Deliverance or Discipleship? What Growth in Christ Actually Looks Like

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Some people are waiting on God to do something in a moment…

When God is actually doing something in them over a lifetime.

We love stories of instant change. We love breakthrough moments. And sometimes God really does work that way. But the Christian life is not built on moments. It is built on a life of following Jesus daily.

In this episode, we walk through the difference between what many people call deliverance and what Scripture actually points us toward, which is a life of discipleship and ongoing growth in Christ.

One of the biggest frustrations people experience is falling back into old patterns and wondering what went wrong. The truth is, people return to old sin patterns not because grace failed…

But because:

• sin was never put to death
• habits were never replaced
• the heart was never trained

Real change requires more than a moment. It requires formation.

And that’s where discipleship comes in.

Real growth in the Christian life isn’t flashy, but it is powerful. It looks like:

• fighting sin daily
• staying rooted in God’s Word
• living in biblical community
• changing your environment when necessary
• walking in accountability
• choosing obedience even when it’s difficult

This isn’t about earning anything from God. You are fully accepted in Christ. But the same grace that saves you is also the grace that shapes you. It trains you, strengthens you, and leads you into a life that actually reflects Jesus.

At the end of the day, this episode is a reminder that you don’t need another emotional moment or spiritual high to grow.

You need daily faithfulness.

You need to keep walking with the Christ who already saved you.

