God's Math Is Multiplication: How God Uses Loss, Grief & Surrender to Grow Purpose

What if God isn't subtracting from your life?

What if He's preparing you for multiplication?

In this special live speaking engagement, Nadine Maldonado shares her personal testimony of losing her daughter, navigating divorce, rebuilding after business challenges, and discovering that God's greatest work often happens during seasons of surrender.

Through biblical truth, powerful storytelling, and honest reflections, Nadine explores how Jesus uses our deepest pain to produce purpose, healing, impact, and transformation.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why God often works through seasons of loss
• How to trust God when life doesn't make sense
• The biblical principle of multiplication
• Finding purpose through grief and adversity
• Why obedience matters more than perfection
• How God uses brokenness to bless others
• The power of faith, surrender, and perseverance

If you're walking through a difficult season, wondering where God is, or trying to understand His plan for your life, this episode is for you.

Transcript

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First off, I want to say everything that happened over there was so beautiful. One of the things that I wrote on my card was that I need to surrender is my plan, right? I'm like, oh, but it was like in that moment, God surrendered the plan, Nadine, right? Just let it go. It's fine if you're late to wherever you gotta go. You're here to serve a purpose. So I am so honored to be here. I wrote a speech. I probably will not look at this computer at all. I think it's an obedience thing of just trying to make sure that I hit on the things that I want to hit on, but the computer's not even opening now. So maybe I'm just not supposed to use it. So a little bit about me. My name is Nadine Maldonado. I am a mother. I am a servant. I am a confident person that walks in my journey. I am loud. I am full of joy. I am all of these amazing things that the Bible tells me that I am. And as I can say, all of these things to you guys here right now, that's not who I was a couple years ago. There's so many things that all of you shared in your testimonies while we were sitting at the tables that I was like, I know exactly why I'm sitting amongst these women because I could relate to each and every single one of you in some type of way or form. And I may not know exactly what is going through your on in your life or exactly what it is that you're walking through, but I think that we all have traces, everyone, right? And so when we're introverted or we're trying to stay away from the crowd, we're really doing a disservice to ourselves because once we start talking, then bonds start breaking and we start becoming free. At the end of the day, that is what I hope my message gives to all of you guys today. I have tons of parts of my story. Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry, and some will make you be like, and what I ask you guys all to do is allow the testimony to move you however God allows it to inside of you. There will be parts in my story where I, like Stephanie said, I should probably be crying, but I'll say it with a smile on my face because of the journey that God has walked me through. I want to start with a simple question with you guys. Have you ever looked at your life and felt like all you saw was loss? And I want you to think of what that looks like or feels like. Maybe it's a loss of a relationship, a loss of a dream, a loss of money, a loss of business, a loss of confidence, a loss of someone you love. Because if we're honest, maybe many of us expected that when we started to follow Jesus, that life was supposed to look like addition. That all of these amazing things were gonna start happening in our lives. We were just gonna be walking in this glory and all of these things. But when we decide that we are going to start following Jesus, and what does Jesus do for us? What does God do? He starts stripping away, stripping everything away that is not meant for us. And I remember one of my first encounters with the Lord, because for a long time I was very distant from God. Did not want to talk about him, didn't want to know him, didn't want to hear anything about him. I would get invitations to church and I said, Nope, not me. I'm good. He doesn't care about me. So I don't want to get to know him. And I'll share why about all of that later. I remember one of my first encounters with God. I was opening up one of my first businesses, and I was not in a good space financially or in any kind of way. And I'm driving, and I said, you know what? Everybody tells me that I need to talk to you, God. So here I am. I don't know what it is that you want from me, but I can't think that you're putting me into something in my life that you're just gonna leave me. I said, So I need your help. You put me here, get me through it. And the next day, God answered that prayer. And so I won't lie, I was looking for something from him, right? I wanted to see God move in my life. For me to believe that he was real, I didn't care what the Bible said, I didn't care anything because I was already so torn in my relationship. I wanted to know that God was actually gonna move in my life. And he answered that prayer the next day. And so that started conversation for me. But the breaking did not stop there. I was thinking, okay, now life is gonna be peaceful. I'm gonna have so much more joy, all this blessings, everything that everybody praises about. It's what I'm gonna have. But what happened is that my life really started to look like subtraction. I started to have to lose so many things in this process that has allowed me to become who I am today. And this started when I was a little girl. All of our journeys, they don't start at our first heartbreak, our first breakup, our first