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"Good enough may not be good enough" on #TMI with Maiekayla · PHLV Radio

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There's just something about the tops of clouds that makes me certain you're near.
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In the world below looks so small, it's still I find it's true when
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my whole little life is faltery. I'm ocupie space in your heart through and
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through. There's just something about my world flipped upside down that brings me back
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to your heart, just when nothing is what it I thought it was.
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I have nod the charts than the trucks, that you're up to something good,
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something good. Yeahs just something about but she just everything I thought I
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knew when I thought I had found good enough, then I found my heart
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be grubbed. I see that here paw too much of your heart for God
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enough to be good enough. So God enough had to God from the tops
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of the clouds. So the flipped upside down, I know, I know
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that is something and earth shaking something that something your up again. And then
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the same Nasa the song nass sass on us shows sssssst ss hoes AGAs the
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scene shots. This has it Happy Thursday. You guys, welcome to another
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episode of TMI with Michayla. Did you guys love that music, that sound,
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that voice, so you guys, I have a special guest here today.
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Can we give it up for miss Leah Faith Hi here, Thank you
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so much for being here. It was like a back and forth and trying
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to get you in here. But I'm excited now to finally meet you.
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Yeah, it's excited to be here. It's such a beautiful voice. So
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the name of the song is There's Just Something. There's Just Something? So
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where where did this all come together? Yeah? You made this song?
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Right? Yes? All right? I want to know the backstory. Yeah.
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So I was honestly going through a really rough season of heartbreak and was
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really dealing with some deep seated lies that I was believing about myself and didn't
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even realize how deeply they had gone. And I was in this relationship with
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this guy and from but it was just good enough type of relationship, Like
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it was like, Oh, this will work. I can make this work.
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Maybe this could work. And it just fell to pieces and I was
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gutted and heartbroken and devastated. And I had this moment with the Lord.
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I was on a plane and I was praying I always have greating comes with
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the Lord on an airplane. I don't know what it is. I think
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it's just like airplane mode is on with the Lord, and I heard him
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say good enough isn't good enough, so good enough has to go. I
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love that, And that was where the hook of the song is that line
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right there. It was such a life changing encounter where so often in our
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souls were like, I'm not really deserving of much more this, so I'll
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just settle for something, and the Lord just ripped it out of my life
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and it was painful, but it was for my good did you know,
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Oh my gosh. Okay, so I didn't know this was going to be
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about a relationship story. Okay, now this isn't a whole other top right,
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No, it's so crazy because I was just actually the last show I
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had Shirelman. And also that's actually how we got connected, you guys,
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So thank you Charrel. Thank sure. She and I were actually talking about
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love and relationships, marriage and stuff like that, and we were just talking
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about how people we tend to settle sometimes because we're impatient, or we're lonely,
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or we have our own insecurities, and we end up settling for the
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wrong person. Right, So, I mean, I don't want this to
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get you say what you want to say. You don't have to say anything.
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Okay, this is all your business. So with that being said,
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wow, okay, I love talking about love. I love it too.
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So how long were you in this relationship for? It was what the kids
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would call a situationship. Okay, it was not good, like it was
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just like really rough. But honestly, it was one of those weird situations
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I haven't talked about this in so long, where he and I led worship
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together, okay, And for some reason, when people see a guy and
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a girl leading works together, people are like, you, guys are supposed
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to be together. I know what you're talking about. Don't give people those
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prophetic words if you don't really believe it in yourself. So anyway, it
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was just not a good situation. And it went on for years of us
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like kind of going back and forth trying to figure it out. And I
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just like didn't know that I was worth more than that. Did you feel
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like you gave into those thoughts that people were saying, like, oh,
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you guys will look good together, and you thought that that was it?
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I just yeah, I was like I always thought that the worst thing that
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would happen to me is that I would remain single for a long time,
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which is a lie from the pits of hell. And so I was like,
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Okay, well, maybe if I can convince this guy to be with
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me, then I won't be alone. But I had a spiritual ones tell
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me it's better to be single than to wish that you were, yes,
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which I'm like, that's a real word, that's true. Oh my gosh,
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girl. Yeah, it's better to wait for the right person than to
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be with the wrong person just because you don't want to be alone. Yes,
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yes, Okay, it's so crazy that you're talking about this because I'm
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going through my own stuff in my love life. Yeah, maybe my love
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life that I have created in my own head. I don't know. But
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delusion also comes with this, you guys, sure, but wow, no,
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thank you for opening up about that totally for me, I'm very I
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get nervous about talking about my love life. Yeah, well, there's no
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love life that exists, but right now I feel Yeah, but no,
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I think that's that's true. I think I was in the same situation,
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not situationship, but situation too. Actually dated a guy in ministry, and
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I think even in my head, everybody said we were cute, and then
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we grew up together, so it made sense our families were closed. And
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in my head, oh, this is a guy from church, so that
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means he's a man of God. No. No, And I don't know
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your your situation, but just because a guy goes to church, that does
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not mean he's a man of God. Just because he grew up in the
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church and his family's in ministry does not mean he's a man of God.
