the name of Jesus is enough

Hello everybody! Welcome to another episode of Christ with Coffee on Ice. I am your host, Ali Yost. It is a joy and honor to be here with you guys today. Happy Friday everybody! Happy Friday! Is this too loud? I feel like maybe my mic might be too close to my mouth. Hey, how's everybody feeling? How's everybody feeling today? I will say two things can be true at the same time. Okay, one thing that can be true is I have no idea what today's episode is going to be about. Are we even shocked? I don't even think I need to make that disclaimer anymore at this point. It just, it is what it is. That's how it always rolls. But the second thing that can be true though at the very same time is I'm feeling good about today though. I don't know. I'm feeling good about it. Have no clue, but feel good about it. You know what I mean? And like maybe that's just our walk with the Lord in general. Maybe that's just life with Jesus. He's like, hey, I don't know. I actually have no idea, but I feel good about it. Like obviously, he's going to do something really cool I feel really good about today, but I just don't have any idea what it's going to be like. So hang in there. We can go on the ride together. We're going to strap in, see what happens. I don't know. But I'm really excited to be here with you guys today. It really is a joy and honor. Like genuinely, I don't know what better of a job there is other than what I get to do. It is such a stupid privilege and I don't say stupid like it's stupid. I mean like it's like out of this world that doesn't make sense. The privilege of getting to do what I get to do, talking about Jesus, I get to just hang out with you guys. Like we just get to be friends and hang out as a community together. It's like the coolest thing ever. Truly such an honor of my life. So I am so grateful to be here with you guys and I am praying for you today. I would actually love to pray for you right now that today is a beautiful day for you and whatever that looks like. But Lord, I just lift up my friend on the other end of this podcast, Lord, and I thank you for their life, God. I thank you for today. I pray blessings over them, God. I pray that you just reveal yourself to them in a way that's really special and intimate. I pray that they get to have multiple moments with you today, a feeling seen and known by you. God, I pray that you continue to reveal more of yourself to us today, Lord. We are yours. God, we are yielded. We are open. We are ready. We are hungry and we just want to look more like you. So Jesus, I just pray for a fruitful episode today and I pray for a beautiful day. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Well, before we get into whatever this episode is going to be about, we do have our Christ, which I have a feeling we're going to be referring to a lot today because when in doubt, like when I don't know what we're doing, we're just going to, this is the blueprint, right? Like this is the map to life. This is what we need to live. And so we are going to be reading scripture today. I have my Bible with me. This is my Hosanna revival Bible, the yellow one, and it is definitely out now. I don't know how long it's been out, but I was sharing this with you guys a little too soon. It was so funny. Hosanna actually emailed me and they were like, Hey, we saw your most recent, this was weeks ago, but they're like, Hey, we saw your most recent podcast episode and you know, it's totally okay that you let the cat out of the bag. Like it's fine. 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And it's supposed to be like, you're comparing yourself to a version of somebody else's who's like, had to grow to get that point. It's not going to be perfect. So just do it, dive in and you learn and evolve from there. But like truly this podcast has started. You know, at a place it needs to start. But anyway, up until like a couple months ago, before I had a monitor, I was balancing a mirror, like a little mirror that I have hanging on a wall somewhere in my house. I would take it off my wall each time I would film and I would balance it behind my camera so that I could see the screen because I didn't have a camera who was, okay, is this too much information? Does anybody care? My camera's screen wouldn't swivel out so I could see it. Does that make sense? The type of camera I had, you couldn't do that. And so I needed to find a way to see the back of my camera because it's just me. It lights camera action. It's me. And so I was like, okay, I'm just going to have to like put a mirror behind my camera and like tilt it so that I can see it bootlegged as heck, y'all. The things that you just don't see behind the scenes, okay? So we're a little less bootlegy now. I actually have a monitor where I can see, but now that I know it's there and I'm like, okay, camera's in focus, like I'm not like looking at it so much, but it's really exciting for me in the beginning because I've never been able to see this. This is my rant of the day. I fear. I fear. Okay, what are we doing today guys? I don't know. Should we just pray? Lord, what are we talking about today? Okay, I don't know if there's anything on this, but what I will say is, so I was in the car yesterday and I was thinking about, I was thinking about the podcast and when this came to my mind, I thought about potentially bringing it to you guys and being like, okay, is this like actually something that we could like really talk about Jesus? But anyway, I was listening to this song and it, the lyrics said there's power in the name of Jesus. There's power in the name of Jesus. There's power in the name of Jesus and it just like kept going and it's like, you hear that all the time, you know? Like, if you're a Christian and you're in the church, like