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Stepping In Faith
Relationship Covenants
What if your relationships could reflect the divine blueprint they were meant to follow? Join us as we uncover the profound spiritual significance of covenants in both personal and divine contexts. Through a detailed exploration of biblical narratives and spiritual agreements, we promise insights into how these sacred bonds shape the foundation of our relationships. From the creation story of Adam and Eve to the union of Boaz and Ruth, we discuss how God's intentions for humanity are woven into the fabric of our relationships and the importance of aligning with His divine design.
This episode is a call to prioritize a spiritual connection with God, allowing His wisdom to guide relationship decisions and prevent the spiritual and emotional turmoil that arises from unions not sanctioned by His will.
We want to reignite your relationship with God, exploring the enduring nature of His covenants. You'll gain an understanding of how Christ's new covenant unites us all, transcending old divisions and fulfilling divine promises. Let us inspire you to deepen your faith journey, learning from the spiritual truths embedded within ancient covenants with figures like Abraham, Noah, and David. Through understanding these divine agreements, you will enrich your spiritual life and align your relationships with eternal truths that offer renewal and hope.
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Welcome back to another episode of Stepping in Faith, where together we explore the importance of having a relationship with God and how that can impact the relationships you have with others. I'm your host, Walter. I'm joined here alongside my lovely wife.
Speaker 2:Shania.
Speaker 1:You're so extra. So this week's episode, babe, what is well? First of all, this is episode. Seven. Seven, and what's the title of this week's episode? Relations is well. First of all, this is episode seven. Seven, and what's the title of this week's episode?
Speaker 2:relationship covenants relationship covenants.
Speaker 1:Simple, sweet so we.
Speaker 2:All of our titles are simple yeah, because we don't we don't choose what our titles are going to be, because we would totally change all of them we, we probably would, but this is not podcast. It's not.
Speaker 1:This belongs to God. So that leads into the first thing I would love to say is that we are believers. This podcast does not belong to us. We are doing this simply because God told us to, and so the way we start these podcasts off is by prayer, and I know you prayed last week, so it's my turn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, let's do this. Dear Heavenly Father, as we come before you this afternoon, we are so grateful for your love, your mercy and your grace, and we pray that your perfect will be carried out with this week's episode. God, Let it reach those that you've called for it to reach. Spirit of God, we thank you for leading and guiding us. Let your glory fall down like never before. Let your fire fall down. Lord Jesus, we welcome you in. Lead and guide us, direct us, so this becomes something that is coming from you. Speak through us, breathe through us. We thank you even now, and it's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.
Speaker 1:So relationship covenants. I guess the great way to start off with this is well, we did you. I guess we both wanted to discuss covenants earlier on, right? Mean or was it just me that desired it more than anybody?
Speaker 2:maybe you didn't care no, I mean I knew we were going to talk about it, but not in a covenant type of way, more in like a. We would kind of just get to it when we were talking about some different subjects.
Speaker 1:So not like actually having an entire episode centered around really our covenants. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, even as we were doing the research and just kind of listening in, it's so much information centered around covenants in the Bible.
Speaker 2:So why were you talking about covenants?
Speaker 1:Like I said, it was something that was written down earlier on because we've discussed covenants before. It's so important and I was praying on what we should discuss this week and God was like OK, you can go in and talk about covenants. Ok, and I'm like bet, let's do this. Ok.
Speaker 1:And so the scriptures that came to mind, of course, is when Jesus touched on covenants. So the scriptures that came to mind, of course, is when Jesus touched on covenants what God has joined together, let no man or no one can split apart. Nothing or no one can split apart. I'm paraphrasing. That's not the exact words. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then also, what came to mind is the communion. We don't realize that's also a covenant that we are consistently recognizing. That's a covenant that has been made with us in Christ. So, yeah, I think the perfect place to start is the definition of covenant. You want to start us off with that, babe.
Speaker 2:Sure. In biblical terms, a covenant is an agreement or contract, especially one that is divinely ordained. A covenant between god and man is meant to be sacred, binding and unbreakable and I think um what comes to mind is adam, adam and eve.
Speaker 1:That's one of the most, that's the earliest examples of we that we've seen this like. Are you saying between the most? That's the earliest examples that we've seen in this life?
Speaker 2:Are you saying between the two of them?
Speaker 1:Yes, the covenant that God made with them.
Speaker 2:What was that covenant?
Speaker 1:We are jumping ahead. But it was an entire covenant that was centered around the fact of them becoming one. Jesus touched on that covenant, that covenant, what God has brought together, let no man split apart. So we saw an example of God doing that. It was a relationship covenant. God said it wasn't good that man should be alone with Adam, and then God actually made Adam a helper from Adam and he brought her to Adam, that's Eve. So that was the first example of a covenant that God recognized between men and God.
Speaker 2:And so yeah, it's like a condition, Like the other definition I have, for like what the purpose of a covenant is is a sacred agreement between God and individuals or humanity, often involving promises, often involving promises, conditions and signs. Yes, so it's like a condition. It's still a part of a covenant, because a covenant is a promise. Covenant is a promise, a condition and sign.
Speaker 1:You can put your mic back some.
Speaker 2:Oh, am I talking too loud?
Speaker 1:No, you just was. You was directly in it oh but um, yes, that's true, and so we see multiple examples of covenants in the bible, but specifically, I think the focus is on relationship covenants, because this is a relationship podcast, so I don't think people realize that you can create covenants within relationships yeah, or just given like an overall view of what god, what we see in the bible as god's covenant with man, and how not honoring those covenants or honoring those covenants, what will come?
Speaker 2:come about.
Speaker 1:And so I think let's start there, something that we can go ahead and unpack. Every sexual relationship forms some type of covenant, and so each time you engage in a sexual relationship, whether casual or committed, you create a covenant, an agreement that binds you to that person spiritually, emotionally and physically, and relationships outside of god's design can create spiritual entanglements. So we could start there right. Um, I don't think we realize in in a culture that's just so open to casual, especially now we have what they call the hookup culture.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we have-, I guess, if that's still what they call it.