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Transcript

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What is up, Ain'Quiet listeners? Welcome to a new episode of the Ain'Quiet Podcast. Thank you for tuning in. Hope you're having a good morning, good afternoon, good night. Whenever you're taking in this new content, I hope that you are subscribed to our channels. I hope you're seeing the other things that are being put out. If not, go in the show notes, look in the link tree, find all the social media and everything there. Go give it all a follow, all a like. And what you're gonna find is a lot of content that if this helps you, then that content will also help you in your daily walk with Christ. So without further ado, we're gonna talk this morning, this afternoon, whenever you're listening, to two different words, deliverance and discipleship. And we're gonna talk about what actual Christian spiritual growth looks like. So let me give it to you in this way. Some people in life are only wanting God to do something in a moment. Salvation, a change. They're good, they go to heaven. But what God is actually doing and actually calls us to do is to be transformed and changed over a lifetime. Now, does that sound like you? Does that sound like something that you we love things? People love dramatic testimonies, they love instant change, they love breakthrough moments. But here's the question most people don't ask What does real lasting change actually look like in scripture? So tune in, stay right here. This is what we're gonna go over today because a lot of people have had some kind of experience, but they haven't been transformed. Before we get into the rest of this, I want to give another shout out. 479 hats, man. I love this thing. Again, I'm wearing it all the time. I love it. I love the look. In fact, a listener of ours asked for my other hat and got it, so it's being worn out there. And so I'm appreciative of that. If you're wanting one, all you need to do is find them on Facebook, 479 hats. Say, hey, could I get an Ain't Quiet Podcast hat or any other design you're thinking of? Mark's gonna take care of you. He's gonna get something that looks good and he's gonna take care of you so you're not paying way overpriced for something of that quality. You're gonna get great quality and you're gonna get an even better price. So look up 479 hats on Facebook, and we are so grateful for their support of the show. Now, back to it. Today we're gonna talk about the difference between what other people call deliverance and what the Bible actually emphasizes, which is a life of discipleship and sanctification. So we've got these segments we're gonna break through in steps, it's gonna walk you through. So just stay along here. Here we go. Segment one God really does change people. He doesn't just give you a moment, he changes people. He is a redeeming, saving God. So when Christ saves someone, this is not partial. God saves, God redeems, God breaks chains. So when Christ saves, it's complete and it's done. And it's something that is real and it is so authentic. John 8 36 talks about this. So if the Son sets you free, you are free indeed. Now that is a great thing to say because that is the moment. Now we're gonna talk about over a lifetime and and everything of what we're called and the change to do, but there's that moment. We need to understand how that change unfolds to look at it from our entire life. So in that verse, what he's saying is salvation's not a behavior management, it's a completely new heart. You are saved and redeemed through the work of the cross through Jesus Christ. Well, that's great. But what's that mean next? Well, that means we're justified. When someone becomes saved, when you, if you're a listener that is a born-again blood-bought believer and you're saved, well, that means three things. You're justified, you're declared righteous, you are fully accepted before God. You're not gradually, it's not partially, it's completely. This is the moment, this is grace, this is God's grace. So to start out your salvation, to start out your journey, you are justified, you are fully accepted before God. You're not slowly, it's it's complete and in the moment. You are fully accepted in Christ. But here's the break. Here's the deliverance and discipleship. This is where we're we're gonna step out here. And deliverance is is delivered you from a moment, delivered you from your sins. But then this discipleship part, the thing that I believe, and I'm not saying this is all just Christians fall short of it. I believe that churches fall short on setting up and having a discipleship plan for people once they get saved. And so a lot of people just get saved, they don't grow, their church doesn't grow them anymore, and then that's it, and they don't have a deeper walk with Christ. So this is where we're going to talk about sanctification, that process of becoming more holy, that process of growing more and more to be like God, to be what God's called us to be. He says that he is holy, holy, holy. So we are called to be holy. Well, this is where it is. It's while we're justified, and that's instant, sanctification is your life. From the moment you are