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From Stuck to Unmuted (Live from Baltimore) · The Beth B Shift

• 20261010 111302: Or scripture that we hear a lot. There's so many different perspectives given on one story o or another. I bet if I said like Jacob, we have three or four different interpretations of something that Jacob has done. I bet if I said Abraham, we have three or four interpretations of something he has done. But it's the small intricate details of the Bible. This is small spaces of the Bible that we very often hear highlighted so that we can learn from those specific incidences that can help us be a better version of ourselves. And in that space, I would like today to make. Lot's wife, human. How many people know the story of Lot's wife? Okay. So we'll breeze through that really quick. Because if you don't know the story, I'm gonna fail you with it. So Abraham had Lot. Lot, they were relatives. They shared space in a land. And in that space, they had livestock. And at some point, the cows and the lambs, they outgrew the space, and they were able to live with one another at one point. And it started friction in the family. So Lot and Abraham decided, here's what we're gonna do. We'll separate. You go your way, I'll go my way, and then we can live in harmony. Abraham goes closer to Canaan, and Lot goes into Sodom. While he's there, God looks over at that. Territory, he says, Yeah, no. I don't want this. This is not I I didn't raise this and I'm not gonna tolerate it. I'm gonna destroy the land. So Abraham says, Well, God, you can't destroy the land. There are good people there. How would you destroy a place where people are thriving and they're good? God says, There's no one there is good, but what I will do, I'll save your people. I'll save Lot, his wife, and his two kids. That's it. So Abraham goes, Alright, if you can do that, I'll appreciate it. God sends two beautiful angels. These angels are beautiful. I'm assuming they mimicked or had features of a woman. Because as soon as they get to Lot's house, the men from the town they come and they're knocking at the door. Why? He's like the men on the side outside saying, Send those angels out that just came to you. We want them. So Lot's like, No, because Lot knows why they're there, right? They're gonna rescue him and his family and get them out because God is about to destroy the land. So he goes, No, no, no, you you you can't have them. Take my two daughters instead. They're virgins. The men said, No, we don't want them. we want them. So the angel says, Yeah, no. So I'm I'm I'm not gonna deal with this. We're gonna get out of here. He grabs Lot and his family and he starts to head out. As they're heading out of Sodom, the angel says to everyone, walk, look forward, don't look back. And as they're heading out of Sodom, what happens? Lot's wife looked back. And Genesis tells us that she became a pillar of salt. And I hear, and if you go back to that area, she's still there. And we've often heard this story. This scripture has been told in oftentimes because people want us to hear the revelation of God's wrath when we do not listen. So it is okay for us to understand that her turning into a pillar of salt was probably a punishment. And I'll I'll take that. And that's fine. But let's dig into her a little bit. Let's make her human. Why would she turn back? What made her do that? What made her say What made her turn back? Take a question a little bit. I thought I got you. I got you. That's my brother Rodney. Rodney's always on point. I love Rodney. but with me to turn back, let's talk about her life for a second, right? She was a wife, she was a mother. Back during that time, they sold goods in the marketplace. We heard a little bit about some of the stuff that her husband had, so it's kind of understandable to say that she was on the wealthy side, right? Because he had livestock, and back During those days, livestock is how the family survived. So if she was friends with anyone that went to the marketplace, they would trade things like silver, gold, frankincense, myrrh. And she had livestock. So she could pretty much trade anything. Raised her two daughters. Her daughters were good. That was her home. That's where she loved her husband. It's where she raised her family. It's where she raised her kids. It's where she probably had a relationship with other women in the marketplace. It's where the village probably stuck together and took care of the children because it takes a village. It's the place she knew. It's what she knew. It was her home. know people want to say, but God was offering her something else, but he was offering it a brink of an eye. How many of us are in here are wives? How's a who's wife? Who's a mother? A daughter? Come with me. I don't know what you got going on in your life. But I need you to come with me quick. I don't know what you got on your life. Whatever is happening in your life, whatever is moving your life, whatever is