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Well, what about the people in Austin saying wanting us to do a reality show? And I said, imagine we would never do this. We are serious about ministry. However, imagine if we did a Christian dating show where you and I were the hosts. She said, let's do one like Love Island. But they all have to clean. They're all in purity and they have to all go in separate beds. Of course. They're living together. So they're just all living together all day together. Yeah. Women in one house, men in another and they're living in purity and they're like moving towards marriage and there's boundaries. What do you think? That would be kind of cool. What do you guys think? What do you guys think about that? Can you imagine though and then where the hosts? Where the hosts would be. We get to boyfriend. We're trying to get people married. Should we be on the show? Well, I was going to say since we're the hosts, we get to pick. We get to have our pick as well. Imagine we did a Christian dating show and it was like really holy and we talked about Jesus and talk about like Ephesians five. There would be games. It'd be amazing. It'd be hilarious. And then whoever slips up gets cut. Oh, I mean, if we see one of these Christians sneaking into a room, they get the, they get an X immediately and they, yeah, you're out. They're out, dude. Purity is everything. You're out. You're absolutely out. We would make it super holy though. All right. What do you guys think? What do you guys think? No, this week, this weekend was so funny. We had to go to Austin to speak on a piano. Okay. We have to tell the story, but before we start, hi, I'm in and I'm Ari and this is girls gone Bible. We are a faith based podcast where we talk all things spirituality, mental health relationships, the Bible and everything that we do here is rooted in our love for Jesus. We are all living very different lives on unique individual journeys, but we are all united in the one thing that is more important than anything. And it's the death, the burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I just feel really compelled to say that every episode to let people know that we serve a God who is not some abstract deity in space. He's not a good idea. He is a person. His name is Jesus. He has a Holy spirit who inhabits our hearts and our bodies when we give our lives to him. If you haven't given your life to Jesus, I'm telling you it is actually literally life or death and there's no other way to live your life except following the Lord Jesus, following the Bible. There's nothing more important. Get a Bible, read it, start in the gospel of John and read about the life of Jesus and it'll change your whole life and it's, there's nothing truly nothing more important. And that was a great intro on that note. That's probably one of the best ones. We are not in our space that we created. And before people freak out, we failed. So I mean, I am utterly disappointed in myself personally. And I felt like, wow, we don't like it. We don't like it, but we're going to fix it and it's going to take some time to revamp. We felt like it was a little too mature and dark and our personalities are very vibrant. It didn't really match who we were. We're just going to do a revamp. But in the meantime, we're back with our trusty honeycomb background. You never fail us honeycomb. So get into, okay, this weekend we have to, guys, we have not had a story like this in a long time. You guys, I had a moment recently where I actually looked at my phone bill and thought, why am I paying so much every month? And I think a lot of us do that. We just accept it. We assume that's just what it costs, but it doesn't have to be. That's what led me to Mint Mobile. 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We also want to say that we were nominated for an I Heart podcast award and we're really sad to inform GGB because you guys were like all in this together. Steven Ferdick beat us. And then I said to Andrew, I was like, well, good, because when I first started my faith on one of the first episodes, I think I said, you guys should listen to Steven Ferdick. I put... That is so crazy how much I've grown. Oh, praise God. It's so beautiful that people get to see that. Yeah. So, Steven Ferdick beat us. Congratulations, Steven. It's all good. All good. We don't care. And then so we're at South by Southwest and Ari and I, the network that Ari and I are that GGB is with invited us to go speak on a panel. And we were so honored because they, out of all the podcasts that they work with, they chose and really wanted us specifically. Like we were... This is what they told us and I'm going to believe them. They told us that we were their first pick. And we actually were kind of like, oh, we don't think we can do it. And they were like, please, we love you guys. We want it to be you guys that represent our company. And Ari and I were like, sure, we'd love to represent you guys. And so, it was such an honor and it's so sweet that they wanted us. So there was like a podcast panel. But guys, it was business. It was a business panel. It was a bunch of brands and podcast people and network people. It was just like the business side of everything. And so Ari and I are speaking on a panel for about 30 minutes. We're in Austin. We're honestly having the best time. The night before we got to go to like a couple of events. We went to a concert. I got to see Elana's more set and she's my favorite icon. You were so happy. I was flippin' on. It's like, yeah. I didn't know she's saying that. On your wedding day. It's a free. Sorry. Ella Langley was unbelievable. I love her. Ella Langley preached the gospel in the middle of her set. I love her. She was amazing. I want to be her friend