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I just don't know if I can do this honestly. Hi Angie girl.
Hey R. What's up? Not much.
My girl. Hey, guys.
I'm Ari. And I'm Ange.
And this is Girls Gone Bible. We're two imperfect girls serving a perfect God.
We just love Jesus so much. We've been through a lot in our lives.
And we're doing the best we can. And we just say, come as you are.
Just don just don't stay here we're keeping that in we hope you can feel safe here and we love you we love you i'm just gonna let you guys know i am having a day today i'm having a tough day i walked in here a little emotional i'll probably leave a little emotional um life you guys it's. There's just a lot going on all the time.
Yeah. Well, I've never done this before, so.
Well, what a beautiful thing that you're being real and vulnerable. And what a heart of humility you have to come in here and not act like everything's okay.
That's what this is all about. Glad I'm not the only one who sits here.
No only one no I know yeah you want to talk about your heart a little bit well I think my heart is just I think I'm just going through a lot of like transition and yeah it's just uncomfortable like growth is so uncomfortable um transition is so uncomfortable. And someone stole my airwound delivery today.
I wasn't expecting you to say that. On my porch.
I'm a little pissed off about that too. 70 bucks.
I was not expecting you. Thank God I did not know how I was was gonna get through this i don't know how could they well they must have been really disappointing getting that plain chicken with the carrot first of all they got frozen blueberries they got metabolism boost powder protein powder they didn't get anything good.
She's a clean eater, guys, as we all know. Probiotics.
There's nothing they would have wanted. That is so funny.
I was on a prayer walk and I got Uber Eats just delivered in my house so I can make a smoothie when I got back. And then I come back and the guy, I felt suspicious because the guy texted me and said, hey, is it okay if I leave it out front? And I don't know why when I got that message, I was like, there's something suspicious here.
The Uber driver stole it? I think he took it. Oh, gosh.
I know. He probably needed it more than you.
Let's hope so. His gut health is going to be perfect.
We're going to take that out. Yeah.
So anyways, yeah, I'm just, I'm having a day. I'm having a week.
I'm having a couple of months, I think. Full transparency, like it never ends.
It never stops. The deeper you, yeah.
And just the deeper you go with God. I'm in like an emotional health journey right now.
I think I spent like years developing really strong spiritual health. Yeah.
What do you mean by that? So I just, there's a difference between your spiritual health and your emotional health. Like, they go hand in hand in some ways, but fasting and reading the Bible, which, of course, like, attributes to your emotional health.
But, like, reading the Bible, praying, like, all of these spiritual disciplines that I do, listening to sermons, listening to teachings, like it's all so good for your spiritual health. And like my spirit's in a really good spot.
I can cast out demons on the daily. Like, you know, um, I, you know, I have all the tools that I need spiritually for spiritual warfare.
And then I think God said, okay, we developed your spiritual health. Now we have to dig deep in your emotional health.
And it's just like, it's just really hard and you have to go places you don't want to go. And yeah.
And it's like, he's so good that he doesn't let you, like when you really enter into a really deep relationship with him, it's like, he doesn't let get away with anything anymore. Like there's no masking.
There's no numbing. Like so it just feels like it's all the time, you know.
But it's good. It's really good.
We get together in it. And I'm so proud of you.
Thanks. It's hard.
It's really hard. It's like just when you think you're good, you're not.
I know. There's more pruning to do for the both of us it's just been such a road for us I know like we said yesterday like he's he's like fathering us and teaching us re-teaching us things that we were we didn't know we had been accustomed to things as kids totally we thought were right and yeah.
There's a lot of that too, like deep, deep, deep rewiring and like being like, oh yeah, this is how you were raised in the, you know, dysfunction that you were brought up in. And it just doesn't work for God.
Like he is, he doesn't let you live in that. He doesn't let you operate.
I think that's what he's like forcing me into right now he's like you I can operate out of brokenness and I can operate out of a place of like false power in a way and he's like I don't want that for you I want you to be fully healed fully known fully seen yeah um so that you can know that you're fully loved, you know? Yeah. But the fact that you are constant working on it, constant going to God, constant wanting to be a better person, like, look at you, like you should be so proud of yourself.
And like, you don't, you don't just sit in what you are. You're like, I'm, I know I'm want to be better.
I want to get through this. I recognize that I have some things, but every day I see you.
You're like, you want to be better and you should be so proud of yourself. And I know Jesus is so proud of you.
Thank you. It's amazing.
Thank you. Seriously.
And what a beautiful moment right now of humility and just like opening up to everyone because I'm sure so many people are going through this exact same thing right now yeah you know and I don't know it's not easy to open up and be so vulnerable and like share that so I'm sure you just freed so many people this was so meant to be I have goosebumps all over my body right now people need this stuff so hopefully um yeah

