1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,840 Welcome to the God's Goodness podcast where our mission is to encourage and highlight God's 2 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:13,840 Goodness and modern-day miracles. 3 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,860 We are your hosts, Josh and Shelley Hankins. 4 00:00:16,860 --> 00:00:18,680 Today we have with us a special guest. 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:24,040 You'll know her as Rhonda Wiley and we met through the buckles. 6 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:28,880 So Delice gave me a couple referrals and she is one of them and we actually got to meet 7 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:33,120 at the Miracle Services the other week so that was really a neat surprise to see her 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:35,400 there and helping with that. 9 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:37,760 So maybe you'll see her in the video. 10 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:42,640 If you go over to the Facebook page and check out that 3 hour live it was amazing. 11 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:48,560 It had some worship music, just half hour of that and then there was a sermon, very powerful. 12 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:53,400 And then there were miracles so check that out and we're going to have Rhonda open us 13 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,320 up with an opening prayer and then we'll get into it. 14 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,120 Heavenly Father, Lord we just thank you for today. 15 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,800 This is the day that you have made and Lord we pray that your will be done. 16 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:09,400 Lord that your word would be encouraging, piercing, edifying. 17 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:16,720 And Lord we ask Holy Spirit to come and lead the conversation Lord and your will be done. 18 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:18,720 In Jesus' name I pray, amen. 19 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:19,720 Amen. 20 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,240 Thank you for that. 21 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,680 So where would you like to start? 22 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:28,640 I will start with some scripture that the Lord gave me concerning the testimony that 23 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:35,080 I'll be sharing today and one is Genesis 50 19 through 20. 24 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:40,240 But as for you, you meant evil against me but God meant it for good in order to bring 25 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,240 it about as it is. 26 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:49,160 And then just Matthew 633 about seeking his kingdom first and his righteousness and all 27 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:57,560 these things shall be added unto you in Psalm 91 particularly the last couple verses which 28 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:02,160 say because he has set his love upon me therefore I will deliver him. 29 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,640 I will set him on high because he has known my name. 30 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,600 He shall call upon me and I will answer him. 31 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:10,480 I will be with him in trouble. 32 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,840 I will deliver him and honor him. 33 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:18,080 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation. 34 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:26,520 And this story is about God's faithfulness in my life and how he showed me that in everything 35 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,280 he is weaving his word. 36 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:36,760 Once we dedicate our lives to him his word will come, become manifest in our life as 37 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:38,600 we let him lead us. 38 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:44,200 But this takes me all the way back to July of 2019. 39 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:55,120 I live in Washington and July 31st 2019 there was a Columbia gas explosion in my neighborhood. 40 00:02:55,120 --> 00:03:00,080 Now prior to that my husband and I had been walking through our neighborhood and our neighborhood 41 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,840 does not have a police force. 42 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:08,940 So we noticed that crime was moving into the area. 43 00:03:08,940 --> 00:03:13,920 People just out in their vehicle smoking weed and this is right around the school. 44 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:20,000 So I said to my husband, I said we have to start praying for our community, our neighborhood. 45 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,160 Crime is going to try to come in. 46 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,680 He's like, sounds good. 47 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:29,760 So we go to bed that night and of course I forgot to pray that and it was like the Holy 48 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,880 Spirit was like, you need to pray. 49 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:38,080 And my husband's like, all right, you go ahead. 50 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:42,720 So I started praying and I was like, Heavenly Father, we just lift up our community to you, 51 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:43,720 Lord. 52 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:49,560 We pray for protection over our neighbors, our community, the township. 53 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:54,200 And all of a sudden without me even realizing what I was saying, I was like, Lord, I pray 54 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:55,720 your protection over this neighborhood. 55 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,520 Lord, I pray your protection. 56 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:01,440 And I'm like, I caught myself and I was like, Brian, he's like, what? 57 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,080 I was like, I said protection three times. 58 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,840 You know, like that set off an alert me. 59 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,880 I'm like, something's about to happen that we're praying for. 60 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:13,680 Kind of like we're in a classroom. 61 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:15,000 And the teacher stomps her foot. 62 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,960 And it's like, you might want to write this down. 63 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:18,560 This might be on the test. 64 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,440 Yes, exactly. 65 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:26,200 So I pray and I was like, okay, Lord, like there's a reason why you had us pray. 66 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:33,080 So to this day, though, I will have you know that is one thing we are most certain to pray 67 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,800 for is protection over our neighbors, our community. 68 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,360 Now of course our nation, the nation, you know, everything. 69 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:47,520 But from that day on, the Lord's like continue to pray for your neighbors, your community. 70 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:54,680 So weeks go by, never even, you know, entered my mind again, like, hey, be on alert or anything. 71 00:04:54,680 --> 00:05:00,360 But I went to work on July 31st, 2019. 72 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,360 And I haven't had sciatica. 73 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,400 I don't know if anybody knows what that is, but it's pain that shoots down. 74 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:07,400 I'm familiar. 75 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:08,400 Yes. 76 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:09,400 Very excruciating. 77 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:15,520 So I haven't had that in like 10 years and I'm at work and I'm like, in Jesus' name, 78 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,400 I'm healed, like I rebuke you saying it. 79 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,240 And I'm like, for three hours, I'm fighting this thing. 80 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:27,040 And I told my co-worker, I said, well, I'm going to the chiropractor after work today. 81 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:32,400 So I go and my chiropractor is usually timely. 82 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,920 And I'm like, what, like, I'm getting frustrated. 83 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:36,240 I'm like, why is he late? 84 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:37,600 Why is he running behind? 85 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,680 And the Holy Spirit's like, get on your phone, look at Facebook, relax. 86 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,400 I was like, all right, I can do that. 87 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,080 Comes in, I'm calling as a cucumber. 88 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,000 I go out to my car and the phone rings. 