saved until the moment you're called home, that entire process should be a sanctification process. He doesn't just, God doesn't just forgive you and you're done. If that was the case, then as soon as you get done with your baptism, you could be done with church, you could go home and you're done. You don't have to go back. There's no reason to go back. Like you're saved, you're good, you're you're going to heaven and we're done and move on. But God doesn't just forgive you. He formed you. And when you allow God to form you, he changes some things. Okay, he changes some things. And I've seen this in my life. So if you want to go back, I've got an episode that's out that's more of my testimony. Go back and listen to that and redeemed. Uh it's in the title. Go back to that episode to hear that testimony. But what he does change is your desires, your thinking, your habits, what you love. When you truly, truly meet Jesus Christ, when you truly meet the Savior of the world, who we're going to celebrate at Easter, who we can celebrate every day, who we're called, and we'll get over this in a minute, to walk with every day. Over time, he changes your desires, thinking, habits, and loves because you fall in love with Christ, and hopefully you're not falling in love more with sin. What does this mean? Well, Philippians 1 6 says this I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. Good news. The day of completion through Jesus Christ, that part is already completed. The work of the cross is already done. There's no purgatory, there's no uh faith plus works. It's Jesus Christ, and that work's complete. When that work becomes a part of your life, salvation, and then sanctification, God who begins a work in you will see it through. Because if not, then the cross was only half of the solution. It was the complete solution. God doesn't just save you from something, but he is looking. And maybe for one of you today listening to this, he is looking to grow you into someone that he's called for a reason, for a purpose. But let's step back. Okay, we went into discipleship, we went into that sanctification, but here's the scary part. This is this is where people have got to be careful. This is where the online pastors, the prosperity gospel, those things can really, really hinder your walk. Here's what it is. You have the danger of chasing moments. Now, let me think about this for culture. We're in a culture where you are called to emotional highs. Where there are pastors, there are people who are saying, Hey, guess what? Let me let me rile you up, let me get you fired up, let me get you feeling the best you can, okay? Let me get you on this emotional high, and you're good. And if you reach that emotional high within a church service, you're a Christian, you're a great person, you've been saved, and move on. You know, everyone wants these spiritual experiences, they want breakthrough moments. I can think of these things. Who the pastors that play on your emotions more than just teaching the word of God, you know, I always say on this, I've given video segments to talk about how Michael Todd does this. The one that really does this more than anyone is Benny Hinn and Joel Olstein. Those guys absolutely disrupt and corrupt people that maybe are looking for an answer. And instead of getting the gospel preached to them, they get the teachings of Joel Olsteen or the I'll say it, the crap of Benny Hinn, where he's gonna take off his jacket, and if you're really sick enough and in the front rows where the cameras are going, he's gonna smack you with his jacket, and then boom, you're safe and you're safe and you're healed. If if those guys could do, especially Benny Hinn, okay, especially those guys that that teach those things about healing and their moments and stuff, if those guys were real, then they would have made so much money through COVID-19. They would have made so much money through the break, through the shutdown, through everything else. It would have been their time to shine. God's gifted them with something, and that would have been it. But they didn't because they couldn't. They play on your emotional highs. And this is what culture wants you to do. Even if you go to the wrong churches, this is what they want you to do. They want to get you emotionally invested and not spiritually invested. Spiritually invested might lead you to go to a different church, to a better pastor who's teaching the Bible and is and is calling your sin out in repentance, but loving you and walking with you in the way. What people really want are those things. What culture really wants those things. But what culture wants and what some people are lazy and want to avoid is discipline, obedience, consistency. Now, if you're one of those, let me tell you those. If you're not disciplined and reading your Bible every day and really having prayer time, and I'm not talking, thank you for this food, bless the hands that prepared it. I am talking true discipline. Like I'm going through right now, the quiet time I'm having is I'm reading back through the book of Isaiah. One of my favorite verses is Isaiah 40, 31, but I'm reading all the way up to get to that moment to just see what God has in