we are truly truly truly so in it together everyone is in pain and working through something and trying to get better and yeah and he sold my delivery of my before i got two tickets today I can't believe it

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I'm so mad

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He's going to be like, this girl might need help. So you have an Ian and all you have is a nitro brew now.
She's going to be flying. Remember? I used to steal.
I'd go, give me a. Well, because I used to drink Celsius.
You guys remember we used to be up on here chugging energy drinks? What were we doing? I would drink so much Celsius. I would drink like three.
I used to drink like six Celsius a day. I was not.
Do you remember that? Yeah, you got me on the Celsius kick. I was sorry.
I got you on a lot of different kicks. Oh, God.
Oh, man. How are you? How's your I mean, we filmed yesterday.
How are you since then? The only thing I have to say that I was thinking about is that I'm on this like neat freak kick. Angela had gotten this lady to come do her closet.

So then I said, I need somebody to do my closet because I have so much stuff. And so I had this woman come and completely just color coat my closet and organize me.
And I, it changed my life. Like my life is no longer a mess in my head.
And. And so now I'm on this kick of I was up to like three in the morning organizing.
Like I bought these wooden baskets from HomeGoods and I put every single hair product in one thing. Makeup, all this stuff.
And I woke up and I was like, I just feel so clear. Like it's insane how much.
Such insane how much good feeling yeah like how much better your life is when your home life is neat and clean and you know where things are like I'm the girl like you know that meme where where it's like where's my oh I found it where's my like that's me like I throw the keys I so you know and very, like, OCD about color coordination, but it makes such a difference when you look at your closet. Everything's neat.
Everything's in place. Your mind is just so clear.
And so why do I say that? Because some people, our mind is such a mess. And one way to clear our mind is by having a neat organized home life.
100%.

God, it says in scripture, he says, get your house in order.

And like, he means like your life and your mind and all the things and your priorities.

But I really think he means like, get your house in order.

I can't like my house right now is a little crazy because I'm so in and out and it's,

it affects my mental health.

I had to go on a walk today because I was like, can't already not feeling so good.

Definitely can't be here right now. But tell them about the underwear.
What underwear? Oh, the folding? Tell them how homegirl, bless her, does such a – she folds – She folds – so I took a video – She does origami with the underwear. I don't know how to do it.
My girlfriend comes in the other day. She sees me folding laundry.
I can't believe I went from whipping. I will.
We will. Whipping my clothes to now folding.
Like, what is it you call it? Origami. Origami.
Origami. Bless, bless her.
Bless that, the way that she folds. Can I be honest? I wear the same thing.
Wash it not I haven't touched anything that she's done because I don't know how to refold it like that and I'm not gonna try it looks so good it looks really good first you guys before we get into today's episode we want to remind you once again that we're on the girls gone if this hits me in the face one more time we're on the girls gone bible live tour you can go to girls gone bible.com slash tour to get your tickets. Ari and I, basically, we have these GGB nights where we go and we meet you guys in person.
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Question session. We're doing a question session.
These are like, I love these so much. They're so chill.
They're just so chill. And you get to talk about so many different things.
And I love when they ask questions and then you and I flesh something out together.

You know what I mean?

That's fun.

So do you want to go first?

No, you can go first.

I literally screenshotted the most random questions.

I love it.

Even about like us.

I love it.

Oh, okay.