so bad at it. You probably could. I'd DM her and say I want to be her friend. You should just DM her. She would probably love to be your friend. Do you think she'd let me do a little chorus with her on stage? I think so. You're a really good singer. Oh, Angela, give me a break. I promise you, unless I'm so... I sound like a drowning cat. That's one thing I can't do a saying. No, that's not true. You have a good voice and you can dance. I can rap a little bit. Like to songs that I know. You can. I know the whole Hey Ma song, which I probably shouldn't say in here. Hey Ma. Oh. We're just gonna take that out. We go do this panel. Our outfits were cute. And we go to do this panel and one of the network people that we're with, he's sitting in the middle of us on stage where we do a 30 minute panel. You guys, it's all business questions. So we open it up and like our natural instinct is just gospel, preach Jesus. So it's just like what automatically comes out of us. So he asks us initially like what the mission is of the podcast. And of course I take, well, let me tell you guys what our mission is. It's about Jesus bringing people to Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. And then he starts asking us questions, but usually interviewers will kind of like pose the question to us together. So whoever has the answer will speak up. But this time he said specifically Arielle question, Angela question. So you can't really like pass it off. I'm just, I don't know much about revenue and all these. They are scaling and all these things. I don't even know what I said. What did I say? So Ari's like, he asks us about maybe like 15 questions. How do you scale? So Arielle, how do you like, and then asks a question when it comes to like the ins and outs of like ads and all that stuff and whatever. And Ari, Angela, and a Panna and Ari would be like, well, I would say it just kind of comes back to being authentic and vulnerable. And so I knew, that's all I knew when I see her in the corner of her eye laughing. And then he starts telling us about what was the word? What's the word he said? Hobbyist. So then he gets finished. He gets finished talking about what a hobbyist is and the difference between being a hobbyist and something else. But Angela. So what happens is he starts asking me a question and he says, what is the difference between a hobbyist and I don't remember the rest of the question. And then I guess he explained what a hobbyist is and what the other thing is. And when I looked at Angela, I could tell she was gone. Do you guys ever, like I started thinking about my personal life a little bit. And so you see my eyes glaze over and I just go into completely other worlds. And so he finishes talking and then I tune back in, I look at him and I go, I'm so sorry, what's a hobbyist? And he goes, and I didn't know that he had just explained what it is. And then he explains it. And I go, okay. And what was your question? We were dying on stage. We started laughing and we just let everybody into it and the whole place, like all these business people, everybody was dying laughing. And I'm like, well, we've had the podcast for the past two years. And Angela be like, three years. And he goes, oh, three years? Three years. It was, and we say all that to say it actually went so well, but I just, we wanted to like tell you guys about the business panel that we did. And it's just so funny because you can say whatever you want about us, but you can't say that we're these like genius strategic. I don't know how we've come this far. We are doing it so funny. It was the best. But you know, it's kind of cool. We woke all those business people up. They actually listened. They said I wasn't paying attention the whole time and then you guys woke me up. Did they say that? Yeah. Cute. And then we had just the best time to see Ari semi-flirt for the first time and what feels like a long time was iconic. No, it's crazy because I, when you are in a healing phase, like I thought, I'm like, I've been in a long healing phase and I have not been able to feel in like two and a half years. Feel like romantically, right? Just, I, yeah, I haven't been able to feel towards anyone. Yeah. Cause I've been just truly healing. I'm like, I remember walking out of the bathroom and being like, I can feel again. Girls Gone Bible is proud to be sponsored by Grand Canyon University, an affordable, non-profit Christian university based in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. They say higher education is outdated, irrelevant. GCU doesn't settle for the status quo. They shatter it. Grand Canyon University is one of the largest universities in the country. 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I feel like I'm, I don't know. So it was nice. It's nice to feel that again. Yeah. It was nice to see you. What do I look like when I'm, when I'm, well, I don't know how much we can, it's for you. You're just like, you're so yourself. Yeah. Like you are yourself. You are Ari. You're unique. And you're not the type of person that like conforms to anybody. You are yourself in every situation you show up and it is Ari, your humor, your, the way you operate, the way you talk. And so you, and I feel like especially when we came into this Christian life, it was really confusing because you're like, okay, so like what's my identity now? What can I take with me? What do I have to leave behind? Like it's really confusing when that happens. And so I think for you, like when you are with someone who you can be yourself with, that is your one thing and it's, you can see it from a mile away. I know. I have to be able to be myself and I will know right away because I, you know, when I can't be myself in front of someone, that's the worst you guys. Is that not