Do you believe in miracles?
From four kids to six in just 45 days, it's been an overwhelming and yet deeply humbling experience. But how did we cope with such a radical change? As we share these stories, we hope you, too, can recognize the divine interventions in your life and appreciate the magnitude of miracles God is capable of.
Things happen in life that are out of our control, but with prayer and surrender, we can open our hearts to His work and create space for miracles. We share about the importance of finding your people and how we draw strength and support from our tight-knit community.
Join us as we reflect on the magnificence of God, His unwavering presence, and the comfort we receive from His word. Remember, no matter the battles you face, with faith, community, and a little music, you are never alone.
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Do you believe in miracles?
From four kids to six in just 45 days, it's been an overwhelming and yet deeply humbling experience. But how did we cope with such a radical change? As we share these stories, we hope you, too, can recognize the divine interventions in your life and appreciate the magnitude of miracles God is capable of.
Things happen in life that are out of our control, but with prayer and surrender, we can open our hearts to His work and create space for miracles. We share about the importance of finding your people and how we draw strength and support from our tight-knit community.
Join us as we reflect on the magnificence of God, His unwavering presence, and the comfort we receive from His word. Remember, no matter the battles you face, with faith, community, and a little music, you are never alone.
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Links Mentioned in Episode/Find More on A Force to Be Reckoned With:
This show has been produced by Adkins Media Co.
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Speaker 2:We hope that this week is finding you well this Tuesday morning. We hope that you made it through Monday successfully and if not, we just hope that you're feeling refreshed this morning and if not, we hope that by the end of this episode that you are Okay. So we did these recordings last week and this week back to back, and it would have probably made a little bit more sense to do this one. First, because we took a two-week pause on the podcast unintentionally and we wanted to kind of explain ourselves, but also, yeah, it just didn't work out that way.
Speaker 1:So it was just important also to get the other one out, because we're starting off October. Right, so we hope that you guys and we could give you a nice cliffhanger.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we hope that you guys had a good October episode and you were able to sit down and talk through some finances. And if not, what are you doing? Go back and listen to last week's episode and then text your husband or wife or, if you're single, just set a time on your calendar and do it.
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Speaker 2:Okay, so, oh my gosh, he's really not a jerk, he just likes to sound like one on this podcast.
Speaker 1:I mean two weeks ago. I ate a half a tray of monster cookies. So I'm not talking, I'm just looking in a mirror and talking to myself.
Speaker 2:All right. So this episode we are titling, god is able and if you need a little refresher, we're kind of going to be referencing our prayer episode, so if you haven't listened to that one, go back and listen. We're just talking about the power of prayer and the importance of prayer in our lives, and in that episode we did reference just how prayer has gotten us through recently some really hard things and most specifically, our foster care journey, and at the time of recording that, which wasn't even that long ago, we had four kids and within 45 days we now have six kids and they don't all fit in our car.
Speaker 1:They don't all fit in our car we do.
Speaker 2:We have to drive two cars, and so we? Really I wish so badly that we could just be as candid as we wanted, but just out of respect for families and kid privacy and because we're not allowed to as foster parents we can't go into super details. But in that prayer episode we had talked about how little Jay left and how, regardless of him, how hard it was for us, and just we wanted him to stay, but ultimately we prayed for our God's will and he didn't stay, and just through, and I just want to add to that and clarify that, because there's at least for us over the past year, there's been two things that we have to sort through and deal with.
Speaker 1:But when we say we wanted him to stay, there's this natural, just yearning and connection that you have for these kids, because that's what you're called to do, you're called to love and called to not hold back and to give all that you have to them. And so saying goodbye to anybody is tough, and not knowing if you're gonna ever see them again, not knowing if any of that, if you're even gonna know how their life turned out, there's that whole thing. And then there's like a whole other thing where sometimes the situation when they're going to be with somebody is everything you could have hoped for. If they're going with a family member, a kin or whatever, it's a great thing, and then sometimes you don't necessarily agree with the situation either, and so there's like you're battling two different things I'm finding in both of those.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank you for clarifying that, and if you had listened to the prayer episode, we did allude to that before.