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And I'm not saying they're fake Christians either. I'm just saying, oh,
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it comes to biblical terms where it talks about being equally yolked. So everybody
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has their own walk with God too. Well, this isn't about me,
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This is about love. But how did you did you already know from the
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beginning that you guys are not it? No, I just like I said,
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there were so many lies that I had believed since childhood. Part of
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my testimony is I had an eating disorder when I was younger, and I
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was told at a really young age that I like wouldn't that I wasn't lovable,
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Like just like believing those lies as a kid almost and it gets into
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your head, just gets into your head, and you just buy the lies
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of the enemy, and so I just I was in my brain singleness equaled
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being unwanted and unlovable, and that's just once again, it's just not the
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truth. But because I believed that, I you know, kind of grabbed
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on too. I was grasping for straws. I was like, well,
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if we can kind of make this work, then maybe that'll mean I have
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worth maybe and I'm lovable. It's crazy because I'm like, I knew that
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the Lord loved me the whole time, but I was like, but I
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need this to Yeah, yeah, no, I get you. I get
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you. Sometimes it's people will tell you, oh, well, you're already
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loved by the Lord, that's enough. But sometimes I'm not. I'm not.
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I am not downgrading God's love and I'm not trying to put anybody else
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to compete with that. God's love will always beat it one hundred percent.
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But sometimes there are thoughts in your head that's like, am I being delusion
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right now? The delusional? Right now? What am I trying to convince
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myself? Mikayla. But there is whatever real, Like we were created for
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relationships, and so there is a real part of us that craves human connection
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and human affirmation. Yes, and so I think sometimes we villainize that of
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like, if you don't believe that the Lord loves you and that's more than
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enough, then you don't have enough faith. And I'm like, well,
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wait a second. The Lord puts people in our lives to remind us of
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his love for us, but we just have to make sure it's in balance.
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Yes, correct, Yeah, I think if you don't, I think
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it's really important to be secure with yourself first before you get into a relationship,
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because then if you are not secured with yourself, the wrong person's gonna
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end up telling you how worth lists or how worth it you are. It's
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crazy because you were talking about an eating disorder, right. So I'm the
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type of person I don't really just date anybody. I only had one boyfriend
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my entire life, and let me just say he came and he went,
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and then I never went into a relationship again. But it's crazy because I
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think before then I trained my I've been in so many situations where so growing
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up I was I never fit in. So I think that also plays a
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role with how you give yourself in a relationship. So with that being said,
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I've never been in a relationship growing up, So when I got into
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one, and this guy has been in I'm probably his third fourth girlfriend by
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that time, So in my head, I thought he knew how a relationship
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went. So I followed along, and most of the time I'm very I
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it's I don't want to say it's always my way, but sure that's the
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way you want. Yeah, And then certain there are certain things where like
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there's some questions in my head like, oh no, MICHAELA, maybe maybe
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you should just cooperate. You know, it's a relationship is give and take,
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So sometimes I mean that is true, but then sometimes you end up
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giving up your values to compromise with your partner. Did you ever feel like
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there is compromising? Yeah, for sure. And I think it's crazy because
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it's a slippery slope, right. I think it's really easy as believers to
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say, well, I would never do X, Y and Z, or
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I would never even think about X, Y and Z. Yeah, but
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when we see the way that the devil works, it's never just like a
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quick turn. It's always that slow fade. And so looking back, there
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were moments and I was like, what was going on there? Yeah,
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but it was that slow fade, and I think that's where we have to
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draw our lines so far back so that way we're not having the slow fade
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of things. Well, I'm so proud of you. Well, thank you
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for even opening up about this, because I'm sure it's probably a vulnerable area
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for you. I'm really passionate about talking about this kind of stuff, and
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I didn't even mention this to you earlier. But so we talked about the
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fact that I write children's books, but I'm also releasing my first like not
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kid's book, oh later this month. That's just a Christian book about singleness
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actually, and yeah, you know I don't read books, but I would
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actually want to read this and get a get your autography. Yeah. Well,
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honestly, I keep on talking about this book as the book I didn't
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want to write because I had written a blog about, honestly, another more
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recent heartbreak that I went through, heartbreak, I mean, got part of
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the problem with being an artist is you end up feeling things really deepens.
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So I'm like, I've had my handful. But I had gone through this
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breakup and I one hundred percent thought I was going to marry the guy like
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I'll have and got my heart broken and didn't see it coming. And I
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ended up writing this blog post about it, and my mom called me,
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and she is not you know some moms like everything you do is perfection.
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She's not that mom. She will tell me if it's not good, no,
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that's good. And I love that. I didn't love it as a
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kid, but now as an adult, I'm like, I actually really need
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I need it. And she called me. She was like, Leah,
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you know that I don't give a compliment unless they really believe it. And
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I think you're great. I think you're ANNOYT said, but I really think
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there's something on the blog you just wrote. And she's like, I think
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you should write a book about it. And I was like, I'm not
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going to do that, Mom, absolutely not. And then I was in
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my prayer closet later that night and I was like, Lord, is this
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from you? And me too? Yeah. I felt like he's like really
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confirmed that I was supposed to do it, and so congratulations. I'm really
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excited about it. And the whole premise of the book came from I was
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at this wedding of a dear friend of mine. We've been we'd met our
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guys at the same time, and like everything was moving forward really well.
