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Like whatever December to January. And I asked Ari if she wants to do it for me. And she's or do it with me. And she's like yes, I would love to. And so I get to her house last night and she's drinking a coke. Kind of like a Mexican coke. They're my favorite. And I go, are you out? Well, because then she goes, I have not had a sweet treat like I wanted a cupcake. I'm so proud of myself. Yeah, she's like I had it out. She's like I wanted to have a cupcake and I didn't have one. And I'm like, are you drinking that coke? And she was like I've had three today. She's like yeah. And I was like, Ari, do you know a coke has 40 grams of sugar in it? Like that's okay, but why are you pretending like you're doing your sugar fast with me? And she was like it's a Mexican coke. I'm like it's natural sugar. I'm like what is that? And she goes it's natural sugar. I'm like excuse me. I literally go, did you read the nutrition fact? She goes no. And I'm like, are it's cane sugar? And she's like, are you kidding me? Oh my gosh. You thought it was sweet and with honey. Like it's a coke. She goes yeah, but it's a Mexican coke. But it's different from the canned coke. I said, right? Nope. I said are same ingredients. One is just simply in a can and the other one's in a glass glass bottle. Is the coke in the glass bottles? AK, the Mexican bottles better than the cans? Traditional Mexican Coca-Cola uses cane sugar while U.S. is often made with high-fruptose corn syrup. Boo yeah. Boo yeah. High-fruptose corn syrup is disgusting. Right. That's in the Mexican. I mean in the American, but the Mexican cold-shed-out drink is a straight cane sugar. I am maybe that's better. Hello and up with good blue. Hi guys, I'm Manj. And I'm Ari. And this is Girls Gone Bible where a faith-based podcast where we talk all things. Spirituality, mental health, the Bible. Dude, we love Jesus. What would you do without Jesus? No, you already know I wouldn't be here. No. Be done in the ditch somewhere. Guys, if you haven't given your life to Jesus and you're new to all this and you're just watching us for some reason, I just want to tell you right now. There is no way to get through life if not for Jesus. The second you put your hope in anything other than Jesus. You crash, you crumble because life never turns out the way that you want it to or the way that you think it will. So putting our hope in Jesus is the only trustworthy thing that we have on this planet. Yeah. So put your hope in Jesus. Let Jesus be the Lord of your life. We need Him. We love Him. He's alive. He speaks. He wants to be in relationship with you. Yeah, Jesus is everything. He should be everything. To think and to think. I was a little bit anxious today. Yeah, let's talk about it. Been a little bit anxious today. Sometimes when you're so anxious, it's so hard to stay on your knees. Stay in that quiet time. That's just life, right? I was reminded of that because we talk about it a lot in our shows. To get down there into that intimacy time, but I'll tell you I did a hard time today to do that. Yeah, I don't know what it is. Sometimes life just makes you feel anxious. You wake up sometimes and you you don't feel good. It's really hard to sit there. Yeah. So if you're someone who is going through that, I just want to let you know you're not alone. Yeah. I experienced that a lot. I think we've talked about it a lot that when I'm anxious and I think both of our inclinations is to get anxious. When things are hard, when I'm anxious, I literally can't sit in the secret place. I can't do it. Like I'm so antsy. I got to get up. I got to do so. It's so hard to be in the secret place when you're anxious and right? It's the one time you should be in there. So I feel you completely. I've had plenty times where I sit down and I know what I need is the presence of God. I know what I need is to sit and be loved and be washed in the word. And it's literally the like it's almost physically impossible for me to do that. So like I said, you're not alone. If you're in a situation like that, we understand you. We know what it's like to be anxious. We know what it's like to be restless. I feel like that's the right word, right? Like when you're restless and you just like feel like you're calling out of your skin. And I haven't felt like that in a long time. What do you think it is? I think when I know I have a lot of things coming up and I feel really overwhelmed. Right. My mind gets really tired and my heart starts racing and it's too much to deal with. So my first thing that I think to do is just like, okay, numb out on something. Yeah, numb out on the phone. Watch funny videos, which is fine sometimes when you just want to not think about things. But I think when I have so much going on, I get really overwhelmed and overstimulated. Yeah. And just can't, you know, so I think that's what's been going on in this past few days. Oh, I feel you, girl. I feel you. The way to ministry is not easy, guys. Ministry is so many people want to get into ministry and I'll tell you it's not easy. No, it's incredibly heavy. It's so heavy. Cosly. Yeah. And it's so worth it. But it's not like it's not like anything else. It's so worth it. It's so worth it. But it's not like anything else. The fact that there's a spiritual aspect to everything we do, no matter where we go, even if it's like a seemingly insignificant thing that we have to do, like a little podcast or