Welcome to the God's Goodness podcast where our mission is to encourage and highlight God's
goodness and modern-day miracles. We are your hosts, Josh and Shelley Hinkins. Today we actually
don't have any guests with us, just the special guest of the Holy Spirit leading this episode,
and we wanted to do a year in review. This is going to be the last episode of the first year,
and we just wanted to, I guess, share all that God did in this podcast because he worked everything
together. It was mind-blowing how everything just came together. So from the very beginning,
oh, I almost forgot. Do you want to open us up with an opening prayer?
I would love to. Okay, go ahead. Heavenly Father, we thank you so much that you are God,
that we don't need to try to be God because you are a great, good God. We thank you so much for
your presence with us throughout our lives. We invite you here today on this podcast to take
up one of these empty seats to just sit as we glorify your name, as we contemplate what you've
done for us in these 52 weeks. We just want to come together in solidarity, threadification,
and praising you, and that you would continue to bless us into this next year. In Jesus' mighty
name. Amen. So I was thinking back, and it all started when I was in Mary Kay, and then I met
Jen O'Donnell, and she was in an episode, so check her out. And I met Ian Wreath through Jen, and Ian
is a life coach, and if your company needs any help being more productive, they are amazing.
And it was a conversation with Ian that led to this idea. I was thinking, like, what am I good at?
What do I love to do? And what could I possibly make money doing one day? And that, well, that
hasn't happened yet, the money part. We do have donations, and that helped us with things along
the way. But Ian, the next day, I got this download from the Holy Spirit, and he was like,
in the bathroom with me, and he planted this seed, and he's like, hey, why don't you talk about my
goodness and share it with the world? Because I was hearing all these stories of God's goodness,
and it was just so inspiring to me, and I'm like, we should share it with the world.
And I was like, awesome. And then, of course, I have to have my husband along with me, and
he was so excited. I'm like, guess what? It was the exact opposite. My wife is an extrovert. If you
didn't know her, if you couldn't tell, and I'm an introvert, and when she wanted to do this, I felt
dread because this is not my box of expertise. And the first few episodes even, I would comment on
how I hated it, like how much I didn't, I didn't like it. But God wasn't, wasn't satisfied with that.
And so he met me on my terms, as he often does, in the place where I am, in my weakness, in my
irrational thoughts. And he reminded me that we were married, and we were one flesh,
and that when he called her to the ministry of this podcast, that he called me to, he just
used the one that was going to listen. And once I realized the truth of this podcast,
I got a little bit more on board with it, and a little bit more proactive, and I stopped being
such a crybaby about it, and I just started being motivated and loving and doing all the
things that God would ask me to do in this podcast. And so it really has transformed my life from the
very beginning. I know it has transformed a few other people's lives that we have spoken to offline,
that we have met out in public. I really appreciate the opportunity to be able to bring Jesus into
people's homes, to bring the glory of God into people's homes, and to reaffirm to some people
that God is still in the business of miracles. So good. I forgot to mention Ian also has an
episode. So check out his episode. It's a Choose Whom You Will Serve, and it's one of our top 10.
And what a ride. And then, okay, so to do a podcast, most people don't know how to do a
podcast. You look it up on YouTube, and you're like, oh, this is what they do. Everyone says,
oh, use this microphone. And I'm like, okay, this seems good. And I made a little wish list. And then,
turns out, of all people I work with, this is all about social equities, all in who you know.
Of course, we know the Holy Spirit, and God works all things for us. And my co-worker, T.J.,
he actually had a recording studio in India before he moved to the U.S. And he was able to advise me
on which microphones to get. He said, don't listen to them. You'll be buying microphones sooner
than later. So he advised on better microphones. And he let me borrow his microphones until I was
able to get my own. So our first four episodes are with T.J.'s microphones. And, ah, it's just
of all people that I actually work with him. And now we're neighbors. So he's able to advise on the
studio that God has blessed us with. And we'll get to that as well. And just how God worked
everything together. Like, I had plans of having Ian as the first guest. And I was like, why can't he
be the first guest? Because the idea came from a conversation with him. And the way that God worked
it out, Ian was able to record in November. And we released this episode in December. And he had
an episode about a vision of heaven and a vision going to hell. And it seemed like a theme in December
was heaven. And Pastor Pete even started a series in December, heaven is here. And we had two episodes
about heaven, trips to heaven. So like, God organized everything. And one of the things I had to learn
working with people and booking people was I shouldn't have to work really hard. Like, it'll
just fall into place if that's their timing, like when it was meant to be recorded. Because
when we released it, wait, at the beginning we were doing recording two and three a Saturday.