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And then she got engaged and I got dumped so right, and so I'm
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at her wedding and I had this moment where I literally just felt so heartbroken
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and in my spirit, I said, Jesus, am I just going to
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be the last person ever to get married? Oh my gosh. I have
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this conversation all the time with my dad. Yeah, but I don't know,
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keep going keep going mad, he said to me. Changed my life
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because whenever I said, am I gonna be the last person ever to get
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married? He said, no, I will be. And I was like
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what, And all of a sudden I had this picture of the fact that
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Jesus is waiting for his wedding day. When we talk about we always talk
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about like the Second Coming, as if it's like, oh no, and
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of course there will be a lot of like crazy things that happened, but
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ultimately all of this is leading to the wedding supper of the lamb that's Truesus
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is united with his bride. And it was this moment in my heart where
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I was like, oh, you actually understand waiting for your wedding day.
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That's that's so that's such a pure concept to think about, right. See,
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Okay, I wanna let's talk about pure right, pureness in a relationship.
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And I feel like that that idea has shifted over time. And I'm
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not going to sit here and act like a saint. I'm just saying there's
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things that I have learned and I have observed from my own mistakes too and
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other people's relationships. But I think maybe society has dropped the idea about waiting,
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and they have dropped the idea about purity and stuff like that. But
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I want you, guys, really test this. If you know somebody who
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gets into relationships quick, if you know somebody who who who are into one
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night stands and who's sleeping around or whatever. Okay, I'm not saying to
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judge them, but listen to them, and I want you to really test
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them or question them, kind of observe, like were they really happy?
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Because I promise you maybe like ninety nine percent of them they regret and they
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don't feel fulfilled after that. So there is a beauty in intimacy and purity
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and just the idea of waiting, not even just for just waiting for whatever
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it is. Whether I'm waiting for that right person to come into my life,
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or I'm waiting for that wedding day. I'm waiting for that person that
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I'm going to commit to. Like, you wait differently when you know that
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you're waiting for something good, you serve differently. You go through trials differently
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when you know that you have something good waiting for you at the end.
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This is so crazy, Okay. So I I know we just you guys,
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We just met right now, Okay, So let me tell you guys
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this. It's so funny. So I on Instagram, I just posted I
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don't post about my love life, okay, it's usually all professional stuff.
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So I just posted this video of me talking about this. Okay, sorry,
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Oh hold on, Oh okay, I don't know where I'm looking.
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I don't know where to come express, Okay. So I know if that
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sounds stupid, I ready know. I just pray. I have no regrets,
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but I already know every you're gonna be like, okay, whatever.
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So I'm just gonna express my heart. And secondly, I need advice,
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so we shall see how this goes. So basically, there's this guy I
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used to talk to. It's probably been over a whole year since I've spoke
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to him. Anyways, hands down, this guy was my favorite guy.
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Like, okay, truly, I'm I think I'm done hearing myself. But
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it's just so crazy cause it's like you wait, you when you have like
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your eyes or your heart set on some thing and maybe you don't even know
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what it is yet, you just wait differently. It's like all the other
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temptations are no longer temptations to you. Yeah, wow, Okay, I
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really think it's the difference of like, if you're waiting in the dentist office
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for a root canal, then you're not waiting excited. You're waiting miserably.
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But if you're waiting at the line to get inside Disney World and you're like,
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I'm going to Disney. This line is long. Once we get there,
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it's gonna be amazing. Yes, it really does. Like you said,
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it changes the way that you wait. It changes the heart posture.
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And when we wait, as single women or single guys or whoever, as
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we're waiting, if we're waiting believing that God isn't good, then it's going
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to be miserable. But if we're waiting knowing he's a good Father who loves
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us, who made us fearfully and wonderfully and knows what we need. Yes,
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more than we know it gives good gifts than it is our heart posture
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in the process. Yes, one hundred percent. I think because somebody asked
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me one time, if God were to would you be willing to wait and
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like never have a relationship if that means that God is going to give you
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a marriage that lasts in the future. Right. I didn't even think that
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was a question asked. I thought that's what we were all doing here,
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like dating for something that's going to last. Right. But then it's so
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crazy because do you even think that that's a another concept that even exists now
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that people are really just dating, not even for a forever thing in the
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in their mindset. And I'm not here to judge anybody, but I'm just
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saying, you're holding yourself short from what God has for you. Yeah,
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and that's something I have to learn from myself too. I was like,
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God, should I commit to this person because in my head I used to
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think it's I guess it's a sin to break up or whatever, Like is
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this a test? Like maybe I should keep going? Sure, because maybe
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that's love. Like love, you're supposed to love them even in the ugly
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times. But that's why I discernment too in prayers important because that's how you
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get manipulated. Loving something and forcing yourself to love something that you're that aren't
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up to your standards. It's making you compromise, right, But I don't
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know, do you have advice for people in that situation. I think what
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you said about discernment is really key because there are moments in wonderful relationships where
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you have to say, Okay, I'm gonna choose you, even though I
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don't feel it right now, I'm gonna pray for you. We're gonna work
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through this. And there are moments where it's like, okay, this just
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isn't healthy, isn't from the Lord, and we need to cut it and
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go. And I think, man, prayer and fasting. I know that
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I feel like fasting is like the least like sexy thing right now, but
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I'm like, no, it's so important that we fast and we say,
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actually, I'm gonna lay everything down before the Lord and I'm gonna seek his
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voice. I'm gonna really ask him God, not what I want, but
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what are you leading me to do yes, yes, and knowing the voice
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of the Father. It's important knowing the voice of the Father. So actually,
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when I got into that relationship ship, I'm telling you the words of
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God just it was just everything got tested right, and I remember praying to
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God because there is a time I was like, what am I doing here?
