Obedience Is the Key to Freedom

In this heartfelt episode of Unrelated Sisters: Truth & Grace Conversation, Shannon and Deb does a follow from last week season of weariness, disappointment, and how easy it is to let the whispers of the enemy steal our peace. Through raw honesty and real-life struggles, they uncover how obedience to God shifts chaos into clarity, and how choosing joy—even when it doesn’t feel natural—leads to freedom.

This week’s reminder: Happiness is a feeling, but joy is a choice. The sisters discuss John 16:33 and Galatians 6:9, revealing the power of saying “yes” to God, rejecting the lies of the enemy, and finding rest in His presence.

💡 If you’ve been battling self-doubt, perfectionism, or internal chaos, this episode will encourage you to hold every thought captive, embrace authenticity, and remember: your obedience unlocks peace.

✨ Bible Verses

• John 16:33 (NIV): “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
• Galatians 6:9 (NKJV): “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”
• Nehemiah 8:10 (NIV): “…for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

💬 Encouraging Words

Sis, you don’t have to live in chaos or let your emotions dictate your worth. The enemy whispers lies—“you’re not enough, you’ve failed, no one cares”—but God speaks truth. You are chosen, you are equipped, and He has already overcome what you’re facing.

When joy feels lost, don’t wait for the feeling—step into the action. Shout for joy. Sing for joy. Dance for joy. Sometimes your breakthrough comes after your praise. Remember, obedience brings freedom, and freedom brings rest.

🙏 Prayer to Help Them Pray

“Father, thank You for reminding me that joy is not based on my circumstances but on Your presence in my life. Help me to silence the lies of the enemy and hold every thought captive to Your truth. Teach me to obey quickly and trust that Your ways bring peace. When I feel weary, remind me that You are my strength, and in due season, I will see the harvest of the good You’ve started in me. Today I choose joy. Today I choose obedience. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”

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UNKNOWN: 0:00

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00: 0:00

Lord, we love you tonight, and we just thank you for this opportunity to be here, Lord. It seems like it's been forever. God, I just pray that you would speak through me and Shannon, and just have your way tonight, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. So, it's great to be back. I've missed everybody. It's great to have you back, Miss Debra. I've been laughing. So, I know that Shannon had to do the podcast by herself last week, and her things better? Can you tell us about that? Things are better.

SPEAKER_01: 0:33

Things are better. Things have been enlightening this week. You know, I was all up in my feelings last week and one of my associates, she said, she looked at me and she goes, I don't know where your joy is, but you need to go find it. And I was like, what are you talking about? Because as we've talked about in the past, I I was putting on the perfect mask, right? the people you know that got upset with me or the people that didn't like the changes that I were making that was the people I rely on right that's the ones that's the management team that runs my building when I'm not in the when I'm not there that's the people that I rely on to get things done that's the people that you know that are supposed to have my back and I feel like everyone was upset because I wanted to change things I had spent five weeks in a Yeah. And I got content. And when they, you know, decided that they just wasn't happy with the changes that I was making or when they decided that things were going, you know, they didn't want to be different, you know, and they decided to leave, it hurt my feelings. It made me feel, you know, it made me feel a certain kind of way. And I don't know if that was, I don't know what that was. Yeah. Fast forward past all of that. Me and God have been fighting back and forth. Well, I've been saying he's been saying do. And I've been saying, I don't know. Right. For the last month and a half. And so I don't know if what happened at work was as big as I felt like it was, because. The enlightenment that I've seen this week was when I finally said yes. He said okay. Right? And everything seems better. That's

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normally what happens when we get in alignment. You know, what did you say earlier? Obedience to God is your key to freedom. Always.

SPEAKER_01: 4:05

That's going to be my new catch-along.

SPEAKER_00: 4:08

That's going to be my new book.

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That's going to be your new book. You're going to write a book? Okay. So... In

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all the spare time that I have.