I was like obsessed with the questions that you guys asked this time. I mean, one of my favorite ones was how to cast out demons.
I saw that on your face. She's a perfect person to ask that to.
It's like when I picture Angela, she's got this warrior suit on with her sword, just slaying them, slaying them. Okay, well, I got brought up with Socrates.
Socrates raised me. you know, John met Socrates and he goes, Oh, it all makes sense now.
No wonder. Like, it's just, he brought me up in this.
He told me like, cast them out, get rid of them, tell them to go to hell. And I'm like, absolutely.
Like, I just, I love the authority that we have through Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
I'll never forget when the first time we hung out and. Which one? Because you were slaying a lot of demons in my life.
When she was coming in the house, I would see her do some funny stuff. I was like, what's happening? I was so, so zealous in the beginning.
I would, one of the first times we were in the car and you were just explaining to me where you were at.

And I go, do you mind if I pray for you?

You said yes.

This is the best moment of my friendship.

I tell everyone this.

Tell them.

I put a hand on your head.

Listen to this.

Ari's not familiar with the Christian world, the Christian walk at all.

No idea.

I put my hand on her head and instead of being weirded out, she grabs my wrist and like places it on my. It was such a beautiful, powerful moment, honestly.
And we're just like, we're casting them things out. She didn't know anything about me.
You really didn't. You started, you knew everything in your prayer.
Jesus. It's crazy.
It's really insane. You were screaming.
I was on the highway. You had your hand on my head and you were literally screaming the demons out.
I said, get out! I think you rolled down the window and it was a... Get out, devil! Get out! Anyways, so this is the thing about casting out demons.
You have to know that the spirit realm is a legal system. I think Stephanie has talked about this.
The spirit realm is a legal system. If you think back to the very beginning of our entire faith in Exodus, God gives Moses the law.
Like that's literally how we start. So you can already see there's like legal terminology that they use in scripture.
And then I always like to think of it like this. So we have the, we had the law and then we have God who's the ultimate judge.
We have low loser Satan, who's the accuser. Holy spirit is our advocate.
And then Jesus is the one who testifies on our behalf to the father when we place our faith in him. And Jesus rules the heavenly courts.
Like imagine, like I really feel like this is what happens in heaven. Like there's literally a heavenly court.
Jesus rules. And then there's a sentence.
Either we're sentenced to eternity in heaven with Jesus or eternal separation from God. And so when you pray and you do a self-deliverance and you cast out demons, but let me just preface by saying there's practical and there's spiritual.

You cast out demons and then you do emotional work. And I talked about that at the beginning of the episode, how it's both spiritual discipline, spiritual health, and then emotional health.
But when you know that there's some sort of demonic activity and some sort of like oppression that you're under, you take authority. You take authority over whatever demonic spirit.
And for me, I always speak directly to whatever it is. When I first started following Jesus and I was experiencing a lot of panic attacks, I would go in the mirror, look at my eyes because the eyes are like the window to your soul, to your spirit.
I look at myself in the mirror, look at my eyes, and I speak directly to the panic, to the spirit of panic, spirit of anxiety, spirit of insecurity, unworthiness, depression, broken heart, whatever it is, because it's all spiritual. And I'd speak to it and I would say, you have no legal rights.
I love it when you say that. Because it's a legal system.
You have no legal rights and I command you to leave in the name of Jesus. Go back to hell where you came from.

And the reason why they have legal rights is Satan has access points in us in so many different ways. Through ear gates, eye gates, the things we watch and we listen to is an access point.
You give legal rights when you're consuming content or images or music that you're not supposed to.

Sin is a major access point.