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I'm I feel uglier, I feel I feel less worth it, I
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feel I just feel like not even myself right. So it was really the
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word of God that I needed redirection with. And it's so such simple words.
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So the thing is this, I think people they think that whatever is
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from God is boring, whatever is from God is like it's very like there's
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no like wooho with it. You get what I'm saying. But I feel
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that now I feel like the word of God. Okay, if you really
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understand that God has the best, literally the best, like nothing else and
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nobody else could even provide better, you understand more how important it is to
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kind of hear his voice more clearly and obey it more when you know that
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his plans are the best. And sometimes I think as people, we we
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listen to other people on what the best may seem like or may be and
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that's probably not it. Like people may preach get with the richest guy,
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get with the tallest guy, get with the most successful guy, Like what
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if that's not what God has best for you? So it's so important.
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There's there's a few Bible verses that I was reading into that got me through
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that season just so I got clarity. One of them was was having the
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fear of the Lord? Right, And that's the beginning of wisdom because there
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was a time that I was like, I don't even know if this is
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right or wrong anymore, but it was those simple words I was it wasn't
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me being scared to serve God? Or was it me being scared to be
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alone? Was in me being fearful towards break a breakup? Or was it
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me being fearful towards God? So it's like, who are you giving your
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respect to? So those were things that I had to kind of redirect myself
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with. Yeah, so I feel like that's one thing and that's very biblical
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too, And yeah, I guess the fruit of the Spirit and you had
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to read what is love? Is love? Fear? Do you have fear?
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Are you trying to pretend you don't have fear, then that's probably a
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red flag there and it's not from God. So absolutely, yeah, well
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that was a thank you. Yeah, absolutely, I felt like I needed
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this conversation. Well, okay, so how did you move forward from that?
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What a good question. Honestly, I think just seeking the Lord every
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day. I think sometimes we feel like we need to know, like what's
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next for my life? Where am I going? And sometimes you do need
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to know that, but sometimes you just need to know the next right thing
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to do. And it's cheesy because it's in Frozen where they talk about do
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the next right thing. But I'm a Disney girl. I could tell you,
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guys, you can't really see it on a camera, but she's bedazzled
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out over here. But honestly, whenever I first saw that in that movie,
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I was like, this is really quite biblical because we talk about the
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fact that the word says thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a
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light into my path. And once again I feel like it's almost a Christian
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cliche, but that doesn't mean it's still not true. Where a lamp isn't
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a flashlight. A lamp is just going to show you the next step,
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and it's not going to show you like all the way down down, And
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sometimes the Lord will give you those prophetic words about like hey, this is
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something for the future, and he'll give you that long shot, but he's
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only gonna give you the next step to get there. And so I think
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if you're walking through a breakup and you're going through like what am I supposed
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to do with my life now? Especially if you thought like this is it?
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Yeah, and you find yourself in the place of like what now God,
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asking him, Man, God, how do I What does obedience today
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look like? What is serving you to day look like? What is honoring
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you to day look like? I think that really saves us from asking questions
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that we honestly don't need the answer to quite yet, and just saying like,
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okay, God, today, show me the way forward. And so
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that's honestly been like my season. I've just been saying, okay, Lord,
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show me the next great step. And some days it's looked like fasting
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more and it's looked like a lot of communion honestly, because I think when
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we take communion and we break the bread and we drink from the cup,
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we remind our souls that Jesus is no stranger to sorrow. Yeah. Amen,
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it's really easy to feel like he is. It's really easy to feel
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like you're just up there and you don't know. He does know. He
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knows what rejection feels like. He knows what betrayal from someone who loved him
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felt like. And so I think when we take communion and we're heartbroken and
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we worship from a place of heartbreak, we give Jesus an offering that we'll
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never able to give him on the other side of eternity. When you choose
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to love him and you choose to worship him when it's hard, you're giving
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him a rare sacrifice of price. So I love what you said when you
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basically, when you serve God, even in inconvenient times, you have a
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supernatural favor waiting for you at the end. I heard this preaching where they
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said something about if your finances are getting hit, if your love life is
28:26
getting hit, like whatever area of your life is getting hit where the devil
28:30
is really attacking, and you know that you did everything in your best to
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honor God and do what's right, really you're going to get a whole pour
28:38
out of blessings in that area. So I'm a huge believer in that,
28:45
and that's not just something I'm trying to speak motivation into, but like I've
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even experienced and I already experienced it all in different areas of my life where
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everything just was taken away the next thing, you know, like I gone
28:56
through a lot of trials, then bam, a few months later there was
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like a pour out in that season too. Yeah, so well it's biblical.