SPEAKER_01: 4:18

I know, right? Between all the grandbabies and stuff. So... He showed me a verse, John 16, 15, so that you may have peace in me here on earth. You will have many trials and sorrows, but take heart because I have overcome the world. He gave me that verse and I was like, OK, I hear you. Right. I hear you. So what he's been wanting me to do is he's been wanting me to post on Facebook talking about kind of the same thing. Yeah. I would, the video would be there and I'd be like, oh my God, look at my hair. Or I can't, you know, I don't know how to use those filters on that. Or look, I've got a double chin. Like I can't, I can't find the right angle or the light looks bad or, you know, and I'm just like, and then I would go and watch. Don't ever go watch TikToks. I would go watch TikToks and I'd be like, see, you know, you know, that's a filter, right? Like, you know, that's not real. And, you know, but I don't know how to do all that. And I would play with it and I would mess it up and then I would be like, whatever. And then I would start the video and I would record the video and then I would watch the video and I'd be like, no, I'm not posting that. So I delete it. I haven't slept through the night in the last month and a half. Like, and I kept blaming it on perimenopause and some, you know, some, some, some situations or issues or yes, but I don't know. don't believe that's what it was I believe I believe that because I hadn't heard him like I do the same drive every day right I still listen to the same radio station for an hour and 20 minutes there an hour and 20 minutes home I listen to the same DJs every day I listen you know and usually when I'm writing and a song comes on you know you know I hadn't sent you a text in weeks you know he'll give me a word and I'm like talking it into my phone and sending it to you so I don't forget it before you know before I move on to something else I do have a little bit of ADHD and I haven't done that in weeks I haven't all I've heard is the negativity that's all I've heard in my head you know you're not good enough you're failing you know you're you know these people don't care about you and that's not true even even even the ones even the Right. Right. Even years, maybe, that he walked with these people and he trusted these people to tell his story and he trusted these people to do, you know, to do the things that, especially after he left. And when he got arrested, everybody ran away. except for Mary Magdalene, right? Everybody ran away except for her. And I started studying, watched the show Chosen, and we just finished the fourth season and we're waiting on the fifth season. And, you know, it's leading up to where he gets arrested. But she's right beside him through it all. She stands right with him. She makes sure he has food to eat. She makes sure he has things to drink. And she's standing right there with him the whole time. who I want to be. Right. That's who I want to be. But it's so easy. Like you said, in the very first episode, when we were talking about or in the second episode, when we were talking about chains, it's so easy to pick it up and play with it. Right. And I thought about that the other night. I thought, oh, my God, I've been picking it. I've been picking up those that need for perfection or that those insecurities. And I've just been toying with it, you know, these last couple weeks and that's not on anybody but me right it's we're dating it was like our third date and we went out to eat and we come back to our hat my house and I told him I said you know it's been raining that porch gets a little slick and he steps up on it and slide falls right and I laughed at him and I said I told you I felt like God has been sitting in there like okay you want to go through this again all right you know yeah go ahead you know hang off the side of the mountain for a while if That's what you want to do. But I posted the video on our TikTok page, on unrelated sisters.podcast on TikTok. And I slept the best I've ever slept. I slept the best I slept in months the other night.

SPEAKER_00: 10:03

You know, when he was saying, when he was trying to do the video and you couldn't get the right angle, you couldn't get the right filter, get a filter. I can hear the Lord saying, because I wanted her to be authentic. Mm-hmm. You know, a lot of times we try to, we see something and we're like, mm-mm, he wants us to. Because... He wants us to show the world the real us. Right. You know what I mean? The real us. The real, raw, unedited us.

