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Homecoming: Repentance & Redeemed

• Stepping In Faith • Season 1 • Episode 22

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Have you ever given God some of your heart but held back the rest, especially relationships? The prodigal son gives us a profound blueprint for genuine repentance and restoration in our relationship with God and others. Walter and Shanea unpack this powerful parable, revealing how true transformation begins when we're broken enough to surrender everything.

Most of us approach God selectively—we give Him parts of our lives while keeping other areas firmly in our control. The prodigal son reached such desperation that he was willing to give up his identity as a son to become a servant in his father's house. This level of humility marks true repentance, where pride dies and we recognize that everything we have belongs to God in the first place.

Walter and Shanea challenge listeners to consider areas they've been withholding from God, particularly relationships and marriages. They address the difficult truth that many Christians remain in covenants formed outside God's will, believing they must stay despite abuse or mistreatment. "Submit your marriage to God for review," they emphasize, explaining that God doesn't necessarily honor covenants He didn't establish.

You’ll also discover the powerful parallel between the father’s sacrifice of the fattened calf and God’s sacrifice of Jesus for your redemption. Just like the prodigal was welcomed home and made “alive again,” this episode is an invitation to come back to the Father and experience spiritual rebirth


If you’ve been wrestling with surrender, questioning a relationship, or longing for a deeper connection with God, this episode is for you. Tune in, be challenged, and let’s take one more step together toward healing, clarity, and freedom. 

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Walter:

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:

Shania.

Walter:

This is episode 22.

Shanea:

Yes. I think so.

Walter:

We always. Well, first and foremost, we're at episode 22. Thank you for sticking around. Yes. And we appreciate everyone that has been following us and that has been a part of what God has called us to do, and we hope this has been a blessing to you all.

Shanea:

Yes, we thank you very much for you all.

Walter:

Yes, we thank you very much for we thank you very much for sticking around I know my husband has to try and remind me because I'm kind of soft-spoken yeah, so I try to remind her to speak up a little bit, but you got it. So, um, I prayed last week. We do like to start these episodes off with prayer, so my wife is going to lead us into prayer real quick before we get started this week.

Shanea:

All right.

Walter:

Okay.

Shanea:

Father God, we thank you for this day. We thank you for your love and your grace and your mercy, father God, that you've shown us. Father God, I ask that you will open up our listeners' ears and eyes to hear and see what it is that you are saying, what your heart is saying. Father God, that you will open up their eyes from religious spirits. Father God, that you will give them a heart. Father God, after your own heart, thank you, father God, for using us as vessels to speak your word, to speak your truth. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray Amen.

Walter:

Amen. So, Bae, what is the title of this week's episode?

Shanea:

This title is called Homecoming, Repentance and Redeemed.

Walter:

Repentance and Redeemed. Okay, so how did we come up with this?

Shanea:

It was given to you, was it? Yeah, I mean the title was given to me, me, but the I guess the parable of the prodigal son yeah yeah, and so the prodigal son.

Walter:

I, I think the thing I was struggling with and I was praying on. I'm like, okay, god, what does this have to do with relationships? And you know how does this tie into? Because we know the story of the prodigal son, we know the point that jesus was making when he um spoke about the prodigal son. But I'm like, okay, but what does this have to do with relationships? So that was a challenge and I guess we're going to dig in, because god gave me some revelations and God also gave you some Sure. What's wrong?

Shanea:

No, I'm just trying to look at this.

Walter:

Okay. So before we get started, let's do some housekeeping Housekeeping.

Walter:

Yes, not really housekeeping. But listen, everyone has been fussing about some of the stuff that we've been discussing about relationships, marriages, etc. I'm sorry this is offending y'all, but I'm not sorry. The reality is that we have so many people that has been in broken marriages and specifically it impact men, but it impact women on a major scale. Where women are in marriages where they're being abused, mistreated, cheated on and the church consistently tell them that it's God's will for them to stay in those marriages.

Walter:

Yeah, that is God's will for them to stay in those marriages, yeah, and they feel a false sense of conviction from the church not from God, but from the church and from the enemy and they remain in bondage for years, sometimes decades. There are those we have them grandmothers who stayed in marriages where they died, in marriages where they spent their entire life being mistreated and cheated on, and so many people are getting mad at us because we're saying that's not God. It's not God, it's very demonic. Yes, and to have someone think that they're stuck in a marriage, a covenant that they created Right, or even sometimes their pastors or their parents encouraged them to get into outside of God is wrong.

Walter:

Yeah. And we're going to continue to tell them it's wrong. And we're going to dig into that tonight, when you're supposed to submit everything to God, but we will continue to tell people that they don't have to remain in bondage.

Shanea:

Right. The blood breaks all covenants that are outside of God's will.

Walter:

Yes.

Shanea:

And that includes marriage. It's not just any other covenants you've made. Exactly it's like when it comes to marriage. That's like off limits, that's end, all be all Once you get married. That's it, because God hates divorce.

Walter:

Yes, and it's not the case yeah so we really have to um, just understand that. That's just the reality of what it is, whether you like it or not right.

Shanea:

If you made a decision outside of god, he he doesn't have to honor it. No, he's not going to honor it because it's not in his will yeah, so that's and you can stay in that marriage, but you will probably go through hell and people tell you to stay in that marriage and go through hell and pray it through, exactly. But you we're saying that you don't have to go through hell, that you should go and submit your relationship to god first because you made the covenant, not god yeah sometimes we do have situations where, unknowingly, we'll fall into a covenant before we're supposed to.

Walter:

That was God ordained, but it just wasn't the right time.

Walter:

That's a difference, which is why we consistently tell people to submit it all to God. Yet, if you are in a marriage and it's so dangerous because we have people, we have even something that's going viral, which is very dangerous, where women think that it is okay to remain in marriages and that God has graced them to go through hell, and God has not graced you all to go through hell from this sense, we have to stop making women feel as if it is their duty and their responsibility to pray men who are morally corrupt through their moral corruption.

Shanea:

Right, or you have this culture that teaches you that you have to be a ride or die.

Walter:

Yes, it's not biblical, the Bible.

Walter:

Lets us know if you can commit adultery you already have a way of getting out of that marriage off the rip. You're not committed to staying in that marriage just because they committed adultery. But I think we have to take it a step further and understand that anything outside of God, anything outside of something that God has brought together, is not of God. It does not fall into the confinements of divorce. Matter of fact, one of the most controversial things that we would say and people may not like and we'll move on is that I won't say that to them. They're not ready for it. Okay.

