Jesus Is Our Freedom, Tangie Callahan’s Story

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Hey friends, welcome to the Her God Story podcast where you will always hear a good

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story to encourage and inspire you in your walk with the Lord.

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I am so glad you tuned in.

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I'm your host, Jodie Chiricosta, ministry leader at Somebody Cares American International,

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author and traveler on this journey with Jesus.

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Dear ones, sometimes life is hard.

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We get battered and bruised by the sin of others and are left feeling guilt and shame

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ourselves.

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A man named David in the Bible sure did, but he knew to turn to God to find relief.

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And in case you're not familiar with David's story, the Lord brought him through some serious

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trials.

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For a season, he was even hunted down to be killed by his own father-in-law when he had

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done nothing wrong.

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But David turned to the Lord in his trials and the Lord lifted him up, eventually setting

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him on the throne of Israel, which was arguably the most powerful nation in that day.

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In his trials and his victories, David turned to God in worship.

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And he turned to God by studying his laws, his word.

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I'm going to read portions of two Psalms from the NIV that have been attributed to

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David and you'll see what I mean.

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Psalm 34, 1-8 says, I will extol the Lord at all times.

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His praise will always be on my lips.

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I will glory in the Lord.

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Let the afflicted hear and rejoice.

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Glorify the Lord with me.

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Let us exalt his name together.

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I sought the Lord and he answered me.

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He delivered me from all my fears.

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Those who look to him are radiant.

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Their faces are never covered with shame.

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This poor man called and the Lord heard him.

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He saved him out of all his troubles.

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The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and he delivers them.

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Taste and see that the Lord is good.

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Blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

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This is a small example of David's worship.

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And Psalm 119, 77 through 80 says, let your compassion come to me that I may live for

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your law is my delight.

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May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause, but I will meditate on your

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precepts.

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May those who fear you turn to me, those who understand your statutes.

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May I wholeheartedly follow your decrees that I may not be put to shame.

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And that's an example of how he turned to God through his word and his laws.

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My guest, Tangi Callahan, might have written those very words.

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A worshiper at heart, Tangi has been battered and bruised in life, but the Lord delivered

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her.

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You will see that her personal story resonates true freedom and hope that can only be found

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in Jesus.

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Tangi's passion is to help others find purpose and live a transformed life in Christ.

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She is the worship pastor at Bridge Church, which she planted along with her husband in

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1998.

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Tangi is also a life coach, but her greatest joy is being a wife, mother of four children,

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and now a grandmother.

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Welcome Tangi.

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Hi, Jodie

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It is so good to be with you today.

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Tangi, even though you were raised in church and came to know the Lord when you were seven,

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life was not all rosy for you growing up.

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Will you share a bit about your early life?

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I would love to.

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My parents divorced.

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We had a great family, I thought.

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From what I could remember, I remember like little tiny memories, but I remember some

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fussing and arguing and some things.

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When I was around five or six years old, my parents got a divorce and it just sent me

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and my siblings into a whole new awakening of a different world, having to go back and

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forth to my mom's house and to my dad's.

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My dad ended up getting custody of us, and so we would see my mom first and third weekend

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of the month.

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I remember looking forward to seeing her, but also being home with my dad.

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I loved both of my parents very well.

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Having to be put on a court stand at around eight years old to have to choose was an awakening

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to me that how can a child be put in this position when they love both parents.

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It was kind of crazy for several years.

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It took a turn to even crazier when my father allowed us or asked my aunt if she could keep

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us for the weekend while he went out of town.

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That night, I was molested, my sister and I, all night and sexually molested.

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Man, just what can happen so quickly?

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I mean, just my world completely turned upside down in a matter of 24 hours.

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Didn't know what to do with what had happened, had all these emotions, all these feelings.

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Didn't know if I should say anything because he told us that if we told, then he would

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kill our parents.

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We just kind of had this little secret we eventually told.

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When we told, we were confronted as if the exact words were, I hope you're not lying.

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As a five or six year old, I was like, I can't make this up.

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This is what happened.

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I didn't have any reference of how to make anything up like that.

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Being raised in a Christian home, then the divorce, then the molestation, those first

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years were just crazy, crazy painful.

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So, Tange, you were carrying around this horrible experience that really people weren't really

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believing that you had.

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But in the midst of it, you were also involved in some ministry.

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You were part of a singing group with your siblings.

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You were moving back and forth between your parents' house.

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Life was busy and crazy.

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Eventually, the trauma you had been through started showing itself in another part of

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your life.

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Can you explain?

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Like you said, the going back and forth, but then ministering on the weekends, my brother

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and sister and I would sing at different churches.

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We had another singing group that we would travel with.

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I'm getting probably into, I'm like eight years old, nine years old, ten years old,

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and just still doing the ministry thing.

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Sunday morning, we did not miss a service.

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We were there Wednesday night, Sunday morning, Sunday night, doing all of these things for

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Jesus.

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Then, while I am hurting on the inside, looking back now, I started to have an eating disorder.

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I didn't know at the time that that's what was going on.

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I would take food into my room.

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I would hide it under my mattress.

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I would not eat for two or three days.

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My parents had no clue that this was going on.

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Then all of a sudden, I would just eat everything in sight.

