 Everyone, welcome to Smart Christian channel. I know I'm not Corey Miner. Tonight we have a very special treat for you. We're doing something a little different over here. We are having ladies night and on tonight we're doing something super exciting. I have with me some beautiful ladies from all different walks of life and we're gonna be talking about a variety of different topics. So the first thing I wanna do is one, thank you brother Corey. Thank you for lending us your audience tonight. Thank you for inviting us. We thought it was very brave of you and we're so grateful for what the Lord is doing with each of us individually and collectively. And we just wanted to take the time to say, thank you my dear brother. So first I wanna welcome all my live streamers. I know you guys are kind of pouring in, engage in the chat, let us know, you know, how you're doing, engage with one another but most of all, more importantly, we're going to engage with these beautiful ladies that I have joining me tonight. So first let me go ahead and introduce who I am. My name is April Chapman. I am the host of the Standard of Truth podcast. I am someone's wife, I'm the wife of Roberts and I am a mama for beautiful babies and you'll learn a little bit more about me as we go on. But my channel, if you're unfamiliar with who I am, it's the Standard of Truth podcast. It is a relatively new channel and over there the Bible is not an accessory. It is the main event. And so hopefully you'll take some time to get to know a little bit more about me, a little bit more about my content and preferably it'll be edifying to you and it will be a blessing to you and everyone that you shared with. First we're going to go and introduce my lovely guests. We have Jima Joe from Keeping It Real with faith and truth. Jima, would you mind taking some time to say hello to the wonderful people out there? Hello everyone, I'm so glad to be here. I'm very honored to be with these lovely ladies and thank you again, like she said to Corey for just being willing to put us on. I wanna talk a little bit about my testimony as a Christian. I'll make it short and sweet. When I was about 15 back in the day when they had coffee houses and you got to go sort of listen to the guitars and for me, you know, maybe a cute guy or two, that's where I learned about the Lord and that's actually when I was taught all you have to do is believe and be baptized and you'll be saved. And so that's what I did. Unfortunately for the next 15 years I had no idea or nothing about obedience, reading the word or growing in Christ or anything. There was no mentorship. So I just spent 15 years kind of doing what I want. And then when I was about 30 in a women's group cause God was still pursuing me and talking to me, I asked God, why is my life seem a little bit different now? And what came to my heart was, well, because you're willing to obey and read my word now. So my life changed then for sure. And then it took another 15 years of sanctification to get me to 63. So my license plates on my car was obstinate. Then it was forgiveness. And now it says love, mom, when I lost my mother I was able to get that license plate. So that gives you a pretty good story about how God put me down on my face and brought me through my years of sanctification. How about my channel a little while ago? When everything, go ahead. No, no, go right ahead. I thought you were through, you're fine, keep going. And so with grandma, Joe, a little while ago when everything shut down, there was no women ministries. I actually, you guys are gonna laugh, I was actually listening to Ruslan. So Alan Parr, Ruslan, Bon Sanders, and Lisa Childers were the four YouTubers that influencers that I was listening to back then pretty consistently. And I was challenged by Ruslan to get off my duff, changed my eating life and actually do something with my time and talents, the side of eternity. And then think media, listening to them said, just hit record. So by the grace of God and prayer on my 63rd birthday several months ago, I just literally hit record. And when I look back and look at the first three with no mic, I just, I wanna cringe at the quality of the presentation, but I just try to get 1% better. And then I have a panel of four people who actually associate pastor that because I'm old school and I believe in that headship and they listen to all of my content and keep me accountable for content and context. And so I just jumped in at the three to five minute videos on current subjects from a faith-based perspective. And I just try to give it a little bit of a slant, something that you wouldn't maybe think about. So that's how I got started. Well, amen. Thank you for sharing with us how the Lord brought you to saving faith. I actually forgot to tell you guys a little bit of a mock testimony. It'll be brief, listen, I was trash, right? I was dead in my sin, living my life for myself, thinking I was a Christian, doing all of the Christian spiritual things that Christian, you know, churchians do, but I did not know the Lord, I did not know the God of the Bible. And then I cannot remember the exact year, Facebook comes out, I hear the gospel preached by, you know, my brother in the Lord, Brother Seiko Woods, and I vehemently fought the gospel of Christ because I could not understand where in Ephesians two, you know, I heard Ephesians two, I even had it highlighted in my old King James Bible, but for some reason that scripture never resonated with me. And then over the course of a few months, the Lord did a work in my heart and it was literally like the scales fell off of my eyes. I realized that I had never repented of my sin. And then the Lord just changed my relationship with sin. I went from loving the things of glory to hating my former self and having a thirst for his word and a love for his people. So that's essentially it in a nutshell, how the Lord brought me to saving faith. And it's been a wonderful journey ever since. If you would like to hear the full version of that testimony, I think I do have that as a full length video on my channel, a little bit about the standard truth. I think I already told you that. So I'm just gonna move on, right, to my next guest. The next guest I want to introduce to you is Latonya Quinn from Cure for the Soul Ministries. Cure for the Soul Ministries is actually like an online website and blog and her YouTube channel is kind of a spin-off of that. So I'm gonna go ahead and turn the floor over to Latonya. She's gonna introduce herself, give us a little bit about her testimony and what her channel is about. Go ahead, Latonya. Can you guys hear Latonya's audio? No, she's off. Okay. Oh, okay. Hey, everybody. I'm sorry. I was talking to myself on mute. Okay. So thank you, Corey, for allowing us to utilize your platform that is such a blessing to me. I want to just thank God for allowing us to come together tonight. We've been trying to coordinate this since late last year, and I'm just thankful to be a part of it with all the other ladies. I'll give a little bit of background about myself. I came to know Christ at a very young age, around seven years old. My father witnessed the gospel to me. I know a lot of people, especially that has walked with the Lord for a long time, they would like to think that a child cannot be saved. Although I didn't have the experience that an adult may have with their transformation, but at that moment, when my father witnessed to me, I realized I was a sinner, and I did repent of my sins, and I asked the Lord to lead and guide my life. And I know I wasn't a perfect child, or I didn't do everything right. And I accepted Christ that day, and my walk with him, I remember it started because I was an anxious and a fearful child. And I also had some bouts with being mean and had to work on my attitude for years. But at the same time, I realized that Jesus Christ was walking with me. Okay? I never doubted that it was a trinity, that it was God, the Father, God, the Son, God, the Holy Spirit. I always knew that, and I was aware of that because I was bought up in a Bible-believing church. Unfortunately, Dan bought up in a Bible-believing church under Christian parents as well that had just come to know the Lord, like right before I was born. They hadn't been walking with the Lord that long. So obviously, people have to learn how to have a relationship with God and how to move about in relationship. So from that experience, during my teenage years, late teenage years, I did start to stray a little bit from the foundation because I didn't have a clear understanding of the sanctification process. So I strayed, kind of went my own way here and there, but I never left the church. I never left Jesus. But he had to bring me back and teach me who he was in a different way that I had known from a child. So my walk with the Lord got a little bit closer when I was in my early 30s. My relationship with my ex-husband actually bought me into that space where I had to seek the Lord even harder. That's just a very brief testimony. My full testimony is on my YouTube page. Here for the Soul is all about taking the believer through the sanctification process because I didn't know what spiritual growth really was or what sanctification was when I became a believer. So it's about discernment and spiritual growth and growing in maturity with the issues that you face every day in life with your soul, your mind, your will and your emotions, and just learning how to surrender to the power of the Holy Spirit to walk you through your journey. That's cure for the soul. Amen. That just won my heart hearing about a child coming to saving faith. I've never denied for a moment that that is not possible. We'd have to believe that either salvation is of the Lord or it's not. So praise God for your testimony. We're going to move on to my other home girl, my Bronx beauty, Miss Dina Reviews. Take a moment, Miss follower of the way to introduce yourself. Let the people know who you are and give us a brief testimony and talk about the transition your channel is going through because we're not going to let it go through that way for long. You've got to put out some more content, aren't you? Hello, hello. I have a little bit of feedback. Hold on. Let me lower this. So God bless everyone. Peace be with all, abiding in Jesus Christ. Is there feedback? Is that just me? Do you sound okay unless does everyone hear her okay? Good one for the Bronx. That's right. Go ahead, sis. Okay. I can hear. Okay. Okay. I am a pilgrim on this journey. Peace be with all, abiding in Jesus Christ. I like to call myself a second generation Christian in the sense that when my parents came to saving faith, they continue to instill within us to look to Christ. So we will fail you as your parents, but he will never fail you. I remember growing up, my mother used to always tell me, show your fruit. And in order for us to understand what that means, we have to be rooted in the word of God. And so I was always encouraged to deeply study the word of God. When my parents came to saving faith, of course I didn't go in the way of the pilgrim. I made a lot of stupid choices. And I was definitely disciplined by the Lord. And his rod and his staff, they comfort me. And so I'm not very interesting, but my savior is my all. And now I go and I proclaim how he had mercy on me. And that's my heart. That is how I disciple my children alongside or under my husband. And I'm just thankful. My channel is Dina review. And I started my channel in the beauty space, reviewing makeup, reviewing beauty, things like that. And mainly it was because I had spent so much of my life talking about me. Look at me, look at me. And that was what I was talking about on my YouTube channel. I'm reviewing what I like. Look at this, look at that. And now I'm reviewing the word in focus. And I want to encourage my sister, the young to look to Christ. If Christ be anything, he must be everything. And that is my heart. That is what you'll get on the channel. I am transitioning. And to be honest, it was fear. I didn't know if I could take to this space and move forward boldly and courageously. And I had to repent. I had to ask the Lord for help. And he has been helping me. He has sent people to encourage me. It's funny because the smart Christian channel was always a quarry. He was always recommending my channel. And I'm thinking, yo, I'm not even doing anything yet. And I was freaking out. But it was actually that encouragement that blessed me so much and encouraged me. And, um, pushed me back into focus. And I'm thankful. I'm thankful to you, Corey. I'm thankful to say go word. Who's always also encouraging and pushing our channel. I'm thankful to April for Gima Latanya. And everyone else that God has brought into my life in this journey. So you'll see me on my channel. You'll see me moderating on other channels. I love to serve and help the body of Christ. It's a genuine joy for me. I am forgiven. I am in peace. And I'm joyful. God bless you all. Amen. Aren't we all just a bunch of riches undone and Christ finds us and cleans us up and saves us for his glory. I'm so pleased to hear your testimony and about your channel. So what we're going to do now, we're going to get straight into segment number one. Our whole goal of doing this, we kind of wanted to pattern after the view where it's, you know, a panel of ladies and we've got specific topics and each of us are taking a topic and we're bouncing ideas off of each other. So that's kind of what we're going to do. And we're going to have fun. I'm so glad for those of you who are late coming on in. I know you're going to hit the like button. I know you're definitely going to subscribe if you haven't already. And more importantly, you're going to share this content because you know, it is to the glory of God and it is for your good. So let's go ahead and get started. So first, my segment is talking about ministry inside and outside of the home. And the reason why I felt it was important to talk about this because so many, particularly in today's culture and environment, when you hear, you know, women advocating and saying, you can have it all sis and you can just, you can just do everything. And while, you know, I feel like I was born with a cape. Like I know I am not a superhero. I realize that I am limited and I am weak. And I don't have the mental capacity or the physical stamina to do everything. And which leads me to, you know, want to bring up, I don't even understand why women are even trying to advocate to preach and teach an authority over men when there are so many ministry opportunities and responsibilities that the Lord has already placed in our lab that we're not even doing that well. All you got to do is look at the culture and you can see where the culture is heading because women are, we're pretty much advocating our roles in the home, but we're not going to talk about that. We're going to talk about women doing ministry inside and outside the home. So the first thing I want to do is if you guys don't know, I am an entrepreneur. I've been an entrepreneur for several years now. I'm also very active in my community and I'm into politics and I'm kind of, I got my hands in a little bit of everything. But more importantly, I am somebody's wife, right? I am somebody's mama. And so that is my first ministry. I am to do those things well and due to the glory of God. But the first question I want to talk about, and I'll probably pose this to Jima, since she is probably the matriarch on the panel. What are some pitfalls that you see that come along the way with trying to do ministry inside and outside of the home? Go ahead, Jima. Well, I appreciate that question very much. And I think it's the same for both. And that's losing priorities. So being a working woman myself, I've been working since I was, I would say nine years old. I used to babysit and then in senior junior year, it was a four, four plan. And then other than two years when my children were born, my twins, I heard somebody say that twins, my twins are born. I stayed home. Other than that, I've been working full time. And I'm going to have to tell you honestly, for me, and again, this is no judgment on anybody else, but for me, I have an opportunity, which we'll talk about later to do it differently. And I am going to stay home. And I wished I had because my priorities were not in line. And I, it was so much to juggle. Not that, like you said, super cape, you know, we have a super cape, we multitask. I'm the type of person. If you want to move in 24 hours, call, you call me, call grandma Joe and I'll get it done. I'll have you moved in 24 hours, but then I'm going to have to apologize to everybody that I rolled over to get there. And so our strengths are sometimes our weaknesses. And I know that that was true for me. And so I have to be very sensitive about that. So I don't want to discredit the strength, but I have to know that it comes at a price sometimes. And I have to be careful about the other side of that. And I think that's true with working or having our ministry inside or outside the home is balancing the family, balancing our husbands, balancing our, you know, and when I say love self, I hate saying love self because it's such a word again, these terms that have been hijacked by our world culture, but loving ourselves in the sense that we're taking care and respecting yourself as our bodies are the temple of God. We should be taking care of them. We should be eating right. We should be resting correctly so that we are full so that we can be the best servant that we can to everybody around us. And of course I'm going to talk about, you know, faith family ministry on those in that priority. And so that's kind of hard. I think that's one of the pitfalls of whether you have a ministry inside or outside the home, whether you're working inside or outside the home is managing those priorities. That's great. You know, I like to add to that. It's interesting because, you know, my children are experiencing a very different home structure than the home structure in which I grew up, you know, I'm from the Bronx grew up in a single parent home. And my mother was very active in ministry. But one thing she taught me my mother never sacrificed what was going on at home for the sake of ministry. I distinctly remember one time my mother was, you know, I grew up traditional like Baptist church. And my mom was the minister of music. Like she was over several choirs. And I remember this one particular time the pastor wanted her to go. It was like in the middle of the week. And he was traveling in some sort of revival. And he was like, you know, Georgiana, I need you, I need you on board. And I distinctly remember her saying, absolutely not. I cannot go. That is too many dates. I have a small child at home. I still work full time. I cannot neglect her and what I have going on at home, just so I could be on the Oregon, making the hand, him and B3 do what they do. Like she was just like, I can't do that. And he was highly affected as a kid because I'm like, well, I should be important enough for you to understand. She's not just saying, I don't want to go and I don't want to serve. For some arbitrary reasons. She was just like, no, like as a week night, she's got school. She was already used to dragging me all around. Adam been to every funeral home and church. There is in the Bronx Harlem, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island. Right. And so, but she said no. And that taught me something very important. Our home was always clean. Like my mama is, ooh, Lord have mercy. She's a Meeta freak. She might be watching this. Love you, mama. Mama, but you extra, you extra. Home was always clean. We were dinner was always cooked. And she worked, you know, for the Bronx D.A.'s office full time. And I don't know how she did it. Right. I don't know how she did it. I don't know how she did it. I don't know how she did it. But for me, one of the pitfalls I recognize early on is that the children often do get neglected. We get so, you know, just wanting to go, go, go. Oh, and do, do, do and BBB that the children end up despising church life. Right. They end up despising church life. They end up despising ministry. And they end up just not wanting any parts of it. They want to learn how to serve others. And to do all things unto the glory of God, but it's got to be a balance. Let's Hanya, what would you like to add to that? What pitfalls do you see trying to do ministry inside the home and outside the home? Do you think it's something that you would recommend? Like what would you say to that? I would say April and ladies that my, it's unique to me because I am a divorce or single woman. So I live alone and I'm not a mother. So for me, it is still a challenge. There's still a challenge with balancing, trying to take care of myself, trying to spend the proper amount of time in my relationship with God and prayer and study, trying to do the nine to five. And that's a different topic. We're not going to get on that right now, but just trying to make sure that I'm pleasing God and not pleasing my flesh because sometimes what ends up happening is we get to a point where we have the work, we have the ministry, we have the house, we have to take care of ourselves. And if we're not careful, those things could become a priority over God and we could start to work on those things through our flesh and not engage the Holy Spirit and allow him to work through us to give us the proper rest that we're going to need. So just a total reliance on the Holy Spirit is just so important. That's my takeaway from it. Amen. That's really good. I had a few things on my list such as the children being neglected, marriage, marriage is suffering. I've seen so many marriages fall apart, right? Because the wife is oftentimes unfortunately attempting to usurp the role and she's wearing the pants and she's running the church and she's doing everything else other than tending to her husband. His needs are not being met. And just like the children, the husband, even though he might love the Lord, he starts despising the ministry, he starts hating on the pastor. The pastor is seeing more of my wife than I am and it can be very problematic. I also have seen personal care being neglected. I know self-care is like a real big buzzword, right? When I talk about self-care, I'm not talking about from a secular world view where we're spending all the time in the spot and we're doing this and we're doing that on ourselves. But I'm just talking about just the basics. Since when the last time you had a well-balanced meal? Are you drinking water? Are you sleeping? Are you resting well? Those are things that tend to get neglected and we attempt to try to do ministry inside the home and outside of the home. Diana, would you like to add anything on this topic concerning this issue? Do you have any thoughts? Yes, yes. I was in ministry for a while. I was serving at the church with my husbands. I was doing music. I was a musician. I released music. And it was always go, go, go in ministry, which is a good thing, right? And yet within the household, things were falling apart. And so I had to take a step back even when I didn't want to. So in 2017, my husband is a U.S. disabled veteran. So in 2017, his condition took a turn and we had to step back from everything. And that was probably the hardest thing for me because I was so used to being involved in doing things. And it was that moment where we came, we dealt with a lot of things within the house, but we had to deal with ministry within the home, right? We're to love God and love our neighbor. And that starts with our neighbors and our household and asking our children questions. And I started to notice with my oldest, she would come home from public school with all of these different beliefs and ideologies. And I didn't know how to tackle them. I wasn't paying attention. And so now I positioned myself to, wait a minute, ministry starts at home. And I praise God, I thank Him. It's 2022. We are homeschool parents to our children. There's no more public school. We are pouring into the children. We're discipling them. I am a caregiver to my husband. He is our strength. And I'm thankful. So I want to encourage, because a lot of times, especially in this generation, especially with women, women are always pushed and pushed and pushed to the limit. And it's great to be successful. I'm not saying that. What I am saying is that there are some situations where there are spouses who are ill. There is needs within the household. And you are to commit your way to the Lord every day, whether you are at home caregiving, homeschooling, going to work, going to the supermarket. Lord, I commit my way to you. Help me to serve. Help me to be the first and foremost, my family. And so I want to encourage you in this hour, no matter what your situation is, be content where you are, fight the good fight, right? Call out to God, your weaknesses. April was talking about taking care of yourself, not being lazy, having self-control. These are fruits of the spirit, right? Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentlemen, self-control. We are to commit our way to the Lord within our households and in all of our ministries, and it begins there. And then we can begin to extend Christ's love outwardly to everyone first beginning in our household. We don't want to be hypocrites out there preaching the gospel. And then in our houses, the way I was, things were not in order. So that's what I want to add. Hopefully that's encouraging. Good word. All of you, very good words. Amen, sisters. Looks like we are missing April. Maybe she's having some technical issues. Okay, so just Dina, piggybacking on what you said about the ministry starts at home. I have to totally agree with you on that. And like I said, my perspective is quite unique because I don't have people living in my household, but that's a good way for the devil to actually try to distract you if you're single, if you're divorced, if you're living alone, because it seems like you have more time than you have. So what we have to do is be intentional as far as making sure that the time we do have that we are focused on God and what he wants opposed to feeding our flesh because what ends up happening is we can waste a lot of time doing nothing. We can waste a lot of time watching TV. We can waste a lot of time watching YouTube videos. We can waste a lot of time doing things that won't actually edify us or edify other people long term. So just like I said, from my unique perspective as a single is we still have to make sure that our time is well managed and we're doing the best that we can do with the time that the Lord is gifting us with. Amen. I love that. Let me... I'm sorry. You want to go, Jima? Yeah. I was just going to say, maybe Dianna until April gets back, do you want to jump in on your segment and start with your portion of the study and study habits and kind of give us your take on that? Yes. Yes. So, and it's good because I can piggyback of what LaTanya said. I was someone who would binge watch shows and just waste time. And I was convicted by this big time when I started to realize that I don't know anything that I should know in the sense of how to articulate my faith. I knew what my faith was, but it was actually hearing individuals, especially online, who would maybe deny the deity of Christ or make statements, bold statements that the apostles didn't make and so I thought to myself, wait a minute, I'm wasting too much time. My five minute devotions in the morning where I'm sitting with my cup of coffee and taking my little snapshot for Instagram. Ooh, I'm studying. No, I needed to position myself to learn from the rabbi, right? To learn from the teacher. And we see Jesus telling Martha not to be caught up with the work, but to choose the better portion that Mary chose. Mary chose to sit at the feet of Jesus and to learn. And so my segment tonight, my topic is the importance of study habits. What are your study habits? And so before I get into the study habits, I wanted to just read why it's important for us to study. One of the reasons scripture is saturated with why it's important for us to study. Jesus himself in what he tells the apostles, this is how you pray. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. What? Give us this day our daily bread. There's always going to be bread for us. There's always going to be nourishment. And the sisters was talking about, we have to take care of ourselves. We have to eat healthy. We have to drink water. Jesus says, blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. And so we hunger and thirst and deepen our studies so that we can understand how to fight the good fight, how to put on the full armor, how to be aware of the works of the flesh. The Bible tells us that we know others by their fruit. We find that in the scriptures, what are the fruit we should be looking for? Right? So Psalm 119, 9 and 16 says, how can a young man keep his way pure by guarding it according to your word? With my whole heart, I seek you. Let me not wander from your commandment. I have stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Blessed are you, oh Lord, teach me your statute. With my lips, I declare all the rules of your mouth. In the way of your testimonies, I delight as much as in all riches. I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statute. I will not forget your word. A lot of times people would say, well, that's a young man keeping his way pure. Genesis 5, 2 tells us he made them male and female when he created them and he called them man. All of humanity falls under Adam. And so we keep our way pure by storing the word of God in our heart. And so sometimes I find when it comes to studying, I have to discipline myself. It's about spiritual discipline. And if I lack self-control with binge-watching shows and every other area, I have to bring myself under the headship of the Lord, of my husband. And so what we started to do in our house is study the scriptures together, not just waiting for Sunday morning to hear the pastor preach, but to sit down together, study the scriptures, read them, and then talk. Not about how we think the scriptures are talking to us. Ooh, what do you think about what the scriptures say? No, what is the word saying? Yes. And how do we not just hear it? But okay, children, now how do we apply it? So in my household, my youngest, I focus on my youngest's education. He's just turned seven. My husband focuses on my 13-year-old. And then we come together and do our devotions and things. And so my youngest son, as we're discipling him, we teach him what the word of God says. So when I step outside, like when I step out of line, let's say I get nasty or something happens, my husband will tell me, Mom, that's sin. That's sin that you speak in that way. You should ask for forgiveness. And it blesses my heart because I know that he's just speaking the word. He's just telling me what the word of God says. And so I want to teach my children healthy study habits. So my first question I guess to pose is, before I get into my study tools, which is for the ladies, and one thing I want to share is this. Shalyn said this in one of his songs on the Restoration Album with Timothy Brindle. Church history is super vital to remind you that every true revival came through disciples who knew the Bible. Bible study is so important, not so you could become filled with head knowledge, so that you can deepen, of course, your study of the word of God. But we know that we don't search descriptions for our salvation. Jesus is our salvation. He is our righteousness. But we search what is written, and we also focus on church history. What the apostles passed down to those in church history. I hear a lot of people in the comment section saying things like, church history, we don't have to focus on that. Just the Bible. We're supposed to know what took place. We're supposed to know what happened. We're supposed to see those church fathers and those who stuck with what the apostles thought versus what everyone else was saying. And so I wanted to say that because a lot of people will say, what does your study look like? Well, my study looks like description and studying description. The best habit for study is to study, is to make time for it, discipline yourself. And so with the busyness of life, I wanted to ask the ladies, what are some of the obstacles you face in making time for Bible study? Well, welcome back. I'm sorry y'all about that. The devil jumped into the internet. Can you believe that? No, seriously. Life is super, super busy. But I would say one, if you do not prioritize these spiritual disciplines, they won't happen, right? Meaning you'll get all down with the busyness of the day and the next thing you'll know, it'll be 10 p.m. and you've spent zero time in God's Word and now you're tired and you just want to lay down. And so what I would strongly suggest is one, committing to scripture memory. Memory is super huge and has always been super huge for me, meaning where you learn entire large chapters or books of the Bible. And obviously you don't do it in one sitting, but literally you can start tomorrow and say, you know what? I'm going to commit to learn the book of Ephesians. Like I started with the book of Jews and I started with Jude 1-1. And then the next day I went back and I repeat Jude 1-1 10 times and then tomorrow I'm going to repeat Jude 1-1 10 times and then I'm going to add Jude 1-2. And then on day three I'm going back to Jude 1-1, I'm doing Jude 1-2 and then I'm doing Jude 1-3. And then the next thing you know, you know the entire book of Jude and it didn't take long, but eventually you will become so well ingrained with those scriptures that it's very, very difficult to call one for you to be deceived because you're not cherry picking and learning one verse out of context, but you're learning that scripture in the broader context of the entire book, but you must prioritize it, meaning you get up and do your hair every day, you get your nails done, you're in the salon, you take a shower, you need to look at learning the scriptures and taking the scripture serious, kind of like you do your daily grooming. I can't groom or grow in sanctification if I don't treat it as a spiritual discipline. So scripture memory on top of that, if you're a busy mom or a busy dad or you're just a busy person, listening to the preached word or literally the Bible in audio form just all day, like if you're in the car instead of listening to talk radio, you're listening to the scriptures instead of listening to your favorite CHH artists and there's nothing wrong with that, you should do those things, but prioritize scripture first. Prioritize and making it a part of just like your family, like we have this thing in our house called Family Circle, where we sit sometimes in a very loose circle and it could be in the master room or around the table, but we are just discussing God's word, we're discussing the scriptures and so that's something that I would say you have to make time for it. Listen, as busy as my life is, if I can do it, you can do it too. You just have to prioritize it, like you're not gonna skip several days or months and not shower, are you? Like you're gonna be walking around stinking. Well, you can be spiritually bankrupt and start stinking a little bit too if you're not in God's word as a priority. We're not looking for spiritual perfection. God is looking at the posture of your heart and the desire to learn about Him through the scriptures. That's all I'll say about that. Yeah, I'd like to add to that. The priority is amazing and just right in line with that would be the habits because if we don't make it a habit, just like everybody else is saying we're not going to do it and like for me in my life, same thing, I work 410s, I'm up at 430 in the morning, getting out the door at about what, 20 to 6 to get to work by 6. But I use the, whatever you use, use U version or whatever and I love how April said audio. So I listen to the word a day. Usually there's some speaker from whoever around the world, which is kind of fun and they're talking about that word. And so that's planted in my mind first thing. And then of course your nighttime prayers and devotion and journal. But also for my husband and I, I think we tend to think that we have to rush or that if we fail, if we're not doing this perfect devotional time that somehow we're failing God. And so as unique as the study habits can be, I think we need to give ourselves a little permission to sort of do what's best for us in the season of our life and in the multiple priorities that we have like April said and like Dino said. And so what we do is there's a man named Dr. Randall Smith and he does one hour, one book. His whole ministry is he speaks to college students and he teaches them for a whole year and they go to Jerusalem. And he has these websites that are one hour, one book. So what we've done and another friend of ours, who earned us onto it is we listen to that together as a family for that 45 minutes or one hour on that book. Then we read that book in its entirety and it just opens up so much. It comes alive because we have this backstory and this familiarity with it. Then what I get to do is vet it. Then I get to go, did that sound right? Was that right? And then I get to go look over here because I believe Bible proves Bible. And so you can look in another scripture verse or another area to understand exactly the context of that particular verse. So I think just making a good habit, sticking to it, being disciplined, just like she said, we take a shower, we brush our teeth, we do all those things. But just forgiving ourselves for not being perfect and just be consistent. Do the best we can to just plan something, shift it up as you go and just do the very, very best you can to get into it and commit. That would be my recommendation. Etonia, what you got? Okay. It looks like I'm frozen on the screen, but can you all hear me? Yes. Yes, we can hear you. Hello. Can you all hear me? Okay. I'm a little delayed over here. You're coming in good. Okay. So first and foremost, I agree with everything. Okay. First and foremost, I agree with everything that you ladies just said. Some people get up early to go to the gym. I get up bright and early to go to my prayer closet. Okay. That's my first priority. Why? Because I'm only here. I'm only living, breathing. And it's in him. I live. I move and I have my being. Okay. So if I'm waking up and my feet hit the floor, it's time for me to get praised and go into thank the Lord. I get into my word in the morning. I wrap it up with another book that I may be reading. Outside of the word. And then I pray. And sometimes I journal. But another thing that April said, I believe it's important to also memorize scripture because that's how, especially based upon something that you're dealing with. That's how I really started to remember certain scriptures. Like when I was little as a child dealing with things like fear. That's why on my website, I have a free study that you can also download about 21 days to slay your fear because as a child, that was my biggest issue. I had to overcome shyness. I had to overcome timidity. I was always afraid. I was afraid to go up in my room by myself. I was afraid of the tooth fairy. I was afraid to go in our basement to get something from my parents. So the scriptures that I learned initially were regarding fear. And those types of subjects will help you if you're dealing with a certain issue, whether it be your finances, whether it's dealing with a business, whether it's dealing with your marriage or just your anger or whatever that may be. Start with that because you're going to be able to remember scripture way better if it's something that you're dealing with. Additionally, part of my process is also once I've done reading certain passages of scripture or if I'm reading a book, I'll go to the audio Bible as well and kind of listen to it while I'm doing my hair, doing my makeup, cleaning up the house, driving in the car. That way it enforces what the Lord just fed me from my daily bread. Excellent. That's real good right there. Real good right there. Sorry, I was turning on my mute button. So I want to talk about some of the study tools that I use. You know, it's funny because sometimes people think that women should not have any place in ministry and sometimes I'm confused because if we are to serve in our home, be help mates to our husbands. As a help mate to my husband, I want to minister to him the word of God. I don't want to tell him, you know, do this because I wanted to do it or everything that we do, I wanted to please the Lord, right? Let everything we do be done to the glory of the Lord. And so my husband knows that first and foremost, but as his help mate, I want to come alongside him. We're both raising our children. And so when there's difficulties and situations that arise, we run to the word. What does the word of God say? How do we handle this? The wisdom coach, Sean Isaacs, Pastor Sean Isaacs, he always says that, you know, the word is to govern and not just Pastor Isaacs, my father tells me that. The elders I speak to tell me that. Everything that we do should be governed from the word of God. And as April says, that's the standard of truth. We don't just sprinkle in the word of God when it's convenient to us. Oh, chase after your dreams, prosperity. I want money. I want health. Listen. My husband's condition. A lot of times people have told us that he's not healed, that the physical ailments that I've had. We're not healed because of our faith. But when I read the word of God, I find such joy in the word. And I know how to suffer. I can suffer well. I'm not saying we don't suffer. I'm not saying we don't have trials. I understand that very well. But I have come to a place because of my study of scripture that has, Jesus has taught me through the word by the power of his Holy Spirit, how to be content, how to suffer well. You know, it is well, right, with my soul. And so some of the study, the, sorry, the study tools that I use, of course, is scripture first and foremost, right, the Holy scriptures. And so I know everyone has their preference of a Bible. I love the King James. I do. I specifically love this Bible because of the, into the information it gives between the Testament. If you look inside this study Bible, it tells you about the Maccabees, the Maccabees, yeah, the Maccabee and Revolt and those types of things. So I like to understand what was going on. I like to understand what happened. And so I use my King James study Bible. I also use the ESV. I also use the NASV. In fact, I have the grace to you study Bible app. And it has three different versions. And if you hit the audible, you can hear the scriptures being read. So like our sister was saying, when she's combing her hair or doing anything, she's listening to the scriptures. And so I like the ESV, the way it reads the voice. And when we listen to it in the house, my son tells me that the word of God, that's his voice. I said, no, that's just someone who's reading the word of God, but it's, you're hearing it all up, right? Justin Peter says, if you want to hear God speak to you, get in the word. So you want, you need to hear it out loud, hear it out loud. So that's why I tell my kids, you want to sit down. It's important to read. We live in an age of technology. Everything is online. No one knows how to grab a book. You go to church. Everyone has their iPad. Get your Bible. Mark your Bible. Write in it. My dad taught me that you study your Bible. You write in it. This is not the one I write in. I have one that I write in, but write in your Bible. Take note. Another great tool is the believer's Bible commentary. And I want to just quickly read something from in here because a lot of time, especially in the comment section, I hear women be silent. Now I agree that women, I don't believe women should be in pastoral authority over men. I'll say that first and foremost, but can a woman testify? Yes. Absolutely. And so I want to read to you just this commentary really quickly. It is from John Ford. And it says this, as a result of the simple and Fort Wright testimony of the woman of Samaria, many of her people believed on the Lord Jesus. All she had to say was he told me all that I ever did. And yet that was sufficient to bring others to the savior. They should be an encouragement to each of you to be simple, courageous, and direct in your witness