The Way
Podcast hosted by Hailey and Emma. Two Jesus loving girls, diverse in age, who want to spread the word. Come with them as they navigate daily life as believers and try to build the Kingdom of God. Expect laughter, tears, truth, and honesty.
The Way
Game Time.
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Welcome back to The Way! Emma and Hailey are so excited to be sharing the GOOD NEWS with y'all and really digging into the everyday life of a believer. Today they are playing a little game that asks questions from simple to serious. There is a whole range of topics within this episode. So come listen in and see what answers they get to share with y'all! Make sure you hit that follow button so you don't miss out on the good stuff!
GO BE A LIGHT FOR JESUS!
https://theway.buzzsprout.com
Hey y'all, we're your host.
SPEAKER_00I'm Haley. I'm Emma. And we're here to light the way to Jesus.
SPEAKER_02So saddle up your donkeys. All right, y'all. Welcome back to The Way. We have something exciting happening today.
SPEAKER_00Yes. We actually, well, Haley actually ordered a game. So we're going to be drawing cards from uh like a pile. And then it's a it has like questions for us about like prayer life and just like Christian like life questions, I guess. You know?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, just different topics and stuff like that. So we're just we're not really sure what's in this. We haven't looked at yeah, it's a surprise to us as much as y'all. Yeah. So yeah, Emma. Let's just jump right on in. Let's get started. All right. Random question. Do I remind you of anybody? Hmm.
SPEAKER_00That's a good question. I'm gonna have to think of who uh you remind me of. Do you remind me of anybody? Yeah. Um honestly, I'm going to say no because I think in my life, Haley is her own person. And like I don't Haley's like, whenever she's talking to me, it's like bam. Like, it's not really like we don't ever have just like a normal conversation, really. Um, and the only per other person that's like I feel like is really like fired up all the time um is like either my mom or like um something like that. So yeah.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna say the only other person fired up all the time in my life is you. And your mom, I mean your mom too, but yeah, like I feel the same about you. Like nobody you don't remind me of anybody. Certain people like character characteristics I would hope would come from you onto them, though.
SPEAKER_00Okay, yeah, if that makes sense, yeah. That makes sense. Yeah, okay, all right. Next question period. All right. Oh dang okay. What about my testimony surprised you? Hmm.
SPEAKER_02Honestly, kind of, I guess that we dealt with the same battles. That's what I was going to say. Because I didn't know that about you until recently that we struggled with that place of that fear place of the things that were trying to oppress us, yeah, when we were younger. Yeah. And so I didn't know that. And so that is what honestly surprised me about you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I would say the same thing because we were literally talking about this the other day, and she was like, Oh my gosh, I dealt with the same thing whenever I was younger.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so it's so crazy that you know you can be in opposite places of your life, and different like ages, like we have a big age gap. Yeah, I mean, don't get crazy. I'm not that old. But I mean, yeah, there is a couple years, y'all. Whatever. But yeah, I mean, to be that spaced out in the you know, our lives at that time and be dealing with the exact same thing is super, yeah. It's crazy, but that is what reminded me of that was you. I agreed, yeah. Okay, all right. Next question.
SPEAKER_01Alright.
SPEAKER_02What's something you prayed for in one season that you wouldn't pray for now?
SPEAKER_00Okay, so I think we do have to say this because uh we said at the beginning that we didn't know what was going on, but we did know this question because we just saw the first card that was in the deck, and we were like, that's a good one. We're gonna talk about that one. So we did see this one, but I still don't know my answer for this one. So I'm gonna let you go first. Okay.
SPEAKER_02So my answer about something I prayed for in a season that I wouldn't pray for now, I would say the last year of my life, I prayed for a relationship that I was in, even after God asked me to step out of it and was like shifting directions in both of our lives, and I was still trying to cling on to it. And so, with that, I feel like I've grown to say that I wouldn't do that again to pray for a specific relationship again when the Lord is shifting paths and changing it, because instead, I just want his will, like I don't want what I want anymore. I just want him to take over because the longer you try to cling to it, the more pain you cause yourself because he's already asked you to hand something over to him, and when you try to pick it up and do it on your own, like it just it doesn't work. So that would be my answer.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Um, so I think as I was sitting here thinking about it, I think I kind of I don't, it doesn't really answer the question, but it kind of like maybe rewords it a little bit.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So I used to not have like very many friends that I felt like I could relate to a lot. And so I prayed for friends that would come into my life and you know, like challenge me and be there with me. And I have that now, and I'm very thankful, but I don't think like that's something to quit praying for. I think that's something to keep on praying for. And I just wanted to point that out. Like, even if you don't feel like you're going through that season anymore, I think it's still good to pray for that one thing that was happening because now you can see where you were and where God has brought you.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you know, that's good. So that's a good way to live.
