Hello and welcome to another episode of Upfront and Undivided with Luke and Dean'na.
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So, but that also being said, do you want to tell them that we've moved?
We did move.
Not physically, but in a digital internet cloud space.
We changed up servers and hosting services for our awesome podcast that y'all love to
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So some of the links and stuff are going to be getting updated or should be updated.
Yeah.
But yeah, so.
So if it looks a little weird, especially if you follow us on Facebook or Instagram
to pull the links that I always put with our, you know, hey guys, hi, new episode.
It's just going to look different.
And also that being said, just know that we moved because it gives us a greater opportunity
as far as, well, it was just a better deal.
Yeah.
Number one, we're trying to be wise.
Part of it was financial.
Part of it was better financially.
Yeah.
Especially because between our podcast, my podcast, your future podcast.
So it was like three podcasts and this new site was going to give us like a quite a good
deal for having basically like a network.
So we are kind of the proud owners of a podcast network.
Yeah.
Budding and burgeoning network.
It's kind of crazy.
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And we've extended our a couple of invitations to different people to kind of walk along
with us on this journey.
So you guys aren't going to be just hearing our voices anymore.
You're going to be hearing friends coming in, battle buddies, people that have walked
life with us that have different, ah, just life experiences that they get to bring something
new to the table.
And also some good things that we'll add to the conversations.
Yeah, it'll be good.
Just to help extend what we go on and some of their experiences when it comes to stuff
that we like to talk about.
So yeah, but yeah, in the grand scheme of things, for the most part, nothing's going
to change.
No.
You know, unless you went to the Buzzsprout website to listen to our podcast, you're still
going to be able to go to everywhere else that you listen to podcasts.
So but yeah, we're still upfront and undivided.
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You post it separately from your Facebook account.
We're on Twitter.
So yeah, I think whenever I post on Facebook, it comes up as me, but it's fine.
I I have a love hate relationship with Facebook people.
That's all I can tell you.
If you're looking for an upfront and undivided page, I mean, I mean, Jesus, we're working
it out.
It's going to be okay.
Yeah, it's going to be okay.
All right, babe.
So what are we talking about today?
So today we're going to we kind of talked about a few episodes ago, episode 70.
We talked about what if things don't go as planned?
And so from some of the conversations that you have and I have had over the past week
or so, we're going to kind of sort of flesh that out a little more, but also go in a bit
of a different twist of it.
We're going to be talking about God's timing.
Yeah.
You know, we always talk about we trust in God, we trust in God, we trust in God.
But do we trust in his timing?
Yeah.
You know, do we have the patience to really let God be God?
Seriously.
You know, because I mean, we've seen it a lot in our own lives and lives of those around
us.
And it's like, well, I've been praying.
But I haven't seen anything move.
So I'm just going to go out and do it.
I don't think that's how it works.
But OK.
Let me know how that works out for you.
Right.
You know, so it is.
It's just and I know I wrote we were talking the other day and I wrote down something.
It was kind of silly, kind of tongue in cheek, you know, about how to do this.
And it's like part of me was it's like I know it might sound a little insulting at first,
but I did it.
I did it off of quoting a movie that was kind of a kids movie.
It's one of our favorite movies.
It is one of our favorite movies.
It's a night at the museum.
And if anybody remembers that movie, the the head from Easter Island.
Yeah.
The huge such.
Yeah.
And he he just speaks in this really deep voice and and he calls I can't remember the
character's name, but Ben Stiller.
He calls him dumb dumb.
Yeah.
And he's like, dumb dumb.
Give me gum gum.
Right.
You know, and so it was like it's just one of those things.
And I know other people that like some like I have a co-worker that loves to, you know,
just sometimes people that aren't always thinking the most logically, he'll he'll say dumb dumb.
Yeah.
Dumb dumb.
So again, we're not trying to not trying to imply anything, not trying to insult anybody.
But that being said, sometimes God insults people, not insults people, but he will.
He will call people out.
He will offend your flesh.
He will call you out.
He will.
You know, well, I'm not I mean, they're they're doing that, but they're doing but are you
but you're doing this.
Right.
You're doing this.
Right.
You know, he will.
He will call you out people that are filled with the spirit and filled with discernment
and listening to the voice of God.
If you're a good friend, if you're a good spouse, you're going to be calling people
out.
Yeah.
You know, to help them.