Yeah, it was not filling my cup. That was nuts. But we wanted to have a few episodes in the queue.
And now we're able to, we record on Saturdays. And then Sundays, you got to have a flow. And then
do things in the most efficient way possible. So Sundays, I do all the social media videos.
If I get any ideas throughout the week, I'll put them in my notes and then just record them in one
day and edit. And then I just post throughout the week and then it allows me to have more time with
the family. So what else did he work together? Relationships. So we had Patty Barnaby on with Joe
and they have this Club 316. And it's a support group for families who have members, family members
who are addicts. And we were able to connect Patty and Joe with, so check out their episode Club
316. We were able to connect them with Sam Gattano. And Sam has an episode as well from
Death to Life, I think it was. And that was the number one episode for months. And then Sam got
to speak at one of Patty's events for the kids as a little testimony because he does that celebrate
recovery. And so he was able to speak into their lives. And just the connections from this are so
cool. It is incredible to see the God of work in everything. And it's different because we know
he is able. We know he is willing and we know he is working. It's different when we see how he does it
and how different from our imagination it turns out to be and how creative our God is
blows my mind. Just like some of our guests, I would say, wow, this one is a great one. I
really love this one. And the people did not speak. Right. And then there'd be one is like,
all right, this is all right. This is good. And it's like number one. And so I love that I cannot
predict based off the needs of the people who is the most influential speaker. I love that it's
not up to me. Yeah, I love that. I love that we really do need to interview as many people as
possible because we don't know what's going to help people. We don't know what is going to speak
into someone's heart at any given time. And I love that it's so random. My wife loves to
get to know people and she'll talk to them and text them and just get a feel for them. And I go in
cold turkey. I go in. Some of these people is the first time I've ever seen these people in my life.
And I have no idea what we're talking about. We did one episode where she brings up a book about
10 things I hate about my husband. And I was like, oh, I have been reading it for a whole week.
You didn't see it laying around the house. Nothing. She clearly does not know how a man operates. So
I was like, oh my goodness. And then she continued to say the rest of the title. How God healed my
heart restored my marriage and set me free. It's our number one episode by far. So check that out
with Shayla Huber. So I was like, oh, that's not very good. I was like, oh, it's got a little better.
It recovered at the end. And I couldn't wait to hear about it. And all the guests that God lines
up, he is clearly using Shelly to line up these guests because she's the one that keeps booking
them. And I have got this, you know, she's, he's batting a thousand and I'm over over here.
I just really love the diversity in the people that God is calling onto the show and the diversity
of miracles, the diversity of testimonies for people come from different backgrounds from
heroin addicts to a lot of people saved in the Alakini County Jail.
Like it's so incredible that I don't understand how people can refute that God is God. I don't know
how people can mock him. I don't know how people live their lives without him. When you see the
things that he does and it's clear that these are the things he does and the things he weaves
together, the tapestry that he is making that we are just a part of, that we get to be a part of this,
it blows my mind that there are people that don't believe when the evidence is all around us.
Yes, every episode, episode after episode. We have authors on here, authors that have
movie offers. We had Wendy Lawson. She was on here a few times. God's mad cat missionary
and she is a wild child. You'll love her. So check out her episodes. There's a playlist in YouTube
but it's just so neat how we take referrals by the way. So we, we got the one, the one
who is really there too and Wendy's given us a couple great referrals as well. We had Michael
Boyd with us and he was a visitor of the Allegheny County Jail himself and then she led us to Justin
and Delice Buckles and they are on fire for, for God and they are an amazing couple and
they're going to be our first episode of season two. So check that out. Stay tuned for next week's
episode. Tune in next week. Keep it coming back for more. So if you see me in real life or on
social media, I love the feedback. So if you do have feedback, I appreciate it because I don't
know if this is touching lives or not until people tell me and it just helps fill my cup because
I'm like, without that, I'm like, what's the point of this? But then I'm like, well, if I stop doing
this, people are like, well, I just stop. Like, why would I stop? It's so funny because I'm only
exact opposite. I don't need the feedback. I do it because I like to talk about God's goodness
and I'm an introvert and I'd rather people don't approach me and tell me things or not.
