October 9, 2025 • 32 mins
There is a way to get through anything when you have God by your side, not as a crutch, not as a Band-Aid, but as the king of kings. He will lift you up and carry you through the floodwaters, he will hold onto you when you feel like you’re drowning under your tears, he will reach down from on high and grab you and pull you out of the flames of addiction, the flames of betrayal, he will set your feet on solid ground. When you think you can’t take another step God will take that step for you and carry you. I promise you with God all things are possible.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, my friend, Welcome back, or welcome for the first time.
Maybe you just found this podcast. I'm so glad that
you did. And if you are a person of faith,
I pray this podcast encourages your faith. If you're not,
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if you've never committed your heart to the Lord, if
you've never raised your hand and said yes, yes, pick me, God,
pick me. I will go where you send me. I
will do what you ask of me. I will make
you the Lord of my life. If you've not done that,
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I hope this conversation, these conversations encourage you to give
God a chance. There is always a way to make
it through anything, because with God, all things are possible.
Our faith in the Lord gives us the strength to
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endure everything, even when the path ahead seems way too dark,
way too daunting, way too impossible to navigate. When you
are facing the hardest time in your life, the most
painful thing, When the doctor calls and says I want
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you to come in, when the police show up at
your door, when the phone call comes in the middle
of the night. You don't know how you're going to
take another step. You don't know how you're going to
take another breath. But our faith in God can anchor
us in hope. Our faith in God can remind us
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that most challenges are temporary. Some challenges are forever. They
don't go away. When you have been able bodied and
suddenly you find yourself unable to walk, or to drive,
or to stand, that's not a temporary challenge. That's a
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forever change. But our faith reminds us there is a
greater purpose beyond what we can understand. There's a speaker,
an author, an artist named Johnny Ericsontata. Johnny was an
able bodied, beautiful teenager when she was involved in an accident.
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I believe it was a swimming accident, a diving accident
that left her paralyzed from the neck down, and she
had to learn a whole new way of living. But
she didn't give up because of that, not in spite
of that, but because of that, she has dedicated her
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life to making life life better for other people with disabilities.
That woman has garnered an army of volunteers who rehab
wheelchairs and crutches, and then she takes them to developing nations,
to warrant toward nations, to nations where children of lost limbs,
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and she donates them because of her tragic accident and
her tragic circumstances, she figured out how to make life
better for thousands of people. There was a greater purpose
unfolding that I'm sure at eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old,
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she couldn't see. But now that she's lived a full,
rich life and she's been able to see how God
has used her to transform the lives of other people
and to help bring faith to millions of people, she
has touched the hearts of millions of people. I'm sure
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she understands that God use that tragedy to bless multitudes.
There's a greater purpose unfolding. And it doesn't mean that
the road's going to be easy. It never is. But
God assures us that we're not going to be walking
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that road alone, or in Johnny's case, not even walking
it alone. In the darkest moments, God becomes the light
that guides us forward, helping us to rise after every fall,
helping us to believe in possibilities when everyone else says otherwise.
With God, all things are possible. With God in our hearts,
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we can find the courage to keep going, one step,
one prayer, one day at a time, and right now
I'd like you to take the time to pray for
my friend Chadroi. Chadrey is a friend I met twenty
one years ago in New York City. He was a
doctor in his native country, came to America as a
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young immigrant with his family. Came here legally, did all
the right things, but it found out his doctor credentials
would not transfer to this country. Unable to attend medical
school here, he put his career and his life on hold,
went to work driving cars for people so he could
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support his family, and that's where I met him. He
had young children. They're now grown. One of them is
a doctor, one of them is an EMT, and one
of them is in college. And right now he needs
your prayers, desperately needs to be healed. He needs a miracle.
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And he has a pure heart, a kind heart, a
generous heart, and I'm asking you from my heart to
please please pray for him. I have talked with many
people who have had or who are going through things
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that would seem impossible for most of us to stand
up under, and this episode is all about that, about
bringing light to dark situations. There is a way to
get through anything when you have God by your side,
not as a crutch, not as a band aid, but
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as the King of kings, who will lift you up
and carry you through the floodwaters. Who will hold on
to you when you feel like you're drowning under your tears.
Who will reach down from on high and grab you
and pull you out of the flames of addiction, the
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flames of betrayal. Who will set your feet on solid ground.
When you think you can't take another step, God will
take that step for you and carry you. I promise
you that, I promise you that I'm about to speak
with Courtney. She has been through a lot, but now
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she is thriving with love. She might have a pretty
strong faith and a fierce mama bear. Let's hear from
Courtney right now. Hi, Courtney, welcome. What can I do
for you?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I was hoping you give a shout out to my mom.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Tell me about your mom and what you want to
say to her.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
She is up in Canada and I'm currently down in Pennsylvania.
She has been my absolute best friend throughout everything, every
up and down, She's guided me and kept my head up.
And I just want to make sure that I'm making
her proud that I'm doing right with her. She's an
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amazing woman. She's always given the shirt offer back to
others without question, and she's given me everything through life,
racing us by herself, and just wish I could give
the world.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You said, she's been with you through everything. What is
the toughest thing that you and Mama have been through
and come out of the On the other side.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
We were separated by a country between us and my
ex had put me in the hospital and put me
through a lot of court cases, and she couldn't.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Be by my side.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
But every day she was calling, she was making sure
I was good, and I know it must have been
heartbreaking for her to not be by my side through
all of that, and she's just been my complete rock.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Okay, hold on, I was expecting you know, when I
was twenty one and in college I twisted my ankle
and she wasn't there to bring me soup. What the heck?
