Bryce Crawford | Girls Gone Bible

Speaker 1 Hi, I'm Ange. And I'm Ari.
And this is Girls Gone Bible. And today we have the pleasure of a very special guest that goes by the name of Bryce Crawford.
Hi, Bryce. Hello.

Speaker 2 Hi, Bryce. I'm so nervous right now.
No way. I'm actually really nervous.

Speaker 2 With us too, Kookie Burry. Yeah, you have nothing to be nervous about.

Speaker 1 You have nothing to be nervous about with us.

Speaker 2 All right, all right, let's see.

Speaker 2 We're nervous about

Speaker 1 someone who literally is doing so much for Jesus in the world right now.

Speaker 1 Can we just say how grateful we are to you for the voice that you have, for the way that you, okay, I'm just going to say it because we live in a world where Christian entertainment and Christian podcasting and Christian like just like Instagram and content like is so prevalent and it's beautiful and it's needed But I'm always like, all right, but are we still evangelizing on the streets?

Speaker 1 Are we still out there talking to people face to face? Are we still doing the thing where you like get in touch with somebody's heart in person in the flesh and you do that along with all the content?

Speaker 1 But like, I just want to honor you in that because it really is so special what you do.

Speaker 2 Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 If I have ever seen a disciple of Jesus, it is you. We are living in a time I was afraid to come to Christianity because it can be so judgmental.
And you, when I look at you, I see Jesus.

Speaker 1 I watched videos of you this morning and I was in tears because you go into the darkness. You go up to all different kinds of people.
And the thing about you is you always come from a place of love.

Speaker 1 And it is beautiful and it is inspiring. And you are raising a nation of people that are young to old.
It's just, it's beautiful beautiful what you are doing. So we thank you so much.
Thank you guys.

Speaker 2 That was really encouraging.

Speaker 2 You're so kind, Bryce.

Speaker 1 So we just, Bryce, your story is insane. Before we do anything, we just want everyone to get to know you, how you came to Jesus, Waffle House at 2 a.m.
Am I right?

Speaker 2 Yeah, late night waffle house. Let's just start,

Speaker 1 by the way.

Speaker 2 I love it because they get an open-air sneeze on your food, and it's so good. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 It's so good.

Speaker 2 It is so good. I mean, it's like true.
Like, you go in there and there's like a motorcycle on fire in the parking lot, and it's normal. I really want to go to Waffle House.
We went for my birthday.

Speaker 2 Oh, for my birthday. Oh, for your birthday.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we went for my birthday.

Speaker 1 We went for my birthday, and we were in there, and they were playing Drake.

Speaker 1 And I remember it was two o'clock in the morning in Nashville, and I remember it being like, huh, what are the odds that someone would come in and like, no girl's gone Bible?

Speaker 1 And of course, we sit down. I'm like saying a drink.
Our eyelashes are hanging off. Yeah, we're just like insane.
And then this girl comes up and is like, I love your podcast.

Speaker 2 And we're like, huh?

Speaker 1 She had just ripped her lashes off. I had like chocolate chips on the side of my lips from the pancake.
Oh, yeah, the waffles. Yeah.

Speaker 2 From the pancakes.

Speaker 1 Anyways, anyways, Jesus.

Speaker 1 Did you grow up Christian?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I grew up in a Christian household.

Speaker 2 Like everyone in Georgia is a Christian. Oh, yeah.
Like by mouth, everyone's a Christian.

Speaker 2 I don't think I grew up knowing anyone that didn't label themselves a Christian, at least to my knowledge. But, um, and then there's a church on every street corner.

Speaker 2 Grew up in a Southern Baptist church.

Speaker 1 Awesome. Awesome.
And then so you grow up, are you Christian by mouth or do you have a relationship with Jesus?

Speaker 2 I would have definitely called myself Christian growing up. Went to church every Sunday.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Was going to the vacation Bible schools when I was little and you know was involved in my youth group, going to youth camp. Every summer, I was doing the altar call.

Speaker 2 I had had very little food. I was malnourished and made a lot of friends and the music was just right on the last night.

Speaker 2 And I was always running to the front every every summer, but it just never did anything. It didn't mean anything to me.
It was just like I was just trying to get out of hell free card.

Speaker 2 You know what I mean? I was getting sold fire insurance. I wasn't like really close to Jesus.

Speaker 2 So I just grew up like that. And then I went to a private Christian school starting in the fourth grade.
So from fourth grade until I graduated high school, every year I was in a Bible class.

Speaker 2 I was learning about Jesus. I was getting Bible awards in school.
I was getting the Christian Sports Award literally every year in multiple sports. I'm not saying that a brag.

Speaker 2 It was just like the truth, but I was so far from God. Everyone thought I was a Christian just because I was a good student.
I could play church.

Speaker 2 I could play church.

Speaker 1 How dangerous how many people know how to play church?

Speaker 2 Crazy. So many people.
Yeah. And it's like a plague because people think that they're safe just because they read the Bible.
Like anytime I ask someone, like, oh man, are you a Christian?

Speaker 2 And they're like, yeah, I pray every night. I'm like, is that the definition of a Christian?

Speaker 2 Is that how many times you pray or how many times you read the Bible or how many devotionals you do or finish or things like that? How much scripture you have memorized?

Speaker 2 It's like, no, but that's the doctrine that we're brainwashed with, which I don't think people are necessarily teaching that. I just think that's people's perception of Jesus.

Speaker 2 It's like, oh, maybe if I do enough, I'm a Christian.

Speaker 1 So what do you think the true definition of being a Christian is?

Speaker 2 Well, Jesus says, if you want to be my disciple, you must deny yourself, pick up your cross, and follow me.

Speaker 2 And so my response to people that say, are you a Christian?

Speaker 2 I say, okay, is there a noticeable change in your character and lifestyle from before you met Jesus, before you claim to have met Jesus, till after you claim to have met Jesus?

Speaker 2 And I think that's the big difference was I was, oh, yeah, I'm a Christian.

Speaker 2 Look, I got this award or I got the Bible award for being a good Bible student, but then I'm cussing out my friends after school. Right, right.
And I'm like, I'm like, all right.

Speaker 2 Or I'm like, yeah, I'm a Christian. You know, I got the middle school Christian athlete of the year award, but then I'm going home and I'm getting angry at my friends.
I'm blowing up on them. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Or I'm saying nasty stuff. I'm gossiping behind

Speaker 2 people's back.

