Stepping In Faith
Stepping In Faith is a podcast that deepens your walk with Jesus each week by exploring the heart of faith, love, and relationships from a Spirit-led perspective. Each episode focuses on building intimate relationships with Jesus Christ, strengthening marriages, providing guidance for singles, and fostering healthy, God-centered connections.
Stepping In Faith
Godly Relationships: Part One
What happens when we strip away cultural expectations and examine marriage through a purely biblical lens? The answers might challenge everything you thought you knew about relationships.
In this eye-opening episode, Walter and Shanea tackle the foundations of godly relationships with refreshing honesty, addressing misconceptions that have infiltrated even the most devout Christian circles. They dive deep into Genesis to uncover God's original blueprint for marriage – revealing that it was never about solving loneliness or providing an outlet for sexual desire, but fulfilling a divine purpose that two specific people were created to accomplish together.
"If you are married to someone God never intended for you to be with, you're walking in an ADULTEROUS marriage," they boldly assert, challenging listeners to reconsider what makes a marriage truly godly. This isn't about legalities but about divine design – were you brought together by God's hand or your own desires?
The conversation takes a particularly powerful turn when addressing husbands. "Men, we show up to our marriage to DIE to self," Walter explains, dismantling toxic masculine leadership models. "Many men think they're leaders when actually they're nothing more than DICTATORS. Leaders serve; dictators demand to be served." This reframing of biblical leadership as sacrificial service rather than control revolutionizes our understanding of Ephesians 5.
For singles, they offer wisdom about the critical "wilderness season" of preparation, explaining why this time of refinement is essential before entering marriage. Whether you're single, dating, engaged or married for decades, this episode will transform your understanding of relationships by replacing cultural myths with biblical truth.
Ready to discover what God truly designed marriage to be? This conversation might just save your relationship – or prevent you from entering the wrong one.
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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 relationship with God can impact the relationship you have with others. I'm your host, walter. I'm joined here alongside my lovely wife.
SHANEA:Shanea.
WALTER:This is episode 16. Yeah. We're doing it right now. Okay, welcome back everyone. First thing I would say is that we are believers and we are here, and, even though the enemy has been trying to come at us, still we rise, yeah, and so I think we'll get started. Babe, you want to pray, or you want me to pray?
SHANEA:I'll pray.
WALTER:It's my turn to pray. It is.
SHANEA:Okay, father, you are a glorious God and we thank you and we give you all the glory and we give you all the honor and we give you all the praise, and we speak against any demonic forces trying to come up against this podcast, trying to come up against us. Speak against any demonic forces trying to come up against this podcast, trying to come up against us. We ask you, holy Spirit, that you will open up our mouths and speak the words that people need to hear. In Jesus' name, we pray, amen.
WALTER:Amen, amen, amen. Let's make sure this is good. All right, this is episode 16. And what's this week's title?
SHANEA:godly relationships godly relationships.
WALTER:The enemy has been battling us not to put this out, which is why I am even more committed to continuing on with this podcast and doing what God has called us to do. And so, babe, I am proud of you. My wife has been under some warfare lately, but we have been praying and God has been keeping us in the midst of everything going on. Just to kind of put this disclaimer out when you decide to come up against the kingdom of darkness, the enemy is going to try to come, but that's when you know that you're doing something. And this is, even as we're touching on God, godly relationships. One of the things that we know is so true is that when you start doing the things that God has called you to be or do, and being where God has called you to be, you start dealing with warfare from outside, but God is great and God is amazing and he has kept us, and we are even more committed to dropping each episode, week after week, and remaining committed. At some point we'll be able to share our testimony. The Father has not released us to share as of yet, but at some point we'll be able to share our testimony, to really kind of provide some insight on some of the things that we've had to deal with and how the enemy, consistently, has been coming up against us ever since we've started this podcast, week after week, trying to stop us from putting these episodes out, week after week, trying to discourage us. But we are committed and we are faithful and, holy Spirit, we worship and magnify you, we glorify your name, we honor you and we thank you for the grace to continue to do what you've called us to do, because we know that there's people that need to hear this message, there's people that need to hear these episodes. So we will remain committed to what you've called us to do. We thank you for your presence, we thank you for your joy, we thank you for your peace and we thank you that this will get to those that you've called it to get to.
WALTER:In the name of Jesus, we pray. Lord, jesus, we welcome you here. We acknowledge the angels of the Lord that's in the room even now. It's in Jesus' name. We pray, amen, amen. Let's get to it. So, yes, but God, yes, but God is good, god is good, you good, babe. Would it be anything that you want to say?
SHANEA:No, okay, I think you said it. You said enough.
WALTER:So please know that, as we are going through these episodes, sometimes it may show, sometimes it may not we may, we? We be tired, uh, we. Sometimes we grow weary of the warfare, uh. Yet we remain committed. When there is a a sense of urgency, when there's a sense of conviction, there's nothing that can stop us from doing what god has called us to do, which is why we remain faithful to doing what he's called us to do.
WALTER:So, yeah, yeah, as you try to possess the land, you have to come up against giants yes, but they're nothing in comparison to the grace of god, the power of God, the power of our Lord Jesus, our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ. They try to make it seem they roar, but there is no weapons that is formed against you that will prosper when you are doing what God has called you to do, the only thing they try to when they come up against you. You know that you are directly what God has called you to be doing, directly what God has called you to do. Yet, once we've we've stated this before, there's a difference between warfare from within because of you being disobedient, or there's a difference between you dealing with the consequences to the decisions you made, those moments and times when you disobey God, versus warfare from your obedience. Yeah.
WALTER:And there's grace in the midst of that when you are dealing with warfare from your obedience. So this week, our focus right now is digging into understanding the biblical principles of relationships and marriages, focusing on the foundational truths of what make a marriage godly and the roles that those individuals play within that framework. That's our focus today. Godly relationships was something that just came to me it was random once again, but it just came that God wanted us to touch on godly relationships. I know that there were some questions that people had. Hopefully this answers some of your questions, but I think it's important to understand what a godly relationship or godly marriage looks like, because it's easy to uh, misconstrue a marriage and assume one. Is that? When it's not, what are your thoughts about that, babe?