a little this, like if you are representing and proclaiming the name of Jesus, you're in battle 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It's just, it's just the fact of it. And obviously Jesus fights the battle for us, but that doesn't mean that we come out completely on skates sometimes. And it can be really, really heavy. And yeah, we've been doing a lot of ministry recently. We've had a lot of GGB nights. We've we've been doing a lot. And it's so beautiful. And I think we're both going through a little bit of a time right now. And I think we're doing the most amount of ministry during a challenging season, which is just, but even just like telling you guys that I feel like I was a little anxious today. It like almost loses power a little bit. Yes. It's why it's so good to be open about things like I just say in that because I was like, I don't want to just, yeah, it like loses power a little bit. That's why it's so good to talk to friends and stuff when you don't feel good. It's the best thing you can do. You have to talk to people. The minute you start to just like be vulnerable, it just loses its power automatically. It really does. Yeah. Before we get into today's episode, we want to remind you guys that we're on the Girls Gumbival live tour. Guys, we have LA this weekend on Saturday, the six. So excited. It's so exciting. It's our home base. We've never done LA before. We've never done LA. I know. What a good way to end the year though. So we're doing, we have a show in LA this weekend. You can get your tickets at girlsgumbival.com slash tour. If you're in the area and want to come, something else we want to remind you guys is our devotional out of the wilderness. 31 devotions to walk with God through your hardest seasons is out everywhere that you can buy it. We love this devotional so much. We told you guys so many times, but it's been so transformative for so many people and there are, I see so many people tagging us in like Bible studies and in like small groups. That's my favorite. Going through the, it is everything. It's, it's, I know, we couldn't have even imagined that we'd be in that position and just thank you Jesus for vulnerability because we don't got a lot, but what we do have is Jesus and we have our vulnerability. So you can go to girlsgumbival.com slash book to get your book. 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I've just been going through the book of Isaiah recently. It's so funny. I haven't even read the whole book of Isaiah but I literally when I don't when I need comfort and when I need grounding specifically, I'll start out like Isaiah 43 until 53 and just like read those 10 chapters back and forth. And I don't know why exactly it's so grounding for me. It's like whenever I feel like I've lost my footing in a way. If I'm ever disoriented, I go to Isaiah. First of all, Isaiah 53 is called the suffering servant. So it's the prophet Isaiah talking about the crucifixion of Jesus way before it's time. And so that's always really grounding for me because I'm like that's my guy. That's my Jesus. And then I obviously love the Old Testament so much because the Israelites, as we read about the past two episodes, the Israelites are a mess. They're disobedient. They're faithful. And it's just so incredible for me how God speaks through the prophet Isaiah constantly. And he's like hurt by the Israelites. He's hurt by his people but like his hurt and his anger is never an end. It always ends up with him asking them to come to him. And so it's just always really comforting for me for for some reason to see God's disappointment. It never happens at a good time. The pipe bursts at midnight. The heater quits on the coldest night. Suddenly, you're overwhelmed. That's when home service here. For 499 a month, you're never alone. Just call their 24-7 hotline and the local pro is on the way. Trusted by millions, home served delivers peace of mind when you need it most. For plans starting at just 499 a month, go to homeserve.com. That's homeserve.com. Not available everywhere. Most plans range between 499 to 1199 a month, your first year terms apply on covered repairs. In unfaithfulness of his people and in their disobedience, which is me half the time. And so to see that even his anger is not an end. So whatever I'm going through, whatever I'm stumbling through life through, I can see God's character as a father of being like, I don't care what's happening I want you. It's really grounding for me. But something that I read that was like pretty humbling and like just crazy. I'm going to read Isaiah 48 verse 9 to 11. It's short, but it's so rich. So he says, for my name's sake, I defer my anger. So this is God talking for my name's sake. He says, I defer my anger. For the sake of my praise, I restrain it for you that I may not cut you off. Behold, I refine you, but not a silver. I have tried you in the furnace of affliction for my own sake, for my own sake, I do it. For how should my name be profaned? My glory, I will not give to another. So I love this moment so much because God says, for my name's sake, I defer my anger. God should be so incredibly angry at us. Like he should actually burn us all up because of our disobedience and our evil and all our sin and all the things. And yes, he loves us. So he doesn't destroy us. But what I love about God is he actually cares about his own reputation. Isn't this so interesting for my name's sake? I defer my anger. For the