SPEAKER_01: 10:31

Yeah. And so it's so much easier sitting here with this microphone and no video, right? And so how I got through it is I set the microphone in front of me and the video to the side of me. And it's video in me, but I'm talking into the microphone. And that's how I did it, right? That was the only way I could get when I sat there and looked at the video of myself in the video all I could hear was the enemy all I could hear was you know nobody wants to hear you you ain't got nothing to say you know and I'm like so I had to I had to like mimic this this atmosphere to be able to get through it which is I don't know like I stand up and talk to people I stand I talk to hundreds of people a day it's not like I have a Fear of talking to the public or talking to crowds. I do it all the time. I just couldn't. Like, I just couldn't. Like, it was just so overwhelming at the thought of posting that first post. Right. And but you're right. He wanted raw and he wanted real. And that's what he got. Original. The original me. Yeah. And that's, you know. That's definitely what he got, you know, that. And don't get me wrong. You know, I haven't been pretending this whole time. But the last podcast, you know, I cried. I showed emotion. I don't show emotion. I don't do that. Right. Especially like at work. Now I'll show it at home. But at work and things like that, I'm the leader. So I don't show emotion. I don't show anger. I don't show. I don't do all of that. Because at the end of the day, I make the atmosphere in my building and stuff. So actually, I called Haley, the young girl from Hud's Heart, and we were talking and I had to ask her to do the podcast with me on the discernment of yes. I've got one that I've had wrote up and I asked her to do it with me. But I didn't go. I didn't take the stuff. I just didn't go. Right. You invited me to go. I was supposed to go with you last week. week to the women's shelter. They weren't stopping me from going. Nothing other than myself. Right. So I allowed the enemy to take away somebody's blessing, because if I went that night, there would have been a blessing. And I know that now. Right. And I knew it then. I just didn't get out of my pajamas.

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Right.

SPEAKER_01: 13:24

I just didn't get out of my pajamas. And so then I felt guilty, right? And then I felt ashamed because I didn't go. And then I let the enemy convince me that it was okay. I didn't go, right? But it wasn't. It wasn't okay. I'm supposed to go, so we're going to go. Yes. I'm supposed to, you know, I'm supposed to be a part of that. I

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feel

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like you are. I do, too. I do, too. And last week, and that's what I'm saying, like, revival might have broke out last week if I'd have behaved. It

SPEAKER_00: 14:00

worked out, and... They're going through some transitions yourself. And they're about to restock the whole house. And so they're down to a couple girls now. And so they're about to open the doors back up in a couple more weeks. They're going to be full. And I really feel like that. You know when you were saying your co-worker told you to get some joy. I know. You know, Dad was preaching the other Sunday. He was talking about how a lot of times we get in our feelings and... It's hard to find the joy. It is. You know what I mean? And the Bible says the joy of the Lord is our strength. So when we're not happy a lot of times or not have joy, there's a difference. Then what? Right. Sometimes we sit in our stuff. Yeah. We're weak. We don't have strength. Yeah. And so he was preaching, you know, the Bible says to shout for joy. Yes. To leap for joy. Not when you have joy, you do these things, but you do those things to get joy. You know, you dance for joy. You sing for joy. Yeah. So when you find your So let that echo when you say that. look at you I mean you have you're such an inspiration to so many and where you came from and where you are now and more tear down your joy because of the people that you come in contact with and that you pour into and if you're not in the position to do those things then he feels like he's won right and we don't want him to win and we're not going to let him win I said that the other day I'm like you know what I have fought too hard for this for his family I will not let you come in over something crazy I refuse to let you destroy what God has built. And when you can get in that mindset and get out of it, you know what I mean? But it's hard when you're up there. It

SPEAKER_01: 16:14

is. It is. And so you haven't watched the TikTok video, but in the video, it's not today. Yeah. The enemy doesn't get my joy. Not today.

SPEAKER_00: 16:29

That's right.

SPEAKER_01: 16:30

You know, sometimes you have to just, just not today. And Sometimes

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I think

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several times. And which goes to this verse.

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He says, I have told you all this that you may have peace in me. Have peace in him. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows, but take heart because he's already defeated Satan. He holds the keys.

SPEAKER_01: 17:21

And that's what I said. I felt like he was standing there like I did my husband laughing at me saying, okay, I just told you. And it all stemmed We did that Proverbs 31, women, and that affected me, right? Like, it affected me in a way that negatively, in a way, kind of, you know, me and Keena have been through a lot in our past, and we went through a lot together in our past, and, you know, and when I started getting close to God, Not just clean, but when I started trying to find my faith, I couldn't feed into the others. I just had to let Kena go and let Kena be. That has bothered me a lot in my life because she never truly had peoples, but I couldn't heal myself in the time. Then when she said that things that she said like that played over and over and over in my head a lot you know and at the end of the day I feel like you know that's one of those it made me feel so good inside to hear her say that but then it made me feel guilty for walking away from her right which you know she had to find her own way because she's more stubborn the menu together and I would have never been able to find where I am and she knows that and I love her and I'm not saying anything out of way or any of that but it kind of started there when we did that Proverbs 31 I feel like it just kind of started the whole and it wasn't anything anybody did it was you let him whisper once he's gonna whisper again he's gonna whisper again you know what I mean like it wasn't that any anybody did anything but I let the whisper I let the thought come in you know and it wasn't that day it was a couple days later right so it was totally 100% the enemy because at that moment God was in the room and he you know but it was a few days later and then that's when I started not hearing the radio Right. Like the songs were playing and I was singing along, but I wasn't hearing the radio. I wasn't hearing the music. I wasn't hearing the hallelujah. I wasn't feeling the presence of God. I wasn't, you know, and then it just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. But he had been talking to me about the whole video thing weeks prior to us doing the Proverbs 31. And then I just let the whisper come in, you know, to cast

