What If Your Tone Is Your Theology

Your biggest spiritual breakthrough might start with a smaller sentence than you think, and it might be the way you say it. We sit down on the green couch for a solo, honest check-in about what God has been pressing on our hearts lately: the tongue. Not just the words we choose, but the tone we use when we’re tired, overstimulated, or convinced we’re right. If you’ve ever prayed, “God, use me,” then felt exposed by how you talk to the people closest to you, you’re not alone.

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Why A Solo Update Today

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Hey everybody, welcome back to walking it out. It's me again on the green couch. Um, yeah, I've had a couple guests lined up and things just haven't worked out. So um instead of not posting, I thought I would just share what's going on and what I've been thinking about in life and what God's teaching me, and um maybe some of you can relate. So should we dig into it today? Um, yeah, so this season's been crazy. The season's just been crazy. Um, this is Bella, if you're watching visually, my dog just got on the couch with me. Um, yeah, I think that God is really doing a thing in his people right now and just kind of getting us where he needs us for

Praying For God To Use My Mouth

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whatever comes next. And um, for me, a big thing that I have been learning and getting slapped around by the Lord about is my tongue, man. The words that we say, and not even what we say, but how we say it. And um yeah, so let me let me run it back real quick. So every year on my birthday, I pray a prayer. Um, and I I really let the Holy Spirit lead it. And I just say, this year my prayer was well, hang on. So last year my prayer was faith. And so I was like, God, increase my faith. Well, if any of you have ever prayed that prayer before, whoo, he'll do it, he'll he'll put you through the things that are gonna increase your faith, okay? And he did. Um, and then this last September, my birthday's in September, I really felt this prayer bubbling up inside me about being used for God's glory. But more than like more than a general usage, I asked that specifically God would use my mouth as a mouthpiece for him. And when I prayed that prayer, I originally thought that that would be um worship and singing and um doing those kinds of things, but it has obviously evolved. Here we are on the podcast. Um, but I prayed that prayer, and then I remember months later, my husband and I were going through a really, really difficult time in our marriage. Um, just life, man. There wasn't, I can't even, when I look back on it, I can't even remember what the big issue was, but we were just going through it. Um, and I was like, okay, we we need to talk. So I was like, you, you stay up here in the living room, you spend time with Jesus up here. I'm gonna go down into my prayer closet. I'm gonna spend time with Jesus down here, and we're gonna convene and we're gonna we're gonna talk, we're gonna pray together, and we're gonna figure it out. Like, we gotta we gotta figure this out. And so he did his time up here. I went down to my prayer closet down there, and I was like, Lord, what you gonna do with your son? What are we gonna do with him? What are we gonna tell him? And God was like, No, girl. Because it's actually it's not him, it's you, and I was like, What? What do you mean it's me? No, I was like, Yeah, you're right, and the Lord so clearly, and I

Marriage Conflict And A Hard Conviction

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journal everything. So I think it's in my other journal, which I don't have up here, darn. Um but God really was like, Hey, you want me to use your mouth, you want me to use your voice and the things that you speak, you want me to use those things, you want me to have the Holy Spirit speak through you and to minister to other people? That's what you want, then tell me why with that same mouth, you are using a harsh tone with your husband, you are not being kind in the things that you speak and you say, you are not being gracious or merciful in the words that you say. How can I use a voice that is not fully submitted to me? I was like, Damn, God, damn, you had to do me like that. Like, so I sat there and I was like, Yeah, yeah, you're right about that, Lord. But God gave me this vision of what we think, and then the things that we say, and then the trajectory of our life, right? So what we think, and how I think about my husband, and how I think about my kids, and how I think about my life, and how I think about my neighbor over there, and how I think about this group of people, the things that I think at some point will make it out of my mouth, right? So these thoughts, our thoughts never just stay in our minds. It it starts there, everything starts in our mind, and then we go forth with our speech. And the and the Bible says the power of life and death is in our tongue, and so we know that when we speak, we are either creating life or death. Um, it all starts in our mind, everything starts in our mind. And so um the Lord just really convicted me of this and convicted me in the way that I speak to my husband. And and again, it's not just the words that we speak, right? Because I was not calling him names or or um, I don't know, I wasn't I wasn't being over the top, but it was the way that I was saying things and the way that I was speaking in my tone of voice and and how I was addressing certain situations and things that was ungodly.