we have heard that before, there's power in the name of Jesus, but there was an aspect of that that I was like kind of having a little bit of a revelation on is like, sometimes I think that we actually genuinely forget that there is power in just the name Jesus and that's it. Like when we don't have words to say, when we don't have the most powerful, profound prayers, there actually is power in just the name of Jesus. And so for me, I was just like, oh my gosh, when I don't have words to say, when I put pressure on myself, to have like the perfect prayers or to feel like I have to find the words to pray or to rebuke or like, even if you're interceding for someone or something, like it's not the power of your prayer that makes mountains move. It's not the power of your prayer that makes God move on those things. And for prayers to then become answered prayers, it's actually just the power in the name of Jesus that then we when we ask the father of things, it's because it's it's in the name of Jesus that mountains move. So there's it's actually just like there's just power in the name of Jesus. Like is this making sense? I just feel like sometimes like when I'm interceding for things or if I'm praying, I'm like, this prayer's got to be really powerful and I'm almost like falling into the trap of religion, you know, like I just opened scripture randomly, we're in Galatians 5 and the first sentence is, so Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free and don't get tied up again in slavery to the law, meaning like religion, meaning like checkboxing, you know, like I need to make sure that I'm doing all of these things and that no, Paul is saying Christ has truly set us free. Jesus has. Now make sure that you stay free. Don't go falling back into lies of bondage or ways old ways of living like Jesus is the new covenant, he's now giving you freedom from having to live by the law, by your own works. So what I'm saying is like there are times where I do kind of fall into slavery to the law when I think that it's in the power of how I pray or in the words that I choose to pick, it's still like going off of my own works and whatever words I can muster up, like that's going to be the thing to make the mountains move. That's going to be the thing that brings freedom or brings that one prayer to fruition. I wish I could explain this in like better words, but I've been learning that it's not just in the power of the words that we choose. When we're praying and when we're interceding for things, it's like I could be praying about something and I'm picturing that very thing in my mind and I genuinely don't know what to pray or it just doesn't feel like any words I could pick would be enough. But it's like if I just think of that very thing that I am praying for, the very thing that's like burdening my heart where I'm like Lord you have to move in this and all I can say is Jesus, but there is like so much faith behind that word because there's power in the name of Jesus and it's even more powerful when you partner in faith with saying the name of Jesus. But it's like in my chest I will physically feel something, faith, Holy Spirit, power of the Holy Spirit, like whatever, but it's like I feel it like in my spirit, in my being when I am saying Jesus over that thing, it's like that actually has enough power in it. Like what I'm kind of sort of learning in that action and I think what I'm grasping is like we just can't put God in a box, we can't put like how the Holy Spirit works in a box and we can't put our spirituality with the Lord in a box. Is this making sense at all? I hope that it is. Me when I try to explain recent revelation, maybe I should have given it more time, but the truth is like something that I think is really relatable for all of us, if we just like water all of this down I guess to one single statement is there probably have been times where we have said the name of Jesus, but didn't actually expect anything to happen or change after it. And that's just the truth, like there have been times where I'm so used to the name of Jesus being on my lips that sometimes I'm not sure if like anything is actually going to move after I say that word. I'm not sure everything is going to move after I say that name. Like we will say his name, but do we always believe that it actually carries power when we say his name? And I think like what I was trying to explain with like feeling it in my chest was like it was literal faith, it was belief, like even with me just saying the name of Jesus, even though I wasn't finding all these other fluffy, powerful, profound words to pray in my prayer, just the name of Jesus like I was feeling it was the faith that just speaking the name of Jesus over that situation, over that person, over that thing that needs to move, that's the difference. Do we believe that his name actually carries power or is it just something we've gotten used to saying? The name of Jesus is just a little bit more normalized for us at this point. And the truth is, is like we all know that there's power in the name of Jesus because the minute that you say his name, the atmosphere, whatever atmosphere that is changes. Like we feel the weight between the statement of thank God or thank you God and thank you Jesus. We feel the difference in the atmosphere when we witness a celebrity receiving, you know, an award on stage and they say and thank God versus and thank you Jesus, you feel it. Like the name of Jesus actually shifts an atmosphere. So if there wasn't any power in his name, you wouldn't immediately feel whatever that is, whether it's discomfort over here, whether it's conviction over here, like when we speak the name of Jesus in church, it's like you feel the power of the Holy Spirit. There is power in his name because we feel the way it shifts a room. But I think today we're going to talk about like believing that, knowing but believing and how those two things are very different. I think if we're being honest with each other, there are a lot of things about our everyday lives that we don't have to think about that other people do. Certain privileges like three meals a day. Some of us may not have to worry about hunger, but other people do. 