Lisa, where are you?
There you are.
Hello, hello.
I miss Lisa.
Can you hear me?
You're on mute.
Can you hear me okay?
Yes.
I unmute it when I initially log in.
But when it opens up, it turns everything off again.
It's a default setting.
That's okay.
Yeah, exactly.
How are things?
Things are going okay.
I'm starting to get more focused.
I am definitely on my way to Huntsville, Alabama.
God gave me confirmation for that.
It's great to have clarity.
That's a great area.
Yeah.
And my only ask today is if either of you have any contacts there,
or people you know, business people, whoever,
would love to make a new friend.
I would love to make a new friend.
I will absolutely.
Nobody off the top of my head comes to mind, but I'm sure we do.
And I'm sure Ray knows someone out there.
And I would do a post in the group too.
Just, you know, asking, Hey, who do you know?
Is there anyone I can connect with?
I don't know how to ask for help.
You say that and that seems to be, I, I'm not sure why.
I don't know how to ask for help or it's like, I don't think to do it.
It's it's like something I've had in my life.
I just, I just do it myself.
Which is really selfish in a lot of ways.
So thank you.
Well, yeah, I mean,
Look, nobody likes to ask for help.
Nobody is like nobody on this planet says I love asking people for help.
And if they do, they're lying.
Rebecca, do you like asking people for help?
Nope.
So this, this illusion that we, you know,
I don't know why I don't like to ask people for help because we don't,
because we're.
Wired that way because we are, you know, human beings.
And we're wired to want to do everything ourselves and control
everything. So there's nothing wrong with you. It's totally normal.
Yeah.
I know you just move past it anyway and know that.
People there's a community of people who want to help,
who want to help support you in this big move.
And this big decision. And I'm so excited for you.
Because to have that clarity and that vision and go for it and,
and be willing to move forward on it is huge.
Found a church already.
Did I catch up?
I said, I found a church.
I think we lost Jessica.
Okay.
Okay. As long as you can hear me, that's okay. But your picture.
I don't know if it's me or you.
No, no, no.
Yeah. You're cutting in and out a little Jess.
Okay. Let me turn my video off here.
Is that better?
Keep talking.
Is that better? Can you hear me? Okay.
Yeah. Yes, absolutely.
Okay.
There may be a little bit of a delay.
But I'll be, I'll be out of this area soon. So.
So what were you saying? You found a church, Lisa.
Found a church.
I had connected with a church called Lake point church and rock wall,
Over the last couple of weeks. And a friend of mine mentioned it a long time
ago.
And that's where I'm from. I'm about, I was like an hour from rock wall.
And.
I reached out to the church because I watched them virtually because
they're in Texas.
And I was communicating and saying, oh my gosh, I love you.
And I was like, oh my gosh, I love you too.
And the people that were from the church were messaging me back saying,
well, how can we pray for you? I'm like, well,
can you help me find a church?
They get.
And they said, give me your email.
And within an hour, they emailed me.
A church that's super strong,
super powerful digging deep into the Lord in the Alabama area.
And there's some in Tennessee and they had one in Huntsville.
I'm like, thank you, Jesus. So it's, it's, it's all about asking for help.
Amen. Absolutely. So I'm excited to get the church and I just gotta somehow get in contact.
I emailed them but haven't heard back in three days. So I'm gonna pick up the phone after this.
So what what are your moving plans? Do you have a date in mind?
Anytime before November 30th. So there's no date as such. My lease is up at the end of November.
So it'll be November 30th at the latest. Right now I'm looking at opportunities.
I found some really great opportunities. There's a couple at Boeing and I was in LinkedIn. Found
one and I've been praying over it. Lord do you want me to get back into IT and project
management? And I'm getting maybe. And I'm like well do you want me to get back into manufacturing?
Where it's been 20 plus years since I've done it but I just loved it. And I got a yes and I'm like
okay. So I started looking for manufacturing jobs. You know team leads, assembly lines,
stuff like that. Quality. I was big into hands-on. I used to be a CNC machine operator.
That was my first job out of high school. Wow. So I've got lots of skills that no one knows about
I just you know. Yeah you know that's I mean that's a very specific skill set. So
I think that's that's wonderful. Well and the cool part is is when I was looking at the job
LinkedIn said oh you've got two contacts that actually work there. And I went oh my gosh one
of them I worked with at the last position. So I reached out to him and he's like call me. I'm
in the flow. You're in the flow right? Yeah absolutely. So I would absolutely post on
I would be posting in Rankmakers and in the Faith and Finance group and say hey who do you know in
Huntsville? Okay. I'm going out there. I'm making the move. I'd love to connect with some like-minded
people. Yes absolutely. Guaranteed you'll have tons of tons of answers. And sorry there might
be a little bit of a delay. But I'll be out of this area soon. But yeah that's why I keep
interrupting you. Well where are you hunkered down at? Me and you know Tyler yeah. I do not.
