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 Hankins.
Today we have with us a special guest.
You'll know her as Rhonda Wiley and we met through the buckles.
So Delice gave me a couple referrals and she is one of them and we actually got to meet
at the Miracle Services the other week so that was really a neat surprise to see her
there and helping with that.
So maybe you'll see her in the video.
If you go over to the Facebook page and check out that 3 hour live it was amazing.
It had some worship music, just half hour of that and then there was a sermon, very powerful.
And then there were miracles so check that out and we're going to have Rhonda open us
up with an opening prayer and then we'll get into it.
Heavenly Father, Lord we just thank you for today.
This is the day that you have made and Lord we pray that your will be done.
Lord that your word would be encouraging, piercing, edifying.
And Lord we ask Holy Spirit to come and lead the conversation Lord and your will be done.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Amen.
Thank you for that.
So where would you like to start?
I will start with some scripture that the Lord gave me concerning the testimony that
I'll be sharing today and one is Genesis 50 19 through 20.
But as for you, you meant evil against me but God meant it for good in order to bring
it about as it is.
And then just Matthew 633 about seeking his kingdom first and his righteousness and all
these things shall be added unto you in Psalm 91 particularly the last couple verses which
say because he has set his love upon me therefore I will deliver him.
I will set him on high because he has known my name.
He shall call upon me and I will answer him.
I will be with him in trouble.
I will deliver him and honor him.
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.
And this story is about God's faithfulness in my life and how he showed me that in everything
he is weaving his word.
Once we dedicate our lives to him his word will come, become manifest in our life as
we let him lead us.
But this takes me all the way back to July of 2019.
I live in Washington and July 31st 2019 there was a Columbia gas explosion in my neighborhood.
Now prior to that my husband and I had been walking through our neighborhood and our neighborhood
does not have a police force.
So we noticed that crime was moving into the area.
People just out in their vehicle smoking weed and this is right around the school.
So I said to my husband, I said we have to start praying for our community, our neighborhood.
Crime is going to try to come in.
He's like, sounds good.
So we go to bed that night and of course I forgot to pray that and it was like the Holy
Spirit was like, you need to pray.
And my husband's like, all right, you go ahead.
So I started praying and I was like, Heavenly Father, we just lift up our community to you,
Lord.
We pray for protection over our neighbors, our community, the township.
And all of a sudden without me even realizing what I was saying, I was like, Lord, I pray
your protection over this neighborhood.
Lord, I pray your protection.
And I'm like, I caught myself and I was like, Brian, he's like, what?
I was like, I said protection three times.
You know, like that set off an alert me.
I'm like, something's about to happen that we're praying for.
Kind of like we're in a classroom.
And the teacher stomps her foot.
And it's like, you might want to write this down.
This might be on the test.
Yes, exactly.
So I pray and I was like, okay, Lord, like there's a reason why you had us pray.
So to this day, though, I will have you know that is one thing we are most certain to pray
for is protection over our neighbors, our community.
Now of course our nation, the nation, you know, everything.
But from that day on, the Lord's like continue to pray for your neighbors, your community.
So weeks go by, never even, you know, entered my mind again, like, hey, be on alert or anything.
But I went to work on July 31st, 2019.
And I haven't had sciatica.
I don't know if anybody knows what that is, but it's pain that shoots down.
I'm familiar.
Yes.
Very excruciating.
So I haven't had that in like 10 years and I'm at work and I'm like, in Jesus' name,
I'm healed, like I rebuke you saying it.
And I'm like, for three hours, I'm fighting this thing.
And I told my co-worker, I said, well, I'm going to the chiropractor after work today.
So I go and my chiropractor is usually timely.
And I'm like, what, like, I'm getting frustrated.
I'm like, why is he late?
Why is he running behind?
And the Holy Spirit's like, get on your phone, look at Facebook, relax.
I was like, all right, I can do that.
Comes in, I'm calling as a cucumber.
I go out to my car and the phone rings.
And I'm like, okay.
And it's my neighbor who we exchanged numbers just in case there was an emergency.
So now I'm fighting with myself.
I'm like, I'm not answering this phone.
I know what this means.
