Because God Is With You

Join us as Ariana + Kimberly discuss Joshua 1:9 . Not a simple suggestion but a directive from God Himself. True strength and courage come from reliance on God's presence and promises, not from our own abilities. Fear and anxiety are natural human responses but, God.

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SPEAKER_00 0:45

Yeah, all over. I know we have millions of listeners and subscribers. Endlessly grateful for you guys. Um, so today I wanted to talk a little bit about um really I'll I'll read the scripture here. The the inspiration is um the book of Joshua, chapter one, verse nine. Um, but there's a couple other scriptures here that um kind of play along with it, that go along with it. But the point in really being that um I just have heard often about people and their anxiety, and I while I am very aware that anxiety is a real real feeling and it is something that it exists, um, and not in a way to devalue anybody's feelings of anxiousness, um, I don't want to come into agreement with any of that. I don't want any of you to come into agreement with it either. Um, whether you are feeling anxiety, um or not or not, just not saying I have anxiety or I have this, because as um Joshua chapter one, verse nine says to us, Oh, I lost my spot. Where are you? Okay, have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous, do not be frightened and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. And this is this is the Lord talking to Joshua. So his words of have I not commanded you, be strong, be courageous, do not be frightened, and do not do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

I feel like that's a pretty foundational verse for a lot of people, like as you were talking about when people feel anxious, yeah, and to be reminded. I like what you said before reading the verse about we don't want to diminish the real emotion that people often feel when they are feeling anxious or maybe even fearful about something. But I like that you said, um, let's not go into agreement with that. Do you remember last time when we had group, we were talking about, I don't know, we were talking about maybe authority or dependence on God. And um we talked about coming into agreement and to be mindful of like going into agreement with things. And someone in the group said, What does it mean to go into agreement? Like, what do you mean by that?

SPEAKER_00 3:24

Yeah.

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How would you explain that?

SPEAKER_00 3:27

To agree.

SPEAKER_02 3:28

Yeah. If yeah, it's pretty keep it simple. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

I mean, like that's that's to validate it, I guess, in that in a um, to recognize that that thing. I mean, if if we want to talk about like anxiety in general and saying that like, oh, I have anxiety, um I I don't, and so that's why I think I'm I'm freely saying that and that I I have been anxious, but it's not something that is a deep struggle of mine. Thank God, thank the Lord. But to if it's something I think um a lot of diagnosis are even agreements, um when you have uh essentially decided that or agreed that you were made flawed, or there's something incorrect with your brain, um, or incorrect with your feelings, that yeah, that it's not right, and uh agreeing with it because no, you were wonderfully and fearfully made. Yeah, you were knit together in your mother's womb.

SPEAKER_02 4:35

Right.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

The Lord numbered the hairs on your head, you were made perfectly. Um I don't know, that's a long-winded answer that I didn't even answer the question.

SPEAKER_02 4:44

No, I think that's really good. Um basically not claiming it as your better way of saying it. I mean, I I feel like you you did basically say that, but I mean, like it's yes, you feel it. It's something that you're experiencing right now. I even like what you said with like diagnosis, like it's not to tell the doctor be like, you're lying. That's not true. Like, it's just simply it could be this is just the season, even maybe the circumstance, but to not necessarily claim it as this is mine and this is the truth, and there's nothing to make you helpless against it, I guess. Right, right. Because there's still a reality of like, okay, now let's combat this.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

Yeah, but God.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

And I feel like that's a perfect, like, okay, Joshua 1.9. So how do we combat this? This is like a solid scripture for that.

SPEAKER_00 5:43

And the the point that I love about this specific one from verse nine, because it's he says it in six, he says it in seven. Um, also Moses says it in Deuteronomy chapter 31 a few different times. But this one is specific where he says, Have I not commanded you that it is a command to be strong and be courageous? The Lord is commanding you to be strong and be courageous. It's like, you know, when you're little, and I don't know if you went through this, I was really, I was just a scaredy kid and um really afraid of the dark. And I would need to sleep with my door open and like the hallway light on. And uh my dad wouldn't let me do that at his house. He shut the door, and I would get so scared, and he would be like giving he would give me the permission to not be scared. Like I'm outside of the door, there's nothing that's gonna come into this house that is gonna that they can get you. If something, if you get scared, you can call for me and I'll come running. And it's if our earthly fathers can do that, how much more can our heavenly fathers do? That's really good.