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I would binge, binge, binge, binge.

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This just began a cycle in my late elementary, early middle school years.

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Yeah, I had developed an eating disorder.

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That eating disorder stayed with you for a lot of years until you were ready, really

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ready for God to bring it healing in that area.

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Sometimes that takes a while for us to get to that point.

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Absolutely.

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Through high school, beyond, you were traveling, you were ministering.

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Even though you carried that pain, God was still leading you.

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He was still providing you.

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He was still answering your prayers.

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He didn't abandon you because you were hiding that pain.

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So tell a little bit about what God was doing in your life in the midst of that.

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We were traveling, ministering.

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And meanwhile, I would go home to this really dark place and felt ashamed.

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I remember trying to take soap and wash my body extra hard to try to feel clean.

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I would stand in front of people and minister, but then go to my room and just weep and weep.

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The eating disorder was something I could control.

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It was food.

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It brought comfort.

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It brought peace to me, I felt.

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It was something I could say, okay, I'm ready for you now.

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And okay, I'm not going to have you anymore because I feel like I'm getting fat.

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Everything was just inward.

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Everything was self-shame.

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And oh my goodness, if I would have known what I know now when James talks about James

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5 16 that says, confess your sin one to another so that you will be healed.

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I wish I would have confessed, but I didn't.

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I held this thing on the inside of me.

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I went through my high school years.

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I'm 18.

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I graduate and I go to college and I'd been dating a guy for six years.

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And I'm now at college.

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I'm still carrying this, this deep dark secret and nobody knows.

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So at 19 years old, we, my choir, the choir that I was in, that we traveled and sang in,

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we went to a church in North Carolina and here walks in this handsome, good looking

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six foot four curly headed green eyed man and I'm dating someone else in the choir.

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So I'm like, why am I looking at this guy?

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And he's so handsome to me.

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Like I'm already committed.

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I thought, you know, I'm going to marry this other guy.

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You know, so why am I so interested?

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And to make a long story short, since I had those feelings, I immediately broke it off

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with the guy that I had been dating for six years.

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And I met my husband Archie and we just started dating and I was 19 years old when we got

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married.

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And I had been praying actually, or had a desire to marry a pastor, right?

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I mean, yes, I remember sitting in church and I would look at my pastor's wife and I

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loved how she backed up her husband.

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And in my little thoughts, you know, being a little teenage girl, I thought, I want to

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do that for somebody.

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Like I want to back up my man.

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Like, and so I remember praying, Lord, I want to be a pastor's wife.

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And oh my goodness, be careful what you pray because you don't know the cost.

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You don't know the cost of what you're praying for.

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So yes, I had prayed, Lord, I want to be a pastor's wife.

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I want to support my husband.

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And so yeah, I was actually seeing that prayer unfold.

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And you know, God puts those desires in our hearts when, when he knows that we truly want

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to do his will, he gives us those desires.

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Yes.

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And then he fulfills them, doesn't he?

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Yes, he does.

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Because he's just a good God.

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He gives us to see his goodness and love in our lives.

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Even when we're struggling in some areas, he's still blessing.

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He's still blessing us in other areas.

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Yes.

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So Tangee, what is married life and your eating disorder mix?

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I remember two weeks before my wedding, I starved myself.

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Like I just would not eat.

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I was so nervous that when my husband saw me with no clothes on, he was going to reject

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me.

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I had battled with my weight pretty much all of my, my high school years and I was in weight

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diet clinics and I had to weigh in weekly.

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And so I had this, this mind, you know, this mind battle that your husband's going to reject

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you if you don't look a certain way.

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And so again, the eating disorder is playing its toll.

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You know, it's, it's weighing on my life.

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Here I am two weeks before I get married and I'm not eating and nobody knew.

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And I actually starved to make myself feel pretty, I guess.

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And we got married and I remember I was 19 years old.

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We started pastoring two weeks after we got married.

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And I would say to anyone, please don't do that.

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I didn't know how to be a wife, much less a pastor's wife.

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And so I'm now a wife.

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I'm now a pastor's wife and the women are bringing me pies and I'm eating them.

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Like all of a sudden my mom wasn't there to tell me what to eat.

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I didn't have anybody telling me, you know, look at so and so there was nobody.

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We moved eight hours to Augusta, Georgia and we were by ourselves.

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We had no immediate family.

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I was eight hours from my family.

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I had nobody.

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So all the voices that had shaped, you know, my mind and shaped how I thought about myself

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were not there.

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And so I thought I'm free.

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I can eat like I want to.

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And I did.

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I had at it.

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I ate every pie.

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I remember on Sunday nights when all the pressure was off, we would get not a half a gallon

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of ice cream.

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We would get the gallon of ice cream and two spoons, my husband and I, and we would just

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start eating.

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It was crazy.

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It was so crazy.

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And this lasted probably a good six months.

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I gained 50 pounds in the first three months of my marriage.

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And at the six month mark, I just felt the compelling voice of the Holy Spirit.

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Because meanwhile, we are ministering, like we are pastoring on Sundays.

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And I just, I like to say correction from the Holy Spirit, not conviction.

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Because I feel like when we're children of God, He will correct us gently.

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And I just kept hearing this voice, Tangy, you've got to stop.

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You've got to stop.

