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S4 84. Isaiah H – I'm Changing, and I needed to Testify. · 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.
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And literally raised himself from the dead.
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And yet, we're not going to believe that anything else
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exists in the spirit realm, even though his word tells us that
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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 earth.
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You know, I've seen the eyes turn black to Unknum tongues
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being spoken. These giants were way up in the
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island. The young Braves, the young men
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would hide them in the trees. They wait for one of these 12
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footers to come walking down the bath, and they would jump on
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them and kill them and drag them back to the village.
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And the village would feast on the body.
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Then people start to get weapons.
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They start to get armor, they start to build cities.
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They start to fortify their cities.
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Now God looks down and there's violence everywhere.
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The battle, this war that we are at is not against each other.
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It's against these principalities and these rulers
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and these archons in the high places.
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It's really worthwhile to read the Bible yourself.
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Fear is one of the primary drivers of mind control.
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Because we have to take every thought captive and resist fear.
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You're going to have a testimony that is a justice case against
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the Kingdom of Darkness. All right, Welcome back to the
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show, everybody. I have an awesome episode in
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store for you guys because I am joined with Isaiah now.
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Isaiah reached out to me and he's got a powerful testimony
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and I know it's going to reach somebody else out there when I
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heard what he had to say. I'm like, bro, I want you to
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come on an episode and edify somebody else who's out there
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who might be feeling the same way, have dealt with the same
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things. So it's going to be a shorter
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episode, you guys, but this is a powerful one.
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Isaiah, thank you for being here.
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Bro, Yeah, no problem. Awesome.
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So let's, let's start off. We talked on the phone the other
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day and you know, I was kind of asking you, how did you find the
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podcast? Give us a brief overview of, you
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know, what your life has looked like to this point.
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Give us like that 30,000 foot overview.
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Just, you know, you came back to the Lord recently.
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Just everything that's on your heart in regards to our phone
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call, bro. Just just take it.
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Well, it was like late December last year.
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I just started. I'm just feeling called like
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throughout my life I was. I felt like the Lord calling me
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and stuff, but for probably about the last like 10 years, I
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just wasn't listening to it and just kind of doing my own thing,
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just living by the flesh basically, and started looking
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around and like podcasts on Spotify and stuff.
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And I was just randomly like trying to find stuff about the
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nephalum and all that kind of fringe, like the weird topics
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nobody ever really talks about I stumbled upon.
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One podcast and like it was pretty good.
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Like I liked it at 1st and like the more I kept listening to it,
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the guy like he would talk about the Bible and everything.
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And then once I actually started looking at the Bible and reading
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it myself, like I kind of figured out this guy was not
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really telling the truth about a lot of things.
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Like he was basically twisting the words around to fit what he
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wanted it to be. Like to make him sound better
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and everything and. It's kind of like I started
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praying about it like, you know, like God, like helped me find
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like a show like this, but that is actually like strong in the
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scripture and like actually led by God.
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And then I just, I found one year episode with Gary Wayne and
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it's kind of been hooked since then.
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Just like listening to more and more and just learning every
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time I listen. It's been really cool, but.
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Had a pretty wild life. I was raised in church from time
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I was like a baby till basically like, I was physically big
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enough to tell my parents I didn't want to go anymore.
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And there wasn't really anything they could do about it.
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Like in that time, like I, my dad was in a gospel quartet and
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he sang all over like the Midwest, basically.
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So we were in and out of like all these, like random churches.
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Every weekend, just about. But essentially like I just fell
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away from it. I just didn't.
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I wasn't really feeling it, You know, like I someone just got a
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hold of me and it's kind of telling me just like all this is
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not like it's not true. Like you don't need to worry
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about this and like God's not real and everything like that.
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And I just kind of. For a long time was getting into
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some, like darker stuff, messing with Ouija boards as a teenager
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and dabbling and all that kind of stuff.
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And I'm a musician, so I just got kind of entangled and
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wrapped up in the whole sex, drugs and rock'n'roll lifestyle,
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which is never really going to lead to a very good place.
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But it seems like fun at the time, until you realize it's
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really not. I just.
