The Key To Your Life With Christ | The Spirit Unleashed Podcast Ep. 11

In this episode, we dive into the ultimate key to truly living for God—what it means to walk in daily surrender, trust His plan, and keep Him at the center of everything we do. Whether you’re just starting your faith journey or looking to grow deeper, this conversation is all about practical and spiritual ways to live a life that honors Him.

We also share our favorite worship songs of the week that have been speaking to our hearts and helping us stay connected to God throughout the ups and downs of life. These songs have been a source of encouragement, peace, and renewed faith—and we can’t wait for you to check them out too.

Finally, we get real about tough family situations and how to respond in a Christ-like way when emotions run high. From choosing grace over anger to showing love when it’s hardest, we talk through what it looks like to reflect Jesus in the moments that truly test us.

If you’ve ever struggled with staying grounded in your faith, navigating difficult relationships, or just need some encouragement, this episode is for you. Let’s grow together, lean into God’s truth, and strive to live like Jesus every single day. 🙏🙌

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:10

Welcome back everybody to the Spirit Unleash podcast. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. You got Josh, Jesse, and Kyle here back again with you. We can't be more excited to bring you another Holy Spirit-filled conversation. We're taking a few moments here at the beginning of the podcast. Just take a moment. How about you like, comment, and subscribe on the episode? Subscribing to the channel really helps us push the word to whoever it needs to be pushed to. We're doing this all for the glory and building of God's kingdom. If you subscribe to the channel, turn on the notifications, it's really going to help us do that. You'll know when new episodes drop. You'll know, you'll be able to engage in conversation with people in the comments, and putting a like on the video really helps us push it into that YouTube algorithm as well. So just take a few moments, like, comment, and subscribe while we just kind of do a little bit of intro discussion here. Gentlemen, how's the week been for everybody?

SPEAKER_03 0:59

A little eventful, but for the most part, it's been good. It's been good. So far, so good. Yeah?

SPEAKER_02 1:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05

Tomorrow's hump day. Hump day, yeah. I look forward to it. Yep, absolutely. It's um it's how do I say it? It's a holy week. Yes, it is. Yes, very holy week. Palm Sunday last Sunday. Good Friday's gonna be this Sunday. It's coming up fast. You know, uh, and I'll tell you what, uh what a mighty move we had on Palm Sunday last Sunday. Um, so true. God is preparing to do something big on Resurrection Sunday, I believe. Yes. And uh He's been working all week, I believe. You know, just just conversations I've been having and um veins that have been tapped into this week have just truly been unbelievable. Yeah. I think he's really drawing and preparing for something big on the celebration of his resurrection. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Yeah, something's definitely something big's happening, gonna happen. I mean, it's been building for what three, four Sundays. I mean, it's just been building and building and building, and you know, I I believe, I believe in Jesus' name that you know it's gonna happen Sunday. Something big gonna happen.

SPEAKER_03 2:06

Yes, absolutely. I I a hundred percent agree. I think there's been a lot of prayer uh uh leading up to this. Yes. I think the church has been just like an engine humming exactly the way it's supposed to be. And we begin in the word, we've been praying, we've been fasting, yeah, and these are the fruits of it, and along along absolutely with the the season and the time of the resurrection, and just yeah, I believe there's something phenomenal going to be here Sunday. So be here Sunday. Yeah, be here.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

If you're in if you're in the Crestview, Florida area, yes, Life Tabernacle Church, 3136, Pinewoods Drive in Crestview, this Sunday, Easter service, main service is at 11 a.m. Come join us. You know, we we have a great time in the Lord and worship and the word if we even get to the word. Right. Right. Sometimes worship breaks out and we just don't push the spirit here. You know. And one thing about this church, man, we I've said it before in service. We don't apologize for the way we worship God. Nope. You know, we are a church full of delivered people, and we're gonna worship our God who delivered us from that. That's right. We're gonna worship him in the way we know how, and more importantly, the way the Bible tells us to. So, you know, come out Sunday, Easter Sunday, 11 o'clock, main service. I'll have um I'll put all the address information in the description. So if you're wanting to come out, it all the info will be there. Come see us, and if anything, come join a great fellowshipping church. Amen. Amen. We're just like part of it. Just like family around here. Everybody knows everybody. Um we treat everybody like family. Yes. And that's the beautiful thing. That's how all churches should be, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_01 3:33

Yes. And I definitely believe that, you know, with the prayer and the fasting that you were talking you have been talking about and us being in the word, the evidence has been here. Oh, yeah. You know, the evidence has been here every Sunday. You know, us being able to do this is just evidence of, you know, God's what he's doing, you know, in this community, in this church, you know, and he's building lives, he's changing lives, you know, he's breaking chains, he's, you know, he's softening people's hearts that were once hard. You know, he he's he's showing people the light that was once dark, you know, and it's just getting people's lives are just getting brighter and brighter and brighter, and you know, it's amazing to see God work. Oh yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

Yeah. And I I think um, like I said, all churches should have that family feel. Um, but you know, prayer and fasting is so important for services. Um what I love about us is that you know, we have uh prayer before every service on Sunday. Get here an hour early before service starts, and we just, you know, we get in the spirit and pray.

SPEAKER_02 4:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

And for people that are in ministry or maybe leading service or running all the sound equipment and everything like that, maybe you're more preoccupied during service how with actually running the service. Yeah. In that prayer leading up, you really get what you need. Yes. You really receive what you need from the Lord, the strength you have, so that you can be a vessel to help other people. Right. Help other people build their life in the kingdom, maybe be delivered from something. Like I know every Sunday I come in here for prayer, I just open up and get vulnerable with God and just let Him pour into me because I know that there's not just us three, but there's other vessels in the church as well that maybe prioritize during service working the altar and talking to people and praying with people. So maybe they don't get an opportunity to receive at the actual altar service, but that that's why prayer is so important going into and leading over.