the worst thing in the world when you are like a shell of yourself? That's how you know it's not the right person. When you can't be yourself. So true. When someone is trying to mold you into someone you're not, that's when you know it's not right. It's so true. You love, you just come alive when you're around somebody that you can be yourself with and like Ari's humor comes out and you just become the best version of yourself. And so it was just really cool. It was like, we're talking about this like something happened, like nothing happened, but she's alive. I'm mad, baby. She's alive. I'm like close for construction for a little while. It's a good thing. Yeah. It's the best place to be. Truly. You know what? I had the thought I said to my mom the other day because I was talking about dating and I was like, my only concern is I don't want anyone to take me away from Jesus because it's been me and Jesus for two, like it's just, that's my husband, my everything, my best friend. And so there's just a different kind of intimacy you have when it's just you and him. I even look at married couples sometimes and I'm like, I have a little bit of nervousness in me because of the way I'm so with been with Jesus. And I know sometimes that like it's not the same. Yeah. I don't know, but when you have a husband or a wife, 100%. And so it's the most special precious time when it's just you and Jesus. So it's like, that's the thing, like we go through grief, which is okay because we yearn for certain things. But there is nothing like just being with Jesus. That's why we like singleness is so it's so no, it isn't. It's the greatest gift we have. Yeah. If we just lean into it, it's been for me. You've done it really well. Thank you. You've done it really, really well. It wasn't me, it was Jesus. And I've told you that so many times. Good for you. Thank you. We're ready for your man. He's so handsome. He's cute, right? Yeah. Yeah, he is. I have to, can I tell you something really quick? You know those moments when you're just, you just know it's like you sit down, you start weeping for no reason. You're like, what was that? And it was just God loving you. Yeah. I just sat on my couch. Yes. Was it yesterday? It was a day before yesterday and I just sat on my couch and I don't know. This is just like being completely real and vulnerable. I've had so many thoughts the past year of like, well, am I supposed to lead someone? Because I don't know, sometimes. Like lead someone to Jesus, like lead a guide to Jesus. Yeah, I just have a lot of thoughts. I've met many Christian men and sometimes it can be disheartening and I'm just like, I come from such a different background where I need someone to understand where I come from and just be cool. And I want someone that gets me and that's typically men that don't necessarily come from the Christian background. That's just been my experience. And but when I really sit with Jesus and I think about it, I'm like, gosh, I can't even imagine someone not being able to like pray for me and lead me and stuff. So I sat the other day and I closed my eyes and boom, he gives me a vision of my, it's always the back of my husband. I never can see the face, but it's always the back even when I get visions walking down the altar. But he was on his knees and he was like this, worshiping and I just started weeping and I opened my eyes and I was like, I know he loves you. Thank you for like giving me that vision that he loves you, that I will be with someone that loves you. I love that art. It was a really sweet moment I had. That is so sweet. It was. It was one of those moments where you're like, Jesus, that was a beautiful cause that's a huge deal. You're like, I just feel like God is so kind to do that, to be like, because in your waiting and in your singleness, like it gets really weird and you're just like, it gets funny. And like, of course, there's temptation to compromise of like, does he really need to be that whole? Does he really need to know everything that we preach about or can I so and I just feel like for God to give you that vision and like put like such an emphasis on it, like don't settle. You will receive that. That is so kind of him. It was cool. So yeah. Before we start, we want to remind you that we are on the girls gone Bible revival tour and we are so excited to be back on the road with you guys starting April 30th and we have done 41 tour nights so far. And so we're almost at the finish line of what is the girls gone Bible tour. And so we really, really want to see you guys. We have all of our new dates at girls gone Bible dot com slash tour. We really want to see you guys there. Love you, hug you, hear the gospel, hear the word of God and I'll be with Jesus together. GGB plus you guys, I love GGB plus because it's just more intimate and we get to go deeper with you guys and talk about really hard stuff that we probably wouldn't talk about on girls gone Bible. And so it just feels like being with your best friends on the couch, just having really in depth, deep, messy conversations. And so yeah, I hope you would join us on girls gone Bible plus. It's really special. I absolutely love it. I get so excited every time we get to film an episode. So I hope you would join us at girls gone Bible dot com slash plus. I got a lot of comments in the comment section about my PCOS and I know I've kind of briefly touched on it, but a lot of you guys deal with that just like I do. I know so many of my friends have it as well. And you guys ask questions of like how I deal with it, how I've been managing it, what I've been doing, what I've, what I've been eating. And it's weird because recently I have been more affected by it. And so I've really had to buckle down and change my lifestyle and just completely, I