Speaker 1:I don't know, we're so far removed, but I know that it was situationships, yeah, instead of relationships. So it's like you're not in a committed relationship but you get some of the benefits of that, and so it is similar to like a hookup culture. I don't know what they call it now, but it's just the idea of having casual sex. And so what people don't realize is when you partake in casual sex, you are creating covenants and because we're so far removed from the spiritual aspect of things, we don't realize the spiritual implementations and how that negatively impacts us yeah, because you're coming out of agreement with god's word and what he says, because I think it's in leviticus where he talks about sexual relationships.
Speaker 2:It's a whole chapter. I don't really remember what um chapter or verse it was, but he talks um. God specifically speaks against all type of sexual acts that you should not commit, and I just lost my train of thought.
Speaker 1:No, it's, it's. The Bible says what I think it's in Hosea. I might be wrong, but we can always put cliff notes or put notes in. It says my people perish because of the lack of knowledge, right. So with that we don't realize that even if you don't know right, you're still held accountable.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:You're still held accountable.
Speaker 2:We were just reading that last night and I don't remember.
Speaker 1:Hosea 4 and 6 is where it says that.
Speaker 2:Was it. Yeah Well, my people perish, my people perish because of lack of knowledge.
Speaker 1:King James Version says my people are destroyed of lack of knowledge. King James Version says my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no priest to me, seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. And so that was King James.
Speaker 2:What came to me was what we were talking about yesterday, where Paul was speaking about just because you didn't know and I was talking about the covenant with Jesus. What was that?
Speaker 1:Was that Ephesians that we was reading, I think that was Ephesians.
Speaker 2:That was Ephesians. Ephesians 6.
Speaker 1:I think that was. Ephesians, that was. Ephesians, ephesians 6. I believe it was. Did we write it down as an example?
Speaker 2:I don't think so. I think we were just talking.
Speaker 1:Continue your thought. I'll find it, because it was something that I came across. Well, what he was saying was just because you didn't know the laws, it didn't make you exempt from the consequences, or you're able to like, repent and reconcile with God so that the Holy Spirit can write those laws and everything on your heart and your mind instead of being written on stone. You're referring to Ephesians 2, verse 11, started verse 11. This is NLT.
Speaker 1:It says don't forget that you gentiles used to be outsiders. You were called uncircumcised heathens by the jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts. In those days, you were living apart from christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of israel and you did not know the covenant promises god had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope, but now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ, and we do have. There is the scripture that talks about the law being written on your heart. Yeah.
Speaker 1:But that we was talking about that last night, about the law being written on your heart, yeah, but that we was talking about that last night and what we was referring to and was skipping ahead. It was just simply that you know these covenants still exist. Yeah. Whether you realize them or not. Yeah.
Speaker 1:The covenant still exists, and I think the challenge becomes sometimes we don't realize that the enemy is obsessed with being like God. So there's illegal covenants that you can create with the enemy as well, and so that digs into the next part. Marrying someone outside of God's will forms an illegal contract or covenant If you're in a marriage that God never intended for you. This covenant holds no divine recognition, and instead it is recognized by Satan. Right, that is a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we see that a lot in the Bible.
Speaker 1:That is a lot. That is a think about that, because unfortunately we have culture and we touched on this before. We have culture that teaches us you can get married to whomever. Right and. God will recognize it. And the scripture that they use out of context is Paul, when Paul touched on marriages and relationships. And what's that scripture? Let's find that and read that. Go ahead, babe. What are your thoughts on that? As I look for that scripture, no, you're right.
Speaker 2:Your thoughts on that as I look for that scripture. No, you're right. It's crazy that last part that I said out that your covenant holds no divine recognition and instead is recognized by Satan.
Speaker 2:So in the spirit realm your marriage might be physical like you have a physical, natural marriage, right but it's not recognized in the spirit and so you're with someone that God didn't intend for you to be with, and so that gives the enemy legal rights to say, hey, these two aren't supposed to be together. They're doing things they're not supposed to be doing. So I'm just going to wreak havoc. And we see multiple examples of relationships or marriages in the Bible that is recognized by Satan and not recognized by God and punished Like Solomon, right King Solomon, when he had all those wives the promise was tied to God's covenants Like Solomon would have been blessed, his descendants would have been blessed if he would have stuck with the covenant but he decided not to and he started marrying all these different women outside of who were worshipping other gods, which is something that God asked us not to do.
Speaker 1:Well, I think what we don't understand is that simply because things are permitted, and you can do.
Speaker 2:It doesn't mean that it's okay. No, absolutely not.
Speaker 1:We have to look back to the original design of how God intended for things to be, and we have to also understand that there is a God, little g, of this world. The Bible refers to him as the prince of this world. Satan and that he is obsessed with being like God, and so everything is the same, because it's the spirit. So if God is creating covenants, then the enemy can too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because anything outside of God's will is agreement with the enemy.
Speaker 1:And God's original design for us was to be fruitful and multiply. And you touched on this before he wanted us to uh create children, offsprings, that were like us that worshipped him uh-huh and so the enemy created in his image exactly so.
Speaker 2:The enemy desires for us to do the opposite so we start creating little satan's run around here, creating in his, created in his image we don't realize it because it's like we don't say hell sat Satan or anything like that.
Speaker 1:But unknowingly, when you're selfish, when you're doing all of these things that you're doing, the Bible tells us who your father is. Even with us, when we were in that, the Bible tells us who our father was who we looked up to.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so.
Speaker 2:But God gives us these covenants and these promises and conditions so that we won't fall into the hands of the enemy. Yes, because I was reading even in the Bible. God said that even in the beginning in Genesis, before the flood. He was talking to Noah, but I know he was saying that even won't go forward completely submitting ourselves into evil, wickedness.
Speaker 1:Well, I think so. Here's the thing, and I'm not going to read all this, but I wanted to do this before I move on. Uh, people read because it's too much to read. Read, um, first corinthians 7. If you read first corinthians 7 this is what you were talking about earlier it'll let you know that there are instances where pa is stating that it's Paul speaking and not God.