You were in a foreign country and being abused and
hospitalized and Mom couldn't get to you. Yeah, this is
like a Netflix horror film.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I surprised her for her birthday last year.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Without warning. I just showed up and surprised her. We
had been apart for.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Eight years and the man that was hurting you out
of the picture now.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
He took off down the Florida somewhere and I'm living
my absolute best life.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So no more fear, no more pain.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
My visual you know, scares here and there. But I
talked to Mama Bear and she's got me back to right.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Wow Wow. I want to take my mama bare arms
and reach through the airwaves and just give you a
big hug. She must have been beside herself while you
were going through that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I couldn't imagine. But she just met the man I'm
with now.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
He's three point sixty to what my situation was before,
and she adores him.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And it's been a blessing that's come.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And is it hard for you to open up and
trust again after going through that?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It is, it is, But he's been nothing but patient
and understanding and wonderful.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I'm proud of you. I don't even know you, and
I'm proud of you. What's your mama's name, Kathy? Are
you held the chairs back this whole time? You got
through the whole conversation and now just picturing her face
and you become a puddle.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yes, I know, But what I'll do without her.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, let's never find out, Okay, I hope not h Courtney.
I'm so happy for you, and I'm so happy for
your mom. I know those were rough, rough years, but
I'm glad they're in the past and you're moving forward. Courtney,
you are so fortunate to have a mama bear that
loves you fiercely. You are even more blessed to have
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a fierce, strong faith. I wish you continued recovery and
life filled with love. Up next, we have Anastasia. She
has a story of overcoming generational trauma. It doesn't get
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much harder than conquering meth amphetamines, but Anastasia is absolute
proof you can get through anything when you give your
life to God. Come aboard, Welcome to the Delilah Show. Anastasia.
What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I just wanted to let you guys know on Earthie,
I've been listening to your show for twenty three years.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Thank you. Whose I was thirteen years old?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And what do you do now? Are you working? Are
you in school? What's well?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
We just me and my fiance just moved back to Springfield, Missouri.
We were in Kansas City for five years. We got
a house here in Springfield now and we are block employed.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And still listening at night. Oh yes, oh yeah, thank you.
I got lots of people in Springfield, Missouri.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
All my mama's family lives there. So what can I
play for you tonight? My old friend, Well.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I do not have a song. Were our idea bus
song for our wedding And I was hoping that you
could kick one out.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And big wedding or small wedding.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It's gonna be. It's gonna be kind of small.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And tell me about the one you love.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Oh he's absolutely amazing. He is funny and outgoing and
he's really helped me. I was a drug addict for
most of my childhood and he got me out of
a very dark spot in my life. And our anniversary
is actually my clean date.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
That is amazing. Usually when people get clean within you know,
a relationship, as soon as the relationship has problems, there
goes the sobriety.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Well, we have our problems, you know, every relationship does.
But we get through it everything.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And you get through it without using, Yes, we get.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Through it without using. I have not I have not
had a desire to you. Probably in two years. Good
for you?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Good for you? What was it about this man that
made you go? You know what? I would rather see
the world through through clean and sober eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Well, there's a little backstory there with a He was
with my best friend for three years and we had
built over our friendship.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
And my best friend actually died January twenty first of
twenty eighteen, which was about four months before we got together.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
What did you lose your friend too?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
She had comjes of heart failure. How old she was,
going twenty six?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
She was born with it, and they told her that
she was not going to live past thirteen, and she
grove them along and she went to be twenty six
before it finally took her.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Wow, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
During all that, we kind of, you know, mourned together
and it was kind of unexpected.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
And yeah, I put away to drugs.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Forever for good.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, forever.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Now you were supposed to say Delightah, you know, it's
only one day at a time. I'm not going to
say forever.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It's post me one day at a time. It is
actually sometimes one second of the time. But you know,
it is difficult.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
It was definitely a hard road, for sure. So can
I ask quite your drug of choice was not comphetamines?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Wow? And you didn't burn your brain out?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
No, you are blessed, I know, because I've lost a
lot of friends along the way.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
And my uncle he's still alive, but he's not right
in the head like it fried him.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Now that I look back in her thing, you know,
it's what I see.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
And a lot of my fuld friends are so amusing
and it's sad, but I have to you know, I
don't talk to learn anything anymore. I had to cut
everybody off, you know, out of my you know, out
of my social.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Life, people, places and things. If you don't change the people,
places and things, you don't change exactly.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
And I guess you know, I tried to get clean
off and on for probably like two years before I
actually finally did it.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
But my problem was I didn't want to get rid
of my people.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
So you thought, you you could stay clean but just
hang out with users.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, that's exactly how it was. And then I thought,
oh well, and then it was just.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
That one time and everything, you know, Oh yeah, well
I can just do it off and on everything, you know,
here and there.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Then it'll be okay.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
No.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, have you ever.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Met a meth head who could just do it off
and on? Ever? Ever?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Ever, ever, Nope, you will never.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Never. And so many people think that it's that it's
willpower that gets you clean. It's not. It's willpower that
keeps you using because you think you can do it,
You think you got the power to control it. You don't, no, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
And it's sad.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
It's really sad watching you know, people arrouved you just
drop dead, they're gone.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
We lost my stepson in twenty nineteen, and he had
been clean for a couple of years, but convinced himself
that you know, I can, I can control this.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
You know, me getting clean actually inspired my little sister
to get clean as well, and she has a year
and ten months on her own.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Now, how did your family like, are your folks addicts.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Or my whole family was addicts? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I grew up with, you know, a broken family, you know,
my mom taking care of us and yeah so but yeah,
all my mom said, family, all.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
My uncles and everybody nursing.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Were all drug addicts, got it, And they weren't just
drug addicts, they were cooks.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Like it would you know, I give it supported in
our family.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yep, it was a way of life, Yes it was.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
But I wrote the generational curses.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Amen, amen, amen, and amen.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
And I get it from my sister as well, because
we get when I mean, I was going with her
role model. You know, I'm the oldest of there's three.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Of us studying. My brother never got into drugs. He
was never, he never. He watched me in my SIPs
a book down in the dark hole. My sister was away.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
My shadow pretty much joys followed me every you know
me down my car and she funk really bad and
her thing into it. And when I got clean, it
was hard for me to stand back and watch her,
you know fully pretty much kill herself and her thing.