SPEAKER_00That's kind of how like what came to my mind. Cause I would still pray for godly friends because I love my friends that I have, but I still want more. Yeah. You know? That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sorry, sorry, go ahead. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_02No, you're good. You're good. I think that was really good.
SPEAKER_00Okay, okay. Yeah. Okay, let's pick a different one. All right. What kind of food do you think I'm craving after church?
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna go first. I know Emma's taco casa. This girl eats taco casa like 70, 11 times a week, y'all.
SPEAKER_00Like I actually have not had actually that's a lie, I had it last night, but yeah, I didn't have it like two weeks before that. Like it was like that's because you've been out of town. And I will say, the like it's um like my favorite taco casa is the one where we live. Like, yeah, that's my favorite. But I listen, Haley doesn't really like taco casa, so I don't like to make her go there with me. I don't think it's a I don't like it. I'm burned out of it.
SPEAKER_02Okay, burned out. If I was younger, like your age, all I ate was taco casa because that's all I could afford, y'all.
SPEAKER_00Well, I love taco casa, but I think Haley, she's more like a I don't even know. Like, let's go home make some sandwiches.
SPEAKER_02Try to save some money, kind of girl. Yeah, maybe.
SPEAKER_01I need to be saving some money, but yeah, I'm just saying.
SPEAKER_02If I'm not making food at home, I'm craving that Mexican food. Yes, real Mexican food, not the taco caso. Like dough. If you're talking about no, I'm talking about like me fan. Oh my goodness. The good stuff. Okay, okay. But yeah.
SPEAKER_00Emma's a taco casa girly, and well, we both like Mexican food, but in different aspects, different um scales of Mexican food, different price for Mexican food.
SPEAKER_02All right. What's something you struggle to ask for help with, and why is it hard to ask?
SPEAKER_01Oh, that is a good one. Zine.
SPEAKER_00Oh. Um, I think so. Oh my gosh. Wow. Um, something I've learned to come become comfortable with asking for help, but it's always hard to ask for help with something like um kind of in my walk with the Lord, like I want to be challenged, but also at the same time, like, you don't want to feel um like sometimes I don't want to feel like I don't know what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_01You know, you're a newbie.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and that's okay if you feel that way, and I still do feel that way. Like sometimes I'll be like reading something or I'll hear something, and I'm like, what's the backstory of that? Like, that's been told in Sunday school for like ages that I've been to, and I'm like, Yeah, I don't know that. And so then I'm like, oh dang, I need to ask for some help. But then I think that's something that I struggle with just because I feel like I should know that, yeah, if that makes sense. Like, not that like I'm ashamed because I don't know the answer, but just because like I feel like I should know it, kind of more like harder on myself, kind of but like you're disappointed in your own self for not knowing the answer. Yeah, but Jesus gives grace, yes, he does, and he knows, and he, yeah, he knows.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I don't even think that we can read the Bible seven times and remember every bit of it. Yeah, each time you read it or like different passages, you pick up something new that you didn't pick up the first time. Yeah, you're gonna get something different out of it, and I think that's because when we read it and we go through it all those different times, like we're always going through something different in our life. And so it it like impacts your heart differently each time you do that.