Yeah.
Not to make them look bad, but to help them.
Because again, it's it's sort of it's going back to that, you know, the the speck in your
brother's eye versus the plank in yours.
But also, it's like if you notice a plank in your brother's eye or something in your
brother's eye or something that's going to stumble, stumble, cause your your brother
to stumble, you want to call him out.
You want to make it known.
You know, so that's that's kind of where some of this came from.
Yeah.
And so one of the things that you kept talking about, you have hiccups, babe.
Yeah, a little bit.
OK, I'm good.
I'm good.
Yeah.
I'm just going to talk about the elephant right there.
You kept like pausing in these weird spaces.
It was this weird.
It was like, are you OK?
Yeah, no, I'm good.
He's got the hiccups.
I'm getting ramped up.
Yes.
And so it's bless your heart.
So it's one of those where when when we were talking the other day and we were saying we
have so many amazing people that are around us or that you just hear like even the pastors
that will give a sermon.
And it's like, man, if I could just do this or, man, I just need this and it's like and
you said you text me and I loved it because you said, don't be a dumb dumb.
Take step one is what you said.
And then it was like as you were going on your I'm not going to say a rant, but you
were going on like you were you were ramped up and you were going on about it.
And I said, babe, the first thing you said, though, what did you say?
And you said, like, like, just like just trust God.
Just just give up your give up your way and just trust God on this.
Stop doing it your way.
And I said that part.
Yeah.
And you were like, I don't know.
I think people truly want to trust God.
And we do.
Oh, yeah.
And then that's when you followed up with do things not just in God's strength, but
also in God's timing.
And so when you were talking about his timing, it was like too many times we think.
Yeah.
We think because we have this and I want to quote Robin Williams, the genie, when he's
like this big colossal, phenomenal, phenomenal cosmic power.
Right.
And and it's like, God, this is who you are.
Yeah.
But like, I'm going to rub you like a genie.
And I want it like now.
And I when I pray my prayers, God, I want you to do it the way that I say it needs to
go down, as opposed to there.
There's certain scriptures.
There's certain things in the word of God.
We were even talking to a really sweet friend of ours after church yesterday and just how
him and God are working things out and figuring things out.
Right.
But what we came across or what we came away from actually agreeing on was there's there's
literally black and white in the word of God.
Yeah.
If you do this, guess what?
It's going to work.
Yeah.
If you do this, I'll bless you.
And it's going to work.
But hey, if you don't do this, then all chaos and all hell will break loose.
And you know, it's going to end really badly.
And too many times, I think even in who even in not just the blessings of God, the favor
of God, us walking it out and going, God, I prayed this.
I've been praying this like we have Daniel, you know, like they talk about Daniel, where
he was literally praying and 21 days later and Daniel's like, and the angel goes, I heard
you the first day, but I had to literally break through and fight the principalities
and the powers of the air.
You don't know spiritually out supernaturally what is going on in the realm above you.
You don't know what kind of warfare that is going down the pipeline in order for your
prayers to even reach heaven or for heaven to come and reach earth.
And it's like, don't stop.
Don't stop.
But then the same and on the same token, this is where I went, ooh, is a lot of times people
will go out and they'll say, oh, well, because I didn't do it completely the right way.
Well, God didn't like strike me dead.
Right.
Well, that didn't seem like a big deal.
But then his timing, you know, he's gracious.
He's gracious to give us what we need when we need it.
He's also gracious to hold back blessings that he knows that we may not be ready for.
He's gracious enough to even hold back the things of like that are trying to destroy
us.
Yeah.
You know, so that way we can grow into who we need to be.
But he's also gracious to say, okay, I'm going to get you going to let you have a little
bit of a spanking right now because you need to, like you need to snap your head back on
the right way.
And again, it's, you know, we've, you know, a lot of us have seen those moments or been
in those moments where God has moved mightily through us, in us, you know, whether it be
a healing, whether it be revelation, whatnot, you know, either in our own lives or we've
been somewhere and witnessed it right away where it's like, yes, I saw that happen.
You know, I haven't seen it personally, but I've listened to people tell stories of how
they've watched like tumors like shrink, you know, immediately on somebody's face or something,
you know, and other things.
So it's like, you know, we know that the miracles of God can happen immediately.
The movements of God can happen immediately.
