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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, you guys, welcome back to the Amani Talks podcast.
You're here with your hosts Amani on the podcast where
we discuss our Christian based topics and deepening our relationship
with the Lord. For everyone new here, go ahead and
hit that like and subscribe button before we get started.
I want you to be a part of our community,
help it grow, help it get out there, and just yeah,
share the word. So today's podcast is going to be
(00:20):
a little different. Usually we get into the word really
heavy and we go scripture for scripture, and we probably
will do that today too, But there was just a
topic on my mind heavy that I really needed to
like get out expeditiously to the girls, okay. And it's
something that I'm just so convicted about. And if you
are going to hear it from anybody, you are going
to hear this message from Amani me.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Okay. So lately, you guys, I have.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Just been feeling tested. I have been feeling tested in
a certain area of my life, and I just want
to share that with you all and give straight transparency
and honesty because one thing I am big on. If
you're new here, my subscribers already know this about me.
I am big on being open, honest, transparent, and somewhat vulnerable.
(01:03):
I can't be maybe as detailed as I would like
because this is a very public platform, so I'm not
going to give people like you know, the tidbits and
details into my personal life. But I try to be
as open and honest with what I'm going through as
possible because it's going to help other Christian women out there,
especially single Christian women. Because I myself am single, and
(01:25):
the first year that I came back into my relationship
with God, which was February of last year, that entire year,
I did not spend that year praying for a husband.
I did not spend that year thinking that God was
preparing me for a husband. I spent that year with
the Lord. I spent that year in isolation season. I
(01:47):
spent that year low key, having little like tidbits, little
experiences of some mild persecution. I spent that year learning
and growing towards my relationship with God first and foremost right.
Because a lot of people, or I guess you might
hear a lot of the time that your single season
is preparing you for marriage, but that might not necessarily
(02:09):
be true, Like not all of us are gonna get married.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Marriage is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Marriage is something that if you desire it, if you
chase after the Lord and really delighten him, he will
give you the desires of your heart. We already know that,
but yeah, there's sometimes it can kind of seem like
the idea is that your singleness is just preparing you
for marriage. And I took that first year to not
even think about marriage. I took that first year and
knowing that marriage was a desire of mine, but so
(02:35):
were a lot of other things. I wanted my YouTube
channel to grow. I wanted my creator. You know, I'm
a full time content creator. I wanted my career to grow.
There are a lot of things that I was praying for.
I wanted my discernment, my judgment, my relationship with the
Lord to grow. There are a lot of desires that
I have. Even in that area, I have blow keeping
kind of feeling like should I go to seminary? Like
is seminary calling me? Is that the next thing? I
(02:58):
spent some time getting into agetics and really studying that.
I just really wanted to grow my relationship with Christ
because without that, nothing else that I even want will flourish. Anyway,
and that's just the truth. Seek ye first, the kingdom,
and all these things will be added to you.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So, with me really heavily seeking the Lord that first year,
even when I remember maybe a few months in, I
tried to pray for her husband and I felt the
Lord's shutting that down very quickly, like girl, what are
you doing?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Girl? What are you doing? Stop?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I'm gonna stop you right there in your tracks because
that's not the season for it. And I said, okay, God,
like I understand that, and that's why I took that
season to really focus on me and really enjoy my singleness.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And I really still am.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I was on the phone my mom the other day
and she was telling me, like, with the life that
you have, I don't even know why you really want marriage.
Like she didn't say it exactly like that, but she
was like I understand like companionship, you know. But she
was like, you have a pretty good life, and I
was like, you know, like that's extremely true. Sometimes I
kind of go back and forth with even trying to
really understand for myself if I truly desire marriage or
(04:05):
if I just think that I should have marriage. Is
it truly a desire of mine and I kind of
waffle back and forth, but all in all, I do
really believe that it is a desire of mind because
it does keep coming back to me in some way,
shape or form, and I have been feeling tested in
that area specifically as of late. Okay, And I just
wanted to say this. When it comes to Christian women
(04:28):
and specifically dating or specifically waiting for the Lord to
reveal your husband, you need to have higher than most standards.
