Hope Mangiafico: I'm hope.
Nikki Humphrey: Hi, I'm Nikki. We're 2 Jesus loving friends on mission to share personal stories, resources, and real talk about our triumphs, breakthroughs, struggles, and setbacks. Why? Because we believe you are called to live victoriously, and we are here to equip you with Holy Spirit, led tools strategies to strengthen your faith, transform your mindset, and walk boldly in God's promises, because here's the truth. You have been given great and precious promises by God. So grab your coffee lean in and let's grow together together. It's time to step into everything God has for you.
Hope Mangiafico: I'm excited to grow. Today I'm excited to see what unfolds as you and I were speaking beforehand and just sharing life right, and it was wild to see what God spoke to me this morning, and feeling like it was a word for you which then opened up the door to what I believe we're supposed to talk about today. And honestly, I'm expecting encouragement for myself. If I'm being fully transparent, I don't know if you feel the same.
Nikki Humphrey: I'm feeling I won't. Yes, I'm expecting encouragement. But not only that is to reset my mindset from setbacks that I'm currently experiencing and canceling out some of those limiting beliefs to know that God is good. He wins in the end. We are his children. He like. I just said in the beginning he's given us great and precious promises, and God does not break promises. Period.
Hope Mangiafico: Yes, and Amen. And that leads me to the topic of like, can things really change? What? What is this that we see? And you know, from day to day we do see bad. We see evil things, we face so many challenges like can they ever change? And that sounds extremely hopeless, but I do find that when things are really hard holding on to the hope that is ours through Jesus is really difficult.
Nikki Humphrey: Okay.
Hope Mangiafico: And those setbacks. I love what you said about like where you're facing these setbacks, and it's it's encouragement. But you specified it in a better light of breaking those limited belief systems of while you're taking each step forward while these setbacks are trying to be like Nikki, it can't change or same with me. It's not changing hope.
Nikki Humphrey: Because it's almost like I see in the spirit that's like old fashioned tool here, but, like Satan puts a cassette tape in, and he rewinds and replays all of that yuck that you might have been personally healed or set free from. And he's like, let me play back the tape, because remember when, remember when and I think God today wants to take out that cassette tape and pull it out.
Hope Mangiafico: All this.
Nikki Humphrey: Whatever that is in the magnetic tape that makes the cassette tape play.
Hope Mangiafico: Hmm! Very interesting, but that makes sense. And I guess the thing that leads to this that I shared with Nikki because the Lord spoke it to me, and I want to just go ahead and open up with this word of encouragement is, you are likely somewhere between Nikki and I are maybe walking out very similar situation where you're like. Lord, it feels like it's just a just like the cassette tape replaying. And things are playing out the same way over and over again, whether it's your finances, problems with your child, your physical health. And you're like I'm doing all the things that you're telling me to do. I'm trying. I'm giving my all. I'm not just laying here, doing nothing right? I'm not just twiddling my thumbs. Why is this happening, and what God showed me this morning is like a rope and you know, ropes are made up of so many fine pieces of I'm gonna call it twine. It's more or less kind of like twine, right? But they're so fine, and and they're all so strong when they're interlaced. They're so strong that you can't just rip them apart. Okay? Lord, I feel yeah. So it would be awesome if we're challenged with something that just through our obedience is a pop done! We're broken. We're disconnected from whatever it is that the enemy's using right to tempt us to keep us trapped. Keep replaying that cassette tape, but God's like, I promise you hope. And I promise you, Nikki, and I promise every listener that even though you're still being challenged those twines are coming apart, and it's about to snap, and you will no longer see what has been all up in your face.
Nikki Humphrey: It's been so close.
Hope Mangiafico: That you can't see that it's about to snap and be gone forever. He's he's like you are almost there. You're almost there.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: And my child. I know you don't understand it all, and I know that you're pursuing me and coming to me to get answers, and I can only reveal to you what I'm able to right now. It's what you can handle. It's what I know you can bear.
Hope Mangiafico: But you can trust me because my promises are always ending in. Yes, and Amen! I will not fail the snap. The breaking's about to happen.
Nikki Humphrey: God.
Hope Mangiafico: Get ready, my child.
Hope Mangiafico: I feel that me, too.