Walter:

I'll leave that alone. All right, they really will be in the uproar. Okay. If they found out the marriages that they're in? Yeah, we'll leave that alone.

Shanea:

Yeah, we have to take that to God.

Walter:

Yes.

Shanea:

But that's where you know, paul's wisdom comes in. Paul's wisdom comes in.

Walter:

And people don't understand. The interesting thing is they use 1 Corinthians 7 so much.

Shanea:

So much, but they forget all the other scriptures, one of the most powerful things we see in 1 Corinthians 7.

Walter:

So much, so much, but they forget all the other scriptures, one of the most powerful things we see in 1 Corinthians 7, right. Which is so controversial is Paul was so full of the spirit of God that he understood how to separate between the two and say this is me, paul, speaking and not God, and then say this is a command from the Lord. This isn't a command from the Lord. This isn't a command from the Lord. This is Paul giving you wisdom based on what I understand things to be, because you're already in sin.

Shanea:

Exactly Because you're already outside of God's will. So these are my thoughts.

Walter:

Based on you being outside of God's will Exactly. Yet the scripture that people forget, that Paul stated towards the end of that, is it would be my desire for you all to remain single, and that's a train, yeah, so.

Shanea:

We'll just keep talking.

Walter:

Yeah, you may hear a train in the background. I don't know, it's whatever, but Paul stated that it was his desire for them to remain single, and so they don't think about that part, so, but we're going to leave it alone and we got to keep going. We go back to Paul, but let's start with. Jesus said Right. In Matthew 19. But this is a completely different topic. We're going to get into the prodigal son and true repentance, because we got off into a tangent.

Shanea:

You said you want to do some cleanup. Yeah, it's it into a tangent.

Walter:

You said you want to do some cleanup. Yeah, it's just letting people know. So where do we begin with this babe?

Shanea:

Where do we begin with this? I guess we can start off at Luke 15.

Walter:

Chapter 15, verse 11.

Shanea:

So if you guys have your Bible, if not, we will read it for you.

Walter:

This is NLT Trying to keep an eye on time.

Shanea:

Do you?

Walter:

want me to read it. Do you want to?

Shanea:

read it If you got it.

Walter:

Okay, okay. So verse 11, and we would say read the entire chapter so you can have an understanding of what Jesus was referring to. But verse 11, to illustrate the point further. Jesus told them this story. A man had two sons. The younger son told his father I want my share of your estate now, before you die. So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons. So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.

Walter:

A few days later, this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living. About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land and he began to starve. He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and a man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him, but no one gave him anything. When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself At home, even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger. I will go home to my father and say Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you and I am no longer worthy of being called your son, please take me on as a hired servant. So he returned home to his father and while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him. His son said to him Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. But his father said to the servants Quick, bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him, get a ring for his fingers and sandals for his feet and kill the calf we have been fattening. We must celebrate with a feast, for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found.

Walter:

So the party began. Meanwhile, the oldest son was in the fields working. When he returned home, he heard music and dancing in the house and he asked one of the servants what was going on. Your brother is back, he was told, and your father has killed a fattened calf. We are celebrating because of his safe return. The older brother was angry and wouldn't go in. His father came out and begged him, but he replied All these years I've slaved for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends. Yet when this son of yours come back, after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf. His father said to him look, dear son, you have always stayed by me and everything I have is yours. We have to celebrate this happy day, for your brother was dead and has come back to life. He was lost, but now he is found. That was a lot we just read. Yeah.

Walter:

So where do we go from here, babe With the parable of the prodigal son.

Shanea:

You want me to take the lead today? Sure, but this was given to you, babe.

Walter:

It was, but we gone. Okay, we'll go with it, it's okay. So well, the focus of this entire podcast, or this episode, is basically highlighting the journey of the prodigal son as a blueprint for repentance. Right, so we can start here. True repentance begins with surrender.

Shanea:

So that first point, babe, do you want to dig into that? Well, I think from the very beginning you could see from the parable, just in general, that the son was a son of a man who was wealthy and he inherited his riches, yeah, and he decided that he wanted to do what he wanted to do with that inheritance and go off.

Walter:

He wanted his will to be his own will.

Shanea:

Right, he wanted to do what he wanted to do and many times it's just a parable of us, parable of the lost son, which is a parable reflecting the lost sheep, and the father is actually God, the father and the prodigal son is us it's really a reflection, like you said, and that's good that the desire to take whatever we have that God has gifted us with and use it for our own glory, use it

Walter:

to satisfy our own flesh, our own fleshly desires, versus remaining in what it is that God has called us to remain, and doing the will of the Father, the Father being the Father to the Son. And so that's really an interesting approach, because even within relationships right, it's the same thing. We have the will of God where he's willed for us to be with a particular person, and then we have our own desire. Right, so we will go and we will give something sacred. Right, we will give something sacred to someone based on who we want to give it. To get caught up in some mess.

Walter:

And the unfortunate thing is, unlike the prodigal son, we stay in the mess.

Walter:

Right. We keep digging deeper into the mess. That is completely outside of God's will. Let's switch this out to where there, even in those moments and times for both women and men when you're being mistreated, you're being misused, you're being abused, you're being neglected, and you know that how you're being treated, this is not how you're supposed to be treated, yet you dig in deeper into the mess Even though you know deep inside, something is telling you this is not right, this is not normal, this is not how life should be.

Shanea:

Right, but that's because you have accepted Jesus Christ right, and so now you have the Holy Spirit living in you, and so when we talk about being adopted, being God's children, our spirit is now one with his spirit. So now we have Romans 8, 15 through 17 that says so. You have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him Abba, father, for his spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God's children, and since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ, we are heirs of God's glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering. So we have, god has adopted us as children, and so we do have his spirit intertwined with our spirit. And that's that intuition, that knowing I shouldn't do this. But then you have your flesh, which is the world saying I'm gonna do it anyway, which is what the prodigal son did being driven by your soul.

Walter:

Yes, it's really your flesh being driven by, or you allowing your soul to drive your life, instead of it being this spirit that drives your soul which drives your life. A lot of us are so soulishly driven. We're stuck in our soul. And then that's another thing. A lot of times, unfortunately, as Christians, even as quote unquote believers, I would say we're very soulish. Or, you know, you would say carnal.

Shanea:

Right, because we were born into sin.

Walter:

And our mind has not been renewed. Paul touched on I think that is. Is it Romans? What chapter is that? Is that Romans one? I just when he talked to him, it's not Romans one. He talked about being carnal having milk.

Shanea:

Oh, I'm not sure which scripture that is.

