January 14, 2026 • 50 mins
This week on The Upload, host Brooke Taylor sits down with viral content creators and new parents Courtney and Alex Quist for an honest conversation about obedience; choosing to follow God even when the path isn’t clear and the cost feels high.
Before they ever met, both Courtney and Alex encountered moments where the Lord asked them to trust Him fully. Courtney shares how growing up Catholic eventually led to a life-changing encounter with Jesus. A moment that awakened a deeply personal faith. Alex opens up about being raised in the church as a pastor’s kid and what it looked like to move from inherited belief to a faith he chose for himself.
In separate seasons, God called both of them to move to Nashville, Tennessee. Steps of obedience that didn’t come with a full roadmap, but shaped their faith, their purpose, and ultimately their story together. Later in the episode, Alex vulnerably shares his journey to freedom, opening up about his struggle with pornography addiction and how surrender, accountability, and God’s grace led him out of shame and into healing. His testimony is a powerful reminder that nothing is beyond God’s reach when brought into the light.Courtney and Alex also share their heart behind social media; not to preach, but to live differently.
Their desire is simple: to create space for people to lean in, notice something distinct, and maybe, through their lives, be drawn closer to Jesus. Now as new parents, they reflect on how this season has deepened their understanding of Christ’s love and sharpened their commitment to obedience.
🎧 This episode is for anyone learning to trust God’s voice, take the next step of faith, and follow Jesus before the applause.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, it's Courtney and alex Quist.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
So much like.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Raunchy stuff on the internet or so much dork stuff
on the internet.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
There's like different pressures and stuff. Think of how many
people you could reach. I'm like, we're trying to be
obedient to what the Lord's calling us to right now.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I would never have been able to get through that
whole situation if it wasn't for going to church and
like learning who Jesus was, because it was almost like
a do over. There's no question that you can ask
that he's afraid of.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And this is the.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Upload of super Fun. Oh Fu tou Fun. Don't bother
me because I've been alone to somebody.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Okay, let's just start the podcast right there, all right,
Cordion alex Quist, welcome to the upload.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Okay, So we have never met before, but I know
your life because of online okay, And I feel like
a lot of people are like that where you know
they know you as the Quist family. They have kind
of followed your marriage and now your parent journey and
all the things. So before we start, I know, you know,
when it comes to being on camera, you're you guys
(01:11):
are authentic to who you are. But I want to
talk about like kind of like what goes on like
off camera, and first just how you guys describe the
word faith and what the word faith means to you guys.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
I'll let you say, Alex, Yeah, I mean, obviously, one
of the reasons I'm assuming you asked us to come
on this is because we do have that that same,
that similar faith in Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And yeah, it's just believing that there's something bigger than ourselves,
right that that that we were created in God's image,
and there's a lot of things that are unseen that
that we have to believe in. But at the same time,
there's so much evidence of a God that created us
(01:56):
and created everything, and so that that faith comes from,
you know, reading, reading the Word and learning more about
the God that created us. And I think the more
that you learn about him, the easier it is to
have faith in him totally.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
And faith is one of those things that I feel
like not a lot of people understand until you get
it right, until you kind of lean in and develop
your own relationship with God and things. So for you
guys specifically, as like a unit, I know that faith
when you're you know, single and dating, it means something
completely different to then when you're married and then now
(02:35):
when you're parents. Has that definition of faith Do you
think that that's kind of like maybe changed a little
bit over time, or has that kind of steadfast for
you guys?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I wouldn't say it's changed. I don't know, what do
you think.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I mean, our core beliefs in what we believe in
that that stays the same. But I mean it's it
definitely requires more, I sue it once we became parents,
It requires more time and intentionality to grow in our faith.
But I guess I don't know if maybe just like
(03:11):
how we view faith necessarily as changed, it is definitely
a lot easier to see God as the perfect father
that he is once you have a kid, because then
all of a sudden you realize, oh, there is literally
nothing our little baby girl could ever do to make
us not absolutely cherish her.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Isn't it crazy how your perspective as a parent shifts.
You're like, wait, he loves me more than that?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Like I can't.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I could not love my kids more than I love
my kids, But like the Lord loves me more than that.
That is such a wild thing to wrap your mind around,
and there's.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So many little metaphors that I now understand. Like our
daughter loves outlets right now, and like she'll like try
to put her finger in an outlet and I have
to obviously stop her, and she cries because.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
She's like, but I want it so bad, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Like, honey, you will get electrocuted. And it's like how
many how many things do we want so badly? And
we're like God, like we want this, we want this,
and he takes it away from us and he's like,
you didn't see what I saw, Like you didn't know
what I saw. And so that's probably my favorite part
of being a parent is because there's so many little
things that I'm now seeing and I'm like, I get
it now.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Those aha moments you're like, wow, man, so good. I
want to go back to before the Quist family though.
I want to talk about you guys kind of as believers.
Have you guys always been believers? Did you grow up
in church?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So I grew up in a Catholic church. Okay, so
I grew up going to church every Sunday. But I
never like, I never made the connection of like who
Jesus was until I actually I had a friend invite
me to a non denominational church, and it's so crazy
because I went to school for social media marketing and
(04:48):
that first day in a non denominational church, they I
don't know, the whole sermon was about emojis and stuff,
and so it literally spoke my language, and it was
the very first time where I was like, that's who
Jesus is, Like I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And so that was kind of the beginning.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I think that was like my sophomore year of college
where that was the beginning of my journey.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Where you grew up in the church.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, so my mom, she she has her pastor's license,
so she's always worked in our church. She was our
children's pastor for a little while, but she she was
doing more administrative work than anything. But yeah, I definitely
grew up in the church, and I honestly can't really
say when I put my faith in Jesus. I know
that I have, but but I thought it was so
(05:32):
interesting too because it's just recently Courtney once brought up.
She's like, oh, you should share your testimony on YouTube
one time, and I did, and I think growing up
in that Christian household, you know, you just I don't know,
it's sort of weird when you share your testimony. She's like, oh,
I don't have like some really cool story, Like I
(05:54):
don't know. And so when I shared that, like I
just couldn't believe how many people reached out and said
that they were encouraged by it and that they could
relate to so many things. But everybody has their their
stories and stuff. But that's what makes a testimony so
beautiful that you know, it's just sharing your faith and
whatever wherever you are, because there are a lot of
(06:15):
people that grow up in Christian households.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Yeah, and I think it's such a testament to like
just the world we live in. Like you said, social
media is your language, right, Like we compare ourselves to
other people. So it's so easy to say, well, my
story wasn't as hard as so and so who was
dealing with addiction and all these things and had this
radical moment with Jesus. But it's like your story is
still important, Like God gave you that story for a
reason to be able to share it, and now you know,
(06:38):
like there's so many people that relate to just specifically
what you went through, and then there's going to be
people that relate to saying like I went to a
Catholic church too, and I never understood and then I
had a moment where I was just like, WHOA, Okay,
I understand that now. And it's so funny that you're
talking about that because my mother in law is kind
of similar where she grew up in Catholic church and
we had this crazy conversation the other day where she
(06:59):
was like asking me questions. She was just like, you know,
I have to say Hail Mary's and I have to
do this, and I have to do all these things,
and there's like this big checklist of things that I
have to accomplish before I can accept the love of
this Lord and Savior. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
that's so not that's not it, Like, he doesn't He's
going to meet you right where you are. He's going
(07:20):
to be there right in your mess, and he's going
to love you through that mess. You don't have to
get rid of the mess before he's going to love you.
And it's but it is one of those things where
you have to share those stories so that people can,
you know, know that that's you're they're not alone, that
you know other people are going through that similar thing too.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, and it took a long time for me to
like I had to personally dive into the word myself
and ask a ton of questions. And that's one thing
I was super thankful because the Lord brought one of
my really good friends into my life, and I just
he was an open book, like I could ask him anything,
and so I'd ask him a ton of questions. And
I want to make it clear that you can still
(08:00):
be Catholic.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And be safe.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Totally a thing.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It just for me, I was missing the big picture,
Like I just thought, you check the boxes, you go
to church, you do this, you do this, and that
just wasn't it. And so also just having someone there
like the Lord provided that friend so that I was
able to just ask all these questions. I was like why,
Like if you know, if like Jesus on the Cross
(08:24):
was the final like that was the victory, It's like,
why do we have to do all of this other stuff?
And it was just so cool to have that safe
person to be able to talk to you about all
of that.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And then even full circle moment, I think it's so
cool that the Lord brought somebody back into our lives
that she went to college with, that that also grew
up Catholic, and you can speak to that, I guess
if you want.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Oh yeah, it's so crazy because I went to college
and I wasn't a Christian, became a Christian in college,
and I was just at church one day and this
girl walks up to me and she goes, we went
to college together.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And I was like, back in Pennsylvania, so okay, this.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Was like six years ago, and she's like, yeah, she
was just like we went to college together. And I
was like, oh, like and it took me a minute
to you know, remember who this person was. But it
was so cool that the Lord brought her back and
we have Yeah, we grew up in the same small town,
and we just went to Starbucks and she just started
asking all these questions and so the same I don't know,
(09:21):
I just felt like that friend that was there for me,
that could ask, you know, could answer all these questions.
I was able to be that person for her, and
I don't know, I think there's something so beautiful when
someone's willing to just ask those questions. And because that's
the same thing with the Lord, like there's no question
that you can ask that he's afraid of, you know,
that's what makes.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Him a dad.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah, one percent.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
And I think that's so important because I feel like
there's going to be a lot of people that watch
this podcast or listen to this podcast that are on
a journey or haven't even started their journey, and they
have questions. But I think one of those misconceptions about
you know, Christianity or just a relationship with God is
that like you just kind of sit and you just
(10:00):
do and you can't ask questions. But questions are such
I feel like, an integral part of your relationship with
God because it's just like we all have questions like,
you know, why did this happen? Or like what is
this about? Or like how does this happen? Why do
you allow this to happen? Those kind of things, and
those are healthy questions, and like you said, there is
not a question that He will not answer or cannot handle.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Actually, I remember my very first Bible. The first time
I read through it. I would write notes in the
side and it's just so funny, like the questions that
I would ask were some of the silliest questions in
the world.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
But I love looking back on them, and I'm like,
that's that's actually beautiful.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Like at one point I thought John the Baptist and
Elijah were the same person, Like it's not, but like
I remember like writing these down or writing like, oh
my gosh, Philip is so cool, like I would like
write these little notes in it, and.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I don't know, I just look back and I'm like,
those are so beautiful.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
No, that was the stage that I was in, and
I don't know now, like being more mature in my faith,
I'm just like I love that.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
And it's like it's even if you just think of
it on like a like a bottom leveling of like
when kids go into school, like you're going into kindergarten,
you're learning to read and write, like you're truly in
the very beginning. You're learning to read and write, like
you're learning all of the steps and like all of
the stories and the history and all the things. So
it is so crazy to like think of it that
way where you're like, oh, that question seems silly, but
(11:17):
it really isn't, because you're just learning. You're just trying
to dive deeper, and I think, yeah, I think that's
really really cool.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Well, and even the mature Christians ask a lot of
questions too, Like you just read the Book of Psalms
and you see how many questions staved I was asking,
like and it's just completely normal. And a lot of
the questions like he knew he maybe wasn't going to
get an answer to, but he always turned it into
praise and thanksgiving and yeah, but it's just a normal.
