Latest / Have A Little Faith with Delilah / Small Miracles

Transcript

Small Miracles · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

0:00
Speaker 1: Welcome, my friend. Welcome to have a little Faith with Delilah.
0:07
Speaker 1: This new podcast is something I wanted to create, sort
0:12
Speaker 1: of as an extension of my radio show, kind of.
0:18
Speaker 1: I have another podcast that I've had for years, and
0:22
Speaker 1: on that podcast, I interview fascinating people, and I talk
0:26
Speaker 1: to people that are making movies and making music and
0:30
Speaker 1: making dreams come true and making the world a better place.
0:36
Speaker 1: But in this podcast, I wanted to be able to
0:39
Speaker 1: talk about the thing that matters most to me in
0:43
Speaker 1: the whole universe. And the thing that matters most to
0:47
Speaker 1: me isn't a thing at all. It's my faith. And
0:52
Speaker 1: when I say my faith, I know a lot of
0:55
Speaker 1: people use that word, and it's kind of a mamby
0:59
Speaker 1: pam the ethereal expression. When I say my faith, I'm
1:06
Speaker 1: not talking something mamby pamby or ethereal or otherworldly. I'm
1:12
Speaker 1: talking about my faith in the Almighty. I am talking
1:16
Speaker 1: about my faith that I came to in my late
1:20
Speaker 1: twenties that I was inspired through a series of horrific
1:26
Speaker 1: tragedies where I kind of hit rock bottom, not kind of.
1:30
Speaker 1: I hit rock bottom and I needed something to believe in.
1:36
Speaker 1: But I'm not the kind of person that just can
1:38
Speaker 1: take you at face value. I need to know that
1:41
Speaker 1: I know that I know. So I went on a
1:43
Speaker 1: deep dive. I went on a spiritual journey, if you will,
1:48
Speaker 1: and it led me straight to the foot of the cross.
1:52
Speaker 1: And that's where I've stayed. Okay, well maybe I haven't
1:55
Speaker 1: always stayed. I've strayed more than once, but I alway
2:00
Speaker 1: came back to my Lord. And on my radio show,
2:05
Speaker 1: I need to be careful of time, because you know,
2:07
Speaker 1: we play a lot of songs, so I can't talk
2:10
Speaker 1: all night long. I can't play phone calls that are
2:14
Speaker 1: five or ten or fifteen or twenty minutes long, because
2:17
Speaker 1: you know, we got to play the music. So a
2:20
Speaker 1: lot of times I'll talk to somebody for half an hour.
2:24
Speaker 1: I'll pray with people, but you only get to hear
2:26
Speaker 1: a snippet of that conversation on the air, so that
2:30
Speaker 1: I can play the music. By the way, if you
2:33
Speaker 1: want to listen to my radio show, I'm still on
2:36
Speaker 1: the air every night across the nation. Go to Delilah
2:40
Speaker 1: dot com to find a local station, or simply download
2:45
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. But here here in this podcast, I
2:50
Speaker 1: can spend more time talking with you, more time sharing
2:55
Speaker 1: in those conversations, more time praying with you and for you,
3:01
Speaker 1: and more time sharing the cornerstone of my life, which
3:07
Speaker 1: is my faith. In any event, I'm glad you decided
3:10
Speaker 1: to join me on this podcast today. I don't know
3:13
Speaker 1: how you found us. I'm just glad you found us.
3:16
Speaker 1: I'm glad God led you here. This episode of Have
3:20
Speaker 1: a Little Faith is all about small miracles, the small
3:26
Speaker 1: miracles that are often overlooked. We always look for big miracles,
3:31
Speaker 1: for a burning bush, for a life saved, for sight restored,
3:36
Speaker 1: for bones knit back together, and God is still in
3:39
Speaker 1: the business of doing those big miracles. But to me,
3:44
Speaker 1: sometimes the small miracles are the biggest ones of all.