aggravating your life. The next thing I promise you is you will not be aggravated. You won't have to deal with everything. All the noise is gonna clear. Everything is gonna clear. I just need you to take my hand and come with me. But if you come with me, don't look back. What you gonna do? You think you love your man? Don't go. You love your mama? You're gonna miss her because you can't ever see her again. I'm burning it down. It's done. It's gone. You don't get to you don't get to you don't get to talk to her ever again. You don't get to see her ever again. You don't get to tell her I love her at all, ever again. You still coming with me? Mm-hmm. You wanna be with me. You can't look back. She might be capable of that. Some of us are not. Some of us, in the brink of that moment. When she was told not to look back, she thought, probably, right? If we make our human, she probably thought about that in the instant. I don't get to talk to my friends anymore. What about my booth in the marketplace? What about my friends? my god, who's gonna make my bed? Now I have to move forward. My status. I I'm not gonna be Lut's wife when I move forward. Who will I be? And sometimes in those spaces, that's where our identity, right? Because our identity is attached to our status. Is I drive a BMW, I'm her. I got the husband with the with the five-biggot job, I'm her. I got the lady with the the best sewing, I'm her. So sometimes I may not be able to move forward because my identity is attached to who I am here. And now we're telling Lot's wife: hey, forget everything that you've accomplished here, forget everything that has been built here because you've been surviving in this mess for a very long time. And now Somebody's gonna come along and tell you, you need to get out of here. And I'm gonna, I'm not even making you any promises. All I'm doing is getting you to safety. Leave everything. Trust in me. Now we're not talking about Lot, right? Because Lot probably had a different relationship with God. But we don't know what she had with God. Back then, women couldn't speak, so we don't even know if she did talk to God. So she's in a tough place. She's told to drop everything and move forward and make sure that she does not look back. And what's crazy is. What was interesting is there was a time in my life where I remember I had status. Good husband, nice car, love habima. If you know me, I'll I'll drive a beamer. I love it to death. Had the perfect job, a boy and a girl, almost the perfect family. But there were some things wrong that were not going right in my marriage. And everything, every time I started to move forward to get away from it, there was always something to make me look back. There was always something to make me think, Why am I not? Thinking about myself, why am I not moving forward? And I couldn't, I was stuck. And let's talk about salt for a minute. So, when the Bible says that she turns into a pillow of salt, salt starts the process of osmosis. And I'm not gonna get scientific on you, but osmosis, when you sprinkle something with salt, you sprinkle enough on it, you pat it, and that salt stops everything. It dehydr dehydrates whatever it touches so that it doesn't grow, it doesn't move, it doesn't lose, and it doesn't gain. Nothing happens in that space. Nothing happens in that space. So you if if I'm salted, when I was salted, because I didn't know if I should leave my husband, how my children are gonna be raised. Without their father. I don't like this job, but it's paying me six figures, but it's it's hurting my mental. What should I do? How do I get out of this? I I I can't, my status. Like, who will I be if if I'm not this person anymore? Who will I be if I'm not his wife anymore? I'm still gonna be the mother of these kids, but who how am I gonna concentrate? How am I gonna figure this out? I can't figure it out so osmosis started to set. And I was dehydrated with my own thoughts. I was dehydrated with my own fears. I was dehydrated with thoughts that weren't even mine to be to. To be answered. And I got stuck. I stayed there for a little while. And every time I thought I was inching out and getting better and doing something better, some other sprinkle would bring me right back, and I'd be right back behind the door that I thought I had just got out of. Sometimes we go through osmosis and we really don't realize that we're in it. We don't realize we're stuck at all. And there's always a beautiful friend to come and sprinkle some water on you. There's always some beautiful friend to come and sprinkle some words of advice. But osmosis, man, once you pack that salt, you have to chip away at the salt first, right? You gotta chip away, get some of it off, and then you gotta rinse it off. And then after you rinse it off, you gotta let it sit for a little while. It'll always be seasoned because salt never, once salt changes you, it changes you. You can't go back. But you can chip. away at the process so that you can become a