Welcome to the God's Goodness podcast, where our mission is to encourage as well as highlight
God's goodness and modern-day miracles.
We are your hosts, Josh and Shelley Hankins.
Hi, everybody.
He is here, but I wanted to start this podcast with where this idea came from.
And I want to start with a little warning that this will not be the best podcast you've
ever listened to, but I hope it meets you where you're at and may even bless you with
insights that I've found.
And maybe you've been wondering the same things or know someone this can bless.
Now, I never had a verse of the year before, but this year is going along with Matthew
7, 7, 8.
And I like the new King James version best.
It says, Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find.
Ask and it will be open to you for everyone who asks, receives and he who seeks finds
and to him who knocks, it will be opened.
My favorite Bible verse has always been asking you shall receive, but this one is like really
seeking and finding and everything I've been seeking for this year.
I have been finding and one of my goals this year, it was all started with a desire to
be in a better position in life next year and I knew that it would take small sustainable
changes, but I didn't know what those would look like because I had no idea what direction
to go.
So I was open to finding out what I was looking for.
And one of the blessings I have is the love of books.
And there was this powerful one that I read a while ago or listened to and it was called
the power of your subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy.
I'm going to be mentioning a lot of books in this podcast and they've all been blessings
to me and what I'll do is I will create a list of them that you can look up and then
you don't like if you miss it in.
If you're taking notes, you find something a fun nugget of information.
I'll have it all together at the end.
We should sell shirts that say fun nuggets.
Fun nuggets.
Oh, and the Godcast podcast from your dad.
This is our Godcast podcast.
Now, one of the things I was open to was now that one book, the power of your subconscious
mind was recommended by this one guy on Tik Tok and I was looking for another one of his,
but I didn't know how to look them up on Tik Tok.
I was hoping that I would run across one of these videos and find another book suggestion
and within days he had come across my Tik Tok feed and he recommended this book by Napoleon
Hill called think and grow rich.
I had never heard of it before.
I don't think you ever heard of it before, did you?
Some people have heard of this before.
I've never heard of books.
And Napoleon Hill was actually contracted by Dale Carnegie and for 20 years, Napoleon
Hill interviewed a bunch of successful people and he found out like what they did to become
successful.
And so I learned all these principles that they implemented and one of the things was
to create a specific direction, a goal so you can aim at your target and basically it
said plan your work, work your plan like Mary Kay taught us back in the day and it teaches
you all these reasons and how you can be successful.
And I also at the same time was led to this mind power training with John Kehoe and he
teaches you techniques like visualizing, acknowledging past successes so that you can
create this level of like positive thoughts resonate at higher frequencies than negative
thoughts.
So he teaches you how to acknowledge those past successes and then you'll resonate at
a higher frequency and then it'll lead to more successes.
And another thing he taught was leading out the negatives and there's a lot more than
that.
But implementing those mind exercises daily, it led me to reaching goals.
The first goal I had set out at the beginning of the year was to become a remote notary
in Pennsylvania.
I did that.
The second one was graduating our freedom debt relief.
We had, we've racked up some debt because for 27 months and one week we had no income.
I was a stay at home mom.
You were in the oil and gas industry.
Which is feast or famine if you know anything about that.
And he was laid off and you want to tell a little bit about that?
I wasn't the only one.
We went from fracking over a hundred wells in a year to policy set in place that causes
to frack two wells in a year.
And they laid off over 500,000 people.
And that was one of them.
And it wasn't bad at first because we had a little bit of money saved aside and we had
unemployment and things were pretty good.
It actually was a very good opportunity for me to draw closer to a God which will be discussed
in another podcast.
And it really was beneficial to us.
But at some point all the extra savings and the unemployment ran out and we went well
over a year with zero discernible income that we could use and say that this was something
that we did.
We had no part in surviving for over a year.
This was 100% from God that we leaned into him.
That we trusted that he would take care of us and that he considered the birds in the
air and he considered the flowers and he dressed them and he fed them.
And I think why wouldn't he do that for us?
And it was a wonderful experience as we drew closer to God through that.
And I'm very blessed to have experienced it.
So that wrapped up the end of that chapter.
And then the next thing I wanted to do for us was to do something different with our
finances because what I was doing, it wasn't getting us anywhere.