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That's NOCD.com to learn more and start getting help. I think something that we all could fall guilty of is that a lot of times we could say the name of Jesus out of routine versus saying his name with expectation. An example that I think of now because I've been there and I know this feeling of like spiraling in anxiety and you're like calling out to Jesus and you're saying Jesus please help me, please help me, but you're like somehow still spiraling in anxiety. And I think like if I'm being honest with myself about times where I've been in that like I've woken up in anxiety and panic before like in the middle of the night. There's one time that I think that was pretty recent where just anxiety, I don't know if it was a dream that had triggered me but I woke up and I was freaking out and I was like calling out on the name of Jesus. I was like Jesus please help me. But for some reason like where my mind was at in that moment was and I think it's hard like when you're in full blown panic and you're freaking out but I didn't really have a whole lot of faith that saying the name of Jesus in that moment was actually going to pull me out of that. And so I was calling on the name of Jesus but I was still panicking and having anxiety and I think it wasn't until I came out of agreement with my fear, right? Because like what I was feeling in that moment was like I don't know, fight or flight, I thought I was dying, I thought everything was not okay. I also was like it's the middle of the night, no one's around me, I'm alone, what if something bad happens? Like I was calling out on the name of Jesus but I was still partnering with my fear. So I was saying Jesus help me but internally I was thinking things like this is going to go so wrong. I can't handle this, I'm going to have a panic attack, I'm not okay. And so the disconnect in that moment is not that Jesus wasn't with me, he was totally with me. He was with me before I even realized he was with me. It's not that Jesus wasn't in the room with me, it's not that Jesus didn't care, it's not that Jesus wasn't willing to help me, it's that I was calling out on his name, my mouth was saying one thing but my mind was saying another thing. And it's not until we actually partner with truth and like let go, like it was almost as if like I had been holding hands with this this anxiety that woke me up out of my sleep and I was believing everything that it was telling me but then trying to reach for Jesus but it's like not until I let that go I had to come into agreement with the truth of Jesus and what his name does and come out of agreement with my fear. And the truth is is like the name of Jesus absolutely interrupts fear, right? Because if we're going to say that there's power in the name of Jesus saying his name over a situation if you're anxious or whatever, like whatever that looks like, I'm using my anxious moment as an example, his name will interrupt whatever that is. For me it was my anxiety and fear because I was still feeding that fear and I was still listening to it and I was still coming into agreement with it, in my mind the spiral keeps going. We want relief more than we want surrender. Sometimes when we say Jesus help me what we actually mean is Jesus take this feeling away immediately and when the anxiety doesn't instantly disappear we think why isn't this working? But calling on Jesus isn't always about instant emotional relief, it's about trust. So what's really happening is that we're still gripping control or fear, still trying to solve everything ourselves, we're still mentally rehearsing worst-case scenarios, so we haven't actually released anything we've just added his name into the panic. Another thing is our nervous system is still activated and that's very human, this part matters because it removes shame. Even when your spirit is reaching for Jesus your body can still be in fight or flight, your thoughts can still be racing and your heart can still be pounding and this doesn't mean that your faith isn't real or that his name isn't working, it just means you're human and your body doesn't always calm down instantly just because your spirit is crying out. I think that's a really interesting perspective is even my example of me literally waking up in a panic, like how ridiculous and maybe even a little unfair of me to think that like okay my body not only is my spirit reacting, okay in a way to this, but my body is reacting to this in a certain way where like home girl's gonna need a couple seconds to come down so just because I wasn't receiving like instant relief, one like we already said doesn't mean Jesus isn't in the room with me, doesn't mean that he doesn't care, doesn't mean that there isn't power in his name, doesn't mean that he can't take my anxieties, but also it's yes I need to come out of agreement with whatever fear and lies I'm believing in my head and two give your body a second to chill, home girl just thought she had to wake up and run away from a bear, like for all my body knew I was about to get hit by a train, you know what I mean? So it's like also having grace for yourself and like that is such a great way of like no I'm not gonna feel shame over that, I'm not gonna beat myself up over the fact that like I was calling out on the name of Jesus but it took me like 10, 15, 30 minutes