And again, the Holy Spirit's like, you need to answer the phone.
So I pick up the phone and she's like, Rhonda, everything's okay.
And I'm like, but Debbie's house is gone.
There was a gas explosion.
I'm like, I wouldn't say that's everything's okay.
Well, I think she meant like nobody is dead.
And she goes, but I'm calling you because your dogs are loose.
Yeah, I have two dogs and they were running loose.
And she's like, we got them, but they're still nervous and everything.
I said, if you have to get out of there, leave the dogs.
Either they'll come back or they won't.
You know, if you need to go.
So she's like, well, I said, I'm on my way home.
Of course, I call my husband at work and say, hey, there's been an explosion.
You need to come home.
So he comes in, but I get there.
There's ambulance, fire trucks, police, the news.
And I'm like, this only happens on TV.
Like this doesn't happen in my neighborhood.
And I said, well, how is everybody?
She said nobody was killed, but people were taken to the hospital.
I was like, okay, so again, you pray you intercede.
And Debbie, they said that she had come home from work.
So eight hours and she smelled gas.
So she called the gas company.
And as soon as the firemen opened the garage, which is electrical, the house went up.
And there was literally two walls of her foundation that were left.
Wow.
Yeah.
And when I came home and I looked around, a mattress was in a tree.
Clothes were everywhere.
From that day, they found canceled checks of hers up in scenery Hill.
So that tells you, and they felt shocks from the explosion up to a mile away.
Wow.
What about that fire fighter that opened that garage door?
How close was he?
Well, so this is one of the, well, other than the fact that nobody was killed.
That's miracle number one.
But so between Debbie's house and our house, there's a line of trees.
When it's in full bloom, you can't even see where her house used to be.
And when we got the, okay, cause they blocked it off for a long time just for safety.
But once we were able to go down in the yard, I looked at the tree line.
Cause those firemen ended up in my yard.
Wow.
From, if they set up to 70 feet away, they ended up in my yard.
And I looked at the tree line, there were no broken trees.
Wow.
And it's so tight that you can see paths of how deer weaved in and out of the trees.
So I believe again, that it was a miracle that those firemen, nobody had a broken back,
nobody had broken bones, but they landed safely in our yard.
Wow.
Past your hedge of protection.
Bingo.
Point literal hedge of protection.
Yes.
So you brought up a good point, which is, I'll take it through it.
And yeah, right.
If the deer barely get through it, I think we know.
Right.
Yeah, so when we had gotten this house and we had started following the Lord diligently,
we dedicated our house to the Lord.
And I said, Lord, you gave us this, we're giving it back to you.
We want to use this house and this property for your glory.
And from that day forward, I've like, we plead the blood of Jesus over every boundary line.
My father asked you to put angels on this property, to guard it, to protect it.
And I believe those angels on that day were on assignment.
Protected everyone around it.
Yeah.
The whole neighborhood.
Right.
And that's what I love.
So many.
Wow.
I'm an EMT and I've transported someone that was in a gas explosion once and they were
not in good shape.
And so to have an explosion that takes a house and removes it from the earth, leaving two
walls, foundation walls, two, not four, not five, not six, two.
And to have the person that was next to the house walk away is tremendous miracle.
To have a handful of them walk away is a handful of miracles.
The whole thing should not have gone down the way it did.
Right.
That house is going to go.
Got it.
One of those people should have been around for it.
It was not their day.
No.
No, it might have been.
But because of the prayers, it wasn't going to be that day.
Right.
Amen.
And Debbie, they said she was sitting in a chair outside the garage when they opened
it.
And her testimony is she didn't even realize what was happening until she went up in the
air and came down.
She went up and down.
And she walked to the ambulance.
Wow.
And her statement to my husband was if I didn't know that there was a God before, I know there
is now.
Because she even realized she shouldn't even have been alive nonetheless walking herself
to the ambulance to go to the hospital.
Yeah.
That's incredible.
Yes.
Very incredible.
I've had people that had a stubbed toe that couldn't walk to the stretcher that crossed
the room.
Yeah.
Let alone get blown through the air.
Right.
Pick yourself up and walk to the ambulance like it's just a Tuesday.
