The following is a presentation of FCB Faith glassl Hagen's the Second Hello everybody, I'm Rashima Hagen's and guys, the hour Glass is here. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's good to be back with you, with our family out there. Uh, it's been I guess a trying time, some child's and tribulations that we've been going through as well, but we are back. God is good, he is faithful, and we are back with you guys to share that good news. Amen. Amen, man Amen. So I'm just gonna be honest with you, guys. I didn't really do a lot of studying this time, but my wife did, so she's going to open up and uh we're going to just kind of feed off her, and I'm going to piggyback off her and and help out today because you know, I didn't study. I'm sorry, No pressure you. I was tired. You know, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was tired. Okay, So I'm ready. Yeah, I'm with you, baby, let's go all right back, let's go. Hey, everybody, So today we're talking about, like Bruce said, now, trials and tribulations. But this, uh, this conversation is just about encouragement and to let you know that there is victory after this. Okay, hold on, what is after this? What does that look like? After all you're going through the trials and tribulations, the relationship issues, the financial issues, the heartache, the breakups, life, you know, all the all the stuff we don't like to talk about that life brings. There is victory after that. Okay. So we're starting with just just to not to go through the whole story. But we're talking about one of my favorite stories in the Bible about the walls of Jericho and how the Israelites marched around the city walls for once a day, six days, for six days, and seven times on the seventh day. It reminds me that when you're when you're asking God for something, when you're believing God for a victory, and you're believing God that you're going to be delivered from something, there are instructions. There are things we have to do, you know, and be obedient to God until that deliverance comes, until that victory comes. So I just want to encourage you today that once you've done all you can do physically naturally, you know, there are things you have to do physically and naturally on your own. But once you do all of that and you feel like if you're feeling like what now, why hasn't it happened? Just trust that there is victory after this. So when we're talking about that the story of the Walls of Jericho, it's in First Samuel fifteen twenty two that I'm actually referring to how we know that there is victory. First Samuel fifteen twenty two says has the Lord has great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeyan the voice of the Lord, behold. To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. I want to tie this in and let you guys know that the reason you will experience your victory is because you're obedient to God. Being obedient is what brings for victory. The Israelites were obedient. It didn't make sense to them. I'm sure that they had to walk around the walls of Jericho for seven days. I'm sure you know they didn't really understand why they had to do it, but they were obedient and they did it, and when they were finished, the walls came down. So even if your your issue or your problem looks like a wall of Jericho. It's it's too big to handle on your own. It's it's just too big for you to penetrate by yourself. Know that once you are obedient, God will bring those walls down. Did you want to say something? Go ahead, all right, So I have to stop looking at you and I'm talking because you look like you want to jump. Just keep the rope going, you know. But but God gives us the instructions and a pla to overcome the obstacles and walk in our season of victory and deliverance. And you don't. We don't always understand the plan and its entirety. But that's where your faith comes in, and you have to trust God. And I'm just I just want to encourage you to trust God and allow him to build your faith so that you are obedient even in things when you don't understand. You know, if you know what God is telling you and he's told you what to do, do that. Don't add to it, don't take away from it, don't over it, don't overanalyze it. Stick to what he's told you. Be obedient to what God is saying to you, and do what he's telling you to do and trust that once you do that, he'll take it from there. You know, he'll take it from that point. Once you do your part, he'll do the rest. Are man, you're yeah, let me get in there a little bit, okay. And you know, it's interesting how you brought up the story of the Wall of Jericho. In life, we have many different walls that come up before us that you know, we try to knock down on our own and what we can't do this in our own strength, But the Lord says, you know, he will give you the strength to do a thing. He said, all things are possible through him. When you know, when we are in a place of like anxiety or you know, we do something and we wanted to be done, you know, we really have to rely on the Lord and first and first and foremost, let us make sure that that is his will. You know, we we we we. It's funny because even in this time right now, everything is happening. I'm talking about this world is in a world where I'm talking about it's all kind of mess happening. This world is just messy, but you