July 16, 2025 • 30 mins
This episode of Have A Little fFaith is all about the power of small miracles. Small miracles are often overlooked.
We always look for big miracles for a burning bush, a parting of the sea, for a life saved, for sight restored, for bones knit back together...
God is still in the business of doing those big miracles, but to me, sometimes the small miracles are the biggest one's of all. The smallest miracles almost always lead you to the place you need to be.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome, my friend. Welcome to have a little Faith with Delilah.
This new podcast is something I wanted to create, sort
of as an extension of my radio show, kind of.
I have another podcast that I've had for years, and
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on that podcast, I interview fascinating people, and I talk
to people that are making movies and making music and
making dreams come true and making the world a better place.
But in this podcast, I wanted to be able to
talk about the thing that matters most to me in
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the whole universe. And the thing that matters most to
me isn't a thing at all. It's my faith. And
when I say my faith, I know a lot of
people use that word, and it's kind of a mamby
pam the ethereal expression. When I say my faith, I'm
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not talking something mamby pamby or ethereal or otherworldly. I'm
talking about my faith in the Almighty. I am talking
about my faith that I came to in my late
twenties that I was inspired through a series of horrific
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tragedies where I kind of hit rock bottom, not kind of.
I hit rock bottom and I needed something to believe in.
But I'm not the kind of person that just can
take you at face value. I need to know that
I know that I know. So I went on a
deep dive. I went on a spiritual journey, if you will,
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and it led me straight to the foot of the cross.
And that's where I've stayed. Okay, well maybe I haven't
always stayed. I've strayed more than once, but I alway
came back to my Lord. And on my radio show,
I need to be careful of time, because you know,
we play a lot of songs, so I can't talk
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all night long. I can't play phone calls that are
five or ten or fifteen or twenty minutes long, because
you know, we got to play the music. So a
lot of times I'll talk to somebody for half an hour.
I'll pray with people, but you only get to hear
a snippet of that conversation on the air, so that
I can play the music. By the way, if you
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want to listen to my radio show, I'm still on
the air every night across the nation. Go to Delilah
dot com to find a local station, or simply download
the iHeartRadio app. But here here in this podcast, I
can spend more time talking with you, more time sharing
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in those conversations, more time praying with you and for you,
and more time sharing the cornerstone of my life, which
is my faith. In any event, I'm glad you decided
to join me on this podcast today. I don't know
how you found us. I'm just glad you found us.
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I'm glad God led you here. This episode of Have
a Little Faith is all about small miracles, the small
miracles that are often overlooked. We always look for big miracles,
for a burning bush, for a life saved, for sight restored,
for bones knit back together, and God is still in
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the business of doing those big miracles. But to me,
sometimes the small miracles are the biggest ones of all.
Do you remember that Far Side cartoon. It shows this
guy on a deserted island that's surrounded by sharks. The
guy has no food or water or shelter. Basically, the
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guy's in big trouble, so he starts praying to God,
asking him to save him. Suddenly, a boat appears and
the boat driver tells him to get in. The man says, nope, nope, nope,
I'm waiting for God. A little while later, a plane
flies overhead and drops supplies to him, and the guy
shouts back, no thanks, I'm waiting for God to answer
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my prayer. A little while later, a helicopter shows up
and drops the guy a rescue line. Same response. Guy
hollers back, no thanks, thanks, but no go on, I'm
waiting for God. So the guy ends up dying. He perishes,
and when he gets to heaven, the man ask God
why he didn't save him, and God said, I sent
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you a boat, I sent you a plane, I sent
you a helicopter. And the man said, but but I
was waiting for you. God simply replied that was me,
a big dummy. It's a funny joke, funny cartoon, but
it's true. We often don't recognize the miracles that abound
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in our life. That is, God showing up every single day,
every day, every day, before I get out of bed,
before I even open my eyes, I start thanking God
for the miracles that I anticipate he's going to send me,
and he never disappoints. I've got ravens that live on
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my property that greet me every morning when I step outside.
They make a racous noise and they start cawing and flying.
And while they're flying. They do this crazy thing where
they flip upside down. They literally fly upside down and
then they flip back over it like they're just showing off.
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They're doing this whole acrobatics display right in front of me,
right in front of me, just to bless me, just
to show me little miracles. We've got to deer that
lives on our property, a little buck. He's got a
little spikes, not even a forked horn. Yet. He's just
a little guy. He shows up every day and he
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wags his tail like he's happy to see us. And
I holler at him, get out of my gardens, get
out of my flower beds, and he just wags his
tail and keeps on eaten. That's a little miracle. Today,
I want to share a few stories about small miracles.