You know Tyler from the swag shop that does all of our swag. Yes I didn't. I didn't remember her
okay got it yes. Yeah so she her and I had a meeting this afternoon. So Angela how are you?
One day at a time sweet Jesus. So amen. Yeah so
it's you know I'm just asking God for direction. It's this has been a year of a lot of sifting in
a lot of ways. And so you know we sold our cleaning company and and was very generously
hired on by the the owner to to really not do much. Although we were giving him you know we
but this year exceptionally has been a year of losing some major contracts which was disappointing.
And we've got the MIC which is the Fort Belvoir contract that they've they said that it's ours.
But I you know before I really report back that it's ours I need a start date and just a lot of
laid me off from the position which you know was a hundred thousand K salary hit. I still
get my commissions but you know it's been a little bit of a year. So yeah just yeah.
And what I mean what just keeps coming up for me is that God is on the move and what a blessing.
And I was so today to talk about something that I never talk about because I'm not an expert in
in any way shape or form. But you know I think I think it's something that maybe this group is
going through and that's that's health. I just really felt nudged to to talk today this group
about how you're taking care of yourselves and.
you know at the same time myself and talk through what that looks like personal
perspective but also a finance perspective a healing perspective a
spiritual perspective because if we're not taking care of ourselves everything
falls apart around us it really does and I don't know if you it's I know it's
been a year for you and and Lisa I know it's been a year for you and a lot of
things around in both of your lives I mean he's on the move clearly and he's
he is definitely moving people this year in big ways you're not alone I've heard
it from many many entrepreneurs many business owners even parents you know
just a lot of going and shifts happening in the world and we know that a lot of
that is spiritual too right but
we lost oh yeah you're cutting off chest am I what did you hear
you're talking about God shifting we did hear you mention that we have to
take care of ourselves or everything falls apart and that you're seeing it
all over the place you're hearing it in parenting you're hearing it from lots of
lots of people right now yeah no just in general you know I don't know if that
speaks to you Angela but really focusing and shifting in all and and that's
something that God has really been moving in my life as well as to just
take care of myself and I feel a constant urge to to move to do something
to just to create to to work even if you want to really boil it down to brass
knuckles it's to work is what I feel a constant urge to do and I've really felt
God shifting me into hey wait a minute actually right now actually I'm making
big moves in your life and you need rest and you need health you need to focus on
your health and focus on on you and get back to where you feel good and and then
those things are gonna start to be in the flow I feel great I mean that's one
thing I do do I you know work out three times a week at 6 a.m. in the morning and
you know 5 a.m. is my prayer time and 6 a.m. is my gym and you know through
spiritual food and taking care of my body I've been pretty even keeled to the
storm but yeah I mean I get what you're putting down I I agree with that
do you know that's awesome that's great that you're continuing to do that
through through this time and maybe it's just a reminder to continue that and not
lose sight of that especially with with everything happening in your life but I
just really feel like for you and I've been praying for you and over you and
your family and he's just moving you guys out of out of a season I think and
so what was your what was your go-to when this salary got cut I mean what
what was your first thought what was your first action how did you how did
you take that well the the first action as I saw it I my friend came into the
door and she needed consoling so for a half an hour I consoled her while I told
no one and she's also the gal that helps us with the house she's just been a good
friend as well so I know I'm she probably wondered what was going on
because I I was handling it really well but I I mean honestly it's been a
blessing to to be here in Florida and have that salary and just basically work
you know do marketing when I want to and when I don't I just do everything else
in my life yeah so in some ways I haven't been the best steward of that
although he's never really given me
you know, a time frame of how many hours I have to work a day or anything like that.
But I don't know, I guess, you know, you know, Nick On is the owner's name and I mean, Nick
On is not my supply and he's always, you know, just there in a lot of different ways for
our family.
But, you know, God's our supply.
And so more than ever before, with things kind of, you know, with the salon and everything
just everything coming up at one time that needs help, I have nothing else to do but
to cry out for God and just ask him to show me, you know, I mean, everywhere I go, I share
the gospel.
I truly believe that when all is said and done, the only thing that matters is what
we do for Christ and, you know, who the only thing we can take with us to heaven are the
souls that we lead to Jesus.
And but I know that he's come to give us abundant life.
And right now, you know, Satan has been at our door this year with killing and stealing
and destroying.
But greater is he that's in us than he that's in the world.
And we are fighting in victory.
I believe that.
And that's where I'm minding my mind, you know, to move forward with that.
So, you know, he loves us and he wants us to grow.
And that has not been my track record since January.
But I know that God has a better plan.
And I'm just.
