and like and then also to remember like where you were, yeah, and that's where people are, yeah. And then we want to meet people where they are, yeah, because we're just maturing, we're not perfect, no, no perfect here. You're not gonna find perfect anywhere, but except in Jesus, yeah, because we're just maturing, like don't we meet everyone where they're at. Um, and to um expound on the re-expound on the um vision of the podcast is just to have healthy communication, to have girl talk, to talk and um have conversation about the word, about Jesus, about friendships, about um just honest conversations, because that's also another thing that in the girl community pre-saved is gossip, slander, and all that, but or just about other things earthly things, worldly things, okay. And so I figured it would be awesome because I struggled to learn how to have um just a conversation with other believers. Yeah, and so I believe that this will help others grow in that also, but also you said something the other night about um it's it's not girl talk, it's girl talk. Like it's like you have something to say. Um you're you're definitely not gonna be hushed here. Um like the Lord has put something inside of men and women, like it says your your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Um, and we're not limited. We're not limited. Um, regardless of what you have may have heard in the past, that's not necessarily the story, or actually not the story at all. Um, and that is a a a deeper dive. So that's that is we're not a podcast that is thinking like a feminine movement because we do believe, I think I could speak for both of us, we believe that men and women will rise together. It's not ever one or the other, it's supposed to be both. We still believe in the other spiritual lead of the house. There's order yeah, um, we believe in the order of the Lord. Um, but there's just been a season where it seems like women have been a little silenced and um hushed. And I've also seen women do it to other women. So it's just like oh if if if you do not feel freedom, don't pass that burden on to someone else. Yeah, let's try to find freedom and pass that on to someone else. And Pastor said um something in our sermon, um, let's heal it and not make it worse. Like when you're in a situation like that and you're feeling those things, heal that and like somebody, like speak up and say, hey, like you don't have to feel that way. You know, there is freedom here. And just so the vision is to have good girl talk conversations and to empower women to speak with purpose, to um speak what the Lord tells you to speak, don't be out here just babbling and rambling on and all that. But when you do speak, speak things that are of the Lord and speak with purpose, speak with authority from heaven, and that's what we hope and pray. And I want you to encourage like if there is something that seems off about anything anyone says, please get into your Bible. Exactly. Please, and it and if if it feels heavy and it feels like, well, why would God do that? Or you know, something along those, please get into your word because there are cultural moves and even in the the church that are of men, and I don't mean of men, I mean of human, yeah, human nature that confuse things, yeah, like women being quiet in the church and all of those kind of things. So I would I would definitely uh encourage you to dive deep on any subject, on any subject that seems confusing. Um I I remember when I was just getting saved and I had to Google things like is this a sin? And I will say Oh my gosh, if if you have to Google if it's a sin, it probably is a sin. It probably means that, especially if you're if you're saved, because at this point, if you're saved, you've got the Holy Spirit in you. Yeah. So he's he's probably like, um, you could have found that in the word. Yeah. But hey, I'm not opposed to Google because I'm not even we Google uh Chat GPT has been my friend in certain circumstances, but just there's there's so much in this word, and that's what I want to encourage, is like just stay in here and you'll be in the right place. This will be your safety. Like, and if you're watching the video, you don't see like I'm I'm tapping my Bible, that's what I'm doing. But yeah, so how have the past couple months been for you? Um, they've been uh we've been growing. Um, I say we as in we. She just had her first class, finished college, and I'm part of that. So um growing graduating in about two weeks. Um, and I do feel like uh there's been a lot of maturity. Golly, yes. In this season um of my life. Well, if you just stick with God and your your like desire is just to keep with God and to grow with God. I mean, just said even two months. What the Lord can do is incredible. Yeah, it's incredible. Like, and that's that's why you shouldn't be the same the day you got saved ten years later. It shouldn't be the same because it's not meant to. Like he's he wants you to call him and like learn about him and and be in communion with him, and he will talk to you and he will yeah, he will do all the things he will okay, yeah. Beautiful things, good