And along with having higher than the most standards, you
need to stand on business. With those standards. A lot
(04:49):
of us will get on the internet or we'll talk
to friends about, oh, you know, I ain't going for that,
and that couldn't be me. Y'all, stay safe. But then
it's you because you talk to talk and public, but
you're not really walking the walk in private. And that's
why you keep going through these cycles of learning and
stumbling and having to come back to the Lord when
(05:09):
you straight away too far. That's why we keep going
through these struggles because we talk a good talk, but
we don't actually walk the walk.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And I'm here to really tell y'all, okay, that.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It's not good enough just to talk about the standards
that you have if you are not truly living them
out because the world is watching you. As a woman,
you should have high standards anyway, no matter who you are,
no matter what you're doing. And you guys know, I've
always preached that, even before I came back to my
walk with Christ. I've always preached that the average woman
(05:40):
should have very high standards because that's the only way
that you are going to get what you want out.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Of your life.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But as a Christian woman, your standards need to be
above and beyond because people are watching you more intently
than they are watching the average woman. And don't let
that go over your head. When you make the decision
to publicly proclaim Christ and you get on your social
media platform or you tell your friends or your family
what you're not doing, what you ain't doing, you better
make sure you're living it out in real life because
(06:08):
people are watching you more closely than they do other people,
even if they do not admit it. The world is
watching you more intensely, for malicious reasons or not. They're
watching you more closely, and you better believe that there
are people out there that will closely watch Christians as
soon as you proclaim Christ, they are watching you with
(06:28):
a magnifying glass, way more intently than they watch anybody else,
just to see if you'll slip up, just to see
if you're not just talking to talk, but walking the walk.
And on top of that, the enemy will be sending
people in your life just to test you, just to
push your boundaries, just to push your limits, just to
see what they can get away with, just to test
your faith. There will be people in your life that
(06:50):
come just to press your buttons, just to push you
towards anger, just so that they can get on social
media and make a video talking about some you know
so and so said that they're a Christian, but you
know they was on the internet and doing this. Even
though they're the ones that push you to anger, they're
testing you.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
There will come in.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
In your life that will push your boundaries, push your limits,
just to see what you're letting them get away with,
just so that they can go back to their group
chat and say, you know, so and so said they're
a Christian, but you know Luka Wheel was just doing
last night.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
That will happen.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You need more than just high standards says you need
to be actually living them out and standing on business
with those high standards. Because anybody can talk about what
they will and won't do, but when it comes time
to actually stand on that, and when they stand on that,
they have to forfeit the things that they thought they
wanted with the timeline they thought they wanted. When they
actually have to stand on that, it's a different story.
(07:38):
You need to stand on business because the world is
watching you more intently, whether they admit.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It or not. That's the truth.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
The Word does not say that the world is looking
to stand with Christians and understand our position or be
empathetic towards us. No, the Word says that the world
is watching us. Some of these people are watching just
to see if you will slip. They are waiting on
you to make that crucial mistake just so that they
can go back and say, see, Christians ain't no better
than us.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Look what they was just doing.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
They are waiting for that excuse to discredit Christians. That's
why the Bible talks about even the optics of something
is important. Flee from even the appearance of evil. It
doesn't even matter if you're doing evil or not. The
appearance is going to be good enough. For some people
to go back and try to ruin your testimony. You
need to flee from even the small things, the jokes,
(08:26):
the things that your friends are doing that they would say, girls,
not that big of a deal. The things that that
man is pushing you towards that he would say, well,
you know, it wasn't really like that. And so many
of us already know this, right, but we overlook a
lot of things just to be able to get what
we want and the timing that we want a lot
of women put their relationships on a timer and they say,
(08:49):
if I'm not married by thirty one, then I need to,
you know, strike off a couple of things off my lists.