89 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,920 And I'm like, okay. 90 00:05:53,920 --> 00:06:02,040 And it's my neighbor who we exchanged numbers just in case there was an emergency. 91 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:03,200 So now I'm fighting with myself. 92 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,360 I'm like, I'm not answering this phone. 93 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,680 I know what this means. 94 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,760 And again, the Holy Spirit's like, you need to answer the phone. 95 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:16,600 So I pick up the phone and she's like, Rhonda, everything's okay. 96 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:23,480 And I'm like, but Debbie's house is gone. 97 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,120 There was a gas explosion. 98 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,480 I'm like, I wouldn't say that's everything's okay. 99 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:34,920 Well, I think she meant like nobody is dead. 100 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:39,200 And she goes, but I'm calling you because your dogs are loose. 101 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,600 Yeah, I have two dogs and they were running loose. 102 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,280 And she's like, we got them, but they're still nervous and everything. 103 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:48,600 I said, if you have to get out of there, leave the dogs. 104 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,280 Either they'll come back or they won't. 105 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:53,960 You know, if you need to go. 106 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,160 So she's like, well, I said, I'm on my way home. 107 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:02,480 Of course, I call my husband at work and say, hey, there's been an explosion. 108 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:03,760 You need to come home. 109 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:06,520 So he comes in, but I get there. 110 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:11,560 There's ambulance, fire trucks, police, the news. 111 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,440 And I'm like, this only happens on TV. 112 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,800 Like this doesn't happen in my neighborhood. 113 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:19,920 And I said, well, how is everybody? 114 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,600 She said nobody was killed, but people were taken to the hospital. 115 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,120 I was like, okay, so again, you pray you intercede. 116 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:32,120 And Debbie, they said that she had come home from work. 117 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,560 So eight hours and she smelled gas. 118 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,080 So she called the gas company. 119 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:45,840 And as soon as the firemen opened the garage, which is electrical, the house went up. 120 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:51,720 And there was literally two walls of her foundation that were left. 121 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:52,720 Wow. 122 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:53,720 Wow. 123 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:54,720 Yeah. 124 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,840 And when I came home and I looked around, a mattress was in a tree. 125 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,600 Clothes were everywhere. 126 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:08,680 From that day, they found canceled checks of hers up in scenery Hill. 127 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:14,360 So that tells you, and they felt shocks from the explosion up to a mile away. 128 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:15,360 Wow. 129 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:17,600 What about that fire fighter that opened that garage door? 130 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:18,600 How close was he? 131 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:24,160 Well, so this is one of the, well, other than the fact that nobody was killed. 132 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,960 That's miracle number one. 133 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:33,000 But so between Debbie's house and our house, there's a line of trees. 134 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,800 When it's in full bloom, you can't even see where her house used to be. 135 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:43,160 And when we got the, okay, cause they blocked it off for a long time just for safety. 136 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:48,480 But once we were able to go down in the yard, I looked at the tree line. 137 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,640 Cause those firemen ended up in my yard. 138 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:52,640 Wow. 139 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:58,680 From, if they set up to 70 feet away, they ended up in my yard. 140 00:08:58,680 --> 00:09:03,200 And I looked at the tree line, there were no broken trees. 141 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:04,200 Wow. 142 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:12,240 And it's so tight that you can see paths of how deer weaved in and out of the trees. 143 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:18,920 So I believe again, that it was a miracle that those firemen, nobody had a broken back, 144 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:24,760 nobody had broken bones, but they landed safely in our yard. 145 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:25,760 Wow. 146 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:27,280 Past your hedge of protection. 147 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:28,280 Bingo. 148 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,000 Point literal hedge of protection. 149 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Yes. 150 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,560 So you brought up a good point, which is, I'll take it through it. 151 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:37,560 And yeah, right. 152 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:42,040 If the deer barely get through it, I think we know. 153 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:43,040 Right. 154 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:51,480 Yeah, so when we had gotten this house and we had started following the Lord diligently, 155 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,440 we dedicated our house to the Lord. 156 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,760 And I said, Lord, you gave us this, we're giving it back to you. 157 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:02,800 We want to use this house and this property for your glory. 158 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:09,480 And from that day forward, I've like, we plead the blood of Jesus over every boundary line. 159 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:14,760 My father asked you to put angels on this property, to guard it, to protect it. 160 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:20,280 And I believe those angels on that day were on assignment. 161 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:21,440 Protected everyone around it. 162 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:22,440 Yeah. 163 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:23,440 The whole neighborhood. 164 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:24,440 Right. 165 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:25,440 And that's what I love. 166 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:26,440 So many. 167 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:27,440 Wow. 168 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,320 I'm an EMT and I've transported someone that was in a gas explosion once and they were 169 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,200 not in good shape. 170 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:38,880 And so to have an explosion that takes a house and removes it from the earth, leaving two 171 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:45,080 walls, foundation walls, two, not four, not five, not six, two. 172 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:53,520 And to have the person that was next to the house walk away is tremendous miracle. 173 00:10:53,520 --> 00:11:00,720 To have a handful of them walk away is a handful of miracles. 174 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:04,320 The whole thing should not have gone down the way it did. 175 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:05,320 Right. 176 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:07,000 That house is going to go. 177 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Got it. 178 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,360 One of those people should have been around for it. 179 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:11,680 It was not their day. 180 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:12,680 No. 181 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:15,880 No, it might have been. 182 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,080 But because of the prayers, it wasn't going to be that day. 183 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:20,080 Right. 