(11:45):
Even the most mature Christians, they always have questions.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Basically, what we're saying is ask questions.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Okay, all of us ask all of the questions, and
I'm going to ask y'all another question as we kind
of dive deeper. You guys, when you guys met, I
know that I know a little bit of your story.
You guys got married. I think it was like nine
ish months after you met, right, Okay, take us through
that story, because I feel like this is a good one.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
So I was living, well, I'll back us up even further.
That's okay. Absolutely, I was living in.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Los Angeles trying to pursue my own career, and out
of the blue, I just I started praying and I
was like God, because I was living in a house
with eight girls in Los Angeles and it was They
were all Christian girls and it was fun. It was
like the best time of my life. It was like
a sorority house. But I just knew that my time
in that house was coming to an end.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
And I just.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Started praying and I was like, God, like, where do
you want me? And I felt like he was telling
me that I was going to move soon, but I
didn't know where, but I thought it was still going
to be in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I would have never guessed that he would have said Nashville.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
And I just kept praying and the Lord just revealed
to me Nashville, which was crazy because I didn't know
anyone in Nashville. I had no ties, never wanted to
be here. It never came to visit. This was like
it was the most random thing. But because it was
so random, I just kind of had to follow it.
And I was like, Okay, God came out here, visited.
Long story short, within two weeks out of obedience, I
(13:04):
just moved. I was out here for about six months
by myself, and honestly, it was like the loneliest time
of my life. But it was just me and my Bible.
I lived out here by myself, I didn't have any friends,
and so it was actually really cool because I felt
like that was the season that the Lord was preparing
me to be a wife. And now I'm going to
pause the story for you to tell how you got here.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And then it was almost the exact same thing. I
was up in North Dakota and I had lived there
my entire life. That's where all my family is, and
I just sort of felt a nudge on my heart
that I was going to be moving, and so I
turned in a notice for my job and just started praying,
and slowly but surely, he revealed that he wanted me
to move to Nashville. And I didn't have any tithes
or anything here either, and I moved here, and then
(13:48):
two weeks later on the dot, I met Courtney.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
It was less than that.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I think it was like a week and a half,
two weeks. It was somewhere in that range, I think. Okay,
but yeah, we met on a dating app and we like.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Immediately hit it off, like we matched. We had a
phone call that lasted about three hours, we met the
next day, we became best friends, and then nine months
later we got marriage. Yes, but it was just so
crazy because the Lord was in it. Like I truly,
if I wouldn't have had those six months of just
honestly just literally just time with me, the Lord the Bible,
(14:23):
I don't know if I would have even been someone
that Alex was looking for.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
So it was really cool. It was a cool season
to look back on.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You did the thirty Day Bible Shred in that period that.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Did I stopped my job and I just read the
Bible in thirty days. It's it's a it's like a
program that the thirty Day Bible Shred, and it was.
It was, but man, I was on a spiritual high.
Like even when I met him, I was on such
a spiritual high because I had read through the entire
Bible and I kept telling him.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I was like, I was like, this is just the
season that I'm in.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I promise, like I'm not I'm not a preacher, I
am not. Like it was just, yeah, it was the
coolest time.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Isn't it funny how your spirit is? So it's like
a little different because I remember when I first met
my husband, he was like, you were like the most joyful,
positive human being and he was like, sometimes I wish
you would go back to her every once in a while,
and he's like, you do. But it's just like he
was just like in the moment and the season that
you were in with the Lord, you were just like
he was just like I would say a cussword and
(15:24):
you would just like flag me and be like, we
don't talk like that in this household. And he was
just like, it's so funny, how like you you like
ebb and flow in your your walk basically, and how
it affects your mood and who you are and how you.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Speak and how you carry yourself.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
So yeah, that thirty day Bible shride, girl, You're probably like, yeah,
oh I was.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And that's why I kept warning him.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I was like, I was like, I'm not always like this,
but it was just honestly, sometimes I wish I could
quit my job and do it again, because that feeling
of being so close to God was truly like a
spiritual high. Like I wish I could experience that all
the time because the more time you spend with him,
it's like I don't even know how to describe the feeling.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
You're equipped for literally everything.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It was amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I had like a huge prayer wall and all this stuff,
like I could quote you stories like if we were talking,
I'd be like, oh, that reminds me of blankling line
because I'd read it this month and now I don't
think I could do that as well. But yeah, it
was just yeah, we just becing best friends and you know,
when you know, you know.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
I was just gonna say, was it that moment where
you're like, yes, I know, or was there ever like
a little like ounce of doubt You're like, is this
just am I just is it honeymoon phase?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You know?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I feel like people that's just like a thing.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
People are like, I don't know, that's too soon, But
you're like, for my husband and I were saying like
when you know, you know, that was for us and
like that's what worked for us.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
But a lot of people are like, well, you got
to test the waters and you got to do this
and what.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
But did you guys ever feel that, like I don't know,
maybe pressure or like, did you ever have like an
ounce of doubt where you're like, I don't know if
this is it?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I think we had a little bit of everything, right, Like,
I think we had some of those moments where it
was like, oh, yeah, this is definitely the one. But
other moments were it's like, ah, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, we ended up.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
We broke up for about like four days or something
like that, mostly because I didn't realize that love was
a choice. That was something I had to learn, and
so I thought when you met your person that like
angels were gonna say, and it was I thought, because
I kept praying and I was like, God, like, make
it so clear if he's my soulmate, because at that
time I believed in soulmates and I was like, God,
(17:25):
make it so clear. And I actually broke up with
him because I was like, I have not like the
Lord hasn't shined a light on you.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
No angels have sung, and I feel I just thought
that's how it was supposed to go.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And when we broke up, I kept praying and praying
and praying, and the Lord just revealed to me that
love is a choice and he does have flaws.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I have flaws, and I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
In learning that, I had to realize, like, am I
going to choose him and to love him no matter what?
And obviously I said yeah, So I was like absolutely,
but yeah, I just had to learn that. And that's
something that a lot of people I think they I
didn't want to wake up one day and be like,
oh my goodness, what if I heard wrong. It's like
(18:10):
no knowing that I went into this marriage and actively
was choosing him no matter what. I feel like that
is probably like the foundation that gives us, like a
healthy foundation.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, and that and then obviously you have scripture to
lean back on as as far as like what does
a godly spouse? What is that supposed to look like?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
And I did a lot of that, Like I wrote
down and I was like, man, that makes me sound
like the crazy person.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
It sure doesn't.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
But I started writing down.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I was like okay, because I was praying and I
felt like the Lord said, honey, I wrote you a book,
open it. And I was like okay, So I started,
I open up the Bible and I started writing down
what is a godly husband? And truly it was Alex Alex, Alex, Alex,
Alex Alex, like all of the characteristics you had. And
that's when I was like, okay, God, I hear you.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I just want to pinpoint what you said because I
think it's so it's just such a profound statement that
a lot of people don't understand because I feel like
in today's day and age, it's just like.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
We fill out of the honeymoon phase.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
We don't love each other like we used to, so
we're just separating or we're divorcing or whatever. No, love
is a choice every single day, through the hard, through
the crazy days that you don't like each other, you
still choose to love.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Them through it.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
And I think that that is so profound that you
said that, because it's so true, like the Lord straight
up tells us that it is a choice to love,
and like our duty as Christians is to love God
and love people, and it's just like, you know, we
have that choice to love people, and like there's so
much hate that gets thrown around, and it's just I
think it was just such a beautiful thing that like
(19:41):
really stuck out when you said that, because love really
is a choice every single day.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Marriage isn't perfect. Marriage makes your relationship, yeah, man.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And that's why I think you're always supposed to go
back to scripture, right, And it's like, well, if you
really think about it, like Jesus still loves us no
matter how crazy a emotional and just how far off
we get. I think recently our pastor he said something
that was funny but it was so true, and he
was talking about marriage and he was like, oh no,
(20:11):
but you don't understand my wife. She's crazy. He's like,
well so are you. He's like, and Jesus still loves you,
so you're still called to lover even if she is.
And it doesn't matter. And you're not crazy, not at all.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
But we're all a little crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I'm crazy.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Yeah, Well, let's go into some of those moments where
maybe you're not on the same page, you can't get
through things. What are some of the tools that you
guys use as a couple to kind of get through
those hard moments.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Oh, I'm going to give you a praise for a minute.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Because anytime we go through like a hard time or
we're in an argument.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
He will like he will pause.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Actually, sometimes it drives me crazy because I'm like, I'm
like ready to battle it right now. He's like, I
need to step away for a minute. He's like, I
need to go into a room. I need to think
about it, I need to pray, I need to go
have my Bible time. And he will not like when
I'm all fired up, like he will not have that
conversation right there.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And that's honestly.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
One thing that I absolutely love about him is, yeah,
you don't like fire me up.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You're like, no, no, You're like, I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Gonna I'm a peace keeper. I like peace. But one
thing that she also does is like she is so
quick to apologize too, where sometimes I can I can
take take me a little bit longer. But but that's
the thing, is like we all have our strengths and
our weaknesses, and so you know, you just sort of
lean on each other. And at the end of the day,
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if if we're not right between us, there's probably a
good chance there's something not right between either myself and
the Lord or her and the Lord. And so just
just making sure that we're staying connected to the true
source of peace and love and you know, all the
good mushy gushie words and stuff.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
And I got to point that out too, because this
is so true, like this connection is off when this
connection is off.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
So that was such a good thing because it's so.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
True when you're when one person is like not yoked right,
like where you're just like, okay, I've fallen to the wayside.
