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The Vow: Understanding the Bride of Christ | FT Brad Graydon | EP88 · Jess Ask

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  Speaker 1: Yo, it's your girl Jessica and Smith and you already
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  Speaker 1: for the who the who? Let me try that again.
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  Speaker 1: We have a very special guest. But you show talking
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna laugh together, We're gonna find joy. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So the new campaign is Yes three sixty five.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about giving God our years, being him completely,
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  Speaker 1: before I get to the guests, I gotta get to
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  Speaker 1: ain't gonna lie desert ray, understand, but the love is there,
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: When I first started this journey, I did not think
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  Speaker 1: we were gonna get love from the men.
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  Speaker 2: But the men loves up.
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  Speaker 1: They love us down, okay, like they celebrate us. They
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  Speaker 1: are just so in tune what's going on here? And
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  Speaker 1: I want to pull up a name I got. I
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  Speaker 1: forgot his last name. I don't know why I just
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  Speaker 1: did that, but his first name is Dmitri, and he
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  Speaker 1: knows exactly who I'm talking about. Most of y'all know
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  Speaker 1: him as a photographer. He is definitely a creative. Let
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  Speaker 1: me pull him up real quick. Dmitri has been like
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  Speaker 1: he's quiet, He's a quiet storm, and he has definitely
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  Speaker 1: been supportive of just as the podcast. Even let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you this, he even offered you like a said,
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  Speaker 1: you one hundred episodes. Like he he is excited, but no,
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  Speaker 1: he's liking commenting, sharing the content and just being you know,
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  Speaker 1: being a voice for this might not be his lane
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  Speaker 1: as far as podcasting, he's very very what I call it.
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  Speaker 2: Silent, right, but he's a silent storm.
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  Speaker 1: And so one thing I love about Dmitri is he
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  Speaker 1: speaks out loud with his gifts in photography. And so
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  Speaker 1: I just want to speak to that Dmitri, like, I
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  Speaker 1: just see that you're going to grow as you continue
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  Speaker 1: to submit to God. As you continue to submit to
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  Speaker 1: God and give God your yes. I see that God
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  Speaker 1: is going to expand just not even your space of photography.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's going to expose you to new gifts.
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  Speaker 1: And so this year shall be a year of I
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  Speaker 1: heard the Lord say, deliverance. Deliverance from the old mindset
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  Speaker 1: of what keeps you from growing and developing to the new,
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  Speaker 1: to the newness of God and what He has for
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  Speaker 1: your life. And so I just want to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Dmitri, thank you for saying yes to God
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  Speaker 1: but also supporting just as the podcast. Okay, we love
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  Speaker 1: you over here. Y'all can follow Dmitri on Instagram. It's
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  Speaker 1: by Dmitri B. That's B Y dot D E M
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  Speaker 1: E t R I B. I promise you you you
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  Speaker 1: won't regret it. The man is The man is talented. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so y'all give it up. That was give me a
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  Speaker 1: little woo woo.
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  Speaker 2: The hit up.
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  Speaker 1: They hear you know how I found my button? Oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, I forgot.
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have the she didn't found this butting. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to my gifts now, she didn't found this butting.
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  Speaker 1: That y'all don't set up applause. Yes, listen, y'all, I'm
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  Speaker 1: super excited about today because you guys know that we
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  Speaker 1: joined BG TV Studios and it's been about maybe three
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  Speaker 1: months now, and it feels like family. Like I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how to describe the anointing. When you walk into
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  Speaker 1: the room, you just you just it's just different. And
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  Speaker 1: so I'm excited to have the man behind the vision,
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  Speaker 1: a pastor, a minister.
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  Speaker 2: I'm calling everything.
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  Speaker 1: He's been some of everything, Okay, he got a little
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  Speaker 1: wisdom on them, okay, but a son of God, like
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  Speaker 1: really the definition he embodies being a son of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm really excited to reintroduce to you guys
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  Speaker 1: because y'all saw if y'all follow me, y'all already seen
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  Speaker 1: his space none other than my brother in Christ, mister
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  Speaker 1: Brad Greater What's Up TV himself.
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited to be on the podcast come on.
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  Speaker 2: I think desil Rain and I was talking.
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  Speaker 1: We was like, we're excited, but were also nervous because
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  Speaker 1: encounters that we have.
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  Speaker 4: Come on Jesus, we already had one this morning before.
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  Speaker 2: We can't even press re.
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  Speaker 1: I told him, I said, we have to stop talking
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  Speaker 1: to pres record Bread.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing so good. I'm doing so good. It's an
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  Speaker 4: honor to be here. We bg TV love having you.
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  Speaker 4: That's a ray all you guys here in the studio
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  Speaker 4: because y'all have a special annoying yourself and reaching so
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  Speaker 4: many people. And uh, when y'all were asked, well you
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  Speaker 4: came here, Yeah, this is where I want to be,
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  Speaker 4: we were like honored just to be here because you know,
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  Speaker 4: b g TV Studios is just a place to help
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  Speaker 4: serve the body of Christ, and that's what we want
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  Speaker 4: to do.
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  Speaker 2: So let's give let's give people a backstory.
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  Speaker 1: I want to just go ahead and jump right into
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  Speaker 1: it because I feel like we listen, so just show
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  Speaker 1: him what you got. Yeah he brought he got his sword. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he could already you hear me. Listen, don't play with Bread.
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  Speaker 1: I don't play with Bread. I can't even get him
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  Speaker 1: a good conversation with Bread. Our first conversation Bread. Shout
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  Speaker 1: out to Caleb Mexican.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, listen, he did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he really joined us together like he was.
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  Speaker 1: He came on a podcast and he was like just
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  Speaker 1: whatever you need, like this is this is God, this
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  Speaker 1: is God, and we needed a space. We thought, I
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  Speaker 1: honestly thought from my end that this was just gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like a business. Like we had been to different
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  Speaker 1: businesses and just sat there. I was like, and so
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  Speaker 1: I can start pitching bread. I started pitching him. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, hey, Brad, you know we can do this
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  Speaker 1: and I can help your business and we can do
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  Speaker 1: some marketings whatever you need, like, we just need the
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  Speaker 1: space for this. And Brad, it's Brad dismissed everything. And
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  Speaker 1: so how do how do we get from from the
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  Speaker 1: point of not having bg TV maybe two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: because we're not even two years old, not even two
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  Speaker 1: years old. How do we get from podcasting?
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  Speaker 2: Because we because Brad got a podcast, got a podcast
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  Speaker 2: to a network.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, so let me just give you the story.