Nikki Humphrey: And as you were talking, Hope and I said many times, we're reading the Bible in the year right. And not not one thing that we've read right now isn't about people being called people being challenged, people questioning God, questioning their God-given purpose battling through, struggling through and it's just like, how can we expect to go through life, not facing those challenges not being stretched, not being not having to break those things that are keeping us in bondage to that rope like you were saying it. Just. It's inevitable. The Bible shows us that time and time again. But what he does show is the redemption, the fruit, the importance of persevering even though you're discouraged feeling like. So you said earlier, will this ever change? This keeps repeating. Will it always keep repeating? We have to stay faithful like I said before, Una brought to my mind. Esther, we haven't read Esther yet, and Esther became the queen, and she thought she was gonna like she had arrived like I struggled.
You know my parents were murdered. I'm going to the palace. I got my beauty treatments. I'm the Queen. It's life's gonna be easy now. Look at me now and then. She gets there, and Mordecai tells her about all the yuck, all the chaos is going into the kingdom, and how the king's man's trying to like Eradicate her people, and he's like you, Esther, have to go and do this. And so, even if we in times of think that we have arrived, we have broken the rope. Sometimes it just positioned us higher to face an even greater challenge that we need to rise up. And again, that doesn't really sound encouraging. But it is because each time we break those things we break the rope it prepares us for, and draws us closer to our calling or to the people we want to serve, or to a different avenue in our life. It's it's awesome, and it unleashes this boldness inside of us, like Esther, like Esther, had to go before the King, and that could got her murdered. And yet she did it, and she not only saved herself, she saved her whole all of our people.
Hope Mangiafico: And you sharing. That makes me think of something that clicked when I was reading one of the parts of the Bible in the last week that we had and I can't tell you where it was, because it's just coming to me now of something that clicked with me was that God's promises come with instruction. And so, using Esther as an example, God said, You are going to save these people. And so she had to do certain things and trust that if God said to do this thing, though it may risk my life he said it, I'll see it come to pass.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: And it made me think about also your cassette ripping out the magnetic tape there. God has the ability to be like I'm just gonna rip it apart so you can't replay it. But if he did that you wouldn't grow. Yeah. The person that you are called to be to fulfill what your actual purpose is on this earth. So we think so small that we think, man, if he would just break that rope, he would just tear up that cassette tape, I'd be good.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: No, you wouldn't.
Nikki Humphrey: Right.
Hope Mangiafico: You do not know you are not the author.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: You have to trust and and even thinking about. You know the exile and being rescued from Egypt like there were instructions attached to the promises. And as long as you're pursuing him you may not see the promise right now.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: But he is so faithful and it's scary, and that's what I love that you brought that up, Nikki, because the Bible has some of the scariest.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: Stories where the trust that was required of something I cannot fathom.
Nikki Humphrey: Job.
Hope Mangiafico: Right. We have her that one. Yeah, seriously. And it's like we're sitting here like, God, do I really have to trust you on this, and he's barely asking us to take 2 steps over. I don't know a crack in the sidewalk like it's just our risk and our danger. We do have dangerous things, and we have to take risk. But he gave us stories in the Scriptures that remind us that there's nothing too hard or scary in that he has a a massive book that shows us that he's trustworthy.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: And that things will change because of who he is.
Nikki Humphrey: Right. And we've talked about this before, like God's timing is so different than our timing, and that's intentional, and that's on purpose. And so often we question it even before we started recording, we're like, I don't know how long, like it's gonna take for this rope to break. Is it? 2 seconds, 2 years, 20 min a week like we just want to know that time. How much more do I have to endure? How much longer do I have to persevere in this pain. How much time like, what like, and God's like? He never really answers that question. If you think about the Bible, I can't think of a time where he's just like given a timetable for something because it's so much bigger than time. I mean, it's we always, you know I shouldn't say we always, but as a whole I believe most people understand God works outside of time. Hmm!
Hope Mangiafico: So I guess we shouldn't be shocked that he's not going to answer that necessarily the most specific I've ever gotten. And it wasn't me asking a question about like suffering. It was just asking more specific questions, as he told me something would happen in a month of April. Guess what? There's a couple of days in April, so it still wasn't that specific. And then, of course he knows me, and I know me. I ran with that sucker, and I made assumptions, and it looked nothing like I thought so. It's like it didn't even. What was the point.