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And so we were still in Georgia and things began to get really bad.

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And I told, I confessed to my husband what was going on.

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He said, we'll do whatever.

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We'll do whatever it takes to help you.

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And he began to pastor me.

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Always tell people he was my pastor and not just my husband, but my pastor.

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That began the shift in that because two and a half years into our marriage, God called

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us to Virginia Beach to plant.

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It was harvest outreach, but now bridge church.

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I mean, you're being a pastor's wife and you're ministering to others.

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You're still struggling.

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So Archie's helping you some, but what actually happened to change things for you?

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So I remember it was one week we had moved to Virginia Beach.

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Things were very busy when we were planning the church.

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I mean, we had to set up church.

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We had to tear down church for 14 years.

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We met in schools, different schools.

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And so it was kind of crazy.

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I still had this little hidden thing that I wasn't delivered from.

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I had lost some weight at this point, I think about 25 pounds, but still very overweight,

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still had the wrong mindset.

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And so I remember praying a prayer and I said, Lord, I can't continue to do this.

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I can't continue to be in ministry and be hurting like I am.

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You know, I had already dealt with even in my marriage, the struggle to be intimate with

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my husband because of the sexual molestation.

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It just came into my marriage.

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And now not only am I dealing with problems with intimacy, I've got an eating disorder.

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And here I am, we're planning a church and I'm like, I'm a leader.

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I'm like, Lord, I can't continue.

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I'm just a type person that I don't like facades.

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And so I felt like I was living this false life, this fake life that I would preach Jesus

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was freedom.

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Jesus was my deliverer.

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Jesus is your deliverer.

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But what about these things?

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I had not handed those things to him.

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And so I simply prayed a prayer and I said, Lord, if you will tell me how to work out.

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I had no idea how to work out.

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I had no clue how to lift weights.

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I didn't even know what to do if I were to walk inside of a gym.

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I said, if you will show me what to do, if you'll tell me when to eat, what to eat and

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when to put the fork down, I'll listen and obey.

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And oh my goodness, Jodi, that prayer, I had no idea what God was going to do.

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I walk into church one Sunday morning and we have service.

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We have a powerful service actually.

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And I'm getting my things together, getting ready to walk out.

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And this lady comes up and she taps me on the shoulder and she says, Pastor Tangie,

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I just want to let you know that I just opened a women's gym down the road from here.

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And it was in the Green Run area of Virginia Beach.

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And she said, I want to let you know that if you ever want to come work out, ever, that

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you don't have to pay a dime, that you can just come to the gym.

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And I'm standing there and while she is talking, all of these thoughts start in my mind like,

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are you serious, Lord?

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Like I just prayed this prayer and you are sending like, you've got to be kidding me.

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And so that day was the day.

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I remember that was a Sunday.

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So it was the next day I woke up and I walked into the gym, had no clue, felt so insecure,

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felt like, okay, Lord, I don't even know what to do.

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You're going to have to show me.

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And so I walk over to what I know now is an elliptical and I step on this elliptical and

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I just see the start button.

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And so I hit start and I'm barely going, you know, I'm doing my little feet and I feel

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a tap on my shoulder and I turn around and it's this beautiful black lady.

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She is solid as a rock.

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I remember looking at her arms.

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They were like chiseled.

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She had a six pack, her legs, you could see every muscle.

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And she looks at me and she goes, she, she puts out her hand and she goes, hi, my name

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is Faith.

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I'm the personal trainer here and I would love to help you if you have any questions.

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Again, I'm like, Lord, what are you doing?

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That was the moment that literally, I just would, would cry.

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So that was the day I turned to Faith in both ways, spiritually and Faith, the lady in this

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gym and she began to work with me.

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She began to show me how to use the equipment and as I would get on the equipment, the Lord

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would speak to me and I would quote scripture.

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And just like, just like you perspire when you get, you know, on, on equipment and you

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begin to work out.

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It was like, as I was perspiring, the Lord was taking out all of the junk.

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It was a visual, you know how they put mirrors in front of you?

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Sometimes I hate that at gyms.

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Like you, I've got to watch myself the whole time as I'm on this equipment, but I remember

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looking in the mirror and seeing the sweat and the Lord, they actually, actually the

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Holy Spirit said to me in that moment, Tangi, just as you are sweating, I am healing every

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wound that happened to you in your childhood from the sexual molestation to the eating

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disorder.

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If you will allow me, Tangi, I will heal you.

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Yeah.

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I mean, sometimes we want God to do it instantaneously, right?

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But, but he knows the best way for us.

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He knows to really transform our minds, to renew our minds and as well as our bodies.

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Sometimes there's a process involved.

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Yes.

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But that eating disorder had affected your physical health, but God was healing that

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too.

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Share what he did for you.

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I began to just listen to the Lord.

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I would, this sounds really crazy.

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I would say this Lord, I'm taking it an hour at a time, an hour at a time, not a meal at

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a time, an hour at a time, because there would be times where I wanted to, to eat, eat, eat,

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eat, eat, or binge, binge, binge.

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And I would go to that instead of going to the word, I would go to food.

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And so the Lord literally began to speak to me and he'd say, okay, go ahead and eat your

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breakfast.

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I know this sounds really silly, but it was how I had to live.

