Back to the First Yes: Obedience Over Comfort with Diamond

There’s a difference between being busy… and being aligned.

In this episode of Holy, Not Harmless, I sit down with Diamond for a real conversation about going back to what God first told you to do. Not the polished version. Not the comfortable version. The original instruction.

We talk about how purpose isn’t something you create—it’s something you return to. It comes before the titles, before the roles, before the expectations. And if we’re honest, a lot of us try to build around it instead of committing to it… especially when obedience feels inconvenient.

This episode is a call back to alignment.
 A reminder that your assignment is specific, and skipping over it will only delay what you’re actually called to walk in.

If you’ve been feeling the nudge to revisit something God already showed you… this is for you.

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To connect with Diamond and follow along on her journey: 

Instagram: @thesinglelifeadvocate

Website: thesinglelifeadvocate.com

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@thesinglelifeadvocate

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:00

Hey friends, welcome back to Holy Not Harmless. This is a podcast for bold faith and real conversations. I am your host, Alicia Baker, and I am so blessed to be here with you on yet another episode. And I have a special guest. Her name is Diamond, which is an awesome name. Besides that, she is an amazing woman, and I'm super excited to have her on this show. We met through socials, and you know what? She popped up on my feed. I saw what she was doing, and I was like, I got to know this girl, and she's got to come on my pod podcast because what she is doing is something I've never seen before, but it is so awesome, so obedient, and such a great reminder that we shouldn't compare ourselves to anyone. God has unique callings for all of us, right? And sometimes He only reveals certain things to certain people, right? You're not gonna understand, and that's okay because you're not meant to carry that message. And so, as children of God, as a unified community, we need to remember that our gifts look different, and sometimes they're not, you know, the most likely or the most common, you know, can be a little different, you know, and that's totally fine. God loves that, and he wants to be able to have us be vast, right? So that we can go and help many different areas. There's certain people that we are called to serve and called to be connected to through our purpose. And so today I want to introduce you guys to Diamond. Diamond, thank you so much for being on the show. I love your energy, I love what you're about, and I'm just so excited for you to share with my community a little bit about you. Tell us about yourself and how you became known as the single life advocate.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

Hi guys, um, my name is Diamond. Super excited to be here. And the Single Life Advocate journey started three years ago. Um, when I went to God with frustrations about the way that relationships looked around me, specifically for the women in the room. Um, I just felt like it was unfair that so many women that I saw in good marriages and not good marriages, godly marriages, not godly marriages. There was this unified theme of them not being able to carry out their God assignments that they had pre-marriage. Um, and it just really looked like they were suffering from my perspective. And it wasn't the vibe. It wasn't the vibe for me. So I sought the Lord because I wanted to know when did this happen? When did men become head of household? Like, there are answers. I know that God's way is the best way, and that some people are called to marriage. Um, but I want to know like when this all started, how this got there, if it's just being worldly, like what's the difference? Um, and so I sought the Lord and He led me to different parts in scripture where revealed to me um all the answers that I wanted, but then specifically the call to singleness. Um he led me to Matthew 19, um, 11 through 12, which says, Jesus replied, Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. For there are eunuchs who were born that way, there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by others, and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it. And I in that moment, 100%, I accepted it. Um, I've never not accepted it, but there were some temptations right after of the singleness, um, where it was like, Lord, if you did not call me this singleness before, then not saying I would have like I probably would have dated. I'm not sure it would have actually ended up. It was just, it was never a good idea in the first place. And me and the Lord kind of had this thing where the Lord reminds me of why he's called me to be single within 48 hours. It's it's really kind of funny, but like, like if any time, especially it's like around that time of the month, I watch a rom-com, like I forget, you know, like a little bit, not the call, but like you know, like, oh, that's actually kind of you know, like that's cute. And then every single time within 48 hours, it's a by it's a scripture, it's it's something happens that instantaneously snaps me back and reminds me, but I have called you to do this, so I'm like, cool, and it's and it's easy to it's it was easy to accept when I was angry about it, when I was angry about what I saw. It wasn't always easy when I was having experiencing a crush or you know, going through something like that, but it's always been best, and my heart has always returned to it because when God reveals something to you, you gotta stick with it. You know that's where his favor lies for you in that. So for me, that's where that's where it started.

SPEAKER_05 4:52

And you know what? That's so cool. Um, and thank you for sharing that with us. You know, one thing that really stood out, two things that really stood out to me about what you just said is one, the verse that you shared with us, Matthew, you know, um, because you guys just listen, like because this is her calling, you know, she recognized an answer within that verse. Like, I could read that verse, but because that's not really for me, I'm I'm just gonna read it like me. Like, I'm just gonna read it regularly. I'm not seeking what you're seeking from it. You know what I'm saying? So, how many times have we, you know, gone over verses like that? And you know, it's it's different for us, but for you, it was like the answer, right? But God has uniqueness in how he's going to reveal things to you, right?

SPEAKER_02 5:40

The Lord will bring you back to what he has called you to do, to what he's assigned you to do. And when he's asked you to do that assignment, it's not dropping the assignment, like for anything. Like it's once, and we know like deep down when God has asked us to do something, and we can Jonah and run. We can like run, like straightforward, like 100-yard dash, run from it. We can come up with excuses. We can we have a myriad of different things that we do to try to like wait, I don't know. Um, and then sometimes, like I said, like before, like sometimes decisions are easier. Like sometimes we seek God for answers, He gives us those answers, and that part's easy, but there's maybe some other area in our life that we're not fully being obedient with, and it's like obedience across the board, yeah, like out of our love for God, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05 6:31

Yeah, and that's the hard part. Like, even like too, even after you accept the calling, you know, things are gonna come your way.

SPEAKER_00 6:38

Right. Now the enemy sent sent a few.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

Exactly, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 6:42

And even if they weren't sent by the enemy, there were there were a good one or two, so yeah, and a lot of times, you know, we think that it's a you know, we think that it's gonna necessarily be something bad, but it looks like something that could be right. Yep, and a red boat. Yeah, and we, you know, we have to remember that, you know, and you know, tell us a little bit, Diamond, about you know you you shared about how you became the single life advocate, but now that you know your mission, now that you know your purpose, what is your hope to to share with the world? Like what is the message that you want to give through your calling?

SPEAKER_02 7:23

Yeah. So after I accepted the call to singleness and God gave me, revealed to me the name the single life advocate, it became very clear that there were no communities for lifelong singles, let alone singles by choice who were living for Jesus. None none, the only topic that was ever mentioned pertaining to singleness within the church was single season waiting for marriage. Even Matthew 19, like I have never heard Matthew 19, 11 through 12 preached like in any church, like ever. Not saying that it hasn't happened, but when I looked in the internet and the churches that I've been to growing up, like it's just never talked about.