And she finally, finally, she is now a year and
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ten months clean, thanks to watching how.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I have developed, thanks to God getting her attention and saying, hey,
if your big siss can do that, look look.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
What And now she uh got her CNA license.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Think of how many other people if you reach out,
if you keep working the program, if you reach out
to newcomers and say, look, here's where I was, here's
where I am, and I can I can shine the
light on the path for you, if you want to change,
if you want to get healthy, if you want to
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make positive choices.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I mean, I really like that.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Used to be my My desire was to be a
life coach or.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Addict.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I can't think of a better person to coach people
who are stuck in darkness than somebody who's been in
the darkness and come out on the other side.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
That's a good pestimony right there.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Who better than you to light the path for somebody
who's struggling tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
You're right, that's very inspirational.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I think you need to think about going back to
school and becoming a drug and alcohol counselor.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I will give that a very very heart filled thought.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It's destroying our nation, you know that.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I know it is. Maybe it is, and it's only
getting worse.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yep, every day, day by day, step by step.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You know, this is like amazing.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I've been able to actually talk to you, and it
is like been my dream for a long time to
be able to get out of phone with you.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
So tell me about your fiance. He inspired you to
get clean and sober. You're starting your life together, yes,
and love of your life kind of thing or you
said you were friends first.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Yes, we were friends first, and it kind of just
happened like we just fell him up.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
We just we just I don't know, it just quite
it just sparks. We got to spark.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
There a friendship that caught fire. Yeah, and he clearly
supports you in your sobriety.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yes he does. He's my biggest support system.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Him and his mom and his sister have been my
biggest supporters for the last six years.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
God bless you. Thank you for calling. I am so
proud of you. And tell your little sister I'm so
proud of her too.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I sure will.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Hopefully the rest of your family will take notice and go, hey,
you know what, this this clean and sober thing is
working out pretty good for the girls. Maybe we should
try it. Yes, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I definitely think that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
You've broken generational curses. Keep going, I sure will. You
have a great night. Me, Phil, Each night I open
up the phone lines so that I can talk to you,
so that I can listen to you and hopefully be
an encouragement to you. My goal is to make sure
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that anybody who gets through on my phone lines has
a good experience, feels uplifted when they hang up, even
if I veheimously disagree with your decisions, which I do sometimes,
and I tell you that honestly, I hope I do
it in a way that you know I love you,
I respect you. I can disagree with you and still
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respect you. But sometimes I have to be very careful
when people call and they're in pain, because I never
ever ever want someone to be hurt potentially by anything
they share with me on the air. In just a moment,
I'm going to have a conversation with a young woman
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who's going through some tough stuff, and I'm going to find,
hopefully a way to encourage her heart and maybe speak
hope into her situation. Stay tuned for that coming up next. Danielle,
Welcome aboard. What can I do to make your autumn
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night a little brighter?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Mile?
Speaker 6 (22:39):
I would love a song to just show strength for
myself and my children?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
How many kids?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Five children? Three are grown and two are still young.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
So Mama bear is used to a very full plate, yes, ma'am,
And you're going through this alone. It's just you raising
these littles.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Is there a song that is on your heart or
you would like me to pick one that can become
your anthem.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
I would love for you to pick one to become
my anthem. You have.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
I'm forty. I've listened to you since I can remember.
I've had many trips back and forth and you've kept
me awake and you've listened to you, and so I
would love for you to pick one.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I know the perfect song. I'm going to play it
for you and the kids, and it can become your anthem.