sake of my praise, I restrain it. He's like, I'm not going to destroy you completely because it's not who I am. And I care about my reputation. You guys deserve to be destroyed. But because I'm faithful and I keep true to my promises, I'm not going to destroy you because God always is faithful to who he is for who he says he is. And he says, behold, I have refined you, but not a silver because when you refine silver, it's at a heat that is so high, humans couldn't take it. We wouldn't be able to withstand it. So he says, I have refined you. So I have put your feet to the fire a little bit. You are suffering because of your disobedience. You are going through trials because you have disobeyed me, but not to the point that you're destroyed completely. So that's always so encouraging for me that even if I'm facing such deep suffering, I will never be destroyed by it. God's never going to take you through something that will destroy you. Your suffering is not the end of your life. It's never an end. But there is something that's that's really, really good and profound that's being produced in you through the suffering. I have tried in the furnace of a, I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. So God lets us know, like, I am put it, I am letting you go through things. I am because it's good for you. And then he says, for my own sake, for my own sake, like he says it twice, I do it because how should my name be profamed? How will I, how could I let my name be disgraced and people no longer trust me? Yeah. My glory, I will not give to another. So I just think this is profound. I don't know if anybody else thinks it is, but I love scripture. I love Jesus. I love the character of God. And it's so cool to me that it's just humbling to know that we deserve so much worse than what we get. Oh, yeah. And God is so kind and he's also reputable. And that also, so comforting for me to know that if God's made promises over my life, which he has, that he works all things together for good in my life, and that he, whatever the enemy meant for evil, God will turn for good and goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life. If these are promises, I can count on them, not even just because God loves me to keep them, but he cares about his own reputation. Yeah, yeah. So cool. And I love in Romans 8, 20, he said, I work all things together for the good, but he doesn't say that it's going to feel good. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. So I just, I know, suffering, it's, it's so painful in the moment, but it's, I think about us, we, we would never be able to handle even what we have now if we didn't go through the suffering. The best we are. The best parts of us were forged in the suffering. Like you see someone who's never suffered, and I'm just like, and you're like, you gotta go through the list of things. Because it just makes you a more compassionate person. It makes you a stronger person. It makes you a person that yeah, can withstand trial. I know. It's the most important fit. Like, I used to, I used to be so embarrassed about how I grew up and where I come from and stuff, and I couldn't be more proud now. Yeah. So I feel like I would never be tough the way I am if I didn't go through all I did since I like, I always say like not everything's in the perfect will of God, like what you go through and abuse and all these things, but he really does work all things together where you are able to help and have a compassion and love more and withstand more. Yeah. It's so true. And it makes you a better person. It really does. Unless I always say the person that I mean, better ghost has, I hope he has been through a couple of things. I hope so. Yeah, now, I hope so. Well, I said this the other day on Ebenezer's podcast actually where I was like suffering that's not submitted to Jesus will end in it'll result in bitterness and a callous heart. And it'll result in you being just traumatized and maybe not good to people, but suffering that is under the blood of Jesus can only produce goodness inside of you. Like it's literally the tool, the resource, the thing that God does to carry out Genesis 50, 20 in our lives, that whatever the enemy meant for evil, God will use for good. So no matter what tragedy you are facing, if it's under the blood, it will be for your benefit. And that benefit is usually a better character. What is that scripture? Don't rejoice in the fiery trials. I'm combining like three scriptures, whatever rejoice. But what do you mean by like if it's not submitted to the Lord, like if you try to do life your own way? Well, if you get traumatized through life, like for example, I've been through lot in my life before I met Jesus, it wasn't serving me well. You know, sure, it probably made me strong, but I definitely had stuff, right? I'm like turning to alcohol, I'm turning to people, I'm turning to this, that, whatever. Like it certainly wasn't serving me well, the suffering. But the second I gave my life to Jesus, the second I pled the blood of Jesus over my life, I became an overcomer. I became victorious. So God was able to use all of my suffering, all of my brokenness, everything that the enemy meant for evil. God was able to use it to my benefit. And he still does every day, right? It's like a work of sanctification. But every single day through my suffering, through trials, I become more like Jesus. And guess what the whole point of a Christian walk is? It's