Proverbs James And The Tongue

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And so the Lord had me go through um Proverbs, and he had me go through this entire book in like record time, I feel like. And he had me, I mean, highlight every single, every single verse that has anything to do with our tongue and the words that we speak. A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth. Um, you are snared by the words of your mouth, you are taken by the words of your mouth. Like in guys, it's all like there is not one page in Proverbs that does not have a highlight because God spoke so clearly about the words that we speak. A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth, he who guards his mouth preserves his life, but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction. Guys, God cares so much about the things that we speak and the way that we use our words, that in James, and I just read this again this morning, in James he says, if anyone among you thinks, and this is the New King James Version, if anyone among you thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is useless. So God is literally saying, Okay, you can follow me, you can believe in me, but guess what? If you are not bridled, your tongue is not bridled, if you do not have your tongue submitted to the word of God, submitted to God, your religion, your relationship is useless. There is no fruit that comes of it because your mouth is producing death, and you cannot both be living in the truth and in life and also creating death. Those things cannot exist. So your relationship, your religion is useless. It has no use if at the same time you are creating death with your tongue. And I'm talking gossip, I'm talking slander, I'm talking about those backhanded, we need to pray for so no, no, because what's happening is we are using our tongues to tear down people or to um to tear down people, to tear down, um, to bring pride into relationships, to to just it is really as simple as, like the Bible said, it is so simple. We are either creating life or death. And God has just been so clear about that with me in this last few months, because I want to be used by God. Think for those of you who are who are following Jesus, um, but maybe even if you're not, like you want to have a purpose, you want to be, you want your life to be meaningful, you want to be used. And so my prayer is it's like, God use me, God use me, guys, send me, I'll go, send me, I'll go. And he's like, girl, with that tongue, how how when you are blessing me one minute and cursing my creation the next, how could I use your tongue? How could I do it? And and again, it does not always look like I'm over here cussing this person out or I'm over here slandering this person. It's as simple as a tone, it's as simple as, oh, did you hear about XYZ? Like it doesn't have to look like this big grand, I stopped traffic, I got out and I cussed this lady out. No, it's it's small, it's in the way that we the way that we think about people will then come out of our our mouths, like I was saying before.