SPEAKER_02 6:58

Question. So when you're at your dad's house and he didn't allow you to have the door open and the light on in the hallway, and then when you were assuming at your mom's house that that was okay, what do you think at that time in your life as a kid helped you more? Or did you ever think about like, did it produce something different out of you when you had to have the lights off and the door closed? Like, I'm just curious.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

I don't know. That's a really good question. I've never reflected on that. I I will say my mom is a really strong woman internally, but she's a very tiny woman. And uh my dad was never far. My parents sweat up when I was really young, so we didn't ever live in the same house, and my dad was never far, but I was very aware how much more vulnerable I was with my mom than with my dad, being alone with my mom. And I would I would get scared for her, even as a little girl.

SPEAKER_02 7:59

That is so self-aware as a kid to think like that. Interesting. Probably not normal. Yeah, that is a I mean, like that's also a very like logical process to like as a kid to think like that.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

That you're more vulnerable with your mom. Yeah. My poor mom though, she probably like didn't deserve me being like, oh, you frail lady.

SPEAKER_02 8:26

She's like, I'm fine.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

I know she is. I'm like, we I just yeah, anyways, did you have any situations like that growing up where you were scared of things?

SPEAKER_02 8:36

I remember when I was on the school bus. Um, I really I feel like riding the school bus in elementary school was such a core childhood memory of mine because we used to have so much fun on the school bus and really just cause all kinds of trouble. But I remember one day that um one of the bigger kids told me a story that um sometimes behind walls there's bodies buried in the walls. I remember this. Yeah. And so I would have moments in my house in elementary school where my me and my brother we shared a room. We had two twin beds on each side of the room. His bed was against one wall, and parallel to that was my bed against the other wall. And so sometimes I remember trying not to like sleep against the wall, like just in case. You know, just in case there's something in there, just in case.

SPEAKER_00 9:25

Our imaginations is yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

And then, like in Korea, a lot of the um, not a lot, pretty much all the houses have radiant floor heating. So there's not heat that comes through vents, it's all the floors that are heated, and then also there's no carpet, like they don't have carpet in Korea. It's um either hardwood floor, plank flooring, or linoleum floor flooring. And so we had linoleum in that house. And so um, in the middle of the night, just from people walking throughout the house during the day and the linoleum flooring, like this it sticking to the concrete beneath it. And then at night when the house would cool, it would come up, but it would come up as like the footsteps.

SPEAKER_00 10:07

Oh, so it sounded it would like pop up. Are you sure it was just the flooring doing that?

SPEAKER_02 10:13

So and this is actually, I didn't hear the flooring at night because I would sleep like a rock, but my brother would hear it. And so sometimes I'd wake up, my brother's older than me. Sometimes I'd wake up and my brother's in my bed. And he didn't tell me until we were adults. He was like, You remember how I used to like come sneak into your bed at night because I was scared? I'm like, Yeah, he was like, It's because, and then he told me.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

I was like, Oh, like I guess I'd be scared too. That is scary, yeah. I I mean, especially as a child, now I'd be out there with my Bible in the oil.

SPEAKER_02 10:47

Just waiting to smack whatever comes through on the head with your Bible.

SPEAKER_00 10:51

Yes, I have the full armor of God.

SPEAKER_02 10:54

Yeah, I I love that about Kendrick. He'll pray the full armor um over him, like before bed sometimes. Sometimes in his prayers, he'll throw that in there, and I think that's really sweet.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

I wonder, I wish we could study these little brains on um people who grow up you can't just say in the church, but grow up in the word.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:22

With their parents reading them the Bible, them reading the Bible, and an active a house that's actively like practicing biblical principles, actively practicing their faith. How that how that like um impacts their tendency to be anxious or less anxious as an adolescent.

SPEAKER_02 11:45

And just how it carries over into adulthood, yeah, and and how it feeds into our what we would maybe call our nature. I think that's really great. And I think more than the teaching part of it is like what you said, like like the seeing someone living it out, yeah. I think is even more so important, but not not to negate the conversation piece of it.

SPEAKER_00 12:11

Or even every time you get scared to have whoever your your, I guess, adult, your parent, tell you, like, you can pray to God, and God is, you know, always going to be with you and always going to keep you safe. And here's the scripture we can point to.

