Faith In The Midst Of Everyday Challenges

Faith to Forgive

 🎤 Special Guest: Lady Jeri Prather

Life is filled with everyday challenges that test our faith in ways we often don’t expect. Sometimes the greatest test of faith is not found in dramatic moments, but in the quiet battles of the heart—especially when we have been hurt by others.

In this episode of FaithFinder, we turn to the promise found in Book of Isaiah 41:10:

"Do not fear [anything], for I am with you; Do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, be assured I will help you; I will certainly take hold of you with My righteous right hand."

One of the most difficult expressions of faith is learning to forgive when the pain feels justified and the offense feels unfair. Forgiveness can feel impossible when wounds run deep, trust has been broken, or justice seems absent.

In this powerful and heartfelt conversation, special guest Lady Jeri Prather shares her personal insights and experiences about choosing forgiveness through faith. She explains that forgiveness is not always fair, and it doesn’t always feel deserved. Yet through the grace of Jesus Christ, forgiveness becomes a pathway to true freedom.

Together, we explore:

✨ Why forgiveness is one of the most challenging acts of faith
✨ The difference between forgiveness and excusing wrongdoing
✨ How holding onto bitterness quietly damages our spiritual health
✨ Why forgiveness is often a process, not a single moment
✨ How God strengthens us to forgive when we cannot do it on our own
✨ The freedom that comes when we release pain into God’s hands

Lady Jeri Prather speaks openly about how forgiveness has shaped her faith journey and how choosing to release hurt allowed God to bring healing and peace that could not be found in holding onto the past.

Forgiveness does not mean the pain was acceptable.
It does not erase what happened.
And it does not mean trust is instantly restored.

What forgiveness does is release the weight of unforgiveness, prevents bitterness from taking root, and place justice in God’s hands.

Through the strength God promises in Isaiah 41:10, we are reminded that we do not face difficult situations alone. God walks with us, strengthens us, and empowers us to respond in ways that reflect His heart—even when it feels difficult.

If you have ever struggled with:

• Letting go of hurt
• Releasing resentment
• Forgiving someone who never apologized
• Finding peace after betrayal
• Trusting God to heal emotional wounds

This episode will encourage and challenge you to step toward freedom.

Because forgiveness may not always feel fair, but through faith it opens the door to healing, restoration, and spiritual freedom in Christ.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Life is a journey, and faith is the road that takes us forward. Welcome to Faith Finder, where we discover what faith truly is, how to use it every single day, and how to grow the measure of faith God placed inside of us. Every bump has purpose, every turn has meaning, every mile brings you closer to who God is shaping you to be. This is Faith Finder, where faith becomes your roadmap. Welcome, welcome, welcome back to the Faith Finder podcast where faith becomes your roadmap. I am your host, Tamara Anderson. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for joining me for season two. As promised, we are here on episode six with the wonderful, the phenomenal lady Jerry Prather of Liberty Christian Church. I have the honor to call her my first lady. I have the pleasure to call her my friend, and we're going to be here with faith in the midst of everyday challenges. As always, we are going to open up in prayer, um, give our uh heading scripture, and then we're just gonna go and let God have his way.

unknown 1:22

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Glory, hallelujah, hallelujah, Lord. We thank you on today. Lord, we thank you for just this opportunity. Oh, hallelujah, to be fed by such a phenomenal woman of God, a powerful, anointed woman of God. We thank you, Lord, for her accepting the invitation to be with us, Lord Jesus. And we're just so excited with what you're gonna give us on today. Lord, I ask that you please forgive us of anything we have said, done, thought, or felt that is unlike you. Lord, right now I am asking that you open the ears of your people to hear, Lord. Hallelujah, that you open up their hearts to receive glory, hallelujah, our minds for a better understanding. But above that, because Lord, we're gonna have challenges every single day. And no matter what, we have to keep the faith. So give us application of the lesson on today, Lord, how to remain, hallelujah, faithful, how to hold on, hallelujah, to faith in the midst of everyday challenges. Glory to your name, Lord God. I ask, Lord God, that we're letting you know we completely and totally decrease, that you may increase, Lord, and have your way in this lesson on today. Have your way in the episode on today. Hallelujah. I just believe that those who need to hear it will hear it. I believe what you need for us to hear will be said. And Lord, I just give you glory, hallelujah. We give you honor, hallelujah, we lift up your holy name. Oh, I'm just so excited, Lord, on what you're gonna do. Hallelujah, through this phenomenal, just powerful woman. God, I just thank you. I thank you, I thank you for the opportunity to sit amongst her, Lord God, and just to be poured into Jesus. We just ask that you be with us. And it's just in your mighty name, Lord, that we pray. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen and amen.

