Salt and Light | Girls Gone Bible

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Okay, can we just talk for a second you guys? We are in our new studio. It says girls gone bible. Can you believe they're all real? I don't know. I don't know. I haven't opened them. We read all of them. We should probably try to read the dictionary. Well, I should at least. I need to expand my my wordings. Oh, I thought that said anointed California codes. It says annotated. Yeah, I don't know. Okay, we didn't read these books. But guys, this is girls gone bible. 2026 rebrand. I can't believe it. High five sister. We did this. I feel really good in here and I just feel like Jesus is going to do some cool stuff with the podcast with all of us. Yeah, here's this new venture of rebranding. GGB. We're out of the honeycomb. We're out of the honeycomb. Even though I have a little bit of honeycomb behind me, I don't like it. I'm going to change this background. Guys, this is crazy. We're in our new studio. This is like a new era for GGB. And thank you, Jesus. We have been like genuinely working on the studio for such a long time. We hope you guys love it. It's so giving like elevated East Coast, Ralph Lauren. Like are you are you know the meetings should be like, yeah, I want it. We want it like elevated East Coast like Ralph Lauren. You see Myers lives. No, I know. They're like, huh? We're like, that's the vibe. You'll figure it out please. And you crushed it. We crushed it. Thank you, Jesus. We crushed it. And what I love too is that we can now graduate from the old GGB logo that kind of emulated something that we are not in alignment with and we can change to a new logo. I'm Ann. And I'm Ari. And this is Girls Gone Bible. At least we're not both wearing black. Last week was literally it was truly a funeral. You know what it is, black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow. Last week we literally showed up to a funeral and it was kind of a funeral because we're all crying. Guys, thank you so much for last week. Your messages and your comments have meant everything to me and everything to Ari. It was like, that was such a hard episode to watch back, to have to edit and then have to post. And it was just so, it felt so vulnerable and it was just not the easiest thing and you guys were so loving and so kind and it meant so much to both of us. I was like, I called the gun to go, look at the family we have. I know. The kindest comments, I mean you guys are amazing. It was so, so encouraging and supportive and I was literally sitting there all day reading every single comment being like, these are the most amazing people in the world. Like I don't think I remember we had a guest on and afterwards. There were like your audience is amazing. They're the best. They are so kind and sweet and supportive and all you guys want to do is love us and make us feel better, which is not your job. But, and like I got so many messages of people saying they're praying for me and that matters so much, so much to know that you guys are praying for us and I will even like go out on a limb to like ask you to genuinely pray for me, for Ari, for GGB, for everything. Yeah, I was with actually Flex, Pastor Michael Kuliano and Jess. Flex. Flex. Can't believe it. I was just with Pastor Michael Kuliano. I love him, love her so much. They are the most genuinely, the most amazing people and it was so, it's just such a full circle moment to have them pouring into me when I'm like, you taught me everything. You saved my life. Like your church is everything to me. And Pastor Michael was talking about how like he reminded me, he was like Angela, like you are in a spiritual battle and I'm not telling you to fight the devil all day. He's like, but I am telling you that when things happen to you, you don't feel good and you don't want to get on stage and you don't want to do this, you are in a battle. And that doesn't mean that you necessarily have to like fight harder but just be aware. You know that there's always resistance and I was like, thank you for reminding me. The foundation of my faith was built on like being aware of that, where in a spiritual battle and I think sometimes we forget. Like sometimes you and I are like, why don't we feel good? But it's like we are literally in a, we're in ministry in our battle. I know. And we get on stages and talk about Jesus and we expect to not have resistance. I know. But don't you feel like this morning, for instance, you know, you know, you know, we all go through like these days that where we're so busy, we get up and we have one thing this calls whatever, you know, and we're so like dead in destruction, like you said. And just carving that time out in the morning, being fed by the word, sitting in his presence, praying like the armor of God, it's just crazy how different the trajectory of your day is when you when you do that, that's the armor of God. That's why it's so important. Every day, first thing before you start your day to be fed, to be poured into, to pray. Yeah, it's so important. You cannot get away from the secret place. You guys, we haven't talked about it in a while. Please for the love of all things holy, get in the secret place every single day, every morning. And I'm going to remind her that if you are living life as a believer, but you are not spending time with Jesus, like Ari said, first thing in the morning before you do anything else, I have been through a season where getting in the secret place has been the hardest thing at times to do. And I am just now getting back on a rhythm. And I am