3:49
Speaker 1: Do you remember that Far Side cartoon. It shows this
3:53
Speaker 1: guy on a deserted island that's surrounded by sharks. The
3:58
Speaker 1: guy has no food or water or shelter. Basically, the
4:01
Speaker 1: guy's in big trouble, so he starts praying to God,
4:05
Speaker 1: asking him to save him. Suddenly, a boat appears and
4:08
Speaker 1: the boat driver tells him to get in. The man says, nope, nope, nope,
4:12
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for God. A little while later, a plane
4:16
Speaker 1: flies overhead and drops supplies to him, and the guy
4:19
Speaker 1: shouts back, no thanks, I'm waiting for God to answer
4:23
Speaker 1: my prayer. A little while later, a helicopter shows up
4:27
Speaker 1: and drops the guy a rescue line. Same response. Guy
4:30
Speaker 1: hollers back, no thanks, thanks, but no go on, I'm
4:34
Speaker 1: waiting for God. So the guy ends up dying. He perishes,
4:38
Speaker 1: and when he gets to heaven, the man ask God
4:40
Speaker 1: why he didn't save him, and God said, I sent
4:44
Speaker 1: you a boat, I sent you a plane, I sent
4:47
Speaker 1: you a helicopter. And the man said, but but I
4:51
Speaker 1: was waiting for you. God simply replied that was me,
4:55
Speaker 1: a big dummy. It's a funny joke, funny cartoon, but
5:01
Speaker 1: it's true. We often don't recognize the miracles that abound
5:07
Speaker 1: in our life. That is, God showing up every single day,
5:12
Speaker 1: every day, every day, before I get out of bed,
5:15
Speaker 1: before I even open my eyes, I start thanking God
5:19
Speaker 1: for the miracles that I anticipate he's going to send me,
5:23
Speaker 1: and he never disappoints. I've got ravens that live on
5:28
Speaker 1: my property that greet me every morning when I step outside.
5:34
Speaker 1: They make a racous noise and they start cawing and flying.
5:38
Speaker 1: And while they're flying. They do this crazy thing where
5:41
Speaker 1: they flip upside down. They literally fly upside down and
5:46
Speaker 1: then they flip back over it like they're just showing off.
5:49
Speaker 1: They're doing this whole acrobatics display right in front of me,
5:53
Speaker 1: right in front of me, just to bless me, just
5:57
Speaker 1: to show me little miracles. We've got to deer that
6:00
Speaker 1: lives on our property, a little buck. He's got a
6:03
Speaker 1: little spikes, not even a forked horn. Yet. He's just
6:07
Speaker 1: a little guy. He shows up every day and he
6:10
Speaker 1: wags his tail like he's happy to see us. And
6:14
Speaker 1: I holler at him, get out of my gardens, get
6:16
Speaker 1: out of my flower beds, and he just wags his
6:19
Speaker 1: tail and keeps on eaten. That's a little miracle. Today,
6:23
Speaker 1: I want to share a few stories about small miracles.
6:27
Speaker 1: The first caller I'm going to introduce you to is
6:30
Speaker 1: a woman named Dottie who was considering starting a relationship
6:35
Speaker 1: with someone who lived many miles away from her. She
6:38
Speaker 1: decided to ask for prayers from her church friends. Let's
6:42
Speaker 1: listen to Dottie's story right now. Hi, Dottie, what can
6:46
Speaker 1: I do for you?
6:48
Speaker 2: Well, I just would like to tell you a little
6:50
Speaker 2: about my husband.
6:52
Speaker 1: I would love to hear what's his name?
6:54
Speaker 2: His name is Steve. You know, he was such a
6:57
Speaker 2: wonderful gift's been you. We just celebrated our twentieth anniversary.
7:02
Speaker 1: Happy anniversary, Happy anniversary, Happy anniversary, Happy anniversary. All right, now,
7:10
Speaker 1: tell me how you met this man and why you're
7:12
Speaker 1: still grinning twenty years later.
7:16
Speaker 2: Well, it's really strange because I am not a risk taker,
7:21
Speaker 2: but I got on the internet a while back and
7:27
Speaker 2: I took a chance on this person because he was
7:30
Speaker 2: on my faith and he had really really dreamy blue eyes,
7:35
Speaker 2: and he lived in Alaska and I live in Iowa,
7:39
Speaker 2: and so I'm like, he can't stalk me, so this
7:43
Speaker 2: should be a safe bet. And so we talked for
7:47
Speaker 2: a while, and then the people from my church were
7:50
Speaker 2: kind of like, what are you doing? And I'm like, yeah,
7:52
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's safe. He's in Alaska. And then
7:56
Speaker 2: he said, well, when are you coming to Alaska? And
7:58
Speaker 2: I said, well, how about New Year's for kissed? And
8:00
Speaker 2: if it's not good, I'm back on the plane. And
8:04
Speaker 2: then were really like, what are you doing?
