STOP FIGHTING LIKE YOU’RE ALONE

Grace Got Me Here. Now I’m Learning to Walk in His Authority.

Last week, we talked about grace—the grace that found us, carried us, forgave us, and brought us to places we could have never reached on our own.

But what happens once grace gets you here?

This week, Shannon and Deb are talking about walking in the authority of God.

The conversation was inspired by an illustration Shannon heard while flying: an aircraft carrying the President of the United States takes on the call sign Air Force One. The authority isn't found in the airplane itself—it's connected to who is on board.

That sparked a much bigger question:

If the Holy Spirit of the living God dwells within us, why do we keep walking through life as though we're fighting every battle alone?

Walking in God's authority doesn't mean controlling people, commanding every circumstance to change, or never experiencing fear, hardship, or spiritual battles. Biblical authority begins with surrender—knowing whose you are, knowing Who lives within you, and refusing to give fear, shame, your past, or the enemy authority God never gave them.

Grace got you here.

Now it's time to learn how to live here.

Because you don't have to be the strongest person in the room when you know Who walked into the room with you.

Bible Verses

Romans 8:11 — The same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in believers. This is the heart of the episode: it's not about how powerful I am; it's about Who lives within me.

2 Timothy 1:7 — “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

Luke 10:19 — Jesus speaks about the authority He gives His followers over the power of the enemy.

James 4:7 — “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” This verse keeps the conversation grounded: biblical authority begins with submission to God, not self-confidence.

Ephesians 6:10–11 — “Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God...”

John 14:16–17 — Jesus promises the Holy Spirit, who would dwell with and within His followers.

Acts 1:8 — “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you...”

Ephesians 2:8–9 — We are saved by grace through faith, not by our own works—connecting directly back to Grace Got Me Here.

Encouragement

You don't have Encouragement to be the strongest person in the room.

You don't have to know exactly how everything is going to work out.

You don't have to fight every battle, defend yourself against every opinion, fix every person, or control every circumstance.

You just have to remember Who is with you.

Maybe you've been allowing fear to have authority over your decisions.

Maybe your past has been telling you who you are.

Maybe anxiety has been controlling the atmosphere of your home.

Maybe someone's opinion has become louder than what God says about you.

Maybe you've been fighting so hard in your own strength that you've forgotten you were never supposed to do this alone.

Grace got you here.

The same Jesus who rescued you hasn't abandoned you now that the battle has gotten difficult.

The Holy Spirit is still present.

God is still speaking.
God is still restoring.
God is still redeeming.
God is still healing.
God is still working.

Walking in God's authority doesn't mean there won't be turbulence.

It means turbulence doesn't get to determine who's in control.

So walk into that workplace knowing Who is with you.

Walk into your home knowing Who is with you.

Walk into that difficult conversation knowing Who is with you.

Walk into the next chapter knowing Who is with you.

You may feel weak.

You may feel tired.

You may even feel afraid.

But you don't walk in alone.

Grace got you here. Now walk like you know Who came with you.

PRAYER

Father,

Thank You for Your grace.

Thank You for every place Your grace has carried us, every mistake Your grace has covered, every chain You have broken, and every time You refused to give up on us.

But Father, we don't want to simply celebrate where grace brought us. Teach us how to walk in the life You have given us.

Holy Spirit, make us aware of Your presence.

Show us where we have given authority to things that were never supposed to control us.

Where fear has been ruling us, replace it with faith.

Where shame has been naming us, remind us who we are in Christ.

Where our past has been speaking louder than Your promises, remind us that we have been made new.

Where the enemy has brought confusion, division, discouragement, or intimidation, give us discernment to recognize the battle and wisdom to respond according to Your Word.

And Lord, keep us humble.

Remind us that this authority isn't about our strength, our ability, or our power. It comes from belonging completely to You.

Teach us to submit before we resist.

Teach us to pray before we react.

Teach us to listen before we speak.

Teach us to stand when we want to run.

And when life gets turbulent, remind us that turbulence doesn't mean You've left us.

You are still here.

You are still God.

You are still faithful.

Grace got us here, Father.

Now teach us to walk boldly, humbly, faithfully, and confidently in You.

In the mighty name of Jesus,

Amen.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Lord, we love you today. We again thank you for this opportunity to be here. And Lord, I just pray that um you just speak through us today, God, and as we share some things, Lord, I just pray that um it would resonate with people listening today. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen.

SPEAKER_00 0:20

Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome back to Unrelated Sisters Truth and Grace Conversation. Uh today uh I'm Shannon. I'm dead. And we are here together today, and we're gonna kind of talk about some things that resonated with me this past week. Um, talk about last week's episode that I did by myself. Um, just kind of go wherever God leads us. Um, and that's kind of where we're headed today. Um, you know, I was uh I flew out of town for work this week and I was on an airplane, and I come across this this uh video, and it uh it was a a gentleman preaching or doing a sermon. I'm assuming he's a pastor, really don't know, but his name was Camillo Buchanan, and in that sermon he was talking about Air Force One and how the name of the plane isn't actually Air Force One until the president steps on it. Like it's really its name is A-25, something another boring, right? And then it doesn't go to Air Force One until the president steps on it. Well, the president is the last person to step on it, and when he steps onto the plane, then the pilot announces uh everyone please stand. The president has aboard the plane, you're now on Air Force One. And I thought about that when I was listening to him talk about it, and and he he he started talking about authority and how our authority in a man that is elected and then unelected every four years, how when he steps onto something, how his authority changes what it is. So it made me start thinking about how our authority and God and how sometimes we forget to step onto the plane in authority, right? And it made me start thinking about well, you know, I just talked about 50 years of of coming, you know, to where I am and how grace has brought me there. And there wasn't it wasn't always in authority, right? Like my authority was not always where it should be, you know, and it made me start thinking about the presence and the designation of how it changes and how things change when you walk in authority, you know, and what does it mean to walk in the Holy Spirit as He lives in us? You know, and as I talked about it, it just it made me wonder. You know, when your heart, when you hear the words walking in God's authority, you know, what does that kind of mean to you, Deb?