184 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:21,080 Amen. 185 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:26,920 And Debbie, they said she was sitting in a chair outside the garage when they opened 186 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:27,920 it. 187 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:34,560 And her testimony is she didn't even realize what was happening until she went up in the 188 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:36,860 air and came down. 189 00:11:36,860 --> 00:11:39,120 She went up and down. 190 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:43,160 And she walked to the ambulance. 191 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:44,520 Wow. 192 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:51,000 And her statement to my husband was if I didn't know that there was a God before, I know there 193 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:52,160 is now. 194 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:59,240 Because she even realized she shouldn't even have been alive nonetheless walking herself 195 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,680 to the ambulance to go to the hospital. 196 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:02,680 Yeah. 197 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:04,680 That's incredible. 198 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:05,680 Yes. 199 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:06,680 Yes. 200 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:07,680 Very incredible. 201 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:13,000 I've had people that had a stubbed toe that couldn't walk to the stretcher that crossed 202 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,000 the room. 203 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Yeah. 204 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,920 Let alone get blown through the air. 205 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:17,920 Right. 206 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:20,800 Pick yourself up and walk to the ambulance like it's just a Tuesday. 207 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:22,400 Like, ah, it's no problem. 208 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,480 It's like, I'll go for evening walks all the time. 209 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:26,480 Wow. 210 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:35,040 Her still door from the basement landed in our neighbor's yard probably again about 70 211 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:36,520 feet away. 212 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:40,280 Nobody recognized it as a door because it was literally twisted. 213 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:41,280 Wow. 214 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:46,800 And the only way we knew was because the tag on the side of the door which said still door 215 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:47,800 was there. 216 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:48,800 Wow. 217 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,200 And it didn't just because it was in the basement. 218 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,920 So it had to get over a dirt wall. 219 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:59,720 So this was shot into the air and it came back down like playing a game with the bow. 220 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,520 You shoot the arrow up and see where it lands. 221 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:03,520 That's incredible. 222 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:04,520 Incredible. 223 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,680 I don't know how high it actually made it. 224 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:08,680 Hundreds of feet. 225 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:09,680 How do you know? 226 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:13,520 Well, the trees around our house were 70 to 80 feet tall like the pine trees. 227 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,000 Oh, so they definitely had to get over that. 228 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,000 Yeah. 229 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:27,760 But the other miracle was normally I would have been home and on my debt which I believe 230 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:36,080 the Lord used the sciatica to get me away from the house because like I said, normally 231 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,200 my chiropractor is on time. 232 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:42,640 I'm like, just today he happens not to be running. 233 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:47,080 But I would have been on our deck and what happened was the way the dogs got out was 234 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,480 a rafter. 235 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:55,200 I think it was about 20 feet long, two by four or two by six, whatever they come, had 236 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,080 ricocheted. 237 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:59,880 This is what we are surmising happened. 238 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:07,920 Flew from her house, hit the roof of my house, hit the deck, bounced into the patio doors, 239 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:13,560 which normally as soon as I get home, I'm on the deck letting the dogs out. 240 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:14,560 Wow. 241 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:17,880 That could have been right through you. 242 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:18,880 Yeah. 243 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:25,360 So, I mean, you know, as you're in it, you don't see what the Lord has done. 244 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:29,800 And sometimes even today, I reflect back and I'm like, oh, I missed that. 245 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,360 He was even in this detail. 246 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:37,280 I think he really loves showing off in that way of having those hidden details upon details 247 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,920 upon details that are a mystery to us in the very beginning. 248 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:46,840 I think every single one of us experienced miracles and we look back and go, oh my, and 249 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,480 see the whole magnitude of it. 250 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:49,720 Like here it is, it's a miracle. 251 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:50,720 This happened. 252 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:51,720 This is great. 253 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,800 And then we keep on living our lives and we look back and we're like, well, that was 254 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:59,760 a lot bigger and there's a lot more and there's more to it and more to it and more to it. 255 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:03,480 Like this is just like a, like a lightning strike of miracles. 256 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:04,480 Right. 257 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:05,480 Yeah. 258 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:12,960 I mean, even my neighbors, we were talking about how my prayer was even protection for 259 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:20,400 my neighbors and the Lord protected them and even blessed them and some don't even know 260 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:21,400 him. 261 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:29,160 So I just love how even our prayers, when we intercede for others are honored so that 262 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,320 he gets the glory. 263 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,600 You know, we just kept saying, look what the Lord did. 264 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,400 Look what the Lord, like, you know, and they're like, yeah, the Lord, like, I mean, these 265 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:41,240 are people who don't go to church and they're like, yeah, look what God did. 266 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,320 And I just, I stay in there and smile. 267 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,480 Like, yeah, he did it. 268 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:49,400 You know, like get to know, you know, we want to be like, yeah, don't you want this every 269 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:50,400 day? 270 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:51,400 You know, to see it. 271 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:52,400 Right. 272 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,280 I was like, you can't live off my tertiary faith. 273 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:55,280 Okay. 274 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:56,280 You got to get your own. 275 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:01,040 But a good testimony is it drew us together. 276 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:07,080 Like that's something that I really loved watching the Lord do is how it brought unity 277 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,440 to, you know, now we're like, hey, like we're waving. 278 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:11,440 Hey, how's it going? 279 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:13,480 Hey, you want some of my flowers? 280 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:15,640 You know, Christmas time sharing cookies. 