things, yeah. But yeah, um to the last two months have definitely been two months of growth and maturing and new adventures and just new things. I um I went to Trinidad and Tobago on my first mission trip. And um I don't I'm gonna be honest, I'm just gonna be honest with everyone, and I have been I have been honest with everybody. Yeah, like um for me, the trip to um Trinidad and Tobago was actually like a super eye-opener, but not an eye-opener and like, yeah, I can do this, I'm pumped. Yeah, it was an eye-opener and like, oh, I need to do better. Yeah, but you know what I did? I came home, I changed the entirety, the way that I pray, I changed the way that I read my Bible, I changed all those things that the Lord was telling me to be obedient in in the first place, and I wouldn't. And we're this is not the video about obedience. We're gonna get to the big video about it. That will be a part of it. That's gonna be in a couple weeks, but um yeah, and that's what I'm saying, like about growing in the Lord and about like forgetting the simplicity, like the Lord saying, Hey, pray, take time to pray. And when you're just like and not that I was just like mm, but I wasn't doing it to the standard that he was calling me to. Yeah, so I'm thankful for things like that that aren't always what you expect them to be, but they're exactly what you need. Yeah, because God speaks to you even in those things, but he also says, like, I'm gonna help you. Like it's it's never uh He doesn't leave you hanging, right? It's never a thing that you're doing on your own. Like that's not the point of this. Like it's not a big cliffhanger movie where he shows you something and just that's it. Oh, sorry, I hit the don't talk with your hands, Halen. We're not used to the new mics. No, sorry. No, he doesn't he didn't leave you nor forsake you. That's where the word says. You know, that one song that's just like he doesn't give his heart in pieces, he he doesn't hide to tease us, he doesn't say big lofty things to not fulfill them. His word is not void, he's good. Yeah, so even when we have moments where we're just like, oh, oh, okay. And it's like you may have not even been listening for the longest time, and then you had that moment where it was just like, okay, okay. I absolutely have to get in line with the Lord, yeah. And I'm just thankful that he does that because he does that because he loves and he cares. Yes, you know, so so we're talking about salvation today, yeah. And that is the beauty behind salvation, right? Yeah. So we're gonna talk. So when you think of salvation, what's the first thing you think of? Um, I think about um unlocking my phone. Um because when me and my husband and I, me and my husband and I. All three of y'all. My husband and I, um, we uh we found it was a revival. It popped up on my Facebook, and the actually the pastor we have now, she was there. Um, they had her come sing a few songs and um, or to lead worship. And when it popped up, I played it and I was like, you know, this is cool. Yeah. And my husband's like, well, actually, I know her. We should go. And he was also familiar with that church and the pastor of that church. Um, so we ended up deciding to go to the revival instead of the bar. And that night we decided that we were gonna give our lives to the Lord. And um that's what I think of. Um, and at first it was very awkward. Um, go into something you're not familiar with is very awkward, and I don't think that's talked about a whole lot. Um, but experience for me was awkward, and I was like, what am I doing here? Because again, you don't understand the language, you don't understand something. Sometimes there's an extreme change. What's really going on, yeah, you know, and so but um I decided that okay, I'm just gonna press anyway. And um we ended up giving our lives to the Lord, and so and it felt like home. It's weird because it was because it was it was awkward and home at the same time, you know, and so it was like because two things can be true at the same time, and um for me that that was how I felt, and but when we made that decision, it was life-changing, and now nothing happened like overnight. It obviously took time, some things took time because we didn't understand all the things and whatever, and the Lord one by one kind of just he did it, and um, but now we went to a church for a few years um and got our foundation in, and then the Lord full circle moment. Now we're a part of the said singer, we're part of her, she she's our pastor now, and so it's super cool um to have a full circle moment. And it's so awesome that like even before I was even saved and wasn't the best person, that the Lord um drew us. Um, his hand was not too far away from even those who wasn't saved yet, you know. So he begins drawing and then leads to salvation and all the things. So I love that you said though, you just said two things can be truth, truthful at the same time. Because you can isn't that mercy though? Like, think about mercy. So you weren't in a space where it was like deserving, you know, of your salvation. So that's the truth. But the truth was is that the