The first caller I'm going to introduce you to is
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a woman named Dottie who was considering starting a relationship
with someone who lived many miles away from her. She
decided to ask for prayers from her church friends. Let's
listen to Dottie's story right now. Hi, Dottie, what can
I do for you?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Well, I just would like to tell you a little
about my husband.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I would love to hear what's his name?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
His name is Steve. You know, he was such a
wonderful gift's been you. We just celebrated our twentieth anniversary.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Happy anniversary, Happy anniversary, Happy anniversary, Happy anniversary. All right, now,
tell me how you met this man and why you're
still grinning twenty years later.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, it's really strange because I am not a risk taker,
but I got on the internet a while back and
I took a chance on this person because he was
on my faith and he had really really dreamy blue eyes,
and he lived in Alaska and I live in Iowa,
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and so I'm like, he can't stalk me, so this
should be a safe bet. And so we talked for
a while, and then the people from my church were
kind of like, what are you doing? And I'm like, yeah,
you know, it's it's safe. He's in Alaska. And then
he said, well, when are you coming to Alaska? And
I said, well, how about New Year's for kissed? And
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if it's not good, I'm back on the plane. And
then were really like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So you're not a risk taker, but you were willing
to get on a plane and fly to the outback
of Alaska to meet this guy because he had beautiful
blue eyes.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And it's really not the outback because it was Judo.
And here's the thing that's really the miracle, the gift part.
There was a person at our church and said, you
know what, I have the cousins who lived in Juno, Alaska.
Tell me this guy's name and I'll have my cousin
check him out. And I said, well, this is his name,
and she said, oh, my gosh, that's my cousin.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
No sah, yeah, So the cousin that you were going
to have check out the guy that you were going
to go meet, is actually the guy you were going
to go meet.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Uh huh. And so my church leaders talked with his
church leaders and they found me a place to stay,
and I went to Alaska. Was really a very nice
kiss and I met part of his family there because
he had eight kids, and I met four of them
that were still at home with him, and everything on
that trip went really well.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Well, did you have any children or was he just
mister mom?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I had one daughter?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
One daughter? How old she was in high school?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Okay, I was forty five when this all happened. So
so that was in January and we got married on
June eleventh.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So not a risk taker. Huh.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
You know what, it really wasn't risky. We had God
was in the details, and it was it was a gift.
It was a wonderful gift.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It sounds like like God just planned everything out and
gave you the courage and the wisdom to go with it,
and he took the bigger risk.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And after we've been married for a year, all of
this sudden things started happening. And he said we'd had
conversations that I knew that we'd been in places I
knew full well we hadn't been. And I thought, why
is he trying to gaslight me? He knows of it
that I don't have any money. And then I finally
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had a seizure at the dinner table, and it took
a while to get a diagnosis, but it turned out
that I had late onset epilepsy.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So he wasn't gaslighting you at all. You simply were
having small seizures and didn't remember those things.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And I didn't remember any of it. And it totally
came out of the blue.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And this was a year into your twenty year marriage.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yep. In the first six years of our marriage. I
only remember about three.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
But the minute when he said in sickness and in health,
and he didn't didn't give up.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He stayed and he's wonderful and I give him a
lot of trouble sometimes, and he's not perfect. I will
tell you that he's not perfect.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, but the blue eyes make up for a lot
of those imperfections.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I bet he's still cute. And he's sitting here next
to me and he's kind of like he was doing
on his face. But I'm just truly, truly blessed, and
I wish everybody had somebody like him. But I'm really
glad that I've got him.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I'm really glad that the God set everything up and
that you had the courage to step into that. And
you two have woven such a beautiful life. So did
you Were you there to co parent, to raise his
to be a stepmom to his his kids that were
still at home.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
He brought some kids with him, and so I've been
in and out of their lives, and they've been in
and out of mine. And then we've adopted a granddaughter
along the white two.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So and how old is the granddaughter? Are you still
raising her or is she grown?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
She is twelve going on sixteen.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I just got custody of three of my grandchildren, and
you and I are about the same age. And I've
got a five and a six and a nine year
old in addition to my two youngest that I adopted.
So when I thought that I would be, you know,
relaxing and going on cruises with my retired girlfriends, I'm
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packing picnic lunches and going to the splash park with
my five minor children.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's not the same as it was the first time around.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So where do you live? Did you go back to Alaska?
Did you come back down?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Nope? I told him I'm an Iowa girl and I
had to stay in Iowa, and he came to Iowa.
We did go to Texas for three years, and that's
where we met the doctor who diagnosed my epilepsy and
I had two brain surgeries.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Eleven years ago.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
This is the anniversary week of that and that took
care of the epilepsy. I have been seizure free since
twenty fourteen. So we've had lots of miracles along the way.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And his name is Steve yours is Dottie. Is there
a song Dottie, I can play for you or is
there one on your heart.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I would be happy for you to pick anything, and
just know that it's going to be a very very
special person.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I will play a sweet song. And I love your story.
I love that you know that it was the hand
of the Lord that wove you together, that brought you together,
that put everything in motion, and gave you the courage
to step out on faith and do something that was
probably totally out of character for you, but was God's
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perfect will.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
And that's one of the very special things too. I
have a husband who is never hesitates to meal and
prove with me, and that's one of the things that
keeps us together too. So the hand of the Lord
is a very big hand in our house.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Amen. Amen, Amen, An, all right, I'm going to find
a song for you. Lord.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Bless you, thank you, bless you too.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I told you that story from Dottie was kind of amazing.
Not only was she connected to the love of her life,
that man may have actually saved her life by realizing
that she had a medical condition that could have killed her.
