Girl, Let Your Faith Talk

Hey homegirls, welcome to another episode of the Girl Just Healed podcast. I'm your favorite homegirl, Nimoya Baysden, and today we have another Rewind episode. And this episode, baby, we're talking about all things, girl, let your faith talk, okay? Because let me just tell you something, sometimes we don't let our faith do the talking enough because we want to talk over our faith. Like, baby, let me just say, this episode is really going to break it down. And I hope that you have been enjoying these Rewind episodes about faith. Y'all know we are gearing up for what? That's right. We are gearing up for our faith series here on the Girl Just Healed podcast. And if you were around for the When Home Girls Pray series, then you know that that series was great. And I know that this faith series is going to be even greater than the When Home Girls Pray series. And so I really want y'all to just take all of this in. Make sure you're taking good notes. OK, write down anything that may stand out to you about faith, any questions you may have about faith. I want you to jot all of that down as we're gearing up to start our faith series. And this episode in particular, this episode is really good. And I feel like every rewind episode about faith that I've done, like God knew this. All I can say is God knew that I was going to be here in this moment and that these episodes were going to come back and they were going to mean more to me today. than they meant when I recorded them. And they meant a lot to me then. So my God, only God could orchestrate something like that. And so in this episode is just another episode about having faith and what faith is and how we need to let our faith do the talking. My goodness, and I'm not gonna get into it because that will extend this out and this will be another episode. But I really want you to just tune in. I want you to get comfy. I want you to pay attention. I want you to take out something to write with, take notes with whatever it is that you got to take notes with because I really want you to pay attention to this episode it's a very important episode and I believe this episode is really going to help you look at your faith in a different light so without further ado let's go ahead and get into the episode y'all already know go to gorgeoushill.com get your prayer cards go to gorgeoushillconference.com sign up for the details for this year's conference there is going to be an announcement that comes out this weekend so if you're listening to this right now I need you to go ahead and sign up to receive the details and yeah we'll have an announcement this weekend about the conference and I love y'all so much so without further ado let's go ahead and get into this episode I pray you enjoy this episode and let's talk about all things girl let your faith do the talking hey home girl welcome to the girl just healed podcast where together we learn how to navigate our healing journeys in a way that challenges us to destroy limits and break down walls that have been keeping us subject to our trauma. I am your host, your favorite homegirl, Nimoya Bazin, and just like you, I am on this healing journey, navigating the ups and downs of this thing called life while simultaneously allowing God to usher me right into the place where he wants me to be. So get comfy, grab your journal, and let's talk about all the ways we can heal, grow, and evolve together. Hey homegirl, welcome to the Girl Just Healed podcast, where together we learn how to navigate our healing journeys in a way that challenges us to destroy limits and break down walls that have been keeping us subject to our trauma. I am your host, your favorite homegirl, Nimoya Bazin, and just like you, I am on this healing journey, navigating the ups and downs of this thing called life while simultaneously allowing God to usher me right into the place where he wants me to be. So get comfy, grab your journal, and let's talk about all the ways we can heal, grow, and evolve together. Hey homegirls, welcome to the Girl Just Healed podcast. I'm your favorite homegirl, Nimoya Bay is in and Chad listen so how are you doing how are you feeling how are you healing I pray that you are doing well pray that you are healing well feeling well all of those great things so y'all we are literally in 2025 happy new year home girls I cannot believe that we are in 2025. Like this is nuts. Okay. This is, this is a little bit crazy because 2024 flew by so fast. Like, I don't know. I just feel like it was just January, 2024. And now we're in January, 2025. And although January, not January, but the whole entire year of 2024 has been one that was very, very challenging for me. It came with some wins, came with some losses, but nevertheless, y'all, I'm really looking forward to all 2025 has to offer. You know, sometimes we get discouraged because of previous seasons in our lives and we like, you know, sometimes if we're not careful, it can roll over and we can not expect anything. You know, our expectation can be very, very low and it's like, oh no, I was disappointed last year. I'm not expecting enough for the new year, But the devil is a liar, baby. I'm expecting the great. OK, I'm expecting God to do great and marvelous things. And I know