know, we still live in it and we have to oblige about what we need to do. But we need to know that when we are going through something and that wall is up, once we give it to the Lord, he says, bring it to him. He says, you know, my burden is, my yoke is easy, and my burden is like you know, bring that to him, he said, bring all that before him, and he will and he will handle that for you. You know, when we are dealing with situations that are just getting on our nerves and we started to worry him, the Lord says, you know, be still and know that he is God. He says to you, he says that his word will not come back void. He will perform it. You know, it even says you know. He says, in prayer and petition with thanksgiving, he said, presented to God, and he said, he will give you the peace that surpass us all understanding. And your heart would lose your mouth, I mean, through your mind. In Christ Jesus, we don't have to go through this alone. We don't have to deal with this fight. This, this is not even our battle. He said. This fight at George. He said, to fight is Lord. He said, what you're fighting w if you fighting with well, you know he might as well, just get on out the way. But he says, be still and know that he is God. He is the one that you know, hey, step back and see the salvation of the Lord give you know, don't. You ain't got to do this in your own strength. You can't do it in your own strength. Right and Mark eleven twenty four says, therefore, I say to you, whatever things you ask, when you pray, believe that you will receive them, and you will have them. See to believe, you have to have faith, though, right and he says, it's impossible to please God if you ain't got faith. So you have to have faith first and foremost. And we all and and you know what, And the crazy thing about this is, if you read it, we all have a He all gives us. He gives us all a measure of faith, you know. And he didn't say how much. But you start out the gate with some kind of faith. And the really crazy thing about this is when Jesus says, have the faith of a mustard seed. I went one day and said, I did never really know just how small a mustard seed was. And I went to the store and I went and bought some, and I would and pulled out a mustard seed and put it up to a piece of nerd candy, and the mustard seed was smaller than that. But what is that say about us and our faith if our faith is not even as big as this mustard seed? He said, if you have faith of a mustard seed, you can move mountains right right? Well, check this out if you have this kind of faith. And he said, you can move mountains. And I'm sure, I'm sure I got more faith as a mustard seed. What do you think that holds you back from the breakthrough? And I believe in my heart well holds us back from the breakthrough even if we have faith of a mustard seed is to then be still and wait, because if you have faith as that mustard seed, it's already done. We can go on to the next, right, we can go on to the next thing. God got it, He says, he ain't gonna never leave north for sake. Me. I got that faith? Boom, Let me move on. What's happening right? Yeah? So the next question is can you follow the instructions of God and follow his plan for your victory? You can? What the Bible says, the flesh is weak and the spirit of straw And that's where we are now. So we're in a place now where a lot of us our believing God for that breakthrough. We're believing God to be delivered. We're believing God for that victory. But we have to examine ourselves and ask ourselves have we followed the instructions? Have we been obedient to his instructions? Do we have the faith to be victorious? Meaning when we're talking to God that we're praying, are we praying about our problem as in, are we just telling God what our problem is like he don't already know, or are we praying because we believe we're victorious? Well, it could be a little bit of both. Yeah, it was kind of a loaded question o part. Yeah, it's a little bit of both. But but the thing is the flesh wants to help because the flesh wants it done right then and there right, you know, and then when that happens, it's not a void God like this here, man, I ain't on that either, you're gonna surrender all. I'm gonna go ahead, move out the way and let you handle this until you know, you get tired. So the other part of that is too, what happens when you're not obedient, then it ain't gonna happen point blank. You know, we need to stop sugar coating what this is and what the Bible says and what God risks requires from us. This is not something that God has said, Okay, i'm let's sit down and compromise. You know, this is what He requires from you. But He is so merciful and so grateful that he will wait there until you know, you get to together and come to him. Right. We don't have to we don't have to keep mumping our head up against the wall because He's there for us, right. And obedience is so important, And that's excuse me. Obedience is so important because obedience really is the conduit to bring forth the blessings, right, Like, we have to be obedient and it's and like Bruce was saying that it is hard to be to not be human and not want to do it your way or you know, do it a faster way, but you have to trust God, which means you have to trust the process. And it's hard for us to trust the process because a lot of times