But it's like, I also think back to, you know, in Genesis, you know, it's like, you know,
God created the earth in six days, you know, and it's like, but what is a day to God?
That's it.
You know, and it's, you know, because again, it's one of those things that, you know, if
you're praying for God to move mightily on your behalf, you know, like, let's say, you
know, because it's this podcast, I'm going to say, you know, let's say you're praying
for your spouse, you know, whether it be praying for wisdom, praying for them to get a better
job to, you know, what, whatever, you know, you're praying for your spouse.
Right.
And after a day or two, you're like, God, why isn't it?
Why aren't my prayers coming through?
You know, why don't you answer my prayers yet?
You know, why haven't you moved on his behalf or why haven't you moved him?
Right.
You know, it's like, I'm faithful.
I'm praying.
I'm tithing.
I'm fasting.
Why haven't you gone yet?
You know, it's just my spouse.
Right.
You know, and so it is.
We so often want to I've heard the term and I don't know if it's a generational thing.
I don't want to say generational, just more of a sign of the times thing.
But it's like so many people have become like microwave Christians.
Yes.
Or pop tart Christians.
Yeah.
And it's like, you know, and I've heard a comedian talk about it.
You know, it's like, you know, back in the day, you know, let's say my grandfather is
our grandfather's, you know, they they fought in World War Two.
You know, they were that era where it was like, you know, I had a grandmother in Kentucky
and her spouse.
Well, they weren't married yet.
But so, OK.
So anyways, but he's over in Europe.
Yeah.
And family's back in Kentucky.
Yeah.
And it's like, OK, well, we're going to write a letter and put it in the mailbox.
Yes.
And it goes to the post office.
It goes to eventually to a ship ship over.
And then, you know, finally eventually tracks him down, what, like two weeks, three weeks,
months later.
Yeah.
And nowadays we have cell phones, smartphones, and it's like, well, they didn't answer in
five seconds, so they must hate me.
Right.
Wait, what?
Right.
You know, so again, it's it how many how often do people do we as Christians, you know,
well, God didn't respond in five seconds.
I hit send on my prayer.
Right.
And he left me on read.
Yeah.
So he must be ignoring me.
You know, one of the things that I actually wrote down when we were talking about this
before we pushed record was because because one of the conversations that I've had this
past week, there was a friend that she was praying some specific prayers about some certain
things.
Right.
And I am going to be very vague about it, but I'm going to try to also make sure that
the point of this is not vague, because what she was saying was she was wanting certain
things a certain way because of, yes, there were some some strategic things that were
needing to be in place for something to be happening for her.
But she was also saying, well, I could I could have between this time and this time, God
is when you can do it, but, oh, don't do it on this date.
Don't do it on this date because of just this is kind of a painful time.
Her past hurts.
Different things like that.
And I I lovingly I mean, it probably sounded pretty harsh when it came out of my mouth
and I did not mean it to be.
But the Holy Spirit, like just like it's one of those where those moments where you bypass
is your brain and it just comes out of your mouth.
And I said, let's see, I mean, I said, I understand where you're coming from.
I even understand making your request known before God, because one of the things that
was said was, you know, we make our requests known before God and we have these absolutely
we have these conversations with God.
Father, I have a covenant with you.
I have we're having this conversation.
You're a good God and you and you're good about like, you know, you honor certain things.
But then I said, but what if he wants to bring healing to the hurt that was that you were
holding on to?
Yeah.
As far as these certain times.
Right.
If what if he wanted to produce joy in that spot as opposed to where there was death or
he wants to bring forth healing where there was injury, you know, or unforgiveness, he
wants to bring forgiveness and he wants to bring grace into that space.
And then the thing that because ultimately, God is God and he can do what he wants to
when he wants to how he wants to.
And it's like when we pray specific prayers, this is what I wrote down to God.
Be prepared for him to deal with you first.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
You know, prepare for him, prepare for him to deal with you first.
Period.
Because for him to prepare you for the next things he's asking you to do, it's usually
you that is standing in the way.
It's usually you.
I'm going to say me, us.
It's usually us.
We are the ones that are usually like God's dealing with us.
He's like, listen, you know, I want to bless you.
I want to do this for you.
But you know what?
Right now, your attitude sucks.
And I need to deal with you on this.
I need you to figure out that you need to lay this offense down.
You need to stop telling me how you think this needs to look.
And you need to trust me.
