What We're Leaving Behind in 2025 | Girls Gone Bible

You had the best content this Christmas. I do. Hi guys, I'm Arie. You know what? Are you asking me funny things? I'm changing my name. I'm going back to my full name. Really? Everybody knows me as Arie. What do you think? Arie L is a beautiful name, but it's just like Arie. I don't know. You're just so Arie. Because you're so petite too. So it's like a little name. Hi, I'm Arie L. And I'm Angela. And this is Girls Gone Bible, where a faith-based podcast, where we talk all things spirituality, mental health, the Bible. Guys, praise the Lamb that was slain. We're back. We're back. We're back. We missed you guys so much. That was a two-week hiatus. We've never done that before. I feel like I haven't been here in years. I know. I don't even know what to say. I don't know how to podcast. I have no idea. We needed that though. I like force myself to stay in the house and just sleep and chill. Be too. Be too. I didn't leave the house. Well, you were in Boston. Yeah. And I was in Florida. And there's nothing like being... I was going to say middle-aged women. We are not middle-aged women. I don't know. We are full of blown adults. And when we go home to our families, we become children. And we wear pajamas the whole time. And my mom brings me anything that I need. And I throw wrappers on the floor because I know she's going to clean them. I literally don't lift a finger because my mom's just about it. You go home and what's it like? The same thing. I turn over to a little girl. My dad is my maid. I don't be... It's ridiculous. Yeah, I revert back to a little girl. My dad looked at me and goes, if anyone could ever see the real you, huh? If all those GGV listeners could see this version of you. My mom always says that to me because, okay, I'm going to confess something. Sometimes I say swear words in Albanian. Because I think your mom taught me one, but I forget. You can't do that, Mom. She talks to me in Albanian. My mom will literally talk to Arie and I'll be in the... She's a... Like she understands. And I feel like you do have the time though. You respond as if you understand. It's like a vibe. You're on the vibe. Yeah, yeah. So what does she do? Oh, so she... She teaches me bad words and not teaches me. I know sometimes I say bad words in Albanian because to me they're not bad words. Like it's Albanian. It's like what I heard. It's not like saying the effort. Like whatever. And so my mom will always be like, oh, GGV, I'm going to tell everyone what you just said. I don't know. I have to check with Jesus if I'm allowed to say bad words in Albanian. Oh, you have to see. You have to see my father. Dad, it is out of a movie. Five in the morning he gets up, he shuffles his feet. He waxes up the devil dogs. You hear him and asleep. He eats and sleeps. You know the devil dogs? Like hot dogs? No. Corn dogs? No, they're like chocolate things. Oh. And then he gets up, he makes his folder's coffee. He goes, you know what he does? He blasts no new friends by a little wane every morning. No new friends. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. You just slowed down. Freaking kids flying. I don't know how to drive normally. You guys know that. Oh gosh, yeah. You had a good time. I did. It was really relaxing. I needed that. I needed that. My Nana's everything to me. You made the best TikToks with Nana. Oh, she was a hoot. My dad, my grandmother, so funny. We all are like in the same house. And it's just the funniest thing ever. You guys could become one of those TikTok families. Like the favorite TikTok families. No, it was really good, though. I'm really enjoying my family these days. Like, I'm really pretty Scott. I really love being with my dad and my Nan. And Nan's are the best. I wish I might. I was just going to say, you're. I thought about it. I thought about it as I said that. Because you're Nan. No, don't feel bad. Nan died. My Nana died. Nan and do I have died? I think that's my mom's mom. She passed almost 10 years ago now. She lived to 96. She was the greatest woman on the planet. She was really, me and my mom were just talking about her. She was like the most intelligent woman, but didn't go to school. But it was like so street smart. She was amazing. But I love your Nan. And I love your dad. And I wish I was in Boston right now. And I really want to start spending more time back at home. You should. I, yeah. I mean, it's not good right now because it's so cold. But I really love the East Coast. Even Florida was cold. It's weird. Do you feel like this? I feel so awake in other places. In LA? No. When I'm in Boston or when I go to Florida or other parts of the country, I feel so awake. But when I come back to LA, it's like I'm tired. I feel that a thousand percent. What is that? I think it's just so oppressive here. I think spiritually, I'm telling you, whenever I drive to Orange County or anywhere else in California. Every time I get out of LA County, I'm not kidding. I feel something lift. It's weird. It's a lot here. The moment I landed, I just feel this like heaviness. That's crazy. I know. I don't like it. I don't like it. And the taxes. Oh, the taxes. What are you going to do? We're just girls. You want us to pay taxes? Like, it's ridiculous. Should we move to Florida? To the army? That is where dreams go to die. And I was just in Florida with my family. And I kept posting Instagram stories. And then I had to stop because I was like, I'm greasy. I'm disgusting. I hate you. We do look a little ugly over in Florida. A little ugly. There's something about being in Florida. I don't know what it is, but you're not cute in Florida. Other people, I'm not cute in Florida. And so, oh, I'm not cute. I look like. We're going to a wedding in two weeks. Maybe Miami's different. You don't look as bad as in Miami. Yeah, maybe. But you can't wear it. We wear a lot of powder. We need to wear less powder on our faces. That's one of our