SPEAKER_03 5:27

And I love that we started doing that. Um, I think we were doing it for a little while, maybe a couple of years ago, then we kind of stopped and we got back into it, and I think it's just been a phenomenal key to the success and what God's been doing in our services. Yes. Um, yeah, I I know I show up sometimes working the sound, you know, sound booth doing the lyrics and stuff like that, that uh kind of get caught up in it, like, oh, I gotta, you know, Kyle tossed me a new song this week. I gotta get all the lyrics and stuff like that. But it is a moment to like, hey, let's refocus why are we here? What what's what's the real it's all for the glory of God and it's just to reach reach souls. Yes. I I love it. I'd I'd it's it's I wouldn't trade it. I'd I'd I'd give up an you know an extra hour in my morning every time to be here and be able to be a part of the prayer.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 6:09

And you know, it's like we talked at the men's meeting uh Friday night or the past Friday night. And for ones that would love to join our men's meeting, please, we have it once a month at the last Friday of every month. You know, we have have it at a different house uh every every month. So uh let us know if you'd love to join those. But being vulnerable, you know, being a you know, being able to just be vulnerable and as men, it's t it you know, it's it's not hard for me now. But you know, as men, it used to be very very hard to be vulnerable, to be to be able to open up, you know, and be able to, you know, let go of everything, you know. And as men, you know, you try to be you know tough or you don't want us people to see you crying or to see you doing things. And yeah, you know, that's when you know God does his work, is when you're at your weakest and lowest point, that's when he starts and he starts making you stronger.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

Yes, yes. Yes. That's that is so true. I know for a long time I struggled with like I gotta put on that you know a front, I gotta be strong, and everybody looking at me, got expectations of me, and I gotta meet that stuff. Yeah. And so I'm down here at the altar praying and and being rolling board crying, like, oh, they're gonna be like, oh, what's wrong with him? What's going on in his life that he's gotta be down here at the altar and something like we should never and I don't think anybody actually was, would have that going to their mind, but I had that perception. Yeah. And so breaking that wall down and just being willing to to come here and just bear it all and be open unto the Lord and have him have his way, do what he wants to do. That's just that is the key to growing and becoming what God wants you to be. That's right. It's yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

Thing about rock bottom is there's no ground more solid. Nope. That's right. It hurts sometimes. You might hit it. Sure, sure, sure. Yeah, it does. Yeah. There's no better better place to build on. Yeah. From that vulnerable state, that that weakened state, you know, the thing about getting vulnerable with the Lord is, you know, you have you soften yourself so that he can mold you into something better. Um, you really just get vulnerable in that moment so that you can be open to what he has for you. Because I know like after Sunday, like I'll do my daily, you know, walk with God, do my stuff that I do every day. But over the week I can harden myself because of things that are coming at me with work or with life, you know, whatever. You harden yourself to be able to just take those blows and you know, you really put on a tough defense, but when you can finally let the guard down and just let him work, yes, it's wonderful what he'll just take off you every time you get vulnerable in his presence.

SPEAKER_01 8:37

Yeah, and that's what we're seeing around here on Sundays is people finally letting their guard down. Yes, you know, finally letting God really work on it, and that that that's that's the amazing part of it. That makes me feel so so good when I love being a part of it. It's just so awesome.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

Yeah, yeah. There's nothing better than watching somebody in their deliverance moment. Oh, 100%. When you just watch and you feel it in your in your spirit, you feel it when they finally just let go of all control. They give it all to the Lord, and you just see them. A lot of times they'll weep in his presence, but man, when when the weeping is done, it may endure for a short while.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:15

But that joy that you see after that deliverance moment, it there's nothing like it. I would man, I would pay to see it. I would pay to see it every time.

SPEAKER_03 9:25

I think it's so true because a lot of those times, and you know, we we have you know, people we love in here that may not be blood related or anything, but I still consider them all family. And you you have a little bit of an insight sometimes of what's going on in the background or what they may be facing, and you want so badly to just say, Oh, just give it all to God, yeah, let him take control, but they got their hands on it, and you can't make them, you can't take it out of their hands. Okay, you're giving that to God, okay. Yeah, but it's just so awesome to see someone finally surrender and you know what they've been going through, and it's like, yes, this is what I've been praying for you. I believe that God's gonna take you out of this, He's gonna bring you to a greater walk with Him. It's just getting to that point where you're like, I have done all that I can and it's still a mess. And here you go, God, it's all yours. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:07

And it builds your faith too.

SPEAKER_03 10:09

It builds your faith.

SPEAKER_00 10:11

To see that, especially if it's somebody that you've been praying specifically for. Man, what a faith builder that is to finally see you see physical evidence of God answering one of your prayers. Yeah. Because oftentimes maybe God will answer a prayer and you don't see it answered for a while because it was kind of in the background. Yeah. But when you see that moment, somebody finally giving up control, giving their life to God, and you've been praying for it, ma'am, what a faith reinforced.

SPEAKER_03 10:38

You know, one of the things I love about your testimony is you talk about as you were beginning that walk with God, you know, after the deliverance and stuff like that, you had this diary and you began to walk write down your uh needs or some prayers that you were having. And you you had this kind of like, you know, uh uh the infant's state of faith. You're like, okay, I don't I'm just beginning this walk and I'm just I'm gonna believe. That's all I say is believe, and he's gonna answer these things. And as it started, like starting to be able to tick those things off the list, and you're like, wow, my faith's getting increased. I and you could probably go to now, like every single one of them have been met, or it's you know, God's led you in a certain direction, done something. I think that is just that that's awesome whenever you tell that story.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

It's just it it and it's one of those things that you you're right, you know, when when I did first when I was first starting my walk and you know, going through the recovery stage, you know, um started with a faith-based recovery meeting every Friday night, and that's one thing that they taught us is that you know, do your daily reading, yeah. Read a psalm, read a proverbs, do, you know, read a chapter in, you know, in the Bible. It doesn't matter which chapter you start with, just read something, right? And then write down your needs and then write down your blessings. Yeah. Right? And then, you know, and I've done that, I I think I've done that for two and a half years. You know, and and I've I caught myself probably, I would say uh it was probably six months ago, I think it was. No, it was probably four months. Anyway, it wasn't too long ago. I was cleaning out my nightstand, I found that book. And I found that notebook, and I got to flumming through it, man, and I just started as I the more I read, I started weeping. Yeah. Because it was answered prayer after answered prayer after answered prayer. And that was prayer, that was things that I had written down in 2017. Yeah. You know, and and did it all happen right then and there. No, it didn't. You know, because it wasn't God's, it wasn't time yet. Yes. You know, and that's what people have, you know, that's what people struggle with is patience. You know, patience. Absolutely. You gotta you gotta be you gotta be patient with God because God's gonna do it when he's ready.

SPEAKER_00 12:45

Not when you're ready, but when he's ready. Yeah. It's all done according to his will. Yeah. And he can't move up his timeline. Yes. He has a set plan and he's gonna stick to that plan. He's gonna stick to his will every time. Absolutely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:58

And I think we find that we want him to. Yeah. As we get to the other side of things, because I I think I think about it as like a freshly, you know, uh a plant that's bursting through the ground. It's not ready to bear, you know, a hundred fruit. You know, you can't put an o you know a bunch of oranges on a little infant, you know, orange tree. It's gonna take some time to get there and grow a little bit, to get ready for those weights. And and so, yeah, we we want it to be in God's timing, even though there's times we're like, I just give it to me real quick. I'm driving up to the drive-thru window and I want to fast. Fast through, give it to me, give it to me. And God's like, You're not ready yet. I'm giving you little things. I'm not ignoring you, but I'm just getting you ready to just carry those. That's you're gonna need a little bit more strength to be able to handle the rest of that stuff that you're saying you're wanting.