I need to lower my standards because obviously my standards
are too high. And that makes absolutely zero sense to me.
That's like studying for a big test for months and
months and then you saying, oh, well I'm not going
to pass the test anyway, and then a week before
the test you stopped studying. That makes absolutely no sense.
(09:12):
That's like getting to i don't know what is it
in sports, getting to the whatever yard line and then
just giving up because you're like, well, I'm never gonna
make it.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You were right there.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It makes no sense to have high standards your whole
life that have kept you and protected you, by the way,
from some very low quality experiences. But because you haven't
gotten married by thirty one, now you're like, well, actually,
did that stuff really matter? Now you're gaslighting yourself because
you didn't get what you wanted in time.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I don't know about y'all.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
But the Lord has not given me what I wanted
when I thought I wanted it because he was protecting me.
And because I'm special. You know how I know I'm
special because the Lord told me I'm special, and he
tells me I'm special when I'm praying to him and
I'm telling him when I want something, and he's saying,
slow down, Savannah, because you know what, you can have
it right or you can have it right now. And
(10:01):
I know we're all familiar with that concept. You can
have it right or you can have it right now.
Which is it gonna Because there are people that get
married by twenty five and they're divorced by twenty nine.
They're on their second marriage by the time that they're
in their early thirties. I'd rather wait till my early
thirties and have the right man from the very starts
from the jump. Ain't no restart, Ain't no, ain't no oh,
(10:24):
I gotta start over, absolutely not. You can have it
right or you can have it right now. So the
premise of your getting older and now you got to
lower your standards because girl girl by and also when
we talk about our standards as Christian women, there are
a lot of us that it's not even the age part.
Your type is keeping you from your husband. I know
(10:46):
a lot of church girls that went the thug. They
went the drug dealer. And you know what, he might
even come to church once or twice. That's the funny part.
He might even come to church with you once or twice.
Y'all be trying to bring a hood ninja off the streets, okay,
it's fresh from the dice game, and trying to bring
him to church thinking that you or the church is
(11:06):
gonna save him.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
You were not gonna save him.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Sis, we have these men of God sliding in the
dms of ig baddies because he's putting looks before everything else.
And then when he's on a date with her and
he's tempted lustfully, all of a sudden, it's her problem. No,
that's your problem, because why were you on the date
with her in the first place. Y'all put looks before
everything else, and then when y'all find out that she's
exactly who she purported herself to be, not with somebody
(11:29):
else's problem. No, that's your problem. You should have prayed
before you went on the date with her. We got
these church girls wanting the thug, wanting the drug dealer,
wanting the thug aesthetic.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I just don't get that.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I see so many girls say that, especially women in
the church. You know, he gotta have a little swag,
he gotta have.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
A load of this.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Nah, give me the square. I'll take the square any date.
Are you kidding me? Y'all be dating the men with
dangly earrings and then be shocks when he gives you
dangly earring energy. I just don't get it. You want
a managar or you want the thug, because you ain't
gonna have both. You want the ig baddy or you
want the woman that God has for you. You're not
(12:07):
gonna get both. I think a lot of people think
that they can choose their spouse, and whoever it is,
the Lord will bless that you.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Know what I believe.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I believe that the Lord chooses our spouse. When Abraham's
servant went out to go find the woman that Isaac
was going to marry, this is what he said in
Genesis twenty four, verse fourteen. He says, Now, let it
be that the young woman to whom I say, please
let down your picture that I may drink, And she says, drink,
and I will also give your camels a drink. Let
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her be the one you have appointed for your servant, Isaac.
And by this I will know that you have shown
kindness to my master. Let her be the one you
have appointed for your servant, Isaac. I don't think that
it could really be more clear than that. So this
is really a short podcast today because I almost didn't
record today, but I was like no, like this is
on my mind. Like I didn't have a setup kind
(12:58):
of lesson or like any thing specific, but I was like, no,
I have to get this out today.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It's been on my mind.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Okay, stand your ground, Women of God, stand your ground.