Walter:

I just read it earlier this week. Okay, it's actually, it's 1 Corinthians 3 and 2.

Shanea:

Okay.

Walter:

That Paul touched on, that. He talked about how he compared it to you still being driven by your flesh. And. I want to get there 1 Corinthians, and then we'll move on.

Walter:

Okay 1 Corinthians 3, chapter 2, nlt. Paul said let's see, and we'll start with verse 1. Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you, I couldn't talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you were, you belong to this world, or as though you were infants in Christ. I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren't ready for anything stronger. And you still aren't ready, for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn't that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren't you living like people of the world? This is verse one through verse three. First Corinthians, chapter three. First Corinthians, chapter three, paul. Paul compared spiritual immaturity to you, being sinful, yeah, and still being moved by your flesh.

Shanea:

That's because and this goes into, I think, the next, and I'm going off- my notes that I had previously. So we just going to go with the flow. So the reason why that is and I'm going to come back to this whole sacrifice thing- Don't leave me in the trenches, because I don't know where you at. I'm not going to leave you in the trenches, but so. So in this we're supposed to be talking about basically the restoration, because we're we're God's children.

Walter:

Did we get past point two? True repentance begins with surrender, or are you skipping around?

Shanea:

We skipped that because we were already talking about the child of God. Okay, we just, we just just gonna go with the flow okay, and you're aware I am.

Walter:

I'm still in three okay, all right, go ahead then okay, I'm still, I'm still in three. Are you yeah, okay.

Shanea:

Yeah, we are born dead because of sin.

Walter:

Okay, and Christ? Well, let's. So we're going to come back to true. Repentance begins with surrender right, Because I think that's so important.

Shanea:

I think it's really important, but I think we should start at the beginning.

Walter:

Okay, okay, go ahead then.

Shanea:

Mm-hmm, okay, okay, go ahead. So when we're, we're driven by our soul, right, because when sin entered the world, when adam was created, you have your, you have your spirit, right, and you have your, your soul. And then you have your physical body, right, and so when they ate of the fruit, their spirit was disconnected from their soul, because what was binding the two together was God, god's spirit. So you have your soul and you have your spirit, and you have God's spirit, which is making you all one. So your spirit is leading, basically your soul, it's dictating what your soul takes in or does. Yeah.

Shanea:

So after the fall of man, you're what? Spiritually dead, yeah Right. Or spiritually unalived.

Walter:

Like, your spirit is still there, but you're not you're not connected. You're not connected to the spirit. And yeah, spiritually you are essentially dead because you can't see in the spirit.

Shanea:

No, and god is what spirit? He's a spirit, and so you're not connected. You're not connected to god, and so now all you have is your soul. Yeah, you're not connected to God. And so now all you have is your soul, yeah, which is driven by the enemy.

Walter:

Yeah, which is because I was thinking about from the I was thinking also about from like the dark realm. But once again, they have to start doing something. I'm working through it in my head. They have to start doing something to get their spirit back to seeing something.

Shanea:

Right, but that start, but that's through your soul and that's through demonic forces, because now you're connected to Satan, which is the enemy, but you're not connected to God.

Walter:

And we're not encouraging that. I'm just working through it in my mind.

Shanea:

But is what I'm saying making sense? Yeah, yeah, okay go ahead.

Walter:

I was trying to process through it, but okay.

Shanea:

I know it can be a little deep and if I could draw a picture, I'd draw a picture. No it's fine, okay, but that's why we're driven by our flesh, is because we're being moved by our soul, because our spirit isn't connected to God's spirit. That's why we have to be made alive again. We have to be born again.

Walter:

Yeah, we have to so and we're trying to figure out what to say, but I guess say we have to die to self. Yeah.

Walter:

And go through a rebirth process. Yet I think we touched on this in a different episode, just to kind of add to it and hopefully it even further simplifies it. Maybe not, but when Adam and Eve sinned, like you said, it disconnected them from the spirit, where they was driven by the spirit who was connected to the spirit of God, and it connected them to the soul, and now they were now driven by the soul.

Shanea:

It was a disconnect, which is what you're saying.

Walter:

Yeah, and the soul is really centered around the wisdom of this world.

Shanea:

Right.

Walter:

Is what drives it.

Shanea:

Right, and so now you're reconnected back to God, right, your spirit, man, and God's spirit is now connected back together. You have a conscious there, but now your conscious is so full of sin that you have to renew your mind, because now your soul is more dominant than your spirit. Okay, and you have to build your spirit up so that your spirit is the one that's leading you instead of your soul, because you're used to your soul leading you. That's why you have to die to self, and your soul is your will, your mind, your emotions, all those things which is your flesh, which you have to die to. Yeah, Okay.

Walter:

That makes sense. I'm looking through the notes.

Shanea:

Okay.

Walter:

And everyone will. Really, there's a million things, because I'm trying to be mindful of time too, so we try to keep this down to an hour and we have so much information consistently that we're wanting to get through to to you all. So where would we go from there, babe?

Shanea:

so, um, from here I think I I have down Ephesians 2, 1, 5, but we don't have to read it and we could just make note. And I believe that's just talking about being born again.

Walter:

Ephesians 2, 1, 5. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I mean, if you want to read it real quick, you can.

Shanea:

No, we don't have to. We'll just make note Ephesians 2, 1 and 5, and then John 3, 3 through 7. Okay.

Walter:

And this is things that you all can read. We're trying to be mindful of your time and not keep you here long. So what is the?

Shanea:

relevant, the relevant, the relevancy of this. All is like in the garden. So the son, the prodigal son, he had an inheritance, just like Adam and Eve, right.

Shanea:

And he left it, and he found out shortly that he could do what he had an inheritance, just like Adam and Eve right, and he left it, and he found out shortly that he could do what he wanted to do, but it didn't mean that that's what he should have done. And so, like many of us today, just because we can do something doesn't mean that we should. Just because Adam and Eve could eat from the tree they shouldn't have.

Walter:

Yes, and I think with us, we get caught up in the situation of just saying that we can, so we're going to do it. We get mad when people tell us that you can do that, but God is not going to bless that Exactly, and that's where the disconnect comes.

Walter:

Exactly it's like, yes, I know there's free will and, yes, I know that I should do what God wants me to do, but in this particular area, I want to do what I want to do. And then, if you dig further into it, we don't want to accept the a situation where you are dealing with the consequences ie curses et cetera, that's associated with your disobedience Right, because there were consequences to what Adam and Eve did.