Speaker 2:I had talked about how we weren't gonna say whether it was a fabulous situation or not, but regardless, the hard part for us was we loved him like he was our own and selfishly, we are allowed to, when we pray, bring our desires to the Lord, but ultimately, over any of our desires, we want God's will. So praying for your once, but then also asking for God's will, gives you a peace Like Lord, this is what I want, but more than that, I want your will, and so it gives you this peace like, okay, well, I made it known what I wanted and yeah, we talked about this in the prayer episode, so thank you for clarifying that. It wasn't like, oh, we want you know it can be. There's a lot of stigmas with foster families, and one of them being that they get into adopt, which is tough because the goal is reunification and there's nothing wrong with adoption and there's so many beautiful adoption stories and there's nothing wrong with getting into foster care to adopt Right but the goal.
Speaker 2:We always have to be cognizant and I don't think we need to be reminded because we know that the goal is reunification, but that doesn't make it any easier that you love a child like your own and it's sad, you know, yeah. So anyway, with all of that said, so many of you have told us that you have also been praying for us and this journey and baby J and all of the kids in our home and just our family, and truly, we were talking about it the other day and we were just adding up the people in our community and the people on this podcast. I mean, there have been hundreds of people who have been praying for that case alone and, yeah, it's overwhelming really.
Speaker 2:It is. It's humbling and overwhelming yeah.
Speaker 1:We are so thankful, and honestly we're so thankful because, like we said on the prayer episode, that prayer is the most powerful thing and the first thing that we should do over anything else. It's not the last thing and the only thing that you can do, and so the fact that others are doing that for us too and for these kids, we're truly thankful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so about two weeks ago it was a Monday I was leaving to go to town for Oklahoma City and we had just gotten, actually baby Jay's little sibling who had been born.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, now we have another Jay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we at that time had five kids. So that explains kids five because we have Carter, liberty, maya, and then in July we took a placement.
Speaker 1:M.
Speaker 2:And he has been with us and he's super sweet. And then the baby was born.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:And then I left town and on the way to the airport, I got a phone call from a case worker asking if we could take baby Jay back. And this is where, one day, I hope that we are able to share this story in more detail. There's so much that I want to share, but I'm just gonna keep it short here and say that if you have prayed for us in any way in this foster care journey, and if you have prayed for baby Jay, first of all we wanna say thank you. Second of all, I want to say and I wanna be careful how I say this but our prayers have been heard and they have been answered. And I don't say that because he's back in our home. I would say that even if he was still there, but he yeah, I mean, it's such a hard thing.
Speaker 1:Do you even have yeah like how to navigate it, because I don't know.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, he is back with us and it is. It's truly. It's so hard without it sharing details, but it's just truly miraculous that he is here right now. The case worker was here and, honestly, it just there's so much of it that makes sense and so much of it that doesn't make sense, and there's so many pieces that you look at and the only answer that you can give is God, god, yeah, so long story short, he's here.
Speaker 1:We're so happy.
Speaker 2:We're so happy.
Speaker 1:He's so happy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's doing great and the story is not over. He is not here to stay. That's still not the goal. The goal is him still to be with his parents and we support that goal and we want success for them, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we support that goal with success for them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the whole point in saying that is thank you for your prayers and that is our very vague update.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but with that, we just asked you to continue to pray, because it's not over.
Speaker 2:Yes, yep, and just pray for his safety and for God's will and for pray for his parents, for their journeys and for their healing, and their families and their healing and, just at the end of the day, god.