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And I would eat.

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And when he would say, okay, Tangi, you've had enough.

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Listen to your hunger signals.

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You're done.

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You're full.

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And I'd, I'd, I'd almost like it became to where I would listen to my body and I would

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listen to the Holy spirit.

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And so even if I had food left on that plate, I would put my fork down and I would say,

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okay, Lord, I hear you.

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And I'd put that board down and it just, Jodi, it began to just be a process.

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I mean, I'm not saying it was perfect.

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I'm not saying I had bad days because I did.

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I would, I would easily just go back to my past, but every day I would say, okay, Lord,

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I give you this day.

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I give you this hour.

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I take it an hour at a time, Lord.

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And so as I did that and I started my day with the word, the Lord would begin to cleanse

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me and over time I began to lose the weight.

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I don't even know if I've shared this with you, but I was addicted to diet Coke and I

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would drink diet Coke and no water.

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I thought if it has the word diet in it, then it's got to be healthy.

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And so I remember like, I was so addicted to diet Coke.

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I would probably drink a two liter a day with no water and I'll have like migraines, migraines.

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And so the Lord began to talk to me about that.

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And so it was this process of really just letting go of everything and listening to

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the Holy spirit.

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And so through that process, I've now lost 85 pounds by just listening to his voice.

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Yes, ma'am.

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And that weight loss actually allowed you to conceive, right?

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Because at one point that was impossible at one point.

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Yes.

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So when we were in Georgia, before we moved to Virginia, I had started having some health

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issues.

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My periods had stopped.

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I felt again, the migraines just, I had all kinds of chronic situations going on.

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And I remember going to the doctor, my OB and he said, well, honestly, I don't feel

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like you can have children.

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He said, it's going to take, he used the word miracle.

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Some things had to come in order in my body.

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And so again, I'm like, all I wanted is to be a mom.

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Like we, in fact, this was very shortly after we were married.

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And so I looked at my husband and said, I'm ready to be mama and you be daddy.

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And he's like, honey, we just got married, but I'm just being real.

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Like it was like such, I wanted to be a mom so bad.

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And so, but the doctors had told me it was impossible.

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So as I, we moved to Virginia beach, we planted this church and as God began to heal me and

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my health, it was the craziest thing.

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My periods started coming back.

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I started ovulating.

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I had not ovulated.

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It had been years since I had ovulated.

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And so all of a sudden Archie's dad was in really bad health and we went to visit him

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and he, I remember he laid his hand on my stomach and he said, he said, Tangee, your

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desire is to have a baby.

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And he said, one year from today, you're going to be pregnant.

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And I wanted to believe him so bad, but in all honesty, I felt like, Lord, it's impossible

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because of all, I'm just a hot mess.

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Like you're going to have to do a lot.

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And it was really hard for me to believe, but I'll never forget that word.

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And I wept over it.

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And I said, Lord, if it's your will, I want to be a mom.

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And so that was all during the process of God just using his word to heal me, losing

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the weight.

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And I remember I hadn't hit that 85 pound goal yet, maybe about 50 pounds I had hit.

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And sure enough, we found out we were going to have a baby.

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And it was like the best day, the best news.

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And it was one year.

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It was one year to the month that he put his hand on my stomach and said that we were going

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to have a child.

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And I couldn't share it with him because he passed away like two or three months later.

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But we'll always hold that word in our hearts because it was so special.

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It wasn't just one.

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Absolutely.

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One at a time though, right?

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That's right.

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So, you know, having children helped bring into focus God's purpose for you.

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Your desire for your children to have healthy, godly self-image really extended to other

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women as well.

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So what did you do to prepare yourself for that?

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So I have one son and three girls.

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And when my girls started getting older, and I remember they became more self-conscious

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of their body, and I would hear them make comments and things like that, I had to, again,

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be corrected by the Holy Spirit by the way I would speak about my body.

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And so the Lord just began to teach me, you know, what you say about your body, your daughters

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are going to look at their body and compare and do the same things.

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And so I would always talk about health.

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I wouldn't talk about numbers.

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I wouldn't talk about diet because I didn't want it to be this fling thing that they did.

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I wanted them to think and view food as either life or death.

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Does that mean that sometimes we don't have ice cream?

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Does that mean that sometimes we don't have a donut?

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No, we did those fun things.

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And I remember in fact, every Sunday, once I began listening to the Lord, it was like

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he allowed me to have ice cream.

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And I remember, because ice cream was like my greatest weakness.

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Like I could eat the gallon or half gallon, I should say.

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But once I began to listen to his voice, it was like there was a grace there and I could

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eat ice cream and I would listen to him even if there was more in my bowl and I would put

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my spoon down.

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And so I began to teach my girls, okay, ice cream is not the greatest of health, but in

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moderation it's okay.

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You know, I said, you know, and we would, I would just teach them little things like

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that.

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You know, you don't have to overeat.

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You can stop and listen to your body and stop before, you know, when you're satisfied.

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And so I think all of these little nuggets that the Holy Spirit had begun to teach me,

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I would pass along to them.

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And then I had the thought of, you know, I'm just not affecting my daughters.

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I want to affect women.

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Like I want to help women be able to hear the voice of the Lord in their life.