SHANEA:no, I think that's true. It's no different than when you're seeing leaders in the church and you think they have the Holy Spirit, but they don't. Their fruits don't show.
WALTER:What's that scripture?
SHANEA:Their fruits don't show that they have a godly character. A form of godliness, and so people portray their marriages like they're godly. But, when you actually dig into all the roots when you dig into how they form their relationship, when you dig into the dynamics of their relationship, there's no fruit. It's all a facade, it's all fake. Yeah.
SHANEA:Honestly. It's just honestly, like just for show, or it's just doing things out of religious practice. It's doing things out of you know what culture has taught you, what tradition has taught you. So you go to church and you might have a sermon and this preacher sound just like the next preacher. You sound like another preacher. They all yelling, they are you, you know, breathing all hard. They all got that.
WALTER:That's gonna be loud you put all that in there, okay, geez wife getting carried away but you know, it's just a form of godliness and it's yeah, they um. So and I I believe what we would have to do, because I found the scripture. Yeah.
WALTER:But let me do NIV instead. Niv says that, let's see. It says having a form of this is 2 Timothy 3 and 5, having a form of godliness, but denying its power, having nothing to do with such people. So we dig further in. We'll start at verse 3. It says you should know this. Oh, verse 1, I'm sorry. 2 Timothy 3, chapter 3, verse 1 through 5. And this is the NLT that we're reading and we're going on a tangent.
WALTER:But, you should know this, timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times, for people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving and unforgiving. They will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride and love pleasure rather than God. They will act religious but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that. That is once again 2 Timothy 3, verse 1 through 5. That kind of dives into what you were just saying. Yeah.
WALTER:The importance of understanding that there is a difference between those who act as if they have a relationship with God, or act as if it's a godly marriage, or act as if it's a marriage that God has brought together Right Act, as if it was God who put them together, when it's not.
SHANEA:It's not.
WALTER:And they may be doing all the right stuff. All the things may look like that is leading up to that point, but that's not the case.
SHANEA:Yeah, we've seen so many videos about on relationships, on the how God brought them together, and then we look at how they came together and you hear them more than anything. Look at how they came together and you hear them more than anything, and you hear them say I did this, I did that, I did that, and nowhere do you hear God showed me that this was my wife. God showed me this was my husband.
WALTER:And this is why you have to have an understanding about marriage, or of marriage from a biblical perspective, but a true biblical perspective. So the key thing is not just reading your scripture, but having a revelation, by way of the Holy Spirit, everything that we have taught, on everything that we've discussed. The only reason we know this stuff is because of the Holy Spirit.
SHANEA:I knew nothing.
WALTER:I am not. I'm not even going to act like I'm the smartest person.
SHANEA:We were over here looking at the blue pill, red pill community, trying to figure it out ourselves, trying to figure it out ourselves, trying to figure it out.
WALTER:Separately, when we weren't together.
SHANEA:Yeah.
WALTER:And so it's only by the spirit of God that we have been given these revelations. Yet I think it's so important to say that there's nothing special about us. We are just believers who have literally committed our lives to serving God. So this is the very same revelations we have you can receive too, and that there is a specific purpose that God has designed for each and every one of your lives, that no one out there is better or greater than you. Everyone can have access to the Father. Everyone can have a personal relationship with the Father. Where you experience hearing His voice, where you experience seeing Him move in your life, it's possible for everybody.
SHANEA:Right, because Paul says we're all part of the body.
WALTER:I don't know what scripture that is and Paul also said don't think higher of yourself than you actually are, and so one of the things that I guess we can start off with is 1 Corinthians 12.12, if y'all want to read it. So let's start off discussing the cultural misconception that marriage is about sex and how that leads to issues, because there is this thing within the body of Christ that's teaching people, or this doctrine that's teaching people, based off of 1 Corinthians 7, that they should get married simply because they're struggling with their flesh.
SHANEA:With their flesh, or that you started being in a relationship with someone that was not based off of whether God led you to this person, but, more so, your flesh led you to this person. Now you're lusting after this person. You want to kiss this person. You want to have sex with this person.
WALTER:You think you have good chemistry, but it's really just lust, it's lust, so it's a lack of self-control. You don't want to live in sin.
SHANEA:So let's just get married. Yeah.
WALTER:So that is a that is a major issue and my my earpiece keeps coming out of my ear, but that is a major issue within the body of Christ and we have to address that. That is not the case. First of all, let me be clear. Please read 1 Corinthians 7 in its entirety.
SHANEA:Yes.
WALTER:We have a whole hour podcast to go. We really don't have time to read it.
SHANEA:But you will see when you read it that there are moments in time where Paul is stating that it is Paul speaking and not God. But you have to be led by the Spirit of God, because we've read this, but my first time reading I was heavy and I was wholly inconsecrated. I wasn't listening or doing anything else but reading my Bible, and I came across this revelation that when Paul is speaking, he's saying that he is speaking. These are his thoughts. He even says these are my thoughts, not a command from God.
WALTER:And that was you know we was. I forgot we was coming back from Florida. When we were reading that, yeah, and when God provided the revelation that it was Paul speaking, making it clear it was Paul, it was like dang, it's Paul speaking. Paul made it clear, Never really thought about the fact. Thought about it and people will spute you down, but Paul made it clear there's moments in time that he said this was a. He spoke on not getting a divorce and that was from God.
WALTER:Yes, oh, absolutely, but once again, and you're not going to like this, but that is in the context of being where God has. Let's go ahead and dig into something that's going to mess people up real quick. You can. Let's say this If you are married to the person that God never intended for you to be with, you are walking in an adulterous marriage.
SHANEA:Yeah.
WALTER:And that's a lot. Let me say this again If you are married to the person that God has never intended for you to be with, you are actively living out a life of adultery. See, we think adultery is from the perspective of you being married and you cheating on that person. Yes, that is one form.
SHANEA:They are not going to like this at all.
WALTER:That is one form when you are in the marriage God has called you to be in. But we don't understand and this is not me, this is literally just having conversations with the Father that you people don't realize that you are married to people and you are actively committing adultery because you are somewhere that God has never called for you to be with.