that. That's where I'm growing right now in my walk, is that, and I have a discipline that every day I read the next part of Isaiah. Wherever I'm at, I stop, I pray over, I dissect, I think about, I study more, I think about how it connects to what we read before, and then I go to the next one. People don't have discipline. They they aren't willing to put in the legwork that comes with growing faith with that sanctification process. They're willing to get a free, and this is what I call it all the time. If you've ever, if you're a listener, it's ever found my sermons at church and stuff. I call it all the time. People are all willing to get a free bath, but they're not willing to get transformed by Jesus Christ. I'll talk about a free bath all the time because it would have you do something. To go from free bath to actually following Jesus Christ, it would take obedience and consistency to take up your cross daily. So some people want the feelings of freedom, but they don't want the faith that's called for that freedom. To be truly free of your sins and free of the world's grip on things, you are called to have a formation of faith. And this is why some people fall back. Okay, they return to old sin patterns, not because grace failed, but because, hey, sin has never been put to death. Look at this. I've got this in the show notes. Habits were never replaced, and the heart was never trained. Oh, those are so good. So I'm going to dissect those for a minute. But let me tell you these. I'm going to tell you first what the word of God says on that. Okay. That that why people fall back. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Romans 8 13. So in that verse, in those things, people fall back because they realize, oh, I was in an emotional high. Ooh, I had this going for me. I had this going on. And they never put their sin to death. Like I said, they got a free bath, but they never repented. Jesus Christ was a guy that got them a bath and a shirt and a certificate, but he didn't become Lord of their life. They had habits that were never replaced. And I talked about this even with my addiction. Like to repent of some of your sins, you got to cut your circle. You got to change your habits. You got to change your outlook, and you got to change some of the people around you. When you're all in, when you dive in, when you become saved, when you're truly changed by the work of the cross, there are people who are not going to want you to do that. And they're not going to want to see you walk that walk daily. And you've got to cut them. At least for a season. At least for a season, maybe for a lifetime. Because your heart has got to be trained up how to follow and how to be Christ-like. A Christian, the word Christian, okay, back in the translation of it, literally means Christ-like follower. So if your heart's never trained to look at the world how Christ looks at it, look at sin how Christ looks at it, look at look at people for gospel opportunities to present and all these things. If your heart's never been trained and you never broke those habits and you still have sin that you didn't really repent of when you got your uh either baptism and change or your free bath, whatever version it looks like, uh depending on your depths, what I mean by those, then you're just going to return to your old patterns and and you're going to fall back. And then you're looking for, those are people that are looking for the deliverance. They're not looking for discipleship. And and the Bible literally said that verse talked about, hey, if you live according to your flesh, you're done. You can live it out. I've been talking about this in our our sermon series lately. Live it out, and if you're going to live to your flesh, you better get all your money's worth. Because as soon as it's over, you're going to hell and the party's over. And you're going to realize something. Man. Jesus was really who he said he was. You're going to realize that. Because in the second half of that verse, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. The truth of all this starts with having a true change in when you come to salvation. It's not just if if you keep in your life to have an emotional experience and you keep trying to fight sin, sin's gonna win. So you either have to fight sin in a way that you repent and let the finished work of the cross and yes, as in our flesh, in our bodies, we have to make changes. If you're doing drugs, you have to stop doing drugs. If you're sleeping with people that's not your spouse, you gotta stop sleeping with people that aren't your spouse. If you're looking at something online like pornography, you gotta cut it. But if you try and if you don't fight sin, sin's gonna win. So what about the next thing of this? Well, we've got the deliverance again. Now we're going back to discipleship. Well, discipleship is daily. It is a daily thing to go back to the cross, to die to our sins, and to live a life daily in discipleship. So let me define this clearly. Let me talk about this. Because first off, scratch that. Let's see what the Bible says about what Jesus actually said. Luke 9 23. And he said to all, if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

