The Way
Podcast hosted by Hailey and Emma. Two Jesus loving girls, diverse in age, who want to spread the word. Come with them as they navigate daily life as believers and try to build the Kingdom of God. Expect laughter, tears, truth, and honesty.
The Way
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SPEAKER_00I'm Haley. I'm Emma, and we're here to light the way to Jesus.
SPEAKER_01So saddle up your donkeys. All right, guys. Welcome back to another episode of The Way. I know it's been like what? Like a month or more. Um, life has been life in y'all. It has just been hectic. Our schedules haven't lined up. And honestly, we've just been in some pretty patches. Yeah. Some pretty funky, funky places. Yeah. Okay. But that's okay because we're here now. Yeah. And we are excited to share just kind of what the Lord has placed on our hearts and just to kind of be vulnerable with y'all about those struggle places that we've been sitting in. And yeah. I guess I'll start us off. Go for it. Okay. So I have been in probably the funkiest of funks. Um, I have just been sitting in this place with um just a struggle of feeling distant from the Lord. And I think it's just because I've been sitting in the silence in the waiting season that he has me in, and it makes you feel distant from him, like he's not close to you, or like you've failed him so much that you know, like he stepped away from you, which we all know is not the truth because he literally says, I will never leave you. Like, exactly, you know, it's it's literally in scripture, but the enemy loves to take hold of those, I don't guess, like not really struggle places, hurt places, the hurt places, and he like takes a hold and he really puts it into your mind and makes you believe that that's the truth. And it's not, it's a lie, it's a big fat law. The devil is a liar, and so I have just been sitting in that place of well, I'm not good enough for the Lord, like I fail or I make mistakes too often. Like I'm trying to walk with Christ and I slip up because that's gonna happen. Like you're always constantly trying to evolve yourself into a better Christian.
SPEAKER_00And something that recently I've been learning is that we are not called to be perfect. No, and we are not called to be perfect in every step that we take, but we are called to choose Jesus in those steps that we take.
SPEAKER_01That's good.
SPEAKER_00So that's true.
SPEAKER_01It's it's really hard sometimes to not hold on to that place of perfectionism. I know we've spoken over that before of like we know that the Lord doesn't call us to be perfect, but it's so hard to try not to be perfect for him. And I feel like when you try to be perfect for him, that's when you fail the most, or not fail. Because we're not failures. Like we're not we are human and we have human mistakes, and that's just like the flesh taking over. But I feel like you struggle more, I guess is a more appropriate word to say. You struggle more when you try to be perfect because you're striving for something that does not exist in us, but only in him. And so I've really been sitting in that place, and this past weekend, the Lord, or I guess this week actually, the Lord showed me that he loves me and I am enough, and he still finds me worthy, even when I don't think that I'm good enough for him. And so my kid left his baseball bag at a tournament. It was lost, you know. Any parent out there that knows baseball knows that it cost, it cost, and you provide these things for your children in hopes that they take care of them, okay? And I was sick to my stomach when we found out that we left it in another town at a complex. Okay. So I'm just praying, like, God, please provide this. Like, I know I'm not worthy. I know that I have been slacking when it comes to diving into your word and digging closer to you because I've just been distant and I I just ask that you come through for me, just provide this for me, Lord. Like, I I need you, God. I need you to do this. And I posted on this website or this Facebook page, and I said, if anybody had found this bag, like please message me. An hour later, y'all. This lady messaged me that she had my kids' bag. And she said that she didn't know the page that I posted on even existed, but my posts came across her Facebook page. If that is not the Lord's hand, period. I I just sit and am just like in awe because how can you not believe in God like when something that extreme happens? I know, right? You know, and so I have just been crying like all this week since this happened. Picked up the bag, it was perfect condition, nothing was taken. Like these good people did this, and the Lord provided this. And I've just been crying because I'm just full of gratitude in the way that the Lord still showed up for me, even when I haven't been showing up for him, in the ways that he asks me to show up for him, and so my my place of not feeling good enough, like he literally showed me that he still finds me worthy even when I slip and that he still loves me, that I'm still enough for him. And I just it really shifted my mindset. And then today at church, the worship team, woo-woo, go worship team, y'all are the best, played a song called You Keep on Getting Better, and in the song it says, You have always been faithful to remind me of your love. And I was just like instant download from the Lord. Amen. Yes, because I'm like, it's so true when we literally sit there and focus on the ways that he shows up for us, like we know that he has not left us. Like, take that enemy, because your lie that you've been giving me is like shut down by the Lord all this week and today through church.