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Kept going further and further away and just kept felt like I
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really started losing more and more pieces of myself along the
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way with every step I would take in opposite direction and I just
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got like I was just really depressed all the time.
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And I had this buddy, like I'd known him since 7th grade and
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everything. Like he was first person I ever
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played music with. Like we would talk all the time
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about like Bible stuff and everything.
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Because like, he was raised in church too, and I hadn't heard
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from him for a few years. And then just randomly he just
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called me one night and asked me a Bible question and I kind of
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just brushed it off at the time, like didn't really want to talk
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or think about any of that. And a couple days went by and I
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just started. Thinking, I don't even remember
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what it was He asked me. But I started thinking more
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about it and something just like told me to, like, get into the
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Bible, like start reading it for yourself, like you.
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There's there's something there like you can get from this, like
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there's something you need there.
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I started going like started with Genesis and just reading
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about God creating everything. Like it just something hit.
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Like, it just made me cry when I was reading.
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And I'm like, I don't know why. It was just like, it was just
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beautiful. And I started.
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The further I got into it, just like, OK, like this is not like
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just a storybook like I used to think.
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Like this is for one, like it's it's ancient human history and
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stuff. But for two, like it's it's
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telling us about our creator and giving us the characteristics of
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him and like telling us all the stuff that he's done for us.
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And just the further I started going like I just.
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Couldn't stop. Like it's keep diving in.
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I just want to know and learn more and like eventually like it
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just it came down to it like, OK, like so like this is the
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truth. And you know, like I always used
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to say, like when I was turned around from it, you know, like,
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well, I believe in God, but I think it's different than the
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Christian God. And I just think it's like not
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the same as everything else and like looking back like it was.
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I kind of after like realizing what these teachings and like
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that thought pattern was like it was kind of lined up with like
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Gnostic to where like I always used to think like Jesus was
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just trying to teach us how to like be gods and like realize
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how absolutely wrong that is now.
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Like, there's no way to do that, but just really like seeing and
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feeling the love of God. Like, as I'm.
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Diving into the book and just trying to get closer and feel
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like reaching and like he's reaching back for me.
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It's not like anything I ever felt before in my life.
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That's powerful. That's a powerful testimony.
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The scriptures say that, you know, we seek first the Kingdom
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of God and his righteousness, and then he starts to Add all
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this stuff on to us, adding peace back, right, and adding
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the calling back and the anointing back on her life.
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And just hearing you say that, I even just hear it in your voice,
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man. And it just is powerful.
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It's powerful. Keep testifying.
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Keep testifying. So dabbling around and like the
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occult stuff, there were quite a few very strange things that had
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happened. And it just they kind of.
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All added into me being like, OK, well, like anything I
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learned in church is obviously false If like this kind of stuff
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is happening. And like, nobody's ever talked
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about that and they just kind of have always brushed it off.
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Like like messing around with the Ouija board when I was like
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1516 and all this. Just real strange.
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I remember like sitting in the garage with my friends with like
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a candle and everything and. Just sitting there and the thing
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starts moving and spelling words and everything.
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And at first I'm like, OK, like this is somebody's doing this.
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And then I did it alone one time.
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And like, I always heard like, it's not supposed to work when
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you do it alone. Now I don't know if it was just
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like me, like subconsciously moving around, but like this
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thing started talking to me, just telling me not really
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anything important. But at the same time it was just
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like, whoa, like, this is crazy. Like I don't know how to explain
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this. I remember I was messing around
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with that thing one time with one of my best friends at the
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time, and we were like asking it for a sign to like, know that it
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was real or whatever. And we just, like, got off of
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the board. And then just my whole friend
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just, like, disappeared. I could see everything around
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him, but there was just like a shadow standing in front of him.
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He said he saw the same thing with me and you know, like I'd.
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That should have been a sign like, run away from this.
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This is not good. But you know, like teenage
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brains and anything you think is cool, you're just going to keep
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doing. And eventually it got like, I
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was laying in my bed one morning, my door was shut.
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I heard my door open somehow and all of a sudden like it just
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like feel the pressure of somebody, like getting into bed
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with me. Like a cold arm wrapping around,
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man. I just hear, like whisper in my
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ear, like I'm here. I sit up, look around like
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nobody's there. It's completely black in my
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rooms. Maybe 637 in the morning.