And so I'm confident that God is going to reach people, right? And my wife, it needs the reassurance
and it just shows how different each and every one of us are. A bonus though is that I can encourage
her when she's feeling low or if she's feeling disparaged because I feel no such thing and I
can just go right into it. And I love that God has blessed our family with this dynamic,
that she is who she is and I get to be who I am literally filling in all the gaps
to make us one complete zipper. Like we're just merged together that without it, we don't hold
anything. But together we're tight and we're linked and we hold things together. And I think it's just
a wonderful analogy to knit us as a zipper. Like individually we're nothing now that we're a family.
And if you're a single person, you're not a zipper, you're a single person. But if you're a married
people, treat it like a zipper, you're nothing by yourself. But together you're strong, you're fastened,
you're able to move, communicate. It's a wonderful thing that God has established in the institution
of marriage. Definitely remember, you are on the same team. So when you're fighting with your
spells, just turn that fight against the enemy. So you guys are a team. So...
What a silly concept that is, right? Yeah. You're the same team. So what are you doing? I'm fighting
with myself. Why would I slow myself down? Isn't that nuts? We watch... We all do it. We all do it.
We watched War Room last night. So Nathan could see how she used the closet because we have a
closet in our studio that he wants to use for a prayer room. A nice big one. Oh my gosh,
he's gonna love it. So I wanted to give him some tips. So that's fresh in my mind. And I didn't see
it either. And it was a great movie. Oh, so good. You know, shameless plug. You should watch it.
I'm not, I'm not permitting the movie. You're the producers. I don't, I don't even know who produced
it, to be honest with you. I just know one of the characters in it. Well, two, because one of them
was in another movie. Priscilla Schreier's in it. Yeah, that's the one I know. She is so good. Yes.
Oh goodness. If you ever hear a preach, she's also very good at that. If you ever get the opportunity.
So good. We have gone down 52 weeks. Well, this is the 52nd week of doing this podcast. And it feels
like we've only been doing it for a little bit. It feels like we've only done a few episodes. But
when we look back, we're like, Oh yeah, that one, that one. People have a lot to catch up with if
they're getting started now. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And it always amazes me how similar
some stories are about how God finds somebody in their loneliness and their brokenness and how he
completely transforms them. And I'm also amazed at just how different everybody is, right? Because
God doesn't just pick on one person as his pet project, right? It's every single one of us,
or his pet project, all eight billion people on this planet. All we have to do is tell him, yes.
All we have to do is tell him, I want you in my life and able to multitask 8.8 billion people
simultaneously, blessing everybody simultaneously, giving everyone mercy and grace simultaneously,
right? He is capable. He's so beyond our imagination. It blows my mind, right? It's so easy to consider
God as my God, my God, my personal God who does things with me, right? Who speaks to me, who
blesses me, who loves on me, right? It's so easy to think of him that way. But then when we have to
look at others and say, we're the same God that loves my wife, that is tickled in the morning
when she wakes up and starts praying to him, right? He like kicks his feet out the edge of his bed,
like it starts, the day starts, I get them. This is amazing. I'm again just totally amazed
that we are so self-centered sometimes as a people that we fail to realize that the God of Jacob,
the God of Isaac, the God of Abraham, the God of Josh is also the God of Shelley, is also the God of
Jim, is also the God of Delise, is also the God of Jeremy, is also the God of Pete, right? We
oftentimes are so selfish that we want all of God's love and we forget that God is loving every
single one of us equally on planet earth and his heart is broken for those that that would just reject
him, right? He wants a relationship with us. He created us for a relationship with us and so we've
got evangelists that try to preach. We've got people that meet people one-on-one. We've got podcasts
where we try to reach people. We've got guests who write books to try to reach people. So like these
are people that understood the assignment. These are people that know. My wife is one of the people
that knows that to reach people you have to speak to people and so understanding the assignment with
our authors and our evangelists that know that each and every person is a loved creation by God
and this podcast is for those people. This podcast is for those that might need to reassurance
that God still loves them, that God is still for them, that God is in the business of miracles and
that they should never lose hope because he is in that hope. He is that hope and oftentimes our
lives can take us places where we can forget that. We can be in a moment. We can be in an era. We can
be in a week. We could be in a day where we just don't feel his presence and ladies and gentlemen
would like to remind you that oftentimes you can't see what is right against your nose and those
moments that you feel that God is farthest from you, I promise you is as close as to you as you've
ever been to him in that moment. It's just so close that you cannot see him because your perspective
is wrong. Good words. Good words. What else fell into place? Well the studio, he said you were in
Hockbeth studio. Oh my gosh. So one of the things, we've been searching for a rental for five years
because I felt like Goldie Box. The one house is too big and then the one house was too small and
I'm hoping this one's just right and one of the things on my wish list was a studio, an in-house
studio and the Lord of course provided and we're in our new studio. We still have to fix it up a
little bit so when you send money we're putting it towards that. Oh yes. And it has its own door.