Now that's what I call a miracle. Have you ever
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felt like giving up like there's so much comin atcha
from the left from the right. You're getting hit by
storms of life, by by walls of grief or frustration
or financial disruption, and you don't know where to turn,
you don't know what to do, and you're trying to
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keep all the balls in the air, but you just
can't do it any longer. In just a moment, I'm
going to talk with a mama who for the past
year has been writing that tsunami of frustration and heartache,
and the tsunami came crashing to the shore and she
thought all was lost. But tonight she's sitting on a
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front porch with the people that she loves around her,
listening to this show and wanting a song to celebrate
the fact that that storm did not destroy them, but
in fact perhaps made them stronger. Let's listen to Britney's
story right now. Hi, good evening, you've called the Delilah Show.
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Who is this?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
My name's Binny, Hi Brittany, welcome aboard. What can I
do for you? Tonight?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I wanted to see if you could find a song
for my son, and my daughter and my husband. The
four of us have gone through a really, really, really
really hard year and something I don't think we ever
thought we ever would. I want them to remember that
were stronger than we thought we were, and that we're
gonna make it there and we're going to be okay.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
All right. So son's name, daughter's name, hobby's name, and
a thirty second explanation of the hardest year of your life.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
My husband is Joey, and my son is Wade, my
daughter is Leiah. Basically, you literally lost our car or home.
Our family was torn apart in every way possible and slowly,
slowly trying to get back to where we were.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And are you living together?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Well, we finally are after almost a year of trying to
fight and get everything back where it is, and we're
finally all back together.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And your kids, how old are they?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
My son is fourteenth and my daughter just had her
thirteenth birthday.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And it sounds like you're driving now while we're talking.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh, well, we're sitting on the front porch with a fan.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Okay, So you've got a front porch to sit on, yes, ma'am.
That means you have a place to live. You got
a roof over your head, yes, ma'am. And did we
get a car that works.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
We're working on it. That's the next step, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And Hubby is there with you.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
He's at work tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
So he's got a job. Your kids are back together,
You're in a safe place, and life is going to
come back together.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Ma'am.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Remember this, that which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yes, it does.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And is your relationships with your kids healthy? Do they
do you love and respect each other? Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Absolutely? My kids are pretty great kids.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And you sound like a pretty great mom.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I'd try.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
I want them to know that mom and dad are
always there and always in their corner.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I will play a song for your whole family. And
I don't know what it is you went through or
why you had to go through it, but I do
know this. God's got you and your babies, and you're
going to make it through and you're going to be
stronger for it. Thank you so much, God, bless you, honey.
Brittany's not exactly where she envisioned herself to be, But
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you know what I think. I think God has her
and her family safe and sound. She's exactly where she
needs to be right now. Just keep Brittany in your prayers.
The next story I'm going to share with you is
from a young lady named Bailey. Bailey's been through a
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lot in her young life, and when you go through
trauma when you're young, sometimes your response is to make
bad choices. I am living proof of that. There was
trauma in my young life, and my response to that
trauma was to create a whole lot of drama of
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my own. Bailey decided to stop and pray and ask
God for direction. Let's hear from Bailey right now. Hi, Bailey, welcome.
What can I do to make your summer night a
little more special?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I was just wondering if I could get you to
dedicate a song for my boyfriend, Nathaniel.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Tell me about Nathaniel, Bailey.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
He is a very, very sweet man. He is someone
that I've been praying for almost my entire life. We
just moved in together into our very own first apartment,
and I just wanted to tell him how much I
love and appreciate him.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So this is the man you have been hoping for
and praying for, and God brought him to you. You said,
most of your life, how old are you?
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I'm only twenty four, And.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Do you think this is the one you want to
spend the rest of your life with.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
I do We actually have been talking about starting a
family together and even going out and traveling the country
and even the rest of the world. We've been talking
about moving on to the next steps of our lives.
I do believe that God has blessed me with him.
He heard my prayers and finally answered me. With him.
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He is an angel in disguise. I love him so
very much and I couldn't do I don't think I
would be here without him.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So are we going to make it official? Have we
talked about, you know, a little ring thing, a little
vow thing, a little foreverthing.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Maybe maybe a forever ring but as of right now?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Just why wait, wait, wait, wait, you just said we
You just said we talked about starting a family and
traveling the country. Shouldn't the forever commitment come before those things?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yes, ma'am. I've been through a lot in my life,
even though I'm only twenty four, and I've been through
a couple of rough relationships myself, and just if I'm
being completely honest, I had been abused in both. But
now I've finally met him and he treats me so well,
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he like he I couldn't I can't describe him. He's
just so amazing, and he's just so spectacular. He's just
the man that I've been waiting for and that I've
been praying for my entire life.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It sounds like God has sent you a miracle. If
He is truly that kind and that good to you
and that committed, what a gift.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Amen, Well, God bless you, honey. Thank you for calling.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Yes, ma'am, thank you for answering. It means very much
to me.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You have a great night.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
You too, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
The last call I'm going to share with you in
this episode of Having a Little Faith with Delilah is
from Gigi. Gigi called me last summer and I couldn't
share her call because she was so distraught and in
so much pain. Her daughter was literally dying from her
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addictions and mental illness. I didn't air her call. We
prayed together for her daughter. I lost my step son
Ryan in twenty nineteen to his addictions. I lost my
son Zach in twenty seventeen to his mental illness. So
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when I prayed with Gig, I was praying with a
mama's heart. I was praying with my whole heart. Gig
called me back almost a year later to update me.