Like, ah, it's no problem.
It's like, I'll go for evening walks all the time.
Wow.
Her still door from the basement landed in our neighbor's yard probably again about 70
feet away.
Nobody recognized it as a door because it was literally twisted.
Wow.
And the only way we knew was because the tag on the side of the door which said still door
was there.
Wow.
And it didn't just because it was in the basement.
So it had to get over a dirt wall.
So this was shot into the air and it came back down like playing a game with the bow.
You shoot the arrow up and see where it lands.
That's incredible.
Incredible.
I don't know how high it actually made it.
Hundreds of feet.
How do you know?
Well, the trees around our house were 70 to 80 feet tall like the pine trees.
Oh, so they definitely had to get over that.
Yeah.
But the other miracle was normally I would have been home and on my debt which I believe
the Lord used the sciatica to get me away from the house because like I said, normally
my chiropractor is on time.
I'm like, just today he happens not to be running.
But I would have been on our deck and what happened was the way the dogs got out was
a rafter.
I think it was about 20 feet long, two by four or two by six, whatever they come, had
ricocheted.
This is what we are surmising happened.
Flew from her house, hit the roof of my house, hit the deck, bounced into the patio doors,
which normally as soon as I get home, I'm on the deck letting the dogs out.
Wow.
That could have been right through you.
Yeah.
So, I mean, you know, as you're in it, you don't see what the Lord has done.
And sometimes even today, I reflect back and I'm like, oh, I missed that.
He was even in this detail.
I think he really loves showing off in that way of having those hidden details upon details
upon details that are a mystery to us in the very beginning.
I think every single one of us experienced miracles and we look back and go, oh my, and
see the whole magnitude of it.
Like here it is, it's a miracle.
This happened.
This is great.
And then we keep on living our lives and we look back and we're like, well, that was
a lot bigger and there's a lot more and there's more to it and more to it and more to it.
Like this is just like a, like a lightning strike of miracles.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, even my neighbors, we were talking about how my prayer was even protection for
my neighbors and the Lord protected them and even blessed them and some don't even know
him.
So I just love how even our prayers, when we intercede for others are honored so that
he gets the glory.
You know, we just kept saying, look what the Lord did.
Look what the Lord, like, you know, and they're like, yeah, the Lord, like, I mean, these
are people who don't go to church and they're like, yeah, look what God did.
And I just, I stay in there and smile.
Like, yeah, he did it.
You know, like get to know, you know, we want to be like, yeah, don't you want this every
day?
You know, to see it.
Right.
I was like, you can't live off my tertiary faith.
Okay.
You got to get your own.
But a good testimony is it drew us together.
Like that's something that I really loved watching the Lord do is how it brought unity
to, you know, now we're like, hey, like we're waving.
Hey, how's it going?
Hey, you want some of my flowers?
You know, Christmas time sharing cookies.
If it's really created a community, whereas I might not talk to those neighbors once every
month, like a wave, like, hello, hi, how are you doing?
Now it's like we're actually interacting with each other.
I mean, that's how I prefer my life is just to wave once in a while when I see them.
My wife is the one that thrives on the social interactions.
I shrivel from them.
Well, I do have to say the Lord has blessed us with good neighbors, the respectful, their
time, yeah, they're open.
You know what I mean?
Like they're not those grouchy people that you see.
And it's nice that he's giving you a calling that he directly called you to, right?
You're not stumbling around with this calling is you're going to pray for protection.
And the evidence that it's going to work when you pray for it, he demonstrated.
Amen.
Right?
He's like, this is what I want you to do.
And I'm not going to sugarcoat it for you.
This is what I want you to do forever and this is a result of what will happen when you do
this.
Wow.
Right?
He's like, he just unpacked it for you like a vacuum salesman, you know, dumps the dirt
right there in your floor that picks it right up.
Like it was never there.
There you go.
And he says, now I want you to do the same thing.
And you know, if you're still praying for that protection, you are faithful to your
calling.
And I think that's tremendous.
And I think more of us need to listen to what the calling is that God is placing on our
hearts because I really believe he doesn't leave any one of us without knowing, right?