think I touched on it a little bit last week, but changing my whole diet around. I am a foodie. I love chocolate. I love going out to eat. It's my favorite thing to do like dinners with my friends language. It's my love language. But I've really had to cut that out completely. And I have been cooking my meals, cooking, eating a lot of fruits, substituting desserts with fruits. I make a lot of soups. I eat a lot of meats and vegetables and potatoes. In the mornings, it's like I have my little routine now. So in the mornings, I'll make protein like an egg and chicken sausage or I'll do a protein shake. I add a minute on taking vitamins now and just like watching when you eat at home because the thing is, is like, I think people are getting. What if your Jesus is shaped more by culture than by scripture? We've created and personalized a savior who exists to meet our individual needs and bless our lives. We've made him into a life coach, a therapist for our anxiety, a political ally that Jesus is safe, manageable, convenient. He fits comfortably into our lives without disrupting them too much. The Missing Messiah, a new book by Kyle Eidleman and Mark Moore, helps us understand how Western culture has gradually reshaped Jesus into our image and recognize the difference between a personalized savior and a revolutionary king. It's about the true cost as well as the true gain. 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But I didn't realize, why do I feel so groggy? Why am I so bloated all the time? Why am I always so tired? And it's because I was eating over processed foods. I was eating chocolate. You can't eat that when you have PCOS. It affects you, you're fatigued, you're tired. So the way to reverse that is eating super clean and living a healthy lifestyle. Because there's no medications for it. So- There's no medication for PCOS? No. There isn't. My friend put her friend on a heavy, and I'm going to put all this in the description, but there's a shake called the heavy metal detox shake, and they have a lot of amazing ingredients that really help you with your PCOS. So I'll put that in the description. I love celery juice. It really has helped my gut tremendously. And I just eat a lot of meats and I eat really clean and I'm eating a lot of fruits and making really good protein shakes in the morning and getting a lot of exercise. And I feel so good. My skin feels good. Thank you. You look good. But I feel good. I feel more energized. It was the best thing, the best lifestyle change I could have ever made. And I think we all should be doing that. Not just because I have PCOS. It was like that little nudge from God to be like, take care of yourself, which I always do. I love, I've always eaten organic, but I just go out to dinner so much. I kind of just eat whatever. And so making that change has been such a game changer for me. And what happens because sometimes you get these flare ups? Yeah. What does that look like for you? And you said it happens like every couple of months? Well, so I don't typically get my period. Like the way PCOS works is it's really hard to get your period. Your body doesn't regular, your body doesn't operate like a normal woman. And I just want to say to my brothers that are watching right now, please keep watching. It's really important that you guys know this about women. And so, yeah, if I eat certain things or if my body wants to get my period, I'll have like these flare ups where my stomach is hurts. It's bloated. I have to have a heating pad on. I feel awful. You can't move. I'm moody. Yeah, just your form. It affects your mood too. Yeah, of course. And so there would be so many times where I didn't know why I didn't feel good or I was sad or and it's your hormones are so crazy. It affects you so much. And so that's why changing that my lifestyle has been the best thing ever. When you get those flare ups is that you just have to focus on good nutrition and eating nutrition, managing it with food and not being so hard on yourself. I love that. You know? Yeah, I think as someone who prays God doesn't struggle with any sort of health issues. I can't even imagine what it's like to have something that inhibits your daily functioning and like decreases the quality of your life. Because when you go through those moments, like you're not living life to the fullest quality, you know what I mean? So I just think it's so important for people like what you said to give yourself so much grace. Yeah. I feel so much for people who have chronic illness and like it's just crazy what people have to go through. It's so sad. Oh yeah. Ari and I have never talked about PMSing on here and I just think it's like we go through so much as women and it affects our ability to live properly a lot of the time. Let's just talk about what girls may experience when they are on their period. Sudden anger or irritability that feels completely out of proportion. Do you ever experience that? Yeah, of course. Do you get sad? Yeah, I get sad. Of course. I get sad. I get depressed. I get, I mean you can get, you can have so much PMS so bad that you start to get suicidal thoughts. I know. See, that's what's so crazy about hormones and mental health and how everything is so connected. Literally every single month I would have like two days of absolute hopelessness because I couldn't see anything outside of what I was feeling in that moment which is what I think we go through so much in life in general. Like when we're in this negative emotion we're like has it always been this bad? And it can just like really make you feel numb. It can make you feel insecure. You feel like you're not yourself. And then something that we don't talk about is lust during ovulation. So not only do you get moody and sad around when you're getting