SPEAKER_02 2:59

I think when you're walking in God's authority, um that it's almost like when you walk into the room like the atmosphere changes because you're walking you know what I mean? Yeah, because you're walking in that, you know who you are. Not that a look at me, but you know that that Jesus is living on the inside of you. So um you have a powerful weapon, you know, you you don't have to just like a cult. Um when he if you see a regular, you know, him out and about in his regular clothes, you don't feel like you have to but once he puts that uniform on, right, you know what I mean, you have to obey the laws. So I feel like that once we give our lives to Christ and we're submitted to him, there's a we can walk with our head held high and know who we are.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

I th and I feel the same way, you know, growing up as a kid, my mom always told me that my smile was my strongest attribute, right? When I walk into a room when I'm in a good mood, when life seems to be going well, or whatever, when I walk in, and now for sure, when I walk in, I walk in with this grace about myself, and I'm not, you know, but it lights up the room, right? Uh the uh you can see I always knew my aunt, my I have an aunt named Mary, and sh her faith in God, like when you walked into her house, you felt it. No matter where you were at in life, no matter what was going on, no matter how high I was when I walked into her home, I always felt the presence. And I feel like walking in authority is when you walk in a room, they feel the presence. Yeah, they feel the presence. They may not understand the presence and they may not understand the feeling, but they have a feeling that overcomes them and they want to know more.

SPEAKER_02 4:58

I had a girl run me down the other day at work. She was like, Hey, hey, come here, come here, I gotta tell you something. I'm like, what? She said, You just walk around angelic, like you just you just look angelic. And I'm like, Okay, because sometimes I don't feel angelic. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I don't feel like it, and some days I feel like I wear it on my face because you get so busy, and and then it made me stop and think, Wow, people are really watching. Yeah. People are watching you when you walk by and what you're what you're doing, what you're saying, how you're carrying yourself. You know what I mean? And so that made me reflect on that, like watching myself, how I do carry myself, you know what I mean? Because we shouldn't be walking in authority, we should be uh not letting the enemy trample over us, you know what I mean? Yeah, no, I get it.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

You can take authority over a family, over that's our job. Whatever, yeah. Right? I mean, as the women of the household, that's our job is to take authority over what we allow in our homes, what we allow in our house. We let no trespassing sign up. That's right. You're welcome here. That's right. And you know, we've talked about it the last few weeks since we went full on with this um women's conference, and we've, you know, we've got the place and we've got the speakers and we've got the this and we've got the that and we've got the this, how it felt like got uh the devil or the enemy has just been like this is this ain't always he's just been pushing them buttons, right? And this past week, you know, I was I was in Denver this past week, so I was I was far away from home, two-hour difference, right? So it was, you know, my husband would text me early and I would text him late, and it was hard to get together, right? It was hard to, you know, but he I called him every night, but I was in bed by like eight o'clock Denver time, which is like 10 o'clock our time because it was I was like, you know, that two hours was killing me. But I would get up at 3 a.m. Because here it would be 5 a.m., which is what time I normally get up, you know, and so that gave me time to spend in quiet time, you know, and that gave me time to just I would just turn on just worship music and just lay there in the bed for 20 or 30 minutes before I even thought about my feet hitting the floor or I thought about reading my Bible, or I thought about any of the things, you know. I just lay there and in that moment, in that moment I knew what we were doing is the right thing. I knew, I know, I I didn't knew, I know that you knew I know, I know what I know. I know that that something is gonna grow out of this women's conference that we're doing locally into something bigger. Oh, the little girls at work are so excited and stuff, they're so hungry.

SPEAKER_02 7:39

They're they haven't they don't even go to church or anything, right? But they're like, we can't wait. Good, good.

SPEAKER_00 7:45

It's gonna it's gonna grow so much. And you know, whether it grows into a women's Bible study every week or it grows into I don't know where it's going.