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That freaked me out enough to where I was just kind of like, I
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don't. I don't want to mess with this
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anymore. But I wasn't sure how to, like,
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get away from that, like, because I know those things open
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doors. I don't.
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I didn't know how to close them or anything.
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I mean, it's a cool thing. It was like a cool thing to talk
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about. Like, I probably bragged to
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people about it. Like, yeah, like I had a ghost
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like cuddle with me or whatever. But like, looking back on it
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now, like that definitely is not something to be proud of.
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Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
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I think there's so many people out there that have very similar
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stories like exactly what you just said, you know, especially
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our generation, this millennial generation, a lot of the times,
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you know, Ouija boards were huge when I was growing up too and I
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never played with one. But there's something
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supernatural about it. And when people are go, when
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younger people were going to the church at the time and they were
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seeing and they're seeing like this kind of fake Christianity
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in some churches, not all churches, right.
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They just see this religious setting and people giving them
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rules, right? It's just rules.
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Stand up, sit down, count bead, show up, get check your box
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right. You have to dress in this attire
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and most of the most of the bigger influential churches like
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like the Catholic Church for example.
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I mean this is a huge population of Christianity and a lot of the
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times people, the younger people, we don't find any power
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in that. We just think this is another
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discipline system. This is another control
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mechanism, right? They just want us to be a good
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little boy, right? From whatever background.
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And any of us came from in Christianity.
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But then when you would dabble in the occult stuff or in any of
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this witchcraft, or I mean all of it, people would see power,
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like you said, they'd see stuff move, they'd see apparitions,
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they'd see stuff happen. And I think that's what was
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attractive a lot of the times for our generation was we
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weren't really being taught, we weren't being mentored or
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guided. But then we're seeing power
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manifest in these, these specific things that were very
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relevant in our in our culture, the timeline that we grew up.
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But this is what God is setting this generation free from, you
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see, because like you listen to the show.
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So you know there's lowercase G gods, there's these dominion
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ruling authorities, these, these principalities, powers, rulers,
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dominions, archons that are strategically set up, that have
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influence, that have influence over region, over over people,
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over the culture, the music that we listen to.
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So when we get into the the correct order of thinking that
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what Jesus did, he's not just some man with a beard and
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sandals like we're talking about the Creator, the essence of God.
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Yahweh, the greatest one of all, coming in the flesh of a man in
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order to cover the chasm, to dethrone these lowercase G gods,
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to literally strip the power away from them.
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They don't have power anymore because the word says we
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overcome by our testimony and by the blood of the lamb.
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So man, I just, I love hearing testimony stories about like,
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hey, this is where I was. I feel the tugging.
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I feel God calling me out of the darkness into the light, because
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that's for this time. That's our generation, Isaiah.
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Absolutely. I've like, I've, I've felt it my
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whole life. Just either always ignored it or
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didn't jump straight into it like I did this time.
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Like this time I'm feel like I'm getting everything that I should
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have been getting all along. Like it just it makes me feel
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super foolish for not getting it earlier, you know?
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Well, I think there's something to like what our testimony, when
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we go through certain things, you're going to be able to
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minister to people that that are going through exactly what you
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experience. It's like the prodigal son too,
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right? It's like you have this
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compassion and understanding because there's other people in
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the church that maybe never played with the Ouija board,
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maybe they never ran from God, but they live in, they're
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addicted to pornography, you know what I mean?
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So they have other troubles. They have other things they're
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dealing with, but you have a a specific lens of things you
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experienced that now you're going to be equipped to minister
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to other people. As people are coming out of the
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darkness into the light, you're going to be like, listen, I've
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been there. I went down that road.
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I, I, I have these experiences and there's power in that.
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Because when you genuinely went through that kind of stuff and
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you're looking at somebody in their eyes saying, listen, I
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experienced this, but you can be set free from it.
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There's greater power. That's that's a part of your
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testimony. So I do see power in that, you
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know, It's just how God flips the script is what is just
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amazing. Like he takes the the wreck of
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everything, our bad choices, right?