Do not let anybody tell you otherwise. Don't let nobody
tell you that your standards are too high or your
convictions don't really matter. Stand on the word of God
and stand your ground.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That's the only.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Way you get what you want out of life. That's
the only way. I don't care what nobody tell you.
What the Lord told you is relevant. It is for
your protection, and it's ultimately for your success. You ignoring
it is never gonna bring about what you want out
of life ever. And this is just the reminder that
the world is watching you. Like I said, whether they
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admit it or not, they are watching you. They're watching
you to see what you will do. They're watching you
to see if you're gonna stand up for yourself. They're
watching you to see if you're gonna slip and fall
and be like everybody else. They are watching you. Hebrews
twelve one says, Therefore, also, since we are surrounded by
so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
(14:05):
every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us,
and let us run with endurance the race that is
set before us. We are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses,
So let us not send all the things that we
so easily fall into when we are led away by
our own temptations, our own desires. Let us put that
behind us. Because people are watching us. There is a
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great cloud of witnesses, and you need to stand your ground,
stand on your convictions, and stand by God.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And that's all I really have for you guys today.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Just a reminder, make sure you guys are on the
amaniworthm dot com website. Sign up for the weekly emails,
especially if you are in the Atlanta area, because I
do have a small girl group that has been assembled
and we get together for bi weekly Bible studies, outings,
we're planning things. We're just getting together for friendship and community.
So if you are in the Atlanta area, definitely make
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sure you sign up for those emails.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The email list has grown, It's like over one.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Hundred and fifty and I'm just like, okay, like it's
getting there, Like that's amazing. So yeah, definitely get in
touch and get in tune with what we are doing
because the Lord is definitely doing a work with community
in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
All Right, I will see you guys, Lada Bye.
Hi, you guys, welcome back to the Amani Talks podcast.
You're here with your hosts Amani on the podcast where
we discuss our Christian based topics and deepening our relationship
with the Lord. For everyone new here, go ahead and
hit that like and subscribe button before we get started.
I want you to be a part of our community,
help it grow, help it get out there, and just yeah,
share the word. So today's podcast is going to be
(00:20):
a little different. Usually we get into the word really
heavy and we go scripture for scripture, and we probably
will do that today too, But there was just a
topic on my mind heavy that I really needed to
like get out expeditiously to the girls, okay. And it's
something that I'm just so convicted about. And if you
are going to hear it from anybody, you are going
to hear this message from Amani me.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Okay. So lately, you guys, I have.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Just been feeling tested. I have been feeling tested in
a certain area of my life, and I just want
to share that with you all and give straight transparency
and honesty because one thing I am big on. If
you're new here, my subscribers already know this about me.
I am big on being open, honest, transparent, and somewhat vulnerable.
(01:03):
I can't be maybe as detailed as I would like
because this is a very public platform, so I'm not
going to give people like you know, the tidbits and
details into my personal life. But I try to be
as open and honest with what I'm going through as
possible because it's going to help other Christian women out there,
especially single Christian women. Because I myself am single, and
(01:25):
the first year that I came back into my relationship
with God, which was February of last year, that entire year,
I did not spend that year praying for a husband.
I did not spend that year thinking that God was
preparing me for a husband. I spent that year with
the Lord. I spent that year in isolation season. I
(01:47):
spent that year low key, having little like tidbits, little
experiences of some mild persecution. I spent that year learning
and growing towards my relationship with God first and foremost right.
