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S4 83. Stacy Chavis – I Am an Overcomer & Powerful life Testimony · Millennial Mustard Seed

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  Hello folks. This is Princess.
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  You are listening to the Millennial Mustard Seed Podcast.
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  Thanks for listening. Don't forget to share with your
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  friends. That's tough.
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  We're in a very tough spot. I think that what we're doing
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  right now is a great benefit in virtue because it's an end
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  around between this whole corrupt informational system,
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  media system. We claim to believe in a God who
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  spoke the universe into existence and literally raised
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  himself from the dead, and yet we are not going to believe that
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  anything else exists in the spirit realm, even though His
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  word tells us that they do. Their bodies weren't permitted
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  to go to sleep like humans do, and they weren't permitted to go
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  to. Heaven, so they wander the.
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  Earth. You know, I've seen the eyes
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  turn black to unknown tongues being spoken.
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  These giants. Would live way up in the island.
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  The young, Braves the young. Would hide them in the.
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  They wait for one of these 12. Footers to come?
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  Walking down the path. And they would jump.
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  On them. And kill them and.
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  Drag them back to. The village and the village.
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  Would feast on the body. Then people start to get
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  weapons. They start to get armor, they
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  start to build cities. They start to fortify their
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  cities. Now God looks down and there's
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  violence everywhere. The battle, this war that we are
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  at is not against each other. It's against these
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  principalities and these rulers and these archons in the high
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  places. It's really worthwhile to read
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  the Bible yourself. Fear is one of the.
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  Primary drivers of mind control. Because we have to.
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  Take. Every thought.
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  Captive and resist fear. You're going to have a testimony
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  that is a justice case against the Kingdom of Darkness.
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  Welcome back to the show, everybody.
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  I'm your host, Rod. I have an awesome episode in
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  store for you guys. I'm joined by Stacy Chavis.
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  Now, I've released a mini ease of verification episode with her
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  the other week. Powerful, powerful stuff.
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  This is the long conversation. She shares her testimony.
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  We talked about her life, supernatural things she's
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  encountered, the goodness of God, how God has been calling
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  her and what he's doing with the willingness that she's bringing
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  to the table. So this is a really heartfelt
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  and powerful testimony episode. We have a great conversation.
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  And I'm excited for you guys to enjoy this one.
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  You can either watch my friend Enoch, one of his documentary
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  pieces, you can watch the video for that, which is really well
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  done and highly recommended. Or if you're just into watching
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  me and my guest talk, that's super cool too.
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  the prayer portal. If you guys need prayer
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  deliverance, highly recommend that you can also find my web
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  page, it's right there in the show notes and any details about
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  the episode. If you want to support this
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  podcast, you can find information in the details of
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  the show notes. Or you could just reach out to
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  to help build this thing up, because I believe it's all
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  important and I'm not going to waste any more time, Let's get
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  into this episode with Stacy. I am ready.
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  Are you guys ready? Let's go.
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  Hello, this is Stacy Chavis with Walkworthy Ladies Ministry and
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  you are listening to the Millennial Mustard Seed podcast.
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  Welcome back to the show, everybody.
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  I have an awesome episode in store for you guys.
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  I am blessed to have Stacy Chavis Chavis.
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  Am I saying that right? Chavis Yes.
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  Chavis OK, I want to make sure I was pronouncing that right.
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  There's my first edit for this episode, but it's a pleasure to
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  have you here with me on this episode.
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  We have ministered together a couple times.
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  Brother Klaus, your husband, he is a mighty man of God and I
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  know that. I've heard you have this
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  powerful testimony and just you have some stuff to share.
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  And the cool thing about the podcast is it reaches other
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  people. It's amazing to see how our
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  testimonies and how we just air air things out.
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  You know, just we talk about how we came to Christ and what God
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  has done in our life. It reaches other people.
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  So I am excited to hear your story.
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  Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me.
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  Absolutely. So why don't you start off just
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  telling us a little bit about yourself, what you're doing and
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  what is going on with the Ministry right now, and then
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  we'll dive into your testimony. Sure.
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  Klaus and I have been married for a little over 2 years now.
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  And together we travel, we evangelize, we have a ministry
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  together, and we also have our own separate ministries.
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  My ministry is called Walkworthy.
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  It's a ladies ministry that is geared towards equipping women
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  to walk in their God-given calling and purpose.
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  I also am extremely passionate about medical missions, so I am
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  endeavoring to do that. I'm in the process of finishing
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  up medical school in hopes of soon launching the Apostolic
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  Organization or the Apostolic Surgeon Organization, and that
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  will be focused on Apostolic medical missions.
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  I serve as a minister at my local church, and I am also the
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  Global missions director at my local church, as well as a small
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  group leader of a group of about eight women so heavily involved
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  in ministry, very active, very passionate about disciplining
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  and pouring into others, really loving, loving people, loving
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  God's people and trying to do that the best way that I know.
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  That is, that's powerful. I didn't know about the medical
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  school. So that's super cool.