SPEAKER_02 7:54

And it's almost like um they were just so honored that we were even asking like the people from work and stuff to come. Like they, you know what I mean? I'm like, no, you're every you're welcome to come. Like everybody, come as you are. Come as you are, and what do you gotta wear? Whatever you want to wear. That's right. You know, I mean we're not gonna bikini, you know what I'm saying? But uh clothes, yeah, just clock whatever you want to wear. Clothes, yeah, we're just gonna love on you.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

Yeah, wear clothes. That's all we ask. Just wear clothes. You know, wear clothes. That's all we ask. You know, I seen a preacher, uh, there's a preacher, Josh, that I've that I follow on TikTok, and and he said that um when he was an assistant pastor at a church, he uh every every day every Friday he would go to lunch at the dominoes across the street. And every Friday the same guy was there in his in his apron that was all crusty from you know everything. And he said every Friday he would invite the guy to come to church. And the guy would be like, Oh no, no, no, you know, and he said every Friday he would ask him. And he said, one Friday the guy said, Okay. So he said on Sunday morning he was so excited for the guy from the Domino's to come. And he he waited and he kept waiting out in the thing, and church was starting, you know, and he has a part in the service, so he couldn't keep standing out there. So he runs in and gets his seat, you know, and he was just like, Well, I guess he chose not to come. He said, So that next Friday, he went across the street to the dominoes and was like, Man, I missed you, blah, blah, blah. And he said, Well, he has he said I had to shift after church, so I just wore my my domino stuff. And uh the guy at the uh door asked me if I didn't have anything better because we dressed for church and we dressed for God, and he said, So I just turned around and went home. Wow, he said, so he decided right then in that moment that when he became a pastor of a church, the only requirement is to come dressed. Yeah, come dressed, just wear clothes. That's all we care, right? Don't come naked. Yeah, come dressed, you know, and that resonated with me because sometimes we forget that church isn't for the perfect, it's not for the healed, it's for those people that need it. And just because you go every Sunday don't mean that you're right. Just because you get up and you go doesn't mean that you're right. So uh last week's episode, um, Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, it said it uh reminds us that salvation is by grace through faith, not something we've earned. And that makes a made a very important connection with me. Because grace and authority, when I was talking, when I was thinking about authority this week, you know, because last week the whole episode was the grace that God had showed me over the last 50 years and that he had given me and that had given me the opportunity to show to others, and um but they go together when you're walking in grace, you're also walking in authority. Yeah, you know, I couldn't grace says you can't save yourself, but authority says, now stop living like you're still enslaved to what Jesus saved you from, and that doesn't mean that Christians control the circumstances or that you know you command God, right? It means sin, shame, fear, and the enemy no longer gets to claim ownership of a life that belongs to Jesus. He no longer controls anything. You know, we can receive God's grace and still live mentally like we're in prison and like we're the person we used to be. And that was hard for me. I think that was a hard transition for me. Even when I f when I started walking with God, uh, you know, it was so easy to take two steps forward and take five steps backwards, and we condemn people that are in that transition. And I feel I feel like we we miss that opportunity, and so they either find their strength in God or they walk back, they take their ten steps backwards. Yeah, and it's us that allow them to do it because we're not walking in our authority, reminding them of who they are, we're not giving them the love that they deserve. Yes, you know, you think about it, you know, but just because we've been forgiven and just because God has given us grace and God has taken us where we are today, me and you both, doesn't mean that life is great. Oh no, the enemy's gonna fight you, yeah. It doesn't mean that, you know, I'm not forgiven just because, right? I I still mess up on a daily. I still mess up on a daily. Uh we were at the we were at work and that's where I was out of town was at a conference for work and um and I've been I've been complaining lately over the past couple months about a uh about work, about things that are going on at work that I really truly have no control over. But it upsets me because it affects the associates that I am supposed to be taken care of, right? So we have a set amount of hours that I'm allowed to give out to associates for us to do our work. And home office or somebody somewhere cut my hours by like 400 hours, and that's a lot of hours. That's a lot of hours. That's a lot of hours, and uh, so I have associates that's getting like four and eight hours a week. They can't live on that, right? So I've been very, very, very, and up to that point, I kept saying, I need more hours. I need more hours, you know, I need more hours. I need, you know, I don't, I'm not being, I'm not being greedy. I just want 400 more hours. I just want 400 more hours so that I can run my business. And um, I told somebody, and I went to the help desk or whatever, and there really wasn't any help. And I don't believe that this is something God can control, but I do feel like that I complained about it enough because I wasn't thankful for what we had that now I'm being now that I'm like okay, you know, and finally in my room, I was like, God, I'm so sorry for complaining. I'm so sorry for not being thankful for what I had. Yeah, which to me resonated back to last week's episode. You know, uh, and it really didn't have anything to do. I mean, it's not like God can seriously give me 400 hours at work. That's not wasn't the point.

SPEAKER_02 14:18

But he could change the hearts of the people, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 14:21

He could. Yeah, business is business. Um, and and yes, God could give them a heart to, but they wouldn't to figure it out would be just a lot, a lot, right? And and we pray that he does, right? We pray, but not whether he does or don't. That was not the point. The point is that it made me start thinking about the things that I take for granted today, right? And that I'm not thankful for. And you know, I receive God's grace. I receive it in so many ways coming to where I am today, that it just blows my mind that I can't be grateful for what I have. I still want more. You know, I don't know. That's how we do though. It is, that's definitely how we do.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

You know, I was thinking while ago, when we were talking about authority, um dad preaches a lot on faith and walking in authority as well. And he was saying the other day when he was preaching about how when he's praying like for healing, he said, I don't deny that the sickness is in my body, but I deny it's right to stay there. Right. And I was like, wow, how good is that? But I feel like that's a dad's an example of walking in authority. Right. I'm not denying that there's things going on inside of me. Right. When it when it is, if but I'm denying it's authority, you know, denying it's to stay there. Denying it's right to stay there.