Trauma, you know, things that have happened. There's so many ways that Satan can get an access point.
And we partaking in like engaging in activities and things that we're not supposed to gives him legal rights to enter your body. And then all you have to do, it's so much easier than we think, is tell him you don't have those rights.
Get out in Jesus' name. And then even access points like when you're really vulnerable with a broken heart, for the enemy to creep in because you're so weak.
That's why it's so easy when we're kids, right? Oh, 100%. Yeah, because you're vulnerable.
You're open. Anytime you're open in any way, that's why drugs give legal rights.
You think smoking a little marijuines is okay. Totally give Satan legal rights to enter into your mind and your body.
We think weed is like, oh no, it's something that calms me. I had a hard day at work.
It's the only thing that really calms my mind. Numbing of the brain.
It's the chance for you to numb out and for the devil to get in and just do his work. I'm so happy you're saying this right now because people need to hear that and nobody talks about it enough.
And I feel like as Christians, it's like we know don't smoke weed. Well, there's so many people who smoke weed still.
Yeah, I know. You know, and it's really, it's not good.
We're telling you right now, anything that alters your state of mind is not okay. And it makes you more depressed in the long run.
And you can't even recognize it. You think it's calming you, but in the long run, you'll notice you're more, you're like, you're depressed.
You can't really do anything. It keeps you bound.
We keeps you bound. It's the same as alcohol.
It's not actually doing anything. You're not processing anything.
You're not letting Jesus heal you. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Amazing. Amazing.
Let's do a light question. How about that? Are you sure you don't want to talk about how to cast out demons? I don't Should we answer one like about ourselves? Oh there was ones about ourselves? Yeah well someone asked Can you guys give us Style advice and beauty advice? Aww I thought that was cute And when I read that Like you guys know how you always see me in like long flowy dresses and things like that.
I wear them because it's something that puts a little bit of pep in my step. It makes me feel good.
It makes me feel beautiful and it makes me feel feminine. And so I, anytime I'm in like a really low place, um, I'll never forget when I was in my really deep depression, but you still see me.
You'd still see me in a long dress. My advice to you guys is that when you're, if you want to feel better throughout the day, if you even like when I notice I have a really good day, it's because I feel good.
And the way to feel good is what makes you feel good when you look presentable, when you get dressed up. So, I mean, I'm not going to speak for the guys, but for the girls, you know, for me, like when I get ready, even if I'm just running a couple errands, when I just feel good.
And for me, it's a dress. And so, especially when you're feeling down, get ready, take a shower, do your hair, put on some makeup, put on your best outfit.
And it really does change. Change your day.
It, like, makes you a little bit – it makes you feel good, you know? It's so important. It's so important because I know on the days that I am not feeling that good, if I just get ready, just pull my hair back, just do something that, like, makes me feel like I'm ready for the day.
It changes everything. I would say they wanted like tips for beauty and stuff.
Yeah. Beauty advice.
I would say skincare is just so incredibly important. I think Ari and I have like such an emphasis on skincare, even though we wake up with like mascara down here.
We skincare is so important to us. I think if you're going to invest in anything, you would agree.
A good medical grade skincare. Skincare is really important.
I think in terms of makeup, I would say like just because something is a trend doesn't mean that it's right for you.

Like I know for me, I have a very specific way that I like to do my makeup.

And like if I did makeup the way you did, it wouldn't look good on me.

So true.

Because we don't have the same face.

You got to see our face when somebody else does our makeup.

We look like different people.

Can you tell them what you told me the other day?