8:06
Speaker 1: So you're not a risk taker, but you were willing
8:10
Speaker 1: to get on a plane and fly to the outback
8:15
Speaker 1: of Alaska to meet this guy because he had beautiful
8:19
Speaker 1: blue eyes.
8:21
Speaker 2: And it's really not the outback because it was Judo.
8:24
Speaker 2: And here's the thing that's really the miracle, the gift part.
8:29
Speaker 2: There was a person at our church and said, you
8:31
Speaker 2: know what, I have the cousins who lived in Juno, Alaska.
8:34
Speaker 2: Tell me this guy's name and I'll have my cousin
8:36
Speaker 2: check him out. And I said, well, this is his name,
8:39
Speaker 2: and she said, oh, my gosh, that's my cousin.
8:42
Speaker 1: No sah, yeah, So the cousin that you were going
8:46
Speaker 1: to have check out the guy that you were going
8:49
Speaker 1: to go meet, is actually the guy you were going
8:51
Speaker 1: to go meet.
8:52
Speaker 2: Uh huh. And so my church leaders talked with his
8:56
Speaker 2: church leaders and they found me a place to stay,
8:58
Speaker 2: and I went to Alaska. Was really a very nice
9:01
Speaker 2: kiss and I met part of his family there because
9:06
Speaker 2: he had eight kids, and I met four of them
9:08
Speaker 2: that were still at home with him, and everything on
9:12
Speaker 2: that trip went really well.
9:14
Speaker 1: Well, did you have any children or was he just
9:18
Speaker 1: mister mom?
9:19
Speaker 2: I had one daughter?
9:20
Speaker 1: One daughter? How old she was in high school?
9:23
Speaker 2: Okay, I was forty five when this all happened. So
9:28
Speaker 2: so that was in January and we got married on
9:31
Speaker 2: June eleventh.
9:32
Speaker 1: So not a risk taker. Huh.
9:35
Speaker 2: You know what, it really wasn't risky. We had God
9:40
Speaker 2: was in the details, and it was it was a gift.
9:44
Speaker 2: It was a wonderful gift.
9:45
Speaker 1: It sounds like like God just planned everything out and
9:49
Speaker 1: gave you the courage and the wisdom to go with it,
9:53
Speaker 1: and he took the bigger risk.
9:55
Speaker 2: And after we've been married for a year, all of
9:59
Speaker 2: this sudden things started happening. And he said we'd had
10:04
Speaker 2: conversations that I knew that we'd been in places I
10:08
Speaker 2: knew full well we hadn't been. And I thought, why
10:11
Speaker 2: is he trying to gaslight me? He knows of it
10:14
Speaker 2: that I don't have any money. And then I finally
10:17
Speaker 2: had a seizure at the dinner table, and it took
10:21
Speaker 2: a while to get a diagnosis, but it turned out
10:24
Speaker 2: that I had late onset epilepsy.
10:26
Speaker 1: So he wasn't gaslighting you at all. You simply were
10:29
Speaker 1: having small seizures and didn't remember those things.
10:32
Speaker 2: And I didn't remember any of it. And it totally
10:35
Speaker 2: came out of the blue.
10:37
Speaker 1: And this was a year into your twenty year marriage.
10:40
Speaker 2: Yep. In the first six years of our marriage. I
10:42
Speaker 2: only remember about three.
10:43
Speaker 1: But the minute when he said in sickness and in health,
10:47
Speaker 1: and he didn't didn't give up.
10:50
Speaker 2: He stayed and he's wonderful and I give him a
10:54
Speaker 2: lot of trouble sometimes, and he's not perfect. I will
10:57
Speaker 2: tell you that he's not perfect.
10:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the blue eyes make up for a lot
11:01
Speaker 1: of those imperfections.
11:03
Speaker 2: I bet he's still cute. And he's sitting here next
11:08
Speaker 2: to me and he's kind of like he was doing
11:11
Speaker 2: on his face. But I'm just truly, truly blessed, and
11:17
Speaker 2: I wish everybody had somebody like him. But I'm really
11:20
Speaker 2: glad that I've got him.