SPEAKER_00 15:48

Well, and that's so grace says you can't save yourself. Authority says, now stop living like you're still enslaved in what Jesus saved from you. Yeah. And that's it. Yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_02 16:00

He's already he's already you're already healed. He's already provided the healing to all the things.

SPEAKER_00 16:04

Grace isn't gonna save you. Grace is just get you on the path to authority. You know, it it means sin, shame, fear, and the enemy no longer gets to claim ownership of a life that belongs to Jesus. Right. Think about that a minute. Sin, shame, fear, and the enemy no longer gets to claim ownership over a life that belongs to Jesus. That's good. And that you have to resonate with that. You have to think about that, right? Because just because you've been forgiven doesn't mean you don't still think. I mean, he passes me, he sees me, right? And there's times that I'm like, should I be here? Should I be doing this? I mean, sometimes when I sit down to write this, I can't do nothing because I can all I can hear is the enemy whispering in my ear. But I have to be like, you're not welcome here. Yeah. You are trespassing. You know, uh draw that bloodline. Yeah, you know, you're you're trespassing, you know, don't pass go, don't collect $200, go to jail, you know, kind of thing. And and it's hard to, it's hard to reflect in that. Yeah, you know, it's hard to stop thinking sometimes. Yeah. And when you're especially when you're young in it, you know, it's not like I woke up one day and everything was just there. I understood grace, I understood authority, I understood God's forgiveness, I understood part, a lot of it was has grown over the years through experiences and through finding people that loved on me for when I needed loved on and finding those people that that village that I needed to grow. And there was a season where I didn't have a village. Yeah, there was a season that I had to grow on my own, but I needed that.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

But it's powerful when you do though.

SPEAKER_00 17:58

I needed that. And when that season ended, that's when all this burnt, right? It's not like me and you weren't already friends, but we just didn't hang out, right? Uh it's not like I didn't have other friends. I did. We just didn't hang out in God's authority.

SPEAKER_02 18:16

I think that uh I went through a season, look, I I struggled with codependency, like being you know, not wanting to be alone or not wanting to. So I always felt like I had to be doing go and have somebody right there with me. But like you said, it's during those times, those seasons where it's just you and God. I feel like that's where your real strength comes from, your real growth, your real stability, you know what I mean? Right.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

Yeah, you know, uh, you know, you can stop doing something, you know, whether it's getting high, codependency, you can stop all those things, but Jesus changes who you believe you are when you stop in those things. And it's not, it's not, those aren't necessarily the same moments. Yeah, you know, and then uh I talked about sanctification last month last week in the episode, and I had to Google sanctification by the way. I did not and I did not know what that meant. Um, so that's been working on me this week, uh, what sanctification really is and what it means to be in sanctification, you know, and I was like, I thought I was past it. Yeah, right? And I am, I guess, to a point, but I didn't understand it, or I didn't understand where I was coming from because I didn't understand what sanctification was. You know, and now that I understand it, it's been it's been enlightening this past week, I guess. You know, um, it's been very enlightening on what it is and how it works and what um sanctification means to me. You know, sanctification can be, right? And it all it is is it's just a process of being made holy or set apart for God's special purpose. So sanctification is your purpose in in God. And I always, even when I was getting high, I think I always knew there was a purpose for me. I just didn't know how to find that purpose. I didn't know what that purpose looked like because I had gotten mad at God and I had decided that he ruined my whole life, he changed, you know, my family dynamic, he did all the things, and till I realized that he didn't do it, man did it. That it didn't make a difference. So, you know, the important part of the illustration of the airplane is you look how powerful you are. Look at how powerful you are. It's look who lives in me. It's not look at how powerful I am, but it looks at who lives in me. And Romans 8 11 says that the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in believers.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

Yeah, he lives inside of us.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

The spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in all believers. So I was watching uh a uh a debate. It was between a believer and a non-believer, and I was watching it, and the lady said, she said, so what you're telling me is is that all non-believers, 70% of humans are gonna go to hell and live in torment for the rest of their lives. And 70% that sounds like a huge number to me, right? And at first I was like, Oh my god, 70% of people are gonna die and go to hell. Well, but the rebuttal to from the lady was it's not 70% of it's not the number. Number. The number is to you get reaction. Which it did for me, first thing, right? 70%, 80%, 90%, 60%. When we say a number like that, it makes you think, oh, right? It gets a reaction. It's an emotional reaction. And the lady that was debating it, that's what she said. She said it was an emotional reaction because you were trying to get an emotional reaction out of her, out of me. She said, it's not 70%. Those 70% are choosing to live their life as little gods. But us that choose to believe in Christ and choose to have a relationship with Christ will be invited into Christ's home. And heaven is Jesus Christ's home. Would you invite a stranger into your home when their time was up because they didn't have a relationship with you beforehand? No. No, I wouldn't. No, I wouldn't. You know, don't come to me at the end and beg for forgiveness. And it made me wonder, it made me think about it, you know, and that's not part of this script that I have. Uh that just come to mind. But it makes you wonder, right? Like you have all these people and they want to throw all these numbers at you as Christians and make it our fault when it's not. Because we know who lives inside of us, we know who has given us grace, we know who has brought us from the ashes and who has grown us to where we are today. You know, the Holy Spirit isn't something you turn on when you're just having a bad day. And we've talked about this in in other episodes, like, you know, everything will be going perfect, and then it doesn't always go perfect. And then that's when we get on our knees and pray, right? Um, so you know, we we we were leaving Denver and we got on our plane and the engine didn't start. And we sat there and we sat there and we all kept thinking, what's going on, right? Because nobody told you what was going on at first. So you we're sitting there and we're like, we're gonna miss our connecting fly. You know, and then they're like, uh, we're trying to find you another plane, something's wrong with this one, the engine won't start, we're gonna de board. Okay, so we all deboard, and it's chaos because there's at least a hundred of us all in the same group on this plane, trying to get back home, right? And we all work for the same company, we all have the same 1-800 number we're supposed to call when there's chaos, when something happens to the plane, and we know we're gonna miss our connecting flight, and it's just craziness, like there's just all things going on, all this stuff's going wrong, and everybody, you know, you're talking to one and she's telling you to do this, and they're talking to one, and they're telling them to do this, and nothing is the same, right? So you don't know what to do. So they tell us to go to this, to this uh um to this uh gate, and that there's seats, but there's not enough seats for everybody. So we all rushed to this gate, all 100 of us rushed to this gate. And some of us got on the plane, some of us didn't get on the plane. You know, there was some, you know, upset, wanting to see their kids or whatever, blah, blah, blah. And I, you know, and I was like, I don't have to get on this plane. Like, I can we can figure it out as long as I get home, right? Yeah. And uh there was a handful of us, and we were like, okay, we'll just back off and let these people that seem to be very stressed out about it, get on this plane to get home. And uh then they get to Houston, which is where our connecting flight was. They missed the connecting flight, so we're stuck in Denver, they're stuck in Houston, you know, they still didn't get any further than us, you know, and it and it's it's just it seemed like, are you serious? Yeah, like it was just chaos. But you know, that doesn't mean that God wasn't in the day, yeah. Right? So the five of us, we had lunch, we laughed, we talked, we talked, you know, we all run a different size building, we all have different kinds of associates. Like I feel like it was a good day as far as just collaborating with people because you don't get to do that very often because you're constantly on the go, you know, and we learned something. Uh I learned something that day that just because crap happened, because it did, I didn't get home till 3 a.m. by the way, that God still allowed the situation to be okay. Yeah, to try and be able to. Even though out for hours it felt like complete chaos. At the end of it, I got home. Right. At the end of it, everyone. Yes, at the end of it, we all we safely, you know, we safely made it home because everybody was trying to get to Chattanooga or Atlanta. And finally I was like, why don't we just go to Knoxville? Like Knoxville's literally two hours because even if we fly into Atlanta, we still gotta drive to Chattanooga because that's where our cars are. And so you're looking at three hours from Atlanta to Chattanooga, it's two hours from Knoxville, and nobody else has thought about getting on a plane to Knoxville, you know, and they hadn't, because we got right on a plane to Knoxville and we drove, and then we drove our two hours home. But he was in it the whole time, right? Like half of my party was upset and they were just cranky about it. But with me, it was just like it's a good day. Yeah, at least we didn't take off and the and the engine stopped working. That's right. You know what I mean? At least we didn't take off and the engine stopped working. You know, I mean, there could always be more, like we could have had to crash land or or something crazy, you know, which might make me think about re-flying again. And I love to fly. I hate to fly. I'm scared.

SPEAKER_02 27:43

You don't be scared. Well, I never flew until like last year or a couple years ago. My brother flew us, and I'm like, in my mind, I'm thinking, okay, if we wreck, like we're gonna die. Where if you're wrecking in a car, at least you have a little bit of, you know, like you may not, may or may not, you know what I mean? Like you're you have a better chance of not dying. Right. You're just so far up in the air. Like if something happens and it's over with. Right. It's so scary to me.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

You know, and I have always lived my life, even when I was getting high, that if it's my time to go, it's my time to go. And um, and and uh as I get older, I'm more scared.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

Scaredy cat.

SPEAKER_00 28:23

And uh and I think I am too. I'm still not cautious though. I still don't pay attention to my surroundings, as my husband tells me. Like one of these days I'm gonna get run over cross doing a crosswalk because I don't never look uh before I cross. Um, you know, but life is life sometimes, you know. Do you think we understand walking in an atmosphere of grace and authority?

SPEAKER_02 28:52

I don't think to the full extent.

SPEAKER_00 28:54

I don't either.

SPEAKER_02 28:55

I really don't, because I feel like if we did, there wouldn't be some fear and anxiety and the things that creep up on us like they do, you know what I mean? As much. Uh so I don't think we do to the full extent.

SPEAKER_00 29:08

I don't think we do either. I would like to. I know. Like I want to. We don't do. But you know, as humans, we only use one side of our brain too, right? And and some of us only use a quarter of that brain. Anyway. Um so but but does it could you imagine if we use the whole, like how much we would understand if we could use the whole brain, right? Because I think like people that are like geniuses, because there is geniuses in the world, they use a different part of the brain than we do, right? I I'd like to know what part I use.

SPEAKER_02 29:43

I would. Because sometimes I'd be wondering.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

Jesus, sometimes I'd be wondering. But we don't control our atmosphere. Uh, you know, we if as long as we're carrying Christ in our atmosphere, I feel like we control what we can, right? And when we live with him every day and we walk with him every day, I know people see the difference, right? Just like you said about the lady at work. I know they see the difference. And even even my associates at work, like when I'm having a bad day, they can see it. Oh, yeah, it's all over my face, it's all over my face. You know, and mine will tell me, uh, you need to go to the dairy cooler and pray. Yeah. You know, and I'm like, and then when they ask me, Are you okay with it?