Nikki Humphrey: Well.
Hope Mangiafico: Was the point. And that actually is probably a good question
to ask ourselves when we're feeling defeated like God, will anything really change? It feels like there's all this bad and evil around me as we sit there and ask ourselves, Well, what's our what's our point on trying to get the specifics from him. What's our heart posture in that? It's usually for selfish means, which is terrible.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah, cause that puts us. We want the information so we can be in control.
Have you ever like had an encounter with somebody? You had to go to event or something, and you know you're going to be around somebody that you don't really jive with. But you're like
I can put my best foot forward for 2 h an hour, whatever that time period is. And it's like, if God gave us a specific time, we would strive and push, because we know that there is a definite
ending point.
Hope Mangiafico: That's a good point, because as soon as you reach that, then, yeah, you're just like, Okay, it's done. And then all the striving or all the good sides of you. You just throw to the wayside because it wasn't. It wasn't actual character that you were showing. It wasn't who you are deep down that you were showing.
Nikki Humphrey: Test.
Hope Mangiafico: It was a show.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: It was a show pony.
Nikki Humphrey: For me.
Hope Mangiafico: And you know this leads me to the Scripture. I didn't know how it was going to tie in, but I think this is so good because I read this in a light that I've never read it before, you know second Corinthians 4, 16. And it says, and this is taking a little out of out of context. But you'll still understand what I'm going to share here for which cause we faint not. But though our outward man perish yet the inward man in renewed day by day I read that in a different light, because I'm like, Wait God, you wrote in this Scripture, it is renewed day by day. That means something is changing in me every day, but every day I find myself questioning it. But yet again you have it here in the Scripture, and the N-word man is the part that really matters.
And you're telling me that even when it feels like nothing is changing, and there's bad all around and I'm being attacked. I'm being stomped to the ground. I'm being bullied on in the natural in the spirit. All the things I am being renewed day by day, and all I have to do is trust that the truth is, each day I'm changing.
Nikki Humphrey: Yes.
Hope Mangiafico: That blew my mind. He wrote it so it wasn't. It's not a question
Hope Mangiafico: I can stop asking that selfish question.
Nikki Humphrey: Hmm! It doesn't show. When we ask that question. It doesn't show full surrender. It doesn't show full trust doesn't show confidence doesn't show that your belief that it's gonna happen and when we question God, there's always a delay.
Hope Mangiafico: Right. It's like you're throwing a wrench in the plan because you, because you are right, you're not just going with the flow of him, and I realize how simple and peaceful that sounds, and it's you got the piece. But you ain't always tapping into it in the journey. But you do. Yeah, you you send. Yeah, just throw a wrench in it.
Nikki Humphrey: You're focused on the wrong thing.
Hope Mangiafico: Your focus. Yeah. And it makes me think about that question that people ask a lot is like, Well, if God's so good, why is there evil, and all of these things? And and the simple answer to it is just because we don't see the full manifestation of the character of God. It doesn't mean that his character isn't good. And people wrestle with that because you do see bad.
But you have to go back to the very beginning where the fall happened in which that immediately showed you that there's something bad.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: There's always been this war, and just because you're in it. You're not fighting it. We talked about that in a previous episode. That you're on the battlefield, but you're not like the one doing all the fighting. But if you feel like you're doing the fighting, and there's all this darkness and heaviness and yuck around you. It does not change who God is, and all you have to do is to learn His character more and more, and what he says about you. It's that simple of an answer. And that's again, girl, get up. Yes, look up to him. The rest of your body will follow because your eyes are looking to him.
Nikki Humphrey: And again, like you said in the previous episode. It's simple, but doesn't mean it's easy.
Hope Mangiafico: Oh, it's not easy, and that's why even following. So that was what I quoted earlier about the inward man's renewed day by day. That is, second Corinthians 4, 16.
It does then follow up with verse 17, which says, for our light affliction, which is but for a moment, so there's a little time reference there, but there's no definition of what a moment is. So our light affliction, which is but for a moment work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Your character it's eternal.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: And I I dare to say I promise, but it's at least part of what God is teaching me, that as you build what's eternal, which is your character everything that's in the natural, which it does say, our outward man perishes. It says that in verse 16, which which is all this.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: But as you work on the Eternal, this still will do better. While it's still on this earth, you'll be stronger physically, you'll be stronger emotionally. You'll be able to get into the Scriptures and read his character, and understand more and more which will continue to help you not have the selfish question that we were talking about. Where it's all about you.