like, oh, yeah, no wonder why I'm dying because I am not going to the source of life to be filled with life. Of course, I feel dead. Of course, I don't feel good. So I would just like, this is the reminder that we'll give you guys every single week. Get in the secret place 10, 15, 20, 30 minutes to an hour of prayer, worship, dwelling in the presence of God, asking the Holy Spirit to come and speak and move and read the Bible. We can't get away from this thing. This is everything. Thank you, Jesus, for the Word. And I will say thank you, Jesus, for the Word during seasons where you can't feel the presence of God. Thank you, Jesus, for the Psalms. Yes. The Psalms that heal. It's the first thing I'll read every morning. I'll pick a Psalm. It should be the first thing. Psalm 77 was what I read this morning. And I was weeping. Thank you, Jesus. Weeping. But I want to say one more thing. I think we've talked about this, but I was really like noticing my thoughts today and like that first 10 minutes of sitting down because it's not always easy to sit. Yeah. And that first 10 minutes, actually, I think it was like 20 minutes. Yeah. I just was bouncing. Like the thoughts I'm thinking about today, I'm thinking about all this random stuff, but if you continue to sit and you let those thoughts pass. Yeah. And then you don't get up when your mind starts going. Just continue to stay. And then there's a flow that happens when you let those thoughts pass. You just see and go ahead, let them pass. And then all of a sudden I just felt the presence of God after like 20 minutes. And I looked up at the end and I was like, I just felt like I was so, like I was fed. Yes. I was fed. Yeah. I just want to encourage you, don't get up after that first 10, 20 minutes because you're going to have so many thoughts. And if you're wondering, why do I have so many thoughts? Why do I need to focus on Jesus? No, let those thoughts come totally. And let them pass. Yeah. And then everything will start settling in. It's so good. So I encourage you guys to do that as well. And linger. Pastor Michael, I listened to him on a podcast the other day and he said, if you want to expand the wine skin and you want more of the wine, he goes, you need to take it. Like everything is step further. And like it's, it's a means of stretching yourself to have more capacity for the things of God into like essentially want more of the things of God. So when you're reading and you decide like every day I read two chapters in the morning and then he's like read a third. Like when you've reached your limit and you, and you feel like you're done, you feel like you've been fed read one more chapter. If you've been praying for 20 minutes, just stay there for five more. Just stay for 10 more. Like just reach your max of what you think you need to do and how much time you think you need to spend with Jesus, how much time you think you need to pray and just extend it a little bit further and your wine skin will expand and your capacity for more of God will expand. And I think that's what a lot of spending time with Jesus is honestly is our capacity to stay, our capacity to be still. And it's really, really hard, especially if you haven't been practicing the presence of God, if you haven't been practicing the secret place, you don't want to be there. And that's okay. Honestly, like if you were in a place, when I take a little time from the secret place, when I come back, I am not in my like hour to two hour flow of just like soaking and like being so connected. Like it's not, it's a practice. It's something that you have to train yourself, discipline yourself to like stay and want to be there. And sometimes you don't want to be there. Something that convicted me the most was when I think it was when Pastor Stephanie, she said, if you can, if you can scroll on TikTok for an hour, you can give Jesus an hour of your time. And it's so true. And I literally that little saying goes off in my head all the time. It's so true. We do scroll for hours, but we can't say. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. As we step into a new year, we've been sitting with this idea that it doesn't actually require a brand new version of us. Just maybe a lighter one. Not a full reinvention, but a gentle releasing of the things that weigh us down. And for me, that's been learning to let go of perfection, that pressure to have everything together all the time. I've realized how much mental space that takes up and how much it can block clarity, joy, and connection. And that's where therapy can be so powerful. 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I've been so convicted recently because I have been like on my phone at night, which I do. But all summer, for literally four months, I read the word every single night before bed. And then I scrolled for like five minutes and fall asleep. It's just my favorite. We had to fall asleep. I know it's bad. My first. I just fall asleep like a baby when I'm just like my fingers like this. Me too. And then I just like start to do it. It's the easiest way to fall asleep. I don't recommend it. I don't want to do it. But when I was reading the word every night, oh my gosh. I grew so much in the Lord. Like I literally, I saw like such a transformation. And I've been really convicted to get back there who wants to start with me. All of us. Okay. Let's read the word before bed and we don't have to scroll for an hour before we go to sleep. Whatever, right? No, it's not whatever. No. All right. What are we talking about today? So today, we're really excited because