Shanea:

Oh yeah, absolutely, because God's ultimate design was for them to be fruitful and multiply in his image. But instead of multiplying in his image, they multiplied in the enemy's image, because Adam didn't have the spirit of God.

Walter:

Yet the beauty of that and maybe I'm jumping ahead with the prodigal son and the point that Jesus was making is now the son of God has come to redeem you, right, if you choose. Exactly To turn away like the prodigal son did. Yet I think we'll dig into more. There are things that the prodigal son did which showcased what true repentance looks like.

Shanea:

Right, so Right, but Jesus is the ultimate sacrifice, and that's why I wanted to go back to that. And we can talk about it now or we can go back to it later.

Walter:

Which part.

Shanea:

It's actually the first part.

Walter:

So true repentance requires a willingness to surrender everything, and that's what I was talking about the prodigal son and this was something that stood out to me as I was taking notes. The prodigal son was willing to let go of his birthright, accepting the position of a servant out of humility. And that was so deep because the prodigal son was royalty. Yet there was this idea of like okay, listen, I'm willing to forego all of that just to be in my father's house, because I know, even as a servant, I will be treated better.

Shanea:

Right, I'm out here eating and looking at the pigs and I'm starving and they're eating better than I am.

Walter:

Yes, they have food to eat. I have nothing.

Walter:

He's like even the servants in my father's house is treated better than this. So even if I have to go back and work as a servant, so there was a recognizing and you may dig into this deeper but there was. First, he recognized that he was wrong. Right, he recognized that he was wrong. There was a moment of waking up and saying, okay, I'm wrong in what I did. Let me go home and seek forgiveness for my father. Yeah, so that digs back into. For a lot of times people have that moment where they wake up and say, whatever it may be, this is wrong. I should not be dealing with this Right and at the worst of whatever it may be, if I just go back to my father's house, the worst still isn't like this.

Shanea:

Yeah, even at the worst. Yeah, but what gets us is the enemy places. Shame on us, because we've already made a decision. No different than people in a church saying, oh you can't, you know, get out of that marriage, or you can't do this, or you gotta go, or you're already in an abusive relationship and you're like, oh well, I chose this, so I now I gotta stay here, otherwise people gonna think that I'm crazy, because I should have left in the first place and I got to prove them wrong. So then you got pride there.

Walter:

But it's like it's something in the prodigal son and what he did, the parable. Oh he's humble, that's it. He's humble, it's humility, it's such a great level of humility that he came to.

Shanea:

You have to humbly come before the Lord.

Walter:

Yeah and repent. It's like, almost like a sense of brokenness.

Shanea:

Yes, you have to be brokenhearted.

Walter:

Because what happened actually when we read, if I'm not mistaken and I don't like misquoting scripture, so we're going to go back to Luke Because, if I'm not mistaken, he thought about for a moment eating what the pigs were eating yes, and he was like for a moment, eating what the pigs were eating? Yes, and he was like, no, I'm not doing this.

Shanea:

And so yeah, verse 16.

Walter:

Yeah, the young man became so hungry that he that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. So it was this moment, like he even like it's such a level of brokenness to get to a point of saying like I'm even thinking about this and no, I can't do this, and so I think that was really important.

Shanea:

You had to get to the point where you're just like I don't care anymore. No, I know there has to be something better.

Walter:

I gotta be free from this. I gotta be free. I gotta be free from this.

Shanea:

I don't care what nobody thinks. I don't care what nobody says, because my father in heaven is going to forgive me.

Walter:

So, as you stated, then pride is replaced by humility during genuine repentance. You know that you're moving towards that place of repentance where there's no more pride. Pride dies yeah, your pride dies. Brokenness brings forth a debt. It brings forth humility. And where do we go from here? Because if we going I'm trying to be mindful we got about 30 more minutes or so. Okay 35 more minutes. Where do you want to go from there?

Shanea:

Oh, I guess we can just keep going, because we can just keep going to where, we can just keep going to where where do you want to go?

Walter:

I see what you're doing.

Shanea:

Because you kind of backed up a little bit.

Walter:

I think that was. It was just so important to get that in.

Shanea:

I think everything that we're saying is important, it's just trying to fit everything in in a timely manner so that you guys aren't just sitting here, because this could be like two hours. Oh, absolutely.

Walter:

So our inheritance? Let's see where would we go, our inheritance as children of God, we have free will, misuse and consequences. Can we dig into free will, misuses, misuse and consequences? I think that's really good, because that's a touchy subject that a lot of people struggle with.

Shanea:

Yeah, yeah. So, like I said before, like just because we're able to do something which we have free will. Adam and Eve had free will and they chose to to do something and now they have to deal with the consequences of their actions. And a lot of times we put God in this box like he's not a father. If my child does something and I told them not to do it and they do it anyway because obviously they can't, I can't force their hand to stop them to do it.

Walter:

They're still going to get in trouble. Yeah, yeah, and I like something that you put here, and this is first Corinthians four and seven, and you can read that if you want to go there real quick. But what you have here is the son wasted his father's money, just as we sometimes misuse God's gift and resources for getting, and this is yeah, yeah, yeah.

Shanea:

I have here like I mean, like, how silly is it that the son took his father's money to use it for his own purposes, when the money wasn't his to begin with?

Walter:

It belonged to the father.

Shanea:

Exactly. So why not listen to the father on how to use the money, so that you would be just as abundant as your father?

Walter:

And the scripture that we have here for those who struggle with this is 1 Corinthians 4 and 7. And it says for what gives you the right to make such a judgment? What do you have that God hasn't given you? And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though there were not a gift? It belongs to God.

Shanea:

It belongs to God.

Walter:

It all belongs to God, so you're to submit everything back to God, your entire life. You're to submit that back to God?

Shanea:

Yeah, we choose what to do with God's gifts and his resources, like it belongs to us. And we never consult him on it, on how to use the gifts or spend his resources.

Walter:

And this is key. You said we defile what God has given us, but repentance is the way back into right relationship with the Father and sometimes we try to get back into right relationship with the Father without true repentance.

Shanea:

Absolutely.

Walter:

And we saw what true repentance looks like in the beginning when we were talking about that. But repentance is what's best. Even with the gift you may have the gift you may have all of these things, yet the way to get back into right standing is repentance. Oh absolutely, and you have here Luke 15, 13, Acts 3, 19.

Shanea:

Yeah, I'm looking up Acts 3, 19, which says and now repent of your sins and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped away. Then times of refreshment will come from the presence of the lord and he will again send you jesus, your appointed messiah so, and let's see repentance.

Walter:

We talked about what repentance looks like, and I think we're going to dig into this as well, but repentance is totally turning away from the behavior that you was doing before.

