Full Transcript for Encountering Angels | Lauren Nicole’s Incredible Story of God’s Protection

stayed a day longer than I had planned to, and we were able to kind of chat and connect. 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:53.759 And it was just our spirits were just like, hey girl, where you been? 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:59.040 Well, and you you you described that perfectly because I felt that way too. 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:08.160 And I still like on Sunday when we were all about to leave or head out, you know, I didn't know if you were gonna stick around. 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:19.600 And I know you said you were like meeting your aunt in a few minutes, but the Lord just made a window of opportunity to pray together, to talk together, and and to collab too. 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:21.360 So I was like, you know what? 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:27.600 I don't know why I ever worry because God He works it out, you know, because I was like, oh no, where'd she go? 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:34.720 We can have people's cards or information, but still you want to be able to say, Hey, I loved meeting you. 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:37.120 And God gave us that opportunity. 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:40.800 It was just divine timing, divine meeting, all the things. 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:42.800 So it's just fantastic. 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:48.639 So, Lauren, as I mentioned, you gave me the honor of being able to be a guest on your podcast. 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:52.000 And so I'm so grateful that you're here with us today. 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:52.800 Yeah. 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:57.040 So I would love to give um the folks an opportunity to get to know you a little bit. 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:02.000 So you always say the king of glory is truly instructive. 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:02.800 So yeah. 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:06.079 So tell us, tell me a little bit more about what that means for you. 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:13.839 Well, I believe no matter what we're doing in life, this is just a message to everybody, myself included. 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:24.959 No matter whether you're a teacher or a flight attendant or whatever it may be, we want to put God at the center, the focus of all that we do. 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:27.040 And there's a way to do that. 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:40.800 And so in the beginning, I was getting I was called into podcasting, but I will be honest with you, I was becoming very flustered because I was not quote unquote, you know, a podcaster. 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:43.199 God called me to have a platform. 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:51.839 I had to pray and fast and petition the Lord and say, Lord, when you say platform, does that mean a stage? 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:53.199 What does that mean? 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:58.160 And through the praying, he really showed me go live. 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:02.480 Because I kept seeing that live button when it was newer on Facebook. 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:06.000 And I said, Okay, Lord, I'm gonna trust you. 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:10.800 And at first it was simple, it was like going online for a verse. 00:07:10.959 -->

00:07:13.360 And this was before reels and shorts. 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:17.519 You know, this is when they just started coming out a couple of years back. 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:23.759 So I go live, I trusted the Lord, I did it completely afraid, okay. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:28.160 And so I'm I'm going live and people are responding. 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:36.160 And so through this whole opportunity, this journey, I like to say, that he took me on. 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:38.560 I started to believe. 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:43.120 I said, okay, Lord, I need to trust you. 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:45.040 I need to get you involved. 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:46.720 You've called me to do this. 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:49.279 I need to make you the center of this. 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:51.680 That's the only way it's going to work. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:56.639 Me worrying all the time before I go live, that's not what you've called me to do. 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:58.560 You've called me to be bold. 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:10.319 So I decided, I had like a moment, right, where I said, Lord, I'm making a commitment to make you, you are the king of glory, but I'm making you the center of the show. 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:21.199 I'm even gonna put it above my head on the show, on the virtual graphics, and keep you at the center so I remember every time I don't have to be afraid. 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:25.439 And I'm telling you, Bernita, it really helped so much. 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:27.040 And people caught on to it. 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:30.000 They said, Yeah, the king of glory is the story. 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.840 And they started to message me and they'd say, you know what? 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:37.279 I've made God the focus over during my job. 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:43.360 Or a teacher from teaching school was like, I made him the focus instead of me and my worries. 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:45.600 And it's all turning around now. 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.080 So praise be to the king of glory. 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.000 That's such an amazing thing. 00:08:50.159 --> 00:09:00.960 And one of the things that we connected on because I remember when we talked, both of us were like, we're stepping into a totally unknown space, and you know, God will just kind of give you a breadcrumb. 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:05.120 And same thing, trying to understand, okay, but what what are you meaning? 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:07.360 What what exactly do you want me to do? 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:10.960 And sometimes I know he won't give you the full picture, will he? 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:13.919 No, he'll give you a little puzzle piece. 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:20.879 Yeah, to try to figure out, and that's why that obedience, that prayer, that fasting, that sacrifice, it's so important. 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:23.679 I'm so glad you said that because sometimes that's just what it takes. 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:26.639 Yes, and I know you understand this so much. 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:40.000 And for me to meet you that day, that weekend, really meant a lot to me because even though podcasting's really popular now, it wasn't as much when I started, especially being on video. 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:44.080 And so I didn't have anybody to relate to in my life. 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:52.559 So it's nice how he's bringing the Christian sisters and brothers that actually know and have a similar testimony. 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:53.519 It's amazing. 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:55.919 It is, it is God's so creative. 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:09.600 And the thing I love about God is we can't put him in a box because you know, we're reading our Bible and we're reading scriptures, and God is using even like the parables he's used, he uses it so people can understand the day and time. 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:14.639 And so that's why he's speaking so much about farming because that's what was important to people's lives then. 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:22.480 And so I think for us as Christians to say, like, okay, we gotta understand that yes, God can do a new thing. 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:25.440 He's God, he can do anything to do anything. 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:29.039 We don't have to add music, music to my ears. 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:35.519 When you say that, I really I love that that you're you're making that point right now, because it's true. 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:42.159 We do, you know, we were like, oh, God can do this and that, but oh, you know, I'm I'm just one person. 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:43.679 How could he use me? 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:45.519 But that's stinking thinking. 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:49.679 God's like, no, I want to use you because I made you and I love you. 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:52.080 Yeah, and and what you're doing is special. 00:10:52.159 --> 00:11:03.120 And just like in the days of the Bible, there were so many farmers and so many fishermen, but it didn't mean that one person couldn't be a fisherman because someone else was a fisherman, right? 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:08.799 God's like, there's oceans near you, go fish, and then I may call you away from fishing to do something else. 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:16.960 And so I remember when we talked about this before, when I was thinking about getting into podcasting, people were like, but aren't a lot of people doing that? 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:18.080 Like, well, that's a good thing. 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:20.480 That means it's that's a wonderful thing. 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:27.039 Imagine if every believer was doing that, how many more people would come to salvation? 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:37.600 And I know you're bringing so many people to Christ through your podcast, but I want to know more about the backstory. 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:38.000 Yeah. 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:39.360 How you got started. 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:40.720 You can take me back as far as you want. 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:41.679 Okay. 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:52.559 Well, the