Because a lot of people, or I guess you might
hear a lot of the time that your single season
is preparing you for marriage, but that might not necessarily
(02:09):
be true, Like not all of us are gonna get married.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Marriage is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Marriage is something that if you desire it, if you
chase after the Lord and really delighten him, he will
give you the desires of your heart. We already know that,
but yeah, there's sometimes it can kind of seem like
the idea is that your singleness is just preparing you
for marriage. And I took that first year to not
even think about marriage. I took that first year and
knowing that marriage was a desire of mine, but so
(02:35):
were a lot of other things. I wanted my YouTube
channel to grow. I wanted my creator. You know, I'm
a full time content creator. I wanted my career to grow.
There are a lot of things that I was praying for.
I wanted my discernment, my judgment, my relationship with the
Lord to grow. There are a lot of desires that
I have. Even in that area, I have blow keeping
kind of feeling like should I go to seminary? Like
is seminary calling me? Is that the next thing? I
(02:58):
spent some time getting into agetics and really studying that.
I just really wanted to grow my relationship with Christ
because without that, nothing else that I even want will flourish. Anyway,
and that's just the truth. Seek ye first, the kingdom,
and all these things will be added to you.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So, with me really heavily seeking the Lord that first year,
even when I remember maybe a few months in, I
tried to pray for her husband and I felt the
Lord's shutting that down very quickly, like girl, what are
you doing?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Girl? What are you doing? Stop?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I'm gonna stop you right there in your tracks because
that's not the season for it. And I said, okay, God,
like I understand that, and that's why I took that
season to really focus on me and really enjoy my singleness.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And I really still am.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I was on the phone my mom the other day
and she was telling me, like, with the life that
you have, I don't even know why you really want marriage.
Like she didn't say it exactly like that, but she
was like I understand like companionship, you know. But she
was like, you have a pretty good life, and I
was like, you know, like that's extremely true. Sometimes I
kind of go back and forth with even trying to
really understand for myself if I truly desire marriage or
(04:05):
if I just think that I should have marriage. Is
it truly a desire of mine and I kind of
waffle back and forth, but all in all, I do
really believe that it is a desire of mind because
it does keep coming back to me in some way,
shape or form, and I have been feeling tested in
that area specifically as of late. Okay, And I just
wanted to say this. When it comes to Christian women
(04:28):
and specifically dating or specifically waiting for the Lord to
reveal your husband, you need to have higher than most standards.
And along with having higher than the most standards, you
need to stand on business. With those standards. A lot
(04:49):
of us will get on the internet or we'll talk
to friends about, oh, you know, I ain't going for that,
and that couldn't be me. Y'all, stay safe. But then
it's you because you talk to talk and public, but
you're not really walking the walk in private. And that's
why you keep going through these cycles of learning and
stumbling and having to come back to the Lord when
(05:09):
you straight away too far. That's why we keep going
through these struggles because we talk a good talk, but
we don't actually walk the walk.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And I'm here to really tell y'all, okay, that.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It's not good enough just to talk about the standards
that you have if you are not truly living them
out because the world is watching you. As a woman,
you should have high standards anyway, no matter who you are,
no matter what you're doing. And you guys know, I've
always preached that, even before I came back to my
walk with Christ. I've always preached that the average woman
(05:40):
should have very high standards because that's the only way
that you are going to get what you want out.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Of your life.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But as a Christian woman, your standards need to be
above and beyond because people are watching you more intently
than they are watching the average woman. And don't let
that go over your head. When you make the decision
to publicly proclaim Christ and you get on your social
media platform or you tell your friends or your family
what you're not doing, what you ain't doing, you better
make sure you're living it out in real life because
(06:08):
people are watching you more closely than they do other people,
even if they do not admit it. The world is
watching you more intensely, for malicious reasons or not. They're
watching you more closely, and you better believe that there
are people out there that will closely watch Christians as
soon as you proclaim Christ, they are watching you with
(06:28):
a magnifying glass, way more intently than they watch anybody else,
just to see if you'll slip up, just to see
if you're not just talking to talk, but walking the walk.