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  And you're really walking and you're calling.
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  And so I believe your testimony that there's other women and men
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  out there right now that may be struggling and striving to hear
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  what God is calling them to do, to just get clarity with all the
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  different messages and signals in the world.
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  Sometimes listening to somebody else's story, we can kind of
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  perk up a little bit and go, wow.
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  Okay. So that's similar to maybe what
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  I was experiencing or that that's the way that maybe God
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  was trying to actually get through to me.
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  So let let's let's dive into your testimony.
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  So where where were you born and raised and when did you first
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  come to Christ? What was that defining moment
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  where you're like, I'm all in, I'm serving the king of kings.
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  I was born and raised in Tampa, FL.
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  I'm actually, I'm Indian. My parents are from Trinidad and
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  and so our background is religion wise.
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  Our background was Hindu. So my parents are Hindu.
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  I grew up as Hindu. I always knew that there was a
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  God. I always believed in God.
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  When it would be raining I would say ohh God is sad.
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  Or if it was thundering I'd say God is angry.
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  I I always knew that there was a God and even though I was a
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  practicing Hindu, it wasn't ever anything that I had a a very
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  deep, thorough understanding of. It was very just because it was
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  my culture, and out of tradition and habit I knew a few things I.
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  I really started exploring Christianity when I was in
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  college. I want to say I was we had a a
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  friend group of about four or five girls and most of them were
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  all from different states or different parts of town, and so
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  they didn't have cars. I was the only one that had a
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  car in my friend group and one of our friends liked to go to
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  church. And I would feel bad to just
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  drop them off and not go to church.
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  So I. I.
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  We would all go to church together and and so that that's
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  kind of how it started off. It started off in college going
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  to church with my friends and that's when I really first
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  started reading the word, knowing scriptures and pursuing
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  a relationship with God. I got.
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  I didn't get back. Okay go.
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  Ahead. Well, this is all like brand new
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  for me, so I didn't know this is the background.
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  So real quick, how does that work with the rest of your
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  family? Are you the only Christian like
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  in your family? No, I'm not my great
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  grandmother. She passed now, but she was
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  Christian and my grandmother is Christian.
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  I have also an uncle who's Christian.
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  There are family members scattered throughout who are
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  Christian. I wouldn't say that they're.
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  I would say they're as deep in it as I am.
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  My parents are not yet, but you know, I'm believing.
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  I'm believing God for for their salvation for my mom and my dad
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  and my sisters. And and it was, it was very
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  difficult in the beginning because there were so many
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  extreme changes within myself, the way I dressed or even just
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  like, you know, drinking, having a drink at dinner.
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  I wouldn't do that. I stopped wearing makeup and.
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  And so there were a lot of changes that they didn't
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  understand or agree with. And they're very strong minded,
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  opinionated people. And you know, of course, well,
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  you may or may not know, but in the Indian culture, there's
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  heavy emphasis on wealth and money and you show that through
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  jewelry and makeup and materialistic things, where as
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  in Christianity, it's more about living a meek, humble lifestyle.
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  And so I think that that's where the most tension grew from
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  because I would get, you know, these comments from my sister
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  like, well, why aren't you wearing any jewelry or where are
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  your earrings? And and so there was a lot of
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  persecution in the beginning that was very hard for me to
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  take. Wow.
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  Yeah, well, well, I know. I know from the perspective of
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  like when I came to the Lord. I had to, like, reinvent myself,
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  right? I had to let go of this music
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  and the partying and just this culture.
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  And and that was difficult because it's like you're coming.
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  I was coming out of this like, you know, Pennsylvania,
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  southeastern Pennsylvania, around the Philadelphia area.
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  It was just the culture that I grew up in.
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  It was cheese, steak, chicken fingers.
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  People were smoking weed. There was a lot of house
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  parties, everybody, you know, it was crazy.
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  To put the kibosh on all of that and then find myself kind of
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  alone and you feel like a target.
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  So I can only imagine, like, just hearing, you know, you have
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  this cultural impression where not everybody in your family
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  even understands Christianity because at least people in the
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  world, they have a concept of what Christianity is in America.
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  They're like, oh, you're one of those Christians, you know,
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  like, we get that all the time. But to actually like, you know,
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  see that, you know, you're having this cultural difference
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  where, like they're expressing. Their wealth or what they feel
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  is power through, you know, like you said, jewelry or just this
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  authority or this position, right, Vehicles, houses,
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  whatever it is, But you have this meekness, this reserved
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  power that's growing on the inside, but you don't look or
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  follow them with the attire on the outside.
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  So that wow, that's pretty deep now.
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  What is it? What does it look like to have
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  family gatherings at this point in time?
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  Like, I'm just, I'm just going to ask a simple question, but
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  take it from there and just, you know, dive into your testimony.
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  But are they peaceable with you at this point in time?
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  Like are they starting to understand the changes that are
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  happening on the inside in your belief versus just comparing
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  with the outside? Yes.
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  So the first year was probably the most difficult.
