Natasha Miller: Faith That Says Yes

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Hey friends, welcome back to Her God Story, a

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place where you'll always hear a powerful, faith

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-filled story to encourage and inspire you in

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your walk with the Lord. I'm your host, Jodie

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Chiricosta, ministry leader at Somebody Cares

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American International and traveler on this beautiful,

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sometimes challenging and always meaningful journey

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with Jesus. I'm so glad you're here today. You

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know, throughout scripture, we see a pattern.

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When God calls us, he rarely hands us a full

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map. Instead, he gives us his voice and a step.

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Think of women like Mary who said yes to an impossible

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promise or Esther who walked into risk with nothing

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but a kingdom assignment and the courage of obedience.

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I want to invite you into another kind of story,

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one that speaks directly to the heart of surrender

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and what it looks like to follow Jesus when the

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path is uncertain. Natasha Miller is a great

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example, which is why we took portions of our

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prior interview with her to focus on what her

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walk with God has looked like. I know you'll

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be encouraged as you step out in your faith as

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well. Natasha Miller is a passionate worshiper,

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speaker, and the founder of Soul Check and the

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Haggai Project, both of which were birthed through

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years of unseen faith and often uncomfortable

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obedience. From obedience and going to law school

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to starting two different ministries, she has

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pursued God's call on her life. Natasha's journey

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is a beautiful picture of what happens when we

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say yes, even when we don't know what's next.

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So whether you're in a season of clarity or confusion,

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I believe her story will stir your faith and

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help you recognize that obedience, even in the

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unknown, is never wasted when it's for the Lord.

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Welcome, Natasha. Hello. I'm so happy to be here.

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Natasha, looking at all the things that you have

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done makes me realize how much of a superwoman

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you really are. What I didn't say initially is

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that you also have a master in divinity. So tell

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us about your salvation experience. I mean, how

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did that happen? You didn't necessarily grow

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up in a Christian family. So when did Jesus introduce

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himself to you? When I first went to college,

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the first people I met were Christians. And I

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felt attracted to this girl like, oh, you know,

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I'm supposed to be your friend. And she invited

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me to dinner. And at the dinner, I guess everyone

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else was saved. At the dinner, there was one

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guy, I guess, who wanted to be a pastor and who

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knows he may be a pastor right now. He had a

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passion for that. But he said, You know, his

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first how they how to say how they introduced

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God to me was when you die, do you think you're

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going to heaven or hell? You know, like it was

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just kind of very blunt. And, you know, I would

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say I didn't really understand where they were

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going. And it was kind of unwelcomed. So, you

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know, I had that experience and I did go to church

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with her and I thought it was very odd. I remember

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she, you know, I'm at this church and the pastor

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is talking about how The word is backing up the

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word. And I was like, this is brainwashing. This

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is brainwashing. Like, no, that's not how you

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do it. Like you have evidence. Where's the evidence?

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I say that all to say that when I actually got

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saved, you know, I had tangible interaction and

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encounter with God, which was the evidence that

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I knew the word was truth. And you know, ever

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since that time, it's been both for me spirit

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and word. It was like maybe a year later, she

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invited me to this worship concert at my college

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and the people on stage were saying, Jesus is

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coming back. Jesus is here. And I'm like, these

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people are nuts. But then towards the end of

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the concert, all of a sudden I felt this love

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surround me. And I couldn't stop crying. I had

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never experienced such love, such power, you

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know, touching me. And I felt so empty, like

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I was truly missing something. And, you know,

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the concert was over and, you know, I'm still

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wiping away tears. And we go to her dorm room

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and she opens her door. And instead of giving

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me tissue or saying, Hey, tell me what's happening.

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She turned around, put her hands on her hips

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and was like, are you ready to receive Jesus

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as your Lord and Savior? Oh. And I was kind of

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like quasi offended and kind of still in this

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shock of like crying a lot. And then I was like,

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look, I'm a good person. No sex, no, you know,

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this is in my head. Sure. No sex, no drugs, no

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profanity. I don't lie. peace out, and I left.

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I was basically, you know, in the secular world

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flipping the bird to all these people who were

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trying to share the gospel, you know, because

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I felt it was ineffective and it didn't touch

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me. But what the Lord did was through a person

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at my work, I asked her to lunch. I had had this

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encounter where I had dealt with my thyroid and,

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um, I was going to have surgery and they were

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going to cut me open, you know, cut my neck open.