SPEAKER_03 8:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

And for a while I thought maybe it's because it's under the divorce chapter, and people try to avoid the divorce chapter. Because actually, like in most of my Bibles, it's titled Under Divorce because the disciples were asking Jesus, is it better to divorce if you do this? Is it better to do this? Um, and then Jesus leads into talking about celibacy and the choice that only those it's like a select group, but I wanted that select group of people to not feel alone, to have community, to not feel ostracized by the the body of Christ for that for a specific lifestyle that Jesus himself lived that way. Paul lived that way. You're right, you're so right, like right. Like, according to historians, like John the Baptist also lived that way. Like, dude went to the desert the minute he got to the time and was old enough to live on his own, like he was in the desert until like we start hearing about him later. Like, there are so many other people, and like maybe their singleness isn't mentioned, but it's there in order to fully serve the body of Christ, and things that God used them to do are like we know that to this day. We don't contribute it to that, but there is this undivided focus that they were gifted to have. And so a lot of people don't view singleness as a gift, but that is scripture, right? Singleness is a gift to us, even if it is for a season. It is a gift of you fully being able to fully focus on the thing that God has you to do. And how we steward the singleness does affect if someone is called to the ministry of marriage, it does affect that greatly because you want to go in not seeking that person for what they can give to you. Yes, it's a give and take, like we're working together, but both like for the Lord together, but you also don't want to seek validation to that person. If they're having a low moment and you're fully relying on them, you're supposed to like balance it out together, but fully rely on the Lord. Um, and so that's important for that, but it's also important if you're single for a lifetime, if you're called to it, if you didn't know you were called to it and it's been 54 years and you're like, okay, I'm starting to get a hit, like any of these things, yeah, it's just really important to me that people know that if they're single, whether for a season or a lifetime or by choice, or they chose because they looked around and didn't like what they saw, for whatever reason, it's important to me that people know to ask God what ministry he's called you to, marriage or simpleness. And then be bold enough and obedient enough to do exactly what God says. And I wanted those people to know that they have a community, that there's actually people that care about them, that they're not just like outsiders, second-class citizens in the kingdom of God. Like that's not a thing. My mom always said everybody's in the church, so that means that all types of behavior, all types of people, obviously, the goal is the body, but it's wheat and tears, even now. So, you know, I really wanted those people to have a space to be able to be encouraged in their purpose and to know that they're not any less of the person God's called them to be, that they're exactly the person God's called them to be. A work in progress. We're all work in progress, but that to be encouraged in that because we all we all want community, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:06

And I think too, like a lot of it comes, you know, if you look at the Bible and you know, back in I'm currently reading a book called Finding Your Your Muchness. It's like, you know, about audacious women in the Bible, and um, in there, you know, there's some parts that talk about you know how women were perceived back then. Like, you know, we if you didn't have a husband and if you couldn't have kids, like if you look at Sarah, you know, in the Bible, she was like, it's like she's considered like not even a full woman, right? Because she can't, if you're barren, you're kind of looked at to like you're yeah, they they trimmed people off. They did, yeah, really horrible. I know, I know, and even like you know, we couldn't um we couldn't be in court, right? Our our opinions didn't matter. That's why Mary Magnus, her position as a woman was so strong because that when she saw Jesus come back, her witness the fact like that was like one of the first women that actually they took her witness, right? Like God positioned her, and also He's showing you too that He will position women. Leadership is genderless, right? It doesn't matter because at the end of the day, we're child of God before our gender, whether you're a male or female, right? That comes Jesus as well. So does every single role, right? That we play. And I think that's a major part of what you're saying. Like your purpose and your roles that you play are completely different, right? A purpose is something that is in you from before the day that before you were even created, you were written with a purpose, right? It's ingrained inside of you, can't get away from it. If you don't want to be a mom, you don't have to be a mom. You know, you there's things, or maybe you're not able to have kids, you know, that's just a role within your purpose. Motherhood is a role within your purpose. It doesn't mean it shouldn't be your role is in your purpose, right? That's it's the other way around, and that's like the purpose decides your role and how you show up in it. Exactly, exactly, right? And I love that. And so today we want to, you know, share that topic with you guys because it is important to always remember, you know, your purpose and what God called you to do first, right? Sometimes, you know, we have a tendency to have shiny new red toy syndrome, and you know, we know the assignment, we're in the assignment, and you know, maybe it's not as exciting or as what we wanted it to be all the time, and we start, you know, going to other things and we forgot, or maybe something happens, we do get married, we do have kids, and we kind of just let it go. But um, Diamond and I really want to share with you guys that no, this is something that comes first, not last. And it's something that needs constant um nurturing, it needs you to be constantly growing um personally within your mind so that you can understand it, so that you can be aware, and so that you can even have the capacity to hold what God is giving you, right? It's a partnership, it's not just like yes, God gives you things, but you also need to have the body to hold the Holy Spirit in, right? He gives you the Holy Spirit, but if you're if you're all clouded and you know, all these things, it's like it can't truly manifest in you and give its full power. So we also need to do our part and be prepared. Like that's one of my favorite verses is you know, the the battle is the Lord's, but the horse is always prepared, right? So we gotta be prepared for when God is about to use us. We don't just wait around and be like, you know, we're waiting for God. No, like every single day, you gotta be preparing yourself. God does appreciate us being diligent in the way that we work, He does um appreciate you doing the mundane things um and being consistent. That's actually how we thrive and that's how we're designed to have smart and positive spiritual habits, right? That can essentially grow our purpose. And so tell us, Diamond, about like a time. Did this ever happen to you? Like where you, you know, got the assignment and you started, you know, maybe focusing on the next, or do you know someone that this has happened to that you can like kind of like give a story about?