Nikki Humphrey: That's why it's so important to keep track of all the we talked about this in a previous episode, to keep track of all for lack of a better term. Your wins with God,like things that you've been through, things that you've overcome, surprises that came in from God, and you knew that that was only from God. And you're like, Thank you. God! I had this the other day. I lived in a lot of chronic pain for probably 3 years, and it's just broken off since January, and it's just like all this. Other stuff is being thrown at me right now. But I was like. Thank you. God, thank you God, that I'm not in pain. I can move pain free. My pain was so bad that would literally take my breath away, and I couldn't walk. And I was just like I'm focused on. It's almost like a distraction right now from the enemy. But I'm not being grateful for how far God has taken me from January to May and we forget about those things. And we we turn our focus and we turn our attention, and we turn our prayers, and in that gratitude that we were cultivating for, and those prayers that we are praying for were answered. And it's we're being selfish by not honoring the Father continually thanking Him for that restoration like you said in our inner bodies, our bodies, our minds, our spirit.
Hope Mangiafico: And you know I don't know if you have anything to add to this, but it's something that's been a theme in conversation with people, for I guess years now, and even with my conversation with the Lord is you know, you hear often I hear often about the whole die to self thing. And I actually really disliked that because I felt like it was over, quoted and I was like God. I don't know what this means, and trying to like, really understand it better. But then, as I'm talking to people, and I see their actions towards me, or to other people, and how and again, what the Lord has shown me about myself. Selfishness is our biggest barrier to seeing the breakthroughs, to seeing the freedom and the promises that He has for us, because it manifests in every part of our lives. Died of self made me felt like I was supposed to be a doormat, and I didn't understand it. That's why I didn't like. That's why I didn't like it. But now I understand it, of like it affects how, I pray. It affects my interaction with you, Nikki. It it affects, you know, going to talk to someone and being afraid that what they're thinking of me, why am I afraid there might be trauma attached to it? But at the end of the day. It's because I'm self absorbed.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: And that's that the ruler, the prince of that, is the enemy, because he was all about self building himself up. That's what the Scripture says he wanted to be like God, so he he did that. So he's like the master of it. So it makes sense that it's in every arena of our life.
But if we can open our eyes to that, and almost like in everything we do, just pause for a second, be like. Did I say that out of selfishness was that action selfish? Was it for my own good instead of the other person? Because a lot of times, even good actions are to help you feel better. It actually, the fruit looks okay on the outside, but it's rotten fruit, because it's about you.
Nikki Humphrey: That's right.
Hope Mangiafico: That seems to be at the core of everything is selfishness and that prevents you from loving yourself, which goes back to conversation. We had a couple episodes ago about like love, the Lord your God, and love your neighbor as yourself. But if you are so self-absorbed and it's not actual love of yourself through the Father's eyes. You're like neglecting everyone around you and not being able to express what God put in you.
Nikki Humphrey: That's exactly what I was. Just gonna say, we're not using his gifting when we're self-absorbed. We're manipulating it for our own good.
Hope Mangiafico: And boy, is that sneaky.
Nikki Humphrey: Yes.
Hope Mangiafico: I mean, you and I talked about that as well. I think maybe on the 1st episode of clearing the air of how like we were feeding the beast in us, which just fed the beast in them.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: He was like. Look at me! Look what I did! I can help you do it, too and everyone thinks it's awesome on the outside because they don't see our hearts. We we don't honestly see our hearts half the time, either and it's it's not to be upset and I struggle with this with the Lord, a lot of like. God. I wasted so much time not using my gifts out of selfishness, and being just self-absorbed and and he always corrects me quickly of like who he is. Right. It's so much greater than that. And he factors in the trauma right? What you walk through all of those things are factored in, and so he he doesn't hold it against us. And so again, I'm self-absorbed like God. There it goes again. See! Why did I mess up? That's funny, that self-absorption.
Nikki Humphrey: But God takes all of those things and He turns them into tools to help other people.