Speaker 2:Right and that was a revelation that I got Was that last year, when we were reading it, and we read it so many times. But I was like, oh, this is Paul speaking. This isn't God speaking. This isn't coming from God, it's just the wisdom of Paul. You know, and I mean, all wisdom comes from God, but Paul made it clear that he didn't have it when Paul was saying that this was Paul speaking and not God.
Speaker 1:what he was saying is I don't have a revelation on this- Right. This isn't something that is given to me directly by God.
Speaker 2:Right, so you keep bugging me.
Speaker 1:So I will speak on it, because you keep asking me about it, right? But I don't have a revelation on relationships, right? The revelation on relationships can be found in Genesis 1 and 2. Genesis 2, specifically, that's the revelation on relationships. We moved away from it, and when you move away from it, you get caught up in other stuff, so that digs back into everything that we're talking about as far as illegal covenants versus covenants that were designed and called by God. Right.
Speaker 1:Right that were designed and called by God Right, and it's hard to so what we're not saying. You have to have the wisdom of God. This is specifically for those who aren't married Basically just kind of saying hey, it's really important that we prioritize being mindful of being led by the spirit of God in all that we do. The first thing that you should do is focus on having a relationship with God, because it's such an important decision and you can't get it wrong.
Speaker 1:There's one person out there that God has called you to. There's so many people that he has not and his consequences associated with going the wrong route.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, and we've seen it time and time again, whether you witness or not.
Speaker 1:Those are all of the examples. We'll get into that, but this is another part. Having children with someone whom God did not intend for you to marry creates additional illegal covenants. This is significant because these covenants not only bind you and your spouse. This is significant because these covenants not only bind you and your spouse, but also involves the next generation in a spiritual contract that is not from God.
Speaker 2:Right. So you end up birthing a generation that's divided between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness, just, like Abraham and Sarah, and you have examples of that, if you want to get into that.
Speaker 1:Relationships, are we jumping ahead? Relationships, examples of relationships ordained by God versus relationships that were not ordained by God, because I know you did a deep dive into that. What do you mean? You did a deep dive into relationships that were not ordained by God.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, I did and the confusion it caused. I did.
Speaker 1:Abraham being one with Ishmael.
Speaker 2:Abraham birthed a child through Hagar. And it was outside of God's plan and birthed Ishmael. And. Ishmael was a direct rival of Isaac, who was God's promise. So you have light and you have dark. But then there's, I think, all hope is is not lost, even though he got caught up because you know I I mean ishmael was still blessed no, I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:I'm referring to david and uh basheba yeah, solomon yeah david was not supposed to be with basheba no, he was supposed to be with abigail yes, but God still allowed the grace of him, of God, to fall upon Solomon, and he still blessed Solomon coming from them.
Speaker 1:So there are still examples to where it can be, but it's just you get into the thick of it when you start making decisions outside of God, and so we have plenty of examples of those that made decisions outside of God, versus a few examples of those that made decisions based off of God when you make those decisions.
Speaker 2:Outside of God there's no protection, there is no favor there. But in those descendants, children that you have, if they do follow God, then there will be provision.
Speaker 1:They can access the covenants, yeah.
Speaker 2:But if they don't, then everything that was cursed in that family from the beginning is going to continue. Yeah, and it's just going to get worse. And we saw that if you read in Kings 1 Kings, 2 Kings, all the kings who were disobedient to God, their child, it would say that they were even worse than their father in God's eyes. And then the next one would be even worse and worse and worse in God's eyes.
Speaker 1:Well, I think we know that it's very important that we understand covenants, and so there was something I was thinking about that came to me with regard to children. Continue with the comeback. Okay, the comeback.
Speaker 2:Children. Being you mean like a descendant from an ungodly relationship.
Speaker 1:I'll come back to it okay we'll continue with your thought.
Speaker 2:I'm done with my thought. It's just so much information. I just honestly, and you're processing through all of it.
Speaker 1:I'm processing through all of this and it's only about so much that can be given in an hour podcast absolutely like there's.
Speaker 2:there's so much disobedient relationships. I hear Abraham and Hagar. You have Solomon and his foreign wives, then you have, you know, samson and Delilah. Delilah was actually a Philistine and so, oh, we talked about this. I need to go back all the way to the covenant.
Speaker 1:You even have his wife before Delilah that he married that was also a Philistine.
Speaker 2:Was she a Philistine too? She was a a philistine.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's the ungodly kingdom yes um the canaanite he just went completely against god, he saw it. That's what I was saying. Oh yes, thank you, holy spirit. So, um, what happens? Right, and it's so simple. But we make fleshly decisions and when you make fleshly decisions, you place yourself up under that fleshly contract. So you think of strife, you think of discord, you think of all of the things that Galatians 5 speaks of Correlation.
Speaker 2:sexual immorality.
Speaker 1:And what you do is now you open yourself up to all of those things. You open your child, unfortunately, up to all of those things because you are outside of God's perfect will for your life.
Speaker 2:Right. So there's no protection Exactly For you or your child or your children's children, or your children's children, until unless they they make a new covenant.
Speaker 1:Under Jesus Christ Right, and it's just like you fall into the grace and mercy of God. Begging God for mercy, God begging. God for mercy we saw David begging God for mercy when he impregnated Bathsheba after unaliving her husband, and so, unfortunately, the child was taken right and David had to get up and keep moving. He did have Solomon with Bathsheba afterwards, but we see that from a simple point there is no protection. God don't have to protect that. God don't have to protect anything that's outside of his perfect will.
Speaker 2:Right, and you saw what happened. When Solomon did not follow God's commandments, he fell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's, very true. And all his children, so we can dig into, because I know a lot of people use this Mm hmm, he fell yeah, that's very true and all his children. So we can, we can dig into, because I know a lot of people use this Matthew 19, one through six, and we read this before Right, and people use this a lot and I think it's also Mark two.
Speaker 2:Mark 10 is the same thing. When God has joined together, let no one separate.
Speaker 1:Exactly so. Do you want to read that? Or Matthews 19, 1 through 6, or do you want me to read it?
Speaker 2:You could read it if you got it pulled up, because I already have a split. My screen is split.
Speaker 1:Okay. So Matthew 19,. Beginning at verse 1. When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went down to the region of Judea east of the Jordan River. Large crowds followed Him there and he healed their sick.