Speaker 1:And pray for the case workers too, that they make the right decisions, that they do the things that they need to do and that they just do what's in the best interest of these kids.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And so one thing that I wanna say that's a little bit off track is just, it's been nothing. My friends who have done foster care before have said, like you, nothing will strip you more of yourself than foster care, Nothing will make you cling to Jesus more than foster care. And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. And then we're walking through this case and I'm like, oh, okay, I get it. In a whole other raw moments of desperation on the floor, you know just like, okay, now I get it.
Speaker 2:And so that is why this episode is called God is Able, because I just wanna remind you guys and I know we've talked about this before but there's just so much in life, so many hard things in life that don't make sense and might never make sense. Or when you're walking through it, you're just questioning why does this have to happen? And then sometimes we do get the satisfaction God does give us the gift of being able to look back in retrospect and give us answers on enclosure, on why things have had to happen. But the whole point in that is, regardless of whether you do or don't, we serve a God who is able to. He performed miracles and he still is the God of miracles and he still performs miracles today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I just want to add in here so, like the stress of all of this and you know there's been more stress over the past few years at all of you that have been regularly listening no, and all of my stress was starting to affect my like physical health in the sense, not like anything super crazy, but in the sense of like my sleep it was coming out in my sleep was super affected and just the stress of not especially as a man, as a father, as a husband, like not being able to control or even really contribute to the situation, like I was completely had no control and being stripped of that. And I just want to thank Tracy, our nutritionist, and I know it sounds funny, but she's been helping me manage with some health stuff and inflammation and different things. But part of that is like your emotional state, I guess too or I don't even know if that's the right word but or your stress state. And she gave me this prayer to say and she's so grateful that she was also a believer in Jesus. But she gave me this prayer to say and I didn't know how helpful, honestly, it was going to be. I should have known better.
Speaker 1:But the biggest part of the prayer to say, because she knew I was dealing with all of this was just surrendering to Jesus and just telling Jesus I surrender all of this to you, take care of everything. And just by me praying these prayers with that and finishing with that, I did release it to God. I actually, you know, because that's one thing that you, like you will say you're like yeah, give all your worries to God, cast all your cares upon him, like you know that, and you say that you are sometimes, and I realized that I wasn't actually doing that. I was saying I was, I was telling myself that I was and then in reality I wasn't. But by doing this prayer I did, yeah, and then all of my health things are to get better, my stress are to get better, my sleep started to get better, like all, just by surrendering it to Jesus.
Speaker 2:And I know that sounds crazy and it sounds like again where we talked about in the prayer episode like God isn't a magician. He's not a magician. It's not like we're like do this and then you click your fingers and it happens. But but he does take care of us and he does take care of everything. And sometimes that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2:And I want to say I'm actually going to link the surrender Novena in our show notes, because Tracy gave it to me too, probably a couple months before she gave it to Corey.
Speaker 2:And then Corey I was like yeah, no, I'm already surrendering, like I've already surrendered, I don't need that, I don't even want to do it.
Speaker 2:And I just didn't because I'm like no, I'm like I got this and Corey started doing it and I just noticed this like shift in him, especially with this case, because there's just so much that's out of our control, things that we know that are happening, and things where we do everything that we can't, and then still so much that you just can't control. And that's the point where you have to surrender. And I kept saying I have surrendered it, but I wasn't. And so I actually I talked to Tracy and I talked to Corey, actually the week before we got the phone call for baby J to come back and they were both like you haven't? You keep saying you surrender, but you actually haven't, truly. And then it seemed like just try, you know, doing this prayer. And I'm not saying that this prayer is, like, like I said, a magic trick, but there's something about saying, even saying it out loud and saying it repetitively, and and there's just something about doing it that helps you with the act of surrendering it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it wasn't just like saying it, it was like truly meaning it and doing it repetitively over the things like nine or 10 days, and I mean I could sense it, I could start to feel it, the weight coming off after like four days.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But and you're right, it's not a magician, because in that prayer I wasn't asking for what I wanted. I was truly just giving it to God, knowing that whatever he was going to do is best, and that's what lifted the stress off of me.