I know, I said, this episode of my podcast is
about small miracles, but Gig had a really big miracle
to share. Let's listen to Gg share her profound miracle
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right now. Hello, good evening, Welcome aboard. Who is this Gg?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Delilah. I called you over the summer on the way
home from a visit with my daughter who's in many
mental hospitals over the summer, and we prayed off here together.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Gig, welcome. How was your daughter doing today? Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I when we spoke, I just didn't have any hope.
And we prayed off air together. And my daughter is back,
Like she got sick and went to the hospital and
she was in intensive care and they took her off
of a lot of the psych meds that they had
her on. And it's my daughter again. Like God is
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so good because she's going to court tomorrow to ask
her like you know, more visits with their kids and
stuff like that. She has to build that up. But
she's amazing. She's back. And I just didn't think over
the summer. I just thought, oh my god, I've lost her.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And God said, no, no, you haven't you haven't lost
her forever?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I prayed on my knees every single night, and you
were so nice. You prayed with me off the air
because I didn't want to say her name. But she
went through more stuff than anybody should ever have to
go through in her lifetime. And it was a tough
ye last year. But December twentieth, she woke up after
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being intensive care. She come home and had a good
night's sleep, and we woke up and she talked, and
she talked about how she was drinking on her meds
and they had her all on the wrong meds and
she felt like herself again, and all the delusions that
she had about different things were gone. They'd just gone.
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And she has a relationship with their both daughters that
is amazing today. Like a year ago, I would have
said you shouldn't even be near them, But she has
the best relationship with them now.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Praise you Jesus.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
And I got in tonight I thought, oh my god,
this is twice I've been listening to you for You've
been in my phone for years, ever since, like when
I was younger. I don't know how.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Old you have been.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I've been listening to you for a long time. I'm
fifty eight, but my heart is so full. I can't
believe I got through tonight of all nights, and the
night that I got through to you before, I cried
all the way home and I got through to you,
and tonight I'm getting through to you. When she's going
to court tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I'm just like, well, let's do the same thing we
did before. Let's pray again and ask for miracles. Father, God,
I thank you Lord that Gigi got through before. And
I thank you God for restoring her daughter to her
right mind. Thank you Jesus forgetting her on the right
medication and getting her off the toxic stuff. Thank you
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Jesus forgetting her sober. Thank you Jesus for restoring her
relationship with her daughters. Thank you Jesus for giving her
this time where she is sane and sober. Father, I
pray that this serenity, this sobriety, this sanity extends for
the rest of her life. I pray God that you
would show her favor in court tomorrow. I pray God
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you would heal her children's hearts. I pray for continued miracles.
I pray for Gigi. I pray Lord God for strength
and faith, and I pray Lord God selfishly for my
own daughter, who needs a miracle, just like her daughter did. Father,
I ask Lord God that you would reach down from
on high, that you would just pour your holy spirit
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out upon these young women, and that God you would
do miracles and you would bring a bountiful harvest in Jesus' name. Amen.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Amen, thank you so much. I can't believe that two
times that I got through to you were the most
important times that I really needed it. I mean, tonight,
I was feeling. I was writing out things for her
to just have notes because she's nervous about going in
enough in front of a judge.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
But the best thing she can do is own her stuff.
If she says to the judge, your honor, I lost
my mind. I once was lost and now I'm found,
and i just want to be the best person I
can be, and I'm doing everything in my power to
care for my family. Judges want families to be reunited.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yeah, and she's said that to her daughter who's going
to be thirteen, and her eight year old daughter. She's
you know, Dave've forgiven her for all the stuff that
has gone on, you know, she's been through a lot
domestic violence and a lot of things, you know, But oh,
my God, I just oh, I just have so much
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hope in time with me right now. Yay, I'm gonna
get on my knees again tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
All right, honey, Love you, God, bless love you, thank you.
I really I don't know what to say after that
call from GG. I will say this, most people with
an addiction like Gg's daughter has, like my step son had,
don't make it through recovery more than eighty percent relapse.
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So what she just shared was a gigantic miracle. Wherever
you are, whatever you're doing though, whatever you are going through,
don't give up, don't give up. Pray, pray and believe.
Say God, Please Lord, even if you don't have a
relationship with the Almighty, say I have a mustard seed
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of faith. Please God, increase my faith and help me
to believe. And please God, do a miracle right now,
not for me but for my daughter, not for me
but for my son, Not for me but for my grandchildren. God,
do a miracle. Do a miracle for me, Do a
miracle for my health, Do a miracle for my spouse's health.
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Do a miracle for my best friend who's battling a
life threatening disorder. Do a miracle for my daughter. I
can tell you so many miracles the Lord has done.
When I prayed, he says, you have not because you
ask not. So ask. Ask for the little miracles. Ask
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for a raven that does a upside down flying circle
in front of you, or ask for something big. Ask
for your child to be delivered from addictions. Just ask him,
ask him. Keep knocking at that door, keep praying, keep saying, God, Please,
I need a miracle. Please God, my husband needs a miracle.