If you had to guess, if you had to guess what that plan was or when you're in prayer, you're
asking God, why, you know, what's happening here, Lord?
What do I need to know?
What do I need to know about this situation?
What do I need to know about this circumstance and everything going on?
What do you want me to know in this moment?
What shows up for you?
Well, you know, there's a lot going on, you know, with my husband, you know, and yeah,
in a lot of different ways.
And so, you know, we you know, I know that we need to get on the same page and we're
not right there at all.
And I know God is working in that situation as well.
And so, but I mean, ultimately, I know that, you know, our whole family has been set apart
to share the gospel in major ways for this end time harvest.
And we've always been financiers of the gospel, and we still are funding a lot of missionaries
and, you know, a lot of things even here locally for the for the spreading of the gospel.
And, you know, that's where I've always seen us, you know, as, you know, working in, you
know, ministry, financing the gospel, but also being part of sharing and moving it forward.
But right now, I'm just trying to be still and I'm definitely more of a Martha than a
Mary because I, like you, just, you know, feel like I need to be creating and doing
and I know where my talents are and I know, you know, I know how to move things to the
finish line, but I feel like God's just wanting me to be still for a moment.
And so I've signed up for the Brilliance Conference, and nobody's at our Airbnb, so I'm not so
crazy that the Brilliance Conference is also on Sunday, because I always think we should
be in our own houses of worship during that time, but I think for the first time, I'm
not going to go to my church.
I'm just going to hang into the full thing of the Brilliance Conference and just have
a blank pad of paper and, you know, just lean in for God's direction.
Yeah, and in a lot of ways, the whole conference is around worship, right, really leaning
into becoming closer to him, even when we think we're so close, we can always get
closer. So but I definitely appreciate that feedback and I'll bring that feedback to
the conference in some way, because I definitely see it as valid and.
We want to, we want to honor all of those, those principles that God set before us.
So I'm really glad that you're going to be a part of it and I, when you're, when you
are going through personal situations like what you're going through, it is impossible
Angela to give 100% to your business world.
It's just some people throw themselves into, and I'm not saying you do this, but some people
throw themselves into their business, their work, other activities so that they don't
focus on what's going on or don't, you know, that they get distracted from it.
And even then, even when they try and throw 100% into what they're doing, usually because
of their trying from their own efforts, it just, it, it, it doesn't come together.
And so with everything going on in your world, I'm so happy to hear that you're being still
right now and that you're just letting, letting things happen and, and just working through
what this means for you and your family and, and how this is going to all, he's going to
all work it out because it's impossible to go into all of the responsibilities that you
have as a business owner, as an entrepreneur, as a mom, as a wife, it's impossible to go
into all of those a hundred percent without really stepping back and mending what's broken.
And it'll happen because of who you are and because of who your family is.
And it's actually, you know, when you take a step back, it's a, it's a beautiful thing.
Even in the moment, it's so hurtful and so, so crushing, but that mending what's broken,
whether in you or as a family is so, so important right now.
And I know that you know that, but just to reiterate it, I can't stress that enough is
this is your time for healing and maybe God was moving some of those different avenues around
so that you could really, really focus on mending what's broken.
And men, men in general, you know, they, and Ray and I have been through a lot of ups and
downs.
You know, we haven't been, how long have you been married, Angela?
24 years.
24.
Okay.
So we're going on 15.
So not as long as, as you have.
But even in those 15 years, I mean, the, the seven year itch is real.
You know, there's so many ups and downs that come and 10 years can be tough.
And I will say that I, as I think we have very similar personalities, very similar drives,
very similar methods of operation and how we, how we do things.
And I will say that I have really, really had to as hard as it's been at times, but
God has called me so strongly many times.
I have really had to slow down and just be.
And I love the, one of the analogies that, that that Dion uses when, when he talks and
he talks about light versus darkness and how, when you turn on a light, the darkness doesn't
fight, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't try and get its last little dark hole out.
It just, when you turn on a light in a room, the light just takes over.
It completely takes over.
And so focusing on the light, being the light, just being, just being in his presence and
really taking a step back and knowing that doing, creating all of the time is not necessarily
how he wants us or our best option in the moment.
And focusing on who he is and embracing all of those characters in every moment that we
can and flush out the darkness in such a big way.
And oftentimes with Ray, I would focus on what he's, and again, I, I'm not saying that
you do this.
I'm just sharing from my own experience.
I would focus on what he lacked or where I was picking up the slack that he wasn't, or
you know, focus, focusing on the areas that weren't working for us.
And when I would shift, or if his energy was low, something as simple as his energy being
low or not where I wanted it to be when, when we were supposed to be having a family
day or things like that.
When I shifted that from focusing on essentially the darkness, the lower, the lower vibrations,
the enemy coming in and focusing on where I could be and I could make a difference.