for Christ. And then it says the reception given to the Lord Jesus by the Samaritan was in marked contrast to that of the Jews. The Samaritan seemed to have some real appreciation of this wonderful person and they urged him to stay with them. And as a result of their invitation, the Lord stayed there two days. Just think how privileged the city of Sycar was that it should entertain the Lord of life and glory during this period of time. Sisters, we are called to invite the Lord, right? He says he will come in. He will eat with us. And so don't be discouraged when you see people saying, Oh, you should just be silent. Just learn and shut up. Actually, I'm going to proclaim to anyone and everyone about how my God had mercy on me and how he can have mercy on you as well. And he will repent. Right. If you confess your sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And so that takes place. As he sanctifying us. And if the Lord's word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our past, then we must study the word of God. And so my sister, what are some helpful tools that have helped you in your time? I have several different study Bibles. Obviously, I have a MacArthur study Bible or Reformation study Bible. I am one of those where ladies need to love theology. Right. I understand that intellectualism is like a cuss word these days. But I'm sorry. Theology is the study of God,ology, the study of and then they ask God, how can I know and love a God that I do not know? And I don't want to rely on my subjective feelings and impressions about who the God of the Bible is. I want to know how he has revealed himself in scripture. And so ladies should definitely love theology. And so I would encourage women, you know, invest in some good commentaries. A systematic theology, one of my favorite systematic theology books is one by Wayne Grudem. Right. It's very good. It comes with an accompanying workbook. I also have, just like we invest in other aspects of our lives, I believe it is imperative for women to invest in the health of their spiritual life, meaning I will drop a grip on a new study tool. You know, I've got several books on hermeneutics, which is the art of studying biblical interpretation. That's very important. Understanding exactly what is this, not what this text mean to me, right? Because don't nobody care what it means to you. It's what does the text mean? What was the original authorial intent? What was the apostle Paul trying to convey? You can read the gospels and see distinct differences between how Mark writes versus how John writes and how Luke conveys his gospel. He's a little bit more, you know, intellectually weighty than the other common men who wrote the gospels. So ladies, have a love for theology. And if you just feel like this is over my head, this is too much, listen, when you pray and ask God to give you a love for His word and to heighten your thirst to know Him more, that's a God-honoring prayer. Like God's going to be like, all right, sis, I got you, right? And then embrace it. Faith without works is dead. So believe that He's going to answer that prayer and then go on to Christianbook.com and buy you some stuff and treat it like a discipline, like you would anything else. Those are some of my tools. I would also invest in, you know, I'm not like an apologist for Jay Mack, but I'm just saying, his commentary set is good, right? My family, we can all come in here and grab one of the New Testament commentaries off the bookshelf. I'm not book front. Like these are actual real books that we bought with our own money. So I would definitely say invest in your spiritual growth, spend a little money. Not only are you blessing another ministry that's doing great work, but you're also investing in the health of your sanctification. That's what I would say. I think that's extremely wise counselor. Can I drop it? Major truth here. Did someone say something? Sorry. I think Natanya wants to jump in. I'm sorry. If you were going first, Grandma, Joe, that's fine. I'll wait. Yeah, either is good. I just, I'll make mine really brief. I just wanted to say that I want to say, and don't underestimate the Holy Spirit and Bible, Bible proving Bible. So I, these commentaries are all great. And I agree absolutely with Diana in April and what Latanya is going to say. Latanya or Latanya? Latanya. Latanya. Latanya. Latanya. And so what you guys are dropping truths. I just love it, but I just, again, keep it simple for me. I do all of that. But I also, especially for what I consider the, the younger women that I'm mentoring is like, just allow the Holy Spirit, just start, just start, get into it. I tell them to journal. I remember one time that I went through the whole Old Testament and I was journaling and I got so angry when I was a New Christian and I had this really seasoned woman that I was meeting every week to go over questions and she goes, stop reading the Old Testament. Read the New Testament first and go back because I wasn't spiritually ready to receive the Old Testament yet. I was so immature and I just found myself getting, getting upset, not understanding God at all because I had no wisdom, no maturity for that. And then I embraced and I loved Proverbs before I loved Psalms, you know? And so we're in different seasons. And so just actually, I actually love the LXX too, the old Septuagint, you know, just kind of talks about God stretching out, you know, his hand when he created and speaking into existence. And so all of this stuff just makes it like a movie to me that where the scriptures just come alive. But that took time. I didn't have that when I was a younger Christian. And so just trusting the Holy Spirit, I would say very simply get into the word. Just like Dianna said, just start. You got to start, get into the word and then begin to, as you have questions, then look them up, then get online, then at Sea Council, all these other commentaries and then answer that question for yourself. And as you begin to do that, you develop that personal uniqueness about how you receive the word of God in the season that you're in. So I would just, that was what I wanted to share. Hey, head at Latanya. Yes, yes, yes. You ladies are amazing. Okay. So what I would just say in response to all of that, all of your answers were great. And I'm like Grandma Joe, just start where you are. However, if you have an issue where you're not, there's no desire at all to read God's word. The scripture tells us to examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith, okay? And this is not a stab or a dig, but sometimes there are people, what I would call a false conversion. April talks about this a lot on her channel and in her testimony video. And I encourage you all to check it out on her channel. But sometimes there's something going on if we can get up and we could do everything else in the world. We can go to the movies. We can travel around the world. We can do all of these things, but we had no desire at all to get fed from God's word. What we have to understand first off, first, if we realize what we were saved from, we were destined to hell, okay? We were hell bound, but Jesus and God and His great love and His great mercy, He gave us a way out. And it's not because of anything that we did, it's because of everything that He has done, His great mercy, His great power, where He redeemed us by His blood. So when you realize what you were actually saved from, you were saved from eternal hell. So now the scriptures, you thirst for them. You thirst and you hunger after His righteousness. And if there is no desire to read anything, and I'm not saying every day I feel like reading. I don't feel like reading every day, but what happens is there is a daily habit that ends up being established. And when you start off with just simply reading the word first, get nourished, get fed from the word first, and then you can move on to some commentaries like the ladies mentioned. And also if your church has any type of classes where you can learn about New Testament, Old Testament survey, as well as some theology, when your hunger grows for the Lord, you have a desire to actually get into apologetics. You have a desire to defend the faith, to learn apologetics, to learn what the scripture is saying. Then you'll go into your cross-referencing where you're writing the scripture, interpret the scripture. And then I know April just mentioned this. I don't know if you can see it. This is what I'm studying right now, as well as just a few other reads because systematic theology is so important. YouTube has actually sent me into a space where I have to study way more than I thought I would because of the people with the wrong theologies and the wrong views of God, you have to know your word. You have to know how to defend your Lord and Savior. So I would just, like I said, just start off reading the Bible, ask the Lord to show you, ask the Holy Spirit to show you what to read, how to understand the scripture, and then your hunger and your thirst will grow more getting into the word from there. And I want to add something real quick. If we look into scriptures, especially in Genesis, we see that Satan, he twists the scripture. In Matthew 4, this is what he's doing in the wilderness with Jesus. It is written, so he knows the scriptures. And Jesus responds, placing things in proper context. And so the importance of the study of scripture, I don't care how old you are, is also to recognize when scripture is being twisted. You know, I, when I, when I say that I was raised like second generation, I didn't call out and repent for my sin until 18 years ago. So I was raised and my parents, there was a lot of stuff going on. If I've seen the hand of God in my life, it's the testimony of my parents to see what God has done in my, in my dad alone. And so his love for the scriptures, there's so many times, even now, because he's the pastor. So when we go over to eat dinner, our conversations are maybe about us. You know, how you doing? How's school? Buffy, how's this? How's that? But then we're in the scriptures. We're discussing it on Thanksgiving dinner. We're talking the scriptures. We're talking about it. I'm asking questions. Everyone at the table is asking questions. It's not just the Sunday morning thing. It's an everyday living out so that when you come into contact with people who, who twist the scriptures, you can say, no friend, that is not what that says. It is written though. And you take them to what the scripture actually says and you show them it's important to not insert ourselves all the time into the scriptures and growing up in a generation, at least in my experience, I grew up with around a lot of charismatic people. And it was always about experiences and it was always about interjecting ourselves. God wants to rescue you. He did that at the proff. Jesus rescued me. He circumcised my heart. I am forgiven. I am at peace. I am full of joy. So everything else needs to be brought under subjection under my Lord, right? We have to bring our haughty thoughts, captives and obedience to Christ our Lord. And that begins, you know, the fear of the Lord is, it begins when we understand knowledge of God and we understand what his word says. And so, or the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. And so once we hear the gospel, once we repent, once we are sealed by his spirit, now we can go before the Lord. Because that was one of the points I wrote down. So thank you. And Latanya, sometimes my accent comes up. So I try to suppress my accent a lot. I'm trying to work on my grammar. So that's me over trying. So I'm sorry about that. But one of the things that I wrote down is the twisting of scripture and how important it is for us to know scripture so that when someone is twisting it, we shut it down and we shut it down quickly because that can be, that can cause a lot of pain and confusion for people. Who are not understanding what's, what's happening to them. And someone can come and manipulate you and say, this is what the scripture says. It's all about you. And it's like, no, I thought Paul said, we put the past behind when we strive for what's ahead. I thought we're, we're dead to our sins, right? And we're alive in Christ. It is no longer I will live, it is Christ who lives. So how do I bring everything under submission to his headship? And that starts with the reading of God's word, understanding what he says and understanding that many do know God's word too. And they twist it. What do you guys want to add to that? Perfect. You hit, everybody said it. Nailed it. Nailed it. Yeah. Right. Nailed it ladies. And I'll say this. I'll say this. Oh, I'm sorry, April is there's a delay on my end. I was going to say this in reference to what Dianna just said. Dianna, you're absolutely right. Because if we don't know what the Bible is saying, if we don't have a full understanding of who God is, God is not just, oh God, God is God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Okay. So when we don't have the right view of God and we don't understand who he is from scripture, we're going to get under ministries, which not all mega churches, but a lot of these huge ministries, their doctrine is not right. They're thriving off of you, not being able to rightly divide the word, rightly handle the word on your own. So this problem, this is why I'm so passionate with my ministry. Okay. Because that problem with what I'm saying about how Dianna talked about the scriptures being manipulated, that problem kept me stagnant for years. And once I learned the truth about the scripture, that's when I really began to grow. I gave my life all the way to the Lord. And once you know who he is and what he's done for you, there is no way you don't want to learn more about him because so many people lie. They tell you, it's all about you. You're going to get your breakthrough girl. Your miracle is coming. You know, you're on the way to do this and do that. God has great things for you. You, you, you, you. It's all about what you can get from God. But what about the savior? What about him? What about giving him glory? What about learning about him? Learning why he didn't even have to do what he did for us, but he did it anyway. Too many people, too many people are out in these YouTube streets, out in these prosperity gospel streets, out in these deliverance ministry streets, leading people astray. And that's where my passion comes in, because like the people that I'm on this channel with, we're passionate about making sure that the sheep are protected from false doctrine, because that false doctrine will lead you right to hell. You could be all day, every day, worshiping God in church, all with your hands up, praising, praying, reading the Bible, but be going straight to hell. Okay? So with that being said, this is why I am in ministry because of the twisting of scripture and the apologetics and making sure that people know the one true living God and not putting dirt on his name and calling him something that he's not. Can I ask you a question, April? We need to pass the plate for my girl. Kim, Kim. Go ahead, G-mom. I'm sorry. I was going to say something, but I'll get to after you have gone. Yeah, that just really serves in my heart. I want to give hope again to the younger believers, the young women believers especially, that there's an intuition that they're given a Holy Spirit thing, you know, once they know the Lord, that they may not know all those scriptures that we're talking about as seasoned Christians. But there is that, hmm, this is not quite right. And what happens, I did a video about this and it's like what we pour into. So if we pour in dirt to a glass over time, you know, the dirt, the glass is full of dirt, but the opposite is true. If we pour fresh water in our glass, with a little bit of dirt in it, over time that dirt flows out and we're left with just pure water. So as that Holy Spirit goes in, be mindful to listen to that voice and get out of that church or ask or seek or vet or you hear something on the channel or you hear me or any of us say anything and you go, hmm, that just doesn't sit right. But then instead of listening to that, we pour dirt in by going to these things or staying in a church or staying in the abuse or staying in these situations because somehow the tickling of our ears that we talk about, we stay there, we don't get out, we're not sensitive to that Holy Spirit voice that's in us. So I'm just encouraging the younger generation here and the last seasoned generation to, God will reveal that to you, those little, that hesitation that you'll feel, trust that, vet it, get out, get wise seasoned counsel with the word of God or someone that you know and vet that because you can get out and get the help that you need and get true scriptural doctrine start to pour into your soul so that dirt comes out. That's, I just wanted to add that. Amen. And I'm not sure if Diana is done with her segment. The only, the last thing that I was going to add to that, it's something that Brother Corey has been mentioning a lot. He's talked a lot lately about the coincidences of a lot of these ministries that are low on, have a very low view of scripture, but high on experiential, the external experiential are full of women. And it's because women, I must just say it, we tend to, because we are emotional and that's the way God made us, we will flock to these ministries because they make us feel good, right? But rarely do we hear them telling us to die to ourselves. They're not talking about sin. They might be preaching like behavior modification, but it's not a thorough view of the scriptures in context because if they did that, they would find that their message would be wholly incompatible to what the scriptures actually teach. So my admonition to the women is guard your heart, get into a good church, get into your Bible so that you are not led astray and that you're not spoken of as one of the silly women that are held captive and being tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine. Dina, did you have more questions in your session? That's good. No, no, my sister, you can move on to the next segment. I just want to encourage everyone on this live, male and female, devote yourselves to prayer and worship and to the study of God's words. Amen. Amen. Y'all stretch out your hands, Toyma. I don't know if it's my internet. I don't know what the hell is going on. We're here in an echo. I don't know what is going on, but now we're moving on to session number three. Y'all hear that echo? Yes. Hello. Is it me? Yep. I'm good. Okay. You're good. Okay. I think it's gone. I don't know what happened, but she also runs a YouTube channel and she's going to talk a little bit about how that happened, how she balances it, the importance of accountability, how she picks content. G-Man Joe, go ahead and transition us into that conversation. Thank you. I just want to say you guys are doing a great job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to say you guys are dropping truth today. Thank you so much. Even at 63 and a, I would say a fairly seasoned Christian when you got some jewels that I am just taking with me. Thank you so much for that. Yes. Running a YouTube channel as a woman, boy, we kind of covered the first one already in April segment, which is how do we balance children and how do we balance the family, children, their husbands, all of that are single lives, you know, with whatever we have. I just want to add a couple of pieces. And then if anybody has one or two things, and then I'll jump in to be, but it's really interesting, like dinner last night. So because I'm new, a lot of you, I think have been doing your channels a while, but I'm relatively new. This yesterday, this is my big first live collaboration. And last night was the first mic check that we talked about. And so here I've got dinner with my husband and my son. He's all excited about making dinner. And I'm like, honey, you have to just wait. I can't eat with you because I got to do the sound check. And so that was just one thing that we talk about. There's going to be sacrifices. There are going to be things that we have to adjust to. So we have to, I mean, my husband had that little eyebrow thing go up like, okay, is this going to be like all the time or what's going on here? And so when we're, especially when we're getting started and getting that flow going, we have to be sensitive to our family just like we talked about in April segment of our priorities, making sure that we don't forget about our family. So yeah, there are going to be those things that come up, but we really do need to put faith first, then our family and then our ministry. So I just wanted to kind of mention that. And then real quickly, I want to touch on the reason that the, this is important to me that I talked about that I wish I'd stayed home is I am planning to retire. So right now I work four 10s Monday through Thursday from six to five. My son's in karate. We've been blessed to have a seven year old that we've had for five years. And, you know, at our age, he keeps us on our toes and he's such a blessing. But that was a significant change in our life. And so I look at it as I have an opportunity to maybe do my parenting a little differently than I did with my children and my husband's children and all of their friends that I raised. And so I'm planning to retire end of June. I'm going to be retiring. And that'll keep him in private school. That'll allow me to be more present with him. And it will also free at more time for ministry. And it will also free at more time to serve my husband as April was talking about. So that's really a fun and exciting thing for me. And it was really important as I got into this new ministry. So whether you're doing a Bible study or ministry, women's ministry, church or whatever, it doesn't matter where it's at. It's really important to make those balance, those balanced decisions to be in prayer for that. And then of course for me, I am going to retire so I can devote more of my time to that in this season in my life. So April, you're kind of first up. Tell me what you think. If there's anything pretty much covered everything, but is there anything on that subject of balancing channel, the channel and family for