Shanea:

Oh, absolutely, it's a complete turn around. So, like even the prodigal son, he chose to live the life that he wanted to live and he knew he and that's the other key is like you have to take responsibility for making decisions outside of God. You did this, you chose that job. You chose that spouse. You chose that career. This, you chose that job. You chose that spouse. You chose that career path.

Walter:

You chose that house. You chose that house. You chose that car, you chose it all.

Shanea:

You chose that church. You chose everything. So you can't be mad that your car breaking down and your house got demons and stuff is throwing and going on everywhere. Your relationship is trash your friendships are trash.

Walter:

You have to get to a point, to where you're like God. I did this.

Shanea:

Yes.

Walter:

And I think even we got to that point. Oh, absolutely. I did this and help me.

Shanea:

Yes.

Walter:

Please like, just help me.

Shanea:

Whatever that looks like, you can't blame anyone else.

Walter:

No.

Shanea:

You made these decisions Now. Your decisions might've been influenced else?

Walter:

No, you made these decisions. Now, your decisions might've been influenced, and is it a situation and what we're saying to the ladies and men? But I know, unfortunately, men, we just got to keep it a hundred a buck fifty. It happens more to women. So we're not saying, when we say this, that you're not right in the fact of saying that you're being treated wrong. Okay, what we're saying is just really accepting the fact that you made that decision.

Shanea:

Yes.

Walter:

And sometimes we look for others to help us get out of something that only God can get us out of. Oh, absolutely. And so it's not necessarily looking both men and women. You can't look for someone else to answer this question for you because they can't answer that question.

Shanea:

Or you can't look for someone to validate you staying or leaving. That's god you made the decision, so you now you have to go submit that decision to god first.

Walter:

There's nothing wrong with counsel or anything like that, but you made a decision so you got to make the final decision based on the counsel, final counsel or the most important counsel you can get, which is from God, which is why the other podcast episodes are good, where we touched on how to hear the voice of God, because when you're standing on judgment day, it's just you.

Shanea:

It's not you and who counseled you Exactly. It's just you.

Walter:

Exactly. So I'm looking at time, but we're going to move. We, where were we? We touched on that. Yeah, free will misuse consequences and let's see, we touched on that, let's dig into repentance restores what was lost. So that first point we have here right, and this is what I think was really so important when I read the parable the son recognized his sin, confessed and was restored. He regained access to what he had all along.

Shanea:

Right, which was his inheritance.

Walter:

But he didn't even care about the inheritance because he came back and he said listen, can I just be a servant?

Shanea:

I just want to be in your presence.

Walter:

He forwent his sonship.

Shanea:

And that is key. So when you're coming to God, you're not going to him to get anything from him. You just want to be in his house. You just want to be in his presence.

Walter:

And that's with everything, everyone, because unfortunately and we touched on this, I think, in the previous episode everything is transactional. You can't go to God transactional. You have to go to God and say God, I just want you.

Shanea:

That's why you seek him first.

Walter:

Seek ye first, the kingdom of God and all his righteousness and all of these things shall be added Matthew 6, 33. So when we're seeking him, we're not seeking him saying give me, give me, give me, give me. We're seeking him, we're not seeking him saying give me, give me, give me, give me. We're seeking him by saying God, I just desire to be close to you.

Walter:

Exactly Even when you look at Samuel, we read the scripture when he was in the temple. I think that's 1 Samuel, chapter 3. I believe, if I'm not mistaken, when he was in the temple. Don't quote me. I believe it was 1 Samuel, chapter 3 or chapter 2. He was in the temple just doing his due diligence. Yeah, he wasn't seeking anything from the Lord. Right. And him just being in close proximity. It was like, okay, let me speak to you.

Shanea:

This is so good. This is so good Because the prodigal son just recognized I was wrong. Let me go and repent to my father, and I just want to be in his house because all he hears is trash.

Walter:

So, even if I'm here as a servant, I will forego my sonship just to be back in the house with my father and I will serve him Exactly, giving up everything I had before Exactly.

Shanea:

And what did his father do? Restored him. He restored him, but it was because of where his heart was, absolutely.

Walter:

It was his heart. He came from a broken place.

Shanea:

Yeah.

Walter:

And so you touched on this. That second point the brother misunderstood, not realizing he already had access to everything.

Shanea:

Yes, yes.

Walter:

He became jealous.

Shanea:

The brother was upset, but he didn't recognize what he had.

Walter:

No different than the brother who didn't recognize what he had and he left yeah just having an understanding of what's already there, and then I think the thing that was so key to me and it ended up saying that he was brought back to life. His son was brought back to life yeah, so this, this is.

Shanea:

This was the revelation that I got after when I was reading this. Um, um, the, the brother, was so upset that the father slaughtered the fattest cow for a sacrifice for the son coming back home and. And what does it say, babe, in the scripture? I have to pull it back up.

Walter:

You're talking about.

Shanea:

Luke. Luke 15, 31. Because I'm in Acts, I'm sorry.

Walter:

I'm in Corinthians. Luke 15, 31 says that his father said to him Look, dear son, you have always stayed with me and everything I have is yours. We had to celebrate this happy day, for your brother was dead and has come back to life. He was lost, but now he is found.

Shanea:

Exactly so. That was key for me, because the revelation I received was Jesus dying on the cross. So we have already received our inheritance from the Lord, from God, and we are now his children. But so how can I put this? Until we are born again in Jesus Christ, we are dead. Yes, we are dead to the world. We are born sinners. But until we um give our lives to christ, reunite ourselves back with the father, we are spiritually dead, just like the prodigal son. But then, when we give our life to christ, we're renewed, we're restored, we we're alive. We're made alive through the blood of Jesus Christ, which was the ultimate sacrifice. The father sacrificed their fattest cow. So in comparison to God, god's sacrifice is only begotten son.

Walter:

For us, yeah, john, 3, 16.

Shanea:

So that we can be restored to life Right. That's the revelation I received for us, so that we can be restored to life Right. That's the revelation I received and I was like dang, that's so key. He's literally saying God sacrificed. God made the ultimate sacrifice for us to live and to be free so that we won't be lost anymore. Yeah.

Walter:

Through Jesus Christ. They got so much going on tonight but go ahead.

Shanea:

I know you hate those trains. Trains, planes, Cars planes we live by. Oh, I can't say where we live by. No, we don't even say where we stay by and we'll leave that alone.