Speaker 2 Not necessarily. Now, look, there's a difference in like accidentally falling into sin.
Like you repenting, you're following Jesus. And, oh man, my mouth slipped again.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Versus like willingly doing it because that's who you are. Totally.
And that was just who I was. I was just a total hypocrite.
But I was surrounded by hypocrites. So it was like

Speaker 2 I was just living by the example that was given to me, which which was there were people around me that claimed Jesus with their mouth, but their heart was far from them.

Speaker 2 People that were telling me what to do with my life and Jesus. Then the other six days out of the week, I would see them getting drunk at restaurants downtown.

Speaker 2 I would see them saying nasty stuff or, you know, people

Speaker 2 would like, just so much nasty stuff. And

Speaker 2 it was just a total misrepresentation of Jesus.

Speaker 2 And so not only does it throw you off, but to some people that get that misrepresentation of Jesus, it gives them an excuse to keep living the life that they're living. That's right.

Speaker 2 Partially because they're like, oh, this is what it means to be a Christian? Oh, okay. Well, that's easy.
I don't have to give up the things I need to give up. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's like, man, that's a bunch of baloney.

Speaker 1 100%. Yeah.
It should change literally everything about you. It changed following Jesus has changed us genuinely and truly from the inside out.
Like it's supposed to change everything.

Speaker 2 For sure.

Speaker 1 So then, can you take us to your encounter, You Meet Jesus, Waffle House?

Speaker 2 Yeah, absolutely. When I I was in the eighth grade, I started getting very bad depression and anxiety.
Never went to the doctor.

Speaker 2 I would have these blow-ups, and this is nothing on my parents, but it was just like it was a hidden battle. So when it would get brought up, they were, it was kind of like out of nowhere.

Speaker 2 They were just kind of like, oh, no, that's not happening. Like, you're good.
But every six months, I would have some crazy blow-up in front of my parents, like crying and upset.

Speaker 2 And it was just kind of disregarded, pushed away.

Speaker 2 No one knew. And then I had deep anxiety.
And this was going on for years and just stuff going on at home, stuff going on in life. I was a people pleaser.

Speaker 2 I would be someone different to you than I would be to Ari. And I would do it because I thought, man, if I could get both you guys to like me individually, then man, it would make me feel good.

Speaker 2 But I was just like a hypocrite, scapegoat, like just nothing. Then when I was a junior in high school, I was planning to take my life.
And it wasn't because I didn't want to live anymore.

Speaker 2 It was just because it was the only way I thought to get the pain to go away.

Speaker 2 Because the idea that society brings you is anxiety and depression, you'll never get rid of it. So you got to take pills for the rest of your life.
You got to do this. You got to do that.

Speaker 2 It's going to be who you are. And

Speaker 2 again, the doctor didn't know about this. I wasn't on any medication.
I have Snapchat memories from my old Snapchat account every night. I was just depressed.
Like, gosh, I hate my life.

Speaker 2 I hate my situation. This, this, and that.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 so I was planning on taking my life. And I wasn't planning on doing it on this particular day, but it was December 25th, 2020, Christmas.
Had an interesting Christmas.

Speaker 2 Didn't really go like a happy holiday season, I guess you could call it. And so I was like, all right, tonight's the night.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 so I had everything set up. I had things to leave behind for family, for friends, letters.
And

Speaker 2 I was going to do it with like this. with this like knife.
It's called a hawk's bill knife. It's just like a regular knife is straight and this blade is like curved.
It looks like a hawk's bill.

Speaker 2 That's why it's called a hawk's bill. And

Speaker 2 because it was just my grandfather giving it to me. It was in my room.
It was easily accessible. No one would know about it.
It wouldn't be like identifiable.

Speaker 2 And so I was like, I'm going to go get one last meal before I do this. So I told my parents I was just going to get a meal.
Waffle House, only thing open on Christmas.

Speaker 2 If Waffle House is closed, the world's ending. Like the end of the world is here.
Like it's seriously. But I also love Waffle House.
Like I love it. It's one of my favorite places to eat.

Speaker 2 So I go and it's packed because it's Christmas. And

Speaker 2 it was packed. And I just said, hey, man, just random guy, grown man.
I was like, hey, dude, if we get, if we're a party of two, we'll get to sit down quicker.

Speaker 2 I'll pay for your meal if you want to sit with me. He goes, okay.

Speaker 2 So, you know, we get to sit down. We're sitting at this table.
And when I go to Waffle House, I have to sit in this spot.

Speaker 2 The one in my hometown where I got saved, I have to sit in this spot because it just means so much to me.

Speaker 2 So we sit down and

Speaker 2 we order and then he just starts having a freak out on me. Like, my wife's divorcing me.
She's taking my kids away from me. You know, blah, blah, blah, this, this, and that.

Speaker 2 Like, this is our last Christmas together. And I'm sitting there thinking, you're dumping your life issues on me right now.
I came to escape mine one last time.

Speaker 2 You have no idea what I'm about to do right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 When I leave here, you have no idea what's about to happen. And you're more worried about, this is how I feel inside.
You're more worried about

Speaker 2 projecting your issues on me. He's just going, going, going.
And I'm eating, just not really responding. He's just talking.

Speaker 2 and then he just randomly he's like man I love my wife but she just doesn't feel the same about me and then he said there's no growth in a relationship if the love isn't mutual is what he said I'll never forget that and when he said it it was just like I don't know how to explain it was like time stopped Something struck my heart and all of the head knowledge I had ever gained about Jesus and school the vacation Bible schools all this stuff was just making sense the 18 inches between my head and my heart finally connected All this stuff is making sense.

Speaker 2 All of time has stopped. And I went, man, maybe it's not that God doesn't love me, but maybe he's just loved me this entire time and pursued me.

Speaker 2 And the reason I don't know he's there is because I haven't given myself a chance to love him back.

Speaker 2 I will never be able to love God like he loves me. I'll never amount to it.
But if I can remotely attempt to love him back, then maybe that will do something in me. Maybe he'll become more real to me.

Speaker 2 Maybe he's not some, you know, distant God that's trying to force me how to live my life. But maybe he does actually love me and care about me.

Speaker 2 And when I look back on it now, you know,

Speaker 2 I hated my life so much.

Speaker 2 It took, like Jesus loved me enough to intervene from stopping me from taking my life.

Speaker 2 And so I just went into my car and I was like, all right, God, if you're really real, take away my anxiety and depression.

Speaker 2 Because if you're real and you are who you say you are, you can do this stuff. Because the only reason I'm taking my life is to get rid of it.

Speaker 2 And instead of taking my life, I gave my life to someone who wanted it that night. And since that day, I haven't had anxiety or depression.

Speaker 2 Satan will try to creep anxiety up on me, will try to creep sadness up on me. But that's just not who I am anymore.
So I have to shut it down.