Hope Mangiafico: That is the truth. They come up right when they're needed. When someone needs it.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: And you know that also makes me think about the question I hear a lot about like, you know, why is there evil? If God's so good kind of like I mentioned before. But he's such a good father, and he wants us to be part of his team that he wants to use us to overcome the evil he would be. He'd be selfish actually, if he he wants all the glory, but he wants to like share it at the same time, and people would probably strongly dislike that statement that I just made because he is God alone, and He is the most wonderful that, like you can't hardly tolerate his glory because it's so amazing. But if he wanted just that he wouldn't have made us.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: He wants a team. He wants a family that thinks like him operates like him shares in all. We're co-heirs with Christ. We can't do that if there's not something to overcome.
Nikki Humphrey: Alrighty!
Hope Mangiafico: But it's in him alone and I'd be the 1st to say that in times like Nikki and I are like the rope's about to break. We we now we got a word of confirmation for all of us. The rope's about to break but it's still in that moment where that last little bit. That tension's there, but I still quickly try and piece it together myself. I really have to be mindful and pause so that, like Nikki said, I'm not creating like a wrench in the plan. I'm not making delaying anything as long as you pause in the midst of the chaos.
Nikki Humphrey: Reminds me of a tool. I give a lot of my clients and I think this is a tool I need to utilize more. It's called pause and process. So like you just said Hope. Whenever our world feels like chaos, or we're in something, and it feels too much, or we can't bear it, or can't go on, whatever the case may be. I tell my clients immediate. You have to pause and process out
what is going on in your mind, in your body and in your spirit at that moment, and let God reveal to you bring it out. Why, that chaos is manifesting right now and process it out with the father and 9 times out of 10 you get the revelation that you were missing because the enemy wants to keep you in chaos. God the Father wants to keep you in peace. So whenever chaos is erupting.
Hope and I talk about doors a lot like what door was open. What caused it to come in? What was was it something I did? Currently. Is it something in the past? What is going on? I need to process this with my father to know what I need to do to move the next step forward. And I tell my clients sometimes it's only 1% better a day, like 1% better this day. You're just moving it forward. You're spending time with the father. Sometimes it's in scent, but a lot of times. It's just that 1% better. And I'm like, I had this one client. Say, but yeah, that's only 1%. But I'm like, after 5 days. That's 5% better, after 10 days. That's 10% better. 10% is a big chunk. We think it is like nothing. But you get a 10% discount on something you're like, I'm saving some money in 30 days, it's 30% better. So we have to have that mindset of it's okay, if things are moving slowly, it's okay. If things are only 1% better every day, every week, every whatever.
Nikki Humphrey: But keep moving forward and taking the time to know, to figure out to process how you got there. It's almost I. The word key came in. It's almost the key to unlock what the next step of plans are from the father. It's like we're unlocking the safe, and he's downloading to us. The next step.
Hope Mangiafico: Yes, and to go along with what you said about it being the key. I feel this is very important. That is the key to the next step. And I say that because if you're anything like me and you're listening to this.It can be scary to pause, because what if something we're talking about. What if on another previous episode, too? So the world will make us quickly want to say, Well, what if I miss this opportunity? If I pause, there's something about to happen. What if I pause? And this passes me by? He says, absolutely not. If you take that key and you pause. You will unlock everything you need. Everything that safe Nikki's talking about. Valuable things are in a safe.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: We think, head.I might cry just thinking about this, because this was one of my biggest pain points is I was so afraid to pause. The chaos became normal. I made reference to that when sharing my own story, I believe in part of submitting the claim. I'm a child of God. I didn't. I didn't allude to it too much, but my brain has always been chaotic, and it would manifest to like Adhd type symptoms where I couldn't sit still, so pausing, felt so unnatural, and felt like the world was moving around me, and I was missing everything and I have slowed down with time because I know my father better. And, Nikki, you just blessed me by saying it's a key, a key to a safe that holds every valuable and precious thing kind of like our intro. Every precious promise from God. He will not trick you.
Nikki Humphrey: That's right.
Hope Mangiafico: He will not use that for opportunities to pass you. He says it's right. Here, my child.
Hope Mangiafico: pause and ponder, and the blessings will flow. And you know, pausing, Nikki, just like we shared a little earlier. It links together, removing yourself.