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  And and and that that's where I really faced a lot of that
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  persecution and a lot of the the tensions with spending time
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  together and and things of that nature because I'm very close
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  with my family. I'm my older sister is
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  essentially one of my best friends.
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  My mom and I are very close. I'm a daddy's girl.
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  I'm the baby of my family and so.
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  And so it was really difficult for the first year.
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  And actually I back slid. I back slid because of all the
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  pressure when I first I first got baptized in Jesus name and
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  filled with the Holy Ghost. February 7th, 2017.
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  It was a Wednesday night. It was a midweek service.
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  It was my first time stepping into an Apostolic Church.
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  A previous coworker. Had made a Facebook post who
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  wants to come to church? And some of the back story of
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  that was I had gone through a string of bad relationships.
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  I was in an abusive relationship before that.
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  The guy was dating actually ended up having a stroke and
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  everyone blamed me for it and and so I had already cut myself
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  off from like all my friends and all the partying and going out
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  and all of those things. And throughout that time I was,
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  I was in medical school and then I was forced to stop and I
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  started working a full time job and and so I felt really lost.
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  I felt very confused. I didn't know what my next steps
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  were going to be and I just wanted to go back to school.
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  I just wanted to finish medical school.
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  So I was really at a point in my life where, like I said, I was
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  just feeling completely lost. When my coworker made that
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  status, I at that time I had been searching for a a church
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  because a couple weeks prior I went to a women's.
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  Empowerment conference. It was like a Christian women's
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  empowerment conference with one of my friends and all these
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  women were talking about their church home and their church
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  family and you know the significance and the impact in
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  their lives of having this church family.
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  And I, even though my family was there in Tampa, I still always
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  felt alone and isolated. I felt like something was
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  missing. And so I I after telling that
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  conference, I said, well, I'm gonna find myself a church home.
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  And I went on Facebook and I asked for recommendations and I
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  got a whole list of recommendations.
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  And I went that first Sunday to a church I visited.
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  It was good, But I felt like I needed more.
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  So I thought I would have to wait till the next Sunday, not
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  knowing that Wednesday night was a church service.
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  And I was supposed to hang out with my sister that night, but
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  something was just drawing on me that I needed to go.
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  So I went and the pastor preached and and so my friend,
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  she sat down next to me and I just broke down crying.
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  And she was asking me what, what was wrong.
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  And I just told her how I felt so lost.
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  And I didn't know what I was doing.
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  I wasn't working. I wasn't in school.
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  I just felt really lost, like I didn't know what my next steps
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  would be. And I grew up as someone who
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  always had a plan, always had an outline, always, you know, very
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  accomplished, did well in school, always knew I was going
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  to be a doctor. You know, everything had always
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  been laid out for me. So this was the first time I
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  really battled with something like that.
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  And she talked to me about baptism in Jesus name.
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  And I had been baptized before when I was in college, but it
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  was one of those Friday night youth event kind of things and I
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  really didn't agree to it or know what was happening.
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  They just kind of said who hasn't been baptized and then?
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  Took us all into the back and baptized us.
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  So that was different. So so I wasn't sure what they
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  said. So when she was asking me, well
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  did you have you been baptized in Jesus name?
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  And since I wasn't sure, my thing is like, well, I'm just
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  going to do it again just to make sure.
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  So I got baptized in Jesus name that night and then they said,
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  do you want the Holy Ghost? And I said yes.
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  And they prayed for me and I received the Holy Ghost.
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  And it's an experience and a feeling that I'll never forget.
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  It was like this. Electricity came up through my
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  right hand and my began in my fingers and just went up through
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  my arm and like across my body. And I just.
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  I felt God. I like.
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  I felt him and a way that I had never felt him before.
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  And and it was amazing. And I felt whole.
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  I felt healed. I felt joy.
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  I felt peace. It it was that joy, unspeakable,
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  that that so many of us talk about Nothing could get me down.
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  I mean, I was go. I was still going through it.
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  I still had all the same problems.
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  But. I knew that I would never have
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  to be alone again. I would never have to feel that
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  loneliness. Something I didn't mention
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  before was that I had been suicidal.
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  I was suicidal when I was in college and then I was suicidal
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  during that season prior to deciding to to look for a job or
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  a church. Because I was talking about how
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  I had this string of bad relationships and and that led
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  me to you know, want to take a whole bunch of pills, you know
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  just end all the pain and and just be gone.
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  Because I've. I felt like it would better be
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  better for me to just die than to than to live.
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  How I was living. And all that pain and all that
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  hurt and all the rejection and and just the the trauma that I
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  had gone through in my life through like my family and
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  relationships and just disappointments and hurts that
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  happen. As if you go through life and
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  you get older. And God he you know he instantly
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  removed all of that I had. I turn.
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  I turn to all the things that people turn to in the world.
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  I turn to drinking. I turn to drugs, smoking, and
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  and trying to numb the pain and escape reality.
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  I did all of those things, but at the end of the day, you know,
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  it didn't take away the pain or the hurt.