We're sitting here.
I don't know what it is.
Like what you're thinking too hard.
You're thinking too hard about what it could be for you instead of letting God tell you
what it is.
Right?
And so I can think of a lot of things I'd like to do that doesn't mean that's it.
Right?
He could be calling me to do something I really don't want to do.
In fact, I think he excels at doing that to people.
I got, I got a book upstairs.
It's full of stories about like 66 authors that talk about all these different people
who didn't want to do the things that they did and ended up doing them anyway and gave
God glory through it.
Next time I have a prayer request, I know how I'm sending it to.
Hey, I believe so.
It's interesting how because I didn't even think about how you just explained it to be
honest with you how that's a call.
I just that's what we do is Christian pray protection.
But I didn't see it as a calling necessary, necessarily, but I believe that the Lord wants
to use me as I grow, right?
In intercessory prayer.
So to hear you say that and to hear you say that, it's almost like confirmation to me,
like yes, you are going to be praying and it's going to be effectual.
And that's actually another one of the scriptures that he gave me that when I pray that he said,
it's going to happen.
Right.
So and what he's teaching me now is be careful what you say because it's going to happen.
It could be a blessing.
It could be a cursing, but you're going to eat the fruit.
And so that's something he and that only makes sense if I feel like intercessory prayer is
going to be where the Lord's going to lead me because right life and death are in the
power of the tongue.
Absolutely.
Right.
So he created us in his image and he spoke the universe into existence.
Why can't we?
Right.
Maybe not the whole universe.
Right.
You know, it was just like a drop of water shares all the same qualities as a lake.
All of the differences is the quantity.
My latest one was my bookings.
I had a booking white out because apparently these guests come in a specific, a very specific
order, and I couldn't find the right next person.
But I knew once I found that one person, everything would fall into place.
And once I did, I had two bookings within minutes of that.
And then now we're booked till December.
Yay.
Yeah.
Do it, Lauren.
So I said, thank you so much for all my bookings, Lord.
And now my newest one, thank you for so many donations, Lord.
So we can keep this thing going because I feel he wants to speak to somebody, well, everybody
in every episode.
Like there's going to be some nugget that makes you go, huh?
Or like, ah, you know, like that confirmation.
And maybe now you can see why some people say it was their favorite interview.
Yeah.
It's interesting too because the ones that I would guess are not like, oh, that's not
that powerful because they don't speak to me.
Number one, number two, number three, number four, like, whoa, I don't, which one that
spoke to me?
That's like number 12.
Like, well, you know, I mean, there's 50 something of them.
So, you know, it's not so bad.
But that's, it's so surprises me how it speaks differently to people based off the message
presented in each one.
It's actually one of the reasons I never wanted to be a pastor was because I can't, I feel
like I need to please everybody.
And I think God has me encourage people like we're doing now individually.
I listen to you, I hear you, and then I get prompted.
I'm like, oh, here we go.
This is it.
And so words of encouragement.
He's my best cheerleader.
Amen.
He should be, right?
I've definitely got spiritual gifting in that.
And I believe miracles wholeheartedly.
I've seen so many.
I've seen healings.
There's nothing you can do that would ever change my mind on that.
And I think that God uses me in that capacity as well.
It's like he's going to use you and then it starts with your prayers.
Like he uses her to evangelize, right?
And I think we should make up like little podcast sticker things that we can put places
and we can call it evangelism.
It's like his dad, the God cast podcast.
Oh, okay.
Start incorporating little things like that.
Well, I believe the Lord's going to even like you said, how he sets them up in the
sum, it's going to just weave a story, right?
How we're talking about, I mean, it was created for him, by him, with him, he's in all like,
and I was just talking to a friend about that.
Like there's nothing that's happening or that is that he's not in.
And if we could just grasp that, that's power in and of itself.
If we can look through the natural and see spiritually what.
I think the biggest drawback we have as Christians isn't our lack of being able to see it, but
it's our lack of being able to be convinced to stop beating ourselves up for our own convictions.
Right?
The devil says, Hey, he's not going to like that.
And we just dwell on that instead of what his word says.