New Year's resolutions. Yeah. We're going to stop kinking it on. We're going to. We have to tell you guys something. So, most girls do beautiful, clean, do we make up? Are you and I for no reason? We just kink. We kink on the podium. We're going to get all the comments. Yeah, guys. So, okay, we get it. We see all your comments. Lay off. Lay off. Yeah. Oh, you know another New Year's resolution. Guess what I did every day when I was home. I went to the gym every single day. You're looking good. You're looking. Ty, you're looking good. Show us the body. Show us the body. It's my dad. Did you be plus? It is a time where we get to be intimate. It's not like the podcast. It's like being with our best friends and we go deep and we talk about things we wouldn't typically talk about on the podcast. We just love it so much. We have a lot of exciting things that we're going to dive deep and talk about on GGV Plus. So, subscribe to it. Go to girls.com.com slash plus. We can't wait to see you there. We also want to let you guys know that our book out of the wilderness, 31 devotions to walk with God through your heart of seasons is out everywhere. You guys, we love this devotional so much and so many people love it. It's now in Target, which is such a big deal and we're so grateful for that. So you guys can go to girls.com.com slash a book to get yours. I'm going to the, okay, New Year's resolution. We're getting fit. We're getting fit. Well, you're already fit. But I'm really want to be healthy. I want to look really fit. Listen, I'm looking a little, you know what these days, what? I'm just a little, I got to get to the gym. But there's something different about going to the gym. Yes. Getting on the treadmill. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm going to get on that treadmill and I'm going to run as fast as I can. So Ari and I want to have an episode today talking about New Year's resolutions. What we want to do differently this year, what we didn't like about last year and start it though. Yeah. Okay. I want to tell you guys the first thing that I want to change about 2026 for 2025. I want to start fasting again. Oh my gosh. Was that one of your e-tests? Yes. No, like every week. Yes, every week, one day a week. Yes, me too. One day a week. One stays? I don't know why like Fridays. Okay. Yeah. I like Friday. Whatever you want. Oh, that was another thing. By the way, guys, I literally have bronchitis in the flu. I don't know how. You guess? I got a fever on the way here. I had a fever right now. I don't know how I do it. This is why I have to walk off stage because I do that. You really sick a lot. I haven't gone sick in a while, but yes, I, for, there was a period that I was getting sick a lot. But it's the kids. It's because I was with my nephew. Oh, that's what it is. It's the kids. Oh, that's what it is. Whenever you're around kids, you're guaranteed to get sick. It's worth it. Well, at least you, at least you act good because you know how I act when I'm sick. Yeah. Well, I was down bad a few days ago. It's really bad, right? Well, the way I act. Well, every time you get sick, you act like it's the first time you've ever been sick. And like you're like, there's two moves growing out of my neck. Gosh, I just were thrilled. Like, great. It's over for me. It's fun. And I like make you plan my funeral and stop. I literally, well, you're gonna wear. I don't even do your hair. Is that normal, though? No. Yeah. Should I go through that? Oh, that you know that I like one, I plan like the outfit and everything. It's fun. Listen, it's you. So of course it's normal. But you do know that I want to wear a beautiful dress. Beautiful dress. So it's floral? Probably just like white, but with like, yeah. It's your wedding. And you know to dice in the bag. Dice in the bag. The bow. And the costume jewelry. A costume jewelry. She can't look over it. I wear costume jewelry. I like it. I like it. Gaudi earrings. Gaudi? I've never heard them. Gaudi? Yeah, like Gaudi, like big. I love them. Yeah, I sure do. I love them. We're talking about New Year's resolutions. First one, fasting. I am such a writer for fasting. For fasting from food. Like, they're all sorts of fasts you can do. You can fast from social media. You can fast from whatever x, y, and z. But true biblical fasting is abstaining from food and or drink. And so for me, I want to implement fasting back into my life one day a week and then a two day fast every month. Because it is so good for you. We have an episode on fasting. I think I stopped fasting regularly because I was trying to fix my relationship with food. And so I spent a while not fasting because I just needed to get that situated before I could like put my body into starvation. And I feel ready. I feel so recovered. I'm thinking about when you and I, when I first found Jesus and you and I would fast in your house. How did we do it? And we would wait for the clock to turn 5 p.m. 5 p.m. And we would have the bananas. We would have the the look boys ready. And as soon as the clock hit, we, oh, so I miss that too. I really miss that. I miss the old days. Good beginning. I, I mean, such a good place in my relationship with food. I can't even believe it. I have so much freedom. 