we were going to read this last week, but we didn't end up reading it. But I've had all week. I'm just going to speak for myself personally that this story has been one of the most monumental stories I think I've ever read. That is so cute. And so all week, I'm like going through my days and I'm like, wait a minute, am I being the salt in the light right now? That is so special. This specific story has stuck with me in a way. Yeah. Like the woman with the blot of shoe. You know how certain story is just stick with you? This is one of them. Guys, we're going to go to Matthew 5. Yeah, we're going to go to Matthew 5. Verse 13 to 16. Yeah. And just real quick, we read about the Beatitudes and one of our episodes, but it's good to just can I just run through this? Sure. Yeah. Just because it gives you a measuring stick on how God wants us to be and how we are truly thriving if we are these things which correlate with the salt in the light. And let me say really quickly, so this is Jesus. Is all of Matthew 5. 6 and 7 is Jesus's sermon on the Mount. If you have not read Jesus's sermon on the Mount, this is truly so crucial for you as a believer. This is the first time he really comes out and he begins to teach and he teaches to the masses. And this is like where he begins to accumulate all of his followers and all of the people who begin to believe in him and it's based off of the sermon on the Mount. And even like for me, I go back to this. When you are confused about your identity, when we're like, what am I supposed to be? It's these. This is your measuring stick. This is, if you know you're thriving, this is your identity right here in these Beatitudes. So it says, Matthew 5 verse 3, God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. God blesses those who mourn, for they will be comforted. God blesses those who are humble, for they will inherit the whole earth. God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied. God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy. God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God. God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the Children of God. blesses those who are persecuted for doing right for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. Beautiful. That last line of blessed are those who are persecuted for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. I just want to say like as believers and as people in ministry like you will get dragged and dragged, not all the time, but obviously our you know you've had our moments and that scripture of blessed are those who are persecuted for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Anytime we've ever gone through anything online, I literally think to myself the be attitudes blessed are those who are persecuted for my namesake. There are people on the planet who never get the opportunity, the blessing to be persecuted in the name of Jesus. So if you've been persecuted for sharing your faith for loving people in the name of Jesus, for having anything to do with Jesus and you've been persecuted, you have received a blessing that not everybody receives. That is such a good way to think about that. You're truly blessed. Yeah. So we're reading from NLTE, teaching about salt and light. You are the salt of the earth, but what good is it if salt has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. You are the light of the world like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket. Instead a lamp is placed on a stand where it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see so that every one will praise your heavenly Father. And I'll just say just like how already said the Beatitudes are kind of like a formation of identity. This, these three verses about being a salt and light, this is a declaration of identity. Like that's why this whole week you've been thinking it's caused you to like watch your own behavior, see how you're interacting with people. This is identity. Like, God, Jesus is saying you are supposed to be and who you are at your core is the light of the world and the salt of the earth. It's all about identity. And truly like Ari saying, it should change the way that you move through life is when you realize, okay, what does it truly mean to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world? It's an identity issue. It is. Let's just talk about salt real quick. Salt is one of the most valuable commodities back then. So back in the first century, salt was extremely valuable for practical, economic and symbolic reasons. 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One thing that comes up for me is like gossip, for example, and I'm not even going to remotely pretend like I get this right every time. But for me being the salt of the earth and being the salt that preserves, for me it's almost like I want to preserve the presence of God in a room. I want to preserve the principles of Jesus in a room. So what could that mean in a situation like gossip or like when I'm with a bunch of people to be the salt means that like if something is starting to take place and gossip is starting to go and slander is being thrown around and I see a conversation going somewhere that it shouldn't go. One thing that I would love to be the type of person and this takes a level of boldness right because it does like it's so much easier to fade into the background of a situation and not be the one who says, guys, why don't we stop talking about this person? Let's pray for them instead. Hey, I feel like this is going to a level of slander that's not great. Should we talk about this person that way when they're not in the room to defend themselves? Like I, for me, that is like an example of what it means to be the salt. I am preserving the principles of God in a public setting. I even like, yeah, purity situations like you're with a person, you're with your boyfriend, you're with your girlfriend, I'm going to be the salt of the earth and I'm going to preserve the purity of the situation. I'm going to preserve the holy call of God on my life and I'm going to be the salt and I'm not going to lose my flavor in the situation. I'm going to stay powerfully salty in the situation and preserve the principles of God. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, and just and everything we proclaim with our mouths, everything we preach about. I want to be someone that doesn't just preach with my mouth, but actually lives it every single day. Right. I think the way that this scripture speaks to me the most honestly is like like what you're talking about being one person when you're preaching and being someone else when you're not. I think and we've talked about this before that like, are you and I have so many friends from before we were Christians and so many people in our lives and family members were like they don't necessarily follow Jesus the way that we do. And I think the challenge of life as a believer is congruency and being the same with your Christian super Christian friends as you are with your not so Christian friends. And I actually are and I were praying on the beach recently and I repented because you know we have a friend who doesn't necessarily walk with God the way that you know she's not necessarily walking with God completely yet. And when we're with this friend or any friend I can find myself at times like if I'm in a conversation with them the first time the second time the third time give them the answer that I know is the best right pointing them to Jesus. But then as time goes on in like a hangout or in a sleepover or in something I can feel myself almost become passive. And I realized when we were on the beach I was like Lord I repent for being passive when legitimately somebody soul is on the line. You know and I don't know if that sounds like super intense but for me it's like for all of us there shouldn't be an off switch of like I'm going to be super Christian right now and now I'm going to kind of check out and like I'm off duty for being a Christian when really like everything you say to someone matters. And so so I found myself being like Lord I just I repent for becoming passive and I think that passivity is a way to let your salt lose its flavor to let yourself lose your your power and authority is to become passive in a situation where you're like I've already told them eight times you know that they got to give it to Jesus I've already told them that they need to do X Y and Z I'm just going to check out now. So I think for me a way of not letting my salt lose its flavor is not checking out of a situation that I feel like I've already kind of done my work in so you know what I mean. So yeah I know exactly what you mean. Yeah and that could even be like where people would tell you just to shut up because it's like what do you mean like everybody swears yeah and I know like some people swear right but I just we walk different now. Yeah and that's not from a judgmental standpoint it just when you're walking one way and then you go home to people you love and they're all just on you to shut up and get you know what I mean it's just like it's this like and I agree completely there's nothing like going home and I'm like this perfect sweet gentle meek lowly girl and then I go to my family it's like also yeah like being in conversations with family members and then like trying to pick your battles wisely and like talk about it. How do I how do I stay salty but like not actually salty in the worldly sense like how do I be the salt of the earth within my family when my mom's like odds the Evely and I'm like it's not the Evely mom the Evely doesn't exist who care you know what I mean it is such an interesting thing when you go home in or two environments and you're like oh okay I don't fully fit in here anymore but that's the point. Yeah yeah but for some of us like the Bible for our family is where we're like the only Bible they'll ever see. Yeah you're the walking Bible and so I can just speak I've lived it I've been able to season my family and season my friends and everyone from back at home knows Jesus. Yeah and that is the whole point. That is what it looks like to be the salt. Yeah and you know even like I look at my father for instance like just being the salt just just meeting him where he's at coming home and being set apart showing him that I am like you want people to look at you and be like what do they have to whatever they have I want that like you want to radiate Christ that's why he says he is the light he radiates light in a dark world so it's like we want people to look at us and be like I want whatever she has and that's why how do we stay how do we stay as a salt yeah it's continuous abiding and him he says abide in me and I abide in you and so I know that I'm not perfect I know that I fall short a lot I know that I have bitterness sometimes I've unforgiveness sometimes I can get nasty sometimes I don't sit up here and act like I'm perfect. 