Speaker 1:Some Pharisees came and tried to trap Him with this question Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife for just any reason? Haven't you read the Scripture? Jesus replied they record that from the beginning, god made them male and female, and he said this explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one, since they are no longer two but one. Let no one split apart what God has joined together. So the problem that we find in this is we have people in marriages and people in relationships that claim that God has joined together that he has not. It's not. When Jesus, he referred back to the beginning, the original plan that God had for marriage with Adam and Eve. And so when we dig into the relationship with Adam and Eve, we see that God said it was not good for man to be alone and that God created. He said I will find you a helper.
Speaker 1:That's what the scripture says in Genesis 2. He said I will find a helper that is suitable for you. And then the Bible says that God, he allowed a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he removed the rib from Adam and he created Eve and then he brought Eve to Adam.
Speaker 1:So this is the plan of God. God's plan is for him to bring someone to you. God's plan is for him. One of the things that God dealt with me on here he gave me a dream In 2023, I believe and in the dream I saw different boxes Like you know, the match shows, the matchmaking shows and there was different men and different women in different boxes and it was like different boxes will light up with the same color and, as God was, it was like it was a matchmaking game show, and what God was dealing with me on was that he makes the decision on who comes together as one.
Speaker 2:He chooses what husband goes or what man goes, or what woman he blesses it.
Speaker 1:He blesses it once he chooses it. It's not supposed to be our choice. It's supposed to be his choice. And he was dealing with me. But hey, yeah, that's another story. And he was dealing with me. But hey, yeah, that's another story. And so, with that being the case, people use the scripture and say, hey, because you are married, god has joined that together. And no, god has not joined that together, you joined that together.
Speaker 2:Right, and then you ask God to bless it, and then you ask God to bless it, and he does not have to bless it.
Speaker 1:No, because he didn't join it. And you wonder why you have certain issues and problems within your marriage, which is why we say from the beginning you have to stop bringing God in towards the middle or the end.
Speaker 2:You have to have a faithful prayer life.
Speaker 1:You have to have a revelation too. There has to be revelation. We read scripture without revelation. We read scripture without being led by the spirit of God, so we miss these nuggets. It's very simple.
Speaker 2:It's right there and you just want to do what you want to do.
Speaker 1:Yes, which goes back to the fact that you don't make Jesus your Lord and Savior. You just want him to be your Savior and you want him to be Lord over some things, but not everything thing. And so that scripture, it only is, it's only. How can I put this? This scripture is only relevant when you actually fall into the perfect will of God. Outside of the perfect will of God. God hasn't joined that together. That's an illegal contract. And if that's an illegal contract and God hasn't joined that contract together, then who joined it? Right.
Speaker 1:If it's not God, then it's the enemy. Right. It's just the reality of what it is, Whether we accept it or not. We are in a world where you are consistently influenced by something. You're influenced by the kingdom of God or you're influenced by the kingdom of darkness. Right.
Speaker 1:We know through scripture, which is why I believe you should study your scriptures, but it should be under the inspiration of the Holy spirit. We know through scriptures, we see examples of what solidifies people who are being led by God versus people who are not. So people who are being led by God versus people who are not. So we touched on this the covenant between God and man. Right, I think it's really important that we express or and I say this into the camera it's really important that we understand the importance of that scripture emphasizing what God joins together. Yeah.
Speaker 1:What God joins together. If God has not joined it together, then God don't have to bless it.
Speaker 2:Right, just because you get married and you go before a pastor and you have it written on paper, that doesn't mean that you actually really presented this to God if you don't have a relationship with him.
Speaker 1:No, because God will guide you to that and it comes from Adam, and we have to remember this. Because men go out seeking for wives. Adam wasn't seeking for anything. Adam was complete in who he was.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, you would know God will bless it before you even get to the actual marriage date.
Speaker 1:We have to get back to him leading.
Speaker 2:Like Isaac and Rebecca.
Speaker 1:Yes, we have to get back to him leading, leading us to that, leading not us doing, not us going the way we want to go. And we're spending a lot of time on this because a lot of people get this wrong. Yeah, and there's so many dysfunctional families because you're in relationships with people that God never intended.
Speaker 2:God didn't intend for you to have.
Speaker 1:And unfortunately, sometimes within the church because of culture. We hear so many leaders teach you just get married. As long as you're a Christian and she's a Christian, you're fine. Right, it's not true.
Speaker 2:No, it's not true, no, it's not true.
Speaker 1:No, and I'm sorry, your pastor can't bring two people together because he's not God.
Speaker 2:No, and nobody can bring two people together.
Speaker 1:Your mom, your dad.
Speaker 2:Your mom, your dad, you going on these dating shows? Pop the balloon.
Speaker 1:It ain't happening Married at first sight, I'm sorry. None of that mess. If it ain't, if it is not orchestrated or ordained by God, it is not going to be something that he will bless. And you will deal with some stuff. You will deal with some things, even if you don't think you're dealing. People go through a lot of stuff. It's so, especially as believers. Why even try to go through life without the grace and the mercy and the glory of God?
Speaker 2:Without God. Yeah, you just make out here making decisions on your own. Exactly, you're moving, just like the world. We're supposed to be set apart. And being set apart is being led by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1:And that I think is guided by, and that I think this being guided by God. So I like this right here. Listen to this Genesis 2, 18 through 25. Mm-hmm. And we let's read this real quick, and then I'll jump into this point, because that's really good. I like that.
Speaker 1:I like the way that's worded. I like that. So Genesis 2, verse 18, it says Then the Lord God said it is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him. So the Lord God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one. He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky and all the wild animals, but still there was no helper just right for him. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep.
Speaker 1:While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the opening. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib and he brought her to the man At last. The man exclaimed this one is bone from my bone and flesh from my flesh. She would be called a woman because she was taken from man. This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife and the two are united into one. Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.
Speaker 2:Two things here, and we can't dig into all of this because no, but we dug into it in the first and second episodes we did so you can go back to the other episode, but I wanted to read that because the point that was being made, and thanks for keeping me on point.