he is going to like, I just feel that I have so much faith. Like my faith really has been. Look, my faith is on a whole nother level. I'm just expecting God to do some marvelous things in my life. And I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to God's goodness, God's protection, God's grace, God's mercy, his kindness his love all 2025 baby listen and if you are too I just need for you to drop in the comments I'm looking forward to God's goodness all 2025 I'm looking forward to God's goodness all 2025 it don't matter how 2024 looked it don't matter how 2023 looked baby maybe 2022 you still got some residual effects of 2022 and stuff ain't been right since then. But in the name of Jesus, I'm looking forward to the goodness of God all 2025. And baby, that is what I'm standing on. I'm stamping my 2025 in there because I know that God is about to come through for me. Honey, if it's one thing that I know is that my God don't play about me, he gonna come see about me. Like God is going to come through. It doesn't matter the trying times that I go through because those things we like, they're going to come, you know, hard times are going to come. That's all a part of life. It's all a part of create or making us and catapulting us into the person that God created us to be. It's going to happen, but it's not always about that. It's about who you become. Listen, who are you stepping into baby? After everything has been going wrong in your life, you have experienced failure after failure, disappointment after disappointment. Baby, it's all about who you are becoming. And homegirl, I'm becoming somebody great in 2025. Like God is working. God is still moving. Everything is still grooving and shaking. And I'm still trusting and believing God. Like my faith in God is so high. Like nothing can knock my faith down. I believe God. I trust God. It doesn't matter what I've been through. It doesn't matter how it looks. I trust God. I believe God. I know God is still going to do it. God is going to restore to me everything that I've lost plus some because that's the God that we serve. Listen, and you need to believe that for yourself. Everything that you lost homegirl, God is restoring it back to you. Plus some. He ain't just giving you the same thing back, baby. He's doubling and tripling it up. But you got to believe it. You have to have faith in it. Listen, for 2025, that's all we walking by faith and not by sight. Our anchor scripture is Second Corinthians five and seven for we walk by faith and not by sight. Because sometimes it ain't going to look good. Sometimes it's going to look like it ain't going to work out. But faith is going to tell me that everything is working together for my good. Listen, Jesus, my God, everything is working together. For our good We are walking by faith And not by sight All 2025 And I'm excited I'm so excited About what God has In store for 2025 So let go ahead Slide into the episode Y because Oh my goodness I feel it I feel it So we going to first get into some homegirl updates The first being go to girljusthealed get your prayer cards get your homegirl merch all of the good things, okay? Make sure you're on the homegirl list so that you can know when the new merch is dropping, baby, because it's coming. Let me tell you, the new merch is coming, okay and I cannot wait for y'all to see the new homegirl merch it's going to be amazing I know y'all gonna love it just as much as I love it so I can't wait for y'all to experience that get your pieces and just I want y'all to take pictures in y'all homegirl merch tag us in your homegirl merch okay tag girl just heal tag me all of that good stuff I cannot wait till y'all get your homegirl merch the second update is the girl just heal conference is happening this year like I'm so excited to finally be able to say this year okay 2025 baby girl just hill conference is happening and i'm so very excited if you haven't gotten your ticket go ahead and get your ticket home girl secure your ticket okay i don't want you to miss out this room is going to be just packed and filled with sisterhood and community building and all of listen i'm just gonna say get your ticket okay That's all I'm going to say is go ahead and get your ticket so that you don't miss out on Girl Giselle Conference 2025. OK, so now we're going to go ahead and shout out a home girl. And this home girl review comes from Deja Nante. I hope I'm saying that right. And her title is Renewing Myself. And she did leave five stars. So thank you so much for that, home girl. So she says, thank you for all you do. You don't understand the lives you are impacting and I appreciate you. Short sweet to the point. Thank you so much homegirl for this amazing review. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being the best part of Girl Just Heal. And let's continue to heal, grow and evolve together. So y'all, y'all know what time it is now, baby. It is time for what? It is time for the most favorite part of this episode. So y'all know, get your singing voices on because it is time for the prayer cause, prayer cause. It is time for the prayer cause, prayer cause, eight, eight, prayer cause, prayer cause, eight, eight, eight, eight. It's time for the prayer cards, y'all. Time to get our word in. Yes, Lord. What is going to be the first word for 2025? Okay. With these prayer cards. I know it's going to be some good because God always comes through with these prayer cards. So let's see. We going right here. All right. Here's our word, y'all. First word for 2025 is Job chapter 8, verse 7. And it says, your beginning will seem so small since your future will flourish. My God. Listen. what a prayer card to pull for this episode it said your beginning will seem so small since your future will flourish let's go to another version of this y'all I'm going to the New Living Translation version and again that is Job chapter 8 verse 7 and New Living Translation Version says it like this and though you started with little you will end with much oh Jesus my God that'll preach who hold up it said and though you started with little you will end with much baby if that ain't a word for 2025 homegirl I don't know I don't if that ain't a word for 2025 I don't know what it is. This scripture, Job chapter 8, verse 7, New Living Translation said, and though you started with little, though you ain't start with much, though you didn't have all the resources, though you didn't have the business plan, though you didn't have the finances, though you wasn't qualified, though you didn't have the degrees, though you started with little, you will end with much. because the thing is it doesn't matter how it looks oh listen y'all oh my goodness all of this is tying in it doesn't matter how it looks we walk by faith and not by sight meaning right now it may look like it's only a little bit it may look like you lacking the resources it may look like it's not gonna work together for your good though you started with little though you only started with an idea, baby, the scripture tells us that you will end with much. You started with an idea. You go in with a six figure business. Listen, and I'm not, I'm not one of these people that's just trying to preach prosperity to you, baby. Though you started with a broken relationship, you go in with a happy relationship. Though you started with no friends, you're going to end with multiple friends. I need y'all to catch this word. Though you started with no children, you are going to be fruitful and multiply. Though you started with little, listen, you will end with much. This is a word for me. If y'all ain't catching this word, baby, this word is for me. Nimoyah, though you started with little, you will end with much. I want you to just say your name and say though I started with little I will end with much if you are listening to this type that in the comments though I started with little I will end with much it don't matter how it look right now it look like all odds stacked against you it look like it ain't gonna work out it look like you ain't qualified it look like you ain't gonna be financially set it look like you don't got the resources it look like you lacking something It look like ain't nobody gonna come through for you Though you started with little It doesn't matter how it look And I don't know why that's been on me so heavy As far as walking by faith and not by sight Because sometimes we look at our situations And we start counting ourselves out Based on how it's looking Yes, today it look like I'm not gonna make it through Today it look like all eyes are stacked against me Today it look like I don't have nobody in my corner And you know what we do We magnify on that And then we start making decisions based off how it look. But baby, when you walk by faith and not by sight, it doesn't matter if it looks bad. You still going to continue to go because, you know, in the end is going to turn around for your good. You know, in the end is going to work out. So I'm not concerned when things ain't looking too hot. I'm not concerned when things not looking too good for me. I'm not concerned when things are not working out How I want them to work out How I thought they would work out How I plan for them to work out I'm not concerned with that Because I have faith And I know that eventually they are going to work out I know that eventually things are going to come together And things are going to be better than I could have ever planned it That's what faith is Listen, and we won't even I didn't plan to go this route in this episode So but we're going to talk about faith a little bit because I feel like for 2025, we need to up our faith. Me and the homegirls, we just had a faith board, a homegirl faith board party a couple of weeks ago. It was so very amazing just to have this faith board and write down the things that we have faith for God to do in 2025, meaning that it doesn't matter how it looks. I got faith that God is going to work these things out. And that's the posture that I challenge each of you home girls to have is to build your faith. Baby, we can't be caught lacking out here without faith. We can't be caught lacking out here looking at our situations and getting getting all frustrated and all sad and wanting to give up and want to quit because our situations don't look ideal in the moment. Baby, it ain't got to look ideal in the moment because when you got faith, faith says that although it don't look good right now, I'm trusting and I'm believing and I'm hoping and I'm praying to