There's always some sort of friction and it's such a
tangible feeling because in our marriage the same Like if
my husband has a wild travel work week and he's
you know, just been distracted, and then he comes home
and I'm like, something feels off, what's going on? But
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then it's just like a moment of like Bible study
or prayer or church like something just kind of anchors
you back in.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
It really helps.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, it helps, honest. Now that I've gotten a consistent
Bible reading time in the mornings, oh man, when I
miss it, like and I just like maybe sleep in
or something, I am really quick to just like, you know,
just just be angry or snap or whatever the case
may be. Like I notice it a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, especially when we were in the newborn stage, like
we couldn't find time, Like I don't know if you
experienced a girl, it's very.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Hard to find time to like spend in the word.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
And like that's when, yeah, you just get a little impatient.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And I always used like during that stage, I used
being tired as my excuse for being maybe a little
bit more impatient or not as kind. But in reality,
after about a month, I was like, you know what,
and on think it has anything to do with me
being tired and has everything to do with I just
haven't been spending as much time with the Lord.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
And isn't it wild too?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Like yeah, coffee, caffeine will hook it'll it'll hype you
up a little bit. But like when you are like
spiritually fired up, there's nothing like that energy. You're just like, Okay,
throw something else at me, and you're like, nope, I'm
a positive patty.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Today, Like how did I go through this?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I'm not getting mad in traffic, I'm not hounking my
horn at anybody, like we're good, Like oh.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
It's like okay, you can go through. Yeah, you can
get in front of me. But then when you're in
those other moments, you're like, no, you're not cutting me off,
you know what I mean? It's dude, it sure does. Girl.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Man, I'm interested to know about you guys in like
the Creator space, and I know that the world is
judgmental when it comes to they think that like a
Christian family has everything all together and it's sunshine and
rainbows and this and that, and like you guys bring
a lot of humor and like a lot of joy
in your content for everybody to see. But when it
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comes to like sharing your faith through your content or
like just even openly with you know, followers, do you
ever have moments or have you ever had moments where
you're like, is this the right route for us? Should
we be sharing this much? Or should we share more?
Like what is that conversation between you guys? Because I
know it can be a like wild space sometimes.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
What's wild about it is in the beginning, we didn't
because we don't feel called to make specifically Christian content,
or at least in this season. And what's wild is
we were just making clean, funny couple content or family content,
and through the videos, people knew that we were Christians.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Like that's what was so wild.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
As we were reading the comments and people were commenting
being like, oh, like thank you for I don't know,
just it was just wow that we didn't specifically come
out and say we are Christians, we are this.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
They saw it through our.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Content, and I don't know, like the there's so much
like raunchy stuff on the internet or so much dark
stuff on the Internet that we just we're like, we're
just gonna make it clean and we're just gonna try
to make.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
People to day a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
So it wasn't even like specifically Christian.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah, but it is. Also it's sort of weird. There's
like different pressures and stuff where even once we did
start to post a little bit more Christian content, and
again we don't I wouldn't say we post a lot,
maybe a little bit more on our personal instagrams and stuff.
But when we do share, like for instance, when I
shared my testimony on YouTube, then we get a lot
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more comments like, oh, you should be doing this all
the time, like why aren't you using your platform? Think
of how many people you could reach. I'm like, we're
trying to be obedient to what the Lord's calling us
to right now. Now again like who knows what the
next season of our life is going to look like.
But also think of how many people maybe watch that
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video that normally would never subscribe to a strictly Christian page.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Hopefully again they what Courtney was saying, They see that
there's something different on our page where it's clean and
hopefully uplifting and show is a good example of a
Christian marriage. But I just think there were so many
more people that came across that video because we aren't
just making strictly Christian content.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
And I think that's so important too, to like look
at it from that perspective, because truly, like having millions
of followers that maybe some of those people would never have,
like you said, clicked on a video where you know,
somebody that they followed forever, they're like, man, I really
love Alex, like he's really cool, Like I want to
see what he's talking about today, And they click on
your video. They don't know the Lord, they don't know
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anything about Jesus, and they hear you speak about him,
They're like, wait a s I have this friendship with
this guy that I've been following, so maybe you know,
and then the lean in happens, And I think that's
what's so cool. There's so many negative, weird things that
happen on the Internet, but there's also this side of
just like so much encouragement and like stories like this
that give me so much hope because truly, like it
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is like you're you've been given this platform for a reason,
and if it was just for that one video and
it was just for those you know, ten people or whoever,
like that's who it was for, and I think that's
so special.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah, absolutely, and that's something that it's just easy to
take those things for granted too. And yeah, I mean,
we're happy with what we're doing right now in this season,
but just like who knows, we're trying our best to
be obedient to what he's calling us to. And I
think right now, that's that's sort of what it is.
Maybe there's just one or two people out there that
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later down the line, Courtney shares just a quick Instagram
story or something of I don't know, it could be anything,
and then all of a sudden they're like, huh, asked,
start asking questions or even.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Our marriage, Like there's a lot of people who watch
our marriage and they're like, you know, we don't know
what their background is. We don't know if they came from,
you know, a separated family or anything that, but they're like, oh,
like we want what you guys have, and I don't know.
Just again, just seeing it gives them trying to think
of like the words of what I'm trying to say,
but it shows them that a godly marriage like this exists.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Yeah. No, that's so true because there are so many
people that go through terrible relationships and are broken and
they're like, yeah, I could never have that, and it's
just like, no, it's attainable. It's there, it's out there,
and like, what a cool platform to have to be
able to encourage people to say no, like this is
this is real, this exists and you can have it too.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Yeah, I love that perspective because there are so many
stories out there that people don't tell. And even if
it is just a silly video about you know whatever
it is that day like that, just it brings so
much he's enjoyed to people. And that right there, it's
not just a silly, hilarious video. It's the love of Jesus.
Like you guys are spreading that through that, even if
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you're not out here being like, yes, we love Jesus.
This is it, you know what I mean, not like
what people would call like shoving it down your throat.
You're just being a light in the world. And that's
part of our mission too, right, Like we want to
be a light in the world to other people.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
So I'm just sorry, I'm encouraging you.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Guys, And that's put when it comes to Obviously we
talked about marriage a little bit, but now being parents
on top of that, I feel like brings in this
whole new like just responsibility as a Christian and uh,
just teaching your kids about Jesus and things like that.
How has your guys' relationship kind of like shifted when
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it comes to your mission as husband and wife? But
now as mom and dad.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I would say one thing that it convicted me recently
now that so our daughter's nine months old and she's
just recently started, you know, crawling around. She's getting close
to standing up and walking now, but now she's starting
to copy some of the things that we're doing. Oh yeah,
And so instantly my thought process went to, oh man,
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is there anything that I'm doing that I don't want
her to copy? And so instantly I just go and
go through all these different things in my brain, like, oh,
am I always patient? Am I always kind in my words?
And even am I waking up at the time that
I should and be? And am I spending time with
the Lord in the morning where hopefully you know, my daughter,
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my other future kids like they would see that, And yeah,
I think that's just something for me that I'm just like,
oh man, I don't want to wait until that next
season to really pursue holiness and righteousness to the best
of my abilities.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I guess I always like our pastor actually mentioned this
on Sunday, But we're called to make disciples, and it's
so cool because I don't always feel like I am
the best at going out and sharing the Gospel, and
I know we are supposed to. I'm just saying that's
something I don't always feel the strongest in. Like I
don't typically go to a coffee shop and sit down
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to someone and be like, do you believe.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Jesus Christ can't pry for you right now?
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
But how beautiful is it that we get to physically,
as women make disciples and they are watching our behavior,
and they're watching how we treat our husbands, and they're
watching us how we treat other people and how much
we spend time in the Word, And I think that
is so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Just I'm like, I'm literally making a disciple.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Well, and just like growing a human too. It's just
like the coolest experience like I wish guys could experience,
because it truly is one of those gifts where you're
just like like, I how did that just happen inside
of my body? But it's such a tangible thing where
you're like, yeah, I'm literally making a disciple.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
And the copying thing. My youngest is one and I
have a four year old, So the four year old is.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Very copying words and copying mannerisms and gestures or like
even things like my husband puts his shoes at a
certain spot in our house that's just like where they
come off, right, And so she's like, well, daddy puts
his there, and I'm like, no, your's.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Go in the bin. And it's just like little little
things and she's just like, well, why does he get
to do that? And I'm like, good question, Why does that?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
You know?
Speaker 5 (32:22):
And it's just like the words and like the copying.
And I will say, like being a parent, there's nothing
that will convict you like a child. Like they will
say something and you're like, I forget how. One of
my girlfriends explained it to me this way. She was
just like, when you say a cussword, you don't think
anything of it, but when you hear a kid say
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a cussword, you're like, oh, don't say that, that's a
bad word. And she goes, think about what God thinks
when you say that, because you're his kid, And I'm like,
I like hit me in my soul, and I'm like,
you're right, Like you are absolutely right. And it's like
that perspective shift of like how we look at our
kids and how we look how precious and just like
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perfect they are. That's how the Lord looks at us
every single day. And it's just such a great reminder
of like, yeah, that's that's how the love is. Like,
that's how much he loves us. It is like he
doesn't want filthy things coming out of our mouth. He
doesn't want us to copy you know, bad habits or whatever.
He wants us to to live pure and live clean,
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you know, and live like on mission.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
So man, I'm being convicted right now. I need to
go home and.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
You just start after Well.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
We just started chore charts in our house.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
So yeah, she's like, oh okay, I have to clean
up my this after she's just like, Mommy, what about yours?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Like I know it's sister up, clean up by clothes to.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Man, have you guys ever have maybe like a moment
in your life that you could invite us into. It
could be together, it could be individually where you were
just like it was one of those moments where nothing
could get you out, but God, like you were just
like in a moment where you're just like this is
hard and I need I need someone else to save
me because this is it like this is it's just
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it's just too difficult for me to handle on my own.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I was giving you the O it's okay.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
I immediately thought of something and it really does come
down to like my testimony, and it's like in college,
it's like it's so crazy, I like built my whole
identity this is BC before Christ. Yeah, but it's like
I had built my whole identity on just the worldly things.
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Like I was like, I need to have the perfect
resume and the perfect friends, and I need to have
so many friends that I need to have the perfect
boyfriend and the perfect job and interview and or internship
and all this stuff. And it's crazy how that is
such a rocky or I should say, sand I don't know.
It's a terrible foundation to build your life on. And
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a couple of things just happened and it's all of
it disappeared all at just once, like it literally like
all of it just crumbled, and I truly like felt
so alone. So because my entire identity had just collapsed
underneath my feet, and that it's so cool because that's
where the Lord met me. Like I was so alone,
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and that's why I keep saying, like the Lord brought
me this friend and he it's like the Lord used
him and like worked through him to invite me to church.
And it's like I would never have been able to
get through that whole situation if it wasn't for going
to church and like learning who Jesus was, because it
was almost I could do over. Because some people could
look at that and be like, oh my goodness, that
was the worst thing in the world. Your life just collapsed.
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But it's like I look at it as how beautiful
is it that the Lord. I mean, it was a
terrible foundation, so it crumbled, and the Lord was like,
let's build that back up, but like on a rock,
on like my cornerstone, you know. Yeah, And so I
always think of that whenever to to your question, I'm
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just like, that was one of the hardest times of
my life, but also the most beautiful because I got
a do over, and that's literally Jesus.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Yeah, it's crazy that you're sharing this story because I
recently had a conversation with somebody else about it too.