SPEAKER_02 30:29

Then that makes them like, yes, why are you asking me that?

SPEAKER_00 30:32

Right? I'm fine. I'm fine.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

I'm fine. One of my workers tell me, Friday, is like, um, I'm gonna need you to get happy. You was happy yesterday, what was wrong today? Yeah. You know, authority isn't about being loud. It's uh it is graceful though, you know, it is authority, like you, it's not like you're just bombarding around, like look at me, like you're saying, like I look at it. It is graceful, it is being bringing peace in the chaos, bringing uh joy where you know, in the sadness.

SPEAKER_00 31:01

And it can be easily misunderstood. Yeah, you know, I get everything I declare. Nope. No, I control other people. Nope. No, I wish. Nothing bad can happen to me. Nope. If I have enough faith, I'll always win. I think we win at what God wants us to win at, and we don't win at the things we're not supposed to win at. Yeah, right? And it's the same. Like, I think when we first got we, and you're and this is why me and you work good together, right? When we first started talking about when you came and you were like, we need to do a women's conference, and I was like, Oh my god, I've been writing one for like two months. We were like, Okay, then let's do it. We're gonna do it this day, and this is what we're gonna do, and this is how we're gonna do it, and this is blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. But that wasn't got to play, right? Right, that was us getting super excited because that's what we did, yeah. Because I like my emotions sometimes. Oh, yeah, for sure. Definitely. I'm I'm I'm a full-grown woman, yeah, and my emotions definitely run my life, uh, and sometimes quicker than quicker than the rest of me. Um, you know, and then after a few weeks and we got to thinking about it and we baby coming. And all the th yes, and you know, Mabel's baby coming and all the things we were both like and this is literally this week, because it would have been this next coming time.

SPEAKER_02 32:21

This week is like the busiest week, probably we'll have all year at work. Yeah. So like this had been stopped in China and it's just now coming in, so the Lord knew that uh this would not be the week for us.

SPEAKER_00 32:32

Yeah. Well, and then so right, and and you know, I'm going to third and went to work overnight at my team. So there's not gonna be time, right? Because I'll be sleeping during the day. Oh, they still need to get together and talk and meet. We haven't, you know, we just haven't and I haven't made the t-shirts. I haven't, I haven't even ordered, I haven't even thought about like I have one design and but it's not finished, you know. I haven't touched any of that. So there's still so much left to do, and I would be trying to rush it this week to be ready by the 15th. Yeah, I took a whole week off Labor Day Week.

SPEAKER_02 33:07

You'll be so happy to know that.

SPEAKER_00 33:08

Oh, yeah. Good, because you can come over and help me make everything. Yep, good. Uh, but yeah, so like just getting ready for it.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

Why did I feel guilty doing that? Ain't that crazy? It is so crazy. Then I had to like get up. I'm like, no, like this is my earn time off. You know what I mean? And like everybody else takes their vacations when it's so no, it's a fine.

SPEAKER_00 33:29

It is great. Yeah, like I'm learning to I am one of those, I am one of those bosses. Like, I have people at work that they're like, they don't put in all their time. And I'm like, uh, you still have time. And they're like, well, but no, you still have time, and you have to take it before November. And they're like, well, but I'm like, no, I don't care if you don't do anything but sit at home on your rear end. Take your plan. You earn that time. I need you not burn out for November and December, our busiest times of the year. I need you to be able to focus. I need you to be good and rested. I take my time, I expect you to take yours, right? Like I I've had works for bosses that were like, you're taking another vacation. You're really. Yes. I guess I am. I get eight weeks a year. Yeah. I love you. I'm taking eight weeks a year. So good. So and I take every one of them. I get three weeks. I'm grateful for that. You well, when you're when you're with them for 24 years, yeah, that's when you get eight weeks. That's good though. But I take me and my husband take our eight weeks. Yeah, that's good. Uh, every year, and we've earned every one of those. And I believe that you should take them and not feel guilty. And not feel guilty about it, right? Like mine f it's okay. My crap's gonna fall apart. I'm gonna go back. I'm gonna be cranky for the first week and a half that I'm back because for some reason they just can't do the basics when I'm gone. I know, but it's okay. I know. Yes, okay. It'll still be there, it'll still be there. And it's okay, it's okay. You know, that's good. It does. Authority begins with submission to God. So in James 4, 7, it says, Submit yourself therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you. And that's where we have our no trespassing signs up, right? That's we, you know, we want to make it as obvious to everyone around us as as as you can, right? There's no hunting on my land, there's no, there's no strangers allowed on my land, there's no no soliciting, no soliciting. We don't want to hear, we don't want to hear others. We all we want to do is hear the word of God and hear the voice of God. And when you notice and you start uh you start that, it's easy to resist it.

SPEAKER_02 35:51

And it becomes a huge part of your life. A lot of times we try to do the resisting part without the submit and it won't work. It doesn't submit first. Yes, you have to submit.