Parenting Overwhelm And Lonely Thoughts

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Um, and so that that is what the Lord is teaching me. He's teaching me how to be slow to anger. Um the way that I speak to my children. The way that I speak to my children is a huge, I mean guys, I have four kids, and I know that most of you know that, but like I have four kids ages six and under, and it is hard work to be a parent, and I think I don't know, I feel like I've been in this place of like people don't get it, they don't get what I go through on a daily basis, they don't get what it's like to be a parent of four kids and to work full-time hours in the evening. So I stay home with my kids all day, I work all night, um, I take care of a home, I'm a wife. It's hard out here, okay? And this is just kind of a sidebar. This isn't really like to do with my tongue, but I'll bring it back. Don't worry. But I have just been in this place of like people don't get it. They don't, they expect me to answer the text right away. They expect me to answer the phone every time they call, they expect me to do all the things. And I have four kids, ages six and under. And if you don't understand what that's like, I'm gonna give you an example. Okay, this is what it's like in my house all day. Mom, mom, mom, hey, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, can you tell dad, mom, mom, all day? Okay, and it is a blessing and a miracle. My four children are a blessing and a miracle, and I love them deeply, and it is the best, most beautiful calling that I have upon my life. And also, I have been getting stuck in this place of like, Lord, people don't get it. And he's like, No. And it's not their job to get it, it's not their job to understand the depths of the valleys that you walk through. It's not their job to understand how hard it is day in and day out. It's not their job to understand what you're sewing into these kids. It's not anybody else's job to understand those things in your life, except for me, your father in heaven. It is only me who can truly understand what it is, Caitlin, that you are going through. And man, and that is the power of our tongue, too, because you know, I'm saying, like, nobody gets it. I'm alone. I'm this is such a lonely place to be. And God is like, it's only lonely because you're not talking to me. You're looking around, you're looking at these other families, you're looking over here, you're looking. Can anybody come in? Can anybody understand? Can anybody know they can't? And that's okay because God didn't put the weight of having four kids, six and under my with my specific children on anybody else. He gave that to me, he gave that portion to me and to my husband. And the only people that can get it are myself and my husband. But but even my husband doesn't quite get the depths of what I go through as a mother, just like I will never understand what he goes through as a father. And so with my tongue, I'm saying, father, you don't, nobody gets it. Why don't people get it? They don't care, they don't this, they don't that. And he's like, girl, no. Because what you're doing right now is you're creating death in your life, you're creating a negative place for your mind to be. You're not focusing, like in Philippians, where it says focus on what is good, right? And what is praiseworthy. Because when we do that, out from our mouth comes what life, praise, joy, expectancy for what God's going to do. But when I have been just in this place of like, Lord, I am lonely, nobody gets it. And he's like, Yeah, they were never meant to get it because this is one thing you can only rely on need for. You can only rely on me, but not me, Caitlin, but me, God, to feel relief, to feel strengthened, to feel empowered to go forth and do the work that I have set forth before you. You're not gonna get that from the world, Caitlin. I'm not gonna get that from the world. I'm not even gonna get it from my closest, most bestest friends. I'm not gonna get it from my family. I'm not gonna get it from um my church. I'm not gonna get it from anybody or anything else other than God. And that has just been like a big thing that I've walked through um just in this last just in this last few weeks of just feeling um there is trying to just feeling I don't know, I guess, I guess lonely is the word. Um and it's so interesting because in that loneliness is where God meets us. You know, when we come to the very ends of ourselves is where he's like, all right, hey, so I have actually been here the whole time, and um, I'm actually really excited to talk to you. I actually have a lot of things to tell you and reveal to you. But I had to wait till you came to this place where I was the only one that you could hear from, and that has so been me in this last few weeks of like just walking, walking this faith out, right? Guys, it's not always pretty. It is not always pretty, and it is um hard sometimes. I was wrong. 4-8, Philippians, 4-8. Finally, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are good, report if there's any virtue, there's anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things. The things which we learned and received and heard and saw in me, these two, and the Lord or in the God of peace will be with you. So, like I said earlier, you know, it starts in our minds and it comes out of our mouths. And um, yeah, this idea of just I don't know, um, maybe unmet expectations of this life, of the assignments that God has given me, where I feel like he owes me, which is crazy talk, right? Like, God, give me a community, give me, give me people who get it, who get what I'm going through, get the the struggle. And um he's like, hey, I'm here. What do you need? Um, I guess I'm getting a little off topic of the tongue, but I'm just gonna keep rolling with it, just what God has been speaking to me. And and um a couple Sundays ago, I was just having a hard time, just having a hard time feeling connected to the Lord. I felt like he was far away. Um

When God Feels Far Away

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and that's hard. It's hard to feel like God is far away sometimes because well, not sometimes, anytime he feels far away, it's hard. But I was really going through some stuff mentally, just trying to man sort out what's what, and Satan was just working overtime, and I was having a hard time combating it because it wasn't in my word. All things, guys. Um, and so if you don't know, I I work out at uh I work at East for Christ and I work out at the detention center and I do church out there for them, but I also just go and hang with them and do life with them. And we were doing church Sunday after my church, and um personal with it pulls up the the sermon that she had written for the day, and it was when God feels far away. And I was like, Lord, oh Lord, you you really okay, you're here. I hear you. What are you gonna say? So the kids are all listening, but I'm listening too. I'm locked in, right? Like, yes, God, what are we saying? What what do I do when you feel far away? Because you feel real far right now, and I I know the things to do, I know to pray and read my word, but like I need something more than that because you're so far, I feel like I can't even, I can't even begin to reach you. And um, that's how it felt. Well, we know that feelings are not always true, right? And um so she's talking and giving the sermon, and she goes into um, she brings up the the scripture in 1 Kings, and in the scripture, um, if you're familiar with it, Elijah, Elijah, not Shah, he is he had just got done, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, he just got done up on the mountain challenging um