It's by a beautiful young lady. She's been here on
the show with me a couple of times and on
my podcast. Her name is Rachel Platton and it's ten
years old now, I think. But it's called the Fight Song,
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and when you listen to the words of it, it
is an anthem for anybody going through tough times, but
especially a DV situation.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Thank you. That's actually my boy's favorite song.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
See see how God is.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yes, he works in mysterious ways. So thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You know what that was?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
That was?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Some people call him God winks you know where He's
just winking at you saying I got you, I see this,
I acknowledge this. He knows what your heart needs. Mama.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Absolutely, I've been trying to get through to you for
forty years. So I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
So I would totally say that whatever it is you're
going through right now, it's a bigger fight than you're
acknowledging to anybody, or he would not have let you
get through tonight, and he wouldn't have put that song
on my heart.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I fully agree with you, Delilah. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So I want you to hear me. Don't just listen
to me, hear me.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I'm hearing you.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
God is with you. He will never leave you nor
forsake you. When you pass through the waters, you will
not drown, you will not be overcome. God has got you.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Thank you so much I needed to hear that today.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Can I say a quick prayer for you before you
hang up?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Father God, I thank you Lord for allowing this caller
to get through. And I thank you God for putting
Rachel on my heart. Even before she started talking, You
just put that song in my head. And God, I
thank you. I thank you that you are the one
that battles for us, that we don't have to go
into battle, that you do it the same way you
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did it for David when he stood up against a
ten foot tall giant Goliath, and you said, here, just
take a rock. That's all you need, one smooth stone.
Thank you God that you're going to fight these battles
and that this family is going to come out on
the other side unscathed. I pray you would give my
sister peace, the peace that surpasses all understanding. Whatever is
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tormenting her right now and causing her to be anxious
and have fear, to take it away, wash it away
like leaves floating down the river, and give her that
perfect peace that comes from you. I asked this in
your holy name. Amen.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Amen, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You're going to be awesome.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
Mama, thank you because I woke up the night that
I had called my pastor back in North Carolina to
see if she could do prayer with me over the
phone that she wasn't available, So I kind of went
through the whole day.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I did it with you. It couldn't have been any.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Better, all right, God, bless you.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Here too, Delilah.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
The last call I want to share is from Danny.
Danny actually had God speak to him, and the beautiful
thing about that is that he listened the first time
let's hear from Danny right now. Hi, good evening. You
called it Elilah, show who is this it is?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Danny.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
I wanted to share my story with you. I can't
believe I got through. I tried it for years.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I'm glad you made it through. Welcome aboard. Tell me
your story.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
You were talking a while back about jobs and how
home and how they all to be with a person,
but they're going families. I got caught up with the
wrong clouds and I was addicted to cocaine.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
The family didn't know what's going on.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
I was more like a functional addict and they had
to drive me to the adversity room. They didn't know
I was overdose things. Thank God I made it through,
and I tell God talk to me and said, Daniel, I.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Love you, but this is matter of me. This has
to go and coming up will be four years clean
and sober.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
And how does the world look through sober eyes? Danny.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
It's not being behind the cloud, it's not lying to
the world. It's about on and when you people see
your virtue and see your truth sell without hiring anything.
You can open up to everybody. You could show everybody
God's love, the love you have and you see their love,
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and I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
And have you been able to repair the relationships that
the cocaine that the drugs stole? Have you been able
to rebuild bridges?
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Everything came full circle.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
So everything is being restored.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yes, and I changed my life all around.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I'm so proud of you. I wish I could reach
through the phone lines and give you a big congratulatory
hug and a four year coin.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Now I'm getting a little motion on the caring a
little bit because I'm still here and I know I
have a purpose and I know God has the path
lit up to me, and it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I'm so proud of you, Danny. God bless you and
watch over you and keep you safe. You have a
good night, my friend.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Thank you Eliah too, God bless you.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Wow, Danny, you hit it right on point. Addictions don't
just ruin the addict, They destroy families. I am currently
experiencing that truth in my family right now. Some people
that I love very much are in the grip of addictions.
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Three of the people that I love so much are
in the grips of addiction, and they refuse to submit
their will to God. They don't want to go to meetings,
they don't want to go to church, they don't want
to pray, they don't want to read the Bible. They
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want to have the joy and the thrill of their addiction,
and they want to pretend like it's not killing them
and their children. If you are in the throes of
bad choices, self sabotage, addictions, alcoholism, whatever it is that's
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causing you to lie, to live a lie, please know
that God is desperately trying to get your attention, desperately
screaming I am here, I love you. Turn to me.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
I will save you, I will rescue you, I will
pull you out of this mess. All you have to
do is ask, So ask, Please, ask, and I will
pray for you. Father, God, have your hand upon anyone
who is battling addictions of any kind, anyone who is
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battling any stronghold, any generational trauma. Have your hand upon them, Lord,
and set their feet on solid ground. And please, God,
have your hand upon my friend CHADRAI Please, God, reach
down from on high and touch him in his hospital bed,
and heal him completely, increase his faith a millionfold, and
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let him see your face. Let him see you in
his dreams. Let him see you when he awakens, Let
him see you and know know that you are the
King of kings, the Lord of Lords. Thank you Jesus Amen.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Wow, that was a powerful episode, at least for me.
Hope it was for you. I am so moved by
people who are so willing to share their stories, to
be transparent, to be vulnerable, to be honest. I mean,
transparent is the popular word, but the truth is they're
just being real, They're being honest. If you would like
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to share your story or your support, or you just
need a prayer, call me Monday through Friday nights at
one eight, eight, eight, six, three, three, five four five
two when I'm in the studio on the air, and
I will talk to you until next time. Remember, my friend,
to have a little faith, belve
Hello, my friend, Welcome back, or welcome for the first time.