better version of yourself. And the good thing about Lot's wife, nobody ever uses her as an example. Nobody ever says that Lot's wife was an example. The Bible didn't even give her a name. So now we're talking about somebody that almost seems insignificant. Because we don't even know what to call her. If we don't recognize her by her husband status, we don't even know who she is. But what's good about her is if we live in the moment where she is, if we break past that moment of osmo. Is what do we get to do? I, if if Lot's wife was alive today and she had made it past that part, what would she have done? She would have prayed over her husband to protect them. She would have prayed over herself to protect her. She would have prayed over her children to protect them. She would have created a new life in the space that God had given them. She would have made a way for everything to be different in the new space that she was about to be in. She would have been. Okay, but because she couldn't, I will. She could not change what it is that she has done because she is standing in a as a pillar of salt. I am not. I see her and I thank her for her troubles. I thank her for the decision she made. Because of her, I am able to see that osmosis took control of me. I am able to see that osmosis almost dehydrated and took everything that I had. I see that the bags under my eyes and the darkness that I carried for a long time. Time was because I was becoming stale. And the present help, right? The present help was God. Without Him, I couldn't have anything. So I was able to trust God past a place that Lot's wife couldn't even conceive because she didn't get the chance. But I'm getting the chance. And today I get to pray for myself. I get to protect myself. I get to love on myself. I get to see myself. Myself. I get to pray for my family. I get to pray for the space and the new opportunities that God put me in. I get to be obedient and not be fearful because God got it. I get to take your hand and we get to get out of here. And we get to move forward. And we get to breathe. I get to be, I get to live on her legacy because I get to do something different because she taught me what. Not to do. Lot's wife. Was she important? Was she significant? Lot's wife. Was she meaningful? Did she have anything at all? Lot's wife. She taught me that I'm can be better than a wife. And even if I have status, sometimes that status Can be renewed, rebuilt. If only I trust and believe in the Lord and know that God has a plan for me and what God wants me to move forward, that I trust in Him. I don't second guess them and I make sure that I pray my way through because it's a process. Nobody's just gonna come grab my hand and tell me, let's go and don't look back. I'm looking back. I might be stuck for a minute. It took me about five or ten years to get out of that stuckness. Every time I Moved forward, I realized I was moving sideways, never forward, slanted to the back, adjacent to the there was always some movement, but it wasn't forward. And it took lots wife for me to see that moving forward takes structure, it takes faith, it takes prayer, it takes a well-mind, it takes a heart and belief in yourself. It takes loving you. It takes praying to God, saying, I'm gonna be selfish for a moment, even though I know your word says we are not supposed to do that. You can forgive me on the back end, God, but I need you to get me gearing right now because my feet are not moving, I'm stagnant, and I cannot move forward. And before, before I'm stuck here again and I can't move forward. Before I get stuck in a place where Mama Ayn is going to stay here, before I get stuck in a place where I can't move out, because we must be honest, there are some stages in life where some people get and they never ever move forward at all ever. Again, they become a pillar of salt. I'm gonna avoid that osmosis. You know what I'm gonna do? I'm praying to you. Some of these decisions I make may not be well, but I know you got me, and I'm asking you to keep me, and the only way I can do that is for me to I have. To introduce to you the real me. Let me give you me. Let me help you understand who I am, God. I know you made me, but this is the space that I am. This is who I truly am. This is who you created. I'm Beth. And here's Beth, and here's what Beth's gonna do. Now you come on in, make the changes that you need to make, and I'll probably be the person that you want me to be at some point. But today I'm busting out of here because I'm not gonna be like Lot's wife. I'm going to be Beth. I hope this message was helpful for you guys. And I pray that, you know, you were able to get something from it. Like I said, I am the host of the Beth B Shift. The vibe is always unmuted, unafraid, and unapologetic. And until I see you guys, please make sure you stay grounded. Does anyone have any questions? Any questions? Nope not purpose? Yes. What advice would you give to someone? Carries grief in their body. Grief