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In this episode of Never Alone Live, we sit down with Brandi Harris for an inspiring conversation about faith, recovery, hope, and finding purpose after life's darkest moments.

Brandi shares her powerful testimony of overcoming childhood trauma, addiction, and incarceration before experiencing a life-changing encounter with Jesus in a jail cell. She opens up about the moment that transformed her life, how she found healing beyond sobriety, and why she's now dedicated to helping others discover hope through ministry, community, and radical love.

Together, we discuss recovery, mental health, grief, family restoration, purpose, forgiveness, Celebrate Recovery, and what it truly means to live a life that impacts others. Brandi also shares the heart behind Summer of Hope, a recovery revival created to remind people that no one is beyond redemption and that hope is always possible.

Whether you're in recovery, supporting a loved one, navigating trauma, or simply searching for hope, this conversation is filled with encouragement, honesty, and reminders that your story isn't over.

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SPEAKER_00

Welcome, welcome, welcome everyone to Never Alone Live. I'm Johnny, and as always, joined by Krista the Silver Barbie. And today we are in for a special treat. We have one of our very good friends, Brandy Harris. Brandy Harris, you are an amazing human being. And whenever I talk to Brandy, whenever I think about Brandy, the song comes to mind. Now that we found love, what are we gonna do?

SPEAKER_02

What are we gonna do?

SPEAKER_00

With it. And I don't it's Brandy. I don't know what's gonna happen. See, Brandy and I are we we're starting a band and uh we're gonna go on the road. And Chris is gonna be so she's gonna miss us so much when we're on the road.

SPEAKER_04

And and I could do the like tambourine or something.

SPEAKER_00

Look at her trying to get into our band, Brandy.

SPEAKER_02

Well, I mean, you know, we do need some roadie. Backup dancer.

SPEAKER_00

We oh Chris can be the roadie. I told her now see now I told you guys already that you were in for a special treat today.

SPEAKER_03

Oh no, y'all got me rocking already.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, Brandy Harris. So Brandy, uh, let's uh let's let's get into this. Uh you know, we all we love you, and but our audience doesn't know you. Uh we did interview you, uh you were our last interview of 2025, you and Daniel. And you are a uh you're not a pastor, you don't want me to say preacher. What who is Brandy?

SPEAKER_02

Well, I'm a revivalist.

SPEAKER_00

A revivalist.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, I'm a revivalist. If there is any titles, but more than that, I'm just a daughter of God. That's it, you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Well, tell us tell us tell us a little bit about Brandy. Who's uh who is Brandy?

SPEAKER_02

Well, I am just a little small town girl from Kentucky who God chose to rescue, and just want to answer the call of God on my life. I am a boy mom. I'm also in a blended family. My husband has two daughters. We have a whole slew of granddaughters, and we are so, so blessed, you know, and we just we just want to see people rescued, and we're we're just you know, I'm so glad that I found him and in in this journey, he's been the sweetest friend, and yeah, I'm just blessed.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you really are, yeah. And Daniel's one uh one of my favorite people uh as well. You know, I've I've been very fortunate. I've gotten to meet Brandy in person a few times, and you know, you meet some people and you meet them on the internet, and they could be whoever they want to be on the internet, right? And you meet Brandy Harris on the internet, the same person you meet on the internet, you're gonna meet in person because she is awesome, awesome. Krista, why don't you do some doting? Dude, tell us what do you think about Brandy Harris?

SPEAKER_04

I'll cry, I'm gonna cry. No. Um, Brandy is one of my dearest, bestest friends, and I've never physically met her, but I am tomorrow. Tomorrow I will meet Brandy for the first time. I think we're coming on a year of knowing each other. We're pretty much, it's gonna TikTok's gonna remind us. But um, before we started doing our TikTok lives in the morning, I would go on TikTok and read a devotional and just it was just me. And there she was in my chat, and we just connected, and then we started our lives in the morning, and she came and and brought so much to so many people. I've I've grown very close to her, and we talked for a long time on the phone. Looked at it, and we laugh, and um, she's helped me um get closer to Jesus and and helped shape my face, and um it's been a very powerful, beautiful friendship. And um, she just celebrated 19 years of recovery. Clock it.

SPEAKER_05

Johnny, do it.

SPEAKER_04

Do it, Johnny. Johnny, clock it.

SPEAKER_05

I'm clocking.

SPEAKER_04

Um, but uh, she's been such a uh inspiration to me, and I am so beyond excited to meet her. I'm going to Kentucky. I've never been to Kentucky. Um, she has a um, it's kind of like church on Friday nights, the hub, the Kentucky Hub KY Hub. And um revival means change of the heart. So that's what she's doing. She's helping people change their hearts. And um I get to go experience church with her, and then we have a big event on Saturday, and that's probably what we're getting into.

SPEAKER_00

That is exactly what we're gonna get. You know, no, before we get into it, so Brandy, you met Krista a year ago. What do you think of Krista?

SPEAKER_02

I think Krista is one of the brightest lights that I've met, especially in the media world. She truly is just like a lighthouse that helps boats come in to safer shores, especially in the recovery lane, you know, in faith and recovery. And what drew me to her was just her authenticity and her boldness just to be real on media. I mean, like, she's just been the sweetest friend to me in this season. I actually I came through a hard season. I lost my mom and it was rough. And trips, mom, but my mom, you know, and um yeah, and I needed her in a season, and I'm so grateful that she's in my life. She's a beautiful mom, she's a beautiful wife. She goes after community, which drew me to her. It's very attractive to care about your family and them knowing God and recovery and going after community, you know, not just about yourself. Like that really drew me to her, too, because I have the same heart. I want to see regions, cities, and nations shifted for people to know how loved they are. And so, yeah, she's just been I could go on all day. I'm just very grateful. I can't believe it. But I'm grateful for you too.