Walter:

But yeah, and I think that digs into now repentance in relationship and marriage. Often we think making God the center of our relationship is enough was something that was coming to me as I was writing everything down. It's like we seriously think that making God the center of our relationship is enough.

Walter:

Like we seriously think that making God the center of our relationship is enough, when, in fact, true surrender means giving the entire relationship over to God, not just making him a part of it. So this includes allowing God to reveal whether our covenant marriage or relationship was established by him or not. And that's the challenge. Yeah, that's the challenge that becomes hard for us to do. Yeah, because the church will tell you that, now that you are saved, your marriage is okay because you got it right by just getting married.

Shanea:

The church teaches us to get married. No, the church teaches us, excuse me, to move off of our soul instead of our spirit. But they don't teach you how to connect yourself really back to the spirit, living in the spirit, knowing God's spirit.

Walter:

So once again, it's wrong. Two Christians coming together and getting married is not enough. That doesn't mean that the marriage was ordained by God. I have sisters in the faith that are Christians. If I would have married them, I would have been outside of the will of God, because God has called for me to be with Shania. Vice versa Shania has brothers in the faith. If you would have married them, she would have been outside of the will of God. If the church would tell you that, you being a Christian and her being a Christian, and as long as I fit into whatever it is you want to be with, and vice versa, it's good, but that is fleshly based and that is transactional. It's soulish, that is soulish and transactional. So we are in error because we teach people to be moved by our own feelings and our own flesh, instead of being led by the spirit of.

Walter:

God, and we are called to submit all of that to him.

Shanea:

And we're not supposed to be moved by our feelings or emotions. No, so for everyone saying, oh, I have to feel this and I have to feel that. No, that's your soul speaking, that's your flesh speaking.

Walter:

That's not based on how you feel.

Shanea:

It's not based on the heart.

Walter:

Jesus didn't feel like dying on the cross. No, we saw that in the garden of gethsemane. Yes, he did not we touched on this in the previous episode. Yeah, the bible says that his soul was to the on the brink of. He was in so much sorrow that he was on it was to the brink of uh death, and so it's so serious where he was at because he knew he was going to have to carry the sins of the world.

Shanea:

Yeah, that's why we have to pick up our cross every day and carry it. So, Meaning dying to self.

Walter:

So now digging further in, many dedicate their lives, and this was something that was coming to me. Many dedicate their lives to God, but withhold certain areas, so we talked about this before. That looks like, okay, god, I'll give you this part of me, but I'm going to keep this other part of me, and for many, you know the things that we struggle with giving to God our career, our marriage relationship, where we're going to live, our home, what type of car we're going to drive, our vehicles, so anything that's related to finances and relationship we struggle with giving to God.

Shanea:

Oh, absolutely.

Walter:

I'll even give you the 10%, I'll give you the special offerings here and there, because the pastor told me when I give that to you I'm going to be blessed. So even me giving that to you, it's not because I'm surrendering it to you, it's because I want something from you.

Shanea:

Right, Because the pastor said if I get this, then I'm going to be blessed by God. Exactly Because I gave this amount of money.

Walter:

Transactional.

Shanea:

When that's not the case.

Walter:

No, it's never. It's about your heart, it's about your heart, and so, with that being the case, when we dig into true repentance we said this before before it means allowing every part of our lives, including relationships and covenants made outside of god, to be surrendered and reviewed by him yes that's the challenge.

Walter:

People don't want to do it, yeah, I mean, and I don't, I don't. I can't necessarily say it's always the people, it's culture, right, it's the culture of church. You're taught that your covenants is fine. You're taught that the covenant of marriage is okay, that when you're in this marriage you're stuck to this marriage.

Shanea:

You're taught, just because it looks good means that it must be good and it must be from God. God wouldn't tell you to turn that job down. God wouldn't tell you to not get that, to not be in that relationship. God wouldn't tell you that. And it's like how do you know?

Walter:

You save now. So since you save, you know. Paul said that you could sanctify your spouse, but the Bible tells us that we're to work out our own salvation. My wife is not going to be standing there with me when I have to stand before the lord I'm not going to be.

Shanea:

The bible says jesus said he is coming and one's going to be in the bed and he's going to take another one.

Walter:

He's going to take the other I'm so sorry that people think that you can sanctify your wife or your husband.

Shanea:

You cannot so, like you can, sanctifying meaning, like because you're blessed and saved and highly favored.

Walter:

They receive the favor.

Shanea:

They receive your favor, they receive your inheritance because they're in close proximity to you.

Walter:

But you cannot save them.

Shanea:

But you can't save them.

Walter:

Your life. God can use your life if he chooses, but it's God that does the saving.

Shanea:

Yeah, but and we were just talking about this earlier it's like even you praying for your spouse, you have to ask God. God, do you want me to pray for them? Do you want me to pray for their salvation? They're not going to like that, I don't. I mean it is, it's true.

Walter:

They're not going to like that, okay.

Shanea:

But, but continue, no, continue.

Walter:

I'm just letting you know, okay, okay, so you already opened it up.

Shanea:

I done opened the box already. You already opened it up. So what I'm saying is it's not wrong for you to pray for other people. However, you don't know what demons they're battling. You don't know what you're actually fighting. If your spiritual eyes aren't open, if you're not being led by the Holy Spirit on what to pray for, who to pray for, you have no idea what you're fighting.

Walter:

I'm going to say this just to not leave my wife out there by herself. I was about to pray for a friend of mine. He was dealing with some stuff and I'm like I'm heavy in, I'm like you know what, I'm going to pray for him. And I begin to pray for him and midway through I heard God telling me did I tell you to pray for him? And I'm like no. He's like did you ask me? I'm like no.

Speaker 3:

He's like did you ask me? I'm like no, he's like then you need to stop praying.

Walter:

You don't need to pray for him because you're not his God. You pray for who I tell you to pray for?

Shanea:

Right, because our bodies are not our own. So, mind you, we have our soul, we have our spirit and we have our body, our physical bodies. We feel like we could do stuff because we have a physical body, right, but our spirits are not ours. We have to submit that back to God, and it's in the Bible I don't remember what scripture is.

Walter:

I think even when we look at Jesus right, we miss that. Jesus consistently told us. He told us a few times when you see me, you see the Father. When you see me going doing whatever I'm doing, I'm doing the will of the father. I go where the father sent me. I say what the father tells me to say, Exactly. Then Jesus becomes our example, Exactly. So if Jesus is the ultimate example, right then we have to do the same.

Shanea:

Right, we have to submit even our prayers to God.

Walter:

We submit it to God. I pray for who God tells me to pray for. Right. I'm sorry, that's just scripture. You may not like it, but that's the scripture.