we are in this information age where we know everything by just googling it or just listening to a podcast like this one or something like that. You know, but when it comes to how God works, he's not required to respond on our time because it's not our time, it's his. But he says this, and this is so, this is so refreshing because this is what God says. And this is in Isaiah one in the eighteenth verse. He says, come now, let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though be red like crimson, they shall be as wolf. You know, even in spite of us getting in the way, he like, come on, let us consider, I'm still with you. I'm still showing grace upon you. And he said this before even Jesus stepped on the scene, and he's showing you, you know, you don't have to go through this if you just be obedient, If you can just be obedient, there is light at the end of the tunnel. There is something after this. So when we even read that scripture, that's God is still still showing his love towards you, that he will make things all right. Right. So even so, even if you have been given instruction and you've chosen chosen to not do them or do them your way. There's still hope. There's hope. Yeah, but I mean again, let us not sugarcoat this. There's hope. But you know it's gonna be a minute because you're being disobedient to the word of God. You know, if you want this light at the end of the time, if you want to reach to this light, if you want this, that's that's after that. It's for you to be obedient and put that trust in God, and to be obedient to keep more. He said, go ahead and leave it before him, and go ahead and keep living your life. You can't. We cannot. I cannot be in a situation and just worry myself to death over it. After I said, all right, Lord, go ahead and take it right. You can't worry about it. You can't keep putting your hands back in it. You can't keep you know, getting involved back in it. Whatever it is. No for you when you say I'm giving it to God, you have to give it to God wholeheartedly and stay out of it and let God do what God does. Yeah, And every time you come back to it and you try to tweak it or you try to add to it, all you're doing is halting the process because you really are getting in your own way. And you know, we hear older people used to say it all the time, you're getting in God's way, You're getting in your way. That's exactly what you're doing. You're getting in the way. Things are going to happen when they're supposed to happen how they're supposed to happen, because God is in control and he's going to make it so when he says so, so we can't maneuver and manipulate this thing like we think we can. It always works out when he says so. And then we always talk about take the will of Jesus, take the will, Take the will of Jesus, take the take the will. He take the will, and then you want to sell over there and hold on to it too, because we're not. We have not practiced faith like we were taught to do. You know back in the day. I think a lot of churches have gotten away from even teaching with having real faith means. And you know, for me, faith means total reliance on God. And if I say take the will Jesus, that I really have to be willing to sit in a passenger seat. And that is a learn practice. It's not something you just up and do because we've been taught to do things so different, you know when a new generation and it's so we So I'm going to go back to what we were talking about, and let's start with your faith first and foremost. Do you actually believe victory is possible? Victory is possible? I do believe that, yes, So that's the first part. If you truly believe victory is possible and victory can happen for you and you can be delivered from your situation or this relationship, your financial struggles. You know, you really can be delivered from all of those things through the power of the Holy Spirit. It's not about dialing into a certain number you know of certain ministry or you know, manifesting and stuff like that that people want to do. You can go to God yourself and talk to him and get the get the instructions and the insights you need for your deliverance and for your victory to become a reality. Okay, you can do that, but what do you you say to those who are not as in the belief of Christ or in the belief of God. You know what if you are up against a new, a new creature in Christ, how do you assure them? How do you teach them this faith? I mean, because they just brand new, you know, they green green, they real green in the faith. I started at Matthew eleven twenty four. You know, I think a lot of times Christians, like you said, new new people, uh, new folks that are new in their faith, struggle in their growth because a lot of times we make Christianity and we make our spirituality a lot more complicated than it needs to be. We make it, you know, we make it all. You know, it's we give people the impression you have to use real big words and you have to you know, basically know the whole history of you know, Jericho itself. You know, like you have to literally not like have a map of Jericho in your head. And that's not what God requires, you know. He requires that we believe, period. This requires us to believe in Him, have faith in what he says he will do for you. And if you believe that you will be delivered from whatever you're