And I was the light and I was going to just bring that energy into the relationship.
I definitely saw a shift in how he showed up too.
And again.
I'm just speaking from my own experience.
I know you're going through some things
that I have never had experience with,
but I really feel like we're the same human being
in a lot of ways.
And so I don't know if that helps
or resonates with you at all,
but just some things that I've learned
throughout our relationship is that I've really focused
on just being the light and shining on him
when he needs it most.
And you may be already doing that,
but that's something I really had to step back
because I didn't have the energy a lot of times to do that.
I was so focused on the kids,
so focused on the business,
so focused on what I was doing.
I had taken a lot of that energy away from him
and what he needed from me
as our relationship was moving forward.
And it takes two, absolutely.
I mean, he was not innocent in any way,
shape or form in a lot of ways,
but instead of me focusing on that,
I just really had to take a step back
and refocus my energy
and how I was pouring it out into the family
and be creative in other ways, right?
Be more of a family creative
instead of always focusing that in on,
I have to make it work in the business.
Right.
I mean, I guess another way to say that
is love conquers all, but it's, yeah.
I, yeah, I really,
I really for the first time in 24 years
have been pretty frustrated
and probably not been the light
after being the light for 24 years.
Yeah.
But yeah,
I get it.
I don't know if that resonates with you at all or helps,
but I really had to learn that throughout our marriage
that I was focusing that light in the wrong ways sometimes
or just depleting myself
where I didn't need to be depleted.
I don't know if that resonates.
But that's something that I've definitely come to learn.
And when, especially when you're working together
and you're doing ministry together,
there's a lot of things that come with that.
And you take on other people's energies too.
There's a lot of other people's energies
that creep into the relationship
and creep into the business too.
And learning to really block that,
not in a, it's not that you're not loving on those people
and helping them through what they're going through,
but learning to not bring it home with you,
I guess is the way to put it,
has been a learning experience for us too.
Because oftentimes we'd go to an event
or we'd be doing something in the business
or running a mastermind or what have you.
And it would come home with us
because of the different things
that people would bring to the table
that are either heartbreaking or need help
or what have you.
And we couldn't let that energy infect
what we had going either.
So putting those blocks up
and even praying for those cords to be removed
because they're so real.
Those cords are so real and they can absolutely drain.
They can allow the enemy in, right?
Right.
So now moving forward,
how do you feel about
everything that's happening with what God is doing?
I mean, I know brilliance is gonna help
through answering some of those questions,
but how are you feeling right now?
Hmm.
So someone who was a missionary in Korea
who had been hung upside down and electrocuted and survived
once looked at me and said,
I see you as the Joshua tree.
And I didn't really know what that meant,
but I looked up the Joshua tree.
And historically I've been through a lot in my life,
but I have a lot of word in me and I love the word
and I chew on the word and I meditate on the word.
And I know that the word, when you send it out,
it will not come back void,
but it will go out and accomplish all that it's meant to do.
And if you don't have this book,
which is by Jermaine Copeland,
which has a lot of words in it,
as just any prayer on anything from the will of God to, you know, trouble in marriage to,
you know, selling a home. And then at the back of the prayer, it just lists all the verses that,
you know, the prayer was made from. It's a crafted prayer, right? These were crafted
prayers probably before Graham crafted prayers. I don't know. Anyway, but the Word does not come
back void. And so I'm really good at just speaking out the Word. And I know the Word works and the
Word washes and the Word will not come back void. And so I do stand on the Word. And I think that's
of what's made me kind of a Joshua tree. And so, but sometimes I feel pretty numb, which
is maybe not a good place to be because, yeah, it takes me a lot to cry. So,
um, yeah. So, I mean, I can pretty much go through any situation and come out the other side.
It's part of the grit, but it's with the Word. And so, so how am I feeling? Kind of numb,
I guess, just knowing that, you know, standing on God's promise that, you know,
my latter lives will be better than my former life and that He does have great and mighty
things in store for us that our eyes have not seen nor ears have heard. And that, you know,
what the enemy has made for evil, God says He will turn it around and make it for good.
And His Word is yes and amen. And He's not a man that should lie. And so, um,
just, um, and I, I know how to speak in my spiritual language, which is praying God's
perfect will for your life. And I don't know if any of you here on the line believe in that.
But that has sustained me when, you know, um, I've gone through all my prayers,
just praying for God's perfect will for, for my life, you know?
Yeah, absolutely. So I, I hear you and I love that about you. You are one of the strongest
women I've ever met in my life. You are so strong and you, your outlook, your positivity,
everything that you stand for and that you speak out is beautiful and is so inspiring.
And I also was numb at a time in my life and God wanted me to feel. And what I, what I get from all
of that and, and see within you, because I saw within myself and been through it within myself
is I was completely numb after a few things that had happened about six years ago, completely numb.