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  Not like when I was filled with the Holy Ghost and it felt as
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  though God came in to my broken heart and healed every every
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  crack and every crevice every hole and and I felt that peace
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  and that joy and and that's when things really started to change
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  for me. And I mentioned that I I back
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  slid. I back slid for a couple of
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  months. I was in the church for about
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  six months and then the pressures just became too much
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  and certain things happened at church and I felt like I don't
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  need to deal with this. And I left.
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  And I and I kind of battled with it.
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  I struggled with it. But I always prayed.
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  I never stopped praying. I never stopped seeking God.
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  And I would say to God, well, if it's your will for me to go back
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  eventually I'll go back. And I did start to make my way
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  back. I didn't fully recommit myself
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  till about six months after when I started going back.
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  So it's about September of the following year, September 2018.
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  And for me the difference was relationship, because when I
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  first got saved, I was doing all these things in the church.
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  It was a smaller church and they needed help and and I had the
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  time and I had the giftings and the talent.
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  So of course I was going to give myself to helping, but in doing
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  that, I neglected nurturing and building my relationship with
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  God. And in those months that I was
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  away, I I was able to pray and pursue him and grow in my
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  relationship with him. Meanwhile, still being in the
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  world, still going back to doing all those things I was doing
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  before. But but God was with me and he
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  was giving me that grace and he was building me up to go back.
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  So when I went back, I was rooted in who I was.
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  And because I was rooted in who I was, I knew who I was in
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  Christ and who he called me to be.
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  I I had a confidence now where I was, I was social and I was
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  hanging out with these people. I was being used by God and
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  getting all these opportunities to to testify and and to help
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  start organizations and do marketing for all the churches.
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  Because we're where a network of about more now but at that time
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  about 27 churches and you know really helped to to do some
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  vital work for the ministry of God.
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  But it's it was about that balance of Mary and Martha that
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  I had, you know, prayer. Prayer was prayer was vital.
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  It was important to me. I made time for prayer.
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  I made time for my relationships with God.
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  And I saw a difference even in how I was the marketing and
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  events director for my church when I first got there and and
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  when I returned they asked me to come back into those positions
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  and I did. And I saw such a difference
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  because now everything was God. Let everything was God inspired.
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  The Flyers, the colors, the events, everything was God
• 25:11
  working through me. And because it was God,
• 25:14
  everything was now fruitful. Wow.
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  So yeah. That's powerful.
• 25:23
  That's powerful. So it's almost like.
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  God get is like waking us up to Our Calling and and what does a
• 25:33
  good father do, right? Because like for me, the way
• 25:37
  that I grew up is like me and my dad didn't have the best
• 25:39
  relationship. You kind of was working a lot
• 25:42
  and going a lot and when he was around it was always like, okay,
• 25:45
  don't do anything wrong, walking on eggshells.
• 25:47
  So when I came to Christ, I came with like this, oh, I got to be,
• 25:51
  I got to be perfect. I can't do nothing wrong.
• 25:53
  And then? I'm feeling like I was going to
• 25:56
  get squashed like a bug when I started to backslide and and
• 25:59
  wrestle with things. So I hear other people's stories
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  and what I'm seeing is just like, God is a good father.
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  Like he's just waiting. He's like, I have a calling for
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  you. I have an anointing for you.
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  And like, just him seeing the finished product of Jesus Christ
• 26:15
  in us. No wonder why it's a double
• 26:17
  portion of grace when we're figuring it out, because I
• 26:20
  really feel like God is so patient with us.
• 26:23
  And and really just he, he knows how much bondage from the
• 26:27
  secular things that we go through, the things with our
• 26:29
  family, all the systematic desensitizations, the Airways,
• 26:33
  the frequencies of the enemy posturing himself to try to
• 26:36
  defeat us. We're really walking miracles,
• 26:39
  to be honest with you, Stacy. We're all of us.
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  We're walking miracles. And then God is calling us out
• 26:44
  of the darkness is like, That's what keeps me in love with God
• 26:48
  even more, Just at like. Where I'm at right now, because
• 26:51
  I'm going, God, you just keep leading me closer to you.
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  Like I don't bring nothing to the table.
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  I'm. I'm nobody but you.
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  Oh, the majesty of the king. So I love hearing.
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  I love hearing that story because that's cool.
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  So you're still in these roles. You're still working with
• 27:08
  churches. You're ministering.
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  You're with the small woman's group.
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  You're training up other women, which is that's so biblical.
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  Women, listen to me for one second.
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  When you start living godly, God is working this out in you and
• 27:22
  he's showing you things. We have to be willing to bury
• 27:25
  each other's burdens and so fulfill the law.
• 27:27
  We have to be willing to be like, listen, I'm going to start
• 27:29
  the small group never despise small beginnings.