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  Speaker 4: We got time, so let's do it. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 4: So all right. So I was a part of a
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  Speaker 4: ministry years ago that was went from ten to ten
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  Speaker 4: thousand man. But at the end of that ministry, me
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  Speaker 4: and my wife, you know, we went with a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people. They were like sheep without a shepherd. When
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  Speaker 4: a ministry falls apart, caused leadership, you know what I'm
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  Speaker 4: saying to the top, there's a lot of sheep without
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  Speaker 4: a shepherd. Well, God had asked me to open up,
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  Speaker 4: me and my wife to open up our home for
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the people that were just did have
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  Speaker 4: nowhere to go. He opened up our home to let
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  Speaker 4: people heal in the presence of God, in their relationship
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  Speaker 4: with God, but also with other people. It's hard to
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  Speaker 4: trust people. Again. Yeah, and so but me and my
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  Speaker 4: wife were like in that timeframe, had you know, going
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  Speaker 4: through a lot ourselves were really heal, whichy'all get into
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  Speaker 4: that in a little while, but we were going through
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  Speaker 4: a lot of healing ourselves. So about four and a
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  Speaker 4: half years, I was praying in my home with these
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  Speaker 4: people coming through that we could I just wanted to
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  Speaker 4: be a part of something that God wanted to do
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  Speaker 4: here in the city that he was building, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying. And so you know what to tell it? Right?
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  Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna have to tell the story of
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  Speaker 4: me and my wife first, okay, so they can go
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  Speaker 4: so they could understand that, and then it builds on
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  Speaker 4: top of where we're going while we're here. Okay. So
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  Speaker 4: in two thousand and seventeen eighteen and me and my
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  Speaker 4: wife had some some marriage troubles. We've been married thirteen
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  Speaker 4: years now, so you know that we are stronger now
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  Speaker 4: I've ever been. So when you hear the story, we're
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  Speaker 4: doing good, but marriage has up, it's down, is it's
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  Speaker 4: it's it's great, but it's it's you know, it's work
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  Speaker 4: and it's beautiful. It's everything in there. But so in
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  Speaker 4: twenty eighteen, me and my wife had some marriage troubles
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  Speaker 4: where I came home from work one day and she
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  Speaker 4: was gone, like I didn't know where she was. She
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  Speaker 4: had taken all her stuff, didn't know where she was,
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  Speaker 4: didn't know why she had gone. And come to long
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  Speaker 4: story short, I didn't see her for four months, like
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know where she was, had no contact, no
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  Speaker 4: how to had in touch with her, none of this.
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  Speaker 4: So during those times, I'm not gonna be lie. I
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  Speaker 4: was trying to figure out ways to numb the pain.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It was it was I didn't know pain like that
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  Speaker 4: could exist. Yeah, I mean I was in the carpet crime,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just trying to figure out life. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: I made mistakes myself during those times because I was
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  Speaker 4: I was just trying to numb pain. You know. But
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  Speaker 4: in those times too, you might have dark moments. I
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  Speaker 4: never left the Lord, of course, he never left me,
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  Speaker 4: but I still loved God like I was. I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to be close to him. I wanted to do something
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  Speaker 4: big for God, to be a part of something big
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  Speaker 4: for the Lord. But in those moments, it was just
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  Speaker 4: it was tough. But I remember there were times where
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  Speaker 4: I would still spend time with God. And I was
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  Speaker 4: sitting on my couch one day and I was looking
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  Speaker 4: out the window, and every car that came by, I
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  Speaker 4: was just hoping that it was my wife coming back
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  Speaker 4: home to me.
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  Speaker 1: Now, did she have contact with you at any point
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  Speaker 1: of the time or she just ghosted you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just pretty much ghosted me, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: So I didn't know when she was coming home, if
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  Speaker 4: she was coming home, none of that. But but I
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  Speaker 4: found myself hoping that my bride would come back home
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  Speaker 4: to me. Well, I was sitting on the couch one day.
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  Speaker 4: Now it was it wasn't audible, but it was as
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  Speaker 4: audible in my spirit as I've ever heard. When I
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  Speaker 4: was spending time with God. I was looking out the
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  Speaker 4: window and he said, he said, Brad, I'll help you
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  Speaker 4: get your bride back. If you help me get my
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  Speaker 4: bride back. Let that sink in for a second, and y'all,
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  Speaker 4: I began to weep. Wow, weep because God, not because
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  Speaker 4: the pain I was in, but but God had opened
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  Speaker 4: up his heart and shown me a glimpse of the
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  Speaker 4: pain that's on his heart because of the condition of
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  Speaker 4: his bride. And his bride has gone out after other
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  Speaker 4: lovers of the world. Right And in that moment, I
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  Speaker 4: was just weeping, and I made a vow in that
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  Speaker 4: moment to God. I said, God, I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna be able to use me, because I mean,
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  Speaker 4: my life is a wreck right now. You know, marriage troubles,
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  Speaker 4: my ministry I served for years is falling apart. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there's all kind of things going on. Yeah, And I
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  Speaker 4: just made a vow to him. I said, Hey, God,
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  Speaker 4: I said, I don't know how you'll use me, but
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  Speaker 4: whatever I can do to help you get your bride
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  Speaker 4: back into your arms, I said, I'll do it. And
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  Speaker 4: I said, and so I just filed it a way
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  Speaker 4: I did. I didn't know how it was going to
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  Speaker 4: come about, Like, how in the world do you think
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  Speaker 4: anything's gonna come I don't even know if I don't
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  Speaker 4: know nothing in the moment, you know, I don't even
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  Speaker 4: know how I'm gonna survive the day well to push
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  Speaker 4: forward about after that, about two more months, my wife
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  Speaker 4: called me one day and she said, can I come
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  Speaker 4: home tonight? And I was like, yes, I said absolutely. Now,
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  Speaker 4: when she pulled up in the driveway, I could tell
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  Speaker 4: in the spirit that she had just been beating up
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  Speaker 4: in the spirit, you know, it was just she'd just
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  Speaker 4: gone through a lot. And when she came up onto
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  Speaker 4: the porch, I had the door open and she said,
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  Speaker 4: are you sure that you want me to come in?
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  Speaker 4: She paused, and I was like, yes, But what's so
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  Speaker 4: crazy is in the middle of all of my pain
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  Speaker 4: and all of these situations I'm going through, God just
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  Speaker 4: kept giving me pictures of his bride. Okay, bred I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you heard it, because as soon
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  Speaker 2: as he said, I.
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  Speaker 1: Was like, but this is us, Jesus, please keep going.
