Nikki Humphrey (00:00)
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Hope Mangiafico (00:12)
your closing statement, which if anyone's jumping into this and didn't hear the actual episode, they need to listen to the actual episode, but I just had to share this as you were speaking. And I know if you looked up at all or if people are watching the YouTube, like my eyes were closed, because your closing statements are always so rich and they're really dense, Nikki. They're always really dense. So I'm like processing it. They're so beautiful.
We had just come off talking about what our word for 2026 is for the year, right? And I told you mine was daughter. And you said in your closing statement, like, ⁓ now I'm gonna butcher what you said, but basically like you don't have to bring in from 2025 to 2026. And the Lord instantly put my spirit like I had had the orphan mentality and that's what I'm leaving behind.
Nikki Humphrey (01:03)
Yes! ⁓ I feel it! Yes!
Hope Mangiafico (01:06)
Yeah,
me too. And I was like, you're talking, I'm listening, but I was like, still like my eyes were watering. I was like, I can't believe I thought I was an orphan. I'm so happy to be a daughter.
And I just, you know, that concept of an orphan spirit or orphan mentality was almost one of the first things I learned when I became like a Christian. And I don't think I really understood how sneaky those belief systems are, which you were talking about in the actual episode, how sneaky so much of this stuff is like comparison. I mean, I can't believe I thought I was an orphan.
Nikki Humphrey (01:47)
But hope, when you think of like orphan spirit and the isolation that you've been in, when you have that orphan spirit, you're gonna, Satan wants you isolated. It's like, you got no way to depend on, it's just you and you know, even though you did a lot of great work with God and the isolation. But again, it's that twisting that Satan tries to do and just be like, hoo. Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico (01:58)
Yeah, it's true.
Right!
I know.
Nikki Humphrey (02:17)
Okay.
Hope Mangiafico (02:18)
A false woohoo. Yeah. Anyways, I had to share that because we all have felt like orphans at some point, you know, for sure. I think we all probably, we are that until we become say yes to Christ because he adopts us.
Nikki Humphrey (02:36)
Yes. Yes.
Hope Mangiafico (02:39)
but your girl has been carrying an orphan spirit for almost 10 years.
Nikki Humphrey (02:44)
an orphan spirit too. I probably still have an orphan spirit. I'm gonna leave that behind too while we're at it.
Hope Mangiafico (02:52)
Right, while we're at it, we're gonna just say yes.
Nikki Humphrey (02:54)
Cause I
still have a lot of that, like I have to it by myself. it's, you know, like even though we've talked about that a million times on the podcast, it's still, that's a lot of times my first natural reaction.
Hope Mangiafico (02:58)
Right.
Nikki Humphrey (03:07)
I'll fix it.
Hope Mangiafico (03:10)
Absolutely, I get it.
Nikki Humphrey (03:11)
But that's why I love this Isaiah 43, 18 through 19. Forget the formal things. Do not dwell on the past. I'm going to be a recovering past dweller in 2026. See, I am doing a new thing. Yes.
Hope Mangiafico (03:17)
Yes.
Hmm.
I never get tired of scripture. It's so a lie. Because I am doing a new thing. I was, I have, I don't know if you go to my Instagram, I have a Facebook live or a real or no Instagram live or real or something I posted of like, I was fired up about that exact scripture. Like 2020 or 2021. And it still fires me up because it's a new level, a new layer of it.
Nikki Humphrey (03:38)
It holds me up.
Okay.
Hope Mangiafico (04:03)
He was doing a new thing then too. But he's still doing new things if we let him show up and do it. That's the catch. Is letting him in, which we have absolutely talked about on the podcast.
Nikki Humphrey (04:05)
Yes.
Yeah. Right. Yes.
Yeah.
And I just want to say this to everybody listening or watching. At any time in 2026, you can choose to leave behind something that's no longer serving you or bogging you down or caring for somebody else. It doesn't have to be a one and done. It should be a living, breathing thing that you, a constant renewal of what you're doing.
Hope Mangiafico (04:30)
Amen.
Aim.
Nikki, that
is so good because with my number one that I talked about leaving behind 2025, you just hit the nail on the head. I think once I started listening to the planted thoughts of accusation, bitterness, not feeling loved, the rejection, it's almost like I was like, well, I'm here. You know, I'm here already. Instead of having that mentality of I can cut it off right here right now, I would postpone or, you know, I'll get around to it.