Lord's will is that all men be saved, yeah, and that the Spirit calls who he calls, yeah, and regardless of whether you were in the right position or not, yeah. He still called to you and he still wanted you. So two truths can be true at the same time, yeah, and that's beautiful. I like that a lot. Um I my salvation story, a little bit different, not really, I guess not. I don't know. Um, I had been running from the Lord for a long time because I was raised in church, so it was a little different for me. And um, I had been living a lifestyle that just was not conducive with anything, and certainly not with the Lord. Um I did um I did drink a lot on the weekends to kind of numb the way I was feeling because I knew what I was doing was wrong. So here, here we are. Here's just the reality. Um if we can't talk about the reality of where we were, then yeah, what are we doing? Um uh and then I've already like I've already said that I, you know, I was living an open homosexual homosexual lifestyle. Sorry. It's not funny that I was, it's just funny the way I just said that. Yeah, my bad. Um so I had just been completely running. And um, and this is this is also where we say that two things can be true at the same time. So I had gotten to a point where I just had gone to my lowest. And when we say that, we mean like two things are happening at the same time. Ultimately, we know that his truth is what you stand on and his truth is the only truth, but reality meeting his truth is happening at the same time when you come into salvation. Yes, and so that's what we mean when we say I appreciate that clarity. Just to clarify. Yeah, yes, yes, yes. So um the truth was like I had gotten to my lowest, but I think the other side of that truth is that he allowed it, and he allowed it so he could save me. Yeah, and sometimes we we don't see that, and it really was at my lowest point. So um I had to move back down here because I lived in West Virginia, and I had to move in with my mom, and the the the law of the house was is you were gonna go to church. Yeah, and I was just like, you've got to be kidding me. Because I had already been running for so long, it had already been normal to feel shame and normal to feel disconnected and kind of like you were just like floating in a like a dark abyss. Like, I don't know, like people walk around feeling that way always consistently, and they don't realize that God wants to save them from it. Okay, yeah. And um, so I came back down here and um I had to live with my mom. I went to church, and I just felt like I didn't want to be there, but I felt like the Lord started just it was something that was pulling you, yeah. It's just pulling me, and um finally one day the pastor, and I'll never forget the sermon because it was just like, oh, you're right. Um he he preached about being self-governing, which means that you make your own rules. And so my rule was me trying to figure out, and we could talk about this at a different time, we don't have to go into this because this is a big topic, but yeah, my rule because I'd got to the point where I was like, well, I can't be saved, and then I'd got to the point where maybe I can be gay and be a Christian. So I had gotten to the point where maybe I could make that law in my life where I could follow him and be kind of whatever I wanted to be, anyways. Okay, we all get we all get there. Right, and that's so that's a a rule I was making for myself. Yeah. So when it had gotten to the point, because I because I started to hear the Lord, but I was like, mm, what if I just change this and this, but this kind of stays the same. And no. So the day that he preached on self-governing, I just felt the Lord say, Are you done? Like, are you done with this? And um, I just like ran up to the altar and uh kind of threw myself at the pastor and which is like, I don't know how to change this, which is true. But if there's something about you that you don't know how to change, you just give it to the Lord, yeah, and that seems so much easier said than done, but it's not that it's not uh plausible, yeah, and it's not that he's not capable of taking everything from you, and he did. So those are our salvation stories. So um what would you say um uh oversight of all like a big scope definition is of salvation is? What would you tell someone if they asked you, hey, what is salvation? What is salvation? I sent, I actually sent you, and I'm gonna look at my phone, so I sorry you're gonna I felt like because I was trying to in my brain like what is the best way to like full like well? It would be after it was after this photo. Oh, yeah. Salvation is God rescuing us from sin and its consequences, consequences and bringing us into a relationship with him through Jesus Christ. I think that when we think of the word salvation, we can all kind of understand what saved is. Like we've we um and what I mean by that, you think of think of being saved, like like the knight in shining armor saves the princess. Yeah. And which is how the Israelites viewed it. It was like when they were saved out of a situation. Yeah, yeah. That was salvation to