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  Speaker 4: It is us. So in the middle of all of
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  Speaker 4: that going on in my pain, when I opened up
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  Speaker 4: the door and my bride said, are you sure that
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  Speaker 4: you want me to come in? God just showed me
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  Speaker 4: a picture of the whole bride of Christ that has
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  Speaker 4: run from him. That's where we get to sometimes. Jessica
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  Speaker 4: as we get to the place where we make all
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  Speaker 4: these mistakes. We have a relationship with God, we're in
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  Speaker 4: relationship with them, but we have made mistakes. We've gone
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  Speaker 4: after other lovers in the world, and we will come
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  Speaker 4: back to him to a certain place. But we don't
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  Speaker 4: believe and we don't think we're worthy. We don't think
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  Speaker 4: we deserve to come in close to him, to come
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  Speaker 4: in to where he lives, and definitely not to go
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  Speaker 4: into another room where you could be intimate. Again, you
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  Speaker 4: see what I'm saying again, Yes again, And so this
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  Speaker 4: is what happened when she walked through that door. God
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  Speaker 4: would show me a picture of what's going to happen. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: prop signed there. What's going to happen here in the
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  Speaker 4: end days is there will be a lot of ministry
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  Speaker 4: for the loss, but there's going to be a lot
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  Speaker 4: of ministry for the bride, for the bride to be
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  Speaker 4: awakened and prepared for Jesus to come okay, because his
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  Speaker 4: bride is going to be spotless, blameless. You know, He's
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  Speaker 4: coming back for appear and spotless bride. And there's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be a minister. There's gonna be a lot of ministries
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  Speaker 4: that are focused on the bride and preparing the bride
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  Speaker 4: for Jesus to come. And so she comes in, we
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  Speaker 4: have our moment, you know, you know, as a special
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  Speaker 4: moment between me and her, and we walk through that,
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  Speaker 4: and the next few months we're walking through all of
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  Speaker 4: our our you know, our problems, our issues are talking,
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  Speaker 4: get all out and and we're going through all that.
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  Speaker 4: And there's oh there's one place, there's one part I
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  Speaker 4: want to tell you before before she came home. So
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  Speaker 4: let's back up when the second because this was powerful too.
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  Speaker 4: So about a month before she came home, it was
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  Speaker 4: my fortieth birthday. Okay, believe it or not, I am
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  Speaker 4: forty six.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to say the same annoying to all
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  Speaker 1: the desiray yes, because he told me he was.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, you would, Okay, okay.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: You see oh man, yeah, okay, thank you.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: That's their preservation.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: That's right. I'll take it. I'll take it. So it
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: was my fortieth birthday. My parents had a party for
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: me at my house at their house. My family's over there.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm the oldest of seven, so there's a
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: bunch of people there.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Hey, you're the oldest of seven.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Father they did. We finally got them a TV
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: for the Christmas and they can put it in their bedroom.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: You know, I just kidding, but you can cut that
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: out if you want to. But but so I don't
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: forgot that. So fortieth birthday party, and I prayed all
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: day that day. All I wanted to hear for my
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: birthday was my bride's voice. I wanted to hear her
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: call me. I wanted her to call me. I wanted
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: her to call me. I just wanted to hear her voice.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: I hadn't talked to her in over three months. So
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: that was my prayer for my birthday to God, just please,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: just want to hear my bride call me, just talk
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: to me. So birthday party is going on. I'm blowing
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: my candles out, forty years old, and I'm crying. I'm
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: literally crying. My nephew sus ten years old. What's he
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: crying about? You know? And I'm crying because at forty
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: years old, my whole life had fallen apart. It was
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: nowhere where I thought it was going to be. You know,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: my marriage was falling apart. Didn't know if it was
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: going to survive. I didn't have any kids, a ministry
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: I'd served for years and fallen apart, like everything was
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: just at nothing, yeah, you know, and so love the
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: can was out each ice creamy cake, head home, lonely
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: place at home, no call from the wife yet, and
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: I was like god, it was like ten thirty at night.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I was like, god, there's still an hour and a
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: half left in this day of my birthday. I said,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I just want to call from my bride, from my wife,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: and he said, and so right then, about ten thirty
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: ten thirty eight, my phone rang and it was it
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: came up on the phone as one of her friends,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: so I kind of figured it was her. I picked
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: up and I said hello, And when I said hello,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: the most beautiful sound I've ever heard came through the
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: other end of the phone. And it was my wife,
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: and she said, happy birthday. And I just get to cry.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: I don't want to cry right here, my makeup will start.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Running, you like, I'm already looking at you.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: But she said happy birthday, and I love you, and
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I just I just melted, you know, and and we
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: started walking, you know, kind of that was the first
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: communication we had had. We began to just talk a
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: little bit, but she said I'm working through some things
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: and I'll call you when I get through working through everything.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: And and when I got off the phone again, the
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Lord spoke to me. He said, Brad, he said, all
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: I want is to hear my bride's voice. Like, my
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: bride has gone out after other lovers, has gone out
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: after the world, and she doesn't even talk to me anymore.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: She's ghosting me, maybe because she feels she don't deserve it,
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: she doesn't feel worthy, doesn't know how she can come
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: back home to me. I don't, you know. But He's like,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: I just want to hear my bride's voice. And again,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm journaling all this stuff because I'm like,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: you know, all these pictures that I'm getting. Yeah, but
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: so that was a big point to another picture that
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: God had shown me. Well, fast forward back, she comes home.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: We're working through all the problems. And one day, one night,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: I'm asleep, dead asleep, you know, it's like two or
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: three o'clock in the morning, And this time it was audible.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: It might have been in my dreams, Yeah, but it
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: woke me up and said, I heard, but me, she forgot.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: That's all I heard, but me, she forgot. And I
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: was like, that sounds like a Bible verse, and I
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: was like, I was the studying it. And it's in
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Hoseiah Joseia. If you don't know, the backdrop of Hosea
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: is Hooseia is the prophet that God uses to show
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: the nation of Israel their condition and their relationship. That
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Israel had gone out after the other lovers of the
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: world and for left the Lord behind, and she was
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: no longer intimate with the Lord. Right, And so book
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: of Hooseiah's about that picture because God asked Joseah to marry,
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: you know, a prostitute, and there's this picture that God
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: shows Israel of what's going on in their relationship. Well
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: that verse, that phrase, but me, she forgot. I found
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: it in Joseiah chapter two, verse thirteen, and it says
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: that that Israel had gone out after other lovers of
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: the world, had decked herself out with the things of
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: the world. Yeah, but me, she forgot, says the Lord.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: And the Lord was just showing me again how the
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: bride of Christ has just gone out after the world
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: and has forgotten about him, is not even talking to him.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: If one she's infatuated with the world, or two she
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: don't think she can come back home.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Man, man, okay, I'm gonna let you drink your water.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: That's all right.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to you because Bread over here want
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: me to knocking knocking off that I want to.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: This little role. Who made it? This little role might
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: about the gold up.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: When I tell you, I think the beautiful thing about
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: this And I'm getting emotional because I've I've recently had
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: an experience. Hold up, hold up, who's that I've been
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: preparing myself to share. It just happened last year. I
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: don't know how much I can say right now, but
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I will say that.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Come on, when you petitioned God about his heart, he
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: shows you. He don't show you his tow, his eyeball,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: he don't show you his head. It shows you his heart.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: And when you're exposed to the heart of God, you
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: have to feel you're impacted by the heart of God.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: And it's an experience that you cannot give back. And
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: for me personally, it included some decisions of separation. It's
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: interesting that you brought that verse up, because if I
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: could define what happened to me in a verse, that's it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Like I'm the bride.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: And I'm thinking that I am in good standing with God,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and I'm thinking that I did the right thing.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I thought I sought him.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I thought that I could do and have the things,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: even the things that people deem holy and righte God
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: showed me no, this that wasn't my plan for you,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: or that's not that wasn't my heart's desire for you.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And I felt like even in that moment, I broke
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: God's heart. So it broke my heart. And when we
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: get to that place, Brad, I feel like it feels bad,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: but it works out so much greater, like for for
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: our good. And so can you take us because now
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: we're removed. You say, we're thirteen years down the line, right,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and so let me pause. She must be a young trony.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Let me get that out of my comments.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's eight years younger than me. She keeps me young.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: And uh, it's.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's shout out to the young men. I had
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: to get up out of that place of crime. So
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: so in that space, what came up for me, Brad
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: was since y'all, since you've exposed that y'all have an
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: eight your difference, how did you like even navigate the
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: grace for her in returning because now I'm hearing that
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: there's an age difference, that there's a possible maturation difference,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: and possibly spiritually a spiritual difference. How do you navigate
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: through that? Because I know, like as far as me,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: we single out here and we were looking for a mate, Like,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: how do I know because I might be more advanced
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: than my husband?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Or how did you balance that?