Speaker 2 But I gave my life to Jesus that night. Ever since that night, I've been very adamant about sharing my faith.
I've been sharing my faith since that night. Wow.

Speaker 2 I would just run up to people and say, hey, Jesus loves you. And then I would run away before they could respond because I was afraid I didn't know how to answer their questions.

Speaker 2 Oh, man. Yeah, that night radically changed my life.
And I went on on the internet and I said, guys, I'm

Speaker 2 going to disappear for two weeks. It was Christmas break from school.
I said, I'm going to learn about this Jesus guy. I had this radical encounter last night.

Speaker 2 And I said, when I come back, I'm going to tell you guys everything I know.

Speaker 2 And then when I went back to school, I started making videos and just teaching the Bible on TikTok and what I was learning. Wow.
And that's where

Speaker 2 it all started.

Speaker 2 I am

Speaker 2 not okay.

Speaker 2 I feel like I'm the girl version of him right now.

Speaker 1 Well, Ari and I both have like such similar,

Speaker 1 you know, situations. Jesus healed us of mental health issues.
He healed us of anxiety and depression and heartbreak and OCD and alcoholism and like literally everything under the sun.

Speaker 1 So many, so many different things. And like, that's who we know Jesus to be, like, the God who heals, the God who cares, the God who loves.
I am so grateful that he saved your life. Thank you, guys.

Speaker 1 Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 You know, a lot of people, because you said,

Speaker 1 you know, he healed me from depression, anxiety.

Speaker 1 When I was listening to you, I have such a similar testimony with just suicide and things like that.

Speaker 1 And you say, now when the enemy comes in, I know how to keep him away. Can you talk to especially the young people about keeping the enemy away and just little things that you do?

Speaker 1 Because obviously we have to make the decision every day, right, to stay close to Jesus.

Speaker 1 and you know even in my journey like the enemy it's hard when you're new into faith so can you just talk about that a little bit yeah absolutely

Speaker 2 I would be a fool to say that you know Satan doesn't try to mess with me with that stuff he's got no new tricks he knows what he got you with before so he's gonna try to do it again he's like oh man that's our weak spot right so there's a number one is scripture i mean the bible says to renew your mind it says don't be conformed to this world don't be like the world be transformed by renewing your mind, by changing the way you think.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 so, you know, there's another scripture in Hebrews 4. I think it's verse 12, where it says that the word of God is like a double-edged sword.

Speaker 2 It separates the soul from the spirit, the soul being the way that seems right to a man, the initial way I think. Oh, anxiety comes my way.
Oh, I should freak out right now.

Speaker 2 Oh, sadness is coming my way. Let me push everyone away from me right now and isolate and just bathe in the sadness.
That's the way everyone thinks. That's right.

Speaker 2 And it's the spirit, the way it seems right to God, the way that God thinks, his mind, how we should live. And so whenever I read scripture, that is a number one defense.

Speaker 2 Jesus, when he's in the desert, 40 days fasting, the first temptation thrown at him, he responds the way he's living. He says, man shall not live by bread alone.

Speaker 2 So he's telling us as readers, you got to use the word of God to defend temptation. But he was literally quoting scripture to defend temptation.
So he was living what he was teaching us. That's right.

Speaker 2 Crazy. Which is so crazy to think about.
I mean, so, like, I think that's so cool. Like, he's not forcing us out to live.
He's just showing us. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And so using scripture, there's a scripture about anxiety in Proverbs where it says anxiety weighs a man's heart down. Very true.
But it says a good word makes his heart glad.

Speaker 2 Well, what is a good word? Jesus, the gospel. The gospel is a good word.
That's beautiful. And knowing that Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 understands every ounce of my feelings better than I do because he took it on the cross, that is such a beautiful thing.

Speaker 2 So scripture,

Speaker 2 and same thing with depression and anxiety, like these things will come your way, but man, scripture is the number one weapon, the sword of the spirit, just fighting that.

Speaker 2 He's just an idiot.

Speaker 2 He's got no new tricks.

Speaker 2 Wow. But then I would be foolish here to say, like, I know my experience.
Like, I believe that everyone can have the same experience I had.

Speaker 2 I believe that if people truly call out to God from the deepest part of their heart, God, cure my anxiety and depression, he will.

Speaker 2 But sometimes the wisdom and healing of God is God giving wisdom to the doctors to prescribe the right amount of medicine.

Speaker 2 Like, I'm not turned off to that. Or sometimes the wisdom of God is just taking time.
Maybe it's not instantaneously. Maybe it's over the course of a year that God is just teaching you what to do.

Speaker 2 Like that's a wisdom and healing of God. And so at the same time, while I'm like, man, God can't do this instantaneously.
Like, man, sometimes everyone's different.

Speaker 2 And sometimes the wisdom and healing of God is just trusting in him and knowing that he is good. He is faithful.
He's a keeper of his promises. This is who he is.

Speaker 2 And so we can trust in that, you know? Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. I mean, so after that, you then make it your life's mission to preach and to proclaim the gospel.
And what was that like?

Speaker 1 Where were you living? When did you move to LA? What was it like making videos? Like, what was that whole journey like for you?

Speaker 2 So when I was in high school, the second semester of my junior year,

Speaker 2 people thought I was doing it for likes and views because everyone at my school was a Christian with their mouth. So everyone was like, oh, man, he's just talking about God.

Speaker 2 It was, because it was reaching a lot of people. Right.
Then summer goes, I come back senior year. Everyone hates me.
Everyone hates me. Because it wasn't just a quick thing.

Speaker 2 You could tell if it's quick for someone. They'll leave it really fast because Christianity is hard.
Living for Jesus is hard. You guys said it.

Speaker 2 So when you do it and it's fake, you just don't hang around. But people hated me.
I was getting bullied at school. I was getting threats.
I was getting social media threats.

Speaker 2 People were sending me my address, threatening to show up to my house, threatening to beat me up, threatening to kill me. Then I would go around my hometown.

Speaker 2 I would go to the ice cream shop in my hometown, and people would drive by and threaten to beat me up. I was just getting ice cream.
I wasn't even talking to anyone about Jesus.

Speaker 2 I'm just trying to get some dessert. People were threatening me

Speaker 2 and so many things.

Speaker 2 But just stay the course. The Bible says that the one who endures till the end will be saved.
So I'm like, man, I'm going to keep pressing on. And then I graduated high school.

Speaker 2 I lived in Florida for four months in Destin. I backslid hard because work became my God.
I was working seven days a week, 12-hour shifts.