Speaker 1:God created Eve as a helper for adam demonstrating that marriage was initiated by god. This wasn't a human choice but god's will, showing that the proper covenant is one that is formed under God's design and authority.
Speaker 1:I love that, that is so good, that is so good, that is so. I could just eat off of that right, like by itself. So for those who are like oh, I want to get married, I want to do this, I want to do this, I want to do this. Literally, the scripture shows us that a proper marriage is one that was initiated and designed by god right he was the first one to initiate marriage. Adam didn't go to god saying, god, I want to be somebody adam was pretty content with where he was.
Speaker 1:He didn't even realize that it was anything missing, because he had God. God said that.
Speaker 2:And so now you know that God created marriage and you're out here and you're feeling like a piece of you is missing because it is. Because that's the way God decided. But it's not an initiation for you to go out and find this missing piece.
Speaker 1:No, you completely immerse yourself in God and God will get to a point of saying you know what. You don't need to be alone.
Speaker 2:You don't need to be alone.
Speaker 1:I need to bring to you who I call to be in your life, and there's two things that we touched on this, I believe, in the previous episode. When you come to that person that God has called you to be there's women that man will be able to speak life into you. God will show him who he's called for you to be. He will have visions about you. He will have dreams about where God wants you to go and what God wants you to do in your life, because Adam spoke vision into her. He spoke life into you. The second thing is men. The bible tells us that, um, that a man that finds a wife, he finds a treasure. I think that's nlt. Yeah, and he obtained favor from favor from god.
Speaker 1:So, men there we have to understand as we go throughout life. There is a part of you that's inside that woman that God purposely placed there, that you are capped at what you can do outside of her, because Adam lost a piece of himself, which is why, when Eve was brought to Adam, the two became one. He was reunited with a piece of himself.
Speaker 2:And there's grace in that relationship. So you'll be able to deal with those hardships that the world deals with. But there's grace there.
Speaker 1:You deal with it flawlessly.
Speaker 2:It's not even like a problem. It's something that you can do. You don't have to quit or give up or do any of those things Under the power of God?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because he extends that grace to that.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:So that's so good. So, bae, we have a few examples of relationships that's ordained by God. Do you want to go over those? And you don't have to, you can just give them the scripture reference. Oh, okay, right.
Speaker 2:I already talked about Abraham and Sarah, um Isaac and Rebecca. So Abraham sought, sought God um God's guidance for finding a wife for Isaac. And um that union was blessed by God, producing Jacob right and Esau. Um, then you have Boaz and Ruth, who God ordained that marriage also, god blessed that marriage.
Speaker 2:They sought his approval and he blessed it, and that's the bloodline of Jesus Christ coming through because they birthed that bloodline birthed David, which birthed Jesus, birth that that bloodline birth david, which birthed jesus. Um, and so it's it's important that and we talked about this last time is that we all have a purpose, right and so me and you, we have a purpose.
Speaker 2:God's put us together because we're supposed to birth something, right, um? And it's like, if you are out the perfect, if you're outside the perfect will of God in a relationship, you can birth something that is not holy. Yes, you can birth something that's ungodly, and we see it in relationships. We see children, we see all type of all things.
Speaker 1:Generational curses yeah.
Speaker 2:All things outside of God's perfect will, you can birth. We're not just talking about a physical child.
Speaker 1:Yeah, From a spiritual perspective, all things you deal with the consequences your birthing idolatry, your birthing sexual immorality, your birthing anger your birthing, pride your birthing, All these things are not of God. Because you're moving outside the will of God. Right, and I think you dug into examples of disobedient relationships. Abraham and Hagar yeah, they birthed forth Ishmael. Yeah, because Abraham and Sarah was not willing to wait on the promise.
Speaker 2:They got impatient and ishmael's descendants um were. They did a lot of ungodly nasty things um when you go throughout history and read the bible and then you have esau marriages.
Speaker 1:Uh, this is genesis 26, 34 through 35. Abraham and hagar is genesis 16, if you want to read it, boaz and ruth is ruth 2 and ruth 4. Isaac and Hagar is Genesis 16. If you want to read it, Boaz and Ruth is Ruth two and Ruth four Isaac and Rebecca is Genesis 24. Abraham and Sarah is Genesis 17,. Verse 15 through 19.
Speaker 2:Continue, babe, so you have Esau marriages as well right, you have Esau's marriages and I have um going to detail, Cause I really don't remember, Cause there's so many. I was just up all night just going through all these covenants that was made in the Bible. But then you have Solomon and all his wives. Which we're very familiar with yeah, first Kings in 11. Then you also have Ahab and Jezebel.
Speaker 1:Ahab- was the king of Israel, and jezebel.
Speaker 2:And jezebel is huge. Right, she was a phoenician princess, so completely outside of the perfect will of god, in complete and she wreaked havoc she did?
Speaker 2:she wreaked havoc with worshiping bell bow yeah, yeah, but this all but that, that all came from. And I talked about this last night with Noah and his son, him, when he cursed him, son. Canaan which birthed the Babylonian kingdom, which all these, which which is basically the kingdom of darkness. And so you have all these men and women of God, men of God right Marrying these women who are from that kingdom.
Speaker 1:And side note as well, when we speak on Baal, this isn't just a statue. These gods are real. They're demons. They're deities, they're real. They're not fake, they're real, but continue.
Speaker 2:Oh, no Good.
Speaker 1:And so these are different examples of uh covenants that were created, that were ordained by god yeah versus covenants that were created that weren't ordained by god right and it created so much division that we still see to this day a lot of division.
Speaker 2:It birthed something really, really nice.
Speaker 1:It birthed kingdoms that were, that were just downright nasty and disgusting and it was so interesting because um isaac and rebecca is one of the earliest examples, the servant of isaac I mean the servant of, uh, abraham. He consulted with god because he's like, abraham gave him the duty of finding a wife for isaac, and he's like I don't know how to do this. Yeah, and so he's like god, if you have, can you give me a sign? Right, and God gave him a sign which led to Isaac being married to Rebecca.