in their body. I would say the biggest piece about grief is under st is recognizing that grief being aware of the fact that grief exists and that you may be grieving. Because grief is different from sadness, right? Sadness can cover two, three days. Grief is something, this is the onset of something much larger. Grief can go into weeks at the time, and then it can disappear. You'll feel happy again, you'll be great again, you'll be thriving again, and then one Little thought will trigger you, and you're right back to where you started from as if it never went away. So if I if I knew anyone had grief, recognizing it, bringing more awareness to some of the things that will help you get past it. And if you need mental health support, get mental health support. People feel that mental health support is about us being crazy, or there's always some taboo, there's a stigma attached to everyone who needs mental health. Health support, just like we go to the doctor and get mental and get health checkups, we need to get mental health checkups because we're not always okay. We're not always okay, and that is okay not to be okay. And if you're not okay, there is someone that is there to support you to tell you it's okay not to be okay, it's okay to be in that space. You can't be perfect because you what you don't want to do is become the pillar of salt. So before that space. There's so many toll-free numbers. If there are ever ideations of suicide, there's 988. 988 is an emergency contact number we can we can call at any time of the night. But I would always recommend support. And I know calling your girlfriend, calling your mom, sometimes that's great. But sometimes that that clinician has just the peace and the calm and the tools to help you with readiness, with staying engaged and staying in the present. Because most times we live in the past. We're living in the past, and those triggers from the past is what keep us in a space where we can't move forward. Grief is very difficult to deal with. It's nothing that any person can deal with on their own. And we'd like to, right? We'd like to. But we can't always so I would always recommend that they seek professional help because a counselor is desi she has the tools to provide you the service that you need so that you can move forward. They're very helpful. No stigma, no shade. Any other questions? I have a question. So in the referencing back to Lot's wife. So the thing was she had to leave. But don't look back. Yeah. So then she looked back and she turned to the pillars. So what is Let's redirect that like what would happen if she was she started moving, she was going. Mm-hmm. But then she stopped. But she never looked back, but she never moved again. She just stood in that spot. She on the shore. She would have been stuck. She would have been burnt and destroyed. Because that part of the earth was being destroyed. So the whole purpose was running from Sodom to get to the mountain. So that entire area, everything around her. So sometimes that's our friends, our family, our job, our bills, our cars. Sometimes that's everything around us. And when God says, okay, I'm about to move you to a new city. You know, there's a job out there for you. Go go live a new life. Sometimes we start bringing the the baggage with us, and that's not what God said. The Lord said, You go, you go there, and I will provide for you. And sometimes we can't we don't want that. Sometimes we want the audience with us because it's our de identity. It's who we are. We don't want to live by ourselves, for ourselves. We we don't want to listen to what God is telling us in that moment because we have bigger plans, right? God has a big plan. We have bigger plans. And sometimes when we don't listen to him, we try to incorporate his plan with our plan and not don't mix. Because if he says, don't look back, or if he says, take that job, or if he says, leave that guy, don't do that, don't do that, we go, I'm gonna do a piece of that. So what do you do if you can't hear him? You feel like you can't hear him? You pray, do you pray to him? Mm-hmm. Silently? Out loudly. Do you wait for him to to respond? So we gotta be patient. We have to be patient. We have to be patient. And I don't I know you're looking, we want answers right now, right? Because we like instant gratification. We want we have cell phones. If I call somebody insta right away, we want that right now. God does not move on our time, but patience, right? Patience. I'm gonna tell you this, and I hope that this is beneficial. A diamond starts off where? In the earth. A diamond starts off in the earth. It is muffled, ruffled, and it does not shine right away. But it's compressed by the earth. And it sits there so long that the stone itself creates ridges in it that makes it perfect. And then the dirt around it nurtures it. And when you dig it out, it's the most prettiest thing. That requires patience. Requires time. And that's the same thing that God requires when