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Keep praying. I look forward to connecting with you next week,
and as always, thank you for taking your time, for
sharing your love, for spending some time with me today,
and do me a favor. Remember ber to have a
little faith.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Delve
Welcome, my friend. Welcome to have a little Faith with Delilah.
This new podcast is something I wanted to create, sort
of as an extension of my radio show, kind of.
I have another podcast that I've had for years, and
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on that podcast, I interview fascinating people, and I talk
to people that are making movies and making music and
making dreams come true and making the world a better place.
But in this podcast, I wanted to be able to
talk about the thing that matters most to me in
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the whole universe. And the thing that matters most to
me isn't a thing at all. It's my faith. And
when I say my faith, I know a lot of
people use that word, and it's kind of a mamby
pam the ethereal expression. When I say my faith, I'm
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not talking something mamby pamby or ethereal or otherworldly. I'm
talking about my faith in the Almighty. I am talking
about my faith that I came to in my late
twenties that I was inspired through a series of horrific
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tragedies where I kind of hit rock bottom, not kind of.
I hit rock bottom and I needed something to believe in.
But I'm not the kind of person that just can
take you at face value. I need to know that
I know that I know. So I went on a
deep dive. I went on a spiritual journey, if you will,
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and it led me straight to the foot of the cross.
And that's where I've stayed. Okay, well maybe I haven't
always stayed. I've strayed more than once, but I alway
came back to my Lord. And on my radio show,
I need to be careful of time, because you know,
we play a lot of songs, so I can't talk
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all night long. I can't play phone calls that are
five or ten or fifteen or twenty minutes long, because
you know, we got to play the music. So a
lot of times I'll talk to somebody for half an hour.
I'll pray with people, but you only get to hear
a snippet of that conversation on the air, so that
I can play the music. By the way, if you
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want to listen to my radio show, I'm still on
the air every night across the nation. Go to Delilah
dot com to find a local station, or simply download
the iHeartRadio app. But here here in this podcast, I
can spend more time talking with you, more time sharing
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in those conversations, more time praying with you and for you,
and more time sharing the cornerstone of my life, which
is my faith. In any event, I'm glad you decided
to join me on this podcast today. I don't know
how you found us. I'm just glad you found us.
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I'm glad God led you here. This episode of Have
a Little Faith is all about small miracles, the small
miracles that are often overlooked. We always look for big miracles,
for a burning bush, for a life saved, for sight restored,
for bones knit back together, and God is still in
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the business of doing those big miracles. But to me,
sometimes the small miracles are the biggest ones of all.
Do you remember that Far Side cartoon. It shows this
guy on a deserted island that's surrounded by sharks. The
guy has no food or water or shelter. Basically, the
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guy's in big trouble, so he starts praying to God,
asking him to save him. Suddenly, a boat appears and
the boat driver tells him to get in. The man says, nope, nope, nope,
I'm waiting for God. A little while later, a plane
flies overhead and drops supplies to him, and the guy
shouts back, no thanks, I'm waiting for God to answer
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my prayer. A little while later, a helicopter shows up
and drops the guy a rescue line. Same response. Guy
hollers back, no thanks, thanks, but no go on, I'm
waiting for God. So the guy ends up dying. He perishes,
and when he gets to heaven, the man ask God
why he didn't save him, and God said, I sent
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you a boat, I sent you a plane, I sent
you a helicopter. And the man said, but but I
was waiting for you. God simply replied that was me,
a big dummy. It's a funny joke, funny cartoon, but
it's true. We often don't recognize the miracles that abound
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in our life. That is, God showing up every single day,
every day, every day, before I get out of bed,
before I even open my eyes, I start thanking God
for the miracles that I anticipate he's going to send me,
and he never disappoints. I've got ravens that live on
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my property that greet me every morning when I step outside.
They make a racous noise and they start cawing and flying.
And while they're flying. They do this crazy thing where
they flip upside down. They literally fly upside down and
then they flip back over it like they're just showing off.
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They're doing this whole acrobatics display right in front of me,
right in front of me, just to bless me, just
to show me little miracles. We've got to deer that
lives on our property, a little buck. He's got a
little spikes, not even a forked horn. Yet. He's just
a little guy. He shows up every day and he
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wags his tail like he's happy to see us. And
I holler at him, get out of my gardens, get
out of my flower beds, and he just wags his
tail and keeps on eaten. That's a little miracle. Today,
I want to share a few stories about small miracles.
The first caller I'm going to introduce you to is
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a woman named Dottie who was considering starting a relationship
with someone who lived many miles away from her. She
decided to ask for prayers from her church friends. Let's
listen to Dottie's story right now. Hi, Dottie, what can
I do for you?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Well, I just would like to tell you a little
about my husband.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I would love to hear what's his name?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
His name is Steve. You know, he was such a
wonderful gift's been you. We just celebrated our twentieth anniversary.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Happy anniversary, Happy anniversary, Happy anniversary, Happy anniversary. All right, now,
tell me how you met this man and why you're
still grinning twenty years later.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, it's really strange because I am not a risk taker,
but I got on the internet a while back and
I took a chance on this person because he was
on my faith and he had really really dreamy blue eyes,
and he lived in Alaska and I live in Iowa,
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and so I'm like, he can't stalk me, so this
should be a safe bet. And so we talked for
a while, and then the people from my church were
kind of like, what are you doing? And I'm like, yeah,
you know, it's it's safe. He's in Alaska. And then
he said, well, when are you coming to Alaska? And
I said, well, how about New Year's for kissed? And
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if it's not good, I'm back on the plane. And
then were really like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So you're not a risk taker, but you were willing
to get on a plane and fly to the outback
of Alaska to meet this guy because he had beautiful
blue eyes.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And it's really not the outback because it was Judo.