beginning of my life, I love that you're asking me this because a lot of people, you know, will see a podcast and see it produced and think, oh, that girl has it figured out. 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:57.759 But I'm here to tell you it took a lot to get to actually figuring it out. 00:11:57.919 --> 00:11:59.679 And I'm still figuring it out. 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:03.120 I won't have it completely figured out till Jesus comes back. 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:08.159 So I'm gonna make that so clear right now because I'm always learning everything new. 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:13.360 So I try to just remember why I'm doing what I'm doing. 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:15.519 And the King of Glory is the story. 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:17.279 We made that established. 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:21.840 But early in my life, I was very sick, Bernita. 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:25.519 I had so many issues. 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:31.039 I was a premi and I was in ICU and all the things. 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:44.399 And thank God for parents filled with such strong faith that prayed me out of the hospital many a time because my life was touch and go. 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:59.120 When I got a little bit older, I of course went to school, but then I would fall back, you know, fall not fall behind in grade, but just fall behind like a pile of schoolwork because then I'd have to go to the hospital again. 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:13.279 So this went on for years, but I believe it made me have a ministry early in life because it didn't matter where I was in the elementary school, I would start going after the one. 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:19.600 I'd have a compassion because I knew what it was like to not have friends in the moment. 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:23.840 And thank God my best friend was my middle brother, Justin. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.240 So he taught me how to be tough. 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:36.399 He was in sports, and I became really, you know, not a fighter, but I I began to be able to defend kids at school that were being bullied. 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:43.039 So I already kind of had this thing God was doing in me, but I also was shy. 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:50.720 So I know that's probably hard for you to understand now, thank God, but I was shy, but I was bold. 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.919 So it was when I was around 12 years old. 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:58.639 I had a very scary moment. 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:12.399 I was in my living room really late at night, and I was on the couch watching a movie, you know, probably a princess movie, and all of a sudden I have an angel appear before me. 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:14.080 He was massive. 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:23.039 He was all the way up to the ceiling, and he was he was like beautiful, the most glowing light you could ever see, kind of blinding. 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:35.440 And he comes to me and he came to me right on time because I was debating, do I go wake my parents up and tell them that I feel like I because I

was having asthma. 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:38.320 And I this time it was so severe. 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:40.240 I was like, do I wake them up? 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:41.679 I don't want to frighten them. 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:45.679 It's the middle of the night, but I know that they always want me to wake them up. 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:50.720 But I was having a very weird moment in my mind thinking I might go that night. 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:52.799 I had a fear come over me. 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:56.720 And then that angel showed up right on time, Bernita. 00:14:57.120 --> 00:15:05.360 And he pointed to me and he said, That the Lord has sent me to you to tell you you will be a singer to the nations. 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:08.399 And then he disappeared. 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:12.720 And I was so overwhelmed with the love of God. 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:15.039 It was a whole other level, Bernita. 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:19.279 It was, it filled every fiber of my being, okay? 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:32.320 And it there was a blessed assurance that was left, like a transfer, a heavenly transfer of confidence and boldness that was in me from that day forward in my life. 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:40.879 So I went from shy to knowing that I knew I was gonna live on into the future. 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:46.000 Because that was always at the back of my mind was, you know, am I gonna have a short life? 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:57.360 And when he said sing the praises of the Lord, you know, be a singer, I knew that that was definitely singing, not just vocally. 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:04.399 I did go on to do musical theater and I got really unshy quickly in my teen years. 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:15.759 But I will be the first to say that something happened, something shifted in the spirit that day to where I had a confidence where I'm like, I have some work to do for the king. 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:17.039 Remarkable. 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:24.240 And so your health, did you continue to have issues in your health even as you grew older? 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:26.720 Yes, Bernita, I had a struggle. 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:33.279 You know, I worked in hotels and restaurants, and you know, there's so many things in the atmosphere. 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:35.919 There's cleaning chemicals and everything else. 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:39.279 And then in theater, there's a lot of dust from cops tubes. 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:39.759 Yeah. 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.840 So I definitely had some encounters of asthma. 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:56.080 It wasn't until my late 20s where I felt the Holy Spirit just tell me to throw my medicine away and to not, yes, to not do it anymore. 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:00.559 And I was like, I don't know what life is like off of medicine, God. 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:02.159 Are you sure this isn't me? 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:03.039 Is it you? 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:08.400 So again, I had to pray, petition, and fast, but I started getting well. 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:12.160 And I wouldn't tell anybody on here to go do that. 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:16.400 We always want to be prayed up and asked the Lord directly. 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:18.720 But I followed, I obeyed that. 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:24.799 And it was very scary in my late 20s making that change because I was still going to work. 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:31.119 I was still involved in a lot of things where, you know, chemicals were in the atmosphere, of course. 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:35.519 But it just was like a again with the confidence. 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:43.599 It's like I just woke up one day and realized I haven't had to use my inhaler or take my pill in like six months. 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:46.160 So I praise God for that. 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:50.880 God can still heal nowadays, not just in the Bible days. 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:51.759 We know that. 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:52.559 Yes. 00:17:52.799 --> 00:18:04.720 And I love how even in just the little bit you're telling me, you can see the layers of what the Lord was doing to, as you said, build your confidence, but also he was building your trust. 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.920 Like what that helps to build your faith. 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:14.799 And that's the foundation of everything there is when it comes to our relationship with him, is our faith. 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.720 So he was just building that in you slowly, and you could see the results. 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:25.039 Doesn't mean that life wasn't life in, but you could, you know, you were saying you're exactly right. 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:26.960 And I haven't thought about it like that. 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:32.400 But now that you're saying that, wow, that's very profound because you're right. 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:35.119 He was little by little, it's what he does. 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:36.160 It's amazing. 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:37.920 Yeah, it's amazing. 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:44.960 So now you're in your 20s, Lauren, and you're starting to build your faith and you're experiencing some things with the Lord. 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:51.279 At what point did you say, okay, I'm ready to start stepping into ministry? 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:52.960 Did that take some time? 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:55.599 Girlfriend, it took about 10 years. 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:57.599 This is a whole other story. 00:18:57.920 --> 00:18:58.640 Tell me about it. 00:18:58.880 --> 00:18:59.599 The second act. 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:01.920 If it were a play, it'd be the second act. 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:10.880 This is so special to have you ask me that too, because it's another way for me to go back and to remember the goodness of God. 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:19.359 You know, because if you're not asked these questions every day, then you're like, oh wow, God, I have an opportunity to praise you about this. 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:29.599 So, yes, let me walk you through the question you just asked me about my 20s