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Calls us out unbelievable mercy and grace and favor and then
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equips us to go into the very areas we once were in bondage in
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with like the sword of the spirit, and start slaying the
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demons in that area and setting other people free.
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I mean, this is, this is real life, This is real stuff.
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This is not fairy tale. That there's light and there's
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darkness, there's good and there's evil.
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And we are in a battlefield. We are battling for souls.
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We're contending for eternal positions.
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When this physical body leaves the earth, man gets me excited.
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But I want to ask you, So what was like?
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What was one of the most powerful episodes you listened
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to here on The Mustard Seed? Like was there a point in time
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where you heard some content here and just said, man, that
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makes sense, that's puzzle pieces are coming together.
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What was helpful for you with the podcast?
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Oh, it's it's been literally just about every single episode.
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I've listened to the the three-part symposium had a lot
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of lot of times where I was just sitting there like it's putting
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a lot of things together for me. And even like just recently the
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Stacy Chavez one, like that hit me hard because I have, like I
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said, like I'm a musician. But the last seven months, like
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I haven't done anything at all with it.
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Like I've been wanting to. I just have been sitting on it
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and not doing anything at all and that just like it.
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Kind of lit a fire under me like you know, like you have this
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gift. Like God has allowed you to be
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good at creating sounds and stuff.
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Like use that, but like don't use it for you selfish, like try
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to be a rock star thing anymore. Like use it to glorify and
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praise God like you have the ability should be using it for
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that. Powerful, powerful, powerful.
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And this is the ripple effect by you sharing your testimony,
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Isaiah. Somebody else out there may hear
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that and they've, they've been getting the nudge too.
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You know what I mean? That there's some type of gift
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that they have where they just needed to hear it reiterated by
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somebody else. They needed to hear somebody
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else pretty much say that they're they're not alone.
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You know, maybe they're disconnected.
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Maybe this person who's sitting out there listening to this
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episode when it airs, you know, they're dealing with suicidal
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ideations. Maybe they're dealing with this
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false reality overlay. They don't actually know what
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their identity is. They don't actually know that
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God loves them. But they had these gifts that
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they were using in a perverted way, and they're wondering, what
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am I going to do now? I've surrendered the idea of
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prospering in darkness. It doesn't work right.
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We can't prosper in the darkness.
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And that your testimony could just challenge somebody to shift
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and to go. You know what?
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I'm going to bring my gift before the Lord of Lords.
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The Lord of Hosts. The Prince of Peace.
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The Everlasting One. Jesus, right?
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The One, the greatest name above all names.
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There's no other name we are given by which we may be saved
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by and that this is what The Mustard Seed is about.
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This is what the ripple effect is about, covering these chasms,
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testifying and just taking the journey and taking it with each
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other. Like, bro, when you're listening
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to an episode like Stacy, her and Klaus come up here like once
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a month, and we do like prayer meetings.
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It's like really humble, small prayer meetings that are now
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starting to really grow and start starting to change
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literally real time. It's amazing.
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And when she was talking on that episode, that encouraged me.
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So, like, I know it's encouraging somebody else, you
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know, and to testify to declare this is a good thing.
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There's power in that. So I thank you for taking this
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time you know to come on air with me now.
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Now, I just want you real quick to share your heart on why were
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you led to donate to to help us with traveling this month.
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Like what was that shift where you're like, man, I want to I
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want to help Rod with some gas money, you know to get to where
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he needs to be. What what was going on in your
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heart? What was God stirring up in you?
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Well. I mean like I've been listening
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to the show for a couple months, maybe like 3 months at this
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point and. He's getting a lot out of it,
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learning a lot. And just, I feel like it was
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helping to like grow my faith a little bit and learning about
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all this like different stuff. And then when I heard like,
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you're about to start stepping out and like going and talking
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to places and just, you know, like everything that you've
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helped me like figure out and everything.
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Like they're just figured, like, my God, just like put it on my
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heart to help you. To do that.
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Because like if I can get that out of listening to you, like
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maybe there's somebody at one of these places that you're going
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to be talking at that like have maybe been thinking about like
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running through in their mind all these things that like you
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know about and have like learned about.