argument with a friend. It starts when we're a child. And if we don't start to tend to those things or look at those things, and they're gonna carry us, and we're just gonna keep building up with all of this resentment and hurt inside of us until God decides to break us wide open. What happens when God allows things to leave your life that you desperately want it to keep? So for years I thought I was living through a season of loss. At 18 years old, I got pregnant with my first child, and she was everything to me. Before that, I was a God knows this, so I'm gonna say it in his house. I was a party girl. I was living life full of sin. I had all gas, no breaks. And I ended up getting pregnant. And I remember when I told my parents, my mom looked at me and she said, You don't need to have this baby because I'm gonna end up raising it because you are such a mess up in life. Some people would say, Wow, that's such a hard thing for a mother to say. And I'm so thankful for that tough love that my mom gave me in that moment. She also told me that I had till I was seven months pregnant to get out of her house. So, what did I do? I had to become an adult. And I remember in my head, I said, God, I want to love this baby. You bless me with this baby. I want to love this baby. So I'm gonna do this. And I did. I had this beautiful little girl. I was 19 years old. Her name was Jalen Christine Dominguez, and she was my entire world. She was the first thing in life that I ever felt like I had true purpose for. And being a mother honestly came super natural to me. It was the only thing I was actually really good at. I had been fired and hired at so many jobs, I couldn't get through college, I got pregnant, all these things. But being a mom was the thing that I was amazing at. And I felt, okay, this is where life starts looking up. And I got to enjoy a full year of life with that little girl. And I was with her father, who ended up being the father to my other kids. And we were going through boyfriend, girlfriend stuff that people do at that age, and we were fit to be parents, we just weren't fit to be together. But she was my constant. I knew I was a great mom. And then one night everything changed. My daughter was actually killed in a car accident due to a drunk driver at a year old. And out of everyone that was in the car, me, my ex-husband, and my daughter, I was the only one that was alive, conscious, and aware of everything that was going on around me. And I remember in that moment, I was just like, this is really happening. And I don't want to create a scene for you guys that is sad, but I remember trying to reach back to my daughter, trying to wake her up, trying to wake up my husband, trying to do all these things to try to control. And I just kept thinking, like, what is going on here? And we went to the hospital, everybody got baylifted, and I knew a mother knows, I knew my daughter was no longer with us. And I kept telling everybody, all my family, everyone, you need to just go be with her, go be with her. And they were like, no, Nadine, we have to be here for you too. I was in intensive care. I broke my leg. I had all of these things. My husband at that time had all internal injuries, but I had already knew. And so they sedated me, did all the things. I was in ICU, and I remember waking up, and I remember it's like one of those things that you kind of see in a dream. You wake up, you go back to sleep, you wake up, you go back to sleep, and I was holding her hand and I told her, Jalen, it's okay that you let go. I already know you're not here anymore. And what I didn't realize then was that was a strength that God was giving me that I could never find in myself. I I think back of that time of my life as a 20-year-old girl at that time, losing a child, and I could think, oh, it's just something I had to push myself through, right? I just had to push myself through. And I thought about that for a long time. I got through my daughter's death because I decided to be strong, right? I got through my daughter's death because I decided to go to the therapy. I decided to do all these things. And what I've come to find out much later, 15 years almost, is that I survived my daughter's death because God was there in every moment. So as life continued to go on, I wanted to find purpose. I ended up becoming a mother again. I had two more children, another girl and another boy. They are now 12 and 15 years old. And my total life, I still feel like I am one of the best mothers in the world, and it is truly one of the most fulfilling gifts that God has ever given to me out of all the many things that you'll learn that I do. And I thought, okay, life is going, right? I opened up businesses, I was impacting women in health and fitness. I had an online audience where I was helping people all around the world to get healthy and to do their businesses online. I opened up cafes and I'm thinking, okay, life is moving in the right direction. I still really wasn't talking to God much. My friends were inviting me to church. You know, you should really get to know him. And I'm like, no, I'm good. That guy doesn't really like me. I again I was scared because I was scared what that relationship actually looked like. Okay. But then I started opening up the business in 2019. That was my first conversation with God was God, if you want me to open up this business and you're putting me here, then there has to be something here. So guide me. And then my daily conversations with God started in that time. Okay, today this is, and it was always me asking for something. Always. Always. I was never giving thanks for anything. I'd probably say thank you in the moment, but my conversations with God did not start with scripture or anything of that nature. It said, hey, this is what I need today. Please and thank you, Jesus. Amen. All right. I didn't have the perfect prayers, and