Elijah Burnout And The Gentle Whisper

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is it Baal? Is that who it is? Yeah, Baal, the prophets of Baal. He he just getting done challenging them and saying, Okay, like have your have your God send a fire, consume this wood, and and and if he does that, then then your God's the true God. Basically a competition between their God, let me paraphrase it. Okay, let me let me Kate paraphrase it here. It was basically a competition between their God, the prophets of Baal, and the Almighty God, right? And he said, Whichever God answers by fire is the one true God, and um, so he just gets done with this. God just like totally shows up and shows out. The drought ends, but Jezebel hears about this and she's like, Elijah, I'm gonna kill you. And Elijah's like, oh my gosh, I gotta run, right? And it's so interesting because we listen to the story and we're like, oh my gosh, how did he how could he even be scared? He just saw God and survived fire. How could he even blah blah blah? Well, because he's a human and we all do it, okay. When I read this, I was like, how could he be so scared? And then and then I was going through something the other day, and I'm like, oh look, it's me. Like, oh look, let me let me look back at all the things that God has done in my life. Let me look back and remember the ways that He has showed up for me and showed out for me and done miracles and and healed the sick and and all these things, and then I'm scared, and then I'm afraid, and then I'm like, oh, wait, are you still here? Are you still with me? What? So, anyways, in 1 Kings 19, it's this story where Elijah is running because he's afraid. And and it he he makes a point to say that as he's running, he separates himself from his servant and he goes into the wilderness by himself. Um, it was a day's journey into the wilderness, so he has isolated. Himself. He puts himself under a tree and he goes, God, just kill me. Honestly, I'm done here. Just will you just kill me? Okay. Again, Kate paraphrasing. Okay. And then an angel comes and he's like, Eat, take a nap, eat, take a nap. And Elijah does that. And then the angel asks him and says, What are you doing here, Elijah? And anytime any heavenly thing, specifically God, asks a question, God doesn't, he he's not asking because he doesn't know. Like you need to just sit and reflect for a second before you answer. It's a um self-inventory kind of question, you know? And so he so angel, an angel asks Elijah this and he answers. And then and then he goes and he's in a cave and God himself asks, What are you doing here, Elijah? And that is just so beautiful to me. Like God of the universe, my father in heaven, he already knows what Elijah was doing there. He already knows what I'm doing here, he already knows why I am feeling the way that I'm feeling. He knows, but he asks. And Elijah does not hold back. Elijah says, I have been very zealous for the Lord, God of hosts. For the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, torn down your altars, killed your prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek to take my life. So he's saying to God, this is what I got out of it. I have been zealous for the Lord, God. I have done the things, God, that you have asked me to do. I went up on that mountain. I believed you enough to call that I called down fire from heaven. I trusted that you would show up and you did, and now I'm running from my life. Why he's frustrated, he's angry, and God tells him to go out and just stand and wait. And there was a wind, and it says that God was not in the wind. There was an earthquake, and he says God was not in the earthquake, and there was an uh a fire, and God was not in the fire, but he was in a small, still small voice, a whisper, a gentle whisper. And the Lord really used this to speak to me and in that time a couple weeks ago where I just felt so far away from the Lord, so far away, so disconnected, so frustrated. Where God was like, first of all, take care of your physical needs. Eat your lunch, eat your breakfast, put some protein in your body, don't just eat sugar all day, go for a walk, take a nap, and then talk to me. Meaning, like me talk to God. So this scripture where where Elijah comes to God and he just tells him, hey, this is what I'm feeling, like this is where I'm at. Broken, beat up, thinking I'm the only one left who loves you. This is where I'm at, Lord. And God responds to him in this way, and he's he says, I actually got it mixed up. So let me let me backtrack that this happens, this big thing happens, the earthquakes and the things, before God says, What are you doing here? So God, so God's doing all these things, and then he whispers and he asks him, What are you doing here? And and Elijah tells him and he says, This is how I'm feeling, God, and God responds by giving him his next assignment. And I love that. I love that so much because he's just so good. And you know, I used to be so afraid of coming hit coming to him, and with my words and my my voice telling him where I'm at and when I'm frustrated and when he feels far away, I was scared to do that because I didn't want him to be mad at me, right? I didn't want him to say, ooh, you're struggling with that, disqualified, can't use you. Because in my mind, that's what would happen. If I was real and transparent that, hey, I feel far away, or hey, I really am struggling, bridling my tongue. I'm struggling with the way that I speak to my children. I'm that we're gonna come back to that. If I if I'm struggling with these things, then God, you can't use me. So Elijah is is having this moment where he where he literally asked him to die, where he is struggling at such a deep level, where his heart is broken and he is burnt out and he is tired. And God says, I'll still use you. Thank you for telling me I'll still use you. And and I just love that. And I know we got here because I started talking about my kids in the way that I speak to them. So let me come back. Okay, let me let me back it up back to that. Because I got I went on a side quest there. The way that we speak to our children is so important, and the way that we speak and the words that we say create the life in death, right? The way that I speak to my children, it does not always