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And so I had this, just this thought, Lord, I want to go back to school and learn.

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I want to, I want to coach.

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I want to.

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And so at that point, one of my friends had told me about Lighthouse coaching and Lighthouse

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University.

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And so I began to just study and figure out exactly, you know, how long and because we

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were very busy and I was like, talk to Archie.

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I'm going to talk to Archie.

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I'm going to go back to school.

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And so I did.

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I did about a year and a half.

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And I got my life coaching.

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I'm a master life coach and also my health coaching in that whole curriculum.

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Like I was able to study health and things so I could have the credentials to be able

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to help women.

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Super excited about that.

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Yeah.

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So what are some of the principles that you share that have allowed you to see breakthrough

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in yourself and in others?

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I know you can't coach us all in this short little podcast, but what are some of those

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key principles?

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I love to teach women how to number one, listen to the voice of the Lord.

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You would be surprised how many women never invite Christ into that area of their life.

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00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:20,120
You know, they'll say, Oh, pastor T, I want to lose like 30 pounds.

472
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,240
I know that you've had success and losing weight.

473
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,160
Will you tell me what you did?

474
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:25,160
And I'll tell them my story.

475
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:32,360
And they're like, Oh, I never thought to ask God to come into that area of my life.

476
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:38,360
Like I'll give him, you know, my relationships out asking for the right husband or the right,

477
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,020
you know, whatever.

478
00:29:40,020 --> 00:29:46,280
But I've never thought about asking God to be, you know, Lord of my food, you know, listening

479
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,520
or speaking to me about when to eat, what to eat.

480
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:54,360
And so it's like this awakening that God is there no matter how big the problem, no matter

481
00:29:54,360 --> 00:30:02,160
how small he cares about the very tiny thing in your life that you're concerned about.

482
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:09,720
And so I love teaching women, listen to the voice of God, take the word and apply it to

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00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,040
your life.

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00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:16,400
When you read that scripture, that's not just so that you can get your quiet time in that

485
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:21,600
is so that you can take that word and apply it to your life.

486
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,000
And I teach them, you know, how to pray.

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00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:31,960
I teach them what to declare over their bodies because believe it or not, what we say has

488
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:32,960
so much power.

489
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:37,320
In fact, in Proverbs, it says, I don't know exactly the chapter, but it says life and

490
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,980
death is in the power of your tongue.

491
00:30:40,980 --> 00:30:46,380
And so if you're talking down about your body all the time, if you are constantly putting

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00:30:46,380 --> 00:30:53,000
your body down, your body's hearing that and it will follow what you're saying.

493
00:30:53,000 --> 00:31:00,520
And so I just teach women, speak over your metabolism, speak over, you know, your satiety

494
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:07,440
signals that, you know, that you'll know when you're satisfied, you'll crave the healthy

495
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,920
things, you'll crave the food that brings life to you.

496
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:17,360
And so these are just a few of the little things that I help, you know, teach women.

497
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:23,320
So I know that you've had to apply these principles, you know, they're not just for your health,

498
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,760
but you've had to apply those in other areas of your life as well.

499
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,080
Share some of those experiences and how God led you.

500
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:38,880
Well, I've talked a little bit about my girls, but my son, who was a very successful football

501
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:45,280
player, in fact, in his senior year, he got 11 offers to play division one football.

502
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,960
And I remember us praying and, you know, just asking the Lord, you know, what, where is

503
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:56,600
it, is Ethan supposed to go, you know, and, and he, we let him decide and him pray about

504
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,600
it.

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00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:03,640
We knew that Ethan was not in the place spiritually that he needed to be.

506
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:08,360
However, I know he loved the Lord and he said he felt like that God wanted him to go to

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00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:09,760
the University of Maine.

508
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:16,800
And so this was just, I don't know, when I thought about him moving 18 hours away, I

509
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,280
thought, Oh my goodness.

510
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:23,600
And so the Lord had to teach me about the releasing of my son and just how to trust

511
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,440
him with him.

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00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:31,120
And so I remember us dropping him off at the University of Maine.

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00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,300
It was an 18 hour drive.

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00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:37,560
We dropped him off, got him all settled and we pull off of the parking lot and I began

515
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:42,560
to weep and God began to teach me about trusting him.

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00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:47,800
He began to talk to me about being in charge and being in control.

517
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:52,560
And he said, Tangie, he said, you're not in control of your children.

518
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,180
You're in charge.

519
00:32:54,180 --> 00:32:55,580
And he said, it's just like me.

520
00:32:55,580 --> 00:32:58,160
He said, I'm not in control.

521
00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,560
I'm in charge.

522
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,440
And I was, and I'm in this drive and I'm asking the Lord all these questions.

523
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:08,240
And he said, he said, if I were in control, there'd never be another miscarriage.

524
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,120
There'd never be another divorce.

525
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,200
There'd never be another abortion.

526
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:13,840
He said, but Tangie, I'm sovereign.

527
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,320
I am in charge.

528
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:22,440
And he began to teach me about, you know, when we talk to our children about don't touch

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00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:27,360
this, even at two and three years old, just say, for instance, the remote that's sitting

530
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,320
on the, the, the coffee table.

531
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:33,200
And we say to our kids, don't touch the remote.

532
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,240
Don't you touch that remote.