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good question. I think that first and foremost,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: it's it's a simple answer that I can can get
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: into details. But when I was seeking a maid, you know,
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: we always go that one. There she is, that's the one.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: I'm about to go after her, you know, and I'm
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: you know, and you know it never worked out. All
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: those you know, unanswered prayers. You know, we think back
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: or thank God, But to me, it was praying for
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: the one that God had for me because I didn't
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: know that my wife's going to be eight years younger
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: than me. You know, I didn't know when I was
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: in twelfth grade i was walking down the hall there
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: that she was in the fourth grade. You know, Wow,
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: when you look at like that, you're like, whoa I am?
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: You? When you think about it, like that.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: You like, yeah, when I was a senior high school out,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: you know, going to the beach and family city doing
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: whatever was grade. Yeah yeah, see so but you know,
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: you don't think about it that way when when you
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: get into the older age, you know.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: So.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: But anyway, the first thing is just being obedient. There
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: were there were there are people that I dated, but
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: God came to me and said, this is not the
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: one because especially for those people that have a calling
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: like you guys on your life, there's a specific person
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: in your life that God has for you to to
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: help you, to help y'all help each other to do
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: what God's called on your lives. And so that was
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: the main thing for me was being obedient to God,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: because when you're obedient to God, you know you're with
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: the one that he put you with.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: So then working through all the other things is just
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: detailed stuff. It's just learning. You know that you know
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: what she She's different in this way and he's different
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: in this way. And then you begin to work through it.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: But but you know, in the spirit, you know, we
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: can people, you can skyrock in the spirit. You can
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: somebody be eighteen years old and be way more mature
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: in the shri Yeah, as somebody who's you know, fifty,
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, because there just spend more
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: time with God. So Hayley was real mature in the
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: spirit for her age, and it still is and I
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: learned so much from her, you know, to this day.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: But I think that it's just mainly is just being
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: obedient to God and knowing that you're with the one
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: that God has for you. And that was the key
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: for me because and of course when you get married
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: then you know, you know about the Bible, you want
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: to work can't work it out anyway. But I know
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: that's not like a detailed answer that you're looking for.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: It's a good as but it is the right answer. Yeah,
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Because when you're being obedient
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: to God, think about it, you're being obedient to God
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: with this podcast. Well, you work through all the details,
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, You work through all that
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: and you grow. You know this and that you know
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: and so finding that mate is just being obedient to
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: the Lord, and then you'll grow. They'll grow in the
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: ways where you come in together to where it works,
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry. I got I didn't get distracted. I
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: got excited because I went to Starbucks this morning. You
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: got that. I won't tell y'all. Now I'm gonna tell y'all.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: It's a sugar cookie. It's supposed to be a sugar cookie.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: It wouldn't.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: It wasn't sugar. And the lady that assisted me, her
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: name was Hayley. Oh, and she started to bless me
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: just with her words, her her heart, just like. It
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: was a quick interaction and typically I don't get here
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: this early. So the Lord was like stop and starts
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: giving me permission, you know, because I'm practicing submitting my
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: coin to the Lord, and I just find it.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I want to pause for a moment.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: When God does things multiple times, y'all, that's like you
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: got to pay attention. Sometimes we missed a He just
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: say his wife's name was Haley. Did I remember that
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: right then?
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: No?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: But when he said it struck something. So what is
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: God trying to tell me? And that now I gotta
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: go personal time and I'm gonna look up what Hailey
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: means where it.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Biblical stands for? What character does Haley have?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Because out there's a connection that God wants to digest
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: to speak to me.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Is that how God speaks to you sometimes? Absolutely? I
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: think that that's very powerful. You know God can speak
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: to you. I think people it's for me. I think
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: I didn't know that God can speak through anything and anybody.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: So I'm always looking listening, are up for how He's
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: speaking to me at any way, you know what I'm saying,
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: because I just want to hear from him.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: That part when you want to hear, you got something
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: for you to hear exactly like you can. It's like
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: having being closed minded, like if we want somebody to
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: come through that door, why because it's open. If the
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: door was closed, you're like, knock, knock, Can I come in?
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: And can I sneak in or whatever? So you gotta
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: be prepared for what you digest. I'm so sorry, but
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: that got me.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: That like took me. It's like, Okay, God, what are
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: you trying to say?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I get excited about that because it's like you're giving
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: me something new, like because we even know sometimes it'll
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: be the same word over and over again because we
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: ain't got it right in the same time. But I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: want to get back to the idea of the bride
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: because I really think this is so important, Brad and
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: your your understanding of the bride is so beautiful. What
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: we talk about the bride in church, right, and when
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: we talk about the bride is always correlated with the church.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: But what I hear you saying is giving me a
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: different picture of what that looks like. Can you, in
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: your words, how would you describe the bride and the
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: bride's responsibility?