Speaker 2 Money and work became an idol in my life. I had no room for Jesus, so I was backsliding in my faith.

Speaker 1 What did that backsliding look like?

Speaker 2 It just looked like living in old sin habits. It looked like not feeling close to Jesus.

Speaker 2 And that was just my fault.

Speaker 2 I just wasn't putting in any effort. So, you know, no wonder I didn't feel close to him.
Totally. And,

Speaker 2 but I was still, you know, I was still preaching, you know, telling people about Jesus, but my life just, you know,

Speaker 2 didn't look anything like it was before I moved there.

Speaker 2 And then, and then after there, I came home and I just repented. I was like, all right, God, like, that was awful.
I don't want to do that. I just want to do this full time.

Speaker 2 I had a good job, good money in Florida. I was about to get a good promotion.
I was about to start my own business. Sounded was going to be great.
I was going to make loads of money. It was awesome.

Speaker 2 That's what the world tells you. Make loads of money.
But I was so, I was literally falling back in a depression, so sad. And I was putting myself in that place.

Speaker 2 And so I came home and I was like, I can't do that to myself. I was like, all right, God, I want to get close to you.
What should I do? Where should I go? Move to LA.

Speaker 2 Move to the darkest city in America. I'm like, dude, what? Like, that doesn't make sense.
And everyone in my hometown hates L.A. So I knew it wasn't from my flesh.

Speaker 2 Like, I knew I wasn't selfishly trying to move to LA. And so I prayed about it.
I got the cheapest rent of my life when I first moved out here. And I got a cheap plane ticket out here.

Speaker 2 And I had a one-way plane ticket with like two suitcases and a backpack and came out here. And that's when I just kind of started out immersing myself into everything.

Speaker 2 I would do the Bible study on Wednesday nights. We were doing a Bible study at our friend Chelsea's house.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so Bryce and I met. I started going to that Bible study two years ago.
Yeah, it was probably just a couple months. It was at the beginning of the year.

Speaker 1 So it was probably literally three months before we started Girls Gone Bible. And I remember like when you started just like popping up everywhere on social media, I was like, I know that kid.

Speaker 1 I met him at this random Bible study, which is just so, so crazy. I mean, just like where we've come to to now, and now we're sitting on like both having platforms.
It's just so insane.

Speaker 1 God is so cool. Like, it's just so cute.
Um, so yeah, you start going to Bible studies.

Speaker 2 So, we were doing the Bible studies. We were doing, I was going to worship nights every time there was a worship night.

Speaker 2 I was going to Huntington Beach on Mondays, on Thursdays, I was doing all this stuff. And then at nighttime, I would go hit the street and I would pray for homeless people.

Speaker 2 And I was just doing this every day, every day, every day, and just trying to immerse myself in everything.

Speaker 2 And then when 2023 came, I started traveling with a mentor and was learning under him. Greatest decision in my life.
He's just such a father to me. His name is Marcus.
He's amazing. And

Speaker 2 then as I was traveling with him, God gave me a dream about staying here in America. So many missionaries leave the country.

Speaker 2 And look, I think that's amazing. I'm like, man, if God is calling you to go to Africa, to go to New Zealand, to go to the Middle East, we need that.

Speaker 2 But I think a lot of people's idea of like serving Jesus is, oh, I'm going to go out of the country and do a mission trip, which I think that stuff is great. I'm not dogging that.

Speaker 2 And a lot of people think I dog that. No, I don't.
But to me, America is just as sick. And a lot of people think that if they want a mission field, that they have to leave the country.

Speaker 2 But their college campus, their neighborhood, the gym that they go to every day, their workplace, it is the, it's the mission field. Like

Speaker 2 the harvest is ripe. So many people are far from Jesus.
So many people are ready. And we need it in America.
And America's in shambles. And so God gave me this dream.

Speaker 2 And he was like, you need to stay in your own backyard. Wow.
And, but God was like, you'll reach the nations. And so I'm like, all right.

Speaker 2 Like that, like, I don't understand, you know, we, you know, global impact, but staying in America, that doesn't make sense. And so that's when we started videoing the interactions.

Speaker 2 It wasn't anything new. It was just, we turn on a camera now.
I was already doing it, so it wasn't awkward. Sometimes it can be awkward for people, but it wasn't because we were already doing it.
And

Speaker 2 then, so I had some people filming for me on the side, and then that's when I called Josh and we were talking. And I was like, Hey, what are you passionate about?

Speaker 2 He's like, I want to capture things on video for God. I said, That's crazy because I'm trying to put things on video for God.

Speaker 2 And so, he prayed, he moved out here in January, and every week we were just filming, hitting the street, and going and talking to these people.

Speaker 2 And God was introducing us to some of the coolest people we've ever met.

Speaker 2 And we were going to talk to people and pray for people. And that's when things started to make sense.

Speaker 2 We started reaching so many people particularly in america but we're also reaching the nations from america from our own backyard we were reaching people in south africa yeah we were reaching people in new zealand people in the uk so it's like okay wow god really is calling us here and

Speaker 2 so that's we've just been filming those interactions and going these places and god has really given us a grace to become friends with people that are just totally against christianity but they'll be friends with us it's such a powerful thing and uh i think that's exactly what jesus would do i think jesus would be friends with all these people because the healthy don't need a doctor that's what he says in scripture so it's been really cool you are so sweet we see it in your videos can you do you ever get like where do you get the boldness and can you just talk about the way you go up to people and how you present yourself to them because i see it you go up to people that uh are satanist and all of a sudden i will see you come to them in a place of love and their whole demeanor changes and I see them crying after you pray for them it's just amazing but some people are like where do I get this boldness how do I go up to people and evangelize yeah well I would be you know crazy if I didn't say I don't get nervous sometimes because I do yeah sometimes we'll go into these places I'm like man I'm so nervous because the people that we're talking to hate Christianity.

Speaker 2 They don't hate Jesus. They just hate the

Speaker 2 misrepresentation of God that's been presented to them. Totally.
And so they just hate Christianity because they label God as that misrepresentation.

Speaker 2 So sometimes I get nervous because I mean these guys are going to push me away. I mean, what am I thinking? Like, who am I to say that they're going to push me away?

Speaker 2 Well, in Acts, you have like Peter gives one of the greatest gospel presentations at the beginning of Acts. Like 3,000 people get saved.
So it's like Jesus, they get saved, water baptism.

Speaker 2 They receive the Holy Spirit. And then they go, all right, what do we do? And he goes, pray for boldness.
That's what he says. He says, pray for boldness.