And here's the thing that's really the miracle, the gift part.
There was a person at our church and said, you
know what, I have the cousins who lived in Juno, Alaska.
Tell me this guy's name and I'll have my cousin
check him out. And I said, well, this is his name,
and she said, oh, my gosh, that's my cousin.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
No sah, yeah, So the cousin that you were going
to have check out the guy that you were going
to go meet, is actually the guy you were going
to go meet.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Uh huh. And so my church leaders talked with his
church leaders and they found me a place to stay,
and I went to Alaska. Was really a very nice
kiss and I met part of his family there because
he had eight kids, and I met four of them
that were still at home with him, and everything on
that trip went really well.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Well, did you have any children or was he just
mister mom?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I had one daughter?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
One daughter? How old she was in high school?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Okay, I was forty five when this all happened. So
so that was in January and we got married on
June eleventh.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So not a risk taker. Huh.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
You know what, it really wasn't risky. We had God
was in the details, and it was it was a gift.
It was a wonderful gift.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It sounds like like God just planned everything out and
gave you the courage and the wisdom to go with it,
and he took the bigger risk.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And after we've been married for a year, all of
this sudden things started happening. And he said we'd had
conversations that I knew that we'd been in places I
knew full well we hadn't been. And I thought, why
is he trying to gaslight me? He knows of it
that I don't have any money. And then I finally
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had a seizure at the dinner table, and it took
a while to get a diagnosis, but it turned out
that I had late onset epilepsy.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So he wasn't gaslighting you at all. You simply were
having small seizures and didn't remember those things.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And I didn't remember any of it. And it totally
came out of the blue.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And this was a year into your twenty year marriage.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yep. In the first six years of our marriage. I
only remember about three.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
But the minute when he said in sickness and in health,
and he didn't didn't give up.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He stayed and he's wonderful and I give him a
lot of trouble sometimes, and he's not perfect. I will
tell you that he's not perfect.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, but the blue eyes make up for a lot
of those imperfections.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I bet he's still cute. And he's sitting here next
to me and he's kind of like he was doing
on his face. But I'm just truly, truly blessed, and
I wish everybody had somebody like him. But I'm really
glad that I've got him.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I'm really glad that the God set everything up and
that you had the courage to step into that. And
you two have woven such a beautiful life. So did
you Were you there to co parent, to raise his
to be a stepmom to his his kids that were
still at home.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
He brought some kids with him, and so I've been
in and out of their lives, and they've been in
and out of mine. And then we've adopted a granddaughter
along the white two.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So and how old is the granddaughter? Are you still
raising her or is she grown?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
She is twelve going on sixteen.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I just got custody of three of my grandchildren, and
you and I are about the same age. And I've
got a five and a six and a nine year
old in addition to my two youngest that I adopted.
So when I thought that I would be, you know,
relaxing and going on cruises with my retired girlfriends, I'm
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packing picnic lunches and going to the splash park with
my five minor children.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's not the same as it was the first time around.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So where do you live? Did you go back to Alaska?
Did you come back down?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Nope? I told him I'm an Iowa girl and I
had to stay in Iowa, and he came to Iowa.
We did go to Texas for three years, and that's
where we met the doctor who diagnosed my epilepsy and
I had two brain surgeries.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Eleven years ago.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
This is the anniversary week of that and that took
care of the epilepsy. I have been seizure free since
twenty fourteen. So we've had lots of miracles along the way.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And his name is Steve yours is Dottie. Is there
a song Dottie, I can play for you or is
there one on your heart.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I would be happy for you to pick anything, and
just know that it's going to be a very very
special person.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I will play a sweet song. And I love your story.
I love that you know that it was the hand
of the Lord that wove you together, that brought you together,
that put everything in motion, and gave you the courage
to step out on faith and do something that was
probably totally out of character for you, but was God's
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perfect will.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
And that's one of the very special things too. I
have a husband who is never hesitates to meal and
prove with me, and that's one of the things that
keeps us together too. So the hand of the Lord
is a very big hand in our house.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Amen. Amen, Amen, An, all right, I'm going to find
a song for you. Lord.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Bless you, thank you, bless you too.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I told you that story from Dottie was kind of amazing.
Not only was she connected to the love of her life,
that man may have actually saved her life by realizing
that she had a medical condition that could have killed her.