not to have a perfect life. And I hate that. I really want a perfect life. I hate suffering. I hate feeling pain. I hate having a bad, I'm like the queen of I want every day to be a good day. But I know that I am becoming more like Jesus every time I hurt. And so yeah, this is what I'm doing a lot recently, guys, where I'm just like, if I have to go through something as hard as it is. First of all, rejoicing in the middle of pain is just the greatest weapon that you can use against Satan. Literally the greatest weapon against darkness is in the middle of crying, being like, thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus. Even if you don't mean it, thank you, Jesus, even neurologically, even psychologically, you're doing something. And spiritually, I know you're doing something. You're like pushing back against the darkness. And then something else that I'm doing a lot recently is being like, if I have to go through something, just don't let me miss what you're doing in me, Jesus. Don't let me spiritually or emotionally bypass whatever it is that you're doing inside of me. Don't let this suffering be in vain. Just like we don't want Jesus to suffering to be in vain, that's why we submit ourselves to a holy and righteous life so that Jesus can receive his reward for his suffering. We also don't want our suffering to be in vain. So I constantly, even in my worst times, I say, don't let me miss what you're doing in me. If I can just shift my perspective and like lift my eyes a little bit above my current circumstance, and I can see spiritually, Jesus is producing something inside of me. I say, just don't let me miss what you're doing. Let it take place, form yourself inside of me. And then another thing would be not hiding in the dark. Yes. You know, one of the greatest practices of relationship with Jesus is not only falling into his arms like a child, but also falling into your friends arms like a child. And just not hiding, not, you know, grieving in community, crying out in community. It really does heal. That's why he gives us each other. I would die if it wasn't for my friends and the people in my life. And I remember Tony said something really good where she was like, you need to forge your friend group and the people in your life in good times because you don't want to be scrambling in bad times looking for people to be there for you. And so it's just like so cool when you know you're going through something difficult and you automatically have just an army of people behind you there for you. Doesn't it make you feel so seen and so loud? It's like I can get through anything when I have my troops. All right, listen guys, we didn't realize how much our cookware was betraying us until we learned what's actually hiding in most nonstick pans. Are you ready for this? Forever chemicals, toxins. The way that one tiny scratch can release thousands of plastic particles into your food. 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I think sometimes we don't even know why we feel so sick inside because we're so covered in shame. And we just constantly have this voice telling us that we're not going to be forgiven and God has so mad at us. And it's just I'm so sick of that of like this perception of life with Jesus of it's just this rigid I can't do this or I'm going to be you know just put to shame. And I came across some 32 and I I thought it was so beautiful for someone who's just struggling. Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is put out of sight. Yes, what joy for those who's record. The Lord has cleared of guilt whose lives are lived in complete honesty. When I refuse to confess my sin, my body waist sit away and I groaned all day long day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide my guilt. I said to myself, I will confess my rebellion to the Lord and you forgave me. All my guilt is gone. Therefore, let all the godly pray to you while there is still time that they may not drown in the flood waters of judgment. For you are my hiding place. You protect you protect me from trouble. You surround me with the songs of victory. Yes. The Lord says, I will guide you along the path pathway of your life. I will advise you and watch over you. Do not be like senseless horse or mule that needs a bite or brittle to keep it under control. Many sorrows come to the wicked, but unfilling love surrounds those who trust in the Lord. That's right. Whoever reverence. So rejoice in the Lord and be glad. All you who obey him shout for joy. All those whose hearts appear. That beautiful. This is insane. This isn't a pass to sin, but it just shows you the Jesus. If somebody is really struggling with repentance and you keep doing the same thing over and over, you've been a Christian for so long and you still have one foot in and one foot out and you're still in habitual sin or you're still jealous or you're still prideful or whatever it is. Ask the Lord to help you with your heart. Say, help me love you more than I love that thing. You know, he will help you. I was living in ignorance for a long time I had a lot of pride before I really made the decision to lay down my life and I had to really get down on my knees and say, I need help. It feels impossible to let go with certain things that I'm holding on to and I need help. The more I was compelled by the love of God, I just, that stuff started to be so sick to me. I started to actually hate it. I started to hate when like gossip came