Like just because I had blocked out so many things and at this, at that moment, I wasn't a
believer, but I was, um, you know, really focused on, I had come from the world of personal development,
right? So come from the world of just positivity and constantly speaking positive affirmations over
yourself and everything. And I had developed this, this numbness that, um, I didn't even know that I,
that I had. So the fact that you framed it and could actually articulate what you were feeling
as numbness is a huge self-awareness. Okay. And with that self-awareness, that's the numbness
isn't what allows us to heal. It's the feeling and placing that on him, placing that on God and
in his hands and being okay with being extremely angry, with being frustrated, with being mad,
with being sad, with being all the things and placing that in his arms and moving through it
with him and not necessarily having to be the strong person all of the time, not necessarily
having to carry that all of the time. And knowing at this point with how much scripture that you
over your life, every single day, the fact that you feel numb, I know is not where God wants you.
He doesn't want you to be numb. He wants you to be passionate. He wants you to feel,
he wants you to be excited and motivated and, and on fire.
which are all the things that you've experienced throughout your life because he made you the way that you are.
Because you are, like I said, you are one of the strongest, most incredible,
hard-working,
beautiful,
and I've seen your passion, passionate women that I've ever met. And that's saying a lot because I've met a lot of women and
that numbness that you're feeling is not what God wants for your life.
That's not who you are and
I have a feeling that that numbness has been around longer than you want to admit.
How do I know that? Because
that used to happen for me.
And God wants you to feel it, let it out and put it on him.
I
was so tired of feeling like everything was on my shoulders all of the time.
I was so tired of it that I got so angry and had so many spinning plates and so many things going on
that I just numbed... I numbed out the world and
I was not self-aware enough to put the word numb in front of what I was feeling.
I thought I was just stoic. I
thought I was just, you know,
just, you know, I was just even-keeled. I'm even-keeled. I'm a... I can handle anything. I can handle everything.
That's who I am. I'm just an even-keeled person.
But really I was completely numb inside and I was too afraid to get excited because of the disappointment that might come in my
life and I was too worried to be sad or to show emotion because I thought that showed weakness in my life.
And I thought that people who showed that they would cry or people that showed weakness or people who would actually let their emotions
out were weak. That was a weak way of being and that's not who I was and it broke me.
I just had a moment where, many moments actually, it took some time where I just
broke and
now I
still have similar drives, but I'm so much more present and such a happier person.
I'm just a happier person when I let all that I have to be this way go.
And
I just I feel like you're on the brink of
really, really just giving it all to him and
jumping into something amazing, the life that you truly, truly want and
not that you haven't had an amazing life thus far. I was a super grateful person.
I mean I had, I had it made in the shade. I had an amazing life, but it wasn't
necessarily for me. Again, this is for me. It wasn't necessarily the life that I actually wanted,
that I truly craved and desired and
so I
think God wants to give that to you.
But that realness has to happen.
Amen.
Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing.
Amen. I know we're in a battle and
you know,
you know, every day since I held my kids in my arms,
I would pray that they would lead millions to Christ in Jesus name and I speak a blessing over them every day and that's still
part of the blessing.
And
my one child who's in Bible college is actually
now the armor-bearer for our pastor here in Tampa, which is a
huge responsibility and I know it's come with, you know,
and
the battle's on. We just need to put on the full armor every day, because
it's, you know, the enemy is
scared, because his time is short.
Yeah.
But yes, what you did say to me does resonate.
Thank you. Of course, of course.
I
need to remind myself of that often, you know, we're just, we're all, we're all going through it together.
That's the strength of the community and part of what's so important about
these groups and just being around other, other believers and other people who are going through the exact same things.
And Lisa, I know that you,
I know that you're about to face a huge move and that you're going for a full, full force and actually
Ray and I are going to be doing the same. I'm not going to share all the details as of yet, because it's still not,
still not complete.
planned out and where I want it to be before we share everything, but we'll definitely
share it.
But we're going to be going through the same things and we're just trusting God that
he's moving people right now, whether it's physically, whether it's emotionally, spiritually,
circumstantially, he is moving people right now for such a time as this, like you mentioned,
Angela.
And that's, that's why I, I really want to stress that if you're already taking care
of yourself, that's, that's amazing and important.
But just to really, really understand that where health is coming, where health is concerned
with this temple that we've been provided to really, really focus in on how we can maximize
the energy within this temple, especially now for such a time as this.
And that often means rest, doesn't necessarily mean, you know, working out and things like
that, which is obviously super important and something that I need to get better at as
well.
But it also means spiritually and emotionally and taking a walk in nature, doing something
for yourself.
We've all, you know, heard those things over and over, but it's just, it's, it's time to
do it.