SPEAKER_00 13:38

Absolutely. God is good in that moment, man. He's good when you're just obedient and you see the blessings through your obedience and you see his will being enacted. I mean, there's nothing better. Nothing better. Yes. Well, well, I guess we'll go into um our actual plan for the episode. I mean, we could sit here and talk all night while we should. If we don't get into what we're supposed to do that day, hey, just following the idea. The way I know the Lord, he'll probably tie it in anyway. So I'm not even worried about it.

SPEAKER_01 14:07

I believe it's in.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

We'll go into our uh our scripture breakdown segment. Uh we started doing these segments last week, and I got a lot of positive feet positive feedback on them. People that watched the episode loved the segment format that we did, so we'll continue doing that. Probably switch up the segments a little bit, but uh scripture in the word is always gonna be the foundation of the um it's the firm foundation upon which we stand, so we're gonna we're not gonna make any differences with with the episodes. So I'll start. That way I don't put you guys on the next week. It's okay. I know I kind of came out of the blue last week with y'all, but um this is a scripture I read it last night in a devotional that um I was doing, and um it really struck with me. I figured I'd bring it uh today. It's Romans chapter 5, it's verses 18 through 21, pretty popular verse of scripture. Uh Paul is talking to us here, and he says this Therefore, as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. And it's a beautiful passage that Paul is saying there, comparing Adam to Jesus, and um, you know, comparing the fall to the sacrifice that Jesus said. You know, we often hear Jesus referred to as the second Adam, the one that came to deliver the world from the sin that Adam brought into the world through disobedience. Um it's it what really struck me is that disobedience brought sin into the world. But through our obedience, we can be delivered from that through obedience to the word of God and obedience to what Jesus says to do in the Gospels, grace be much more about in our life. Through obedience, we've talked about it many times on this podcast, but obedience is just key to everything in your life with God. It's so key, and through that obedience, you'll receive blessings, you'll receive revelation. God will work in your life, and not just that, but he'll work in the people in your life through that obedience. And that passage of scripture really just hit me hard, really, because there was a time in my life where I was in church, kind of just going through the motions, going through the routine, everything like that, living off of other people's faith, living off of other people's obedience. So when I read that passage last night, I just began to think, like, man, Lord, like the revelation that you've given me when I start to act with my own obedience, and I stop living off of other people's faith. Yeah. What you can really do in my life through obedience, and it it's life with God is real simple if you make it simple. Yes. You know, through obedience, everything will come up in your life. Trials, storms, he'll guide you through all that as long as you just listen and obey. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

Absolutely, absolutely. I mean, the evidence around here, you know, every the Sundays, you know, of being obedient.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 17:43

Receiving the blessing, seeing us and others, you know, vessels here being obedient to what Lord the Lord is pressing on them to do, they you you're seeing the evidence of it, of the obedience. Yeah. And that obedience throughout the week, throughout the day.

SPEAKER_03 17:58

And I think uh just the one the scripture that came to mind uh when you talked about obedience, and it's I I think it's so important, uh, is uh 1 Samuel 15, 22, where Samuel's talking to King Saul, and he says, Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, yeah. And to hearken than the fat of rams. And I think even from you know, before Christ even walked this earth, that obedience is just so important with the relationship with God. And I would love to do a I I I've somewhat dived a little bit into uh Saul's you know fallen state where he went to just being after God and you know walking, and some people were like, hey, is he a prophet? Because he's out here prophesying. And just having such a great relationship with God, and just it slowly just declined and fell apart. And I think a a big the big key of it was he stopped obeying. Yeah, and so obedience is just so important, you know, with our relationship and walk with God, um, and it shouldn't be neglected.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

Yeah, absolutely not. And what really struck me with that passage is this this hypothetical, it would never happen. But could you imagine if Jesus was disobedient? Oh, right. Could you imagine if he just disobeyed one time? Yeah. If he fell into temptation one time in the woods, right, then you know that we'd be doomed. You know, we we wouldn't have the opportunity to claim salvation as our own. We would, you know, we would just be here. And but you know, he is the Almighty Perfect Father. Yeah. And, you know, manifest in the flesh. You know what people I think fail to understand sometimes is, you know, they think Jesus being a perfect man throughout his entire life was just so easy for the Lord. They don't understand that, yes, he was fully God, but he was completely human at the same time. He he was succumbed to all the emotions, all the temptation, everything that we felt tenfold. Yes. And even through a sacrifice where he carried the physical weight of all sin, not just the sin that was on earth at the time. Right. But sin till the end of time.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:05

Through that sacrifice. See, you even see in the scripture, he doesn't want to go through with that. Yes. His flesh does not want to sacrifice himself, he does not want to do it, but it's through obedience to his will. Yeah. He enacts it, and through sacrifice comes a salvation that we proclaim. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 20:25

Well, I guess we're on obedience then, right? It sounds like to me, obedience. Ain't this amazing? This is amazing. But do you have obedience in your scripture? Oh, well, 100% I do. You know, you know, I've been I was reading this morning, you know, um, before work in Judges, yeah, you know, about Gideon.

SPEAKER_02 20:41

Right?

SPEAKER_01 20:42

You know, and how Gideon, he questioned God, how good this is alongs with the patience of God, right? How patient God is, and how, you know, people question God. Okay, if it's really you, God, show me this with the fleece, right? Yes, yes. And then before the fleece, you know, he questioned the angel of the Lord about the, you know, hey, if this is really you, show me. And then he did. But then with it along with him being that, Gideon was obedient, you know, when it's talking about the army, right? When he defeated the Midianites.

SPEAKER_02 21:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 21:12

You know, and in uh Judges chapter 7, and I'm gonna start in verse uh chapter 7, verse 2. The Lord said to Gideon, You have too many warriors with you. If I let if I let all of you fight the Midianites, the Israelites will boast to me that they have saved themselves by their own strength. So, in other words, you know, you know, the Israel uh the Israelites will fall back like they were. Okay, well, me, me, me, me. They have that me complex, which it ain't got nothing to do. Please remember, it it's not you. I promise you, it's God working through you. So later on it says, Therefore tell the people whoever's timid or afraid may leave this mountain or go and go home. So twenty two thousand of them went home, leaving ten thousand who were willing to fight. Yes. Right. So but the Lord told Gideon, There are still too many. Bring them down to the spring, and I will test them to determine who will go with you and who will not. And when Gideon took his warriors down to the warrior, the Lord told him to divide the men up in two groups, and one group put all the ones the that those who cup water into their hands and lap with their tongues like dogs, and the other group put the, you know, on their n who would kneel down and drink with their mouths into the stream. Only three hundred of the men drank from their hands. All the others got down to their knees and drank with their mouths in the stream. The Lord told Gideon, With these three hundred men, I will rescue you and give you victory over the Midianites. So this is where the obedience comes in. Yeah, yeah. Alright, so you're gonna take three hundred men and me, mm-hmm, and go fight the Midianites. He's already given them victory. Yeah. Right? So they leave on, they go through, and I'm I'm skipping through it, right? So then Gideon took some and went down to the edge of the enemy camp. The armies of the Midian, uh Amalek, and the people of the east, and the settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts. Their camels were like the grains of sand, too many cows. Gideon crept up to just as a man was telling this companion about a dream. The man said, I had this dream, and in my dream a loaf of barley bread came tumbling down into the Midian Midianite camp. It hit a tent, turned it over, and knocked it in, and knocked it flat. His companion answered, Your dream can mean only one thing. God has given Gideon, son of Joash, the Israelite victory over the Midian, Midian and all its allies. So Gideon, with his obedience, right, crept down there and he uh he wasn't in there yet, right? Listened and heard. God had done delivered them. God done shown them in a dream that they were going to be defeated. So God already gave them victory, and they haven't even stepped a foot in there. Right? And then later on in scripture, obviously, it reads about how Gideon and the 300 men took them over. Yeah. And had them killing each other. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:17