God. I'm trusting in God for this. I'm believing in God to turn this around. I'm believing that it won't always be like this. That's what faith says. That's what faith is. That's what faith does. Faith is saying that no matter how broken this relationship is no matter how broken this friendship is I got faith that it is going to be better I have faith that these this disconnection is going to be mended Right now we ain seeing eye to eye but faith is saying that eventually it's going to get better. Faith is looking to, looking in the future and believing that God is going to fix something that's messed up. My goodness, that is what faith is and we need to amp up on our faith baby we need to be praying for double and triple portions of faith in this year because we have been controlled and we have been letting our past fears and our past failures our past disappointments we've been letting that steer us we have been letting that drive us we have been letting us that keep us in a posture of dang well stuff maybe just ain't gonna work out for me. No, I have faith that it is gonna work out. We are speaking life all 2025 because baby, I got faith that it will work out. It don't matter how it looked last year. Nope. It don't matter. Yep. I went through some of the hardest things in my life last year, but you know what? Faith tells me that this year is going to be even better. Faith tells me that God is going to restore to me what I lost. Faith tells me that God is going to use my grief and he's going to use my trials and my disappointments to bring me to an expected end meaning to bring me to the place that he has already planned for me to be at this is what faith tells me my God this is what faith says to me and me having faith is trusting and hoping and believing in God to do the things that seem impossible you ever looked at your situation and you just like, Lord, if you don't do it, it won't be done. I can't make it out of this, baby. No, we reversing that. And we saying, Lord, I know right now it looks like this situation is bad. It looks like I can't make it out of this. But my faith tells me that I'm going to make it out of this. My faith tells me that better days are ahead. My faith tells me that this is not where it ends. Baby let faith talk Faith need to be talking in 2025 What's your faith saying? Listen, homegirl, I need to know What is your faith saying? Are you going to trust God And believe God Believe him for things you can't even see That's the thing about faith And that's why I love 2 Corinthians 5, verse 7 so much Is because it says For we walk by faith Not by sight Listen, that's the whole message for we walk by faith, not by sight. We're walking by faith. We ain't walking by what we see. We're not walking by how our situation's looking. We're not walking by how things have panned out over these last couple of months. We're not walking by that. We are walking by faith, not by sight. And one of the other scriptures that I love because I'm on this faith tip. OK, and one of the other scriptures that I really love and I brought it up at our homegirl faith board party is Hebrews chapter 11, verse one. And it says, for faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. Baby, come on. If I need y'all to catch this, if y'all don't know by now that baby we ain't we ain't planning or walking or looking at what things look like. Like we ain't doing that in 2025. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, meaning that I don't even know how this situation going to work out. My God, y'all listen, homegirl, homegirl, homegirl, listen, y'all, this word is so good to me. Y'all, this is so good to me. Faith says, I don't even know how this going to work out. Okay. But God, I'm trusting you. that it's going to work out because I'm going to walk by faith, not by sight. And faith is the substance of things hoped for. So what I'm believing God for, what I'm trusting in God for, the evidence of things not seen, meaning it's going to happen, it's going to come to pass. I'm going to trust you, God, and I know it's going to come to pass. So home girl, in 2025, Let your faith talk. I need for you to vow to let your faith talk. And what is your faith saying? I need you to check your faith. OK, baby, I need you to do something. Check your faith. That is your that's your homegirl assignment to check your faith. What is your faith saying? Baby, if you need extra doses of faith, I need you to be at God's face and praying like, Lord, Give me give me extra doses of faith And this season I need it You know I've been letting the fear Of how these situations look Drive me for so long I don't want to let that drive me anymore God I want to have faith in you To work it out I want the kind of faith that even if it looks bad Even if they tell me That I only got three months to live God I want to have the kind of faith That know that you are going to sustain My life my God That's the kind of faith that we are praying for in 2025. And I'm praying that you you have so much faith in God to where even if a situation is looking bad, you not crumbling, you not folding, you not getting upset, you not getting weary, you not getting scared, you're not fearful. You don't have anxiety about this. You not getting depressed because you know