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down every thought, every imagination.

SPEAKER_01: 20:33

Mm hmm.

SPEAKER_00: 20:33

Hold it captive. You know what I mean? Hold something y'all didn't know. You know what I mean? Torment me. So when you had those thoughts, you came back to the Lord. I literally was fighting, feeling like I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to be with everybody. I didn't want to come to the classes. And I remember we talked about this the last time, or not the last time, a couple times before, how we were going to the Battle of the Mind classes. And so Jason was teaching the classes, and they were talking about holding your thoughts captive. And literally, and he would do that. You know, like literally peeking at his head and holding it. And so you have in your hand, is this true? Is this no? Is this of God? You know what I mean? And if it's not, if it doesn't fall under any of the truths of what God says about you, cast it down. Right. You know what I mean? And so that helped me so much as I was growing. Right. Because when I had those thoughts, is this me or is this the enemy? Is this God? It's not God because he wouldn't say those things

SPEAKER_01: 21:38

about me. And then it went from that to being disappointed in myself because any other time, I'm a sticky note person and it's all over my mirror. If I start feeling or start some kind of way, writing truths down and sticking it up there to see, I didn't do none of that. I tell y'all on this podcast to do it. And then when I needed to do it I didn't

SPEAKER_00: 22:07

do it you know what the good thing is God loves us and he loves you just the same I know you know that's the good thing about God is he'll let us sit in our mess and thumbs and in our own craziness or our own you know things we're going through and he's like okay you gonna let me help you I know you gonna use the tools I've given you yeah like

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okay yeah I guess we

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need to get back to school I get it

SPEAKER_01: 22:33

Yeah. Yeah. And that's how it's been the last few days. And I know you know that because I've been blowing you up. Like, it's just been, bam, bam. I love it. I know. I'm like, oh, that sounds good. You know, oh, what about that thought? You know, and I'm just like, okay, see what you do to you. And you do it to yourself, right? And everybody's like, well, God shouldn't let this happen or he shouldn't let that happen or he shouldn't let this happen. But if you sit down and think about it, we do it to ourselves I mean he didn't he didn't do any of that to

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me

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yeah he didn't do any of that to me right but he stood there and waited until I was ready to listen until I was ready to be like okay you know because the minute and I did the video and thought I posted it and I didn't post it because I don't really know how to do TikTok right and so but that night I went to bed and slept like a baby right I didn't did the video i didn't delete it it was on there just because i'm malfunctioning doesn't mean anything right but uh and so the next day at work i asked one of my co-workers who follows the podcast and she follows us on tiktok and i said did you see that video i posted she goes you didn't post a video i was like yes i did and she's like no you didn't and so i went on to the podcast i went on to the tiktok channel and i was like well where's that video i know i've posted it like and then I came up here and it was in the drafts when I got home it was in the drafts so I actually posted it then and you know but actually doing it he freed me yeah from all the anxiety and all of the all of the emotions and the feelings you know and you can't live life on emotions for sure because emotions are like roller coasters right and they'll trick you they will trick you into thinking all kinds of different things or feeling all kinds of different things.

SPEAKER_00: 24:39

No feeling is final. Like what you're feeling in that moment, that's not a final feeling. Nope. Because right now I feel like I'm going to feel like this forever. You know what I mean? But you don't. No. That's the good news.