out of my mouth. I started to hate when jealousy started to arise in my heart. I hated living in habitual sin. I didn't like being divided from certain people and so just the more I started to ask him to help me with my heart, my heart was soft and I started to see straight and I wanted to follow him more and repentance has been the greatest gift in my life and I just love this so much. It's also just life with Jesus. You guys is all about humbling, getting humbled, being humbled. I think, you know, so much of what we go through in life, the most beautiful thing that I think God is oftentimes trying to produce in us is humility and every time I face something, every time that things go awry or I'm hit with tragedy, I feel it humbled almost every time, every single time. I'm always like, oh man, this sucks, but I feel humbled. I'm really humbled under God right now. Like I really, because if your life was perfect all the time and everything went the way that you thought it would, you would not be humble. And God cares way more about you being humbled than he cares about you being comfortable. Like I said, the whole point is that we become more like Jesus. And one of my favorite scriptures is that Jesus did not count equality with God as something to be grasped, but instead he humbled himself. He emptied himself and another translation says he made himself and he took on the form of a bond servant and he was obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. So it's just like a perfect picture of the humility of Jesus. He is all humble. He was born as a baby in the dirt, humble. He's a king who literally gave up his life and was murdered in the most disgraceful, disgusting, horrific way anybody can ever be killed. And that's how humble he was. And so every time I'm facing something and my feet are to the fire, I'm like, Jesus, you love humbling me. And it's so painful and it's so hard. But if I can become more like Jesus in any situation, it really is worth going through. And I know anybody who's going through that, it's the last thing you want to hear. It's so annoying. Trust me. I know whenever anybody's like God's doing something and you're like, shut up. That's not helpful. It's the truth. It's the truth. And the second you're out of the hard situation, you go, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Life as a Christian, you rarely ever get out of the fire and don't say thank you, Jesus. When does that ever happen? It's so hard to say thank you, Jesus, when you can't see the full picture. But the second you're out, you go, thank you. Thank you. So, yeah, I don't know, the Psalm you read for me, for me, the Psalm you read to me was very much like, it's just humbling. It's humbling to sin, to repent and then to get back up. Yeah. So if you feel like God is mad at you, I just, I want you to give the same grace to yourself as he's given to you right now. Humble yourself just like you said. Humble yourself before him, the heartful repentance, talk to him. Tom, what you're struggling with. It's so crazy how guilty we feel. And then when David says, finally, I confessed all my sins and stopped trying to stop trying to finally hide the guilt, I will confess my rebellion to the Lord. And then he, and then he looks up, can you imagine, David? He goes, and you forgive me. Oh, my guilt is gone. So when we come to that place of repentance and we cry out to God and we, and we repent and then we're still feeling shame. I want you to understand that that isn't of Jesus. Yes. And I want you to remember what David said when he said, and you forgive me, all my guilt is gone. So sometimes I just, I don't know, I've had it on my heart that some of you guys are repenting, but you're still walking away feeling feeling shame. And that is not of the Lord who will never condemn you or make you feel shame. And so let's just be quick to remember that. Wait a minute. No, no, no, I'm feeling shame. Again, I'm starting to beat myself up. That's not of God. I take authority of that shame. I take authority of those thoughts that is not of God. You keep saying that every time that talk of you, to take authority of that thought, okay? You punch that thought in the face and say, shut up, goofy spirit, get out. All right. Okay, Gabriella said, why are you so creepy, man? First of all, Gabriella, love you so much. Okay, now that we've talked about suffering and dying, let's have a little fun. Why don't we? Oh, this is so good. Do you find it annoying when the person praying over the food is taking too long? Yes. Yes, me too. And I'm usually that person that prays for too long. Yes, I do get annoyed a little bit. Right? What is that? But it's usually when I'm starving. Yeah, Arizo, you're always like a fortune. Okay, if Jesus sent you a voice, memo, what do you think he'd lovingly call you out on? Wow, that's a great question. Yeah. I think what he would call me out on is, I think he'd call us probably all out on this, but the capacity of the way he loves us, but the way we beat ourselves up every day, because I think if we all truly understood the love of God, we wouldn't stress the way we do. Okay, what? Yes. And then there's been so many things in my life that he's been like, now do you trust me? Like, look at what he's done in my life. It's crazy. But sometimes I can still question things in his ways. And it's like insane, because he's shown me over and over again how much better his ways are, but still I still worry