2025 was like literally my year of food freedom. I don't, I just don't struggle. Like at all. You know what? What? You don't struggle. I don't struggle. Oh my gosh. We, we have to talk about that because we were just in Arizona. Yeah. I, we were just like so, I wasn't even really thinking about it. Yeah. You don't struggle with food at all. I don't struggle. I'm not going to eat whatever. I still have like a really clean diet. Like, I'm just, When did this break? All year. I just like attacked it. I was just, What did you do? Because that's actually supernatural, what happened? Yeah. I started with, um, I mean, I've been going, it's a journey, you know what I mean? If you come into a, that's why things, I got supernaturally delivered from alcohol. I wasn't supernaturally delivered from like, disordered eating. Yeah, it took a while. Yeah, it was just a journey that I went on with Jesus where I came into agreement with the fact that I actually do want to change this. I do wanna have freedom, because for a long time, I didn't want freedom, because having an eating disorder was good for me, physically, it kept me thin, it kept me whatever. And so when I finally decided, I just decided, this is what I want. And then giving Jesus the invitation allowed him to work in me. And I think a lot of us don't receive breakthrough because we don't actually want what we're asking for, kind of. And then I talked about it on here before, but when I started counting, tracking how much protein I was having, and trying to hit a protein goal every single day, that did a number on my brain. Like it completely reversed old patterns of wanting to eat less, because I was actually having to eat more. And so I wasn't focusing on how can I have as little food as possible today? I would be like three o'clock, oh my gosh, I have to eat freaking three more meals before the end of the day, or else, so just like in my brain, reversing that, like, neuro pathway that said, eat less to eat more, it was, it's what did it. Did you do therapy with that? No, not at all. No, I just prayed a lot, and I really cared, and I really wanted to get free from it. And I thought about my daughter in the future, and I knew it was something I needed to take care of. And I even thought about getting pregnant, and how there's so much. So, and also you kind of get to the point in the age where you're like, I'm like, it's like past the time for this. Like I'm still struggling with any, and that's not to throw judgment on that. It's just like, I got to a point where I was like, all right, it's almost like juvenile at this point. I'm like, I don't need to struggle with this anymore. I can go have a freaking chicken wing every night, but like I'm with friends of like a few nights a week, and I'll like have a salad. I'll have the things that I like, my proteins, and everything, and then I'll eat one little piece of pizza, and then you don't throw out. And then I don't dwell, and then I don't overeat, and then I don't feel the need to binge, and then I don't feel, it's just like, it's so supernatural, and the only thing I can say is agreement, prayer, that one little practice that I did, and more practice of like counting my protein. Oh yeah, and that was it. And now I'm like, I have so much food freedom, it is insane. That's not great. Praise God, I know. I noticed that. Yeah. And I can still get a little like, about my body at times of like, oh man, like I wanna go to the gym, I wanna be more fit, but not in a way, like it doesn't control me at all. I don't really, I just don't care. And it's also so helpful, like dressing modestly too, and being like, I don't need anybody to like see, like nobody needs to think I have a nice body. You know what I mean? So I don't need to. I wish I could say the same. What? I'm not thinking like that, I wish I was. So I mean sometimes of course, it's not all the time. I'm like, that was my curves look. It's bad. How does my curves look? Yeah, I'm trying to, I'm trying to really, I'm trying to lose a little weight right now, do it if I've been honest. Oh my God. So yeah, anyway, so yeah, fasting for me, and you wanna start fasting too. I wanna start fasting. Yeah, we're gonna start fasting. Every week, but you know what I really saw something when I fasted, when we did the no water, no food. Yeah, an absolute fast. That was like, some people still drink coffee during a fast, and I don't even feel like, I don't know, it's just not the same for me. It's not the same. I want my body to be in full just like, I have nothing that I want. It's really hard for me to fast. It's probably like, remember the night when you ended up with goldfish and crackers on the bathroom floor? I fainted. I was like, oh no. It's because I had such an addiction of coffee. Yeah. And I fainted and she flew out. She comes in, she's got crackers in the goldfish. That was horrible. That was horrible. That was horrible. The fasting for me is like, it's brutal. Like I actually hate fasting. I used to love it and now I have to kill my flesh because I don't want to fast like at all ever. But you know what it is? It's like, you got it? I noticed that the gym, like the first day I went back, I hated it. Like I hated being on the treadmill. It was like brutal. And then as I kept going every day, I kept training. I like, I started to like love it and I felt good and it's the same thing with like fasting and self-discipline and control. Exactly. And then you just gained like an affinity for it. Like you actually start to enjoy it. One thing for me is like, I want to, the scripture that I'm taking in this year is life and death or in the power of the gods. And I just don't, I want to constantly speak life. Like I'm done. Like I've been noticing even when I pray for girls, and they like share with me like, I'm just struggling so much in my mind with like depression and anxiety and where I would say last year, I was like, it's okay. I've noticed myself as I pray, I'm like, you are not depressed. Like you do not surrender to depression. Like you walk out of here with your head up. Like you are, like you are called, you are chosen. Like you are not a depressed person. And like I just, this next year, I just, I do not want to speak death over myself. So I love that one. Like even like sickness. Yeah. And because I see it so much and I'm like, it's crazy. Like you really are what you say. Like if you say you're sick, if you say you're depressed, like you really will sit in that depression. And a lot of it is just in our heads. Like we need to like come out of that agreement. Yeah. We need to speak life even with our, even with people in my life, like I want to