and stepping out of the boat, really, like Peter did onto the water. 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:43.759 I I'm speaking to the females on this one, to the ladies that have been through struggles with confidence, but also in relationships, also with their voices that were muzzled. 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:51.680 Because let me tell you, I mentioned having uh my voice crush, I had trachea malacia and asthma. 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.640 So I was not only a premi, but I had the voice messed up. 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:00.720 And then thank God the Lord healed my voice in time. 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:02.720 But check it out. 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:07.279 I mean, what the enemy meant for harm, God turns it around. 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:13.200 So I see this common thread through my life of an attack being on my voice. 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:23.039 And I think we had that conversation about when we were at the event about how, you know, when you're a podcaster, we have to be bold. 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:29.920 And so at this second half of what's going on in my life was boldness was just evident. 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:34.079 God wanted me and needed me to be bold for his glory. 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:39.039 Well, I wasn't always bold, and and I'm still working on it, Bernita. 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:47.599 You know, I would love to say that I've always put God first, but I kind of had Disney princess syndrome. 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:49.200 No offense to Disney. 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:50.880 We love you know Disney movies. 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:55.839 But I'm just saying in general, we get this kind of this struggle with that. 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:01.599 Yes, and we get this lens where we're fixated on a relationship. 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:04.559 And I dated the wrong people. 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:05.519 I really did. 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:10.160 I dated the wrong guys, and I went after, oh I well, it it's Mr. 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:12.799 Right now, and this would be a great relationship. 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:21.200 And but it was wrong in the fact that the first guy that I dated, I had to call the wedding off. 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:26.000 He ended up putting a ring on my finger and he was an unbeliever. 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:33.039 And I don't say that to you know be mean about people who don't believe, but this is serious business. 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:39.839 Ladies need to take it so seriously about being unequally yoked with a partner. 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:46.880 Because if you are with a person who's an unbeliever, things are going to be extremely difficult. 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:59.279 And at first, the first half of our relationship, we were together four years, and it was, you know, new love and mid twenties, and so excited, and concerts, and all this fun stuff. 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:06.480 But When it came to God and his calling for my life, there was a struggle. 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:09.440 There was a war going on beneath the surface. 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:15.359 Even though he was a very nice man, and there were so many wonderful attributes. 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:20.240 You know, the yoke, when you when they put the yoke on the animals, right? 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:24.400 They gotta be, they gotta be able to pull the plow. 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:28.559 And mine was way lopsided, my friends. 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:32.400 And I I began to have a lot of fear. 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:37.759 This is where fear began to rule instead of me having faith. 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:40.640 And so I had to press in once again. 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:57.359 And I said, Lord, if you want me to not be with this man, please make it so evident, even if you have to use the people in my life to tell me I will not rebel, I will say okay, and I will get out. 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:12.799 It took a few months, but it's amazing to me because my uncle that was supposed to marry us, uh, he's a pastor, he said, I want to have y'all up to my house and I just want to do some premarital counseling. 00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:13.279 Okay. 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:17.359 And we're just gonna see where y'all are at, and I just want to encourage you. 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:20.480 It was actually at a big family gathering, too. 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:24.559 So I'm there at his house and I am so nervous, Bernita. 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:29.920 So I'm like, oh man, I think when you pray, expect results. 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:35.440 Because I said, you know, the Lord is answering me, and this may or may not go well. 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:43.759 And it it went pretty rough because the guy that I was with at the time, he ended up throwing the Bible on the ground. 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:45.039 I can laugh about it now. 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:48.880 I'm sure all my girls on here are like, that guy's tripping. 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:54.000 Because let me tell you, I had never seen that side to this man ever. 00:23:54.559 --> 00:23:54.960 He was always. 00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:57.920 I'm so sorry to interrupt you, sister. 00:23:58.160 --> 00:23:58.960 No, go for it. 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:07.119 When you tell God show me and make it clear, he's like, okay, you are not lying about that. 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:12.400 Let me tell you, it was it was scary for me how real it got. 00:24:12.559 --> 00:24:15.680 I mean, it was like an episode you'd see on TV. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:19.039 And I had never seen that side to this man. 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:20.799 You know, I've been dating him four years. 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:22.240 I thought I knew him pretty well. 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:29.920 But he takes the Bible that my uncle had and he throws it on the ground and he points and he said, I will never serve your God. 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:32.160 Well, who are you serving? 00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:34.480 Your God, that's specific. 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:44.400 No, and this is a man that visited church with me and said,

Oh, yeah, when we have children, if you want to talk to them about God, that's fine. 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:45.839 He threw the Bible. 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:49.759 You're not gonna throw the word around me and then me stay with you. 00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:51.920 I mean, it was rough. 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:54.240 So I I had my answer. 00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:55.279 I knew. 00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:59.759 And when I left that family event, I already knew he thought we were gonna stay together. 00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:02.640 I'm thinking, hey, you're disrespecting my family. 00:25:02.799 --> 00:25:09.200 You know, one of the patriarchs of the family, my uncle, and he's a pastor too, double whammy. 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:10.240 That's rude. 00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:14.319 And then you threw the word of God, you don't know who you're messing with. 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:15.279 Right. 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:16.160 Right. 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:30.640 So this story, it's actually very healing to talk about for me right now because I'm just seeing it now, years later, like 12 years later, and I'm thinking, whoa, praise God for saving me out of that. 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:31.200 Yes. 00:25:31.359 --> 00:25:39.039 I could have chosen to stay and just worked it out, but God is calling us higher, ladies. 00:25:39.359 --> 00:25:46.160 God is calling us to be with a man that's going to understand his will for our lives. 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:51.200 How can we be a help meet and help meet, you know, the man's needs? 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:58.400 And and I don't mean that in an old-fashioned way, but in a biblical sense, if he doesn't even know who God is. 00:25:58.720 --> 00:25:58.960 Right. 00:25:59.200 --> 00:26:04.160 Because we're called to submit to our husbands, but they must submit into the Lord. 00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:10.240 So you can be out here submitting to a man who's not submitting to the Lord because you don't know what you're submitting to. 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:11.920 Oh, exactly. 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:16.400 Welcoming any demons are you coming into alignment with, right? 00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:17.200 Yes. 00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:18.079 Wow. 00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:26.160 And I want to say this in a non-judgmental way because Lord knows truly how many mistakes I've made as it relates to relationships. 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:40.240 But the thing is, and again, we're not bashing the Disney princesses, but this concept of a man is gonna come in, even if you are independent and you're doing your own thing, but it's gonna come in and and in some sense save you in a way. 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:46.640 And you know how we are as women, we can get with our girlfriends up like, well, you know, he's not a bad guy. 00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:48.960 You can talk yourself into things. 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:53.440 And so the level of strength, I don't want to miss that. 00:26:53.759 --> 00:27:04.319 The level of strength that it takes to say, you know what, even if he's a nice guy, I'm not gonna talk myself into this is just one bad situation. 00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:07.039 I asked the Lord for an answer. 