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And I was crying about that. And at that time

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I had a boyfriend who was long distance and he

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was like, you know, I don't pray much, but my

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mom prays and she says, God will heal you. Will

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you agree to go get prayer? I end up sneaking

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out of my house because my mom did not like my

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boyfriend, but I snuck first time ever. I snuck

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out of my house and to go get prayer because

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they said God would heal me. Yeah. I was like,

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I was open to that. So I went, they prayed over

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me. I felt the spirit of God. I did say the sinner's

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prayer at that point, but I would say I gave

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authority. for Jesus in my life, but I had no

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cognitive understanding. Like it just did not

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become true truth yet. But when I went back to

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where I was living in DC, close to DC, this girl

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at my work, I felt like I was supposed to get

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to know her. And so I said, hey, can we have

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lunch? And it took like weeks, but she finally

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said to have lunch. And at lunch, she spoke about

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her pastors. And I've never even heard about

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pastors. For me, I grew up Catholic, so all I

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knew about was priests. But I had this unction.

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And that's why I think I always say it's so important

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to obey any unction of the Lord to be an obedient

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one and obey. I had the unction. Get yourself

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to her church. And so I asked her. She's like,

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OK, well, I just didn't know. Talk about opposition.

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As I was driving to that church, that church

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was an hour away from my home. It was like demons

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were on my car. I could not get to that church.

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Two times she had to find me on the freeway and

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I had to follow her to the church but that is

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where I got saved and it was a tangible experience

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where the Spirit of God came Upon me and I it

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was instant deliverance Something left me the

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Spirit of God filled me out and I think it's

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truly that fire that came upon me that listening

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always to his spirit and being in obedience to

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his spirit that I was able to have full confidence

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in diving into everything that he said for me

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to do because I knew he was with me and I'd been

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in the world so long and I was an achiever in

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the world but there is something totally different

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when you're tied in an agreement with God and

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you execute based on his spirit. telling you

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what to do. Yeah. It's a whole different world.

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So were you practicing as an attorney at that

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point, or did you go to law school after that?

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No, no. Well, so that was really interesting

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for law school. I actually felt at that point,

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my calling was to preach and teach. Okay. So

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I would apply to law school and do diligence.

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And then I would say I didn't want to go. And

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I did that three times. And life led me by that

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time to San Antonio. And I was in church. Basically,

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the spirit of the Lord told me that day, I had

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already declined the acceptance to the third

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law school and my scholarship. And the Lord told

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me that day, if you do not go, you will never

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go. Like this is the end. There's two forks in

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the road. And I knew he was calling me to go

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to law school. I had no desire to go. But that

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Monday I picked up the phone and I said, I'm

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sorry, there was a mistake. I made the mistake.

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I didn't tell them that God told me I made the

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mistake, but you know, I was like, I made a mistake.

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I said, is there a way for me to be reinstated?

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And they said, they said someone just declined

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and there's a seat open. You can take that seat.

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Wow. And I was like, oh my gosh. Okay. And I

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hung the phone up and then I thought to myself,

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well, I had a scholarship before. I'm going to

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call and ask about that. So I called up and I

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asked, I said, um, thank you so much. You know,

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and I was like, can I, can I have my scholarship

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back? And they gave me my scholarship. Wow. Praise

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the Lord. He's restored. He restored everything.

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He restored everything just to circle back with

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the thyroid issue. So that was when I started,

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it was about law school was about two and a half

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years since I was prayed concerning my thyroid.

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Okay. So I never had the surgery and basically

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I was always thanking the Lord for my healing.

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And that healing first came emotionally because

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I realized that manifestation of what was happening

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with my thyroid. And then while I was in law

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school, it started expanding so big that I walked

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to my Dean. So first semester, we're about to

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go into finals. The Dean was like, you don't

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need a doctor's note. You go. and you get that

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fix. Anyways, I had these three procedures. He

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was like, it's just self -destructed. I don't

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know why. And I was like, oh my gosh, that was

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my prayer. That's what I would pray. Lord, thank

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you that my nodules self -destruct and liquefy.

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And so it was an answer to prayer. But what he

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did is he took me cold turkey off my medicine

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that I had been on. Like you're basically, you

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know, your body's fully dependent on this thyroid

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medicine, which I had been on for seven years.