It's in the basement which is still ground level and the dogs can't even know when we have people
in. It is amazing. So and also we have smart lights in the kitchen so we told Nathan when
the lights are on on red we're recording so that was fun. It's a nice little reminder to help him
not to to get the dogs all riled up and have them which you know little boys they like to play and
and easily forget and so this is just one of those gentle reminders that lets him know that hey mom
and dad are recording and it's up to mom and dad to wreck it by leaving their alarms on on their phone.
Only we're allowed to interrupt it. I probably need a red light in here. Oh my goodness gracious.
So it's just really cool and then of course TJ is advising that he came over and told us what we
should do to update things a little better. I want to put things on the walls so it sound happening.
Yeah that would be good. It's just so cool we have enough room that we can pop up a
card table so we can have food before our fellowship of the podcast and like how he does that.
It's just so cool how everything lined up and then the landlord he left this desk in here
so we actually have an extra desk that Nathan can do his school at or YouTubeing one day.
Yeah he's got goals. So you know. God willing he'll accomplish them. Goal crushers.
So if any of these episodes have been a blessing to you we're asking you to pass this on because
it's just why keep God's goodness to yourself and if he did it for one of us he can do it for anyone.
He will do it for all of us. He's so creative. It's not going to be in the same way and you're
going to have your own story and he just uses it's so neat. It's like one of those cross stitch
pieces of work where it looks nice on the up top but underneath it could look like a horrible mess
and right now we see like the horrible mess and God's watching it all come together on top
and it's just really neat. He's looking at the beautiful tapestry and we're looking like
he already knows it. Chinese fire drill or was it the a keystone cops. Oh my gosh but it's just so
neat at the end. While you're through the other side of whatever you're going through you're like
wow that was amazing and like this is going to be one of those rides where like humble beginnings
and thank God for my husband because I am one too. I did Mary Kay and a tracked number gross
and I was tracking the numbers and I'd get a little disappointed if the numbers went down a month
and he just was there multiple times telling me it's going to go down but then it's going to shoot
up really high and we're waiting for that. It's like a roller coaster. It's going to catch the
right people and they'll tell the right people and it'll catch on. God's word will not return void.
Will not. One of the fun things is on social media now that we've been doing, I've been doing this
a year on there, is seeing the memories pop up and I was like oh yeah I remember back then I thought
I was going to learn about editing audio and then I started learning about how much there was to
learn and I was like oh that's not going to bring me joy. I was like I am not going to learn that
we found a wonderful audio editor and his name's Tima if you're looking for a good one.
It's nice to support somebody. He's in Ukraine I'll admit. It's more sustainable if you're
going to outsource it to another country because the money can go farther in this country so
I'm not the only one who outsources elsewhere so if you're looking for extra help, fivers the way to go.
Yeah we're even looking at maybe getting somebody for upcoming videos. Yeah we might update videos
and such and you know if we outsource we already got a tip from someone in Honduras so we use
whoever's available, whoever God wants us to use and if paying them blesses them then you know God
willing I hope they're blessed richly. So this is meant to help other people and bring God's goodness
to the world and I just hope that people realize that he's still doing miracles today like why would
he stop? Right, like the cessationists right and they don't believe that God is actively in the
business of healing and miracles and such and I think that is so wild and at the same time I'm
like the faith that they have is incredible. Like at what point did he think he stopped? Like what year?
