Confess The Mess with Johnny and Jess
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Confess The Mess with Johnny and Jess
🎙️S3: Ep.3 - Passing the Baton of Our Troubles
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Speaker 1:Yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather. Sally says seashells by the seashore she sells or says she sells. All right, you caught us. Welcome back to season three, episode three of Confess the Mess with Johnny and Jess.
Speaker 2:So just for fun, we were doing a little like vocal exercise.
Speaker 1:Because Johnny wants to make sure that the microphones sound good. He does it like 17 times before we can get started.
Speaker 2:And then Jessica struggles with saying red leather, yellow leather.
Speaker 1:Red, leather yellow, the other.
Speaker 2:The other.
Speaker 1:Red leather yellow. The other Red leather, yellow leather. Red leather, yellow leather whatever.
Speaker 2:So dumb, oh my gosh, all right, okay, hey, welcome back everybody we missed we missed.
Speaker 1:Last week we did shame on us, shame the shame. So we have all four of our kids currently in our oldest daughter's room right now and they have been on devices way longer than they should have. So they're slightly loopy and they're melatonin, so we don't know what is there. We don't even know what's going to happen in this episode.
Speaker 2:We're going to get interrupted, but just bear with us. We're actually doing this during the daytime because we didn't want to do it at night, because guess what the NFL draft is on Let. Doing this during the daytime because we didn't want to do it at night because guess what the nfl draft is on let's go. Cardinals selfish and I want to watch the draft. So instead of doing the podcast during the draft, we're going to do it right now, in the midst of the chaos so just bear with us, make sure you have your life preserver on yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So this is about to get crazy um, what are we talking about?
Speaker 2:baby man? We are going to hit up the final week of our kind of man, we are going to hit up the final week of our kind of God myth series, and the one we're going to hit on today is going to be God will only give you more than you can handle, and that's a myth, and that's a myth. Here we are, but before we get into that, yes, so it's been a long time since I've done this, but I've encountered some silly news stuff. Oh, my dear Lord, did you hear that door?
Speaker 1:slam.
Speaker 2:I did hear that that was Charlotte Place is going to burn down during this podcast. So, I found three funny stories or interesting stories that I came across by accident. I like to read the news, I like to stay up to date, and it's been a while since I found something really like kind of eyeopening, and so, uh, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna take off a couple of these that I found, that I found amusing, and the first one and Jessica, as always, does not.
Speaker 1:I never know. I'm just sitting here and I'm like what is he going to say now? All right.
Speaker 2:So I found this to be both amusing and very, very sad. So, yeah, oh, it's right. So the country of Chechnya?
Speaker 1:Say that three times Chechnya Chechnya. Chechnya Chechnya Red, chechnya Yellow, chechnya Chechnya.
Speaker 2:Chechnya, chechnya. They banned music that is too fast or too slow. Oh, banned it. So so check this out. The russian republic is said to have ruled that all music should correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute. So they found the perfect beat, and now the country will not allow you to go over 116 beats or under 80. So no slow dancing and no shaking your booty. So, and that means that, no, no booty shaking. No, all your, all your rave music and techno. You can't play that in chesna you go to jail.
Speaker 1:So what, what? What songs? What songs in the middle? I don't know we should have looked that up, that would have been, we should have had this prepared, we should have played it.
Speaker 2:So for all those listening, it's 80 to 116 beats. You can look that up yourselves. I did not go into all that, but I found that to be really interesting. And another interesting fact that I read about this was if you are an artist and you have created or you're in the midst of an album that has music under or above those tempos, um, if you don't change the album or change the music, they're going to arrest you.
Speaker 1:so, uh, I googled, I literally googled right now 80 to 116 beat song okay and everything's about chechnya, chechnya, bizarre ban on music tempo.
Speaker 2:In chechnya the rhythm does, does indeed stop if you, if you are, if you're listening in Chechnya right now, which is probably a little bit unlikely, but if you are, we're not making fun. This is actually kind of sad that you're so limited, uh, to your musical variety. But for your.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of songs that are following the category. Elvis did quite a bit. Okay, let me see a little less conversation that's like the perfect tempo.