SPEAKER_00 36:06

Do you think sometimes we try to submit things of authority over things that really we ain't we ain't got no authority over. Yeah. You know, I f I feel like I and I feel like I do that at work some a lot sometimes. Like I have a lot of authority over what at work. I do. I'm the manager, I'm the boss. At the end of the day, I'm not responsible for anything in the building. Nobody enjoys, but I'm held accountable for everything in the building. You know, and as Christians, we're the same way, right? We are not responsible for what other people do. We are not responsible for how other people react. But at the end of the day, we're responsible for telling them about the love of God and the love of Jesus. You know, and I think, you know, and I don't I don't know that I have a lot of things to to authority over, you know, I don't know, but control, yeah, insecurity, sometimes my thoughts. You know, what if one of the greatest demonstrations of spiritual authority is self-control? That's probably the hardest one of them all, I think. Yeah, sometimes, you know. Uh, it's so easy to get frustrated, it's so easy to get annoyed, it's so easy to get angry, it's so easy to get upset emotionally, right? Because we are humans and emotions drive a lot of how we react to things. You know, in 2 Timothy 1:7, God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind, self-control. Yeah, power and self-control. Good stuff. That's you know, we're we're sitting in. Uh sometimes, you know, walking in authority doesn't look like what it what we think it looks like. In Jesus' name, everybody better act right today. Yeah, that's not walking in authority. You know, I'm not letting your chaos determine my character. That's when somebody's angry. And that is walking in authority, I think. You know, I don't have to become angry. If someone disrespects me, I don't have to become disrespectful. But it's hard. When somebody is disrespectful, when somebody's, you know, in your face or disrespectful or acting a certain way, that's hard. It's hard. And uh, we're still working on me on that one. So uh we honest. We uh hi honesty is the best way to wait. We have an associate um that we terminated uh a couple weeks ago, and he got up in one of my coaches' faces and was just like got all up in his bubble, all up in his personal space. And this is my hot head, right? My coach that's normally doesn't behave, and uh he usually speaks his mind, and he handled it so professionally, like I'm so super proud of him because I'd hate to hide fire him too, right? Yeah, because he allowed someone, but he's been around a long time and he's worked in the company for a long time and and he handled it so very well, and he walked in his authority, yeah, and he walked in his authority as a manager in our building, and he showed grace to this associate when this associate actually deserved to be knocked out, right? Like it was crazy, but when we do it, you know, it doesn't have to be who we are, right? When we lose authority, when we overreact, when we get emotional, it doesn't rename us to who we used to be. It just means we have a little bit more to do. Yeah. So Air Force One can still experience turbulence. Let's talk about that for a minute. And authority doesn't mean the atmosphere never gets rough. Jesus doesn't mean there won't be any bad weeks, yeah, there won't be no family problems, work problems, disappointment, grief, attacks. You know, authority changes how you respond to turbulence. You know, sometimes it's about how we act when that turbulence happens. Yeah. And I feel like that's where God has had us this last month. It's been He's been teaching us that. Yes, we're walking in authority. Yes, we're walking to where we're supposed to be because walking in authority is your purpose. And right now, our purpose is getting to this women's conference and sharing this this word that God has given us, uh, and and teaching women that you untangle the roots to get the flower, right? And and I believe that that we've walked in it, but I also believe that at the same time we've been learning to deal with turbulence in the same way. Oh, you have to. You know, you have to, definitely. You have to work, you have to learn to walk in turbulence and you have to learn to trust him light. To trust him light. Yeah, trust him while it's shaking. You gotta trust him while it's shaking. That's for sure. And Ephesians 6 doesn't say Christians won't experience battle. It tells Christians what to wear because there will be one.

SPEAKER_02 41:42

Have your armor on.

SPEAKER_00 41:43

Have your armor on, they're ready to go. They'll be caught without it. That's right. Um, you know, uh now we're now we're at a part where part where we're gonna start landing the plane.

unknown 41:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:58

You know, and when we talk about these things, we actually give authority to, right? Sometimes it's fear, past mistakes, people's opinion, failure, addiction, rejection, our emotions, our circumstance, and the enemy. But I spent years letting things that didn't own me name me. Mm-hmm. That's good. I spent many years letting things that didn't really own me name me. You know, and I can connect that with last week's testimony. Grace said that's not who you are anymore. And authority says, then quit answering to that name.

SPEAKER_02 42:33

You know, my saying, uh, I'm a new creature with new features.

SPEAKER_00 42:36

I'm a new creature with new features. That's right. I got my dad saying that. I'm a new creature with new features. Authority says, stop, quit answering to the name. Whatever that name is, whether it's your past or it's your it's what happened yesterday. Stop. Stop answering to that name. Answer to the one name that you truly are. Yeah, and the name is you're a child of God, you're a daughter of God or a son of God, and there's nothing in this world that can change that once you step into his grace. Yeah, Jesus gets the final word over everything, no matter what it is, he gets the final word. You know, we ask about giving authority to God and never told you about authority over you. So, what had what have you been giving authority to God and never told you had authority over you? So, when giving authority to God, it's just walking in your purpose, listening to the words that he says, listening to the whispers that he gives you, reading your Bible, praying, talking with him, you know, and prayer scares people. And I don't know, I don't know why anymore. Like I know why, because it used to scare me.

unknown 43:54

Right?