I share that with you because even though I feel like we are all very faithful, loving women of God, I don't know where you are in your prayer life. And I want you to know that if it's not perfect, it's okay. God loves your imperfection. God has created you for exactly who you are. So He wants to take all of what you are right now, your mess, your brokenness, your uncertainty, your unknowing, and He wants to be able to form you. And I want to give you the courage to be able to bring all of that to God because He wants it. So through this business, I opened up this store and I had the nightmare of every business owner you can think of. I opened up a cafe and my rent was crazy. I had no idea what I was doing. I had no business opening up a business. But I opened and I was making $50 days. And I was like, how are we gonna pay the bills? So I would talk to God. God, bring the people inside of this store that are supposed to be here. God, I need to make a thousand dollars this week. God, I gotta buy more product, but the bank account doesn't, whatever. Guys, I ended up having that store for three years, kept it open to the end of my lease. Okay. That first year in business, I went from making $50 days to six figures in a month. Or I'm sorry, in a year, not a month. That would have been amazing. So just to show you that I was giving him the authority in my business without even knowing that's what I was doing. I just thought, I'm just talking to him. That's it. I'm just talking to him. And even through that, he was working. But I remember even going to a six-figure business, that wasn't enough to say, oh, I'm making good money to support my house or anything like that, especially when running a cafe. And once again, starting when you did not know what you were doing. So I did a lot of things upside down. And I remember at that time my husband would ask me, How do you come home every single day so excited about not making money? And I said, Because of the people that I get to talk to. The person that sits at my cafe bar and tells me about what they're going through in life. Somebody came in and they lost a child, somebody just lost their job, somebody just got diagnosed with breast cancer, somebody just lost their mother. That to me made me way more rich than any dollar amount in my bank account could. And the thing is, is what I didn't know at that point that God was showing me what that kind of community involvement in ministry looked like. I didn't know that's what he was doing. I just thought these people love me because I'm cool. Once again, I was I always tell people I'm a recovering egotistical business owner, right? So I thought all of these people came to me because they simply just liked me, right? But no, God was creating something there that I just couldn't see yet. And so while I was in this business, my life shifted again. And I remember one of the things that I used to think of constantly was, God, how much are you gonna take from me? Like, how much? Like, okay, my daughter, nothing else. Please, if it's gonna be something, let it be something small. I don't know, let me lose a t-shirt. I don't want any more big losses in my life anymore. And the next thing was coming around, but the thing is when we start getting in alignment with God, then we start knowing that things are about to happen before they even happen, right? People's spirits tell on them. We start to feel the shifts on how people talk to us and approach us and what's going on in our lives. We start to know when that big journey was completely different. Don't get me wrong, I was sad. There were many nights that I cried, there were many nights I was very angry. I could have been a little bit more crazy, but thank you. For the love of God, I was able to keep my dignity while I was going through this divorce. And I ended up leaving my house with my two kids and living in my parents' house in one bedroom on a queen size bed for 11 months. And I remember that I felt like that 18-year-old girl that had left my parents' house pregnant. And I felt so embarrassed. And I remember telling my parents, I'm so sorry I'm back here. I'm so sorry I'm back here. Like I promised I would never come back. And I've done so good to this point. And my mom and dad just kept saying, Baby, it's okay. We're here, we're here. And I share that with you because maybe not everybody has that support in parents, but maybe it's somebody else, a friend, somebody you meet at church. Embrace those people, love those people. They're so special, they're such gifts in our lives. And so for 11 months, I lived in this house with my parents, my kids, and my life was a mess. There was nothing perfect about my life at all. I felt so broken, so useless, so discarded, like I didn't even matter. But I had to pick up the pieces of my life. And I kept asking God, okay. Now I have nothing holding me back between this. There's nothing getting in the way now. There's no one in between that's telling me, let's not go to church, let's not. It's just me and you now, God. So I am all yours. Do with me what you please. It's another very powerful prayer when you pray that I get ready to step into the calling. So in this 11 months, God had led me to end up selling, I sold one of my businesses, or actually I closed them all, sold one. But the way that I sold it was so crazy. And this is one of the first times that I ever experienced a miracle of God. And maybe I've experienced a lot more miracles, but this one I can actually say I realized it was Him. I was working in my cafe, and this guy came to my cafe and he said, Hey, I want to buy this place. How do I get you out? He had no idea I was going through a divorce, he had no idea that I was about to close the place, anyways, any of it. Long story short, we get to the end of the lease. He pays me a very amazing amount, sum of money for me to be able to get out