SHANEA:Right, you aren't with your Adam and you aren't with your.
WALTER:Eve. See, it's really distinctive, Like the Bible says, and we are digging into this right they ain't going to be mad. It is what it is and, matter of fact, we're starting there anyway, so let's start there. Genesis 2, 18. Let's get into it.
SHANEA:I hope you guys got your Bible.
WALTER:I'm not here to make friends. You're not going to like. I'm here to really just do whatever God has called me to do, and you're not going to like this word sometimes.
SHANEA:And actually I mean most of the words that we hear, we're not going to like. God is a father. He comes to correct, he blesses, but he also corrects you. If he didn't correct you, he would not love you.
WALTER:Yes.
SHANEA:Your parents don't love you if they don't correct you and discipline you.
WALTER:And there are things that God really gave to us. It was hard for me to take those words in. It convicted me. I didn't want to believe it, I didn't want to accept it, but I had to accept it.
SHANEA:He will tell you some things about yourself and you have to deal with it.
WALTER:You do. And so Genesis 2, beginning at verse 18, the Bible says right, this is the New Living Translation, 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. 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.
WALTER:for my flesh, she will be called 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. There's so much to unpack from here.
WALTER:There's so much to unpack from here. There's so much to unpack from here. We've said this so many times in the comment section and all. They were naked and they felt no shame. Exactly the. Bible says that God said it was not good for man to be alone. Right now, in this, these few verses, we see the design that God initially had for a godly relationship.
WALTER:Yeah, versus we see the design that God initially had for a godly relationship. Yeah, we see God's design for marriage, that God created the institution of marriage, and the way this looks and the way this was broken down is how God desires for that institution to look. It never changed, no, but we have to understand that the enemy also recognized this and he created his own version, right? So how does this look? It starts off right. God recognizes that that man is alone. There is a purpose that god has for that man. There are assignments that man has. So god says it's not good for this man to be alone, because I need him to have a helper to assist him with the assignments I've given to him, and she will also have assignments that align with that man. Now let's go ahead and get this out, and we are. I don't know where we are in the notes, but let's get this out. Husbands, your wife's assignment is not to serve you.
Speaker 3:Your wife's assignment is not to serve you and that is your wife your assignment is not to serve your husband no, that is part of being a husband and a wife.
WALTER:My purpose or let me say like this my purpose, your purpose, is not to serve your. What women you weren is not to serve your women. You weren't designed to serve your husband. That's not your outright purpose.
SHANEA:It wasn't your. It's not your purpose to serve your husband's purpose. No, thank you. That is what we're trying to say.
WALTER:Yes, it's not your purpose to serve your husband's purpose, right, husbands. It's not your purpose to serve your wife's purpose.
SHANEA:Exactly.
WALTER:It's not your purpose to serve your wife's purpose. Exactly, being a husband is being a husband. Being a wife is being a husband. You guys are one. Just like being. It's a role. Yeah.
WALTER:Just like being a father or a mother is a role. The unfortunate thing and it's specific to women because of how men approach this, and we're wrong for this we try to make women feel like you were designed to basically help me push forth my purpose, yeah, of what god has given to me and this is why you need the holy spirit when you read the word, because people will take the word and say help me, as you're supposed to help me do what god called me to do well, see, the thing, is this right here, uh?
SHANEA:but that's not what.
WALTER:That's not what the scripture is saying here's where um the bible says and we'll get back to this genesis 1, verse 26, through 28, verse 26. Then god said let us make human beings in our image, image in the image of God. He created them, male and female. He created them. Then God blessed them. Then God blessed them and said be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and govern it, rain over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky and all the animals that scurry along the ground. I am so sorry, men, but God has not called your wife to be behind you. He called your wife to be beside you. He called your wife to be beside you. He didn't say Adam rule over the earth.
WALTER:He didn't say man rule over the earth. The Bible let's say this again because y'all like to talk about scripture the Bible says that then God blessed them and said be fruitful to them and multiply to them, fill the earth to them and govern the earth to them. Rain over the fish in the sea to them. Fill the earth to them and govern the earth to them. Rain over the fish in the sea to them, the birds in the sky to them and all the animals that scurry along the ground to them. He said it to them. That is why the Bible says that God removed a rib from the side of Adam, because Eve has always been meant to be, she's always been meant to be, beside Adam. They both have a responsibility to reign. They both have a responsibility to rule. They both have a responsibility to have dominion. They both have a responsibility to govern. They both have a responsibility to govern.
WALTER:Now getting back to where we were, because that'll take us off into a different tangent Genesis 18, verse 24. We see that God said it's not good for man to be alone. We see that God stated that he will make a helper. That was good for Adam. We see that God actually put Adam in a deep sleep and God created Eve for Adam. There's so much that we could take away from this and we will do a deep dive at some point, but we got to move on for time's sake. But the Bible says that, verse 24,. This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife and the two are united into one. So and this is not me, I can't take credit for any of this this is only by the Holy Spirit. You being united into one is not tied to the marriage itself. You being united and becoming one is tied to you being where God had designed for you to be, because God never stopped removing a rib from that man. Yeah.
WALTER:So me getting married to some random woman don't make me one with her. Me being married to Shania makes me one with her.
SHANEA:It makes you tied to that person.
WALTER:You're tied to them, but you're not one. You're what the Bible would still consider unequally yoked.
SHANEA:Yes.
WALTER:You're not one, because God didn't design for me to be with any other woman out there.
SHANEA:People are not going to like this, because people are going to continue to say God designed marriage.
WALTER:God did design marriage he did. But what we have to remember is that the enemy mimics everything that God designs.
SHANEA:And people will say well, satan has no, he has no, no legal rights with marriage. He hates marriage.
WALTER:Satan has no legal rights with anything, but we gave it to him.
SHANEA:Yeah, we did.
WALTER:The Bible says that Adam and Eve ate from that tree. The Bible says that God gave Adam and Eve dominion over the earth, yet when they ate from that tree, they gave dominion over to the enemy and governed government. All the enemy governs. Now, when you give your life to God and you go through the process of dying to self and you go through the process of having your mind renewed, now you start to begin to walk in who God has called you to be through the power of Christ Jesus, but that is by submitting every single area and every single part of your life to God.