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  I learned that and a core group of of women that you're you're
• 27:37
  it's like a Bible study. You guys are doing a prayer meet
• 27:40
  and is any of that open? To, let's say if listeners
• 27:44
  wanted to come and join you on like a, I don't know, a zoom
• 27:47
  call or how do you do this? Do you do anything that's online
• 27:51
  as well? Cuz I know with Klaus, he has
• 27:53
  digital disciples ministry, he does some YouTube stuff.
• 27:56
  So let's talk a little bit more about your ministry.
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  Yes, absolutely. It's open.
• 28:03
  It's open to ladies wherever whosoever will come.
• 28:09
  It's The group is primarily based off of Facebook.
• 28:14
  It's a private Facebook group, so if you just search Walkworthy
• 28:18
  and you send a request to join, you can join.
• 28:21
  I post lots of content in there. I share words of encouragement,
• 28:27
  upcoming events, whether they be online or in person.
• 28:32
  A lot of the teachings are done online, and even if you're not
• 28:37
  able to join the live teachings, I do the live teachings on Zoom
• 28:42
  For those that are not able to attend when it's live, I do
• 28:46
  record it and put it on YouTube as well.
• 28:49
  Right now we're doing a summer series, reading through the book
• 28:53
  The Bait of Satan, which is a study on a fence, which is I
• 28:58
  feel like it came directly from God to me for such a time as
• 29:03
  this, because we know. At in this life you will face
• 29:08
  offense. You know Jesus says that.
• 29:11
  And we know that we're in the last days and many will be
• 29:14
  deceived and many will be deceived because of offense.
• 29:17
  So I feel very strongly you know about that, that teaching that
• 29:23
  I'm doing. Again with everything that I do
• 29:26
  for ministry, it's God led, God inspired.
• 29:28
  I don't want to do anything of my own will or my own volition.
• 29:32
  So I felt led to do a summer series on the bait of Satan.
• 29:36
  So we're about in Week 3 right now.
• 29:40
  So that's what's going on with that.
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  On YouTube. I'm Stacy Chavez, but you can
• 29:45
  find all the walk worthy videos on there as well.
• 29:49
  And I'm very active on social media, on my Facebook and my
• 29:53
  Instagram. People reach out to me for with
• 29:56
  questions, for mentoring or counseling.
• 29:59
  I also do mentorships as well and not just with ladies that
• 30:03
  are here, but anywhere because I know that it's hard.
• 30:07
  It's hard being a woman trying to do what God called you to do.
• 30:14
  And we're not always surrounded by strong women of faith that
• 30:19
  will pour into us and help us and guide us and lead us.
• 30:23
  Thankfully, that was not ever my story.
• 30:26
  I had so many women to pour into me and to guide me and lead me
• 30:31
  when I first started my walk. So I feel that it's only right
• 30:35
  that that I do, that I yeah, I'm just very passionate about
• 30:40
  equipping and enabling women. While the world aims to have
• 30:45
  women pit themselves against each other and make everything a
• 30:49
  competition, we know that as women of God, we should be
• 30:52
  praying for one another, uplifting one another,
• 30:55
  supporting one another. There's more than enough room
• 30:58
  for all of our giftings and talents, for all of our
• 31:01
  abilities, and we can accomplish so much more together than we
• 31:06
  could ever apart. Wow.
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  Very well said. And that drive and that passion.
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  I I love the last part that you said there's plenty of room for
• 31:20
  all of us and God's gifting and our ability because we there's
• 31:23
  just so much that we have vision and dream to come to pass,
• 31:28
  right. And it's like there's there's so
• 31:30
  many things that we know God is moving and wants to do.
• 31:33
  But I believe from God's perspective it involves like.
• 31:37
  A lot more people than are currently participating.
• 31:40
  So when I see somebody who's like full-fledged and feeding
• 31:44
  flock and and training our people and just taking that
• 31:47
  time, I believe that's bringing the bigger picture into focus.
• 31:51
  Because we're supposed to pray for more laborers, right?
• 31:57
  Because the harvest is is going to become more plentiful, but
• 32:01
  the laborers are few. And so when we're we're.
• 32:04
  Planting that seed and watering that seed, it's a good wage and
• 32:08
  God is going to get glory because he's going to cause it
• 32:10
  to grow. So interesting, very interesting
• 32:15
  story. And then I know you've came up
• 32:20
  here, you and Klaus, a few Times Now, and we've had some powerful
• 32:24
  prayers together I want you to talk a little bit about.
• 32:30
  What the drive and the mission is that God is is leading and
• 32:33
  tugging you guys too. I mean we can even talk about
• 32:37
  like greater than Azusa Street, right?
• 32:40
  That is starting to pop up now where we know God is doing
• 32:43
  certain things with people all around the country and and
• 32:46
  within the states around us, right.
• 32:50
  So talk a little bit about how God has been preparing you guys,
• 32:53
  and I mean any the good, the bad, the ugly, whatever you feel
• 32:56
  like sharing. But help us understand.
• 33:00
  So as other people start to minister and they start to go
• 33:03
  out and walk faith on a line of faith, maybe maybe there's
• 33:07
  something you can say that they can relate to A lot of people.
