Bonus Episode: The Word Of Our Testimony

This mini episode features audio notes that were texted between myself, my cousin and a good friend. I sent a voice note to my cousin. Her response was that she'd recieved a revelation about God in that moment. I sent a note to my friend. His response was that he'd recieved a revelation about God in that moment. After realizing that something powerful was happening within these different conversations, I asked both of them if I could share their voice notes on my podcast. 

With their permission and blessing I share these personal notes and our revelations that we were having in the moment. I hope this episode inspires us to stay in coversation and communion with each other as it is the way we Overcome. 

Songs Featured:

"Overcomer" by William McDowell feat. Martha Munizi

"Yahweh" by Mali Music

"I Need You" by Hezekiah Walker

Transcript

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Thank y'all for tuning in again. A longer episode is coming. I just wanted to share some testimony from the ground, from people that's in the body of Christ that's having real, in the moment, real time, right now, experiences, revelations with God, with one another, because we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. You know, I believe you said going to church, but it wasn't until you started to take your connection to God serious is when things shifted for you. And for me, it was when I started to understand and believe God's love for me. Like really believe and take it in that like God loves me. Loves me so much that there's no tricks up his sleeve when it comes to me. There's no embedded lessons that are, you know, meant to harm me to show how dominant and powerful he is. But there that there is just this very tender, the most tender love you can think of. That's the love that God has for me. And I started to fall in love with God's tenderness. Um, and I liken it to the heart of a mother, I liken it to the the love of a mother to child because I don't know any other love in this world that feels so complete and feels so unconditional for me. And I know for everybody it's different. Somebody might say, you know, the love I have of my sibling, there's nothing deeper. And so then you can have a reference point to whatever is the deepest kind of love that you know got you and has no harm or ill will toward you. That is the beginning, that is a that is a uh a jumping board off into the love, into the understanding of the love that God has for us, that he would give his only begotten son, that whosoever just simply believes should not perish, but should have everlasting life with him, fellowship, connection, reconnection, communion. And when I started to really fall in love with God, is when I started to see patterns and behaviors in my life naturally change because there was a desire for communion, there was a desire for closeness, there was a desire to serve, there was a desire to be held and to be held up and to hold down the word of God to defend it. And I I started to get I started to to to find myself being like, hold up now, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't just say anything uh in front of me about God now. Don't don't don't just say any old thing in front of me about God because God is good and God is kind and God is only good and God is only kind. And um, you know, but anyways, we all we all are on our journeys, and uh all of these journeys that we're on, you know, they might seem like they have to deal with getting a house or getting a career or getting your next meal or finding love and connection and you know having children or having you know whatever is the thing is a slice of pie that that we all you know have ambitions for. Really and truly, this this life that we are living, there is one thing in mind for the creator of the universe, and that is fellowship with him. And every aspect of our lives allow us to know him and fellowship with him, to know his son and fellowship with his son, to know his spirit and to fellowship with his spirit, and to allow all three parts of the Godhead to indwell in us and take up a home in us. So your TikTok page was truly inspiring to see that you're dedicating it to sharing, you know, scripture, sharing God's love because that's on my platform, that's what I'm doing with my platform, and um, I love you, cousin. So, um, episode three is dropping soon and very soon. Soon and very soon. Love you. I just want to say this one thing. I just I just came to realize after me, after me sending that to you, the Holy Spirit that's within us, that is him. Like I I I just came to realize that the Holy Spirit is within us, and we're able to strengthen that by getting closer. That is why. Oh my goodness. The Lord is so good. Oh girl, yeah, yeah, yeah. That that right there. I'm like, you know, us the flesh and the spirit, the holy spirit. That's with that that's within us. Like that is why I feel the way I feel because I've been getting closer to him and changing my ways and thinking, like changing my thinking as well and my actions. All of that plays a part in, you know, growing your spirit. And I I definitely feel it. It is it is so strong, like, oh man. Like this it mustn't the best part is that no one can take it from you. This is all within. Like, nothing can ruin this. That's the best part. The best part, like, he he is amazing. I I just cannot, I can't explain it any further how good he is. Like, wow, wow. Thank you, cousin. Oh man. I know I don't see y'all that often, but we we gotta we gotta do better with that too, and try like playing song because we I I feel like we don't see each other enough outside of like, you know, full family gatherings, like, you know. Um I'm I just got off work. I'll talk to you a little bit later. I love you. Thank you again for hitting me up. I'm so glad that my and I'm I'm glad that my my post was an inspiration to you, because you are an inspirer inspiration for me as well. You are a beast. Um but I'm glad that my my post reached your heart and touched your heart a little bit in that way. Um that's really that really warmed my heart just hearing that from you. Um so I thank you again for that and I love you. I'll talk to you later, okay? Man, you got me crying. This is absolute confirmation because I'm like, I'm just seeing all these areas in my life where I'm like, this is it. I have oh my god, I'm almost thinking myself the image that is coming to my head is like Lazarus. And oh my god, like this is a real-time revelation. Like, I think I've like allowed myself to be put myself in a tomb. Isn't that crazy? Thinking that this you hit it right on the nail, this is it, that I won't find the love that God wants me to have and in marriage with children, that my career this is it with these job applications and this feature, this is it. I've allowed the enemy's lies to become truths in my own head. And uh as tears are coming down my face right now, it's like he's calling me out of the tomb, he's calling me out of the tomb. So I touch and agree with you to allow yourself to walk into the fullness of who God has called you to be, that you take off the burial garments in the name of Jesus and walk into the new life, to