Maybe you just found this podcast. I'm so glad that
you did. And if you are a person of faith,
I pray this podcast encourages your faith. If you're not,
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if you've never committed your heart to the Lord, if
you've never raised your hand and said yes, yes, pick me, God,
pick me. I will go where you send me. I
will do what you ask of me. I will make
you the Lord of my life. If you've not done that,
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I hope this conversation, these conversations encourage you to give
God a chance. There is always a way to make
it through anything, because with God, all things are possible.
Our faith in the Lord gives us the strength to
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endure everything, even when the path ahead seems way too dark,
way too daunting, way too impossible to navigate. When you
are facing the hardest time in your life, the most
painful thing, When the doctor calls and says I want
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you to come in, when the police show up at
your door, when the phone call comes in the middle
of the night. You don't know how you're going to
take another step. You don't know how you're going to
take another breath. But our faith in God can anchor
us in hope. Our faith in God can remind us
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that most challenges are temporary. Some challenges are forever. They
don't go away. When you have been able bodied and
suddenly you find yourself unable to walk, or to drive,
or to stand, that's not a temporary challenge. That's a
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forever change. But our faith reminds us there is a
greater purpose beyond what we can understand. There's a speaker,
an author, an artist named Johnny Ericsontata. Johnny was an
able bodied, beautiful teenager when she was involved in an accident.
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I believe it was a swimming accident, a diving accident
that left her paralyzed from the neck down, and she
had to learn a whole new way of living. But
she didn't give up because of that, not in spite
of that, but because of that, she has dedicated her
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life to making life life better for other people with disabilities.
That woman has garnered an army of volunteers who rehab
wheelchairs and crutches, and then she takes them to developing nations,
to warrant toward nations, to nations where children of lost limbs,
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and she donates them because of her tragic accident and
her tragic circumstances, she figured out how to make life
better for thousands of people. There was a greater purpose
unfolding that I'm sure at eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old,
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she couldn't see. But now that she's lived a full,
rich life and she's been able to see how God
has used her to transform the lives of other people
and to help bring faith to millions of people, she
has touched the hearts of millions of people. I'm sure
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she understands that God use that tragedy to bless multitudes.
There's a greater purpose unfolding. And it doesn't mean that
the road's going to be easy. It never is. But
God assures us that we're not going to be walking
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that road alone, or in Johnny's case, not even walking
it alone. In the darkest moments, God becomes the light
that guides us forward, helping us to rise after every fall,
helping us to believe in possibilities when everyone else says otherwise.
With God, all things are possible. With God in our hearts,
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we can find the courage to keep going, one step,
one prayer, one day at a time, and right now
I'd like you to take the time to pray for
my friend Chadroi. Chadrey is a friend I met twenty
one years ago in New York City. He was a
doctor in his native country, came to America as a
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young immigrant with his family. Came here legally, did all
the right things, but it found out his doctor credentials
would not transfer to this country. Unable to attend medical
school here, he put his career and his life on hold,
went to work driving cars for people so he could
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support his family, and that's where I met him. He
had young children. They're now grown. One of them is
a doctor, one of them is an EMT, and one
of them is in college. And right now he needs
your prayers, desperately needs to be healed. He needs a miracle.
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And he has a pure heart, a kind heart, a
generous heart, and I'm asking you from my heart to
please please pray for him. I have talked with many
people who have had or who are going through things
(06:25):
that would seem impossible for most of us to stand
up under, and this episode is all about that, about
bringing light to dark situations. There is a way to
get through anything when you have God by your side,
not as a crutch, not as a band aid, but
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as the King of kings, who will lift you up
and carry you through the floodwaters. Who will hold on
to you when you feel like you're drowning under your tears.
Who will reach down from on high and grab you
and pull you out of the flames of addiction, the
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flames of betrayal. Who will set your feet on solid ground.
When you think you can't take another step, God will
take that step for you and carry you. I promise
you that, I promise you that I'm about to speak
with Courtney. She has been through a lot, but now
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she is thriving with love. She might have a pretty
strong faith and a fierce mama bear. Let's hear from
Courtney right now. Hi, Courtney, welcome. What can I do
for you?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I was hoping you give a shout out to my mom.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Tell me about your mom and what you want to
say to her.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
She is up in Canada and I'm currently down in Pennsylvania.
She has been my absolute best friend throughout everything, every
up and down, She's guided me and kept my head up.
And I just want to make sure that I'm making
her proud that I'm doing right with her. She's an
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amazing woman. She's always given the shirt offer back to
others without question, and she's given me everything through life,
racing us by herself, and just wish I could give
the world.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You said, she's been with you through everything. What is
the toughest thing that you and Mama have been through
and come out of the On the other side.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
We were separated by a country between us and my
ex had put me in the hospital and put me
through a lot of court cases, and she couldn't.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Be by my side.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
But every day she was calling, she was making sure
I was good, and I know it must have been
heartbreaking for her to not be by my side through
all of that, and she's just been my complete rock.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Okay, hold on, I was expecting you know, when I
was twenty one and in college I twisted my ankle
and she wasn't there to bring me soup. What the heck?