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Sure? Sure, sure, so. I just believe, like there's a
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: lot of people that believe. You know, I'll just say
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: it this way, for the picture that God gave me,
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: for the ministry that He's given me, for the way
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: he described it to me, and you know, this is
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: what God's speaking to me. I just believe it's anybody
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: who's put their faith in Jesus Christ. The Bible tells
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: us that we are the bride of Christ or the
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: body of Christ. You know what I'm saying. And so
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: to answer your question, I believe that the bride of
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Christ is anybody who has who's in relationship with Him.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: My definition of salvation is not just saying a prayer
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: so you can go to heaven. Right, So my definition
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: of salvation is is that I'm calling on the name
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: of Jesus. Because Bible says if those who call on
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: the name of Jesus will be saved. What does that mean.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: It's not You can't just say Jesus and you will
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: be saved. Right so you you you when you call
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: so Hailey my wife, when she when I asked her
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: to marry, to be in relationship. So Jesus has already
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: asked us all to be in a relationship with him. Yeah, okay,
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: it's up to those who answer that.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: Well, Haley, she said yes, and she called on my name.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Her name used to be Hailey Busby, but now she
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: called on my name. She took my name. She's now
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Haley Grayden. She called on my name, So now she's not.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: So when we call on the name of the Lord
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: to be saved, we're saying, I don't want the name
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: of the world anymore. I want the name of Jesus.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: I'm becoming one and I'm making a vow to you.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: That's salvation. That's what it means to be saved. You're
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: coming into a relationship with Jesus. So anybody who has
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: come into a relationship with Jesus, Okay, that's the bride
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: of Christ.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: A novil. This way, I appromise you. I wanted to
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: you know, how to be a church. I wanted to
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: hop up out myself. Her salvation explained.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Ever, and so when Haley said I want to be
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: Haley Graydon, we became one. You know, we became We
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: made a vow to each other. So Jesus has made
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: a vow to us, and then we make a vow
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: to him to be in relationship with him. So that's
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: the Bride of Christ. Our responsible ability as the bride
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: of Christ is to be the bride of Christ, is
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: to walk with him, to be the helpmate for him
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: to carry out his assignment here, I'll have to bring
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: his kingdom to earth, and we have so. Just like
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: a queen has all the power of a king, because
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: they're one together, they carry all the authority, we have
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: all the authority of Jesus Christ on this earth to
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: walk it out because we are one with him, We're
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: in relationship. We have become one with him. We've taken
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: on his name.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Brad, I got something, Brad. I think I'm scared to exercise.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: You're good.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: No, I know, I don't know if I'm good.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: You was good Brad, this is okay. So this is
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: what I'm hearing you say. We are instead of treating
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: salvation as a dating mechanism for we need to treat
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: it like the not just the engagement with the marriage,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: like this is me choosing to marry, be in this marriage,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: and it's in this covenant relationship.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I've heard so many times like, Brad, No, you just
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: blew my mind.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I know, y'all mind probably blown right now because I've
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  Speaker 1: heard salvation be the first step.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: It so so salvation we have just I think the
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: church has just over the years, we've just started wording it.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: I won't say wrong, but just shallow.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: M No, it didn't make sense.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: And so if we start wording it, so we're calling
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: upon his name and we're becoming one with him, and
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: we're leaving all other lovers. Who's gonna walk down an
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: aisle and marry someone, make a vow? Someone knows that
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: they have other lovers, you know. And that's what Jesus
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: is saying, Hey, leave all other lovers behind and fall
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: in love with me. Seek first me, Love the Lord
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Jesus.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: The first commandment, the greatest commandment. When Jesus asked, what's
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: the greatest commandment, he says, well, love the Lord your
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind,
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: all your strength, love your neighbors. So well, we can't
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: even we can't even do the first commandment right if
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: we're not in a marriage relationship with Jesus, being intimate
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: with him behind doors, meaning with that, what does that mean?
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Intimate reading your word, spending time with God through worship,
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: through talking and you know, walking and talking with him,
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: however it is you spend time with the Lord, but
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: in a consistent basis, Like there's I'm gonna get a
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: little a little deep here for a second, okay, a
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: little open. And no marriage can survive without intimate moments,
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: right okay, And those marriage can be strength, can be strength,
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: and like, you can't have strength in a marriage without
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: intimate moments. Right now, me and Hailey, we have these,
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: We have all all marriages have a day. I like
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: to call them daily moments that we wake up and
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: you know, say good morning and kiss each other, grab
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: a cup of coffee, grab some breakfast. We're sitting there
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: with our daughter Hope and as she's throw an oatmeal
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: on the wall, you know, like these are these are
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: daily moments that we're walking through life together. Maybe I'll
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: go to work and maybe I'll call Haley on a
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: break or maybe she'll text me something, some funny TikTok
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: or something. These are daily moments that we're we're in
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: daily contact with each other. Yeah, okay, at the end
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: of the day, I'll call her when I get off work,
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: you know, we'll go home, we'll eat or go out
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: to eat. These are daily moments, okay, And these are
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: You can't have a marriage that survived, that can survive
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: without daily moment. It's like you have to have the
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: daily moments. Those are just as important. But no marriage
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: can survive without going behind doors several times, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a month whatever, and going behind doors and having intimate moments.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah okay, And Jesus is saying, hey, love the Lord,
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: your goal, all your heart, sould, mind and strength. And
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: we we don't understand that we're in a marriage and
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: that our marriage with him is not where we want
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: it to be. Our relationship with him was not where
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: it to be because we're not going behind closed doors
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: and having Now you don't have to go buy your
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: closes behind closed doors every day. But if you're not
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: going behind closed doors, it's sometime in your in a month.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: You know, no, wonder, your relationship with Jesus is not
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: where you want it to be. It makes sense.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: No, I'm getting the picture. So I'm even here and like,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: let's talk. Let's go behind closing. We grown, y'all, Okay,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: we're going behind closed doors. Okay, So thinking about it
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: in the practical terms, if we're going behind closed doors,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: let's say I'm the bride and I'm not comfortable with
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: my body. I'm not I'm having hard times, and then
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: that creates makes it frustration, frustrating for you. And in
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: the depiction of God, what how do we navigate this
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: When I'm half shame and I have guilt and unforgiveness
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: and all these things that are making me not want
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: to be in behind closed doors with my husband.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: This is good because this is the ministry that I
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: feel like that God's given me. Is the picture of
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: my bride being at the door. She doesn't feel like
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: she's worthy to come in, deserve to come in, doesn't
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: feel like she can live with me, definitely don't feel
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: like go be intimate you know what I'm saying. So
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: it takes the healthy bride of Christ okay, in the
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: ten Virgins, the five that are awake, okay, the healthy
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: ones giving out the message correctly to people, to letting
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: them know hey, in reminding them see and joseh. Chapter
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: two is so beautiful you just have to go read
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: it if you're out there. In thirteen, he's interpret I
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: mean verse thirteen, he's you know, he's a little upset.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: His bride's gone after other lovers, and he's like, but
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: she's forge and she's forgot about me. But something happens
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: between verse thirteen and fourteen. Something happens in God. And
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: I understand what happened to him because when my wife
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: was gone, there were times where I was mad, there
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: were sounds where I was jealous. There's times where I
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: was just I didn't know what I was feeling. But
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: then when she came to the door, and I was like, oh,
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: you know, come back. You know what I'm saying. So
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: God's a little upset, he's a little jealous, he's little
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: this in verse thirteen, But in verse fourteen he says
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: that it's the He says, I want to call you
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: back out into the wilderness where we had our first date,
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: where we got to know each other. And in the
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: wilderness he says, it's in the wilderness where I speak
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: tenderly to you. I speak tenderly to you, where you
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: don't call me master, but you call me husband. And
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: then he goes down and then in verse like nineteen,
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: he says, I'm just I'm betrothing myself to you forever.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: And so it's our doctor remind the bride that Jesus
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: is in a relationship with you and that he models forgiveness.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: He models that more than anybody, right, and so understanding
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: that coming back helping them come back off the porch
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: into the home, into the den, have that repentance moment,
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Yeah, because repentance is not
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: a one time thing. Repentance for salvation is a one
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: time thing, But repentance for intimacy is a lifestyle, you know.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: And wait, you can't move past it, too bad, you
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: said repentance for intimacy.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: Repentance for salvation is a one time thing, right, But
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: repentance for intimacy is a lifestyle, like it's something that
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: we do all the time to stay in like, well,
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: me and Heley have an argument, there's tension in our relationship.