your period, when you are ovulating a lot of the time, you can get a little crazy and a little lustful and your body is wanting things that if you're not married, obviously we don't partake in those things and it can get really difficult and really confusing when you're ovulating or you're at a part of your cycle where like you are feeling things that you weren't feeling before and you're having lustful thoughts. I mean I want to do a whole episode, a whole updated episode on lust because we don't do no cookie cutter Christian ease and it's real thing and it's a real thing that a lot of us struggle with even following Jesus and especially around your period. It's so intense. It's so intense and I can't imagine how many girls feel so condemned for the thoughts and the way they feel and stuff. So all I can say is it's normal and you're not alone and it's a struggle. It's a struggle. It's not easy to be a woman. It's so much. It's a lot. That's why you men need to treat us really good and be patient with us. Yeah and I just think when you're having those temptations and when you're at that part of your cycle, like you just have to protect yourself. You just have to be aware. Be careful what you're looking at. Be careful what you're watching. Be careful how much time you're spending alone. If you are in bed and feeling something, get up and go for a walk. If you flee. Flee. Flee dude. Show them how you flee. If you are in a dating relationship, stay away from each other. That is something that literally make it a point and tell, track your cycle, talk to your boyfriend and be like, I cannot be alone with you on these days. It's not safe. It's not helpful and take it really seriously. This is and like Ari said, it's so normal but it's just so important. There's so many parameters that you can put around yourself to just keep yourself safe in those moments. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I have to flee sometimes. I'll get up and take a walk and be like, I'm fleeing. Just in general sometimes. You do? I know I have to flee. I will say, listen, I have plenty of issues. It's the one area of my walk that I don't struggle in. I think that is so incredible. Which I don't want that to feel condemning to other people. No, no, because I know so many girls who truly are suffering and then there's some like me who I do, like I do struggle. It's a comfort thing. You know, I think it's like, yeah, it's like where are you looking to? I have other ways that I like to find comfort. Yeah. And being a human being. Yeah. And you've been single for a long time and you, I think as humans, we crave intimacy. And it's not easy and it's not easy to be a Christian. No one said it was easy. But man, when you fight off that temptation, it is so powerful. The power, like the power I feel when you fight off that temptation, it's like, oh, the best. It's, and it's so important and it's so rewarding and it feels so victorious. So whenever I do have those moments and I defeat it and I flee, I'm just so happy afterwards. And in that moment when you feel like you have to just give into it, like that desire, because it feels so, it's like a rush. Like the Bible says there is no temptation that you can't overcome, that he will not give you an escape. So even speaking that out loud and getting up. So good. Like immediately that will lose its power. Even purity in a relationship is so, so, so, so, so, so difficult. It doesn't necessarily, and no, it is, it is difficult when you are in love and feeling things and kiss it. Like it's so hard and you have to take extra, extra, extra caution and don't condemn yourself if you mess up, but like really take it seriously. Like this matters so much and the natural instinct for your body and your brain is to want certain things and you just have to like, you just have to want the opposite. You know, you have to want the purity and just really be careful in relationships guys. I always say this, I feel like in any dating relationship. This episode is brought to you by Pocket House. The world's number one expandable hose. Okay you guys, I'm not even gonna lie, I didn't expect to care this much about a hose. But after actually using it, I get it. I've used those old hoses before and it's always the same thing. 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Watching our friend get to the altar and do things in such purity and seeing the way God's hand was upon that and seeing just the beauty in it all. I mean, I talked to her so much about it and she was like, it was the most beautiful, the best thing that I've ever done in my life. Wow. Yeah, it is. It's the most beautiful thing you could ever do. It's not easy, but man, is it worth it. It's so worth it. It's so worth it. Yeah. Go ahead. No, I just, it's so important. Even when I did a question box yesterday and so many people were like, can you please talk about this? Like I struggle with it. Like I feel condemned about it. So it's so good we do a whole episode on it. PMS brain and the mental health aspect of it. You can literally feel absolutely insane on your period. You can feel crazy. You can feel, I've like heard so many people be like, I like almost ruin all my relationships every single time that I'm PMSing and it can get in the way of relationships because you don't feel like yourself and you don't feel good and everything is annoying you and everything is, I've heard so many people describe it as like it just makes everything feel like every little thing is so much bigger than it needs to be. And I just think it's something that we just need to be aware of as girls, as women and be aware of it and then not surrender to it, not use it as an excuse like, oh, I'm PMSing so I'm just going to yell at everybody and not be nice. I think all of