WALTER:When you don't, those areas that you don't submit to God, the enemy still has. He's still able to govern over and reign within that area of your life. So this right here still is God's design for marriage. You can do what you want, but this is scripture.
SHANEA:And you can listen to whoever.
WALTER:But this is scripture. I'm sorry you may not like it, but this is the reality of what it is. If you are not in a marriage that God designed, meaning that God created you specifically for that person. We believe and the Bible teaches us that there is one person that God created. Don't talk to me about anything outside the fall of man, Because when we look at Matthew 19, which we will go to again, the Bible says that God tied us. Jesus pointed us back to Genesis 2. So Jesus had an opportunity to point us to anything. He didn't point us to Moses, he didn't point us to the law. He pointed us to Genesis 2, which was God's original design for marriage. And Jesus said in Matthew 19, what God has joined together.
SHANEA:Yeah, god has to join you to this person, not you joining yourself to a person and then asking God to cover you. That's not how this works.
WALTER:So we're so far off.
SHANEA:I think we still kind of on track.
WALTER:But we got to get past. So let's get through some of these points. So let's say this god saw adam's need for a partner and even though, even though adam had a relationship with god and this reveals that marriage is marriage serves a divine purpose beyond companionship. It's something that is divinely, that was divinely created by God, and marriage is just not about, it's not just about avoiding loneliness, but fulfilling a higher purpose. So marriage is designed by God and we see this as an. We see this in Genesis two, and when God brings two people together and I want us to think about this it is to fulfill his plan. It's not about y'all being able to have sex.
SHANEA:No.
WALTER:It's not about you being able to get your rocks off, I'm sorry. It's not about you being able to get freaky in a bed.
SHANEA:Or it's not about you guys building some type of empire, no or creating a legacy.
WALTER:When God created Adam and Eve, when God said that it's not good for man to be alone, it was because God had something that he wanted Adam and Eve to fulfill. The Bible tells us he wanted them to be fruitful multiply. He wanted them to fill the earth with godly children, yeah, images of heaven. And there's a scripture that touches on that and I'll see if I can find it real quick that came to mind I think we had it in another episode.
SHANEA:I know you're talking about, but I can't?
WALTER:We had talked about the importance of creating godly children, godly offspring.
SHANEA:It's probably in our episode that relationship covenant.
WALTER:And so also he wanted them to govern and reign over the earth.
SHANEA:Yeah, together together.
WALTER:so, with that being the case, I'm sorry, but this tendency to view marriage as a solution to sexual desire or loneliness, rather than a divine purpose is very dangerous and it's incorrect. It's incorrect and so we have to deal with, and this is why I say you should not. Let me say this. Please hear me, please hear my heart, because we see it happen so much in the church. Do not get married to someone simply because you want to have sex, because if you do that, what? You're? Starting that marriage off, which you could be where God has called you to be. But you are starting that marriage off showcasing that you don't have self-control and it's only but so long that person will be able to fulfill that desire before you start looking elsewhere and dealing with other issues because you didn't deal with yourself. We both show up to a marriage to die. It's even a greater thing for men. Actually, with men, we show up to marriage to die. Men show up, basically, in a coffin. We're going to dig into the role of men in a second.
Speaker 3:Y'all not going to dig into the role of men in a second.
WALTER:Y'all not gonna like it but it's really important that we deal with those issues of self-control, maturity and spiritual readiness before considering marriage yeah, because you, you will go into a relationship selfish, because you go into a relationship with desires you're not supposed to have.
WALTER:So that's key, and so this digs into the importance of us both having our own relationship with God. It's very important that we, as men, have our relationship, yet I would always recommend women doing the same, because when you have the relationship with God, when you have a relationship with God, you're able to decipher between what is God and what's not God, especially for women. You can't just be going off a man coming and saying God said that you are my wife.
SHANEA:No.
WALTER:Because even with my wife and I, we went through some stuff, but what I had to do is fall back and allow God to reveal it to her. And just to give you all a little gold nugget, God didn't reveal it to my wife. Or you can say how did God reveal to you? Or what did you have to do for God to reveal to you that you were my wife? Because I already knew God had given me dreams I had been praying for and everything.
SHANEA:Initially, I would keep asking and what I had to do to find out for sure. You are my husband. I mean, I knew you were my husband, but I needed confirmation from the Lord, like a vision or a dream or something, because I'm a dreamer, so I'm like God. You got to show me Right. So the first thing I had to do was I had to focus on God.
SHANEA:Um, you can and I've seen other examples with other people and how they've come to this conclusion, and it's the same. You have to focus on God. Um, once you seek him, um, you will find him, and then he will tell you everything that you need to know. He, surely, will tell you everything you need to know about who you're supposed to be with, where you see yourself in five years, where you see yourself in the rest of the year, like what he put you on the earth to do. He will tell you. I have a whole list of a conversation we had and he told me everything that I am to him, everything that I should be to my husband and my children and to the world the world.
SHANEA:But he showed me my husband, probably I don't remember how long after my conversion, but it might have been maybe even a month or two or three. God gave me a dream with us at the altar. My husband didn't have any hair. In the dream he was bald.
WALTER:I'm bald now.
SHANEA:And he's bald now, but at the time he wasn't.
WALTER:I was trying to hold on to it.
SHANEA:That's crazy, right? So, like at the time God gave me this dream, my husband was not bald, he had a full head of hair Struggling.
WALTER:But we Str, we struggling, but in the dream we were at the altar and he was bald and I would say to the men out there um, god has showed me this for you and I wanted her, I wanted her so badly to know it. But what god had, uh, gave to me, and I don't know if you remember me telling you this. God told me that he's not going to say anything to her until she stops focusing on it. And he told me specifically don't bring it back up to her, don't say anything about it, don't inquire about it or anything. Let me show her.
WALTER:And I knew that he would show her. I knew that he would show you when you went to him and just focused on him, because even with me, god showed me that she was my wife when I was focused on him. So we have certain people that reach out to us in the comment section like how you know? How you know when you go on to God, god, show me, show me, show me, show me. Nine times out of 10, he's not Because you got to think. If you have a relationship and God desires relationship if you're coming to me and you want something in particular from me, I might not give it to you, because I want to know that you're there with me because of me.