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:08.319 He gave me one. 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:11.440 I'm going to respect what the Lord has said. 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:19.039 There's a level of strength that takes, not just to pray the prayer, but once the Lord answers it, to be obedient to it. 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:20.720 It's scary, Bernita. 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:22.240 It's very scary. 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:26.240 In the moment, but he his grace is sufficient. 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:29.119 His mercies are new every morning. 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:32.960 And I felt that the day that I knew it was time to break up. 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:35.200 I I gave the ring back. 00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:40.079 I did it in the classiest way that I could, but I said, you know, I love you. 00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:45.119 It has nothing to do with the fact that I don't love you, but I can't tell God no. 00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:50.000 I can't shut God out and let that be a message for any woman. 00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:59.519 And I would like to say that I understood and I moved on and I didn't have another bad relationship, but I'm passionate, I'm romantic. 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:04.640 And later on in my early 30s, I got married. 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:11.039 And I had this beautiful wedding, had a beautiful marriage for quite a while, you know. 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:14.720 And I believe that that was a gift from God in so many ways. 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:16.640 It made me stronger. 00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:24.079 But I will say that once again I found myself living for Lauren's way and not Yahweh. 00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:26.079 I kind of fell away. 00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:30.960 I love the Lord, but we were concerned about me, myself, and I. 00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:35.039 We were a couple that we would go to Cancun all the time. 00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:40.960 And I love Cancun, okay, but we were fixated on what we wanted to do. 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:44.240 And I I felt this now more than ever. 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:50.079 I felt this drawing to just like, Lauren, are you gonna partner with me? 00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:58.240 And so I began to have these conversations, and you know, sadly, it didn't work out. 00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:02.240 That relationship, that marriage did not work out. 00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:15.200 But I'm a woman of faith, and I believe that I'm gonna have one work out really great the next time around because these lessons that I've learned are for me to help women not get in those situations. 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:16.400 I believe that. 00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:19.119 But you know, you were asking about the call. 00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:24.640 I got another call from God because he is sovereign and he is on time. 00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:28.160 Again, he's so strategic in his timing. 00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:33.519 And Bernita, he

met me this time in my car. 00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:40.480 I was driving, I had been married about seven years, and I was driving, and you mentioned ice storm earlier. 00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:45.119 I was driving trying to get my car home from an ice storm. 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:45.599 Okay. 00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:50.960 And I was just praying, and I said, Lord, I want your will for my life. 00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:56.720 And I had prayed that same prayer for weeks, but I wasn't hearing from God. 00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:01.519 And so there are gonna be moments in our lives where he's building those faith muscles. 00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:07.039 Whether we hear back from him, we can still thank him and worship him in those moments. 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:08.799 So I was just worshiping him. 00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:11.279 I said, Lord, I really want to get home. 00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:16.559 I'm robbing and I want to get home and I want to be safe, and I'm gonna serve you with the rest of my life. 00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:17.680 I'm ready, God. 00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:22.240 I'm gonna be all in this time, and I'm not gonna go back to my way. 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:24.319 And how can I serve you? 00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:31.039 And it was just that moment that I pulled off the road because I heard his voice. 00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:32.480 It was like thunder. 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:34.880 It was as loud as thunder, Bernita. 00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:39.519 And he said, get ready to run from my glory. 00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:48.160 I'm giving you a platform and I'm sending the people to testify of my glory in their lives. 00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:55.200 And I was thinking, what a time to hear this because whoa, God, whoa. 00:30:55.519 --> 00:31:03.119 I it's almost as if with the ice and you know, the storm that was going on was going on in me too. 00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:12.559 It's so bizarre, just so bizarre how what's going on in the natural can also be going on in our hearts in the spiritual realm. 00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:22.240 So in this moment, I look out my window, and I'd seen a runner in spandex running, and he had looked at me and then he disappeared. 00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:26.160 And so I had the voice of the Lord. 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:27.759 I saw that, I knew. 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:30.160 I thought, I've seen an angel before. 00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:31.839 I know what's going on. 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:33.039 Something's going on. 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:35.359 And that's when I heard the voice of the Lord. 00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:38.400 So I had a lot to deal with again. 00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:44.640 I was like, Lord, I am not gonna just, you know, give up on what you you've called me to do. 00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:46.000 Now is the time. 00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:50.160 I've got to make this happen for your glory. 00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:54.319 And it didn't matter where I went, God would start to send the people. 00:31:54.559 --> 00:31:58.000 They'd start saying, Hey, can I share my God story with you? 00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:00.160 And I'd say, Yes, you can. 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.400 I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm gonna figure it out. 00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:05.119 I'm gonna figure Zoom and all that out. 00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:10.720 Well, can I go back a little bit to you meeting that their track running angel? 00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:11.519 Yes. 00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:13.680 So it was wild. 00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:14.319 Wild. 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:16.319 So you're in your car, right? 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:18.880 It's cold, so I'm assuming the windows are up. 00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:19.599 Right? 00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:20.079 Yeah. 00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:20.880 Oh yeah. 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:24.160 It was a sports car and it was not good on ice. 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:24.640 Okay. 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:28.240 I'm just like, I'm like this with the wheel, you know. 00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:30.400 I'm like, I don't want to wreck this thing. 00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:32.160 And I was on a country road. 00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:32.559 Okay. 00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:34.480 So it was already freaky. 00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:43.599 Yeah, you're on a country road in an ice storm in a sports car, and there's a runner running in an ice storm, right? 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:47.759 This is before you understood it was an angel, running in an ice storm. 00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:51.920 And so did the runner speak to you, or did you hear the Holy Spirit come? 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:58.240 Heard the whole I heard the yeah, I heard the thunderous voice of the Lord through the Holy Spirit. 00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:05.839 And I saw the person that I believe was an angel, and he was running, and it was just so quick. 00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:14.640 He would like I pulled over, yeah, and I was feeling so many things, and then I heard the voice of it was like happening kind of all at the same time. 00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:18.160 You know, I pulled over because I was like, I don't want to wreck. 00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:20.559 Something told me to pull over, Holy Spirit. 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:25.039 And then I see this runner look at me and run by, and then I'm like, where did he go? 00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:27.279 There was no place for him to run. 00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:30.079 There was no, you know what I'm saying? 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:33.519 There's no side of the street. 00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:35.680 You know, country roads are like digits. 00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:36.079 Yeah. 00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:38.559 So I'm like, where did he go? 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:43.680 And then the Lord's voice had been going and saying, you know, get ready to run. 00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:45.839 And I was like, okay, God. 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:47.759 So that guy has something to do. 00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:50.000 Okay, that had to have been an angel. 00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:51.920 That is just mind-blowing. 00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:54.160 God is so