SPEAKER_00It's like the Lord brings you back to that to show you something different. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02My something that I struggle to ask for help with is sometimes when I am in a bad place, like I don't want to always admit that I'm struggling. And so I let the chaos of my mind affect everything. And instead of like asking somebody to help me pull pull myself out of it, sometimes I just kind of wait. Yeah, and sometimes I even forget to lean on the Lord in those moments, if I'm being real honest. And I mean, I know that he's the one that is going to sit with us in those moments, and I've I've sat with him in the hardest moments of my life, but sometimes like you forget like to get into that place, yeah, because you're letting the chaos take over everything in your mind, and so you don't you don't think clearly to ask, and he gives us those people to ask, like he gives us earthly people to ask that are spiritual, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I agree, yeah. Yeah, I was gonna add something, but I forgot. I it was like a you said it, you were talking about it, and I thought of it, but like when you're in those mental places, yeah. Like, I don't remember. If I remember, I'll come back to it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we can always do it.
SPEAKER_00Is it my turn or is it your turn?
SPEAKER_02It's your turn.
SPEAKER_00Okay, all right. What's an old insecurity that God has started breaking off your life? All of them. No, just kidding.
SPEAKER_02Uh them Chinese low.
SPEAKER_00Okay, you got it.
SPEAKER_02Um, ooh. I guess the most I guess this is like the biggest one in my life. The insecurity of failing and being a bad mom. Because I was not always the mom that I am today, if I'm completely real and raw and honest with y'all. I didn't go to church. Like, I believed in the Lord and I prayed, but like that's part of my testimony. Like, I wasn't involved in church. My kid was going to a Christian school, like he was getting the Lord that way, but I wasn't giving that to him. My Bible had dust on it, and so I failed, like I struggled as a mom. Like, I wasn't great to my kids because I didn't have the Lord, and so he has been breaking off that like insecurity of holding on to that place in my life because I am changed and I am striving to do my best, even though I know I'm gonna fail, and he doesn't expect perfectionism. That is something that I've really, you know, really been clinging on to is I don't have to be perfect and get it right all the time. Like my kids give me just as much grace as the Lord gives me, and I'm so grateful for that. But I am trying to be better at making sure that I give them the same amount, if that makes sense.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's yeah, that's beautiful. But something I want to point out to you is I kept on hearing you say the word fail, and I think like um that's an aggressive word. Yeah, because the Lord has brought you through this to show you your growth from that place.
SPEAKER_02Oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00And so I just want you to know like you're gonna have grow spots and you're gonna have valleys.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And but the valleys are where you grow.
SPEAKER_02Yes, that you don't grow on the mountaintops. Yeah, life can't be growing up there, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So okay, I'm gonna have to say, um, I used to be really insecure about how I looked whenever I was younger. And because like you have all these standards that social media puts on your life, yeah, that um you gotta look a certain way, gotta look this way. But I think recently, like I've really like comparison is a thief of joy. And because I was comparing myself to those other people that I saw on my social media, like that was taking my joy away. And I don't feel like I do that that like often anymore. And so I'm very grateful that the Lord has brought me from that, yeah, and praise be to God because I don't want to feel that way no more.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I think we all struggle with that sometimes. I know I've dealt with it, like it all looks picture perfect, but the reality is people post the picture perfect moments, they don't post the real moments, yeah. And that's kind of why we wanted to do something like this. Like, give y'all the real. Like this is real. We know y'all go through it too. And we're not trying to make it, you know, sugarcoat it and let you see just the good stuff. Yeah, we want to let you see the stuff that we do struggle with, honestly. Yeah, so yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay, all right, next one.
SPEAKER_02What do you need to forgive yourself for? Ooh. Ooh, ooh, hmm.
SPEAKER_00Wow, that one's gonna be a hard one.
SPEAKER_02I don't know if I have an answer yet.