WALTER:And the more you focus on me and having the relationship together, I'll begin to reveal secrets to you, and that's what happened with my wife. So that's why it's so important to have your own individual relationship with God and for women to not just go off with a man or a prophet or anyone says, because ideally, prophets aren't there to tell you things that you don't know. Prophets are there. They should come for correction or they should come to confirm what God has already showcased you Absolutely. They also come to bring you good news, sometimes. Yeah.
WALTER:But it should be confirmed as something that was already there. You may not have seen it, because my wife may not realize it and I firmly believe that but because of where she was, god had already revealed this to her, but she was not in the space to receive it, and so once she got into a space to receive it, she was able to receive it.
SHANEA:Because I didn't want what God had for me. No, I just was not in the space. I asked for God to give me what he wanted, but I didn't really mean it.
WALTER:And we both struggled with that because we came from a space where and we can't get into it, but we both struggled with that, I struggle with that. God took me through a process of having to literally die to self, of having to literally die to self, and that's something else to think about. When I met my wife, I was not drawn to her physically, I didn't understand what it was, but it was something within her spirit. My wife is beautiful, don't get me wrong, but I was not drawn to that. It was something deeper and it was something that was more intimately based. I would always say I can't explain it, but it's something within her that caught my attention, and so that is another point to make that. I'm sorry, but if your eyes is the first thing, that, or if it's your physical eyes that you're seeing someone with, you might want to challenge that, because the Bible lets us know God told Samuel that you look at the outward appearance, but I judge by the heart, and what God was showing me was her heart.
SHANEA:And he will allow you to make advances in that relationship or to that person that you see, that you like. But then you have to let God show you if this is the person for you, because you already have a desire. I was just thinking about the prophet who talked about he wanted a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl.
WALTER:Yeah, God, I mean that prophet which oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, and God gave him something completely different.
SHANEA:Oh, absolutely.
WALTER:Because God don't care about what you want he don't. It's more about what he knows was best for you, mm-hmm. And he's not driven by your flesh Right.
SHANEA:He tried to pursue that and-.
WALTER:And it didn't work out. It did not. It did not work out. Thing um with marriage marriage works best when both individuals are secure in their identity with christ or in christ and they're not seeking validation from their partner. Yeah, let's break this down. Marriage work best when you're not looking at your partner as your god.
SHANEA:I can't be my wife's god no, you're looking for comfort, you're looking for security you're looking for everything in your partner, in your spouse.
WALTER:You're trying to be with someone because you're seeking out something that only God can give you. That marriage will be. It will be a struggle. It will fail because, ladies, your husband can't be your God. Men, your wives can't be your god only god can be your god, and I think a lot of times, women you can correct me if I'm wrong it it is easier for a woman to fall into that space of looking at her husband as her god yeah, I think, more than men.
SHANEA:So yeah, but no, but a lot of times, you see, men, depending on some dynamics, but like prayer and all that stuff. Yeah, well.
WALTER:But I think it's more so women, but I could be wrong.
SHANEA:No, it can be men too, though I've seen quite a few men. Because, the thing is is if you're in a relationship and you feel convicted about doing something because your spouse might get mad at you or your spouse might break up with you, that's idolization, because your conviction should come from. I can't do this because I serve the Lord. God is going to get mad at me.
WALTER:You got to rise above that. You can never put anything before God. So within your relationship another instance of a godly relationship is God always come first. It's God, then your husband or your wife, then your children, then everything else. Let's dig into that too. It's your husband and your wife, then your children, not your children, then your husband and your wife. It's your husband and your wife, then your children. It's God husband, wife, children, everything else. Men, your ministry starts with your wife, not with your ministry, men, because you do this a lot. It's not your and maybe some women fall into this category. It's not God. Your ministry, then your spouse or career or your career is God husband and wife or spouse, children, then everything else. If you get out of order, that would negatively impact and throw off the balance with everything else?
SHANEA:Isn't there a scripture for that?
WALTER:I'm sure there is, but we would have to find it.
SHANEA:I know there's a scripture for that.
WALTER:But that was something that God was dealing with me earlier on that ministry begins and I think tim ross and someone else touched on that but ministry begins with your, with your wife or your husband. It was speaking to men, because men struggle with that a lot. So while you look for that, let's, let's think about this, and I want you all to read genesis.
SHANEA:It's first, first timothy, three, four, five. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?
WALTER:There you go. I didn't even know that a scripture was the case.
SHANEA:I just literally. I knew it was a scripture, I just didn't know which scripture it was. I knew it was a scripture, I just didn't know which scripture it was.
WALTER:I was having a conversation with God and God was dealing with me on the structure of family and he was telling me that your wife is your ministry. He would always tell me with you. He would always say that my ministry begins with you.
SHANEA:Yeah, and that's crazy because I talked about this in the last episode about how, when you go through your conversion and you give your life over to God, he will start revealing stuff to you and the spirit of God will move in you in a way, in your heart, that you will start to move in a way that you don't even have to read the Bible to know you, should you should read the Bible.
WALTER:You got to be careful. She's telling us not to read the Bible.
SHANEA:No, I'm not saying that.
WALTER:She's saying the scripture will become written on your heart yes, no, I'm not saying that she's saying the scripture will become written on your heart. Yes, the law will become written on your heart yeah. So there's things that God begins to reveal to you that is scripturally based and I've dealt with this personally where God has showcased or give me something, and then I find it in scripture later. That's what she's saying.
SHANEA:Yeah.
WALTER:So people don't come and start trying to say you know? You say we do believe in scripture, scripture, we do believe you should read it. So, but yeah, god would always tell me that ministry begins with my.
WALTER:You're my ministry, my ministry started with you, then everything else, and so that's really good. But Genesis 2 and 18, adam was content in his relationship with God. His purpose and contentment came from God, not from his need, or not his need, for a partner. Right, let me say this again, this is both for women and men. Please hear me when I say this Adam was content in his relationship with God, his purpose and contentment. It came from God, not his need for a partner. Mm-hmm.