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Take up your cross, deny yourself, take up your cross, repent of your sins, take up your cross daily, which means I'm gonna carry Jesus Christ with me today. I'm gonna walk the walk, talk the talk, I'm gonna grow in a way that's discipleship. I'm gonna grow in the word and in prayer and in my life. And he says, Hey, follow me. Here's what discipleship is not. Discipleship is not a moment, it's not a feeling, and it's not a season in your life. It is not called to be a season in your life. Hey, I was a disciple, I was discipled, and I grew for 10 years in my church, and I'm I'm good. I know it all. We are never made completely holy until we reach heaven. What we are called to do is pursue that sanctification process to become more holy-like from salvation, from answering the call of salvation that God puts on your life to death. And then the real, real reward of that is when you close your eyes here, you open them in the presence of Jesus, in the presence of that savior that you took up your cross daily and followed him. It's it's daily, it's costly, and here's what it is. And this is where transformation really happens for people. Your Christian life, your walk cannot be built on moments. Okay. You can have moments, you can say, wow, God really uh youth camp, church camp, revival, certain event or something at a church have, but you can't build your Christian life on moments. It's built on one thing. And Jesus said it perfectly right there in the Bible verse in Luke is it's built on daily surrender. You can't be built on moments, you must be built on daily surrender. So, what does that look like here? Well, you're gonna mess up. Listen, in the sanctification process before it's all over, I don't know if it's more times than not, but at least sometimes you're gonna blow it. You're honestly gonna blow it. You're gonna miss it, you're gonna miss the mark, you're gonna have days that you don't, and those are days that we need to repent more than ever. We need to hit our knees in prayer more than ever. I find days where I'm like, I didn't get my quiet time in like I wanted, or I'm trying to have sermon study time and then you know, podcast and content, and also quiet time where I just go sit in the sanctuary of our church where I'm at with a Bible, and maybe it's not in Isaiah, maybe it's not where I'm preaching from, it's just in a different spot, and I'm just having quiet, one-on-one time just with God. You're gonna blow it at times. This is where God's grace is so well to understand. This is where you have to get this in. Okay. We don't grow in in anything of our sanctification process by trying harder. You can't just try to be a good person, and that makes you a good person in the eyes of God. Maybe at work, maybe to your family, maybe to your spouse. You can try harder, you can help pick up, you can actually do what you say you're gonna do and keep your word. But to God, trying harder doesn't mean you're gonna grow. We grow because of this. Christians are united in Christ, the spirit is at working in us, and grace is active, not passive. Now I'm gonna tell you the verse that goes with this Titus 2.12, okay? Training us, training us to recount ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age. Grace doesn't just save you, it trains you. Grace of God trains us to turn away from ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in our present age. Well, what's this mean? Well, the same grace that saves you is going to be the same grace that changes you. And let me let me put it to this. Let me put it to the listeners, let me put it to you right now. And I hope this maybe connects to you. If not, maybe this is someone you're wanting to share this with or anything else. That same grace gives you opportunities even when you only focus on God Sunday morning for an hour or two. Maybe Wednesday night if you actually go to a church. The grace that that gives you opportunities even when the only content you take in is online only, which I know sounds crazy. Posting this on YouTube and social media and podcasts, and for you to listen to. And I'm so grateful for that, but but podcasts can't replace the word of God. Even when we open the word of God in this segment, that can't replace your personal walk in faith. Why would I tell you that? Is because you have to know that we grow. Let me I'm gonna I'm reading this list again. We grow because we're united to Christ, the Spirit is at work in us, and grace is active, not passive. So it doesn't just save you, it trains you. God's grace gives you opportunities. And I challenge you, get in the word. If you're not a Christian, start with Matthew. Read the Gospels. When you get done reading the Gospels and you still have questions, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, read Romans. When you get done with the Gospels, John, Romans, everything else, well, then just go through the New Testament to read all about Jesus. And then you want to really catch it good, go back to the Old Testament, pick books, whatever ones you want to pick, because several of them, if not all of them, have direct connections to hey, this is saying that Jesus Christ is going to come. This is saying that a savior is going to come and he's going to save us from this and this, and that we're called to live like this. Go look, go read in Psalms, the life David lived, and how he was faithful and a man after God's own heart. What a, what a compliment, what a what a stature that he was given. See, some of our listeners, I'm afraid, I hope, not, but you may only be looking for Jesus for deliverance. Get me out of this situation, get me out of this debt, get me out of these things. And what he's wanting you to do is to turn to him for discipleship, to really shape your life, where it's like, hey, then you take accountability. Maybe I got myself in this situation, but God's getting me out of it. Maybe God's get not getting me out of it, but I'm in this situation with a new perspective because I'm growing in sanctification. And now I'm walking with the eyes of saying, okay, I'm seeing the world like God's called us to, like what Jesus Christ said to look at the world like, to see sinners, to see situations. I'm going about life a different way. That's that's the point of this is to look at are you just looking at Christianity of Jesus Christ for a moment and