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And they can get even close to any of like the same sort of
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like edification and like any of that that.
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I've gotten out of it like it is definitely worth it to give you
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so other people can find that that's powerful man that's
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blessed. Very blessed.
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Wow. Wow.
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You you have a calling on your life and God is this is a new
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season for all of us and God is going to position you with with
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your gift in mind that he's given you.
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You know, this is the opportunity now for for you to
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stir up, to rattle the cage, to to shake the ground a little bit
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with the truth, and to see things that once seemed like so
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dark and so distant actually start to get flipped.
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You know, like you can affect your friends and your family
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with this testimony, this message.
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And just man, I would just say to you, bro, keep praying in
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secret, you know, you go close the door.
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We pray in secret. We edify each other.
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We speak truth and keep reading that word, man, because you're
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born for such a time as this, just as I am.
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And I don't know exactly where God's going to call you and what
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he has in store for you. But I know that if we seek him,
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he will equip us. Our ministry will make room for
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itself if we seek him first. Like, don't take my advice for
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it. Go to the Word.
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You know what I mean? And if what I'm saying is is
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backs up with the word of God and it lines up with the word of
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God, and this is for everybody, for myself, even just when I'm
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talking with other people. If if we're listening to a
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podcast, you guys, if we're you know, whatever, whatever it is,
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talking with a friend about the Bible, we have to be diligent to
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study, to show ourself well approved.
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So that means we need to get the book and flip that thing open.
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And we need to be checking to see if the fruit, to see if the
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measure of what people are speaking in into into your life
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and speaking about you. Is that true in this word?
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Right. Does it say that God has plans
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to prosper me, not to harm me, to give me hope in the future?
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Yes, it does. And if you guys don't know, it
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says that. I challenge you to go find those
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verses, do a little bit of digging, dig deep into that word
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because it will change your life.
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I told you when we talked on the phone, Isaiah, the Bible is the
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only book that exposed how many years I wasted sitting in the
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darkness. It's the only one.
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It's the only one. So man, I thank you for your
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time, bro. Just just keep doing what you're
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doing. And you know, I just, I've been
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praying for you and I just, I'm thankful, you know a few people
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have reached out to help us get to where we need to be this
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month and God is faithful. It's just like at the last
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minute or at the pinch at times you can see OK, you know God
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will make a way and and we we're living in difficult times.
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I mean, money is tight for everybody right now.
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There's a lot of uncertainties. You know everything that's going
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on in the world. I mean I'm getting messages and
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and listen to this Rod, check this out.
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What are your thoughts on this all day long and and back to the
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basics you guys. Because God is our power move.
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He is going to be the one that makes a way where there seems
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like there's no way and I just want to encourage the audience
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at this point in time. Keep seeking God and you guys
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work in your gift just like Stacy talked about.
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If you have an anointing, if you have a gift, bring it before
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God, pray about it in secret and say, God, what am I supposed to
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do with this? You want me to lay this down for
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a season? Do you want me to start just
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worshipping you with my music, with my instruments?
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Can I just worship you, God. And if if you put this anointing
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on me, I'll go out. And every It doesn't matter.
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You can send me to all four corners of this plane and and
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I'll worship and praise you. But whatever that gift is that
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you guys have now is the season to stir it up again.
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Now is the time to hear this message and go, you know what?
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Nothing's going to hold me back. What my my ex said about me,
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what my friend said about me, what it doesn't matter what this
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church who rejected me said about me.
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It doesn't matter. Don't listen to what people said
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about you. Listen to what God says about
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you. And he's got good plans for you.
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So keep trusting him and keep following after the word.
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Isaiah was an honor to have you here with me.
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Thank you for coming on and testifying.
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Thanks for having me, man. It's been it's been awesome.
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You guys share this one. This episode needs to go out
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there and stir somebody else up. Somebody else out there needs to
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hear this one and I'm depending on you guys to share it to help
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us reach that other person. Don't forget to leave me that
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five star rating and review. That's how you guys can also
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help the show grow, that we can reach another person just like
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me and just like you. So God bless and goodbye.