Shanea:

Right, even with Judas. God Jesus said I saved those who you told me to Except the one. Except the one that was meant for destruction. Yeah.

Walter:

But this will literally mess with people's religion. But this is scripture.

Shanea:

This is Bible. Well, we're not religious.

Walter:

Yeah, unfortunately, because we talk about different people in the Bible. Please everyone, I'm sorry Outside of Christ. Christ is our ultimate example. I respect every single prophet in the Bible, but they're not Jesus. So I look at them from the perspective of studying the encounter they had with God. But when I look at the example of who I am supposed to be like, who I am supposed to strive to, who become my go-to guide, it's Christ.

Shanea:

And you guys test this by the spirit. Everything we're saying. You can totally find this in scripture. I just don't have all the scriptures here because I I read my bible but I don't yeah, but let's, let's go um, let's continue.

Walter:

Sorry, no you're fine, I went off a little bit so a willingness to homecoming, a willingness to die to self right. Um, returning home to god requires openness to severing ties and letting go of everything outside of god's will, and that's really hard. That's really hard. We talked about friends, family relationships, jobs, career. Are you willing to put all of that up on the chopping board, the chopping block, and get rid of it if God says so?

Shanea:

yeah, that's true, discipleship.

Walter:

Jesus told the rich, young ruler, and I think I don't know. We have the scripture in here and he told all his disciples yeah, he specifically told he spoke to the rich young ruler and he struggled with it because he talked about how he kept the commandments and Jesus looked at him and he was like it touched his heart.

Shanea:

Jesus loved him so much.

Walter:

Yes, and it said the scripture lets us know jesus looked at him and said okay, well, one thing you still haven't done I need you to sell everything that you own give it to the poor and come follow me. The rich young ruler couldn't do it yeah, and you know what's crazy?

Shanea:

it's everything that you own. I didn't give this to you I. I didn't give you that job.

Walter:

You did it.

Shanea:

I didn't give you that money in your bank account. I didn't give you that spouse. I didn't give you that car. Give it away.

Walter:

Follow me.

Shanea:

And follow me, so I can give you what you're supposed to have.

Walter:

And people please, because y'all going to get in y'all feelings. We're not saying that because you became a believer, you now have to get a divorce. No. We're saying that you submit your marriage to God. I don't know how many times we can say this Submit your marriage to God for review.

Shanea:

Submit everything.

Walter:

Ladies and gentlemen, this is not something that you can utilize my brothers and my sisters to get out of like a get out of jail free card. Yeah, oh, I don't like him, I don't like her. Sir, that may be what God has called you to be, ma'am. That may be where God has called you to be.

Shanea:

But you have to renew your mind so that you can see this person just as God sees them.

Walter:

Exactly, exactly. And so we have James 4 and 8, and I'll put this in here Come close to God and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world, and so what we see in the prodigal son and the reason this was put in here is we saw that it's an example between God and us, right, and that God is waiting for us to come home and is always ready to draw near when we do. It was on a prodigal son.

Shanea:

We see that with a prodigal son.

Walter:

As soon as he came home, his dad was there with his arms open. And so change heart. True repentance equals change heart. Joe 2, 12 through 13. You want to read that real quick, or do we want to?

Shanea:

Where are we at, babe? I'm sorry 10. Okay, joel, real quick, or do we want to uh where we at? Babe, I'm sorry uh 10 okay, um joel uh. Chapter 2, 12 through 13 okay, uh, 12 through 13 a call to repentance. That is why the Lord says turn to me now. While there is time, Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping and mourning. Don't tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead. Return to the Lord, your God, for he is merciful and compassionate.

Walter:

So repentance is evidenced by a changed heart a turning away from behaviors that are against God, and so the change starts in the heart. We know which is the subconscious, leading to new actions, and we've talked about this all all this, all tonight, this entire episode. We've talked about a true change and what that looks like. Right. And that's the challenge. Yeah. That's the challenge. Yeah, that's the challenge. And so I think you put this in this lies of the enemy, and taking God for granted.

Shanea:

Oh yeah.

Walter:

You want to touch on that?

Shanea:

The enemy makes us feel what we have isn't enough, keeping us from appreciating God's goodness. Like the prodigal son's brother or his other son, he didn't even know what he had, even though he was already there. He was jealous, he was in the midst of it all. He was already there. Pro was jealous. Even though he was in the midst of it all, he was already there.

Walter:

Prodigal son out there struggling.

Shanea:

Yes.

Walter:

About to eat pig slop.

Shanea:

Yes, yes, yes. And his brother was being like, but he was out there giving money to the prostitutes. Why are you accepting him? And we have to be careful about people. People are like that in the church and it's like we can't be like that. No, we can't be like that. We have to accept that, we have to be, we have to be glad and praise our brothers and sisters that are coming into the faith, even though, even if they strayed away, even if they made a mistake, those who there's all these podcasts out here talking about other prophets and pastors and leaders and about all the things that they're doing.

Walter:

And they spend the entire show downing.

Shanea:

But aren't you also sinning?

Walter:

Yes.

Shanea:

Aren't you also sinning?

Walter:

It's called gossip.

Shanea:

Aren't you also sinning and you're not perfect yourself. You need to be praying for them.

Walter:

And you, at some point in your life, was where they were. I don't like that.

Walter:

I don't like that, because you misconstrue the scriptures. If you don't know that brother or that sister personally, if you don't know that prophet or that man of God, a woman of God, personally, why are you speaking out? Because the Bible says first you approach them personally, then second you approach them. If they don't listen, then you approach the congregation, or you you approach them as a congregation, or you approach them before the congregation, then after that, if they don't listen, you go through the process of throwing them out.

Shanea:

Absolutely.

Walter:

But a lot of people are missing the key point. Y'all don't know them personally, Right? So why are you talking about it? And there is a difference between me going to a brother in the faith and saying, hey, what you've done has offended me, saying, hey, what you've done has offended me. Or then we also have to dig into, because there are instances where there is disagreements based on doctrine and all of those things. But sometimes and I'm not saying every case it's something in you that's creating offense. Is it them? Is it something in you that's making you become offended?

Shanea:

Yeah.

Walter:

Or are you also not realizing that nobody is perfect?

Shanea:

Right.

Walter:

And we are so quick to push everything into someone purposely pressing forward and trying to spew out false doctrine. Yeah. Not everybody out here is trying to spew out false doctrine.

Shanea:

They may not know, they just they have a lack of knowledge.