Speaker 2 And so my initial response is praying for boldness, asking God to give me boldness. And when I find myself being extra shy, I go, man, have I prayed for boldness lately? Yeah.
99% of the time, no.

Speaker 2 And I need to pray again.

Speaker 2 Because, I mean, the Holy Spirit wants to give us that. He just wants to.
And the Holy Spirit's our helper. We're not doing this alone.
I'm not going to these places alone.

Speaker 2 Like, sure, I got Josh with me when he's filming, but I'm not alone. Like, the Holy Spirit is our helper to teach us, bring conviction in our lives, and to give us that boldness.

Speaker 2 So praying for boldness has been the number one, number one help going into these places for sure. So anyone that wants to be bold, just ask.

Speaker 2 All we got to do is ask. So good.

Speaker 1 Man, I'm like, I have a lot of friends.

Speaker 1 I can't believe you say the thing about staying in your backyard and, you know, people thinking the only way to do God's work is to go to third world countries where people are so...

Speaker 1 poor and impoverished and they need help but it's like literally just go look outside and look at where we are. I said that the other day.

Speaker 1 And so, and I also have so many friends who do go to other countries and who do go to the Middle East and they're in Muslim countries that if anybody, they have past, there are pastors who are risking their lives to give the gospel that can, like them and their families can be killed at any moment if they get caught preaching Jesus.

Speaker 1 Whereas we won't go up to the person at Erwan because we feel nervous. Like it's just like such an insane thing when you put it into perspective.

Speaker 1 And like in even in my own life, and I'm sure you can relate to this, how like when God, when there's so much favor on and grace on what you're doing, and God has given you a platform, and there's so much favor on it, it's so beautiful, and you are reaching so many people.

Speaker 1 But then, like, it's been so heavy on my heart the past year of my life, being like, okay, but what am I doing face to face? What am I doing when the camera's not on?

Speaker 1 Like, how much, how much impact can I have when nobody's watching? And so, something that has been so like heavy on my heart is healings. Like, I love, I believe in a God who does physical healings.

Speaker 1 Absolutely. can we talk about

Speaker 1 you have a story about a man you saw an ACL be healed right you saw God heal in ACL would you tell that yeah it was at Saddle Ranch no Saddle Ranch here no lay did you ride the ball I did not I have not ridden

Speaker 2 he healed ACL and then he read the bull and then it rode the bull for victory

Speaker 2 for celebration

Speaker 2 yeah I was so I was just getting into like learning about how the Holy Spirit was moving right because a lot of people are like oh God doesn't heal to this day.

Speaker 2 But in my mind, he's the same Holy Spirit as he was 2,000 years ago.

Speaker 2 And if the Bible specifically says, like Jesus himself says, you'll do greater things than I did with the helper of the Holy Spirit. That's right.
He raised himself from the dead.

Speaker 2 So, you know, it's like the sky's the limit here. So I'm like, all right.
I think people can get healed in Jesus' name. So I was praying for people laying hands on the sick.
Nothing was happening.

Speaker 2 I was praying for so many people. Nothing would happen.
I'm in Saddle Ranch and I'm talking to this atheist and he's really angry.

Speaker 2 And I said, all right, man, if God heals your ACL, you got to give your life to Jesus because he had just torn his ACL. He had the brace on.
He had surgery the next day.

Speaker 2 Most people have a partial tear, then a full tear. It's just completely torn in half.
Wow. He was like, all right, man.
So I prayed for his leg.

Speaker 2 Jesus' name, heal his ACL, give him brand new tendons and muscles. Make him stronger than he was before.
In Jesus' name, amen. How's it feel? And he just cussed me out.
Nothing happened.

Speaker 2 He's like, man, you idiot. Like, blah, blah, blah, cussed me out.
And I was like, all right, man, bless you. Jesus loves you.
Walked away.

Speaker 2 And I'm just kind of like, all right, I look like an idiot, but if I'm going to be anyone's fool, I'm going to be a fool for Jesus. I'm like, all right, I don't feel that bad.

Speaker 2 Well, next day, I wake up. I was friends with one of the servers there.
And I guess they gave him my Instagram. And he DM'd me on Instagram.
He said, dude, I'm freaking out right now.

Speaker 2 I woke up, walked downstairs, ate breakfast, and I realized I walked downstairs. So he goes, I think God has healed my foot or healed my ACL.
And I go, dude, that's amazing.

Speaker 2 I'm freaking out out because it's the first time I've ever seen anything like that happen.

Speaker 1 I can't even imagine.

Speaker 2 I mean, I'm freaking out. And he is so excited.
So he goes to the doctor and he goes, I don't need surgery anymore.

Speaker 2 My leg's not in pain. And they go, are you kidding me? You have a full ACL tear.
And he goes, no, I need you guys to scan my leg because this is crazy.

Speaker 2 They give him an MRI and it's completely reattached. They have no idea what happened.
Why? Gave his life to Jesus. And I'm really freaking out because then some people are like, oh, yeah, whatever.

Speaker 2 You say the pain's gone away. This dude got a full MRI scan.
The doctor was freaking out. He was like, I don't know what's happening.
And it was so powerful. And that stuff just stirs your faith.

Speaker 2 And so I'm like, all right, this is giving me more boldness to go share it. So like, yes, like.
It's not my leading leg. The gospel is always going to be my leading leg.
The gospel is what saves.

Speaker 2 Healing's cool. And I had to repent actually at the beginning of this year because I was more worried about praying for healing over people and sharing the gospel with them.

Speaker 2 And people were still even sick. Maybe physically they were healed, but they were like

Speaker 2 spiritually they were still sick and so uh but god shows us clearly through scripture that he uses spiritual gifts to soften people's hearts yeah the hard-headed ones they're like jesus isn't real then he heals your leg and you're like hold on a second hold on this guy you just asked to heal my foot he just healed my foot this is crazy um and so yeah that was really really powerful and really a big shift in my faith journey because then i was like okay like this may be different not a lot of people agree with this, but I can't, I can't deny what my eyes have seen, like, we're going to keep doing this.

Speaker 1 So sick. I'm obsessed.
I'm obsessed. I'm like,

Speaker 2 and you didn't give up.

Speaker 1 Even though other times it didn't work, you kept doing it. You kept being relentless and praying for people that were sick.
And then God, because of the faith, came to fruition.

Speaker 2 Wow. That's amazing.

Speaker 1 That's what faith is. Well, so you know Heidi Baker, right?

Speaker 2 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, so I love Heidi Baker. I study Heidi Baker a lot.
She's not for the faint of heart. She's a really, really special woman.
She does a lot of work in, she lives in another country.