Speaker 2:There you go. That's 116 baby that's right, that's right at the limit. Let's see here a little less conversation, a lot more booze cruise cowgirls.
Speaker 1:Don't cry by brooks and dunn do it with madonna.
Speaker 2:The androids not sure I've heard that song before maybe, maybe we shouldn't be listening to those music beach boys, get your back, get your back, get your back, get your back. Get your back, all right, sorry, I'm sure we can go on.
Speaker 1:ADD baby.
Speaker 2:Oh man, so for fun, 80 to 116,. When you're done listening to this podcast, go and check it out yourselves, buddy.
Speaker 1:I'm Buddy Santana. She reminds me of how many beats is that one? Supposedly these are 116. Oh my God, 116 plus beats per minute. Oh, these BPM values were generated with MixMeister software.
Speaker 2:These are on the cusp of lawlessness in Chechnya, all right. So here's the second one, and this one, to me, is less funny, but really interesting. So in Helsinki, an artisan roastery based in the Finnishnish capital has introduced a coffee blend that has been developed by artificial intelligence in a trial in which it's hoped that technology can ease the workload in a sector that traditionally prides itself on manual work. So so what they did was a fed information into an ai program and the ai developed the roast what they like like literally what it should take like is it good?
Speaker 2:I don't know I, but I'm curious about that too. But so they, they develop the roast.
Speaker 1:How long it should be roasting or sitting in the sun, how like everything is like literally taking over, like if anybody does social media on here, like there's a new meta ai assistant on right here on facebook, it's ask meta ai anything?
Speaker 2:yeah, isn't that creepy it's taking over the world. If you've looked at chat, chat, gp or any of those, there's hundreds of them out there now and they are all very interesting but also very terrifying. And now they're making our coffee and I'm offended. I want dudes out there in the field making my coffee getting it right, not AI designing my coffee.
Speaker 1:Well, I think we all knew that at some point robots. We all have seen Will Smith's movie.
Speaker 2:We know how this ends.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying Johnny wants to buy a what's called bio. What your arm? A fake arm oh yeah, biometric, what's it called?
Speaker 2:bionic I want a biotic. Biotic I want to be. Is it?
Speaker 1:biotic or bionic, both perfect, sure, I don't know. I don't know. Hey, I homeschool for you guys.
Speaker 2:It makes my arm. We're gonna go somewhere, yeah can c-a-n can? No, I'm just kidding oh, we have not done any recreational drugs before this podcast, I promise nope, we haven't.
Speaker 1:We haven't.
Speaker 2:I have water next to me, you're like what is wrong with the crossmans tonight?
Speaker 1:nothing, nothing at all must have been in something's. Something's in the wall. Here's my favorite story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and maybe some of you will appreciate this, I appreciate the dedication, oh and the tenacity and the perseverance, wow of this next story. The gentleman in this story check this out, do you have a name? A 69 year old retiree visited 120 pubs to order drinks in 24 hours, breaking a guinness world record. I got a name shout out to david clarkson david who was born in britain but has lived in australia for over 40 years started his attempt with a drink at the captain hook hotel in sydney clarkson check this out walked.
Speaker 2:First of all, can we just say how impressive it is that he walked to 120 pubs. That's how many pubs there are in one area in australia that's like churches here in north carolina, I get it, I get a test.
Speaker 2:I've been to australia. There are pubs on every corner, just like there's a baptist church on every corner here, and clarkson walked to 119 uh established, or 119 more establishments over the course of the following 24 hours, ordering a drink at each stop. How is he still alive? Wow, unbelievable. A guy from the guinness book of world records actually joined him on his first four and his last four to make sure that it was legit, and he so. A full beverage yeah, 120 a full drink, a full drink, 120 drinks how is he not dead?
Speaker 1:how did his his?
Speaker 2:alcohol level not he's lived in australia for 40 years. This he's been training his whole life.
Speaker 1:How long?
Speaker 2:ago was this. This is in april. This was like a couple weeks ago we gotta get a picture of this, david clarkson. What's his?
Speaker 1:name. I'm gonna look him up david clarkson. David clarkson an incredible feat.
Speaker 2:Congratulations, david clarkson. I can't believe you don't have alcohol poisoning.