533
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:39,000
And cause we didn't move our stuff when we had small kids, we just left it there and

534
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,880
we taught them what they could touch, what they couldn't touch.

535
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:46,320
But I remember at, you know, my kids being two and three years old and I'd say, don't

536
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,560
touch the remote.

537
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:53,320
And then I'd walk out of the room and the Lord brought that back to my memory.

538
00:33:53,320 --> 00:34:00,160
When I walk out of the room, that child has the ability to choose.

539
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,680
Am I going to touch the remote or am I going to obey my mama?

540
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:10,120
And so the Lord just began to teach me about releasing and that I wasn't in control of

541
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:14,280
Ethan's life, but I was in charge and that I had to release him.

542
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:23,000
And we found out that Ethan had been dealt some pretty crazy things in the world of football

543
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,200
and he was struggling.

544
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:27,100
There was some, there was some major struggles there as parents.

545
00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:31,180
We couldn't put our finger on it, but we knew there were some major struggles there.

546
00:34:31,180 --> 00:34:38,200
And I just began to pray and I would go in his room and I took all of these things that,

547
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:42,480
you know, I teach women and I teach, you know, I taught my girls about the word and I was

548
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:47,560
like, Lord, I'm taking this word and I'm applying it to my son.

549
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,080
I know that he's got a purpose and he's got a calling.

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00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:55,520
So I would go in his room and I would declare Jeremiah 29, 11, for I know the plans that

551
00:34:55,520 --> 00:35:00,720
I have for you says the Lord plans to prosper you, not to harm you plans to give you a future

552
00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:01,880
and a hope.

553
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,240
And I would anoint his pillow.

554
00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:04,520
I would anoint his doorway.

555
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,200
Now he's not home.

556
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:14,880
He is away 18 hours in Maine and I am praying in his room and I know beyond a shadow of a

557
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,160
doubt that the Lord heard my prayers.

558
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:22,760
And it was just a few months after praying diligently that my son comes home for Christmas

559
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:23,880
break.

560
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:29,840
We get ready to take him back to school and he looks at us with these big crocodile tears

561
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,080
coming down his face.

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00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:37,120
He's 305 pounds, six foot four and he's like, mom, I can't go back.

563
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,360
And I said, what do you mean you can't go back?

564
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,120
And he said, I can't go back.

565
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:43,720
God's not there.

566
00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:46,920
And I said, what do you mean God's not there, honey?

567
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,360
I said, God's everywhere.

568
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,080
And he said, well, I can't find him.

569
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:56,840
And we begin to weep in my minivan sitting in the parking lot of the airport.

570
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:01,680
And he looked at me and he said, I have to find God.

571
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:06,500
And Archie and I were able to sit in there and talk to him and minister to him.

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00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:08,240
We called his coach.

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00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:12,120
We went through all of the things, the proper channels to be able to get him out of this

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00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,320
football program.

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00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:19,680
And we brought our son home and it was a miracle.

576
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:25,600
He still struggled for years because his identity was wrapped in football and we had to get

577
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:26,600
him help.

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00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:27,600
We helped him.

579
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:28,600
We pastored him.

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00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:29,600
We laid in the floor.

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00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:30,600
We cried with him.

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00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:35,840
But I'm telling you, the word of God is what delivered my son.

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00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:42,040
And I'll be honest, if you're a mom out there and you have children that are wayward, you

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00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:46,920
begin to call on the name of the Lord, begin to find that scripture.

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00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:48,520
It doesn't have to be 10 scriptures.

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00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:53,320
It can be one scripture because the Bible says that his word does not return void.

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00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,640
And you begin to call on the name of Jesus using the word of God.

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00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:02,080
And God will turn that situation around for your child.

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00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:07,400
And I can say to this day, probably the last two years have been Ethan's greatest years.

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00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,360
He's now 25 years old.

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00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,520
He loves the Lord.

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00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:12,760
He's passionate about the things of God.

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00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,760
Yes, he still goes in the yard and plays football.

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00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,280
He teaches kids football.

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00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,760
He actually coached for a couple of years.

596
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:24,760
And so God is still using that gift, but it looks completely different.

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00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,080
And so I thank God for that.

598
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:28,080
Amen.

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00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:33,280
And I think you've had, you know, you've applied those principles in your personal life as

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00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:34,280
well.

601
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:38,660
I mean, when you first pastored in Virginia Beach, kind of lost some friends over that.

602
00:37:38,660 --> 00:37:40,160
What happened there?

603
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:41,960
Oh, man.

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00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:49,600
When we moved to Virginia Beach to start our church, we had some close relationships that

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00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:55,600
just, it's amazing who sticks with you for a certain amount of time while you're out

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00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,840
of their world because we were eight hours away.

607
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:04,880
But when we got close in proximity, some things began to shift and we had some friends turn

608
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:05,880
their back on us.

609
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:10,920
We had some close pastor friends that turned their back on us.

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00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:16,000
And I remember my husband and I just look at each other and he's like, we haven't done

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00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,000
anything.

612
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,640
We're following the call of God.

613
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,280
We love these people.

614
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,060
We don't know why they're responding in this way.

615
00:38:23,060 --> 00:38:25,560
So what are we going to do?

616
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,440
And I'm like, what are we going to do?