deliverance, or is he actively shaping and discipling you every day? And sometimes, yeah, you blow it and you don't you don't speak and walk with him every day, but more days than not, and you're repenting of the days that you don't, is that what your life looks like right now? So what does this look like practically? Okay. Well, here's what real growth looks like. One, fighting sin habits daily. If you're struggling with porn, get a blocker on your phone, get an accountability partner that has that that you can get those apps that will send them, hey, this person looked it up. Find a real person that's not gonna say, hey, you're an idiot and a fool or whatever, unless that's the way you need to hear it to understand it, but is gonna say, hey, I saw that you struggled today. What moment caused this? Were you just alone? Were you thinking what was going on that led to this? Let's let's walk through it, let's try and correct it so that we can walk more in Christ. Well, another way real growth happens, staying in the Word. You have to be in your Bible to grow. And listen, I've said this before. I don't know if I've said it on here. I know I said it in sermons before. The Word of God gives you clear instructions on how to live your life. It's not gray area. It's it's here's sin, here's what sin is, here's all the things that are defined to sin, here's what repentance looks like, here's what salvation looks like, here's what sanctification, growing in that process to be more holy-like, to be more what Jesus has called us to be. It's clear instructions. But if you're not in your word, how are you gonna know what instructions to follow? Because if you're not getting your instructions from the word, you're gonna get them from the world. And then you're gonna still be in the mess that you're in, probably deeper, because you're gonna think, ah, that person on TikTok really sounded great. That that fits. Or, oh, this hype man that was doing this special ceremony thing on on YouTube over, you know, like Michael Todd's Easter plays they've done at their church. That'll get you hype because it looks flashy and whatever, but it's nothing according to what the word of God's called us to be like and worship and anything. And if you're not in your word, how are you gonna know that? How are you gonna know what the word says if you're not in it? Real growth looks like this living in a community. We are called to live in a Christian community. You are called to live with other Christians. Here's what I'm saying. This is very important. So, right here, focus, listen. This is super important. I understand you're taking in online content. You're listening to this through your phone, through your podcast app, through Spotify, through websites, wherever you're getting it. I understand you're getting online content. I'm gonna get closer to the mic for this. This may be really loud. You're called to be in a church with other believers. You're called to be in a community of other believers who want to grow with you, walk with you, who want to see you and you want to see them grow closer and their walk with Christ. You will not, cannot truly really grow avoiding everyone in the world and just sitting around like a hermit. We are called to be in a community because how are you gonna be able to fight sin daily without someone else there with you? How are you gonna be able to stay in the Word and know what it says if you're not in a community with a Bible-believing, Bible teaching Jesus Christ as our Savior, no faith plus works, faith through Christ alone, for the glory of God alone. How are you going to know all of that and grow in all that if you're not in a Christian community? So get up on Sunday morning or the Saturday night service, whatever's offered in your area for a Bible-believing church. Get up. It does not matter what you wear. Don't go raunching and nothing. Put on just some clothes and go to church. Go be in a Christian community. Okay. Real growth also looks like this changing your environment. I'm not going to beat, beat this so crazy because it's been said so many times, especially in the last episodes. But to grow in your away from your sins, to grow in your walk with Christ, your environment has to change. Salvation is I'm a sinner, saved by God, redeemed through the work of the cross and Jesus Christ in the empty tomb, and here I am now. This person and this person should not look alike. They should not resemble each other. There should be a change. So if there is a change, you may need to change your environment to go from I wasn't a church going person, someone invited me to a revival, things are going. I heard the gospel maybe for the first time ever, the first time that it seemed so clear to me. And now you're here. And the sins back here bother you. And you're so sorry for how God gave you all those years and graced you with so many years and months and time to live, and you spin it sinning and just living your own life. Real growth happens by changing your environment. You cannot stay the same after you meet Jesus Christ. If you did, you didn't meet Jesus Christ in the Bible. I'll put it that way. And real growth looks like this: it goes back to that fighting your sin daily. You have to be accountable. You have to be accountable to change your circle. That's not an option. You have to be accountable in your environment, living in a Christian community, staying in the word, fighting sin daily. These changes are not optional things for spiritual growth. It's obedience and requirement that the word of God teaches us. But oh, Pastor Drew, why would I want to, why would I want to do all that? That sounds terrible. I'm gonna have to change these things is because Jesus Christ is worth so much more than the thing you're afraid of letting go of. But so many people want deliverance in a moment and then to be good and be done forever and not discipleship, but open your word, open your Bible. We're called to discipleship. I'll say it like this, and we'll move on to wrap this up. Some people want freedom, but they won't remove what's feeding their sin. If you're a crack addict that hangs out in an alley or at someone's house, and then you come to meet Jesus Christ, your Lord and Savior, you can't just go sit back at that same couch or that same alley and say, okay, I'm saved. I haven't dealt with the things, I haven't taken the time to I got