SPEAKER_01: 24:52

Right. And that's why there's a difference between joy and happy. Happy is a feeling and joy is something that you choose. So

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we choose to be happy. We

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choose joy. Yes, we do. We choose to have joy in everything that we do. I just heard a song on the way here. No, I don't know who sings it. No, I don't know what the name of it was, but I'm going to sing my hallelujah. right and you don't and that's not literal right it's not okay hallelujah hallelujah but when anything happens small or big and you say thank you because as humans that's all we want right we want recognition we want people to tell us that we did a good job we want people to thank us he wants the same things right he wants when he big or small you know he just wants you to thank him he wants you to acknowledge that he's there and even in your mess right because i because i thought okay you know i hadn't been praying every morning when i get up or i hadn't been reading my verse of the day first thing right last week and so i so i was like okay i'm gonna get back in my routine and i'm gonna i'm gonna probably want to open my eyes and i'm gonna i'm gonna not read anything before i read the verse of the day you know um and get into them So I have to go back now and read every one of those verses of the day because I'm sure I missed something. Last week, I'm sure I missed something somewhere because I still wouldn't hear any. Because the song that I heard on the way here, it released last week. And I'm sure I heard it a hundred times, but I didn't hear it. And it's not like I don't know that. Right. Yeah. It's not like I don't know these things in my head or in my heart.

SPEAKER_00: 26:53

That's just part of it sometimes. I think we've been walking this walk with Christ and that everything's going to be perfect and we're going to know how to do all the things right. It's just how it is sometimes. You find yourself in certain situations or circumstances. You know what? Because life be laughing. Life be laughing. You know what? God's so God. He is. He

SPEAKER_01: 27:14

is. He's so good and worthy. He is. He is. you know it's been watch what you pray for that's right right and it's not that i pray for this but and i and i've brought this up we've talked about this i feel like i've been through so much in life to get where i am today that i don't have chaos i do have chaos that was chaos like this whole last month and a half has been chaos you know and i'm like like where did that come from you And it makes you wonder sometimes, where does the chaos come from? It comes from you. I'm just going to tell you. It comes from you. Your chaos, any chaos you have in life, it comes from you. It's choices you make. It's choices you decide to not listen to or choices you don't make, things you try to ignore. If you have chaos in life, it's you. It's all you. Because I haven't had chaos in a long time emotionally or me personally. You know what I mean? like life is life and life is laughing, right? But that's not chaos. That's just life. I'm talking about internal chaos. Like I have been having internal. I said,

SPEAKER_00: 28:31

okay, Lord, where did I miss it? Show me. And then he wrote it like it is you. Okay, I just need your yes. And then you did it. And guess what? You got some peace and you got some sleep.

SPEAKER_01: 28:43

I did. And it's like, show me. It's like, that's how my casting counts. Show me who I am. show me what you want you know and it's insane so I mean I don't know like that was good So a new verse that I've been on since the revelation of my life is Galatians 6, 9. And let us not grow weary while doing good. For in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. And that's going right back to it, right? It's going right back to where we are. And

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keep going. Keep going. Keep

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going. Pick your pants

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up.

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One foot in front of the other. One step at a time. You know, I tell them at work all the time, especially like the holidays are coming and the holidays are chaos, right? We do a lot of business. We do a lot of sales. There's a lot of people in our building, you know, and some days are harder than others. And we're not used to that because we run such a good business that, you know, other than November and December, we're pretty good at not having chaos in the building. And, you know, and so they start getting weary, you know, two or three weeks in of the holiday. And, you know, and they'll be like, oh, it wasn't like this last year. It

SPEAKER_00: 30:11

was. It was. Yeah, it was. Yeah. Yeah, it has. Yeah,

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it has. Like, and it's so funny how you can relate everyday life back to God every time. Like, every time. Like, you know, right in the middle of it. He's always standing right in the middle of it, you know. And I haven't done it yet. and I've done it every year since I've been there so I guess I'll do it next week or so but for the holiday season like I pray him into the building like I invite him into the building which I do every day but like I literally walk around the building and invite him in because he's the only way we keep peace during the holidays because holidays get rough you know but but just not growing weary right while doing good you know and And doing good is... hard sometimes you know giving to others and giving into others and sowing into others you know and that's that's new for me right like i guess i've always given to people but just not like i have been lately you know it's been more and more and uh and it's weary sometimes like it's lonely

SPEAKER_00: 31:28

we're doing good doing good me and you're doing the things you're trying you're trying to soundtrack you're trying to and then you but you feel like you just hit the wall You got friends that are betraying you. You got being disobedient.