SPEAKER_02 15:27

Yeah, I did I did want to quickly note children are a blessing from the Lord. Motherhood is such a beautifully sacred and intimate mission with the Lord, and so all flowers, the moms. Um, I look up to all of you um because I know that it's that easy juggling that with a marriage, but no, I never hold it against the kids. Children are a complete blessing from the Lord. I wanted to emphasize that. But um, for me, I have had moments where I completely dropped the ball. Yeah, completely like never to the point of like stepping out of it. Like, I've again still never dated, still never not like that. But in any assignment, um, God had entrusted me with an idea and concept for a kid's YouTube channel to teach kids to grow up with Jesus. I gave my life to Jesus when I was four years old, and it entirely affected the way that I grew up. My life did not look like what you would read in typical parenting books. I didn't have a rebellious teenage phase, and I've gotten this from my mom, just like if anything, it's been more of a like interesting adult. But it affected the way that I grew up because I had a very much big awareness of the Holy Spirit. I knew that the Holy Spirit was my very best friend, and my mom made it a point to always make sure that we included and acknowledged him in everything, but from a very young age, she made it a point to introduce me to the Holy Spirit. Like I was already filled with the Holy Spirit, we're gonna acknowledge the Holy Spirit. So I grew up with Jesus in a way that completely shaped my childhood different than other kids. And so, in that, I really wanted to um be able to give that to other kids so that they have that opportunity, um, and so that their life could be changed by the Lord, that they can know that when someone's being mean on the playground, that it's actually it's not just because they're, you know, a bully, like that there's something behind there that you know, it could be an evil spirit or it could be there's trauma at home, like there's just different things. I wanted kids to be able to grow up with Jesus in a way um that was different. More importantly, that's what God had put on my heart, not you know, um, just from me. But that assignment he gave me six, maybe seven years ago now. I just like there were slow pieces. I would like go register the name, go start the YouTube channel, like here and there. But I just actually started like seriously doing it about a year ago. Yeah, and it's shameful to me a little bit. I don't live in the shame, but it was how comfortable I was being disobedient for so long, constantly expecting God to just have it there for me in the queue, like as if he's on my time and I'm not on his. Yeah, and it was like the audacity for me, but in the wrong way. Um, and I had a million reasons, I wanted it to look super nice and animated, like the kids' shows do. I I said I didn't have a green screen, I've had a green screen sitting here for two years. Like I had a hundred million different excuses, and then God sat me down and he was like, No, you're not the one who makes this special. I'm using you, I'm entrusting you with this. I am the one who's going to speak to them. I'm the one who's going to use you to do this. I just need you to trust me and be obedient. And so I was like, okay, it came, push came to shove. I mean, I had told people about it for all these years. No fruit was happening, like nothing. Um, and I finally did do it, and the blessings that unlocked first episode dropped. When I tell you parts of my life I didn't even know were connected to anything that had to do with kids, things that were unlocked, revelations that clicked and made sense, like all these different things were attached to me being obedient in that assignment. And I had no idea, and I was delayed. Six years. Answers I was praying for were like literally unlocked once I was obedient with that assignment. And so I again totally agree that like I want people to know to steward your assignment well. That is what we're gonna be asked about when we sit in front of the throne mood of God. We're gonna be asked, did we steward our assignment well? Were we obedient to what God asked us to do? Not how many followers did you have, not how much money you had, what was your social status, your following, or your growth, or yeah, like one viral video, like none of those things. Yeah, and it's easy to get caught up in those things because people care about those things, yeah. But God knows that you can have all of those things and still have a first class ticket to hell. Like, no, you can. You can like I'll never forget there was this one TikTok dance years ago, and it was like trending, and I grew up as a dancer, and so the dance trends just kind of get me, and I was doing it, and I had my mom record the video of me doing it, and then I went to go attach the audio, and I realized the song was literally like the title was like something going to hell. Oh, and I was like, Oh my gosh! And I just stopped and I was like, I can't post this. I was shameful I even danced to it in the first place, I couldn't even believe it. But ever since then, in my mind, when I'm tempted to be disobedient with what God's called me to do, even if it's like a video that I want to post, but like not what he asked me to do, like I'm just doing it because I want to do it. Every time I think about that moment with that video, like I view it that way because it's like there's so many trends. It's not just TikTok in general. TikTok's not gonna take you to hell, but there's so many trends and things that are popular and that people care about in this world that are just distractions labeled as different things. Yeah, it looks like it's cool, it looks like it's successful. But the real point is like as believers, we are not successful if we are outside of God's will.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 21:10

And so I never want any of us to be comfortable living outside of God's will because that's disobedience and that's rebellion. We're way too comfortable sitting in the disobedience.

SPEAKER_05 21:22

I think it's also important, like, you know, well, one thing, you know, the fact that you were introduced to the Holy Spirit and just had him, you know, learned how to incorporate him into every moment of your life at such a young age is like so key. It might be like so key that you might not even really realize it's a thing, right? It's just kind of your thing. But it is so important, even you know, um myself, I struggle sometimes. Uh and I know when I'm not keeping him in every moment. Yes, I wake up and I read my Bible. Yes, I pray. But there's moments like, and I feel like if I don't put him in every moment, I can just tell it starts to bother me. Like cognitive dissonance, but with the Holy Spirit, you know what I'm seeing? Like, once you do have start like having him, then when you don't, you can really notice, and you're like, mm-mm, this is not it. Like, you just feel all over the place. I don't know if it's just me, but I feel I inside I feel conflicted. I know I'm not doing the best that I can. Um, and I know, right? And so it's like it's a continuous, you need to come back to that path and continue to always bring the Holy Spirit. He wants us to seek him, he wants us to invite him. Yes, there's times when he will interject and he will intervene, but for the most part, he wants us to seek him and he wants us to invite him. And the more you invite him into your life, the more, like you said, he can make things great. And we got to get off the focus of what the world's way looks like, you know. For me, when I got into business, you know, I was like, you know, I'm in doing high-ticket sales and stuff like that. And I'm thinking, you know, ultimately, I want to help women, you know, build kingdom wealth, right? I feel like that is my calling through business and and through teaching women, you know, like biblical principles and using your purpose to create wealth for the kingdom. And so, you know, I know sometimes as moms, um, I mean, as women, we are sometimes get the like we have more hits, I guess, when it comes to finances. You know, we're we're caretakers. We have to sometimes take breaks, um, we have to work part-time sometimes, sometimes we can end up being single parents, which all affects the bigger picture, right? And I wanted to be able to empower women um to be able to create that for themselves, right? And so I when I got into doing that, I was thinking, you know, I do that by making sales, right? Like if I'm making money and then I'm making an impact. And, you know, for a long time, I was like, I was relied on my own like abilities, right? And my ability to get things done. And God really took me through a season and and showed me, like, girl, you're not doing nothing. You thought you were, and yes, you were for that time. I I was letting you, I was helping you survive. But now you said, you know, now you see me. Now you said you want me to partner in business. We're gonna, this is how we're gonna do it, right? You don't need income to make an impact. Since when do you need to do that? Why can't God all all I kept thinking was multiply, multiply, stop looking to add? So much times we're looking, we're thinking, like, we need this, we need a coach, we need another course, we need more front followers, we need this before we can get started. Like you said, we need you need a green screen. No, what do you have right now that you can do now and use because if God gave you the tools, he wants you to get creative. God created us in the beginning. That's the first thing God tells us about Himself is He is creative, He created, He created us and everything. So when you have those ideas and stuff, it's times when you're still.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