Nikki Humphrey: Yes.
Hope Mangiafico: It takes your eyes off of you and then you can hear him clearly and get that piece you're talking about and I can't say, you know. When you start getting that history with the Lord, it's so sweet to reflect on, and I can't say this was the one thing that really, you know, set it off for me. But pausing and pondering, and reflecting on all that transformed my life.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: Because I trusted him more to know all the goodness is here.
Hope Mangiafico: Wow! And I'll add on to that in certain seasons, and mine's been a very long season. I've had to pause for a lot of time elongated times on top so many times and long periods of time, where it almost has felt for the past. Gosh! I don't know. Honestly, it feels like forever. So, but we're not going to focus on the time. It's not important. That the pauses have been what's made up most of my life more recently, you know, out of all my my span of life, and if I sit on that too long, I can quickly forget the truth and be a little bitter that I've had to pause for so long. But then, by you. I swear you blessed me with that key and safe thing, because it's like the Lord is like hope. It unlocked all of this goodness. And it helped me put blinders on, too. So I don't compare, because I quickly will compare, because the world is all around moving and what feels like chaos compared to sitting in that paused moment.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: and I feel that I've gained so much freedom in that, even though from the outside it looks like I was doing nothing and you have to be okay with maybe people thinking you're doing absolutely nothing. But you're like, dude. I'm unlocking the greatest safe ever.
Nikki Humphrey: That's right.
Hope Mangiafico: Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico: that just showed shine a light on my heart again of like being worried about what the world was thinking right when I'm talking about. I had to pause for so long. Why does it matter? Why does it matter.
Nikki Humphrey: Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't. And who cares? Who cares? The only thing we care about is God. And the more I do that. The more freedom I have, the more. I'm going to say, quote unquote power, but like in the spirit, like with the armor of God that we talked about before we can use our greatest weapon, the word to combat anything that the enemy is trying to derail us with.
Hope Mangiafico: Right. And you really only get that through the pauses because you can't. You can't be reading the Bible and driving.
Nikki Humphrey: No.
Hope Mangiafico: You can't. You can't be reading and working with customers. The opening up of this, the mysteries of the word comes through pausing. And this is yet another valuable thing in that safe.
Nikki Humphrey: Guess.
Hope Mangiafico: Wow! That that was good.
Nikki Humphrey: That'll do it. Oh, my gosh, no joke! I have one Scripture! I'm going to see
Nikki Humphrey: Yes.
Hope Mangiafico: Well, you know what I think. Okay, so yeah, I'm gonna read it from. I have it in a couple different translations. So I'm just gonna read it from from the Journal. I'm like, I don't know, because it's so good everywhere. But the Lord will will speak through this. So I already quoted 2 Corinthians 4, 16, through 18. And wouldn't you know it this morning? This beautiful part of the lovely journal which is the last page that I journaled on references, second Corinthians 4, 7, through 8. And this is in the living Bible translation. I'm actually not familiar with it, but I absolutely love the way it was worded. So second Corinthians, 4, 7. Through 8. Everyone can see that the glorious power within must be from God, and is not our own.
We are perplexed because we don't know why things happen as they do, but we don't give up and quit and this has a little quote, and it says she believes the storms of life will give way to a joyful end in a transformed heart, a heart saturated with faith in the one who sees her as priceless. That's the goal, a heart saturated with faith in the one who defines us. We can be perplexed and that's where, in another translation. It says, we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. We are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken, cast down, but not destroyed. It's just the reality. But if you pause, then you focus on the one that we put our face in the questions start to disappear the selfish questions, and you're reminded of what all he has for you in that safe. And you no longer ask that question. Can things really change?
Because he says absolutely, he says in the word in 2 Corinthians, 4 as well. 16 every day.
It's changing now. The question is, will you believe it?
Nikki Humphrey: That's right. We hope this episode blessed you all as much as it has for us. I know that Hope and I. We didn't know where this episode was going to take us, but I know that it blessed myself immensely, and I know it. Blessed hope, too. So let us know if you got any breakthroughs from this. What? You're pausing, what you're finding out, what you're processing with the father, and we can't wait to see what unravels for our next episode.
Hope Mangiafico: Be blessed.