29:04
We see it all throughout, yeshyp sure where the thing that's attacked is
29:07
actually the place of anointing in the person amen, or we see you know,
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I think about Joseph, and he's someone that I resonate with a ton
29:15
because he's like, I've got all these great, big dreams and then everything
29:18
goes wrong and the place where the Lord had spoken becomes the place of attack.
29:23
But in all reality, it's actually a place of refinement. And it's
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really easy to feel like this is the devil attack. I mean sometimes it
29:30
is. Sometimes it is you need to get the anointing a all out,
29:33
you need to be rebukeing things. Yes, sometimes you need to go to
29:36
war in that way, but sometimes you also need to pause and say,
29:38
is this the Lord's refinement in my life? Is this actually his kindness making
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me ready for the thing that He has for me? And I think more
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often than we want to admit, that is what it is. Amen,
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refinement, That's the word. Yeah. So you said earlier that when you
29:53
posted about this on your blog, your mom told you you should turn this
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into a book or something. Right, why did you not want to do
30:03
it? I was really mad that I was single again, Yeah, and
30:07
so I didn't want to write a book about singleness. Did you feel like
30:08
a part of you is disappointed? Deeply? Yeah? Deeply in my soul
30:14
was so disappointed, and I was frustrated at the thought that maybe God was
30:19
asking me to use this place of disappointment to reach out to other people,
30:25
and I just I didn't want to do it. I had like a pretty
30:27
hard no in my heart. He was like, and I'm a I've followed
30:32
the Lord all my life and he's always had my yes, and this felt
30:34
like, honestly one of the first things I was like, I'm not doing
30:37
this, like I feel that, I feel that, I feel that,
30:40
and in God's just going to keep poking you and be like, right,
30:41
I'm gonna tell you you're gonna need to do this right, because there was
30:45
something in me that I was like, I I as much as I don't
30:48
want to do this, I don't want to waste the pain. I don't
30:49
want to waste the season, even though it's the season I didn't. That's
30:52
very mature of you. Thank you. I feel like I was like crying
30:56
on the floor. So it doesn't the memory doesn't feel much. But no,
31:00
it's fine, it's fine. The other side of it was it was
31:04
cool to walk through. And I have a dear friend that I've known since
31:07
I was a kid. She's a couple years younger than me, and she's
31:11
married now with a baby, and she does book editing, and so I
31:15
took it to her and I was like, hey, I'd love for you
31:15
to be my editor on this project. Wow, And she just was more
31:19
excited than I was. And I actually brought it to her because she told
31:22
me, she was like, I'm the only married person in my community.
31:26
All the other girls in my life are single and they're going through what you're
31:27
going through. And so even though she was on the other side of the
31:30
promise, she had more excitement than I did for the other people in her
31:33
life. Where I was sitting here going like, well, God, I'm
31:37
gonna do this because I want to be obedient, but not because Yeah,
31:41
but there's more the fact that you just said that I'm doing this because I'm
31:45
trying to be obedient. I'm not even doing this because it's for my old's
31:48
sake. Like that alone just shows your stillness before God, and thank you
31:56
the girl. The Lord will take care of you already know it's faithful.
32:00
And I think that really was even in the place of frustration or able to
32:04
declare his goodness and say, God, I have no idea what you're doing
32:07
right now, but I do remember what you've done before, amens. I
32:10
think it's in those moments that we have to pull in our own testimony and
32:14
our own history with God and remind ourselves and if we get to wear our
32:17
own lives, like my mom has an incredible aalk with the Lord, and
32:21
she has a radical testimony. So there been times in my life where I've
32:23
had to say, I don't know what you're doing in my life right now,
32:25
but I do remember how faithful you were to my mom and my grandma.
32:30
Thank God, so and so and so and so, and it is
32:32
that reminding our souls of how good God is in those places of disappointment.
32:37
M hm, see, I love that. It's just see okay, Well,
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I want to take the moment God to really appreciate his faithfulness, and
32:45
I want to talk about the stuff that we probably think are little to God.
32:51
It's so crazy to know that He made it important, yeah to him,
32:57
you know, like our cries are, whatever we were struggling with.
33:00
He made it important. Your breakup, he made it important to him,
33:06
and he allowed things to fall into place. Wow, that's so beautiful.