that you got faith in the one that can turn that situation around. And God, I know that you're going to do it for me because this how my faith talking in 2025, my faith is so high in 2025 that I know that you're going to do this for me. I'm not worried about it. I'm not going to sleep anymore with anxious thoughts. I'm casting down those anxious thoughts because I have faith that it's going to work out. I can't see it. I don't know how it's going to work out. My friends and family coming to me asking me how it's going to work out. girl, I don't know. I don't know how it's going to work out, but I know it's going to work out. I don't know how it's going to get done, but I know it's going to get done. I don't know where the resources coming from, but they coming. I don't know who's going to help me with this business idea, but the help is already on the way. Hello. The help is already on the way. I don't know how I'm going to get this funding for this business, but baby, it's already there. It's just waiting on me to arrive to it. Oh, it's coming. It is coming. It's going to work out. Our faith in 2025 is so important. And I feel like God didn't put this on my heart for no reason. I, even though this has been a personal journey for me, as far as my faith journey, I've really been like, really just building up my faith in the Lord because I'm like, Lord, I know that when I go through hard times I'm always looking at the situation for what it is like I'm and you know I'm not telling you not to be realistic I'm not saying don't look at your situation for what it is because you know it it's still reality right but I just like I just noticed myself looking at situations so much for what they was and just being down and I'm like hold up I have to change this narrative I can't sit and mope in these things and one of the things that my therapist use. She used an analogy. And one of the things she said to me is that I was explaining to her some things that I was going through. And she said, it sounds to me that you are trying to eat a hard boiled egg before you boil the egg, meaning that you want a hard boiled egg, but you just going to take it out of the refrigerator and you're going to crack it thinking that you're going to get the same thing as a hard boiled egg. No, you have to let it play out. And so I took that And I started thinking about my faith in God And I was like, you know what? With her telling me that, it was so true It resonated with me And I told her, yep, that is me You know, I do do that And I took that and I was thinking about that And I'm like, Lord, I don't want to be on that side of life no more I want to have faith in you And I think about that hardball egg analogy that she used And I'm like, I don't want to always look at situations and look at situations and say, oh, well, I'm thinking about this situation and I'm getting anxiety about something because it looked bad or about something because it just doesn't look like it's going to work out. I'm like, Lord, I need to have more faith in you. Like I was just really having a conversation with the Lord. I'm like, God, I need more faith in you. I need you to help me build up my faith because I know that my faith is going to take me places It going to take me to just a different level in you first of all And that one of my plans That's even what's on my faith board is to grow in God in a different way in 2025. And I'm like, I know that my faith is going to help me get there. But I have to completely trust in you. Like I have to completely have faith in you no matter how it looks. And sometimes the situations can look so bad that we it's like we don't have faith in God because God ain't no way you can work this out. And did you hear like this is what they telling me and people telling me that I need to have faith in God. Yes. Keep that faith in God because God can work it out. And so once I start building my faith and I'm on this faith journey, when I tell you those anxious thoughts, baby, I dismantle those thoughts because I replace it with faith. I let my faith talk, baby. I'm not just telling you. Listen, homegirl, I let my faith talk. I'm like, yo, I'm going to have faith in God for this situation. It don't matter how it look. Yes, it may be bad. Yes, it may look like, who did this is something I never been through before. But my faith tells me that although this is one of the hardest things I've ever dealt with, baby, it's some good that's going to come out of it. This is my faith. This is my faith talking because it don't look like it. My God, it don't look like it. And for me, when I really start going on my faith journey was losing my son. When I lost Noah, baby, I just feel like I just started getting so much more closer to God. And I just my faith just started really just like I was so intentional about my faith and about building my relationship with God and about looking at a situation differently. You know, because, yes, that was a bad it was very terrible. I grieved a lot, still grieve like grieving ain't gone for me. You know, like I still grieve about losing my son, but I had only two choices. I could sit after losing Noah and I could like moping it and I could really like just cry and be down so bad. Or I could build my faith and have