Repair After Anger With Repentance

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have to be words, but the tone that I use. If I'm always annoyed with them, the the narrative that then comes into the mind, the seeds that are planted into their mind about who they are and what it means to be able to talk to a parent and those sort of things. The way that we speak is so important. And um yeah, I struggle, I struggle with my tone when I'm frustrated and everyone is saying mom at the same time, and they're all asking for me me for a snack, while they also see me changing a diaper and and the dog is getting into something and everything's crazy. And if you don't understand, it's okay, you don't understand, but when there is mass chaos in your home 24-7, because that's just the nature of having children, is that things are always moving and and it's beautiful, but my flesh reacts in such just um I don't even know, just frustration and um, like, guys, give me a minute. Like, uh, do you see I'm changing this diaper? Give me a minute to change this diaper and I will get you a snack, sort of thing. Okay. Instead of being like, hey, I hear you, I hear that you want a snack. I'm in the middle of changing this diaper. Please give me five minutes and then I will get you what you need. But instead, that tone, I said the same thing, virtually the same thing, but it's our tone and the way that we approach people and the way that we approach our children. And um, I'm learning, man. I have not made it. I have not um, you know, entered the promised land. I I struggle, I have to repent. Just last night I lost it um and and laid with my daughter and I repented to her and said, you know, I I I got so angry and I yelled at you and that wasn't fair to you. Um will you forgive me? And she's of course yes, yes, yes. But then I'm also modeling like, okay, let's pray. Because, you know, she she also needed to to repent for for her part of it and and being not listening and and the things. And so we we together we prayed and we asked the Lord for me, it was God forgive me for the way that I was quick to anger with my daughter, and and I was frustrated with her and um responded in anger and was um quick with my words instead of being slow to speak. And for her, it was Lord Jesus, I'm I'm sorry that you know I didn't honor my mom today. And and so we have those moments, but being able to speak and coming back again to that the our power of our tongue, being able to speak out when we mess up, when we use our tongue in the wrong way, we can also use our tongue. God can use our tongue to come back and to repent and to restore and to redeem. So when the Bible says that the power of life and death is in our tongue, it's because it's true. It's because if I use my tongue and it and I don't think before I speak and it creates a death, well, God can redeem it in the same way that it was broken. He can use my tongue again and he can restore that thing that was broken. And I just think that's so cool because that's what God does, right? He he is a restorative God, he he restores and redeems everything as we uh as we um submit and obey to him and um or obey him. And so this was rambling. I wanted to focus more like on the tongue, but but I think that that other part was important too of um just being willing to open up to the Lord and being willing to tell him, hey, you are far away, you feel far away. Are you what it where are you? Those those hard things, um it's so important to know that your father is with you, even if he feels far away, he's there, and also to encourage you that like I'm eight years in to this walk, and guys, like there are mountains, mountain, mountains, and there are valleys, deep valleys, but no matter what, he goes with us, and when you follow, when you make the decision to follow Jesus, it it is not a decision that makes the rest of your life cake, okay? And it is it's actually a decision that logistically complicates a lot of things, it logistically complicates friendships and relationships, it it logistically complicates social situations and um logistically, from a worldly