supernatural. 00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:56.720 Yes, God is amazing. 00:33:56.880 --> 00:34:00.319 At that point, you know, you've got to get ready to run. 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:02.880 Are you doing the podcast at that point? 00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:12.159 At that point, Bernita, I had only been going live and just sharing scripture, you know, and it was around right after COVID. 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:15.360 So I was kind of, that's when I was doing it afraid. 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:20.880 I was still in my marriage, and I was dealing with a lot of control. 00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:27.760 So I knew that if I would go do a whole segment, I'd probably be in trouble at home. 00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:38.400 You know, with with putting it as lightly as I can, anybody who suffered from that or any kind of controlling relationship, they would understand what I'm saying. 00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:41.920 I yeah, I understand and I relate to it on so many levels. 00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:50.000 But I remember sharing with my husband telling him that I felt the Holy Spirit was telling me that I needed to um put down my nets and follow him. 00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:53.679 And yeah, and just so many things, so many stories. 00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:57.840 We could be on here forever talking about those things that happened and transpired. 00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:08.239 And I remember when I left my job in corporate, I'm fasting and I'm praying and I'm asking my, you know, my husband, and and I felt there's so much resistance, so much vigor. 00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:13.199 You know, and I remember telling him, you know, if you don't want me to do this, I won't do it. 00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:14.159 I just won't. 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:16.800 And well, that's really that's really sweet. 00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:20.480 I mean, that's a really honorable wife, truly. 00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:26.320 I want to commend you for that because you know, we live in a society that's very rebellious towards their husbands. 00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:28.880 Yeah, and so I want to say thank you for that. 00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:30.719 Thank you for saying that. 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:40.000 But the thing is, is that even though he could have fought me, thank God for the Lord who fought my battle. 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:41.039 That's it. 00:35:41.360 --> 00:35:45.199 Yeah, he was like, I whatever I'm feeling, I'm gonna have to get over it. 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:51.599 You know, I don't like that, but if that's what he's gonna do, I'm not for it, but I'm not gonna be against you. 00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:53.119 And so it's it, you know. 00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:54.639 That's a good man right there. 00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:55.760 That's a man of God, right? 00:35:56.079 --> 00:36:01.440 It was a man, he's a man of God, but still feeling like I'm doing all this through mud, right? 00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:07.519 Like, because when you don't have your partner who's like, go for it, honey. 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:09.440 It it is hard, you know. 00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:15.119 I'm so grateful and thankful that he's like, go if you want to do it, go do it. 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:18.800 But there's not that cheerleading aspect, you know. 00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:19.760 Right. 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:23.599 But the thing is, what I've learned is that, you know, the message was for me. 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:24.960 It wasn't for him. 00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:27.519 Continue on in it. 00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:29.360 And so, and that's what I've been doing. 00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:34.480 But over the last year plus, God has been working on his heart. 00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:35.920 Oh, praise the Lord. 00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:41.280 And so, yeah, and so you know, it's one of those things that, yeah, it it's it's very difficult. 00:36:41.360 --> 00:36:54.159 Now I only point this out because I think it's important for people to understand that yes, God can call you into a thing, and you can be confident that he's calling you to a thing, even if it's terrifying. 00:36:54.559 --> 00:37:02.239 But it doesn't mean that when he calls you into that thing, that everybody that loves and supports you doesn't mean they're gonna be there for you. 00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:09.599 And sometimes relationships will have to separate from one another, and that's so painful. 00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:17.519 And sometimes the best that you can get, the best that you can get from some people is just to go ahead. 00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:20.559 It might not be a cheerleading type of a situation. 00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:23.679 So I just want to make that uh I love her. 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:28.559 Yeah, let people know that And we need to talk about we gotta have these conversations, don't we? 00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:44.159 Yeah, that God, yes, God is doing amazing things and God is um helping people heal and all the stuff through the things that He's asked us to do, but it doesn't mean that we haven't paid some cost in our lives that means that we haven't. 00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:51.039 It but it's all for God's glory and He's working it is good, but it is hasn't been painful. 00:37:51.599 --> 00:38:06.159 I'm telling you, that's why it's good for me to go on to people's shows and to really let them know the backstory, you know, because I'll get people that are new into podcasting and they're like, Well, you probably don't know what it's like to struggle. 00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:13.119 And I'm like, you know, because it's just I think it's just cliche like human conversation or banter. 00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:18.800 But especially the young kids, they don't, they're like, Oh, well, you know, you've been doing this, you already know. 00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:20.800 And I'm like, oh no, no, we need to talk. 00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:23.679 I've been through some things, and I can help you. 00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:26.880 Let me help you, help me help you, you know. 00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:36.400 And it, you

know, that moment was such a pivotal moment with me coming up against a wall, right? 00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:41.199 And um, I had to, I had to surrender. 00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:48.880 That's actually my word this year is surrender the Lord gave me, even though it could have been, it would have been fitting back then. 00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:56.639 But my husband at the time, I'm I'm super healed now and I could talk about it, praise God, because he is good. 00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:59.199 But he just he didn't get there. 00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:03.440 And I prayed, I'm like, Lord, I pray, you know, I want this to work. 00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:07.280 But the Lord set me free yet again. 00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:10.880 And my ex sent me divorce papers. 00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:13.119 And that was it. 00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:18.800 I mean, I I was like, this is a man that I never dreamed would have sent me divorce papers. 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:30.239 So let that be something for the ladies out there that no, don't go out, and if your husband tells you not to do something, not to serve the Lord, just pray. 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:42.880 Like Bernita just said, she prayed to God, take your request to God, make your request known, go boldly before his throne room of grace, because he will answer us. 00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:46.079 And sometimes it's not the answer that we want. 00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:56.719 Yeah, but when I got those papers, I honestly had a freedom in me because I knew God was working all things together for those who love the Lord. 00:39:56.800 --> 00:39:56.960 Yeah. 00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:04.719 And I said, God, if for some reason he comes back and wants to be together, then that I know that will be you. 00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:06.239 That didn't happen. 00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:08.719 And that's okay because you know what? 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:13.039 Even through all of that, the Lord walked me through forgiveness. 00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:18.880 And even through a divorce, you know, I was about ready to throw the towel in. 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:23.599 And my mom, being a praying mama, said, Oh, no, no, no. 00:40:23.679 --> 00:40:27.519 My daughter is not gonna give up on what God called her to do. 00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:33.440 I know, Lauren, that you were brokenhearted, but you've got to pursue the call of God. 00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:34.079 This is it. 00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:37.039 At the time I was in my mid-30s, this is it. 00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:39.039 Like you've got to do this. 00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:42.239 And it it was an adjustment of my thinking. 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:45.199 I thought, it he said get ready to run. 00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:46.639 He didn't say get ready to walk. 00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:46.880 Yeah. 00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:48.960 He didn't say get ready to go on a stroll. 00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:50.159 I better run. 00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:51.360 You better run. 00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:52.400 And I just love that. 00:40:52.480