SPEAKER_02 12:26

I feel like because this is like the difference of just saying that versus um hearing it and living it. So, like, let's just say, for example, Kendrick sees me being scared with whatever scenario, let's say, and that maybe in that moment, this hasn't happened, but just as a hypothetical, in that moment, he sees me walking like strong and courageously, and then also saying, like, I can only do this because I know God is with me. And then he, and then for him to actually witness me not being afraid.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:02

And then I think that would do something to him with like seeing it being applied and being like knowing it to be true. It's just like when you pray something and then your prayer is answered, it kind of feeds your faith in like wow, prayer works.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

Yeah.

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And so I I think to be a witness.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:21

So to actually see it in action on top of hearing it, I think is like so important. And I do think it does something internally.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:30

Like we're conditioned like that based off of our experience, right?

SPEAKER_00 13:33

Yeah. It's also, I think this the I want to be careful with how I say this. We are so we were created to be in community. It is innate in us to be in community and to want to have community which looks like bonds with other people and shared interests with other people. So the feeling of belonging with other people. If we don't have it, we will create it. If if we I'm we do have it, if if we have believed the lie that we don't have it, we will try to create it on our own with different things. And I think a lot of what I see is this like um over-diagnosing and then maybe even over therapizing these um, whether it be anxiety, OCD, depression, whatever it might be, and then that gives you an identity, right? And then that get that identity gives you a community because there's other people that suffer with that.

SPEAKER_02 14:39

I see where you're going with that. I mean, that's like trauma bond, trauma bonding. Yeah, very much. Even kind of like having like having like a tribal mentality is kind of a thing, you know, even like culturally, like you bond over this one thing, and then that becomes your identity, even like again, culturally, that could be whatever the case of even being like, I don't know, Koreans are all X, Y, and Z to just kind of generalize a group in that way. But even I see what you're saying, even with like, let's say, in a group of some sort, with let's say someone went through a trauma and then everyone holds on to that. And it almost is like um a prison in a sense. Like you can't break out of it because it keeps getting confirmed and validated, and you're just in an echo chamber of everyone saying the same thing all the time.

SPEAKER_00 15:28

And what did you say? I think it was on the last episode or maybe the episode before that about like the identity and authority.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

Yeah, to have identity confusion will create authority confusion. And and I I said that I think to to remind us of the authority that we carry. And so if we continue to be reminded to go back to the word and to really meditate on the truth of like Jesus died on the cross, he said he was gonna send us a helper, which he did. We have the Holy Spirit that is our advocate, and our bodies are a temple for that Holy Spirit as those that are saved and adopted into his kingdom. And so, like, if we hold on to that truth and we know that to be true a hundred percent, then we know that means you have the Holy Spirit within you. That means you raised Jesus from the dead, exactly, is within you, and so to hold on to that, and then you you move and you walk forward differently, and so that takes us back to Joshua 1.9, how it says, Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous, do not be frightened, do not be dismayed. Why? For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

That is good. I'm glad that you emphasize that.

SPEAKER_02 16:41

Yeah, so it's not like I love that you highlighted the commanded part, that it's not just a suggestion, like, hey, be strong, hey, be courageous, like as if it's some kind of encouragement. Like you said, it's it's a command, and it's commanded because you have to fully accept the truth of the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:05

And so if you recognize that He is with you and that you're being commanded this, it actually doesn't matter how you feel. It doesn't matter what even maybe what your emotions are, or your circumstances. Because the fact that you feel sad, the fact that you feel anxious or whatever, whatever the way the wind is blowing, that doesn't change the fact that God is with you. He's still with you. And if he's still with you, you're not walking in your own authority, you're walking in his authority. Hence, again, I'm commanding you to be strong and courageous, not because you are, but because God is with you. So um, I want to even break down it says, so command here in Hebrew says it basically means to lay charge upon, to give charge to. It's a command, it's an order. And then to be strong, again in the Hebrew translation, it's to fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, and conquer, which is actually like an interesting way to define strong, because strong, you just think like strength, like physically strong. Yeah, maybe even um or even like bold, but it's like no, you it's not just strength, strong, it's go conquer. You you see that obstacle over there, go conquer it.