SPEAKER_00Forgive myself for. Um, well, first of all, I want to point out that forgiveness is a big walk and a bit a big walk, a big, a big thing in your walk with the Lord. Yes. And I think like, honestly, a lot like I know I struggle with this, I like kind of hold grudges towards people, but I kind of get over it, you know? Yeah. But I've been learning that you need to talk it out too, because it brings to the attention and it helps the other person realize. And maybe if it doesn't get fixed out of that, maybe then some boundaries need to be set. But I think I have gotten better at like forgiving others, but I really don't know if I forgive myself. Like, I will say there are some things like that I've said maybe. Um, I don't know, one of my friends was in a getting into a relationship, and I did not think that that was very wise. So I think I inputted my opinion on it, and I ended up having to talk to this person and be like, I'm sorry that I did that. That was not my place. But as your friend, I'm going to bring these to your attention. And then after the fact I had to forgive myself because I was like hounding on myself, like, Emma, why did you do that? Why did you like the way you presented it? Like, you don't you didn't have to be rude about it, you know? And so I learned that like I asked for forgiveness, yeah, and I I don't know, yeah. Like it wasn't completely done out of love, like you were kind of condemning. Yes, yeah, and I think I think that's where like I needed to realize is how I approached the situation. Like I could have came at them in love, and most of the time I try, but I just didn't in this situation. So I did have to ask for forgiveness, and I also had to learn that people are gonna make mistakes, and what you do after is how you're gonna grow in that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's the most significant part. Yeah. My forgiving myself as I sat here and thought about it. Something that I have cling like clung on to for so long and been hard on myself for is not spending enough time with the people that I love. Um, when I lost my meme, I really beat myself up because there was so many times that she would call or ask me to come out, and I wish that I would have just did it because I lost her and she was my best friend, and so I think I've held on to that, and I think that's like when I get in my valley around like the time of her you know death and her birthday, I think that that is the part that hinders me the most from going forward from day-to-day life because I hold on to kind of like an anger with myself for you know not doing things the way that always should have. And let me tell y'all, I was with my meme all the time. Like, I was with her all the time, but sometimes I get so annoyed, and I remember the very last birthday that I got to spend with her. I yelled at her. I was so mad at her because my meme always turned my birthday and her birthday into a fish fry. Okay. And I'm like, Mimi, like, that's not what I want. Like, why can't you fix me something that I want to eat? And I got so mad at her that almost didn't go. Like, I was just so annoyed with her at that moment. And to this day, like, I'm so grateful that I showed up because that was the last one that I got to have. And so that is something that I need to forgive myself for is because I know she's not sitting up in heaven thinking about girl, I'm mad at you for not hanging out enough. I mean, she might be. She, yeah, if you know my meme, no, she dancing. She's dancing up there with Jesus. Yeah, so I think that's what I need to forgive myself for is the the moments that I didn't do what she asked me to do with her.
SPEAKER_00And I think I could say the same too in that I think I can relate to you in that. Um, but also the Lord gives grace, yeah, and so should we, yeah, but also to ourselves. Yeah. Because the like your thoughts, if you're being mean to yourself, like that is powerful. And if you're speaking those words out toward yourself, the mouth has the tongue has power.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and the enemy is taking hold of that exactly utilizing it. Like he wants you to be beat down.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So so out loud, be like, enemy, I am forgiving myself.
SPEAKER_02And then he's gonna be like, oof, and I'm stepping on you, bro.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, okay. Is it my turn? That was a good one. That was a good one, yeah. Okay, let's come over here. What's a moment you felt you hurt God?
SPEAKER_02Oh, a lot of them. How can that pinpoint just? I know I be hurting the Lord. Wow. That reminds me of a song that I've been listening to. It says, God, like, why do you love me when I constantly shift the blame on you? And then it says, God, why do you trust me when I'm always hurting you? Or it's like it doesn't say God, it just says, like, why do you? But I put God into it because I was like, Oh, God, like, how do you keep trusting me to like handle blessings that you Give me when I keep messing up and like I know it hurts your heart.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's crazy. Um, I think I have one. So I uh whenever I used to like to fit into the crowd, and they these people that I would surround myself with, they were like, Oh, you can't do this because or you're not gonna do this because uh they knew I followed Jesus and I loved the Lord. And for a little bit there, I took that and I was like, Are you serious? I can do this if I want to.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, watch this, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And now that like I'm in this part of life, I'm like, I look back on that moment and I'm like, you know, I'm grateful that they said that. And yeah, I feel like my thoughts, whenever my friends would tell me that, they were like, oh my gosh, I just wish they wouldn't say that. But now I'm like, no, I'm glad they said that because I'm glad that people view me like that. Yeah, like I want to be a vessel for the Lord, and I want them to see me as someone who loves the Lord and follows Jesus. And in that moment, I whenever I was thinking back on this, I did have a little bit of like, why did I do that? And then I like you know, felt like that was hurtful to God, and I didn't want that to be. So now, whenever people say that, I'm like, thank you.