To me it doesn't matter. The fact that you believe in Jesus without him doing anything right what faith
that is like I'm not even upset with these people are incredible like I've seen miracles so I know
they're wrong but at the same time to have the faith without the miracles is how we should truly live
right? My wife has shared his story about carrying my son up to bed and lessons learned from being a
parent and in that lesson I realized that that's how God treats us is that it doesn't matter how we
behave that he loves to take care of us because he loves us. More his children and inversely
that's how we should love God not because he's done something for us but because he is our father
and the cessation is to me are the embodiment of that. It doesn't matter what God has done for them
because to them he's done nothing that he is the father and they come to him with love and I believe
that is some of the purest faith that we can have. Again I think it's wrong because I've seen
miracles but at the same time I'm never going to discount the faith that they have right? You love
Jesus you're in the same team as me right? And I would say that your faith is stronger than mine
because he has given me miracles to see. He's given me things to hold on to. He's given you
nothing to hold on to that you believe right? Clearly he has right because you call on him.
So clearly he has but you're not identifying with it and I just think that's an amazing
kind of personality to have is I expect nothing from the father nobody you're worshiping him for
because he's the father. I love that. I love that. That speaks to my heart. It doesn't have
no shade during it all right? That is an amazing amazing and that you know I'm thinking about it.
I wanted to ask you what was your favorite episode? I feel the most powerful was
Caitlyn Childs. Seven days to a life of limitless. How to ditch the rules of religion live a life of
freedom. I think that's what it's called the tagline. A lot of us are stuck in that
you should do this. You should do this. You should do this. She was a role follower and there was a
time in a few years in her life where she learned a lot of lessons from God and how to break free
from those rules. God wants that relationship with us. It's not about doing things or not doing
things. Well that kind of is but it was about that relationship and the number one commandment.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and love others as yourself and
with that relationship with God it changes everything. Like when I was younger I was taken
to church by my dad and I learned you know teacher child the way that they should go and they
not depart and so I may have looked like a wild child for a little while and my parents oh my gosh
bless their heart. I made my dad lose his hair and I went hog wild crazy and it just wasn't the
life that any parent would want their child to live. You know especially one that they took
to church and he's probably thinking what did I do wrong and then God changed everything. It's
that relationship. Like I would pray to God you know while I was astray going to the bar doing
I did heroin at one point people like God changes everything like you don't have to stay that way.
If you want to change you just ask and say hey I think I think I might want to change this
and if it is his will he will want it to be your will and then he'll make it happen. You pray it
and he's like yeah absolutely I would love for that to be different for you and yeah so her book
she has a bunch of videos in TikTok so if you wanted to see Caitlyn Childs if you want to get all
the information free she makes these really great analogies and she learns these lessons from God
and she makes it really understandable and you could also get her book on Amazon or the TikTok
shop if you want it signed and it was just I liked hers a lot. I just feel that's a lot of really
good information for people. What about you? My favorite is still Tiffany. Tiffany Dawson
talked a heavenly message. Yeah when she was in the coma and she spent she spent her coma in heaven
right. Look how amazing is that like and she got to see things hear things and experience things
and it I don't know why I really really really like that episode I don't know if it speaks to me.
I think it's some of the things that she said and it really hit home for me and without getting
personal or you know what it is or whatever and I'm not going to need the tissues because I'm a man
over here so her episode really spoke to me. It wasn't her herself but it was what God did through
her that really impressed something upon me and it really stuck with it. It's the only podcast
that I actually would listen to. I've never listened to any of them. I just experienced them and then
I go and my wife listens to them three four five times so that she gets the editing right and such
and so God bless her soul. I am not inclined to do that but but this episode Tiffany's is one of the
ones that I absolutely would listen to again and it really spoke to me. I remember getting a little
teary eyed when she would say certain things because of how much it spoke to me and I hate
I hate that. Oh I vehemently hate showing emotion in front of other people. Right when I'm by myself
I'm cool with it. I feel safer. You know you're laughing but it's a common thing for people.
They need to feel safe to express and I feel safe in the presence of God to express which is good
but I don't feel safe in the presence of just anybody. The Holy Spirit Jesus and God that's it.
Those are the three people I feel safest in front of to show emotion and that's okay.