And on top of that, the enemy will be sending
people in your life just to test you, just to
push your boundaries, just to push your limits, just to
see what they can get away with, just to test
your faith. There will be people in your life that
(06:50):
come just to press your buttons, just to push you
towards anger, just so that they can get on social
media and make a video talking about some you know
so and so said that they're a Christian, but you
know they was on the internet and doing this. Even
though they're the ones that push you to anger, they're
testing you.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
There will come in.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
In your life that will push your boundaries, push your limits,
just to see what you're letting them get away with,
just so that they can go back to their group
chat and say, you know, so and so said they're
a Christian, but you know Luka Wheel was just doing
last night.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
That will happen.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You need more than just high standards says you need
to be actually living them out and standing on business
with those high standards. Because anybody can talk about what
they will and won't do, but when it comes time
to actually stand on that, and when they stand on that,
they have to forfeit the things that they thought they
wanted with the timeline they thought they wanted. When they
actually have to stand on that, it's a different story.
(07:38):
You need to stand on business because the world is
watching you more intently, whether they admit.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It or not. That's the truth.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
The Word does not say that the world is looking
to stand with Christians and understand our position or be
empathetic towards us. No, the Word says that the world
is watching us. Some of these people are watching just
to see if you will slip. They are waiting on
you to make that crucial mistake just so that they
can go back and say, see, Christians ain't no better
than us.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Look what they was just doing.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
They are waiting for that excuse to discredit Christians. That's
why the Bible talks about even the optics of something
is important. Flee from even the appearance of evil. It
doesn't even matter if you're doing evil or not. The
appearance is going to be good enough. For some people
to go back and try to ruin your testimony. You
need to flee from even the small things, the jokes,
(08:26):
the things that your friends are doing that they would say, girls,
not that big of a deal. The things that that
man is pushing you towards that he would say, well,
you know, it wasn't really like that. And so many
of us already know this, right, but we overlook a
lot of things just to be able to get what
we want and the timing that we want a lot
of women put their relationships on a timer and they say,
(08:49):
if I'm not married by thirty one, then I need to,
you know, strike off a couple of things off my lists.
I need to lower my standards because obviously my standards
are too high. And that makes absolutely zero sense to me.
That's like studying for a big test for months and
months and then you saying, oh, well I'm not going
to pass the test anyway, and then a week before
the test you stopped studying. That makes absolutely no sense.
(09:12):
That's like getting to i don't know what is it
in sports, getting to the whatever yard line and then
just giving up because you're like, well, I'm never gonna
make it.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You were right there.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It makes no sense to have high standards your whole
life that have kept you and protected you, by the way,
from some very low quality experiences. But because you haven't
gotten married by thirty one, now you're like, well, actually,
did that stuff really matter? Now you're gaslighting yourself because
you didn't get what you wanted in time.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I don't know about y'all.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
But the Lord has not given me what I wanted
when I thought I wanted it because he was protecting me.
And because I'm special. You know how I know I'm
special because the Lord told me I'm special, and he
tells me I'm special when I'm praying to him and
I'm telling him when I want something, and he's saying,
slow down, Savannah, because you know what, you can have
it right or you can have it right now. And
(10:01):
I know we're all familiar with that concept. You can
have it right or you can have it right now.
Which is it gonna Because there are people that get
married by twenty five and they're divorced by twenty nine.
They're on their second marriage by the time that they're
in their early thirties. I'd rather wait till my early
thirties and have the right man from the very starts
from the jump. Ain't no restart, Ain't no, ain't no oh,
(10:24):
I gotta start over, absolutely not. You can have it
right or you can have it right now. So the
premise of your getting older and now you got to
lower your standards because girl girl by and also when
we talk about our standards as Christian women, there are
a lot of us that it's not even the age part.
Your type is keeping you from your husband. I know
(10:46):
a lot of church girls that went the thug. They
went the drug dealer. And you know what, he might
even come to church once or twice. That's the funny part.
He might even come to church with you once or twice.