It's time to step it up and really, really do it and, and know that we need to keep this
energy flowing and keep this energy high and, and high vibration, high energy, high vibration
foods, just really, really be focusing in on taking care of ourselves for such a time
as that, as this, and that goes with hormones too.
Being women, our hormones are completely different than men's obviously, even though some people
would disagree, they are, they are very, very different.
And having those checks, having those really, really on point naturally, whether we have
to do it naturally or with other ways, it's, it's ramping up, the enemy is ramping up,
but so is God.
And I want to be in peak physical and peak mental condition to, to be at the call when
that battle call comes.
And that means stepping away from alcohol.
You know, I'm, I'm not, I am not, I do not believe that God necessarily cares whether
you have a glass of wine or not.
That's not what I mean, but really stepping away from it just so that this temple is
refined, stepping away from sugar, stepping away, any, any vices that we have, everything
in moderation.
But if you have a vice that is, you feel is taking over your life and God is calling you
to eliminate, that's, that's really what I've been working on and wanted to share.
Now, coffee is still one that I'm having a trouble, having trouble walking away from
because I know that's a huge vice for me, but I am really, really focusing back in on
refining this temple to be the best mother, to be the best wife, to be the best business
owner, to be the best coach, to be the best everything that I can be for such a time as
this.
And after everything that's happened with Charlie Kirk and, and all the things going
on in the world, it's really a lesson of, wow, there's so much more that we can be
doing, but it doesn't necessarily have to be from a platform.
It doesn't necessarily have to be from a business perspective.
It can be from at home, right?
It can start at home.
If everybody just started at home, if everybody just started with themselves and the people
make everyone just really look at Christ followers and Christians differently.
And I think that's where we get it wrong is we think we have to do these things to, you
know, be a Charlie Kirk or to, to go out and do as many things as we can.
And while some of us are called to that, many of us are called to, to go out and be the
best that we can be with the people that we're put, put around with the people that are placed
in our path.
So I think that's why God's moving so many people, so many businesses, so many circumstances
around because he's placing different people in our path that we can just show up powerfully
and show up with that light and show up as that energetic force that, that isn't necessarily
numb, but is, but is just joyful and complete with everything going on in the world.
And that's what I've been focusing on the last couple of months is figuring out what
my advices are.
doing my best with God's help, of course, to eliminate them and or at least put them
into moderation so that I can be the best Jess that I can be for the people that are
placed in my path so that I don't walk around feeling depleted because of the circumstances
and the way of the world.
I hope that that maybe has resonated with you guys or anybody watching the live stream
but if anybody has some last minute thoughts or something they want to share around that
or anything else, please, please feel free.
I just felt like that was something on my heart and I'm asking you guys for help also,
you know, to do that.
Yeah, I have something, Jess, Angela, when you were talking about the, you know, so much
of the word right and and out of the mouth, out of the heart, the mouth speaks.
So, it's very clear to me what's really in there, what's been so deeply rooted in you.
It can't help but naturally come out, right?
And as I'm hearing you speak about standing on the word of God and standing on the promises
of God, Holy Spirit said, it's Luke 1 45.
It's blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her,
right?
That we know he has promises to fulfill and we're blessed when we believe he will.
And I don't know if that's helpful to you, but he was nudging me to share that.
He just recalled to me Luke 1 45.
Oh, yeah.
Blessed.
Blessed are we when we believe that you're going to fulfill those promises because the
subtext there is that he has them to fulfill.
We're blessed when we believe he will.
And so, when you've been called and exhausted and feeling even spiritually numb, which is
something I can relate to as well, I don't think there's any surprise that he's calling
you to this place and saying, be still, be still and know that I am God just mentioned
rest as well.
Right.
We know that rest is not found in a destination or a spot treatment.
Rest is found in getting close to Christ, which maybe he's just making room for you
to do that.
Maybe it's been such a desperate ploy to hang on and fight for all of these things where
he's kind of going, let it go.
I've always had you.
I always will.
Just get close with me.
Just rest in my presence.
Right.
So that's just kind of what came up for me.
And it's a good reminder for me, too, because I, in the last six weeks, have experienced
more warfare, I think, than I ever have.
So just heavy, heavy stuff.
And so I thought, oh, Luke 145.
I think that's for me, too.
Amen.
I think the enemy is desperate.
He's trying to hit on every side, you know, and we just need to know that we're fighting
in victory, that this life is but a vapor.
And as Paul said, he counts it, everything in this world, D-U-N-G, compared to that of
knowing Jesus.
You know, anything that we could have around us is really nothing in comparison to Jesus.
And so just, you know, keeping that in perspective.
And I said to somebody, I said, you know, Paul said, you know, it would be far greater
for me to go on and be with the Lord.
And they're like, you don't need to leave quite yet.
I'm like, oh, I'm not saying that.