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So while I'm in law school, I go through all

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of this, all these medical procedures and all

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I had was God. So what I would do is I would

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jumpstart my body because, you know, the thyroid

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basically deals with all your metabolism and

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your metabolism affects everything. every function

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and so I would jumpstart my body by waking up

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in the morning basically rolling out of bed saying

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god yes I can do it and and I would go and there

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was this field and I would walk the field and

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pray until I felt that basically is until the

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spirit of the Lord filled me so much that I could

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function in class but the Lord sustained like

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I lived truly through That's why I consider law

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school like a spiritual boot camp. But from there,

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the Lord just so blessed me. I was selected as

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an internship with a senator from my state to

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go back to DC and intern with him while in law

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school. So I got law school credit, which was

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very prestigious. I was put on a law journal.

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So through all this, where I was just merely

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surviving, The Lord was thriving. But yet I was

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thriving through prayer and through being filled

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with the Holy Spirit. And I basically survived

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law school by walking in the Spirit. Well, you

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really learned how to listen and obey immediately.

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Immediately. For every aspect of your life. I

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mean, it was survival mode, right? Absolutely.

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And I think that was the best training ground.

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To kind of walk out this life because after law

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school the Lord called me to go to seminary So

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I then I launched I did do some internships but

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You know during law school But you know, I felt

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like I was to launch a law practice on my own

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and that law practice put me through seminary

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and I went through seminary and then while in

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seminary the Lord basically had me launch what

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became known as Soul Check. Tell us about Soul

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Check. Probably a lot of our listeners don't

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know what that was. So Soul Check was it was

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bringing the body of Christ together in sacrificial

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worship. So I never got paid for those six years.

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No one got paid. Everyone sewed in what the Lord

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basically called is the second one, which was

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in Houston, was at the Reliant Arena. Okay. And

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that's where we had people, you know, worship

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teams singing in Arabic, in Vietnamese. in Swahili,

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we had rap. I mean, it was basically the full

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body of Christ worshiping how they creatively

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would worship in their lands. Well, God's a creative

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God, so he loves all of it, doesn't he? He is,

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he is. And it was sacrificial, it was all night.

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And so with that, what the Lord showed me, it

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was setting a standard in the spirit that no

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one had yet. hat created. We did it also in,

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he called me to Seattle, Washington. And then

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we went, we actually had it in the Maiden Bower

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in Bellevue, a soul check. And then after that,

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the Lord called me to Guam. And kind of part

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of my personality too is I just obey, I do it.

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And then I go into the next thing. Yeah. I'm

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like, Lord, you call me to do this. I knock it

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out. Okay. What's next. So now you are still

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practicing law, but you've Started a new ministry

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called the Haggai project. The Lord just kind

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of said soul check is over the seasons over and

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Yeah, so no actually what happened is the Lord

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said yeah, basically after those six years He

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said you have three years off and I got married

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kindness and goodness of the Lord just never

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Ceases to amaze me Yeah, he's and and he's in

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the details which is which is really nice And

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so that's what what literally happened was within

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those three years. I got married but in 2016

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I had my first child. Then the Lord told me,

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write a book. And I wrote the book. And then

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he said, January 1st, 2017, start praying 100

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days, the word of God, live on Facebook. And

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at that point, I didn't even know what life was.

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So I was like, oh, my goodness. So I had to figure

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it out. You know, all the videos are up. Ever

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since 2017, I've prayed 100 days. OK, a different

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theme concerning the word of God. So in January,

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you start in January. I start January 1st every

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year, and then I pray for 100 days. OK, so that

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January was really interesting. On the 90th day

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of my prayer, my husband text me. saying, hey,

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I just got called into the boss's office. He

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said they're transferring me to Pennsylvania.

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We have to go. And I had total peace. I was like,

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okay, let's go. And we had 10 days. And so -

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10 days to move? 10 days with a little child

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who, of course, three days before we officially

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moved, started walking. Oh my gosh. So we had

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to pack. Our whole house, we put it in storage.

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We had four luggage, five boxes, and we were

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off. The tenth day happened to be the hundredth

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day of the prayer. Wow. So I am praying. My last

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prayer in the airport, and we're gone. New life.

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In Pennsylvania, a lot of blessings started happening.

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Yeah, I used your book, Praying as Jesus Prayed,

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during my devotion times about a year and a half

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ago, and I could tell it was written out of experience.

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You know, there's people who write out of knowledge,

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just head knowledge, but I could tell that you

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were writing out of experience. that you knew

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because you had experienced it. And it's very

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practical. I love that. I'm a rubber meets the

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road kind of gal. So share some of those principles.

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I mean, praying, becoming a house of prayer.