Y'all be trying to bring a hood ninja off the streets, okay,
it's fresh from the dice game, and trying to bring
him to church thinking that you or the church is
(11:06):
gonna save him.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
You were not gonna save him.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Sis, we have these men of God sliding in the
dms of ig baddies because he's putting looks before everything else.
And then when he's on a date with her and
he's tempted lustfully, all of a sudden, it's her problem. No,
that's your problem, because why were you on the date
with her in the first place. Y'all put looks before
everything else, and then when y'all find out that she's
exactly who she purported herself to be, not with somebody
(11:29):
else's problem. No, that's your problem. You should have prayed
before you went on the date with her. We got
these church girls wanting the thug, wanting the drug dealer,
wanting the thug aesthetic.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I just don't get that.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I see so many girls say that, especially women in
the church. You know, he gotta have a little swag,
he gotta have.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
A load of this.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Nah, give me the square. I'll take the square any date.
Are you kidding me? Y'all be dating the men with
dangly earrings and then be shocks when he gives you
dangly earring energy. I just don't get it. You want
a managar or you want the thug, because you ain't
gonna have both. You want the ig baddy or you
want the woman that God has for you. You're not
(12:07):
gonna get both. I think a lot of people think
that they can choose their spouse, and whoever it is,
the Lord will bless that you.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Know what I believe.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I believe that the Lord chooses our spouse. When Abraham's
servant went out to go find the woman that Isaac
was going to marry, this is what he said in
Genesis twenty four, verse fourteen. He says, Now, let it
be that the young woman to whom I say, please
let down your picture that I may drink, And she says, drink,
and I will also give your camels a drink. Let
(12:35):
her be the one you have appointed for your servant, Isaac.
And by this I will know that you have shown
kindness to my master. Let her be the one you
have appointed for your servant, Isaac. I don't think that
it could really be more clear than that. So this
is really a short podcast today because I almost didn't
record today, but I was like no, like this is
on my mind. Like I didn't have a setup kind
(12:58):
of lesson or like any thing specific, but I was like, no,
I have to get this out today.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It's been on my mind.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Okay, stand your ground, Women of God, stand your ground.
Do not let anybody tell you otherwise. Don't let nobody
tell you that your standards are too high or your
convictions don't really matter. Stand on the word of God
and stand your ground.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That's the only.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Way you get what you want out of life. That's
the only way. I don't care what nobody tell you.
What the Lord told you is relevant. It is for
your protection, and it's ultimately for your success. You ignoring
it is never gonna bring about what you want out
of life ever. And this is just the reminder that
the world is watching you. Like I said, whether they
(13:45):
admit it or not, they are watching you. They're watching
you to see what you will do. They're watching you
to see if you're gonna stand up for yourself. They're
watching you to see if you're gonna slip and fall
and be like everybody else. They are watching you. Hebrews
twelve one says, Therefore, also, since we are surrounded by
so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
(14:05):
every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us,
and let us run with endurance the race that is
set before us. We are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses,
So let us not send all the things that we
so easily fall into when we are led away by
our own temptations, our own desires. Let us put that
behind us. Because people are watching us. There is a
(14:28):
great cloud of witnesses, and you need to stand your ground,
stand on your convictions, and stand by God.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And that's all I really have for you guys today.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Just a reminder, make sure you guys are on the
amaniworthm dot com website. Sign up for the weekly emails,
especially if you are in the Atlanta area, because I
do have a small girl group that has been assembled
and we get together for bi weekly Bible studies, outings,
we're planning things. We're just getting together for friendship and community.
So if you are in the Atlanta area, definitely make
(14:56):
sure you sign up for those emails.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The email list has grown, It's like over one.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Hundred and fifty and I'm just like, okay, like it's
getting there, Like that's amazing. So yeah, definitely get in
touch and get in tune with what we are doing
because the Lord is definitely doing a work with community
in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
All Right, I will see you guys, Lada Bye.
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