SPEAKER_02Yep, yep, thanks for checking me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Um, I feel like I have a lot of moments that I hurt God, like, especially when I wasn't living my life for him. Like, I was like you, like just doing what I wanted to do because I'm like, you can't tell me not to do it. And I didn't have people saying, like, oh, but you like follow the Lord, like you shouldn't do that. Like, that's not where I was at in my life. But now that I look back, like I'm grateful for the path that I took because it has me where I'm at today so deep in my relationship with him, and like so thankful for the struggles that led to you know, a purpose, a testimony. You know, but I can look back and I can think, oh, I was out drinking in a pasture, like I'm sure I'm hurting the Lord because he's like, Come on, my lost sheep, like come home, like come to the church. Like, whereas before I would be like, I'm not going to church, I'm tired. Like, I don't care. Like, I don't want to go. Like, I'll just talk to the Lord later. That hurts him, you know, and he he just wants us and loves us so much that he wants a relationship. He just wants us to, he craves us and wants us to crave him as much as he craves us. And so I feel like those were my places of like hurting him because I didn't want to be that close. And now I'm like, I can't get enough of you, Lord. Like, yeah, speak to me, give me the answer. Yeah, you know, just searching for it. So that would be my moment of hurting God. Good ones, yeah. Okay, next question. Oh, did someone say something that reminded you of something you haven't dealt with yet? Oh I had those moments with your mom all the time when I'm on the phone with her.
SPEAKER_00Um wow. Did someone say something that reminded you of something you haven't dealt with yet? Yeah. Well, while we're thinking, I do want to point out that I think like whenever people struggle, and like our first instinct isn't to go ask for help. It's to push it down and keep it down so you don't have to burden anybody else with your questions or what's going on. Um, but I think like it's good to deal with it because it just trains your your mind and your heart to deal with it and not push it down because if you're pushing it down, it just builds and builds and builds, and then one day it's just gonna come out in a whole like waterfall of emotions of everything that you've ever pushed down.
SPEAKER_02And everything that you push down causes so much damage inside of your body, like it really does truly affect everything, your hormone levels, your just everything is affected by the trauma that you hold in. Like you have to release it, or else it does, you know, you have to it metabolize it. And that's a real thing. I read a book on it, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, what was that conversation that we had on the phone that one time? And you were like, You're probably asking like Emma which time, but like how many times? Um, I don't know, but I don't remember the exact story, but I will say I was struggling with something, and I called Haley to talk it out, and I guess I was saying something that wasn't of the Lord, and she stopped me in my tracks and was like no, and started like rebuking what I was saying, and I think those emotions that I was feeling towards what you not what you were saying, but before you started speaking truth, yeah. Um, I think I hadn't dealt with that yet. But after you brought it to light, it made me realize that I need to quit saying those things about myself, yeah.
SPEAKER_02So yeah, I think I know which conversation it was, but yeah. Um some something that reminded you of something you haven't dealt with yet. I've been to therapy all I've been I've been dealing with all kinds of stuff, so it's like hard to remember, like to pinpoint everything. So just knowing that like certain memories can be triggered, like the deeper that you go, like opening layers, like in therapy, I'll say it's the best thing to do. Yeah, like for real. I am a change woman with that therapy. So I think just like the more that you open layers, the more pieces that the Lord will start to reveal. But I don't think he reveals it all at once because he doesn't want to overwhelm you and take you away from him. When he like reveals it in little pieces, you're able to hold truth in those moments and but deal with one at a time, be able to deal with them one at a time as they erupt. Yeah, because if you're just like bombarded with everything at once, I mean you're gonna shut down. Like you're gonna hold it in your psych. I'm just kidding, I don't want to deal with this. Like, I'm walking out on it. You're gonna have a lot to think about and to pray about. So I think that I've had a lot of those moments, but I think that the Lord has been so gracious to reveal them piece by piece and let me completely metabolize each one before opening up the next one to like give me that time to to essentially, I guess you're kind of grieving those those things that you've been dealing with or like held on to that are traumatic, you know.