And I think we as not people on earth, but as a community of Christians, people that
believe in God, we need to stop acting based off our convictions and start acting based
off the love that has been given us to freedom.
And I think that will make a dynamic change for us as Christians.
Right.
Yeah.
Because his love is powerful.
And that's what he showed me to like about a month ago is his mercies new every day,
his grace is efficient and love never fails.
Never.
Like that's he slapped me in the face with that one, by the way.
I love you.
Yeah, I love you.
Now, here this.
This is a metaphor that's happening.
That's not love.
But yeah, sometimes we need to like woken up a little bit.
Yeah, I think I think I'm going to trust God to be the one to do the slapping because,
you know, who are we to decide what is right and what is good and what is moral.
And Jesus said, why are you calling me good?
There is none good but the father.
And we all pretty much respect Jesus is being perfect and we're thinking that's pretty good,
right?
And he's saying, no, I'm not good.
It's just the father is good.
Like, man, that's a pretty big bar.
Right.
Maybe I don't know what good actually means.
And we should take a step back and really listen to what God says good is instead of
what we think good is because we're really messing it up.
Yeah.
And it's again, just his mercy and his grace that says, okay, I'll clean.
You know, I'm going to clean this up so it works for your good and my glory.
Absolutely.
I love that.
Love it.
So one of the things the Holy Spirit's prompting me is if somebody is wondering about what
their purpose might be, do what I did.
Think about what am I good at and what do I like to do?
And mine was talking.
So God was like, why don't you talk about me with others and just share it with the world?
And so now you're that prayer, that intercessory prayer comes easy to you.
And so like if the listener is like, what am I good at?
What do I like to do?
Make that, go deeper into that, explore that and see how you can help others with that
and be a blessing to them.
And I will add, of course, we know the flesh wants to fight everything that God wants to
do in you, through you, you know, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Without ceasing.
Yeah.
And I honestly have to pray, Lord, help me pray, you know, because again, the flesh
is like, you don't have time for that.
It's, you know, God's not going to answer it.
And so I'm going to tell a little testimony that just happened probably 45 minutes ago.
Oh, that's a hot one.
It still has a new testimony smell.
I like this.
So I love rain.
We know we need.
He does too.
Okay.
Yeah, big Pluvio file over here.
And so we haven't had rain in what two weeks, three weeks.
I lost track on a while.
It has.
And we get deer in our yard.
And again, because I'm like, Lord, you know, I love nature.
That's our love language, me and the Lords.
And so we have a little creek that runs through the yard and it was drying up all the time.
So I went down there, I felt like the Holy Spirit was like, go down there, make it bigger,
like a bigger reservoir, right?
Some down there, I'm digging it.
And so every now and again, I'll go down and be like, Lord, you need to feel this, you
know, the animals come here, you have me dig it.
So I've been praying for almost every day.
I felt like Elijah.
Amen.
And I'm like, Lord, you hear my prayer, you know, I'm asking for rain.
We need rain.
My dear, you know, the deer need rain.
The ground's cracking, my flowers.
So I went to my bathroom to get ready and we have an exhaust pipe.
And when it rains, you can hear the ting, ting, ting, ting, ting.
And I'm like, I'm on the phone with my friend Marcy and I'm like, it's raining.
I run out of the bathroom, run downstairs because I have a water retaining barrel.
And I'm like, thank you, Lord.
I told you with.
So I told the Lord when it rains, if I can, I'll go outside and I'll dance in the rain
and I'll give him praise.
So I run down and I'm like, thank you, Lord, you answered our prayers.
You're so faithful.
And then I run back upstairs because I have to get ready to come here.
And I'm like, Marcy, it's raining.
Can you hear it?
She's like, no.
And then all of a sudden it starts raining harder.
And I'm like, back downstairs, back outside.
And now I'm emptying my rain barrel because it only holds 50 gallons.
So I have containers down there that I can fill so that if I'm not home, the barrel
can fill again.
And so I have like over 100 gallons of water.
But and the Lord talks to me through eagles or hawks.
And so I look up in a tree as I'm emptying the barrel into a container and there's a
hawk in the top of the tree.
And I'm like, Lord, why do I doubt?