faith that even though this is the hardest thing I've ever dealt with in my life, it's some good attached to it. And that's my faith talking. Because it don't look like anything good coming out of that My God But my faith told me That there is some good attached to it That this ain't just happened This ain't just a bad situation My faith told me it's some good attached to it And that's when my faith journey really, really started When I tell you When I got real serious about my faith journey I got real serious about studying faith For myself Not just going to church Hearing the pastor talk about faith No I want to know faith for myself And I needed to know what faith was for myself And faith is knowing Without the shadow of a doubt Baby no doubt in sight I know that even though this situation look bad It feel bad It seems bad It's still gonna work out For my good It's still some good attached to it It wasn't in vain, my God. It wasn't in vain. I didn't just go through that just to go through it. It's something good that's going to come out of it. But the only way I could have got on that side of losing my son homegirls is because I had faith. I was intentional and I still am. That ain't even past tense, baby. I still am intentional about building my faith, building my faith in God and just knowing that every situation, every situation, my future situations that I may encounter, future disappointments that I may go through all of that. I'm going to have faith enough to believe that everything I go through, everything I go through, every bad situation, every uncomfortable moment in my life, everything I go through is for a greater good. And my faith is telling me that. So I encourage you homegirls. I encourage you to just also examine your faith. Okay. Examine the situations that you are going through. Examine how you're, what is your faith saying? Okay. When you encounter disappointments, when you face hard situations, when it looks like things aren't working out, what is it that your faith is saying? And if your faith ain't telling you that God's going to work it together for your good, if your faith don't believe that God has a plan for every heartache, every heartbreak, every hardship that you are going through, then I encourage you to pray to God and ask God to give you extra doses of faith because 2025 homegirls we are believing and trusting in God for the unseen the things we don't even know like I don't even know I have no proof that this is going to work out but God I trust you that's how strong my faith is that's how much faith I have in you and that's how much faith I encourage each of us homegirls to have in 2025 to just go on your own personal faith journey okay This is something personal. Go on your own personal faith journey and just continue to build your faith in God. And you are going to be so amazed at how much more peace you have. Because, baby, I got so much more peace now that I am building my faith in God because I don't worry about things. It's like I'm not worried about that. I got faith that God is going to work it out. And you know what? Even if God don't come work it out, OK, like the three Hebrew boys, my God, even if he don't come work it out, I still got faith that his plan will prevail and his plan is best for me. Like that's, I'm not going to be worried about things that I can't change or things that happen, things that's going to happen. I cannot sit around and fill my life with the worry and the anxiety, all these anxious thoughts and just changing my mood and making me sad. And I'm going through all these emotions. No, baby, I have faith in God and I am trusting God. I'm believing God to work it out even when I can't see it, even when I don't feel like he working it out, even when it don't look like he working it out. I still believe God and I still trust him to do what's best for me because I know that that is what he is going to do. I have faith, baby. I don't doubt. OK, homegirl, our faith game is strong in 2025. OK. All right, homegirl. So this camera died twice. So we're going to go ahead and close this episode out. But I pray that you pray to God for more faith in 2025. So y'all know how we're going to do it. We're going to close it out with the Girl Just Healed mantra. But first, we're going to take a deep breath in and out. And that is just us releasing all of the cares of this week, yesterday, today, anything that's come to hinder us. And we're going to repeat the Girl Just Healed mantra. And the Girl Just Healed mantra is, I accept myself for who I am. I free myself from all fear. And today I choose to heal. I accept myself for who I am. I free myself from all fear. And today I choose to heal. I accept myself for who I am I free myself from all fear and today I choose to heal so thank you so much for tuning in to this week's episode of the Girl Just Heal podcast I pray that you have a wonderful new year I'm your favorite homegirl Nimoya Bazin and until we speak again girl just heal thank you for listening to this episode of the girl just healed podcast be sure to connect with us on social media at girl just healed and if you need an extra dose of support during your healing journey join our private facebook community where we can continue to heal grow and evolve together