of this place that I was actually ending the lease on, anyways. And when I asked him, hey, why didn't how why did you buy this place? He goes, just consider it a gift from the sky. That money I was able to use, and I was able to get a home for me and my children and figure out who Nadine was gonna be. And here I am thinking that my creative brain is gonna give me all of these ideas. Maybe I needed to go back to corporate. Maybe I needed to find another job or start another business. Maybe I needed to open up a cafe again. I didn't know. What God's plan really was is no hun, you're gonna sit down and sit still, and you're gonna learn to rest in me. Rest as a woman, we tend to feel horrible for resting, almost as if we're lazy, as we're useless, as like we're doing something wrong by resting. And I want to let you guys know that rest in the Lord is the most peaceful rest you will ever experience. When he tells you sit down, sit right down, just pop your butt down and just sit down, right? When he tells you to come to him, to lean on him, I urge you to answer to that calling. Because through that rest is where I was actually able to find real healing. It wasn't trying to rush through my pain. Yep, I'm so sad today, but gotta get to work, right? I've been crying my eyes out, but hi, Nadine's here, right? He didn't want that version of me for where he was taking me. So for about a year, a little bit of a year, God sat me silent. But it was crazy. He still had money coming in from different ways, just like Stephanie was telling, saying before, I'm an entrepreneur, so I there's a lot I've learned a lot of tasks because I've been broke starting many of my businesses, so I've learned how to do a lot. And so people started to randomly start to hire me for different services when it comes to starting up your business. So I was always earning money, and like I told Stephanie last time we saw each other, hey, maybe my bills aren't always on time, but nothing's getting taken away. God always shows up at the stroke of midnight, right? So as long as he knows that I'm walking faithful in his steps, then he will provide. So he was providing during that time, and during that time, somebody had gifted me a real estate course, and I was like, I am not doing real estate. That is not what I want to do. Actually, my husband ended up with a woman in real estate, so I was like, there's no way I am getting into this industry in our town or in our city. No way. And so one of my clients gifted me that course. I took a couple units, I said, nope, not for me. Then it circled back around, and one of my another client of mine had said, Hey Nadine, I got a business opportunity. I want you to be my co-founder, and it's in real estate. And I said, Okay, I can't rid myself of this, right? I guess I have to show up to the calling. So I went ahead, completed the course, passed it on the first time, hallelujah, and I became a real estate agent, not actively selling in the industry, but helping with marketing and business, right? And what I came to find out, I have journaled all my life. My book, Lemon Seas, is just a combination of all of the journals throughout my life and the things that I've learned through. But in 2008, I bought my first house and I had actually wrote in that journal, and it just opened up one day when I was in the process of moving stuff around. And I said, maybe one day I'll become a realtor. So it's really important that we are mindful of the things that we're saying that we want right now, right? Because once they become in agreement with God and what God has for us, those things will come true. And if there's something inside of your heart that you're really wanting to work on, really wanting to do, you're really wanting to write that book, you're really wanting to start that business, start praying over that now. Start putting that out there now. Because just watch, it may not happen next year, it may not happen in five years, but in 15 years, in 12 years, and in 20 years, who knows who you'll be? And you already prophesied that over your life. You already demanded and called for that in your life. That's how God works. So now I'm in real estate. I coach people all over the world, or I'm sorry, not over the world. I could coach people locally and all over the country, like when it comes to social media. But I coach people on how to market themselves in real estate, how to attract clients. I have sold homes, I've done all of the things when it comes to real estate. But I told God, I said, God, is this all that we have planned for me to sell real estate? Is this what you want for me to do? And he said, Oh no, child, this is gonna be so much bigger. And so during this time of doing these things, like selling my business, surviving the divorce, finding a place to live, paying my own bills. I had been with someone since I was 18 years old. Here I am now 32 years old, and I had no idea what life by myself looked like. But all of these things, God was building up my confidence in who I was. That girl who felt discarded, unworthy, unloved, didn't matter. God was working on me with the things that he was putting me through, that he was allowing me to step inside of to build and take off those old identities and step into his. And so I started to feel more confident. He's okay, now I need to use you to use your voice. You've talked on stages, you've done all these things where you talk about how much money you can make somebody. Now I need you to tell somebody how amazing it is to find me. And so that's where I found myself now. And the thing is that it all just started with a seed. We always hear about the muster seed of faith, right? We just need to have a muster seed of faith. And I wrote this last night, and I want to make sure that I don't skip over this part because it's just it's so important. And what I said is God's math is different than