You were in a foreign country and being abused and
hospitalized and Mom couldn't get to you. Yeah, this is
like a Netflix horror film.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I surprised her for her birthday last year.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Without warning. I just showed up and surprised her. We
had been apart for.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Eight years and the man that was hurting you out
of the picture now.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
He took off down the Florida somewhere and I'm living
my absolute best life.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So no more fear, no more pain.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
My visual you know, scares here and there. But I
talked to Mama Bear and she's got me back to right.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Wow Wow. I want to take my mama bare arms
and reach through the airwaves and just give you a
big hug. She must have been beside herself while you
were going through that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I couldn't imagine. But she just met the man I'm
with now.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
He's three point sixty to what my situation was before,
and she adores him.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And it's been a blessing that's come.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And is it hard for you to open up and
trust again after going through that?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It is, it is, But he's been nothing but patient
and understanding and wonderful.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I'm proud of you. I don't even know you, and
I'm proud of you. What's your mama's name, Kathy? Are
you held the chairs back this whole time? You got
through the whole conversation and now just picturing her face
and you become a puddle.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yes, I know, But what I'll do without her.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, let's never find out, Okay, I hope not h Courtney.
I'm so happy for you, and I'm so happy for
your mom. I know those were rough, rough years, but
I'm glad they're in the past and you're moving forward. Courtney,
you are so fortunate to have a mama bear that
loves you fiercely. You are even more blessed to have
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a fierce, strong faith. I wish you continued recovery and
life filled with love. Up next, we have Anastasia. She
has a story of overcoming generational trauma. It doesn't get
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much harder than conquering meth amphetamines, but Anastasia is absolute
proof you can get through anything when you give your
life to God. Come aboard, Welcome to the Delilah Show. Anastasia.
What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I just wanted to let you guys know on Earthie,
I've been listening to your show for twenty three years.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Thank you. Whose I was thirteen years old?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And what do you do now? Are you working? Are
you in school? What's well?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
We just me and my fiance just moved back to Springfield, Missouri.
We were in Kansas City for five years. We got
a house here in Springfield now and we are block employed.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And still listening at night. Oh yes, oh yeah, thank you.
I got lots of people in Springfield, Missouri.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
All my mama's family lives there. So what can I
play for you tonight? My old friend, Well.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I do not have a song. Were our idea bus
song for our wedding And I was hoping that you
could kick one out.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And big wedding or small wedding.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It's gonna be. It's gonna be kind of small.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And tell me about the one you love.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Oh he's absolutely amazing. He is funny and outgoing and
he's really helped me. I was a drug addict for
most of my childhood and he got me out of
a very dark spot in my life. And our anniversary
is actually my clean date.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
That is amazing. Usually when people get clean within you know,
a relationship, as soon as the relationship has problems, there
goes the sobriety.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Well, we have our problems, you know, every relationship does.
But we get through it everything.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And you get through it without using, Yes, we get.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Through it without using. I have not I have not
had a desire to you. Probably in two years. Good
for you?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Good for you? What was it about this man that
made you go? You know what? I would rather see
the world through through clean and sober eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Well, there's a little backstory there with a He was
with my best friend for three years and we had
built over our friendship.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
And my best friend actually died January twenty first of
twenty eighteen, which was about four months before we got together.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
What did you lose your friend too?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
She had comjes of heart failure. How old she was,
going twenty six?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
She was born with it, and they told her that
she was not going to live past thirteen, and she
grove them along and she went to be twenty six
before it finally took her.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Wow, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
During all that, we kind of, you know, mourned together
and it was kind of unexpected.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
And yeah, I put away to drugs.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Forever for good.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, forever.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Now you were supposed to say Delightah, you know, it's
only one day at a time. I'm not going to
say forever.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It's post me one day at a time. It is
actually sometimes one second of the time. But you know,
it is difficult.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
It was definitely a hard road, for sure. So can
I ask quite your drug of choice was not comphetamines?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Wow? And you didn't burn your brain out?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
No, you are blessed, I know, because I've lost a
lot of friends along the way.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
And my uncle he's still alive, but he's not right
in the head like it fried him.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Now that I look back in her thing, you know,
it's what I see.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
And a lot of my fuld friends are so amusing
and it's sad, but I have to you know, I
don't talk to learn anything anymore. I had to cut
everybody off, you know, out of my you know, out
of my social.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Life, people, places and things. If you don't change the people,
places and things, you don't change exactly.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
And I guess you know, I tried to get clean
off and on for probably like two years before I
actually finally did it.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
But my problem was I didn't want to get rid
of my people.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
So you thought, you you could stay clean but just
hang out with users.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, that's exactly how it was. And then I thought,
oh well, and then it was just.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
That one time and everything, you know, Oh yeah, well
I can just do it off and on everything, you know,
here and there.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Then it'll be okay.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
No.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, have you ever.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Met a meth head who could just do it off
and on? Ever? Ever?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Ever, ever, Nope, you will never.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Never. And so many people think that it's that it's
willpower that gets you clean. It's not. It's willpower that
keeps you using because you think you can do it,
You think you got the power to control it. You don't, no, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
And it's sad.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
It's really sad watching you know, people arrouved you just
drop dead, they're gone.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
We lost my stepson in twenty nineteen, and he had
been clean for a couple of years, but convinced himself
that you know, I can, I can control this.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
You know, me getting clean actually inspired my little sister
to get clean as well, and she has a year
and ten months on her own.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Now, how did your family like, are your folks addicts.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Or my whole family was addicts? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I grew up with, you know, a broken family, you know,
my mom taking care of us and yeah so but yeah,
all my mom said, family, all.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
My uncles and everybody nursing.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Were all drug addicts, got it, And they weren't just
drug addicts, they were cooks.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Like it would you know, I give it supported in
our family.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yep, it was a way of life, Yes it was.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
But I wrote the generational curses.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Amen, amen, amen, and amen.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
And I get it from my sister as well, because
we get when I mean, I was going with her
role model. You know, I'm the oldest of there's three.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Of us studying. My brother never got into drugs. He
was never, he never. He watched me in my SIPs
a book down in the dark hole. My sister was away.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
My shadow pretty much joys followed me every you know
me down my car and she funk really bad and
her thing into it. And when I got clean, it
was hard for me to stand back and watch her,
you know fully pretty much kill herself and her thing.