So I needed to let you guys in on something. So you know how I have a little bit of control problem sometimes our I asked Ari the other day I said why is it that every time and I tell you every time I'm getting my hair and makeup done specifically my makeup my hair I can like I can work through it if I get my makeup done I'm crying by the end of it.
And I'm just like, because I get really anxious, really nervous. And I just get emotional.
And I'm like, I feel like I hate it while it's being done. And then an hour later, I look in the mirror and I'm like, you're so beautiful.
What am I talking about? And I asked Ari, like, what is that? And she goes, Ange, because you're not in control. I said, oh yeah.
That makes so much sense. Crazy.
We all have our things. I know.
Also, we love a good side bang. I feel like it really adds to the, I don't know.
It makes me feel so much better. My mom gets so mad at me if I don't have side bangs.
Both of our moms are nuts about our hair. Why is your hair like that? It's so flat.
My mom, every single time I see you haven't cut your bangs in six months. I'm like, okay.
But can I just, it's just when you were talking, it just kept going in my mind. I'll just say one last thing.
I remember when I was wearing all the best makeup, all the best clothes, I was doing all the things. I I was even even when I had my hair dysmorphia and I was getting my bangs cut every two weeks I still felt like crap and it's because when you're you don't have peace and so chaotic in your mind there's nothing you can do to feel beautiful and so if you're someone who just came to Christianity and you're trying to all do all the things to feel good and get in all the makeup and all the clothes, but you're still not feeling good, it's because you don't have peace.
When I started having peace in my life, I started to feel more beautiful. When I started to really submit to Jesus, that's how we confident.
Um, so no matter how much makeup, hair, all these things, you know, I know I sound really cliche, but the minute I started to have true peace, I felt more beautiful and you can see it in your eyes. Absolutely.
You can like, you can have everything, all the makeup, all the hair, everything. If you don't have peace like it's it's internal it's all internal that's why some people who aren't conventionally conventionally the most beautiful um to the world standards could be literally one of the most beautiful people you've ever seen like I know people who the world might not say is that beautiful but I look at them in person and you're like I literally see Jesus yeah just like they shine you shine when you know Jesus like you really do you know Jesus and when you're when you're good yeah you know so well I was gonna say one more thing where did it go I was gonna say um oh I was gonna say as you guys know Ari and I have been on a journey with modesty for quite a long time I think we've both finally and I'm sure there's still work to do and I'm sure we might not get it right every time but I really believe in both it's not about what you wear it's not about what you do what you say it is You can like, yes, you should be obedient, even if you're not feeling it.
And I think that's what we did. We were like, okay, well, we don't really feel this yet.
Like we're supposed to, you know, we don't really understand why we have to dress like this or why we can't wear crop tops, me personally. But then you walk in obedience, even if you don't understand your heart begins to change and you realize like now I can't even imagine even wearing a crop top.
I don't – like you know what I mean? It's so crazy. I just like – I don't know.
You really begin to be like – it's just not even a question anymore. It's like I would literally never dress like that.
Why would I want anyone to see me like that? Why would I ever want anybody to see more skin on me than they need to? Man, have we changed? Hi. Yes, we've changed.
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I think I've, and it changes over time and in different seasons, you need different things from God. So true.
I think like, for me, it's like always evolving. I never just do one thing.
I spent a long time, like when I first started following Jesus, I was so obsessed with, with the Bible. Like I love scripture so much.
I just, it's the easiest way to access Jesus. Sometimes you don't always feel it.
Sometimes you don't always have these crazy encounters. Sometimes you don't have access to your own heart.
So you can't like, I feel that sometimes, sometimes I'll get into the secret place and I'll, I'm like, I can tell that I don't even have access to my own heart. So I feel like I can't access you.
So it's making me feel like you're not here, blah, blah, blah. And I, a few months ago, because I used to like panic when that would happen.
I know. And I would be like, oh no, something's wrong.
And I've lost the anointing. Like so silly.
And then I realized like scripture is always here regardless of how we feel. So if we can't access him emotionally, which he's always in us and always around us, he's right here.
If you feel nothing, just keep reading. You know what I mean? So have freedom that if you're like, whatever, in a season that's a little dry, Jesus has not left you.
He's not gone. Just keep reading, keep committing to scripture because he's in this.
This is him. And then I think recently, and I used to read a lot, a lot of scripture, like as many chapters as I could.