281 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:23,200 If it's really created a community, whereas I might not talk to those neighbors once every 282 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,360 month, like a wave, like, hello, hi, how are you doing? 283 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,640 Now it's like we're actually interacting with each other. 284 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:33,240 I mean, that's how I prefer my life is just to wave once in a while when I see them. 285 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,480 My wife is the one that thrives on the social interactions. 286 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,280 I shrivel from them. 287 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:44,360 Well, I do have to say the Lord has blessed us with good neighbors, the respectful, their 288 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,280 time, yeah, they're open. 289 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:48,280 You know what I mean? 290 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,720 Like they're not those grouchy people that you see. 291 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:57,520 And it's nice that he's giving you a calling that he directly called you to, right? 292 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:01,800 You're not stumbling around with this calling is you're going to pray for protection. 293 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,880 And the evidence that it's going to work when you pray for it, he demonstrated. 294 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:06,880 Amen. 295 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:07,880 Right? 296 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:09,160 He's like, this is what I want you to do. 297 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,040 And I'm not going to sugarcoat it for you. 298 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:14,960 This is what I want you to do forever and this is a result of what will happen when you do 299 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:15,960 this. 300 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:16,960 Wow. 301 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:17,960 Right? 302 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:21,160 He's like, he just unpacked it for you like a vacuum salesman, you know, dumps the dirt 303 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,360 right there in your floor that picks it right up. 304 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:24,360 Like it was never there. 305 00:17:24,360 --> 00:17:25,360 There you go. 306 00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:28,160 And he says, now I want you to do the same thing. 307 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,680 And you know, if you're still praying for that protection, you are faithful to your 308 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:32,680 calling. 309 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:33,680 And I think that's tremendous. 310 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:38,760 And I think more of us need to listen to what the calling is that God is placing on our 311 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:44,040 hearts because I really believe he doesn't leave any one of us without knowing, right? 312 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:45,040 We're sitting here. 313 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:46,040 I don't know what it is. 314 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:47,040 I don't know what it is. 315 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:48,040 Like what you're thinking too hard. 316 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:52,760 You're thinking too hard about what it could be for you instead of letting God tell you 317 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:53,760 what it is. 318 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:54,760 Right? 319 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:58,280 And so I can think of a lot of things I'd like to do that doesn't mean that's it. 320 00:17:58,280 --> 00:17:59,280 Right? 321 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:02,120 He could be calling me to do something I really don't want to do. 322 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:04,800 In fact, I think he excels at doing that to people. 323 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:06,920 I got, I got a book upstairs. 324 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:13,160 It's full of stories about like 66 authors that talk about all these different people 325 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:18,600 who didn't want to do the things that they did and ended up doing them anyway and gave 326 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,640 God glory through it. 327 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:24,280 Next time I have a prayer request, I know how I'm sending it to. 328 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,240 Hey, I believe so. 329 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,040 It's interesting how because I didn't even think about how you just explained it to be 330 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:31,800 honest with you how that's a call. 331 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:35,840 I just that's what we do is Christian pray protection. 332 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:46,040 But I didn't see it as a calling necessary, necessarily, but I believe that the Lord wants 333 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,840 to use me as I grow, right? 334 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,800 In intercessory prayer. 335 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:58,520 So to hear you say that and to hear you say that, it's almost like confirmation to me, 336 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:04,480 like yes, you are going to be praying and it's going to be effectual. 337 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:09,720 And that's actually another one of the scriptures that he gave me that when I pray that he said, 338 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:10,720 it's going to happen. 339 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:11,720 Right. 340 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:19,720 So and what he's teaching me now is be careful what you say because it's going to happen. 341 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,400 It could be a blessing. 342 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:26,840 It could be a cursing, but you're going to eat the fruit. 343 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:31,360 And so that's something he and that only makes sense if I feel like intercessory prayer is 344 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:37,160 going to be where the Lord's going to lead me because right life and death are in the 345 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,000 power of the tongue. 346 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,000 Absolutely. 347 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Absolutely. 348 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Right. 349 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,440 So he created us in his image and he spoke the universe into existence. 350 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:47,440 Why can't we? 351 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:48,440 Right. 352 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:49,440 Maybe not the whole universe. 353 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:50,440 Right. 354 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:51,440 Right. 355 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:56,160 You know, it was just like a drop of water shares all the same qualities as a lake. 356 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,800 All of the differences is the quantity. 357 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:00,600 My latest one was my bookings. 358 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:06,640 I had a booking white out because apparently these guests come in a specific, a very specific 359 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:10,000 order, and I couldn't find the right next person. 360 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,400 But I knew once I found that one person, everything would fall into place. 361 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,680 And once I did, I had two bookings within minutes of that. 362 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:22,120 And then now we're booked till December. 363 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:23,120 Yay. 364 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:24,120 Yeah. 365 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:25,120 Do it, Lauren. 366 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:29,200 So I said, thank you so much for all my bookings, Lord. 367 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:33,440 And now my newest one, thank you for so many donations, Lord. 368 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,960 So we can keep this thing going because I feel he wants to speak to somebody, well, everybody 369 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:38,960 in every episode. 370 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:43,280 Like there's going to be some nugget that makes you go, huh? 371 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,200 Or like, ah, you know, like that confirmation. 372 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,760 And maybe now you can see why some people say it was their favorite interview. 