SPEAKER_00So that's where that's where I've been. Yeah. Okay, so I guess it's my turn. Yeah, go Emma. So um, well, I don't even know where to start. So I have just, you know, I am about to graduate, and so I think that I just actually I just show showed Haley this video that I saw, and it said that April made sure I felt all 30 days. Because wow, I did feel all 30 days of April, and um I thought that was really funny, and I just think that me getting prepared to take my next steps to move and to um go find a new church family to go find new friends and taking um some like confidence to go off by myself, you know, that's a little uh scary. But I think that the enemy is trying to, you know, get me get me off track because he knows that I am in a vulnerable state because I am about to move. And so I really have been struggling with um staying on track and um keeping myself strong because of this, because I'm already in a vulnerable place because I am about to move. And um so yeah, that's where I've been this past month and going into May. Guys, it's May.
SPEAKER_01I know. I can't believe it's May. It's gonna be May. It's my birthday month. Woohoo! It's my Jesus' birthday. Jesus' birthday? I'll be 33. Oh, it's my literal Jesus birthday. Period. Isn't that crazy? That is crazy. I'm like, Lord, I know you took him at 33, but please, please leave me. Please leave me here right now. I I still want to see more of your goodness. Like, you know what I mean? Yeah. And but like, you don't want to be in heaven with him? I do, but I still want to like make sure that I've stewarded my kids far enough along before he takes me. You know what I mean? Well, I mean, you don't know what I mean. You don't have kids, but I do not, but you know, like leading more people to him before he takes you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, for sure. Yeah. So do you want to read your get to?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So the last time we were going to record, yes, we didn't get to. We didn't get to, which is funny because that's what the title of this one was. Because we forgot the key to get in the building.
SPEAKER_00Uh-huh. And um then the other time we tried to record, I forgot my computer. Yeah. So then we couldn't, you know, you know, so it just it wasn't time.
SPEAKER_01It wasn't time.
SPEAKER_00But now, but now it is.
SPEAKER_01Today was the day the Lord spoke it.
SPEAKER_00Today is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. Amen. Amen.
SPEAKER_01So the get to. Lately, this is what I had wanted to talk about and like share with y'all. Lately, like I felt like I had been taking like the small, simple things for granted. Um, getting to clean a home, like getting to have a mess be made in it, getting to have loud noises coming from my children's rooms, getting to spend money on bills and groceries, like getting to purchase gas for a vehicle. Like it all hit me, and I just was like, Lord, thank you. Like, thank you so much that I get to do this. Like, thank you for bringing it to the front of my mind that like you provided these things for me. That I get to steward. And I said, How are we treating the things that we get to do? And this is something I've been really like working on with my kids because sometimes like it can feel overwhelming to you. Well, you know, when you have so much going on, or you you you need to do this, or you you have to clean this, or you know, you're having to pick this up, or take your kids somewhere here. But like our minds, our mindset needs to shift because it's not a have to. You get to do these things, you get to be involved in these things. The Lord is blessing you with these things that you get to be involved in that He has provided for you. And so I have been telling my kids like we get to steward a home that honestly, sometimes like we would be embarrassed if Jesus walked through the door of because it's a mess because we're so busy doing all the things that we're not taking the time to steward it in the way that he would want us to. And so I've really been trying to shift that. Like, I want to treat it like any day of the week, he could walk through the door. Yeah. Any day of the week, wherever you are in your vehicle, he could climb in that seat. Or is he gonna hear you complaining that you have to go somewhere or you have to do something or you have to pay for that gas? That yes, it is expensive right now, okay? And when you go from like 40 bucks to $70 to fill your car, I can see where the complaints come in. But at the same time, like we get to have that privilege of getting to spend that money that the Lord provided us to be able to go places and do these things. And so I really like want him to be proud of the things that he has given us because we're stewarding him correctly. Like, I don't want him to be sad that we're taking it for granted. And I feel like we all go through those times when we're taking life for granted, we're taking the people that he has put in our paths for