You need to allow me to start shaping you into who it is that you're created to be for
the next leg of this journey.
Because I have he has prep work.
There's like this preparation, like you're going and you're literally going into a fighting
ring.
You have to go train.
You can't just shadow box.
You got to like actually do something.
You have to you have to pray, worship, like you said, fast.
Just really just prepare yourself for whatever it is that God's father, I'm asking that you
father, place in me a baby.
Father, get me not me.
I mean, we're not going to me.
But you know, like some of you guys, there might be somebody out there that says, Father,
I'm asking for a baby.
OK, then you need to prepare it.
Prepare yourself.
You need to prepare yourself.
Some of you are like, I want to be a spouse.
I want to be somebody that's married.
Then start preparing yourself.
We've talked about this before time and time and time again, where it's talking about like
a wife, a man who finds a wife.
That means that's a woman that's walking around.
She's she's walking as though she's already been spoken for.
You walk as though you are a king's kid.
You walk as though you're about to walk into that school building, the new place that God
is placing you to be.
And you say God has already prepared me to do what I need to do.
I'm not going to sit here and dictate how he wants to do it.
I'm just going to be his mouthpiece and his hands and his feet.
Because you saw before this school year began with me where like the summer he's preparing
me.
He's waking me up in the middle of the night.
He's discussing.
Let's talk about how you handle certain situations.
Let's talk about how you need to be more gracious.
Let's talk about, you know, it's like if we let him be God and stop dictating how he needs
to do it, because listen, how many times is Sebastian or even Gabriel, they like they
come to you.
Hey, can you fix this for me?
Yeah.
And then they try to take it out of your hands or they try to tell you how.
Yeah.
I mean, you know what I mean?
Oh, yeah.
And you just want to go.
Are you going to let me be dad?
Are you going?
Are you not going to let me be dad?
Are you?
You know, you're asking me for advice, but are you going to take it?
Because if you don't take it, I'm going to be maybe a little slower to give you instruction
or I'm not going to say anything until you do the last thing that I told you.
Yeah.
And I've been I've kind of been having those kind of conversations, especially with Sebastian
lately, trying to bring it down to his level.
You know, but again, it's it is it's it's those.
It's like I know we started talking about, you know, timing and all that, but it is it's
also kind of to a degree, it's also about expectations and stuff like that.
And you know, we we do we we need to deal with ourselves and we need to kind of it's
like I don't want to say, you know, get our house in order.
But you do.
You do.
And you know, not just you as a couple, but you individually.
You know, again, we've talked about, you know, when when you're looking at, you know, getting
into a marriage, you know, because you talked about, you know, are you walking like a spouse?
Yeah.
Are you trying to walk that out now?
You know, again, when you get into a relationship that that looks like or you are thinking that
it's going to head towards marriage, you know, are you having those conversations?
Are you, you know, trying to to sit there and say, OK, well, this is, you know, let's
talk about do we want kids?
How many kids?
You know, what let's let's talk about, you know, all the things that.
The real things that couples need to talk about and need to get out in the open.
Right.
You know, you need that.
That exposure to all the topics, you know, aside from aside from being intimate and having
sex, you know, but all of this, all of these topics just need to be exposed.
And and again, you know, recently we had the conversation, we listened to the sermon about,
you know, Jesus looking at the church as a bride.
So good.
You know, and it was it was it was just amazing, you know, because again, it's Jesus is preparing
the church as if the church is a bride that he is then going to present to himself.
Yeah.
You know, and it's it is it's.
If you can't.
You know, it is it's it's part of that preparation is is waiting.
Part of that preparation is the patients.
Part of that preparation is learning the timing.
You know, when when you're in a relationship.
You learn each other's little idiosyncrasies.
Yeah.
You know, all of our little quirks and everything.
It's like, you know, I've seen the jokes, the funny videos of, you know, I'm going to
I'm going to ask my my wife questions and I'm going to respond as if her at the same
time that she's responding, you know, to kind of prove that, yes, I know how she'll respond
to this to this question.
And they are funny.
They're funny.
Oh, wow.
Because the husbands are dead on like 90 percent of the time.
Oh, yeah.
It's hilarious.
Oh, if we could do that.
I don't know.
I don't think so.
It'd be funny, though.
It would be funny.
Do you know?
But no, me.
Yeah.