Where I lived out in La God told me to
get out and I had to do the same thing
where I just had to leave and I quit my job,
I left everything that I knew there, and like I
was only there for I think like threeish years. But
it was kind of like one of those things too
where the Lord was like leaf straight up, just like
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it was like audible, like that was not me, who
has like leave and I was just like no, like
and then you know, like week goes by and like
you're just you're just wrecked. You're like, okay, I'll leave,
and it's just like looking back at that life, like
that job that I had there, they completely like shut
down that part of the company like four years after
I left, and I'm like what a safe that? Like
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God was just like you don't need to be there
when that happen, let me put you over here instead.
But yeah, it's one of those things where it's such
a hard thing in the moment, but then when you
can look back at different parts of your life and
you're like, I never would have been here if God
didn't slam this door shut and fling this one open,
and like, yeah, was it hard?
Speaker 4 (37:18):
And difficult.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
And did I walk through a door that I probably
shouldn't have along the way? Yes, but then he slammed
that one and then open the next one, you know
what I mean. And he's constantly seeking us, like I
think that's one of the coolest things about God is
He's constantly trying to meet you where you're at, no matter.
You could take sixteen wrong turns and then take one
right turn and he's just like, cool, I'm still here.
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You take sixteen more wrong turns and he's just like, cool,
I'm still here. And I think that that pursuit. He's
always pursuing us. And I don't know, maybe somebody is
watching or listening that needed to hear that, but there's
literally nothing you can do that God is not going
to pursue you. He wants to be in a relationship
with you, and he wants to be He wants you
to love him, you know. Anyway, that was my tangent.
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Is your turn to talk now?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
No, that's great because as I was just thinking, honestly,
when you're talking about just being pursued by by Jesus
and stuff. I struggled with pornography for a good portion
of my young adults, high school, college age, and I
think that, you know, it used to bring me a
lot of shame because I was kind of known as
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one of the Christian kids in high school and in college,
and so there was just like a lot of shame
in like, oh Lord, I'm letting you down right now,
Like how could you ever love somebody like me? I'm
so far off and just constantly feeling convicted but never
really being able to break those chains, And so yeah,
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I wasn't. It took a lot of that's the right
way to put it. It wasn't effort, but it was
more of just being being surrendered and not trying to
focus on the problem but focus on the solution, and
just pursuing Jesus back right where when you draw near
to him, he promises to draw near to us. And
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so just through just a constant state of surrendering getting
back into my word consistently. And one of the biggest
things for me, honestly was just Christian community. That was
one of the biggest reasons why I moved to Nashville.
I had great friends in North Dakota, but great friends
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doesn't also mean that they're great influences. I absolutely love
love those people to death. But yeah, when you're surrounded
by other people that aren't pursuing the Lord, it's I
think we all believe the lie that if we're put
in a room with four other people that maybe aren't
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following the Lord, that like we can be the positive
influence and bring them up. But realtically you're going to
be brought down. Yeah, and so why we are called
to to reach those people and hang out with those
people and be a light to them. They shouldn't be
your closest friends that you spend the most time with,
because you're going to start to look more and more
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like them as time goes. And so yeah, moving down
to Nashville, I knew it's like I didn't know anybody,
so I get to choose all of my friends.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Yeah, that's so true. That's so true.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
And I'm only going to be friends with the people
that are running after God and so just through stuff
like that. Yeah, it's I can't even remember how long
it's been since I've looked at pornography, but it's been
a long long time. It's been at least four or
five years.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Oh God, I was gonna say, I even like it's
crazy it's like I grew up so sheltered and I
did not realize how big of a thing that is. Yeah,
like it's I think I heard a statistic this morning
because I was listening to a sermon that eighty percent
of men struggle with that, Like that just blows my mind.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Well, and it's it is, it's one of the things,
like you said, like the first thing that people think
of is like it's shameful, like they don't want to
talk about it, you know, And it's but it is
something that people struggle with on the daily. And I
think it's so just it's so brave of you to
even want to say the words out loud, because it's
just one of those things that that other guys need
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to hear women too, Like it is a struggle that
people deal with and honestly, like and some people will
listen to this and they'll be like, that's it's not
that big of a deal, like pornography is not a
big deal. But it's just like if you're in a marriage,
this is who you need to look at, right Like,
this is this is who you don't need to look
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at other people, other whoever else, And it's just like
it's such a big and important issue. And I think
Forrest Frank even had recently, I've watched a conversation of
him talk about his struggle and that was one of
his major things. And I'm like, this man has had
this huge platform and he's talking about this and people
are like, wow, me too, you know what I mean?
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And it just one person to say something and be like,
I'm not alone. And that's so huge because there's probably
a guy watching this right now. That's just like I
had no idea like that that I was. I'm not alone,
I'm not broken, and it's just like truly, like you're not.
God is going to pursue you, and he's going to
slam a door shut, he's gonna move you to Nashville,
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and he's gonna say, let's try this again.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Okay for sure?
Speaker 5 (42:24):
And how cool is it too that you get to
have those relationships where or have the mindset where, No,
my friends back home aren't broken and they're good people,
but like, I just need Godly wisdom around me. I
just need people who are pursuing the Lord like me.
Like I'm going through a pruning season right now with
some of my friends and I hate it because it's
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uncomfortable because you're like, I just love these people and
I don't want them to get their feelings hurt.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
But God's like.
Speaker 5 (42:53):
They can hitch to the back of your trailer and
come with you, or they can fall off because we're
going this way and like they're coming with you, or
they're not coming at all, And it's just like, yeah,
I want I want more of the Kingdom. I want
to lean in, I want more of Jesus. I don't
want to stay here, right, So it's just like that
season of Prune is like, oh, it's so uncomfortable, but
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it's it's necessary.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
Sometimes.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I took probably the more comfortable route of the pruning
and just moved. Yeah, that's a lot easier than constantly,
you know, being in the same city or being around
those friends that you kind of have to slowly create
some space or however you want to do it. But yeah,
it even goes back to that scripture of being equally
yoked and just I don't think it was too long
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ago that I was reading a commentary and just about
what that actually means and how I forgot if it
was donkeys or something. Right, they put like a plow
or something behind them, and if one is going faster
than the other, you're just going to end up going
in circles. And so it's the same thing with your
your friendships. If if you're not going in the same direction,
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I mean, you're you're just gonna keep on turning around,
you're doing doing one eighties. You're just gonna be in
all the wrong places.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
And it's just like so funny, how like being in
a marriage, Like your my husband will check me.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
He'll be like, you've had.
Speaker 5 (44:13):
This conversation sixteen times with the same person, Like are
you gonna have it again?
Speaker 4 (44:18):
And you know, and it's just like, I like your husband, Yeah,
he will, he will.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
He'll say hard things. And I think that's important in
a marriage too, where it's just like you can call
each other out on things where it's just like, honey,
you've been complaining about the same thing for months, why
don't we do something about it. Why don't you just
cut it loose or maybe just give some distance, or
just maybe stop trying so hard. You know, you can
love them like you you putting distance isn't not loving them.
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That's you protecting your piece and who you are and
what you're called to do. So, man, that's a word
for somebody listening. Somebody like that friendship or this is
good in that relationship. Man, Well, I want to wrap
up with you guys. I'm just curious to know, is
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there a way that are things that you're believing for
or things that we could pray for you specifically over
in this next season?
Speaker 4 (45:12):
Like what are you guys? What's going on in your lives?
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Honestly, we've talked about this plenty, but we feel like
we're really in a season season of blessings right now.
And so so with that, I think I think one
of the ways that the enemy attacks is he tries
to keep you in those middle seasons where there's there's
not blessings and you're not going through hardships, because that's
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usually when you're either giving thanks to the Lord and
you're really grateful or you're just clinging on to them
because that's all you've got. And so we've just feeled
extremely blessed lately, and so I think one thing is
just as maybe this season of blessings maybe goes away
or maybe it stays, but just that we cling to
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the Lord, and I like where things are headed in
our life right now, and I don't know, just that
we continue to grow in our faith and our walk
with the Lord.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
Yeah, and then I mean, I always pray that everyone
in our family is just healthy, like we take our
health for granted so much, and now being a mom,
it's like, I'm constantly praying that all of us are
cancer free, illness free, and that we just live long.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Healthy lives.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
As silly as that is, I just pray that over ourselves,
over everyone in our family, because at any moment, like
you could just like up you up stage four, like whatever,
and it could happen that fast. And so I'm constantly
just praying for that.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
That's such a beautiful question. Thank you for asking us.
Speaker 5 (46:43):
Of course, I feel like it's you know, we we
have a platform. We might as well all just you know,
be together and stand in agreement with each other. And
I want to speak to what you were saying about
the blessing season because my husband and I we've been
in this similar season of just feeling like God is
just saying yes, you know what I mean, it's just
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like a blessing after blessing after blessing, things are easy.
We're just like the challenges that we face feel so
much smaller because it's just been such a good season
and we keep saying this year. Funny that we keep
saying it this year. We're like, when things get hard,
I want to remember twenty twenty five, Like twenty twenty
five is what I want to remember, because the Yes
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season will come again. But then one of my best
friends she checked me, and she was just like, who
says that you can't be in a Yes season for
a lengthy period of time? And I was just like,
you're right. She was just like, don't have the mindset
of like it's about to get bad because it's been
so good. She was just like, lean into the yes,
allow God to bless you and like let him and
just just find the joy in it and like keep
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leaning into it because like the Yes season, this blessing
season for you guys, it could be ten years long,
you know what I mean? Like you just never know.
But I think that as a as a believer, sometimes
you're like, Okay, we've we've been having.
Speaker 4 (47:57):
A really good season. It's about to get hard.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
What's coming?
Speaker 5 (48:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Right?
Speaker 5 (48:01):
But yeah, no, lean into the es, like, lean into
this season because it's so I think, Yeah, that mindset
is so easy to get into where.
Speaker 4 (48:08):
You're like, Okay, let's just pray that it stays a
little bit. Yeah, but yeah, lean into that.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
Yeah, don't want to take it for granted.
Speaker 5 (48:14):
Yeah, Okay, Well, I'm gonna pray for us and then
we'll let you guys get going. Dear Heavenly Father, Lord,
just thank you for uh just thank you for social
media and bringing people together. We're just so grateful for
microphones to talk about you and to spread your love.
And God, I just pray over Courtney and Alex and
their family, and I just pray that this season of blessing, Lord,
that you would just allow them to just have joy
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through it, that they would enjoy it, that you would
continue to bless them. God, that you would just allow
them to just sit in it, Lord, and enjoy the
moment and just completely just completely let you take the
reins and continue to take the rain's Lord, and that
they would not be fearful of a bad season. Lord,
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that they would just sit in this joyful season and
just love and love and love through it.