11:22
Speaker 1: I'm really glad that the God set everything up and
11:25
Speaker 1: that you had the courage to step into that. And
11:28
Speaker 1: you two have woven such a beautiful life. So did
11:33
Speaker 1: you Were you there to co parent, to raise his
11:36
Speaker 1: to be a stepmom to his his kids that were
11:39
Speaker 1: still at home.
11:40
Speaker 2: He brought some kids with him, and so I've been
11:43
Speaker 2: in and out of their lives, and they've been in
11:45
Speaker 2: and out of mine. And then we've adopted a granddaughter
11:48
Speaker 2: along the white two.
11:49
Speaker 1: So and how old is the granddaughter? Are you still
11:52
Speaker 1: raising her or is she grown?
11:54
Speaker 2: She is twelve going on sixteen.
11:58
Speaker 1: I just got custody of three of my grandchildren, and
12:01
Speaker 1: you and I are about the same age. And I've
12:03
Speaker 1: got a five and a six and a nine year
12:05
Speaker 1: old in addition to my two youngest that I adopted.
12:10
Speaker 1: So when I thought that I would be, you know,
12:12
Speaker 1: relaxing and going on cruises with my retired girlfriends, I'm
12:18
Speaker 1: packing picnic lunches and going to the splash park with
12:22
Speaker 1: my five minor children.
12:24
Speaker 2: It's not the same as it was the first time around.
12:27
Speaker 1: So where do you live? Did you go back to Alaska?
12:30
Speaker 1: Did you come back down?
12:31
Speaker 2: Nope? I told him I'm an Iowa girl and I
12:36
Speaker 2: had to stay in Iowa, and he came to Iowa.
12:39
Speaker 2: We did go to Texas for three years, and that's
12:42
Speaker 2: where we met the doctor who diagnosed my epilepsy and
12:46
Speaker 2: I had two brain surgeries.
12:50
Speaker 3: Eleven years ago.
12:51
Speaker 2: This is the anniversary week of that and that took
12:55
Speaker 2: care of the epilepsy. I have been seizure free since
12:58
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen. So we've had lots of miracles along the way.
13:03
Speaker 1: And his name is Steve yours is Dottie. Is there
13:06
Speaker 1: a song Dottie, I can play for you or is
13:11
Speaker 1: there one on your heart.
13:12
Speaker 2: I would be happy for you to pick anything, and
13:16
Speaker 2: just know that it's going to be a very very
13:19
Speaker 2: special person.
13:20
Speaker 1: I will play a sweet song. And I love your story.
13:23
Speaker 1: I love that you know that it was the hand
13:26
Speaker 1: of the Lord that wove you together, that brought you together,
13:30
Speaker 1: that put everything in motion, and gave you the courage
13:35
Speaker 1: to step out on faith and do something that was
13:38
Speaker 1: probably totally out of character for you, but was God's
13:43
Speaker 1: perfect will.
13:44
Speaker 2: And that's one of the very special things too. I
13:47
Speaker 2: have a husband who is never hesitates to meal and
13:49
Speaker 2: prove with me, and that's one of the things that
13:53
Speaker 2: keeps us together too. So the hand of the Lord
13:55
Speaker 2: is a very big hand in our house.
13:58
Speaker 1: Amen. Amen, Amen, An, all right, I'm going to find
14:02
Speaker 1: a song for you. Lord.
14:03
Speaker 2: Bless you, thank you, bless you too.
14:06
Speaker 1: I told you that story from Dottie was kind of amazing.
14:10
Speaker 1: Not only was she connected to the love of her life,
14:13
Speaker 1: that man may have actually saved her life by realizing
14:18
Speaker 1: that she had a medical condition that could have killed her.
14:22
Speaker 1: Now that's what I call a miracle. Have you ever
14:27
Speaker 1: felt like giving up like there's so much comin atcha
14:31
Speaker 1: from the left from the right. You're getting hit by
14:33
Speaker 1: storms of life, by by walls of grief or frustration
14:40
Speaker 1: or financial disruption, and you don't know where to turn,
14:46
Speaker 1: you don't know what to do, and you're trying to
14:48
Speaker 1: keep all the balls in the air, but you just
14:51
Speaker 1: can't do it any longer. In just a moment, I'm
14:54
Speaker 1: going to talk with a mama who for the past
14:56
Speaker 1: year has been writing that tsunami of frustration and heartache,
15:03
Speaker 1: and the tsunami came crashing to the shore and she
15:06
Speaker 1: thought all was lost. But tonight she's sitting on a
15:10
Speaker 1: front porch with the people that she loves around her,
15:14
Speaker 1: listening to this show and wanting a song to celebrate
15:18
Speaker 1: the fact that that storm did not destroy them, but
15:22
Speaker 1: in fact perhaps made them stronger. Let's listen to Britney's
15:27
Speaker 1: story right now. Hi, good evening, you've called the Delilah Show.