speak life over people. I want to, I don't know. I just, I don't want to, I want to really be positive with every single thing that comes out of my mouth. Love and the season of my life. I'm going to agreement with you on that. I'm joining with you. I'm going to say only amazing things all the time. And it's not even like we have to be like falsely positive. Yeah. It's just like, I don't know. It's just so many of us were like, I get so attacked in my mind. I'm so depressed. I have anxiety. I don't feel good. It's like, no, stop come out of that. Yeah. Come out of that agreement and start speaking life. Like, no, I'm like, get up. Yeah. Get up. I love that. And don't surrender to that and speak life and pray and be fed by the word of God. I just, that's, I really want to start learning and memorizing a lot of scripture. I wrote that down too. You did. Yeah. And that's going to be a big way of speaking life. Yes. Like I'm not depressed. And then you can, you memorize scriptures that's speaking scripture. You know, we should do. We should do like a GGB community thing on our stories where we all memorize the same scripture like every week or every whatever. That's such a good idea. Should we do that? Yeah. Another thing for all of us to take in, but forget all that it is nothing compared to what I'm going to do. For I am about to do something new. I just pray that we can all look forward and not keep looking back at the past because I just, he's doing something new. I feel, I feel this year is going to be so amazing for all of us. Like he's really doing something so new and so good. And I believe he's called us all into ministry whether it's at our work, at our job, starting Bible studies. Like I really believe that God has called us to stand in the gap and to see it for his people and just really like, this is a year that we're going to be standing in the gap, like really in the dirt with the people, really behind the scenes with the people. And even if you're afraid, just do it. Do it anyways. There's been so many times this past year, especially for me personally, where I was so afraid to step out and just that obedience of continuing to step out even when I was scared and still doing it anyways has been so rewarding. And it's made me so much more confident. I can't believe like how much I'm rapidly changing with my continuous yes, even when I'm like, I don't want to do it. It's still stopping out in that faith. You grow so much. You grow so much. When you're scared and you do it anyways, you grow so much when you don't want to do something and you do it anyways, because you know, you're called to it. But so many of us, we just sit and we're like, we procrastinate and we're like, oh, maybe next year. But like God's saying, no, do it now. Like I know you're scared, but step out in faith and do it. And you will be like astonished by the person that you are when you, with your continuous yes. Think that I really want to do this year is nighttime worship. Oh, I love that. Like I want to worship and spend time with Jesus before I go to bed and just, I don't know, just like close the day like that. My favorite thing to do at night. And I don't always do it because sometimes I sit and I watch TV or I'm with friends or I'm on the phone or whatever. But I want to, my favorite nights are when I light an incense and I light a candle and I put worship on the TV and it's just like dark outside and you see the stars outside out the window and I just worship and it's just the most, there's something about worshiping at night all alone that's so special. Yeah. So I really want to start doing that. I want you guys to do that with us. Spend nights just worshiping before bed instead of watching TV instead of doing all these other things. And it's like a challenge for all of us because you want to just do the thing that kind of numbs you up. But I just think it's so, God meets me so beautifully at night. It's funny you say that because when I was in Boston, you know how you, you're home so you get a chance to really relax your nervous system. And I had so much time where I could just do that. I did that every night. I lit my incense and I worshiped at night and I was so spiritually fed. I can't believe how spiritually dead you are when you are just numbing out on your phone, on TikTok, in the TV, how different you feel. Then when you spend that time at night and just worship or pray or talk, it's just that consecrated time to him. It's insane the difference. I also wrote that to screen time. That's, that's, that's, yeah. That's what I'm, I can't tell you. This is like such a battle that I know. I'm still trying to bring up. Yeah. It's so hard. It's so hard whenever I delete social media off my phone completely. I thrive. I'm it's amazing. I've never struggled. But the second it's back on my phone, it's a struggle. Every single, every single time it's so easy to fall into it. It's so easy to just like find yourself scrolling and scrolling and opening up in search. So for me, it's like my only option is just to delete the app completely. You know, I do it sometimes. But I haven't done like, I did 30 days. Remember when I did 30 days, thrived. That was amazing. I miss that. And since then I'll, I'll turn, I'll get rid of it at times, but I haven't done like a fast. But when it's on my phone, it's so hard. To fall fast. I would so do a social media fast. How long? I can't watch my, my funny videos on TikTok. I can't watch my women that jump off the diving board. I got to get that app that gets me off. Yeah. Please. I had that though. And you can like buy a power. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was sorry. I was literally just bypassed it constantly. I just have to delete off my, let's do a week. Okay. You want to do a week together? Yeah. Okay. Let's try it next week. Should we all do it together? Yeah. Let's all do a phone fast together. Are you guys down? It really, so for me, lots of therapy is, I'm really for the first time in my life, committing to therapy with, I have like, an amazing therapist that I trust deeply and who like, it feels like we do like, groundbreaking work in, you know, every session. And I've never been consistent with therapy. I've always thought I can like, out, like logic my therapist, I just have never, I've never had a respect for therapy until now. And so, there are two. There are two amazing. Yeah. 2026 is my year of therapy. We are breaking patterns, getting truly to the bottom of everything. And yeah, I'm really excited to do therapy and like really be consistent and actually get to, yeah, the heart of things as opposed to like spiritual work and spiritual discipline is so important. And I also think Jesus loves therapy. And it's so necessary for us to really get to the bottom of things and why we are the way we are and why we allow the things we allow and why we find ourselves in certain situations. Like it is imperative that you get to the root of all those things. And so I'm really excited to, I like text my therapist like twice a week. Like I'm like, oh, by the way, I found like three more things that are wrong with me. We're all, so he like writes them all down because I'm like, these are all things that I wanna fix. Well, because we have so many patterns since we were kids. Totally. That you don't know why you do the things you do, why you feel the way you do. Yeah. And so to go back with a good therapist that can go back to when you were a kid and like work out those patterns with you. There's nothing like therapy. Yeah. I love therapy. And just crying to someone that's not your friend. Yeah. That's just like unbiased. Yeah. It can actually help you. That can actually help you. Not that friends don't help, but yeah. Who give like real professional advice. I think we give real professional advice, but yeah. I wanna be a woman of my word. I wanna mean what I say and say what I mean. Love. I really want to like when I say I'm gonna do something, I wanna do it. Like I don't wanna be flaky. I wanna just really say what I mean. Like when I'm saying something like I don't wanna, I don't know, I just wanna be intentional. Yeah. With what I say. Yeah. Oh. Because you and I can oftentimes fall into a little bit of a people-pleasy thing where, and I think we've both gotten so much better with it, but we don't wanna say no to anyone ever and we want to like make people happy. So we'll say yes to something in the moment and then be like, oh, I actually can't do that or I can't show up for that. And it's from a good place. Like you wanna make people happy, but it actually has the opposite effect when you say yes to things that you know that you're not gonna wanna do. Yeah, boundaries. Yeah. I feel like boundaries. I don't really know how to have boundaries. I always said boundaries are so stupid. Yeah. But I think as I'm really becoming a woman, I need some boundaries. Yeah. I need to protect my heart. I need to guard my heart more. I need to stop. I just, I don't know. I've just always been like, oh yeah, I just let everyone in, just whatever. Yeah. And I'm just like, no. Like, not everyone can come in. I love that. Wow. Yeah, really just setting some boundaries. It's hard when you have like a, I feel bad a lot. And I'm just like, no, like I have to grow up. Yeah. Like stop feeling bad. Put your foot down. Yeah. Cause Jesus wasn't like that. Yeah. Jesus didn't people please. No, he didn't. Something else that I really wanna do, and I know this is one of yours too, are I really want to start replying to texts quicker. I take a really long time to reply to texts or I never reply because I don't know. It's some sort of anxiety, procrastinating, avoidance. Like sometimes I get anxious when people text me. Yeah. And then I let it go. It's people you're not comfortable with. Yeah, like not everybody. Not that I'm not, yeah. You're close friends are not like that. Totally, but it's like acquaintances. Yeah. It's like, oh, I don't have the capacity or the energy to give them like a long phone call or a long whatever. So I'm like, let me just wait till I do have the capacity. And I just think that's so wrong rather than giving, like calling someone being like, hey, I only have 15 minutes to talk, but I wanna give you like all of me for 15 minutes. I will be like, oh my gosh, I'm not gonna answer that text because then they're gonna call me and I don't have an hour. I wanna give them an hour. But then I end up never talking to the person. So you're pretty bad. I am. You're pretty bad at texting, but I'm pretty bad at, you're good at when you actually do tags, I sound like one word of answers. You think about it texting? Yeah. With you or just a joke, just like in general. Other people, right? Who says that? Oh, of course. It is a love of me. Is someone that me for not me? No, we talk about this. You have like 550 check on red text messages. Let me check how many, I have 1,421 on red text messages. And I have 600 emails. Like I've got to win things like pile up like that. Then I start to be like, oh, this is too much. It's just like such a procrastinating thing. But yeah, I want to be better about replying and then telling people, hey, I only have 20 minutes, but let's get on the phone and let's chat and let's have a good time rather than being like, I need to give this person in a lot of two hours. So it just like is a weird thing that I have in my head that like if someone calls me and I only have five minutes to talk, I won't answer the phone. Well, that's like boundaries. You've got to just be like, listen, I got to go. Yes, see, I don't know how to get off the phone. Yeah, because that's the people pleasing. Yes. I don't know how to get off the phone when I get on the phone. So I can't, because you want to people please. Yeah. You just have to say, I've got to go. And you send, what kind of text do you send? I don't, I text like a, like I'm the worst