But part of that part of that knowing part of that that familiarity is because you've
gotten to know them so well that you know their response, you you to a degree will know
their response time.
Yeah.
You know, and and it's the same with God by getting to know God, by pouring yourself into
him, by by surrendering and being vulnerable to God.
You learn.
I mean, I'm going to say it this way.
You learn God's idiosyncrasies.
Yeah.
You know, you learn his character.
You do.
You learn his characters.
And you know, because because if you if you bring something serious to me or if you bring
a concern with with Gabriel or Sebastian to me.
Yeah.
And I don't respond right away.
You know, even if you're not looking at my face, you know, even if I'm on the phone.
OK, I know he's I know he heard me.
I know he's listening and he's thinking.
I know he's processing.
Yeah.
You know, and it's it's kind of the same with God is.
We have to know beyond knowing that when we submit our prayers, when we say when we turn
our face to the heavens and say, God, I know in your word, it says this.
Yeah.
And I can ask this and I can test you in this.
And so I'm going to come to you and I'm going to say, I need you to move in my finances
or I need you to move on behalf of my spouse because I don't know what's going on and we
need help or we just need new revelation.
Yeah.
And I'm asking that you just, you know, please come in and help us on this or please please
show yourself in this area.
Thank you.
Yeah.
You know, and then you know, because you you have this you have this relationship established
that you know.
God doesn't have to respond right away.
Yeah, he's processing.
Yeah.
He's contemplating.
He's going through all of the different variables.
Yeah.
Of if I do a B could happen.
If I do B, C could happen.
If I do X, Q could happen.
Right.
You know, and it's, you know, again, because I know I know parents do it.
I know I do it a lot.
You know, I'm sure, you know, you do it, you know, with if I come to you with an idea or
a question or what if we do this?
You know, you're probably going to sit there and think in your mind, you're going to run
through all these scenarios.
Oh, yeah.
Of depending on how I respond to this, these are these are a handful of outcomes that could
happen.
Right.
Or, you know, and so it is.
And I mean, it's like, I hate to make it that simple, but it truly is that simple.
That's what goes through God's brain.
Yeah.
And it's a lack of a better term, you know, and because he has he knows the plan that he
has for us.
He's counted the hairs on our heads.
He knows that if we get it, I'm going to call it out.
God knew before that night at church, if you had a five dollar bill put in your hand, he
knew how impactful that would be to your life.
You know, and he knew that you would be sitting here.
Yeah.
Having a podcast because that five dollars got put in your hand.
All those years ago.
Yeah.
So good.
And I think too many times when you were talking and you were like, you know, here's God just
kind of being still.
And I was like, you know, wait a minute.
Why is it that we think that he's so quick on so many different things?
It's like I think of I think of my all time favorite passage of scripture.
Again, I use this all the time.
But guys, listen to me.
It works when it talks about love is patient.
Well, look, God is patient.
Yeah.
God is kind.
Yeah.
He you know, he he's constantly covering us.
He doesn't he doesn't push.
He's not boastful.
He's he's God.
Yeah.
You know, it's not like it's kind of in my brain.
It's like he doesn't even have to toot his own horn kind of situation.
Right.
But it's like if if we genuinely say, God, I thank you that you're being patient.
You sent me that rule today that I literally you saw like you came into the bedroom and
I'm sitting on the floor and I'm like I'm like in awe.
Yeah.
Because it was it was a video of three gentlemen and one is coming out the door and one was
portraying Jesus.
One is just us right as humanity.
And there is a guy behind around the corner with a two by four big old board that was
supposed to be the enemy.
Satan right.
Yeah.
And here's Jesus looking at the guy that's about to come down the steps and he goes,
no, no, no.
Just wait.
Yeah.
And there's no talking.
This is all action.
And you see this guy like starting to pace and he's tapping his watch like, God, are
you serious?
We've got to we've got to go.
And he's like, no, no, no.
Yeah.
Because I literally know what's around the corner.
Yeah.
But if you walk now, if you do this now, the enemy is going to literally blindside you.
You are going to go down for the count.
You're going to get hurt.
And I'm here to keep you safe.
I'm here because I'm a good God.
Yes.
I'm a good father.
I want nothing but the best for you.
And I see everything.
So why on earth would we even want to question?
Yeah.
The God of the universe.
It's not that.
Listen, guys, I'm not saying you can't.
Yeah.