Speaker 4 (49:02):
Lord.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
And we just asked that you would just give them
peace in their minds about health. Lord, that you would
just keep their family healthy, that their bodies would stay healthy,
that their bodies would line up with your word, that
they would be whole and healed, and that they would
be healthy. God, and that you would just take away
any fear or any anxious thoughts about health. Lord, that
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you would just give them peace in that Lord, and
that you would just you would just continue to work
through Courtney and Alex and their family, that you would
just continue to bless them. That you would just watch
over their sweet baby as she grows up, Lord, and
as she begins to take her first steps. Lord, we
just pray that she takes those steps towards You. And God,
we just thank you for the gift of life, and
we thank you for the gift of just reaching so
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many millions of people on social media. That you would
continue to use Courtney and Alex to leave the ninety
nine and reach the one, Lord, that you would continue
to help them reach that one. And we just are
grateful for your presence and are grateful for you your
holy spirit here today, and we just say thank you
for it, and thank you for the blessings that you're
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going to.
Speaker 4 (50:06):
Continue to pour out. And we just say in your
holy name, you pray.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Hey, thank you so much for having us.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Thanks guys fun I know,
Hey guys, it's Courtney and alex Quist.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
So much like.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Raunchy stuff on the internet or so much dork stuff
on the internet.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
There's like different pressures and stuff. Think of how many
people you could reach. I'm like, we're trying to be
obedient to what the Lord's calling us to right now.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I would never have been able to get through that
whole situation if it wasn't for going to church and
like learning who Jesus was, because it was almost like
a do over. There's no question that you can ask
that he's afraid of.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And this is the.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Upload of super Fun. Oh Fu tou Fun. Don't bother
me because I've been alone to somebody.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Okay, let's just start the podcast right there, all right,
Cordion alex Quist, welcome to the upload.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Okay, So we have never met before, but I know
your life because of online okay, And I feel like
a lot of people are like that where you know
they know you as the Quist family. They have kind
of followed your marriage and now your parent journey and
all the things. So before we start, I know, you know,
when it comes to being on camera, you're you guys
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are authentic to who you are. But I want to
talk about like kind of like what goes on like
off camera, and first just how you guys describe the
word faith and what the word faith means to you guys.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
I'll let you say, Alex, Yeah, I mean, obviously, one
of the reasons I'm assuming you asked us to come
on this is because we do have that that same,
that similar faith in Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And yeah, it's just believing that there's something bigger than ourselves,
right that that that we were created in God's image,
and there's a lot of things that are unseen that
that we have to believe in. But at the same time,
there's so much evidence of a God that created us
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and created everything, and so that that faith comes from,
you know, reading, reading the Word and learning more about
the God that created us. And I think the more
that you learn about him, the easier it is to
have faith in him totally.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
And faith is one of those things that I feel
like not a lot of people understand until you get
it right, until you kind of lean in and develop
your own relationship with God and things. So for you
guys specifically, as like a unit, I know that faith
when you're you know, single and dating, it means something
completely different to then when you're married and then now
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when you're parents. Has that definition of faith Do you
think that that's kind of like maybe changed a little
bit over time, or has that kind of steadfast for
you guys?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I wouldn't say it's changed. I don't know, what do
you think.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I mean, our core beliefs in what we believe in
that that stays the same. But I mean it's it
definitely requires more, I sue it once we became parents,
It requires more time and intentionality to grow in our faith.
But I guess I don't know if maybe just like
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how we view faith necessarily as changed, it is definitely
a lot easier to see God as the perfect father
that he is once you have a kid, because then
all of a sudden you realize, oh, there is literally
nothing our little baby girl could ever do to make
us not absolutely cherish her.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Isn't it crazy how your perspective as a parent shifts.
You're like, wait, he loves me more than that?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Like I can't.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I could not love my kids more than I love
my kids, But like the Lord loves me more than that.
That is such a wild thing to wrap your mind around,
and there's.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So many little metaphors that I now understand. Like our
daughter loves outlets right now, and like she'll like try
to put her finger in an outlet and I have
to obviously stop her, and she cries because.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
She's like, but I want it so bad, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Like, honey, you will get electrocuted. And it's like how
many how many things do we want so badly? And
we're like God, like we want this, we want this,
and he takes it away from us and he's like,
you didn't see what I saw, Like you didn't know
what I saw. And so that's probably my favorite part
of being a parent is because there's so many little
things that I'm now seeing and I'm like, I get
it now.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Those aha moments you're like, wow, man, so good. I
want to go back to before the Quist family though.
I want to talk about you guys kind of as believers.
Have you guys always been believers? Did you grow up
in church?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So I grew up in a Catholic church. Okay, so
I grew up going to church every Sunday. But I
never like, I never made the connection of like who
Jesus was until I actually I had a friend invite
me to a non denominational church, and it's so crazy
because I went to school for social media marketing and
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that first day in a non denominational church, they I
don't know, the whole sermon was about emojis and stuff,
and so it literally spoke my language, and it was
the very first time where I was like, that's who
Jesus is, Like I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And so that was kind of the beginning.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I think that was like my sophomore year of college
where that was the beginning of my journey.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Where you grew up in the church.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, so my mom, she she has her pastor's license,
so she's always worked in our church. She was our
children's pastor for a little while, but she she was
doing more administrative work than anything. But yeah, I definitely
grew up in the church, and I honestly can't really
say when I put my faith in Jesus. I know
that I have, but but I thought it was so
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interesting too because it's just recently Courtney once brought up.
She's like, oh, you should share your testimony on YouTube
one time, and I did, and I think growing up
in that Christian household, you know, you just I don't know,
it's sort of weird when you share your testimony. She's like, oh,
I don't have like some really cool story, Like I
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don't know. And so when I shared that, like I
just couldn't believe how many people reached out and said
that they were encouraged by it and that they could
relate to so many things. But everybody has their their
stories and stuff. But that's what makes a testimony so
beautiful that you know, it's just sharing your faith and
whatever wherever you are, because there are a lot of
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people that grow up in Christian households.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Yeah, and I think it's such a testament to like
just the world we live in. Like you said, social
media is your language, right, Like we compare ourselves to
other people. So it's so easy to say, well, my
story wasn't as hard as so and so who was
dealing with addiction and all these things and had this
radical moment with Jesus. But it's like your story is
still important, Like God gave you that story for a
reason to be able to share it, and now you know,
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like there's so many people that relate to just specifically
what you went through, and then there's going to be
people that relate to saying like I went to a
Catholic church too, and I never understood and then I
had a moment where I was just like, WHOA, Okay,
I understand that now. And it's so funny that you're
talking about that because my mother in law is kind
of similar where she grew up in Catholic church and
we had this crazy conversation the other day where she
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was like asking me questions. She was just like, you know,
I have to say Hail Mary's and I have to
do this, and I have to do all these things,
and there's like this big checklist of things that I
have to accomplish before I can accept the love of
this Lord and Savior. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
that's so not that's not it, Like, he doesn't He's
going to meet you right where you are. He's going
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to be there right in your mess, and he's going
to love you through that mess. You don't have to
get rid of the mess before he's going to love you.
And it's but it is one of those things where
you have to share those stories so that people can,
you know, know that that's you're they're not alone, that
you know other people are going through that similar thing too.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, and it took a long time for me to
like I had to personally dive into the word myself
and ask a ton of questions. And that's one thing
I was super thankful because the Lord brought one of
my really good friends into my life, and I just
he was an open book, like I could ask him anything,
and so I'd ask him a ton of questions. And
I want to make it clear that you can still
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be Catholic.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And be safe.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Totally a thing.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It just for me, I was missing the big picture,
Like I just thought, you check the boxes, you go
to church, you do this, you do this, and that
just wasn't it. And so also just having someone there
like the Lord provided that friend so that I was
able to just ask all these questions. I was like why,
Like if you know, if like Jesus on the Cross
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was the final like that was the victory, It's like,
why do we have to do all of this other stuff?
And it was just so cool to have that safe
person to be able to talk to you about all
of that.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And then even full circle moment, I think it's so
cool that the Lord brought somebody back into our lives
that she went to college with, that that also grew
up Catholic, and you can speak to that, I guess
if you want.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Oh yeah, it's so crazy because I went to college
and I wasn't a Christian, became a Christian in college,
and I was just at church one day and this
girl walks up to me and she goes, we went
to college together.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And I was like, back in Pennsylvania, so okay, this.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Was like six years ago, and she's like, yeah, she
was just like we went to college together. And I
was like, oh, like and it took me a minute
to you know, remember who this person was. But it
was so cool that the Lord brought her back and
we have Yeah, we grew up in the same small town,
and we just went to Starbucks and she just started
asking all these questions and so the same I don't know,
(09:21):
I just felt like that friend that was there for me,
that could ask, you know, could answer all these questions.
I was able to be that person for her, and
I don't know, I think there's something so beautiful when
someone's willing to just ask those questions. And because that's
the same thing with the Lord, like there's no question
that you can ask that he's afraid of, you know,
that's what makes.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Him a dad.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah, one percent.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
And I think that's so important because I feel like
there's going to be a lot of people that watch
this podcast or listen to this podcast that are on
a journey or haven't even started their journey, and they
have questions. But I think one of those misconceptions about
you know, Christianity or just a relationship with God is
that like you just kind of sit and you just
(10:00):
do and you can't ask questions. But questions are such
I feel like, an integral part of your relationship with
God because it's just like we all have questions like,
you know, why did this happen? Or like what is
this about? Or like how does this happen? Why do
you allow this to happen? Those kind of things, and
those are healthy questions, and like you said, there is
not a question that He will not answer or cannot handle.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Actually, I remember my very first Bible. The first time
I read through it. I would write notes in the
side and it's just so funny, like the questions that
I would ask were some of the silliest questions in
the world.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
But I love looking back on them, and I'm like,
that's that's actually beautiful.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Like at one point I thought John the Baptist and
Elijah were the same person, Like it's not, but like
I remember like writing these down or writing like, oh
my gosh, Philip is so cool, like I would like
write these little notes in it, and.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I don't know, I just look back and I'm like,
those are so beautiful.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
No, that was the stage that I was in, and
I don't know now, like being more mature in my faith,
I'm just like I love that.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
And it's like it's even if you just think of
it on like a like a bottom leveling of like
when kids go into school, like you're going into kindergarten,
you're learning to read and write, like you're truly in
the very beginning. You're learning to read and write, like
you're learning all of the steps and like all of
the stories and the history and all the things. So
it is so crazy to like think of it that
way where you're like, oh, that question seems silly, but
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it really isn't, because you're just learning. You're just trying
to dive deeper, and I think, yeah, I think that's
really really cool.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Well, and even the mature Christians ask a lot of
questions too, Like you just read the Book of Psalms
and you see how many questions staved I was asking,
like and it's just completely normal. And a lot of
the questions like he knew he maybe wasn't going to
get an answer to, but he always turned it into
praise and thanksgiving and yeah, but it's just a normal.
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Even the most mature Christians, they always have questions.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Basically, what we're saying is ask questions.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Okay, all of us ask all of the questions, and
I'm going to ask y'all another question as we kind
of dive deeper. You guys, when you guys met, I
know that I know a little bit of your story.