SPEAKER_01: 31:43

Being disobedient. It all boils down to being disobedient.

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Let me tell you, you know, obedience to God is your key to freedom. Oh my God.

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Like, we need a t-shirt. And that's what it all boils down to. During this last month and a half, it really doesn't. None of that matters. If I hadn't been disobedient, it all still would have happened. It just wouldn't have affected me the same way. Right? Like, it doesn't matter the circumstances in life. It matters where you are with Him. Because at the end of the day, you're still going to go through the circumstances. You're still going to go through whatever the chaos is. But it's how we see the chaos in the end.

SPEAKER_00: 32:35

Yeah. That's good. Well, I'm glad you're good. I am good. How have you been? Oh, I'm good. I'm so happy. Work's slowing down. Work's slowing down. I know. Your year slows down. Yeah, so like the last few months has been very, it's like y'all's holiday season. Yeah. Because we're building shows. The displays for the holiday seasons. For the holiday, like exactly, the fall and holiday. All the new good stuff. So, I don't know. I was telling somebody the other day, I said, I don't know. I thought about a month ago, I don't know if I can do this now. I was rethinking all my life choices. God brought me through it. And, you know, I just had to. It was rough, but I just said, you know what? Lord, you're teaching me stuff through this. Yeah, because it's hard to manage. I've never managed 100 people.

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Well.

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Ever.

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Oh, my God. And then you have 100 different personalities and then your own personality. Welcome to my life. One of the

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girls told me she came to the homeless shelter with me last week. She's I said, it's crazy at work, and Deb can literally walk in, and she's glowing. Like, she glows through the oak plant. And I'm like, well, that's nothing to do with me. That's Jesus, because some days I don't like everybody. Right? I don't like people. Yeah. And I definitely don't want people today. But I do. I try to be intentional and just be in the light for Jesus. And I know that—and you know this, Ben, this story— We may be the only Jesus that people see. Oh, yeah. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How we portray Jesus.

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Yep.

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You know what I mean? No pressure.

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No pressure. No. Yeah. But even going through this whole the last month and a half, like I still went in every morning and I smiled and I wished everybody

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a good morning. They know when I'm up to that, what's going on.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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God is good.

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My excuse is and I'm giving up my my secret I just don't feel good

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oh yeah

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I just don't feel good I'm sorry I just don't I'm tired I just don't feel good you know yeah yeah all those things yeah all the things yeah

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and I didn't make that video that Lord told me

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to yeah I didn't do what I didn't I was disobedient but you know it made me physically sick yeah like it made me like I thought I had a brain tumor not really I I'm not a hypochondriac so I don't even think like that I kept thinking it was sinuses so I just kept taking sinus medicine but I had headaches isn't that what I was

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supposed

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to

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do

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and your health and everything else like behave just listen you know and that's all you know and as a mom that's all I want I just want my kid to behave and you know and call me every now and again or you know don't take four days to answer my text back that's good Heh heh heh. He's 21 in some days. Sometimes we have to do what's healing for us and hope that our listeners enjoy it. Please, if you like it, share it. Share it with other sisters. Share it with other groups. We will be in Rock Mart at Holy Night of Worship on September the 6th. We will have a booth set up if you are close or if you have a friend we're going to try and do some special things come by and pray with us come by and see us especially if you listen to the podcast we'll be supporting Hud's Heart I have some really cool things that we're going to be selling and all the money we make will go to Hud's Heart but

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pray with me yes we love you tonight and we thank you for this time Lord it has been encouraging to me And I pray that it's encouraging to everyone listening. Lord, I just thank you that this week, that any thoughts that's not of you, Lord, that you would just silence the voice of the enemy, Lord, and that we would be able to think on the good things of you and that we'd be able to see ourselves the way you see us. And Lord, that we'll be able to say yes and be obedient, Lord, so we don't have to keep going around the same mountain. And we thank you, Lord, that obedience to God is your key to freedom. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.