WALTER:You should not be seeking out your purpose within a partner, or seeking out a person to make you content, or seeking out a person to make you whole.
SHANEA:Right, or seeking out a partner to fulfill your own purpose.
WALTER:Because this is the key that we said.
SHANEA:Or what thought of lifestyle that you have you need this particular type of person. It's like no, I can't date you because you don't fit the lifestyle that you have. You need this particular type of person. It's like, no, I can't date you because you don't fit the lifestyle that I require or you don't fit the future plans I have for myself.
WALTER:Well, see, I will say this right, and I will caution and say this this is Genesis two and 18. And this is scripture. The Bible says that. Then the Lord, God, said it didn't say. Adam said it said. 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. Adam wasn't looking for anybody. Adam was content in being with god. He didn't even know he was alone yeah he didn't even know he was lonely.
WALTER:So I would say this is the mark. This is where we want to strive to be. To where you don't even realize you're so caught up in the things of God. To where it's like yo, I'm chilling in my season of being by myself. To where I'm just doing the will of God, I'm having a relationship with God, I'm getting to know God, I'm becoming naked and unashamed and God comes and says you know what it ain't good for you to be alone. I got some stuff that I need you to do that's tied to you being with someone else, and there's something that I need them to do that's tied to you.
SHANEA:Yeah, but and I'm glad you brought that up, because I Genesis 2.25, now, the man and his wife were both naked and they felt no shame. So before you become a believer, before you give your life to Christ, you have shame, you have disgrace, you have all these impurities that you have to cleanse yourself of before you can be brought to glory, before you can be brought to God's best for you. And that is your wilderness season. That is your single season. Your single season should be a season of wilderness. It should be a season of refinement, a season that God will humble you and remove all your shame. And I put a couple of scriptures here so that you can go back and read. But I think Isaiah 61, 7 talks about how, if you're shameful, god will. What did he say? I gotta go back and read it.
WALTER:Isaiah what.
SHANEA:Isaiah 61.7.
WALTER:You can get to it real quick.
SHANEA:No, I can't actually Isaiah 61.7. Oh, I got it. Actually Isaiah 61.7,. It says instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land and everlasting joy will be yours, everlasting joy. Everlasting joy after your wilderness season.
WALTER:Wilderness season is no joke.
SHANEA:It's not easy. I I mean, we saw the children of israel they struggled, they struggled some time for 40 years, yeah, but god fed them with manna. He had a whole. He was preparing them for a land of milk and honey he kept going so in your wilderness season, in your singleness season, you have to go through refining so that you can get to the the land of milk and honey. Your spouse, your partner, your purpose, god's purpose for you. Jesus went into the wilderness season.
WALTER:He came out with the power of the holy spirit, and this is not to say the wilderness season is going to be easy because you're in the wilderness jesus literally was fastened for 40 days and 49 tempted by the devil multiple times yeah, and he was led into the wilderness body by the holy spirit but he came out with him, he came out with power and that power times we we touched on that in a different episode and this may be a two-part episode. Okay, this might be a two part episode.
SHANEA:Okay.
WALTER:This might be a two part episode, because we are only on section three.
SHANEA:Oh, okay, well.
WALTER:Literally.
SHANEA:I guess then we can we can, we can stop there.
WALTER:No, we can keep going a little bit. I just want to say this might be a two part episode.
SHANEA:Yeah, because I mean we have the role of a husband and wife and us.
WALTER:We got the role of the husband and wife, and that's we got the role of the wife, we got the favor and blessing, we got the role of both party parties yeah this is going to be a two. Uh, so what we'll do? We're going to touch on the role of the husband and then next week, we'll start off with the role of the wife. Okay, and it was coming to me, this was probably going to be a two-part episode because there's so much that we're digging into. Okay, so let's do this.
SHANEA:Okay.
WALTER:And we may touch on this again the role of the husband Ephesians 5, 25 through 33. Let's see Ephesians 5, 25 through 33. Let's see Ephesians and I'm pulling it up as we speak, and let's start here. And we know this scripture, this is a famous scripture, this is the NLT. It says for husbands, this means love your wives just as Christ loved the church.
WALTER:It says he gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God's word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies, for a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church and we are members of his body.
WALTER:As the scripture says, a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. This is the great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. That's a lot to unpack. So, as husbands, we're called to have a sacrificial love towards our wives. I said this earlier on, and I think I've said this quite a few times Men, we show up to our marriage to die to self.
WALTER:We become the example, which is why it's impossible for us to do this outside of the power of the Holy Spirit, Because we are inherently selfish individuals. So it is challenging for us to love our wives the way God intended for us to love our wives outside of the Holy Spirit, and it's been designed and set up in such a way to where we have no other option but to rely on the Holy Spirit. If we do not, we will fail in being what it is that God has called us to be to our wives. So what it means to love your wife as Christ loves the church, it is literally a selfless love, it is a sacrificial love and it ties into our leadership. But let's say one more time it's dying to self and we have to get this because there's a misconception we have about leadership Husbands must serve, not control or dominate their wives. Husbands must serve, not control or dominate their wives. True leadership in marriage is rooted in humility and service.
WALTER:You're not a dictator Right. Many men think they are leaders in their marriage, and this is something that God gave to me and it messed me up. Many men and we talked about this many men think they are leaders in their marriage and relationships when, in all actuality, they're nothing more than dictators. Leaders look to serve others, while dictators look to be served by others.
SHANEA:What's your thoughts on that, babe? I was just about to look at the definition of a leader.
WALTER:Honestly some of the greatest. Some of the greatest leaders are some of the greatest servants. They're some of the greatest servants. They serve well. Some of the greatest leaders are some of the greatest servants and while my wife is looking up that, this was something that God put in my mind today. There are men out here. They don't desire a wife, they desire a puppet. There's men out there that don't desire a wife, they desire a puppet. They want to be a puppet master. They desire a woman that's going to do whatever they say do, however, they say, do it. That's not what it means for the wife to serve their husband. Sorry, sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. And men, how are you going to lead your wife when you're not even submitted to Christ? How can we lead our wives when we haven't even submitted ourselves to the authority of Christ? How can we lead our wives when we don't know how to serve? One of the last things Jesus did with his disciples is what he washed their feet. He washed their feet. He did.