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Share some of the experiences that taught you

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those principles. The first thing, you know,

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even before with the healing, you know, God says

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he's the healer. That's his name. Yeah. And so

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merely just saying, God, you are healer. I received

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my healing and now I thank you for my healing.

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I received my healing by mere gratitude, knowing

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that thank you, Lord, I'm healed because you're

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the healer and you healed me on the cross. So,

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you know, that's of course one example. But what

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are some of the practices that you've adopted

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in your life that have helped you stand firm

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in your faith through, I mean, you know, you've

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kind of talked about some of it, but just kind

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of pinpoint what are some of those things that

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really have grounded you and helped you stand

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through the storms? The authenticity with God,

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you know, being very raw with him because you're

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in a relationship. I already know that I'm in

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a relationship with a person. Yeah. And so because

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he's a person, you know, just like we would do

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to a loved ones, like I don't want to hurt his

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feelings. I want to understand his heart. I want

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to understand how he thinks. And because I have

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respect for him. And of course, I mean, he's

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the almighty, all powerful God who is perfect

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in all his ways. I want to operate like him.

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You know, people always talk about in the secular

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world, find a mentor, find a mentor. Well, He

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is the best mentor. I would say with that authenticity

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with God, I would say I really have a no compromise

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lifestyle. I'm just not into that. I will cut

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off something so quick if I find that it is in

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any way harming my relationship with the Lord,

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hurting his heart. If it's something that's not...

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you know of him and sometimes you know my friends

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praise the lord they're they're my friends but

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it's hard for them because you know i'm like

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hey dude you know you can't be you know like

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you can't be doing this that's compromise you

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know so they hear me talk about it a lot but

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um I think that's really the way to go because

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if you live at no compromise lifestyle, then

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you don't have, you're not giving legal rights

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to the enemy in any way. And then there's a clarity

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of spirit because you're only talking with the

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Holy Spirit. So that, and then, and I'll couple

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that, I always talk about being an obedient one.

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And usually when I'm praying over people, I pray

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that they would be an obedient one. Having an

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authentic relationship with God where I'm not

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compromised. then allows me to walk in a depth

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of obedience that a lot of people sometimes don't

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understand. Whoa, like, what is she doing? You

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know, or she's in too much or whatever, whatever.

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But what it is, is obedience and that faith and

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trust, because that trust has been built over

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time. You know, it started in many different

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ways, but in particular doing soul checks. You

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know, it started like, there has been a history.

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With the Lord you have developed a history of

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trust a history of trust a history of faith a

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history of seeing his hand Yeah, and a history

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of obeying him and then seeing his hand, you

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know I think with that it gives me a clarity

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and a clarity of purpose as we close Natasha

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I like to ask all of my guests if there's a woman

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of the Bible whose story has inspired or encouraged

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or taught you something and how does her God

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story relate to your God story? Abigail. Abigail

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was married to a very wealthy man and David,

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who was being persecuted, you know, by Saul,

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pursued to be killed. He and his men were basically,

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you know, hiding out, but they were also based

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on their position. They were guarding the flock.

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And of course, because God was with David and

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his men, the flock began to increase. Yeah. As

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that flock increased, you know, and David was

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and his men were kind of destitute, they did

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request, you know, a portion of the increase

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that they had been stewarding and Nable refused.

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Yeah. So Abigail, when David came and asked that

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of Nable and Nable at the time said no, Abigail

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stepped in and said, oh, wait a minute, we need

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to respond. When David asked Nable for the request,

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he refused and he actually He not merely refused,

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he was insulting to David. He went around and

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had a party. Now what was interesting is Abigail

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heard because there was a servant who whispered

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it in her ear. I believe because he had a party,

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I realized that that's where she was able to

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get all her ready -made supplies. And she goes

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and the first thing that she does to David is

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she intercedes on behalf of Nabal saying, be

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it as if I have done it, calling him Lord, you

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know, and began to basically intercede in this

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physical world for her whole household, because

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David came to kill after he was insulted. And

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so with that, you know, I see myself, one, in

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my personal life, not taking the way of the fool,

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like Nabal, and saying, hey, no. I'm gonna build

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myself as a house of prayer, but also in that

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also going to the Lord and interceding for his

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people and then listening and obeying to him.

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We do this not for our own blessing, but it just

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comes because God is just awesome and he's a

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rewarder. He's like, you obey me, I'm gonna reward.