SPEAKER_00

Well, thank you. And you know, so one of the one of the best things about my role, right? And my role, I don't even know what my role is, but one of my best things about my role is getting to watch people, right? And I get to see, you know, and Krista got us on the tiki talkie a long time ago, and then we met you, and seeing the relationship between the two of you guys come together has been so beautiful. And having met both of you guys in person, and now knowing that you guys are coming together, and I'm telling you, I'm so excited for you guys to meet. And I know, you know, because you know, and that's why when I started saying started off this uh this thing with singing that song, now that we found love, what are we gonna do with it? That's what this is. You know, we found this love uh for one another that is undescribable, you know. You could describe it as like the love of a brother or sister, but I don't even think that's enough because it's a it's a brother and sister through our our mutual love for for Jesus. Wow, right? You know, that's uh that just look at see that and and that just that just it's like an it's like an extra extra explosion that we all get to have together, right? And so that's that's the that's the beautiful thing. Okay, all right. Now I want to learn about your event, Brandy. You got an event coming up, and I want to hear everything there is to know about it. I want everybody in the world to know about what's going on in Kentucky this weekend.

SPEAKER_02

Well, first of all, I also want to say thank you for having a faith-based month on Neverlone Recovery. It is an honor to be here with y'all. Um, and it makes my heart very happy because that is the program, you know, that I used after God rescued me in a jail cell in 2007. And so it just makes me happy that y'all are creating a space for this and I honor that. And so, Summer of Hope. What to know about Summer of Hope? We're gonna be in Utica, Utica, Kentucky, and the event is gonna be all day from 10:30 to 4, June 27th. I have the address that we can also add to that, but uh this day is gonna just be filled with God's love and great hope. And the vision and how it was birthed was from this dark season I had just gone through from grief and loss, and just I went through some things that were really hard. 19 years of being in recovery, and I hit a dark night of the soul, I would call it, you know, where you know, I just ended up in a little bit of a pit, and I was trying to climb my way out, and I ended up in TikTok world with you guys, and you guys were used instrumentally to help to help me. And God told me to go into the media, and because of that connection, I just started to see because I've had other events like this, um, but this was kind of birth actually in in my TikTok world, you know, and like the Lord's like, I want you to host a summer of hope, recovery, revival. He said, You are not the only one that has gone through some hard things, other people have too. And that's why he gave me the vision for it in the name, which is summer of hope. And Jeremiah 29, 11 says, uh, my plans for you are to give you a hope and a future, a great future. And that's what I want for people's hearts when they come to the summer of hope and they hear the speakers, and they're in that atmosphere of love, is just great hope. And that you know what, if he did it for them, he can do it for me, and he can pull me out of every pit. Psalms 42 says he lifted me out of the slimy, slimy, slimy pit and out of the mud in mire. That is one of my life verses. Like, I was literally in mud and mire when he came in and rescued me in that jail cell in 2007, and his arms of love came in, you know, like it just pulled me out. And it is what you're saying, now that we found love, what are we gonna do with it? After that, you read the word that there's a great commission, and it says, Go into all the world and make you disciples, okay, of all nations. That wasn't just for me, but I I was commissioned and trained in the trenches for things like this and for people like me. When Jesus visited me in a jail cell and rescued me, he said, I'll raise a great love army out of the ashes and the places you sit in. Will you help me? And that's really what this is about, you know. And answering the, you know, the Isaiah 6.8, send me, I'll go, Lord. And the Great Commission, going to all the world making disciples. It ain't for just special people, it's for whoever says yes to him. Now will you go? I've lifted you out of mud and mire. Why wouldn't we pay it forward? Why wouldn't, now that we found love, do something with it, you know? And this is just my way of giving back after the godly sorrow and the gift of desperation met me in that jail cell that day. Godly sorrow left me to led me to the gift of desperation where I cried out and said, I need something bigger than me to help me. And God, like, if you could just help me. And I had a deep love encounter in that jail cell, and I ain't never been the same. But after that, I ended up going in using the program of celebrate recovery to help me in my journey for the healing of my heart. And it's just, you know, it was just so much more than that. I had to go through some layers of getting some healing. I just want to give that back. Like it, you know, like love can win for you, and your heart can be healed, and your your heart can be vibrant with love, and you can have joy and peace and know the kindness of a good father. And that's what I want to give back, you know. And I've been through years of so much pain, Johnny. So much pain. The pain I walked through and went wish on nobody. And so that's what the summer of hope is really about. It's just another place where creating a safe place where God can come because he's invited, he's invited in his entirety to just come in and rescue hearts with hope. When Krista shares her story, hope arrows will go into people's hearts. When April gives her hope story, arrows will go into hearts. When Tripp gets up and shares a story, arrows of hope go into people's hearts and just open it wide open. And the exciting part is having the hope panel. Where the people that are coming in from TikTok, we're gonna have a hope panel like we're on TikTok, and we're gonna ask the question. And the question will be how has hope been instrumental in your recovery? And everybody's gonna respond to that. That's gonna be real cool. And don't forget, I'm giving a bunch of presents away. Don't y'all forget that. Clock it.

SPEAKER_00

Clock it.

SPEAKER_02

So, yeah, does that help?

SPEAKER_00

It most certainly does. So the summer of hope revival is occurring on June 27th in what is the town again?