Speaker 1:That's insane.
Speaker 2:My goodness, david Clarkson. Oh, but those are my three stories. I found there were others, but we can't do this forever, so Jessica's pulling up a picture of David Clarkson.
Speaker 1:Our internet's trash today in this apartment.
Speaker 2:He probably has an IV attached to him in the hospital, right oh?
Speaker 1:my gosh my gosh, go ahead. All right, so let's get down to it. Oh, they pulled up a 40 year old david clarkson. He's a canadian ice hockey player, so that's not the same guy, by the way I mean that's probably a pretty common name, david clarkson, that's like bob smith, or yeah, I don't know, richard moore, richard, okay what is wrong with us?
Speaker 2:let's center, center holy spirit activate, holy holy spirit activate activate so maybe some of you have heard that god, he won't give you more than than you can handle, or maybe you have been a person that says that or even thinks that maybe you've said that, maybe you've said that, and and the truth of the matter is that's wrong.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's wrong. Um, in fact, scripture will tell us that it is our dependency on god. Yeah, that not only reflects god's divine nature and his divine power, but also it reflects that we are in need of a savior and that we are in need to get through difficult times. I mean, I can't tell you and Jess and I we've been through a lot of really hard times. We have, and it was never. You know what God's never going to.
Speaker 1:You know, he didn't give us you know, more than we can handle. More than we can handle, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, the truth is we were given more than we can handle, but we needed to rely.
Speaker 1:But with God. Like and I tell Johnny that all the time like I don't even know how we did it before the Lord Like I'm serious. Like we started a marriage class that we're helping lead at our church every Wednesday and we started it last night and a lot of the questions there were certain questions about like what was some I don't even know like expectation you had when you first came into marriage, that that you, you know, you learned from her. I don't even remember the exact words, but it was really hard to be able to like kind of point, a specific answer, because we lived without the Lord for the first few years of our marriage and it was not good. Like I look back at it now and I'm like how did we do it? Like I don't think I don't know how people go through their life. Mary did not have the Lord at the center of their marriage. Like kudos to you, cause I couldn't do it, like you know, because life's hard.
Speaker 2:Marriage is even harder. Where does the grace and forgiveness come from?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's like and I don't say that because I'm like, oh my gosh, Johnny's like so horrible. To be married to. This guy is like intense.
Speaker 2:Maybe I am, I'm channeling in my Chris Farley right now you did get a little, chris Farley.
Speaker 1:But no, the Lord wants a relationship with you and he wants you to see just how much you can handle when you allow the Lord to guide your steps. When people look at you and say, how did she make it out alive? Or how did he do that in the midst of everything? How, I mean God's not supposed to give you more than you can handle. That ain't true you, I'm saying I'm sure he was in the garden, like I don't know. First of all, there's a snake talking to me right now. That's a little weird, unless you're watching harry potter. But, like you know, she couldn't. She couldn't handle it because she wasn't with the lord. She was making decisions of selfish and fleshly ambition, like she wanted to eat the freaking apple and not the banana, you know. So.
Speaker 2:You're a hundred percent right. And there's this scene in numbers, where the people are hungry and the israeli people are hungry, and and, and moses can't figure out how to feed them. He says you know, I cannot carry all these people by myself. The burden is too heavy for me. The burden is too heavy. That's moses, the part of the red sea man. The burden is too heavy, and it's too heavy for you because you need to be dependent on a holy, righteous God. That's why the burden feels so heavy.
Speaker 2:And, honestly, god oftentimes will allow us to have more than we can handle. And in fact, I think the misconception or the reason why we think this or maybe we've heard this verse from 1 Corinthians, 10, 13,. And God is faithful. He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out. And I think we're misunderstanding what's being said when Paul says this. We do that a lot. There's a difference between your life circumstances and your temptation. Yeah, you know, god's not going to let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. A lot there's there's a difference between your life circumstances and your temptation. Yeah, you know god, god's not going to let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. He's going to provide a way out, but that doesn't mean you're not going to have a very heavy, difficult life situation that you can't carry it alone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that sin, and your circumstances are different yeah you know, and we've, and we've, we've lived that before we've. We've had to walk that road in our marriage with other people.