to come down, it's like also grace because that's very human for your body to have to come down from going from 100 back down to zero and then if you're lucky being able to go back to sleep after that, I think I was able to go back to sleep but it took like it took some time, but see grace, there's a story in the book of Acts that I would really love for us to break down and read, this is Acts 1913, it says a group of Jews was traveling from town to town casting out evil spirits, they tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus in their incantation saying I command you in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches to come out, seven sons of Sceva, a leading priest were doing this, but one time when they tried it the evil spirit replied I know Jesus and I know Paul but who are you, then the man with the evil spirit leaped on them, overpowered them and attacked them with such violence that they fled from the house naked and battered. Not a super great ending, huh? We don't love that, okay but we're using it as an example because I do think that this helps bring into perspective of like not only the, it's not that, okay you could read that story and be like okay if there's really power in the name of Jesus, why in the world did it not work for them? Because clearly the demon just looked at them and said please, I know who Jesus is and I even know who Paul is but who are you? And it didn't work, not because there isn't power in the name of Jesus but because they were using Jesus' name but didn't actually know him, they weren't partnering using his name with also faith, believing it and what's also really cool about this story is it shows us the difference between using Jesus' name as just like a magic password, a magic word to just like fix everything versus how his name is used when it's connected to an actual relationship with him and authority in him. So they had said all the right words, they said come out in the name of Jesus Christ, come out in the name of Jesus but there was no surrender, there was no belief and there was no relationship and so it's actually there's power in the name of Jesus but also when we believe it and like whatever else could be overtaking us, our minds, whatever disbelief that we have, whatever anxieties that we have, I will also say that there are times that I have gone to Jesus and prayed about something and I've been honest with him about like almost like a disclaimer where I'm like listen, God I'm going to pray about this thing again and I'm going to pray it in your name and I'm going to believe that obviously I believe that your name can do it and you can do it but also I like don't really believe anything's going to change right now. I don't know, I don't know the scientific, I don't know what's behind that, I think that again that actually also demonstrates relationship with him but there have been times where I haven't gone to him with perfect faith, I haven't had like crazy amounts of faith and belief in a situation but I had enough faith to go to him and say I'm going to pray about this again even though I've seen no movement and honestly I don't really have a lot of faith right now in this God because nothing's moved, doesn't mean I don't believe in you, I do believe you have the power to do this but I don't know if I have faith that it's going to happen. I've gone to him with that kind of heart posture before and I have felt him so present in that moment with me like I felt that those prayers actually are doing something, still. Another really good example in the Bible is the story of Peter walking out on the water which if you guys are familiar with my testimony that part of the book of Matthew, it's Matthew 1422 where Peter has enough faith to step out on the water with Jesus in the middle of this storm but then it's not until he sees the storm to the left and his right like there's wind, there's waves and then he gets afraid and he starts to sink and in that moment what Peter does is he calls out to Jesus and he says Lord save me and Jesus immediately, scripture says immediately, goes to his rescue. So even when faith is real and Jesus is being called on you can still feel fear and start to sink but that doesn't mean that his name failed, it means that your focus has shifted and in Peter's case right is like calling on the name of Jesus doesn't always mean that you won't feel fear but it does mean that you're not alone and then another interesting piece of scripture is in Matthew 721 where Jesus says not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter the kingdom and that one I feel like a lot, I don't know I've seen this sometimes on the internet with you guys in the comment section where you've been afraid that maybe that's you where you're like oh my gosh I call on the Lord all the time but like maybe when the day comes and I face him he's gonna be like you can't come into my kingdom but the truth of that scripture y'all is like obviously yes right there's power in the name of Jesus we're saying Lord Lord but saying his name does not equate to knowing him, words alone does not equate to an actual relationship with him and so it's interesting how many times it's actually said in different ways in scripture that obviously there's power in the name of Jesus but it's not until there's a relationship tied to that do things change and shift and move. The Lord isn't going to respond to somebody who doesn't have a relationship with him or doesn't have faith in him but he will respond to somebody who is faithful, who has a relationship with him, who's honest with him, who talks to him and if that's you if you're like yeah that sounds like me I talk to Jesus all the time and I really care about what he thinks of me and the things that I do and I really try to honor