SPEAKER_00But after the fact, it just feels like a weight lifted up because that you don't have to struggle with that anymore because you know that the Lord's got it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and it really does help, like we say it all the time the community that you have to unburden yourself with. Sorry, guys.
SPEAKER_01Um so yeah, that's where we're at with that question.
SPEAKER_00I just wanted to see God's got my back. Amen. That song is a bop. Okay, yeah, I agree. I think we can do a couple more.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_00My turn. Okay. What drink just feels like me?
SPEAKER_02A drink that feels like me.
SPEAKER_00Okay, yours is like a lemon water, probably. I you're just like giving water with lemon.
SPEAKER_02What does that even mean? I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Like in my sour, what I don't know what that means, but like I just feel like like that's exactly like immediately came to my mind. Like water with lemon. Like you always be carrying your jug around, like probably my roommate. I just thought it was like water with lemon or something, like healthy gore.
SPEAKER_02Oh, so I'm healthy. Yeah, you see me as healthy, yeah. That makes me feel so good because you know, all the like we were talking about, all the therapy, like to get to that healthy place in my life. Because I had somebody eat literally text me today that said, I can tell you're doing really well. And then Saturday somebody said, Hilly, you look good, like you you sound good, like got that Jesus colour. I'm like, Yeah, I'm not gonna Jesus be on me. You know, you be in me, you with me. We're all about you're working through me. Yes, I'm in. Um, I was gonna say a cherry cola for you. Oh, okay. The reason why, because cherry sweet, okay, but coke is spicy. You know when you open up a fresh coke and it's like a burn jingly burn. Yes. I'm like, that girl, she'll get it. If it has like she's gonna stand with the sword of the spirit for you, you know what I mean? So cherry color is what you would remember.
SPEAKER_00Okay, period.
SPEAKER_02I love that one.
SPEAKER_00I will add, I'm not drinking sodas this year, but I love that explanation.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that is. I like the background. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah. I like that.
SPEAKER_01That's a fun little question.
SPEAKER_00That was a fun question. I like that one.
SPEAKER_02Let's see what we got.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_02What kind of pastor would you be? Children, youth, young adult, or main? Oh. In the main story.
SPEAKER_00What kind of pastor would I be? Um What if we answer that for each other?
SPEAKER_02And then we say what we would think about ourselves.
SPEAKER_00Okay. I think you would be like a children's pastor. Girl, really? Yeah, I feel like you could like, I feel like you could have the vocabulary to like make it to where little kids could understand it.
SPEAKER_02Because I'm a mom. Yeah, for sure. I think, yeah. I would say, I know this is weird to say, but young adult for you. Okay. Because you're so seasoned in your life and walk with the Lord, like, even though you are still young, like the way that you can explain things that the Lord does and says, and like knowing scripture, it's just such a beautiful thing that I feel like for young people, or maybe like youth, not really like young adult, like youth. I feel like you could really, I don't know, get on their level to explain, like in a way that you have dealt with and gone through. Now, like where you're at as a young adult, you would be able to relate with them and help them through things.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So that's what I would see for you. I kind of agree with you because I think I I don't know, maybe like youth, because I'm kind of like corny and I like jokes, so I would be like, but also at the same time, I could be like, Jesus is coming back, and you best get on the train.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, period.
SPEAKER_00I feel like I could be either way, but maybe the youth or the young adult would take that better. Because if I say that to children, they're gonna be like crying.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, like, you know, like junior high, like middle school age. That's what I would see. And what would you pick like for yourself? Would you pick that? Like if you could be, yeah, I think so. I I feel like I could do children or youth. Honestly, like, I don't know. I just when I do children's church, sometimes, like, yeah, they don't always listen. But I loved like getting to hear their explanations like about Jesus and the different stories. Like, we talked about the woman at the well, and we talked about like how the Lord, what the Lord does for us to show He loves us, and like hearing their little explanations and then me getting to explain different things to them. I loved it, it was just so fun and beautiful that day. I just had a blast. Yeah, I feel like I would choose that for myself too. Okay, so yeah, that's a good one.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that was a good one. Okay, you want this to be our last one? Yeah, I think this is our last one, y'all.
SPEAKER_02So let's finish it with us with a good one.