If that's you that's okay. There's nothing wrong with that but you should show emotion. You should
open up and you should be with God. It was really cool to hear Tiffany Tiffany had a testimony from
being on the podcast. We put it on social media and it was her coworker like they weren't trading
her very nicely and then they heard the episode and her story and things just totally changed and
they're actually friends now and it just it's amazing how this podcast can change lives and to
hear that is just a blessing to me that it was a blessing to them and you wouldn't even expect
something like that. So I'm just I thought about doing a series of how like if the podcast has
changed your life like the before and after before the podcast this but then after it's kind of like
my kingdom see if you have there's a kingdom seekers app and granted it's a paid for thing but
it's worth it and one of the things that Holly the hostess does is she guides you to say before
kingdom seekers it was this way and then after so I like that concept so I wanted to use that for
this and so on social media I did Tiffany's video if you know you've been blessed by the
God's goodness podcast we want to hear from you we'll go first and so we put it out there so I love
that you know. And anybody that listens to the podcast feel free to reach out and share how
God has impacted you with the stories that he's impacted other people with right because we are
all in different journeys but it doesn't mean we can't learn from each other's journeys it doesn't
mean that God isn't speaking to you by somebody else's testimony it is important for us to understand
that God is seeking us continually and that we need to seek him continually as well and we get
locked up in our busy lives but God always has time for us no matter how much time we don't give him
or we do give him he always has time for us and I think we need to get back sit down remember
that we have a God that cares so much about us and give him that time back right praying ceaselessly
like what does that look like we look at it in the Bible hey pray ceaselessly like I can't pray
24 hours a day that's impractical but you talk to him all day long all day long same conversation
just pick it up when it's a convenient right and so I could be outside and enjoying the weather and
then I'll start thanking God for the beautiful sun and the air and then an alarm will go off and I'll
go run to an emergency and I'll come back and pick it up from there as if nothing happened or I may
even change my conversation saying hey Lord please keep us safe as we're running out the door and
then I'll come back and then pick it up I guess this is that's what praying ceaselessly is it's
having an unending conversation with our Creator it just does not end it's like having a conversation
with a friend that you see or yourself in your head or yourself in your head right it's just
like so if you had a friend over and you would talk to him and sometimes you don't sometimes
you're watching tv with him and neither one of you are saying anything but his presence is still
there right and then when you have a question you ask him and if he has something to say to you he
tells you and we need to remember that it is a two-way street that he is trying to communicate
with us that he is speaking to us and again Caitlyn her book the seven days to a life of limits
that will actually help you to under to hear God's voice he actually started reading the book
yeah you're welcome it was that good and so in this book she'll illustrate how she did her steps
and to get a better communication life with with Christ so that God the Father could speak to her
that she would understand more clearly and we all could use that like how many of us we could don't
raise your hand because I can't see it or you can I don't care how many of us are locked in to
believing that a conversation is one-sided that we only ever hear our thoughts and when he talks it's
very few and far between and that's just not true every bit of social as my wife not me because I'm
I'm an introvert and God God I don't think God's an introvert he is comfortable with silence but
this God that we serve is a great big God that wants a relationship with us and in that relationship
he doesn't want the communication to be one way and so if I can encourage our listeners for this
coming year for anything I would encourage them to listen for the voice of God listen to what he's
telling us to do it's okay to be passive when we listen and it's not okay to be passive when we've
heard and let that be the distinction that's a word for someone obedience yeah sit down with a
journal have a pen out and just write down what comes to mind what he feeds you and if you don't
know if it's from God or not just line up with the Bible so those are some of the tips in Caitlyn's
book she's got some really cool stories there's this blanket story that I cry every time I tell
it's nuts that God used her and I did a video about it on social media so check it out this
like the blanket story and oh my gosh I love it and well God used Caitlyn she she made a blanket
and she blessed this person with it she didn't know who it was going to be for but she made it
and for this lady who was supposed to go into a season of rest and the way that Caitlyn made it
it had a very special meaning to this lady and it was a gift from God essentially and it was a blessing
because Caitlyn was obedient she was available she took the steps that the Holy Spirit told her to
take and she even had a deadline she was done the day before because she's a she's a boss and
she's awesome and hashtag get her done and it was just all you know God's timing is perfect
and how he works out the details is just mind-blowing it's as mind-blowing as going through 27
months of no income and not losing a house not you losing utilities we were there and I actually
shared that story on social media too so if you're not following along on social media please
hit the follow button hit the like button rate it and Spotify iTunes I don't even know where else
you can rate it but it'll really help and sharing it helps as well or in 36 countries now as of this
recording today and that's just wonderful and God can go anywhere he doesn't care if it's
illegal to talk about Jesus in that country or not he's opening doors he doesn't believe in our