you? Absolutely. I, because I'm an entrepreneur and we're an entrepreneurial family, we include our children in everything. So if you see a thumbnail that's exceptionally nice, that's the work of my 12 year old, right? If you see a cute little necklace and you're like, ooh, that's hot. That's the styling capabilities of one of my twins who are 10 years old, right? If you are curious as to how I'm able to do all of this, it's because we do everything as a family. Like our family model is work hard and play hard. And we do it all together. So whether it is ministry or business, I am going to figure out a way to include my children. And one, because I'm trying to teach them a healthy doctrine of work. I am also trying to teach them how you can serve the Lord with your gifts and your talents. And I'm trying to teach them that at a very young age. It also enhances our family relationship because we are literally always together. People have always asked me, how is it that you and your husband are able to work together and live together? I don't know. That's just God's grace in our life. It's always been like that. We've always worked together. We're literally with each other more hours out of the day than most people that I know. Because literally we're in the same bed at night. Then we're getting up, getting ready together. The kids are going with us. Any ministry endeavor that I've always put my hand to, even YouTube, I include those babies, right? They're helping me decorate the room. They're in the chat sometimes. Sometimes they're like, oh, you know, Mom, your hair wasn't right. Don't do that no more. Don't do that no more. So I would say it can be done, right? But including the family because family is so important, it needs to come first. Do not neglect for the sake of building notoriety on YouTube because the Lord will shut that down so quick and you won't know what had happened. Does that make sense? Amen. I appreciate that. Good work. Yes, it does. Amen. I appreciate that. Yes. Good work. Okay. Yes. Yes. Any thoughts? My, I, I just to pick it back off. April. Hold on this feedback. Let me see. Is that me? Okay. I haven't changed anything. So hopefully this is going to work. I haven't changed anything. So hopefully this feedback you guys can let me know. Just everything that April said, I concur. I, like I mentioned earlier, we were always in ministry together. So it was outside the home. We were always so busy. So when things slowed down for us, it was a little shocking for us because it was just like, okay, well, what's next? And I had always thought that I was going to be doing things. And so when I stepped away from YouTube, I, I didn't plan to come back. I was over it. I was done. And it just kept coming up. And I would have this desires to share, but I was always like, no, no, I'm not doing it. I'm not coming back. And then, you know, I started to receive encouragement share. There needs to be more content creators who are pointing to Christ. I don't care about the attention, you know, that I have to look perfect all the time. And before I was doing review. So you have to always be well done. And it was all about, no, Lord, I want to point to you. I don't know how to do that in this season. And so really sitting down to understand, okay, how can I do this? And my husband is the one who encourages me. And he just tells me D, be yourself, utilize what God has given you because you have something to say. He has so much to say, but he's not. He doesn't like to be on camera. So I'm always telling him, come on, let me interview you. I'm like, come on camera. You have so much wisdom. He's like, nah, but he's encouraging to me. He tells me there are women. There are children. Cause you know, there's a lot of kids on line and these kids, they're impressionable. You think your kids are not on tablets. They go outside the house. Guess what? They're on tablets. They're in school. It's everywhere. And so my husband was telling me, we need to utilize these things. It's okay. You know, it's time. So the only thing that I would say is that I don't know what I want to do on my channel, which is why it takes me so long because I don't want to do what everyone else we do. I did that already. I don't want to focus on followers. I did that already. I'm a follower of the way. I want to encourage other pilgrims. And I want to utilize my platform to do that. And so I love that April. That your son helps you with thumbnails because I've asked my son, he's 13. And I'm telling him, please learn Final Cut Pro so you can edit my videos because I do take care of a lot. I want the house to be clean. I can moderate on channels because I'm doing my chores and things in the house. And I have the, it's playing that have been what binge watching a show on Netflix. I'm cooking. I'm moderating a smart Christian channel. I'm folding laundry. I'm moderating on the girl's standard of truth. I'm doing something else. I'm moderate and my family's with me. My children are with me. I was watching dear boat Christian. I think it was. And he said something and my son responded because he was listening. And so. I watch in front of my kids, you know, of course, sometimes I know, wait, this content, let me put my, let me put my AirPods on. But for the most part, our family's always together. Our lifestyle has slowed down with my husband's illness. And so we take one day at a time, but we spend time together and it has been such a blessing to us. So be encouraged. Anyone who is even thinking about becoming a content creator and utilizing your platform for the glory of the Lord. Do everything to excellency. Like our sister, April tells us. Latanya tells us. Gima tells us everything we do should be done to excellent. But do everything uniquely. Right. One of the things Seiko had said in one of his videos that touched me so much. Is that we should utilize our personalities. And do what God has called us to do with how he has equipped us. Right. The spirit of God equips each of us according to how he will. If people don't like to call the spirit. He. Oh it. No. He. And he equips us with gifting to encourage the body of Christ, as well as to proclaim and herald the truth. We should be wanting to tell everybody about what Jesus has done. He has not come into the world to condemn the world, but to save you. That was the whole point of why he went to tire inside him to the seraphination woman. This woman recognized her Messiah, son of David. And a lot of people will see that text and say, well, he called her a dog. He called her a dog. He called her a dog. He called her a dog. First of all, learning the Greek in Hebrew is important to understand what that word means, what was going on, and why Jesus spoke that way. If you look at when Jesus feeds the multitude. He feeds them the bread. What happens? There was plenty of leftover. This woman was saying when Jesus says I've come to the lost house of Israel. She says. There's leftover. There's plenty for everyone. He is the bread of life that has come down from eternity, from heaven. And he is here for everyone. And so what we do is we utilize our platforms on YouTube and we proclaim the truth. Right. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gifts of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus, our Lord. And that's what I want to utilize my YouTube channel for. So that's what I want to add. Amen. Amen. Oh, I just love it. I love you girls so much. Latanya, do you have anything to add regarding a channel and a woman in a YouTube channel and the balance with it all? Yes. I wasn't even going to speak on this, but it feels that the Holy Spirit is prompting me to respond. Okay. So listen, I resigned from my six-figure job with no backup plan besides going back into full-time ministry for right now. I did that two weeks ago almost. I turned in my letter at resignation and I feel good. I really do because my life has always been built on faith. My parents taught me that when I was a child, I moved to Atlanta in my 20s with no job and no friends, nobody that I knew there. And now I've started new in Dallas four years ago. And I know a few people here, one, just because she made me on the live stream, she helped me to get the six-figure job. Okay. So walking away from that at the top of my game, it was a challenge for me. Okay. So right now because of the balancing and I won't lie, it was hard. It was very hard to try to want to do content. And then I'm in this high position of sales where I have to just go, go, go. I was an outside rep for a huge company and my phone is ringing pretty much all day. I'm in meetings, emails and just trying to help the customer because that's what I'm called to do. But I guess it finally came to a point where it met in the middle and God was calling me to make a decision. So here I am. I'm here to be used to the Lord. And hey, that's how, that's how things are being balanced for right now. So I'm just taking the time to actually use this as a season of rest because the last 10 years or so in my life have been very trying. They've been very, very challenging until I moved to Dallas and the Lord has given me some relief and some rest spiritually since I've been here. But the years before that, the struggles in the valley, the trials and the tribulations and all that a person has to even go through. See, you all may see it only as we're on camera. We're in front of you today. But the trials and the tribulations that we had to go through to even be able to testify in front of a platform. We don't, I don't take that lightly because I had to struggle. Like I had to go through it in order to be able to relate to people, to relate to what you all are going through and to be able to help you all minister through these times. So for right now, I'm just asking that the audience, I'm asking for the ladies that you all pray for me as I enter into this new season with the Lord and just for him to reveal what's going to, what he wants me to do. Amen. Latanya, thank you for that. I'm very, nothing like six figures, but definitely walking away from that and would love prayer as well because I will also be under a different situation in my home. And it's, yeah, it's a huge change. I'm excited. I know that when God calls us, he'll equip us. So I know that that's going to be great. Okay. Moving on to accountability. And this one is a, you know, again, we have, again, the world, the culture hijacks these terms about submission and authority and all of that. But I am old school. I love being under the headship of the Lord and my husband. And so accountability for me in terms of being on YouTube. First, it's the Lord in prayer, of course, but then, and then, you know, of course it's, it's husband, but I also have what I call a panel. So I have an associate because I believe much like Dina said that I do not believe that women should be elders and pastors. But since we're kind of walking a thin line here on this boat of a media platform, I love Diana's father who said this boat of a media platform that we are reaching and speaking to women and to men. So for me, I wanted to be under accountability. So I have an associate pastor, which happens to be my son. I have another mentor, a male person that is solid Christian. And then I have two seasoned Christian couples. They listen literally to all of my content. And they hold me accountable to the content and the context, not necessarily the presentation, which, you know, that's kind of me just trying to get better and be a good steward of the channel that God has provided for me. I even wrestle, I do say my channel, but I even wrestle with that to be honest with you ladies. If you want to speak about that, you know, we say my kids, my home, my channel, my, my, my, my, my. I even try to say when I open, I say, instead of saying welcome back to my channel, which is what I used to do. Now I just say welcome to ground keeping a row with grandma Joe. Just trying to break that habit. And again, that's just for me, not for anybody else, but I just find that, you know, words have a lot of power and meaning. And so I'm just, I'm trying to be, um, just make sure I don't get the glory like Dina said, I just, I don't want the paths on the back other than I like hearing that I did a good job so that that means that the platform will move the message of God will move forward. The algorithms will move forward in order to, for God, God's word to go forward and for him to get the glory. So there's that balance, but accountability. So that's what I have for my accountability on the channel. Ladies, I'd love to hear from you. Let's start with Latanya this time and tell me, do you feel like you need to have accountability with your channel? If you do how and tell me a little bit about that. Yes, grandma Joe, I definitely feel I need to have accountability even more so now because the stakes are a little higher. I've had this YouTube channel or a cure for the soul ministries, uh, in the third year now. And now I can put my hands on it more, right? It's so many things that I've wanted to do for the past two years that I've had very little time to even focus on her touch. So as the stakes are higher and then my heart is postured towards the Lord into what he wants me to do. I have my dad, George Quinn, as well as my friend, Pastor Terrence Davis that, um, helped me out and I'm under church leadership. But at this point I still need more accountability. They need to have more eyes on me, especially as a single woman. Okay. Because, um, there's a lot that can come my way without having an immediate cup and protection in my own home. So my brother's like Seiko Woods and smart Christian channel. And the brothers that I have in my life, they pray over me. But at this point, like I said, just going back into full-time ministry in this season, I need more accountability. So I'm asking for my brothers to step up. You know who you are and the ones that are already there, such as my dad and my brother Terrence Davis with vision empowerment. I ask that you continue to keep your self before the throne on my behalf and on behalf of the ministry because it's not about me. It's about touching the lives that touching the people that Christ wants me to touch with his hand and doing the work that he's calling me to do. And obviously I'll be out in my spare time, witnessing more to people, sharing the gospel and being way more prompted by the Holy Spirit. So yes, accountability is so necessary for a female out here ministering. Yes. Amen. LaTanya, thank you. Thank you for sharing that. All right. Diana, you kind of mentioned it, but I'd love to hear your take on accountability and the YouTube channel and what you think about that. Do you have it set up? Kind of give us your thoughts. Yeah. Everything I said earlier and one, I was, I just wrote in the chat because I had asked one of the brothers, is there any community of content creators that gather or, you know, just keep in contact with each other? Because there, let me, let me say this. When I started my YouTube channel, one of the things that happened is that you want to stay relevant. It's just the reality of things. If you see a video and it's, it has traction, you're thinking, oh, okay, maybe I got to change up my style. So maybe they got to do things this way. And aesthetics is important. There's a lot of things that go into making videos. And one of the reasons why I didn't want to return was because of all the stuff that goes into it. The aesthetics of it, the accountability that, you know, I was just like, man, you know, I don't want to say, I don't want to shame the name of the Lord. I can't, you know, Lord, please help me. So I just asked one of the brothers recently, is there any accountability? Any, I didn't word it that way. I just said, is there any communities for content creators? You know, because my father is a pastor, I've always gone to, you know, him for his guidance, but he's not the only elder. There are elders in my life that I love too. There are also women in my life that come to me. So my life online is, is simply an extension of what you see offline. I know there's a habit of people who think that there's some specific etiquette online, which yes, of course, it's written communication. You're not verbally speaking. So you can't really see the position from what's coming from. So a lot of times what happens is that if you get a comment from someone, you can't automatically jump to conclusions and think that person is talking to a certain way. You can't hear them. You have to ask a question. You have to engage in conversations. So one of the things I've learned is, right, you know, when I have these interactions, I have to go to my husband who is first and foremost the accountability of my covering on my channel. I say I am a woman whose head is covered and whose life is filled. I'm outspoken, but I would never speak outside unless I had my covering. And before I wasn't used to that. I just say what I say. And then later on, I deal with the consequences, but not anymore. I have this, you know, topic and these things I want to talk about. And, you know, one of the apologists that I've known in my life for a long time, I've loaned him for more than a decade, Sam Shamoon. I love him. And one of the things he would tell us as, as we were studying to be apologists online is. To you use just like Seiko said, use your unique gift thing. But we are human beings and we need to hear things repetitively. So don't be the kind of content creator who doesn't want to hear from people. Even if you're hearing the same thing, we need to hear things repetitively to absorb it. Just like we need to hear the word of God all the time. Do you know how many times I've read certain books? I have, I have the gospel. I read them every single day. You can ask my husband. I read the gospels every day. Of course, I read the other books in the church were in the fusions, but I read the gospel every day. Why? Because it's important for me to absorb that. And when I'm standing on my channel, it's just an extension of what you're going to see offline. So the only thing I'll add to that is to keep that in mind. The accountability is to know that everyone who knows you, if they watch your videos, are they seeing you? Or are they seeing a counterfeit you? Don't be a counterfeit. You can be a counterfeit. You can be a counterfeit. You can be a counterfeit. You can be yourself. And be the same. And if someone saw you at the supermarket, oh, that's D. Oh, what's good. That's how it should be. You shouldn't be one way online and then another way offline. And that's the greatest accountability is we live in the presence of God. Right. We live in his presence every day. There's no where we can go that he's not there. So if you live in the presence of God on your, on your platform, on your platform, and who you're representing, we are representing the almighty God. And as a married woman, I represent my husband, my household. You know, we represent our elders. We represent those individuals in our life. So I would just say, live your life online the way you live it offline. And if there are things you need to repent of, because you live one way offline and one way online. Repent. Yeah, excellent. Thank you so much for that word. Before I move on to April, just real quick. I want to laugh and kind of say nothing like your family keeping it real for you. When I started doing my first few videos, I had this kind of sweet talking voice and I just didn't really know what to do. And my son and my kids said, mom, just talk to me. Just talk to me like you're talking to me now. And of course it's so new. You just really don't know how to do that. So if you look back on my first ones, there's this Mrs. Doubtfire attitude and which is so not normally me. This is me. This kind of talking just straight out and keeping it real. So they encouraged me to do that. So it's kind of funny. I love that. Okay. Miss April, what do you think about accountability? Do you have it in your life when it comes to the channel? And what do you think about that? Absolutely. Well, you know, first I know and I've recognized that I'm accountable to God first. And, you know, content creation. I'm not new to content creation. I just never considered what I was doing before content creation. I started out on Facebook and I would just do Facebook lives sharing my thoughts. So if you look back at my catalog dating back to like 2015, I'm still the same crazy round the way girl kind of in your face, but I love you kind of girl. Like that's always been me. And if you meet me in person, I'm the same way. And so yes, I have accountability. And my husband is the first person that I am accountable to. There is not a video that goes up without him giving the green light. There have been topics that I've wanted to cover and things that I've wanted to say. And he's like, absolutely not shut your mouth. Don't sit down somewhere. We not doing that today. And I have to humbly and lovingly submit no matter how strong of an apologetic I present, I think that people need to hear this. And he's like, I said, no, and I have to learn. My husband is, he is a quiet man. He is a man, but he is a zoning man. And every time he has told me, you need to reserve your commentary on this topic and not say anything. He has always been right. And so I happily and humbly submit to his authority in that area, because at the end of the day, I cannot disparage the name of Christ, bring reproach on the name of Christ. And more importantly, my husband, I cannot disparage the Chapman name. Like he gave me his name and that means something. My children carry that name. I never want my children five, 10 years from now and just be like, oh, mama, you were just out here cutting up. Oh, look at you. Like I don't, I don't, I don't want to do that. And so it's my husband first. And then I am a member of a local church, right? I have elders who love me and care and shepherd for my soul. And they knew when I was like, all right, I'm going to migrate from Facebook into the YouTube streets. They were like, yay. You know, and so they subscribe to the channel. They take in the channel. And then I also had a crew of good, godly women who love me enough to tell me the truth, who will pull me aside. Listen, when I first came out, I haven't