But with God, it can be addressed just like this, snap of a finger, and you then can carry on into the new that he has for you. But I think, that was so good. I don't know why that just hit me like a load of bricks, but I think that's...
Nikki Humphrey (05:27)
It hit me like, oh, it just popped in. God's like,
it fell. And I'm like.
Hope Mangiafico (05:33)
Yeah, you go girl. Already implementing your word. No, that's so good. And I don't think, and here's the sneaky part. I don't think I realized I was like holding on to it though, you know what I mean? Like in thinking, I'll get around to it or this is just how it is right now, you know? Yeah, this is how it is right now. I'm just gonna push on through and keep going. No.
Nikki Humphrey (06:00)
It's like, what if we all opened up our notes app and put these things that we give up during the year?
Hope Mangiafico (06:05)
That's a good idea. This was really rich. ⁓ I'm actually, I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna include some of yours, because some of yours linked with mine.
Nikki Humphrey (06:13)
Same.
That's what I loved. was like ⁓ a step ladder. It was like building upon each other the entire time. So I want to relisten and take notes.
Hope Mangiafico (06:21)
Yeah!
And you know it was so funny on
Yeah.
There's one other thing... that you said... that I... Oh!
So you know how I mentioned, okay, my word is daughter. I've been having an orphan spirit for 2025, which I'm leaving behind. People quote scripture all the time about taking care of the widows and the fatherless, which in the natural, that's important, but there is a spiritual sense to that too. And you were talking about how, know,
I probably still have carried an orphan spirit too and then I was like, we all have it before we say yes to Jesus for sure. Like that's actually a deeper level of taking care of the fatherless because they don't know their father. And even upon saying yes to Jesus and being adopted into the family, we're not fatherless anymore, but we need to fully accept that we're not fatherless anymore. And I don't know why I'm sharing this, but it's something that I think a lot of.
Nikki Humphrey (07:12)
Yes.
Hope Mangiafico (07:31)
Churches teach and they're really big on foster care, which is great, taking care of the widows. But those are more directly linked to not having Jesus as your groom and our Heavenly Father as your father.
And that's really important for all of us to not only how we view people and love on people and expel what God is telling you to speak to them because they need a father and they need a groom, which is our Savior Jesus, but then also for yourself to remember you are the bride of Christ.
and you are a child.
And in 2026, if you walk out that mentality and understanding that, if you are so, you're overwhelmed by everything, if you just dig in to finding scripture and asking about the truth of what it means to be the bride of Christ and a child of God.
your year is guaranteed to be better, will end better than how it started.
Nikki Humphrey (08:40)
That's right. Amen. And the only other thing that's coming in is like, as you're talking, Hope, because God is so sweet. He's just saying, embrace your childhood.
Hope Mangiafico (08:55)
I love it. That's all he wants.
And okay, I'm gonna say one more thing about that. Even that was a great way to end this and we could end there. But every time we talked about being a child and him being a father in the episode and then when you said it again, there was this illustration given by the founder of this ministry I was at the retreat with and I was listening to his audio on the car ride and he was talking about how loving God is. And he was like, he was like, you know, I have a bunch of kids.
Nikki Humphrey (09:01)
Yes.
Hope Mangiafico (09:24)
and sometimes they just wanna go to the vending machine, right? He's like, I might be in a conversation with the most important pastor or whatever. My kids don't care. They come because they know I'm father and they are asking for a quarter while simultaneously digging into my pant pocket as quick as they can, as deep as they can, because they know I'm gonna give it to them and I don't care how hard they're searching for it. I'm gonna let them in and they know they're gonna get a quarter from me and they know that I want to give it to them and it doesn't matter who's in front.
None of the details matter. They know they can trust me and they know I have what they need and they want. That's the child ship. Reach out to the father, nag him, bug him, embrace him, you know, all the things a child does that they can almost drive you, I'm not a parent, but I know they can be nagging and annoying except when you put those lenses on as wow, my kid just feels safe and comfortable.
Nikki Humphrey (10:05)
Yes.
Yeah.
Hope Mangiafico (10:21)
with me and they know they're loved.
That's what we're supposed to be with God.
Nikki Humphrey (10:27)
Amen.
Hope Mangiafico (10:32)
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