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how do we make it salty again and when I think about when I start to because I have compromised in my walk I have I have taken two steps forward and then two steps back again but when I think about how I can make it salty again I think about when I hit my knees yeah I cry out to God I have a heart of repentance I say help me with my heart help me in these areas I mean it has been so this is the Christian walk is not easy having to rewire my brain and rewire the way the way I've lived since I was a kid until now and to come into this and have to lay down your life it's a process and one thing that I know and even after three years of walking with Jesus even recently I fell back but his grace but his mercy but his love but his forgiveness I've seen it this week with my own eyes yeah and where I felt so guilty and felt so bad for a minute and then he just showed me something through somebody I'll tell you guys in a minute but like I felt his mercy and his grace and his love and not two years and I just had a moment where I thought to myself man you you really you know why we are the way we are yeah and I don't know if you guys feel this way but I know I do so many times I just it's this continuous feeling like I never add up to enough it's this continuous of feeling guilty it's this continuous of oh my gosh I let you down again and I really realize this week like God is is just he he just deals with us in processes and he's like he really is dad he really is dad and I'm really learning that in the season of my life like a good dad who's just like who loves his daughters and his sons and so I'm really learning to take off the box and gloves we don't have to sit there and and beat ourselves up when we do fall short yeah because the truth is we're human beings and we're going to fall short yes but how do we make it salty again yeah it's that it's that continuous abiding the reason why we lose salt is because we become complacent yeah you know and I've seen it I talk to a lot of girls and it's like they some people you you feel like you you get saved and then everything's good and you can just go on no it's continuous abiding in him intimacy with him repentance would work on my heart search my heart oh Lord you know and that's how we we gain that that flavor again yeah and begging God every day to set your heart on fire for the face of God in prayer every single day especially when I'm going through something I'm like Lord would you get me out of my own self right now and would you set my heart on fire for the things of God don't let me go and this should be your prayer every morning Lord throughout my day I am on mission for the kingdom of God for the things of God send me on mission let remove any passivity in my faith remove remove every bit of complacency in my faith and have me be on fire every second seeing a need and meeting it and like genuinely being aware that I am a walking vessel that is filled with the spirit of God and I am what God wants to use to save souls it's like a massive deal when you think about it being a Christian isn't just for like God to make you happy although we like that I like that Jesus make me happy please but you know what I mean like genuinely we are on mission it's not about us we already got saved how can we possibly let our salt lose its flavor when there is a world of people who don't know Jesus yet and you are involved in the story I am involved are is involved we are involved in what God is wanting to do on the earth and if we lose our saltiness what the heck is get what are we going to do that doesn't work it doesn't work how do you see what he's done in your life and not testify and not use every single moment to to proclaim that you know when you find Jesus you can't help but tell everyone yeah and so being the salt is like just a couple of examples it's it's everywhere you go yeah it's in the restaurant and how you treat the waitress it's about your character and being gentle and kind and I love what you said about gossip when you hear someone gossip you do the hard thing and say hey instead of talking about this person can we pray for them I'm speaking for myself right now by the way that was convicting yeah and that's not being the salt at all yeah I love that you say that like he didn't just come to save us we're here to know Jesus and then make him known and love his people that's every one of our missions that's not me and Angela's mission because we're on a podcast no and let my mission isn't even when we're on the but can I be honest this is a part of the mission our mission is at home on the streets at the grocery store like genuinely this is so important I would argue that our most important work is one-on-one face-to-face with people making a difference in somebody's life I know we make a difference in people's lives but it is really it's not about a stage it's not about a platform the difference that you make with your salt being the salt of the 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where I'm going right now that's what it means to be the salt of the earth like truly to this is why you have to ask God for prophetic gifting for the gift of prophecy so you can look at every single day I don't ask for like what words of knowledge are amazing when you just like God gives you a picture or a word or something and says hey I just I feel like I received something from God I want to share this with you maybe it means something to you and God reveals himself to people in that way that's amazing what I ask for every single day along with words of knowledge is I ask for prophetic gifting where I'm like Lord show me what you see when you see people so I can speak life into people in a way that sends them directly on the path that