SPEAKER_02

Utica, Kentucky. And I want to give a plug to Hilton Farms on here because they're the event place that we're using, and this place is gorgeous. You literally just have to pull up Hilton Farms in Utica, Kentucky. It'll take you straight there.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so we are going to put that in the comments. So make sure that anybody who's interested, they will know where this is going to be. Is there going to be any virtual portion of this or is this live in person only?

SPEAKER_02

Well, I'm sure that we'll be streaming. Some people will be Facebook and TikTok. I personally won't be able to because I just have my I'll live streaming. Yeah. Crystal have to help because I'll have to be over this. Uh as the visionary, I've got to make sure that this runs as smooth as I can. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00

When we did uh Freedom Fest down in Charleston, you know, uh Krista was streaming the whole thing, and it was amazing. And and uh and and I I wasn't able to do nothing. I was up there trying to figure out how to introduce people, and it was uh yeah, y'all can do it, all that stuff.

SPEAKER_04

I'll do this part.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, she likes she actually likes to do it.

SPEAKER_04

I don't yeah, and I've witnessed what it takes to put on an event. Yeah, more power to you guys. Yeah, yeah, it's not a joke, takes a lot of work, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So I I we got I got all sorts of questions for you, Brandy, but I'm gonna jump over to the comments because Minnie Long says, I got 23 years today. So Minnie Long, congratulations. We love celebrating recovery around here, we love anniversaries, we love days, we love all of it. So give give us all the days, give us all the days. Um, and we got all of our friends. Uh well, a bunch of our friends from the Tiki Talkie are in the comments right now. Uh, if anybody has a question for Brandy, this was what I cast this. I said this morning. If anybody has a question, uh now's the time to ask because Brandy's answering any question ever. Well, maybe not any. Uh uh, we'll we'll use uh discretion. We'll use discretion. I won't answer any ask any of Nicole's questions because they're uh um but I want just to get back to a serious note. Um what what brought you to your calling, Brandy? I know you've got 19 years sober, and were you raised in with with religion? Were you raised with spirituality? What brought you to the place of where you are now?

SPEAKER_02

No, I I wasn't raised in it. My mom was an AIDS addict. I don't know if I can say what platform we're on, but and I didn't really know my dad, and so was he. So I just grew up in a lot of you know trauma and addiction and childhood stuff that was not fun, you know, and um just not ever having I had like one family. I remember them taking me like BBS and they were planting seeds in me as a little child, you know, but I always believed that he was real. Like I didn't ever struggle with if God is real, and um I was very lonely, and God was who I would talk to. I really had a deep loneliness, even though like when I got into high school, I was the life of the party, you know, and so but people didn't know inwardly, I just felt completely alone and I could be in a room full of people and feel completely isolated and alone. And God was the only person I had to talk to, really. And I remember just being young and doing that. And so it wasn't until, you know, later on in my life when I was 11 years old, was the first time I ever used. And um, I was hanging out with people that were older than me that was not good for me, and it just started a whole cycle of bad people addiction, you know, that eventually led me to a a marriage that wasn't good. I was falsely accused of uh doing something to my child that I didn't, and was looking at 10 years in prison. Cried out to God, was found not guilty, but I still didn't get my children back. And I ended up going into a deeper, darker hole and fighting some real darkness from the sadness and the loneliness from the loss of my children. And that's when I ended up going to jail on a drug charge. And a cop woke me up knocking on the window where I had passed out at the wheel. And I went to jail, and I know that God that day saved my life from going into moving traffic. And when I woke up in that jail cell, at first I was upset, and then I had a deep love encounter with Jesus not long after that in jail where he visited me for 45 minutes and liquid love went through my body for 45 minutes, and I never known love like that. And ever since then, I was like, I will never turn back because if you ever touch love in that way, even if you wanted to, it it will draw you back. You know, um, it was so intense and it was so very real. And that's when I said he said, I'll raise up an army out of the ashes. You said in, will you help me? You're just one of many that I'll commission for this. And you know, like, think about that. The summer of hope. What who was in that jail cell with me were people like me? Addicts, childhood trauma, pain, uh, abandonment issues, rejection, eating disorders. I could go through it all. And I'm like, God, are you really calling us? Why us? You know what he said? He said, because you'll walk in radical love and you're fearless because there ain't nothing you ain't been through, and you will not judge people when I touch people with this love, and you will go after into the darkest places and rescue my jewels and put them in my jewelry box, and I was wrecked, it wrecked me. I mean, it just wrecked me for life, and every single time I stop for one person to tell them that God loves them. It's like picking up a jewel and putting it in his treasure box. When it's all said and done, I can say, here you go. When I stand before him, when it's all said and done, here's all the jewels. I I did everything I could. I'm sorry. I did everything I could to get these jewels for you. And that's just very real and burns in me very deep. And so that's that's it, you know, and I've been doing that ever since, you know, just every since, however I can. Whether it's a summer of hope to get jewels, whether it's the person in the Walmart or the kid at the swimming pool that feels all alone, whether it's in recovery rooms where I'm giving my leads testimonies, whether it's standing in church, whether it's in jail cells, doing prison invasions, I rented a whole swimming pool one time and brought people from recovery. I'll do whatever takes. I rented a whole movie theater one time. I rented the whole thing out. Talk about let's go. Bring them in here, you know, and you know what? I showed them the movie Charlie Brown and taught about that, you know, at Christmas time because it says to carry goodwill towards men in there. And we gave all the kids candy. It was very beautiful, very beautiful. And I was like, we're not just supposed to carry goodwill towards men sometimes, it's all the time. Goodwill towards men. It's love, it's no greater love than this, and the man lay his life down towards friends, it's laying her life down in love, and you know, when your mindset is that way, you don't you see through a lens of the father's love most of the time. 90 95% of the time. I'm seeing through that lens. I I don't, I mean, I miss the mark sometimes, you know. I haven't passed all the tests with love, but I want to make it my mission to, you know, so when I I see a brother or sister in a slimy pit, I'm not looking at them in their condition. I say, God, what do you say about them? Who are they? What are your dreams for them? What are their gifts? What do you say? What do you say, God? And then he shows me. And I'm like, oh wow, you have a beautiful plan for their life. How can I go and speak that into them and pull that gold out and account their ability? When I think about accountability, it ain't about oh you're messing up, you're messing up, you're messing up. It's account someone's ability. Pull the gold out of them, you know? And it's it's more, it's it's even more than just like, you know, introducing people to Jesus, it's helping them get their heart healed through stepwork, inner healing, things like that, so that they can shine even brighter, you know, and see them in their full potential step into their full calling and destiny. Where they was created for it. Um 1 Peter 2, 9, you're a royalty to priesthood, a chosen nation. Like, so we're actually royalty, but we never seen ourselves as seen ourselves as that. I never seen myself as royalty. I see myself as unworthy and unlovable. And so, yeah, I mean, like, I do could go on all day and I'm gonna get preachy, so y'all better pull me back. Uh-oh, I can't hear you. Here I'm mute. You say the best things on mute.