Now that's what I call a miracle. Have you ever
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felt like giving up like there's so much comin atcha
from the left from the right. You're getting hit by
storms of life, by by walls of grief or frustration
or financial disruption, and you don't know where to turn,
you don't know what to do, and you're trying to
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keep all the balls in the air, but you just
can't do it any longer. In just a moment, I'm
going to talk with a mama who for the past
year has been writing that tsunami of frustration and heartache,
and the tsunami came crashing to the shore and she
thought all was lost. But tonight she's sitting on a
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front porch with the people that she loves around her,
listening to this show and wanting a song to celebrate
the fact that that storm did not destroy them, but
in fact perhaps made them stronger. Let's listen to Britney's
story right now. Hi, good evening, you've called the Delilah Show.
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Who is this?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
My name's Binny, Hi Brittany, welcome aboard. What can I
do for you? Tonight?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I wanted to see if you could find a song
for my son, and my daughter and my husband. The
four of us have gone through a really, really, really
really hard year and something I don't think we ever
thought we ever would. I want them to remember that
were stronger than we thought we were, and that we're
gonna make it there and we're going to be okay.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
All right. So son's name, daughter's name, hobby's name, and
a thirty second explanation of the hardest year of your life.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
My husband is Joey, and my son is Wade, my
daughter is Leiah. Basically, you literally lost our car or home.
Our family was torn apart in every way possible and slowly,
slowly trying to get back to where we were.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And are you living together?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Well, we finally are after almost a year of trying to
fight and get everything back where it is, and we're
finally all back together.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And your kids, how old are they?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
My son is fourteenth and my daughter just had her
thirteenth birthday.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And it sounds like you're driving now while we're talking.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh, well, we're sitting on the front porch with a fan.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Okay, So you've got a front porch to sit on, yes, ma'am.
That means you have a place to live. You got
a roof over your head, yes, ma'am. And did we
get a car that works.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
We're working on it. That's the next step, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And Hubby is there with you.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
He's at work tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
So he's got a job. Your kids are back together,
You're in a safe place, and life is going to
come back together.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Ma'am.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Remember this, that which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yes, it does.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And is your relationships with your kids healthy? Do they
do you love and respect each other? Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Absolutely? My kids are pretty great kids.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And you sound like a pretty great mom.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I'd try.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
I want them to know that mom and dad are
always there and always in their corner.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I will play a song for your whole family. And
I don't know what it is you went through or
why you had to go through it, but I do
know this. God's got you and your babies, and you're
going to make it through and you're going to be
stronger for it. Thank you so much, God, bless you, honey.
Brittany's not exactly where she envisioned herself to be, But
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you know what I think. I think God has her
and her family safe and sound. She's exactly where she
needs to be right now. Just keep Brittany in your prayers.
The next story I'm going to share with you is
from a young lady named Bailey. Bailey's been through a
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lot in her young life, and when you go through
trauma when you're young, sometimes your response is to make
bad choices. I am living proof of that. There was
trauma in my young life, and my response to that
trauma was to create a whole lot of drama of
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my own. Bailey decided to stop and pray and ask
God for direction. Let's hear from Bailey right now. Hi, Bailey, welcome.
What can I do to make your summer night a
little more special?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I was just wondering if I could get you to
dedicate a song for my boyfriend, Nathaniel.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Tell me about Nathaniel, Bailey.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
He is a very, very sweet man. He is someone
that I've been praying for almost my entire life. We
just moved in together into our very own first apartment,
and I just wanted to tell him how much I
love and appreciate him.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So this is the man you have been hoping for
and praying for, and God brought him to you. You said,
most of your life, how old are you?
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I'm only twenty four, And.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Do you think this is the one you want to
spend the rest of your life with.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
I do We actually have been talking about starting a
family together and even going out and traveling the country
and even the rest of the world. We've been talking
about moving on to the next steps of our lives.
I do believe that God has blessed me with him.
He heard my prayers and finally answered me. With him.
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He is an angel in disguise. I love him so
very much and I couldn't do I don't think I
would be here without him.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So are we going to make it official? Have we
talked about, you know, a little ring thing, a little
vow thing, a little foreverthing.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Maybe maybe a forever ring but as of right now?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Just why wait, wait, wait, wait, you just said we
You just said we talked about starting a family and
traveling the country. Shouldn't the forever commitment come before those things?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yes, ma'am. I've been through a lot in my life,
even though I'm only twenty four, and I've been through
a couple of rough relationships myself, and just if I'm
being completely honest, I had been abused in both. But
now I've finally met him and he treats me so well,
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he like he I couldn't I can't describe him. He's
just so amazing, and he's just so spectacular. He's just
the man that I've been waiting for and that I've
been praying for my entire life.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It sounds like God has sent you a miracle. If
He is truly that kind and that good to you
and that committed, what a gift.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Amen, Well, God bless you, honey. Thank you for calling.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Yes, ma'am, thank you for answering. It means very much
to me.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You have a great night.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
You too, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
The last call I'm going to share with you in
this episode of Having a Little Faith with Delilah is
from Gigi. Gigi called me last summer and I couldn't
share her call because she was so distraught and in
so much pain. Her daughter was literally dying from her
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addictions and mental illness. I didn't air her call. We
prayed together for her daughter. I lost my step son
Ryan in twenty nineteen to his addictions. I lost my
son Zach in twenty seventeen to his mental illness. So
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when I prayed with Gig, I was praying with a
mama's heart. I was praying with my whole heart. Gig
called me back almost a year later to update me.