You guys got married. I think it was like nine
ish months after you met, right, Okay, take us through
that story, because I feel like this is a good one.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
So I was living, well, I'll back us up even further.
That's okay. Absolutely, I was living in.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Los Angeles trying to pursue my own career, and out
of the blue, I just I started praying and I
was like God, because I was living in a house
with eight girls in Los Angeles and it was They
were all Christian girls and it was fun. It was
like the best time of my life. It was like
a sorority house. But I just knew that my time
in that house was coming to an end.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
And I just.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Started praying and I was like, God, like, where do
you want me? And I felt like he was telling
me that I was going to move soon, but I
didn't know where, but I thought it was still going
to be in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I would have never guessed that he would have said Nashville.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
And I just kept praying and the Lord just revealed
to me Nashville, which was crazy because I didn't know
anyone in Nashville. I had no ties, never wanted to
be here. It never came to visit. This was like
it was the most random thing. But because it was
so random, I just kind of had to follow it.
And I was like, Okay, God came out here, visited.
Long story short, within two weeks out of obedience, I
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just moved. I was out here for about six months
by myself, and honestly, it was like the loneliest time
of my life. But it was just me and my Bible.
I lived out here by myself, I didn't have any friends,
and so it was actually really cool because I felt
like that was the season that the Lord was preparing
me to be a wife. And now I'm going to
pause the story for you to tell how you got here.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And then it was almost the exact same thing. I
was up in North Dakota and I had lived there
my entire life. That's where all my family is, and
I just sort of felt a nudge on my heart
that I was going to be moving, and so I
turned in a notice for my job and just started praying,
and slowly but surely, he revealed that he wanted me
to move to Nashville. And I didn't have any tithes
or anything here either, and I moved here, and then
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two weeks later on the dot, I met Courtney.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
It was less than that.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I think it was like a week and a half,
two weeks. It was somewhere in that range, I think. Okay,
but yeah, we met on a dating app and we like.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Immediately hit it off, like we matched. We had a
phone call that lasted about three hours, we met the
next day, we became best friends, and then nine months
later we got marriage. Yes, but it was just so
crazy because the Lord was in it. Like I truly,
if I wouldn't have had those six months of just
honestly just literally just time with me, the Lord the Bible,
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I don't know if I would have even been someone
that Alex was looking for.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
So it was really cool. It was a cool season
to look back on.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You did the thirty Day Bible Shred in that period that.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Did I stopped my job and I just read the
Bible in thirty days. It's it's a it's like a
program that the thirty Day Bible Shred, and it was.
It was, but man, I was on a spiritual high.
Like even when I met him, I was on such
a spiritual high because I had read through the entire
Bible and I kept telling him.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I was like, I was like, this is just the
season that I'm in.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I promise, like I'm not I'm not a preacher, I
am not. Like it was just, yeah, it was the
coolest time.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Isn't it funny how your spirit is? So it's like
a little different because I remember when I first met
my husband, he was like, you were like the most joyful,
positive human being and he was like, sometimes I wish
you would go back to her every once in a while,
and he's like, you do. But it's just like he
was just like in the moment and the season that
you were in with the Lord, you were just like
he was just like I would say a cussword and
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you would just like flag me and be like, we
don't talk like that in this household. And he was
just like, it's so funny, how like you you like
ebb and flow in your your walk basically, and how
it affects your mood and who you are and how you.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Speak and how you carry yourself.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
So yeah, that thirty day Bible shride, girl, You're probably like, yeah,
oh I was.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And that's why I kept warning him.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I was like, I was like, I'm not always like this,
but it was just honestly, sometimes I wish I could
quit my job and do it again, because that feeling
of being so close to God was truly like a
spiritual high. Like I wish I could experience that all
the time because the more time you spend with him,
it's like I don't even know how to describe the feeling.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
You're equipped for literally everything.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It was amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I had like a huge prayer wall and all this stuff,
like I could quote you stories like if we were talking,
I'd be like, oh, that reminds me of blankling line
because I'd read it this month and now I don't
think I could do that as well. But yeah, it
was just yeah, we just becing best friends and you know,
when you know, you know.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
I was just gonna say, was it that moment where
you're like, yes, I know, or was there ever like
a little like ounce of doubt You're like, is this
just am I just is it honeymoon phase?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You know?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I feel like people that's just like a thing.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
People are like, I don't know, that's too soon, But
you're like, for my husband and I were saying like
when you know, you know, that was for us and
like that's what worked for us.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
But a lot of people are like, well, you got
to test the waters and you got to do this
and what.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
But did you guys ever feel that, like I don't know,
maybe pressure or like, did you ever have like an
ounce of doubt where you're like, I don't know if
this is it?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I think we had a little bit of everything, right, Like,
I think we had some of those moments where it
was like, oh, yeah, this is definitely the one. But
other moments were it's like, ah, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, we ended up.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
We broke up for about like four days or something
like that, mostly because I didn't realize that love was
a choice. That was something I had to learn, and
so I thought when you met your person that like
angels were gonna say, and it was I thought, because
I kept praying and I was like, God, like, make
it so clear if he's my soulmate, because at that
time I believed in soulmates and I was like, God,
(17:25):
make it so clear. And I actually broke up with
him because I was like, I have not like the
Lord hasn't shined a light on you.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
No angels have sung, and I feel I just thought
that's how it was supposed to go.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And when we broke up, I kept praying and praying
and praying, and the Lord just revealed to me that
love is a choice and he does have flaws.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I have flaws, and I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
In learning that, I had to realize, like, am I
going to choose him and to love him no matter what?
And obviously I said yeah, So I was like absolutely,
but yeah, I just had to learn that. And that's
something that a lot of people I think they I
didn't want to wake up one day and be like,
oh my goodness, what if I heard wrong. It's like
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no knowing that I went into this marriage and actively
was choosing him no matter what. I feel like that
is probably like the foundation that gives us, like a
healthy foundation.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, and that and then obviously you have scripture to
lean back on as as far as like what does
a godly spouse? What is that supposed to look like?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
And I did a lot of that, Like I wrote
down and I was like, man, that makes me sound
like the crazy person.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
It sure doesn't.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
But I started writing down.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I was like okay, because I was praying and I
felt like the Lord said, honey, I wrote you a book,
open it. And I was like okay, So I started,
I open up the Bible and I started writing down
what is a godly husband? And truly it was Alex Alex, Alex, Alex,
Alex Alex, like all of the characteristics you had. And
that's when I was like, okay, God, I hear you.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I just want to pinpoint what you said because I
think it's so it's just such a profound statement that
a lot of people don't understand because I feel like
in today's day and age, it's just like.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
We fill out of the honeymoon phase.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
We don't love each other like we used to, so
we're just separating or we're divorcing or whatever. No, love
is a choice every single day, through the hard, through
the crazy days that you don't like each other, you
still choose to love.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Them through it.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
And I think that that is so profound that you
said that, because it's so true, like the Lord straight
up tells us that it is a choice to love,
and like our duty as Christians is to love God
and love people, and it's just like, you know, we
have that choice to love people, and like there's so
much hate that gets thrown around, and it's just I
think it was just such a beautiful thing that like
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really stuck out when you said that, because love really
is a choice every single day.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Marriage isn't perfect. Marriage makes your relationship, yeah, man.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And that's why I think you're always supposed to go
back to scripture, right, And it's like, well, if you
really think about it, like Jesus still loves us no
matter how crazy a emotional and just how far off
we get. I think recently our pastor he said something
that was funny but it was so true, and he
was talking about marriage and he was like, oh no,
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but you don't understand my wife. She's crazy. He's like,
well so are you. He's like, and Jesus still loves you,
so you're still called to lover even if she is.
And it doesn't matter. And you're not crazy, not at all.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
But we're all a little crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I'm crazy.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Yeah, Well, let's go into some of those moments where
maybe you're not on the same page, you can't get
through things. What are some of the tools that you
guys use as a couple to kind of get through
those hard moments.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Oh, I'm going to give you a praise for a minute.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Because anytime we go through like a hard time or
we're in an argument.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
He will like he will pause.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Actually, sometimes it drives me crazy because I'm like, I'm
like ready to battle it right now. He's like, I
need to step away for a minute. He's like, I
need to go into a room. I need to think
about it, I need to pray, I need to go
have my Bible time. And he will not like when
I'm all fired up, like he will not have that
conversation right there.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And that's honestly.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
One thing that I absolutely love about him is, yeah,
you don't like fire me up.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You're like, no, no, You're like, I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Gonna I'm a peace keeper. I like peace. But one
thing that she also does is like she is so
quick to apologize too, where sometimes I can I can
take take me a little bit longer. But but that's
the thing, is like we all have our strengths and
our weaknesses, and so you know, you just sort of
lean on each other. And at the end of the day,
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if if we're not right between us, there's probably a
good chance there's something not right between either myself and
the Lord or her and the Lord. And so just
just making sure that we're staying connected to the true
source of peace and love and you know, all the
good mushy gushie words and stuff.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
And I got to point that out too, because this
is so true, like this connection is off when this
connection is off.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
So that was such a good thing because it's so.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
True when you're when one person is like not yoked right,
like where you're just like, okay, I've fallen to the wayside.
There's always some sort of friction and it's such a
tangible feeling because in our marriage the same Like if
my husband has a wild travel work week and he's
you know, just been distracted, and then he comes home
and I'm like, something feels off, what's going on? But
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then it's just like a moment of like Bible study
or prayer or church like something just kind of anchors
you back in.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
It really helps.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, it helps, honest. Now that I've gotten a consistent
Bible reading time in the mornings, oh man, when I
miss it, like and I just like maybe sleep in
or something, I am really quick to just like, you know,
just just be angry or snap or whatever the case
may be. Like I notice it a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, especially when we were in the newborn stage, like
we couldn't find time, Like I don't know if you
experienced a girl, it's very.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Hard to find time to like spend in the word.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
And like that's when, yeah, you just get a little impatient.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And I always used like during that stage, I used
being tired as my excuse for being maybe a little
bit more impatient or not as kind. But in reality,
after about a month, I was like, you know what,
and on think it has anything to do with me
being tired and has everything to do with I just
haven't been spending as much time with the Lord.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
And isn't it wild too?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Like yeah, coffee, caffeine will hook it'll it'll hype you
up a little bit. But like when you are like
spiritually fired up, there's nothing like that energy. You're just like, Okay,
throw something else at me, and you're like, nope, I'm
a positive patty.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Today, Like how did I go through this?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I'm not getting mad in traffic, I'm not hounking my
horn at anybody, like we're good, Like oh.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
It's like okay, you can go through. Yeah, you can
get in front of me. But then when you're in
those other moments, you're like, no, you're not cutting me off,
you know what I mean? It's dude, it sure does. Girl.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Man, I'm interested to know about you guys in like
the Creator space, and I know that the world is
judgmental when it comes to they think that like a
Christian family has everything all together and it's sunshine and
rainbows and this and that, and like you guys bring
a lot of humor and like a lot of joy
in your content for everybody to see. But when it
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comes to like sharing your faith through your content or
like just even openly with you know, followers, do you
ever have moments or have you ever had moments where
you're like, is this the right route for us? Should
we be sharing this much? Or should we share more?