SPEAKER_00 3:20

I don't know how you could do that without crying, Lord. Have mercy.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

Oh God, if you watch the episode sometimes, I am sitting there waiting to try to get started. God is amazing. God is amazing. And our opening scripture is going to come from Isaiah 41 and 10. It says, Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. So, Lady Jerry, pray the first of all, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for joining us this week. Thank you for you know accepting the invitation. I personally know what you have been through over the past couple of weeks for just so for you to take this time out and to bless us. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Um, I'm gonna turn it over to you and you just go and let God lead you however you want to jump in. I know we had a couple of things that we had set aside, but whatever you feel comfortable, however, the Lord is leading you, we're at your mercy.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

Amen. Um I'm ecstatic of what is going to happen. Um, while I was even driving home from work today, I was just kind of downloading some things um in my spirit, and I was like, wow, on faith, on faith. We talk about faith a lot, but faith is action, and without faith, it's impossible to please them. I know we kind of go over those scriptures and and and just say them because we know them, but he gave me a little bit on that. Um I'm gonna hit on what he uh another thing that he gave me, but um when he said, without faith, it's impossible to please me. Um faith, oh man, it always been described, I always try to uh go with uh how my husband says it's different than believing in him and believing on him. And um, I take that because I want to believe on him as the scripture has said, Amen. But he had let me know that now faith, hallelujah, is the substance of things hopeful and the evidence of things not seen. So I was saying that, but then he kept taking me back to, but without faith, it's impossible to please me. And I'm going back and forth. I said, So what is it? And uh in my spirit, I can hear him say, I'm the evidence not seen. I'm the evidence not seen. I was like, wow, how these two scriptures are in the same chapter, chapter 11. He said, I'm the evidence of not seeing. So it's impossible because I want people to believe not only in me, but on me. And I said, Okay, so that's how all that falls in place. To me, it's not possible, it's not um a hard thing to believe on him or in him. I totally trust God, I believe in his presence. Amen. When you were saying the verse, that's letting me know that he's always going to be with me, um, that he's always gonna have a relationship with me. It's us that move um far from him or gravitate away from him. And it's our faith. When it comes to bottom line, it's our faith that we're gonna believe Christ, are we not gonna believe Christ? Are we gonna believe on him or not believe what he can do? Because a lot of times men um will will say, Hey, I did that. The surgery went well because I didn't know the surgery went well because God guided your hands and I prayed for this surgery. So they uh so men won't get the credit of what God is doing. So when you were speaking of that, I was like, Wow, uh, this is amazing. Faith is always uh uh something that it's hard to grow, um, but you have to be in his word to know God to help him grow your faith. You can't grow faith on your own. You can you can you have to tap in and be in tune with God to help him to grow your faith. Like I was saying, um, when Sister Tasha got baptized, you made the choice. Now let God make the change. People don't want to step out on God because they don't they believe in him, but they don't believe on him, um, of the things that um that he can do. God can do it, God can heal, God can save, God can deliver. And from all that, I've I've I've known myself what God can do. Um, the other part of that, which I know you had an outline, and what stuck out the most was faith to forgive. Oh my goodness. And I think that is the challenge of every believer, non-believer, it's hard to forgive. Period. It's hard to forgive. And because we think forgiveness is about fairness, and it's not. Forgiveness is about freedom, it's not fairness, believe me. Sometimes we're holding on because we we haven't received that apology yet. Sometimes we're just we won't forgive because it has transcended to bitterness, bitterness has transformed to hatred. I'm telling you, the levels of unforgiveness will have your faith paralyzed to where you don't see, oh, mm-mm, no. I can give you so many testimonies and so many examples. I'm gonna give you one because everybody knows this one, um, without putting any names out there, but there's there was a person every time I went to church, my demeanor would change about this person. I could be happy go lucky coming in the church smiling. But the once this person walked in, it was just like, ugh, oh my goodness, because I haven't forgave that person. Now, the forgiveness of this person, I although this person done me wrong, I mean totally wrong, totally wrong. That I would just like, I'll digress and I'll just ask for forgiveness. But my mind wasn't ready to forgive. My my mouth was saying, Would you please forgive me? But my mind and my heart was saying, mm-mm, I can't, I can't. I you owe me an apology because you was me and you about to go to jail. This is how deep it is. It got to where it was so bitter every time he this person walked in, trying not to, it would just change my demeanor. But I had to free myself, and I don't care how many times God said to go back and forgive. That's what I did. Peter was talking in, I believe it's Matthew, on how many times asking um Jesus, how many times do I ask my brother to forgive me? And he would just put a number out there seven times. And Jesus was like, How about 70 times seven? Uh because God's mercy and grace, my Lord.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