our spiritual practices come into play taking thoughts captive, talking to people, being honest, like I'm having these crazy insecurities and these thoughts and I feel so sad and I feel so upset and have people, if you like really struggle with PMS, have your core people that you can go to every single month and be like, I need you to remind me of truth. I'm not feeling good. This thing feels so much bigger. Is it real or is it my PMS and just give yourself so much grace, let your body rest. This is something that I really struggle with. Our bodies need different things at different times in our cycles. Like when you're ovulating, you are on it, you're excited, you're feeling good, you're feeling good on life. When you're at the part of your cycle that you're about to PMS and then when you're PMSing, you need different things. You're losing iron. Like you will be deficient in things that you are not in other parts of your cycle. You can't just run 100% like you do when you're ovulating, when you're on your period. So I struggle with that so much because I'm like, I want to go 100% all the time when really like you have to let your body rest. You don't need to push yourself to go to the gym when your body is literally begging you to rest and just relax and eating the right foods for the part of your cycle that you're at. Like eating steak or red meat or things that are full of iron when you're on your period. I just think as a society, we're so out of tune with our bodies and I'm like guilty of that at times. And I just think it's so important to listen to your body and rest when you need to. Yeah, of course. And I'll say one more thing like about the way we're eating. You can absolutely reverse like your what's going on in your body. Like I truly feel like I'm going to be completely healed from PCOS. I haven't felt sick, bloated, nothing since just simply changing the way my lifestyle, my eating habits, exercise, we don't realize how important it is. Sometimes we can be so caught up and just like bed rotting. Like that's a thing now in this generation, bed rotting, phone rotting. I'm guilty of it so much. It's one of the things that I'm really working on sometimes. Like instead of sitting with Jesus, I'm like the way I feel my nervous system will calm is like being on my phone and scrolling aimlessly. And if we can just take these steps of like getting up, getting exercise, getting in the sun. Yeah. I'm on class pass. You are too. I don't know if you guys have ever heard of that, but it like really puts me on schedule. I just go on this app and I find a class that I like so I can do all different classes. I love to do Pilates. I love to stretch my body and I love to run and I love to walk on the beach and I love it's like to you have to work out. You know, no matter what you have to get exercise. Like I, I wasn't a huge fitness girl. Yeah. I would work out like, you know, here and now and then, but it's become such a huge part of my life and it's, it's really changed my life. And I know how hard it is to work out when you're going through something. I know it was really hard for me to, to work out when I was battling, but yeah, exercise, we have to constantly exercise. It's going to change your life and really just, um, we have to get healthy too. All of us. We have to change our eating habits. It's okay to like, you know, have a cheeseburger or whatever, but we can't be eating like crap all the time. Yeah. If you're, if you're wondering why you're constantly depressed, fatigued, tired, you have to look at your eating habits. It's really important. I don't think we talk about the way we eat enough. And um, you know, sugar actually makes me a little bit depressed. Yeah. Like what I, have you always noticed that about me after I have sugar? I have like a mood issue. I become sad. I become, it doesn't make me feel good. Yeah. And people can be a little bit like, I eat the sugar to me, but I'm like, no, no, you don't understand. Like it genuinely makes me not feel good after I eat it. So I don't want to do that to myself even though I love it, but it's just not worth it. And so if you're like, yeah, of course, if you're drinking like, I know so many people who struggle so severely with their mental health, who literally drink like five coax a day and eat horribly. And I'm like, dude, can you imagine if you just fix up your diet, how much better you would feel? Yeah. And I know that not everybody has the resources to like get everything organic and have the best food and have high quality meat. Like I totally understand that. You can just work with what you do have. Of course you can. You can work with what you do have and make consciously healthy decisions. And I'm speaking to myself because I, it's probably it's three o'clock and I haven't eaten today and I don't feel good. So it's like we all just have so much. Yeah. We have so much say in how we feel. Yeah, we do. Yeah. We, a lot of us, me included, we resort to, oh, I don't feel good. Oh, my mental health. Oh, this. That one is just like, are we treating ourselves well? Yeah. Are we genuinely treating our bodies like a holy temple where the Holy spirit resides in to function at optimal capacity? I know I don't a lot of the time and I feel it and I suffer for it. And so yeah, it's just so important guys to put really good things in your body and give yourself so much grace. Oh, when I went to Albania. I will never forget, but it's just not like that here. It's so hard. I know it is hard. We have it so when I went to Albania for the first time, I have never felt better in my life. I was eating pounds of meat every single day, pounds of fruits. I was eating like 15 fruits. It like I was eating three times as much as I do here and I've never felt lighter and better and more