Speaker 1:I mean just finances, you name it. And the beautiful and the beautiful thing about god is friends like lean in on this, like first of all, we were the plan, just so you know, like we're, we're it, you're it, man, like you're god's plan, people, okay, in love and following christ, but check this out like they're. I'm having such a hard time focusing because our dog sounds like she's a hound dog, like being murdered, and all she is is in the bedroom with the puppy and she even has a bone, but you would think that she's being stabbed like in the head or something that was a little graphic. But God shows up in people, friends. Yeah, I don't think people realize that. Like there's ordained moments, right.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Where you think God's not supposed to give me more than I can handle. And then all of a sudden, boom. Gina pops up in a text message like hey, I'm going to come over today and bring you a cup of coffee. Yeah, let's talk for a bit it's.
Speaker 2:it's so. It's crazy that you just mentioned that because we have not discussed the notes. I type up the notes and you fill in everything. Yeah, and that's segued into exactly what I was going to say next. So what happened with Moses? After he says this, he says the burden is too heavy for me. If you go into Numbers 11, 15 through 17, it says the Lord said to Moses bring me 70 of Israel's elders and I will take of the spirit that is on you and put the spirit on them. They will help you carry the burden of the people, so that you will not have to carry it alone. There it is. That was a God-ordained moment right there, high five.
Speaker 1:Come on, somebody carry it alone. There it is, that's a god-ordained moment. High five, awesome buddy, that was awesome.
Speaker 2:But man like, like you're, you're so right, babe, because it's god uses people for the plan in so many ways to help you care, and we miss it a lot of times because we don't. We don't want to deal with people.
Speaker 1:We want it. We don't want. Because what is the enemy doing? Not only guys, because we hear the stories like the enemy's here to kill, steal and destroy our joy. Guess what else he's here to do? Lean on this one Keep you from people, keep you alone. That's why he manifested in marriages and houses during COVID, when people were gone and they were not there, because we are not meant to do life alone. So let me tell you, me and my girl love her to pieces. Shout out, if she's listening, maria Like we've been trying to have consistent, like weekly coffee dates, because we're really bad about that, because you know we're busy moms and we're just whatever life happens. And every time I'm supposed to go over there I'd be like I don't know if I want to go. I mean I have to leave the kids here. And what if this happens and just causes that desire to just not do it?
Speaker 1:And then, and I'm telling you, if you are supposed to do something, and it's going to be something that's going to glorify the father, like so, if you're like going and hanging out with a fellow Christ follower or something right, and you feel this hesitation to want to go, that's the enemy trying to keep you from what God has planned, because so, whenever that happens, I'm always like yes, something awesome is going to happen, something great is going to happen, we're going to have a breakthrough, we're going to have, like, we're going to have an answer prayer. Something's like crazy.
Speaker 1:So, just if you are new to your walk with Jesus, it's great. If you feel like you don't want to do it, that's awesome. You're still going to do it Because, guess what, on the other side of that, I don't want to do it. That's where the Holy Spirit is going to come in, be activated in you and your conversation or whatever you're walking through.
Speaker 2:So when you're walking through these hard things, maybe view it like this and maybe when you're in it, you're going through it maybe you can call it a gift.
Speaker 1:How about the gift, the gift of too much? Yeah, god, this is too much. It's a gift, because now we're relying on God and we're relying on people. Didn't Jesus pray that? That this is too much to bear? Yeah, before he was crucified, didn't he pray that?
Speaker 2:He did pray that. And this leads right into what, outside of people, what else does God use or what else do we need? We need Jesus, yeah, we need Jesus. You look at Luke 10, 41 through 42. If you're stressed, you're anxious, you need Jesus. Martha, martha, the Lord answered. You were worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Mary has chosen what is better and it will not be taken away from her. Martha's running around trying to get the house set up. Mary's at the feet of Jesus and to Martha she's being lazy, yeah, and she's like Lord, will you tell her to get off her butt and help me out? Like I'm trying to get this place in order for dinner and she's just there at your feet not helping me and Jesus is like she's doing the right thing.