even been on YouTube that long. But when I first started creating content, I made it very clear to y'all. I said, it's not a matter of if I'm going to disappoint you. It's just when, right? So I'm going to make mistakes. I am human. I am not perfect. I don't navigate through this space with infallibility, right? But I'm doing it to glory of God. Because I recognize that, listen, Christians can be in this space and do it in a God-honoring way. And we can do it excellent. So today I'm looking super fancy pants. I was just in that mood. Tomorrow I might be in my standard of truth t-shirt and my 5411's on. Like, I don't know. It just depends on how I feel. I don't take myself so serious that I can't, you know, hair might be looking raggedy one day. It is what it is. The question is, is the content good, right? Am I edifying you to the glory of God alone? Am I, you know, exhorting you to good words? As long as I am doing that, you can hit me up. You can listen. I may say something that you just don't like. It is going to happen. That's okay. There might be a comment that you just, you left a whole dissertation and you like, I need her to respond. I might not. You need to be okay with that, right? Why? Because I am one person and I can't do it all. That's why we've got so many different members in the body of Christ so that we can all together to the glory of God do what it is that we do. So yes, accountability is important. I have plenty of it. And I am humble enough to receive the correction. Half the time I'm going to write accountability first. Like, was I wrong? Should I, should I not have said that that way? And they be like, you know, probably not, you know, probably not, but it all depends. It all depends. I say as long as people understand that content creators are just people, we're just people who happen to make a little bit more of an investment in a camera and some mic equipment. That's it. That's all. We're not special. Wow. You must have been reading the notes because your answer that question just perfectly leads into the next part of this. And that is how we decide on our content. And for me, I want to say that, you know, my initial niche before I get into doing lives, I want to do interviews when I start lives and collaborations on particular subjects like we're doing now, but they're three to five minutes kind of in and out on the subject. And how I get there is I'm listening to all the stuff. And that's kind of how I started it too. Because I'm listening to all that stuff and I go, I have a different take on that. And what about this side? Like how do we do both sides of the situation? So for me, I might take something that's hot on the caller right now. And then I want to talk about the principle, the scriptural principle behind that topic. And again, that's not anybody else's niche. That's just mine. So for example, I had one, you know, is gossip going to send you to hell? And you know, you start with, is gossip going to send you to hell? Like it's gossip, right? And so I'm going to come from a different perspective because I'm going to come from scriptural basis about when is, when is talking about someone, when is calling out, when is excellent doctrinal, scriptural truth about protecting the flock and exposing false teachers? When does that line become gossip? When does that line become inappropriate? When does that line not edify someone? And so instead of talking about the person necessarily, that may be on the title only because that's the searchability for the, the, what's going on right now. I'm talking about the principle and hopefully that principle three years, five years, 10 years from now, scripturally will still be sound doctrines. So that's kind of my goal. That's how I develop my content. And then I use some things like a, to buddy and vid IQ to actually nail down the actual title, but I don't, so many people are teaching, you know, this is what you search for titles because it's a different niche than mine. I'm not looking to them for that. I'm looking for them. Here's what I'm, this is what God is calling me to do. And he's completely changed it up. Completely changed it up from what I thought I was going to speak to kind of like, I guess maybe pastors when they're preaching that they decided to do something else. But I'm, I use that for titles, you know, kind of more searchability and stuff in terms of what's, what the titles are. So that's kind of how I develop my content with prayer, looking at the current topics, and then coming from a different perspective. Let's start with Diana. What, how do you kind of develop your car or did, or will develop your content? Kind of what do you use for that? Well, what I, what I want to start doing is interviews as well. I've asked several brothers already. I'm just upgrading my equipment right now. So I have a lot of upgrading to do and it takes some time, but I want to also, I, I want to do commentaries. My issue sometimes is because of my personality. I have a very strong personality. I'm very sarcastic in our households sarcastic sarcasm is a love language. My husband's in the comments about, you know, it's true. So I go through these moments where I want to comment, you know, I want to do the commentary, but I'm thinking, Oh my goodness, like what if, what if, no. So I do what April does. I have my husband watch the videos. And I actually took down a video recently because I didn't have him watch it first. And it was the one video. I was like, can you watch this for me? And it was the one video I took down. So it's interesting. So it's, it's, I know we're all accountability, but that's why accountability is so important. So that you are making sure that you're on the same page. You know, if you're married with your spouse and what you're putting out there. So when it comes to content, I have some things I want to start doing. I want to do Dino reviews, the word and focus. I'm not going to be teaching anything. I'm just going to be looking at what the word of God says. And I'm exhorting my sisters. I am a daughter of the most high. I am a daughter of Sarah. I submit to my husband. I'm a daughter of the most high. I'm a daughter of the most high. Right. As Sarah submitted to Abraham and Colton Lord. And for me. I was the wildest Jezebel out here. So I say that with humility now to say, I love submitting to my husband. It brings me joy. And he could tell you that a brink. Any chance I have to serve my family and my husband first, it's me so much joy. And I wasn't there. We're not there. We're not there. And I understand because I used to be where you are. Where it was like, I'm never, no, these little boys out here. I got to be your mama. And I understand that. Not to say that's how I felt for say, but I've spoken to people who have told me like, no, I can't deal with him. Like I'm good. And I'm just thinking. You know, you're not supposed to be trying to change our men. We're supposed to be coming alongside. Getting married doesn't mean that you're marrying someone. And you're automatically ready to reprogram them. No, you're understanding that two personalities have come together and both have roles under God. Your husband is submitting to Christ. And you're submitting to your husband. So all that to say, I want my channel to reflect how God had mercy on me. And I want to share that in a space that women feel comfortable to chat with me and say, Hey, you know what, girl, I used to be there too, or I'm there. I'm not going to be like, well, you can't be there no more. No, I understand. I used to be there. Let's talk. Let's dialogue. And so I want my channel to be a lot of different things, but mainly keeping the word of God. I kept my name diner reviews because I'm always reviewing. What does the word of God say? And I need help. I need help from my sisters. I need help for my brothers. And so that's why I've been asking, you know, hey, asking advice. I'm not there yet with how I pick my content. But I want my channel to be successful. And so I want my channel to be a lot of different things, but mainly keeping the word in focus. I want my channel to be successful. And because I'm home, I can do it. There's no excuse. My husband is home with us 24 seven as well. He's a disabled veteran. So we're together home and I can do this. And so I need help. And I'm just being honest. I don't know the direction as to what I'm going to be doing and how I'm going to be doing it. But I know that I want to proclaim the truth. And so that's kind of where I'm at with the channel. So please pray for me if you subscribe to my channel, keep me accountable. Proverb 17 11. That brother keeps me accountable. He's like, when's the next video? It should have been up. You slacking. Yeah, coming up. So keep me accountable. And I hope that we can build a community of content creators where we can come together. Even if it's once every couple of months, just to kind of regroup and chat about where we are with our channel, that's something to throw out there. I'd love that. I love that idea. Yeah, Diana, thank you for that. Boy, there's so many things that I'm thinking about right now that, you know, I would just, I don't want to misuse the time here, but hopefully we'll do a number two or number three on this because you are just bringing up some jewels. I noticed there's a lot of questions in the comments. So I just want to share with you that I don't know how much time that we'll have, but go ahead and post those questions, possibly at the end. And then by the grace of Corey, if we have time, he wants to throw them up at the end. So we'll try to hit those. So we're not ignoring them. We just got really a full plate and I see them. They're important. I know that they want to know about being a daughter of Sarah, Diana. So maybe you can hit on that later down at the end. So definitely we love you. We love the interaction and the comments. Thank you so much. Hold them. You might have to repeat them at the end. And then by the grace of our brother Corey, maybe he can throw those up at the end when we're done because we're just about a couple, one more segment and one more question. Okay. So Miss April, let's go with you on how do you decide on your content and just let us know how you get there. Thank you so much for the question. You know, honestly, I do feel that the Lord kind of just leads me because I have a long history of what it's like to be a church in or a Christian in name only. And then the Lord saved me. I have a very unique gift in that I can speak to exactly what's going on in the culture and then bring clear biblical perspective to it. And so typically what I will do is I will talk about things that no one else wants to talk about, right? Like it's easy for Christians for us to stay in our little hive and our little community and be like, well, that's the world. Well, I can't engage the world with the gospel if I don't know what's going on in the world. And I can't engage them in a meaningful way if I don't see what's going on in the culture and be like, well, hmm, according to the standard of scripture, this is not right. Like this is wrong, right? So I'm unique in that I am a Christian content creator, but I get smoke from both sides, meaning I have the culture and the secular world coming at me like, oh, you tell judgment on you, get on my nerves, you suck. And I'm like, you're right. I am trash, but God who was rich and mercy, right? You know, I can bring scripture to bear there. And then on the flip side, I get Christians that get mad at me. I, in fact, have had Christian people who have my phone number who didn't like a spin or something that I said. And next thing I know, I'm like, oh man, we're not Facebook friends no more. How does that happen? I'm like, you could have hollered at your girl be like, listen sis, I know, you know, you making this content, but what you say kind of made me feel some sort of kind of way. I'm like, I'm a real person. Like, you know me, you could have called me. We could have talked about this, right? But I'm not going to trace you down. It's all good. I don't take it personal. I just know I have a unique way of delivering truth. And I do not intentionally try to put like an extra layer of stank on it, but sometimes I needed, I needed that extra layer of stank for the Lord to kind of rescue me from my sin. And so I'm probably that person to someone else along the line, something I always say on my show. Some of us, some of us need our backs rubbed into the kingdom. Like, you know how grandma just rub on your back and you'd be like, you know, it's going to be all right. And then some of us, some of us need to be snatched. You need that person that's just going to yank that shirt, call and be like, listen here. I'm trying to snatch you out the fire now. You ain't listening. Okay. Here's what you need to do. I love you. He don't got a wonderful plan of your life. If other than it's suffering for his sake to be glorified later. So when I choose my content. I speak to Christian issues, but I also engage the culture and bring scripture to bear so that both sides at the end of the day, we're going to come to the same conclusion that we need a savior is Jesus. You can't be right. You can't be good. And apart from him, you can do nothing. That's essentially how I pick my content. I find a subject. I'm like, okay, scripture has something to say about this. Let's rock. Let's roll with it. Let's deal with it from a biblical perspective. Leave your feelings at the door because they really don't matter at the end of the day when these black letters on these white pages are speaking to us because scripture still speaks. Wow. We preach it in here today. I guess. Yeah, I love that. You know, you bring up something in my heart. I just go in. You bring something in my heart about that because I my, the, the, the video that comes out tomorrow is, is God going to be ashamed of you on that whole scripture about. If you're ashamed of him, he'll be ashamed of you before the father. And in there, I do talk about there comes a time when if, you know, somebody is getting hit by a car, phone into a pit or run into danger, at some point, you just got to pick them up by the collar, push them out of the way. And sometimes you can sacrifice our own life for them. So I just love that. That forthright, forthright, forthrightness about you. April in terms of just telling it like it is and being bold. I love that. So thank you so much for that. Let's throw it over to Latanya. What do you think about how you develop your content or on your website? Sort of what, what, what hits those priorities and how do you determine what's next child? Let me tell you for one is not a shortage of content. Okay. The whole thing is time. What do I have time to create while being obedient? What is God putting on my heart? Okay. So just trying to decide between all the issues that are going on as far as current events. And on top of that, I'm not sure how many of you know, but I'm a writer, which is one of my first loves. Like I started ministry back in the day and my, my thing was writing devotionals and writing discernment teaching. So trying to find that balance between getting on the camera because at the end of the day, although I may be in front of this camera, I'd rather be, I'm a behind the scenes person at my core. Okay. So the content is just like, okay, what am I going to write about? Sometimes I can write about something that the Lord puts on my heart and do a video that kind of piggybacks off of the writing content. And sometimes some issues just can't wait. Like when Kurt Franklin cuts his son out or just some certain things that are going on in the world, some things I have to jump on right away. So it just depends on what the Holy spirit is leading me to talk about. And one thing is I want to always make sure that I am not dumbing myself down just for views, likes, or the culture because the stance that I take as far as like even, you know, the conservatism, that's not. Okay. So that's to actually rock with the Bible and use the Bible as your biblical worldview on how you see political issues or how you see the world or how you see everything that's going on. I want to make sure that I'm not only just glorifying God, but I can still be the Latanya that he has made me to be with my own unique experiences, with my personality and to make sure that this is not about likes and views, but that I get the message across to those people that need to hear it. And that has not been easy because until I found you all at the end of the year and when I found Seiko last year, I was pretty much feeling alone out here until I got on YouTube because my personal circle does not consist of people that really share the same political views as it relates to the Bible and some of the stances that I take on certain issues such as homosexuality or just feminism and things of that nature that I don't agree with. I have my dad. I have a nephew. I have my sister. I have a couple of friends and people in my life that I can talk to about these things, but I want to make sure not only am I being true to God and being obedient to him, but that I am all the way Latanya as far as not dumbing myself down for the sake of who may like this video or who may not like this video. I love it. Gosh. Amen. Can I add something real quick? Sure. I'm sorry. I just want to add something real quick. It's going to be real quick because one thing I wanted to say and I have been telling my husband and others in the faith is you don't want to speak just to speak. And that was where I was getting before about relevancy and staying relevant, always being seen. What happens is you're constantly getting content up and then you're not keeping up with it. So what will end up happening is people will turn around and have to delete videos and, you know, and have regrets. And so the key also in having a channel is speaking, knowing the time, right? When is the time to speak and when is the time not to speak? And I like that Latanya said that when something's happening, she feels led. She speaks about it. You know, there's many times there's, there's so many things. April, you said this yesterday. I have so many things swirling around up here. And I have so many ideas. If I showed you my notepad right now, sometimes I'm in the shower and I'm wanting to hurry up and get out so I could write down this idea that I had. And I'm a writer as well. I wrote music and poetry and that is, that was always my heart. And so I'm always having ideas is bringing those ideas out and keeping it in submission to the Lord. So do I want to just hurry up and get this out there? For instance, the videos, Diana reviews the word and focus. I'm not just trying to throw videos up there and quoting scriptures. No, I want to make sure that I'm keeping it in context. It's still it's study. It's going before the Lord and knowing Lord, is it the time to speak this? Is it time to encourage my sisters this way? Is it the time to be silent? So I love that you said that knowing when to talk, you don't just have to throw videos up just to be seen and relevant. God's timing is perfect. And I mean, look at us all here now. Just last year I was alone too in this community. And now here we are. We're all connected. I mean, I've been moderating for two years, but I started to return back to my channel around last year. So I'm thankful for all of you. I'm thankful for this community and know the time, know when to speak and know when to be silent. Can I pop in real quick? Enola, I forgot to reply to your email. I found one church and I will send it. I think it's in my drafts. I will send that to you sweetheart. I am so sorry. I had connected with some people. I was like, I'm trying to find a church. I'm trying to find a church in this part of Massachusetts. And as of now, I only have one that I feel kind of comfortable recommending, but if someone else can. I need artillery in this one because the Northeast. It's a it's a theological desert up there and I found one. And you kind of will have to go there and see if it works. And I'm hoping it's not too far, but if you really need a good sound church. Sometimes I traveled and commuted for almost an hour for four years to a good church until the Lord provided another alternative. So sorry, I just wanted to say that real quick. No, thank you. Thank you for being sensitive to our amazing people in the chat. We appreciate you guys so much. Thank you, Diana. Great word. And so while we wrap up this last segment, one thing, just one thing real quick, something that we didn't expect when we started doing these channels. And I'm going to just say right off the bat at 63 equipment learning curve. Do I need to say anything else? Equipment learning curve. Not the YouTube stuff. Not the think media stuff. Equipment learning curve. That's it for me. How about LaTanya? Let's go for you. One thing. What did you expect? What did you not expect? The amount of spiritual warfare. Woo. That's that. That's mine. The spiritual. Wow. Well, will let's pray for you. Let's everybody in the chat when we're thinking about it, let's be mindful of the spiritual warfare that all Christian doctrinal solid teachers and thinkers and ministries are receiving right now in terms of that. So thank you for bringing that up. All right, April. One thing you didn't expect. To be honest, I never expected anyone to really care what I had to say. And I kind of know I'm dead serious. I promise you. I don't want to get thrown into YouTube in December. Just because a brother in the Lord of mind who I've known for years, like every two years, we like came up on something really important. And in December, he invited myself and another girlfriend of mine on his live. And we were just talking about stuff that I love to talk about. And next thing you know, he was like, this is one of my most viewed videos. He was like says, why, why are you not out here doing this? And I was like, I don't, I don't know. I don't really have time. Like time is always an issue for me. And then the Lord just sovereignly orchestrated some things and moved some things around and continuing to move some things around to free up more time. And so all I literally, I never expected people to be interested or to tune in or to care because females who are talking about