--> 00:41:02.800 I love your mama because sometimes it may not be the cheerleader that you expected, but it'll be the cheerleader that you need to just get you over the next hump and get you. 00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:03.840 He did too. 00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:09.440 My parents were so wonderful at praying for me before every show, they still do. 00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:18.480 And there's just something about the people in our lives, we have to be so grateful for them and thank them for their support. 00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:23.280 And even if it's a simple like, go for it, that's God. 00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:24.880 That is so God. 00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:26.639 Yeah, that's God. 00:41:26.960 --> 00:41:29.360 Thank God for your parents that are just praying for you. 00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:31.280 And I'm sure that's building your faith. 00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:42.400 But I also know because I've had the pleasure of being able to watch so many of your episodes, that you get people on there giving some amazing testimonies. 00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:47.760 Can you tell us a little bit about that and what that has done to your fate, to build your faith? 00:41:48.079 --> 00:41:51.519 Girl, I'm telling you, that's the only thing that kept me going. 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:57.679 At the time, I had about five people to call back and I kept not doing it. 00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:01.039 And and their cards would sit in a desk. 00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:02.960 And I thought, you know what? 00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:05.599 God help me to forgive my ex. 00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:11.280 Because if I don't forgive him early on, I will never be able to walk in the fullness. 00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:13.599 You know, you forgive us. 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:16.880 So the least I can do is forgive him. 00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:23.360 And and it has been a beautiful thing to walk through the forgiveness because I was mad. 00:42:23.599 --> 00:42:24.719 I was so mad. 00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:28.079 I was like, I thought we had a life together and all this. 00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:36.960 But the Lord did something, he made a deposit in my heart every show, every callback, every person I called to have on. 00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:44.559 They would be telling me a testimony that would be exactly what I needed for my heart to heal that day. 00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:47.599 I'm not even messing around right now. 00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:52.320 Like I'm it was it was just bizarre, is what it was. 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:57.760 So God can meet us anytime, anywhere, through anyone. 00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:02.960 And so then that that first callback gave me just enough strength. 00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:04.320 I thought, you know what? 00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:06.719 I'm gonna call another person. 00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:09.760 And he walked me through this series of healing. 00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:13.039 And then he introduced me to my best friend Leanne. 00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:14.880 And I know you got to be Leanne. 00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:20.000 And Leanne, you know, she knows what it's like to go through pain. 00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:26.000 She lost her husband to cancer, but he's a believer, so we know where he's at now. 00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:28.159 And so Rick's in heaven. 00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:32.000 One of my uh good friends, Marilyn, said, You need to meet Leanne. 00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:40.159 Well, I call her one day, and have you ever met a person that just they they have a calling to just help you? 00:43:41.119 --> 00:43:43.119 It was in an instant thing. 00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:46.400 She said, Marilyn speaks so highly of you, Lauren. 00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:49.039 She says what you what you're going through. 00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:52.559 Can I just introduce you to a ton of people for your show? 00:43:54.639 --> 00:43:57.360 I was like, I was laughing and crying. 00:43:58.880 --> 00:43:59.679 Laughing and crying. 00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:00.960 At the same time. 00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:01.440 Yeah. 00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:03.599 I was like, just I was undone. 00:44:03.679 --> 00:44:05.519 I said, what do you mean, a lot of people? 00:44:05.599 --> 00:44:09.280 And she's like, I don't know, maybe like 60 people in all I can think of. 00:44:09.519 --> 00:44:11.760 Because she's an author and she's a connector. 00:44:11.920 --> 00:44:13.280 She's a god linker. 00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:13.840 That's right. 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:15.760 And it was even before I had a name. 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:18.400 I was still just doing going live. 00:44:18.559 --> 00:44:20.159 Yeah, I didn't even have a name. 00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:26.960 And my dad came to me one day and was like, you know, with all this stuff going on, this is a god link. 00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:29.519 Like, I think your show should be God links. 00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:33.920 And I was like, praise God for you because I needed that name so bad. 00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:37.440 God used my earthly father to help me get the name. 00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:38.400 Wow. 00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:40.320 That is amazing. 00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:45.760 What's been one of your, I know you there's so many, but one story that just sticks out to you, one interview. 00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:46.719 My goodness. 00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:50.079 Well, I would say um, Dr. 00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:54.960 Sandra Dalton Smith, she is a TEDx speaker. 00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:55.199 Okay. 00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:58.480 And she is one of Leanne's best friends. 00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:05.599 And it's amazing to me because I had only had a few people on my show, like from church and different things. 00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:09.039 But the door just flew wide open through Leanne. 00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:11.519 And she said, Can I have uh Dr. 00:45:11.679 --> 00:45:13.039 Sandra call you? 00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:14.960 And I said, Gulp. 00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:16.400 I was so scared. 00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:17.599 I said, Okay. 00:45:18.159 -->

00:45:20.960 And so she calls me and she was so loving. 00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:23.519 And she said, Can I be on your show? 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:25.519 You know, Leanne made this godlink. 00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:26.480 Can we do this? 00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:28.960 And she's on some big shows. 00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:30.960 She's on some big networks. 00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:34.719 And I and I'm not like making anybody an idol right now. 00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:36.320 I want to get that clear. 00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:42.400 But there's these people in life that they take, they take a chance on you, right? 00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:45.039 Or they don't even know you, but their friend told you. 00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:54.559 So she came to my sweet little humble podcast, and I will forever be so grateful that she did that. 00:45:54.719 --> 00:45:57.920 She treated me like I was TBN Network, you know? 00:45:58.239 --> 00:46:00.880 And it gave me more confidence. 00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:03.519 It pulled me out of the Myri clay. 00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:05.119 And I thought, you know what? 00:46:05.199 --> 00:46:06.079 I can do this. 00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:09.679 This woman just gave me such a sweet deposit. 00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:13.840 And she was telling me about her book called Sacred Rest. 00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:14.480 Okay. 00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:16.639 And there's a test online. 00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:20.159 You can go to sacred rest I believe.com. 00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:20.559 Okay. 00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:22.000 And you take this test. 00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:24.320 And I took her test after the show. 00:46:24.559 --> 00:46:29.039 And I was like, I need to be better to myself. 00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:36.000 And it really did something in my heart having that guest on because so many things happened at once. 00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:37.119 Once again, right? 00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:39.119 It's like just so many things. 00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:46.559 But I I thought that that guest just taught me so much that I need to get alone with the Father. 00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:49.599 I need to worship him more one-on-one. 00:46:50.239 --> 00:46:52.880 Instead of just throughout the day, oh God, thank you for this. 00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:56.559 I need to have some sacred rest between me and Holy Spirit. 00:46:56.880 --> 00:46:58.559 That is so beautiful. 00:46:58.719 --> 00:47:01.920 And I love how God just met you where you were. 00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:03.519 He built your confidence. 00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:11.679 And he'll do it for everybody in such a neat way, such a neat, unique way that he would introduce you to Leanne and open the door, right? 00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:12.480 Open the door. 00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:14.960 That's what you needed. 00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:17.039 And he knows us so specifically. 00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:28.320 And it's so interesting to me that like you and I can both have podcasts, but the way that God does it is different because he knows for