Like that was kind of like my MO when I was in my quiet time. And I've really, it's taken on different forms.
But recently, the past few months, like the scripture, that's like one thing I've desired that I will seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple, which is like to meditate on his goodness, to meditate in his house. Beholding Jesus is the best thing that you can do.
It is such a beautiful way to cultivate intimacy with him is to literally sit there and do nothing like you can worship you can listen to music but to sit there and just behold the beauty that is Jesus and you can do that by sitting and imagining his face for me I'll sit and I'll imagine his face with the crown of thorns around his head that's like pushed into his head. You see the blood like I envision him.
Something that gets me really quickly is just imagining his hands and his feet with the nails in them. Imagining, we don't know what his face looks like exactly, but we have descriptions of the crown of thorns, his nail pierced, hands and feet, the slit in his side from when they pierced him.
And that's just how I meditate on his face. I meditate on his body.
I imagine him with the wounds on his back. And I just behold the beauty that is our wounded King, like Jesus with his crown, but he's wounded and weak and broken and bruised.
And like, you just behold, like, that's so beautiful. That is so beautiful.
And I just sit there and you meditate on that. And then like, I will sit and I just ask him, I'm not going to work for your love, but I'm just going to let you pour your love into me.
Holy Spirit, come pour your love, wash me in your peace. Wash me in your love.
Wash me, clothe me in your righteousness. You died so that I would be clothed in your righteousness.
And yeah, that's kind of what it looks like. You know what's crazy that you're saying that is that, you know, that video that you shared with me about, it's like, and I would love to link this because I listened to it this morning, actually.
I have chills because the Michael Kulianos one, it's the 20 minutes of him sharing about Jesus. Oh, yes, yes, yes.
So I was having such a hard time this morning connecting. Just like, it was like my mind was racing this morning.
And I simply put on that video and he says, close your eyes. And he just talks about the gospel of Jesus and what happened to him.
And it was, I had tears. Yeah.
Oh, if you want, okay. Such a good point.
For you guys. If you want, this is something John started doing.
It's like a little funny, but it's not funny, but he started telling me the gospel every night. And so like on the phone or if we're in person, he just gives me the gospel.
He gives me the three minute version. That's the 20, you know, like getting the gospel in your body and like in your mind and just repeatedly being like, what did he do? Why did he do it? Hearing the story of Jesus, reading the gospel.
Like, yes, thank you for saying that the gospel is enough. What Jesus did on the cross is enough.
When you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you, and it's okay if you don't feel it all the time. It's not about feelings, but it's just like you should have such a direct connection to the gospel because it's your life story.
Like it's literally, Jesus's story is our story. It's directly connected.
And so listening to the gospel being told is the best thing. I can't believe what it did to me this morning.
It'll change you. And it also made me say, everything is okay.
It brings you back to what he did, the suffering pain he went through. It brings us like, it brought such a love.
It reunited because I just was not feeling good. I didn't even want to go into my quiet place this morning.
And hearing those words and closing my eyes and getting a picture of him, I was like, I found myself literally just going, I love you. I just, I love you so much.
I mean, I just was like, forgive me. I am nothing and you are everything and I just love you.
And I just, and I didn't even, I didn't even even pray. I just I was like rocking back and forth and just being like, thank you.
You just dwell. Thank you.
Yes. Yeah.
Just dwell and just let him let him come. Wait.
That's the one thing that I would say. Steph Stephanie taught us like over a year ago.
I remember she said one word that stuck with me. She said, linger, linger.
We leave too soon. We go too early.
You don't know how many times, and I'm going to let you guys into literally what has happened to me so many times that I'll be in my quiet time and I'll be praying. Sometimes I'm sitting on the floor.
Sometimes I'm marching around. Sometimes I'm worshiping.
It changes every time. It just depends.
Sometimes I drink a little too much coffee and I can't sit still. So I'm marching around and I'm doing what I can with what I've got that morning.
And there has been so many times where I've been like, okay, well, I feel, I try not to leave until I feel released. I try not to leave, but there's part of me that's like, if I have the time, I don't want to leave until I just want to see him.
I want to reach him. I just want to, I want to experience all that he has to offer.
And he longs to touch us. He longs to give us something.
We all are so desperate from a touch from God and he wants to give it to us. We just don't stay long enough.
We just don't give him enough time. And so there's been so many times where I'm like, okay, that was an hour of like good worship and prayer.