373 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:50,760 Yeah. 374 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:51,760 Yeah. 375 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:56,320 It's interesting too because the ones that I would guess are not like, oh, that's not 376 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,880 that powerful because they don't speak to me. 377 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:04,360 Number one, number two, number three, number four, like, whoa, I don't, which one that 378 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:05,360 spoke to me? 379 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:06,360 That's like number 12. 380 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:08,160 Like, well, you know, I mean, there's 50 something of them. 381 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:09,680 So, you know, it's not so bad. 382 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:14,800 But that's, it's so surprises me how it speaks differently to people based off the message 383 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,120 presented in each one. 384 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:21,360 It's actually one of the reasons I never wanted to be a pastor was because I can't, I feel 385 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:23,520 like I need to please everybody. 386 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:28,000 And I think God has me encourage people like we're doing now individually. 387 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,080 I listen to you, I hear you, and then I get prompted. 388 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,360 I'm like, oh, here we go. 389 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:32,480 This is it. 390 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,240 And so words of encouragement. 391 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:35,880 He's my best cheerleader. 392 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:36,880 Amen. 393 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:37,880 He should be, right? 394 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,040 I've definitely got spiritual gifting in that. 395 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,160 And I believe miracles wholeheartedly. 396 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:44,160 I've seen so many. 397 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:45,160 I've seen healings. 398 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:49,040 There's nothing you can do that would ever change my mind on that. 399 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,600 And I think that God uses me in that capacity as well. 400 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,160 It's like he's going to use you and then it starts with your prayers. 401 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:59,280 Like he uses her to evangelize, right? 402 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:03,160 And I think we should make up like little podcast sticker things that we can put places 403 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,960 and we can call it evangelism. 404 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:11,840 It's like his dad, the God cast podcast. 405 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:12,840 Oh, okay. 406 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,200 Start incorporating little things like that. 407 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:21,160 Well, I believe the Lord's going to even like you said, how he sets them up in the 408 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,720 sum, it's going to just weave a story, right? 409 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:30,120 How we're talking about, I mean, it was created for him, by him, with him, he's in all like, 410 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:31,760 and I was just talking to a friend about that. 411 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:36,720 Like there's nothing that's happening or that is that he's not in. 412 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:43,120 And if we could just grasp that, that's power in and of itself. 413 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:48,320 If we can look through the natural and see spiritually what. 414 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:53,640 I think the biggest drawback we have as Christians isn't our lack of being able to see it, but 415 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:59,640 it's our lack of being able to be convinced to stop beating ourselves up for our own convictions. 416 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:00,640 Right? 417 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,680 The devil says, Hey, he's not going to like that. 418 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,240 And we just dwell on that instead of what his word says. 419 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:12,800 And I think we as not people on earth, but as a community of Christians, people that 420 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:18,400 believe in God, we need to stop acting based off our convictions and start acting based 421 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,200 off the love that has been given us to freedom. 422 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,480 And I think that will make a dynamic change for us as Christians. 423 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,480 Right. 424 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:26,480 Yeah. 425 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:27,480 Because his love is powerful. 426 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:34,920 And that's what he showed me to like about a month ago is his mercies new every day, 427 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,280 his grace is efficient and love never fails. 428 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:39,280 Never. 429 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:44,160 Like that's he slapped me in the face with that one, by the way. 430 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,160 I love you. 431 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,160 Yeah, I love you. 432 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:47,160 Now, here this. 433 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:51,600 This is a metaphor that's happening. 434 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:52,600 That's not love. 435 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:59,280 But yeah, sometimes we need to like woken up a little bit. 436 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,320 Yeah, I think I think I'm going to trust God to be the one to do the slapping because, 437 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:07,840 you know, who are we to decide what is right and what is good and what is moral. 438 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:09,720 And Jesus said, why are you calling me good? 439 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,960 There is none good but the father. 440 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,760 And we all pretty much respect Jesus is being perfect and we're thinking that's pretty good, 441 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:16,760 right? 442 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:17,760 And he's saying, no, I'm not good. 443 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:18,960 It's just the father is good. 444 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,320 Like, man, that's a pretty big bar. 445 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:22,320 Right. 446 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:23,320 Right. 447 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:24,960 Maybe I don't know what good actually means. 448 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:29,080 And we should take a step back and really listen to what God says good is instead of 449 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:32,480 what we think good is because we're really messing it up. 450 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:33,480 Yeah. 451 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,280 And it's again, just his mercy and his grace that says, okay, I'll clean. 452 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:41,000 You know, I'm going to clean this up so it works for your good and my glory. 453 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Absolutely. 454 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,000 I love that. 455 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,000 Love it. 456 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:50,040 So one of the things the Holy Spirit's prompting me is if somebody is wondering about what 457 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:54,240 their purpose might be, do what I did. 458 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,720 Think about what am I good at and what do I like to do? 459 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,080 And mine was talking. 460 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,840 So God was like, why don't you talk about me with others and just share it with the world? 461 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:09,760 And so now you're that prayer, that intercessory prayer comes easy to you. 462 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,040 And so like if the listener is like, what am I good at? 463 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,600 What do I like to do? 464 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:20,480 Make that, go deeper into that, explore that and see how you can help others with that 465 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:24,560 and be a blessing to them. 466 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:29,880 And I will add, of course, we know the flesh wants to fight everything that God wants to 467 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:35,160 do in you, through you, you know, by the power of the Holy Spirit. 