SPEAKER_00

I do say the best things when I'm on mute, don't I? Um, you know, and I want you to this is your platform today to speak freely. And, you know, uh, we faith and recovery. There's a lot of, you know, there's a there's a big black cloud over my program is that we talk about God because people hear God and they run, they run for the and I don't, you know, and it's because of you know their old thoughts or how they were raised or what they what they've read or the things they see on TV. And and you know, so you know, by by people going to programs, you know, and being reintroduced to God. I that's me, that's my story, you know, and you know my story, you know. Yeah, and I, you know, there's there's the two types of people and how they come to find God. And there's the blinding light moment, which you are a beautiful example of that blinding light moment, and then then there's the educational variety where it took me a long time to fall in love with Jesus the way I have. Uh, but it happened, and that's all that matters, right? Um, so so let me let me ask you this question now. So, and this is I know this is gonna be very vague and very broad, but how do you help people find recovery? How do you help people find Jesus?

SPEAKER_02

Well, I mean, for me, I'm pretty bold, I don't hold back. So if I'm rolling up on you, it's coming pretty strong most of the time. But sometimes it's um, you know, God has me pull back a little, ask a few questions. You know, I just see myself like holding a love hammer for God and God helping me break open hearts with a love hammer. And sometimes that's just simply saying something kind, or the Lord will speak something to my heart about their life. And when I tell them, they're like, How did you know that? And I'm like, the Lord just spoke it to my heart. For some people that's kind of weird, but you know, it's true though. He'll speak to you if you listen, you know, and especially for other people because he cares so much about them. So an example of that would be like, you know, walking up on somebody and seeing that their father left them at five years old and they felt abandoned their whole life. But the Lord wants you to know you've never been alone and you have a good father. It's actually called a word of knowledge in the gifts of the Bible. So I listened when I'm in the world or helping people, regardless of what it is, for the Lord's voice to say, Well, you know, so I can help bust open hearts so that I can like we talk about being a bridge. That's how I can be a bridge sometimes in certain situations. You guys are bridges, you know, because ultimately we do understand today, all three of us. It's fair to say that all three of us on this panel know that recovery is so much easier with God, you know, and missing that missing element makes it hard, you know, if we're just talking about recovery, but we're I'm talking about recovery of the heart. I'm talking about all people, you know, everybody's been hurt, everybody's gone through things, everybody's in pain. And I'm just listening for the Lord at all times, you know, how you know, and I do stuff like this to reach people. So it just depends what situation I'm on. I'm a hundred percent, I try to be a hundred percent led by the Holy Spirit on how to reach people so I can put their hand in the hand of Jesus. That's the goal. I want to be the bridge that they walk over. Love can build a bridge, you know, between your heart and mine. You know, Jesus is the bridge, you know. And so it does take some people, it's harder on some people that have trust issues or they grew up in religion where it was hard. And um, I'm kind of glad I didn't grow up in religion, to be honest with you. But um so for those people, like you know, like you said, Johnny, you know, it was kind of hard for you to grab that because of how you, you know, how you grew up and things you walked through with religion. But the thing of it is is there's a blinder because always this has been about relationships. This, you know, I used to think that God was gonna try to get me all the time and that he was mad and I was running from him, you know? Like that's how I viewed him. You know, and it's it's sad, you know, it makes it sad because once that veil comes down, I once was blind, but now I see amazing grace, how sweet the sound. I once was lost, but now I'm found. Then it's just so much easier to grab his hand, you know, and life is so much fuller. So I just want to be the bridge on however the Holy Spirit leads me to be a bridge, you know, and that's why we need the Holy Spirit leading us. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Brandy, it's it's so amazing because you have you have this gift of being able to talk to anybody, and and you can you can talk to anybody and you are approachable. Like you and I have had many, many theological debates that you know, I'm telling you, people would think, oh my god, are they arguing right now? We're not in any way, shape, or form. It's it's it gets a little intense, but that's the beauty of it. And and being approachable like that. And when we talk about recovery, let's let's kind of clear the air on that. Is we're not talking just about alcohol and drugs, we're talking about mental health, we're talking about anxiety, depression, PTSD, all the trauma that people have gone through. When we talk about recovery, we're talking about recovery from life, right? Right. And they and we talk when we when we talk about the recovery from life, what is the solution? And and you've got the solution.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, thank you. I'm about to actually cry. Um, just hearing you say that because you know, I don't want to, I want to bring people closer to God in healing, not push them away, you know. Um and and and because I was so radically touched, I am a very radical believer. I will jump out of moving cars and have to run people down to tell them about Jesus. And my friends are like, whoa, it's crazy, but you know, um, that's just my heart right there. Just want to be a bridge, you know. I want to be a bridge, I want to help people know of his love and whatever that looks like. I'm not gonna dim my light ever, but I do want to be led by the Holy Spirit, you know?