Speaker 2:Right, like when you hand it over to him and you're truly the prayer is I surrender myself to you, take care of everything, and you're just like releasing it and it seems like, okay, well, I can just do that. But I agree, like I was doing that prayer, I just had it on my phone and I would just pull it up and I was saying it many, many times a day when I was in the kitchen, when I was in the bathroom, when I was in my bedroom and there's, and I also it's just like I noticed the shift where I still knew this chaos that was going on and things that a week or two before I would like make it disrupt my entire day, even though there's literally nothing I could do about it. And in this I would feel that chaos and then I would say that prayer and it's like like God's got this, you know, and so anyway, that was a little bit off on a tangent, but you know all that to say. Like we just want to remind you that God is able. So, whatever you're going through, whatever hardship you're facing, whether it's marriage or finances or job or health or foster care for you or fertility, like God has a plan and he is able, and I think that so often we get these little wins and we are thankful and we're reminded of who God is and in our humanness, it's almost like the next day or the next minute or the next hour.
Speaker 2:Immediately, we find something else to worry about and we forget who the God is that we're serving, and so something there's just a couple things that I want to share that like have really helped us in this and again, we're not perfect at this even with baby J being back in our house, I was with incredible friends who supported me.
Speaker 2:Like I couldn't have been with better people when I got the phone call, because there are every single person in the car that was with me is somebody who has lived it, who has got it and who they just knew what to say and what to do, and I was with them the entire week and then we ended up picking him up on a Saturday, and then Sunday came and he was safe in our home and I was dumbfounded by the things that God did for everything just to fall into place, and then I immediately started worrying about his future again, and it's just something where you have to pause and you have to refuse to be consumed by that worry, and you have to continue to be reminded of who God is, and so I'm going to share a few ways that we're trying to be reminded of that, because it's so hard, it's so hard.
Speaker 1:And I just want to add this in there because, as you're saying that, it reminded me of the verse and I looked it up because I didn't want to butcher it, but it's Romans 828 and it says and we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good for those who are called according to his purpose. And what just reminded me of that is you know, there's we live in a broken world and there's so many things that could happen that Beth was talking about that you know really aren't good, but God can work those things out for good. So God can use those things that aren't good to bring good and to write a new story. And we just have to surrender to that and trust that and ask for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, um, okay, the first thing I want to share I'm just going to go really quickly here, but I have a couple points is something I kind of already alluded to. It's fine, find your people who are going to sit with you in the pits and carry you when you can't carry yourself. Like it makes me I feel I'm not going to cry on this podcast, but like it chokes me up to even say that, because I am so humbled, like I'm just so thankful for the people first of all, for the people that God has given us in our lives that truly go to war with us and carry us when we can't carry ourselves, and we are so blessed with a family who does that and supports us. And then our community, like we are surrounded, and then a church. Like I feel so, like I'm so undeserving of that and I just don't even know, looking back through everything that we just went through and still have to go through, it's enough to just destroy you. But when you have those people who will fight for you when you can't and they will pray for you when you don't have the words and they will pray over you and they will bring you dinner and pick up your laundry and and take care of your kids and take care of your husband, like it there's not. There's. God gives us community, like that's a gift from God. So find your people who are going to sit with you in the pits and carry you when you can't, and who will go to war for you and intercede on your behalf and pray over you and remind you of God's goodness, both when he doesn't deliver on our requests and when he does.
Speaker 2:And I look back over the last several months and the moments where we had friends praying for God's will and it felt like he was silent. And even in that feeling of silence, I, my friends and my family, reminded us of of who God is. You know that he is able and reminding us, like, do you think that God loves, that? You love that baby more than God does? And do you think that God doesn't care about you and your family? Like, do you know who God is? Do you think that he's not capable? Just reminding you of those things? So, yeah, I just want to encourage you.