Oh, Lord.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

Woo! A man that was hung on the cross, took on our sins, oh my goodness, bled for us, died for us. He was sinless, he was everything, he was everything you can think of and more. Took on our sins, even in that moment, he asked his father, forgive them for they know now what they did. Forgive them for they know now. So if he can do that in the state that he was in, being nailed to the cross, being disrespected, being had to carry his own cross, had to do all the getting whipped, getting the crown of thorns, all those things, and he still asks his father to forgive them. That right there lets me know that I need to forgive regardless, regardless of the pain, regardless of the hurt, regardless if they keep doing it, regardless of how I feel, I still have to make up in my mind, in order to be to see God, I'm gonna have to forgive somebody. Like I said, forgiveness is for us, but I can't see how people can do people so bad. Do people so bad, so wrong, and then the next time you see them, they're up worshiping, or they're trying to usher in the spirit, or they're I'm like, I'm not trying to be fun. This this joker right here owes me an apology. You don't see how you talk to me. That's why God knows your heart, which is not the heart that pump blood, he knows your mind, he knows your spirit. Of if you're gonna actually uh ask this person to forgive you, you may not have done nothing, said nothing, but forget. Listen, will you forgive me? Can you please forgive me? Because for uh let me tell you, forgiveness is freedom. Freedom. I love my peace. If it has to do that, I come back to you that 70 times seven, that 490 times. Now that 491, he didn't take it, tell me, but I was saying, listen here, this 490, somewhere in between one and 490, we're gonna get it right. God is mercy and grace is amazing that he allows us to do every every morning, new mercies every morning. That's the God I serve. That's the God that's given me a chance to get everything right. That's the God that loves me so much that said, I'm gonna wake you up the next day for you to get it right. I'm gonna, I'm gonna do all I can to see you in heaven. You have an opportunity to make that right. Because forgiveness, that is something that is hard for every last person. Because guess what? You forgive, but you don't forget. I gotta deal with you with a long handle spoon. It paralyzes us for real. Because how do we act? That's the thing. Our Lord, after this forgiveness, help me to love this person like you love them. Help me to see this person like you see them. I'm gonna still do me. I'm gonna still help this person out. I'm gonna still do what I can do to because that's me. That's the spirit you put inside of me. I don't want any hatred, I don't want to think about anything that was bad. I've I I asked for forgiveness. Whether they take it or not, that's on them. That's between them and the Lord. I'm holding myself accountable. I'm all I'm daily asking for forgiveness. Lord, did I do anything wrong? Lord, did I say anything wrong? Did I think anything wrong? That's the thing. Our thinking is terrible. Our thinking is not like Christ. We got to be honest with ourselves and hold ourselves accountable because forgiveness, God is saying, Man, I wish He forgave that lady. I got a blessing in store for both of you all. If you only just only thing you gotta do is forgive. Only thing, only thing you gotta do is forgive. I'm waiting on you, Christian. I'm waiting for you, believer. I'm waiting on you. He's waiting on us. And he's giving us a whole because we don't know when we're leaving here, we don't know when his return is. We'll say that. But don't you want to be ready? Don't you want to live like every day is like he's coming back? And I believe forgiveness is in that in that way. We have to learn how to forgive, and there's plenty of scriptures where God has forgiven a lot of people. Your faith has made you whole. Don't go tell nobody because the thing is, when he changes you, people will see the change. When you're holding unforgiveness, we know the person that you are. You little non-free person that's holding you bound and chained. You can't fool the one thing you can't fool is God. You can't fool him at no time. You know you need to forgive that person, you know you need to be free. He wants to free you, he wants to deliver you, but it's up to us to to take on a mind of Christ and forgive a person, and then ask God to forgive you. Lord, forgive me for holding it for all these years. I know people that had done me wrong for years, didn't speak to me, and all of a sudden, hear a text. Um, hey, I need I need help. Uh I I gotta go to the hospital. I'm having surgery, I need whatever. Can can can you and and it's hard to say, girl, didn't you just splatter me all on Facebook and Instagram and TikTok and you said my name? But guess what? I have to turn around and do what is it that you need with a whole heart, not not throw it up in their face. Listen, now you owe me five dollars. You ain't paid the five dollars that I I loaned you last time, and then you want to try to down me because I asked for my five dollars. We make stuff so difficult, and God is just saying, just forgive. Forgive and forget. It's hard to forget. It's hard to forget. Now, I'm telling you, we also need to set boundaries. Now, we're not gonna continue to have abuse from repeat offenders, as we always say. We're not gonna continue to have um no, we gotta have boundaries too, because I'm not a fool either. You're not gonna play me like a fool. No, because sometimes the enemy uses people, he uses whoever, he uses saints, he uses people on your job, he uses me and I had an incident today, let me tell you. And I was this is this is how this goes. I'm responsible for sending out things for repair. I got the notification of how much it was going to cost, and it was like three times, almost four times as much as we usually pay. And I was like, I went to the person that made the quote and he said, So when did you receive the items? And I said, I just received them last week, and he he started emailing me because he needs a paper trail, and I need a paper trail. So he's asking me, So when did you receive it? In my mind, I'm like, nope, let me get my mind together. And then he's like, in my mind, I'm like, hold on, they just he said have it out by June 1st. I'm like, okay, I was out of the office from the 25th since the ambulance took me from my office, and then I didn't get back to work till Tuesday, the third. So I'm covered.