SPEAKER_00

So, you know, okay, so let me jump over Krista. Krista, what do you think about this question? How do you help people find recovery and find Jesus?

SPEAKER_04

Well, when I was um had to go to rehab and where I was working the 12 steps, I looked around and thought, like, why is everyone in the world not doing this? Because it really has nothing to do with drugs and alcohol. Because it took eight years for me to find a faith-centered 12-step program that it came into my life. And one of my favorite parts about that program is all is welcome and all can benefit because we have habits, hurts, hang-ups. Yeah, we are in a fallen world. Like this world is not easy and it's not always great. And um, everyone can just benefit from this, I mean, the steps that lead you to God. The first steps are you came to believe in God, and then you turned your life over to Him, and then you get all that crud out, and you you start making it right, and you look, you're looking at yourself and you're you're changing yourself. You want to be better, you do the opposite of those character defects, and you fix your wrongs, and then you do you stay in prayer every day in meditation and you help others. And um I think recovery's been a bridge for me to get to Jesus. And um, as I walk in my faith journey, I want, I want to tell everyone this. I'm like, what I feel like it's been this big gate kept secret, and it shouldn't be. And let's talk about it. I saw a video not too long ago that really changed everything, and it was about a boy whose brother passed away, and he was it it tore him up because he said, I didn't have the chance, I don't know if I'm gonna see him in heaven. I didn't get the chance to tell him what about Jesus. I didn't get to tell him, and I don't know if he if I'm gonna see him, and that's eternity. We we have this much on earth, and then we have this much in eternity, you know, and I want to see everybody, even the people I may not like in the moment. Like, I want to see them, I want to see everyone up there. Um, and it's just there's so much more than just recovery for me because I felt like I was hitting the roof. Like I, yes, I'm sober, yes, I'm a better person today. But when I got into that bigger book, the Bible, and there's so much more advice and more suggestions and more love, and it just it's that's the best antidepressant right there. It really is. So I just want to tell people, and now I have a platform to be able to do that, and I'm learning how to do it from Brandy, and um just trying to use my voice where God wants me to use it. Yeah, somebody say amen.

SPEAKER_00

Amen. Can't we get an amen over here? And I and I love that, Krista. And I'm telling you, watching, I'm telling you, just watching you evolve in the past year since we've known Brandy. And and you and I got along so so fast because we both got saved, uh, like within the last the last few last two years. And I mean, uh nothing happens in God's world by mistake, right? Uh, we both get saved. All of a sudden we meet, and okay, we're gonna start going on the tiki talkie, and then we get to meet somebody like Brandy who's gonna teach us how to talk about it a little better and a little easier, and do and all the things, and oh my goodness, it just all works out the way it's supposed to work out, and it's amazing. So, Brandy, let me let me so you've got your summer of hope revival coming up, and Krista's coming to talk. What when when what can people expect at your summer of hope?

SPEAKER_02

Because you're not coming, clock that, but I'm gonna forgive you, and I'm clocking it, but now what's the question?

SPEAKER_00

Do I do I do I still get a present? Yes, okay, good. Um, the the question I want to know what is what do people what if people are thinking, okay, maybe I should go to this, what can they expect there?

SPEAKER_01

Well, that's a good question. Well, well, it's about to be real radical.

SPEAKER_02

I'm not gonna lie, like we are really going to like intense worship, intense worship, and just gifts and and testimony. The word says they overcame by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony. And when Krista opens her mouth, when I open my mouth in in April and trip, guess what? What you're saying is do it again, God, do it again. That's what it means. That's why you're to testify everywhere you go. Every time you testify in drug court rehabs in the streets on social media, you're saying, do it again, God, for somebody else. And so, like I said before, like we're expecting just an explosion of God's love and hope. Because, like I said, the Lord said, You're not the only one that's gone through hard sea this hard season, you know, especially for people in recovery. For some reason, the Lord showed me that people had gone through some battles, some real battles. And I just I'm expecting the sunshine of heaven to just uh invade that place and for people to get healed, touched in their heart, set free. Set free. Who the sun says free is free indeed. I'm calling on the liberty bells of heaven, the freedom of heaven. Friday night we're kicking this off with a freedom service at the KY Hub, and we're gonna be speaking about America and it being the 250-year uh birthday of America and what the Lord spoke to me that he was going to release freedom like reign over people, and he's about to ring liberty bells, and he's about to bring people out of this slimy pit in Psalms 42. He's about to release such a move of God, revival. And the waters are already stirring, but I'm telling you, this year is marked for intense revival and God moving on people and changing hearts and a great rescue. Souls and harvest are gonna come out. So that's what I'm excited about Friday night as much as I am about Saturday. I can't wait to see what we see on Friday night, KY Hub. It's gonna be and we're gonna we're gonna have cupcakes. You gotta have some cupcakes, okay?

SPEAKER_05

You gotta have cupcakes.