SPEAKER_00A smackdown. Okay, I'm gonna maybe pick somewhere from deeper. We can like choose out of three. Okay. If someone in this room could pray over one part of your story tonight, what would you ask them to pray for?
SPEAKER_02That's a good one. Won't the Lord do it? Yeah, yes, he will. Like, what what an awesome like question to end the night with. Like, he did that, only he could do it. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Wow. I'll let you go first. Okay. Well, first of all, we need to pray over Haley's AC, her air conditioner.
SPEAKER_02It's getting fixed. It's gonna get fixed.
SPEAKER_00I mean, Lord willing, it's getting fixed Tuesday. Bless him. And that heat is coming, so it needs to get fixed. Woo! At least it wasn't summer.
SPEAKER_02I will say thank you, Lord, for letting it like the cold front coming in right now. I'm gonna be able to sleep hopefully at my own house. Because sleeping in another bed and that's not your own ain't the best.
SPEAKER_00Yes. But I think over your story, I would say probably um just like your relationship with your loved ones. And uh You're supposed to be asking like what I could pray for you. No. Over one part of your story tonight. Well, we're your story.
SPEAKER_01No, I'm praying over this for you.
SPEAKER_00Sorry, I read the question wrong. Okay, we want to go back.
SPEAKER_01No, it's fine. You finish your answer and then you can pick what your story is. Oh, okay. And then I'll tell you about it. Okay, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_00Um, yeah, so just your relationship with your loved ones and your like continued growth with the Lord and walk with the Lord.
SPEAKER_03That's a good one.
SPEAKER_00And then over something for me, probably um just my career choice that I have picked out for myself, uh, that I've prayed about and that I feel peace about. Yeah. But that it would bring me joy in the upcoming years to come, and that I would be able to walk it out following Jesus fully and being able to shine him through my job. And yeah.
SPEAKER_02So letting his hands lead yours. Yeah. Yeah. In your job. Yeah. Um, something that I would pray for over you right now is just some of the season that you've been walking through. Like, there's just specific things that I obviously am not gonna say on here, but that is definitely something that's been on my heart to pray over you for. And so, like, you know, with family and all the things, so that's something that I would pray, and something in my story. Um, I guess not, I've been dealing with like making sure that I'm sorry, I'm not speaking loud enough. Not um shutting things out or clinging to the things that God said. I know we kind of talked about that this morning, and I said it the other day, I was actually on the phone with your mom, and I was like, I don't want to cling to like what the Lord has spoken to me because he can always change that, and I don't want to be disappointed if that doesn't happen, if that makes sense. But I also don't want to completely like pump the brakes, homie, because you know, I tend to do that whenever something comes about. So that's what I would personally pray for over myself.
SPEAKER_00And I think that you could have peace in knowing that the Lord is going to lead you where you need to be. Yeah. And that, you know, we talked about in church this morning, like you're gonna get on that ship and there's gonna come a storm. Yeah, but the Lord is going to lead you where you need to be, and it's your mission to view it with open eyes of how the Lord is going to lead you into the next season, into the next from this one season that you feel like is been bringing you down, you know.
SPEAKER_02And I, you know, like I know that the Lord's gonna bring us to like whatever, but I don't want to put like a limit on it and think, oh, it's just gonna be this way, if that makes sense. Because I feel like we tend to gather onto that and stick to, oh, it's gonna look like this, and then the Lord's like, I never said it was gonna look like this or go this exact way. I'm I told you that this is like the picture, like a bigger picture for you to imagine, not say this is exactly pencil it in, bump, bump, bump. Yeah, it's exactly like that. Like not putting limits on the Lord or the Holy Spirit to do it, yeah, to bring you through it. Exactly. So that is what I would specifically go for. Okay. Well, we'll keep it in our prayers, yes, and we would love for y'all to reach out and tell us if you have something specific that you want us to pray over. Like we, we will, we will war for you because we, you know, we want you to know that you're not alone. You have a community. There are people that would love to sit with you in the things that you're going through. You are not a burden, you know. Please just yeah, like your love, just share it with us and let us sit with you in it as the Lord brings you through it. So I guess that's how we're gonna end the night. And we'll see you next time. Go be a light for Jesus.