unknown 20:02

Amen.

SPEAKER_00 20:03

But the thing was, I was like, I don't know what he's trying to do, but you know, this out the fall ain't gonna be on me. That's all I'm saying. Because you know, people will put you in the uproar and throw you under the bus. And I was like, I'm not gonna be under this bus this time. This because the items that if you buy them outright are almost ten thousand dollars a piece, and I wasn't finna be under that bus of oh, who messed this up? It wasn't gonna be Jerry, no, no, so I had to cover me, and that's how we have to do. Sometimes we have to protect our our our faith, protect this forgiveness because the enemy is roaring like a lion, and he's seeking whom he may devour. He doesn't care who you are, you can be on the mountaintop. He doesn't care. This lion is gonna try to get to this mountaintop to disturb your peace, your your mind, anything that he can do to take your focus off of the Lord. Because listen, if we hold on to God's promise, which we we have to have faith for his promise, in order for all those things to be fulfilled, we got to have faith. Because it's impossible. It's impossible. It's impossible to please him, and I want to please God in every way, in every aspect of my life. And if forgiveness is one of those things, guess what? I'll take that L and I'm gonna say, Hey, would you please forgive me? And I'm gonna do with a smile. Some people will take that the wrong way, but long as you do your part, long as you hold on to God's unchanging hands, let me say you He will give you that faith to forgive. And matter of fact, and if you keep doing it and doing it, that face seed is getting a little larger and larger. And guess what? He's building you up. So the next time this same person will do the same thing, you know how to react. Our face expressions won't say we'll know that our face will be calm. We can come with a smile and say, I'm sorry, but I do forgive you. Would you please forgive me? Well I forgive you. And he just continues. He'll send you battles. He'll send you some things. Jesus will. Just let me test her out. It's been a while. Let me test her her faith out, her forgiveness phase. For somebody that you know don't like you. You know that can't stand your guts, that's run your name down, continue to run you down, and you still, that evangelist Anderson with that beautiful smile will still say, Hey, can I talk to you for a minute? Can you please forgive me? Yes, because you want to grow in God. I don't need any hindrances from me getting close to God. I don't have time for it. It's too late in the evening to get our focus off God. And that's what the enemy is trying to do is to get our faith off focus. Out of focus. Oh my goodness I want to be fine-tuned like a radio. And when you go and you finally got that and you finally got that music right on the dial. That's how I want to be cleared up. That's how I want to be. I want my focus to be loud and clear. Because when I call on God, I want him to answer. Hallelujah. He gave us the same power. Oh God, that raised him from the dead. Hallelujah. We got that same power to speak those things that be not as though they were. I know I'm all over the place, but I thank God for his grace. I know you say it for his grace and his mercy. Because listen, without it, we would be lost. Without it, we would be done. And in the words of uh mother, uh, I can't remember, she said, we I'm through. I'm through. Forget the through. I'm beyond through. I'm through. So you got to get beyond through. You got to be through with a lot of stuff that's bounding us and chaining us from reaching heaven. Hallelujah. Because those things are needed. Faith is needed. I don't care. Stepping out on faith, that is something. Sometimes we got to do it even scared. Do it anyway. Do it just scared. I'm frightened, Lord. This is not my element. This is not this. This is not, I'm stepping out anyway. You know how many messages I done put together? I'm like, oh Jesus, Lord, the lashes you're giving me, but I know, Lord, if you have me to word my mouth, I'm gonna speak it and I'm gonna speak it with authority because somebody needs to hear it. And if I don't deliver it, woe on me. Woe on me. And I'm not I'm not that person that I don't want God's lashes. I don't want it. I don't want it. I can take people's lashes. I don't want God's lashings. They can have that. I'm gonna try to speak when it don't like me after what I said, listen up. You're gonna have to take it up with the Lord. This is what He gave me. Because I I'm not gonna step back and say, I'm sorry, not one