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: You know, one of us have done something or whatever. Right, well,
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: then we have to apologize forgive and that tensions removed.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: And that's what I'm talking about, is staying in that
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: place of intimacy with the Lord by just staying in
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: constant repentance, constant you know, just you know what I'm saying,
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: Just staying right there in that place where you So
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: that's what I'm talking about about that, But I kind
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: of lost my train of thought. Where was where where
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: we going?
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: We were talking about the people being ashamed to be
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: in those Yes, so.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: Helping people to understand who God really is, okay and
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: in his nature and how he wants you to come
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: back and he wants to work out those problems. He
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: wants to go through that relationship.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: But that's not what's talked in the church though. It's
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: like you shouldn't be doing this and do you think
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: you really good?
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Like I get so like that that.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Just start saying that because I struggled with it. I
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: struggle with it now like I don't struggle with it
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: as bad as I used to. But I even have
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: to talk to des Ray. Mean, we just had a
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: conversation last night and I'm just spasing out, like I'm
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: spasing and then she was like, but you know, the
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Lord love you. You want so much Betterfy, you got
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: to have those type of people in your ears.
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: It's a balance because if you're living a life of holiness,
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: then you're not walking into these moments often, right, Okay,
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: But when you do go off, then you have to
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: have someone that is talking to you about the character
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: of God that wants you to come back home and
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: be inside and work that out till you get to
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: the place to where you're like him. Yeah, okay. So
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: it's a it's a journey, and we need all those
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: different messages at different points in our life. I need them.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: I need them all when I'm living, when I'm on
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: fire for the Lord and live God, I need to
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: I need this life, this message of holiness and you know,
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: just staying on track, you know what I'm saying. But
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: then when I'm away from the Lord, I need to
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: be reminded of who he is, you know what I'm saying.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: And so it's it's really just you know what I'm saying,
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: it's just being able to the church. This needs to
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: grow up and understand when to release certain messages and
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: how to in the right tone. You know what I'm saying.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: And so.
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: You know, if I had hair, I could.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Do that too. Like I just hurt my head. That's okay, you,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: I promise you. Like if I could be a bubble
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: here right now, like, that's how much I would agree
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: with you.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: But that's what you need between twenty five is is
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: a just asked bubblehead.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: I love it if somebody can create there, you know,
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: go ahead and live. Man.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: This this conversation is so I didn't know how much
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: I needed this conversation because it's so powerful, just reminding
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: us of who we are and what the responsibility of
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: a bride is is to come back. That's the first
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: almost is the first responsibility of a bride.
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: It is to come home, Yes, to be be in
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: the home, be present, and then he will direct you
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: on what to do. You know what I'm saying, And
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: you're and you have a natural want to when you're
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: around him, so the things to do will come naturally
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: when you're around him.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: You're talking so good, you know, and so you.
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: Asked me in the beginning, so we did all of
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: that to.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: Get to the because we got to get to TV
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: because it's beautiful.
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: So BG TVs let's start here BG TV Studios. What's
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: the What does it stand for? So BG? Obviously my
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: initials are Brad Craading. Well, TV is meant to look
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: like TV, like television, but actually TV stands for the vow.
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: So it goes back to that moment while my bride
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: was gone and I made that vow to God. Hey, God,
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: I want to help you get your bride back. You
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying into your arms. So this is
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: just a vow. This place here is just a part
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: of the of answering that vow that I made to him,
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. But he's been guiding me
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: and directing me into all this. So how did it start?
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: In a January of twenty three, God asked me to
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: start a podcast, and I was like, huh. You know,
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: I was like, I'm not real techy, Like I can
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: get by, but I'm not real tech. You feel me
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: shout out to all that's right. But I was like, God,
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: I don't know how to do that. You know, Honestly,
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: I had been burned out with media from the previous
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: ministry I was in and I was like, you know,
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: I said, God, I don't have to put lay out
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: seven fleeces for you know, but I do have to
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: have a confirmation that this is you because I don't
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: want to get him put all my energy into something.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: I'm tired of doing that saying. The Bible says and
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: Sam one twenty seven it says unless the Lord builds it,
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: the laborer is building vain. Well, I'm tired of building
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: in vain. I want to part of something that only
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: God is building exactly. And so I'm praying for I
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: prayed for four years that God would give me an
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: an idea, give me a vision to help him get
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: his bride Brack. I had so many good ideas, but
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: they were like that's what they were. They were good ideas.
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: I never felt the annoying on And then when this
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: vision came, I was like, Okay, God, you just got
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: to show me this. This is you. So anyway, I
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: went to Lung. I went to breakfast with my spiritual father,
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: pastor Larry Raglin. One morning, he does a lot of media.
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: Here's a great podcast called The Big Picture, go check
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: it out. And he said uh, so I asked him.