tax star. Just like a guy. And then everyone thinks I'm mad at them, but I just, I'm the worst tax star. I hate it. I rather just talk on the phone. I know. I know. And then the voice notes, forget it. Do you hear voices? So I, I, that sounded stupid. Hi, it's me. Oh my god, I sometimes don't speak. That's me every time. And then I like listen back to my whole voice. I'm like, it's a podcast. I just like freaking Boston. And I always think that there's no way that, like, and like you know when someone listens to a voice moment, they don't even listen to it anyways. We all read the voice memos. Let's be completely honest. And then none of us listen to voice memos anymore. We read them unless it's from like a guy. I, oh, that's another thing I want. A voice. That's another thing this, this, this year. No, I'm just, I'm stepping out. You're going on dates. No. I'm going to do any one dates. No, no, I'm just, I mean, yeah, I hope so. But yeah, of course I'm going to go on a date this year. But I need, like, I'm getting out of the house. That's good. We're going to have a little bit of fun. Yeah. I'm so excited to have fun. Can we just like, we need a, I'd like to have some fun. We've had our heads down. We've been about, we've been about our fathers. We've been about our fathers business for a good minute. But we're going to, we're going to like get a hobby and do some, yeah. A little, we have a little time off. We're going to start. Yeah. I don't know what you can do. What do you guys do for fun? What do you guys do for fun? We've had our head down in the dirt with the people for a long time. What do we do? What do you guys do for fun? Let us know. Let us know in the comments. Any cool hobbies? Yeah, please help us. We need help. Another thing I want to do is just rest and rest and rest and rest and sleep and take care of my body and be nice to my body and go to the gym, like you said, but just really, really lean into rest this whole year. Nobody knows how to lay down like I do though. You're so good at laying down. I know how to, I could do it professionally. And I don't know how to lay down. Me and Courtney talk about this all the time. My friend Courtney from back home and we look at each other and we're like, would you call this depression or what? We could lay down all day for days. It's my favorite thing to do. Just be on the phone. I like. I like with you. It's the best. There's nothing like laying. You are a professional layer. I love it. I heard that you need physical, you need a hug. You need hugs. You need to be hugged. Yeah. You need to be hugged. I said, well, no wonder why I was frigging hanging on by a string. No, almost hugging me except for you. Yeah, but they were good hugs. They were really good hugs. Okay, good. I wake up, this kid's on my, I'm like, would you scoot over? This is, okay, this is my head and this is her. She'll be like this. Like a dog. I love it. I love it. I'm the most physical touch person I've ever met in my life. I love cuddling. I love physical touch. It's so funny. What else? Go ahead. Nothing, I just, I want to come out of, I just, I want us all to come out of the self-doubt. Yes. No more self-doubt. No more self-doubt. No more speaking badly about ourselves. No more saying I can't do what, no more saying I'm sick. I have too much of a past. Let's come out of that. Yeah. I love that. Let's, like, you get in Jesus name. Like, let's all come out of that. Let's, the minute you start to hear those negative words, like you start speaking that, catch it, catch it right in the hole. Yes. I don't, no, I don't speak that and you start, speak it. We replace it with the word of God. I am a person like that. I did that a couple times, remember? When? Sad you were so proud of me. I don't remember. I went to go, sometimes, like, I have a little bit of a whiny, like, hi, I don't know, I'm just exhausted. Like, that's like how I can be sometimes unintentionally. Of course. And my friend caught me doing that. I think this was like a couple of weeks ago. And she goes, I was like, I don't know, I don't know if I want to go. And she's like, would you stop? And I was like, I got like embarrassed for a second. And she's like, no, seriously, stop talking like that. She's like, get, come out of that. She's like, it's a joy that you get to go do this. Wow. And I, it was like the best thing that she could have ever said in that moment. Wow. And I was like, wait a minute, you're right, I am kind of being negative and I am being whiny and I am kind of speaking death over myself right now. Wow. It is a joy that I get to go do this. And so I just loved, I loved that. I was like, and so now I'm like catching myself when I start to whine. Or speak negative about something so beautiful that I'm doing. Like we get, I love that so much. And also like, it makes you more tired. It makes you so, it's heavy. It's heavy. Yeah. So now when I replace that and I'm like, oh my gosh, I got to go do this today. This is going to be good today. What a beautiful day. Like you, you feel more alive. You feel more awake. Wow. You're more, you have, you have so much more joy than being like depleted and down. I'm telling you, the way you speak is everything. It's everything. I love that there was such an emphasis on that today. Yeah. I feel so heavy. I feel so heavy. Yeah. Because it's so important and I'm going to, everything you're saying today is really good and like, I'm learning from this and like, we're being reminded of like the simple things that we do in the beginning of being a Christian that I feel like we forget. Like, what you speak over yourself is truly everything. And sometimes like you go through seasons where you really do have to mourn and you do have to feel and you do have to feel that sadness. But then when we're in it too long, it's like, I feel like the enemy has an opening to just attack, attack, attack. So we have to like get into fight. Phone and be like, no, I come out