granted, the people that he shares with us in our everyday lives, like our family members, we take them for granted. We just take the simple little things that he has gifted us with for granted. And frankly, like I've been in that spot. And like I said, I have been not doing things for the Lord the way that he calls me to do. And I just want to be honest about it because I'm sure some of you struggle with doing these things too, or changing that mindset of like, oh, I have to clean the house today. Like, no, like, yeah, I get to clean this house that the Lord has placed this roof over my head for us to be safe and comfy in. Like, we get to do these things, we have dishes because he provided food for us to eat it. You know, I just I really want us to take this into consideration when we're going about our day-to-day lives.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And if you're in a place right now where you feel like you don't have that, like you don't have the people around you that um get to steward to you, or you don't get to have the money to purchase groceries or purchase gas or something like that. Just know that the Lord has you there for a reason.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00Because I have learned that He's gonna take me through a valley to bring me out onto a mountaintop. And so I I just think that no matter what season that you were in, I think that you can always find something to be grateful for.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00And I think I've told this story before, but it's good to tell it again, I would say. Um, so one time I was really anxious about something, you know, really nervous. I was with my friend, and this uh lady came up to us and she was like, gratefulness and anxiousness, or I don't remember exactly what she said. She said, I think it was anxiousness or feeling nervous, you know, something like that. She said, gratefulness and whatever that is cannot exist at the same time. Yes. And so we were literally laying on the ground, just laying there, and we were like, I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful that I have a family. I'm so grateful that we are able to move our bodies to be able to go do this thing that we were anxious about. Yeah. I'm so thankful that I have money to go buy food, you know? Yeah. And we it it immediately brought me peace.
SPEAKER_01It really does. And you know, if you feel like you are in that place where you don't have these things, please reach out because we would really love to pray over you. Like that is something that praying praying to the Lord brings so much, like in all different capacities. Like you get wisdom, you know, you can feel his love, you can feel his peace when you're praying. And he provides when you pray and ask. Like he literally says, ask him for these things, like you know, and so I really just encourage you like to reach out to somebody to pray, be honest in the place that you're at, because if you're not honest with those around you, how can you expect a change to happen with those people if they don't know what you're going through? Like, people want to step up for other people. And I'm so thankful that there are still people in this world instead of letting the division, like we talked about at church today and the discord divide us from each other. Like, people still want to show up. Like the towns that have been affected lately that we know about, like, people are showing up for those people because they're being honest about the brokenness that is happening inside of those towns. Like, you have to be able to be honest to be able to have people show up for you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and just being honest about that also brings unity because that's whenever people are coming together to help. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01And you know, it just makes you feel better all around because you don't feel so, I guess, down when you're honest. And like, yeah, it's hard to be truthful about the hard things sometimes. Like those struggle places, they're not fun to talk about, but it really lifts such a weight off your shoulder when you are honest about them and you do share them with somebody. And when I say share them, like do be wise with who you share with because not everybody wants unity. There are people out there that do want to cause that discord and cause dysfunction in your life. So please be mindful and use your discernment that the Lord gives you. Ask for it, ask him for the wisdom and the discernment to be able to differentiate who is for you and who wants to see you fall. Because they'll prey on you. Yeah, that's the enemy using their vessel to prey on you. Yeah, agreed. Yeah. So you have anything else? I do not. Well, then I guess we were going to leave you with that. Um we don't know when we'll be back. So just keep bearing with us. Keep showing up when we show up. Um pray. You know, just be a light for Jesus, and we'll catch you next time. Bye.