33:10
So actually, this is what I was thinking about too this morning, because
33:15
there's there's like a conviction on me with certain stuff that I feel like God
33:19
wants me to talk about. But then a part of me was too disappointed
33:23
in myself, and I think a part of me was too embarrassed as well
33:29
to open about it. But there's something that spoke to me where you have
33:36
to be able to open up about I guess like your your fallouts, because
33:42
that's how Satan has a stronghold over you. So this is what I'm hearing
33:46
this morning, right was I don't let Satan win by blackmailing you, because
33:52
everybody's testimony is different, and the stuff that you go through the biggest pain
34:00
that you're going through is going to release it once you once you let your
34:04
pride or whatever that is that's blocking you from fulfilling whatever God's calling you to
34:08
do. Once you release that, it's going to release other people from certain
34:14
strongholds that they have. So the fact that you answered this knowing that you
34:19
didn't want to do it, I give you props. Thank you. And
34:23
you're just starting your book right yeah, I'm the book is finished. I
34:29
got the final through from the mail this weekend, and so I'm going to
34:31
be submitting it to official publishing. This is awesome. It should be in
34:37
about two weeks. Is I think you're going to start seeing like how powerful
34:40
your your your decision of obedience was once this book starts to be released.
34:47
Oh my gosh, you guys, I don't even know we were going to
34:50
talk about this today. Exciting, this is beautiful. I'm excited. I
34:53
want to read your book well in my heart for what I ended up dealing
34:58
with it is it's about two hundred pages long, but only seventy five of
35:01
it. Seventy five pages of it is actually a book the rest of it
35:05
is a guide to a journal. And I'm doing this redemptive work with the
35:09
phrase dating Jesus, because when I was growing up, whenever someone said they
35:13
were dating Jesus, it was their way of not dating someone in youth group
35:16
that they didn't want to date, Like they were like, oh, I
35:19
don't want to date you. Some dating Jesus. And I just thought it
35:22
was so cheesy growing up. Yeah, no, that's the word cheesy.
35:24
Yeah, but I you know, I got a ton, Like I said,
35:28
it's such a long story, we can talk forever about it. But
35:30
the Lord uprooted all these lies in my soul, and he actually addressed the
35:34
fact that I hated that phrase and told me, you hate this phrase because
35:37
you don't feel like you're worthy to date me and to know me as your
35:42
bridegroom. And so that was like this huge part of my story where all
35:45
of a sudden, I was knowing Jesus as bridegroom. What a crazy thing
35:51
that the word talks so frequently about the fact that he's our our husband,
35:54
he's the lover of our soul. And so the majority of the book,
35:59
I'd say, you know, seventy five percent of the book. Seventy percent
36:01
of the book is a guided journal for women to take on Jesus states As
36:06
cheesy as it sounds, but to really sit with the Lord somewhere and say,
36:09
Lord, what do you love about me? What lie is my believing
36:14
about our relationship? Mm hmm? What do you want to say to me
36:16
right now? Lord? What does my soul need to hear from you?
36:20
And it has just these guided questions and at the end it literally has like
36:22
a space to write a love letter to Jesus because I think so often we
36:27
forget that we are the bride and he is the groom and He's coming for
36:31
his bride. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I ain't gonna lie. Yeah
36:37
that does sound real cheesy, but I respect the girls. You're gonna keep
36:39
doing it. I'm gonna write my letter to Jesus when I get that book.
36:43
Okay, Oh I love it. Okay. So this is this was
36:47
a beautiful conversation. This is just like one part of the podcast today.
36:52
But when are you releasing this? How can we get a hold of your
36:57
books? Yeah, it'll be available at the end of March. It'll be
37:00
on my website Lea Faithlive dot com. It will also be available on Amazon
37:05
as well. So if you if you type in Jesus is waiting to that's
37:08
all. That's cute. I love that the wait. Yeah. Well okay,
37:15
So you're a you're a you're a lover, you're an ex, you're
37:19
a situationship, and you are a worship leader. Yes, I am.
37:23
So how long have you been singing? Leah? I I think I've been
37:29
singing my entire life. Like I'm like, I think I was one of
37:30
those little kids that was probably singing before I could really talk. I love
37:35
it. Does your parents sing? Yeah? Oh there you go, gole
37:37
household. My my dad mom are both worship leaders. Really yeah, my
37:40
parents do not sing. Wow. Well that's beautiful. So you grew up
37:45
in church all your life? Yep? Okay, how did what's your personal
37:50
testimony? How did you find God? I was three years old, oh
37:53
snap, yeah, And I remember sitting on the edge of my mom's bed
37:58
and she was sharing with me the verse where says, behold, I sit
38:00
at the door and knock. I stand at the door and knock, and
38:02
whoever answers, I will come in and have a meal with them. And
38:07
I remember having a really clear picture in my mind of Jesus standing at the
38:10
door in my heart and the thought of him coming into my heart and having
38:15
a meal with me. I was like, I want that. This is
38:16
what I want, and He's real and I love him. So I gave
38:20
my life to the Lord at three three, which I know a lot of
38:22
people are like, well, when did you actually give your life to the
38:23
Lord? And I'm like, that was it. I was. I was
38:27
marked by his presence. And my parents love Jesus in the most beautiful and
38:32
not like religious. Yeah. I never felt like we have to do this.