freedom and saved, but I can go back and do whatever. No, that's gonna feed your sin. And you're gonna have a struggling, miserable walk where at some point you're probably gonna question, did I truly get saved, or did I have a feel-good emotional moment? See, God may change you in a moment. Oh no. Ooh, God does change you in a moment. The moment of salvation, God does change you. When you answer the call of salvation, it's his calling by his work through his covenant through Jesus Christ and the completed work of the cross. That moment that you come to surrender to Jesus Christ, your Lord and Savior is a moment, but he is calling us to be shaped over a lifetime. So quit looking for Jesus as deliverance in the moment and get resaved 50 million times, which means you were never saved all the times before. And be delivered from sin, yes, but be changed and transformed by the renewing of your mind and heart through the work of Jesus Christ and the cross and seek out and grow in that discipleship because God will change your moment, change your life in a moment, but he also will shape your life over a lifetime. And he's looking, maybe for you, the listener today, hey, I need to let God shape me. I need to surrender, I need to be obedient to allow him to shape me on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, not just the Saturday or Sunday church service. So some of you may just be waiting for another moment. Oh, God, please, I'm I want you to have another, I want to have another feeling, I want to have another breakthrough. But what God's calling to you right now is not another moment. He's calling you to obedience, he's calling you to faithfulness, and it's walking with him when nobody is watching. Because in my quiet time, I'm on my own. But it's my time with a God who loves me, who sent his son, and when you meet Jesus Christ through the Bible, you cannot stay the same. And I hope that that lights you up in a way to be, even if from this episode on, not because anything I've said, but because God's calling you, convicting you to be more obedient in your discipleship, that you're gonna say, I don't need a new experience, God. I need to keep walking with Christ, who's already saved me. That's what discipleship looks like, that's what sanctification looks like. And I hope that today you're changing from that thought of looking for emotional moments to looking for discipleship because I want to grow more in what Jesus Christ, the person who saved me for my sins for the glory of God, to be more like that person and less like the sinner I was before. That's what he's calling us to. That's what he's looking for. Hey, in the show notes, I'm gonna wrap us up in prayer. In the show notes will be a Linktree app. Go look up all the social medias. There's some other things coming. So I really, really, if you're a listener, if you're a really consistent, ain't quiet follower, listener, I need you to go like and follow, especially the Facebook page. I'm working on some other things that I will announce soon, okay, and they'll be live on Facebook and Instagram long before they make it to an episode recording. So I need you to go find those, like them, and I need you to do me one other favor. I need you wherever you listen this to to give a rate and review. Hey, I listen from like I gave a shout out last time to a listener address or city. Just give a listen and do that. And if you're listening to this on the audio, would you do me one last favor? And I promise this is the last, last ask, and then we're out of here. Would you go on the YouTube page, make sure you subscribe to Ain't Quiet Podcast on YouTube, and then on the podcast episode, just comment where you're listening from, what you're reading in, if you need prayer or something you're struggling with, if it's something you can't post publicly on there, you can go to the Linktree app. There's a spot for prayer requests. Those only go to me. There's no social media team, no one else that's gonna know what you say. It's only me. And I promise, I promise you have my word. If you ask for prayer in something, I will stop what I'm doing and pray for you right then in that moment. I promise you have my word. So if you're an ain't quiet listener, there's other things coming out, go do all that. Let me close us in prayer, and then we'll be good for today. Thank you for listening. Thank you. Thank you that all the things you're letting fill your head and ear. You you've tuned into this. Let's just pray. Dear Heavenly Father, God, I just thank you. I thank you for Jesus. God, I'm praying right now through the work of the cross, I'm praying through the Holy Spirit, I'm praying through your work right now, that there's a chain binding someone listening to this right now that it's broken. A chain of addiction, a chain of laziness, a thing that's holding them back. That that it's breaking right now, that you break it in Jesus' name. And that they don't just look for the moment to say, I'm free and go back to the way that they are, because that chain will be right back on, tighter than ever. But that they repent, they turn, they they when the chains fall off of what's holding them back, they run to you, they take up their cross daily and follow you. God, that's what we want. That's what I want for every listener. I pray for their health. I pray that that whatever's going on in their life, that they are chasing after you, not just walking with you, chasing after you. But God, if there's something in someone's life that needs to be called out, even if it's going to be painful, even if it's going to hurt, God, do it. Call out the sin in their life, that they might repent and follow in a life of not looking for deliverance and emotion, but looking for discipleship and a walk with you. That they repent from their sin and grow closer to you. And if I ever hear about it or anything, God, you see it, you know it, and may you receive all the glory and honor through their life and how they live from that moment on by repenting of their sins, of the chains that break and turning to you. Thank you for Jesus Christ and the cross. Thank you for my salvation. I pray for the salvation of anyone that's listening to this, watching this online, that doesn't know you, that today they would come to surrender us. Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. And we pray all these things in Jesus' name. Amen.