them. So we can understand saved in a nutshell, like like um someone saved me from a car wreck, they pulled me out of my car, like someone um saved me from saying something stupid because they like they caught me and they're like, mm-hmm. Someone saved me from walking around with a booger in my nose because they were a good friend. But so we can understand the concept of something saving you from something, yeah. And some of those times seem a lot more heroic and some of them seem silly, of course, but this is the salvation that is dire. Yeah, this is the salvation that cost Jesus his life for you. This is the stuff right here. So we know that God created us to commune with us. It says in his word that he delights in us. It even says in Proverbs, the Holy Spirit says at the beginning of the world, I I was there in creation and I delighted in humans with the Father. Like they created us and said, Hey, that's good. I want to be with that. I think this is great. And they high-fived each other. You know what I'm saying? Okay, I love this thing. And um, you know, and as we get further into the word, we know about Adam and Eve. So sin came into the world. And you know, unfortunately, at this point, we're now kind of born with that. You know, we are not naturally good. Um, not that we don't have natural good characteristics, that's not what I mean, but we're not naturally in line with God's spirit, yeah, and what he wants us to do and what he's calling us to do. That's not something we have until we. Are filled with him and we come to him. But so that we're not born like that. We're born into sin. We naturally make we naturally lie. We naturally do all the things that are not great. And because of that, that sin has created a distance between us and between God. And I love when you were given your testimony just a minute ago where you said that church felt like home. It's because when we were created, we were created with this God gap in us. Yeah. We were created to be made whole in God. So when we are away from Him and we're not connected with Him, we try to fill this hole with everything else. And there's nothing else that's going to be as big as God. Yeah. And His Holy Spirit that seals us. They're just not. And that's why we we find ourselves in addiction and we find ourselves in certain things. But so Jesus, Jesus, knowing that at, you know, the only thing that could save us from this chasm, from this wall, and between us and Christ or us and God would be his death. So he took on the biggest penalty, took on our penalty in our stead. I know you love to say that because it's just the truth. Well, um someone came and he said that, and I it just I think I said it before in a podcast, but it really put it in perspective because normally if he he died for me. Almost we have narrowed that down into like he died for me so I can do um said sin. Okay. Okay, and and we we we make that okay by saying that, but when I changed my perspective, he died in my stead. That almost makes me realize, like, okay, I instead of me being accountable. He did what we can't do, he did what I couldn't do, yeah. And so it just puts um a more weight on it for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And because it is true. I think we like hear something like John 3.16 and we kind of gloss over it and we just forget, like there's so much more to this. And when you read the account of Jesus, I watched Passion when Passion of Christ came out on theaters. I can't watch it. We went and watched it. The church went and watched it, and I was crying so hard, I was just like when I was like 13. Someone laid a snippet of it in church, and I was done. Listen, listen, friend. Like if you read the account of Jesus and it doesn't make you, and it's so strange because I know I'm supposed to be thankful for it, but it also just it just breaks you because you know he's he's whipped with it. The what is it called? The cat and nine tails or something along that that has the and it just shrips his his back and on the cross, and he's getting his his you know his beard plucked out and the thorns on his head, and it's it's not a movie, it's not a movie. This is real it really happened, yeah. And he did that for us, and you know what doesn't make sense? Why? Someone asked me that once. Someone said why would he die for me? Because that's the way they felt about themselves, and it's not because the word doesn't say why, but it's because of the way we feel about ourselves. Well, what what in the world could I ever do to repay him? Just be in a relationship with him. Yeah, that's what he's wanting from you. He wants to dwell with you, yeah. He wants to abide in you, that's what his word says. So salvation is coming back into union with God, it's them giving their life so that you could, and that's beautiful. And obviously, sin and there's a whole you know, we could go forever talking about because so sin really is just not meeting the requirements of God. Anything against his character and what he is telling you to do. Yeah. And so that's why in you know the New Testament, it's like, so now this boils down to love people