But, you know, to realize that, you know, once we go to heaven, we're not going to,
we're going to realize like, wow, we're not going to look back.
So we are fighting in victory.
But while we're here on earth, the one thing I have gotten excited about is this new company
that it's I feel like it's the most amazing biohack ever, because it's you're actually
drinking a postbiotic that's immediately going to your 14 quadrillion mitochondria and activating
them, which they're the powerhouse of our 37 trillion cells and giving us the natural
energy that we need to do whatever it is that God would have us to do.
And so I had my mitochondria tested the other day and the woman said, wow, you must not
have had anything going on this year.
And I said, why do you say that?
She said, well, stress really affects the mitochondria.
And I feel like it's a testimony to the products that I'm passionate about.
And I feel like God is placed in my path.
So I do I do feel like.
I'm on the right path with this new company that I, you know, that fell into my lap in
January, so I'm an outsider, it's very clear, but from your perspective and what, you
know, everything that's come up for you.
last year and really, I mean, from an outsider, it's very clear that God is shifting things
so that you can focus on different avenues that really matter, right, that really bring
you joy, that really rise up your creativity and how you minister and the people that are
coming into your life.
Like from an outside perspective, it's very clear.
Once and it's always clear to someone who's not in it, right?
It's like when you're in, if someone's in a physically abusive relationship, it's always
so clear to the outsiders that, oh my gosh, this person needs to leave or something needs
to change here.
Like this is not okay.
But then the person in it, they can't see it, right?
They can't see it because they keep getting drawn back in, whether it's comfortability
or psychologically, all the things, the memories, everything.
So it's very clear that you're being maneuvered into something fresh that feels fresh, that
renews and restores your energy and your passion and your excitement, not only business wise,
but also personally, right, with your family.
It's just so clear.
But when you can see it with, because you're the one going through it and all the emotions
and all the feelings and all the hardships, when you can finally step into that, that's
when it just, I really feel like God is going to release the flow.
Amen.
Has anybody ever done pod match?
Pod match?
No.
So someone just told me, so I feel like I want to be the voice of the postbiotic movement
here in the U.S. because the only reason someone is taking a probiotic instead of a
postbiotic is because marketing has not caught up with science.
And so they told me to go to pod match and I've been filling it out, but it basically
matches who you are with the different podcasts out there.
And I just wondered if anyone here had ever done that.
Oh, I will though.
Yeah.
So they said it was free, but I don't see the free part.
It's like $30 a month that I thought I would try it for just to see because, yeah.
So it's going to be interesting because, you know, obviously you fill out your profile
and then they match you with who's health and wellness and who's, you know, spiritual
health and wellness and all kinds of things.
So pod match dot com.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I'll definitely go check that out.
Well, don't have any experience with it yet, just but the gal highly recommended it.
So yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I have a question for you all before we before we end here, and that is, has anyone
recently it doesn't it doesn't have to be recently, but has anybody decided to give
something up?
You knew God was calling you to give something up or to put something aside, whether it's
a vice or a project or something, and you did it and things opened up for you.
Not recently, but yes.
OK, can you share that for me?
It was it was part of my own health and wellness journey.
So I remember sharing this with Tyler actually at the event last year where I had always
struggled with my weight, didn't really get why I kept saying to the Lord, like, I don't
get it.
Like, if this is if I say this is so important to me and I want this dealt with and corrected
more than anything else, what is in the way of like making this happen?
And so I started chasing the path of going down, really exploring what self-control meant
as like a fruit of the spirit and just pressing into that, not counting calories, not really
trying other than to just practice what that looks like.
And then before I knew it, I literally dropped like thirty pounds before I even realized
I just knew my clothes were getting looser.
Wow.
It wasn't hard.
It wasn't hard at all.
I mean, it was slow.
But now I think I'm down forty five and it was just the Holy Spirit ministering to me
about just just try this, just just chase me, just practice this, just look at the fruit
of the spirit.
So that was an example of like nothing in my own strength, but just going, OK, Lord,
I need to get involved here and show me what that looks like.
And you look absolutely beautiful, by the way, and you look fantastic.
And I love that you said it wasn't hard.
No.
Because that and that's something that as you go through the brilliance conference and
learn more about Graham's teachings, he talks about that, how, you know, we have this we
have this ideal of or this idea that.
It has to be hard like that. We're just gonna grind through something, you know that God said I have to stop this
So it has to be you know
So terribly suffering and all these things that we we make it but at the end of the day if you just
Stay in step with the spirit
Oftentimes, it's actually it's a you love doing it. You love the process. You love doing it because you're staying in step with the spirit
So it doesn't mean that it's necessarily easy, but it doesn't have to be a suffering type of
Process. So thank you for sharing that and I needed to hear that today, too
Especially
Yeah, so this this was I think four years ago, so I
Wouldn't so I don't you know God turned Jesus turned water into wine, right?