you have for them I want to see people the way that Jesus sees them so that I can call out things in them that are not even manifested yet that's what true prophetic gifting is it's to point people to Jesus and to get people on the right path that's what I believe being the salt of the earth is to operate in gifting to pray for the sick to cast out demons to have a prophetic anointing that points people directly to Jesus and points people to their destiny in Jesus yeah this is how you be the salt of the earth yeah is that you ask God for spiritual gifts and then you spend your time operating them and caring and like yeah being on mission in that way yeah it starts with your family yeah it starts with your family yeah it starts with your friends it starts with your non-believer friends I can't I was seriously reflecting on my family and friends and I cannot believe how many people have come to Jesus yeah and how rapidly their lives are changing because I I got to be the salt for them yeah and that's the beautiful thing about being saved it's not just for yourself you have the ability to save the lives of so many people yeah you have the ability to to change a whole family line yeah can you imagine that and so yeah I I I'll tell you I go in and to target the other day might be in the salt it starts with a smile at someone yeah being a light someone cheering someone up yeah it's so true it's meeting people where they're at speaking life into them hey can I pray for you yeah what are you posting on social media are we posting about our attributes and all you know are we speaking about Jesus are we pointing people to Jesus most in thirst traps that's not very salty so we have influence to to either bring people to the light or to decay that exactly and you one one thing that I never want is for someone to look at me when I speak about Jesus and the fruits of the spirit of gentleness kindness compassion love and then they look at me and then I'm doing the exact opposite of that yeah that that terrifies me and I know that there have been times where I have probably you know for everybody so nobody's perfect can I tell the story real quick yeah the greatest work I have done in my walk is behind the scenes of discipling 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she's been with me for a couple weeks and um we've just been both so busy right and we've been we've been going to church and doing all this things and it's been so beautiful but I sat I usually will sit by myself in my in my quiet time in the morning and I'm sitting there on the couch today and I'm just looking out the window and he starts giving me visions of her and I on the floor worshipping together and I'm like okay and listen to it so then I go on my floor and my flat I this is this is crazy my flash right she comes out in the living room but my flash says she doesn't want to come out here don't ask her to sit next to you always like that don't ask her to come next to you like she's got too much to do and if she wanted to she would come sit yeah you know yeah and then I hear no tell her to come over I open my eyes I look over she's standing up over me I go do you want to come worship with me she goes I would love to so she sits down we sit for about an hour we worship we pray she's reading songs we're just I just feel the presence of God we're weeping together she's looking at me weeping where she's like you have no idea I can't believe like the season I'm finding Jesus like this is what it looks like to be the salt and it starts with people behind the scenes it's so much more than than just writing things online but actually being in the dirt with people praying for people showing them the scriptures loving them I first had to love her yeah she first had to feel so loved like you it doesn't just let me say this the salt is used to cleanse in heal truth in grace that's Jesus yeah the the woman with the adult the woman that was caught in adultery who are your accusers grace then go and send no more truth and so it's that mix of grace and truth so we need to give the non-believers and people that don't know so much grace and love and then we speak gently to them with the truth that's what it looks like to be the salt that was can I say well just gonna say that even sometimes I need I need that salt for myself and I had went to this thing the other night and it was just worship and I I wasn't gonna go and I pushed myself to go and I'm just worshipping and my heart just feels so stuck I just nothing was hitting and I just kept saying to myself God meet me God meet me and I look over at this girl and she just gives me a hug and she asks if she could pray for me cute she takes my head she puts it on her knees like I was a little girl and she just starts speaking life over me and loving me and just nurturing me and only God knew I needed to be loved like that so much and in that moment I looked at her and and and I just I saw Jesus that was Jesus like holding me everything she said was only what Jesus would know and so that's what it looks like to be the salt to be bold step out and love people and pray for people and love them yeah that's what it looks like and don't get passive and don't get complacent yes I realize all the time you're meant to reflect and represent Jesus the second part of this is you're the light of the world a city set on a hill cannot be hidden right because a city this whole thing means a city is lit up with lights if you think of it Los Angeles County if you think of New York City it's lights it's bright so if a city is on a hill it's up