struggling with, that's the first start. And that's a big start that I mean, that's really it's bigger than what people think it is. But that's a great start. Just have the faith. And then of course we have to learn how to trust God. And that is something we have to learn how to do, which means you have to learn how to trust God. How not the second guess what he's doing, how not to see something and say, well, I don't know if I believe it anymore because what I see isn't what matches what God told me. I mean, yeah, that's easier said than done. Yes, but you know, we're living in this wicked, in diverse world. I mean, it's like making Halloween fun or something like Halloween is supposed to be, you know something, and really is uh a day of the Devil's Day. I guess, like I say, you know, I mean, but you know, they try to make it seem like, you know, it's okay. You know, you got kids running up and down having candy. I mean enough to say that we didn't do it. We did it. We didn't know it wasn't right though, you know, so do now you know? When do we start telling the children that, hey, you just this ain't really what you want to do? You know? So when I say that, because then they're like, well, what do we do? And do I not have? Can I not wear have candy? Can I not wear hogstumes? No more? I mean, so you go to a place where a belief if I stop doing this, is this gonna be okay? That something else I can do? Or what do I believe in? Now? What's the belief? What does this look like? After that? Then? Well, I think anything anything that you choose to participate in, anything you choose to imitate, you should always find out what exactly is it meaning from your holidays to you know, your practices on note with how you pray, I think you should always do your own research and find out what exactly you're participating in. So, since we're coming up on Halloween, okay we want to talk, we can. It doesn't take much to find out where Halloween originated from. It's celebration of the dead, and if that's what you want to subscribe to, just go into it knowing that that's what you're in agreement with. And you know, a lot of people do jump on the bandwagon of what they heard is popular on TV or YouTube or whatever because it's popular and it's trending. But to go into something ignorant is not only irresponsible, it's dangerous. Okay. So I'm gonna tell you why I brought it. I'll tell you why I brought this, brought that in. It was a little off subject. I want to tell you why I brought it in. So, if I participate in Halloween festivities and I'm going through something, does that hinder me from continue to keep going through? Is that this obedient to God? Will that? Would that hinder me from getting my breakthrough? To me? Yes? Okay, Because if I'm participating in a holiday that celebrates the Dad celebrates evil spirits excuse me, celebrates spirits that are not of God into my world? How do I expect God to enter into that same world and do something good for me? The two can't exist at the same time. That's true. So for me, that is a problem, okay, because I just want to know while we're in this this space, in this time, when it comes to Halloween, you know, well, you know what, let me just go here. I think I know where you're trying to take me. So let me just say this. I personally don't belie even Halloween or any other holiday that does not celebrate and recognize Christ. I believe one whole, one hundred percent, wholeheartedly that anytime you celebrate anything that deals with spiritual, that deals with the spiritual, you have to be very well aware of the spirit you're inviting into your life, into your world, into your home. I don't like Halloween decorations in front of my house or in front of somebody's house with skeletons and demons crawling up into the window, because as much as people want to play and say that it's decoration and it's all fun and games, the spiritual realm is real, okay, And for anybody, whether you have experienced it or not, Hell is real. The spiritual realm of Hell is real. So when you when you when you participate and you condone to be to just say, oh, it's just fun and it has no effect or impact on me or anybody around me, Yes it does, because you're inviting it in the minute, the minute you participate in it, you're okay in it. You're inviting it in. And just like you invited it in, you have to know how to get it out. And honestly, the best way to get it out is to not deal with it in the first place. Well, if it's there, then how you get it out. If it's there, then it's there there what you're just out of luck? No, No, I mean you're not out of luck. You have to learn how to get it out once you've invited it in, which means you have to repent and change your behavior. Okay, but we talked about let's say were talking about somebody that's that's new. Okay, let's let's let's not even say they do say they you know, okay, they know they've been in the church a little bit. But you know, it ain't easy just to say you got to know how to get you got to know how to get this spirit out. You have to go to a man or woman of God that you know, and you have to get instruction. I would prefer not to have that kind of conversation on this platform because there are different answers. I mean, they all are, you know, the same that you need to repent and get that stuff out your house. But I