house man he goes to jungles and oh my gosh he literally wants to reach all of us and he knows
who you are he knows how you are he knows if you're that go get her and he knows if you're the one
that learns the hard way I promise you he knows and when we're in these difficult times it's because
you learned the hard way and he's teaching you I know because I'm a hard learner my wife is not
she doesn't need the hard way but because she's married to me she often gets a little taste of it
because I do and that's okay and that's how God reaches me and I feel that I have been
way transformed from where I started to where I am now and and I accept him teaching me the hard way
I accept his way over my way I accept that he is he is the author and creator of my life and that
he is faithful to complete what he has started in me and I am by far nowhere near the end product
but I am well on my way and he is behind me every step of it you know what we can't forget to mention
this life-changing thing called splonkta. S-P-L-A-N-K-N-A splonkta I think it's splonkta.com you can
look it up it is a christian therapy it's like prayer therapy and it it reaches your subconscious
mind with the holy spirit so we have big t traumas little t traumas we have we are affected in ways
physically even sometimes by traumas that we don't even remember sometimes they're in the womb
and you don't even know it and with this therapy oh my gosh that was also an episode on our podcast
to check that out the splonkta breakthrough with Laura Millican she has a podcast called the energy
to heal and they have testimonies of miracles from this therapy people have been set free from
physical ailments and pandas whatever that is I don't remember the details but I remember that
people are healed from stuff like that by the splonkta therapy and it's not paid for with the
insurance of course because it works and uh so my husband's addicted and it has changed him he is
just another person from a few months ago and I'm just so blessed by that little app called TikTok
because I learned so much from there he was watching it first I'm like what are you doing on that I'm
like what and then he started sending me some videos I'm like oh okay and you can craft it to your
feed to a certain thing so it can be christian content on tiktok it's amazing yes that's actually
a place where I don't have any political stuff on tiktok it's my place to escape the political
stuff because I hear it everywhere and I into the political ring you know but I choose not to use that
as recreation I choose not to come to it with with God right when it's voting day we pray about the
leaders and pray for our leaders when big decisions are happening but as far as my everyday life
I don't want to know about it anymore it's so sickening it's so depressing this is totally of
the world and I want what God has for me which is otherworldly and speaking about things that
matter very little to the kingdom of God and usher in what I feel is closer to the end for
everything that that you know game over mission complete as Jesus would would probably say like
this is it we got the green light we're coming in this is one of those distractions that I don't
care to have all the time and I think it's important for all of us to have a balance in our
life to make sure that we do put Christ first and if something causes you to have anxiety something
causes you to be upset take it out of your life right if politics bothers you take it out of your
life if the way that certain people behave remove them from your life if you have friends that that
encourage you to do the wrong thing all the time I would encourage you to separate yourself from them
that that is not the what God wants for us and you can doesn't mean you have to lose your friends
it just means spend less time with them and so that you can get closer to God because sometimes
what's holding you back is the people you surround yourself with yeah the important that is so
important who you surround yourself with what you think about you bring about need and you will
need and you will look like that those five people you hang out with most so be mindful of that
overall I think we did an amazing year and humble beginnings right very humble in a in a
basement with camping gear on one side of us and a workbench on it like a workout bench on the other
side weights on the floor a treadmill in the room boxes everywhere like it looked like a dungeon
yeah and if exercise is torture it looked like definitely someone was being tortured in that
dungeon I was having a good time in that room though and it's so surreal to be in a this room
here with clean walls no boxes air conditioning air conditioning but that I mean it's where I
actually have a hoodie on right now I'm cold and that never happens I'm never cold and now I'm cold
finally oh my gosh we have goals to get some swag so where the God's gonna podcast and people can
wear them as they come in that they need something to keep them warm right we're setting up a coffee
bar down here we're we're getting it to be nice and cozy for our guests that it's so different
from what we had before blows my mind yeah you don't want anyone coming over at my house no no
and our dogs you couldn't get them in without the dogs knowing their hair yeah now we get into
the back door talks have no idea they're just oblivious upstairs watching tv looking at the
window listening to the birds no idea that those guests in the house suckers
I'm so grateful for all that God brought us through and to it's gonna be a next powerful
this next year it's gonna be so powerful we speak that we already have a powerful couple to start
the year with they have nations on fire on social media it's so neat because Justin will preach
and then Delyse will translate right behind him and it's just changing nations so check them out
and stay tuned for their episode next week it's gonna be amazing you're gonna love it
we just hope this has been a blessing to you and pass it on if you would love to come alongside us
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God's glory to the world and if he did it for one of us he can do it for you too so we just
are so grateful for you listeners and I pray this has a blessing to you and with that we'll talk to you next time