WALTER:Go ahead, baby. I know you want to say something.
SHANEA:Oh no, I was just looking at. I didn't like the definition that they gave me for leader Because it said commanding.
WALTER:You find a definition of what a leader is in Christ.
SHANEA:No, you do, and I found a definition on.
WALTER:We have to look at the biblical definition.
SHANEA:In biblical context, a leader is someone who is divinely appointed or recognized by the community to guide, direct and govern according to God's will. Leadership in the Bible is characterized by service, humility, wisdom and obedience to God.
WALTER:Say that one more time.
SHANEA:Humility. Wisdom Start from the beginning?
WALTER:What is it? Leadership is by what?
SHANEA:Leadership in the Bible is characterized by service, humility, wisdom and obedience to God. Leaders are often called to shepherd God's people, ensuring their spiritual and physical well-being. So, servanthood you're called to serve others, Putting the needs of the community above your own. Doing what Putting the needs of the community above your own. Doing what putting the needs of the community above your own, like jesus washing the disciples feet, is a profound example of this principle oh, okay humility, humbling yourself before the lord so that he can exalt you.
WALTER:So, as leaders in marriage, we're called to serve. Serve our wives, serve our children. Here's the thing. The Bible calls men to lead in love, not by asserting authority, but by serving humbly. A husband's leadership should be rooted in sacrifice and service, just as Christ served the church and continues to serve the church.
WALTER:We have been called to serve our wives. There is nothing greater than seeing a man that serves his wife, than seeing a man that serves his family, than seeing a man that continued to lay down his flesh, than seeing a man that continued to pick up his cross and follow Christ. And as you follow Christ, you can lead wife by, by way of example, straight to christ and she will be what, babe, she will bring you what you're talking about favor, yeah, favor from god because this is the point that and we touched, touched on this Joshua 24 and 15.
WALTER:You want to read that, babe?
SHANEA:Joshua 24 and 15? Mm-hmm, okay, let me pull that up. If you already have it, you should go ahead and read it. I don't have it Okay, oh Joshua, what?
WALTER:24 and 15.
SHANEA:24 and 15. Mm-hmm. Says but if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Mm-hmm. Would you prefer the gods of your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? I think it's Euphrates, mm-hmm.
WALTER:Men must decide to serve God first and then serve their wives. Mm-hmm. Leadership in marriage involves choosing daily to follow Christ's example of humility and sacrificial love 1 Corinthians 13.
SHANEA:Your ministry starts at home and that's why you have so many people at the church not being served, not getting what they need.
WALTER:You have leaders, pastors that don't know how to serve their wives.
SHANEA:You have pastors that's not submitted to God, and so they're not humble, knowing that their dependence comes from the Lord Should be on the Lord.
WALTER:And the thing about is this right here, truth be told women about? Is this right here, truth be told women? Only a man who is submitted to christ can truly love and lead his wife as christ intended. If that man is not submitted to christ, he can't love you and he can't lead you how god is intended for you to be loved and led. It's only through that submission that you learn how to do that. It's only through that relationship with Christ that you begin to take upon the identity of Christ within your marriage.
SHANEA:And you can't make that man do that.
WALTER:And you can't pray that man into that outside of God. A lot of women think that you can pray that man into a change.
SHANEA:Well, that's because they tell you that. But first of all, you shouldn't be with anybody that God didn't tell you to be with in the first place.
WALTER:No, and sometimes and we talked about this before you could be in the place that God has told you to be in their own time.
SHANEA:But they'll use the scripture that Paul. But Paul said it was him speaking and not god.
WALTER:Paul said that you can be with an unbeliever. Paul also told you that it was best for us not to be with anybody, but they don't think about that scripture, huh they don't never bring that scripture, they don't bring the scripture up in the same chapter in the same passage first corinthians 7, when paul stated it was best for us to be alone so nothing was standing in the way of what God has called us to.
WALTER:Yes, genesis 2 tells us what God's desire was for marriage, why he created in the first place. He said be fruitful and multiply. That was something that Paul was called to A life of singleness.
SHANEA:But they also don't talk about the part after where it says you can be with an unbelieving spouse.
WALTER:He says that they could leave and you will, and god will give you peace but the thing is, all of these things was based on the fact that they kept bugging paul.
SHANEA:Yes, the church of current kept bugging because they were moving outside of the will of god. Outside the will of god.
WALTER:They didn't want to do god's will paul was trying to set parameters to keep them let's just keep it to keep them, to keep them from sinning. Exactly. Let's call it what it is Now. We could keep going, but I think we will note here where we're stopping. We're going to stop right there.
SHANEA:Okay.
WALTER:There's a few things that we're going to get into next week's episode. That is how We'll say this, I'll say this and we'll leave it here. We can keep going. Let me get a few points in. So this A husband must become a servant to his wife, modeling Christ's humility. So a husband must become and John Bevere said this and it was so true. He said that as men, we are to become master servants.
WALTER:You're going to be like he's talking about serving a lot. As men, we are to become master servants to our wives. We teach them how to serve. We teach them how to serve as Christ teaches us how to serve.
SHANEA:Because you are the example. Jesus is the example, your husband is the example. Once he's the example. Men, if your wife isn't doing what you need her to do, maybe you aren't doing what you're supposed to do. You have to lead by example.
WALTER:And you got to take that back to God and y'all not going to like that, but that's the reality of what it is. It's true we got way too many women leading in relationships spiritually, which is why your relationships are failing, even in the context of you possibly being what God has called you to be. Your relationship is failing because the wrong person is leading, the wrong person is praying more. The wrong person is in their word more than anybody else. God gave the command to Adam. Then he gave the. Adam gave the command to Eve. God didn't give the command to Eve. God didn't create Eve first. So as men, we got to take accountability for our own actions.