Following Jesus Feels Hard Yet Simple

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standard, complicates things. But when you make the decision to follow Jesus, yeah, you he says you will have trouble in this in this life, you will have trouble. But take heart, for I have overcome the world. And so logistically, when you give your life to Jesus, yeah, man, it's complicated, it's messy, it's hard. But I don't even know what you would say, not worldly, like not looking at it from a worldly point of view, it is so simple, it is the most pure love, it is the most simple life to know in the depths of your soul that no matter where you go, there is not one place you go where he cannot come with you. There is not one place that you go where you can hide from him. That's what the psalm says. Where can I go, Lord? Where where could I hide and you will not find me? I could go to the depths of Sheol, which is hell essentially, and you would find me there. And and so the thing about making that decision to follow Jesus is is it logistically complicated? Kind of. Yeah. In a worldly point of view, it just changes everything. It changes the way that you live, the way that you talk, the way that you act, the way that you think about things. But when we don't look at the worldly perspective, we look at just this, it is simple. It is so simple. It is accepting a love unlike anything that you have ever known and seen or heard about. It is accepting that love for yourself and walking in it. It is accepting the grace and the mercy in our flesh is the thing that complicates it. Because I heard a thing earlier talking about your flesh, your flesh, everything else about you could be sanctified, but your flesh will always be in rebellion. And it's so true, man. That's the thing that complicates it, is your flesh. It it complicates it, it muddies it. It tries to say, hey, God's far away. Um, so God feels far away. So forget it. Like, just forget, throw the whole thing out, you know? And it's like, no flesh. Like I will bless the Lord, oh my soul. Like I will tell you to bless the Lord because He is good. And even in this, when He feels far away, even when I slip up and I yell at my kid, even when I speak to my husband harshly and I don't give grace, even in those moments, God is so faithful to forgive me. He is so faithful to give me grace. He is so faithful to stand in the gap for those people who my tongue just hurt. He is so faithful to then restore uh that relationship through my tongue in forgiveness and repentance. He is so good and so faithful um that he that is who he is. He he will be in it, he is in every moment with us. And so even when, right, even when our flesh is in rebellion and we don't have quite a hold on of it, hold on it, even when we mess up, even when we fall short, for all have fallen short. That means me, that means you, that means the pastor down the road, it means all of us every day we fall short of the glory of God, but even then, he is faithful and he doesn't leave us, and there is grace and there is mercy, and it is so simple. You know, we're being attacked spiritually. Um, there's spiritual warfare that can look complicated and messy, but guess what? It's simple. For those of you who aren't watching, I'm holding up my Bible because this is how we combat, this is how we fight against the weapons of the enemy, this is how we battle spiritual warfare. This is it. This is the sword of the spirit, the word of God. It is a weapon, it is a comfort, it is instruction, it is a guide, it is all those things, but it is the living word. And it is a weapon to be used in those moments of spiritual attack. It is a weapon to be used preemptively before the spiritual attack to guard your mind and guard your heart and set, like we were just reading in Philippians, is set your mind on things above. This is what what it's simple, right? So you you're you're being attacked spiritually and and and things are crazy and and you're not sure uh what's what, what's true, what's not. Just open up your Bible and get equipped. Because the the scariest thing, the scariest thing to Satan is a person who knows the word of God, because the word of God is sharper than any double-edged sword, right? And so when Satan's coming at me, the the most powerful thing I can do is open up this word and just start speaking. No, because I will live and I will not die. That's what the word says. I can hide under the shadow of the wings of the Almighty. That's what God said. God said, I'm more than a conqueror. That's what the word said. The word said, No weapon formed against me shall prosper. That's what this says, and this is true. And Satan, you know this is true. And so if I'm saying