sometimes about certain things. If certain things will come into my life. So I think he'd lovingly be like, don't you know how much I love you. Stop dwelling. I love that. I love that. That is honestly, that's what I would have said. I would have probably been like, Jesus is probably like, and sister, you got this. You've been here before. Like you got this. You have history with me. I feel like you would say, I feel like Jesus would be like you and I, we have history together. Yeah. Okay, you know me. Yeah. She's weird. Okay, what is the most embarrassing thing that's happened to you while on stage? Mine was, so I want to be like a skinny legend. And so I'm just kidding. But I went on stage and like I tightened my belt super tight and I was worshiping. And I was like, I can't breathe. Like I don't really feel good. And so my belt was so tight and I was on stage. Like it's like the second you walk on stage, it is two hours or like an hour and a half of you being on that stage. You can't leave. You can't take a break. Like there's nothing you can do. And so I'm sitting there and you're talking and I'm like, I can't breathe. And I literally go, you guys, I'm so sorry. This is so awkward. Ari, can you come stand in front of me really quick? She stood in front of me while I like untighten my belt. Like went like a belt buckle less. And you thought that was embarrassing. No, it wasn't embarrassing, but it was like weird. That was hilarious. I've done that so many times. We were about to go on stage. I had my my tags on my dress still. And so where I'm ahead of And and I'm going to walk on stage and she grabs me by the fact because my my price tags were hanging off. I forgot to take them off. And I was like, who's the worst driver? How could they say, do you think Jesus fired it? So was I do do you think Jesus fired it? That is that why would they say that the answer is probably yes, he's a human. Okay. Well, that is what were you going to say? What was the worst driver? You are. You better shut up right now. You know, dude, you're like, I will say this about you. Okay. I like that. You you get us there. Well, even though it's driving over curbs a hidden pot, you get us there. I thought you were going to say hitting people. I haven't done that yet. But you know I'm a sick driver. You're a great driver. I'm like, I'm like Marco and Dredi. I can like we through. He's a race car driver. My gosh, you're about to make everybody who knows that really happy. Someone said his crop dusting rude. What's that? It's when you walk by someone and you fart and you keep walking. I'm so embarrassed. You mean you don't get embarrassed with that I'm talking about you. I'm so embarrassed. Crop dusting. I didn't ask it. How do you know what that is? Are you acting like you're in that Victoria show that we watched our snake? Are you a princess? If you were an animal, what would you be? It depends on the way we have to. We have to use a hippo. We have to say for each other if I think you were an animal. I hope it's okay if I make some like like body jokes. I really don't want to be my dog. I'm just kidding. But like I want to be myself and like make it whatever. Okay. What animal would I be? Don't care. You'd be like a horse. I'm not sad. You'd be like a horse. You're like a gorgeous horse. Like a bunny. Oh, you'd be a bunny. You would be like a... Like a giraffe. Excuse me? I don't even have a long neck. Beautiful. Yeah, that is so rude. You just called me a horse. Okay. Yeah, like a beautiful horse. I'm like a long neck giraffe. Like poke my head in places I shouldn't be. No, I'm just kidding. Would you be like a lion-esque? Lion-esque? Like a lion. Okay, don't ask if Jesus ordered. That's so weird. That's awful. It really is. If God played a laugh track over your life, which moment when you replay the most every moment I've had with you, would be the laugh track of my life. Gosh, we haven't laughed. We have. Honestly, guys, when I think about the holidays growing up, there's one gift that I still remember, and it's mostly because I wish it had lasted forever. My parents saved up to get me this one big present that I'd been begging for. Like, I was obsessed. I carried it everywhere. 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You get 60% off your first order plus free shipping when you head to smalls.com slash ggb. One last time you guys that's 60, 60% off your first order plus free shipping when you head to smalls.com slash ggb. Okay, what's one thing that annoys you the most about one another? Oh yeah, you go first. Yeah, I'm just kidding. I'm thinking therapy. Just kidding. That genuinely you go first. You go first. No, no, no, go. I don't want to go. Go. Go. Go. My you can do it. Don't fluff it either. Be honest. Probably how bad you are with technology sometimes. Yeah, oh yeah, that doesn't owe you. It doesn't it doesn't annoy you. It doesn't annoy me as much as I like it triggers my control and I just want to do it specifically. Just trying to see you do any big on your phone. It's it erics you. Wait, it just makes me feel like I got it, I got it, I got it. What's something else? No, nothing you go. What annoys me most about you? My eating habits? Well, no, they've gotten so much better. It's actually helped me. Really? Yeah, it helps me not eat cakes after every lunch meal. We eat no, just a Mexican coke with honey. Okay, what? Oh, I know it annoys me. You can't sit still. No, you would have to like like we