we are looking and seeking his word. Patience. Time. I got you. He told us in his word that he got us. He would never leave us nor forsake us. Sometimes we just have to be patient. And sometimes that looks like I'm gonna drop this prayer off to you, God. I'm looking for an answer. I'm impatient. I really don't feel like waiting for your time. You know you built me this way. I'm ready for you to give me an answer. Lord, I need an answer, but I'm dropping this prayer off. I'm looking for you. if you drop it off you leave it there when you least expect it you're gonna hear him say yeah by the way and usually when it happens to me tears come from my eyes because I know that he still hears me wait on him I promise I have a situation similar last white But what about if you don't want to be safe? Want it's the seduction in the past. You're looking back because you know that our flesh is yearning not to go forward for change. Mm. Because we wanna stay in our sin. Yeah. Absolutely. I'm glad you made that Yeah, I'm glad you made that point. So, there was a time in my life where I was living you know, a little risque. I I liked my light too, and you couldn't tell me it was for miskey, you couldn't tell me. And you you couldn't tell me I love I love dancing and if that said I was going to the club every other night or every other week I was going because I wanted the music. People who looked on me would be like she's at a club all the time. Nobody realized that I I was just there because I love to dance, right? 'Cause I'm pre-gaming so I'm not at the bar. And I'm there to dance because I love the music. I'm a free child. Once the music hits, I'm on the floor and I'm spinning. And that was a part of my life that had overtaken and overshadowed my responsibilities that I had to God. That's what made it simple. That's what made it because it was more important than him. But in a space where you do want to be in that space because that's more fun, right? God is boring. God comes with responsibilities and restrictions. That's when you lay yourself on the altar and you say, I'm not who you want me to be. And I'm not gonna be hurt until you you come on in and change it. So you're gonna walk with me. Walk, I'm willing to walk with you, right? I'm willing to give you my hand because I love you. I feel Like you have something for me, but I'm just letting you know this is who I am. You may be, but I am her, and you gotta come in. If you want me changed, God, if this is who I need to be, if this is what's meant for me, come on in and get you, please, Lord, come get me. And I know that you don't owe me nothing because you are the Almighty. But I'm asking you because you you told me to come boldly before your throne. You told me to come to you as I am. I'm usually a pop-off, and this is if I was talking to. To anybody else. I respect you because I know you can you can do some things, but I'm telling you, this is who I am, Lord. This is what I got. This is the only heart that I have. I'm broken. I love that person, I love that person, and there's no way I'm gonna be able to just love you. I can't even see you. All I can do is trust you. And I can't trust the people that I can see. Come into me. Help me. Help me see you. I don't want savior. I'm not looking for salvation. That's too soon. Salvation comes with restrictions. Going to church and praying. That's too much. It's too much too soon. Don't come into me. Be a part of my world. Help me see you. Help me hear you. Come into this space. Can I can you come into this space? When I pray, God, can you come into this space with me? Be with me for a minute. Because I don't even know what to say to you. I've been away from you so long. I have no idea what to say to you. Come into this space with me. Be here with me and we'll be together. Do that for a couple of times and watch God beat you there. When you walk into your room one day, you'll walk in and go, ooh, that was nice of you. He's already there. Any other questions? I have one. go back to Lot's wife and not being sure. That turning away, that turning back was who am I gonna be? If I go elsewhere if I go to the mountain. And a lot I feel like a lot of women stay because they don't know who they're gonna be. How what would you suggest for self-discovery? Because I feel like a lot of women do that because they don't know who they are. And they stay because, yes, I'm such and such as wife, I'm such and such as mother. I am that girl in this space. Absolutely. How am I gonna be my Self elsewhere. There is a window of opportunity. There's like this, you ever imagine yourself in this space and you're like, ooh, if I was her, I would do that, I would do that, I would do that. And that thought rests in your mind. You do you have those thoughts? Because when I was in that situation, when I was becoming, when osmosis was taking over me, I was like, Dang, if I was, if I was like just my kid's mother, I'll be cool. Like I'll be cool. I would dress how I wanted to