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00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:28,840
You know, because it was hard.

618
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,880
We were very lonely.

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00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,600
And he said, we're not going to do anything.

620
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,020
We're not going to bash them.

621
00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:36,380
We're going to be here if they call on us.

622
00:38:36,380 --> 00:38:39,380
And he said, we're going to stand on this word.

623
00:38:39,380 --> 00:38:47,280
And it's in Proverbs and it says, when your ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even

624
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,920
your enemies be at peace with you.

625
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:57,760
And we stood on that word for, I mean, it may have been two or three years that we would

626
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:04,540
say, Lord, when our ways are pleasing to you, you make our enemies be at peace with us.

627
00:39:04,540 --> 00:39:10,320
And I remember when people started coming back to us and repenting, they would say,

628
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:11,920
we're so sorry.

629
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,560
We hear God's doing a great work.

630
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:15,780
And they would come back.

631
00:39:15,780 --> 00:39:17,040
We never got angry.

632
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:18,240
We never got bitter.

633
00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:20,060
We kept our hearts sweet.

634
00:39:20,060 --> 00:39:23,160
We kept our heart from becoming bitter.

635
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,380
And that's not to pat us on the back.

636
00:39:25,380 --> 00:39:29,240
That's to say that the grace of God kept us in the word.

637
00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:36,200
And we stood on that scripture and we looked at each other privately and said, that word

638
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:40,860
right there is powerful because that's what happened in our life.

639
00:39:40,860 --> 00:39:42,920
And we saw the fruit of that.

640
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:43,920
It was powerful.

641
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:48,120
You know, one of my favorite verses and my regular listeners know this because I quoted

642
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:49,120
a lot.

643
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,680
It's in Psalm 37 in the New Living Translation.

644
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:57,760
It says, the Lord directs the steps of the righteous and delights in every detail of

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00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,240
their lives.

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00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:00,240
Every detail.

647
00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:01,760
Oh, I love that.

648
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:06,320
I think about your story and how he delighted to tell you what to eat and what not to eat.

649
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:10,400
And you know, how he delighted to show you scriptures to pray over your son and how he

650
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,440
delighted to bring reconciliation in your friends.

651
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:18,160
And when we look to God, he just, he's a good, good father.

652
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:19,160
Yes.

653
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:23,640
You know, so many people have a misconception of who God is.

654
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:24,640
That's so true.

655
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:29,560
And when we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God is good, God is loving, God is for

656
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,480
us, it changes our whole perspective in our whole life.

657
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:33,480
Yes.

658
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:40,000
I want to just say this, that as I was working out and God was healing me, there were other

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00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,720
things that became hard.

660
00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:51,220
And one of those was the day that I had to choose verbally, choose to forgive.

661
00:40:51,220 --> 00:40:54,000
And there was a lot of people I needed to forgive.

662
00:40:54,000 --> 00:41:00,160
And I don't know who I'm speaking to or if I'm speaking to someone out there, but when

663
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:04,320
that point comes, you have to forgive.

664
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:09,300
And almost that was like the beginning of my healing.

665
00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:12,440
You know, it was, yes, God spoke to me about the eating.

666
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,860
God spoke to me about how to work out what to eat, all of the life giving things.

667
00:41:16,860 --> 00:41:19,280
But you know what I had to do first?

668
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,000
I had to forgive.

669
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,680
And so it was not easy.

670
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,720
In fact, for several months it was just lip service.

671
00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:31,680
It was like, okay, Lord, I forgive them.

672
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:32,680
I forgive them.

673
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,080
You know, and it was like walking it out by faith.

674
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:44,480
But I remember actually seeing my family member and being able to smile and say hi.

675
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,840
And at that moment, the Holy Spirit said, you have truly forgiven.

676
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,960
That was such a powerful moment.

677
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:59,640
If it's hard for people to forgive right now by faith, just begin saying it and God will

678
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:00,840
show up with grace.

679
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:06,560
I had a relationship that was painful at one point in my life.

680
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,240
And, you know, I had to kind of go through the same process.

681
00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:14,460
It took months, but every, you know, I mean, I would start hurting and I would go into

682
00:42:14,460 --> 00:42:19,100
my closet and worship, not literally my closet, but I would go, you know, into a private place

683
00:42:19,100 --> 00:42:21,240
and worship and say, God, I forgive.

684
00:42:21,240 --> 00:42:24,280
I forgive this person for, you know, rejecting me.

685
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:25,720
I forgive this person.

686
00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:29,680
And after a few months, the pain wasn't there anymore.

687
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,240
But it was a process.

688
00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:32,240
Wow.

689
00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:33,240
Yes.

690
00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:38,400
So Tangee, as we close, would you share about a woman of the Bible whose story inspired,

691
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:39,800
encouraged or taught you something?

692
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,400
Or if you have another comment you want to make, go ahead and do that too.

693
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:47,080
I just want to just say that it was very hard for me to think of one woman because there's

694
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,320
a lot of women in the Bible.

695
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:53,400
But I would have to say that the one story that means so much to me is Mark chapter five.

696
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,880
And it was the woman with the issue of blood.

697
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:03,240
And I was the, I was the hemorrhaging woman and I was the one that was bleeding on the

698
00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:05,440
inside and nobody knew.