Speaker 1 She's just, she has a massive, massive ministry. And she does, she heal, she, Jesus heals through her prayers.
Like she goes and she, she told this story about how God put it on her heart.

Speaker 1 that he was going to heal blind eyes, that he was going to open blind eyes, that she needed, every time she saw somebody that was blind, she needed to go pray for their eyes.

Speaker 1 And she said that she prayed for probably a thousand people non-stop.

Speaker 1 She was obedient and it was embarrassing and it was awkward and it was you know she would question herself and doubt herself and doubt what god spoke to her and she would be like i kept on praying every single time because i had to be obedient a thousand pairs of eyes she prayed for nothing happened and then one time after that thousand she prayed blind eyes opened they could see and she said and that was however many 45 50 years ago She has never one time prayed for blind eyes that did not open after that.

Speaker 1 So after a thousand, and so I've been having like dreams for the past six months like randomly dreams of just like I'll be like in my room and then the Holy Spirit will come and just like my hands are on fire and I just feel like I believe in the healing powers of God so much

Speaker 1 that God has put on my heart that I cannot see somebody on crutches and not pray for them and I've tried Bryce like I literally am like Jesus I want nothing more than to not have to pray for this person right now but he's just put it so heavy like it's like this when God gives you a word, he'll, he's like so gracious to give you such a burning, just like nudging that you can't go away from it.

Speaker 1 And so now I heal for every single person that I see on crutches. I can't get away from it.

Speaker 1 And I just, I have so much faith that one day the same thing, something is going to be released and that whether I know it or not, these people will be healed. You know what I mean? Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Just so

Speaker 1 you, you, you, you'll see me and Aria, Erwan. Hey, sorry.
Do you mind if we pray for you? And it's just the boldness. That's something that God gives you.
And like, it's just so important.

Speaker 1 It's so important to be obedient even when it's awkward. So anybody with ACL, he's got you.

Speaker 2 He's going to

Speaker 2 baby. Call him up.
Jesus is going to heal you.

Speaker 2 Send us a voice for Mo. We'll pray for you over Instagram.

Speaker 2 He's kind of. People are okay.

Speaker 2 Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 I wanted to ask you about the voice of God because we get so many messages like of people being like, I feel so distant from God. Has he abandoned me? I can't hear his voice.

Speaker 1 Have you ever felt like that? Can you give some advice on that?

Speaker 2 Yeah, absolutely. I definitely feel like that.

Speaker 2 I think there's like four specific ways that God speaks to us through his word, through signs, through people.

Speaker 2 And then I don't know, I'll just have to explain the other one, but through his word. It's the number one way.

Speaker 2 I mean, everything, most of the questions that people have can be answered in Matthew chapters five through seven.

Speaker 2 Literally. That's it.
And the way that I like discern the voice of God

Speaker 2 just Satan is always going to accuse you, always going to accuse you. The voice of the accuser.

Speaker 2 Like Satan knows your name and calls you by your sin, but Jesus knows your sin and calls you by your name. So I'm like, okay, who's talking to me right now?

Speaker 2 So I read the word of God, and that's powerful. Matthew 5 through 7 is like my go-to.
It's like if I'm like, oh, what do I do about anger? It's in there. Prayer, fasting, everything, all in there.

Speaker 2 So through his word, through signs, God will directly give us signs about things. Like, God, will you just show me what's going on? Gideon needed a sign from God.

Speaker 2 Now, that particular story in the Bible, people are like, I'm going to throw a fleece out. Basically, Gideon was asking for signs from God.
He put a fleece out and it had been raining.

Speaker 2 And he said, all right, if it rains tonight and my fleece isn't wet, I know it's from you. He was doing this whole thing, but his was out of like a place of doubt.

Speaker 2 But you could still use that. Like, all right, God, like, help me, like, show me what I need to do because God is a friend.
He loves us. He wants to be involved in our decision making.

Speaker 2 So through signs, through people, sometimes like people go, oh man, you know, God's not speaking to me. God's not helping me.
I'm not trying to get help. But people's friends are reaching out to them.

Speaker 2 You know, it's like someone's stranded. You know, I think of like, man, I get a flat tire.
I'm on the side of the road. And I'm going, God, please send me help.

Speaker 2 And a truck driver pulls over and says, hey, you need help, change your tire. And I'm like, no, man, God's going to help me.
He like drives away. That's right.

Speaker 2 And then, you know, someone else drives by. It's like, hey, man, you need help.
I'm like, no, man, God's really going to help me.

Speaker 2 And then, you know, the third time, triple-A, the tire people drive by, hey, man, you need help. No, God's really going to help me.
They drive by.

Speaker 2 But God sent those three people beforehand to help me. So God will use people.
The last way that I believe we can hear God's voice is in our thoughts.

Speaker 2 And it's because Jesus, if he lives inside of us, he consumes our thoughts. Now, sometimes I think things that aren't from Jesus.
So I have to pray and discern those things.

Speaker 2 But a lot of times, if I have like, they call it a word of knowledge, when God tells you something about someone,

Speaker 2 the way that we hear that is in our thoughts. Like, do you you think that you selfishly want to go pray for someone or do you selfishly want to go get bless someone with $20?

Speaker 2 Absolutely not. I know people are greedy.
People, like you said, like I get nervous. We all get nervous to go pray for people.

Speaker 2 So understanding that, like, okay, that's the first muscle I got to learn. When I get an unction to pray for someone or bless someone, that's got to be from the Lord.
It's not coming from selfishness.

Speaker 2 So let me remember that unction and try to correlate that with other things. Oh, someone's back hurting.
Like, oh, I hear, you know, back hurting or lower back pain. Yep.

Speaker 2 Okay, hey, man, do you have any lower back pain? No, I don't. Oh, I'm so sorry.
I'm just trying to learn to hear the voice of God. Is there anything you need prayer for? Yeah.
It's not awkward.

Speaker 2 Do you have any lower back pain? Yeah, my back's been really hurting me the past few times. If you hit the nail on the head, man, God might be trying to do something.

Speaker 2 If you don't, you're just trying to build that muscle. It's like hitting the gym.
So I believe if Jesus really consumes our thoughts, then He can put those thoughts in our brain.

Speaker 2 So those are the four ways I think God really speaks to us. So beautiful.

Speaker 1 Can you, what does your quiet time look like?

Speaker 1 What does your time with Jesus look like? How can people experience Jesus?

Speaker 2 I read a proverb a day every morning. First thing I do.

Speaker 2 I'm human, though. Sometimes I get out of the groove, and I know when I'm out of the groove, it totally affects my day.
Totally.