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Now, it may not look like what the world... thinks,

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but there are rewards both here on this world

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in this earth and in heaven just by pureness

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of obedience to him. Yeah, and you know, it's

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so good that you said it's not necessarily what

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the world thinks, but you know, God created us.

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And one of the things that I have learned and

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is deep in my heart is that God knows me better

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than I know myself. He knows what brings me joy.

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He knows what brings you joy. And when he rewards

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you, it's bringing the wholeness of who He created

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us to be. And the world, their thought of joy

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is temporary, fleeting, leaves you empty. When

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God, when He brings you joy, it's fullness and

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wholeness and life. Natasha shared her powerful

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journey, one marked not by certainty, but by

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surrender. Her obedience, even without all the

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answers, reminds us that God doesn't call us

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to comfort. He calls us to trust. And just like

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Mary who once said, be it unto me according to

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your word, Natasha's story shows us that great

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faith doesn't require full clarity, just a willing

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heart. As we close, I want to bless you today

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with this promise from Luke 1, 45. Blessed is

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she who believed that the Lord would fulfill

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his promises in her. Friend, if you're standing

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at a crossroads, unsure of the next step, remember

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obedience in the unknown is never wasted. God

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sees you, he's faithful, and he's already working

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ahead of you. Natasha, would you take a moment

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to pray for those who are walking through their

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own season of surrender? Lord, we come before

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you and we love you. There is no one that we

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would rather be with than you, hearing from you,

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feeling you. I thank you Lord God for silence

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before you and I pray Lord God that every single

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listener would be imbued with the ability to

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go before you and just be silent. To understand

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that their King has something to say and share

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to show and that there would be space in everyone's

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day for this, there would be time allocated just

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to come before the Lord in that holy silence.

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And then while in that holy silence, Lord God,

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I pray that everyone would be bathed with your

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spirit and then would be led to your word. And

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then Lord God, that they would be start bathing

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themselves in your word full immersion just like

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when you get into a bath and your skin begins

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to be wrinkled that the full absorption of the

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word that then all of a sudden we would become

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more pliable more apt even lord god if there's

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something that we need to cut away from our lives

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then we would become more pliable that bathing

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so that we can truly experience the fullness

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of you and be cleansed and be sanctified and

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move forward Lord in a no compromise lifestyle

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that is truly for you not for ourselves not for

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the things of the world but truly for you I pray

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that each one of us would be able to walk in

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the Spirit. That we, Lord God, would be people

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that we understand and can discern when it's

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our flesh and when, Lord God, it is of the demonic.

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And I pray that in that time of choosing that

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such a distaste would come upon all of us for

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the things that are not of God, that we would

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truly have such a distaste, a repulsion, that

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we live an uncompromised life. That we are truly

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obedient ones. You say the word, Lord, we do

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it. Not because we are servants, but because

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we're friends, because we're lovers. Because,

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Lord God, we understand that it is all about

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you. Our life is all about you. And we choose

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You, I thank you Lord, that we choose you. And

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I pray that everyone here would choose you. In

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the mundane, in the making of the bed in the

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morning, choose God, walk in excellence, make

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your bed. In the operation at work or volunteering.

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or in any sphere of influence within the community,

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that we choose you, Lord God, and we walk in

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excellence because we're reflecting you, not

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for anything else but you. And that whatever

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you call us to, Lord God, again, it's not about

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us, it's not about here, it's not about there,

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but it is about you. And I thank you, Lord, that

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that would be so deeply ingrained in our blood

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that our cells would cry out, Lord God. for you,

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that we would not be satisfied, Lord God, with

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our days, if we have not done it as if before

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you, completely God -conscious of you. Lord,

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I pray that everyone would have such a hunger

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for your Spirit and for your Word, to interact

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with the Spirit, to have the Word of God become

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so alive, that it's so tangible that they feel

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it entering into their body and transforming

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them. as they take it into their soul, Lord.

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I thank you, Almighty Father, and I pray and

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I just thank you, Lord God, that everybody's

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soul and everybody's flesh would submit to the

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Spirit of God, which is within them, and that

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we would be people that walk by the Spirit and

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not by the flesh. I praise you for this, Lord.

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I glorify you for this, Lord. We love you, God,

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and we thank you that we will constantly and

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continually have encounter upon encounter with

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you. Thank you, Lord, in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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If this episode stirred your heart, I encourage

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you to go deeper. You can listen to Natasha's

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full story in episode eight, titled Being a House

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of Prayer Brings Blessing, Natasha Miller's Story.

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You can also Visit hergodstory .org to explore

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