Speaker 2:I for a long time like, I feel like we wanted community, but we didn't. Also, it's easy to just not make time for that community and it's hard, when you're not a super vulnerable person, to allow that community to take place. And we're both kind of like that, just like we got this, like pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and keep trucking along. But there are gonna be times in your life when you can't do that and you have to allow people to serve you and yeah, so find your people. And if you don't have people, reach out to us and we will help you find your people because it is so valuable.
Speaker 1:I just wanna say thank you to everybody in there too. I have a hard time asking for help on things and I can just tell you right now that the lives that were currently living between work and Beth running a business and me coaching our kids and doing foster care, and the things that we're doing with Hope Bridge and just our busy lives we couldn't do it without the support of our family and our community and our church and our friends Like we really couldn't do it. We would crash and burn and fail and the fact that they can lift us up and give us the support to carry on and to keep pressing forward, like and to remind us of who we are and who God is, and remind us of our purpose, because there's also people who don't get it, and that's okay.
Speaker 2:It's okay, but it's also really hard when you're in it to be around those people who you know don't get it, and then if you don't have the people who do, it can be very discouraging.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I just wanna say too, like, if any of the people that have been helping us don't feel like it's a small thing you know you might think that you came and watched our kids for a couple of hours and it's no big deal, or that you made us dinner or something like that. You just prayed for us or anything like that. All of those things mattered so much and you don't know how much they meant to us. In the thick of it it was a huge deal. So we are seriously super grateful for all of you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, so find your people.
Speaker 2:The second thing is refuse to do anything but give glory to God, both in the good and in the hard, and that's a really hard thing to do.
Speaker 2:And something that I have found so helpful in those moments is music.
Speaker 2:I've had friends who have sent me songs and I just love music.
Speaker 2:You guys know that I talk about it all the time, and so I have an Apple playlist and a Spotify playlist of, like, basically, battle cry, worship music that has just been really encouraging and inspiring and just words that remind you of what God has done and who he is, and so those are gonna be linked in the show notes and it's just so easy to go down that path of anger and yeah, but you have to, in those moments, say like refuse and be reminded that that is the enemy trying to discourage you because that is his job, and so refuse to do anything but give glory to God in results that you did want and in results that you didn't want, because he has a plan.
Speaker 2:He has a plan. So that's the second one. And then we talked about this one already, but I wrote down surrender and, like I said, we've both really struggled with this. I think some people are more naturally better at it than other people and it's hard to know that line of surrender, because I think that there is a puzzle point of complacency where you just say, oh, surrender, and then you just do nothing.
Speaker 2:And then there's people who are action takers, like it's like one extreme or the other, and then the action takers are like whoa, how can I surrender? Like I have to do this, you know. But then when you take all the action, you don't leave space for God to work miracles, you just don't. And I feel like looking back. I once I started praying that prayer and I stopped injecting myself in situations that I didn't necessarily have to be part of and in conversations that I didn't have to be part of. I look back now and I see that that made space for God to make moves that I wouldn't have been able to.
Speaker 1:And it's so I'm talking to myself honestly conceited and selfish to think, even though you may be a get or done type person, it's selfish and conceited to think that you can even come close to doing anything at the level of the person, the creator of this universe and the complexities of everything who created you and created everything in your life.
Speaker 1:And the surrender and the glorifying God, I think go hand in hand, because if you're not surrendering to God and you're trying to do things on your own and you're getting angry with him for things Not going the way that you want to, how can you glorify him? So almost feel like you often have to surrender to God, To that, and then it opens the space for you to then glorify him in the midst of Whatever is going on, even if it's not what you wanted or even if it's in the in-between right because you could look back in in a situation, say, yeah, I, I Maybe manipulated isn't the right word, but I could look back and see how, oh, yeah, maybe I tried to make that, manipulate that situations to get the outcome that I wanted.