That's the beautiful thing about that passage, is they never laid a hand on the other hand. No, they did not. All they did was surround the camp and blow the trumpets. Yes, and the Midianites were so struck with fear that they thought, oh my goodness, we hear these loud horns, there must be thousands coming our way. Right. And it it says they came, they were it was dark in the night. They couldn't see what was going on. They were just fighting each other, thinking they were the enemy. Yeah. And the beautiful thing about the story of Gideon, I think, truly, is the small lessons of obedience leading up to deliverance. Yes. You know, if uh Gideon, 22,000 left him on the mountain and he had 10,000 more, and God told him, Hey man, this is too much. Bring him down to the spring, Gideon could have been like, you know what, Lord, uh, I think you're done reducing my army. We're just gonna go ahead and take the best chance we got. But it was through his obedience. He probably knew. In fact, the Lord told him, 10,000's too many. He knew that God was gonna reduce his army even more. Yet he still obeyed. He still obeyed, he still obeyed. Even though he questioned, he still obeyed. And we do that so much in the when God speaks to us, we'll question, be like, Lord, I'm I don't know, I'm not really comfortable doing that. But you know what? I'm gonna step out in faith because I know you'll bless me for it. Yes, yeah. Through your questioning, just be obedient. Yes. And you'll receive the blessing for it.

SPEAKER_03 25:41

I think about, you know, going along that that line of thought, what what would have happened or how many lives would have been lost if Gideon had decided, I'm not gonna obey. You know, God, you brought us brought you gave me leaderships until now I'm gonna handle it my way, I'm gonna keep this 10,000 men, we're gonna go do our thing. And then had encountered, you know, and actually went and followed through into the battle and and and you know, actually fault his and his way of thinking, yeah, and how much that could apply to our own lives today. If we're like, you know what, God, I'm not gonna listen to you tell me to do this, that seems crazy, that doesn't seem the right way. I've analyzed it, I put all the thought into it, I think I know what I'm doing, and how much damage can be done, not just to ourselves, but those around us, yeah, when we lack that obedience and say, I'm gonna handle it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:22

You know what, step by God, I got this. Yeah. The awesome thing, and you read it right in the beginning of that passage. You know, when you finally shift your mindset to, all right, I'm just surviving in this life, I'm gonna get through, Lord, just give me through this too. Okay, Lord, everything I do is gonna glorify you. Yes. Everything I do is for you and your kingdom. He even said in that passage right there, if I let you all go out and y'all somehow defeat the Midianites, you won't praise me for it. Yeah. That's right. Because your flesh, the strength and men that you have, is still too strong. And we find ourselves doing that time and time again when we feel like we've gotten ourselves through something, when we feel like we've accomplished something. We're we're always boasting, like, oh, well, look what I did. I installed this, I did this, I did this message, I preached this sermon, you know, whatever. We have to shift the mindset to everything I do is for the glory of your mighty God. Yeah. And that's what Gideon did. He said, You know what, Lord, I I I don't know what 300 are gonna do, but for your glory, Lord, let's do this.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Trust and obey.

SPEAKER_00 27:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:28

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 27:29

So good. Glorify, shift that mindset to where you're glorifying his kingdom. Yeah. And it'll be that much easier to walk in obedience.

SPEAKER_01 27:36

But I'll go ahead and tell you in the very beginning, you know, when you know Gideon questioned the you know, the angel of the Lord the first time. When the angel of the Lord showed me that, I'd be like, okay, let's do it. You know, it wouldn't have taken two more times for him to show me what was going on.

SPEAKER_03 27:48

Yes. Yeah. Well, last but not least, all right. So I I I think this follows in with obedience. Um but the whole chapter of Hebrews 11 is is called the faith chapter. And how can you people say, Well, how can I be obedient to God when He's putting when when I feel like He's putting me in situations where I don't see an answer or I don't see the way, and it takes faith. And it's But without faith, this is ver uh verse six, but without faith is it impossible to please Him. And I think it goes along with it was like, well, how do I get faith? Romans 10 17 says, So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. And so as we read the Word of God, and and so much of Hebrews 11 talks about uh from Abel to Enoch to Noah, these these men and women of of God that are just faith by faith, by faith, and just go scripture by scripture by faith by faith. And that's I think the key to being able to be obedient is I'm not gonna trust myself. I'm gonna trust in God. And so when I'm stepping out on a ledge where there doesn't appear to be any ground to walk on, or I'm walking out and uh I'm I'm being asked to step out of the boat and get on these waves that are just tossing and and churning and and just completely putting and spinning my life all about, but God's saying, get out, and I'll say, Okay, I'm gonna put faith. Yeah, and through that faith I'll be obedient. And just taking a step in faith by believing in God, I it's just you you will be blown away by what God will do with that faith and with your obedience. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

Faith is is such a big thing, and we've been talking about it uh in church a lot recently. Yes. Having faith and what you have access to when with your faith and everything like that. I uh I got this um I didn't say it on Wednesday because it it was more of a it's a very um worldly analogy, but I likened faith unto like um you know living for Christ is a job. Okay. Having faith is the job. Yeah the benefits you receive from having that job are unbelievable. Yeah, you know. It may not be health insurance, it may not be life insurance or dental or whatever, yeah, yeah. But God will take care of those too. Oh yeah. Oh, absolutely. Um, but there's just the two biggest benefits in my mind, first things that come to mind is just grace and mercy. Yes. Oh yeah. Having access to that for not only your personal life, but to be able to preach it into other people's lives. Yeah. It's just unbelievable through through your faith. Yeah. It's a beautiful thing.