Christianity. I didn't even know that was like a niche or a thing that people would be interested in. But the thing about it is God is sovereign and through his providence, this is the direction he's got me going in. And so I'm kind of just going with it. But I really never expected the kind of response that I started getting. And I attributed all to the glory of God. In fact, it kind of made me nervous because I was like, oh snap. Like this is like really happening. Like people actually subscribed. I was like, why? You know, I just didn't, I didn't really know what was happening. But God knows and he knows now and he knows what I could lose it all tomorrow and it's still going to be good. Come still be April, right? And I'm still this little mouth, this little five foot two frame little Chihuahua nipping at your heels for Jesus. That's going to be me. So that's one thing I would say I did not expect. Oh, and the technology. Oh gosh, help me father. Y'all pray for you girl. Oh, my word. It's a lot like creating content. It's easy for me to get in front of the camera, but all of the prep work and the light and the sound and the video and then the computer cooperate and then the internet is so many movie parts. And then when you're actually live, you got to manage the chat. And I know my subscribers be like, she just be ignoring us. I've had people text me like you didn't see my comment. I'm like, no, you commented. I can't talk tight screen share and engage. I got to pick one. So every 15 minutes I pick in one thing. So if I missed it, blame it on the hand I coordination not on my heart because I didn't mean it. I really didn't know. I love that I have to confess yesterday when they were saying, Oh, you need that chord. I'm going, what's an ether? All right. What is it that you didn't expect? I've been having sound issues this whole time. So I didn't hear anything you guys were saying until now. But so repeat the question real quick so I can answer. That's okay. It's your up for what you did. One thing that you didn't expect in dealing with the channel and YouTube and that whole arena. What was it that you didn't expect? Honestly. I don't know. I think that. I think one of the things I didn't expect was how much I. First of all, I needed a thicker skin. I'm someone who I split. I speak very plainly and very direct. And I realized I didn't expect it that it was hard for me to have people respond the same way. You know, like I said earlier, if this is online, it's just an extension of who we are, you know, outside. And so realizing that, oh, you know what, if I'm going to, you know, give it, I have to be able to take it and I have to be able to understand that we are all, you know, in the midst of the pandemic, a lot of people took to online as the town square. It's just the reality of how things are. And so I was like, first of all, I did not expect to come back to YouTube. And it was really just everything, especially the pandemic. I didn't even expect that I would be a homeschool parent. I wanted to homeschool my parents, my kids for years. And my husband was the one that would say, do you think you can, do you think you think about it? This is going to be a commitment. You have to remain consistent. I'm like, yeah, you're right. Like, can I do this? And it was these things that pushed me to realize, no, I listened to a podcast by Elizabeth Elliott. I love her talks, women. She's just such an amazing elder to glean from. And she used to always talk about when you wake up in the morning, when you were about to cook, when you were about to do anything new to commit your way to the Lord, trust in him, know that he will act. And so one of the things I didn't expect was how much of my sin would be exposed, how much of the things, the things that God was still dealing with when it came to being a people pleaser, wanting to please everyone and make everyone happy. I would even go back and forth and say, man, should I question this person? Let's just let them believe what they want to believe. And I have to be pushed to the limit to say, no, because if you believe something that was not found in scripture, you would want that challenge. You would want to be challenged to say, D, why do you think that way? And so I didn't expect how the Lord would challenge me to examine myself even deeper than what I thought I was already doing. And it was a challenge for me. And now that everyone takes to online and we're utilizing these platforms, what I don't want is to waste this. Vodi Balkam, I believe, once said, don't waste your trials. And there's a lot of things going on in my home and in our lives with illness and just doctor's reports and things that we get. And I thought I had to do that alone. And though I have local people in my life, it's different. First of all, the local church, a lot of the elders, they're just older. And so I wasn't really connecting with people my age. That's the reality of it. And if I was connecting with people, they were going to churches that if I challenged their beliefs, they stopped talking to me. And like April said, they stopped following you. You don't hear from them. And so YouTube was a way for me to connect with others that I would be able to share, but they would also be able to chisel me. This is chisel season. Iron sharpens iron. We know that the word of God is what we're speaking. We want to proclaim the truth and we want to hear the truth. And so what I didn't expect was how the Lord was going to begin to show me still some of the areas that I was refusing to submit to him. And it was through a lot of the elders online, even though we're not in a local body, friends and family, we are the church. If we are abiding in Jesus Christ, we are the called out ones. So if we get online and we're coming into contact with other believers. Yes, of course we have local bodies, but we're together online in these times. We're not binge watching that books anymore. We're not doing what we're together online now, challenging each other. So it shouldn't be so harsh and unloving. It needs to be where we get off and we say, man, that was a challenging conversation. And first and foremost, Lord, you showed me a lot of things about myself in that conversation. So I want to lay these things before your feet. I need help in this area. I was arguing with people online and, you know, I've had arguments with people online and I say, let's talk, call me up. I've never talked to you, but we're human beings and we're abiding in Christ. And we represent him online as well. Okay. So call me, let's talk. And we've talked. We've had conversations and the Lord has brought peace and restoration. And that's something I didn't expect either, that I would be connecting with people from all over the world. And I didn't expect that. I talked to people in the UK. I talked to people in India. I talked to people. I'm in school right now with the college, Israel College of the Bible. I talked to people from all over the world. I talked to people from all over the world. I talked to people from all over the world. My classmates are all over the world. Many of them are in Israel. And it's just such a blessing. I didn't expect that at all. So I'm thankful for this platform. And I'm excited to see where we're all going to be going for the glory of the Lord. Amen. Amen. I love the authenticity, the vulnerability and the humility that it seems like we're all bringing to the table today. And I just feel like that's in our souls as we walk through the world. And I just feel like that's in our souls in terms of Christ in us. And I just, I love seeing it in all of you. I just, your gift. Thank you so much. Back to you for this segment, April. This is wrapped up. What do you got next for us? Yeah. We are wrapping up with my sister Latanya. Latanya is beautiful. She is Bible centric. She is single. And she is going to be talking to us about the challenges of living a godly life. She is going to be talking to us. She is going to be talking to us about his life. And if she is. Okay. Cause that's not front. She cute. Ain't she cute. Okay. Lips popping. Okay. Lips popping. Lips popping. She's wearing my color. Um, she's going to be. I've got to be me. Right. She's going to be talking to us about navigating. Life and Christian. In her singleness. Trying to glorify God. those things Latanya take us home says tell us about it we want to know all of the tea okay so for my single sisters out there in Christ I know we would get so wrapped up with hearing what the merry people are doing but you know what it is such a joy for one it is such a joy and an honor to be single as well okay so I don't want you to minimize the gift of singleness because the relationship that you have with God as a single person once you get married or get into a situation where you're about to be married your time your your personal time with the Lord when I tell you I talk to God about everything I be like Lord I don't know how to wear my hair what color lipstick should I wear I don't like this shirt I need to get out the house Lord but I don't even I don't know where to go where should I go because I'm having trouble getting out of the house as a single woman like everything I talk to him Lord I'm hungry but I really don't even feel like cooking the day what can I eat what can I go so those are the pros of being a single woman and not only that it's just a fellowship that you have with the Holy Spirit where it's just you and your quiet time where you can schedule the time make the time and the impromptu moments that the Holy Spirit just drops in your spirit where I'll just be sitting there watching something that it could be a military movie right because I learned so much about God through like military or through animals like on animal planet and it could just be something where the Holy Spirit just comes over me and I'm over there trying to like I'm enjoying my time with him watching the TV but I'll just bust out crying and I could be in the zone for hours and I run and go get my scripture and and he leads me to a passage or I start writing something or he put something on my heart this is why I'm so excited about this season we're even leaving my job because I'm excited about what the obedience the path of obedience has for me because it wasn't something I planned for so I just wanted to kind of speak on that and to go to Galatians six seven through nine where the scripture says do not be deceived God cannot be mocked a man reads what he sows whoever sows to please their flesh from the flesh will reap destruction whoever sows to please the spirit from the spirit will reap eternal life let us not become weary and doing good for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up the biggest thing is not giving up it is so easy to say well no one's watching my videos no one cares what I have to say most people don't even agree with me about simple you know like certain issues that may be a problem in the world so it is easy to feel isolated it is easy to feel like you have a past right your past is going to come back up which which God has forgiven that past and you've repented of that past but in your time the enemy has so much time to press you with issues from your past your thoughts he plant seeds of doubt in the Lord and no one wants to hear you no one wants to be around you whatever it may be you know you'll never find a husband again because you're divorced whatever that may be you keep pressing because you will reap what you sow and sometimes it is just not the season for marriage you know some people look at singleness as such this horrible thing but God knows that you're single right God knows that you're single and you're in that single season for a reason get whatever you can get out of that single season spend as much time as you can get with the Lord in that single season and prepare yourself before you move into a marriage or responsibilities as a mother a wife and all the other responsibilities that are going to pull on your time so I know I gave like a whole sermon but that I mean I just want the single women to be encouraged I do amen sister listen I love the part where you can my peace lady yourself yes yes because you have we have to prepare ourselves so that helps me to segue into the question yeah and that helps me to segue into the question that I have for you ladies as married women okay for one what advice do you have for a single women seeking a godly husband to lead them in marriage one day April is there an answer April we'll start with you all right okay so what advice would I give single women who did you say like a desire to lead into marriage was that the question um honest honestly the best I'll repeat it what is your advice oh what is your advice for single women seeking a godly husband to lead them in marriage one day okay um the best piece of advice that I would give is to prepare meaning a lot of us we didn't really get what we needed growing up depending on the kind of household you come from you know I didn't grow up with the dad I have no point of reference to what it looks like to cooperate in a marriage relationship with a man from a female perspective I hadn't seen that and I'm finding even though I am married now a lot of my single friends they have no point of reference either and a lot of times we're getting our cues from the world in terms of what marriage is and what it took me and we have no concept of what it means to prepare ourselves and also to what is the role of a wife so I would tell single women get with your married friends who have a proven track record of healthy biblical marriages and you soak up all that you can meaning don't talk to your girlfriend who wish she wouldn't marry who she married and she had nothing good to say about her husband she's always tearing him down don't talk to her right she a little jaded she probably won't be the best person to speak into your life you seek out and you find godly women who endeavor to love their to respect their husbands because I'm high on love but I'm big on respect because if you're gonna be a man's wife you need to know what is my role in relationship to him and what I should be doing spend time with those married sisters and just be like okay I'm trying to be a wife in training what do I need to work on let's go ahead and just lay it on me and be prepared for what they have to say they're not trying to tear you down they're not trying to be critical they actually are loving you to tell you all right sis this is how you prepare and it's gonna be if you come to me I'm gonna be real comprehensive I'm not leaving no stone left unturned we're not looking for a perfection what we want to do is we want to position you to be found by that good godly husband and so I would say get with some married women who have the results that you want and you pick their brains you ask them those hard questions no question is off limits right talk about it find out what they have to say compare what they say to the scriptures right be discerning making sure they're leading you into um biblical wisdom right and then um I don't want to add too many things and take take it away from the other ladies but that would be my first piece of advice to prepare get with the people who have the results that you want and learn from them on what it means to prepare because you you may not know you be like I didn't get this growing up I'm I'm just efficient I don't know but I know I have the desire right and that desire is good don't try to beat that desire down lean into the desire and lean into the loving correction about the things you need to be doing to prepare great thank you so much for that sister April I totally agree with um preparation part which is what we're supposed to be doing in this time of singleness like go to the gym you know get your cardio in uh step your diet up you know do whatever you can do so that you're you're not trying to shift and change things when that man does come along or he may miss you because you're not prepared so grandma joe you go ahead and share with us um the answer to that question yeah I was about to jump out of my seat on that question I loved it so again you know being 63 and have failed miserably in this area in my life I have to say that when I got on my knees I said god make me a woman worthy of the man you were preparing for me and that's inside and out and I I mean it from the bottom of my heart so that would be and we could go on forever but that says it in a nutshell the other thing is too is that uh decide very clearly with wise council like April said with other successful christian solid couples what are my negotiables and what are my non-negotiables figure those out you know very quickly and have those prepared in your heart that if you see these things that are in the non-negotiable areas don't think they're going to don't think you're going to fix them and they're going to change they either have them or they don't and then the third thing is three strikes and you're out so don't wait don't keep saying oh in a year and six months and three more dates and five more I mean there's some things that are like whoa there's one whoa there's another one oh heck did I say heck no and then run just go the other direction and so I know we could talk you know all of those we can talk for days about each one of those things I've said but you guys understand what I'm saying those are the three things that I would say right off the bat that I would encourage single women to to think about and pray about thank you thank you so much grandma joe go ahead dina I honestly don't have anything to add to that except to know your role and that was something I didn't know I didn't know what my role was when I got married to my husband my mom she gave me this book this is the book I'm talking about on my channel daughters of sarah and it was saturated with scripture talking about submission false submission and learning the difference and understanding what it is to be um under the headship of your husband what does that look like um our husbands there's a lot that falls on them you know when my husband and I were having issues in our marriage my father when he became our pastor the first thing he told my husband went could my dad moved here they moved down from new york down here to florida he told my husband straight up my daughter does not love you bro she don't love you and it was that truth and I of course I didn't want to hear that I'm like what in the world I was so angry but looking back on it I you know my dad's a plane talker so he tells you how it is and that was how it was and what he meant was I didn't love my husband because I didn't lay down my life for my husband right we know love um that christ laid down his life and that we should lay down our life for the for the married woman that starts in our home yes the husband lays down his life for his wife as christ laid down his life for the church and our husbands do submit as well ladies they submit to christ when we're looking at the situation in the household the husband is the responsibility a lot of responsibility falls on them just like a lot of responsibility fall on shepherds within the local bodies right our pastors a lot of responsibilities on them and people don't give them that much credit they just are quick to oh they don't understand how much goes into it it's the same thing in a household the structure of the household a wife has many things she does within the house and the husband is not like the wife where he's emotional and the woman can be more emotional I know I'm the more emotional one and my husband has to be the one to say D bring it down calm down it's okay let's look at this and before I didn't want to hear that I hated the word calm down he would tell me to relax and calm down I'm like don't tell me to calm down don't tell me relax I didn't want to hear anything he had to say at one point in my life and it was when I literally took the advice of Jesus my lord my savior my god when he said sit down and learn learn right come to me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest he goes on to say take my yoke and learn from me a yoke is where you lower your neck this animal lowers their neck and their yoke is placed on this animal and now you're equally yoked and for us yes we should have been unequally yoked in the world but the reality is that we are yoked to Christ we're no longer carrying burdens on our own we have lowered our neck and we have taken his yoke and we have placed it around our necks and we're realizing this load on my back I don't have it I'm not by myself he said low on with you always so that refers to us too because we believe we believe in him and so in the household our husbands have that same thing they submit to the Lord and so as our husbands submit to the Lord and there are some women whose husbands do not submit to the Lord and it's very difficult for them to submit to a man who's not submitting to the Lord that might that man might be a professing Christian but in the household there's a different story and for many women they bounce they're out oh you're not submitting to the Lord no women we need to learn and understand we need to still submit and we need to pray for our husbands we need to encourage our husbands minister to them as well as again know the times know when to be silent that is one of the things I learned in my life is I don't always have to be the ones walking and I learned I put into practice just being quiet and that was always so hard for me to do but what I'm saying is as a single woman if you're looking to be married you have to understand that every marriage is different every home dynamic is different all of us on this panel we do not all do things the same way the way April does things may not be the way we do things because the dynamic in our home and the things we're going through here different than what she's going through and so the reality is that every single one of us who are in households going through whatever it is we're going through we are learning from the Lord we have taken his yoke he is gentle and humble and heart and so we must do the same we must follow Jesus Jesus says follow me that means we drop everything to follow after him and it's costly ladies it's a costly thing to do because it