15:31
Speaker 1: Who is this?
15:32
Speaker 2: Hi?
15:33
Speaker 1: My name's Binny, Hi Brittany, welcome aboard. What can I
15:36
Speaker 1: do for you? Tonight?
15:38
Speaker 4: I wanted to see if you could find a song
15:40
Speaker 4: for my son, and my daughter and my husband. The
15:43
Speaker 4: four of us have gone through a really, really, really
15:46
Speaker 4: really hard year and something I don't think we ever
15:49
Speaker 4: thought we ever would. I want them to remember that
15:53
Speaker 4: were stronger than we thought we were, and that we're
15:56
Speaker 4: gonna make it there and we're going to be okay.
15:58
Speaker 1: All right. So son's name, daughter's name, hobby's name, and
16:02
Speaker 1: a thirty second explanation of the hardest year of your life.
16:06
Speaker 4: My husband is Joey, and my son is Wade, my
16:09
Speaker 4: daughter is Leiah. Basically, you literally lost our car or home.
16:16
Speaker 4: Our family was torn apart in every way possible and slowly,
16:21
Speaker 4: slowly trying to get back to where we were.
16:23
Speaker 1: And are you living together?
16:25
Speaker 4: Well, we finally are after almost a year of trying to
16:29
Speaker 4: fight and get everything back where it is, and we're
16:31
Speaker 4: finally all back together.
16:33
Speaker 1: And your kids, how old are they?
16:35
Speaker 4: My son is fourteenth and my daughter just had her
16:38
Speaker 4: thirteenth birthday.
16:39
Speaker 1: And it sounds like you're driving now while we're talking.
16:43
Speaker 4: Oh, well, we're sitting on the front porch with a fan.
16:45
Speaker 2: Ah.
16:47
Speaker 1: Okay, So you've got a front porch to sit on, yes, ma'am.
16:50
Speaker 1: That means you have a place to live. You got
16:52
Speaker 1: a roof over your head, yes, ma'am. And did we
16:55
Speaker 1: get a car that works.
16:57
Speaker 4: We're working on it. That's the next step, all right.
17:01
Speaker 1: And Hubby is there with you.
17:03
Speaker 4: He's at work tonight.
17:04
Speaker 1: So he's got a job. Your kids are back together,
17:07
Speaker 1: You're in a safe place, and life is going to
17:10
Speaker 1: come back together.
17:11
Speaker 2: Ma'am.
17:12
Speaker 1: Remember this, that which does not kill us makes us stronger.
17:17
Speaker 4: Yes, it does.
17:18
Speaker 1: And is your relationships with your kids healthy? Do they
17:22
Speaker 1: do you love and respect each other? Oh?
17:24
Speaker 4: Absolutely? My kids are pretty great kids.
17:29
Speaker 1: And you sound like a pretty great mom.
17:31
Speaker 2: I'd try.
17:32
Speaker 4: I want them to know that mom and dad are
17:34
Speaker 4: always there and always in their corner.
17:36
Speaker 1: I will play a song for your whole family. And
17:39
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is you went through or
17:42
Speaker 1: why you had to go through it, but I do
17:44
Speaker 1: know this. God's got you and your babies, and you're
17:47
Speaker 1: going to make it through and you're going to be
17:50
Speaker 1: stronger for it. Thank you so much, God, bless you, honey.
17:55
Speaker 1: Brittany's not exactly where she envisioned herself to be, But
17:58
Speaker 1: you know what I think. I think God has her
18:02
Speaker 1: and her family safe and sound. She's exactly where she
18:07
Speaker 1: needs to be right now. Just keep Brittany in your prayers.