468 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:36,160 Without ceasing. 469 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,160 Yeah. 470 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:43,640 And I honestly have to pray, Lord, help me pray, you know, because again, the flesh 471 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,880 is like, you don't have time for that. 472 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,960 It's, you know, God's not going to answer it. 473 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:53,600 And so I'm going to tell a little testimony that just happened probably 45 minutes ago. 474 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:54,600 Oh, that's a hot one. 475 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,600 It still has a new testimony smell. 476 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,400 I like this. 477 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,280 So I love rain. 478 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:02,280 We know we need. 479 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:03,280 He does too. 480 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:04,280 Okay. 481 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,520 Yeah, big Pluvio file over here. 482 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,680 And so we haven't had rain in what two weeks, three weeks. 483 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,640 I lost track on a while. 484 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:13,640 It has. 485 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,680 And we get deer in our yard. 486 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,800 And again, because I'm like, Lord, you know, I love nature. 487 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,600 That's our love language, me and the Lords. 488 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:26,680 And so we have a little creek that runs through the yard and it was drying up all the time. 489 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,920 So I went down there, I felt like the Holy Spirit was like, go down there, make it bigger, 490 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,080 like a bigger reservoir, right? 491 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,560 Some down there, I'm digging it. 492 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:39,120 And so every now and again, I'll go down and be like, Lord, you need to feel this, you 493 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:42,340 know, the animals come here, you have me dig it. 494 00:26:42,340 --> 00:26:45,560 So I've been praying for almost every day. 495 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,040 I felt like Elijah. 496 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:48,040 Amen. 497 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:53,200 And I'm like, Lord, you hear my prayer, you know, I'm asking for rain. 498 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:54,200 We need rain. 499 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,200 My dear, you know, the deer need rain. 500 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,280 The ground's cracking, my flowers. 501 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:05,880 So I went to my bathroom to get ready and we have an exhaust pipe. 502 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,840 And when it rains, you can hear the ting, ting, ting, ting, ting. 503 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:14,400 And I'm like, I'm on the phone with my friend Marcy and I'm like, it's raining. 504 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:20,120 I run out of the bathroom, run downstairs because I have a water retaining barrel. 505 00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:22,520 And I'm like, thank you, Lord. 506 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:23,960 I told you with. 507 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:29,280 So I told the Lord when it rains, if I can, I'll go outside and I'll dance in the rain 508 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,240 and I'll give him praise. 509 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,960 So I run down and I'm like, thank you, Lord, you answered our prayers. 510 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,000 You're so faithful. 511 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,160 And then I run back upstairs because I have to get ready to come here. 512 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:41,400 And I'm like, Marcy, it's raining. 513 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,400 Can you hear it? 514 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:43,920 She's like, no. 515 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,360 And then all of a sudden it starts raining harder. 516 00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:49,240 And I'm like, back downstairs, back outside. 517 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,460 And now I'm emptying my rain barrel because it only holds 50 gallons. 518 00:27:53,460 --> 00:27:58,320 So I have containers down there that I can fill so that if I'm not home, the barrel 519 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,480 can fill again. 520 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:05,360 And so I have like over 100 gallons of water. 521 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:10,840 But and the Lord talks to me through eagles or hawks. 522 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,800 And so I look up in a tree as I'm emptying the barrel into a container and there's a 523 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,280 hawk in the top of the tree. 524 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,680 And I'm like, Lord, why do I doubt? 525 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,160 I'm getting emotional even just saying that. 526 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,720 Why do I doubt? 527 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:33,760 It might not be my timing that you do your answer prayer, but you answer prayer in the 528 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:38,600 way that you want, when you want. 529 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:44,240 And I felt like he was saying, I waited so that you would know no matter what it looks 530 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:48,680 like, I'm faithful to answer prayer. 531 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:55,680 Yeah, I agree wholehearted with that, that he likes to wait to the last possible moment 532 00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:00,280 that would give him the greatest amount of glory because you cannot look to any other 533 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,440 source for your salvation. 534 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:07,400 And he likes to model what Jesus has done for us and everything he does for us. 535 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:08,400 Love that. 536 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:09,400 Love it. 537 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,920 I love these stories. 538 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:18,160 And I think if you're mentioning the same Marcy, she's going to be on in a few weeks. 539 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:19,160 Yeah. 540 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:20,160 Awesome. 541 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,160 So that's so neat. 542 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:22,160 I get to meet her too. 543 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,160 Right. 544 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,320 But I was just like, why did, and here's the thing. 545 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:31,920 So when it started raining lightly, I looked up to the sky and I was like, okay, Lord, 546 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,360 there's only one gray cloud. 547 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:40,240 I was like, let it rest over my home. 548 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,880 And again, it took me back to Isaiah about the fifth, right? 549 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,040 Or was my, you're looking at me weird. 550 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:47,040 Am I right? 551 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:48,360 I'm thinking. 552 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,560 I think it was Isaiah. 553 00:29:52,560 --> 00:30:01,400 But and not even spoke to me like, do you don't think that one cloud can produce what 554 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:02,400 I want it to? 555 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,440 Oh, I experienced that today. 556 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:10,600 It was sunny, but I had heard this noise and I'm like, is that thunder or a car? 557 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:15,960 And it turned out it was thunder and it was so cool because it was sunny, but it was still 558 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,760 sprinkling outside and I was like, what? 559 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:19,760 I just done my hair. 560 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:20,760 So this was a big deal. 561 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,760 I'm like, I got to get out of the rain. 562 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:27,320 And see, again, she's the extrovert and she does, does not like, she likes the sunny 563 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,560 days and I like the gloomy days. 564 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:34,840 I like, I am filled with joy on the, like the gray gloomy moist days and people are 565 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,800 like all miserable and sullen and I'm walking around like I've got sunshine in my pocket. 