means I have to die to myself today and my husband this is what's going on today and oh my goodness Lord I'm angry and I was one that would just rip it off the mouth and everybody in the household would know I'm angry and can I make mistakes and we argue of course I just finished sharing earlier my son turns around and says mom that's sin and it's like oh my goodness you know the children are always listening so I guess my advice would be for women is to understand that your role in submitting to up to your husband if you are seeking to be married is to understand that when when things are not all wonderful and our husbands are we need to understand our roles don't try to focus so much on his this is what you're supposed to be doing you're supposed to know this you're supposed to know that no be wise counsel to your husband because we are ministers to our husband a king has ministers around him who he goes to for counsel that's what we are to our husbands my husband makes decisions sometimes he says let me talk to my wife and a lot of his friends will get on him for that and he's not asking me permission he's coming to me and saying what do you think about this idea we talk I've known my husband for 32 years we've been married for 22 years and it's always been that way with him let's talk and his friends would get on him oh you got to talk to diana I would tell his boys he ain't asking me for permission my husband could do what he needs to do I trust his judgment he comes to me because he knows that I do love the Lord I do sit at the feet of the Lord I spend time in my word so when my husband comes to me I'm ready and equipped for every good work for us women that starts in our home the good work starts when our husbands are coming to us and they're asking us questions when saying well how is this pleasing to the Lord do you think this is beneficial all things are permissible but not all things are beneficial and you're able to counsel your husband not tell him what to do but give him the advice you would hope is going to encourage him and so we become encouragers and we be we don't enable our husbands to sin we don't enable our husbands to carry on no we always bring them back to the word and focus so my advice would be know your role and sit at the feet of the great teacher who was the greatest servant leader to ever have existed he lowered himself in status never in divinity but in status he did he showed us how to lower our necks he showed us how to serve he showed us how to submit he gave us the tools Jesus says go and make disciples of all nations teaching them everything that I had commanded you uh that means that we're learning from him ladies it's not just for men the women are learning how to become servants too we're learning how to come alongside our children our children are little people they're not just oh shut up and do whatever I tell you and that's it no our children are learning from us they're learning how to communicate we don't tell them what to think but we tell them how to think and one of the ways to tell your children how to think is to say I did this wrong we raised our daughter she's 21 we didn't raise her this way we raised her the complete opposite because I was a confessing Christian but I was never converted it wasn't until later I said and so now I know now we're raising our boys differently it was like night and day but the reality is that knowing your role is important because if Jesus was a servant leader and he came to show us how to serve how to lower ourselves that's how we know love first John right we know love the way that Christ laid down his life and we lay down our lives that's not just for men that's for us too we lay down our lives so my advice would be die to self sit at the feet of Jesus choose the better portion it will not be taken from you uh Dina okay well I guess that closed us out just about now I do know it's another part of that question but I know we're kind of running into time do we have time to get you both on that last part of the question that I have regarding the women and submission I'll ask the question but just let me know if we have a few minutes because I know people want to ask us questions what do you ladies want to do should we just go straight I mean I saw a lot of questions in the chat and I want to give the subscribers we've been so patient in waiting we probably should but it's up to you we're in your segment either what do you what do you want to do sis yeah no I just um Dina pretty much answered it but I wanted to ask if you could give a brief answer both a grandma Jo and April very very briefly how um a lot of women are into their word a little bit more than their husbands and their husbands are not necessarily into the word or spiritual leadership how can you encourage that woman that's way more heavy into living for Christ than her husband is in this season well um really quickly um real real quick I said you said real quick so I was gonna say um my very first thought on that was to be not nag so basically be that person be that example and not nag so out of your actions not out of your words and then the second thing um April and I when we were talking with violet I said my husband wasn't a strong seasoned christian as I was when we got married and we were praying at the dinner table he I would squeeze his hand he would not pray he would squeeze my hand back and I prayed and I did that for five years five years and one day um I squeezed his hand and he prayed and then from there went to men's bible studies and it just grew from there and now he's a very solid christian leader in our home so quit stop the ladies let's you know let's keep it real stop the nagging stop the make a safe place for your husband let him be the king of his home let him edify him encourage him and then be the example and keep your mouth shut that's just I'm sorry that's just keeping it real here amen I'll put you back definitely don't nag right if there are children involved and you um believe that you probably a little bit ahead of him spiritually I would still defer to his leadership oh literally right let's say it's a family gathering and you like well somebody has to pray don't overstep and just assume you need to be the one to pray just be like all right kids daddy's gonna pray and just be quiet you know like you can lovingly lead him to the water but nagging never works and the second thing I would say get into a church that has strong godly men because it will rub off on him and before you know it he will be stepping up as the priest in your home and the holy spirit will impress upon him especially if he sees you doing your spiritual disciplines you don't have to say anything let your actions speak louder than your words you do right you do your spiritual disciplines but you get in a good sound church where there's good godly men who are leading and there's something that happens when men see other men doing men like things they kind of just fall in line and you don't have to do anything that's the only thing that I would say but definitely do not use surface authority right do what you do with the children when it's you and the children boom when it's you together like all right got kids daddy's gonna pray and then close your eyes by your head and just let it do what it do don't critique don't criticize just shut your mouth mouth okay on April hey you just killed that go ahead and close us out go to the comment section whatever you have to do okay that was awesome ladies right so I'm excited because this was our first time doing this and I understand we are all dealing with technology issues but I think the Lord was still honored and glorified thank you Cory for lending your channel and your audience to us on this evening what we want to do we want to address some of the comments and I'm gonna just try to find them as best as I can I saw one that I really wanted to address oh Christina says oh yes how do we approach that I have no immediate Christian circle even in Christian Facebook groups or family I guess I need to know is how do we approach what what is the preceding question because I don't want to answer it and I don't even know what I'm talking about I'm gonna see if Cory can help us out and go fish for that unless Latanya you already know you go ahead I know yeah yeah because she mentioned it she mentioned the question during my segment when I mentioned that it took a long time for me to find a Christian circle of believers that kind of were on the same page with where I am spiritually you want to first pray just continue to pray sometimes it's going to be a little bit lonely until that prayer is answered it took years for this prayer to be answered for me but do what you can during that time and just continue to pray get involved in some meet-up groups maybe on Facebook you can befriend me I'm Latanya Quinn on my personal Facebook you can start with befriending me and through you know once you befriend people they start posting things and then you see community kind of gathering around the comment sections so I'll just start with prayer right that's real good right there so I'm trying to find some more of the questions oh blessed and beautiful asks what happens if you are a member of a church that had women pastors bishops elders reverends and deacons should that person still be a member of that church um I have to be consistent I would argue that you you you listen if you think that you're going to be the lone wolf that sounds the alarm and say hey the way we're doing this is listen they're not going the Lord can change that but oftentimes you're going to end up being the one that is causing division and dissension even though you are on the side of truth what I would say in that situation have a conversation about it and nine times out of ten they're not going to hear you you need to run you need one because run if they're right if they're unwilling to submit to the scriptures in this area they can't tell you how to lead a godly home like they don't they don't they don't even submit to god's order in his house because remember it's not their church right it is the church of the living god so I me April is telling you that's not a church because it's not even under the biblical prescription of this is why I left you in creed so that you might put into order that which remained a point elders in every town as I commanded you and then he breaks down the qualifications I am sorry ladies but our gender preclude it just no we we cannot we cannot we cannot anybody else want to add into that you said it all woohoo run sissy fun no no no what do you think lady hold on they shouldn't what do you ladies think about this war who wants to go first I'm gonna save my class okay just short and sweet so I'm gonna say very I'm gonna say very lovingly let's not forget where we came from so it's easy for me to say at 63 season Christian that I do not believe that the Bethmore and the Joyce Myers and their their teaching is doctrinally sound so that's that's my interpretation of and so I would not end my life right now recommend them however when I was in my twenties and thirties I got plenty of benefit and joy out of them so God still uses people to reach us and so I have a hard time especially with a new believer telling them coming against them harshly unless God just puts that on my spirit to you know help them and to get them out of the situation but I have a hard time unless God really tells me to do that to come against them for watching or listening to a Bethmore I just be ready when you're asked and so like right now you're asking me and I'm telling you she is not somebody that I would recommend she's not somebody that I would lean pearls from right now in my life she's not somebody that I think is doctrinally sound on many many issues but again that's because God's brought me from there to here so it's really helpful to not really judge and jump on people for not being where they are now where we are now you know so God took me in that place and it took years like I said 15 on the one stretch and another 15 on the other stretch so who am I to judge I just need to be ready with an answer again be truth speak truth when I'm asked and be loving and kind and respectful and speak truth and love um I'm gonna add real quick when I in the beginning of of my walk I was always listening to people who would feed my my ego if you will be the best you and it all about me me me and I'm not saying Bethmore does that um because I don't really listen to her uh at all however I did listen to those who would you know be you're in a Deborah be your inner this no I'm gonna be Dina because I'm this is where God has me and I'm content with being Dina and so I don't need to be anyone except for who I am in him and that I ain't much so what I started to do was I started to listen to women who would speak to me about fighting the good fight about understanding that we are running a race right I want to share something really quickly with you this is from a book that I read one of the elders that I glean from she's no longer here I talk about her all the time Elizabeth Elliot because she speaks so plainly and I love it and she used to always encourage when you're reading a book always be sure to go back and read an older book so if you read a book let's say you're reading a book from a modern day author in between that book read something from a William McDonald or someone from you know back from the day and so here's this book this is walking with Jesus by Mary Winslow and this is what she says we are traveling fast and at every step are nearing our heavenly home we shall see Jesus soon oh how soon Jesus sits in the majesty of heaven waiting to welcome his pilgrims home may you be led to see unceasingly that this world is not worthy of one anxious thought it is all passing away and we shall soon stand before the great white throne we are on a race course that pulses the same thing right before he's going to die you know I have run the race and that's what we're doing so I tried to listen to women elders who are going to encourage me in the sense of it ain't about you little girl it's about running the race fighting the good fight my dad calls me that little one that's my name little one probably because I have to be told many times lower yourself little one and um we should listen to those who are going to speak to our sin nature because it's there and we have to rule over it isn't that what God told Cain sin is crouching you must rule over it and in this generation people want to hear about oh all these things listen sin is crouching you must rule over it and so I tend to gravitate more towards people who are going to talk to the sin that needs to be talked to and I want to examine my life first I I listen to plain talkers people who are going to tell me exactly what I need to hear and that is pointing me being a road marker to Jesus a road marker on the way we are on the way right then road is very narrow broad is the road to destruction and many find that road and the road the narrow road is very very few find it and a lot of people they don't want to die to themselves they want to be there in a deborah and they don't realize the judgment that was on israel so we want to be sure that we're not looking into our inner selves to be our better selves but we're looking there's no self health books there's the bible and I listen to women who teach me to die to myself and to pick up my cross and to follow Jesus and that's my encouragement to anyone on this livestream is to gravitate towards those who are going to speak to you and say sin is crouching at your door rule over it amen okay so um I didn't really add much commentary on Beth more outside of the fact that I take the same position as G majo but I'm a little bit more I am so um protective of new converts that if they ask me I am going to tell them and I'm going to tell them for the sake of their sanctification and for their souls I we will close the book and I will walk them through the scriptures as to why this person's teaching should not be trusted and that's just what I'm going to do if I see you reading it I'll be like oh no I'm snatching it like it's a dirty magazine like he's supposed to have that no I love guys people too much but put that question back right um who would you ladies like to collaborate with um you know what the only female that I can think of that I would love to collaborate with I'll do a female and male one I I am a listen I crush hard for Ali Beth Stucky who is the host of the relatable podcast if you don't know who she is Ali is the business I absolutely love her she is funny she does parodies but then she does you know serious long form content she's just an all-around like I could see you know me and Ali being homegirls even though we are the opposite ends of the spectrum I just love Ali like that so I would love to collaborate with her so that's like my female um that's like my female crush and then male content creators that I would like to collaborate with um like if I had my druthers I would uh that's a hard one I don't know Vody Bacchum or James White I don't know I don't know we'll see one of those that would be nice Dr. James White Apologists A1 hands down he's he's the goat I'll keep I'll keep my answer very simple females that I want to collaborate with would be uh April Chapman as well as the women on this panel and I'm not just saying that uh Seiko Woods as well as Corey Miner not just saying that but it's true and um that's pretty much it I'm not one of those people that that look at people like oh wow I just I just want to be a part of what they're doing it's not that serious you know we're all on this ground level right now so I just want to collaborate with every every day uh content creators I'm the same yeah I don't I I there's people I'm first of all I'm on I'm collaborating with oh sorry sorry sis no go ahead Diane I'm collaborating with um this is my first collab and I'm collaborating with um some phenomenal women and who I've been watching and I've been so encouraged and so when Corey asked me to do this I'm going to be honest my husband can attest to this I told him what am I going to offer to these ladies right they they got you know I don't feel like I have anything to offer but this has been a blessing so uh I I don't really know who I'm going to be collaborating with but who I want to be collaborating with is anyone who is standing firm on the truth and that is a range I don't care if you have two subscribers or whatever you have um if we can join together the front lines and stand firm for truth then that's who I want to collaborate with there's no partiality right I don't you know Ali Stucky is amazing so many people Alyssa Childers uh there's so many amazing women content creators so many amazing male content creators I'm just so thankful that I have interaction with all of you even in the chats those who don't have uh channels I I'm just thankful for the interaction we have so I would say uh whoever the Lord allows but there's that one specific person I think this was the I'm talking to the with the women that I would have wanted to collaborate with so I'm thankful yeah I'm in a ditto that I agree it's with everybody here you know that God has put in our path right now but how I read or understood that question would be kind of maybe one of those untouchables that we might not have a link to is kind of what I took it as so for me that would be Alyssa Childers um I would love absolutely love to uh collaborate with her and then the for a male person that's kind of one of those untouchables is Mike Winger I know it's probably sounds crazy to you guys but I just think he's he's kind and he's thoughtful and he's firm and he's he just loves the truth and so I would just love to collaborate with him sometimes so those would be my two people that what I would consider I don't have access to that's who I would love to have a connection made for all right that's good ladies tips for raising a rebellious teenager slash professing christian I'll be brief so I might uh oldest just be turned 14 and by God's grace he has not shown any signs of rebellion however you know I I have no idea what that's going to look like in a few years but my kids get that gospel work often okay meaning they hear the gospel from their mom in all of its fullness with the love of God along with his wrath like I don't leave any part out they have known from a very early age that they were born in sin and shaped in iniquity and that they can't ride on mommy and daddy's coattails and so in those teenage years I get it um I'm a firm believer that because God is sovereign and salvation is of the Lord I cannot manipulate my children into the kingdom my heart's desire is that they would see their need for savior repent place their faith in christ alone um but I'm only going to be held accountable for the put it like this when I stand before the judgment seat one thing the sovereign god of the universe will not be able to say is that I did not point them to christ and live that out before them despite being a fallen son of adam did not live that before them and so if you're dealing with a situation where you have a rebellious team and they profess to be christ I would send them and walk them through the scripture hey um you profess Jesus but um I don't see no fruit in keeping with repentance you bring scripture to bear they're old enough to understand I'd be like listen I'm not saying that you don't love Jesus but right here it says like those who love him keep his commandment you don't even honor me like you out here disrespected me and I don't care that you bigoted me I'm gonna give you this work I'm gonna drive that foolishness right up out of you with this rod of correction right and then I'm gonna we gonna rub and hug and we gonna rock but you're gonna get the scriptures and um you will learn to obey because as long as you live in this house that's what the scriptures teach um and so yes I would question their profession and and have that conversation with them I hear I know you said the prayer and you said the words but it sounds like there has not been a heart change and we need to talk about what might be happening here son or daughter are you giving mental assent to the fact or do you