bit for one word. Long as I'm not speaking out of the flesh, as long as I got my word with me, back it up. I'm always gonna bring word, I promise you. And let me tell you, and I always had to have faith with that because I was a person that my comprehension was not up to par. It takes me a little while to understand. I'll read it over and over and like, Lord, please help me. And he started putting these little puzzle pieces. You know how you have the game and the puzzles don't fit? That's me until it starts fitting together. It's like that's me. I love it. I love God when he reveals them. I love the faith that I have in him that it can grow into what he needs for me to be, not whatever, or even what my opinion is, because my opinion doesn't even matter. I just want that faith in God, that man that that pleases the Lord. I want to make God smile. I want him to smile on me. At the end of the day, I want God to say, well done. We're all looking for that, well done. But unfortunately, somebody will be undone. And there's only two ways about this is heaven or hell. And I want to be on the side of heaven. Hallelujah. And whatever it takes through faith, I want to make it there. I want to make it there. I don't want to miss a beat. Whether I go by the grave or I'm alive and remain. I want to see Jesus in the air, in the middle of the air, and I want him to say, Well done. I want to be in the land book of life. I really do. Lord, please have my name there, Lord. But that's just this is what God has given me. Don't let unforgiveness paralyze your faith. Don't let it paralyze your faith. Move forward in freedom. Move forward because my goodness, he paid the price for us to move forward in freedom. He paid the cost, your sins, your raggediness, your raggedy mouth, your your crazy self. We done did some crazy things. Listen, I don't know about anybody else, but I know Jerry Braith has done some crazy things. I have thought some crazy things. I wanted to torture people. Do you hear me? I want, because see, the thing is, people want with unforgiveness, you'll think of revenge. I want, I want their tire to fall off. I want their hair to fall out. I want, you know, I you'll be thinking of stuff when they walk by and when you see the person, you'd be like, I didn't want to be like that. Listen, I can go anywhere in any place with a smile and a praise on my lips because I know God delivered me. I know God had delivered me. And it it takes, let me tell you, it took me a while, but I know He delivered me. I know He delivered me. I don't want to take up all your time, but this is good.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

Seriously, I had some questions, and as you kept talking, you answered those questions. So my goodness, no, seriously, this is God, and this is another one of those ones where um to know my current today situation. It's like I hope someone else gets blessed by this, but this is for me. When I say I love the Lord because he loves me, and this was for me. Um, so no, faith to forgive, that is vitally important, not only in just our walk with Christ, but even in anything that we do. Like you said, without faith, it's impossible to please him. And I wholeheartedly believe that if we strive to, like you said, be pleasing to the Lord, if that is our focus, if that is our number one priority, then we're gonna do whatever he has called calls for us to do or to say or what have you. And if it's like you said, I ain't do nothing wrong, you did this to me, but I hear the Lord saying, Ask you for forgiveness, that yeah, that that's to me a hard pill swallow. But I want to be pleased, I want to have been found pleased. I want to hear well done by good and faithful servant. I don't want to hear depart from me, you work of the iniquity. I need you done. So when I say this is for me, literally, God knows just today what I endure. And and I thought we were gonna go a whole other way. So I again, this is for me, and I thank God, I thank you, I thank God for this. I do um want to ask one other question because you said it did take you a while to get the deliverance that you needed in order to be able to forgive with faith. Um, is there anything that you can think of that you did particularly or that you heard the Lord say do differently in order for you to walk in that freedom, in order for you to be able to forgive, you know, even when you haven't done anything, can you think of anything particular that may can help someone else realize it ain't that serious? Let me just forgive and move on.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