ours. When we see loss, he sees preparation. When we see endings, he sees multiplication. When we see a seed dying, he sees a harvest coming. And today I want to show you how God's math works, not just in finances, but in purpose and healing, in influence and impact in the lives of the people we are called to serve. In John 12, 24, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. This verse is a profound statement that Jesus made to express the importance of sacrifice and transformation. So are you willing to step outside of your grave, of your old life, of the things that you no longer want to be doing, so you can be truly transformed. Being a Christian and following Christ does not call us to be perfect. It is calling us to work on ourselves, to become not to be Christ. I remember there was a Big part of time where I wouldn't go to church because I felt nobody's gonna like me there. I don't know how to walk, how they walk, or talk like they talk. I have no place there. I was raised Catholic. So I was like, nope. Until I was like, wait, this is about me and him. Right? So what I said here was nobody celebrates the seed, everybody celebrates the harvest, but God does his greatest work in the ground. I wrote a book called Lemon Seeds, and one of the things I've learned is that every harvest begins with a seed. The problem is that seeds look insignificant. A seed doesn't look like a tree. A seed doesn't look like a forest. A seed doesn't look like abundance, it looks small, buried, hidden, forgotten. Many of us are praying for multiplication while complaining about the seed. We're asking God for influence while ignoring the people right in front of us. We're asking God for purpose while refusing to serve who we are. We're asking God for abundance while despising small beginnings. But God is a God of seeds. David was a shepherd before he was a king. Esther was an orphan before she was a queen. Joseph was in a pit before he was in the palace. Jesus spent 30 years preparing for three years of ministry. God starts with C's. So I want you guys to think of this. And I want you guys to think of your story. What seed are you looking at right now and thinking it's not big enough? I can't do anything with this. What is it that you have in your mind that you feel that cannot become? That is just going to devastate you and kill you, and you're just going to be done. This is one of my greatest thoughts that I had every single morning. If I'm alive, then there's still a purpose in why I'm here. So therefore, today I need to make it the best day. I cannot walk around my days feeling bad for my situation, feeling worried or confused about why I am where I am right now. You're where you are right now because of what a God is going to do for you later. And it is your decision. It is your will that is going to keep you either in the wilderness for 40 years or in God's graces for the rest of your life. So it is going to be what it is that you're willing to do. I looked at my situation. I had no business opening up another business. I had no place of authority or anything of that nature, no finances behind me in order to do what God was calling me to do. When God started to call me into ministry, I said, But God, I don't even know your word that well. He's great. Get into it. Start learning who I am. Let me speak to you. Get into communion with me. So it wasn't that I had to be perfect. You don't need perfection. I will say that over and over again. Today, when I was also driving here, I felt, God, I was like, I feel like there's something that you want me to share, and I'm just not getting it. And he made me look at my water jug. Can you get me my water jug, Stephanie? So I bring this water jug everywhere with me, okay? So I'll give you guys a little background on my real estate business. I work with developments and custom home builders and things. I walk into meetings with this cup all the time. So people who have loss of wealth, and they're like, Nadine, do you need us to buy you a cup? I said, No, my cup is perfect. I know I'll hold it like this. I'll hold it, it's perfect. And this is the problem with our society. This is the problem with us is that we will look at something that just has a little bit of a malfunction, a little bit of an imperfection, and we'll say, throw it away. But what we don't realize is this cup still holds my water, I can still drink from it, it is still usable, it is still a good cup, so therefore, it is not trash. I don't need to replace it. I don't. I actually can configure it to work in my favor. Okay? So how many times do you look at yourself and say, I can't do this because I don't know how to talk this way yet? I can't show up to this because I don't have the right clothes. I can't do this because I don't know. I didn't go to school for that. I didn't go to school for anything. I Googled my way through college. Sorry, Lord, by no I sin for cheating. But literally, I was not prepared for anything. But I just had to believe that if he was calling me to it and it wasn't from my own ego, and you really got to check yourself, right? God, am I asking to speak because I want to glorify my story? Do I want to glorify you? And how am I doing that? How am I bringing people closer to you? Because my story is no longer about me. I can use the testimony. I think that's one of the reasons why we love the Bible so much. It's because it's testimonies that show us from start to end. Listen, I want to know how things end. Okay. I want to know, hey, God, where am I going here? Are we hitting a brick wall or are we going to a promised land? So I can read scripture and see it ends in a promised land. We're at the top of the mountain. But this is good news. I'm going to be okay. So when I share my testimony, it's not the fact that I lost a child, went through divorce, started my life over and all this stuff. It's about what