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: I said, think I do good at podcasting? When he said, man,
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: I think you do great. He said, why don't you
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: come down in my studio and I'll show you around.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: And he was showing me around. It looked cool, but
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: it was great to me. I was like, this is awesome,
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: but how do I do this?
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: And so he said, well, I've been praying about who
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: to give this camera to. It's the camera that I
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: used when I started. And he said, I think the
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: Lord's telling me to give you this camera.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: So he.
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: He reached back in this thing and he gave me
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: this camera right here. It's a web camera. He says,
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: you can put this on top of your computer. I'll
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: give you the cords you need. And he said you know,
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: and I was like, man, thank you so much. So
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: I walked out to the parking lot and God said, Brad,
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: you can change the whole world from what's in your hand.
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: And I was like, okay, okay, I hear you. You know,
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: I hear you. I hear a little whisper of voice.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: I still I got a thousand questions, but I'm like, okay,
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: well I want so I didn't do all this and
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: this was just you know, you have days, you have
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: just schedules set up on the day. You know you
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: don't really So I just had another lunch set up
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: with a guy that I've been discipling and for years.
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: He used to be my youth group years ago, and
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: he's now a youth pastor where I used to use pastor.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: So he was.
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: He said, Brad, I'm about to have another kid. I
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: need some more money. The church can't give me more money.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking about going to get take another job to
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: support my family. I said, just need some advice. So
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: I went there to help him. That's why I went. Well,
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: at the end of the conversation, we're like, hey man,
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: we felt like stay at the church, trust God for
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: the digtional income. That's just kind of where we got
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: to live. Well, we got downewhere. You know, We're sitting
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: there Mexican restaurant. I'm sitting there eating cheese dip. You
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: know I love cheese dimp and so.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: Is our family, you know, like we love a good mis.
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: So he said, what are you doing now? And I said,
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: I don't know. You know, I was like, I said, well,
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: I think guy's telling me to start a podcast. I said, Pastion,
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: Larry just gave me this camera two hours ago. He said,
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: no way. He said, well, you know what, I did
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: a fantasy football podcast last year. I got a top
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: of the line microphone. I'll give it to you. It's
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: one of these. It's one of these. And he said, uh.
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: I said, I'm sitting there. I'm like wow. So in
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: my mind, you ever like talk to guy while you're
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: talking to other people. You know, I'm sitting there talking
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: to God. Well I'm talking to him eating Jesus all
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: the same time. And I was like, God, You've given
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: me a camera and a microphone. All I need now
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: is a media guy, Like, because I don't know none
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: of this stuff. Well, right there, the Holy Spirit at
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: the table said, ask Nick to be your media guy.
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: He needs additional income. He knows how to do media.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Ask hold up, Nick is who we're talking about?
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Bro?
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: So I looked at him and I said, dude, this
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: is all on the spot. I said, I need a
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: media guy from a podcast. You need extra money? I
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: can pay you a little bit. We be my media guy.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: He said, yes, you know what I'm saying. And so
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: like all in two hours, God gave me a camera,
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: a microphone, and a media guy with the two hours
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: and I walked out that nextra restaurant just mind blown, going,
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: I know this is what God is asking me.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, so.
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: I just guys, I just started like so. It took
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: me a while to get everything ready, get this stuff
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: where he needy baby so, and get Nick in position.
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: I guess. So April of twenty three, I started a podcast,
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: and I didn't know what I was doing. You know,
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: I was just up there preaching and talking, you know,
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: I stuff and my motto was to get one percent
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: better every week myself, but also the studio.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: Well, by October of twenty three, I had a pretty
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: professional studio in the basement of my home. And God
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: woke me up in October twenty three he said, Brad,
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: I want BGTV to be more than your podcast. And
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: I was like, what do you mean. He said, I
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: want you He said, the studio that I've given you,
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: He said, I want you to use it to serve
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: the body of Christ. I was like, okay, well, what
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: does that look like? Yeah, and he said I want
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: you to have like a podcast networks kind of like
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: I need to describe it. To me, you know, And
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: I was like, okay, well what is that?
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, I ain't never seen that like this
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: asking question. Yeah, And so I was like and again
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  Speaker 4: I said, because I don't. I don't want to do
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  Speaker 4: anything that. I'm tired of doing things that are my ideas.
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  Speaker 4: I want to do. I want to be a part
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  Speaker 4: of what God's building. What if we really came around
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  Speaker 4: and said and we're a part of what God is building,
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  Speaker 4: you know I'm saying. So I said, Okay, God, I
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: don't need seven fleeces again. I just need one confirmation.
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  Speaker 4: This is you, this is what you want to do.
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  Speaker 4: The very next day, pastor friend of mine called me.
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  Speaker 4: He said, I've been in Mentone, Alabama, in a cabin
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  Speaker 4: spending time with Jesus for three days by myself, asking
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: guy what he wants me to do for twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: four and he said one of the things he told
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: me to do was start a podcast. He said, but Brad,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how. I don't have the time and
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: I don't have the money. And my mind was just
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: like WHOA Like, God will show me how many people
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: like this are out there? And he said, I said, Dode,
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: you got to come to my house. I got to
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: tell you what God told me just yesterday. So he
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  Speaker 4: comes over, stands Pastor Bo Johnson. He's got a podcast
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  Speaker 4: on BGTV called The Spirit Led Life, and he said
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  Speaker 4: he said, he walked in. He said, so all I
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: got to do is come in here once a week,
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  Speaker 4: sit down and record and it goes out on your channel.
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: And I got to do no edding or nothing. I
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: was like, That's what God's told me to do. He said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm in you know, like and so God was like
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  Speaker 4: already showing me. So anyway, in this year, well twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty four, yeah, we're down in twenty twenty five. But
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four, January twenty four, just a year ago,
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  Speaker 4: we brought on the first podcast that was added to
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: BDTV besides my podcast. And then in twenty twenty four,
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: I think we ended with like twenty one or twenty
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  Speaker 4: two podcasts going out of BGTV, and already here in
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: at the beginning of twenty twenty five, I got like
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: fifteen or more in the pipeline that wants apply, that's applied,
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: that want to get started, and it has just been
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: explosive growth and what. But it's what God is building,
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. And if God's the architect,
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: he has the money, he says, silver and gold or mine,
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: he has the subcontractors to build it. The thing it's
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: the hardest is that we as leaders, we can get
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: ahead of God. We hear something that we run one
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: hundred miles an hour and staying in step with him
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  Speaker 4: because he builds it. Because sometimes we can build something
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: too fast and it's not healthy for us. And I've
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  Speaker 4: been a part of things like that before. So my my,
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: I'm trying my best to stay in pace with him.
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  Speaker 4: But I think twenty twenty five is going to be
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: a year of a little bit more growth, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying. I think that. So. But anyway, so
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: that's kind of the nutshell of how BGTV got started.