Um, most of the things I do, Evangelist Anderson, is fast. I pray and I fast. These things come from prayer and fasting. And if you want to get closely connected to God, because God is going to show you you. Most of the time we know us. We're our worst hindrance, we're our worst blockers. It's us. That's like we can't talk about anybody else when it's us. It's us. So when it becomes it's us, I go to prayer and I go to fasting. People don't know the links that I fast, or um, sometimes I'll fast and end up being sick. But and I know it's been terrible, but um, those things, because God is going to give you that peace of mind to forgive and and let you know that it's not bad. Some some relationships have gone on on in years, and I know that for myself. I've had siblings that haven't talked to me in years. To finally, it took our grandmother to pass to to finally talk to somebody. Like, why would you you probably don't even know what you were mad about? 15 years? Like, I've been here since 08. Like, what's what's wrong? What did I do? That that the thing is, we need to forgive quickly. We hold stuff, that's the thing. We hold things in, and then guess what? That dampens our inside. God can't use you because you you got a lot of you in there that needs to get out of there. And think we when we think of forgiveness, we thinking of fairness. This is not fairness, this is all about freedom.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

I love how you say that forgiveness is not fairness, forgiveness is freedom. Yes, I'm just saying, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:54

Yeah, so uh when when I think of man, what I've gone through and where I'm at now, I'm like, Lord, I've wasted time in not just getting out what I needed to give out, or um just saying, hey, it's it's not that serious, you know. We can have a conversation, let's let's have this conversation and so we can be cleared in our mind, in our thinking, because that's that's what it is. The devil wants you to hold on to unforgiveness. How about let's make the devil mad and make God smile? Because you know, this is something that you you that can overtake me, Lord. Show me the way, show me the person. You probably already know the person, just do it quickly. That's the thing we hold. I'm telling you, we hold because let me tell you, back in the day, I was holding some grudges and an attitude. Oh my Lord, you see this face? I was holding it. You hear me? Because I don't have time for ignorance, because and I don't have time for craziness, because as you get older, you were like, Who has time for this? Am I still going through? I'm not, I'm not, I'm I'm going on 52. Oh my goodness, I'm going on 52. But let me tell you, in my age, I don't have time for all this. I really don't. It's time to get right with God and get right with others. If it calls multiple times of saying forgive, forgive me, that's what I'll do. That's that's what I'll do. Even when you don't do anything, just ask for forgiveness. Have that conversation, be transparent. Listen, hey, this is what I've gone. We we pretty much alike. This is what I've gone through, and this is how I handled it. Yeah, for real, because I don't know. I just want to be on the side of heaven, so yes, not fair, not fair, but freedom. Freedom.

SPEAKER_01 35:04

So I something I started doing, which I love, is I have a faith challenge. So our faith challenge for the this week is ask Christ to show you a challenge in your life that needs to be addressed, and like she said, immediately, not something that we hold on to. Oh, well, God reveal it, and then months and you know weeks and months and years later, we still hold on. No, ask God to show you a challenge in your life that needs to be addressed immediately. Seek Him on how to grow your faith in that area. Um, and I'm not gonna lie, faith to forgive is one of my biggest ones because it's like I'll forgive, and then that person comes around again and do something else. It's like, Lord, I I I I forgave them. They did it again. Well, I gotta go, you know, forgive them. But like she said, 70 times seven.

SPEAKER_00 35:57

You ain't reached 490. So, Lord Jesus, you haven't reached 490.