believe each circumstance will come with a set of instructions specifically for that person, and I think the person, if this applies to anybody listening, you need to find a woman or man of God that can help you with that situation. If you don't know of a woman or man of God, you can reach out to us on Facebook and we'll contact you to help you. But I don't want to make a broad statement about that on this platform. So let's let's swing back after this, after this, the storm has passed, the clouds are gone, the sun is out there. What well, when I when I was hearing about after this, after this, right now, it's for all of those, all of us that are going through and we've kind of done all we know that we can do. You know, you've ever been in that place where you know you're going through something, You've done all you can do. You've done all you can You've prayed, you've talked to God, you call this you know this profit this prophetess. You know you've done all that and you're still kind of there, like you still kind of stuck. But you know that there's nothing else you can do because you you have done what you're supposed to do. So that's after this I'm talking about today. Okay, so I'm going to use myself as an example. Okay, after this, now, you and I know, I filled out eighty two positions for a job, and it was not very successful. Now, listen, audience out there. I filled out eighty two, I'm sorry though, eighty three positions and I was turned out on all eighty three of them. I was I was one thing these positions. I wanted these jobs, and I didn't get them. But it's a part two after that. So let me go back to this. I did that. What do you call that that I did? If it wasn't, you know, being obedient? You know, if you know, you just can't I just what I said, I said, I needed to do this because I just can't give up. I don't want to give up. You know, you can you call it not giving up. I call it straight foolishness. Okay, let's talk about it, because eighty three times for real, I mean, let's let's talk about it. I just I think after the third time, we should be going to guide and saying, okay, lord, what am I missing? What am I not learning? Because three times should tell you something? What that you know you just know that that job wasn't for you. I mean, it's a lot of other people that well don't come off. There's a lot of other people that fills out for the position as well. So who's to say that my chance would not come, my breakthrough not come. Why would it be foolish than me just hoping that this position might just be for me because I'm from my perspective after the third time, for me, that would be a time to ask God if a resets necessary? Am I even going in the right direction? You know, I apply for three things? Am I even in the right field? Am I in the right neighborhood? Or where you want me to go? And I think a lot of times we forget to ask God where he wants us to go, and we just try to keep telling God where we want to go. Well, didn't he say make your request known unto him? Yes, but if it doesn't line up with his will, it's not going to happen. And if you aren't seeking his will, you're just applying for jobs that you want because it's what you want, not him. So don't full out for what I want. So read our listeners. If you're this stubborn, you know you're this hard headed, Please don't do that. Please this this is a cautionary tale. Please do not fill out for something. Eighty three times it wasn't after it was it was. I know, honey, I was there, but we and we had conversations about that, and you didn't listen to me then either. So helping people listen, all I'm saying is go for what you believe God has for you, but you should be asking God at every every time you apply, did you ask God? Is this what you want to do? No? You didn't. And every time you got to know that, you say, well, Lord, what do you want me to do? Where do you want me to go? That's why you And see that's the thing. Until you start talking to God and listening to God, you will do something eighty three times and get eighty three No's okay. So okay. So then with that being said, going in before or after this, you suggest that in all things go to God first. Okay, So after this can really can really be before this if you just take it to the Lord first. That's that's why I'm getting that, okay. You know. And I didn't do that, No, I didn't. I didn't take it. I went straight gun. Okay, I didn't get that one. It must be this next one. I didn't get that one. It got to be this next one. You know. I did that if I believe, like like you said, and I say this to the listeners too. If it's something that you truly want, or if it's something that you truly need, or if it's something that's really happening that you are trying to press through and you're trying to get this after this moment, take it to God first and let him give you the peace that surpasses all. Understand it, because once you give it to him, he will give you peace on it. And that's what happened with me when I said, okay, and and oh and this is very important, and I believe Rashima will back me on this. You have to surrender all to him. He just don't want half or a little bit. It's an all surrendered thing. And I know sometimes well for me, you know, I was very very reluctant, and I was like, you know, what do you mean surrender all? What do you mean