high it cannot be hidden and also people don't light a lamp and then put it under a basket but they put it on a stand so that it gives light to all of the people in the house in the same way let your light shine before others so that they may see your good works and give glory to your father who is in heaven light is a means of illumination it illuminates beauty but it also exposes darkness this is what is so important I'm getting comfortable this is I love it here by way I love it here it illuminates beauty so the light of Jesus that's inside of you will literally make the beautiful parts of people even more beautiful you have the ability that's what I mean with that prophetic lifting you have the ability to speak light over someone to pull the goodness out of them and like shine light on the Jesus that's in them and bring out more beauty yeah the light also has the ability to expose darkness when you walk into a room and you are that light you are that person that doesn't get involved in x-lions you are that person that's different you are that person that's genuinely kind that's authentic that shows up as themselves and gives other people the permission to show up as themselves you are the beauty that exposes all the darkness that's in the room you are literally the person when you walk with the light of Jesus shining inside of you people can't help but look at themselves and feel confronted like I know when somebody comes and they are representing Jesus and like their light is shining so brightly and if I feel like mine isn't not in a comparative way whatsoever but it will remind me of the call of God on my life to also be the light of the world so I love when somebody walks in and they're light the light of Jesus is shining in them so beautifully and it reminds me that is what I'm meant to do as well and I want to be that for other people and I wrote down this Jesus is the light of the world okay right scripture we're not the light we have light within us and but Jesus is the light he is the light of the world in him is no darkness at all he is the light then Jesus essentially passes the baton to us like he gave his disciples everything Jesus came he's the one giving the sermon on the mount he is the one who heals the sick cast out demons does miracle signs and wonders Jesus is the originator the creator he is the source in which we perform or do anything and then he passes the baton to his disciples and says you guys are going to do even greater works than I and so in the situation Jesus is the light of the world he lives within us and then we shine his light so we are not the light Christ is the light within us and then there is this theologian Frederick Dale Bruner he says that the Christian community is meant to live in such a way that the surrounding world begins to ask questions like what kind of people are these a text says you're on my mind a bouquet from one eight hundred flowers says you're my everything heartfelt moments belong in the real world not just your phone for 50 years one eight hundred flowers has helped millions of people make memories that'll last a lifetime with gifts they'll cherish forever they're expertly curated arrangements and gift baskets shipped nationwide with a 100% satisfaction guarantee don't wait for the next big moment make it when you visit one eight hundred flowers dot com slash podcast that's one eight hundred flowers dot com slash podcast not because Christians are allowed but because their shared life is distinct like it is distinct you are meant to shine the light you are meant to enhance with flavor we are meant to take the things of God and amplify them times 10,000 in the world and honestly this is so convicting and confronting and reminding for me and challenging that like yes this is the life that we're meant to live and being passive being complacent compromising is not the way that we live out Matthew chapter five verses 13 to 16 so I pray and hope that every single person just feels a light or a fire like under you that's what I feel right now I feel a little bit of a fire to continuously remember that I am on mission to be the salt of the earth to be different to not lose my flavor until shine the light of Jesus everywhere I go and every moment matters every person matters yeah and if you feel like I don't know where my light is I will tell you the minute you start to see someone's life change by the way God works his light through you that fire will ignite yeah I mean I have a whole new fire just having this girl in my home totally and seeing the way her life is changing and her light and the way she's finding Jesus because go help people and you will be like wait a minute you know I think about when we are I think about my own story when I was in such darkness and I was just searching for the light searching for the light and then I meet you and Jesus shined his light through you and I was like what does she have I want that and so he used you to me and then I look at people like people we look up to like Pastor Michael Cullianos and and Pastor Stephanie E.K. these people that just radiate his light pastor Philip Mitchell my favorite dude my pastor Darren the most sharpening friendship of my life because that that man like does not let me get away with anything like every it's just so good to have somebody who has so much history with God like and also if you want to be someone that doesn't lose their flavor you need to have a pastor guys you need to be under pastoral covering and care and leadership you have to have mentors you have to have people in your life who