energetic and I did. I and like I was glowing. I will never. And the second I got back to America, I literally probably had like a bowl of oatmeal. I don't know. And I immediately felt like so heavy. And so it's so hard. It is hard. Yeah. And I love that you talked about rest because a lot of us are caught like someone like me. I feel like I have to go, go, go. I got to the point where I didn't even know how to rest. Another story that happened to me recently is I, when I was in Florida, there was this little garden with this like little stream and I went into the garden. It was the most beautiful thing. I took my Bible and I sat down and I opened up my Bible and I just started to read it and I just felt this wave of tiredness come over me. So I lay down and all of a sudden I'm dozing off and I hear myself saying, he makes me lay down in green pastures. He walks me besides still water. He restores my soul. I started saying that over and over again. And then I went into deep sleep. Wow. And I woke up probably 30 minutes later and I'm like lying down in this garden with this stream. Wow. And I just felt so refreshed and I had been my head down just going, going, going. And it was just like such a good reminder that rest is so good. We, like we don't, we don't realize how much we need to rest. Like we don't always have to be on the go. We don't always have to be work, work, work. I know some of all of us need to work and work hard and, and get up early and do our thing, but rest is so crucial. I love that you say that so much. I can't believe Psalm 23 actually came to life in your life. He actually led you in a green pasture besides still water. It's, it's insane because that's been my scripture that I stood on for three years. Literally that is my scripture that I repeat. I've memorized it. I repeat it out loud and in a hard time when I need to rest. And so yeah, I thought that was, that was one of my so cute. It was really sweet. I know. I've had moments the past few months of I'll be like on my couch in the middle of the day and there's a million things that I could be doing and I choose to lay, have the Bible in front of me, read a little bit and then close my eyes and be like, I am truly resting with Jesus right now. He's with me and it's like we take a nap. I'll literally go, Jesus, let's take a nap together and we'll like literally take a nap together, but it feels more rest. It's like an intentional I am resting with God right now. Yeah. There's so many ways to rest like that, to like literally set aside a time where you're just going to lay down, close your eyes and say, God, this is like me spending time with you right now. Yeah. That's honestly been what my season has looked like a lot of the times with God is resting with him. Sometimes I'll be praying and I'll fall asleep and I don't feel bad about it. And I wake up and I have this, I'm refreshed. Wow. You know, and I love that. I did that actually yesterday. I was like, went down to worship and I just laid and I just worshiped and slapped and woke up and sometimes that's what it looks like to spend time with God. Yeah. But I just want to let you guys know whatever it doesn't have to PCOS. A lot of so many people have endometriosis. Yeah. What you said earlier, you feel for people that deal with chronic illnesses. So many people, especially us going to all these touring and meeting so many women with chronic illnesses and what they're suffering from. There's just PCOS is just something I'm going through, but you guys are battling so many different things. And I can't believe how close Jesus has been to me through this journey of my PCOS. To make you guys laugh, I didn't know what PCOS was when I went to the doctors and she was a very, a very serious woman. It was, and you guys know me, I'm like hypochondriac and I'm by myself in this doctor's office and she does an ultrasound on me and she comes back in. And she looks at me and she says, well, you, you've been diagnosed with PCOS. I had no idea what it was. I look at this woman, I grab her, I go, what? I go, how much time do I have? Seriously, how much time do I have? Just tell me. This is a real story. And she goes, what? I was like, seriously, I was like, what do I have to do? And she was like the least comforting woman ever. She looked at me like I had five heads. It is the most Ari story I have ever heard in my life. It's like ridiculous. But it's still when we go through these things, when we have any type of illness, Lyme disease, anything like it is really scary and it's really hard to deal with. And we go through a lot and it's you feel very isolated. You feel alone. You feel like am I ever going to be healed? Is this it's when your health is corrupted? That's why every day I'm like, Jesus, thank you for my health. But I can't believe how close Jesus has been to me through this. And I'm sure that you guys have so many stories of how close he's been with you. And then it just brings me back to that to the woman with the blood of she. How she went through 12 years of suffering and bleeding. And then she tried every doctor and remembered by Jesus and all she had to do. She didn't have to strive. She didn't have to do anything. She just had to reach her hand out. We at GGB believe in the miraculous healing of Jesus Christ by the blood of the lamb and the power of the Holy Spirit, by the stripes on Jesus's back. The blood that was spilled can cover your illness. And so do not stop praying for whatever it is that's in your body. And you take your body into captivity and make it obedient to Christ. I always take 2 Corinthians 10, 5 and I make it not just about my mind. But I say, you know what? I'm going to apply it to my body to whatever's in me that is not obeying Christ right now. Stop in the name of