Speaker 2 So I try to read a proverb a day before I pick up my phone

Speaker 2 because I truly believe what the first thing we consume in the morning is going to dictate the rest of our day.

Speaker 2 If I'm feeding myself with the opinion of man, man, I'm going to get angry quick. I'm going to get jealous quick.
I'm going to get frustrated quick.

Speaker 2 But if I feed myself with the wisdom of God, I mean, Proverbs is accessing the mind mind and wisdom of God. What a beautiful thing.
Like, that's super cool. So I try to start my day off with that.

Speaker 2 I'm always constantly reading the Gospels. I love Matthew and I love John.
I think they're beautiful. I love reading those and going back to those.

Speaker 2 And then I do like topical studies. So right now, like I'm an online student.
at Liberty University and I have like assignments that I have to do. But outside of the assignments, those scriptures that

Speaker 2 I have to read for class, I'll read in my quiet time. Because it's most of the time stuff I don't want to read.
Totally. Like stuff I don't want to read Leviticus, but sometimes it's got to be scores.

Speaker 2 Hey, that's where I'm at right now. And it is hard to read.

Speaker 1 Actually, no, I finally got to numbers and I abandoned it. You guys keep me accountable.

Speaker 1 I haven't gone back in a little bit. It's hard to get through.

Speaker 2 It is hard. So that's like my proverb a day.
I try to read throughout my day. When we were driving over here, Josh drove for me so I could read in my Bible, things like that.

Speaker 2 And because I hadn't got like time other than the proverb today.

Speaker 2 And so I think really, really prioritizing that. And the days that I don't do that, oh, man, it affects me.
Oh, yeah. How does it affect you?

Speaker 2 Well, I can just find myself being quick to speak, slow to listen. Maybe I find myself not trying to gossip, but then I say something, I'm like, whoa, like that was not cool what I just said.

Speaker 2 Maybe I get angry quicker or get frustrated quicker.

Speaker 2 Maddie has taught me not to honk the hornet people when they cut me off.

Speaker 2 But if I honk the horn at people when they cut me off, I probably haven't read my Bible that day because I'm getting frustrated and I'm honking the horn at them. And why do I feel convicted?

Speaker 2 We honk the horn and I yelled at someone today. I might have left someone today.

Speaker 2 You have to replay. Well, Maddie convicted me of that because she's like, you don't know what they're going through.

Speaker 1 It's true, Maddie.

Speaker 2 Maddie.

Speaker 2 She told me that. She, because she said,

Speaker 2 like, what if someone's cutting you off because they're like running to the hospital and you honk at them because they just cut in front of you and stuff like that. Wow.
Oh, man. That's so true.
And

Speaker 2 so like those things, I find myself doing those things

Speaker 2 when I'm not spending time with Jesus.

Speaker 1 You're a good kid, Bryce. You are good.

Speaker 2 You're a good kid.

Speaker 2 The worst you do is honk at people. You're a good kid.
Oh, no, that is not the worst I do for sure. But those are just examples, current examples.

Speaker 1 Can I ask you a question? So we have a little more time.

Speaker 1 Do you mind if I bring up your relationship? Do you ever talk a little bit about that?

Speaker 2 Yeah, we can go ahead and do that.

Speaker 1 And whatever you don't, you know what I mean? Do you mind talking about like purity or anything like that?

Speaker 2 Sure, yeah.

Speaker 2 Well, I don't really give a lot of relationship advice because I don't take relationship advice from people that aren't married. Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 the only things I say is what scripture says. And I talk about amazing things in my relationship.
Scripture talks about being equally yoked. Totally.
A yoke is a farming tool that was used for oxen.

Speaker 2 So you would put two equally strong oxen to plow a field. If you put a really strong one and a really weak one together, or an old oxen and a young oxen, the farm machine wouldn't work.

Speaker 2 And so then the question is, what does it mean to be equally yoked? And there's a book by Ben Stewart called Single Dating Engaged Married. We read it when we first started dating.

Speaker 2 It has changed my life on dating because the Bible doesn't really talk about dating. It's like you're either single or you're married.
And that's it.

Speaker 2 And so when you're dating someone, it's the process to see if you want to join hands with someone for a lifetime.

Speaker 2 And being equally yoked looks like, are you chasing the same goal? Are you chasing Jesus? Yeah. Well, when I meet Maddie, she's challenging me.
She makes me want to be a better man.

Speaker 2 She's encouraging me. Whenever I get flustered and I'm, because when you start dating someone, you see every flaw in them.
That's right.

Speaker 2 And so, when Maddie sees every flaw in me, and I'm flustered, and I'm going, oh my gosh, this isn't that, blah, blah, blah. Or, like, oh, I can't believe this just happened.

Speaker 2 You know, I come in there, I'm just fully raw and real, the raw price that not everyone can see. Are you kidding me? What is going on?

Speaker 2 And she just encourages me and says, Well, you know, or I get in my head and I'm like, Man, I just feel like people hate me. Like, well, that's not how God sees you.
And encourages me.

Speaker 2 Okay, that's a beautiful thing. We're chasing the same goal, Jesus.
Okay, well, when I first met Maddie, I was so infatuated by Maddie.

Speaker 2 I prayed for three weeks straight for God to take away my feelings for her because we had one interaction. I didn't know her heart, and I wanted to make sure that it was from God.

Speaker 2 Every day, my feelings for her would get stronger. It's a very dangerous prayer to pray.
If you want to know if someone's from God, pray, God will take them away immediately. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Three weeks straight. And part of me was nervous, too.

Speaker 2 Just because like entering in a relationship, that's a big thing. You know, it's not high school anymore.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 so that was going on.

Speaker 2 And then I would text Maddie like in the morning, hey, Maddie, or like whatever she would not respond to me for hours it would drive me crazy because I'm like does she not like me and I come to find out she would be at this coffee shop reading her Bible from like 7 a.m.

Speaker 2 till like past lunchtime till 2 a.m. And she was getting parking tickets because she would be lost in the scripture and then she couldn't, she would forget to go renew the meter.
Wow.

Speaker 2 So I go, okay, I'm looking at Maddie's character. Amazing.
Then another thing I'm like, what does my family think of her? Absolutely love her. They absolutely love her.

Speaker 2 And I'm like, okay, this is amazing um

Speaker 2 so i mean she challenges me she makes me want to be a better man she encourages me in scripture it's a beautiful thing and uh and i'm i'm and i love maddie with all my heart and i think it's amazing i've never felt an emotion like that before towards a human being but aside from an emotion love is something that you choose to do for someone it's something you choose every day there are days that are hard we're human there are days that i don't read my bible and it affects our relationship And, you know, I'm quick to speak.