SPEAKER_02

Fourth of July cupcakes, and you're gonna have taco bars, and we're gonna have presents, and we're gonna have all the things, okay? And we got a hot dog bar at the Summer of Hope, like in food trucks, like it's just gonna be beautiful. I just feel like the fragrance of God is gonna be released very strong, and I'm I can't wait to see what we're gonna see. I I'm like, what are we about to see? I feel that anticipation. Like, God, what are we about to see? What are we about to see? I feel like a little kid in a candy store, you know, like Winnie the Pooh, never lose your wonder, is what Christopher Robertson told. I'm never one to lose my wonder of how great he is, you know. So expectancy is a key. Clock that, take that, put that in your tool belt. If you expect something from God in your heart, he will move on that. But if you're just like, oh, I'm not gonna get nothing, he don't care about me. You won't. The key is to go wherever you're going with expectancy to see God move. And I'm expecting, and if 20 people show up, then 20 people showed up. I said yes to the one and to the thousands in Africa and the thousands in Honduras and the jails and the streets and the people in Walmart. I said yes to love and yes to that. So, you know, I well, no matter what, I'm gonna be like, Thank you, Lord, and I'll get on my face and I'll give him all the glory and all the honor for everything he does this weekend, and I'll thank him and I'll tell him this one thing. I always do this after every event. I get on my face and I say it was worth of worth it all. Thank you for everything you've done and everything you do and everything you're going to do. I cast my crown to you. So, yeah, it's gonna be great.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so we've done the business side of this live podcast that we do, and everybody knows about the event. It's June 27th, and we know where it is, and we know what's gonna happen. So now uh we get to have some fun. Okay, look, and now she's nervous, and uh a little bit more good. Um, okay, so I'm gonna ask you a question, okay, and before you answer it, me and Krista are gonna try to figure out what the answer is gonna be, even though I know what the answer is gonna be already.

SPEAKER_04

Um, because I think he's making up the rules as he goes.

SPEAKER_00

No, because I I know Brandy better than Krista. That's just this is this is the game. This is the game. All right, so what is and Krista, you gotta figure out some place you can you can, and I'm gonna I'm gonna send myself uh a text right now that with the answer. Uh, what is your favorite story in the Bible? It could be any story. There's a hundred different stories, there's hundreds of stories in the Bible, and Brandy's got a favorite, you know she's got a favorite, and I'm gonna write down what I think the story is, and then you gotta write down what you think the story is. What is brandy's you get this right?

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna buy y'all bug a present. Okay.

SPEAKER_00

What is Brandy's favorite story in the Bible? And I've got my answer right here. I'm gonna show you. And uh, did you write something down?

SPEAKER_04

I know it.

SPEAKER_00

You gotta write it down. You you can't, yes, you gotta write it down. There's gotta be some proof. It's like uh Jeopardy. They gotta write stuff down. Look at Nicole said, I don't know any. What uh okay, in the comments, what do we think? Uh Brandy's favorite. Anybody who knows Brandy, what's Brandy's?

SPEAKER_03

Tell me who's in the chat real quick.

SPEAKER_00

Uh, we got I know JoJo was in here, Nicole's in here. Uh Stella, hey, uh Ricky's in here. Ricky, Ricky, Ricky, Ricky, Tim Boggs, Cat Talk, uh, Carly, uh, Jessica Stonberger. Uh, and there was one other, you know, Kelly. Is it Kelly or Keely Cordell? Just made a year and a half sober. I'm so proud of Kelly Keely. Um, and there's so there's uh there's some people in here.

SPEAKER_02

Uh I want to speak to your chat for a second.

SPEAKER_00

I need a pen.

SPEAKER_02

I want to tell them thank you for coming and honoring Nervalone Recovery Live, and I want you to share this out because things we shared with this video are so important for people's hearts. I'm gonna challenge each and every one of you to share this broadcast, and I want to thank you for it. And I want to thank you for coming to being part of this day with my friends. Okay, are you ready? Tell me what your answer is.

SPEAKER_00

I know, I okay, so uh Krista, did you write something down? Brenda. Uh, let's see, Jojo says, Girl, I don't even know, so I'm gonna try to guess. I don't even know, so I'm gonna try to guess.

SPEAKER_02

So she wasn't paying attention.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so what is your favorite story? Tell me when you've written something down, Krista, because this is I've I've been I was thinking about this yesterday. Like I knew that this we were having this conversation today, and I said, All right, this is gonna be our fun game. Yes, and so Brandy, tell us what is your favorite story in the Bible.

SPEAKER_02

Ain't you gonna tell me first?

SPEAKER_00

No, no, no, we're gonna tell you our answers after you tell us the answer.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, well, I've got a lot, so that's really hard. But one of my favorites is the man at the beautiful gate in Acts 3, where he was lame, and the disciples came and and they he was begging, he was begging, you know, for money, and they said, Silver and gold I do not have, but what I have to give you is worth more. And they prayed for the man, he gets miraculously healed at the beautiful gate. His gates became beautiful, and he ran into the city and told everybody what Jesus had done. That's me. I was lame in that jail cell, and you know what? Silver and gold, not by martyr power, but by his spirit, came in and set me free. And now I'm going into cities, regions, and nations, telling them my gates are beautiful, Jesus is alive and he's real. Tell me what your answer is.

SPEAKER_00

That wasn't even your favorite one.

SPEAKER_02

Well, it is my favorite one, and the right now it is.

SPEAKER_00

Look at okay, so Krista, what did you write down?

SPEAKER_04

Okay, I spelt it wrong, but I thought she was gonna pick a woman of the Bible, so I said Deborah. Oh, well, you know, she's a top one.