Like what is that conversation between you guys? Because I
know it can be a like wild space sometimes.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
What's wild about it is in the beginning, we didn't
because we don't feel called to make specifically Christian content,
or at least in this season. And what's wild is
we were just making clean, funny couple content or family content,
and through the videos, people knew that we were Christians.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Like that's what was so wild.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
As we were reading the comments and people were commenting
being like, oh, like thank you for I don't know,
just it was just wow that we didn't specifically come
out and say we are Christians, we are this.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
They saw it through our.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Content, and I don't know, like the there's so much
like raunchy stuff on the internet or so much dark
stuff on the Internet that we just we're like, we're
just gonna make it clean and we're just gonna try
to make.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
People to day a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
So it wasn't even like specifically Christian.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah, but it is. Also it's sort of weird. There's
like different pressures and stuff where even once we did
start to post a little bit more Christian content, and
again we don't I wouldn't say we post a lot,
maybe a little bit more on our personal instagrams and stuff.
But when we do share, like for instance, when I
shared my testimony on YouTube, then we get a lot
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more comments like, oh, you should be doing this all
the time, like why aren't you using your platform? Think
of how many people you could reach. I'm like, we're
trying to be obedient to what the Lord's calling us
to right now. Now again like who knows what the
next season of our life is going to look like.
But also think of how many people maybe watch that
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video that normally would never subscribe to a strictly Christian page.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Hopefully again they what Courtney was saying, They see that
there's something different on our page where it's clean and
hopefully uplifting and show is a good example of a
Christian marriage. But I just think there were so many
more people that came across that video because we aren't
just making strictly Christian content.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
And I think that's so important too, to like look
at it from that perspective, because truly, like having millions
of followers that maybe some of those people would never have,
like you said, clicked on a video where you know,
somebody that they followed forever, they're like, man, I really
love Alex, like he's really cool, Like I want to
see what he's talking about today, And they click on
your video. They don't know the Lord, they don't know
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anything about Jesus, and they hear you speak about him,
They're like, wait a s I have this friendship with
this guy that I've been following, so maybe you know,
and then the lean in happens, And I think that's
what's so cool. There's so many negative, weird things that
happen on the Internet, but there's also this side of
just like so much encouragement and like stories like this
that give me so much hope because truly, like it
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is like you're you've been given this platform for a reason,
and if it was just for that one video and
it was just for those you know, ten people or whoever,
like that's who it was for, and I think that's
so special.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah, absolutely, and that's something that it's just easy to
take those things for granted too. And yeah, I mean,
we're happy with what we're doing right now in this season,
but just like who knows, we're trying our best to
be obedient to what he's calling us to. And I
think right now, that's that's sort of what it is.
Maybe there's just one or two people out there that
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later down the line, Courtney shares just a quick Instagram
story or something of I don't know, it could be anything,
and then all of a sudden they're like, huh, asked,
start asking questions or even.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Our marriage, Like there's a lot of people who watch
our marriage and they're like, you know, we don't know
what their background is. We don't know if they came from,
you know, a separated family or anything that, but they're like, oh,
like we want what you guys have, and I don't know.
Just again, just seeing it gives them trying to think
of like the words of what I'm trying to say,
but it shows them that a godly marriage like this exists.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Yeah. No, that's so true because there are so many
people that go through terrible relationships and are broken and
they're like, yeah, I could never have that, and it's
just like, no, it's attainable. It's there, it's out there,
and like, what a cool platform to have to be
able to encourage people to say no, like this is
this is real, this exists and you can have it too.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Yeah, I love that perspective because there are so many
stories out there that people don't tell. And even if
it is just a silly video about you know whatever
it is that day like that, just it brings so
much he's enjoyed to people. And that right there, it's
not just a silly, hilarious video. It's the love of Jesus.
Like you guys are spreading that through that, even if
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you're not out here being like, yes, we love Jesus.
This is it, you know what I mean, not like
what people would call like shoving it down your throat.
You're just being a light in the world. And that's
part of our mission too, right, Like we want to
be a light in the world to other people.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
So I'm just sorry, I'm encouraging you.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Guys, And that's put when it comes to Obviously we
talked about marriage a little bit, but now being parents
on top of that, I feel like brings in this
whole new like just responsibility as a Christian and uh,
just teaching your kids about Jesus and things like that.
How has your guys' relationship kind of like shifted when
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it comes to your mission as husband and wife? But
now as mom and dad.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I would say one thing that it convicted me recently
now that so our daughter's nine months old and she's
just recently started, you know, crawling around. She's getting close
to standing up and walking now, but now she's starting
to copy some of the things that we're doing. Oh yeah,
And so instantly my thought process went to, oh man,
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is there anything that I'm doing that I don't want
her to copy? And so instantly I just go and
go through all these different things in my brain, like, oh,
am I always patient? Am I always kind in my words?
And even am I waking up at the time that
I should and be? And am I spending time with
the Lord in the morning where hopefully you know, my daughter,
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my other future kids like they would see that, And yeah,
I think that's just something for me that I'm just like,
oh man, I don't want to wait until that next
season to really pursue holiness and righteousness to the best
of my abilities.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I guess I always like our pastor actually mentioned this
on Sunday, But we're called to make disciples, and it's
so cool because I don't always feel like I am
the best at going out and sharing the Gospel, and
I know we are supposed to. I'm just saying that's
something I don't always feel the strongest in. Like I
don't typically go to a coffee shop and sit down
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to someone and be like, do you believe.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Jesus Christ can't pry for you right now?
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
But how beautiful is it that we get to physically,
as women make disciples and they are watching our behavior,
and they're watching how we treat our husbands, and they're
watching us how we treat other people and how much
we spend time in the Word, And I think that
is so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Just I'm like, I'm literally making a disciple.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Well, and just like growing a human too. It's just
like the coolest experience like I wish guys could experience,
because it truly is one of those gifts where you're
just like like, I how did that just happen inside
of my body? But it's such a tangible thing where
you're like, yeah, I'm literally making a disciple.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
And the copying thing. My youngest is one and I
have a four year old, So the four year old is.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Very copying words and copying mannerisms and gestures or like
even things like my husband puts his shoes at a
certain spot in our house that's just like where they
come off, right, And so she's like, well, daddy puts
his there, and I'm like, no, your's.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Go in the bin. And it's just like little little
things and she's just like, well, why does he get
to do that? And I'm like, good question, Why does that?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
You know?
Speaker 5 (32:22):
And it's just like the words and like the copying.
And I will say, like being a parent, there's nothing
that will convict you like a child. Like they will
say something and you're like, I forget how. One of
my girlfriends explained it to me this way. She was
just like, when you say a cussword, you don't think
anything of it, but when you hear a kid say
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a cussword, you're like, oh, don't say that, that's a
bad word. And she goes, think about what God thinks
when you say that, because you're his kid, And I'm like,
I like hit me in my soul, and I'm like,
you're right, Like you are absolutely right. And it's like
that perspective shift of like how we look at our
kids and how we look how precious and just like
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perfect they are. That's how the Lord looks at us
every single day. And it's just such a great reminder
of like, yeah, that's that's how the love is. Like,
that's how much he loves us. It is like he
doesn't want filthy things coming out of our mouth. He
doesn't want us to copy you know, bad habits or whatever.
He wants us to to live pure and live clean,
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you know, and live like on mission.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
So man, I'm being convicted right now. I need to
go home and.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
You just start after Well.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
We just started chore charts in our house.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
So yeah, she's like, oh okay, I have to clean
up my this after she's just like, Mommy, what about yours?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Like I know it's sister up, clean up by clothes to.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Man, have you guys ever have maybe like a moment
in your life that you could invite us into. It
could be together, it could be individually where you were
just like it was one of those moments where nothing
could get you out, but God, like you were just
like in a moment where you're just like this is
hard and I need I need someone else to save
me because this is it like this is it's just
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it's just too difficult for me to handle on my own.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I was giving you the O it's okay.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
I immediately thought of something and it really does come
down to like my testimony, and it's like in college,
it's like it's so crazy, I like built my whole
identity this is BC before Christ. Yeah, but it's like
I had built my whole identity on just the worldly things.
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Like I was like, I need to have the perfect
resume and the perfect friends, and I need to have
so many friends that I need to have the perfect
boyfriend and the perfect job and interview and or internship
and all this stuff. And it's crazy how that is
such a rocky or I should say, sand I don't know.
It's a terrible foundation to build your life on. And
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a couple of things just happened and it's all of
it disappeared all at just once, like it literally like
all of it just crumbled, and I truly like felt
so alone. So because my entire identity had just collapsed
underneath my feet, and that it's so cool because that's
where the Lord met me. Like I was so alone,
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and that's why I keep saying, like the Lord brought
me this friend and he it's like the Lord used
him and like worked through him to invite me to church.
And it's like I would never have been able to
get through that whole situation if it wasn't for going
to church and like learning who Jesus was, because it
was almost I could do over. Because some people could
look at that and be like, oh my goodness, that
was the worst thing in the world. Your life just collapsed.
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But it's like I look at it as how beautiful
is it that the Lord. I mean, it was a
terrible foundation, so it crumbled, and the Lord was like,
let's build that back up, but like on a rock,
on like my cornerstone, you know. Yeah, And so I
always think of that whenever to to your question, I'm
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just like, that was one of the hardest times of
my life, but also the most beautiful because I got
a do over, and that's literally Jesus.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Yeah, it's crazy that you're sharing this story because I
recently had a conversation with somebody else about it too.
Where I lived out in La God told me to
get out and I had to do the same thing
where I just had to leave and I quit my job,
I left everything that I knew there, and like I
was only there for I think like threeish years. But
it was kind of like one of those things too
where the Lord was like leaf straight up, just like
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it was like audible, like that was not me, who
has like leave and I was just like no, like
and then you know, like week goes by and like
you're just you're just wrecked. You're like, okay, I'll leave,
and it's just like looking back at that life, like
that job that I had there, they completely like shut
down that part of the company like four years after
I left, and I'm like what a safe that? Like
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God was just like you don't need to be there
when that happen, let me put you over here instead.
But yeah, it's one of those things where it's such
a hard thing in the moment, but then when you
can look back at different parts of your life and
you're like, I never would have been here if God
didn't slam this door shut and fling this one open,
and like, yeah, was it hard?
Speaker 4 (37:18):
And difficult.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
And did I walk through a door that I probably
shouldn't have along the way? Yes, but then he slammed
that one and then open the next one, you know
what I mean. And he's constantly seeking us, like I
think that's one of the coolest things about God is
He's constantly trying to meet you where you're at, no matter.