SPEAKER_03 30:26

Yeah, you talk about that, talking about j just in a job, and it I I think it comes up with one of my testimonies back in 2015 when I graduated. I graduated in 2014, but I got my first job off there in 2015. And it was White Sands, New Mexico. And it was the only people that really calling, and I was like, okay, well, I guess I'm going out there because I want to get paid and get health benefits. And just right at the very end, it was a moment of like, I just don't feel like this is where God's leading me, and I have no prospects. That that was the only people that are calling me. But I said I prayed about it, pastor, my dad, and I just said, Okay, we know we kind of agree together, and said, No. So I called him up and said, in the back of my mind, I'm like, this is so stupid. Why am I doing this, God? This is the only door that seems to like be open. And so I shut it. Or or God shut it, and I just I said, Okay, I'm not walking that way. And it was not, I think, less than a week. Maybe, maybe two weeks. I don't want to be a liar, just a little about let's say two weeks. Another offer came from Eglund and it was eight thousand dollars more than what I would have made going out to Y Sansa Mexico. And so that is just just a small little example of of what obedience and faith can do in your life by just trusting God and saying, okay, Lord, I d I don't see the way, I don't see I'm just looking at a wall, right? But God will make a door like that, yeah, and we can walk through.

SPEAKER_00 31:49

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, and um, it's like uh something trust is so important, but it's you know, they say trust is an easy thing to lose, hard thing to gain. Um I believe for uh Christians and walking in your life with Christ, it's almost you can kind of flip it, you know, trust is probably the hardest thing to have for you in your life with God. Yeah. Because many people in this world, they're how can you trust in something you can't see? How can you trust in a God you can't see? And I promise you, for whoever's listening right now, if you have that trust, you'll be forever blessed for it. Yes. Um something, a similar testimony comes to mind um pretty recently, a few years ago, um, whenever me and Sierra first got married, we were living in a one-bedroom apartment uh on the south end of town, and the end of our lease agreement was coming up, and we had planned on renewing. Yeah, you know, we we didn't really didn't have, probably didn't have the financials to be buying a house at the time, but um the Lord spoke to me as we were just driving around. She, that's one of her hobbies, she loves to just go around and look at houses, you know, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

As we were driving around, um, one day the Lord just hit my spirit and was like, You need to start looking for houses. I was like, Well, all right, okay, uh, sure, all right, we'll do that. Um, so we got like qualified, you know, went through all the you know formalities, everything like that. Um and we just started looking for houses, looking for houses, looking for houses, and we found one that we loved and it was within range and everything. Um, so we put an offer in and not the next day they had accepted it. So um, and we found out like looking at the numbers on the release renewal that it was gonna be almost the same to buy this house. Yeah, you know, a couple months later, I'm like, okay, we have this house, like it's pretty cool, Lord. I mean, I I appreciate you putting this in my spirit. Um, but we do have you know extra bills that come along with this house. Like, what's going on? Yeah, and then Sierra's pregnant a couple months later, and I'm like, oh, that's why we had to get out of there. Thank you for that. I appreciate that, Lord. Thank you for the discernment. So um that but again, having that trust, yeah, he'll prepare you for things through that trust and that faith and that obedience. So um, it's a wonderful thing now. Yes, it is being obedient to the word, obedient to his voice, you'll just receive the blessing for it. Yes. Yeah. Speaking of being obedient, we can also be obedient through worship. Yes. Leads us into our next segment, uh, our worship song of the week. What song really hit your spirit this week? What you know, what does it mean to you? I mean, we're only two days into the week.

SPEAKER_01 34:29

Oh but we film we filmed the last we filmed last Tuesday, though.

SPEAKER_03 34:33

Yeah, it's been a week.

SPEAKER_01 34:35

I mean, I mean, I think I went through every bit of my playlist Sunday morning, so I'm thinking, oh man, come on now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:41

No, I'm good. Well, I don't want you guys to take my song, so I want to go first. Okay. Because I was struggling for today. I was like, man, I got the scripture down, Lord's just leading me in a certain direction. I think it you know flowed amazing, you know, God's good. But I was like, I do not know my song, but it hit me on the way here. And it's hit up in my playlist, and I was like, that is it, because I think it's time timely, and it's also involves with the topic of just what we've kind of been talking about, faith and obedience, and it is Rattle by Zach Williams. Come on, and it just goes through, yes. And I if you don't play it the Sunday, then I'll be angry. No, I'm just I'm just kidding. But the whole thing is it goes through and and talks about you know uh the resurrection and the dead bones coming alive, and I love that part where where it goes into the scripture and then comes out and it says, um what is it? Come breath from the four winds and breathe into the land today, live, and then they go live, you know, it goes off again. Yes. Yeah, and I think that is so topical to this time and season that we feel like we're maybe in a in a place in our you know, walk with God that's kind of dried up, or we we we're not going to church anymore. We feel a little dead inside, we feel like just the bones, we're just going through the motions of life, and there is no better thing for a dead life or a person that feels dead inside to have get to get God. Oh man, yes. Let Him become a part of it because there's just the breath of life that gets breathed into you. Yeah, uh, it's just phenomenal. It's like when you get the receive the Spirit of the Holy Ghost, you start looking through at the world around you just completely differently. Yes. And uh yes, I believe that it no matter how dead you may feel in your spirit, if you got God, if you let God in and believe that He will bring you back to life, my Lord, you'll have such an awesome experience. Yes, you will. That's powerful, man.

SPEAKER_00 36:42

Yeah, that is a great song. I'm not gonna lie. We've done a few, we've used a sign to that song a couple times.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

Yes, yes. So that that's that's an amazing song there. Um that's one of that's one of those uh congregation getters right there, I have to tell you. Yeah, it's a good one. It's a very good one. Let that Holy Spirit take over. All right, so I'll go next. Sure. So I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to lean on Charity Gail tonight. That's that's a good one. You know, Charity Gail, you know, she she has got, you know, phenomenal songs. She got a phenomenal voice.

SPEAKER_02 37:11

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 37:12

But, you know, uh, my song is is I believe. Yeah. Oh man. You know, I believe. Man, I'm telling you, that song just touches my heart every just having the faith and just belief. You know, seeing and believing and seeing the evidence of my life and what God has done in my life, you know, and what he has brought me through, what he's bought brought my family through, you know, I believe. Yeah, you know, and now that I'm seeing, you know, the the evidence of our obedience in other families, you know, and other families' lives, and seeing other families' lives, you know, just because, you know, they believe. Man, it has just been it's just been a blessing, you know, and that song is just it's powerful. Oh, which it is powerful. Yes. It is powerful. If, you know, if that don't light you fire, you would switch. Sure.