SPEAKER_00

And see, now I've had multiple conversations with Brandy, and every time we talk, she always brings up Esther, Esther, Joseph.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, yeah. Well, I will tell you, Joseph was just for you, but now Esther and Deborah, Joseph was a word from the Lord for you, but now Deborah and Esther, they my girls, okay. You know, Esther was chosen to save a nation. And she said yes. And she was brave. And so I love the brave ones. You know, go ahead. What's the next one? This is funny.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. So this is that we'll do an we'll do an easy one. We'll do an easy one. What is Brandy's favorite candy?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, this is easy. Look at her. She done went like that and clicked it with her pants.

SPEAKER_00

Look at it. Does anybody in the comments? Does anybody in the comments know Brandy's favorite candy?

SPEAKER_01

Carly know it.

SPEAKER_00

Look at Carly don't know it. Jojo know it. Everybody knows it. I figure we'd do one.

SPEAKER_01

Joe know it.

SPEAKER_00

And I've got my answer already. Jojo already put it. What Brandy? What is your favorite candy? Look at Ricky's. Wait, but you have a new one.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I do. And yes, sweet tart dust. Sweet tart dust. And what flavor? What flavor? What flavor dip, Johnny? Flavor.

SPEAKER_00

Hang on, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Did you write down sweet tart dust? And you didn't write down fun dip?

SPEAKER_04

I did. I did fun dip and sweet tart dust grape. She likes grape. And grape's my favorite.

SPEAKER_00

Look at uh Jolene put fun dip, Nicole put fun dip, Ricky put fun dip. We all got fun dip. This and Jojo said that's the fun dip preacher right there.

SPEAKER_02

That is, and I'm gonna talk about that this summer, hoping how you sent me a whole thing of fun dip when I got mad at you one day. That was uh that I did, and then the fun dip stocks went up for everybody on TikTok's looking for fun dip. That's a movement, okay? I started a whole movement. You did. Y'all should send me something on the brown truck. Okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know, Brandy, let alone her favorite candy, but I'm glad to meet you. That was Annie Rogers. Annie Rogers, you uh see you, Annie. It's a pleasure to meet you as well, Annie. And and this is this is uh see, I knew we would have a little bit of fun on here, and uh I was really I'm really upset you didn't pick Joseph for uh your favorite Bible story. I thought for sure. I was I'm telling you, I was I was I have a question.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, I don't think Johnny will be able to answer it. What is the the theme of Summer of Hope? Like there's like a theme of it. Yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_01

Like decoration type actually bird, yes, that helped bird this baby. What is it, Krista?

SPEAKER_04

What's has he been paying attention? Johnny, what is it?

SPEAKER_00

It's hope.

SPEAKER_04

No, it's like a decoration theme, like a colored theme.

SPEAKER_00

I'm not looking, I'm not even I don't do decorations.

SPEAKER_02

Well, you're kind of girly with us sometimes, so I mean, low key. I mean, low-key.

SPEAKER_00

I I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04

Jolene's close. Jolene's close. She said something yellow. Come on, Joe.

SPEAKER_00

Something yellow. What is it? Is it is it Daisy's or dandelions?

SPEAKER_04

Miss me. My eyes crossed. It's lemonade.

SPEAKER_00

Lemonade.

SPEAKER_02

My Jesus, he be making lemonade for a sprinkle song.

SPEAKER_00

That okay. That's brilliant. See, now that's this is BS because Krista helped you come up with that. And I'm supposed to read about it for me.

SPEAKER_02

That was on me. And I told her later what where I was like, I've been listening to this song, and it's helped bring my joy back. When light be giving lemons, my Jesus, he be making lemonade.

SPEAKER_00

Brandy, I'm telling you, you are so and she has lemon earrings.

SPEAKER_04

I do, I'm wearing lemon earrings.

SPEAKER_00

This has been so fun, and I'm so upset that I'm uh I'm gonna not be able to attend uh the summer of hope, but I'll be at the next one.

SPEAKER_02

And yeah, I kind of needed you to lead the panel, so now it's Krista's job.

SPEAKER_00

Krista goes in phenomenal.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00

You know, you know, we're gonna need to get her one of those bald wigs, and she'd be she'd fit right in.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

And Nicole throws lemons at people. Yeah, and Nicole throw lemons at us.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so so back to get serious before we end this thing. Uh, what uh what does the what does the future hold for for Brandy Harris?