38:37
It was like, we get to read the Bible. This is God's
38:39
love letter. And my mom is even more enthusiastic than I am. She
38:43
makes me seem really like quiet and like kind of chill and so that and
38:46
she lives her testimony in that way because she has a radical story. And
38:51
I just grew up in a family that was in love with Jesus and so
38:54
that's that's a beautiful thing. That's a beautiful thing. I know a lot
38:58
of people will actually make fun that idea, but mat Me just tell you,
39:01
guys, it's a beautiful thing. And like you guys can even I
39:08
can't even explain how important it is to preserve these values in the household.
39:15
Yeah, like my family's not perfect, nowhere close to being perfect, but
39:22
even our situations, like I could keep seeing that how important it is for
39:27
these biblical principles to be imparted in your family. And the fact that you
39:34
were three years old that just shows it's so important. I'm talking like I'm
39:39
a freaking parent or something. I have no kids, I have a dog.
39:43
You guys, topic, you're right. But I am gonna say because
39:47
I notice a lot of parents they they don't take their kids serious, and
39:52
the things that they plant when they're a kid, or the things that they
39:55
plant in their homes and just like rather what their rituals or traditions or whatever
40:02
you do. I don't think adults really take it serious, because there's so
40:07
many adults where I hear them, they're just a kid. They'll get over
40:09
it, don't forget about it when they're older. The reason I'm saying that
40:14
is because I thought about so, I know you and I just met so
40:17
some of the stuff that I do. I do a lot of stuff with
40:22
seeing entertainment and events, and I thought about it. It's really because like
40:28
the reason I'm pursuing that in my career right now is because of my what
40:31
I grew up doing from a young age, like in ministry. So my
40:36
point is if I never fed into those things, if I if the adults
40:39
around me were not feeding life into me, and I wouldn't have became I
40:45
don't want to say successful, but I wouldn't have pursued what I'm pursuing now
40:49
if it wasn't for those So with that being said, it's so important,
40:52
like while every while your kids are still kids, to be wise with what
40:57
you are feeding into their heads. Like if they have a singing, if
41:01
they're gifted with singing, don't shut it down and be like, oh,
41:06
singing isn't gonna be a career for you. Stop the singing stuff. Let
41:10
them pursue it. Respect it. There's nothing wrong though you want to tell
41:15
them like, oh, go to school and stuff, But yeah, I
41:19
just want to say, whatever to calling is that God has. It's different
41:22
from men's success story. That makes sense, Yeah, totally, yeah.
41:29
Yeah, And what you're saying is part of why I ended up getting into
41:31
the children's writing world. I was in a season where I would be praying
41:37
and I would I would continually hear the Lord say disciple nations, disciple nations,
41:40
and I was like, yes, Lord, but what do you ask
41:43
me to do? What's my role in this? And I felt like the
41:46
Lord spoke to me about children's entertainment and going after that mountain, right,
41:52
And so, because what you're saying is so true, kids need to be
41:58
instructed in the ways of the Lord. Yes, because there's no junior Holy
42:01
Spirit. There's no junior Jesus. When they get saved, they get filled
42:06
with the Holy Spirit the same way that an adult does, but they need
42:08
to know how to do life with Jesus. Yeah, so many things growing
42:13
up that like I look back and I'm like, why did no one tell
42:15
me I could hear the voice of Jesus, Like why was I not taught
42:19
that more often? Or you know whatever? It is, right, No
42:21
one's perfect, No one had a perfect theological upbringing. And so whenever the
42:25
Lord put this on my heart to go after writing kid's books, that was
42:29
one thing that I was like, I want to talk about this. And
42:31
the main book that I have kind of showt Yeah, yep, yes please.
42:36
So it's called The Tales of Godmother Gadem Gadem is Latin for Joy,
42:39
and so she's the Godmother of Joy. She's based off of my godson and
42:45
I And in this book has three stories and the reading age is around six
42:49
to ten years old, but the lessons are applicable for any kid. And
42:53
there's three stories in this one book. And then the third story, she's
42:57
teaching her godson, how do we slow down and hear the voice of the
43:00
Holy Spirit. That's beautiful and he's you know, he's being bullied at school,
43:05
and so he's trying to figure out how do I navigate this problem?
43:07
And instead of her saying, well, this is what you need to do,
43:09
she says, why don't we ask the Holy Spirit? And I think,
43:14
you know, all day long, I could hear someone tell me the
43:15
right thing, but until I hear it from Jesus, Yes, that's when
43:20
it really is going to change confirmation. And I think that's something that we
43:23
need to empower kids, teaching them. It has to be biblical. It
43:27
has to lie thwart of God. It can't be like I was told to
43:30
go to the moon, like okay, like you know, maybe your kid's
43:31
going to be an astronaut. I don't know, but you know, having
43:34
that biblical grounding and then going from there and saying, Okay, what is
43:37
the Holy Spirit actually leading us to do in this situation. No, that's
43:42
true because it's more easier. Okay, if you start your kids off while
43:45
they're young and they're practicing all of these principles, when they get older,
43:51
they're going to know how to respond to certain troubles that hits their life or
43:55
whatever. The reason I'm saying that is because it's so crazy now that I'm
44:00
older, the people I used to listen to and thought that were correct,
44:05
I'm seeing them right now kind of turn away from things that they used to
44:08
preach to me. Right well, I'm not just talking about church people.