can't just chill. It's like five minutes and then you're like pacing or you're on a call or you have to take a ride and then come back. Yeah, what is that? I'm like my mom. My mom just say my mom can't sit down on the couch. She always has to be doing. It just always feels like there's something to do. You know, like something a complete. I'm just like very task oriented like super type A. Yeah. I'm actually not. Are you type A or type B? I'm a hybrid, but I am type A with being on time. You are. Two hours really the year for it. Always. You're a hybrid? Yes, you are. I'm a hybrid. I'm type A in some things and then very relaxed in other things. Like super chill, like cool girl. Yeah. I'm like super chill. Like I'm not even like I'm so cool guys. I'm I think I'm a phone phone type B. Phone thrill. Phone thrill. Yeah, I'd say you're super type B. Do you think God has a sense of humor and why? Yes, yes, yes. I know that Jesus has a sense of humor because we have the same humor. He thinks I'm so funny and I think he's so funny and me and Jesus laugh so much. When I get touched by God, I get the holy giggles and I swear all day I'm telling jokes to Jesus in my head and he's like I see his face and he's laughing. He thinks, oh, I'm doing my son's face. He's probably. Am I my friend? And I see him and I'm telling me he's funny. He does me a funny and he's like, I'm like, I'm literally picturing you in your room with like a straight cord on your eye. Whatever, the ones who get it, the ones who don't, don't know. Are you kidding me? The way I oh you guys definitely have a sense of humor together. If somebody could be a fly on the wall on my room. I'm so sorry. I'm really excited. David Dan? Yeah, how'd you know? What would your movies? What's the first movie you'd pull out in a dance battle against King David? What is what's one that you would do? You. You. Which one you would do? It just depends. I do like a little bit like a like like a like it's something in the hips. What's a B? Can you give me a B? Yeah, yeah, I can give you a B. All right. What which one are you doing? You doing one in the hips? Like a well, yeah, maybe like a little like a little like a like it starts in the hand and then moves down to the hips. You know, oh, that's pretty good. Can you do it like full and full through full full full send? Can you full send it? I don't know if I I'm wearing leggings. So I don't know if I want to break the illusion that I'm wearing jeans or like I'm dressed. Okay, because you're moving in dress. What? What would I do? Yeah, let's hear dance move in front of King David. Oh, no, I need so nervous in front of King David. No, no, no, David dance before the Lord. So how would you dance? Well, oh, no, I'm sorry, it'd be a dance battle against David. So you know, I would be first of all, I'd be I'd be like David, I know I'm about to battle you, but I need to know that I've been talking about you on the podcast every episode for you. You don't know what you mean to me, but anyways, yeah, I do. I'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was awesome. I could do it again. Yeah, yeah, get it, get it, get it. This is amazing. If Paul wrote a letter to y'all, what would he say? Okay, if Paul wrote a letter addressing GGB, like he wrote a letter addressing, you know, the Church of Corinth and Ephesus, he writes a letter to GGB. That would be sick. No, but like, he's like mad, not mad, but he's like encouraging us, but also, oh, he's correcting us. Yeah, yeah, what do you think he would say? I think he would say, stop giving dating advice, neither of you are married literally. Yeah, I think that's the first thing you'd say. And then I think he'd be so happy about the purity of our hearts in ministry and for people, but what would he correct us for? I think he would probably tell us to take down the old episodes where we told people that it's okay that they lived together. That's a really good one. We told them that you could wear a Brazilian bikini. I think we took that part of it. We didn't think God, I had this sense even back then to take that out. Yeah, I think he would say, I need you guys to even go further to helping more people. I need you to start getting out of this country and go to different countries. Okay, impressions of each other. You go first. No, you go first. Please, can you? Yeah, I think you can. Where are you going? Where are you going, and I'm just going to... Angela, you just went over the curb again. Just relax, Ari. Relax. I'm just going to do this real quick. I'm just going to... Where are you going now? I'm just running into the gas station. You just got a protein bar and... I know. I know. I just want to get one more. I need a water. It's so exciting. I can't see any dude. That's so rude. Hi, okay, one more impression. This is going to be a good one. Okay, so the scene is me and Angela, we're going into a coffee shop. Say action. Action. You can be the barista. Okay, I'm the barista. Hi. Can I do a... Can I do an ice latte? Sorry, do you have... So do you have unsweetened almond milk? Can you check? Can I see it? This is the barista. Do you have unsweetened almond milk? Yes. Okay, do you mind if I just see the label real quick? Can I just see it? It's right there. Are you sure? Yes. Can I just see it? Can I just see it? Can you hear me? Thank you. Thank you. Oh my... This is my new... This is my new hyper place. Zero sugar. You guys... How did you guys know? How did you guys