And when you're not, you'll be like, Okay, yeah, I'm feeling ask God to if you're having a moment of doubt, it's okay to ask God, like, please like reconfirm this in me. Yeah, um, like because I just I just need a refresher, like a fresh anointing on this. Um and some stuff it's not always like where we innately know, like off the bat. Like I now looking back, having accepted accepted the cult to singleness, it was obvious that was always how it was supposed to be. Like looking back, yes, but that's again having lived through all kinds of stuff, like looking back on it, it was like, wow, that makes sense, and that makes sense. And it was never even that, like it was a problem that needed to be figured out, but it was like I saw God like hiding me under the shadow of his wings throughout all of middle school and high school, and you know what I mean, like protecting me from like so many different dangers and different things throughout my life, where it was like, wow, like okay, God is literally like yeah, God is always with this, he's omnipresent, he's omnipotent, like he's always there, but he wants us to invite him. And I think when people have dealt with rejection from people, it can be hard to realize and accept the fact that God wants to spend time with you, not like other people. He actually wants to spend time with you, he actually wants you to include him. Like, yes, you're too busy working about like this girl's hang. And don't get me wrong, I love a good girls hang, but like there is nothing like sitting in the presence in the secret place with the Holy Spirit, nothing is going to fill you, nothing is going to satisfy you. Jesus is the only one who will ever truly satisfy. And so, like, literally, like what we've been talking about this whole episode, it's like you ask God for answers about your assignment, yes, and you ask God for the next step, he answers, he tells you what it is. And it's one thing to say yes to the Lord with your mouth, and it's an entirely different thing to then not do it with your actions. Oh say yes to the Lord with your mouth and then not follow it with your actions because of all these other types of stuff that's happening. But I think what we're trying to say is like get back to the root point of God asked you to do something, he entrusted you to do something, um, and that something is important, yes. And if it looks small to us, if God asked you to do it, it is to be taken seriously. Um, and it just really reminded me of there's a verse in Matthew 21, 28 through 32, and it's the I think it's I think it's called like the parable of the two sons. Don't quote me on it, but I did put the verse here. Um, and it says, What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, Son, go and work today in the vineyard. I will not, he answered. But later he changed his mind and went. Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, I will, sir, but he did not go. Which of the two did what his father wanted? The first, they answered. Jesus said to them, Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For God came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe. So that applies though to every area in our life. It's very easy to say yes to the assignment with your mouth and not with your actions. If it's been 10 years, if it's like me, it's been six years, if it's been however long, if it's been 25 years and you know that that assignment is still on your heart, that God's asked you to do that assignment. I just want to encourage you guys to go back, ask God to reveal to you what that assignment was, if you've forgotten it, and ask God to help you refocus on that and how he wants you to steward that. Well, you will be asked that in front of the throne room. I think we forget that. We're like life's busy, God gets it. He does, but he also asks you to do that for a reason, which means he's gonna provide. You don't have to worry about finances, you don't have to worry about space. Five loves two fish. Like we know, we know God will provide. When we spend too much time in the world and looking in the world, it can be hard to remember that. Um, but that's why we need to be more in our word than in the world, which is an intentional, like you said, an intentional discipline and practice of doing that so that we can be who God has made us to be. There are a lot of people, and they're very into building themselves and making themselves great in their own eyes, and it looks great because they have money and they have the house and they have the shiny car. But it's like, no, and it's not saying that I won't get those things, but it's if God wants me to have that, whatever God wants me to have, however it looks, that is what I've been entrusted with, and I will be responsible for how I steward that in anything. So it's just going back to that and remembering it's God is after your heart, not your wealth, not your finances. Yes, we tithe, yes, those things are important. But if our heart is not right before God, if we don't have oil in our lamps, we do not want to be the virgins outside of the wedding. We did not get let in. That is literally like that and the verse about the narrow gate are like they will terrify us in a minute because it's like it is really easy to get on the wrong path.

SPEAKER_04 30:53

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 30:54

So many distractions, seeing them for what they are, but not getting caught up in them where we forget the assignment. Yeah, that is that is what we can't forget.

SPEAKER_05 31:04

It's too important. It is, it is way too important, and you know, like Diamond said, you know, we gotta stop seeking validation from our always our friends. You know, sometimes your friends are not gonna have the answer. I mean, yeah, sometimes it's important to go to someone that you trust. Um sometimes God uses people too, exactly, exactly. But we sometimes when we want the answers, we want them right away and we want them in plain words like talking, right? So that's why we will ask Chat GBT or we'll ask our girlfriends, or we will go and Google, we'll go everywhere before the Bible first, because that means we have to we have to maybe wait, we have to listen, we have to look, right? And be open to receiving all of those things, right? But seek God first, yeah. Especially He is the one that's giving you the assignment. How many times in the Bible has someone been given an assignment from God that nobody understands that some people hate? I mean, look at Jesus. I always think about him. Yeah, no, a lot of people when he was actually alive, they didn't get it.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

They they and it would have been the people considered in the church.

SPEAKER_02 32:18

That's the part people forget in the church, people Pharisees, religious leaders, people who before Jesus was actually on the earth before he was born, were people that people would have looked up to for to like talk to about the word of God and all those things. The very people Jesus checked them.

SPEAKER_05 32:36

Yes, and that's why it's so like we gotta read between the lines too, you know, read between the lines so we can really see the truth. Like, you know, because it's yes, that is a story in itself, Jesus and his ministry, but also the way that he lived is also so many lessons in it. Like you said, the like the lesson of singleness and just dedicating your whole purpose to it. Also, the lesson of you know, people of the church, people of your same, same kind, can still be against you, right? And if if they were like that to Jesus, the most perfect human that ever walked this earth, they can most definitely be like that with you. And you know, you're on social media, you have dedicated your social media to live out this message and build your community. What do you do when people, you know, do that to you? They don't understand you. How do you deal with that? Has you like, or and what advice would you give to listeners that are maybe on the same journey as you and they're struggling because they're being like judged by not just I think we don't care as much if it's people that don't really believe. I mean, yeah, it's still hurtful, but I think it's even more hurtful when it's other believers, um, other people that are supposed to be unified with us in this and supportive, you know. But it seems like the opposite sometimes. So, how do you deal with that and what advice would you give? Ooh.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

So this directly reminded me, I recently had my first viral video on Instagram, and when no one tells you about viral videos is that in the viral videos doesn't mean everyone loved the video.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

Yes, they hate it. No one said that it doesn't mean everyone loved it, it doesn't mean everyone supports it.