• 33:13
  When I first got saved, I think I had been saved for maybe about
• 33:18
  a year or two. I think I was saved for two
• 33:21
  years and the church that I came out of or moved from, I should
• 33:26
  say, when I got married, had a has a Bible school where you can
• 33:31
  go through all the classes and you can become a licensed
• 33:34
  minister. And I felt that I was called to
• 33:38
  become a licensed minister. So I started these classes, of
• 33:42
  course, with the approval and support of my lead pastor, and
• 33:46
  lots of people told me that I was crazy.
• 33:49
  You're crazy for pursuing your minister's license.
• 33:52
  Once you start preaching, once you start ministering, that's
• 33:55
  that's when the enemy really starts to go after you.
• 33:59
  You know, you're putting a target on your back.
• 34:03
  And I thought, what is stupid reason to not do what God called
• 34:07
  you to do? So I went ahead and I I still I
• 34:12
  did it. I I took all the classes.
• 34:14
  You know, I'm going to, I'm going to do what God called me
• 34:17
  to do. And if I'm doing it, I'm doing
• 34:20
  what God called me to do, then I know that God is going to
• 34:23
  protect me and he's going to see me through.
• 34:26
  And just like it says in James count it all joy when when these
• 34:30
  Childs come knowing that you are being perfected and and that
• 34:37
  scripture has been a caring theme in my life probably for
• 34:40
  the last maybe four or five years.
• 34:43
  And and Klaus and I were just friends when we talked about all
• 34:50
  the ministries we were going to have and all the things that we
• 34:53
  were going to do. That's really how our our
• 34:55
  friendship came about was talking about God and who God is
• 34:59
  and and all the things that we wanted to accomplish for God.
• 35:03
  And so we always knew that we were going to do all these great
• 35:07
  big things for God. And when when this year started
• 35:13
  and and Klaus got the vision for greater than Azusa was confirmed
• 35:19
  over and over and over. The word that God gave me for
• 35:24
  this year is unprecedented. God said he is going to do
• 35:29
  unprecedented things this year. And we know that Azusa started
• 35:36
  out of prayer meetings and we really need to get back to the
• 35:41
  basics of prayer meetings and seeking a move of God.
• 35:46
  And even with what happened at Asbury the a few months ago, it
• 35:51
  was birthed out of a prayer meeting.
• 35:53
  It was birthed out of out of a group of students tearing in the
• 35:57
  Lord and and we have gotten so far away from that.
• 36:03
  Now church services are preaching for 45 minutes and
• 36:07
  praying at the altar for 10 to 15 minutes, when really it needs
• 36:11
  to be the opposite. It needs to be praying for 45
• 36:15
  minutes to an hour, probably more with very minimal preaching
• 36:20
  and teaching. We don't really need to to do
• 36:23
  that much preaching, especially to the saved you.
• 36:27
  You preach to the boss, you teach the saved.
• 36:31
  And so we kind of have to correct a lot of church culture
• 36:36
  as it is today in America. You wouldn't think it, but there
• 36:42
  are so many places in the United States where people don't have a
• 36:47
  church, they don't have a church in their area that they can go
• 36:50
  to or they don't have a church in their area teaching truth.
• 36:55
  And so Klaus and I have a burden to go to those areas.
• 36:58
  You know, we go up to Pennsylvania, we go to Northern
• 37:01
  Virginia. There's a church that Klaus
• 37:05
  pastors, the pastor of that church in Louisiana.
• 37:09
  And I know that there are more that are going to be coming.
• 37:14
  And so we have such a burden for these people because they don't
• 37:17
  have a church that they can go to.
• 37:20
  They don't have a group of people to fellowship with on a
• 37:24
  weekly basis or someone to meet up with them and counsel them or
• 37:28
  pour into them. So you do have, you know, that's
• 37:32
  why you see these Internet famous preachers, because so
• 37:36
  many people now in this day and age are drawing to the Internet
• 37:39
  to find truth, to find teachings to be fed.
• 37:43
  Because they're they cannot get fed at through any other means.
• 37:48
  And this is vital, vital for us to answer the call.
• 37:53
  It's vital for us to disciple. It's vital for us to counsel and
• 37:58
  to pour into into others. And so we do have people that
• 38:03
  reach out to us on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook.
• 38:08
  They need counsel, guidance. We schedule zoom calls for
• 38:13
  prayer, for counseling and and we do all that we can do to help
• 38:19
  these people. And it's a beautiful thing too,
• 38:22
  because then we get to connect with so many different people in
• 38:25
  other States and other other areas and even in in other parts
• 38:29
  of the world. I think it was the end of last
• 38:33
  year, I had a girl ask if Klaus and I were going to be coming to
• 38:38
  Toronto anytime soon because she wanted to get baptized in Jesus
• 38:43
  name. And normally when they're far
• 38:46
  away like that, I'll try to find a church that I can connect them
• 38:49
  to. If not, you know, we'll find a
• 38:52
  way or make a way to meet them somewhere or get to them.