know I was coming? Okay, I'll do that almond milk. Can you actually also put cinnamon in there and on top in a little bit of honey? This is my new... I'll be here every single day. Thank you so much. That is the most accurate. I am actually sick to my stomach. That is so accurate beyond belief. Okay, my turn. Okay, I can do impressions of you all though. Okay, hang on. There she goes. Thank you so so so so much. No, no, no, you don't understand. Thank you so so so so so no, thank you so so no, you really don't understand. Like I will never forget what you've done for me. Like thank you so so so much. Oh my gosh, I miss your call. I will never forget myself. Like no, you don't understand. I'm devastated. No, like I'm literally devastated. Like I will never forget this. And I'm dwelling. And I'm dwelling. I feel like... I don't know. I just feel like I wasn't that nice to her. Did I pay attention to that girl? Do you think I showed her Jesus enough? Like I just feel like I don't know I'm dwelling. Like I'm freaking out. And I'm like you don't understand. I'm like no, why are you laughing at yourself? Funny, no, serious face. Funny, it's not funny. Like I'm... I just feel like I don't know. I feel like I let God down. I feel like I let God down. I feel like God's mad at me. I feel like I just see He gave me all this stuff. And I just I didn't do what I was supposed to do. I'm just I'm dwelling so hard. Are you okay? What's going on? I'm here for you. You okay? I'm right here. I'm right here. I'm yep, I'm in it with you. You're not in this alone. Okay. We're in it together. I've been exactly where you've been. Okay. Now can I dwell a little bit? Okay, so I just I felt like really literally that's what it is back and forth. The dwelling and the instant being there for someone. That is the best impression I've ever had. Was that kind of good? I'm dwelling. I'm dwelling. I'm dwelling. No, I really am dwelling. No, I feel like I didn't pay attention. Are you after anyone? I feel like I didn't pay enough attention to her. Was I nice enough? Was I nice enough? That was so good, dude. That was so good. You with the almond milk is so I mean it's just respectful the way I and then and then and then when we go to a place and the girl wouldn't give you her. She's like you can't touch her. I know. There's probably 10 grams in there then. That's why you won't let me see it sister. Oh, it is sweet. Okay. Okay. Well, I guess I got to get it then. It's literally actually my mood switch when there's five grams of sugar and almond milk is tough. See, I went to this place. Actually, he didn't let me see it and I think he lied. That's a sin. But whatever. All right, sisters and brothers. Okay, we can't answer one more. There was none left. I'm dwelling. I'm freaking. I'm dwelling. I hope you had fun today. I know I did. I know I did. I know I did. Serious question. I don't know. Sometimes with me and Ange are like just want to shut our brains off. We'd like to listen to like funny podcasts, you know, just effortless. Just hear people banter. Did you guys like this today? Honestly, if you didn't, it's okay. We just thought, hey, once in a while, we can just... What's going on? I said, it's not okay. I just want to go down really quick. We just want to know. Did I do all too much in the beginning? Did I look depressed? We are keeping this in there. And if you think we're not, you're nuts. Dude, did I? What? I just want to know. Once in a while, do you guys want to just hear me and Ange talk and laugh and like talk what you guys? What do you guys think? Talk what you guys? Well, we're here. If you read to the end of this episode, comment GGB gang. Yes. Also, Oh, what's been going on? What do you guys need prayers for? We read every single one of your comments and we want to, in this next, we're going to be doing a fast. And so we, in this next after... Blink it, oh, we got it. Oh, gikag. Oh, gikag. Oh, my day for dance. That's giz-f-f-f-f-f-f. Oh, my gosh. That was great. Okay, listen. Our last show was sour today, so we would love to go into prayer for you guys. Send us your prayer requests. We'd love to be in prayer for you guys. We love you guys from the bottom of our hearts. We thank you for all that you do for us and just loving us and being a family with us and going on this journey with us. It's the greatest blessing to have you guys by our side through this. We love you, GGB. So much. We love every single one of you with all our hearts, like, our, I would say, with all of our hearts. I do not say hi. I say hi. The art is like, it's like loose. It's a little loose. It's a little loose, kind of like you in 2000 times. I'm just kidding. I'm so sorry. I can't believe I say what? What? What? What? I can't wait to go to the place with you. All right, we love you guys so much. Thank you for being here. Go love Jesus. Go rejoice in your sufferings. This is a hot to yourself. Yes, I need it. I needed it really bad. Go rejoice in your suffering because it's produced something really good and you should be hurt. Okay, I love you. I love you. I can't wait to go down a sore hand. What do I think we're doing now? I'm right. Okay, shut up. All right, guys. You want to do it? I'm wrestle. Later. We love you guys so much. We the Lord bless you and keep you. Make you make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. Make he turn his face towards you and give you peace. Shalom, Shalom, and full of joy and rejoicing in Jesus' name.