SPEAKER_03 38:07

100%. I, you know, I I hundred I love that song, and I was just I I don't feel like I can't go through, get through the entire thing without getting exciting, maybe getting a little teary-eyed. Yeah, yeah. But I love the part at the end where it says, I'll join with every tribe and tongue and bow before the Lamb of God, singing, Holy, Holy, Holy One. Yeah. I believe. And I feel like my Lord, I feel God's spirit right now. Yeah. It's just, there's put there's gonna be people in heaven that are joining with us. We may have thought we would be there or they would be there, uh, family members and friends, and it's just I I want to be there. Yes. I don't want to miss out on that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:47

Never, never. And I my favorite line of the song personally, and it's it's said in the song many times, it's in the chorus, but it just says, I believe that you are who you say you are. Yes. Just showing that you believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 39:05

I love it. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 39:06

You believe in the character that he displayed when he was on earth. You believe in all the miracles he worked, you believe in him stating that he is the Messiah, he is the Son of Man, He has the authority to deliver you from sin, to forgive sin. You believe not only who he says he is, but you believe what he's done in your life. Yes. Yes. You believe it and you have the faith to be able to testify to others about it. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 39:33

Because that's so good.

SPEAKER_00 39:34

You just believe who the Lord says he is. My playlist is getting better. Yeah. That's like my my playlist title on because you know I share a YouTube music account with dad, because you know he's he pays the subscription. Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't get my own. You won't let me share with you. Oh my god. Oh, anybody can share it as well. So my my playlist title on there is Josh's Add As I Go. Yeah. And I love YouTube music because you can just get on there and click a song and it'll just like go like related music. Uh-huh. And so I'll just start with a song and I won't do it in the playlist. I'll just let it go through, and I'm adding like two, three songs a day, man, and it's just beautiful. But the song that really hit me this week, and I'm going back to Elevation Worship two weeks in a row. Two weeks in a row, but they've just been they've been hitting me so hard lately. It's uh Gyra by Elevation Worship. Okay. So, and I know I'm on that. I know I'm on music, you guys don't really listen to it. But anyway, that's okay. I'm in Elevation Worship, so it basically it the chorus is just like it keeps repeating, gyra, you are enough. Gyra is enough. I have heard this one. Yes, yeah. You are enough. And what what's beautiful to me, I love songs that uh use Hebrew words in them because it entices you, and I know I know what the word gyra means, but it would entice somebody, maybe new in their walk, with like, what is this gyra word they're saying? What is this? And they go and they research into who Jehovah Jyra is and how it means he is our provider. He provides everything that we have need of as long as we're faithful and we're obedient. Yeah. He provides everything. And a beautiful line to me, and something that really hit me, it's in the chorus and it says, It says, Jaira, you are enough. I will be content through every circumstance. Yep. Meaning, whatever you have to do in my life, God, whatever trials I need to walk through, whatever I have to go through to deepen my walk with you, I'll be content. Yes. I'll be obedient, I'll be faithful. Yes. No matter what you bring into my life, because why? Because you are the gyrah. Yes. You provide everything that I could have need of. You're the ultimate provider, and I praise you for it. And I believe who he says he is.

SPEAKER_03 41:48

Yes, I believe.

SPEAKER_00 41:49

I believe he is that Jehovah Jyra.

SPEAKER_03 41:51

There it is.

SPEAKER_00 41:52

That's another one added to it. Many other titles. Ready? Beautiful thing. Yeah. Love worship, man. Yeah, love worship.

SPEAKER_01 41:59

Love worship. We have been worshiping Rafa.

SPEAKER_03 42:02

Yeah. And I think I've said before one time a few times, you know, you're out and I get the opportunity to leave worship service. And I kind of look at the crowd and like, oh, they're like, okay, you know, we had some awesome worship service, now it's time to get into get ready to get in the word. Yeah. And I'm like, I can keep going. So if you guys keep praising, I'm gonna just I got plenty of songs we'll go through. I I love worship praising worship. Yes. And I love sitting down and getting the word as well. 100%. I just I that's that's that's just it re-energizes me and gets me ready for the week.

SPEAKER_01 42:31

Every Sunday I have gone all the way through my playlist. Hey, and that ain't that's nothing but God working out there. Yeah, that's all that is.

SPEAKER_00 42:39

No, no, and it's amazing. And it it's and I'm I applaud our church and the leaders and ministry in our church. I'm I'm proud of us because we have gotten into this vein where, you know, I feel like for a long time, sometimes a few years ago, we were just struggling with, you know, routine services, routine services, and a lot of churches struggle with it, but we've tapped into this vein where we just do not quench the spirit. Yes. It's almost like I feel like it should be a bylaw in the church.

SPEAKER_02 43:12

We don't, yeah, we don't quench the thing. Do not quench the spirit.

SPEAKER_00 43:14

Yeah. You know, like this Sunday, like you could tell pastor was up here and he was just like, you know what? God, you just do what you're gonna do.

SPEAKER_02 43:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 43:23

We might have the word coming, whatever, but you know what? We're not quenching the spirit because he's working right now, and I feel like a lot of churches, they'll be like, all right, you know, we gotta we got a time limit on this thing, we've got a schedule. But you know what? If God's working, it's like that song, uh Lord, it's gonna come to me in like two seconds. Uh same God. Um I can't remember who says it, but it says, Um, if you're not done moving, then I'm not done working. Yes. If you're not done working, then I'm not done praising. That's right. So if you just don't quench the spirit and you just worship, yeah, even if you're not receiving deliverance, even but you get to watch other people be delivered. Yeah. The joy you receive from worship. It's a wonderful thing, man. That's in my playlist, too.

SPEAKER_03 44:05

Yeah, I know. I can't think of the artist. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:08

It's some it's a worship team. Oh it's a church worship team. I cannot remember. I can hear lyrics now, yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's a worship team. 100% agree. Yeah. Worship is so good, man. Yeah. And uh like I said, uh I worship every day in the truck, and it's I know you guys do too. So it's a beautiful thing.

SPEAKER_03 44:26

On the way there, you got to on 85 or 285.

SPEAKER_00 44:29

Even now is 285 is lighter, but still people are cutting you off and stuff. It's even worse for me now because they've got me uh, and I I thank God for my job, but they've got me driving the personal to another city now when I was just able to pick up the work vehicle here. But I love it because I get to go, usually I would just hop in the work truck here, go to my first job, and whatever. But now I get to take, you know, I I go 285 from the house because I'm sitting in traffic. But most of the time, I think. You know, I get that what I love about Highway 285 is that there's nothing there. And even though it may get, you know, you're on a two-lane road, you're stuck behind somebody, but there's no distractions. No. It's just, well, obviously you gotta focus on the car in front of you. But there's nothing else. It's just a wooded road, and you're just driving for probably 20 at least 25 minutes on that road. Yep. And so you just get isolated and you're just like, wow, you know, Lord, like he begins to work on you because there's just nothing else. Yeah. You can focus.

SPEAKER_03 45:31

There's so many times I get to the uh the uh cutoff after you get into Niceville that I'm I'm weeping because of the praise benefit has gone on to 85.