Jesus. Be obedient to Christ. Whatever is wrong in your body. We have so many testimonies at GGB shows where we pray for people. It has nothing to do with me and Ari. It's the power of Jesus that heals people through humans. If you're watching this and you're sick yourself or you know somebody that's sick, you get somebody to lay hands on you and pray for you in full faith that you will be healed. Yeah. And I have to tell you, I used to be before my faith. I used to be so scared of PCOS and wondering, can I have children? All these things, I'm not scared at all. Yeah. I know the God we serve and I don't want you guys to be scared either because just like you said, the blood of Jesus, I never stopped praying for myself. I what one thing I do is I'll put my hands over my womb and I'll plead the blood of Jesus over my womb. I'll pray for myself. You you you never stop praying. This is what faith looks like. And this is there's testimony after testimony in the Bible of sicknesses being healed, of Jesus coming and healing sicknesses. And why can't he do that for you? It's literally what he did in his life. Like when Jesus was alive, he spent his time eating with his disciples and the people that he loved. And then he spent his time healing the sick. Yeah. Yeah. And then there's sometimes where we don't see, you know, we don't see healings, but there is a testimony in that too. Yeah. There really is. Yeah. There's been so many testimonies I've seen at the shows where they weren't healed, but man, do they shine his light and help so many people through what they went through? While yes, it was horrible. What happened? I hear so many testimonies of people being like, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. It was the best thing that ever could have happened to me. I can't believe how many people I get to help through it. Wow. Yeah. And to go off of what Ari is saying, you guys also, so you pray for healing with full faith that you will be healed. And if you're not, this isn't to put a band-aid on something like that. I mean, there are so many people who have the gift of healing, who I know so many leaders and pastors and I've heard so many stories of people who have the legitimate gift of healing, like they hold healing conferences and they are have a reputation of praying for healing and cancer being gone and bodies being restored and all that stuff. And then their spouse gets cancer and dies. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. So we have to focus on the things that we can comprehend. And it's that Jesus is a healer. He wants to heal. It's his will to heal. And sometimes for some reason it doesn't, he doesn't. And when he doesn't, again, it's not to put a band-aid on it. But like I think about when Paul talks about the thorn in his flesh, he put, he asked the Lord three times to take it away. Three times he said, but like if anyone was close to God, it was Paul. And he asked him three times to take it away. And God said, my grace is sufficient for you. My power is made perfect in your weakness. And then Paul says, therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weakness because when I am weak, then I am strong. I'm standing on that a lot this season, not for physical purposes, but for mental. Sometimes you have a thorn in your flesh and the call of God on your life is to live a life that's full of joy and peace, regardless of your circumstance. And that's we all, you know, are on a journey towards that. But that's what we strive to do every day is to live a life regardless of what our circumstances look like, to look for peace, to look for joy. And yeah, keep on keeping on. And you're really not alone. You're not. And this life is here today, gone tomorrow, but we have eternity and full bliss with Jesus. Yeah. So this is just a small part of it. Yeah. What you're going through. And in heaven, you will have a new body that's completely restored. That's right. Completely restored. And, and, and our purpose here is to know Jesus. And make him known. And make him known and love and serve his people. We pray for the sick. We be bold in our faith. We lay hands on the sicks and we never stop helping people and praying for people. So good. This is James five, verse 13, suffering hardships. You should pray. Are any of you happy? You should sing praises. Are any of you sick? You should call for the elders of the church to come and pray over you, anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord. We'll heal the sick and the Lord will make you well. And if you have committed any sins, you will be forgiven. That's another thing that I actually have done quite often is when I will call the elders of the church, I will go to church, I will have them pray for us. You've been really good about that for a long time. Yes. I will put people in chains where you pray for me for this. It's so important. This is the scripture says it right here. Are any of you sick? You should call on the elders of the church to come and pray over you. Have people pray over you. Have people lay hands on you. Have your friends lay hands on you. We all have the power to heal each other. Yeah. Yeah. So good. Yeah. So good are you guys be with Jesus, spend time with Jesus. If you're watching this and you feel like you have lost your zeal a little bit or you've lost your fire, it's totally OK. We've been there. And you know what we do? We just go back to the source over and over and over again. So we just want to encourage you guys to get in the word, spend time with Jesus, pray your hearts out and pray for people and live a life that is missional, where you care about others and you see a need and you meet it. And yeah, just go be with God. 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, true, perfect peace. Love you.