566 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:39,800 Yeah. 567 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:41,800 So you're hiding the sunshine. 568 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,320 I love it. 569 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,120 If I could hide it for everybody all the time, I would just remain. 570 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,160 And so she's praying for the rain to go in. 571 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,960 Like, why would you do that? 572 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:51,960 Like saboteur. 573 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:57,680 He wasn't praying with me wife. 574 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:04,280 And that's an, I mean, and to go along with the whole story is he is faithful. 575 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:09,800 He is faithful and, and I, that's bird. 576 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:14,840 I believe that whole situation cause again, we saw his hand and everything. 577 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,920 Even when they said, okay, we stayed in our house for two weeks, not knowing that it was 578 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,040 unsafe. 579 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,080 The rafters were cracked. 580 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:32,160 And then here the outside wall had moved an inch and a half off the foundation cause it 581 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,280 literally came straight up the driveway. 582 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,440 And we're like, we're going to hang out here. 583 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:38,440 This is our house. 584 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:39,440 We got two dogs. 585 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:40,440 We feel safe. 586 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:45,800 And they finally had an engineer come in and he's like, yeah, you got to go. 587 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,800 You can't stay here. 588 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,920 And so we have two dogs. 589 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,160 So people know nobody really wants to lease. 590 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:54,160 Yeah. 591 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,160 We are three dogs. 592 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,160 If we are well aware of that challenge. 593 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:00,160 Yeah. 594 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:06,440 So, but the Lord within a week and we got to pick like we got to look, the Lord just 595 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:13,680 blessed us like crazy, but we got to pick out where we would stay. 596 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:22,080 And it was a $250,000 town home in Houston, which Brian and I lived there, went before 597 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,840 we got married and we loved Houston. 598 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,680 This town home in the natural we could not afford. 599 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:34,720 I had a one car garage, three bedrooms, two and a half bath. 600 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:42,080 It was like a dream, honestly, the insurance company paid for everything to like furniture, 601 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,040 dishes, everything. 602 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,040 We picked it all out. 603 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:46,040 They delivered it. 604 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,840 And when we were done, they took it back. 605 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:49,840 It was crazy. 606 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:55,720 Our neighbors, though, however, struggled to find a place for their families. 607 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,960 And I believe it was the favor of God to said, you need this. 608 00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:00,960 I'm going to provide it. 609 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:01,960 And guess what? 610 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:03,960 I'm going to do above and beyond. 611 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,280 Well, I mean, he can't do bare minimum. 612 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:07,280 It's not his title. 613 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,920 He's not Captain Bear minimum. 614 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,640 He showed off and got the glory. 615 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:13,640 Yeah. 616 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,880 I mean, I was telling everybody, look what the Lord has done. 617 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,160 You know, we're like, we're good. 618 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:23,400 And my husband, unfortunately, was praying for us to move in quickly. 619 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,840 And I was like, what's wrong with you? 620 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,160 We got a town home with a garage. 621 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,400 They can take their sweet old time over there. 622 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,720 And he's like, no, I want to get back home and I'm like, this is how I'm honey. 623 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,240 Like, but I get him. 624 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:38,240 I understand. 625 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:39,240 Yeah. 626 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:40,240 I understand where he's coming from. 627 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,240 I get where you guys are coming from, too. 628 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,520 I mean, I get. 629 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:48,840 But yeah, I mean, he was just showing off left and right. 630 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:54,800 And then he would even there was a cleanup crew that came and there was a young man and 631 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,800 the Lord's like, go tell him that I love him. 632 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,520 I was like, really? 633 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,040 He's like, yeah, go tell him I love him. 634 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,040 I'm like, he's young. 635 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,280 He's going to see me as this old, you know, I mean, he's like 20 something. 636 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,840 I'm close to 50. 637 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,200 And he's like, go tell him. 638 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:18,480 So I said, excuse me, you know, I was like, I just need to tell you that Jesus loves you. 639 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:24,040 And he looked at me and he's like, you're the second person this week who has told me 640 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,040 this. 641 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,400 Oh, God really needs him to hear it. 642 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:32,280 And I said, well, it sounds to me like he's calling your name. 643 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,600 Like he wants a relationship with you. 644 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,360 And he goes, I believe you. 645 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:40,720 He goes, I grew up Catholic and stepped away. 646 00:34:40,720 --> 00:34:45,960 And he's like, but I believe what you're saying because you are the second person in a week 647 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,480 that has told me this. 648 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,600 Never saw him again. 649 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:57,120 But I know it had an impact because he was he was blown away by the love. 650 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:03,360 And I did that the Lord would have me go tell him this while he's cleaning up a gas explosion. 651 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:04,360 Wow. 652 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,520 So in the every day. 653 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:07,520 Yeah. 654 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:12,480 I was like thankful that I had that that I came there because normally I wouldn't be 655 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,360 hanging out while they're clean. 656 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,320 And for some reason I just felt like I was supposed to go check on the home, you know, 657 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:22,600 we would take donuts to the workers every night because they were there for months. 