And she finally, finally, she is now a year and
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ten months clean, thanks to watching how.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I have developed, thanks to God getting her attention and saying, hey,
if your big siss can do that, look look.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
What And now she uh got her CNA license.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Think of how many other people if you reach out,
if you keep working the program, if you reach out
to newcomers and say, look, here's where I was, here's
where I am, and I can I can shine the
light on the path for you, if you want to change,
if you want to get healthy, if you want to
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make positive choices.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I mean, I really like that.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Used to be my My desire was to be a
life coach or.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Addict.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I can't think of a better person to coach people
who are stuck in darkness than somebody who's been in
the darkness and come out on the other side.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
That's a good pestimony right there.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Who better than you to light the path for somebody
who's struggling tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
You're right, that's very inspirational.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I think you need to think about going back to
school and becoming a drug and alcohol counselor.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I will give that a very very heart filled thought.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It's destroying our nation, you know that.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I know it is. Maybe it is, and it's only
getting worse.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yep, every day, day by day, step by step.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You know, this is like amazing.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I've been able to actually talk to you, and it
is like been my dream for a long time to
be able to get out of phone with you.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
So tell me about your fiance. He inspired you to
get clean and sober. You're starting your life together, yes,
and love of your life kind of thing or you
said you were friends first.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Yes, we were friends first, and it kind of just
happened like we just fell him up.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
We just we just I don't know, it just quite
it just sparks. We got to spark.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
There a friendship that caught fire. Yeah, and he clearly
supports you in your sobriety.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yes he does. He's my biggest support system.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Him and his mom and his sister have been my
biggest supporters for the last six years.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
God bless you. Thank you for calling. I am so
proud of you. And tell your little sister I'm so
proud of her too.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I sure will.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Hopefully the rest of your family will take notice and go, hey,
you know what, this this clean and sober thing is
working out pretty good for the girls. Maybe we should
try it. Yes, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I definitely think that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
You've broken generational curses. Keep going, I sure will. You
have a great night. Me, Phil, Each night I open
up the phone lines so that I can talk to you,
so that I can listen to you and hopefully be
an encouragement to you. My goal is to make sure
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that anybody who gets through on my phone lines has
a good experience, feels uplifted when they hang up, even
if I veheimously disagree with your decisions, which I do sometimes,
and I tell you that honestly, I hope I do
it in a way that you know I love you,
I respect you. I can disagree with you and still
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respect you. But sometimes I have to be very careful
when people call and they're in pain, because I never
ever ever want someone to be hurt potentially by anything
they share with me on the air. In just a moment,
I'm going to have a conversation with a young woman
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who's going through some tough stuff, and I'm going to find,
hopefully a way to encourage her heart and maybe speak
hope into her situation. Stay tuned for that coming up next. Danielle,
Welcome aboard. What can I do to make your autumn
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night a little brighter?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Mile?
Speaker 6 (22:39):
I would love a song to just show strength for
myself and my children?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
How many kids?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Five children? Three are grown and two are still young.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
So Mama bear is used to a very full plate, yes, ma'am,
And you're going through this alone. It's just you raising
these littles.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Is there a song that is on your heart or
you would like me to pick one that can become
your anthem.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
I would love for you to pick one to become
my anthem. You have.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
I'm forty. I've listened to you since I can remember.
I've had many trips back and forth and you've kept
me awake and you've listened to you, and so I
would love for you to pick one.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I know the perfect song. I'm going to play it
for you and the kids, and it can become your anthem.