And one of the things that like this year, everything I'm searching for, I'm seeking.
And my friend Jen O'Donnell, she is life coach, leadership coach.
If you need her, she's on LinkedIn.
You can find her, she's amazing.
But she recommended seed time money a while back.
And I didn't really look into it until I saw an inspiring interview with them on Focus
on the Family.
It was June 12th, if you want to look it up.
And it was called Finding Financial Freedom Together as a Couple.
And on their episode, they talked about their journey.
They grew up in middle class families.
They were never taught what to do with their money.
They had a lot of debt and they decided they wanted to get out of debt.
And they ended up paying off all their debt except their house.
And then they had a plan to pay that off in like three to five years.
But they were led to give more.
And they had an offering like they would give to others like in various ways.
Like if somebody needed money or the Lord led them to help somebody, they were just
giving away money and they were able to pay off their mortgage in nine, I think it was
nine months.
And I was like, what are they doing differently that it worked?
And so I looked up their courses and I went through their courses.
They have money back guarantees that if you implement these principles, they're guaranteed
to work.
Now, what they do is they combine a little bit of Dave Ramsey, you know, whatever Dave
Ramsey's called.
And they take that snowball when you pay off the debt and use that snowball principle.
They implement a little bit of Robert Kiyosaki's principles from Rich Dad Poor Dad.
And they implement a little bit of Craig Hill's strategies.
There's this one book I was led to also by Geno Donald and Craig Hill implements his
one book is an audio book.
It's amazing.
It's called Five Wealth Secrets.
96% of us don't know.
And in it, it's about a book that has this little boy Isaac and he's 10 years old and
he's getting an allowance for the first time.
And you learn what he learns throughout this book and throughout his life.
And he learns not to spend all his money from one pot and put your money in like five jars,
you know, you have a little bit, you'd have tied, you invest, you have an offering, you
have the savings and then 50% you have to spend.
So with implementing all of those things, we have been able to pay off some things.
And with that invest account, we've been able to pay for some of this podcast stuff.
Not all of it is acquired yet.
We're borrowing some microphones from my friend in the meantime, but these new principles
are life changing.
And we have the things in process.
We just have to let them work themselves out.
And the next thing I was led to wanting is I wanted to find out what I was good at and
that I like to do and that I could possibly make more extra money doing.
And the Lord led me to this idea.
He planted the seed Sunday, July 9th.
And believe it or not, I was voted most talkative in my high school class.
And so he's like, why don't you talk God put this idea in my heart?
Why don't you talk to others about me and my goodness and share it with the world?
And so here we are leading, being led to all the right resources and having everything
that we need.
And that was basically the summary of that.
And we have the next few episodes lined up.
We also have a GiveSendGo account.
You look up God's Goodness podcast in the GiveSendGo if you want to help us with any prayers or
if you want to help contribute financially, we have that.
And one thing I learned from that experience with no income of 27 months was accepting
gifts from others.
And I would be glad to accept your gift to help with this vision that God has in store
for us and hopefully we can just build the momentum and get better and better.
Now the next episode that I have lined up is, I know this went really quick, but the
next episode is a little bit about our history.
So we're going to talk about where we came from, Josh's background, it's a testimony
in itself, my background, that's testimony in itself.
And then there's going to be some episodes about our experiences, the lane of hands.
And I was healed from a chronic illness and then my son was healed.
So we just wanted to be able to share those with you.
And then we'll have some actual interviews with others coming up so they can share their
testimonies and get things moving.
Yeah, I can't wait to talk, especially about the healing because that wasn't like, you
were prayed over and then like four days later you were healed.
It was immediate.
You know, it was in that moment and it was very profound and I was there and it was hard
to believe.
And so I just can't wait to share that part.
I've got a lot.
In fact, all my good stories are about God.
I don't have any wild stories as a kid.
I know we wild stories in the military.
Well, maybe like water too.
But most of my stories, all the meaty good stuff that I know is from God's goodness.
It's never ending content with our church and the people that God puts in our lives.
And every time I hear an amazing story, I'm like, oh, that's so good.
I can't wait to have them share that with everybody.
So thank you so much, everybody for coming and joining us.
And we hope to see you here.
Well, we're not going to see you next time, but we hope these listen next time.