have been walking with Jesus for a long time who genuinely tell you how it is what call you out call you higher and encourage you and are very kind and gentle and like lead you in the ways of Jesus it's so important the number one way that I keep my flavor is by being around especially if you're called to the broken and the loss and the sick which we all are but like are you nice specifically we are called to evangelize we are called to be around people who don't know Jesus yet if we spend a lot of time with people who don't know Jesus we better be offsetting it with spending a lot of time with people who really know Jesus and walk in the ways of God because yeah you need that sharpen it you need that reminder you need other people to pour into you it's very very important yeah yeah exactly I I recognize that because we have been we've been traveling so much and going be being back in community at church going to these nights which every church has where they have worship nights and they have community groups I mean I feel I called you I said I feel different from just going that one day I didn't realize how crucial being around other believers having that girl speak life in me that I put light back into my eyes I was feeling so weary we need people yeah God works through people that's what He does and so for us to to think that we don't need people who are on fire who can I know sometimes it can be really hard to to push through and go to you know worship nights or community groups or you know things like that but man it'll it'll it'll get you out of that darkness into the light being around believers being around just people that can speak life into you it's changed my life so we are the we are the light on on the top of the city hill to draw people back to him like from Angela and I let everything we proclaim on this podcast be a testament of how we live every single day area it was so convicting to read this yeah and be like wait a minute right I have to go back and this is a story I will continue to go back to to be like am I being the salt in the light I love am I losing its saltiness am I compromising today like this is something we can go back to and be like what am I even the be attitudes am I am I being this is this you know and then that just goes along with Philip Phil Philopines Philopines I love the Philippines to verse verse 12 dear friends you have always followed my instructions when I was with you and now that I'm away it is even more important work hard to show the results of your salvation obey and God with a deep reverence in fear for God is working in you giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him do everything without complaining and arguing so that no one can criticize you live clean innocent lives as children of God shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people and hold firmly to the word of life then on the day of Christ return I will be proud that I did not run the race in vain and that my work was not useless hold firmly to the word of God this is how we remain as lights and salt and we continue seasoning because if we're not seasoned we're seasoning no one so the way that we can season is abiding in him and how do we abide in him we stay in the word of God we get around some community we be around people that are on fire for Jesus we get in Bible studies we create Bible studies we love people we help people we disciple people so good and we continue to come back to this verse is because we are human being too fall short and just checking ourselves am I being the salt and light to light a heart full of repentance repent repent repent and keep asking God work on my heart how do I look more like you today how can I radiate your love how can I have your ways that is daily that is not a one-time thing that is daily every single day we're going to do a challenge you guys where we genuinely I want us all to be aware all the time to be the light to be the salt and to be aware that we're on mission and to not change based off who we're hanging out with like and I really genuinely like I've been thinking about this for a while but like congruency is everything who you are in public who you are in private who you are between friend groups I want to challenge all of us to be like I am going to be the same around every friend group always pointing to people to Jesus always speaking and behaving and loving in a way that is Christ like and not becoming passive and not becoming complacent so let's spend this week all in every situation being reminded like this is in a moment that I check out this is a moment where I get to point somebody to Jesus and it doesn't have to be in a completely overt like obvious pushing on someone way but there is a way to constantly be pointing people to Jesus or even the things of God so let that be our challenge this week if you guys have any moments where this has come up in your life or like you run into this this week write it in the comments we are obsessed with your comments I'm telling you guys they mean the world to us so yeah thank you guys for being here we love you so much thank you for coming to our new studio thank you for coming to our new studio with us here this is so Bible study vibes it's insane yeah right in the comments how you guys like the new studio like it look at little Jesus I mean not little Jesus that is so rude look at Jesus all right go be lights keep your eyes open everywhere you go don't stay sleeping God has called you on mission to be the salt in the life for him 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