I'm getting emotional even just saying that.
Why do I doubt?
It might not be my timing that you do your answer prayer, but you answer prayer in the
way that you want, when you want.
And I felt like he was saying, I waited so that you would know no matter what it looks
like, I'm faithful to answer prayer.
Yeah, I agree wholehearted with that, that he likes to wait to the last possible moment
that would give him the greatest amount of glory because you cannot look to any other
source for your salvation.
And he likes to model what Jesus has done for us and everything he does for us.
Love that.
Love it.
I love these stories.
And I think if you're mentioning the same Marcy, she's going to be on in a few weeks.
Yeah.
Awesome.
So that's so neat.
I get to meet her too.
Right.
But I was just like, why did, and here's the thing.
So when it started raining lightly, I looked up to the sky and I was like, okay, Lord,
there's only one gray cloud.
I was like, let it rest over my home.
And again, it took me back to Isaiah about the fifth, right?
Or was my, you're looking at me weird.
Am I right?
I'm thinking.
I think it was Isaiah.
But and not even spoke to me like, do you don't think that one cloud can produce what
I want it to?
Oh, I experienced that today.
It was sunny, but I had heard this noise and I'm like, is that thunder or a car?
And it turned out it was thunder and it was so cool because it was sunny, but it was still
sprinkling outside and I was like, what?
I just done my hair.
So this was a big deal.
I'm like, I got to get out of the rain.
And see, again, she's the extrovert and she does, does not like, she likes the sunny
days and I like the gloomy days.
I like, I am filled with joy on the, like the gray gloomy moist days and people are
like all miserable and sullen and I'm walking around like I've got sunshine in my pocket.
Yeah.
So you're hiding the sunshine.
I love it.
If I could hide it for everybody all the time, I would just remain.
And so she's praying for the rain to go in.
Like, why would you do that?
Like saboteur.
He wasn't praying with me wife.
And that's an, I mean, and to go along with the whole story is he is faithful.
He is faithful and, and I, that's bird.
I believe that whole situation cause again, we saw his hand and everything.
Even when they said, okay, we stayed in our house for two weeks, not knowing that it was
unsafe.
The rafters were cracked.
And then here the outside wall had moved an inch and a half off the foundation cause it
literally came straight up the driveway.
And we're like, we're going to hang out here.
This is our house.
We got two dogs.
We feel safe.
And they finally had an engineer come in and he's like, yeah, you got to go.
You can't stay here.
And so we have two dogs.
So people know nobody really wants to lease.
Yeah.
We are three dogs.
If we are well aware of that challenge.
Yeah.
So, but the Lord within a week and we got to pick like we got to look, the Lord just
blessed us like crazy, but we got to pick out where we would stay.
And it was a $250,000 town home in Houston, which Brian and I lived there, went before
we got married and we loved Houston.
This town home in the natural we could not afford.
I had a one car garage, three bedrooms, two and a half bath.
It was like a dream, honestly, the insurance company paid for everything to like furniture,
dishes, everything.
We picked it all out.
They delivered it.
And when we were done, they took it back.
It was crazy.
Our neighbors, though, however, struggled to find a place for their families.
And I believe it was the favor of God to said, you need this.
I'm going to provide it.
And guess what?
I'm going to do above and beyond.
Well, I mean, he can't do bare minimum.
It's not his title.
He's not Captain Bear minimum.
He showed off and got the glory.
Yeah.
I mean, I was telling everybody, look what the Lord has done.
You know, we're like, we're good.
And my husband, unfortunately, was praying for us to move in quickly.
And I was like, what's wrong with you?
We got a town home with a garage.
They can take their sweet old time over there.
And he's like, no, I want to get back home and I'm like, this is how I'm honey.
Like, but I get him.
I understand.
Yeah.
I understand where he's coming from.
I get where you guys are coming from, too.
I mean, I get.
But yeah, I mean, he was just showing off left and right.
And then he would even there was a cleanup crew that came and there was a young man and
the Lord's like, go tell him that I love him.
I was like, really?
He's like, yeah, go tell him I love him.
I'm like, he's young.