And I really, I felt fiery.

I felt like we're good.

I'll get up.

I'll walk in.

Then I'll feel him be like, come back.

I have something else for you.

I'm like, okay.

It's happened to me so many times.

And then I sit down and I'm like, okay, what do you have?

And then I get wrecked by his presence because I chose. And there have been times where I felt that pull and I left.
Who knows what I missed in that moment? You know what I mean? But it's just like lingering, lingering, staying, just staying. You don't have to have something crazy happening to just stay in the moment, stay off your phone, just walk around, think about Jesus.
And at any moment, the Spirit of God can like—you don't know when He wants, but I know—I just imagine He wants commitment from us. Commitment and a hunger.
And then oftentimes, you know, I think you said this scripture last night, but you have not because you ask not. And oftentimes, we find ourselves asking for all these things.
And Lord, would you bless me in this way? And Lord, would you do this? And could you protect me from this? Instead of simply just being like, I want you. I just want you.
And it's so crazy that you were just talking about this because, I, I was like, I don't want anything, Lord. I just want to encounter you.
I just want you. The very next day, and you know, it's a, you know, it's an encounter and you know, it's a touch from when you open the word or something and you just feel that touch and you'll start bawling your eyes out.
and I prayed before bed and I said, Lord, I just want to encounter you, whether it's in a dream or could you just, could you touch me? Could you just touch my heart? And that very next day, I opened the Bible and I was just reading something so random, but I just started bawling my eyes out. And I look up and I said, that's it.
That's a touch. Sweet Jesus.
Jesus is like, it's just the most fulfilling thing you could ever want. That's what we should be asking in prayer, not asking for, you know, although we do that, you know, we are supposed to bring everything to him, but reminding yourself that he's what we want.
So asking for an encounter with him. Yeah, I think you said it.
Same with me. I just, lately, I told Angela that I've been waking up, I get really distracted in the mornings.
I'm like, the phone and this and that, and just what do I have to do with work? So I've trained myself to waking me up at five and I finally pushed myself and I trained myself to go out and go into my secret place. And it like changed my life because there's something about having that time with him before the sun rises that is so intimate.
You don't feel like you're rushed. And so it's really, it's just, it's felt different waking up before the sun goes up.
It's more intimate for me. I mean, it might not work for everyone, but if you, you know, if you feel called to it or if God is waking you up at that time, I would encourage you to push yourself because it's helped.
It's just, it's been a game changer for me. Matthew 6, verse six, it says, when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen.
And when I read that, I just, it was such a great reminder of to come just honestly. Yeah.
And when you have a relationship, you think about your closest relationship with your parent or your friend. It's when you can be so honest and real and raw.
And so that's what I would just encourage you. It's not how deep in your faith you are.
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Somebody said, what do you say to those who are double-minded? And you and I, I mean, you and I can talk so much about this because we've seen so many different types of people. Double-mindedness refers to people who have like divided loyalty or conflicting thoughts about God or their commitment to God or who they think God is, and it's just so dangerous because when you don't know, when you don't, when you don't know fully, and it's a journey, obviously, and it's a process and you don't get there overnight.
But when you are somebody who's divided in your thoughts about God, and I'll speak from my own experience, like my whole beginning of my journey following Jesus, again, it's a process, but it's important for people to know. And I encourage you guys to like get over the hump of double-mindedness and move into full commitment and devotion to Jesus and His word and what He says.
Because I know when I was on fire for Jesus and I believed Him in this and this and this, but then there was so much about my life that didn't reflect that because I didn't believe His word for A, B, and C. That's being double-minded.
You believe Him on some things and you don't believe Him on others. He is in, I want all of you, God.
There is no, that's being double-minded you believe him on some things and you don't believe him on others yeah he isn't i want all of you god there is no that's why people that are lukewarm like that's why he's so intense about being one foot in and one foot out because it's not good for you it leads to confusion and it makes you it's just instability complete instability um it hinders uh your spiritual. Like there's inconsistency in your spiritual growth when you're double-minded and you have that unbelief and you're not believing him fully.
And so I just want you guys to have this be an area that you attack. Like if there's parts in you, it's just got to be your number one priority.
You're not a bad person. You're not a bad Christian, but it has to be your number one priority to be so devoted to the word of God and attack every bit of unbelief.
There's this verse in James 1a. It says he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
You can't be stable when you're double-minded. You can't be stable when you don't know about God and his word and what he actually says.
It says that person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Yeah, it's true.
It's just you're blocking yourself, not because he is mad at you and doesn't want to give you things. You are blocking what God wants to do for you with your unbelief.
There's so much God wanted to do in my life, but I wouldn't let him because I didn't believe him fully. I believed him about all this stuff, but I had one or two things over here that I was like, I'm going to keep this.
Because yeah, I just, I can. I'm so prideful to think that I can, you know? Wow.
And then just Paul writes in Philippians, he says, I say it with tears in my eyes, that there are many whose conduct shows that they're really enemies of the cross of Christ. They are headed for destruction.
Yeah. You know, it's just it's dangerous.
Someone said, sometimes I feel disgusted by myself and my mistakes. How do I navigate this? One thing that has really helped me and I, you know, I felt the same way.
I, that's why I almost didn't come to Christianity because I felt so inadequate. And then when I think about my journey, when I had my first encounter with God, it was the most imperfect I had ever been, the most broken I had ever felt.
And yet it was the most love that I had ever felt from Jesus. And when I started to learn about everyone in the Bible, I realized how imperfect they were.
And I just love this little thing that you can go off of. Jacob was a cheater.
Peter had a temper. David had an affair.
Noah got drunk jonah ran from god paul was a murderer gideon