SPEAKER_02 34:27

The amount of shares, people were sharing the video to mock me. Okay, like I mean, sharing it with our communities, yes, it helped the video grow, but the point was that it really did sadden me to see that 90 I'm gonna say 95% of the comments were hate comments, and 90% of the hate comments were from people who had worship leader, uh Proverbs 1320, or like a Bible verse in their bio. Um, people who claim to follow Jesus hating on literally the video was me dancing to um looking, I think it was looking for you by Kirk Franklin, and I was just saying one of those little prompt words like POV, looking for the believers who feel called to lifelong singleness, and you cross my page, and then it like leads you to the bottom of you like look in the bio. That's it. Happy, joyful, just being me. Um, and just so much hate on that video, and I tried to really not let it affect me because it was shocking to see the amount of believers who were saying horrible things and rebuking it, and just like just the whole nine. But for me, it taught me a bigger lesson of understanding that there are God assignments that we're given, and not everyone is going to have the capacity to understand that God assignment, whether it be they don't want to, but for me, it came back to understanding, going back to the verse that God led me to at first, I rhymed. Um when um when he called me to singleness, which started off by saying, Jesus replied, not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. So every time I got a hate comment, I kept going back to that. Not everyone can accept it, not everyone can accept it, not only for themselves, but for other people. Yeah, but I try not to let it affect me. I go back to that scripture. I know that some people literally cannot wrap their head around it. Like it's been very obvious. Like they can't wrap their head around it. And I think people sometimes think that I'm telling it for them, but I think maybe sometimes they're so angry because maybe that was supposed to be part of their story, or maybe they get convicted about something that I said that has nothing to do with what I think I said, but like maybe the Lord's using it in some way that's convicting them, which is making them angry, and they're responding that way because it's it's like Holy Spirit's gonna convict them, right? Yeah, um, and so you never really know what someone's going through when they leave a comment like that. Um, the meanest ones are always faceless, we know that. Yeah, faceless, some random name, like, but there is a person with a soul behind there, and even if they're not treating me like I have one, it's an important responsibility to me as a believer to still show them love. Like to still, I'm not like going around like kissing anyone's behind or anything. Like, I will block somebody, I will, you know, but have especially right, like I am really big on like you're not going to like, I would rather someone say the mean comment to me than someone in my community because they've been through enough. Yeah, they've felt ostracized enough, they felt, and I don't care who it is, married or single, like you're not going to bully like one of my people. Like, you know what I mean? Like these are God's people, but like we're we're not doing that, yeah. And I'd rather them not say it to me either, but it comes back to going back to that verse, remembering that everyone gets it, knowing that I'm fully known and fully found in Jesus, that he's asked me to do this, knowing everything Jesus went through. Um, and seeing how people treated the people who were also called to do this in the Bible definitely helps you get through.

SPEAKER_05 38:04

Yeah, and imagine like if they didn't do it, if they would have let those things just stop from the um the mission, like scare you enough to make you say, heck no, because you don't even know what God has in store for you.

SPEAKER_02 38:20

Yeah, you have no idea, and you have no idea the blessings that are unlocked attached to that. Yeah, when I was prepping for this podcast, I thought about Saul because Saul was someone who was given an assignment and dropped the ball on it, yeah, but at the same time, there was a heart posture, yeah, which is it was different than just dropping the ball, it was this rejection of the assignment in action, and so I went into a little research into it, and so it led me to first Samuel, which is first Samuel 15, 22 to 23. And it says, But Samuel replied, Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king. Saul was rejected as the king of Israel because his consistent disobedience, yeah, pride, and failure to follow God's commands, which violated his covenant with God, he was in direct rejection of his God-given assignment. Yes, disobedience is deadly because it'll have you thinking, I know what I'm doing, yeah, I can figure this out, I can do this myself, and it's directly in opposition of what God is asking you to do. You can have a big following and feel absolutely dead inside. You can have lots of money and outward success and still struggle with knowing the point and purpose in life. Without God, we are literally nothing. Yeah, and it's easy to get caught in all of that, but then it gets easy to also get lost and not know where to start again because you're like, I don't even know, I don't even know how I got here. My life was great two days ago, and now I'm just like lower than the floor. It's about doing exactly what God asked you to do. And I never want to feel like I made it until I made it to heaven. Like, I never want to get to the point where I feel like I made it, like yeah, reach this moment. Like now, down here on earth, we're asked to like carry an assignment. Like it's never, it's not a stopping thing. Like, we're asked to carry this assignment. The well done, good, and faithful servant is my I made it. So if I'm down here, God's not done. God woke me up this morning, God's not done. And it can be really easy to get stuck on someone else's assignment and what they're doing. Like, if you asked the steering wheel to be a tire, the car would not go and make it down the street. Steering wheel is gonna break, the car is gonna bleed to the side, and so like we're too busy looking at other people. If you know for you that it's a temptation to copy them or conform to what they're doing or to covet them so much that you forget and get lost with where you're going, then evaluate if that's a good avenue. And so, as me, like, I want to be a content creator, I want to be able to tell people my god, I feel called to do, you know, create this community. Could it also be off the internet? Kind of, kind of not. Like, people have to know about it, but I still have to take my breaks when I need it. If I'm getting, if that's becoming an idol, if that's becoming a thing, because nothing is greater than the assignment.

SPEAKER_05 41:25

Yes, and it's easy too when things are you know getting good. Um you're getting answered prayer that you know you've been waiting for for a long time. It's easy. Um, people when people do maybe start to praise you after you know times of being criticized and judged, and now you're just you you you know, you start to get full of yourself, and that to me has become like one thing that I actually always pray for now. Like, no matter what happens, I don't want to forget that this is not of me, right? I want to always be humble, right? And remember that you know, be focused on God, seek the kingdom first, right? Then all of these things, all these things will be added to God doesn't need anything to be added to him, right? He's already completely work to do, okay? We're not doing this, right? And so that's why we need to always seek the kingdom first and allow him to add to us because yeah, we're not we're we're working projects, working progress, and that's the important part is progress, right? Like, yeah, no matter, like you said, it's comes back to did you do the assignment? It doesn't matter how many times you failed, it doesn't know how many times you felt defeated, how many times you maybe got lost, but at the end of the day, did you finish the assignment?

SPEAKER_02 42:46

Did you finish the assignment? And going back to like when we're talking about how God cares about your heart, the heart is so important because everything else flows from it, like everything else, every area of your life. It's not that's the opposite of selective listening. My mom growing up, she used to talk about selective listening. You're listening in one area, you're not listening in another. We do that a lot, yeah. We'll listen in one area, the area we want to work. I want social media to grow, I'm gonna listen to you, Lord. Whatever you tell me to do on social media, I'll do. But then I don't want to do this other thing in my life, or you asked me to start this and I'm not doing that, or that can wait, or maybe like having selective listening toward God is not good because it's still standing in that pride. But then when we actually surrender our heart to God and we're like, Lord, this is what I have. Like, this is not a lot. You you created me. I may have done things along the way, entertained things along the way that may have tarnished the offering that I have to give. But I know that you created me, therefore you can restore. And you're the only one who fully can restore, and you can bless and favor abundance beyond what I can possibly think or imagine from this little that I have to give. You're just waiting for me to surrender it.

unknown 43:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:00

And so not getting lost in ourselves, not trying to get ourselves out of the quicksand that we got ourselves into. We're really easy to get ourselves into quicksand. We need to get out of it. The more you try to get out of quicksand, the deeper you're sinking. But God is the stick that pulls you out. Is the is the salvation that saves us from even ourselves. Yeah. Thinking. And you can't live the kingdom life without the kingdom ruler, without doing things his way. You can't access his blessings without doing things his way. And his way is contradictory to the ways of the world. And so you're left with the choice. You have to choose like who you're serving. And so it's an everyday choice with that assignment. I think a lot of times we compartmentalize assignments. Well, their assignment's bigger because they had to move across the country to do their assignment. But you're just asking me to start a podcast. It's like, no, that's important. The podcast is important. I think the missionary move is important. The person who's preaching at the church is important. The person who's serving a church ministry is important. All of that is important, equally important to God.