699
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,820
Hers was very outward.

700
00:43:07,820 --> 00:43:12,400
She had to announce that she was unclean when she got around people because she was, she

701
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:13,400
couldn't be around.

702
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,120
She was ceremonially unclean.

703
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:20,600
But for Tangee, it was not announced for years.

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And I was that hemorrhaging woman that was walking around hurting.

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But I love the verse where Jesus turns around.

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So the lady presses through the crowd.

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She's very sick.

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She's been bleeding for 12 years.

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And she says, if I can just but touch the hem of his garment.

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In other words, if I could just get around him.

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And I think of that too with my story.

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Like if I could just get into the presence of God.

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And that's what changed me.

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That's what the word does.

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As soon as you, the quickest way into the presence of God is his word.

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And so when I would begin to read his word, immediately God's presence would come to me.

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And so the Bible says that she reached out, she touched the hem of his garment and it

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says immediately.

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It didn't say a few minutes later, the next day.

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It said immediately her body was made whole and the bleeding stopped.

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And then I love this.

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It says he turned around and he said, daughter, your faith has made you whole.

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That's my favorite part because when he said daughter, it's the only place in the Bible

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where he says daughter to any woman.

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And if you study that, it means that immediately her identity was restored.

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And in my life, I didn't know who I was.

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I had lived by the words of aunts and family members and people comparing me to my sister

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and people comparing me to other skinny people on magazine covers and all of these things.

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I always heard the voices, their voices, the voices that put me down.

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But when God healed me, my relationship to him, my identity was restored.

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And that Mark chapter five will forever be a book or a chapter that I resonate with forever.

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That's good.

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Well, you know, Psalm 119, it's a long, long Psalm, but it has so much good stuff in it.

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Verses 41 through 48 in the NIV read, may your unfailing love come to me, Lord, your

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salvation according to your promise that I can answer anyone who taunts me.

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For I trust in your word.

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Never take your word of truth from my mouth, for I put my hope in your laws.

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I will always obey your law forever and ever.

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I will walk about in freedom for I have sought out your precepts.

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Well, that sounds like you, huh?

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Tangie

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I will speak of your statutes before kings and will not be put to shame for I delight

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in your commands because I love them.

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I reach out for your commands, which I love that I may meditate on your decrees.

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David understood that freedom comes from learning and following God's word, which Tangy has

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experienced and explained so beautifully in her story.

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As you get into God's word and apply it in your life, worshiping God in the midst of

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your circumstances, you will find freedom too.

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Tangie, would you take a moment, pray for our listeners?

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I would love to.

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Father, I just thank you for today.

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I thank you for who you are, the good father that you are.

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And I don't know who's listening, but father, you do.

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And you know every detail of their life.

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And Lord, I just thank you that even now, Holy Spirit, you are going to every area,

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the hurts of their childhood, the pain that they have experienced in their childhood,

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God, the words that may have been spoken over them in their childhood and even through their

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teen years and even into their adult years, Lord.

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I don't know all the details, but father, you do.

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And Lord, I ask right now that you come to each woman.

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You come to each man.

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Lord, and you show yourself, Lord.

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I pray that your manifest presence would encamp around those who are listening.

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God that you would just begin to show them your love.

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God that you would wrap your arms around them, Holy Spirit.

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And God that you would begin to teach them.

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God that you would just show them your way.

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God that you would allow their heart to be opened to hearing your voice.

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God that they would turn to the word and not to anything that could be a substitute for

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your word, whether that be alcohol, food, drugs, Lord, sex, pornography, anything, Lord,

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that would cause them to not turn to you.

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God, I pray that all of those things, we call them null and void today.

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And God, I pray that hearts would turn to you today.

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I thank you for your word.

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I thank you for all that you were doing.

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And I pray special blessing over the listeners.

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I pray a special blessing over Jodie.

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I pray right now, God, for favor on her life.

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I pray, God, that you would bless her abundantly.

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And God, we will be always quick to give you the honor and the glory.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Well, I have some great news.

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The indoor bathroom for the girls' home in Kenya has been completed, dedicated, and is

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now in use.

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So thank you to all who have donated to our Widow and Orphan Fund.

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Go to HerGodStory.org to see some pictures.

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But there are many other orphans and widows all over the world who also need a tangible

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expression of God's love.

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So if you haven't joined us yet, would you consider giving a special gift to help widows

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and orphans through our fund?

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Just go to HerGodStory.org and click on the Widow and Orphan tab at the top of the page.

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Thank you for tuning in.

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Check out the show notes at HerGodStory.org for scripture and other information we talked

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about.

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And remember to get your free six-week devotional on Women of the Bible there.

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We'd also love to pray with you on our 24-7 prayer and text line.

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So give us a call or text anytime at 855-459-CARE or email us at prayer at somebodycares.org.

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And now, dear friends, a blessing for you adapted from 1 Kings 8 verses 57 through 60.

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May the Lord our God be with you as He was with generations past.

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May He never leave you or abandon you.

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May He give you the desire to do His will in everything and to obey all His commands,

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decrees and the regulations that He's given us.

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May the Lord uphold your cause according to each day's need so that all the peoples of

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the earth will know that the Lord is God and there is no other.

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