44:12
I'm talking about like adults, like people like my aunts and uncles or leaders
44:15
that I used to think that we're correct. It's so crazy now that they're
44:21
turning away from certain things under pressure. Not everybody's perfect, so I understand,
44:25
like everybody has their own pressure on them, so they fall short sometimes.
44:31
But it's just stuff like that, like what is love? Like,
44:37
let's understand biblically what love is, because later on, when you're older,
44:40
if you don't have the right people telling you what biblical real, true,
44:45
godly love is somebody else is going to tell you later what love is,
44:49
right, Like, let's talk about dating again. There are adults that I
44:54
know where they they don't say this, they won't admit it, or well
45:01
they kind of do. But there's some people where they will just give themselves,
45:07
Like some females they would give themselves to a guy sexually because they think
45:13
that's how they're going to be provided for or that's how they're gonna be secured.
45:19
And I think nothing. I'm not here to talk down on anybody,
45:23
but I'm pretty sure there's stuff in them that needs to be healed. So
45:28
it's just stuff like that where they're even preaching this stuff to their own daughter.
45:34
It's like, oh, if you want to please a man, if
45:36
you want to keep them around, then you have to do this. So
45:37
it's just stuff like that. We have to really find our identity in God.
45:42
And don't get me wrong, it's hard because it's like, well,
45:45
dank God, I'm doing this. Why isn't this person staying? And like
45:47
you're desperate to make things happen, so you go your own route. But
45:52
I'm gonna say whenever I want my own routes and ignored God's voice. Yep,
45:58
it did not turn out great for me. Is so right, And
46:00
I think it is the perspective that I think sometimes we feel like God's laws
46:05
and his rules are because he wants us in line and he wants these things
46:09
for us, and he does want us to be obedient, but it's because
46:14
his ways are actually better for us. The times that I've gotten really hurt
46:19
in my life were times that I stepped out his covering. And I think
46:23
that's the perspective shift. When we're like, oh, I can't do this
46:29
because of the Lord and all that stinks, and he's you know, he's
46:31
making my life boring, it's like, actually he's protecting you, Yes,
46:36
something protecting you. Yeah, I think once you understand. So sometimes we
46:40
don't have to understand why God does certain things. You just have to be
46:45
able to trust him. So that's the word trust, even if that makes
46:49
no sense of why you're doing certain stuff. The reason I'm saying that is
46:53
because the Bible, if you think about it, it's actually a place of
46:59
protection for you. You may not understand why, like God, why don't
47:02
why can't I just do this? It seems harmless, but you don't understand
47:06
what's on the other side of the door. The reason I'm saying that,
47:08
let's talk about like a basic Bible story Adam and Eve. Right, so
47:16
they didn't know what the consequences of eating the apple was going to do.
47:21
Wasn't an apple? We don't know? Okay, we didn't know what the
47:27
consequences were going to be, but they still it seems so very It seemed
47:31
very harmless to eat the fruit, right, But little did we know was
47:36
going to open a door of sin and curses and consequences not just for them
47:43
but for the generations to come. Right. So it's stuff like that.
47:47
If we just chose to honor God and stop trying to one up him or
47:52
try to question him or anything, well, I'm not going to say we're
47:57
going to live in a perfect world, but things would have been very different.
48:01
This was a beautiful conversation, Charrelle. You should have been here.
48:06
Yes, all right, girls, So you are going to be worship leading
48:10
at Morfes, right, Okay, very excited for that. I'm so excited.
48:14
It's gonna be amazing. I love it. So what are we expecting
48:16
for this event? So? Yeah, worship leaders from across the entire Las
48:21
Vegas Valley and some from across the nation are going to be coming. I'll
48:23
actually be with a band called the Watch Worship and they're located out of Virginia
48:29
and North Carolina, and so that crew is going to be flying out here
48:31
for it. And we've got yeah, we've got some incredible worship leaders that
48:36
are going to be that are locals, Like I said, some flying in
48:38
and we're just expectant to meet with Jesus I love and to see Him exalted
48:44
over Las Vegas. We're going to see people get healed and saved. I'm
48:47
going to also be doing like a kid's corner type thing a couple of different
48:51
times throughout the days. We're going to be reading books and doing some Bible
48:53
lessons with kids, because we want this to be a family event, all
48:57
ages, all stages to come and partner with what God is doing in Las
49:00
Vegas. So this is a three day event, two days, two day
49:04
event, April thirteenth and fourteenth. Love it and how much our tickets?
49:07
How can we get them? Tickets are avail about the roar Fest dot com.
49:10
Oh perfect, perfect, yes, all right, Okay, so we're
49:14
gonna close this up. This was awesome. Before we leave, any social
49:17
media accounts you want us to, yeah, follow the roar Fests on social
49:22
media as well. And then I'm under Leah Faith Live and you can get
49:25
all my books. I've got some free resources and some new music coming out.
49:29
Perfect, all right, Thank you, Leah Faith, thank you and
49:31
being here with us right until next time you guys. Happy Thursday,