SPEAKER_04 45:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:05

Because the person is doing exactly what they were created to do. The motherhood assignment is extremely important to God. You don't realize, like, mothers, you didn't just have the kid. Even if, even if it's the you know, the circumstances are exactly how you wanted it. God has entrusted you with a life of a person who has a purpose. He used you to give birth to that person who's going to do kingdom work for years, just stewarding the opportunity of being able to raise them in the way of the Lord so that they can actually be that person. Exactly. Because kids, kids remember all of that. We remember more than you think how you that assignment, that motherhood stewarding assignment is so important. If someone's called to the Ministry of Marriage, that assignment is so important. It took me the other day because I used to have feelings about marriage. That's how we got here. I used to have very strong feelings about just romantic relationships in general. And we went to go see a play the other day, and the show and everything allowed me to see that, like some people they're married, whether it was God wanted them to do it, whether they asked God to if they wanted to be married, whether they didn't. Even if you didn't, if that person is straight away from the Lord, or if that person is like God has placed you in that person's life, if it's for the sole reason of them knowing about the Lord and getting to the kingdom, that is your assignment. And that is the most important assignment. Like some people, you're in a relationship with somebody to help them be able to like stay, even if it's a friendship, to help them in this season or however long you're with them to be able to stay on the assignment. So there are people placed in there, but the enemy also tries to send people to take people away from the assignment. But it was just a really big reminder that like God does use people. What's most important is his word um and the things of the Lord, but God does use people to help us stay on assignment, and that's exactly what I want to be for believers. That's exactly what you want to be to be able to encourage each other to lift each other up and to be able to get people to focus back on their God assignment, which means I can't criticize your God assignment. Doesn't matter if I understand it. Exactly. Right. I love you anyway. I love what God's doing in and through you. And if I have an issue or if I feel like if I feel like some you know checks about your assignment, people will be in my comments and they're like, you know, you didn't hear the Lord that from the Lord. And I'm like, Well, you don't have to believe I heard that from the Lord, but I know that I heard that from the Lord. And if you if you don't think I heard that from the Lord, I encourage you, ask the Lord, He'll tell you. Like, go to the Lord with your concerns. If you have a concern about the way that, you know, if you feel like I've never heard of this before, what is this? Ask the Lord, the Lord will answer you and tell you this person's on the right path, mind your business, support them, or like I've asked you to do this, and you're too busy focusing in their business to actually do it as you and using it as a distraction.

SPEAKER_05 47:55

Exactly. I want to say that that is so important that you said that because uh I know none of our assignment is to do that, so I see so many times some comments, you know, you're not real, a real Christian, you know, you're not doing this, you're not doing that. You you don't know the whole picture, you don't know sometimes God does put people through things so we can bring them through to other things, like you have a idea, and you know, we can't be judging each other because we're sinning differently because we're all sinners, right? And you you going outside of your way to make a comment about what you think someone should be doing is not in your right, you're not even focused on your assignment, exactly. And I that's the number one thing I really don't like, and I told myself I will never engage in stuff like that, even if I don't agree with it or I don't like it. You know what? That's not for me to be doing that's God's job, right? And we need to understand that we have our purpose, but our purpose is never to be God, right? That's why Saul was renounced, right?

SPEAKER_02 49:07

Right, that's why I know better, I can do things the way I want, and God's still gonna bless me. I God chose me to do this, and I think sometimes, like, we have God has given us this purpose. Everything that we have is given from God, and back in the old testament days, like it was some of the stuff that we get away with doing now. We're not really getting away with it, but like they were like so dead for doing what they did.

SPEAKER_01 49:31

Like, grounds were opening and closing on people, people were hurting and pulling.

SPEAKER_05 49:39

Every time you see, you gotta kill animals and offer them.

SPEAKER_02 49:42

It's like all these types of things that like today people would be like, and and what and what when where when? But it's like, no, God, He still takes it. Jesus was sent to be the atonement and price to pay for our sin. But we cannot take God's mercy for granted. No, we cannot continue living like everything's just fine. I'll just I'll just do it later, especially if God still had it on your heart, like you've still been interested with that. God still wants you to do that, even okay, it slightly looks like something else someone else is doing, okay. But if God still has it on your heart, God's gonna have you do it in a different way. Your story affects exactly that. Whether your story sometimes we get ourselves in our own pickles half the time, yeah. Then there's falling for temptations or the enemy's attacks. That's one entirely other thing. And then there's God who's like has to allow us to learn the hard lesson that we got ourselves into so that we can grow from it because we were so insistent on being disobedient in the first place. He's like, you know what? I'm gonna use this. I didn't cause it, but I'm gonna use this for my glory so that they actually learn this so that they won't go back and regress into those old ways because I've called them out of that, and so it's like remembering that the fear of God shows up in our actions, yeah, and our words, we can say it all day long, but if our actions don't match it, and it's even such a it's a daily surrender, it's not I have this perfect check score of all these different things. But I was thinking last time I was thinking about it, and I was like, you know what? If we sat down with God, you know, like old in the old days before things were electronic, you had a report card. Yeah, and kids, if it was bad, you'd hide your report card from your parents, and if it was good, you're like hanging on the fridge. But if you sat down, you and God, and we had a report card of your obedience, what would it say? Yeah, yeah would there be would there be like where would the passes, where would the fails, where would the beat not completed yet? Where would it be? Like, what would that look like? And because it's not about good words, it's about obedience. Yes, sometimes obedience does end up looking like a good word. God asked you to do something, people see it, they're like, Oh, that's so nice. She gave that person, you know, this thing or this money, or you know, like anything. But the point is the obedience and the heart posture, yeah. And that is what is to be solely focused on in anything and whatever you're called to. It's just so important that you remember to actually go for exactly what you're called to to ask God to remind you of that, to stay in his words that it stays refreshed because the world will try to convince and relabel things as all types of wanton things that have nothing to do with your assignment. They'll try to label your assignment, add stuff to your assignment, take away from your assignment, just anything to try to distract you because the enemy tries to steal identity. Your identity is directly attached to your assignment. Yes, you cannot pretend to be someone else and access your assignment. That person's not granted to your assignment, you're granted to your assignment, but only when you're being the person that God has created you to be. And that takes Holy Spirit boldness. So you ask the Lord for Holy Spirit boldness, ask the Lord to help you to forgive you and to allow you to re-step into what you stepped out of. So when I'm sorry that I've been living in rebellion, I'm sorry that I've had a heart like Saul where I thought I could do it in my own and I can make it on my own. And I got so stuck posting a million triorials a minute that I got so stuck trying to grow my social media that I forgot, wait a minute, this is not what this is about. That it's about serving it, that it's about my eyes on you, that it's about me doing my assignment, and that there are people waiting on me to do my assignment so that they can be blessed, so that they can hear it. Maybe my story affects them in a way that someone else's story wouldn't. God wants to use me to do that, and again, the credit's not to me, it's all for God and because of God. But if I'm so focused on everyone else or what I can do to try to grow things in myself, then I miss out on the opportunity to serve God in the way that I've been created for and anything outside of its purpose feels unfulfilled.