18:14
Speaker 1: The next story I'm going to share with you is
18:16
Speaker 1: from a young lady named Bailey. Bailey's been through a
18:20
Speaker 1: lot in her young life, and when you go through
18:24
Speaker 1: trauma when you're young, sometimes your response is to make
18:30
Speaker 1: bad choices. I am living proof of that. There was
18:34
Speaker 1: trauma in my young life, and my response to that
18:37
Speaker 1: trauma was to create a whole lot of drama of
18:41
Speaker 1: my own. Bailey decided to stop and pray and ask
18:47
Speaker 1: God for direction. Let's hear from Bailey right now. Hi, Bailey, welcome.
18:52
Speaker 1: What can I do to make your summer night a
18:55
Speaker 1: little more special?
18:57
Speaker 5: I was just wondering if I could get you to
18:59
Speaker 5: dedicate a song for my boyfriend, Nathaniel.
19:02
Speaker 1: Tell me about Nathaniel, Bailey.
19:05
Speaker 5: He is a very, very sweet man. He is someone
19:09
Speaker 5: that I've been praying for almost my entire life. We
19:15
Speaker 5: just moved in together into our very own first apartment,
19:19
Speaker 5: and I just wanted to tell him how much I
19:22
Speaker 5: love and appreciate him.
19:24
Speaker 1: So this is the man you have been hoping for
19:27
Speaker 1: and praying for, and God brought him to you. You said,
19:31
Speaker 1: most of your life, how old are you?
19:33
Speaker 5: I'm only twenty four, And.
19:36
Speaker 1: Do you think this is the one you want to
19:38
Speaker 1: spend the rest of your life with.
19:40
Speaker 5: I do We actually have been talking about starting a
19:45
Speaker 5: family together and even going out and traveling the country
19:50
Speaker 5: and even the rest of the world. We've been talking
19:53
Speaker 5: about moving on to the next steps of our lives.
19:56
Speaker 5: I do believe that God has blessed me with him.
20:00
Speaker 5: He heard my prayers and finally answered me. With him.
20:04
Speaker 5: He is an angel in disguise. I love him so
20:08
Speaker 5: very much and I couldn't do I don't think I
20:11
Speaker 5: would be here without him.
20:13
Speaker 1: So are we going to make it official? Have we
20:15
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, a little ring thing, a little
20:19
Speaker 1: vow thing, a little foreverthing.
20:22
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe a forever ring but as of right now?
20:26
Speaker 1: Just why wait, wait, wait, wait, you just said we
20:28
Speaker 1: You just said we talked about starting a family and
20:31
Speaker 1: traveling the country. Shouldn't the forever commitment come before those things?
20:37
Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am. I've been through a lot in my life,
20:41
Speaker 5: even though I'm only twenty four, and I've been through
20:44
Speaker 5: a couple of rough relationships myself, and just if I'm
20:48
Speaker 5: being completely honest, I had been abused in both. But
20:54
Speaker 5: now I've finally met him and he treats me so well,
20:58
Speaker 5: he like he I couldn't I can't describe him. He's
21:02
Speaker 5: just so amazing, and he's just so spectacular. He's just
21:06
Speaker 5: the man that I've been waiting for and that I've
21:08
Speaker 5: been praying for my entire life.
21:12
Speaker 1: It sounds like God has sent you a miracle. If
21:15
Speaker 1: He is truly that kind and that good to you
21:19
Speaker 1: and that committed, what a gift.
21:22
Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am.
21:23
Speaker 1: Amen, Well, God bless you, honey. Thank you for calling.
21:27
Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, thank you for answering. It means very much
21:31
Speaker 5: to me.
21:31
Speaker 1: You have a great night.
21:33
Speaker 5: You too, Thank you very much.
21:36
Speaker 1: The last call I'm going to share with you in
21:39
Speaker 1: this episode of Having a Little Faith with Delilah is
21:45
Speaker 1: from Gigi. Gigi called me last summer and I couldn't
21:49
Speaker 1: share her call because she was so distraught and in
21:52
Speaker 1: so much pain. Her daughter was literally dying from her
21:57
Speaker 1: addictions and mental illness. I didn't air her call. We
22:02
Speaker 1: prayed together for her daughter. I lost my step son
22:08
Speaker 1: Ryan in twenty nineteen to his addictions. I lost my
22:13
Speaker 1: son Zach in twenty seventeen to his mental illness. So
22:18
Speaker 1: when I prayed with Gig, I was praying with a
22:21
Speaker 1: mama's heart. I was praying with my whole heart. Gig
22:24
Speaker 1: called me back almost a year later to update me.