dress, I would eat what I wanted to eat, I would, I wouldn't have to cook every day, I wouldn't have to do this, and not the responsibility. were good, some of those things weren't appreciated. Right? They're things I like to do. But the person I was doing it for weren't appreciative of what I was doing. So now I'm thinking I wouldn't have to cook weird collard greens and and and food that I don't cater to anymore. I would be able to cook like some stuffed shells. And and then I'd get that thought, I'd smile about it, and then I'd come back to reality and I'd think and go, yeah, but can't do that because I have to be I have to be this guy's wife. I have to be this this kid's mother. Maybe another time. But then one day I prayed to God and I said, You know what, Lord, you made me. And I don't know what you made me for, but whatever my purpose is, whatever I am here to do for you, and I don't want to choke you to death with God, because some people are not religious and some people don't have that as an anchor. But there's a piece of you that knows who you truly are. There's a piece of you inside of you that says, I'm actually her. I I actually like that. I actually like doing this. I actually don't like being on the phone for 13 hours, but I talked to my sister because I'm not going back in that room because he's naked. Like I'm here because I live here. Some of us are going home because that's where we live. But I have learned that if I trust God, if God grabs my hand, I had to learn that the hard way. But if God grabs my hand and he tells me to run and not to look back, what I suffered, the Bible says that obedience is better than sacrifice. And I have been disobedient so long that the sacrifice I've paid more in sacrifice than I have in moving forward with just the grab of his hand and thinking, okay, God, I'm gonna trust you where you take me now. I'm in a situation. just like that now. I have no idea what God is blessing me with. But every stage in my life, He's elevating me to a space where life is great. I'm lottie dyeing with God right now. No plan. No plan. No plan. Lottie dyeing all the way up. No plan. But I'll tell you this much, I'm not a pillar of salt, and he got me. In every direction I've been going and letting him grab my hand, he's got me. And and I'm outside with him. It's just me and God. And it's crazy, because he's my best friend because now I have to live in a space where I'm like, okay God, I'm gonna sign myself up for something. I got butterflies and I don't know how this is gonna come. I don't know how it's gonna work. But I need you to calm me down and he'll put people in your place that will say, calm down. So again, the answer to your question is trust the Lord. Put the word out there. Ask him what he wants you to do. When he gives you the revelation, trust him. Trust him. Because you'll do more not trusting him, hurting yourself more not trusting him than if you would have just trusted him in the first place. Any other questions? Yes. with the salt, not just her, you know, when she became that pillar of salt. and I want to reference it with generational curses because we are mothers and we are trying to be that figure that we want our children to not look back, right? So when I'm thinking about that pillar of salt and being stagnated right there in that moment. Moment. Even if you don't know who you are, maybe you don't trust God. Maybe you just stuck right there. What are the tools? And I'm just trying to think outside the box, what are the tools you can use? to move and because God could be pushing you to move and you could be still standing there. That's what I was right because that generational curse, you're used to it. It's norm. It's normal. So Jesus cursed the fig tree. No fruit barefound tree. No further. Are there still fig trees? Absolutely. So that means you can still be a good mother. You can still be a good person. That means God can still touch you. That means God can still touch you. It was only one fig tree that God that Jesus walked up to encourage and bear fruit no more. He did not do that to you. You are not the fig tree that was cursed. You may have a curse in your background. Nothing that is not bigger than God. And that's the problem. We put God in a box. He's not in a box. He doesn't have a label on you. He can't be sent to your address. He's everywhere. He's around you. He's here right now. He's in that space, sitting right next to you in that chair. He's hovering over you. And that little funny feeling you got going in your chest, that's him playing around and fiddling with your heart. That's him right there. That's it. That's what you've been looking for. And that's what you ignore. Because it feels different, and you brush it off. It's not a heart attack, and it's not a fluffy it's it's that's him. And that's the piece of him that you hold on to. I know. And in a space where you're looking to have an answer against. Which you believe is a generational curse puts God in