Speaker 2:Or you can look back and say, no, I, I did everything I could and then I surrendered it and I released it, and when there was still space left, god you know, I left space for God to work. All right, we're back. Sorry, guys, we ended up having to take Just a little five-hour intermission. We're recording on a Sunday and the kids are napping, and then the kids were waking up and so here we are, 8 pm, and we're getting it done anyway.
Speaker 2:The next point that I had written down was just to Never, never, lose hope, and I think it's important to remember. I think it's something that we all face discouragement, and there are moments of hopelessness and the. It's just a real thing and that's the enemy's tactics to discourage us and keep it, make us feel defeated and make us feel like the our story's over. But we have to be reminded, and this is where that community comes into In the playlist you know the playlist of music that I mentioned before, when we're feeling that hopelessness, we're gonna feel it because we're human, but we just have to remind ourselves to Not be hopeless and then just to leave you with a verse on the hope category, jeremiah 2911. It's a verse that many of us are familiar with, but it's a great one to have on the forefront of your mind when you're feeling that Hopelessness or that you know your story is ending or whatever. But Jeremiah 2911 for it, I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.
Speaker 2:My last point is just. I have to constantly be reminded of this because In moments of stress and frustration, I don't often respond the way that I should. We've talked about this before, but I think that it's important to remember Whatever fight you're fighting to fight it with integrity and as the way Jesus would. So we all face those scenarios where we could. It could be justified and I think we've mentioned this before, but it could be justified to lash out or Because somebody has wronged us, that we can like not respond with integrity?
Speaker 1:in our own human flesh. Like a lot of times, we want to react out of anger, or we want to say things a certain certain way, or we want to take action on something and it doesn't always mean it's the right thing to do and it doesn't reflect Good on you or your family and it doesn't reflect well on Jesus. And when you, when we sometimes, even though it may, we may be able to justify it we want to react that way. It really takes away from what God is then able to do right, right, like thinking about this foster care situation.
Speaker 2:There have been so many times when I have just wanted to I mean one, quit and just be like that's it, we're done. This is ridiculous. Like this is so mishandled. I mean, yeah, and so that could be an option, you could quit, but then I'm constantly reminded of why are we doing this?
Speaker 1:right.
Speaker 2:You know I mean and thinking of if we would quit think about the kids that we don't get to impact right and so and really it.
Speaker 1:It's like, if you make that emotional reaction at the time, why are we doing this in the first place? We're doing to be obedient to God, and if you're making an emotional reaction and just quit on something and you don't even check in with him to see if that's what he wanted, right, then you're taking away what God had for you and us. You know.
Speaker 2:And also, like as a foster family. It's so important to be a compliant foster family with a good reputation and that's in good standing. And that can be really hard to do sometimes because there are so many things that you maybe don't agree with the way that they're handled or you don't like the person that you're working with, and so there's just so many opportunities. I mean, you guys can think about your specific situation too. There's so many opportunities where it's like oh, I just want to burn this bridge or I just want to tell this person off and yeah, like Corey said, it just removes the oper like, if you just handle it with integrity, in the way that you're supposed to, and that's the hardest way to handle it, then it. I look back on the situation that we just went through and there are so many times that I, we could have done that, done things like that, and I think that had, if we would have, I don't I mean we probably wouldn't have even been an option for him to get back into our home, you know right?
Speaker 2:So it's that's an important thing, and we were saying about having a hard, like things being hard to do, and you know, you know, you know, you know being hard, we can have hope, knowing the God who is working on our behalf. So that's where we get the hope from, but that doesn't mean that it's not gonna be hard, right? So, yeah, okay, so I just yeah, I mean that's pretty much it. We just want to close with reminding you guys that this you know, we are at war.