SPEAKER_00 18:37

Sorry if you guys hear me coughing, I'll try to edit that out. But I think even context, contextually in the Bible, in the book of Joshua, and um before it, yeah, in Exodus and Deuteronomy. So the Israelites, Moses leds leads the Israelites out of Egypt, and then they wander around for 40 years, and then at some point, I mean, Moses was already kind of old, and then it's time for him to go. So he has to, he he needs a successor. God appoints Joshua as his successor because Moses was never going to see the promised land and that that generation. So now these words are that when they come from Moses first, when he's when he's telling Joshua and he's he's naming him as his, or he's saying, The Lord has named you my successor. And then again, with the reiteration in the book of Joshua, this is now like everything you know, the person who has been guiding you on earth, yeah, is gone. Everything is new and different, and now you have to go lead all of these people, this people, like the Bible says, Yeah, yeah, into the promised land. And what did they have to do? Because they didn't just walk in and it was all empty, right? They had to conquer it.

SPEAKER_02 19:57

They did. That's great.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

But God tells him, You all I will give these people into your hand.

SPEAKER_02 20:03

Yeah, yeah, that's really great. And imagine to um, I don't know how old Joshua was, but he was probably really young. Um, he had lots of naysayers and people that probably doubted him. It's all these people that have followed Moses all those years. And God spoke to Moses directly. Everyone depended really on Moses, and so to like put that weight on Joshua.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

Yeah. Like here you go. Yeah. Also, all these people never listen.

SPEAKER_02 20:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

So good luck.

SPEAKER_02 20:42

I'm trying to read here like what Joshua's first response was. So I'm in Joshua one. Let's see. I I just love God is so good to even remind us. I know. Because we're so wishy-washy with our confidence, with just our certainty, ability to make decisions because we're just emotional beings. So Joshua 1 here, I want to start at the top. It says, After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, this Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, Moses, my servant, is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people into the land that I'm giving to them, to the people of Israel. Every place that the soul of your foot will tread upon, I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. I love that verse. Every place that the soul of your foot will tread upon, I have given to you. And then in verse five No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. And then he goes on. Honestly, be strong and courageous. What a beautiful reminder. And the only thing that we have to do in the case like this is believe what God says. Believe what he says. It has really nothing to do with you other than your obedience. Yeah. But take God's word for what it is if you know him to be God.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

Yeah. Well, that's that's it. We believe because we know who he is. That's good. We've seen it be done. Right. And like us here in the US and the Western world, like most people are not gonna go through something as anxiety inducing as leading a whole people group, millions of people into the promised land where other people are living. Right. Where people said there were giants living. Yeah. So if like, gosh, like if God is so good and can do He's so limitless, yeah. Why wouldn't He aid you in your anxious feelings, in your feelings of imposter syndrome, of you being scared to even like, I don't know, like be in around people. Like if you're people who are like agoraphobic and want to stay home all the time, like that's not that's not from the Lord. He wants you around people. Even that type of fear, like God is with you wherever you go. That the God that did all of those things in the Bible, but then all of those things in your own life.

SPEAKER_02 23:31

Yeah. I love this entire this chapter one because so I love the context and kind of the the um the backstory that you gave in what Joshua is dealing with. And I also love how we can use it in such a practical way in our own lives when we are feeling like you said, imposter syndrome or not equipped, not confident, in the way that truly the Bible is such a blueprint in how we are called to live, even in how he is commanded, because not only as we read the Bible, are we reminded of who God is, like we said, we trust him because we know who he is, like we believe him to be who exactly who he says he is, because our God is not a liar and he is consistent, we still serve the same God from then as we do today.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

But he does not change, he does not change.

SPEAKER_02 24:25

And so to be reminded, okay, just as he did for Moses, he will do to you. So, okay, and just as God did for the people in the Bible, he will do for us. Um, in the way that it says here, even in verse eight, this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. Um, for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. And so he even reminds us to meditate on his words day and night, and that if we do these things, we will be what? We will be prosperous. And again, going back to being strong and courageous, reminded of God's character, being reminded of his character, we know this guy, this guy, this God that we serve, he is all these things, he is the one that is with me.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:21

And so, I mean, it's just like, gosh, God just like all these crumbs, he just continuously feeds us, but we just have to remind ourselves of what he even says by spending time with him. Soon as you feel any anxiousness, like soon as you feel maybe even any fear to just what do you need to do? You need to go back to the word, and not for the sake of like, okay, what's the key? What's the answer? Go back to the word to simply be reminded of who God is. Seek first.