Speaker 1:She's doing exactly what is needed. Yeah, I'm the one thing you need. I'm telling you that story gets me like, all the time I make jokes about it, right, I'm always like, oh, just being a martha over here. But really, in all seriousness, that is a convicting story for me. Yeah, because so many times I'm martha in the lord's word.
Speaker 1:For me, this year has been rest yeah kind of like mary, right where she rested at his feet. I'm like Lord, convict me more of this story, cause there is a Mary in all of us, but there is a Martha especially us moms that stay home and we're caretakers oh, my goodness, are we Martha's. But we have to remember to be Mary.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we really do we have to, and all of there's mary in all of us and, and I feel like, when we can channel our inner mary and and we're not meaning mary, mother of jesus, if you've not read this scripture, what chapter is that? What book is that? This is, luke, luke. This is dive into luke. It's a beautiful story, it's so beautiful. But yeah, I just got sidetracked because I have add and I'm pretty sure somebody's in the kitchen mary and martha.
Speaker 2:They were their brothers, Lazarus, uh, very close with Jesus. Um, yeah, you need Jesus, I mean. I mean you just do, and I, even even as a pastor, like church, church on Sunday, Sunday morning, like I am Martha to the bone because things have to happen, for things for for for ministry to take place and certain things have to be set, and I forget that these things are like God is going to work no matter what I do. So is God giving?
Speaker 1:you more than you can handle on Sundays Sometimes, yes, and I feel stretched thin too at times. You know where I'm in a room. I'm supposed to be in a room, but I'm also doing check-in. But I'm also wanting to care for our families that come into our church, Because what did we say at the beginning of this? We're the plan.
Speaker 1:People are the plan and we get caught up a lot of the time in all the things. We're having to check off the boxes on Sunday. But we have to ask ourselves have the people been the plan today, Not just all the tasks? So I feel that I feel that 100%, absolutely, and I wrote this down.
Speaker 2:So if we're going to say that when God gives us more than we can handle because he's going to give you more than you can handle and we're going to say that that's the gift of too much, because it can be a gift God's gift then teaches you to. Number one put something down. Just like in this story. Jesus says you need to put something down. Martha Mary's doing what's right, she's coming to me, I'm the one thing you need. And that teaches us to put something down. I feel that Get rid of something.
Speaker 2:I feel that so much, say no to something we have to.
Speaker 1:There has to be margin. Release yourself from some obligation, something you have to be at, something you have to be a part of, if you are literally running on e all the time, like every time you go somewhere, you're that flustered person like where you're just like late to everything, your kids are falling apart, you're falling apart, the car's falling apart, the dog's falling apart. You're just like just totally exhausted and you wear it on your face. Yeah, okay, I've been in that season yeah I know what that girl looks like oh yeah, what are you trying to accomplish?
Speaker 1:Because if you're not stopping and you're not giving it to the father, then you're missing everything. You're missing it all because he wants to take it from you. He does and, hey, I feel you, I wake up and I and I feel all the things that are coming. And let me tell you the enemy, he knows because Johnny gets up, he, we, we've been trying to get up and read our scriptures together and then today we didn't get a chance to. We slept in a little bit and I read my Bible alone, which I usually do that. But we've been trying to make it a priority to read scripture together and as well as pray together. It's something we are prioritizing in our marriage and for our family and covering our family in prayer.
Speaker 1:But the enemy knows when you're trying to give your heart to the lord and you're trying to give that margin. You know, yep, that guardian, that god margin. But the enemy knows and, like today, I was going to sit and I knew all the things that need to get done. I mean we have, I mean we have overflowing laundry. If you follow me on social media, you saw your girl was like I was a laundry laundry queen today, but not before I read the word, but in the middle of me reading the word. Guess who was attacking me the enemy, and guess how he was doing it. My son all of a sudden decided he wasn't going to have breakfast this morning, which he's number number one. He usually wakes up and he's got a bowl of cereal before his eyes are open his breakfast but, this morning he didn't.
Speaker 1:Is that a? Is that just like coincidence? It's not. It's because the enemy is trying to interrupt my time with the Lord.