me, I want to be out there like getting it. 00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:33.360 So it's something for me to say, I booked this, and I was able to talk to this person. 00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:37.519 And I think they're gonna be, you know, he knows my uniqueness, right? 00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:41.840 He want a level of, I don't know, of the chase, you know. 00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:42.960 Yeah, exactly. 00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:50.559 So he didn't say early on, let me introduce you to somebody who's gonna, oh, because he knows that's me, right? 00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:55.199 But he knew you and he said, Let me give this certain thing to help build her confidence. 00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:59.440 Yeah, and let me do something different for Bernita to help build her confidence. 00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:00.719 But either way, amen. 00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:04.800 He's gonna get the glory, but is just doing it in such a unique way. 00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:09.599 And I love the Lord, he's so creative, he blows my mind every single time. 00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:20.239 And I want to say to you, Bernita, you you have such a gift of following the leading of the Holy Spirit, and he will continuously bless your show. 00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:22.320 And and it's just amazing to me. 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:26.400 Every time I hear it, I'm I'm like, your voice is just so soothing. 00:48:26.559 --> 00:48:27.360 It's beautiful. 00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:34.320 I know people from every tongue tribe and nation are gonna want to tune in to you because you are very anointed. 00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:37.760 Oh, I receive that and I give it all back to you as well. 00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:39.039 And I to him. 00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:40.079 Thank you so much. 00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:40.880 That's so kind. 00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:52.480 I want to ask you, Lauren, because you've been on such a journey and it's just been so beautiful just to hear about it and witness a little bit through enjoying your show. 00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:55.920 What do you think God is preparing in you right now? 00:48:56.159 --> 00:48:58.880 What do you want your next step to be? 00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:00.320 Wow. 00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:07.039 Well, I ultimately, Bernita, I just want to do everything that He wants me to do. 00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:09.599 You know, I've learned to have those conversations. 00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:11.280 Lord, where do you want me? 00:49:11.519 --> 00:49:13.760 Where am I booking appointments? 00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:15.760 But where do you have me going? 00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:22.239 You know, because we can have our plans set or what we think we need to do. 00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:30.159 But I am a revivalist at heart, you know, since I was 12 years old and I knew I need to sing his praises. 00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:32.960 So there's something about revival. 00:49:33.119 --> 00:49:39.920 And I know that revival starts within our homes, it starts within our hearts through repentance. 00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:42.480 But there's something that's been happening. 00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:44.480 I've been going live on TikTok. 00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:50.000 In the beginning, I didn't like love it, okay, because I don't know the kids' lingo on there. 00:49:50.159 --> 00:49:55.920 And thank God for my niece and nephew because they're training me about what certain words mean. 00:49:56.239 --> 00:49:59.119 But it was a call from the Holy Spirit. 00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:07.360 And I decided, you know, just through other ministry people, when I was newer into podcasting, they said you should have a ministry. 00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:19.280 So I filed, I did all the things, all the paperwork, and I have it like a car that's running, but it's just sitting there right now because the Lord keeps telling me to wait. 00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:27.119 And so, I mean, I know that it's active, but I've been podcasting in this lane, you know, it's staying in my lane. 00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:30.159 And with that, I know that it has everything to do. 00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:34.159 Every time I go live on TikTok, I'll I'll see reels. 00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:41.920 And I saw this one reel about a girl who completely took her own life at eight years old. 00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:52.000 And so I immediately knew, okay, I need to make my bylaws for my ministry about the young women of America. 00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:56.400 And so I went live and I started getting kids saved on TikTok. 00:50:56.559 --> 00:50:59.519 It was like quick, rapid salvations. 00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:02.960 Like you said, farming earlier, and I'm just gonna say it. 00:51:03.119 --> 00:51:06.480 I want to be like the Johnny Appleseed on TikTok. 00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:07.119 Amen. 00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:07.920 Amen. 00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:11.440 And he was a believer, he was like an evangelist. 00:51:11.599 --> 00:51:15.119 People don't know that because they don't teach that in public school. 00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:17.519 But that man had a ministry. 00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:21.519 He was out there, he was known for walking around barefoot and everything else. 00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:30.480 He was just himself, but he was rapidly spreading seeds, not just of apples that we think, but the word of God too. 00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:33.440 And yes, and I thought, you know what? 00:51:33.679 --> 00:51:35.840 We have to go to where the kids are at. 00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:41.519 And even though I've been over here on YouTube and Facebook, that's where they're at. 00:51:41.760 --> 00:51:50.960 And so my heart is drawn like a moth to the flame to TikTok to get them saved, not just saved though, discipled. 00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:53.840 I want these kids to know their identity. 00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:57.840 I didn't always understand how to use my voice and boldness. 00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:00.159 I want them to understand that. 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:05.760 I didn't always know how to try to find the right partner that is equally

yoked. 00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:07.440 I want those girls to understand. 00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:09.039 That's so good. 00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:09.920 Lauren A. 00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:13.360 Oh God, you are speaking truth. 00:52:13.519 --> 00:52:14.480 You are speaking to you. 00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:15.360 Do you know why? 00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:19.440 Because even for young ladies who are raised in the church, right? 00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:27.920 Yes, we're we're taught to love the Lord, but I think so much of what we're taught is just about marriage. 00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:35.199 And that's all well and good, but the the the in-between time is getting wider. 00:52:35.760 --> 00:52:38.639 And these young ladies have got to be discipled. 00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:41.760 And I listen, I'm praying for you, I'm in agreement with you. 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:45.280 My my lane is that transition, that transitional woman. 00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:46.480 That that's my lane. 00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:47.599 Well, you know what? 00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:49.679 We can link our link together. 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:50.719 Yes, we can. 00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:51.920 But we can. 00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:57.760 I'm so believing in you, and everything you're saying makes total sense to me because you're so right. 00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:01.119 More fed in that space that's so good. 00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:04.480 We just had a gentleman, um, Pastor Ken on the podcast. 00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:07.920 He has a a TikTok flock, is what I called it. 00:53:08.239 --> 00:53:09.519 Oh, that's awesome. 00:53:09.679 --> 00:53:13.519 I was listening to him, and wow, what a testimony. 00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:15.280 Yes, such a testimony. 00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:21.119 And he um he's in our generation, but his son helped him find the medium of TikTok. 00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:26.559 And he's getting on there and he's really reaching out to the young men, to the young thing. 00:53:26.880 --> 00:53:29.119 So it's so amazing, is what it is. 00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:40.480 And so I that is so I that's just such a confirmation to me that's right, how that is so important and it's so needed. 00:53:40.639 --> 00:53:43.360 That there's like the gap is getting wider and wider. 