all? And that's what he means. He wants he wants it all. You know, we hear the song, we used to sing the song. Yeah, he wants it all. We sing it and you know we all hold hands and sway side to side. He wants it all. But that's what he truly wants because it's not in your strength. It's not in my strength that we can be able to do this, because see, we forget the enemy is watching too. And if the enemy is watching and the enemy is putting you in a situation, that's when we come up with the strongholds and those tithes that we are trying to in them chains that we be trying to break. You know, we want to break every chain. We want to break every chain. We want to break every chain, and we're not taking it to God. You know, We're gonna break these chains on our own. And then we'll wonder why we're an anxiety and we're frustrated with depressed. It's because that after this, it needs to be a setup. You know, we have to take it to God. The anointing breaks to you, is that right? Yeah? Okay, So your your faith and your obedience in God will always bring forth an easier path. And I say that because and I'm using you as example since you brought it up. So in this pursuit for another job or another opportunity, say we do it on our own, we go, we do the job hunt. We're going to get our dream job. And okay, and that may work out for you but it may happen for you in eighty three times or eighty four times, but if you took it to God, maybe you would have only had to go through five steps versus the eighty three. Because God will open doors, and your faith in your obedience open doors to connections, opportunities, job offers. You know, he puts your name on the consciousness of people because he works. Because Holy Spirit works for you when you have faith in you believe, when you have faith in your obedient. So when you're doing things or you're pursuing things, God brings it to you and does the work for you, versus you happen to toil and do it on your own. So I want to motivate you. Now, that's my motivational speech for everybody that's struggling with the surrendering. If you don't understand why you should surrender or how can you surrender, because when you do, God does the work for you. When you don't surrender, he literally just steps back and lets you do it your way. If you're determined to do it your way, he will let you. He is a god of free will, is not to force anything on anybody. So if you're gonna do it your way, He'll let you. But that's how you end up with eighty three no's. So when you surrender and you say, okay, Lord, whatever your will is, I'll just wait to see what you say. Boom. So what did well? I didn't wait? So I guess I can ask what do you do while you're waiting? You pray and you believe and you wait. Because when you think about it in the grand scheme of things, and I know, it sounds real simple, and you're like, oh yeah, who can really do that? No, you make it sound like somebody got to be just no, just unnatural about how they do it. But here's the thing. When you don't do anything and you trust God, then you trust that He and his angels are doing it for you. And you can't help God or an angel. What can you do for either one? You know, let's just no, just real talk. What can you really do? You don't have any control over what's going to happen. You can't change what God's final answer is. When you get to that place of surrender and peace, and you know, I say like like I you know, I said it a little while ago about the situation we were dealing with. I said, Lord, whatever you say, I'm good either way, you know, And what happened, He handled it, handled it beautifully with very little effort for me. Yeah, that's true. You know, I personally don't understand the struggle. And I'm not saying that I never struggle, but in some aspects, you know, we make things a lot more complicated than they need to be because we don't let God take over immediately. We wait till we mess it up. We wait until we have just exhausted our resources, our finances. In some cases, you know, were almost driving ourselves in saying trying to make something happen, when all we had to do was talk to God in the first place. Some stuff just is not going to ever come to pass because it's not his will to do so, and there's nothing you can do about that. So if you ask him immediately, if this be in your will, you know, yeah, you're supposed to tell him, not like he doesn't already know, but yes, you're supposed to talk to God about the desires of your heart. But understand that He will give you the desires of your heart if it lines up with his will and his plan for your life. If you're trying to go into a different career field, say, for example, then what he has you in because he has you where you are for a reason. If you're trying to do something totally different, it might not work out. That's not his If it's not his will, it's definitely not going to work out. But you have to be open to say, whatever your will is, whatever your answer is, I trust you. And when you trust him, that's when you're surrendering. And you have to be okay with whatever that answer is. And please, if you do pray a prayer like that, be sincere. Don't just say it because it sounds good and you hear me say it, be sincere that you're really okay with the answer that you're gonna get. I promise you nine times out of ten, the answer you