Our pastor, I think it was four years ago. He said if you really want the the
the fruit of the the Holy Spirit give up the spirit of the world and
My family as challenges with alcoholism
I think probably my all my brothers have challenges and
We had to do a wellness check on my nephew just last week because he wasn't showing up for work and they feared for his life
no, and
So about four years ago. I just decided
so I would have maybe a glass of wine once a month or I was wasn't anything big but and I would go home and
I would hold a beer just because I didn't want my family to make you know, give me grief or not
but four years ago, I just said I'm done with that and so
Yeah, I
just desire
You desire more of God and not of the world and I mean if you drive by if you drive by the liquor store
It says wine beer and spirits, you know, and you know, that's not the good kind of spirit
Yeah, I want to be honest. And so
So, yeah
And it's been it was interesting when I first started to do that
I would get so much persecution for not just having one drink a different
I mean, it's interesting how wrapped up some people will get because you won't have just even one drink with them
But I never was there to make anybody feel bad. I was just you know, and so
So, yeah, I've
I'm glad I've taken that stand and I it's it's spoken to my family then too, which has been you know, and
it was
Difficult at first they would you know hand me I'm like, I'm not I don't I don't want that
you know, I wouldn't make it sound like make them feel like, you know, whatever but
But yeah, so
Now my family are realizing
A lot of things so
only Jesus
yeah, yeah, I know that's powerful and beautiful and I
Appreciate you sharing that and it's something, you know, my family their whole they grew up on
just that was the whole get-together of the family was drinking and
Partying and that's what our family culture is. I mean, we're Italian, you know, so and again, I'm not against that at all
I think you know, there's a time and a place for it and I think it's it can be beautiful too. But
You know just like what you shared
it's not like it lets the good spirits in and I I met a pastor who a woman pastor and she
She was saying that she you know, she gave it up and I said how long have you been alcohol-free and she said well
I'm you know, I'm alcohol-free today and I have been for about 10 years
But tomorrow if I want a glass, I'm gonna have one, you know, she just stays in step with the spirit
It's not a I have to do this to prove something or or whatever. It's just
Stay in step with the spirit and and if today, you know, he says yeah, go ahead have a glass of wine
I'm gonna have a glass of wine, but I haven't for 10 years and that was her answer and I love that
You know because it was just it came from such a non-judgmental
totally
Free it was just such a freedom to hear that and like you shared Rebecca, you know, it's just it wasn't hard
It's just okay today. What are we doing Lord? What are we doing today?
You know, so I love that. Thank you for sharing. I appreciate it
Well, Lisa any last words you've been quiet for a while I
I've got one thing. I have a question for all y'all as they say in Texas
Do you know of any holistic?
That's good at balancing hormones
I can find out please. Yeah, I can find out for sure. I've been using my my I love the
lady in Texas but she's it's not her niche and I've spent thousands of dollars and I'm
like finally about two months ago I went off everything I stopped everything and did my
research and I've been taking some supplements and it's okay but I'm I have no testosterone so
I am exhausted all the time. I will find out absolutely. Lisa, you can reach out to me and
I've got some suggestions for you if you'd like. Okay, sure, thanks. I just put my number in the
chat. Yeah, because I've I like the natural way. I've got a lot of yeah tried a lot of different
ways and some days are good some days are not so good and I wake up around seven eight o'clock but
it takes me an hour or two just to get moving. Once I get moving I'm okay just I used to be a
and I want it back but I don't know if I'll get it back and that's okay.
Well, you'll get it back. Don't talk like that. You'll get it back. You're gonna be
jumping up and down. You're an energizer bunny and everybody's like Lisa chill and I'm like I don't
know. That's beautiful. You're gonna be jumping up and down. Well, yeah, reach out to Angela and
if I can find out anybody I will I will definitely let you know. Appreciate it.
No problem. Well, as always it's I love speaking with you and thank you all for
for your wisdom and guidance as well and I hope you have the most incredible blessed Wednesday.
Rebecca, would you pray us out? You always have the most incredible prayers.
Oh, sure. Yeah, I'd be happy to. Father God, thank you so much for this time together Lord
for iron sharpening iron for us just being able to gather in fellowship and spur each other on
Lord. We thank you for being the God who opens doors no man can shut. Thank you for having good
plans for us Lord to prosper us and not harm us that you do have plans with a hope and a future
for each and every one of us Lord and I just pray God that this week you would
help us to be equipped more to walk this this path that you're calling us to Lord to embody
everything it is that you're calling us to be to glorify you to embody it who it is you want us to
be. We trust you. We thank you for your guidance. We love you today and I just pray that you would
cover and keep us until we meet again in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Have a great day ladies. We'll
see you you