and love me. So love people and love God. And if you look at the Ten Commandments, if you love people, you won't murder them. Yeah, if you love God, you won't put something else in front of him. Yeah. If you love people, you won't lie. But also if you love God, you won't lie on people. So it's true. Um, because if you sin against other people, you're sinning against God. Yeah. Right? So some people think that coming to Christianity just means you're a better person. It's not what that is. There's conviction, not because we've we just want to be a better person. There's conviction because I cannot grieve God because of what I do. Yeah. And I want to be an example that shows that God can come into me and He can change everything, and I can treat you like the Lord would treat you, and I can honor you and I can respect you. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. Um I was gonna ask you something else. Ask it. So actually, I was thinking it it's broke down into justification, atonement, reconciliation, redemption. Those are big words, okay? But just okay, so salvation to me is um, I was praying over it, and but the Lord kind of was like, okay, it's like going to court and you have all these cases stacked against you and all these reasons of why you have to pay this penalty. And Jesus just steps up and says, I paid it for them. And it's something that you don't have to keep looking over your shoulder. And because you know, sometimes, hey, collectors come to collect, okay? And so you don't have to keep looking over your shoulder and wondering when the next shoe's gonna drop. Right. He paid it for you, but all you have to do is come into alignment and agreement with him and confess him and believe in what he said for you, what he that he did what he said he did, and that he is who he says he is. And um repent of your sins and turn away. Repent means uh turn away from that life. Not that I'm just sorry, not that I'm just oh I'm sorry, but I'm still like what you said earlier, making room for that sin and tolerating and making a space for sin. I'm saying, Lord, I'm probably not going to obviously there's a sanctification process, right? You're probably not gonna get it all right and check all the check boxes, but I'm willing to surrender every way about myself and everything about me and concerning me to you and live in your will and your way. And if I get it wrong, Lord, show it to me, and then we'll go from there. That's why it says we're continuously being saved, yeah, and that's the mercy and the grace. So it's it says grace upon grace in the Bible because no, don't we need it? We do, because it's a process, like you're not good Lord, you're not literally, but you're not you're not saved and perfect the next day. Like no, this is a process, and this is a lifelong process. Hashtag all the perfectionists out there, yeah. Like and but that is also why there should be um growth because it is a process, and if you just sit there and don't allow it to process the because there is a real thing that sorry, no no no, you're when you get saved that you do like you get so excited, you want everything to be perfect, like you are full throttle. I was at least, I could speak for myself. Everybody's gotta go with me. I'm like, everybody's gonna have this, you know, and I gotta just get rid of everything that you know. But then again, you have this wake up where it's like you almost send your natural self into a shock when you try to do it yourself. Salvation is a gift from God, it's not something that we can do ourselves. So though you are excited, it's not something you start doing yourself. And I feel like sometimes when you first come into salvation, you get super excited. You know, it's like everybody's gonna live me, all this is it, and it's wait, let the Holy Spirit do it. Because when he does it, it's eternal. It's you know, he does it in such a way that he just he's he's wisdom, he's knowledge, he's might and strength, you know, and so there's things, this is what he does. Yeah, it's not what we do, right? Well, it's just like the story of Nicodemus, um, where Jesus tells him he has to be born again, which I can I can understand where Nicodemus is coming from. Like, what do you mean? I have to go back inside my mom, you're weird right now. Like, I'm not so I understand. I'm a whole grown man, I'm gonna love I love that Jesus was like, so you don't understand that. But it's because Jesus was speaking spiritual things and he he's just like, You are a teacher of Israel, yeah, and you don't get this. Yeah, it's because obviously they had just missed all the cues of Jesus in the Old Testament, but he's saying, Um, you have to be born again, which means when you come into Christ, you are a baby in Christ. Yeah, you don't come out full-fledged like um John the Baptist. That would be wild because even John the Baptist had to grow up. So, like you're not gonna come out and immediately pray demons out of people, it's just probably not gonna happen. But maybe one day in your life, absolutely go pray the demons out of people. But you know what I'm saying? It's just like take that