Speaker 1:And I felt like called to get on and do some scripture over social media and read scripture over people, and I can have anywhere between 50 and 100 viewers on my stories. So 50 to 100 people today are going to hear Ecclesiastes 3. And we forget about what that means. That means that people are hearing the word of God over their life today. Yes, amen, okay, and we have to stop and we have to give it to the Lord. We have to let there be time. We have to be a Mary. Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 2:There's a time for Martha. Yeah.
Speaker 1:There's a time for all seasons.
Speaker 2:That's what Ecclesiastes 3 is so you have to put something down.
Speaker 1:You have to put it down.
Speaker 2:And you have to be okay with it If you're about to have a breakdown.
Speaker 1:You've got too much, you've got to put something down and don't be offended if your friend tells you that, in love, sometimes we need to be rebuked by the people that we care about. Hey, you're losing your Kool-Aid, sharon. Come on, sharon. Your your kool-aid, sharon. Okay, come on, sharon. We need to. We need to be like. You know, take, does your son need to play basketball, baseball and football all in the same season, sharon? No, sharon, he doesn't.
Speaker 1:Neither does your budget he's not going pro, at least not today not playing all three of those he's not, but zoning on one you know we say this in love like because I've been a martha more times than I'm willing to admit. Yeah, but let's just remember that we got to be a Mary first.
Speaker 2:So, number one, we're going to put something down. Number two, we're going to hand something off.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I love that.
Speaker 2:We're going to hand something off Exodus 18. What you are doing is not good. You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone. That will make your load lighter because they will share it with you. You will be able to stand the strain and all these people will go home satisfied.
Speaker 1:Handsome than off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like, what is something that you could give away in your life? Is there something at work? Is there something in your home life, like?
Speaker 1:and I, I feel like, I feel like also we forget, because, like we never want to be the person that's like asking for help, right especially as christians because, we have to have it all together okay, we're gonna look good, a shiny glass house right, but guess what, friends?
Speaker 1:because remember we were the plan right and maybe there's a person that god's like. I need to use this person to step up in their faith, and they're going to do it by serving you, by taking this off your plate. This isn't for you, karen, this is for shirley man you've used karen shirley sharon.
Speaker 2:Who are these women? Okay?
Speaker 1:well, well, robert and Clark, no, no, but seriously, people were the plan in all ways and we have to remember that. That's why I feel like we are so quick to make decisions and so quick to say no's and so quick to say yes's when we're like hold on a minute. This feels like maybe God's trying to do something, because I've been praying about taking some stuff off my plate and all of a sudden, so-and-so is coming in the picture and offering to take this off my load. But I don't know if I want to let them Like let your friends babysit your kids so you can go on a date with your man. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, let your 15-year year old that wears earbuds all day long and has their hair washed once every two weeks and is literally wearing a sweatshirt and 120 degrees, raise him up and tell him he going to babysit tonight because, mama's putting on a red dress and we're going out.
Speaker 1:Hey, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's okay to give something away, like yeah, especially if you're somebody who is a goal achiever or a task manager or a task master, like just somebody who comes like I'm guilty of this sometimes with like picking up the house, like I'll come home and like I like the house to be a certain way, and it's not realistic to say, hey, wife, you're going to have the kids homeschooled and everything's perfectly clean and meal it's.
Speaker 1:It's not possible, it's not possible so, but the kids do that's their chore right, and so johnny's like well, I could get this done way faster and I'm home now, and it's not done, so I'm gonna just do it and like hold the fort there, hold guilty we need to let the kids learn to do the dishes themselves, and and and listen.
Speaker 2:I'm not preaching at anyone. I'm preaching myself like for real, like when, when we talk about these things, god's doing a work in us too, and yeah, you know this is. This is for all of us to just be better at this, like we need to be better about, you know, remembering jesus is the one thing we need to be better about handing something off, okay, and then also then also like, look at this babe, like Jesus had disciples.
Speaker 1:He wasn't like out there, like saving everybody, like all by himself, like let's go, let's go. I'm stretching myself thin. He was God and he still was. Like you know what? I need some homies. I could use a little help. I need a little bit of help. Hey, you're going to go over to too?
Speaker 2:alright, so we're going to put something down we're going to hand something off and, lastly, we're going to give something to God. We're going to give something to God. Psalms 55.22 says cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you. Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain sustain he's going to take care of you.