WALTER:I'm sorry, stop looking at your wife to lead you spiritually. How are you calling yourself a man but you're spiritually weak. I don't care how much you bench press, I don't care how much money you make, spiritually you are weak, you carry no weight in the spirit. But you call yourself a man how, please explain that? But you can't pray your wife through nothing. You can't come up against demons. You don't know your authority in the spirit, like low level. How are you calling, I'm sorry, men? Oh, they're not going to like this. How are you called to be a spiritual leader, but you're still struggling with lust. You're still struggling with lust. You're still struggling with perversion. You're still struggling with self-control. How are you leading the family? That's all it takes for the enemy to get you. Sir, you need to go back to having a relationship with God. You need to go back to the drawing board and die to self before you talk about trying to lead a woman. Don't worry, my wife will get on women next week. But we talking about you.
WALTER:Right, lead a woman, don't worry, my wife will get on women next week, but we talking about you right now, man. But you got a million things that you telling me that this woman need to do and God has called you to do. You, men, and we got to get ready to stop. Stop weaponizing the word. Stop utilizing the word to try to get that woman to do what you want her to do. Stop utilizing the word to try to get that woman to do what you want her to do. Stop utilizing the word to try to convict her. That's not what it's there for, because if you're dealing, if you have a relationship with God and I can tell you from experience God's speaking to you first about the stuff you're doing wrong Just saying. Just saying where are we at? Where are we at? Oh, let's do this and we done okay.
WALTER:Malachi 2, 14 through 15. Because there's men out here who want to have multiple wives, hold on, okay, malachi 2, 14 through 15. Because there's men out here who want to have multiple wives, hold on. There's men out here who want to be married and also actually have something on the side.
SHANEA:Or not. I mean, let's be for real when you have sex, you are married.
WALTER:Yep, which is why you shouldn't be having sex.
SHANEA:You tied to somebody in this video. You got to break all that stuff off. That's another subject.
WALTER:So the beginning of verse 14, it says this Malachi 2, this NLT. It says you cry out why doesn't the Lord accept my worship? I'll tell you why. Because the Lord witnessed the vows you made, the vows you and your wife made when you were young, but you have been unfaithful to her, though she remained your faithful partner, the wife of your marriage vows. Didn't the Lord make you one with your wife? So, people, when it says didn't the Lord make you one with your wife, this doesn't mean that you married somebody you wanted to marry and it wasn't submitted to God. When this is touching on it, it's touching on the concept of you submitting your marriage to God, meaning that God brought you all together.
WALTER:But let's continue. In body and spirit, you are his. And what does he want? Godly children. This is what I was looking for, yes. What does he want? Godly children from your union? Yes. So guard your heart, remain loyal to the wife of your youth, for I hate divorce, says the Lord, the God of Israel. To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty, says the Lord of Heaven's armies. So guard your hearts, do not be unfaithful to your wife. People, what the Bible was saying is that there were those out there who were given offerings. They were worshiping God, but they didn't do right by their wife, so God wasn't hearing it.
WALTER:The Bible says that a man that finds a wife and this is NLT finds a treasure and obtain favor from the Lord. The reason that a lot of these men out here don't have favor first of all, you haven't your wife.
WALTER:That's first, and then, second of all, when you do find your wife, you mistreat her yeah so that negatively impacts the favor, because you're mistreating that treasure that god has given you yes so how a husband's relationship with his wife and we're talking about this, it says, your relationship with your wife and how you treat your wife will negatively impact your prayers and worship before God, yes, and whether it's something that is recognized by God.
SHANEA:This is in the Bible, this is scripture.
WALTER:So the way that you treat your wife directly impacts your spiritual life negatively or positively, and I think that's a good place to stop for this week. They're not going to like that. But to God be the glory.
SHANEA:To God be the glory, anything you want to add babe, Because I know we got on a man and they're going to feel that, but to god be the glory.
WALTER:God be the glory. Anything you want to add, babe, because I know we got on the men and they're gonna feel some type of way. Don't worry, we will deal with the women next week, but it starts with men and, um, ladies, if you got to send this to someone, send it to them please send it, hopefully, but also let this be known that the things that I've touched on, uh, ladies, this is what you have to think about when you're looking into marriage.
WALTER:When you have a man coming to you and saying, oh, god has called me to be with you and I am a man of God and I am a man of integrity, you have to take all of this and you have to line this up and say does this touch, does this line up with the word, does this line up with what God has called for everything to be?
SHANEA:But you have to know the word. This is a lineup with what?
WALTER:God has called for everything to be, but you have to know the word so that people can't use it against you, yep.
SHANEA:So that takes time. All of that takes time.
WALTER:So we will, because we could keep going but this would end up being like almost a hour and a half to two hour episodes. We're not going to do that. So we will pick up on the role of a wife next week. Also, we're going to touch on favor and blessings in a godly relationship. We're going to touch on the role of both parties in a healthy, godly relationship next week and go from there. We may touch on some other stuff next week as well, but anything you want to add, babe.
SHANEA:No, we, uh, but anything you want to add, babe. No, um, we hope you guys enjoyed this episode and, um, if it has blessed you, please bless others with it that you think that they should hear. Ask god to give you ears to hear and eyes to see what it is that he is saying and if you feel any type of conviction in this video.
WALTER:Don't get up in the comment section fussing and crying and all that stuff. Please stop, please.
SHANEA:We're not going to stop what we're doing.
WALTER:Please take it to God in prayer. We're not going to stop what we're doing.
SHANEA:Please take it to God in prayer.
WALTER:And it's out of love, it's really out of love.
SHANEA:Because we've been there. We have been there and it was challenging. God has corrected us and we want to extend grace to you so that you don't have to go through the things that we went through, exactly exactly because it is real so we appreciate you all this week.
WALTER:Um, like my wife said, if you like it, definitely comment. Uh, definitely subscribe and share, share your testimony, share how this has been a blessing to you. We're being obedient to God and putting this out there for you. Yes.
WALTER:And so we pray that this continues to be a blessing to you. And we appreciate you all and we do read through the comments and see, we read through your testimonies. We try to address any questions or concerns as much as possible. So, yeah, we definitely appreciate you all and we appreciate the community that God is allowing us to build through this. So I think that's everything until next week. We'll explore part two of this. You all be blessed. Bye, all right, bye.