22:28
Speaker 1: I know, I said, this episode of my podcast is
22:32
Speaker 1: about small miracles, but Gig had a really big miracle
22:36
Speaker 1: to share. Let's listen to Gg share her profound miracle
22:42
Speaker 1: right now. Hello, good evening, Welcome aboard. Who is this Gg?
22:47
Speaker 3: Delilah. I called you over the summer on the way
22:51
Speaker 3: home from a visit with my daughter who's in many
22:54
Speaker 3: mental hospitals over the summer, and we prayed off here together.
22:58
Speaker 1: Gig, welcome. How was your daughter doing today? Oh my god.
23:03
Speaker 3: I when we spoke, I just didn't have any hope.
23:07
Speaker 3: And we prayed off air together. And my daughter is back,
23:12
Speaker 3: Like she got sick and went to the hospital and
23:16
Speaker 3: she was in intensive care and they took her off
23:19
Speaker 3: of a lot of the psych meds that they had
23:21
Speaker 3: her on. And it's my daughter again. Like God is
23:27
Speaker 3: so good because she's going to court tomorrow to ask
23:32
Speaker 3: her like you know, more visits with their kids and
23:35
Speaker 3: stuff like that. She has to build that up. But
23:38
Speaker 3: she's amazing. She's back. And I just didn't think over
23:43
Speaker 3: the summer. I just thought, oh my god, I've lost her.
23:46
Speaker 1: And God said, no, no, you haven't you haven't lost
23:49
Speaker 1: her forever?
23:51
Speaker 2: Yeah?
23:51
Speaker 3: I prayed on my knees every single night, and you
23:55
Speaker 3: were so nice. You prayed with me off the air
23:57
Speaker 3: because I didn't want to say her name. But she
24:00
Speaker 3: went through more stuff than anybody should ever have to
24:04
Speaker 3: go through in her lifetime. And it was a tough
24:07
Speaker 3: ye last year. But December twentieth, she woke up after
24:13
Speaker 3: being intensive care. She come home and had a good
24:18
Speaker 3: night's sleep, and we woke up and she talked, and
24:21
Speaker 3: she talked about how she was drinking on her meds
24:24
Speaker 3: and they had her all on the wrong meds and
24:27
Speaker 3: she felt like herself again, and all the delusions that
24:31
Speaker 3: she had about different things were gone. They'd just gone.
24:35
Speaker 3: And she has a relationship with their both daughters that
24:40
Speaker 3: is amazing today. Like a year ago, I would have
24:44
Speaker 3: said you shouldn't even be near them, But she has
24:49
Speaker 3: the best relationship with them now.
24:51
Speaker 1: Praise you Jesus.
24:53
Speaker 3: And I got in tonight I thought, oh my god,
24:57
Speaker 3: this is twice I've been listening to you for You've
25:00
Speaker 3: been in my phone for years, ever since, like when
25:04
Speaker 3: I was younger. I don't know how.
25:06
Speaker 5: Old you have been.
25:07
Speaker 3: I've been listening to you for a long time. I'm
25:10
Speaker 3: fifty eight, but my heart is so full. I can't
25:14
Speaker 3: believe I got through tonight of all nights, and the
25:18
Speaker 3: night that I got through to you before, I cried
25:20
Speaker 3: all the way home and I got through to you,
25:23
Speaker 3: and tonight I'm getting through to you. When she's going
25:25
Speaker 3: to court tomorrow.
25:27
Speaker 1: I'm just like, well, let's do the same thing we
25:29
Speaker 1: did before. Let's pray again and ask for miracles. Father, God,
25:34
Speaker 1: I thank you Lord that Gigi got through before. And
25:37
Speaker 1: I thank you God for restoring her daughter to her
25:40
Speaker 1: right mind. Thank you Jesus forgetting her on the right
25:44
Speaker 1: medication and getting her off the toxic stuff. Thank you
25:47
Speaker 1: Jesus forgetting her sober. Thank you Jesus for restoring her
25:51
Speaker 1: relationship with her daughters. Thank you Jesus for giving her
25:55
Speaker 1: this time where she is sane and sober. Father, I
25:59
Speaker 1: pray that this serenity, this sobriety, this sanity extends for
26:03
Speaker 1: the rest of her life. I pray God that you
26:06
Speaker 1: would show her favor in court tomorrow. I pray God
26:09
Speaker 1: you would heal her children's hearts. I pray for continued miracles.