Speaker 2:So I thought that was so important that even in those instances just leaning on the spirit of God. But you have to be very careful, because people ask for signs all the time. Yeah Right, and so with Abraham's servant who asked God for a sign, it was still within the confinements of the covenant that God made with Abraham.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was because he went to the specific people.
Speaker 2:Because he went to his specific people. He didn't get anyone from the Canaanites because they were ungodly. And so just because you ask God for a sign and you get a sign, you have to go back to the origin, like what does this sign actually mean? What is it representing? Because the enemy can come and get exactly because the enemy can come and give you a sign all the time. He gives signs all the time. He gives signs all the time people like I know.
Speaker 2:This is of god, god we got the same chain on, we were in the same place, we went to the same school.
Speaker 1:Oh you, gotta be, and it's just that feeling inside, and then you dig into what it is. Now you got to begin to dig into the meat of it, okay. So what is it that attracted you to her? Oh, she was sexy. That's a red flag. Yeah. Because the Bible tells us what God doesn't judge by the outer appearance, he judged by the heart. So that's a flag. Now you start digging into saying, okay, is this something that was of God? Yeah. Which is another conversation, another episode, but okay that's good.
Speaker 2:I just thought it was important to point that out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2:Because he did ask for a sign and God gave him exactly what he asked for, but it was only in the confinements of God's covenant that he promised to. Abraham that he would have only descendants in that land.
Speaker 1:That's good.
Speaker 2:Of Canaan, but not with the Canaanites.
Speaker 1:So I think we can now move on Misunderstanding our role in marriage. We often think that we have the liberty to choose who we marry, or that God will bless any relationship we bring before him. This is a misunderstanding. Just as God brought Eve to Adam, it's God's will that we should guide our choices in marriage. Why are you looking like that? Like what. You're smiling, you guys want to say no, I mean, we were just. You know, we were talking about that we were yeah, but just kind of to bring it in.
Speaker 2:I like that yeah, you like the way you worded it.
Speaker 1:Yes, I like that. Um, I like that because it is and it's just an example in general, but speaking, speaking in terms of relationships, we do think that we just have control to do whatever we want to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's. The unfortunate thing is that we think that we can do whatever we want to do.
Speaker 1:And we can't.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:And so I thought that was that was really good.
Speaker 2:No, our life is not our own.
Speaker 1:The thing is, and this is so dangerous, our life is not our own. The thing is, and this is so dangerous. This is the next point. Once a covenant is formed, it is a spiritual binding or it is spiritually binding, even if we enter into a marriage or relationship outside of God's will. The spiritual implementations are serious, creating illegal covenants that can lead to spiritual consequences, and because we aren't tapped into the things of the spirit.
Speaker 1:We don't realize how serious that is. We just you know what we see the natural right Women. You get married to a man. That's abusive Right. Consequences of that you have a child with him. He started abusing the child. All right Now you begin to create a generational curse, amongst other things, and how he was abusive to you, he could be even more abusive to that said child and people don't like to use the word generational curse, but it's the reality of what it is. It's a curse.
Speaker 2:It's like if it's something that happens to everyone in the family. That is a curse, that's something in your bloodline, even everyone in the family. It's a curse that is a generational curse.
Speaker 1:That's something in your bloodline. Even when I look at my bloodline, I could trace back in my bloodline example after example, after example of abuse or whatever may have you. Every single person went through it, yeah.
Speaker 2:Every single time Saying rape in minds.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just the reality of what it is.
Speaker 2:Great-great-grandmother, mother, sister.
Speaker 1:We have to be really careful because there are serious consequences to the covenants that we bind ourselves to. And the enemy is so conniving that he's like, oh, it's just sex, it's not that serious, you're not married to him, you're just having sex and you can have protective sex Right, so you're good and it's like that serious?
Speaker 2:You're not married to them, you're just having sex and you can have protective sex Right, so you're good and it's like no and nothing's going to happen to you.
Speaker 1:Nope, you didn't get pregnant. You're good, but you don't know what you've set yourself up as far as from a spiritual perspective, no because now you opened yourself up to shame now connects to you, and you have a covenant that the enemy is going to eventually try to collect on. Yeah, so that's something that we have to be really mindful of. And so you want to read that next point, bate. What. The need for alignment with God's will.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's crucial to seek God's guidance when entering into a marriage or a committed relationship. Marriage is not merely a personal or social contract, but a spiritual covenant that aligns God's design for our lives.
Speaker 1:We have to realize how important marriage is. So I think the most important decision you can make is accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
Speaker 2:Yes, next to that I believe it's you getting married and who you get married to Marriage is so important because, if it wasn't, I don't believe that the Bible would refer to the church as Christ's bride.
Speaker 1:Refer to the church as Christ's bride, and also in Ephesians 4, I believe, or Ephesians 5, refer to the importance of understanding that we are a reflection. Your marriage is a reflection of that relationship between Christ and the church Right. So it's very vital, it's very, very important, and the enemy knows this, which is why he attacks it.
Speaker 2:He attacks relationships, starts them very, very important, and the enemy knows this, which is why he attacks it. He attacks relationships, starts them very, very early.
Speaker 1:He knows it. That's why he attacks it so much, because he knows how important it is to the design of everything. Yeah. To the design of everything is very important. You're honestly. We touched on this before. What you're doing is replicating what God already did.
Speaker 2:Right, you're being fruitful and multiplying. It's just where are you being fruitful and multiplying?
Speaker 1:at. But that's why and we talked about this before in a previous- episode why the enemy attacked Eve before she got impregnated, before she was able to bring forth a seed Right. So every single seed after that was tainted. Yep, he negatively impacted what God had, and even Adam allowed him to do that, and he still tries to do that to this day. He tries to get to you before you get to where God has called you to be.
Speaker 1:So he can negatively, or so he can taint that when it's still God's desire for us to bring forth seeds that worship him, seeds that know him, seeds that have a relationship with him, to spread forth his kingdom on earth. Yeah. And the enemy knows that and he fights against it he does, but God forewarns us every time.
Speaker 2:He forewarned Eve and Adam. Don't eat from that tree, he forewarned Cain. He always forewarned us. We just don't eat from that tree, he forewarned Cain.