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  Speaker 4: And then you know, people would come contact me like
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: you guys did from friends, and you know, and we
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: run into each other and the spirit moves and you
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: can just feel God doing something. And so but BGTV,
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: I really believe that it's more than just a podcast
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: studio where people come in and you know, it's like
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: somebody said, like this, it's like it. You know, like
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: my podcast is like an airplane. Your podcast is like
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: an air lane, but BGTV is like an airport. Yeah,
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: it's like where people come in and out and pick
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: up different passengers and you know, go in and out,
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: you know that kind of stuff. It's like where everybody's
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: coming together. And so I'm really excited here in twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty five because I really believe that God's starting to
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  Speaker 4: release vision on how to unite more people together here
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  Speaker 4: in the city of Birmingham and beyond. And that's the
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: side of the coin that most excites me is the
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: unity of the Body of Christ here in Birmingham coming together.
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, all races, all denominations, all ages already apart,
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: just in these first twenty or so, right, what is
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: God building.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: The kingdom the Kingdom Heaven on earth.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I gotta tell you this come on because
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  Speaker 1: does where you are in no problems stipping to say.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: When we first recorded this was I mean, this is
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: the day that we we said yes. And at the
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: end of our.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: Recording we saw heaven literally like there are people that
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: we didn't know anybody.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: Like we were just the smiling like, oh my Gods.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: But folks just came in and people were just coming
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: in for the next recording and we were I think
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: I've never been in some space like that.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: And then also that same day that we said yes, y'all.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Meet Tiffany Tiffany go Forth podcast on bg TV. It's
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: just so amazing when you get when you give God
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: a yes and when you obey God, it's contagious.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: It's connected to the next years, it's connected to the
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: next level of obedience. What you think because Brandon just
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: messed me up today, Yeah, brand don't wrecked the house today.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: I wasn't, you know.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: I think I love sitting here. I know, Jesse, but
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: like I want you to say something. But sometimes like
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: I be in such a like reflective moment and like
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: really just kind of like talking to God in the
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: moment like when you broke down, like the bride and
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: like salvation and.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: Where we are now today. I think it's that particular idea.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: I think it's what's missing because you know, people, you know,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: we're winning souls to Christ, but then it's like we're
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: almost losing them because like the we're not really being
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: examples of what it truly looks like to be in
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: a body, you know what I'm saying. So like most
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: of the time people come and be like, Okay, I
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: give my life to God, and then it's like it's
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: an automatically they may think or we expect them to
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: be able to change right then, but it's a relationship.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: It's a process, right.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: And So I was just sitting here just thinking about
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: my own journey and even just kind of like just
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: you know, repeating and all kinds of things. And I
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: just started up recently, and I love, like Jessica, God
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: speaks to me. I'm learning how God speaks and a
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: lot of that is through repetition and a lot of
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: what I've been hearing here lately from my pastor from
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: my mentors even today is the importance of relationship.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. We're seeking.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: I heard one of my mentors said last night that
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of us want the revelation, but revelation without
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: relationship is witchcraft.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Everything stems from revelation.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: We're seeking these things, but if we just do life
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: with God like for real, like he like, I want
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: to bless you, I want to give it to you,
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: but I need you to know me first, because if
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: I give it to you right now, it's gonna be
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: dangerous for you, you know what I'm saying.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: So as we just begin to do relationship.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: With God, the things that are in our heart, even
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: things like I can't even speak for myself, like things
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: that have been in my heart that I did that
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I thought I was done with that, I was over
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: that I had grown through. And He's like, yeah, no,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: it's still a little something right there. But he doesn't
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: get to that unless I get to him, you know
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So as I've been intentionally seeking God
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: and building relationship.
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: With him, he's been snatching.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: He's been snatching things out, and it feels like punishment,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: but it's really just a part of the process, you know.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: So I've thoroughly enjoyed listening to you today, Brad, like
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: you really, uh, really shift the mindset for me. And
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: I think if you've shifted from me, if people are listening,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: I'm quite sure they've caught something that can they can
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: really go back and implement into their relationship with God too.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Most definitely, Brad. I know you gotta go, but I
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: really want to keep you here all day. We got
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: to we have to as a tradition. On just as
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: the podcast, I love to leave the final words, allow
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: my guests to have the final words. But I just
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: want to tell you thank you before I'll let you
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: do that, like you're you're such a blessing.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you so much.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: If there was nothing anything, they missed anything, what is
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: the final thing that you want to leave with the
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: audience today?
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: Jesus is coming back and he's coming back for a bride.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: He's coming back for a bride that when I say
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: pure and faultless, that doesn't mean perfect. It just means
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: a bride that is reading his word and understand that
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: it's his word and that he just wants us to
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: live out to become like him. You know, I'm saying
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be perfect, but to live out a
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: way that we live out the word through our lives.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: And what that comes from is just through intimacy with Him,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: you begin to want to become like him. A lot
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 4: of times people teach it as rules and regulations, but
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: when you're in a real intimate relationship with God, you
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 4: want to be like him. You want to naturally carry
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: out his word and for those are part of the
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: bride of Christ. You have relationship with Jesus, you took
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: on his name years ago, but you have ran from
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: him and you don't Maybe you're starting to come back,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: but you don't feel like you can come all the
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: way in. Guess what, you can come all the way in.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: God wants you to come in to the den and
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: have that moment, and then when it's the right time,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: he wants you to go even in deeper with him
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: and be intimate with him again. And everything that you've
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: ever seen in your life, every dream, every purpose, every calling,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: everything that He's put in your life. Just because you
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: ran away from him for a season doesn't mean that
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: it's gone. You've just got to come back into him,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: come off the porch. There's a lot of porch Christians.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of people that'll come back, they'll come
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: back to a certain place, but they don't ever want
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: to go in to the house with God. Yeah, and
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: I think that this is the season that God's calling
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: his bride off the porch but into the home and
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: begin to draw real close again.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so good, y'all. I don't like Deesira say.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: My mind is renewed. Okay, I want to say thank
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: you Brad again. I love you until next week. Remember
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: life could be much more simple if you just asked
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: thank you for tuning in to this week's episode. Since
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: you've made it this far, you might as well connect
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: with us on all social media platforms at the Jessica S.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: Smith.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: I know I won't see you back until next week,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: but until then, remember to love always yourself and always.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: Thank thank God for one another day. Hey, hey, I
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: know we could be another way. Hey, pray thank God
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: for another day. Hey hey, I'm just thankful for another day.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: Hey hey another day? Oh, another day wires, another day
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: to get it right, another day that rise up, another
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: day living, another day we loved ones. I always remember
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: hold it down for a ball one.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Yep