26:14
Speaker 1: I pray for Gigi. I pray Lord God for strength
26:18
Speaker 1: and faith, and I pray Lord God selfishly for my
26:21
Speaker 1: own daughter, who needs a miracle, just like her daughter did. Father,
26:25
Speaker 1: I ask Lord God that you would reach down from
26:29
Speaker 1: on high, that you would just pour your holy spirit
26:32
Speaker 1: out upon these young women, and that God you would
26:35
Speaker 1: do miracles and you would bring a bountiful harvest in Jesus' name. Amen.
26:42
Speaker 3: Amen, thank you so much. I can't believe that two
26:47
Speaker 3: times that I got through to you were the most
26:49
Speaker 3: important times that I really needed it. I mean, tonight,
26:53
Speaker 3: I was feeling. I was writing out things for her
26:56
Speaker 3: to just have notes because she's nervous about going in
27:00
Speaker 3: enough in front of a judge.
27:01
Speaker 1: But the best thing she can do is own her stuff.
27:05
Speaker 1: If she says to the judge, your honor, I lost
27:10
Speaker 1: my mind. I once was lost and now I'm found,
27:13
Speaker 1: and i just want to be the best person I
27:15
Speaker 1: can be, and I'm doing everything in my power to
27:20
Speaker 1: care for my family. Judges want families to be reunited.
27:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she's said that to her daughter who's going
27:29
Speaker 3: to be thirteen, and her eight year old daughter. She's
27:32
Speaker 3: you know, Dave've forgiven her for all the stuff that
27:35
Speaker 3: has gone on, you know, she's been through a lot
27:38
Speaker 3: domestic violence and a lot of things, you know, But oh,
27:43
Speaker 3: my God, I just oh, I just have so much
27:46
Speaker 3: hope in time with me right now. Yay, I'm gonna
27:51
Speaker 3: get on my knees again tonight.
27:53
Speaker 1: All right, honey, Love you, God, bless love you, thank you.
27:59
Speaker 1: I really I don't know what to say after that
28:01
Speaker 1: call from GG. I will say this, most people with
28:07
Speaker 1: an addiction like Gg's daughter has, like my step son had,
28:13
Speaker 1: don't make it through recovery more than eighty percent relapse.
28:18
Speaker 1: So what she just shared was a gigantic miracle. Wherever
28:23
Speaker 1: you are, whatever you're doing though, whatever you are going through,
28:27
Speaker 1: don't give up, don't give up. Pray, pray and believe.
28:32
Speaker 1: Say God, Please Lord, even if you don't have a
28:37
Speaker 1: relationship with the Almighty, say I have a mustard seed
28:43
Speaker 1: of faith. Please God, increase my faith and help me
28:47
Speaker 1: to believe. And please God, do a miracle right now,
28:52
Speaker 1: not for me but for my daughter, not for me
28:54
Speaker 1: but for my son, Not for me but for my grandchildren. God,
28:58
Speaker 1: do a miracle. Do a miracle for me, Do a
29:00
Speaker 1: miracle for my health, Do a miracle for my spouse's health.
29:04
Speaker 1: Do a miracle for my best friend who's battling a
29:07
Speaker 1: life threatening disorder. Do a miracle for my daughter. I
29:11
Speaker 1: can tell you so many miracles the Lord has done.
29:16
Speaker 1: When I prayed, he says, you have not because you
29:19
Speaker 1: ask not. So ask. Ask for the little miracles. Ask
29:24
Speaker 1: for a raven that does a upside down flying circle
29:29
Speaker 1: in front of you, or ask for something big. Ask
29:32
Speaker 1: for your child to be delivered from addictions. Just ask him,
29:37
Speaker 1: ask him. Keep knocking at that door, keep praying, keep saying, God, Please,
29:42
Speaker 1: I need a miracle. Please God, my husband needs a miracle.
29:47
Speaker 1: Keep praying. I look forward to connecting with you next week,
29:51
Speaker 1: and as always, thank you for taking your time, for
29:54
Speaker 1: sharing your love, for spending some time with me today,
29:58
Speaker 1: and do me a favor. Remember ber to have a
30:01
Speaker 1: little faith.
30:04
Speaker 5: Delve