a box. It limits him. He is limitless. He is matchless. He is tameless. No one can outpower him. When he introduced himself on the mountain, what did he say? I am that. I am. He didn't have to say, yeah, my name is Tabitha. I live in he didn't need to do all of that. He didn't need to do it. Moses said, Well, who am Gonna tell these people sent me the law, God. Who am I gonna tell you? Say I am that I am. That's what you tell him, I am sent you. And that's what he means, and that's it. That you he is not in a box. And if we just set him free, take him out the box, take him out the box. I promise, when you take him out the box, he is limitless. And that is where you'll find him. Because he's already found you. He's limitless. I don't want to say there is no generational curse. There is. That's where prayer comes in. Words come in. Words come into that space. The words. Lord, I believe there's a generational curse. Lord, I believe that I have been put in this space because of things that have happened before me. Lord, I believe I cannot move forward because of things that have happened in my life. Lord, I believe. Right there. But Lord, I don't want to believe. Lord, I don't want to believe in a space where I feel like I'm a part of a curse that I had nothing to do with. Lord, I don't want to be in a space where I feel I can't I can't move forward and I'm stagnant. Lord, I can't. You can do that. Those are your words. And those words help you. Those words help you. Those words, give those words to God. Those are the words that God needs to hear. That is the piece of you that He's waiting for. I will tell you this really quick and then we we gotta end. Job is one of the hardest, harshest story in the Bible. Job was rich. He had everything, everything. There was no reason for God to take anything away from you him. A conversation was had between the enemy and God. Job said, the enemy said to God, Yeah, I know Job is righteous. I know that's your man, but I think if I if I bother him, he'll leave you. God said, No, no, no. I'll let you test him. But you don't get to kill him. You don't get to kill him. Joe was righteous, no reason to have anything done to him. He was doing everything right. If his sin, his son's sin, he would sacrifice an animal just in case, because he couldn't control his kids. But God allowed Satan to take everything away from the enemy took everything. He had nothing. It was so bad that Job was sitting outside his own castle, not house. His own castle with sores on the bottom of his feet. His friends would come next to him and go, You know, you really need to get rid of that God of yours, because ain't no way he should be letting you look like that. Even his wife came back and said, Well, what kind of God do you serve that lets you miss me, not have that? All the kids are dead, and you got sores on your feet. What kind of man are you to still be? Believe in God that will allow you to not have this. And then he she died. And then one day, Job got angry. And Job used his voice. Job talked. Cursed the day that I was born. Why would you let my mother have me? He did everything but tell God he hated him. Did everything. But the point of the matter is, God only wanted to hear Job's voice. He only wanted a relationship with Job. Wanted Joe to come to him and say, I'm broken, bro. Like, I'm bad at the bruise. Like, what's good? Because this hurts. That's all he wanted. And as soon as Joe talked to him, God talked to him back and said, You know, I've been waiting for you. And then as soon as they had that peace treaty, God blessed them tenfold. So sometimes a a generational curse is wrapped up in a conversation you haven't had with God. Hey. It's all about the things you haven't said. Except the expectation that God is supposed to cover us and bless us and protect us. Well, we haven't said anything yet. When Jesus died on the cross, what did he say? My God, my God. He said it because he knew it had to be said. He didn't die until he said, I give up the ghost. And then he let go. We have to say the words, the words. Are important. That's why God gave them to us. We can't assume God got us because our families is covered in grace and mercy. Right. Because grace and mercy is for everybody. But if even for people who don't want him are wrapped in grace and mercy, tell him what part of grace you need. Tell him what part of mercy you need. Tell him how you need them both together. And when you do that, you'll find yourself in a space where you'll walk into your room one day and go, hmm. It feels good in here. You won't even realize you've been praying him so much. It'll become a lifestyle. It changes. Any other questions? You guys have been a great audience. Seeing no more questions, I truly appreciate you guys. I have cards, but I do not have them with me. If you would like any of my handles, you can scan my phone to get the information. And hopefully I'll see you guys in the near future. Thank you so very much. Thank you.