God bought me through. I now can use the story of my daughter passing away and help other parents, right? I can help other people who know what that feeling is like. Right. And that was one thing. After my daughter passed away, six months after I was sitting on a couch with a woman who had just lost her child. And I knew nothing about ministry at that point. There was always hints that there was a bigger purpose here. And I always used to say, I cannot let her death be for nothing. I have to live in honor of her. So it was not my calling to live in depression. It was not my calling to live in anger. I was not called to be in that. I had to rise above it for it to be worth it to me. And just like I told Stephanie, my daughter had to die in order for me to be who I am today. I had to get divorced in order for me to be who I am today. Because if not, God knew she will not live for me. She will not give it all to me unless I, and I don't want to make it, she's not a bad God, but unless I take from her and get her focus on me. I need to be able for her to focus on me. And sometimes that's the hard punch in the stomach. Sometimes God took your job because you were idolizing your job. God took the relationship because you were putting your husband before God. So now it allows us to get in alignment with him and see him. My finances make no sense. No sense. But in God's in the kingdom, I am rich and amazing and so well fed and so well taken care of that I don't even need to worry about what's going in or out of my bank account anymore. All I need to do is walk in purpose, walk and do and serve. Every morning I wake up, God, allow me to be your servant, your hands and feet, put the people in front of me, highlight them so I know that is who I'm supposed to serve today. I don't care if I end many days making no money, God will find a way. Just like you said, you have to be so radical in your obedience that when God says to get up and move, you move. And don't be scared. And guess what? What you don't know right now, don't worry, you'll understand later, as long as you're willing to walk the walk. In regards to servings, in 2 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 3 to 4, it says, Praise be to God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble. So this is where many people misunderstand blessing. God blesses you because he loves you. But he multiplies you because he loves others too. So understand that when those opportunities that come and say, Hey, I want you to speak, or I want you to come and talk to this woman, or hey, I need you here, it is not your job to stop and say, I'm not ready for that. I've talked on sages for the last nine years, only in a kingdom setting, probably like the last year. But every time myself, my flesh will say, You can't do that, but I know that it's to help all of you in some kind of way, even if it's one sentence, one word, something I've said today has entered into your heart and is going to create your relationship with God to be a little bit deeper. If not, then I didn't do my job. Everything God gives us is meant to flow through us, not stop with us. So remember that as you're going through things, I love Stephanie's story. This all just happened six months ago. She's still learning, but she's not allowing that to stop her from giving, right? The wisdom you gained, the lessons you learned, the healing you fought for, the business you built, the resource you stewarded, the story you survived, it was never just meant for you. One of my favorite realizations is this the oil that blesses others comes from something that was crushed. Olives must be crushed for oil, grapes must be crushed for wine, seeds must be buried before harvest. And many of us spend years asking God, why am I being crushed? When the better question is, God, what are you trying to produce through this? So in your hard times, ask God, journal, journal. Ladies, if you do not have a journal, I highly suggest you pick one up. Start writing. Write out everything. I don't know how to journal how to journal. There's no formula to it. It does not need to be a five-point essay. It's God, today I am mad. God, today I need help, right? And then over time, your journal entries become this personable dialogue between you and God, and it's just so beautiful. So start journaling. Just like for me. So helping people to find hope is greater. Watching my children know Jesus is greater, right? It's one of the reasons why I do this. My daughter, I was not raised in a place where we needed to honor the Lord. My daughter will come to you and she will straight up ask you in your face, Do you know Lord Jesus? And if you say no, then let me get and she will talk the gospel. She and I won't lie, my flesh at one time was like, I'm in competition with this girl right here. She is on it. She's teaching me. And now I'm just like, no, girl, go do your thing. I planted that seed, let it bloom. What will your seed do for somebody else to allow it to bloom? Okay. The greatest multiplication God has done in my life isn't my income, it's my impact. It's the way that I'm able to touch other people's lives, whether it's a room of five women, one woman, twenty women, or a thousand women. If I could go back to my younger self and speak to her on the one who lost my daughter, went through divorce or financially drowning, who is sleeping in her parents' house wondering if it would ever make sense, I would tell her, hold on, this story isn't over. God is not subtracting for you, He's preparing you for multiplication because every seed has a harvest, every crushing has oil, and every surrender has purpose. And every person who places their lives in the hands of Jesus Christ will discover that God's math has always been multiplication. And I'm gonna leave that word with all of you ladies today. I thank you all so much for your attention and let's go become.