• 38:55
  That's how we met Terry Allen. We drove up there to baptize him
• 39:00
  and I was able to connect her to a church and she was able to get
• 39:05
  baptized and get get the Holy Ghost from an Instagram message.
• 39:09
  I mean, you can't make this stuff up, but we all we can't
• 39:13
  limit God, you know? And a lot of people try to limit
• 39:16
  God that he can't work in on certain avenues or through
• 39:20
  certain things. But I got saved through a
• 39:23
  Facebook post. I met my husband on Facebook.
• 39:27
  I mean, Facebook is responsible for half of my my, my ministry,
• 39:33
  my destiny. I mean, like, what a what a
• 39:36
  millennial testimony. Like, yeah, Facebook did it.
• 39:41
  Exactly. Oh, that's epic.
• 39:43
  That is. I'm so happy you're here sharing
• 39:47
  this story. I think there's a whole
• 39:49
  generation of people that agree the millennial generation are
• 39:52
  nodding their heads as they're listening to this.
• 39:55
  Yes, exactly. Yes.
• 39:59
  But, and I said this on another recording, I'm like, man, if the
• 40:01
  Apostle Paul was here, he'd be on a podcast.
• 40:04
  Like, he would utilize everything, right?
• 40:06
  He'd be writing letters. He would be out on the street.
• 40:09
  He'd be on a podcast. He'd be on a YouTube video.
• 40:11
  You would literally find him everywhere.
• 40:13
  You'd find him in the car yelling out the window as he's
• 40:15
  traveling to baptize somebody else.
• 40:17
  He'd be like, man, this is much better than walking.
• 40:19
  But and and the day and age we live in, we are using the
• 40:24
  enemy's Airways, right? Because the Prince of the power,
• 40:27
  the air, this enemy, he's got the Airways jacked up.
• 40:30
  He has people messed up in all types of ways.
• 40:33
  But we are on a battlefield and a mission field by doing what
• 40:39
  we're doing right now. It is, it is significant
• 40:43
  sometimes beyond even what I realized.
• 40:45
  Like I'm like, oh podcast, another episode.
• 40:47
  I'll pray, I'll say, God, give me wisdom.
• 40:48
  I'm interested in this story and I don't just release any episode
• 40:52
  on this platform. Like I'll I'll pray about it.
• 40:56
  I I try to capture what I see that's beautiful in somebody
• 40:59
  else. Or if I know somebody's legit,
• 41:01
  like, they really have the heart to be doing this.
• 41:03
  They're walking. They're talking.
• 41:05
  I try to collaborate with that person.
• 41:06
  Like, your story needs to be heard because, hey, we have too
• 41:10
  many actors. We have too many actors out
• 41:13
  there, and acting is never going to actually make a disciple.
• 41:16
  And there's no power in that. There's only people just be
• 41:19
  lusting over them, right? They're just, they want what
• 41:22
  they have. Oh, I want to be like this
• 41:24
  person. Oh, I want to sound like this
• 41:25
  person, but really we have the sons and daughters of God that
• 41:30
  are starting to come into position of the Eclaicia.
• 41:33
  We are starting to come into correct order and position by
• 41:36
  networking, praying, what you were saying.
• 41:39
  Yes, Oh my goodness, that is what we need to be doing at this
• 41:44
  point in time. And man, I'm enjoying this
• 41:47
  conversation. So let's talk about have you
• 41:52
  I've never asked, have you ever had a supernatural experience?
• 41:55
  Have you ever had a dream of vision or any anything at all
• 41:58
  that deals with the supernatural, like with your
• 42:01
  your time in the Lord or even before that?
• 42:06
  I've had many. I've had many.
• 42:09
  Supernatural. Yeah, I've had many.
• 42:12
  Supernatural. Both.
• 42:15
  Both. Both before I got saved and
• 42:18
  after. Yeah, okay, Are you willing to
• 42:22
  share? Share one from before you got
• 42:25
  saved and then let's talk about one after and then just just
• 42:28
  walk us into it. Share as much as you wanna share
• 42:32
  what happened. Well the before I got saved.
• 42:39
  I won't go into too too too many details but.
• 42:43
  We know with Hinduism and in the West Indian culture there's
• 42:52
  voodoo like practices and you know very what we know now or
• 42:59
  what I know now to be witchcraft.
• 43:02
  And so that had gone on. And I just recall always being a
• 43:08
  person of prayer. You know, I always gave myself
• 43:11
  to prayer and fasting and things of that nature.
• 43:15
  And in Hinduism we have what is equivalent to a pastor or priest
• 43:21
  and what it's called a pundit and.
• 43:25
  We you can get these readings and they're kind of like
• 43:28
  astrological readings, I suppose.