SPEAKER_02

It's real simple. I'm just gonna keep doing what I'm doing. You know, I'm just gonna keep rolling. And I always talk about this, and I've done some TikToks on this. Um we have a birthday and a death date. What are we gonna do with the dash in between? I'm just trying to stay in the dash, you know, and run my race and reach for the prize of the high calling of God on my life, and that is to love people radically. And um, you know, and love for me, it, you know, it's also telling the truth when it when it hurts, you know. That is true love. That is agobi love, you know, and so I'm gonna keep running, doing the exact same thing I'm doing, but even more than that is just asking the Lord. Like, I really contend for my family. I love my children. I want to shout out to all my boys, I want to shout out to my daughter-in-laws, I want to shout out to my grandbabies. I love them with so much. My trips daughters, like I love them. And I'm just over here in my prayer closet every day, lifting the name of Jesus up and standing for their life because they're all just precious gifts. See, it's it's God, family, then ministry. Don't miss the order. Okay. If you get the order backwards, you'll get in trouble. You know, it's God, you know, my husband, my children, my grandbabies. I have to invest in them at all times. You know, I always say to my little Ray Ray, when she was three years old, looked at me and said, Shine, BB, shine. And I knew God was speaking to her. It the the word says, let the little children come. Like, listen to them. God uses them. And she just stopped and said, Shine, BB, shine. And it was like heaven just came down on me. And I was like, I hear you, God. Isaiah 60 says, Arise and shine, for your light is come. Like, don't hide your light. And and I was going through a really hard time when Ray Ray did that. She wasn't but two and a half years old. And she was just laughing, and and all of a sudden she just stopped. I was giving her a bath, she just stopped. Said, shine, baby, shine. And it was like an aching cry coming out of a little child. And I thank God, so they're just so precious to me. I lost my children. I lost everything good in my life for so many years. My grandbabies are almost like a second chance to show love. I will, every single time I'm with them, I take them through this. Say this, I'm worthy. They'll say, I'm worthy. I'm chosen. I'm chosen. Jesus loves me. I sit down with them. I tell them about how much God loves them. I do Bible stories with them. I take them out on scavenger hunts any way I can to plant the seeds of love in their heart. I'm doing it. You know, I'm constantly praying for my kids. It ain't always been easy. But God restores and He heals, and I'm going after that. You know, just I want to see families restored and children love their parents and children love their siblings and just, you know, and be used for God and raise people up. I want to raise people up and train and equip them to go into all the world and make you disciples because that's the call of my life. It ain't just, you know, it's more than just getting clean, you know. And so that dash in between, Johnny, is where we need to live in our life. And whatever in our unique design and whatever God has called us to do, do it with all of our hearts with his love and make sure he's getting the glory. And we'll we won't go wrong, you know. And so, yeah, that dash in between.

SPEAKER_00

That's where I really love that so much, you know. And uh, so you are all are you writing a book currently, correct?

SPEAKER_02

Yes, that'll be my second one.

SPEAKER_00

Well, actually my third, but and when uh where can people find your books and when can we expect the next one?

SPEAKER_02

Well, I'm hoping to get that released on Amazon, and I've got an editor, and I'm still we're still writing, you know. I don't know how much Krista wants you to know about it, but she's co-writing this with me, and so you know, I don't want to just be like it's all me because it's not, but it is faith and recovery based. It's gonna be a 30-day devotional, and it's gonna really like tie in God and in the steps and devotionals from our hearts. We're gonna speak from our hearts, and it's really like a dear diary. Um, the diary of an addict who became a new creation is the title of the book. So we're excited about this project, but we're still working on it. It's gonna take us a little bit of time, but I'm hoping to be selling it everywhere I go. I'm looking for sponsors who would say, Hey, I want to buy 500 of those books so you can take them in jails and rehabs and get them out, you know. And that that's my heart for it. Just to plant seeds of hope. That's another way to plant seeds is through writing, you know. And so, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That's so amazing. And two, and they couldn't have two of the great two of the greatest people I know writing a book together, co-authoring is is this is awesome. And um, so everybody knows that we uh you have your event on the 27th, the summer of hope. Everybody needs to go, and it is amazing. And uh, I know I say the word amazing too much, but it's uh it's okay, it's a good word. There's no other word that I have, it's a good word to to say a lot. It's uh you are Brandy Harris. I thank you for uh being here with us today. I thank you for being in my life. Uh you're more than amazing, you're extraordinary. Look at look at you better. You better watch out when I come out with the big words.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, you know what? I forgive you then, Johnny. I forgive you. Me, I go through it with you all the time. So funny. Let me tell you something. Krista, I I love you so much. I just want to say this, and y'all can cut this out if you want to. I don't care, but I want to say this. I can literally feel you cheerleading me from your spot in the spirit. And um, I just want to thank you for that. I can I could feel that everything inside you is like, you got this, you know, and um you're just good. You're you're good like that, and it's very beautiful. And I want to thank you. And Johnny, I want to, you're one of the best interviewers. Like you, you do such a job. You're a great interviewer, and you help and you help keep the flow. And man, y'all, y'all are great, and I just love y'all, and I'm so grateful that y'all are my great friends. I think. Yay!

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it is amazing. And let's uh, you want to close us out with a little prayer, Brandon?

SPEAKER_02

Yes, yes, yes. Lord, I just thank you so much. There were so many beautiful things that just came out of this live today, and I just want to thank you for your great love. I thank you that you're ringing Liberty Bells, you're sending love rain to a harvest. You're gonna display your splendor like the beautiful Fourth of July grand finale over a people. They're gonna know that you live, that you're alive, and that you love them. And I want to thank you so, so much for everything you've done for us. It is a miracle that us three or anybody that we talk to is alive. It we will we will always give you the glory, God, because it's truly a miracle. In your great mercy, you came and you rescued us, God. And I want to thank you for that epic rescue of love over all of us. I will never be able to thank you enough for that. And as far as the dash in between, Lord, let us live in that dash and just keep stopping for the one and running after you and running into jails, running into streets, running into rehabs, using social media to glorify your name and to pull people out of the mud and mire. God, give us a fire in us so strong that we will never say no and we will continue to run after you with all of our hearts and run after people, God, for your glory, and I thank you so much for everything in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you so much, Brandy. This has been so amazing, and thank you all for being here and watching today. And everybody go to Summer of Hope in Kentucky on Saturday, the 27th of Let's go, Kentucky. Uh, you'll meet Krista there, you'll meet Brandy there, and uh, and it's uh it's gonna be a time. Uh, and thank you so much for being here. Thank you, everybody. We will see you next week.

SPEAKER_04

And I'll see you tomorrow, Brandy.

SPEAKER_03

Tomorrow.

unknown

Yay!

SPEAKER_05

Have a great day, guys.