He's going to see me as this old, you know, I mean, he's like 20 something.
I'm close to 50.
And he's like, go tell him.
So I said, excuse me, you know, I was like, I just need to tell you that Jesus loves you.
And he looked at me and he's like, you're the second person this week who has told me
this.
Oh, God really needs him to hear it.
And I said, well, it sounds to me like he's calling your name.
Like he wants a relationship with you.
And he goes, I believe you.
He goes, I grew up Catholic and stepped away.
And he's like, but I believe what you're saying because you are the second person in a week
that has told me this.
Never saw him again.
But I know it had an impact because he was he was blown away by the love.
And I did that the Lord would have me go tell him this while he's cleaning up a gas explosion.
Wow.
So in the every day.
Yeah.
I was like thankful that I had that that I came there because normally I wouldn't be
hanging out while they're clean.
And for some reason I just felt like I was supposed to go check on the home, you know,
we would take donuts to the workers every night because they were there for months.
Well, it was a long time to move an entire wall back without damaging the rest of the
house and have to replace beams.
And you have to go methodically on that without collapsing the house.
And it wouldn't be a small project.
They'd have to probably strip a lot of the inner walls.
What they did was there was two walls, nothing else was left.
So because when that happens, she had to actually move the house.
There was nothing left of the house.
So they had to build her a new foundation, a new house, but you can't reuse the same
property for some reason.
So they totally wiped out the house.
Like they took down the block and everything.
So there was no beam standing.
Like there was.
I wonder why they can't use the same prop or the same the property of rebuild on.
So they can use the same property, but not the foundation.
Yeah, but not the same land spot.
Yeah, she had to twist it onto her property, which is honestly better because she's kind
of tucked back a little bit.
That's how I would want.
Because you're kind of kind of an eyesore in the neighborhood.
No, I wouldn't want to be taught.
Like if it was up to me, my house would be in the center of two acres with trees all
around.
Oh yeah.
Like that would be my dream.
Yeah.
Yes.
He would not that.
Yes.
But yeah, the Lord and even we had a guard station.
Like two guards were there because they didn't want people coming, you know, sightseeing or
trying to take because she was able to come back and try to find whatever she could, whether
it was jewelry, pictures, keeps you whatever, whatever.
Good luck.
If you find a steel door 70 feet away and your yard, good luck finding an area.
It was hard, but so they didn't want any.
But there was a gentleman from New York City there.
He told me his testimony.
Like we were just sharing.
I mean, what's amazing is how God will use something like that to create communities
and love and just genuine kindness.
You know, because I felt safe having them guards are because I knew they actually cared
about their job.
They cared about what they were guarding and what they were protecting because they interacted
with us.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
I've been a security guard before.
I've spent time in the military that if you have a connection with somebody, you have
a vested interest in protecting their assets.
And it's not just because I'm getting paid is because, oh, hey, it's Rhonda.
She's running down ads.
She did that.
Hey, what do you do with Rhonda's stuff?
You know what I mean?
It's just like that.
Like no, no, no, because it's a vested interest.
And that is what God created us for those relationships.
He wanted it with us first and foremost.
He created us so that we can spend eternity with him.
I can tell my wife to lots of people that we always get it wrong.
We was like, I can't wait to get to heaven because I want to be in heaven and we're missing
what God is thinking because I can't wait for you to be there.
I can't with that Christmas.
I just I made you so I could spend eternity with you.
I was going to be so great and we missed that excitement on his behalf because we're so
worried about our own mundane little lives that we forget the creator of the universe
created us specifically to have relationship with him.
That's powerful.
Yeah.
And to have another Christian, again, I felt like that was a blessing.
You know, somebody that knew where I was coming from could see God and all of it, you know,
without me telling necessarily.
But even him, I was able to share like the little intricate things that he didn't know
about like the guards flying through the like coming through the tree or not the guards,
but the firemen and not being seriously injured.
So he's like, what?
He told me that I was like, well, that's why I'm telling you so that you know that you
are standing where God has done miracle after miracle after miracle.
Incredible.
Yeah.
Incredible.
Thank you for sharing that.
I love the same God show up because it's never the same way.
Right.
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