SPEAKER_05 53:43

Yes, yes, and God will strengthen you, right? You know, that's why He will sometimes there will be a lot of, you know, after intention follows disruption. So there will be times that I know, like for me, I don't I'm gonna say I ever got like really judged online, but I definitely was worried about what people were thinking about me and overthinking, and oh my gosh, it was and you know, wanting to take it down. But I got to a place, and I think the more you you get in your purpose and the more um you stay in it, you become the person that can actually hold it, and those things kind of start to fall away, right? If you're in the middle, kind of it's those things are still touching you, they're still bothering you. But if you can fully move into, and sometimes, like you said, we have moments where we fall short and stuff, but getting back up and getting back in that lane, it doesn't bother you as much. Like, because if you're so focused on God, nothing else matters, it really doesn't, and you'll everything else falls away, and that's exactly how we're supposed to be, though.

SPEAKER_02 54:45

Yes, that's counter-worldly, yes, that's counter-social media, but it's like rest and reward is for heaven, earth is for harvest, which means that my purpose is attached to the harvest, how I show up in this world, how I, you know, how I am the person that God wants me to be or am not greatly affects not only my eternal destination, but also others, like other people. Other people are waiting. God is entrusting you with that personality, your gifts, the resources, the connections you have, the family you were born into. Some people were born in families that it just seems like they've been dealing with hell since day one. But God intentionally had you, he met you in that moment so that you can then go back and so that they can know about Jesus so that they don't end up. I used to really complain because I was like, God, why is this person going through this? Why does this person look like they're going through hell on earth? Why does this person do that? And sometimes it's our choices, yes, that that's to be clearly acknowledged. But even in that, there's someone's soul on the line, like God has some people in the hardest time, like didn't take them out of the mess they got themselves into, or didn't you know, had them in the family that they were in, and it was hard.

SPEAKER_05 55:55

Um and it's like I didn't forged in the fire, you know, right?

SPEAKER_02 55:59

Like it's going to build you up where you're going to be able to, like, people around you are going to know Jesus, which means they're not going to hell. That is huge. That is like the greatest thing you could ever do. You know, and I just we get so focused on things that we think in the world are are great, what people praise. We'll still focus on their validation. I forgot when's the last time I asked God if He was okay with anything that I was doing, yeah. Even if it wasn't innately bad within itself, is it off assignment? Is it a distraction? Because we only get the time, we get one life. Yeah, you know, like you're responsible for how you choose to steward it. God helps you with it. It's not too late. It's not that's a whole nother thing. Like, it's not too late to go back, ask God, what's the last thing you told me to do, and do that assignment. We're so easy to ask God, what's the next thing? What's the next what's the next thing?

SPEAKER_05 56:49

And he needs you to do that last thing, or you don't you look at that last thing and you're like, I don't know. Yeah, you're like, Yeah, can we just not like like can we ready?

SPEAKER_02 57:00

I don't have that much time right now to be doing, or you know, maybe people don't really want to hear from me, or you know, like yeah, like I don't I don't really know Lord, yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 57:14

Like, wait, I didn't hear you.

SPEAKER_05 57:16

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you pretend that you didn't hear.

SPEAKER_02 57:21

Like, I always think of the Veggie Tales version. Have you seen the Veggie Tales Jonah movie?

SPEAKER_05 57:25

Um, I a long time ago when I was a kid.

SPEAKER_01 57:27

Okay, but like when he's running and God's like, Jonah, and he's like, I can't hear you, Lord. Yeah, clearly he could hear it. He was like running away completely.

SPEAKER_02 57:38

But like the point was like he ran away from his assignment. I really hope that this entire podcast can be just a sign of like God is giving you a chance to go back, God will redeem what you messed up on. Like, God will take the time that you wasted in not doing that, and the minute you surrender, yeah, it'll be like it'll be like the gap wasn't there. Like God will literally restore what we mess up.

SPEAKER_05 58:03

Never too late. You know, it's not like people that Sarah. Yeah, her again, you know, she she knew the assignment, she still took it into her own hands. She's still and you know, she was in her 90s, yeah. She decided to find you.

SPEAKER_01 58:20

I was young back then. That's the fun. Yeah, I'm like, wow, but we're like infants, like 50-year-olds is like five months, like they were living long back then.

SPEAKER_05 58:32

Like Darman said, it's never too late. You have your own special lane that is just for you, right? Stay in it, and get in. If you fall out, that's okay. Get back right back to it. It's never too late while you're here to get in that one special lane that's created for only you. No one else is there in the way, no one else is there's no one there, right? But God, there's no one else there but you and God.

SPEAKER_02 58:57

I had a moment with God where I realized I wasn't loving him, and I couldn't say that out of my mouth because I was like, What do you mean? Of course I love God. Like, no, John 14, 15 says, If you love me, keep my commandments, and I was doing everything but that, which means I wasn't loving God, yeah, not with my life, not with my mind, heart, soul, and strength. Like, I wasn't I wasn't doing that, and it was like when it was nearly impossible for me to admit for some good time because I was like, There's no way I'm saying that on my mouth, but I confessed it to the Lord. I was like, I'm so sorry for not loving you with my life. I'm so sorry that I was so focused in my own stuff and likes and comments and dopamine hits from seeing a red heart appear on Instagram that I was I completely forgot what I was supposed to be doing, even like in the beginning of the Single Life Advocate YouTube channel when it started. I didn't actually start talking about like anything that really had to do with singleness. I just started doing like restaurant vlogs and like all these different stuff about like doing stuff by yourself, but that was no different from what the world was already doing, from people who were just claiming to just be single by choice, which which is fine, but we pray that they know Jesus because that's what's gonna be the best for them. But I realized I wasn't actually walking in the assignment yet. The Lord was checking me over time because you start to see, oh, wait, there it goes, there it goes. And that was more and more on assignment and the blessings that are unlocked from that assignment, and actually sharing the stuff that you don't think anyone's gonna relate to, or God's asking you to share that, and you're like, No, because they're gonna judge me. It's like God's gonna use that. Who cares about the people what the people think? When you are standing in front of the throne of God, it they're not gonna stand there too, giving God opinions about you. It's gonna be them in front of the throne of God, their own time, and then you in front of the throne of God having to give an account for what you did. And it's not gonna be, well, they told me that I was you know that smart, and they told me that's not none of that's gonna matter, and it's an intentional reminder. None of that matters, but Jesus, yeah, his will, exactly what he wants me to do, the assignment he's entrusted me with with my family, in my lifelong singleness, in my singleness waiting for marriage. I believe that singleness is not a waiting room because it's an intentional, whether it's a season or for a lifetime, devotion with God. The more you dig and seek the Lord, the more you get out of it. Exactly. I realize that there's a lot of people who look back and realize they didn't make the most of their singleness, and that's exactly what I don't want people to do. So if you're single, don't idolize marriage in it or outside of it, but also know that you are single for a reason focused on your goddess violent now. You might, if you're called to the mystery marriage, you might not have it later. So you might want to get started. Exactly. Things can get busy, you might want to get started now, in whatever season you're in.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:38