SPEAKER_01 45:41

It don't take that long sometimes. Yeah. I'll get to where they parachute there in the open field and it's already on me, and I'm like, oh man.

SPEAKER_03 45:47

Not a competition, Kyle.

SPEAKER_00 45:48

I'm just saying. Yeah, yeah. I'm just saying. You almost got to pull over and get in the field yourself. You know, you gotta be careful. But uh yeah, worship is is so important, and I love that we get to talk about it every week, you know. Well, we'll move into um the final segment here. Um I've got a couple things. I don't I'm gonna choose one here. Um But this segment, I love doing this last week because it really, you know, when I when I got the vision for this podcast, the main thing I wanted it to be was relatable to people. Um because I feel like there's so much Christian content out there that people will ingest and receive, and they're just like, you know, what how does this apply to me? Um but you know, us getting up here and just having normal conversations about God, I believe is relatable. But this segment right here, what would Jesus do? Uh we bring up a hypothetical scenario um about something that could happen in everyday life, and how do how should we respond to it as believers, as people seeking a Christ-like faith? How should we respond? I've got a couple here that I was kind of trifling through, but I think I finally uh narrowed it down to this one because this is something I believe, a situation that happens all the time. It's uh family related. Okay. The um segment scenario is the family argument that just won't die. So this is the scenario. You're at a family gathering, holiday, dinner, birthday, could be whatever. Everything is going fine until a conversation turns into an argument between you and a close family member, could be sibling, parent, grandparent, whatever. This isn't anything new. It's the same issue that has caused tension before, maybe it's about respect, past mistakes, lifestyle choices, or even faith. During the argument, they say something that really crosses the line, bringing up your past or criticizing you in front of everyone. The room gets quiet, you feel embarrassed, hurt, and even a little angry and defensive. How do you respond in this situation? It's a tough one. That's a tough one. And it's so tough because it's family.

SPEAKER_03 47:58

Yes, and there's not there's no hurt like family hurt. Yeah. It just seems to pierce through all the shields that you have up, the defenses you have.

SPEAKER_00 48:07

And it's uh the reason I wanted to do that scenario is because it's all too common in the world today. It is it's all too common.

SPEAKER_03 48:13

Yeah. I can tell you that I probably handled this situation wrong in my in my case. Uh because like fan uh just just dealing with family, that you're you know, your emotions get a little raw around somebody else. And a co-worker, you know, the co-worker situation, you kind of you know, you you get to go home, you get to leave, you know, where they're at, and you get to go back to your you know, your porches of salt too kind of thing. Yeah. But it's kind of evading uh when you know it's family, there's no getting away from that. Yeah. Uh and you shouldn't. Um man. Kyle, what you got for me? Because over the yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:50

Well no, the thing of it is that you know, we we all struggle, you know, we all struggle um having conversations, difficult conversations with people we love. You know, we don't want confrontation with people we love.

SPEAKER_02 49:01

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 49:01

You know, because we don't want, you know, the you know, those ones to, you know, that love us that much either look down on us, be disappointed in us, or think, you know, something different about us. And we hesitate to have those conversations. For me, something like that happens to me is that I have a tendency to get quiet.

SPEAKER_00 49:21

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:22

You know, um, when I get quiet, then then, you know, I'm aggravated, you know, and I'm mad. You know, and I take a step back because, you know, there are there have been times where I have gotten so mad where I have said things that, you know, that that I didn't mean, you know, that just come out with it. Yeah. You know, and I when I listen to that scenario is is that, you know, I I I think back, you know, when when Jesus told Peter, you know, when Peter, one of Jesus' closest, one of his top three guys, right? You know, and and and Jesus looked at Peter and he told him, He said, You'll deny me three times before the rooster cross. Yeah. You know, you imagine what how Peter felt. Yeah. When Jesus looked and told him that. You know, you got to think, you know, yes, it don't say in scripture how he felt, but you can only imagine how he felt inside when he had the Messiah look at him and tell him, one of his co-hosis disciples and love him that said he'd die for him and say, You'll deny me. Yeah. You know, that had been tough. That had been like a gut punch to him. I'm sure he's you know, he was definitely offended, I'm sure. Yes. In that moment. So that's tough, you know. I'm I'm me, I clam up and I'll get quiet, you know. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, I try not to cause no waves. I try to honestly, I try to get away from the waves. Yeah. Stay away from the god blades.

SPEAKER_03 50:43

I I love I love that, but because I think the key to it is kind of taking a little bit of a step back. Yeah, but I can tell you how you know we should you shouldn't lash out in anger and and you know, uh, but also in the scripture talks about how well Lord, how many times do I do I need to forgive my brother if he sins against me?

SPEAKER_00 50:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:00

And it's like, okay, well, you're gonna hit a limit, and then you know, after that you can say what you want to say. But God says seven times seventy in one day that we should be willing to forgive. And I think that in a part of the key in responding to that situation is being willing to forgive. Sure. Now I think there there can be some directness in addressing that and saying, hey, that hurt.

SPEAKER_02 51:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:21

And I I honestly thought that you know we we have moved past that exposure with something in you know in the history, and I've apologized for that, and I don't know what else I can do to kind of bridge this gap. Sure. But I'll forgive you. Yeah. And um I'm just I'm gonna move on from that. I'm not gonna let that define the moment, I'm not gonna let that, you know, hang over whatever the gathering is.

SPEAKER_01 51:42

Right. And I believe that there's things that happen, there's triggers, right? Yeah. With when you talk about things that happened in the past, there's triggers there may be, you know, certain times of the year or certain things or something something happened that triggered something that triggered that emotion, right? Yes. Um, it's how you respond to those triggers. You know, how do you how you respond to those emotions, you know, and like you said, you know, hey, I understand, you know, I was in the wrong, let's move on.

SPEAKER_00 52:11

Yeah, yeah. So I think one of the keys is, especially in that specific scenario, like if a family member's coming at you, bringing up, criticizing you for, you know, especially if you're walking with the Lord and you're living a life with Christ, and they're criticizing you for that, they're bringing up the past. Recognize that it is more than likely a test of your faith. Yeah. Recognize that it is the enemy coming against you, trying to wedge his way in. Yes. And God in that moment is allowing him to, because he wants to see how you're gonna respond. That's good. Are you gonna respond as he did to people coming against him, to the Pharisees, Sadducees, everything like that? Are you gonna respond like he did, or are you going to cave into your flesh? Yeah. Lash out in anger, get bitter, bring up offensive words right back to them. Yeah, yeah. So recognize that more than likely it's a test of faith. And really, I'll be honest with you, I mean, this might be a little funny, but before any family gathering, pray, man. That's that's a good idea. Pray, like seriously, go tension. You know, pray.

SPEAKER_01 53:15

We got Easter coming up. We're not having any tension at Easter. That's right. That's right. We don't want people out there in the yard throwing the Easter eggs and people.