Speaker 1:He always forewarned us, we just don't listen. He always tells us, like there's always some type of forewarning, and then we have to also dig into the fact of this. The Bible says my people perish because of the lack of knowledge. Paul talked about the covenants that exist.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just because you don't know that the covenants don't exist, it still it still applies to you the consequences of not following these covenants, because it's right here in the bible it started way at the very, very beginning of time. Just because you didn't know doesn't mean that you, you, um, don't suffer the consequences yeah if, if I drive without a license and I didn't know I was supposed to have it and I get pulled over, I'm going to jail.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Unfortunately you can't say oh, I just didn't know the law and then like it's the law. And so now I think we dig into the new covenant and we're not going to.
Speaker 1:You got to be mindful of this because that I think the new covenant with Christ is such a lengthy conversation that you can have you what Christ did, the covenants that still exist, the fact that it gives you access to those covenants through Christ Jesus, because before those covenants was only accessible by the children of Israel, the Jews. Post Christ dying and rising, post his death and resurrection, his crucifixion, it uh, what. One of the things it did is it opened it up for the gentiles to have access to that covenant as well. And by accepting jesus as their lord and savior and creating a new covenant and this touches on this right it says that with christ's death on the cross, a new covenant was established, but it did not nullify the previous covenants God made with Abraham, noah, moses, david, et cetera.
Speaker 1:The key change is that it provided access to God's covenant through faith in Jesus Christ, both Jews and Gentiles can can be united, united in christ, breaking down the walls of division. And so what christ did was so important that I think for me there's something that came to mind, there's something that was dropped in my spirit, that we had to touch on a covenant that was set in place during the crucifixion, during Christ's death, burial and resurrection, and so through that Jesus, he's made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating one new people. That's Ephesians 2 and 15. And this new unity is found only in Jesus Christ, who reconciled both groups to God and to one another. And one of the main things that took place through Christ is he reconciled God to men, men to God. Right.
Speaker 1:So, even as I'm touching on that, what are your thoughts on all of this?
Speaker 2:thoughts on all of this. No, it's just a um, a um you have to have. It's just an important piece of life, just in general, going through life, that there, there are these covenants that god created with humanity. Because we know the purpose of covenants with, through humanity and through individuals God can create a covenant with. And, like we said before, just because you didn't know doesn't mean you aren't held accountable. But now you know, and now, through Jesus Christ, you can help fulfill those promises that god, god had created with man in the beginning and I think it's really important that we understand covenants, specifically in relationships.
Speaker 1:I believe we should, especially for those who are. You know. We read some of the comments and there are those who are beginning their walk with God again, they're coming back to God and so we are grateful for that, that this podcast is really placing a desire in you to reestablish a relationship with God. Or for those who did not know God and will come to know who God is, I believe it's really important that, as we go on this journey, we dig into the things that we have access to and understanding how different things work within the spirit realm. Yeah, from a biblical perspective. Yeah.
Speaker 1:By, once again and I have to consistently say this through the inspiration of the holy spirit right. Catch this by the spirit because we've said on so many occasions the last episode we touched on there are those and that's religion who know scripture but they lack relationship right and if you know scripture and you lack relationship now, you lack the power of God. Right.
Speaker 2:Because it's only through relationship. You don't understand the power of God Exactly.
Speaker 1:It's only through relationship that you have access to the revelations.
Speaker 2:Right and not to stare away from spiritual things, because God is spirit, he's a spirit. The Holy Spirit is a spirit.
Speaker 1:Everything is accessible in the spirit. The Bible touches on in Galatians 5, I believe. The fruit of the spirit, yeah, spirit. Yeah, spirit.
Speaker 1:And so we know the scripture touches on the spirit of fear. We know the scripture touches on the different spirits of God the spirit of understanding, the spirit of knowledge, the spirit of power, the spirit of the air. Yeah, so it's all of these things, it's a spiritual thing, right, and so I think that the key thing right, because we were jumping ahead, right is, and you can read that, babe, the covenants of God still stand. Do you want to touch on that?
Speaker 2:Right. The covenants of God still stand. So God's promises to Abraham, um, God's promises to Noah, David, Moses, and you can go back and read all these covenants, I believe Abraham, the covenant that God had with Abraham you could find that in Genesis 12, 1 through 3, Genesis 15, Genesis 17. And then with Noah, God made a covenant with Noah that he would never destroy the earth by flood again. That's why we have rainbows so that we can remember that he won't destroy us.
Speaker 1:When he come again, it will be by fire.
Speaker 2:Right, that's why he said by flood. He didn't say he wouldn't destroy us. Again, he said that he wouldn't destroy us by flood, and that's Genesis 9.
Speaker 1:And I was reading that and it was so interesting. He said that he wouldn't destroy us by flood, and that's Genesis 9. And I was reading that and it was so interesting because he said, because people could say, well, there's floods that take place, he said he wouldn't destroy all of mankind.
Speaker 2:All of mankind? He wouldn't destroy all of mankind, so all living creatures he would not destroy by flood, yeah, but yes, it will probably be through fire.
Speaker 1:No, the Bible says it probably be through fire. No, the bible says it will be yes and so, um, I see we also have generational impacts of covenants and we, as we're touching on all this, we we're giving you, I guess, kind of like homework. Just if you want to read it, you can yeah we recommend reading it. It just would for us to dig through all of this.
Speaker 2:We would be here it would be so much we could do.
Speaker 1:This could be a series in itself.
Speaker 2:It could be and we maybe possibly in the future do like some bible study or something like that. But I mean, this is pretty in-depth, I think. As far as a relationship podcast goes, yeah, but generational, you can see generational um impacts on keeping God's covenants or being obedient to his word all throughout the Bible, and I think the one that I was really touching on last night was the family after Adam and Eve, which was Noah Um, and so God blessed Noah and his sons Um, but then Noah cursed his son, him, which, because him was being dishonorable, he didn't honor his, his father Um, and because he didn't honor his, his father um, and because he didn't honor his father. And we know that's a, that's a covenant agreement, a condition that we have.