Speaker 2 I'm frustrated easy and things like that. But with grace, love, patience, and things like that, we're able to just work through things and love each other well.
And it's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 2 And I'm super grateful for Maddie. I don't take her for granted.
And I think she is amazing. True blessing from Jesus.
It's super cool.

Speaker 1 Can I just drop the mic?

Speaker 2 Oh, man.

Speaker 2 I said, well, that's like,

Speaker 1 I have never been so present when someone speaks more than today. Can I just say that? I am in awe.
You are 21 years old, and

Speaker 1 I don't even know what to say. You are beyond your years.

Speaker 1 That's what happens when you know Jesus is the way that you do.

Speaker 1 That wisdom from the Proverbs, it shows.

Speaker 1 Like, it shows the work that you put in, the time that you put in, the amount that you know, the knowledge that you have, and how much you just dedicate your life to learning and wanting to be more like Jesus.

Speaker 1 Like, people are, it's just so crazy because everyone's like, I want to be closer to Jesus. I want more wisdom.
I want more. And it's just like, okay, it is so simple.
Read the Bible. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Put in work. Abide in Jesus.
Sit there and just wait and allow him to speak and move and let him love you. It's just, it's unbelievable.
Can I ask?

Speaker 1 So.

Speaker 1 When you're living in purity, when you're living pure, and we know what the Bible says, we talk about purity almost every single episode because it's changed our life.

Speaker 1 Like Ari and I are people, we didn't grow up Christian, we grew up Catholic, but nothing about our lives reflected our love for Jesus.

Speaker 1 And so going from living completely worldly in worldly relationships to then living a life holy and blameless in the sight of God and pursuing purity, we just, we know why it's good.

Speaker 1 We know why God asks us to do what he asks us to do because it works and he's right. It does.
It is peace. It is life.

Speaker 1 But we also know that when when you're not in a relationship, living in purity is like so easy. It's like, oh my gosh, this is crazy.
He took it. No lust, no desire, no anything.

Speaker 1 And then we know, like everybody talks about it, the second you get in a relationship, dating is so interesting because you're not married, but you're not single.

Speaker 1 So you're having feelings towards a person that is similar to what you feel when you're married, but they're not your person yet.

Speaker 2 So it's just like, I guess my question is, what is your take on just healthy boundaries in dating and just how to protect like protecting purity emotional purity mental purity and physical purity is our it's just our goal above everything else it's what we value so just speak to that a little bit yeah well I think you guys hit the nail on the head purity is not something that you're chasing it's just who you are God's made you pure if you struggle with like look we're we live in a sinful world everyone's gonna get thrown lust in their face especially in today's day and age everyone's gonna get thrown with it it's on social media everything so if you struggle with lust or you fall into temptation, like, don't beat yourself up.

Speaker 2 Like, please do not beat yourself up because it can be easy to do that.

Speaker 2 Purity is just who we are. Jesus has made me pure through the cross as who I am.
I'm going to live that way. When it comes to boundaries, Maddie and I will have conversations.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And never have we had a conversation where we take something off of the quote-unquote boundaries list. We don't have a list of things.
We go, okay, we know ourselves. So I would say, know yourself.

Speaker 2 Know yourself well.

Speaker 2 Know what's good for you. Know what's not good for you.
And implement it.

Speaker 2 And if we have conversations, you're always adding things to the list because you're consistently learning more things about each other.

Speaker 2 You're constantly growing and learning together. Like, never will you hear someone say, oh man, we weren't doing this thing, but now we erase it because we're good.
Like, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 Like, most of the time, when it comes to boundaries, as you're growing in relationships, you might find errors of like, oh, whoa, maybe we did overstep a little bit there.

Speaker 2 So we need to put a boundary here. What's been so beautiful about my relationship with Maddie is we were waiting till marriage.
And I think it's such a beautiful thing. It is amazing.

Speaker 2 It is a gift from God. People make sex this awkward thing, but no, it is just a gift from God.
When you're in marriage, that's something you get to do. And I love that Maddie and I get to wait for it.

Speaker 2 And we love and respect each other enough not to step over that boundary. That is a beautiful thing.
And I love Maddie that she respects me that way. And

Speaker 2 I think, I hope she loves that I respect that about her. Yeah, totally.
And I know that to be true. I know she does.

Speaker 2 And so like knowing ourselves, like, okay, God's not some cosmic dictator trying to take our fun away. Oh, you can't have sex.
No, it's a beautiful thing that God has given you.

Speaker 2 And it's more enjoyable when you do it for someone. And to the people, like do it for someone that you're married to.
And to the people out there, like, because sex has now become about status.

Speaker 2 If you go around, a lot of people have had sex. A lot of people are more worried about how many people they sleep with.
It's like a popular thing, how many people you can sleep with.

Speaker 2 Like when you come to Jesus and you come to him with a repentant heart, God wipes your slate clean as if you've never done anything. Meaning you are brand new.
You're waiting for marriage.

Speaker 2 What a beautiful thing. Man, God, I'm just waiting.
I'm waiting. I'm new.
And it's not who I am. I'm waiting.

Speaker 2 And that's it.

Speaker 2 I think it's beautiful. So like people that drown in shame, like again, Satan knows your name and calls you by your your sin, but Jesus knows your sin and calls you by your name.

Speaker 2 Like who's talking to you? And know those things. And so I would say that with boundaries.
And again, I'm 21. This is my first real relationship.
I'm learning. I'm growing.

Speaker 2 And that's a big reason why I don't.

Speaker 2 try to hand out as much relationship advice as possible because so take everything with a grain of salt of what i said because i do not know everything i'm learning i'm growing and i love getting to talk to people married couples about relationships because they just have so much wisdom Totally.

Speaker 1 No, it's so beautiful. I just, I want to honor you and who you are and just who you are in this world, what you do for Jesus.
I'm just so grateful that you would come on. We were so excited for today.

Speaker 2 Thank you guys. It was an honor.
I was super happy and nervous.

Speaker 1 Why did you have, listen, if there's anyone who doesn't need to be nervous, you're good.

Speaker 1 The wisdom just spills out of you. On your worst day, you could move mountains.
So don't ever forget it.

Speaker 2 Thank you so much. That's really encouraging.
Thank you guys. Thanks for having me on.
Thanks, Brian. I love you guys.
You guys are here. Thank you, team.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Maddie. Thank you, Josh, for being here.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 We love you guys so much. Thank you guys for being here.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May He make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.

Speaker 1 May He turn His face towards you and give you peace.

Speaker 2 We love you. We love you.
Amen.