SPEAKER_00 25:49

Yeah. Yeah. That's where it all comes from. Yeah. So I have this verse that I'm writing down that I thought was before this. Hold on. No, it has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Um, yeah, it it is first Timothy chapter two, um, verses one through five. I don't think it has it relates because um I wanted to bring up you know the Philippians 4 6, which I think is everybody's go-to with anxiety, because it says do not be anxious for anything. Um but there is, I think it's in First Corinthians, and you might know this, there's another verse, it might be First Corinthians 15 where he Paul is writing that to um I've talked about this on the podcast before, to all the time be thinking of all things just loving, righteous. Yeah, and just how that fits in with Philippians 4, 6 of like, do not be anxious for for anything, but with all things through prayer and supplication, or give thanksgiving through with all things through prayer and supplication. But when you just say like, hey, just be courageous, be strong and courageous, or be anxious for nothing. I was sat on that for so long of like, okay, like just don't do it. Just like don't do it. But then there is that like that how do you how do you do it? That's right. And it's done. But it's exactly what you said first. Seek first God, spend time in the word, spend time in prayer, seek first God above all things. I think that is the answer to every question.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

I love that because not to say that, um, not to take away and diminish in any way just the power of just even saying the name of Jesus, how much power just saying Jesus out loud has. Um, but I think the reason why I what you just said is such a good reminder, because in those moments of weakness where we are fallible and our hearts are deceitful and weak, sometimes just being like, um, God did not give me a spirit of fear, but a love power and so on, and just like saying that to yourself, yes, it's a good practice to have. Like always, prayer should be your first response, but there is still action that follows. And so, even with the like seek first, like seek being an action, it's a verb and even being like an imperative sentence, like in the way that God commands us, right? Like there is there's a do, there's a doing that should follow. So we can't just like sulk in our emotions and our misery, and not to sound like I don't have compassion, but there's still an action that must follow. And as you move forward, God will continue to provide for you as you move forward.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

But there is something about just like have I had moments when I where I just say the name of Jesus and there's an instant heart shift. Absolutely. But also, are there moments when it's like, okay, speak a verse, pray, you know, pray, play worship music, but there's like, there's still a responsibility of a doing that must follow afterwards. It's it's it's not um, you guys, it's not magic.

SPEAKER_00 29:37

It's God is not Santa Claus. Yeah, he is not a genie in a bottle.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

She's not a genie in a bottle. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:41

He he has his thoughts are higher than ours, which thank praise him for that alone, right? That he has the vantage point that he has and that he knows way more than we could ever know. And so in in the moment, I I do worry that people think like, oh, I have I am anxious or I have anxiety and I pray and it hasn't gone away. So God has forgotten about me, or God isn't answering my prayers, or even worse things, right? Yeah, but that's not that's not how it works, I think. Part of it is there is a re a rewiring that has to happen. The the neuroplasticity of the um of your brain chemistry like has to be rewired. Yeah, and the best way that is 100% proven, not just hearsay or from my own mouth, the best way to do that is by reading the Bible.

SPEAKER_02 30:39

It reminds me of, I'm looking for this verse, um, to not just be hearers of the word, but also doers. So it says in James 1, but be doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. So funny.

SPEAKER_00 31:09

Yeah. That's pretty good because when you think about doers and hearers of the word, I like, like you said, there's an action in all of this, but immediately my brain goes to like loving other people, serving other people, doing other doing for other people. But part of of doing the word is still doing the things that God has commanded us individually to do. Yeah. Like the love your God with all your heart, your soul, and your strength. And then love your neighbor the same. Like he told you to do those things. Now you have to do them.

SPEAKER_02 31:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:46

Not just go. I mean, you also have to go serve other people, but it's not like, okay, I need to do the word. I think I'm gonna go feed the poor. No, first, actually be strong and courageous and know that your God is with you wherever you go.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

Yes, yeah. It's like receiving a Sunday message and then um putting that in the backseat Monday through Saturday.

SPEAKER_00 32:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:05

It's like, okay, great. You went to church and you heard a good word, but how are you gonna apply it?

SPEAKER_00 32:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:11

So I I I don't know, maybe a good um just a takeaway for us is like ask yourself, what are areas in your life that maybe um that you do feel like you're fearful of? And practically speak, like even find a life first that applies directly to that. But how can you apply it? Not just through hearing of the word, but like what are actionable steps you can do to apply that and maybe even to talk it out with someone, you know, because it is so much easier said than done.