of this and like, be surrounded by friends and just have people speak life over you. Have people pray over you. Like just refuse to sit in it. I love that. And just been, I saw a lot of it when I was a Massachusetts. Yeah. I'm sure. And it was funny after I was done praying for them being like, oh, really? You think you're like that? No, you're not. I go, look at you. And then you would see them go like this and like they would look different and their eyes were brighter and their head was up. And I was like, exactly. And they go, wow, I feel so much better. Like, I feel good. You're right. Isn't it so crazy? And then I would speak over somebody and say, hey, you look really happy to it. Like, yeah, you look joyful. You speak like someone. You speak like someone. Yeah. You'll be like, okay, maybe that's true. If I remember when I was struggling really bad with anxiety and derelization and depersonalization, I would ask people like, do I seem weird? Like do I seem off? Because I felt off and I felt weird and I felt anxious and it's super in my head and I'd be like, do I seem okay? And people would be like, you literally seem completely normal. And it would instantly make me be like, okay, I'm normal. So it's, yeah, when someone speaks into and being like, dude, you're fine. You're doing great. Like, you're amazing. It changes things. It's the same too when like somebody respects you and like they look at you and they're like, they actually like, I don't know. I feel like sometimes you can feel timid around people. I was, my grandmother was saying that she was like, I just, she's like, I've always been so timid. She's like, I don't really know a lot of that stuff. And I was like, man, look, I was like, do you understand how intelligent you are? 10 minutes later, you see her like speaking like, like, just like speaking about politics and all these things around the world. And she was like, had her head up. And I was like, we have to constantly be speaking life into each other because it changes. You're more confident the way you speak, everything. Think about the people you're around. Like, you have to be around people that are speaking life into you. It changes everything. That's why you have to pick your partners wisely. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You have such a gift of encouragement. We can miss America. Are you kidding me? I said, one time, Ari was like, I don't know, upset about something. And I was like, you're America's sweetheart. Are you literally kidding me right now? That is so iconic. That was so iconic. You want to talk about getting somebody out of a depression? So something that I feel like occurred in 2025 for me was just like breaking off performance in ministry. And just in general of like wanting to be something or somewhat like not that I don't want to be like excellent in what I do or like off like, you know, excel and do good things and do good work and whatever. But there was like, when we started in girls gone Bible, I definitely had this thing of like wanting to be good, wanting to be a good podcast and over time, right? That starts to like go away 2025 over summer when we had a break on tour. I spent every single day with Jesus being like, I didn't even know exactly what he was doing in me. Like all the time that I spent in the secret place, it was like one of the most transformative times. And I didn't even know what was happening. Like I was just spending time with him every day. And when I got to the end of the summer, and it wasn't even trying to do this, but I had developed such a deep, deep, deep intimate genuine relationship with Jesus that was like my lived experience. Like I was no longer like a Christian, like telling people about the things that I've learned. I'm a Christian showing people the life that I'm living. Yeah. And it just broke off. All performance. Not all, maybe not all, but it broke off so much performance. And I was able to go on stage and come on the podcast in a way that was just like I felt myself showing up as just I am Angela who has a relationship with Jesus. Yeah. I don't need to be anybody. This is, this is what I've learned because I've lived in. Yeah. And so that's what started to happen in 2025. And I see this is going into 2026. This is probably my year of like any bit of performance or wanting to be somebody or wanting to be something is gone. Like I just want to show up as the, as the Angela who lives life with Jesus and she doesn't need to be anything. She doesn't need to be special. I don't need to say anything profound. I am who I am. And I'm going to show up as that. And like that's literally, I just, I feel such a freedom that no matter where I go, I have such history with God that I don't need to put on in that, you know. I'm really proud of you. I love you. You're, you're going to be, I yeah, it's unbelievable. I love you so much. That's what the secret place does, huh? Yeah. Yeah. I remember you telling me that you, you felt so different this time on tour. Oh my gosh. I was so just like, it's inside. It's here. It's already inside of me. I don't have to try to, I just don't want to have to, and that's different from like working hard. I'm a hard worker. I love working hard. I love learning. I love memorizing. I love like crafting beautiful messages and like I love excellence. Like I love doing things well. And I'm also just like, I have literally nothing to prove anybody anymore, you know? Yeah. I was going to say, I feel that way with, especially with praying for, for me, I used to, I used to be so scared to pray. I know you're so good at praying. And now it's my favorite thing to do. Yeah. Because you're the best. Could care less about stages, nothing just to be with the people in pray. And I used to, I remember I would always look at you and be like, how does she do that? Because you would just completely let the spirit just take over. And I never understood it. And now like you just have to step out and boldness. Yeah. There are so many people be like, I can't pray. Like, what am I going to, how am I going to, but the more you step out and the more you just say, leave me Jesus, let me like, it's just crazy the way he transforms you. Yeah. And you keep stepping out in that boldness. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus. Yeah. I was going to say, so I, I got off of a flight recently and I was listening to music. And I started thinking about my dad. And I have someone of an interesting relationship with my dad. I love him so much. And he's not the most, hasn't been the most present in my life. And it's been a pretty painful relationship for me. And my dad comes from, you know, a Muslim, his mom was Catholic. His dad was Muslim. They didn't practice anything. He didn't practice Islam. But he was like technically Muslim. He converted to Catholicism to marry my mom. Since I've been saved, I have, you know, led my dad to Jesus at least once a year, just in case he comes to GGB shows and doesn't know what's going on, but raises his hands and then says the salvation prayer at the end. And I just got off this flight and I realized like, if I lost my dad tomorrow, I wouldn't know where he is. Like, I wouldn't, I don't know if he would be with Jesus. And I started thinking to myself like, am I, how would I live with myself? Like, truly, how would I live with myself? If I, if I dedicated my life to bringing thousands and millions of people to Jesus, but I couldn't even take the time to sit on the phone with my dad and tell him who Jesus really is. That's like really vulnerable for me to do. It's hard. It's painful. It's, it's like, but I just, I decided that like, I want this year to be the year where like I sit with my dad and I like try. And like I really, I call him and I say, hey, dad, can I, every, every time I ever call my dad to, every time I ever call my dad to talk about Jesus, I'll be like, hey, can I read you the Bible for a second? And he's like, yeah, of course, you know, and he's like, it's just hard when the relationship is strained. And I think a lot of us, it's so easy to have hope for other people. It's so hard to have hope when it's so close to you. It's so hard to have hope for relation, like someone in a relationship that you've been hurt in and that you've known your whole life and you're like, ah, it's a lost cause. But this new person, I have hope for this person because I don't have that long. It's a history with them. So I want 20, 26 to be the year that I have hope for what seems hopeless. And yeah, call my dad and like really teach him about Jesus and be like, you know, like imagine if Bobby gets, you know, if he gets it one day and I wanted to get it. Imagine when you baptize him, you know, you're going to baptize your dad. Yeah. I'm like, 26, you're going to baptize Bobby. Really? Yes. Oh, I love you. That's beautiful. Yeah. I love that. That's what I wrote down. I wanted to be. Yeah. Another 20, 26 thing really quickly, walk in the power and authority and anointing of Jesus Christ wherever you are, lay hands and pray for the sick. Guys, I want us to become obnoxious when we're out in public. You see someone on crutches. You see someone in a wheelchair. You see someone that's blind. Step out in faith. Ask Jesus every day of your life to release gifts over your life, to release the gift of healing, release the gift of evangelism, release prophetic gifting over you. So you go outside on mission every day of your life. That is what 20, 26 is about. We are going to pray for the sick cast out demons. We're going to get weird with it and we are going to walk the authority and power granted to us by Jesus. We're going to have deliverance, ministry, you're going to lay hands, you're going to pray on wounds. Yes. I'm not even kidding. Like, sit. Yes. Sit with Jesus and say, give me a picture of what this person is going through. You're going to help people that can't get pregnant. You're going to be getting meth. I'm telling you. I said that earlier. Jesus. I see it. We are going to stand in the gap. We're going to see healing's miracle signs and wonders. That brings me to a scripture. We need to be going to that and pray, even as I was listening to you talk about your father. Like, the amount of hours I spent praying for my father, praying for my family, like, the miracles I have seen through my prayers, the miracles I've seen in my own life, through my auntie, Bobber's prayers to me. Honey, Bobber. Like, it's like insane. Like, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray. James 5 verse 14, is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church and pray over them and annoy them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well. The Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and affected. You have no idea how powerful your prayers are. He hears every single prayer. None of it goes to waste. So just pray for your family, pray for your friends, pray for yourself, sit in prayer. Have consecrated time every single day, every single night, all through your day we should be praying, all through the day we should be praying. Pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray. Be about our Father's business. Be about your Father's business all 2026. We love you guys so much. We love you, we love you, we love you. Thank you for being with us for another year. Happy freaking new year. It's 2026. It's going to be such a beautiful year and we are all going to grow so much closer to Jesus. This is our year you guys. This is Jesus's year. May all the earth know the name of Jesus. We love you guys so much. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May he make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May he turn his face towards you and give you peace. Shalom, Shalom, Shalom. For the comments what your New Year's resolution is. Yes. We want to know your New Year's resolution. We love you guys.