I know, I said, this episode of my podcast is
about small miracles, but Gig had a really big miracle
to share. Let's listen to Gg share her profound miracle
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right now. Hello, good evening, Welcome aboard. Who is this Gg?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Delilah. I called you over the summer on the way
home from a visit with my daughter who's in many
mental hospitals over the summer, and we prayed off here together.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Gig, welcome. How was your daughter doing today? Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I when we spoke, I just didn't have any hope.
And we prayed off air together. And my daughter is back,
Like she got sick and went to the hospital and
she was in intensive care and they took her off
of a lot of the psych meds that they had
her on. And it's my daughter again. Like God is
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so good because she's going to court tomorrow to ask
her like you know, more visits with their kids and
stuff like that. She has to build that up. But
she's amazing. She's back. And I just didn't think over
the summer. I just thought, oh my god, I've lost her.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And God said, no, no, you haven't you haven't lost
her forever?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I prayed on my knees every single night, and you
were so nice. You prayed with me off the air
because I didn't want to say her name. But she
went through more stuff than anybody should ever have to
go through in her lifetime. And it was a tough
ye last year. But December twentieth, she woke up after
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being intensive care. She come home and had a good
night's sleep, and we woke up and she talked, and
she talked about how she was drinking on her meds
and they had her all on the wrong meds and
she felt like herself again, and all the delusions that
she had about different things were gone. They'd just gone.
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And she has a relationship with their both daughters that
is amazing today. Like a year ago, I would have
said you shouldn't even be near them, But she has
the best relationship with them now.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Praise you Jesus.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
And I got in tonight I thought, oh my god,
this is twice I've been listening to you for You've
been in my phone for years, ever since, like when
I was younger. I don't know how.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Old you have been.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I've been listening to you for a long time. I'm
fifty eight, but my heart is so full. I can't
believe I got through tonight of all nights, and the
night that I got through to you before, I cried
all the way home and I got through to you,
and tonight I'm getting through to you. When she's going
to court tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I'm just like, well, let's do the same thing we
did before. Let's pray again and ask for miracles. Father, God,
I thank you Lord that Gigi got through before. And
I thank you God for restoring her daughter to her
right mind. Thank you Jesus forgetting her on the right
medication and getting her off the toxic stuff. Thank you
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Jesus forgetting her sober. Thank you Jesus for restoring her
relationship with her daughters. Thank you Jesus for giving her
this time where she is sane and sober. Father, I
pray that this serenity, this sobriety, this sanity extends for
the rest of her life. I pray God that you
would show her favor in court tomorrow. I pray God
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you would heal her children's hearts. I pray for continued miracles.
I pray for Gigi. I pray Lord God for strength
and faith, and I pray Lord God selfishly for my
own daughter, who needs a miracle, just like her daughter did. Father,
I ask Lord God that you would reach down from
on high, that you would just pour your holy spirit
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out upon these young women, and that God you would
do miracles and you would bring a bountiful harvest in Jesus' name. Amen.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Amen, thank you so much. I can't believe that two
times that I got through to you were the most
important times that I really needed it. I mean, tonight,
I was feeling. I was writing out things for her
to just have notes because she's nervous about going in
enough in front of a judge.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
But the best thing she can do is own her stuff.
If she says to the judge, your honor, I lost
my mind. I once was lost and now I'm found,
and i just want to be the best person I
can be, and I'm doing everything in my power to
care for my family. Judges want families to be reunited.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yeah, and she's said that to her daughter who's going
to be thirteen, and her eight year old daughter. She's
you know, Dave've forgiven her for all the stuff that
has gone on, you know, she's been through a lot
domestic violence and a lot of things, you know, But oh,
my God, I just oh, I just have so much
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hope in time with me right now. Yay, I'm gonna
get on my knees again tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
All right, honey, Love you, God, bless love you, thank you.
I really I don't know what to say after that
call from GG. I will say this, most people with
an addiction like Gg's daughter has, like my step son had,
don't make it through recovery more than eighty percent relapse.
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So what she just shared was a gigantic miracle. Wherever
you are, whatever you're doing though, whatever you are going through,
don't give up, don't give up. Pray, pray and believe.
Say God, Please Lord, even if you don't have a
relationship with the Almighty, say I have a mustard seed
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of faith. Please God, increase my faith and help me
to believe. And please God, do a miracle right now,
not for me but for my daughter, not for me
but for my son, Not for me but for my grandchildren. God,
do a miracle. Do a miracle for me, Do a
miracle for my health, Do a miracle for my spouse's health.
(29:04):
Do a miracle for my best friend who's battling a
life threatening disorder. Do a miracle for my daughter. I
can tell you so many miracles the Lord has done.
When I prayed, he says, you have not because you
ask not. So ask. Ask for the little miracles. Ask
(29:24):
for a raven that does a upside down flying circle
in front of you, or ask for something big. Ask
for your child to be delivered from addictions. Just ask him,
ask him. Keep knocking at that door, keep praying, keep saying, God, Please,
I need a miracle. Please God, my husband needs a miracle.
(29:47):
Keep praying. I look forward to connecting with you next week,
and as always, thank you for taking your time, for
sharing your love, for spending some time with me today,
and do me a favor. Remember ber to have a
little faith.
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