You could take sixteen wrong turns and then take one
right turn and he's just like, cool, I'm still here.
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You take sixteen more wrong turns and he's just like, cool,
I'm still here. And I think that that pursuit. He's
always pursuing us. And I don't know, maybe somebody is
watching or listening that needed to hear that, but there's
literally nothing you can do that God is not going
to pursue you. He wants to be in a relationship
with you, and he wants to be He wants you
to love him, you know. Anyway, that was my tangent.
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Is your turn to talk now?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
No, that's great because as I was just thinking, honestly,
when you're talking about just being pursued by by Jesus
and stuff. I struggled with pornography for a good portion
of my young adults, high school, college age, and I
think that, you know, it used to bring me a
lot of shame because I was kind of known as
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one of the Christian kids in high school and in college,
and so there was just like a lot of shame
in like, oh Lord, I'm letting you down right now,
Like how could you ever love somebody like me? I'm
so far off and just constantly feeling convicted but never
really being able to break those chains, And so yeah,
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I wasn't. It took a lot of that's the right
way to put it. It wasn't effort, but it was
more of just being being surrendered and not trying to
focus on the problem but focus on the solution, and
just pursuing Jesus back right where when you draw near
to him, he promises to draw near to us. And
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so just through just a constant state of surrendering getting
back into my word consistently. And one of the biggest
things for me, honestly was just Christian community. That was
one of the biggest reasons why I moved to Nashville.
I had great friends in North Dakota, but great friends
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doesn't also mean that they're great influences. I absolutely love
love those people to death. But yeah, when you're surrounded
by other people that aren't pursuing the Lord, it's I
think we all believe the lie that if we're put
in a room with four other people that maybe aren't
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following the Lord, that like we can be the positive
influence and bring them up. But realtically you're going to
be brought down. Yeah, and so why we are called
to to reach those people and hang out with those
people and be a light to them. They shouldn't be
your closest friends that you spend the most time with,
because you're going to start to look more and more
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like them as time goes. And so yeah, moving down
to Nashville, I knew it's like I didn't know anybody,
so I get to choose all of my friends.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Yeah, that's so true. That's so true.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
And I'm only going to be friends with the people
that are running after God and so just through stuff
like that. Yeah, it's I can't even remember how long
it's been since I've looked at pornography, but it's been
a long long time. It's been at least four or
five years.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Oh God, I was gonna say, I even like it's
crazy it's like I grew up so sheltered and I
did not realize how big of a thing that is. Yeah,
like it's I think I heard a statistic this morning
because I was listening to a sermon that eighty percent
of men struggle with that, Like that just blows my mind.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Well, and it's it is, it's one of the things,
like you said, like the first thing that people think
of is like it's shameful, like they don't want to
talk about it, you know, And it's but it is
something that people struggle with on the daily. And I
think it's so just it's so brave of you to
even want to say the words out loud, because it's
just one of those things that that other guys need
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to hear women too, Like it is a struggle that
people deal with and honestly, like and some people will
listen to this and they'll be like, that's it's not
that big of a deal, like pornography is not a
big deal. But it's just like if you're in a marriage,
this is who you need to look at, right Like,
this is this is who you don't need to look
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at other people, other whoever else, And it's just like
it's such a big and important issue. And I think
Forrest Frank even had recently, I've watched a conversation of
him talk about his struggle and that was one of
his major things. And I'm like, this man has had
this huge platform and he's talking about this and people
are like, wow, me too, you know what I mean?
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And it just one person to say something and be like,
I'm not alone. And that's so huge because there's probably
a guy watching this right now. That's just like I
had no idea like that that I was. I'm not alone,
I'm not broken, and it's just like truly, like you're not.
God is going to pursue you, and he's going to
slam a door shut, he's gonna move you to Nashville,
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and he's gonna say, let's try this again.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Okay for sure?
Speaker 5 (42:24):
And how cool is it too that you get to
have those relationships where or have the mindset where, No,
my friends back home aren't broken and they're good people,
but like, I just need Godly wisdom around me. I
just need people who are pursuing the Lord like me.
Like I'm going through a pruning season right now with
some of my friends and I hate it because it's
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uncomfortable because you're like, I just love these people and
I don't want them to get their feelings hurt.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
But God's like.
Speaker 5 (42:53):
They can hitch to the back of your trailer and
come with you, or they can fall off because we're
going this way and like they're coming with you, or
they're not coming at all, And it's just like, yeah,
I want I want more of the Kingdom. I want
to lean in, I want more of Jesus. I don't
want to stay here, right, So it's just like that
season of Prune is like, oh, it's so uncomfortable, but
(43:13):
it's it's necessary.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
Sometimes.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I took probably the more comfortable route of the pruning
and just moved. Yeah, that's a lot easier than constantly,
you know, being in the same city or being around
those friends that you kind of have to slowly create
some space or however you want to do it. But yeah,
it even goes back to that scripture of being equally
yoked and just I don't think it was too long
(43:39):
ago that I was reading a commentary and just about
what that actually means and how I forgot if it
was donkeys or something. Right, they put like a plow
or something behind them, and if one is going faster
than the other, you're just going to end up going
in circles. And so it's the same thing with your
your friendships. If if you're not going in the same direction,
(44:00):
I mean, you're you're just gonna keep on turning around,
you're doing doing one eighties. You're just gonna be in
all the wrong places.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
And it's just like so funny, how like being in
a marriage, Like your my husband will check me.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
He'll be like, you've had.
Speaker 5 (44:13):
This conversation sixteen times with the same person, Like are
you gonna have it again?
Speaker 4 (44:18):
And you know, and it's just like, I like your husband, Yeah,
he will, he will.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
He'll say hard things. And I think that's important in
a marriage too, where it's just like you can call
each other out on things where it's just like, honey,
you've been complaining about the same thing for months, why
don't we do something about it. Why don't you just
cut it loose or maybe just give some distance, or
just maybe stop trying so hard. You know, you can
love them like you you putting distance isn't not loving them.
(44:44):
That's you protecting your piece and who you are and
what you're called to do. So, man, that's a word
for somebody listening. Somebody like that friendship or this is
good in that relationship. Man, Well, I want to wrap
up with you guys. I'm just curious to know, is
(45:06):
there a way that are things that you're believing for
or things that we could pray for you specifically over
in this next season?
Speaker 4 (45:12):
Like what are you guys? What's going on in your lives?
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Honestly, we've talked about this plenty, but we feel like
we're really in a season season of blessings right now.
And so so with that, I think I think one
of the ways that the enemy attacks is he tries
to keep you in those middle seasons where there's there's
not blessings and you're not going through hardships, because that's
(45:37):
usually when you're either giving thanks to the Lord and
you're really grateful or you're just clinging on to them
because that's all you've got. And so we've just feeled
extremely blessed lately, and so I think one thing is
just as maybe this season of blessings maybe goes away
or maybe it stays, but just that we cling to
(45:58):
the Lord, and I like where things are headed in
our life right now, and I don't know, just that
we continue to grow in our faith and our walk
with the Lord.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
Yeah, and then I mean, I always pray that everyone
in our family is just healthy, like we take our
health for granted so much, and now being a mom,
it's like, I'm constantly praying that all of us are
cancer free, illness free, and that we just live long.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Healthy lives.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
As silly as that is, I just pray that over ourselves,
over everyone in our family, because at any moment, like
you could just like up you up stage four, like whatever,
and it could happen that fast. And so I'm constantly
just praying for that.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
That's such a beautiful question. Thank you for asking us.
Speaker 5 (46:43):
Of course, I feel like it's you know, we we
have a platform. We might as well all just you know,
be together and stand in agreement with each other. And
I want to speak to what you were saying about
the blessing season because my husband and I we've been
in this similar season of just feeling like God is
just saying yes, you know what I mean, it's just
(47:03):
like a blessing after blessing after blessing, things are easy.
We're just like the challenges that we face feel so
much smaller because it's just been such a good season
and we keep saying this year. Funny that we keep
saying it this year. We're like, when things get hard,
I want to remember twenty twenty five, Like twenty twenty
five is what I want to remember, because the Yes
(47:24):
season will come again. But then one of my best
friends she checked me, and she was just like, who
says that you can't be in a Yes season for
a lengthy period of time? And I was just like,
you're right. She was just like, don't have the mindset
of like it's about to get bad because it's been
so good. She was just like, lean into the yes,
allow God to bless you and like let him and
just just find the joy in it and like keep
(47:44):
leaning into it because like the Yes season, this blessing
season for you guys, it could be ten years long,
you know what I mean? Like you just never know.
But I think that as a as a believer, sometimes
you're like, Okay, we've we've been having.
Speaker 4 (47:57):
A really good season. It's about to get hard.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
What's coming?
Speaker 5 (48:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Right?
Speaker 5 (48:01):
But yeah, no, lean into the es, like, lean into
this season because it's so I think, Yeah, that mindset
is so easy to get into where.
Speaker 4 (48:08):
You're like, Okay, let's just pray that it stays a
little bit. Yeah, but yeah, lean into that.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
Yeah, don't want to take it for granted.
Speaker 5 (48:14):
Yeah, Okay, Well, I'm gonna pray for us and then
we'll let you guys get going. Dear Heavenly Father, Lord,
just thank you for uh just thank you for social
media and bringing people together. We're just so grateful for
microphones to talk about you and to spread your love.
And God, I just pray over Courtney and Alex and
their family, and I just pray that this season of blessing, Lord,
that you would just allow them to just have joy
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through it, that they would enjoy it, that you would
continue to bless them. God, that you would just allow
them to just sit in it, Lord, and enjoy the
moment and just completely just completely let you take the
reins and continue to take the rain's Lord, and that
they would not be fearful of a bad season. Lord,
(48:57):
that they would just sit in this joyful season and
just love and love and love through it.
Speaker 4 (49:02):
Lord.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
And we just asked that you would just give them
peace in their minds about health. Lord, that you would
just keep their family healthy, that their bodies would stay healthy,
that their bodies would line up with your word, that
they would be whole and healed, and that they would
be healthy. God, and that you would just take away
any fear or any anxious thoughts about health. Lord, that
(49:22):
you would just give them peace in that Lord, and
that you would just you would just continue to work
through Courtney and Alex and their family, that you would
just continue to bless them. That you would just watch
over their sweet baby as she grows up, Lord, and
as she begins to take her first steps. Lord, we
just pray that she takes those steps towards You. And God,
we just thank you for the gift of life, and
we thank you for the gift of just reaching so
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many millions of people on social media. That you would
continue to use Courtney and Alex to leave the ninety
nine and reach the one, Lord, that you would continue
to help them reach that one. And we just are
grateful for your presence and are grateful for you your
holy spirit here today, and we just say thank you
for it, and thank you for the blessings that you're
(50:06):
going to.
Speaker 4 (50:06):
Continue to pour out. And we just say in your
holy name, you pray.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Hey, thank you so much for having us.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Thanks guys fun I know,
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