was insecure miriam was gossip was a gossip martha was a warrior thomas was a doubter so sarah was impatient elijah was moody moses stuttered and um yeah so who am i you were the drunk

I was the

yes

did you really just say you were the drunk? I was the stutterer. That is so crazy to say.
and so think about peter um one of jesus's Jesus's most loyal friends. And Jesus knew Peter was going to deny him.
And so he said to Peter, I'm going to pray that you have faith. And so I know.
Do you know that was a story that made me cry? And so he said, you are going to deny me three times before the rooster crows. And at the end, when Peter denied him three times before the rooster crowed, all of a sudden, Peter had an epiphany of, oh, my gosh, I just deny Jesus.
Because he remembered what Jesus said when he said, you are going to deny me three times. And that's when he realized what he did.
He realized he made that mistake. So many of us, Jesus knows.
He knows that we are these imperfect humans who make mistakes. Peter didn't even realize until he remembered what Jesus said.
We are flawed humans who just make mistakes, who sometimes we do things we don't even realize. We're just merely human beings that just, we make mistakes.
And what did Jesus say to him? What was Jesus worried about? He said to Peter, Peter, do you love me? He asked him three different times, do you love me? And so it's is such a good indication of God's mercy and God's grace and God's love. And God's love is steadfast and he is slow to get angry and quick to forgive.
And we have to remember that. We have to remember God's love for us.
And so when you start to think about all the things you did wrong, we have to remember

what he did for us on that cross and how he is a God of love and mercy and how much he loves you and how he's just waiting for you to say, come back in my arms. All I care about is a broken, repentant spirit before me to come before me and say, I'm sorry.
And he is so quick to forgive and he loves you. My favorite part about that is when he says, I pray for your unbelief.
Jesus is our intercessor even now because he's not dead. He's very much alive in heaven.
And he prays to God on our behalf. Literally, it says in Romans that he's our intercessor and he prays to the Father on our behalf.
He prays for us in our weaknesses. He knows why I suck.
He knows why you suck. And he prays for us amidst that.
You know what I mean? Not only does he know about our weaknesses, he intercedes and tries to help us and not tries. He does help us in them.
So everything that's wrong about you, everything that sucks about you, and we all have it. Trust me.
We all have dirt and gunk and things that we need weeded out and taken out. Like Jesus is helping you in your weaknesses.
He not only knows about it, he's already on it. He's already praying for you.
It's so sweet. Okay, guys, we love you so much.
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Yeah, and if you made it to the end, you're a real one. I'm telling you, I have such a connection to the people who make it to the end because I'm like, you're so cool for staying.
You're real.

You're just really cool. You're really cool.
We love you. We're obsessed with you.
We pray for you. We just thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you for the grace that you give us.
Thank you for being there for us. Thank you for loving us the way you do.
Sorry for crying in the beginning, but I want you guys to know that you get us through so many bad days that you will have no idea about. But we know how much we rely on you guys.
So thank you. We love you so much.
We love you guys so much. Thank you for all you do for us.
Thank you for all your prayers too. Yeah.
Please continue to pray. And let us know how we can pray for you.
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May the Lord bless you and keep you. May he make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.
May he turn his face towards you and give you peace. Shalom, shalom.

I can't, I can't, I can't not say it. Why did we start that? Shalom, shalom.
I'm like, no,

I have religious OCD about it. I can't stop.
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