Speaker 2:I like that word, sustain. He's going to take care of you when we surrender our lives, truly surrender and let go. I know we've got our fists firmly clasped around our stuff and our things and our life and our tasks and all that, our relationships, but Psalms is telling us to give to God and he's going to take care of it he's going to take care of it.
Speaker 1:I think that that really is a true testament on your faith, because you can go to church check. You can get the kids dressed up in their bows and their nice khaki shorts check. You could even do your tithe right check, but how well are you doing about when you're at home? You could even do your tithe right Check, but how well are you doing about when you're at home? How are you doing about your marriage, mm-hmm? How are you doing about raising your kids? How are you doing about work? Like, how are you letting the Lord lead you? Like, do you go to church but then at work, nobody even knows you're a Christian or following Christ? Like, how are you doing about that?
Speaker 2:And a lot of this stems from pride, which is really a root of all sin. And you look at 2 Corinthians 12,. 9 says but God said to me my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect. I like this in weakness. My power is made perfect in your weakness, it's okay.
Speaker 1:So you're saying that God's going to give me more than I can handle. So he can be perfect in my weakness, amen, amen.
Speaker 2:Okay, because I'm real kind of weak in my weakness, amen, amen, okay, cause I'm real kind of weak and that's just it, and I think that's. It's prideful when we think you know what, I've got this on my own. It's prideful when we say you know what, I can do it, I don't need anyone's help. I don't need, I certainly don't need to give it to God, I've got it under control. The fact is, you don't really have anything under control and, uh, man, this idea of allowing yourself not to be weak God's not asking you to be weak. The reality is, you're a human being. You're, you're going to be weak. There's going to be times when your life is too much for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:When it's too much, it's going to feel like God. What is happening in my life? It's all falling apart. My, my life is an absolute dumpster fire. What do I do with this? Yeah, how do I fix this? Well, when we lean into, god says my power is made perfect in your weakness.
Speaker 1:You give it to me and sustain that word is just so good, Like what's the?
Speaker 2:meaning of sustain.
Speaker 1:Like what's the definition? Do we know?
Speaker 2:I don't. I mean, I've got my own definition. You want to look up what?
Speaker 1:Yeah, what do you? What do you?
Speaker 2:what do you feel like sustain is To take care of, like to lift you up, Like when we're talking about sustaining, you know you think of what do you got? What do you got?
Speaker 1:So it says. So it says um. The dictionary says strengthen or support physically or mentally. This thought had sustained him throughout the years Undergo or suffer something unpleasant, especially in an injury he died after sustaining. Well, we don't want to talk about that.
Speaker 1:But I like that, like I don't know why. I just sustain means to support something or keep it going, yeah, keep it going, yeah. So when you feel like you can't go on anymore and you have hit rock bottom and your marriage is falling apart, your kids are doing whatever God knows they're doing. You still can't get a job, your spouse is leaving you, your spouse is leaving you, fall on the floor with your hands held high and say, lord, sustain me. Like I can't, like your will be done, like I can't do it anymore. I can't tell you after walking with the Lord for some time, I can't tell you what comfort that brings me when I'm having hard times, when I can say it doesn't matter, because he has me and he always has. The problem with that is we are humans and we have an expectation of how we feel our outcome should be, and if he doesn't fulfill that outcome the way we feel like he should, then is he really sustaining me? Is he really love me? Because he let that?
Speaker 2:happen, and that's what we talked about last week.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:This idea that God is this cosmic Coke machine where I hit the button of my perfect life. It didn't come out and now I'm not happy and God has failed, because his job is to make me happy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, and that's that's not really the case at all. Well, and like you know, there's just moments where we're going to have hard seasons or maybe a hard day or a hard couple of days. I was so off this week. Listen like when you are working and doing kingdom work. Friends, please, first of all, do kingdom work. We need kingdom workers, we need people fighting for our next gen and we need people fighting for marriages, because the enemy is coming for them. He's coming for our families. He's coming for our families. But just prepare yourself. You better get real used to your prayer life because he's coming for you.