the new authority, to the new vibrancy and free full flowing waters from your belly, from the spirit. I thank God for this time of connection. I thank God for his love and his patience with me, with you, with all of his children. I thank God that we are imbued with his identity, his creativity, his power, his strength, and that as we seek him first in his kingdom, everything else will come to us. Everything else that people fight for, steal for, strive, lie, cheat, it will be given to us because it is our inheritance. So I touch and grieve and I come against the enemy right now who would try to whisper back in our ears. I come against the old mindsets that we may have old habits that would undermine us, undervalue ourselves to ourselves, to other people, to keep us safe and comfortable instead of powerful and thriving, which Jesus has called us to do. Thank you, God, for this revelation. Thank you, God, for your perfect timing. Thank you, God, for your grace, and I thank you, Lord, for what you're going to do in both of our lives, because we know that it's only because of you, and we will give you the glory, God, because it's due your name. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. All the glory belongs to you, all the glory belongs to you, oh God, all the glory belongs to you, all the glory belongs to you, oh God. All the glory belongs to you, all the glory belongs to you, oh God. All the glory belongs to you, all the glory belongs to you, oh God. I am having an in the moment, real-time revelation. Oh my god, God is so good. God has been speaking to me like day and night, night and day. Your faith makes you whole, Chanel. Your faith makes you whole. Jesus, God, I thank you. Oh, and I just realized, I just realized, thank you, Holy Spirit, what that means. And I I love the story of the woman with the issue of blood. I love that story because I always just thought it was just like so miraculous when from Christ's standpoint, that when she touches him out of all the people in the crowd that's thronging upon him, touching him, touching him, touching him, that he feels her touch specifically because he says, virtue came out of him when she touched him. Virtue. Oh my god. But then I started to re-realize or started to see it from a different perspective, from her perspective. And I always thought that, like, when you touch the hem of his garment, like she did, it was similar to faith being the size of a mustard seed. You don't need a lot of faith. You all you need is a mustard seed size faith because it'll grow into this big, big tree, like a mustard tree, one of the biggest trees to ever, you know, that we know of, right? I always thought that that was like the same. And it can be sure. That's that's a parallel that can be made. But then I started to see it like, wait, no, that was her doing. That was her fixing of her mind. I got to get to this man named Jesus from Bethlehem. I got to get to this man because I heard that he does signs and wonders and miracles. Do we know that she had the revelation of him as a son of God? No, we don't. Because we do know that there were many people that got healed by Jesus, many who received their healing and never turned around to say thank you, never turned around to sit at his feet and worship. So we don't know if she had the revelation of him as Messiah, but we do know that she lived in that area where he was, and that she had heard of his miracle, signs, and wonders, and that she was persuaded enough, and that she was in enough pain and agony, and that she had enough of a need, and that she was over it. She was over the constant flow of blood coming out of her. And ladies, we know what it's like to be over it when you trying to go on a vacation and suddenly die is here over it. 12 years of constant bleeding, and nobody can help you, and nobody cares. And she said, Oh, if let uh uh uh I'm just gonna get to this man who is doing signs and wonders and miracles, whoever he is, because I need somebody to help me. Oh my god, I am desperate. I am beyond desperate. This has to stop. And if I can get to this man, I know that if he can heal a leopard baby, I know he can do something for me. And it wasn't that she said, I'm simply going to touch the hem of his garment because I have that much faith that if I just touch the edge of his cloak, I will be made whole. It's not that she set her mind out to touch the hem of his garment. We have heightened that part of the story after the fact. It was that she could not get to him because there were so many people ahead of her in line, and she was trying so hard to get to him, and he was probably getting further and further away. As somebody like a Jay-Z walking through a crowd, and there's so many people around him, you cannot get close. Not to mention the 12 disciples that were always around him, making sure that nothing bad popped off. We know Peter was about it, so we know Peter would have been ready to do anything to protect the savior. She couldn't get to him, so she had to claw her way through this crowd of people, and the only part of him that she could touch was the passing sway of his cloak that probably grazed the tip of her finger. And because she made contact with him, just the tip of her finger to the tip of his cloak, not even his body. She did it. She touched him because she said, if I can just touch him, let me just touch him, let me just touch him, something will happen for me. And it did. Her faith made her whole, and that's what Christ turned around and said, Who touched me? God. Woo! Somebody touched me in my most holy place because somebody knew. Without the spirit of revelation being released into the earth yet. Somebody knew who I am. Somebody touched me, somebody recognized me. Somebody valued me. Somebody put weight and glory on me. And virtue came out as a byproduct of that. And her faith made her whole. She decided that touching him could do something. Not him. She wasn't following instructions that had been given to her. She was following what she had made up in her own mind that God might do. And she put the work behind her faith. And in this moment, my God is saying to me, a member of his body, and therefore I pray that he is saying to you too, a member of his body, that your faith makes you whole. Whatever it is that you believe in your mind that will make you whole. Do it, follow through with it. Whatever it is, it might be silly. Hallelujah. It might be silly. It might be go and put a rock in the middle of the yard. It might be silly. It might be say these simple words over this person that you've been believing for and praying for. It might be simple. It might be minute. It might seem like nothing. But if it is in your mind that it can do something, it can. And that action on that faith will make you whole. Rasha Marusi. Let our faith make us whole today, church. Let our faith make us whole today in the body of Christ. Whatever we need, whatever we need, whatever we need, let it be done. In Jesus' name. Keep your faith. Keep your faith because it makes you whole. So let's be in communion with one another. Let's continue to share our testimonies with one another. Let's continue to grow together in the body and let us all be made whole.