It's by a beautiful young lady. She's been here on
the show with me a couple of times and on
my podcast. Her name is Rachel Platton and it's ten
years old now, I think. But it's called the Fight Song,
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and when you listen to the words of it, it
is an anthem for anybody going through tough times, but
especially a DV situation.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Thank you. That's actually my boy's favorite song.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
See see how God is.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yes, he works in mysterious ways. So thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You know what that was?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
That was?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Some people call him God winks you know where He's
just winking at you saying I got you, I see this,
I acknowledge this. He knows what your heart needs. Mama.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Absolutely, I've been trying to get through to you for
forty years. So I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
So I would totally say that whatever it is you're
going through right now, it's a bigger fight than you're
acknowledging to anybody, or he would not have let you
get through tonight, and he wouldn't have put that song
on my heart.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I fully agree with you, Delilah. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So I want you to hear me. Don't just listen
to me, hear me.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I'm hearing you.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
God is with you. He will never leave you nor
forsake you. When you pass through the waters, you will
not drown, you will not be overcome. God has got you.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Thank you so much I needed to hear that today.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Can I say a quick prayer for you before you
hang up?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Father God, I thank you Lord for allowing this caller
to get through. And I thank you God for putting
Rachel on my heart. Even before she started talking, You
just put that song in my head. And God, I
thank you. I thank you that you are the one
that battles for us, that we don't have to go
into battle, that you do it the same way you
(25:31):
did it for David when he stood up against a
ten foot tall giant Goliath, and you said, here, just
take a rock. That's all you need, one smooth stone.
Thank you God that you're going to fight these battles
and that this family is going to come out on
the other side unscathed. I pray you would give my
sister peace, the peace that surpasses all understanding. Whatever is
(25:55):
tormenting her right now and causing her to be anxious
and have fear, to take it away, wash it away
like leaves floating down the river, and give her that
perfect peace that comes from you. I asked this in
your holy name. Amen.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Amen, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You're going to be awesome.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
Mama, thank you because I woke up the night that
I had called my pastor back in North Carolina to
see if she could do prayer with me over the
phone that she wasn't available, So I kind of went
through the whole day.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I did it with you. It couldn't have been any.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Better, all right, God, bless you.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Here too, Delilah.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
The last call I want to share is from Danny.
Danny actually had God speak to him, and the beautiful
thing about that is that he listened the first time
let's hear from Danny right now. Hi, good evening. You
called it Elilah, show who is this it is?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Danny.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
I wanted to share my story with you. I can't
believe I got through. I tried it for years.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I'm glad you made it through. Welcome aboard. Tell me
your story.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
You were talking a while back about jobs and how
home and how they all to be with a person,
but they're going families. I got caught up with the
wrong clouds and I was addicted to cocaine.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
The family didn't know what's going on.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
I was more like a functional addict and they had
to drive me to the adversity room. They didn't know
I was overdose things. Thank God I made it through,
and I tell God talk to me and said, Daniel, I.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Love you, but this is matter of me. This has
to go and coming up will be four years clean
and sober.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
And how does the world look through sober eyes? Danny.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
It's not being behind the cloud, it's not lying to
the world. It's about on and when you people see
your virtue and see your truth sell without hiring anything.
You can open up to everybody. You could show everybody
God's love, the love you have and you see their love,
(28:14):
and I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
And have you been able to repair the relationships that
the cocaine that the drugs stole? Have you been able
to rebuild bridges?
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Everything came full circle.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
So everything is being restored.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yes, and I changed my life all around.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I'm so proud of you. I wish I could reach
through the phone lines and give you a big congratulatory
hug and a four year coin.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Now I'm getting a little motion on the caring a
little bit because I'm still here and I know I
have a purpose and I know God has the path
lit up to me, and it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I'm so proud of you, Danny. God bless you and
watch over you and keep you safe. You have a
good night, my friend.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Thank you Eliah too, God bless you.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Wow, Danny, you hit it right on point. Addictions don't
just ruin the addict, They destroy families. I am currently
experiencing that truth in my family right now. Some people
that I love very much are in the grip of addictions.
(29:33):
Three of the people that I love so much are
in the grips of addiction, and they refuse to submit
their will to God. They don't want to go to meetings,
they don't want to go to church, they don't want
to pray, they don't want to read the Bible. They
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want to have the joy and the thrill of their addiction,
and they want to pretend like it's not killing them
and their children. If you are in the throes of
bad choices, self sabotage, addictions, alcoholism, whatever it is that's
(30:15):
causing you to lie, to live a lie, please know
that God is desperately trying to get your attention, desperately
screaming I am here, I love you. Turn to me.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
I will save you, I will rescue you, I will
pull you out of this mess. All you have to
do is ask, So ask, Please, ask, and I will
pray for you. Father, God, have your hand upon anyone
who is battling addictions of any kind, anyone who is
(30:58):
battling any stronghold, any generational trauma. Have your hand upon them, Lord,
and set their feet on solid ground. And please, God,
have your hand upon my friend CHADRAI Please, God, reach
down from on high and touch him in his hospital bed,
and heal him completely, increase his faith a millionfold, and
(31:23):
let him see your face. Let him see you in
his dreams. Let him see you when he awakens, Let
him see you and know know that you are the
King of kings, the Lord of Lords. Thank you Jesus Amen.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Wow, that was a powerful episode, at least for me.
Hope it was for you. I am so moved by
people who are so willing to share their stories, to
be transparent, to be vulnerable, to be honest. I mean,
transparent is the popular word, but the truth is they're
just being real, They're being honest. If you would like
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to share your story or your support, or you just
need a prayer, call me Monday through Friday nights at
one eight, eight, eight, six, three, three, five four five
two when I'm in the studio on the air, and
I will talk to you until next time. Remember, my friend,
to have a little faith, belve
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