get will be way better than what you thought you were trying to build for yourself. And that's the blessing in the obedience and trusting and believing in God. A lot of the stuff we're trying to do on our own, if we would just sit back and surrender and let God handle it, he does so much better than we do. He does so much better. Our efforts are nothing to him, So when you say, you know, God, I'm trusting you and I'm leaving this up to you, and I know you'll handle it. He can handle it way better than you ever can. Yeah, yeah, Amen. You cannot do God. No, you cannot do God. And well we look at this thing while we're in the midst of the storm. That's a funny thing because even in the midst of what you're going through, he is there. He is there with you. You know, at point taken like the story of the Disciples on the boat. You know, the the boat started the you know, the winds and the waves started to crashing, and you know, they're like, hey, you know, Jesus here he on the boat. He like he gonna let us die, you know. And it's crazy because Jesus is there. All they had to do was call on the name of Jesus. I say that to say this, if you're going through something and you're trying to get to that that place, call on the name of Jesus to help you, to give you relief, because he will. He got up and say, peace, be still. It was calm, what my man say? What manner of man is this to make the ways? Who is this to who is this Jesus, he was the one. He will help you get through it. You don't have to go through this alone. You know, there's nothing new under the son that nobody has not been through. And I'm not saying everybody has been through the same situation or the same problem, but everybody's going through something right, right, everybody's going through something. But if we could just we he myself. You know, when I just when I've said I surrendered after that eighty three eighty three times, it was it was it was crazy because you know I was actually I was asking for increase. I was asking for that to increase. And that's what I was trying to you know, I was trying to I was trying to get the money for us, baby. I was trying to get to I know, we need to get this bread. You know what I'm saying. What you say, you know what I'm saying. You know, you know I hustle. You know I was trying to get this wuak. You know what I'm saying. That's what I do. But anyway, I was trying to get this money, baby, please Okay. So after I had said okay, I'm done the little I start bringing it increase, you know, imagine that, I mean increase, you know, I mean, he is it possible? But but see what this my thing? But I wondered this. He brought increase. But everybody got it too, everybody got everybody got it with me. I'm like, wait a minute, I wanted this for me. You have no control over that. I guess you know what the words saying it rain on adjust and I just don't it. Actually, all you need to be concerned about is what's going on in your household. Well, that's what I was doing. So that's why I tried eighty three times, because I was worried about I was going on in by financial household. So that that begs the question. If it happened immediately when you surrendered, yes, I could it have happened sooner if you the surrendered sooner, you know what, it could have. It probably could have. I'm friendly for it. I'm pretty sure it might have. Although that's where the anxiousness comes in at you know, when I'm and I'm making them and we might be snickering and joking about this, but it's a serious thing as humans when you feel that your back is up against the wall, especially trying to be a provider for your home. You know, we we could say we could we can read this word, we can read this, and we can say this. But when that when that that pressure happens, when that pinch happens, you know, it's hard to be like all right, Lord, you know ay, Although that's where prayer, faith obedience comes in. And I'm saying this to share it to the audience. I'm using myself as an example that I too, are still pressing with you guys to learn that to hold onto that very little bit of that faith mustard seed thing I got going on, because it does work if I believe, if we would just sit back and just surrender it and breathe. You know, sometimes I even feel like we can't even breathe. It's so tight, you know, like the pressure, like like what's going on now, you know, with life and with situations and with you know, you're worrying about it. If you're gonna be able to make this happen or you know, or if you're gonna be able to trust God to make this happen. It's tight now, you know. But I believe, I believe and just by witness and what I had to do was surrender and then just breathe and let it go. Then I saw something different. I seen him move. I've seen the Lord move in a different way. And I say this to the audience. If you do that, and this is from experience, this ain't something that I think. This is something that I know if you leave it to him and sincerely leave it to him and talk to him. I mean, just like my wife said, you know, we get to this. You know, some people get to this place where you got to come with you. See, you got to be a theologian to talk to God, you know, like you got to come with the deeds and the dolls, and you got to go to historical lands, you know, and speak to God just to get something. It's not like that