00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:47.599 And it is women need to need to know what do I do with myself? 00:53:47.840 --> 00:54:00.159 So I'm spending time in relationships that are not fruitful, that are not honor to God, and giving uh young women things, telling them like this is how you should spend your time, right? 00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:01.119 Amen. 00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:02.000 Amen to that. 00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:03.840 This is what you should do with yourself. 00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:08.000 It's more than just like, okay, be chaste and don't do anything until you get married. 00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:10.480 Like, practically speaking, how do you do that? 00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:13.360 Yeah, and there's all this stuff about girl power. 00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:14.639 And I'm like, you know what? 00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:16.719 That is that's a Jezebel spirit. 00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:18.400 Can we just call it what it is? 00:54:18.639 --> 00:54:22.639 It's one thing to have power, but we gotta have Christ's power. 00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:24.320 Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm getting excited. 00:54:24.639 --> 00:54:24.960 I see. 00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:25.679 Well, you know what? 00:54:25.840 --> 00:54:28.960 God is gonna do some miraculous things, I'm telling you. 00:54:29.199 --> 00:54:34.159 And if you have that that fire in your heart, just meet me on TikTok, girl. 00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:37.519 Well, honey, I'm probably gonna leave that to you. 00:54:38.719 --> 00:54:41.199 But folks, I will be in prayer for you. 00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:42.960 I'll be in agreement with you. 00:54:43.039 --> 00:54:47.119 Wherever you need me, I will show up and I'll be there for you 100%. 00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:49.840 The Lord will work it out wherever you need me, honey. 00:54:50.079 --> 00:54:52.000 I'm ready to serve the Lord however he needs to. 00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:53.039 Yes. 00:54:53.199 --> 00:54:58.079 And that's the heart posture that we need to just have a yes in our spirit. 00:54:58.239 --> 00:54:59.840 Think about the disciples. 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:01.519 They were scared every day. 00:55:01.679 --> 00:55:02.559 They were like, What? 00:55:02.800 --> 00:55:04.320 Jesus, you want me to what? 00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:07.119 With the fishes and loans, what are you talking about? 00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:07.840 You know? 00:55:08.239 --> 00:55:09.119 But he does it. 00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:10.159 He does it every time. 00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:11.519 Yeah, yeah. 00:55:11.679 --> 00:55:14.480 So now the Lord is like, okay, meet the young folks on TikTok. 00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:16.800 Lord, I don't even know how to open the app, but okay. 00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:17.599 Exactly. 00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:17.920 Okay. 00:55:18.159 --> 00:55:21.039 And I started, I started out a few years ago. 00:55:21.119 --> 00:55:27.199 It's a whole other story, but uh my father and I did a children's book together. 00:55:27.599 --> 00:55:30.559 And that that was something that took years. 00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:37.519 It took seven years to come to the surface because we kept saying, Oh, well, we've never made a book together. 00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:40.079 And oh, yeah, and my dad does great art. 00:55:40.239 --> 00:55:44.960 So I said, You got to you, you are great at drawing Jesus. 00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:50.320 And I believe that with your drawings, it's gonna draw the kids. 00:55:50.800 --> 00:56:05.280 And that book that we made is called Gunnar McGee Meets a Donkey, and it's a Palm Sunday story, and here we are, it's almost Palm Sunday, and that has been a tool to get people saved, not just the kids, though. 00:56:05.440 --> 00:56:16.480 That's what cracks me up, is when you you think you're gonna do something and you

think it's for a certain audience, and then the Lord kind of turns it around where it's for the parents. 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:23.280 We've had parents come to us and say, we got saved from reading our kids your book. 00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:25.360 It's wild. 00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:30.559 So don't ever, so so don't despise small beginnings. 00:56:30.960 --> 00:56:32.400 That's what I've learned. 00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:39.519 And also um don't don't talk yourself out of something that God is telling you to do. 00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:56.800 Because my parents and I, we came out of this Palm Sunday service one Sunday, and we said, you know, we should really do that story and talk about the the donkey that carried Jesus into the holy city on Palm Sunday. 00:56:56.960 --> 00:57:02.000 And and I know there's been a few stories done about it, but we should do a twist on it. 00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:09.519 And it took six years to come to the surface because we kept saying, Oh, I don't know, does God want us to do this? 00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:11.199 And God made it happen. 00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:14.719 So let that be a seed of encouragement to somebody. 00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:20.960 Pick up the book that you keep putting down and make it happen and finish writing it and all those things. 00:57:21.199 --> 00:57:21.440 Love it. 00:57:21.519 --> 00:57:23.039 Give us the name of that book again, sis. 00:57:23.599 --> 00:57:26.960 Yes, it's called Gunnar McGee Meets a Donkey. 00:57:27.840 --> 00:57:29.039 And it's on Amazon. 00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:30.159 It's on Amazon. 00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:30.559 Okay. 00:57:31.199 --> 00:57:38.559 For those, Lauren, who want to learn more about your ministry, more about your podcast, where can they find you? 00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:41.360 Godlinks Ministries.org. 00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:47.440 And I'm on most uh IG, YouTube, Facebook, and most of those. 00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:49.920 Okay, and it's all what's your handle? 00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:54.480 Yes, so uh it's usually Godlinks or Godlinks TV. 00:57:54.800 --> 00:57:56.400 God links or godlinks TV. 00:57:56.559 --> 00:57:59.119 Okay, we'll make sure to follow you there, Lauren. 00:57:59.360 --> 00:58:00.079 Listen to this. 00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:05.519 This, you're welcome, has been just, I mean, a fun time. 00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:06.960 It's been a blast. 00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:07.360 Yeah. 00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:12.960 It's been healing too, very cathartic to be on and to just sing his praises again. 00:58:13.679 --> 00:58:16.239 So if you don't mind, can you pray us out? 00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:18.559 I would love to do that. 00:58:18.719 --> 00:58:19.840 Thank you so much. 00:58:20.239 --> 00:58:24.800 Father God, I just thank you so much for Bernitha Renee. 00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:27.039 I thank you for her podcast, God. 00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:35.039 I thank you for her voice and the message of fire in her mouth, God, that you place there for such a time as this. 00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:42.159 God, I thank you for every listener that is tuning in, that will tune in now and into the future. 00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:44.079 God, we pray a blessing. 00:58:44.239 --> 00:58:51.360 Psalm 91, hedge around their families, their ministries, their homes, their schools. 00:58:51.679 --> 00:58:53.920 And God, we exalt you. 00:58:54.320 --> 00:58:57.840 We recognize you as the one true God. 00:58:58.159 --> 00:59:09.679 And we know that if we just repent of our sins and turn away, like my journey shows, I turned away from my sin and I said yes to you. 00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:21.519 I believed you in my heart, and we have to say yes and believe in our heart and profess it with my with my mouth that Jesus is Lord, and you can do that too wherever you're at. 00:59:21.679 --> 00:59:24.960 And when you do that, you come into the family of God. 00:59:25.199 --> 00:59:36.079 So I just pray that everybody understands the salvation message is the golden ticket to heaven, and it's the most important message that there is in this life. 00:59:36.320 --> 00:59:46.639 And I bless you, and I bless Bernita also for her boldness that she's gonna lead an army of women for your glory, God. 00:59:46.880 --> 00:59:49.199 In Jesus Christ's holy name we pray. 00:59:49.440 --> 00:59:50.000 Amen. 00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:51.360 Thank you, Jesus. 00:59:51.519 --> 00:59:52.719 Thank you, Sister Lauren. 00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:53.920 I appreciate you. 00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:56.880 You are just absolute perfection. 00:59:57.119 --> 00:59:57.519 Thank you. 00:59:59.119 --> 01:00:02.480 Any any perfection in me is because of him and man. 01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:04.400 Thank you, Jesus, for saying that. 01:00:04.639 --> 01:00:04.880 Jesus. 01:00:05.199 --> 01:00:05.760 Thank you, Jesus. 01:00:05.920 --> 01:00:07.039 Okay, sis, take care. 01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:08.000 Love you, buddy. 01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:08.800 God bless you. 01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:09.760 Love you, sister. 01:00:09.920 --> 01:00:11.280 I'll see you soon. 01:00:12.159 --> 01:00:13.599 Hey, beautiful people. 01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:14.880 Bernita here. 01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:26.639 If you're loving the conversations, there's so much more waiting for you at Bernita Renee Relates Podcast.com, where you can join our online community for daily inspiration and updates. 01:00:26.800 --> 01:00:37.920 And be sure to scan the QR code below so you can follow me on Instagram at for BernithaRene Relates and on Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok at BernithaRene Relates. 01:00:38.079 --> 01:00:43.679 While you're at it, go ahead and like, subscribe, and share this podcast wherever you get your podcast. 01:00:44.079 --> 01:00:46.400 Thank you so much for listening. 01:00:46.639 --> 01:00:47.840 We love you for it. 01:00:48.079 --> 01:00:49.519 We'll talk soon.