It's OK to come with God with questions.
He's not scared of questions.
He's not scared of our emotions.
No.
Oh, gosh.
He's not scared of bombs, guys.
He's not scared of any of it.
Yeah.
It doesn't it doesn't scare him.
No, not at all.
But what it is, it's it's but it is it's a thing of our own humanity.
There's those days where I just go, wow, you know, father, just I'm just going to listen.
Yeah.
I want my ears to hear what you have to say.
So that way, the rest of me follows.
Yeah.
And I was I was thinking about that when you were saying that, you know, thinking about
timing and patience and you know how God is patient.
And I was thinking back to to earlier when I was talking about, you know, how sometimes
we see God move quickly, move right away.
Yeah.
Those now moments.
Those are 100 percent real and we've experienced them.
Yes.
But also there are other times where you see it as an immediate response for prayer, but
you don't see all of the times that somebody's been praying.
Wow.
You know, like you use Daniel in his 21 days.
What if somebody showed up day 21?
Yeah.
And all of a sudden saw Daniel praying.
Yeah.
Never heard Daniel pray.
All of a sudden, Daniel's praying.
Here comes the angel.
Yeah.
And you'd be like, man, God answers you right away.
Yeah.
You know, it's like you didn't see that 21 days of prayer.
That's so good.
Yeah.
Crying out.
But, yep, here it is.
So good.
No, that's so good.
I love that.
So I would say what I want to leave with everybody is
just be patient.
See I literally wanted to start singing my song that I always sing.
I'll sing it.
I'm going to sing it for you guys, okay?
Because I've literally taught this to my kids.
Yes.
I learned it from a literally a childhood musical that I learned back when I was like
kindergarten, first grade and it's stuck.
And it's literally goes like this.
It says, have patience, have patience.
Don't be in such a hurry.
If you are impatient.
You're watching my face.
I am.
Don't get in such a worry.
Remember, remember that God has patience too.
And think of all the times when others had to wait for you.
I do.
I love those little songs because I had some songs growing up in the Catholic Church, but
nothing like that.
Ours were just silly.
Yeah.
It's called from the music machine.
You can actually look it up.
It's pretty crazy to look at it now.
But just know that where God's got you today is where God's got you today and he is God.
Does he answer prayer?
Absolutely.
Do you want to see him move mightily in your life?
Absolutely.
You also have to remember that when you pray specific prayers, I want to give you guys
this one more time.
Know that God's going to probably deal with you first.
He's going to deal with you first.
And whether that's you're being dealt with for the situation, I know with me specifically
there's some things in my life that I'm seeing in our children and I'm seeing in our family
and I'm seeing in our community and our church that I have been specifically praying for.
And the thing that God has been dealing with me is how much do you want to war?
How badly do you want this, Deena?
And I'm like, I want it bad, God.
Are you willing to fast and pray?
Yes, sir, I am.
Let's go.
Because some things will not come down.
Some principalities and powers will not go.
Things will not move until you do certain things.
These are all the Word of God.
This is everything that the Bible says.
So just stay consistent.
Be patient.
Believe that God has nothing but good for you.
And even in the suck, God is so very much in the midst of it.
He's not going to leave you in the furnace by yourself.
He's not going to put you in the lion's den without something getting stopped.
He's not going to place you in a place without His preparation not already going before you.
So just rest in knowing that.
And then dig deep.
This is this dig deep.
Know that God has got He's a covenant God.
He's a God that wants to walk in this with you, not just do it for you.
We get to co-labor with them.
We get to stand back and go, oh, God, that was amazing.
Look what God just did.
And he used measly oh me.
You know, so just be encouraged.
God is very much on His throne and He is very much in these prayers.
So what is it?
What did you say?
Oh, I put it away.
Hold on.
So step one, step one, surrender to God and don't be a dumb dumb.
Yes.
Take step one.
Yes.
Okay.
Step two, do things not just in God's strength.
Oh, see that in itself.
Don't do it in yours.
Do what you can.
Do what you were created to do.
Yeah.
But know that in your weakness where you can't, He can.
And that's where we get to tap into His Holy Spirit.
Yeah.
But it's not just His strength.
But make sure that you're walking in His timing.
Yes.
Be patient knowing that He's God.
Be still and know that He's going to fight for you.
All right, guys.
Have the best week.
Enjoy the journey.