like pressure off people because And that's what I'm saying. Like, take the pressure off. You have to have it all together by the next day. You know, because I'm like 20 years in and it's not still learning, yeah. It's it's not like that. Uh it's not like that. Um so actually that's a good example. Like after the story of Nicodemus, you find that in John chapter three, because it's right before God so loved the world, right before John 3, 16, um, where Jesus is actually comparing or actually explaining what salvation means. So in the um in the Old Testament, there is a scenario where the Israelites are in the you know in the wilderness doing what the Israelites normally do. Yeah, they um complained and were offensive to God because they were just so ungrateful for everything he was doing for them. So there was a plague of serpents, which I when I read that, I was like, Lord, that is the scariest. Okay, though. So he just like so snakes came and but the way for them to be saved from the snakes is that he told Moses and Aaron to make a like a I guess like a staff or a stick, and I was it's it's uh a representation of the cross, and they they put um a bronze snake on it, and if whoever looked at the bronze snake meant that they were saved from the snake bite. So Jesus is referring to this in John, he says in John 3 14, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that whoever believes will in him have eternal life. So what he's saying is that him dying on the cross is it's indicative of that, that um their due penalty were the snakes. They were not right. That was their punishment, just like us. But we having they having lifted Jesus on the cross, if we look towards him and we we say we believe in him, yeah, then that due penalty is gone. Yeah. And we are saved. We are saved from the wrath that is owed to us, just like you said in the courtroom. Yeah. So Jesus is trying to explain himself what salvation is, and that a man had to die on a cross. Yeah. But for us to believe in him and to be saved. Yeah. And that's beautiful because we also know when he died on the cross that the you know, the in the temple the the um the veil was torn so that we could have access to God, so that our prayers are heard by the ears of God, yeah, and that we can come into his presence. Oh, that's what the atonement is is the sacrifice that deals with sin. It's not blood. And then the reconciliation reconciliation is the broken relationship is restored, and then redemption is being brought, bought back, rescued, and set free. And then the justification is the judge saying, You are in right standing. You're in right standing with me. And you know, and that's when we come and we we ask for forgiveness, we realize that we are weak in ourselves, that it's not something that I can do for myself. It was something we could do for ourselves, he wouldn't have had to die for us and raise again, and you know, and so when that's set free, when I say set free, that word actually means to obliterate. So when you come to Christ, he's not casually removing you know things off of you, he is obliterating. So he it's like TNT, just like it it has all the pieces, it's all gone. Like the chasm or the the thing in between you and God, and now you can touch God. Yeah, now you can go to the Lord and without shame and all these things, but that's we'll also talk about that when we talk about strongholds. Like there are some things that we still carry into our Christianity that the Lord's still working on us with. But the main thing is that sin that says you are destined to go down there trying to avoid saying the word hell, but it's that's just what it is. Um that's our human nature, that's that's what we were deserving of. But he came in and was like, I paid it all for you so that you can dwell with me, so you could live eternal life with me. Um, but I'm also thinking, how sad is it when we choose that he's not worthy? I think a lot of times when we choose to not see him. I think we choose it sometimes because we don't first of all, we don't understand. Yeah. That's why it says hearing you get faith from hearing the word. So that's why there's gotta be preachers. Yeah. That's why I even said who will know if you're not preaching. Yeah. Like, and I think that we don't understand, but I think that a lot of people live in shame where they don't think that they deserve it. Yeah. But none of us stop doing that. It's not a deserving thing. It's not a deserving thing at all. Yeah. But don't live in that space because that means you are gosh. That's I mean, and it's a free gift. Yeah, it's a free gift. It's a free gift. It's a free gift. So don't it's a gift of grace. Yeah, don't don't take it because you view yourself in some kind of way. Because what the great thing is, is once you take it, those kind of views will go away. I think grace is undeserved favor and empowering presence. It's all undeserved, so it's not about that, and that's why it says that you you can't work your way into salvation. You can't work your way into God's grace. He's already got it for you. Now, it does say faith, by your faith, you will do works because you'll want to move, you'll want to tell people about Christ, you'll want to be in um in purpose with him. But yeah, the greatest thing about salvation is that I think that's speaking to the motive behind what you do. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It's such a heart thing. It's such a heart thing, but we can also have his heart, and that's what it like Samuel he said, I am I'm raising someone that's gonna move and speak out of my heart. Yeah, and I'm just like, Lord, let me be. Yeah, let me be like Samuel, yeah, for real. Yeah, let me operate in your heart, like my motives, my intentions be of your heart, but not of mine, because you know, people of people, yeah, and I don't want to be peoply right. I'd be peopling all over the place. Yeah, that sounds good. I want to have his heart posture. Yeah, and um salvation, that's salvation. Um, and if you're not saved and you want this gift of salvation, all you have to do is come into agreement with it. You say, Lord, I realize that I am I'm I'm weak, I'm frail without you, and I I'm not perfect, but Lord, I I want what you have to offer. I want to live in communion with you, I want relationship with you, and I repent of my wicked way, and I confess you as Lord and Savior of my life. Um, and I ask for your forgiveness. Yeah, come inside of me, be a part of me, let me be a part of you. And that's not to say that you go by the simple stepped-out prayer, but let it be like we were just talking about a motive, a heart posture after Christ. It's genuine because he's genuine. Yeah. That's what um don't be known in your relationship with Christ for just words that have no action to them. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like that's like Hoffney and Phineas, where it says they were priests to the Lord, and then it says, but they didn't know God. We can be in a space that's very scary. We can be in a space where we proclaim to be in God, but not being God. So obviously, we want to come at a like a genuine position. Yeah, like you said, a hard posture, and the Lord will hear you cry to him, like it's all very genuine. This is not passive or fake, and it's not a fairy tale, it is the most real thing ever, yeah. And beautiful, and beautiful, but so real, so so so real, so real, and sometimes he will tell you about yourself, and but you know what? He does that in love, yeah, everything he does in love. Okay, so this is salvation, salvation, and that is the gift that he is offering to whosoever, whosoever, um that's basically died for the whole world, yeah, not just me and her, everybody, everybody, every single whosoever, and it's a whosoever. And it's it's me too. It's never too late. I also know that's why that's why I said his his will is that all men, all men come to salvation. Um, you you get saved today, you're gonna have the same reward that I have when we get to heaven. Yeah, it doesn't matter that I've been saved for 20 years. We're gonna have the same reward. We can have God in heaven. That's beautiful. Yeah. And so if you're not saved and you want to get saved, feel free to um, and you don't quite understand, you have any questions, feel free to comment. Feel free to message us, and we don't mind providing any help that we can we can give. Um and we don't mind praying with you, praying for you, praying over you, and just helping you start your walk with Christ. Yeah, absolutely. So that concludes the girl talk about salvation. And we hope that you have a blessed day and that this blesses you. Um, and again, feel free to like, share, comment if you need help, message us, comment, and um we will see it and we will pray for you for sure. Absolutely. And pray with you. Um and do you want to pray us out? That's fine. Okay. Um, Lord, we we come to you and we're so thankful. Thank you for another season of this. Thank you that we're just we're just trying to listen to your move, God. And we're just trying to be obedient to what you've asked us to do, God. And we pray in that obedience, God, that hearts are changed and lives are changed because they they hear the truth of your word and the conviction of how good you are. And we pray for salvation, God. We pray that hearts be changed back to you, God, because they were with you in the beginning, because you wove us in our mother's womb, God. And that was always your intent for us to be with you and to have a relationship with you, God. So we pray for that salvation with God, God. We pray that you would draw them with your spirit and then you would speak with them, God. We pray for prodigals to come home, God. We pray for the ones that have already heard your voice and have just gotten a little lost along the way, God. We pray that you would call them, call them from the east, the west to south, and the north, God, and that you would do what only you can do. It's save and heal and deliver, God. We're so thankful for you, God. And we pray that whoever's listening to this is blessed and then they have a blessed day and they're safe, God. And we give you all the glory in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. All right, bye.