SPEAKER_01 36:05

Look in an area in your life that you know that it's a challenge. Again, our uh subject for today is faith in the midst of every day challenges. That's a big one for most Christians. That is a big one. I I believe it wholeheartedly. So there's different again. You're you may be different than someone else, but seek God, ask God, like she said, He's gonna reveal it to you. We know us, so he's gonna reveal it to you. So it's about you, then therefore, when he reveals it, be open, be free, yeah, and and just go ahead and and move how God uh moved through to grow your faith in that area of your life. And as always, we always want to leave the space and opportunity to say who wants to give your life to Christ. We have she has given us so much. I mean, when I say nuggets of gold, nuggets of hope. Um, and if you don't you can't quite relate because you don't have a relationship with the Lord, it might kind of go over your head. So if you don't know Christ and the pardon of your sins, if you don't know him, you have not built that relationship with him, and you're drawing breath in your body, you still have a chance. You still have a chance. Wow. So I'm I'm saying this if you know, hey, I've heard enough, I'm ready to give Christ my life, I'm ready to live for him, I'm ready to serve him wholeheartedly. Yeah, go ahead and drop a comment, and I will reach out to you and pray with you, and we will touch and agree that God will send you to where you need to be in that Bible-based church. Or if you're a backslider, you want to walk for Christ, you literally can relate to everything that she says, but you allow whatever the case may be to have gotten you further and further away from the Lord, and you realize, like she said, it we are too late in the game to go astray now, and you are ready to come back to the Lord. He is standing there with open arms. I'm sorry, I'm a visual person, and I just believe like when my grandchildren come home, you know, that's the one thing they run to Noni, and I'm there with open arms to give them hugs and to receive them, and he's there waiting with his arms wide open to receive you back into the fold. Hallelujah. He will leave the 99 for the one. If you are that one that is lost and you're ready to come home, just repent. Sincerely repent, and God will receive you. He will receive you. So again, you can leave your comments uh and you leave a comment or just whatever the case may be, and I will reach out to you to touch and agree that God again will get you into a Bible-based church. Um, and and we're like we have our opening prayer, we're gonna have our closing prayer, and I'm asking Lady Praether to close us out today in prayer.

SPEAKER_00 38:56

Amen. Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you once again for another opportunity to spread your gospel, oh God. Lord Jesus, we thank you, oh God, for our own Evangelist Anderson in her podcast, and we pray that it grow and touch many hearts and minds, oh God. Lord Jesus, help us, oh God, hallelujah, with the faith to forgive, oh God. Hallelujah. Let unforgiveness not dwell in our vessel, oh God. Lord, take it out and strengthen us, oh God. Continue to grow our faith, oh God. Take everything that is not like you out, oh God, and strengthen us, oh God. Lord, we thank you again, oh God, for this time and space, oh God. Hallelujah. Continue to encourage everyone that hears, hallelujah, this podcast, oh God, that hops on by accident or purposely, oh God. Help him to share the word of God about faith, oh God. In the mighty name of Jesus, we thank you and we praise you in Jesus' name. Amen.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

Amen. Amen and amen. Now, Lady Praether, how can we support you?

SPEAKER_00 40:02

Oh goodness, how can you support me? You can support me by coming to church.

SPEAKER_01 40:08

Amen. What's the name of the church?

SPEAKER_00 40:10

Liberty Christian Church of the Apostolic Faith. It is 2753 East Broadway in Alton, Illinois. Pastor Jimmy Prater, hallelujah, is the overseer. Amen. And Evangelist Anderson, amen, is our church. Admin. Amen. So I praise God. That's how you can support me is continue to pray for me or stop by and let's fellowship together.

SPEAKER_01 40:36

Amen. Any special projects coming up in 2026 that we can also get behind you with?

SPEAKER_00 40:43

Not as of yet. Not as of yet. We're gonna push. I got a book that's gonna be coming out in the name of Jesus. Um I received that. Stay tuned for that. And um, and maybe a concert. We still may be getting that uh underway. So pray that God strengthens my voice and put it back after surgeries and things that I've had. So just looking God to just strengthen me.

unknown 41:10

Amen.

SPEAKER_01 41:11

Amen. And again, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

SPEAKER_00 41:16

I think I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 41:18

I told you, I love whenever you open your mouth. I I always, always get something, and I just thank you for taking this time. And I know you are so busy being the first lady, so busy still raising a little one at home and all that you guys do in the community, not just for our church, but for those in the community and your families. So I thank you for taking out this time. Um, guys, join me next week for episode seven, which is faith when God is silent. So I just thank you so much. And again, go back, rewatch season one, the one so far in season two, because as long as God gives it to me, we're gonna keep going. So you guys have a wonderful day and a blessed week. God bless. Thank you for traveling with me today on Faith Finder. Every mile we take together strengthens our faith, sharpens our vision, and reminds us that God is guiding the road beneath our feet. If this episode encourages you, make sure to follow the podcast, leave a review, and share with someone who's on their own faith journey. Until next time, keep trusting, keep growing, and keep moving forward. Because faith isn't just something you have, it's something you live. This is Faith Finder where faith becomes your roadmap.