SPEAKER_00 53:24

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, yeah, but uh truly, uh something I found, not just with like family gatherings or anything like that, but with close family that you're with at the house every single day, with the spouse or brother, sister, anybody, you know, when you get in those arguments, because they're gonna come, the tension's gonna build, there's gonna be something happen, you're gonna be at each other's throats at some point. Just take a moment and be like, hey, you know what? I think we need to pray right now. Yeah. I I really think we need to stop and just go before the Lord because the enemy is working in both of us right now, or you know, whoever's arguing, yeah, and we need to get him off of us because recognize that the enemy should not be welcome in your home. Right. And scenarios like that are of the enemy, and they're gonna come up, they're gonna happen. But just recognize that, hey, you know, I get that you're upset. Maybe we can talk about this later in a more calm or you know, decent manner.

SPEAKER_03 54:23

I love that you say that. And I I know I I'm on the spot, so I probably can't pull up the exact study that was done, but I'm gonna be conservative in my estimates and pull from memory. But if I remember correctly, uh the study was done on couples, husbands and wives. Yeah. And it looked at those who pray together, set aside time to pray together, and those who do not. And the odds of a divorce happening is reduced by almost 50% with the couples who pray together. And I think, as you said, it but it doesn't have to be husband, wife, it's mom, dad, you know, all the kinds of those things. Uh, but if you're involving prayer in it, there is the opportunity for healing, there's the opportunity to get over it, especially if it's the past continuously being brought up. There's obviously something going on there that we're not able to let go. And uh yeah, if you if you're getting God in the middle of it, then there's gonna be peace, there's gonna be forgiveness, there's gonna be those fruits that we should be bearing when God's in us. Yes, 100%.

SPEAKER_00 55:22

Yes. And there has to be a sense of unity in the home. Yes. Um, you know, if and if God is your foundation, you already have that unity, you've already started building it. Um, so just lean on that when those situations come, you know. Um, just lean on that. You know, uh me and Sierra, we started putting uh baby Charlotte in her own room. She's sleeping in her own crib now, yeah. Which is nice because we get that time where we don't have to sneak around the house anymore. You know, we can actually have time together and everything, but no matter what happens, even if we have little arguments over dumb stuff here and there, yeah. At the end of every night, since we've put her in her own room, we have gone into her bedroom and just prayed over that room. Yes, and prayed over her and prayed over, you know, and drawn bloodlines upon the thresholds of that room because it brings a sense of unity, even though Charlotte's sleeping, it brings a sense of unity between all of us. Yes, yes, and it's a moment where no matter what has happened, the hours leading up to this, we know that we gotta get together, we gotta come in one mind and one accord, and we gotta pray because not only for her, but we gotta pray so that we have peace of mind for ourselves as well. You know, you have that sense of unity in the home, just just in a scenario like that, just lean on that. Yeah, lean on that. Absolutely. If someone's coming at you, just bring, hey, you know, we're supposed to be a unified unit here. We're supposed to be a team. We're supposed to be, especially if it's with a spouse, Genesis tells us that you join together as one flesh. Yeah, you're no longer individual people. That's right. You're no longer husband or you're no longer man and woman. You're husband and wife, you're a team. You're supposed to be one flesh and one mind and one accord. So when those situations come up, I find it best to just lean on that unity. I agree. I agree. It's a wonderful thing, man. Yeah. When you when you get the revelation of what unity can do for your life, yeah, it's powerful, man. Powerful stuff. Well, I'll tell you what, this has been another fun episode. I'll tell you what. Awesome. I love it. Yeah, we I love that we don't have to hold microphones anymore, too.

SPEAKER_01 57:29

Man, that's a blessing.

SPEAKER_03 57:30

I said that workout I had this afternoon, too.

SPEAKER_00 57:33

The biceps not hurting anymore, you know. So um be on the lookout next week, guys. We're probably gonna be in a different location. Exciting. So it's gonna be exciting. We're we're gonna start uh, you know, getting into homes and getting some more people involved with this podcast because even just through our network, we have so many testimonies we can we can hear just through the people we know. But I believe that God's gonna grow this podcast to where we meet new people and have new testimonies, and I really can't wait for it. It's truly gonna be an awesome thing. Yeah. Uh, one thing before we wrap up, we're just gonna pray over each and every person listening or watching the feed right now. Just pray blessings over you that God guides you through this week and brings deliverance and whatever you need in your life. Lord Jesus, we thank you, God, for another opportunity to have a Holy Spirit-filled conversation, Lord Jesus. God, I thank you for your word. I thank you for the opportunity tonight to dive into your word, to get in the scripture, to learn about obedience, to learn about faith, and to learn what it can do for our lives. God, I thank you for the opportunity for us to worship and praise your holy name each and every day, God, and to testify about what worship has done in our life. Lord Jesus, I'm praying for the one that is struggling right now with a family member, struggling, maybe warring within the family, maybe there's an evil spirit working in that family, God. You know that situation. You see them, Lord Jesus, and I pray that you step in right now in your perfect timing. God, I speak revelation into that situation. I speak unity into that home right now in the name of Jesus. God, only you can bring that sense of unity. Only you can bring mercy and grace and deliverance into their life. God, I thank you for all those things. All those things that we have access to through our faith, God. They are just blessings unto our life, and I pray that they are poured out to everyone who is under the sound of my voice right now. I speak blessings, God. I speak a hedge of protection over everybody listening right now from all spiritual attacks of the enemy. Lord Jesus, I pray for the three vessels standing before you right now. Thank you. I pray for the anointing to fall upon us so heavily as we do this podcast, God. For we know that it is not us working, but it is you working through us, God. Yes. And all of this is nothing but for your glory, for the glory of your name, and to honor the sacrifice that you made for us. We'll never earn it, God, but we seek you each and every day. Yes. We seek that salvation each and every day, that Christ-like faith. We seek to be like you, God, and we can only strive for it. We thank you, Lord, for this opportunity and for your mercy, your grace, and your love. Yes. In Jesus' name. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen. What a wonderful God we serve. Yes, amen.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:19

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:20

And I'm really grateful for the opportunity that we get to do this every week. Yes, so blessing and blessing that we have the time to do this every week. We're busy people, you know. We're a busy people. It's a busy society we live in. But when you carve out the time for the Lord, when you make the time, it's worth it every minute. He'll give it back to you tenfold. That's right. If you guys enjoyed this episode, please leave a like, comment, subscribe to the channel, turn on the notifications. We got these podcasts coming out every week. Like I said, next week might be in a little different setting, so be on the lookout for that. Might get a little something new, some new people involved. You never know what you can get with the Spirit Unleash podcast. So please be engaged with the channel, subscribe, turn on those notifications. We'll see you all next week. Love you guys. God bless.