 I'm Cody Applegate, and I'm from Richland, Washington. Okay, Cody. Now, could you share with us your testimony, what God has done in your life? And let's start from the beginning. Start what, how did you came about the church, and what, what was, what's your testimony? Well, my testimony is I was addicted to marijuana since sixth grade. I'm 27 years old now, so that's about 15 years of addiction. Mike, Dora Shuck invited me to Hungry Generation about a year ago, and how was your life before coming to Hungry Generation, before giving your life to Jesus? So, I think like most marijuana smokers, they spend all their money on weed, and I spent a lot of money on alcohol as well, because with weed comes alcohol and other drugs, and I just was living in a lifestyle that was in the dark. How did it make you feel? What made you seek the solution for your life? What made you seek God in your life? I just knew that I was pretty much coming to an end. I got a DUI about April 1st, so about a year ago. I wish it was just an April Fool's joke, but it wasn't. So, I just dedicated my life to Jesus Christ and started attending a home group with Mike. So, after giving your life to Jesus, what some changes that you begin to notice in your life? Well, I'm sober, so that's good. Since when you've been clean from drugs and alcohol? So, I've been clean from marijuana for consistently six months now, and I haven't touched any alcohol since Thanksgiving. Come on church, let's put our hands together for Jesus. And something about Cody is that he's a businessman. He's actually quite a very successful businessman. He has about 20 employees, right? About 20 employees in his company, and I want him to share also an unimportance of prayer and how it's not just coming to church, but being consistent and coming to prayer. And if those of you that come to morning prayers, you can see Cody without a fail every morning he comes and he spends an hour with God and then goes to the gym and then goes to work. And so I want him to share a little bit on importance of prayer and how did it change your life and what benefits you've seen from committing your life consistently to prayer? I just listened to actually Vlad's podcast about prioritizing your schedule. And I think that's number one, the most important thing is you have to make God number one when you wake up in the morning. Just like we make God number one in our ties when we get our check, we have to make God number one in the morning when we wake up. And I have consistently been coming to morning prayer and just been praying for my sobriety and been praying a lot for my kids to come back home for those that know me. I've had to visit my kids over in Lake Stevens for like the past four months so driving over their sex and it's just not very good time. And my lawyer even told me she was like, Cody, I just don't really see it happening. So you've been praying for to get custody of your kids or to a visitation. Okay, visitation at home which you were not able to do that before. Correct. And so you've been praying, every morning prayer you've been praying for that and so tell us what happened. Your lawyer said that looks like it's not going to happen after so many times and attempts to fight it in court, right? So what happened? So for those that know, it's literally paperwork after paperwork, declaration after declaration. And I paid a lot of money for this attorney and she knows what she's doing. So when she told me I don't think that it's going to happen, I just prayed harder and prayed more. And she called me about a week and a half ago and she told me the good news that I'll be bringing my kids back home. Now, Cody, as we talked upstairs and you mentioned something I think is beneficial for all of us to hear is that when you give your love to Jesus, you know, some people they experience this dramatic change immediately 180 degrees. For you it was a little bit different. You gave your love to Jesus and it was a process. And you shared with us that alcohol and drugs, the way you came about giving it up and the way you were fighting it was actually through consistent prayer. Can you share with us a little bit more? Yeah, I just, you know, I talk a lot about how you can't give up on God. He's with you through all walks of life. And as soon as you think that he's not listening to your prayers, he is. And you just have to pray more, pray harder and be consistent. And how do you, is that you told me that after you started committed to morning prayers is that where you begin to see how the grip of drugs smoking weed and alcohol begin to get looser and looser and looser until the point that you completely were able to stop, which you were tried before, but you weren't able to, right? Right. I would feel like a lot of guilt when I would go out on the weekend and I'd have a few drinks and I was really fighting with the devil. And he would try to convince me that, oh yeah, you can go out and have a good time. And I was just telling Victoria last night about how I just was in Cancun and I had a big battle with the devil. He was trying to convince me how it was okay to drink while I was on vacation. And that devil. But as always, God won that battle. That's good. And I think for us we can underline that point as Cody shared is that, you know, his battle, he began to overcome and he began to get consistent in relationship with God. When you're consistent in your relationship with God, it gives you power to live a victorious life. Whatever it is, if it's fear, if it's anxiety, if it's an addiction, whatever it might be. Every time you spend time with God, you get stronger and devil gets weaker in your life. Amen Church. Before you go Cody, I want you to share an importance of giving and tiding. So tell us a little bit more about that. Okay. So with the court that I've been going through for like the last year and the child support, I have just been praying a lot on just being able to give back my 10% to God. Because when you have a couple of kids and you make good income, you give a lot of money. And, you know, Vlad was telling me, he's like, you got to tithe, you got to tithe, you know, whatever you can, just tithe, you know, I mean, whatever you can. And I, you know, started tithing my 10% even on times. It's like, you know, this is all I have God and, you know, take this and, you know, I'm praying to, you know, make my income, my tithe here in the near future. Now, share the benefits that you've seen in your company and your personal growth and finances. So like Ilya said, I do own my own company and I've not only tithed from my own personal wallet, but also from the business just because I think it's important that not only I'm blessed, but also my business. So since I've started tithing from the business, our company, and Mike could testify, has been receiving, I mean, blessing after blessing, we are number two office in the entire world right now. Come on, let's put our hands together for Jesus. And our specialists, you know, I've been praying a lot for coworkers and for people that don't know God. And we just had four of our employees win tablets. I won a thousand dollar Best Buy gift card. And it's just, you know, truly a blessing to see the work that God is doing in our lives. Okay, let's put our hands together for Jesus. Thank you, Cody.