Speaker 2:The things that we face every day are everyday battles, whether it be marriage, finances, sin struggles, friendships, whatever it is. We have to work and fight intentionally, to swim upstream and Live the lives that we are called to live, and work through these things and let God Use them for his glory, and the enemy doesn't want us to do that. So, if there's, we're going to face opposition, but we should be thankful and knowing that our God is able to do whatever he wants to do with our lives. He has planted us here and our families here, for such a time as this, for this exact moment, and I know the days are hard sometimes. Sometimes they're wonderful, but you know we're all Dealing with things.
Speaker 2:So, whatever it is, whatever the fight, just don't lose hope. So I just want to wrap up. We have been listening. So when I went to this conference I talked about the conference earlier in the episode I was driving to a conference with group of friends that I'm working with and we got the call that baby J was coming back to our house, and that was on Monday and because I was gone, I wasn't able to fly to get him until Saturday.
Speaker 2:So those what six days were, it was like I mean, it was so good I couldn't have, like I said, I couldn't have been with better people and we were at a foster care conference and it was exactly where I needed to be and it was such a great week, but it was torturous. The days were just dragging on and, yeah, so at the very, the very last night that I was there before I flew out, shane and Shane, who our artists, came and Like I knew of them but wasn't super familiar with them. I mean I knew some of their songs, but actually the one that I really loved I'd never heard before and he it's called Psalm 46, so they actually did two albums singing about the Psalms and I'm gonna post video in the show notes because I don't want to spend time doing the whole video explanation. But do you want to do like a quick, like 20 second summary?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So basically he takes the what they're singing about in Psalm 46, where it talks about how we see the verse that be still and know that I am God, that there's a whole context before that and what happened is. He then goes to the story that it was referring to in one of the kings and second Kings and the Jewish people were up against the Assyrian army and there was a hundred and eighty thousand, I think they said, soldiers from the Syrian army coming to destroy them and the, the Jewish people were just like and they had already defeated, like many other, many other countries and not only were they going, but they were like going and they were taunting them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, they were taunting them, saying like you better come and join us or we're just gonna destroy you. Yeah, basically that's what they were going around doing to everybody, and so they were like we don't know what to do. And so the king just prayed and cried out to to God, and, and overnight the God sent the angel of the Lord, which a lot of people believe that that's a thing that's called a Christophani, where there was Jesus appearing and he came and slayed, started slaying the soldiers, and then the ones that were like Left just started running and they fled, and so when the Jewish people woke up the next morning, they were the armies and was gone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I want to play a clip of the song, but you guys can check out the full video explanation and then they play the song live, which is so good. So the night, the night that we I think it was Thursday night they came and they sang worship at this conference and he did this explanation and he, they sang the song and I was just like. It couldn't have been more fitting and it just talks about the miracles that God performs in the thing. Like he can do the impossible and we know that, like we know that we go to church, we read the Bible, like you guys know the things that he does.
Speaker 2:But when you put it in the context of the God who Slayed that entire army with one angel, the God who Saved Daniel from the lion's den, who we talked about Shadrach, meshach and Abednego a few weeks ago, the fire, they turned it up, I think ten times what it was supposed to be. And he's, they were in the fire and like it's not, like he Saved them before they went into the fire, no, they were in the fire and they were spared, you know. And Elijah, he provided for Elijah in his time of sorrow, that God is the same God that is with us and walks with us and lives in us and is Working on our behalf in whatever it is that we were doing. And so when you listen to those the words, to honestly any song on the playlist that I'm sharing in the show notes, but especially this song, like in the context of whatever fight you're fighting and and you're hearing that course, it's just so good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it was that God that did all those things. That says be still and know that I am God.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I'm gonna play a little clip and then we'll wrap up. Oh Okay, anyway, it's just such a good song and, yeah, I keep getting hit over and over with those same stories the Shadrach, misha and Abednego, daniel and Elijah and yeah, I just check out those stories if you need to be reminded of whatever issue that you're going through, that God is able read those stories and listen to Music and find your community. So I guess that's the whole point of this episode. You can check out the video in our show notes, check out the playlist on our show notes and that's it a good week everybody.