You might want to get started now.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:39

Why?

SPEAKER_05 1:01:40

Because you'll enjoy life more, right? Like you're missing out so much. Like it's never gonna be too late for you, but to feel true freedom to me to experience that piece of heaven on earth, the sooner you'll want to get into that assignment, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:56

And whatever seems the if you're in, do the assignment, yeah, be excited and diligent about doing the assignment, open the eyes of my heart so that I can actually do what you've asked me to do and feel fulfilled. Yeah, those are the things, even when it's hard, God's assignment for you is exactly where your like your feeling of like worth and purpose. It's how you've been created. So the more you run from it, that's where the strain is. Yeah, that's why it's hard. Yeah, but you step into it, even when you fall, you step back into it. You don't let go of God's hand, you stick with his plan. It will bless your life in unimaginable ways.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:30

Yeah, amen, girl. Sharing that you gave so many good gems on this episode that even I, you know, needed to hear again. And so I appreciate you just sharing your your wisdom with us. And man, you know, as someone that, like I said, I just knows at you know, such a time, you have like your whole life ahead of you, and I'm excited to see where this journey takes you in the next one, two, five, ten years, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:58

Like I'm excited that we get to do it together. Exactly. That yeah, we all need to do it together.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:05

Uh both being in our purpose is what recognized us to connect here to each other. Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:10

If neither of us ever stepped into it, this podcast would this episode would not be a thing, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:17

And we wouldn't be able to bless the woman that needs to hear this today, right? So see how everything is just connected, and I love that. And you know, I was bold enough to um ask her to be on it. I didn't say, Oh, you know, she she might not, I'm too scared. You know, I just said, you know, as soon as I feel the nudge, I just do right. Like I do it. That person is someone that God wants me to partner with on my podcast and see where it can take us. And so thank you so much, Diamond, for the diamond.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:48

Oh, of course, of course. Yeah, it's having the heart of a child. God wants us to come to him. We are his children, no matter how old or young. So when we come to him, like it's before, like you were saying, like when you reached out to me, like when you initially had that nudge, like kids don't overthink things, they're not even they don't even think to overthink things, but when God asks you to do something, just do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:09

Like before you can even brain feeling too in itself, right? We actually literally stress our bodies out, our brain, yes, and it shows it's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:18

Like you're self-sabotaging yourself, like stop doing the enemy's job and self-sabotaging yourself. Yeah, like no, stop. You're shooting yourself in the foot because that you think that you know how to do it on your own. We realize you don't have to do it on your own. There may not always be people that are there like cheering on and supporting you, obviously, the Holy Spirit and heaven and all the angels, but like it may not physically seem like there are people cheering and rooting for you or supporting you in your purpose, but that time, that time where you're not you don't have the noise when you feel super isolated, the gems that are being built and created in you to be the beautiful person that you've been created to be. It's it's life-changing. And I just want to encourage you to stay in it, stay with Jesus, not in the world, don't go into the things of the world, just refocus, make it a priority. When God goes first, everything else aligns. Make him a priority, make what he wants for you a priority.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:14

Yes, I love all of that. And so I want to just say a quick prayer. It might be actually not quick, but I want to say a prayer and close with this as me. Okay, so Heavenly Father, I just want to lift up everyone to you. You know, diamonds, myself, every woman that's listening, and just guide their steps and help them recognize your voice above all the noise around them. Give them clarity in moments of decision and courage to follow through even when it feels uncomfortable. Soften anything in their heart that resists your direction, any fear, any doubt, any distraction, and replace it with trust, discipline, and a willing spirit. Teach them what true obedience looks like. Not partial, not delayed, but fully to surrender to your will. Let their obedience open doors, bring peace and alignment, and align them with the purpose you've already set before them. Strengthen them in the moments where it would be easier to go their own way and remind them that your plans are greater and your path leads to life. Cover them with your grace as they grow and lead them, refine them, and establish their steps. And in Jesus' name, Amen. Amen. Yes. Thank you so much for being with me on this podcast. And if you don't already know Diamond, you and you have got to get connected with her. I'm going to leave all of her information in the show notes so you can follow along with her on YouTube if this episode really spoke to you and you feel like you know you are meant to be connected to Diamond and what she's working on. Reach out to her, connect with her because we are stronger together. And also follow her on Instagram. You know, we are here to support one another in our purpose and our calling. So go follow her, go support her, go cheer her on and celebrate her unique, her unique assignment. And that that it's different, but hey, she's walking in it. That's to me what I recognized out of everything. Like, I don't even care how different it is. I saw a woman walking in her assignment that was so different that I never heard of, and she was dancing and she was joyful and she was sharing it with the world. Oh that is what drew me to her. And so, you know, we need to be more supportive. You know, if you ever feel like a kind of like an incline to say something negative or disagree, don't do that, right? We need more positive people in this, you know. Use your tongue for good things, speak life over people, don't be cutting people with your tongue and saying negative things that you don't even know about, right? You don't know the full picture, you can't see what God has for them. And if you are really care about them, pray for them. Yeah, that's it. And so I want to remember, I want you guys to remember this as you go about your week. If you guys have any wins, anything, I want you to go ahead and text the prayer line. The prayer line is always open for you. You know, I we I would love to hear from you, and I want you to know you're not walking alone in this. And so please, I I know I have not been promoting the prayer line like I should be, but I'm going to get back on it because I want more activity there.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:24

Yes. And if you if you guys did come from the podcast and find me on socials, send me a message. I would love, love to actually like talk and thank you for listening and everything.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:35

Absolutely awesome. Thank you so much again, Diamond. Of course. We um are gonna bless you on your way and your journey, and you know, just continue to pray for you to have the impact that God wants you to have.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:48

Thank you so much for the invite. This was wonderful.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:51

Love you all bye next time.