Walter:

And they may not. It may go to who they were taught by. Where is the grace, when is the love? Where is the praying for your brother? Because I know, even with us, god has revealed things to us about leaders, and you know what he told us to do Pray for them, not talk about them. Pray for them.

Shanea:

Right, do we listen? No, we don't listen, but we pray for them.

Walter:

Do for them, right? Do we listen? No, we don't listen, but we pray for them. Do we down them and say, oh, this person is no, because we pray for them ain't nobody business who god has told us about and what he's revealed to us about them? Right, it is our job and our duty to pray, because he told us to pray exactly and we continue to pray and I have love for those and pray that they come to a place of finding the father right, because sometimes people.

Shanea:

They come to a place of finding the father Right, because sometimes people they fall away. They were good in the beginning, they were good on this sermon, they was good here, but then sometimes they just fall.

Walter:

And sometimes they get connected to people that's not good, and that person got connected to someone that's not good and that person got connected to someone. That's not good and it's literally. It's just what it is not connected to someone. That's not good and it's literally it's just what it is, but we have to understand that even those that people are talking about couldn't be they can have their prodigal son story and you're going to be all jealous and feeling some type of way because they've been received back into the fold and restored back.

Walter:

And now you done spent all these episodes downing people and you're in the comment section of those people downing them. Do yourself a favor, do not follow and feed into people like that, because it's not good. So you telling me that God's calling on your life is to insult and down everybody. That's the only word and the only message that you have to give to people is to down others.

Shanea:

No, our job is to teach the truth.

Walter:

And pray for our brothers and our sisters, as the Father permit Mm-hmm Not judge. No, not judge, mm-mm.

Shanea:

No.

Walter:

Sorry, I got carried away.

Shanea:

I know you sounded like you was a little passionate.

Walter:

Yeah, I don't like when they do that. I don't like when they do that. It's not of God. But where were we?

Shanea:

No, we're back to how the enemy basically makes us take God's gifts for granted. We misuse his gifts even down to our own breath. We don't thank him for it enough.

Walter:

You know, yeah, we defile God's gifts our body, mind, body, mind resources when we use them as we wish, instead of consulting with him right, he gave us breath, but you're out here smoking and that's first corinthians 6, 19 through 20 for scriptural reference in proverbs 3, 5 through 6 people.

Shanea:

He gave us a body, but we're out here defiling it nothing, nothing is what we want to eat doing what we want to do with it.

Walter:

He paid a high price for this, a high price, and we have to remember that. The scripture lets us know he paid a high price. He paid a high price. The Bible says, and we talked about this God so loved the world that he gave up his only begotten son. Yep, yep. Yeah.

Shanea:

His only son Down to even defiling our own minds and what we hear and what we watch. This life isn't our own.

Walter:

No.

Shanea:

And we shouldn't be deciding what to do with it, and I know it sounds crazy.

Walter:

Yeah.

Shanea:

But this, this is, this is the life that you choose. So, you pick up your cross and you walk. That is picking up your cross it's not easy it's not easy, it's. It's dying to yourself, to your own will and doing god's will yeah period so how do we want to end this?

Walter:

do you want to go through the key takeaways real quick, or you think they got it?

Shanea:

I think that, um, I think the key takeaway is to, uh, really sit and think about all the decisions that you've made in your life. Look at where you are right now, and how many of those decisions did you for sure know you heard God tell you to do it. Submit everything to God. God, am I exactly where I'm supposed to be? Is this who I'm supposed to be listening to? Is this the church I'm supposed to be going to? Is this the pastor I'm supposed to be listening to? Am I supposed to be at this job? Am I supposed to be in this house or this car? Submit everything, because you don't know everything. God knows everything. There might've been a Satanist who bought that car and you over there trying to buy it, and now your life is going to hell because you bought something that you shouldn't have bought.

Walter:

The home that you live in. It may have been altars that they build up, demonic altars. Now you're struggling and fighting through things and dealing with things. Are you on a job where you're dealing with satanic cult?

Shanea:

Right, or you're visiting, you got a new doctor and that doctor is also not good and probably doing stuff and you don't even know.

Walter:

Ancestral worship, you know.

Shanea:

And you got the.

Walter:

They got their hands on you, you know you have to submit, you have to, we have to get to a point. The Bible says in Galatians 5 and is it 26, 25? It says that we are to allow the Holy Spirit to lead every part of our life.

Shanea:

And it sounds tedious, but the thing is, you guys, we don't know everything.

Walter:

But it is not, and that's the revelation God was giving me. When you think about Adam and Eve and we talk about our subconscious right, what's supposed to happen is it's supposed to become second nature, right, you know it's supposed to become second nature for us.

Shanea:

But it's hard to do because now we have to renew our minds, because we're so used to moving in our flesh, doing what we want to do.

Walter:

Yeah, so I think it's a good place to end. Is there anything else you want to add to it? So I think it's a good place to end.

Shanea:

Is there anything else you want to add to it?

Shanea:

No, I guess, the only other thing is to not be ashamed of where you are and not being shamed like meaning every decision that you made and you're submitting it to God. Don't be ashamed to do what he's asking you to do, because you already you made a decision outside of him. There's every time when you follow God's will, there's going to be a lot of people who's not going to like your decisions, and it just is what it is. You're going to lose family. You're going to lose friends. You're going to lose a lot of things that you had.

Walter:

Yeah, I think the greatest thing that you have to work on, we have to work on, is understanding that God wants to deliver us from the what is it from people in the sense of what they think he wants us to be delivered from, that. So we're not moved by what people think about us. We're only moved by what God says and what God thinks. We're moved by what heaven thinks about us. He wants to deliver us from people pleasing pleasing people, and that's what happens a lot of time. So I guess that's where we end, babe. Do you want to? You want to end this out? You do it so well.

Shanea:

Thank you guys for sticking and listening with us on this episode. We appreciate you guys. Please send in your comments, share your thoughts, things that you may have been struggling with, things that you have may overcome by the blood, and share this with other people. We know this is a good word and a lot of people need to hear it, but this is just for ears to hear. Everybody's not going to understand and we know that.

Walter:

It's not for everyone.

Shanea:

It's not for everyone, but if this is resonating with you, kudos.

Walter:

Yeah, we appreciate you all.

Shanea:

We appreciate you guys.

Walter:

And we will continue to go through doing what God called us to do, absolutely and we will continue to go through doing what God called us to do.

Shanea:

Hopefully, this continues to be a blessing to you.

Walter:

Yes, so that's everything.

Shanea:

Yeah.

Walter:

We will see you next time next week Bye-bye. All right bye.