SPEAKER_00 32:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:52

Like, oh, that's a great idea, but we have visitors.

SPEAKER_00 32:59

Hello. Hi, yeah, but come on in. Madison is in the studio. Um, do we want to wrap things up?

SPEAKER_02 33:14

Yeah, we can. This was like not quite a halfway through it, but also not quite a full through it episode, I feel like.

SPEAKER_00 33:21

Getting through it.

SPEAKER_02 33:22

You were that's great.

SPEAKER_00 33:25

Um, yeah, so the point is, hey, you're scared, don't be there, don't be that. Yeah, don't be scared. Yeah, just don't. Best advice ever. Just think something else. Yeah. But I I guess the one thing I want to uh reiterate or touch on, not move too quickly past before we go, is what you said with like find the life verse. Because if you find a verse that really, really speaks to you and your soul, like that's from the Holy Spirit, and repeating that in certain times, like minus Matthew 9, 22. And I don't even I think about this all the time because I don't even know where it came from or why, but it's um take heart, daughter, for your faith has made you well.

SPEAKER_02 34:13

I love that so much.

SPEAKER_00 34:15

It really, really grounds me. Like your faith has made you well. I know it was an active healing in Matthew, the woman with issue of blood, but well is well, right? Like well and all.

SPEAKER_02 34:26

It just like ministered to me so much just now for some reason hearing it. Cause I remember you put that in a group text just like the other week. But even hearing you this is why, too, when you reread verses, it just means something different every single time. And it hits differently every single time. Because you just saying that out loud again, right now, just with today being the 6th of June on a Saturday, you know? It hit me very different. Yeah. So thank you for that. And like, what did it make you feel? I don't know. It was just like a sobering reminder again. Like, just take heart, daughter. Your faith has made you well. I don't know. It just clicked different, and sometimes you can't explain it. Sometimes you read a verse and you've read it dozens and dozens of times, but for whatever reason, you read it one more time and the Holy Spirit just like hits you. So that actually just really hit me. And I would say for me, mine probably one of them, because I feel like we all have like maybe a few. Every time we read a verse, it's like, oh, that's my favorite. That's my favorite. I know it's like depending on where the day of the week, you know, and the day that you're having. But I feel like a good reminder for me always is um Romans 8 26. It says, likewise, the spirit helps us in our weakness. And then it continues to remind us that he intercedes for us even when we don't have the words. That's so good. And so everyone should should have a life verse. Do you have one?

SPEAKER_00 35:51

Do you have a favorite verse right now?

SPEAKER_02 35:54

Yeah. No, no. I would even say maybe not a life verse, but like a power verse that you can anchor on to in a moment. I love that. Because I'm like, I'm gonna make my life a mountain of the Lord. That's true. That's a word. Yeah, it is. Yeah, that's my bar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't say the full verse either, but it's um, oh no, we got a full house now. That's beautiful. We got another visitor coming in. Hi, welcome into the studio. Bamana, what is your life verse?

SPEAKER_00 36:32

Yeah, she said you guys can hear she has 15.

SPEAKER_02 36:35

At the moment, we just said too that there's a few, depending on the day of the week and even the season in life. Out of your dozens, we're putting you on the spot. Name name maybe one. Maybe one. Galatians 220. Can you give us a? I'm gonna actually just go straight to it.

SPEAKER_00 36:57

We gotta find it.

SPEAKER_02 37:08

Oh, that's beautiful. I'm gonna read that through the through the mic. It says uh Galatians 2.20. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. And we could just end it on that note.

SPEAKER_00 37:27

That's all we need.

SPEAKER_02 37:29

It goes on. Yeah, you're gonna close this out.

SPEAKER_00 37:32

Um, is it my turn? No, no, perhaps. I don't know. I don't know either. All right, do you mind joining us, ladies? All right, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for this time, Father. Thank you so much that we have just our sisters in Christ together, Father. Thank you that you've given us community, Father. Just thank you for who you are, and mostly for the words that you've given us, that you have commanded us to be strong and be courageous because you are with us wherever we go, Father. Whether we make our beds in hell, you are there with us, Father. No matter what we are doing, you are with us. I thank you that you are omnipresent and omnipotent, Lord, that there's nothing you don't know and nowhere we can go, no thought we can think that you aren't involved in, Lord. And I thank you for that. I thank you for that. Never leave us, Father. Never leave our, never leave our sides. I know you won't. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. I love that.