• 43:31
  I'm not sure of the ins and outs of it, but a cousin of mine who
• 43:37
  I consider like a brother. Had got a reading for me from
• 43:41
  his pundit and they told him that someone had a a doll of me
• 43:49
  like a a I guess like a voodoo doll of me and that it had so
• 43:55
  many pins in its in its head that you couldn't even see its
• 44:00
  face. And I believe that this was
• 44:03
  around the time that I was just starting college and I was going
• 44:08
  through a lot of. Difficulties transitioning and
• 44:12
  things like that. Which is why I believe that I
• 44:14
  reached out for the reading to try to understand what was going
• 44:17
  on and I was told to go on a fast which and Hinduism fasting
• 44:22
  is basically like a Daniels fast where you just don't eat meat.
• 44:27
  And I remember being in my room one night and it was like these
• 44:34
  black. Ghost like figures were just
• 44:39
  like swirling in a circle above my bed and I was so scared I
• 44:46
  just hid under my covers. And I had never experienced
• 44:51
  anything like that before till this day.
• 44:54
  I'm not entirely sure you know what was happening or what was
• 44:58
  going on, but apparently there was a person who was wishing
• 45:03
  evil upon me and wanting me to take my life.
• 45:09
  Which did happen. I I did find out afterwards
• 45:13
  like, 'cause I mentioned that I had, you know, battled with
• 45:17
  being suicidal and my freshman going into sophomore year of
• 45:23
  college. I went through some things and
• 45:27
  and I had a very big bottle of Motrin and I took a lot of those
• 45:33
  pills. I ended up telling one of my
• 45:37
  friends. And they took me to the
• 45:40
  hospital. I had to get my stomach pumped.
• 45:43
  I ended up at Jackson Crisis Center, 'cause I went to College
• 45:46
  in Miami, So I was in that area. They wouldn't let me out.
• 45:51
  My dad had to come pick me up. It was a horrible experience.
• 45:56
  It was so horrible. I was like, I will never do that
• 46:01
  ever again. Just for the mere fact of like
• 46:03
  all the things that you have to go through after you attempt to
• 46:07
  suicide on your life. And so after the fact, I had
• 46:10
  found out, yeah, this person wanted you to kill yourself.
• 46:15
  And I said, oh wow, cuz I actually did try.
• 46:19
  And it's just crazy how? Yeah, it's crazy how Like
• 46:24
  everything is spiritual. You know, whether you see,
• 46:27
  whether you see how it's related in the spiritual or not,
• 46:31
  everything is spiritual, saved or not, everything has spiritual
• 46:36
  implications. So Stacy, you've been through a
• 46:40
  lot and you've dealt with a lot of supernatural encounters and
• 46:44
  just you know the attempt on your life.
• 46:46
  But the Providence of God and God's hand and plan for your
• 46:49
  life is really, it's this victory story.
• 46:53
  It's a story about overcoming and it's a story of obviously
• 46:56
  the proof is there that God is using you and positioning you
• 47:00
  for the Kingdom. So it's just amazing to see how
• 47:03
  he works all things together for the good of those who are called
• 47:06
  according to his will and purpose.
• 47:09
  And this is a heartfelt story that you're sharing with us here
• 47:12
  on the Millennium Must Have Seed podcast.
• 47:14
  And honestly, I'd love for you to come back for a Part 2.
• 47:16
  Stacy, is this story your journey?
• 47:20
  Your story is really going to speak to somebody out there.
• 47:24
  Amen. I've always tried to use my
• 47:27
  testimony to help others and to allow others to.
• 47:32
  Help alleviate some of that that stress and burden of going
• 47:36
  through things that they don't have to go through by sharing my
• 47:40
  testimony and my my journey here.
• 47:43
  And hopefully I pray that it encourages whoever may hear this
• 47:48
  to continue pursuing God and and His call on your life.
• 47:54
  Because he is faithful and as the word says he will finish the
• 47:59
  good work that he started in you amazing.
• 48:03
  And if you guys have been affected by Stacy's story, it's
• 48:07
  it's moved you deeply. You can connect with something
• 48:10
  that that she's went through or just the overcoming journey in
• 48:13
  general. Just seeing the goodness of God
• 48:15
  tasting and seeing that he is good.
• 48:17
  How he literally can take everything that was against us
• 48:20
  and flip it and bring it so that it it's ammunition and power for
• 48:25
  us to be able to help minister to other people.
• 48:26
  If you guys found that to be true on this episode, you guys
• 48:30
  write me an e-mail. Go to the the description, the
• 48:33
  show notes, e-mail me. And.
• 48:35
  And even if you want to come on the show and you want to talk
• 48:39
  about something that you've been through, that's what this
• 48:41
  podcast is for. You know, it's for glorifying
• 48:44
  God, going through the difficult topics, sharing our testimonies.
• 48:49
  And this was a powerful 1. Stacy, thank you so much for
• 48:54
  being here with me on this recording.
• 48:56
  Thank you for having me, Rod. Absolutely.
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  And you're going to come back for a Part 2.
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  So that's it. That's the show.
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  You guys go leave me that five star rating and review that
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  helps the show grow it. There's somebody else out there
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  that needs to hear this and that's how you guys can really
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  help us reach somebody else. And with all that being said,
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  God bless and goodbye.