him and all the things that I do then I can assure you that that won't be you like it will not be you that Jesus is talking about in that scripture where he says not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter the kingdom. I think the reason why we could lack belief in his name at times versus maybe other times where we had so much belief in it is because of those times where we had so much faith but then nothing seemed to have moved and so some reasons to why we don't actually believe it is yeah I mean one of them is we've prayed before and didn't see the outcome that we wanted that can be really discouraging. This podcast is sponsored by Veracity. Let's talk about blood sugar because it's the piece most people are actually missing. When your blood sugar spikes and crashes everything suffers your energy your mood your cravings that 3 p.m. slump you can't shake. Guys that's the story of my life. Veracity's metabolism ignite helps your body produce glue close more efficiently improves insulin sensitivity and keeps those spikes from happening in the first place. So what are the results of that? Stable, steady energy throughout the day, no crashes, no cravings, no walls. 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That's Glorify's lowest price ever. Download the Glorify app now at glorify-app.com slash alley get full access all year for just $29.99 at Glorify dash app dot com slash alley. That's Glorify dash app dot com slash a l l y. Another reason why we actually might not believe in the power of the name of Jesus is that we actually trust what we can control more than what we can't see. Maybe we've also gotten used to like surface level faith. And I think that the best definition of like surface level faith is when our words say that we trust him but our lives don't actually rely on him. It's faith that sounds real but hasn't gone deep enough to change how we think, respond, or surrender. You believe in him, you talk about him, but there's little intimacy or dependence. It's awareness without closeness. A surface level faith is like saying all the right things but not actually expecting anything. Prayers could feel like routine, saying Jesus feels automatic. There's no real expectation of movement or peace or change. It's just language without belief. A surface level faith tries everything before God. So God is like last resort and to be honest that was my life before I really went all in with the Lord was like I always acknowledged that God was real and I would pray to him from time to time. My version was probably literally the most surface level faith you could find. But I was relying on everything else before God. It's like trying everything else first and then finally going okay God help. Like that was me. It's faith that's present but not prioritized. It was never prioritized in my life. A surface level faith also wants comfort from God but doesn't actually fully want to surrender to God. So like we've already kind of said is we want him to fix the situation. We want to fix our feelings, make the discomfort go away, but we don't actually want to release control. So it's reaching for relief but not actually reaching for a relationship. A surface level faith believes in Jesus but still trusts fear more. So you could say things like God is in control but your thoughts are still led by anxiety, worst case scenarios and control. It's belief in theory but not in practice. That, that hurts. That's hard. Surface level faith isn't fake faith. It's just faith that hasn't been fully surrendered yet. If you related to any or all of that there is no shame because I've been there too okay. This is actually what a lot of our faith looks like before it deepens and it can continue to deepen layer by layer but like before it deepens that's the truth of like where our faith is at. We could have deep faith in one area of our life and then kind of have surface level faith in another area. So like this isn't a failure. It's not that you don't love God. It's not that you don't love Jesus but it is an invitation to go deeper with him. It's an invitation to have more connection, more depth, more surrender, more falling in love with him. Okay so getting back to all of the reasons of why we don't actually believe in the power of the name of Jesus. We just said that we've gotten used to surface level faith okay. We went over that but also we want instant results not trust based results. I think that's a big problem for a lot of us in this generation now is like everything is so instant. Everything is so fast and so when we are not getting that instant relief, if we're not getting that instant answered prayer, if we're not feeling God is not moving fast enough, our belief in his name is actually based on results like getting those instant results versus being founded on a trust based relationship with him. Founded on trust not results but just trusting him. Okay so now we can talk about the other side of the coin here of like okay so now we know all of what it looks like to not maybe have a ton of belief in the name of Jesus right that there's power and then also we know that there's power in the name of Jesus but also when we partner that with faith and belief but like what does that actually look like to believe it and the truth is is saying his name and surrendering the outcome is the magic formula. Speaking his name in fear right because we were saying it's totally okay to speak his name and feel fear at the same time right. Peter was a great example of that. Homeboy was scared but he had faith as he was speaking in the name of Jesus. He said Lord save me help me. He knew that Jesus could even though he was very scared and then Jesus did. So speaking his name in fear instead of feeding the fear though so what do we have our belief