with him. Come to him true from your heart, a contracte heart is what he What the Lord invites, that's what he that's what he hears. And when you come like that and you leave it to him, I believe wholeheartedly now that He will show up for you and you will and you will get to that after that moment. Amen. So I want to just encourage you guys in this place of after this, now, do all that you can do, and trust that God will bring you to a place of victory and deliverance. Believe that deliverance and victory is possible, Believe that God can do it, and understand what it means when we pray and we ask God to remove us out of the way and let the Holy Spirit take over. You know, understand that that is exactly what we're supposed to do as His children, as his believers. You know, like Ru said, you know, the disciples were on the boat with Christ himself, and they still doubt it. They still panicked. They didn't even because of their anxiety and the situation that they saw, they forgot who they were on the boat with. You know, they forgot they had Christ himself on the boat. So it's we're not saying this to condemn. Even when you're sitting with Christ himself, you forget, You make mistakes. But when you ask Him to speak to the situation, his word alone changes everything. He said a few words, it stopped, and he went back to sleep. That's how it sounds so simple, and I promise you it is. It is really not as complicated or as difficult as a lot of people have made it seem or as a lot of as we have heard or been led to believe, it is a discipline, it is a learned behavior. But you can learn, you can become discipline in turning things over to God and leaning out, excuse me, leaning out into your own understanding and not even being moved by the things you see. Because again, they saw a lot of what they saw, what was going on in the sea. They saw that. But God, but God, God spoke a word. He didn't even have to stand up on the boat and deliver a sermon. He had three words and that was it. If he can do that for them, that's the same God we're talking about right now. It's the same God we pray to. The same God can do the same for you if you just ask him to step in your situation. Ma'am man. That's good. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's a good ending. I I can't say nothing else about that. All right, Well, that's a good ending. But you know what, guys, before we go, this is the first step, and the first step is receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior and Lord, you have to get in that place. For Jesus said, I am away the truth and the life. No man come unto the Father but by him. So you have to you have to tap in to Jesus first. And the beautiful thing about it is like I said, you know, God, before even Jesus stepped on the scene, he was still he was still caring for his children. For in John three sixteen says, so God so loved, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, for so whoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Now, when you get to that point, and God has given his son for you for your salvation, and and Jesus died on the cross for you, and the blood that is shed on the cross for the remission of sins for you, for which we all we all all are sinners, and we all deserve what we get. But it was through the blood of Jesus that we don't have to we don't have to go down that route. But what I want to do, if you're on the line, if you're hearing this and you want to be saved, I want you to say the Sinner's prayer with me, and you can just repeat after me if you want to. This is your access. This is your past to get on the end and the thing. And this is lovely because you know Jesus says, go into your prayer cause it alone. Go privately if you have to, you know, to pray. But that's how you know He wants you, know, to come. He wants you to come that all may be saved and none perish. So I would like you to repeat after me, Dear Lord Jesus. I know that I am a sinner saved by your grace and mercy, and I ask you for your forgiveness. I believe you died for my sins and that you rose from the dead. I turned for my sins and asked you to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow you as my Lord and savior. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen. Now, if you have prayed that prayer, that is the angels in heaven. The angels in heaven are excited. You know, the angels were made to assist us. You know they don't understand why the Lord loves us so much. But that's a story for another time. But that even the angels in heaven are rejoicing with you. If you have said that prayer, that you can be sealed by the blood of Jesus. Well, I'm done with that. Rashima. You you know you ran this one, so is anything else you I can't say nothing. No, thank you so much guys for spending this time with us on the hour Glass with Bruce and Reshima. We love you and we appreciate your support, no doubt. Don't forget to check us out on Facebook and if there's any if there's ever a topic or a question, we are more than welcome to reach out to us. We will answer as best as we can best as we can. So guys, we're going to wrap this up. We thank you for your time. We love you. We wish peace and blessings upon you and your family. I am Bruce Algas the second No no, I'm Rashiemahagen's and guys, you have joined us for the hour Glass. Bye bye, bye bye