Speaker 2:I'm your father and mother because if you don't, then um, I think in the bible it says your days will be shortened, but it's other things there's other thing that there's. I think there's two um passages or two verses that speaks on honoring your mother and father and what will happen to you and your family if you don't. And so when Noah cursed his son, grandson, his grandson, he cursed his son. Okay, by cursing his grandson, oh okay.
Speaker 2:He couldn't curse him because him was already blessed by God because he was part of God's covenant. Yeah, but he cursed his son by cursing his grandson. He couldn't curse him because him was already blessed by God because he was part of God's covenant, but he cursed his son because him didn't honor him. And you can go back and read what happened.
Speaker 1:Cursed his grandson. He cursed his grandson, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because his son didn't honor him.
Speaker 1:Noah was on that.
Speaker 2:Noah was like I'm going to curse you honor him.
Speaker 1:No, it was on that noah was like I'm going to curse you. She and I think that digs into also let's be careful with our words, especially as believers, because our words carry power.
Speaker 2:They do and for noah to curse his son at the beginning of time. It still is care. That curse is still carrying it on, because from noah's grandson, canaan, he birthed the Babylonian kingdom, which was always in odds with God's people.
Speaker 1:And that's the beauty of the blood of Jesus Christ, that's the beauty of the new covenant with Christ. But you have to, because the new covenant does away with curses Once you, but it's a process you have to go through to free yourself of those curses.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but the thing is is that God is greater? Because when Noah cursed his grandson, he said that his grandsons will always be a servant to the descendants of. How do you say Japheth? I don't know how to say his name but, his other two sons, but his other two sons, shem and Japheth. So all of Canaan's descendants will always be servants. But so that knows that. That tells you that God's power is greater. But there will always be a battle, because that servant is trying not to be a servant to you.
Speaker 1:And so I think takeaway from this is covenants are so important.
Speaker 2:Honoring covenants and being obedient.
Speaker 1:Being obedient to God is so important.
Speaker 2:Because there's blessings and curses.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and whether you realize it or not, you still fall under it, whether you realize it or not.
Speaker 2:Your family falls under it.
Speaker 1:And the conniving thing about the enemy is he knows that, which is why he tries to consistently place us in a position of being disobedient to God, because he knows the ramifications of what kind of lies within that. And so I think it's also important that we also touch on the fact again that the enemy, while there's covenants that you can make with God, that God make with man, there's also covenants the enemy make with man too. Right.
Speaker 1:Because he's obsessed with being like God. So he's mimicked the kingdom of God. We touched on this in the previous episode, or, I think, two episodes ago. He mimicked the kingdom of God. So the kingdom of darkness is basically a carbon copy of the kingdom of God, without the power, because he's not as powerful as God is, he's limited and it's an illegal contract, it's like a backdoor and so, yeah, I think how would you summarize this, babe, as we are coming to an end, because we touched on a bunch of great stuff today?
Speaker 2:We did, we did, we did. I think it's important to, I guess, emphasize the importance of prayer and discernment when you're choosing a partner, because you don't know if you're going to be birthing blessings or you're going to be birthing curses. And so we see an example, like with Abraham, and sent his servant, prayed and asked God hey, you know, can you find me a wife for my son Isaac? And they birth blessings, right, um, I think. I think that's my takeaway, honestly. Um it's submitting everything to repenting and seeking.
Speaker 1:God's grace Um but it's not become illegal covenants also. Yeah, but don't become heavily focused on um marriage. Yeah, but don't become heavily focused on marriage.
Speaker 2:No, the main thing is having a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:And being focused on that. And as you focus on that, everything else will flow accordingly. Right Because then your prayers Will mimic what he wants for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, your prayers will be a desire of what God designed for you to have, and it also will give you discernment.
Speaker 1:Yes, god will give you wisdom and discernment so that whenever, whenever he is speaking to you, you know that it's him speaking and you know that it's not the enemy so you would desire what god desire, and then, when you hear god speaking or when you hear a voice because the enemy will speak to you too you will be able to recognize the voice of your father. You'll be able to recognize the voice of your Lord and Savior, jesus Christ, versus the voice of the enemy. Voice is the voice of the prince of this world versus the voice of the culture which is led by the prince of this world. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So we have to be really careful in having that relationship with the Father, accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior and allowing him to be Lord over every area and every part of our lives. So, yeah, I think that's a good place to end.
Speaker 2:I think so.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, thank you for tuning in this week. I pray that this has been a blessing to you all.
Speaker 2:I know it was a lot to unpack and we're still processing all of this information. Yeah, we knew.
Speaker 1:I think it's interesting because you said four episodes and I thought four episodes is what it would take if we were to try to unpack this.
Speaker 2:Yeah it would take four episodes to kind of get through all of this.
Speaker 1:Yes, because it's so much information Like really just get to the meat of it.
Speaker 2:We kind of just summarize some of the things.
Speaker 1:It's so much more stuff that we Kind of glossed over.
Speaker 2:But the main takeaway is to not get into a relationship unless God called you to.
Speaker 1:Yes. But you won't know that unless you are in a relationship with him, with guys, and this builds off everything else that we've been discussing over the past few episodes.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Since we started this, so also go back and listen to those.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They're beneficial.
Speaker 2:They are.
Speaker 1:And so thank you again for tuning in, and until next week one of the things I would say that if this is something that's blessing you, let other people know about it. Yeah. We we're not really concerned with how many people follow or things like that. We're concerned when we get into the right people. Yeah. So, if this is being a blessing to you, let people know about it, share it with them, and if this is being a blessing to you, definitely blessing to you.
Speaker 2:definitely subscribe, yeah, so you can you know, be um tapped in what was going on. Yeah, anything you want to add, babe? No, because god is speaking to us. We are not doing this on our own. No, we aren't doing this for views. We're not doing this to get paid it was not our, it wasn't.
Speaker 1:It wasn't what we had planned for our lives is what's what God told us he wanted us to do. And like I said at the beginning of the episode, we struggled with it for quite some time. We as well, in a way, walked in disobedience and we had to repent for that because we struggled with doing this. But we understand the importance of doing this. And so we will be committed to that. So yeah, until next week. You all enjoy your week.
Speaker 2:All right, bye-bye.