believe Christ actually did a work in your heart because I don't want to try to manipulate them into doing what's called behavior modification like as long as they're in front of me they're doing all the right things but in secret they know who they are before righteous and holy god so I would counsel strongly to keep giving your children the gospel have those conversations with them and don't be afraid to talk about who you were before christ you ain't this squeaky clean jesus like that is no you was a rich undone and sometimes we tend to want to paint this picture that we just been walking with the lord and we don't sin like my four-year-old asked me mom did you have a lot of boyfriends before you and dad got married and I was clutching my pearls like I didn't have pearls on that day but I was clutching them because I was like why are you asking me that but I have to use it as a conversation to talk about what the descriptions teach yes your mother was rebellious she was living for herself she did not love god she did not love his word my heart was not contrite before him and so yes your mama has some boyfriends before your daddy but look what happened look what jesus did for me I recognized my need for a savior I recognize that his scriptures teach that there is nothing nothing good at the end of that road but heartache pain diseases and then that led into a whole another conversation so now he's like what you mean diseases like from boyfriends and it was a rabbit trail right I opened the door but I had to walk through it and bring scripture to bear so that's what I would say don't be afraid to confront that teenager with the scriptures and then get the elders involved sometimes I know I'm being long winded but I got to get this out sometimes we want to isolate our picture perfect lives and say this is just us four and no more and we don't rely on our Christian community and those people who we fellowship every week we don't even tell them what's going on because we don't want nobody to think that you know outside of the street ain't a little messy and you know it's messy don't front if your child is cutting the fool talk to your elders and be like listen I don't know where I dropped the ball but uh Tamika she out here wilding out and if you don't snatch her up I might be in jail have that conversation I want to just echo one thing on that is don't forget the family especially especially if you have a Christian network as a family we have a Christian community and I can't tell you already the number of times that it hasn't been do you want me to call your uncle Michael um or you know aunt Jen comes in over when with her sister or another sister for another sister or they say you know uh okay grandma Jo could you go have lunch with you know XYZ because this is happening so we have a strong Christian community so yes the elders I'm gonna I'm gonna say amen to everything April said but don't underestimate if you have a Christian family dynamic but sometimes having it spoken by someone else in the family and speak truth into that also just carries a lot of weight and comes and just solidifies your authority and your word in that situation so don't be afraid to use grandma's aunts uncle or have are sharing the same faith and and just to piggyback amen many people at least I know oh um many were raised with the uh don't tell anyone what goes on like what goes on in this house stays in this house a lot of people were raised on that oh what goes on here stays here as Christians it cannot be so we must be able to expose things and I was so used to that what goes on in the house and so it was like everything's a secret and quiet and you have to realize your children need to be able to speak and sometimes they can't talk to their parents because they're kids and so they need a community of people that they can talk to it's important for them to be able to express themselves and to say how they're feeling and you're giving your children the gospel and then telling them suppressing them don't talk to anybody about what goes on then what do you have to hide that you are living a certain way you don't want people to know we live before the Lord and so that's also amongst each other so I would say if you're used to that what goes on in the house stays in the house as a Christian we have to understand that it's no longer that way and that was something I myself had to learn which is why I wanted to speak on it excellent excellent advice okay let me hurry up and piggyback on that just looking at it from a different perspective just going back to when I was a teenager or people in my life such as like my sister that went through this with her her child my niece what I would say is check your sin bank make sure that you are walking as righteously as you possibly can any unrepentant sin in your own life because sometimes God will use that child's behavior to get your attention to keep you on your knees to keep you before his throne so I would just say make sure that you're checking your life before the Lord if you're excellent excellent and okay so we have is there another female youtube channel that you ladies admire absolutely I mean we got barian babes is in the house um I've cammed up with her um I'm trying to think uh Melissa daughter daughter tea um I love her channel I've already mentioned Ali Beth Stucky um female female youtubers oh y'all help us to style I'm running out who else is there out there in the interweb I like uh I like Doreen Virtue's channel as well she's very heavy on discernment as well as the ones that April just mentioned that's good that's good can you think of anyone else um Dina or G. Mongeau you hit them all pretty no I think I think we said a lot of them a little go ahead Dina you basically said them all I just want to say no you're okay I do feel that there's a great lacking which is why I just so appreciate Corey um just allowing us this platform because as there's so many males I I do have to say that there are a lot and and you know they're leaders and that's good but that this little niche of women speaking truth to especially to other women um it it's sorely needed even iron sharpening iron even in women's bible studies I'm finding it difficult to find seasoned christian women that won't put on the baby gloves that will just keep it real let's talk truth you know call me out like I love how Dina said that I want someone who's going to tell me not bandwagon me I want someone who's going to tell me well you were off base on that or let's talk about that are you okay because you came across a little short the other day or whatever that looks like or here's a verse and I'm saying this is what I think and they go grandma not so much you know maybe let's let's call me backstage let's talk about this and I really love and need that and especially in my season in life right now and there's just not a lot of them out there so amen to hold on I don't know what I was thinking I do have one um I'm sorry the biblical wife podcast actually this is my home girl it's just I don't know how I forgot Keisha Robinson Moore is the biblical wife podcast now she is a new youtuber but listen when I talk about she's gonna get you right if you want training in wife them if that's a word Keisha is your girl Keisha's unique in the sense that not only she um is um she was a divorced woman of three and then remarried again and so she can speak to what it's like to be a single mother a divorced woman a reborn wife I mean she's got kids in different segments of life I'm talking about grown adults and then she got a three year old like Keisha's you're all around um she's like you're all around been there done that but she's gonna give you grace but a whole lot of truth and so yes the biblical wife podcast with Keisha Robinson Moore definitely hit my girl uh I apologize for that I think I'm I'm just getting old but I don't know how okay that's my one more rebecca rebecca barrett I think is her name she's another one that I found that's just solid rebecca I think it's barrett is her is her channel and she is just talking about her days and being a a christian woman and how she comes against this whole idea that you can't that you are not supposed to submit to men she just says hogwash she's really down to earth you might check her out as well awesome awesome do we have any other questions what do you mean by oh yes please hit that up for us dina what do you mean by being a daughter daughter of seara sorry um so when I when I now I'll try to be brief when I was first married my mom had told me she gave me this book and I didn't read it and basically it's uh from first peter three six and we are daughters of sarah submitting to our husband the sarah then calling her husband lord and we are not fearful a lot of times we miss that part being a daughter of sarah is not being fearful if we are truly abiding in christ then fear should not govern us and we've seen a lot just this last two years how fear has governed a lot of people a lot of people who claim to be christian became very fearful and to be a daughter of sarah is to understand number one our role before the lord we are daughters of god of course we are daughters of the almighty adopted into the family of christ but when peter's referencing this he's talking about our role as a wife our role as women in the household and even single women who have not become you know who are not married yet this goes back to learning our roles and learning what being a true daughter of sarah is when abraham heard the good news the book of hebrus tells us that many died in faith not having received the promise but seeing it from far off when abraham was told this abraham believed and so this counted to him as righteousness that is if we i mean sarah was married to abraham so if we're children of faith that women were daughters of sarah and so we look to the example given in scripture um you know when we say you don't want to adapt who these women are we're saying they were sarah with sarah and esther was esther and ruth was ruth however how did they love the lord how did they submit to their husbands if they were married what was going on and how can we take their examples and apply it to our life because we're told in scripture that we are not to just read but we are to be doers of god's word we're supposed to apply god's word to our life and so to become a daughter of sarah is to simply say this message that our patriarchs and matriarchs heard in the old testament of the promised messiah who is coming we're living in a time in a dispensation in a generation where we believe that jesus came we believe the testimony right it be hoofed christ to suffer and to rise from the dead and on third day on the third day and that repentance and remission of sins is preached in his name among all nations beginning at Jerusalem and what ye are witnesses of these things so being a daughter of sarah means we're trusting the witness accounts we're trusting what we've read we're believing it and now we're walking in it and we're applying this to our life and so my heart's desire especially on my channel is to redirect the women especially women in this world where they feel like i'm a boss woman i'm a boss woman i get that you want to be successful and you want to do all these things but in my personal experience to be a real boss is to submit to the authority of the scripture and to become a daughter of sarah a daughter of faith is basically what it means if you believe what you've read and you proclaim that you are a christian then live it out and living it out means being a daughter of faith and so i'm not saying we're daughters of sarah like we're daughters of the king but the reference even peter referenced it we're not fearful of anything we do not allow anxieties to overtake us we are women who say you know what my husband's got this i'm gonna come alongside him i'm a daughter of faith and my faith is what i stand firm in stand firm on and i'm grounded in the faith so that's what i mean when i say becoming a daughter of sarah and that's the theory that i'm going to be continuing i started the series sharing my testimony of how i was the opposite of that and now i've come to understand my role as a woman and i am so joyful and so excited to get other sisters excited about being daughters of faith daughters of sarah amen amen that's good stuff amen i need last question uh in 10 years what whoa why would you ask me that what will you be known for okay i'll keep it brief in 10 years to be honest i want i want the lord to be pleased with me i want to be known as a woman who loved god and who shared her faith willingly and boldly and courageously with the world i want to be known as someone who was committed to making disciples i want to be known as someone who loved her husband until she did this just i love that man okay you have no i will fight you over that man okay yes that may not be the most godly thing to be known for but i can't say enough about godly families and godly marriages and how important it is for us to be a testimony to a with a viewing and watching world so in 10 years yes i want people to be like she love her boo like i love my children and that um i want to be found faithful shepherding and discipling them um but more importantly that i was willing to risk it all for the cause of christ so i guess i'll step in i don't know in 10 years that would did y'all hear any of that because i think i'm frozen i heard you i did okay so real real quick in 10 years that's going to make me just about 73 so i hope i'm known for living the faith not by what i said but what i did how i acted towards my husband how i acted towards my children how i spoke um how i treated other people what what i put first in my life and then how did i repent how did i show mercy grace um when i failed you know what does that look like that i have to be not perfect and yet still so so incredibly loved by god and that i can live that out and share that so in 10 years that's what i want to be known for i want to be known that i lived it out not what i said it's kind of what i did hey man sister well for me i want to be known as the woman that finally got it the woman that really understands that the principles of this living word really work when you obey them you know leaving a trail of uh work on youtube on the website leaving my footprint of obedience not just where you could see it but behind the scenes where i'm before the lord repenting of my sins and making sure that i am not bringing any shame to his name so i want to be known in 10 years as that woman that actually got it the word of the living god is alive and it's active and it's sharper than any two-way sword and it really pierces even to the dividing a thunder of soul and spirit into the joint and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intense of the heart i want to be that chick that finally got it amen i'm getting emotional here um i'm sorry i'm sorry i want to be um i want to be remembered by how i loved it took a long time for me to understand what love was and i just want to be remembered as someone who proclaimed the truth and i cry because i think about how thankful i am for people like even though she's gone i still listen to her messages and her teachings and i speak so highly of her because she's always been so plain with how she talks and i love so deeply that sometimes i could sound like i'm harsh but it's just because i love so much and i've just you know earlier we asked about our children and my oldest i feel like i failed her because i didn't come to understand these things too much later and i want my daughter in 10 years to know that i loved her and that i proclaimed the truth to her because i loved her and i want to be known as someone who fought the good fight and who finished the race and that's what i want to be known for in ten years i want my children to be able to say mommy fought the good fight i don't care why everyone else thinks of me just want them to remember that the words that i spoke you know sometimes it could sound like a stepford superficial like praise the lord hallelujah lord of god that's my life i love jesus i love him and he is my everything and so when i speak i can't help but want to proclaim his truth and that is my true heart it's not anything else but the fact that i love him and so in ten years i want my oldest daughter to be saved and to say mommy fought the good fight she ran the race she finished it and i want my children to continue and be the next generation in a world that's called good evil and evil good i want my children to stand firm in the faith to remember that this world is continuing to go downhill but we stand firm we proclaim a herald truth we are preachers of righteousness and that's what i want to be remembered for that i was a preacher of righteousness not a pastor but you know what i'm saying mic up can you all hear me yes and i don't know what i did some kind of way i put all of you out let me bring you all back on this scene uh because i want to say something real quick before i let you all go there's one there's two there's three and then miss ma'am uh who in 10 years her husband needs to get her a better connection it's april listen you all did a wonderful job you all did an excellent job uh the only the only thing that was wrong about this was that there was just not enough space to bring more ladies on and so we'll do more of this by the way guys we'll do this more uh in the uh in the future we'll do it with with men where i'll step off because i told you that at some point in time um i won't do this youtube channel uh there'll be other faces other names on here because here's the thing god gave you a voice and god gave you testimony the voice is to talk about the testimony of him in that and so you see dine and getting choked up um and you hear the heart uh you hear uh latanya talking about um her life and what listen you can't find 10 people in one city that's going to walk away where she walked away from and so you guys have a history uh in the world and you have a history of god bringing you through and so i don't care if you all feel intimidated if you all feel like you know maybe you don't have enough to share you do uh if if you don't think that god has or you have anything useful to share uh then think again if you don't have anything useful to share then god will just simply take you out of this world but the mere fact that you're here is because god wants to use you as a testimony as a like to someone else maybe it's for for a thousand more subscribers a hundred thousand more subscribers who knows or maybe for just one person one lady one man now by the way that being said uh some of you guys who don't know the scriptures as well as you think you do who think that there was some sort of violation by you all sitting here listening to a woman um speak i've got something for you monday you all have given me a new video for monday and i want you guys to listen up because some of these ladies put you to shame tonight some of you some of these ladies put you guys ashamed thinking that and here's here's the issue before and i don't want to get too far off on my on my uh my rant but part of the problem with a lot of men is that uh yeah no one is advocating for women to be pastors but some of you guys are bothered because some of these ladies matter of fact all of these ladies may know more about the scriptures than you and so that bothers you but we're going to have a have a real deep discussion about the role of women in front of men and it'll be biblical and if you if you want to add me come on i was going to pull back a little bit on on on some of the confrontation but on this uh i'm your man on monday so it'll be live if you want to come up or what have you to borrow to borrow the term now uh then we can have their conversation but what these ladies did tonight was without question biblical godly and needed we just need more of it and so unfortunately we can't have 20 other ladies on here but we'll try to more so in the uh in the future other men as well and so i want to thank you ladies for being on here i want to thank you for the time how long has it been what three hours and 30 minutes uh yeah because we never go over three hours on on this channel so uh and i'm joking we do so i want to thank you all uh diana don't come on the channel again crying no more we forbid that no i'm kidding but um this was wonderful this was wonderful um i've been sitting here listening to you guys watching the game as well and then also trying to uh do my little tech stuff but y'all um i think you nailed it i think you crushed it so i want to thank you i want to dismiss myself and give it back to you guys again but i just want to say how blessed i was to have you here and looking at the chats how blessed they were as well so um you all figure out how you're going to dismiss yourselves and so forth um i see wait a second wait a second somebody uh y'all know this anybody know this guy where is he at anybody know this guy right here i don't know what i listen i don't know he that's what that is yeah this guy must be a heretic or something okay all right it must be one of your uh is that your baby uh diana where's the moderator when you need her anyway let me get my baby but let me go on and get out of here but uh but ladies thank you again i'll let you all dismiss yourself but i just wanted to say that y'all have a y'all have a blessed night and take us out because i've been told that i'm blurry and my camera looks fine um so the tanya did you want to dismiss us or g my joe i don't know can y'all hear me okay yes i'm i'm a pastor i'm a pastor to g my joe um for for this one i think she she deserves it she's you know go ahead grandma joe well again i just want to thank you to quarry um thank all of you all the people in in the chat that have been so gracious uh but above all we want to name the name of of god he's gonna make me cry of our lord and our father king of kings and lord of lords and so to him be the glory and all of this for all of us and all of you again praise god glorify his name and may he be may he really look favorably on all that we say all that we do and all that we think in our life and on this media platform let's be mindful of that i love you all good night