Speaker 1:Spiritual warfare is knocking at the door and are you going to open it up and let him in? So I had a rough couple of days. I was just a little off, Believe it or not. The pastor wife was a little off and you know, what I needed in the moment is I needed my followers, my girls, my prayer warriors. Hey, I ain't doing okay, I'm having a rough couple of days and I can't point my finger to it, but I know we're doing X, Y and Z for ministry and we're getting ready to start a marriage group this last week and trying to heal marriages. Try to sustain them in Jesus right. So he came for me. He came for me and he's coming for you and we've got to be ready and you've got to know the word of god and you got to know how loved you are by him, because it's going to get hard it always does and you're going to want to break, yeah, but you can't.
Speaker 1:You can bend like these big old trees next to us when there's a monsoon or whatever. They don't have monsoons here, tropical, tropical hurricane, whatever, but but just just find comfort in that I don't have a perfect day.
Speaker 1:Every day like, oh my gosh, no way man no one does but but the lord will, he'll be here for you, he'll sustain you and, if and, and. If it's not an audible voice, which, if you hear god audibly, please message us, because I've yet to do that or hear that. But he uses people, he uses the body of Christ to speak life over you.
Speaker 2:So you're going to put something down, you're going to hand something off, you're going to give something to God. You're going to allow people to come into your life that can help take some of the burden. You're going to say no to something that maybe you feel like is drowning you or drowning your family and you're going to give it to God?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you're going to surrender it to God. Does this solve every problem in your life? Absolutely not. No. We live in a fallen world and you are a sinful person. Every person is yeah, so your life will not be perfect, but you will at least feel sustained.
Speaker 1:I love that.
Speaker 2:That's that word again, so good you will feel the sustaining power and the sustaining love of your Savior. Yeah, when we give ourselves a margin, allow relationship to come into our lives that can help us, and when we allow God to take what we're giving him, when we lay it all down and surrender it to him, yeah, and now we're. Now we're letting God's power become perfect in our weakness. I love that. That's so good. Yeah, now let's say mic drop right there. That's so good. Will you pray for us?
Speaker 1:I would love to heavenly father, lord, we just are so humbled every time we get to talk into these sweet little microphones in our living room, makeshift area or sunroom, um, but I'm just thankful that you have allowed us to have a platform like this to speak your word over it to people. We're hurting like we're just, we're broken, lord, and I just I pray over the person that's listening right now that just really needed this, like I know that you're going to provide that person. That just gives me all kinds of emotions, like when people say, oh my gosh, I was listening to that podcast and I just I needed in that moment, just, lord, thank you so much for your consistent love for your children. That never goes out, is always burning, and God, I just I pray over the people that need this, need this podcast in their life, that it gives them life. I pray that they would take these things and they would bring them into their life, that they would the practical application part of all of this, that it's not just words being spoke over a podcast, but it's a heart change in the process.
Speaker 1:Lord, ultimately, just bring people to you, just bring them to your feet. Help us to be Mary this week and not a Martha, help us to put down the things that are causing us to trip up. Help us to prioritize our relationship with you and God. Just continue to bless the space and bless our marriage, bless other marriages, bless the homes and just bring your people back to you. Father, we love you In your holy and precious name. We pray these things, amen, amen.
Speaker 2:Thank you. Thank you. We hope this talk was a blessing. We hope this little series that we did was a blessing. Yeah, over the past three weeks just kind of a fun little like take a look at maybe some misconceptions about God, and I hope it was a blessing to somebody.
Speaker 1:And we're going to be picking up next week with some relationship stuff.
Speaker 2:I think we're going to dissect marriage.
Speaker 1:Let's get brutally honest.
Speaker 2:Okay, jess, and I don't know how to do it any other way I don't know, I was just wired that way. You're gonna get some authentic stuff, uh, in regards to marriage, our marriage, and uh, now let's just dig into some some marriage.
Speaker 1:So if you're married, um man you don't want to miss, next week we're gonna get serious or if you're in a serious committed relationship, or even if you're single and you want to be married one day. It's's. It's for all of you, or?
Speaker 2:if you've seen a movie with a married person in it this is for you.
Speaker 1:This is for you, man.
Speaker 2:If you've even heard the word marriage don't miss it, don't miss it. Um, all right, guys, we love you. We're going to talk at you next week, ta-ta.
Speaker 1:Red leather.