in in feeling fear in that moment? Do we have faith that our fear and those voices are true or when we feel fear we give ourselves the grace to be like okay yeah I'm scared right now but I'm not going to believe what fear is telling me. I'm going to believe what Jesus tells me about him, his character, what I'm capable of through Christ like those are the things that I'm going to believe even though I feel scared. So like those two things can still be true at the same time and I think something that is so key so key about this okay this is what we're going to strengthen our faith in today okay and for every day till the rest of our lives is we are going to strengthen our faith in the fact that we go back to Jesus again and again and again no matter the results. That's how you're going to kill that belief system if you feel like that's something that you felt a little convicted in as we talked about today's like my belief system is I have faith in the name of Jesus and I believe like genuinely when I get those those fast results it's result based it's when things move it's it's what I see in the naked eye. The best way to kill that belief system is by continuing to go back to Jesus over and over and over again no matter the results no matter how painful it is no matter how confusing it is why he would act so quickly on one prayer but then this other prayer that you've been praying about for literally years you've seen no movement in like continuing to decide to go back to Jesus no matter what we just went over the book of Job Job did that we saw our brother demonstrate that beautifully like no matter the circumstances he when he had it all and when everything was ripped away from him what did he do he kept going back to God and he was honest with the Lord every time he went back to him it all comes down to relationship y'all like you don't have to come back to him being like okay God I have just as much faith today as I did yesterday but like faith the size of a mustard seed do you have enough faith to go back to his feet yes that's all that matters that belief is enough and the truth about like going back to Jesus over and over and over again no matter the results no matter how things change or like don't change according to what you're seeing and feeling right because we don't know what all of God is doing behind the scenes but believing in his name isn't just a one-time moment it's a posture it's a discipline it's a lifestyle it's like we will go back to it over and over again because that is being a follower of Christ that is being a child of God that is somebody who has put their trust in God going back over and over and over again no matter what we're feeling no matter what we're seeing it's a it's a posture y'all it's like this is the way that I live my life and it sucks like sometimes it's so painful it takes discipline and trust and love in the Lord to not just believing in his name as a one-time thing but like it is a posture of how you live your life and what's really awesome is like going back to Jesus again it doesn't have to be dramatic it doesn't have to be loud like if all you have in that moment like I was saying I was kind of having that revelation about is like all you can say is just Jesus it doesn't have to be loud dramatic or perfect sometimes it's just a whisper of like Jesus like sometimes it's literally just whispering his name where you're like Jesus that whisper in your car your room your hardest moment it matters he hears it he responds and he is near sometimes you guys sometimes that is like the most raw and the most powerful thing that you could do in a moment it doesn't have to be dramatic you don't have to make it theatrical you don't have to have all of these words like sometimes it's literally just Jesus that's so good so I think after this episode and we're all gonna practice this until I see you again next Friday but this week we are not only just going to speak the name of Jesus we're gonna lean on it so when fears and anxiety hit you're gonna say his name and you're gonna pause when anxiety rises you're going to say his name and then surrender if you feel alone you're gonna say his name and then you're gonna remember that you're not actually alone he's near and I think a really good truth that we can remember from this episode too is like his name isn't empty it's not just something we say it's he's a person who we trust Jesus is someone we trust and so it's not a matter on whether his name holds power but it it's whether we're actually going to live that way or not do our lives reflect as if we believe that there is power in the name of Jesus and also it's not that we need better words but we just need to believe in the name that we're already saying we need real faith in the name that we are already saying okay well I think that that's our episode for today I think that's our episode you guys I really enjoyed this I'm interested to watch all of this back actually um yeah okay well I'd love to hear what you guys think in the comment section below um what kind of revelations or things really jumped out at you and spoke to you I also am genuinely praying for you guys today as you continue to just sit with the Lord on everything that we talked about and yeah I just pray that this was a boost of faith for you today in the name of Jesus and believing not only just saying not only like the routine of saying his name and praying to him and giving him all the glory with our words but also just a fresh boost of faith in his name I love you guys I'm so proud of you and before we go can we actually do something really cool today can we show somebody how cool Jesus is can we walk more like him talk more like him be more like Jesus today I love y'all I'll see you right here same time same place next Friday bye