Spiritual Warfare And Using Scripture

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right now that I rebuke you and you have to leave me in the name of Jesus, they no weapon you're forming will prosper. Guess what? Defeated, done. So, from the world's point of view, this relationship with Jesus can look so complicated. And worldly things can even make you feel like following Jesus is complicated, but guys, it really is something. It really is. It is the most beautiful, most even in the hardest moments where I'm like broken before the Lord, where I'm crying out to God, where I'm asking him to change something or change my heart towards something, or help me with forgiveness, or these things that I'm frustrated with him, or I'm confused. Like, even in those moments, it is simple because no matter what, he loves me, and no matter what, he's with me, and no matter what, he's not giving up on me. And what a beautiful love that is. And even as Satan comes and he tries to kill, steal, and destroy, that's what the word says. That his only purpose in this life is to do is to steal, kill, and destroy. Even as he tries to do that, fighting him is simple. Jesus said he has overcome the world, he is he is victorious over death. So as Satan throws things, or your flesh throws things, sometimes we say it's Satan, it's really just our flesh. Jesus already overcame it, and so it's simple. We just come into agreement with his victory, we just come into agreement with the fact that he is king, we just come into agreement with every word written in the word of God that says it's done, it's finished. Satan can do whatever it is that he wants to do, and and he can try, but guess what? I am a child of God, and this says that we win. We win in the end, so yeah, man. Kind of went off on a tangent, but I hope that this has been fruitful for you. It's been fruitful for me. Just to speak and and hear it again and process it. And man, this is walking it out, right? Like this is what I wanted this podcast to be. It's just a place to speak about what it really is to follow God and what it looks like daily, and the dying to ourselves and and the revelations that God gives us as we walk through the journey, you know. He gives us new revelations and and new new ideas and new vision. And it's just cool. Like in you never stop learning, you never stop getting revelation

The Living Word Exposes What Must Change

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from the Lord as you're growing with him. He doesn't just go, okay, yeah, yeah, I think you got it. You good? Okay, you're good. All right, that's enough. That's enough for your life. You've grown all that I need you to grow. So um, don't worry about it anymore. Like, you actually don't even need to read your word. No, like he does not do that. And I can read this thing, guys. I have read James so many times, and we went from James as a church, like yet this morning I'm reading it and I'm like, what you mean? If I really, if I say that I love Jesus and I say I'm religious, but I'm not rattling my tongue, that my religion's useless, like the weight of that just dropped on me today. And I think that's just so cool that God does that. Like, it really is the living word, and he really is alive, and he really is um active and he loves his people. And I think it's cool that you know he says, if you seek me, you will find me. And it's true, you know, as we dive deeper and we we dig and we we ask God to meet us and we ask God to use us, like he will after he cuts off some things, and um he he brings things up to the bubbles, things up to the surface. They're like, No, you gotta deal with these things before I can use you. And you can respond in one of two ways. You can be offended that God would bring that up, and you could go, no, that's not me, and respond in pride, or you can go, dang, yeah, you're right, Lord. That was really there the whole time. That was really there the whole time. And I didn't even know until you pointed it out right now. And I just think that's so good about our God that He doesn't, He doesn't push us into our callings before we're ready. Like, could you imagine sending someone to speak on his behalf who can't bridle their tongue to force our way into ministry, to force our way into a calling when we don't even have something as simple as being slow to speak and just shutting up for a second? If we can't even get that figured out, how are we going to minister to his people? How do we minister to his people without hurting his people? Or without hurting people who haven't given their life to Christ? You know, if we can't bridle our tongue, how can we how can we pour into people who don't even know him yet? How can we draw people into his love when the things that are coming out of our mouths are death and not life? How can we point them to the author of life when we are just speaking death over them and to them, you know? So he's so faithful that

Feedback DMs And Closing Prayer

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he would that he would call it out. And so, anyways, guys, I have been rambling probably for like 40 minutes now, but I pray that this was fruitful for someone, okay, because it was fruitful for me. Um, but I'm just really grateful for you being here and um let me know if you like this format. Let me know what you're thinking. Give me any feedback, even if you just send me a message. Let me know, let me know what you think. And um we did skip this week because my kids got out of school. But when you're watching this, we will have another episode next week. Not sure what it looks like yet. Um, but yeah, thank you for being here. I pray the Lord Blocks the same keeps you. And um, my DMs are always open, so feel free to message me with any questions or anything, any feedback. And I will see you again next week for another episode of Walking It Out. Bye.