SPEAKER_00 43:55

But you think there's a certain way you have to do it. Right. I never knew what to say, I never knew the words. To I never knew what the words were supposed to be. But they're no different than me and you sitting there talking. Exactly. Right? You're talking with Jesus. You're talking with God. You're talking with the one mighty, the one that has given us. And once we once you understand that, it's all about relationship. It's never, it's never been about prayer.

SPEAKER_01 44:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:21

It's never been about praying for what you want or praying for what you need. It's never been, it's just about talking to him. It's about asking for things. No different than talking to mom or dad. No different than talking to your sister or your brother. No different than talking to your best friend. It's just about giving God the final word. You know, uh, we can walk in authority over a lot of things. You know, we can uh and we and we speak it sometimes, right? And it can be authority over fear, anxiety, your marriage, your children, your past, your bank account, someone's opinion of you. But at the end of the day, yeah, grace is what got me here. Yeah. You know, and when and I thought about talking of, I thought last week's conversation that I had, I thought about talking about my past, talking about where I came from and where I am today, and and not thinking that I would live past 30, you know, and deceive 50 20 years later in all those things. I thought it would be like the episode where I talked about the abuse, but it wasn't. That was different. It was different. It wasn't about what I was, it wasn't about where I came from, it was about the grace that God had given me and that He had walked me through and carried me through. And it wasn't about bragging where I am today, it wasn't about the material things, and it wasn't about all the things. And so I thought I expected last week to this point to be chaotic. I expected to feel some kind of way, you know, because after talking about my past and the and the abuse in that episode, you know, I felt some depression, I felt some sadness that week coming out of it, out of that episode that week. And I felt some I felt a little lost that week, and I felt a little just heavy that week. But talking about what he gave me and talking about where he brought me from, you know, talking to him and just giving him all the glory and all the power. This past week was great.

SPEAKER_02 46:32

Yeah, my guy I put on Facebook this week. Uh, what do you think it means to give God the glory? He's he only had three people enter.

SPEAKER_00 46:41

He said, I don't know if they just didn't know or they Well, and you don't really, you know, you thank God the glory, yeah. You thank him for things in private. And you thank him for things in private, and you thank him for things when they happen, and you thank him for things, you know, but do you ever reflect on it? Right? And that last week, that reflection has done nothing but blow my mind. Yeah, like it has it has like in ways I feel like I could rewrite some of the uh conference, yeah, right? Like I I feel like I could I like even I've grown, and maybe that was one of the reasons why God needed us to wait. Yeah, we are gone. You know, I feel like I've grown just in this, just from episode to episode and in my in my purpose or in my authority, and it's just been amazing. It's just been unreal on all the things that you know that I feel like I've I've enlightened, been enlightened, I guess. You know, and uh and uh all the things, but this past week has definitely been a growth, a growth week for me, I feel like, and I feel like you know, we did the baby shower, I flew out of town, I had some moments coming home, you know, and and being grateful for getting home and and and just all the things. I don't know, life just seems to have been where it needs to be this week. Yeah, it's been good.

SPEAKER_02 48:16

It's been a good week. Even with chaos, it's been a week. Okay, it's been very chaotic. We're it's been very like crazy, but it's been good. Right? I think too, as you grow like like you're saying, your response becomes different to the chaos, and that's where you really you're yeah, you see your growth and the grace and the things. It is. Pray us out. Yes. Father, thank you for the grace that brought us here. Thank you that you didn't wait for us to become strong enough, clean enough, healed enough, or worthy enough before you loved us. And Lord, now teach us how to live as women who know how to belong to. Holy Spirit, make us aware of your presence. Show us where we have surrendered authority to fear, shame, insecurity, bitterness, our past or the opinions of other people. Teach us to submit ourselves fully to you and to stand firmly on your truth. When the atmosphere around us becomes chaotic, help us to carry your peace. When fear speaks, remind us of your power. When our past tries to rename us, remind us that we are new creations in Christ. When the enemy whispers that we aren't strong enough, remind us that this was never about our strength. Jesus, have authority over our thoughts, our mouths, our reactions, our homes, our relationships, our work, our ministry, and every part of our life. We surrender again to you. Grace, God is here. Now teach us to walk in the freedom, identity, power, love, and sound mind that you have given us. In Jesus' name. Amen.

SPEAKER_00 49:51

Amen. Maybe you've been trying to be strong enough to fight battles. God never asks you to fight in your own strength. You don't have to be the strongest person in the room. You don't have to have every answer, and you don't have to control every outcome. But you do need to remember who lives within you. The same grace that found you is still sustaining you. The same Jesus who forgave you is still transforming you. And the Holy Spirit isn't waiting somewhere far away for you to become strong enough to react, to reach him. He is with you. So stop giving fear authority, it doesn't have. Stop giving your past a nameplate on your future and stop allowing circumstances to determine your identity. You may walk into a room tired, and you may walk into the room nervous. You may even walk into a room feeling weak, but you don't walk in alone. Grace got you here. Now walk like you know who came with you. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with someone. Uh, if you are wanting to join us in our conference, uh, we'll post it on our Facebook page. Everyone is welcome to come. If you can't afford it, we have people that will adopt you and help you make uh make it worth your time. We just want you to know that you are loved, that you walk in your own authority with Jesus, and that he gives you the strength to do whatever you need to do. Remember us at Unrelated Sisters Truth and Grace. Remember, we love you and he loves you. Until next time. See ya.