658 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:29,520 Well, it was a long time to move an entire wall back without damaging the rest of the 659 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,280 house and have to replace beams. 660 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,800 And you have to go methodically on that without collapsing the house. 661 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,000 And it wouldn't be a small project. 662 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,640 They'd have to probably strip a lot of the inner walls. 663 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:44,720 What they did was there was two walls, nothing else was left. 664 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:50,080 So because when that happens, she had to actually move the house. 665 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:51,920 There was nothing left of the house. 666 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:56,600 So they had to build her a new foundation, a new house, but you can't reuse the same 667 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,040 property for some reason. 668 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,240 So they totally wiped out the house. 669 00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:04,960 Like they took down the block and everything. 670 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,440 So there was no beam standing. 671 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:09,440 Like there was. 672 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,880 I wonder why they can't use the same prop or the same the property of rebuild on. 673 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:18,120 So they can use the same property, but not the foundation. 674 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,480 Yeah, but not the same land spot. 675 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:27,280 Yeah, she had to twist it onto her property, which is honestly better because she's kind 676 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:28,280 of tucked back a little bit. 677 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:29,280 That's how I would want. 678 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,280 Because you're kind of kind of an eyesore in the neighborhood. 679 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,000 No, I wouldn't want to be taught. 680 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:40,280 Like if it was up to me, my house would be in the center of two acres with trees all 681 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:41,280 around. 682 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,280 Oh yeah. 683 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,280 Like that would be my dream. 684 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:45,280 Yeah. 685 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:46,280 Yes. 686 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:47,280 He would not that. 687 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:48,280 Yes. 688 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:52,920 But yeah, the Lord and even we had a guard station. 689 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:57,200 Like two guards were there because they didn't want people coming, you know, sightseeing or 690 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:01,760 trying to take because she was able to come back and try to find whatever she could, whether 691 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,480 it was jewelry, pictures, keeps you whatever, whatever. 692 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:06,480 Good luck. 693 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:11,760 If you find a steel door 70 feet away and your yard, good luck finding an area. 694 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,600 It was hard, but so they didn't want any. 695 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,800 But there was a gentleman from New York City there. 696 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,080 He told me his testimony. 697 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,720 Like we were just sharing. 698 00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:28,120 I mean, what's amazing is how God will use something like that to create communities 699 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:33,160 and love and just genuine kindness. 700 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,960 You know, because I felt safe having them guards are because I knew they actually cared 701 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:38,960 about their job. 702 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,640 They cared about what they were guarding and what they were protecting because they interacted 703 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:43,640 with us. 704 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:44,640 I don't know. 705 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:45,640 Yeah. 706 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:46,640 Absolutely. 707 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,120 I've been a security guard before. 708 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:52,200 I've spent time in the military that if you have a connection with somebody, you have 709 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,720 a vested interest in protecting their assets. 710 00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:58,080 And it's not just because I'm getting paid is because, oh, hey, it's Rhonda. 711 00:37:58,080 --> 00:37:59,880 She's running down ads. 712 00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:00,880 She did that. 713 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,440 Hey, what do you do with Rhonda's stuff? 714 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:04,440 You know what I mean? 715 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:05,440 It's just like that. 716 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,600 Like no, no, no, because it's a vested interest. 717 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,360 And that is what God created us for those relationships. 718 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:13,960 He wanted it with us first and foremost. 719 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,760 He created us so that we can spend eternity with him. 720 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,760 I can tell my wife to lots of people that we always get it wrong. 721 00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,960 We was like, I can't wait to get to heaven because I want to be in heaven and we're missing 722 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:26,000 what God is thinking because I can't wait for you to be there. 723 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,320 I can't with that Christmas. 724 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,960 I just I made you so I could spend eternity with you. 725 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:35,640 I was going to be so great and we missed that excitement on his behalf because we're so 726 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,840 worried about our own mundane little lives that we forget the creator of the universe 727 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:43,200 created us specifically to have relationship with him. 728 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:44,200 That's powerful. 729 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:45,200 Yeah. 730 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,880 And to have another Christian, again, I felt like that was a blessing. 731 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:54,200 You know, somebody that knew where I was coming from could see God and all of it, you know, 732 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,720 without me telling necessarily. 733 00:38:56,720 --> 00:39:00,760 But even him, I was able to share like the little intricate things that he didn't know 734 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:04,880 about like the guards flying through the like coming through the tree or not the guards, 735 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:10,800 but the firemen and not being seriously injured. 736 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,480 So he's like, what? 737 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,920 He told me that I was like, well, that's why I'm telling you so that you know that you 738 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:21,240 are standing where God has done miracle after miracle after miracle. 739 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:22,240 Incredible. 740 00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:23,240 Yeah. 741 00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:24,240 Incredible. 742 00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:27,680 Thank you for sharing that. 743 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:31,000 I love the same God show up because it's never the same way. 744 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,000 Right. 745 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,000 So cool. 746 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,880 Well, listen, if this has blessed you, we ask that you pass it along to a friend. 747 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:37,880 So led to give. 748 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,880 We would appreciate the donations because they help keep the podcast going. 749 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,080 And there's the links in the about section. 750 00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,080 So there's different options you can give. 751 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:47,080 There's a give, send, go. 752 00:39:47,080 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