The Power of Influence with Diana Day Burks

Today Diana Burks, the author of Wildfire: Ignite Your Influence and Impact Your World joins me to talk about the power of your influence to impact the lives around you. […]

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(00:11):
Welcome to the I am a woman podcast.
I'm your host, Jennifer Strickland, and it's so
fun to have my sweet, sweet friend,
Diana Birx, in my home today
just to have a conversation
about influence. Diana is an influencer. I'm gonna
say that for sure.
She is an author,

(00:33):
of a new book called Wildfire, which we're
gonna talk about today. Makes me so happy.
She is the founder of G3 Ministries,
which stands for
God, Girls, and Greatness. Thank you.
And she puts on events for young women.
I had an opportunity
to speak at a couple of your events

(00:53):
at one point.
And, you've got some exciting events coming up,
which by the time this podcast actually airs,
they will be passed.
But at the same time, Diana is a
powerful voice in our community
and an incredible leader. So thank you so
much for being on the show. Oh, thank
you so much for asking me. It's my

(01:14):
honor. I'm excited to be here with you
today.
So honored. Thank you. Well, I I am
so proud of you because at one point,
you went through my Let's Write program.
I did. And you were just dreaming of
writing this book but you were she was
one of my very best students, I have
to say, because she was actually writing, not
just talking about writing a book.
You were in the draft process.

(01:36):
Tell me what led you to write the
book Wildfire
and what
what that journey was like for you?
Wow. Well, it was an honor to be
in your class and to be in the
Let's Write class because I needed it. I
needed all the help I could get.
And, you know, when you think about writing
a book, for someone like you that it
is so easy because you're gifted at writing,

(01:58):
You're really gifted. For someone like me, I
have a message in my heart, but it's
how do I get it out. Sure. And
that's where you came in as such an
amazing coach and helping me in so many
ways.
Just be able to describe what I'm thinking
or feeling. Sure. But years ago, I had
desire to write a book, and I heard
the Lord say, you're gonna write a book.

(02:20):
And I asked him, what is it gonna
be about? And he said, I want you
to write about what you've been doing since
you were a young girl.
I want you to write about the gift
of influence.
And I thought, wow. I don't even know
where to start. I don't know what that's
gonna look like.
But when he downloaded it to me,
he gave me, like, 12 chapters right away.

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And so it was an instant download and
I started thinking, okay, this is the flow,
this is the direction,
and that was years ago
where I thought that meant then.
Like, you know, when you get a download,
I thought that meant I'm gonna release the
book now. Mhmm. But it actually was seeds
in the ground so that he could then
water them Mhmm. With time, with his word,

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and then at the right time, at the
exact moment that he wanted it released,
then I could fulfill what he put in
my heart. Sure. So it was actually a
process of seasons Sure. To go through. Sure.
Absolutely.
I love one of the things. What it
I think it's one of the chapters of
the book is called The Power of 1.
Yes. I love that because I we have

(03:27):
a saying in our ministry, all for the
1. Yeah.
Yeah. And
that came from an experience I had,
giving my testimony
at this one church where it was just
like this massive
crowd, and there was one girl
who gave her life to the Lord.
And the women who were planning the event

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had this very they were, like, counting, like,
how many people gave their lives to Jesus.
Yeah. There was there was 3 events, and
the other 2, there was a bunch of
women who did. But this this one event,
there was one
girl.
And I remember feeling
almost kind of sorry for the event planners
that they were looking at it that way,

(04:09):
that they were like, how many? How many
was that?
Because I was thinking to myself that that
one girl was
sort of a picture of even my own
story that I I was 1. Yes.
I was 1 and that the kingdom of
heaven is celebrating our world.
Yes. And you do not know
what that one girl
is going to do. That's exactly right. So

(04:31):
tell me,
tell me about the power of one and
how how has that influenced
your life and and your ministry?
You know, I believe so much in the
power of 1 because I think that one
person can make such a significant impact
in generations and the people around them because
everyone has influence.

(04:51):
Everyone does. Right. We can't judge and go,
well, this person has more influence than that
person because you don't know who they're gonna
touch, and it's only one person touching the
next person, then that might be the person
that has massive influence. So Yeah. I feel
like to overlook people
is, you know, really what
the the world does and what the enemy

(05:12):
does is he wants to discount people and
act like that they don't matter, but every
person matters to God. And even when I
got g 3, which is in addition to
the my book, but the ministry God Girls
in Greatness, he literally said that to me.
Every girl has greatness inside of her.
Go and pull out that potential out of
them. Yeah. And so that's the field with

(05:34):
even reaching someone, the power of 1 Yeah.
Is when you begin to see yourself that
you have influence and you as one person
can make such a difference,
and then you're reaching that one person, are
you willing to go out of your comfort
zone, are you willing to do uncomfortable things,
stretch yourself Mhmm. To reach that one person?

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Mhmm. And when you do, all of heaven
applauds, and the reward god's a really
good record keeper.
He's really good at keeping records. So all
of heaven rejoices.
When you're not looking for numbers and, oh,
I want this influential person, I wanna reach
this person, but you care about the heart

(06:15):
of the father,
that he cares about 1 because he created
everyone.
He created everyone and he loves everyone uniquely
and he loves everyone
lavishly. Yeah. And he's literally sending people to
go after the one. It's so true. Yes.
It's so true and I think about that
in my story about the people who reached

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out to me and
strangers on the street and things like that,
and they took the time to pour into
1. And you see that obviously with the
disciples and with Jesus as much as he
preached the crowds. Most of his interactions
were for the 1, whether he's inviting Zacchaeus
over to his house, right, or it's the
bleeding woman reaching for him. Yes. He he

(06:59):
ended obviously the father, the shepherd who goes
after Yes. Goes after the one. So what
was it that you were doing when you
were a little girl that the Lord said,
okay. I want you to tell people about
what you were doing when you were little,
but what you've been doing all of your
life.
Because if you always, in a way, understood
that concept

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even since being a child? Yeah. You know,
it's kinda wild. It's a different story
than most people have. But at 6 years
old, I became a Christian. I asked Jesus
to come into my heart
and literally meant it,
really understood it,

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marker.
It's the difference because when you have the
Holy Spirit, he's leading you. He's guiding you.
And I remember even at 8 years old
having dreams
that really were from heaven. They were they
were what we would probably know now is,
like, prophetic dreams, but then I didn't know
anything about it. But I would have reoccurring
dreams, and it was gifts he was depositing

(08:03):
in me to have discernment, to have wisdom
when I was growing up. So that's one
reason I'm so passionate about reaching young girls
because, you know, they're not too young. They
can have the Holy Spirit, and they can
know right from wrong. They can walk in
wisdom,
and they can be a light
at whatever age they are. I literally even
at one of my last events that I

(08:24):
just had at the King's University
in December,
I had a girl in the audience that
was 6 years old,
and she is already so in love with
Jesus and filled with the Holy Spirit. So
when I did altar call to just invite
people to come and know the Lord or
if they'd never given their life to him
or if they wanna renew and really get

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set on fire for the Lord, she came
up to the front, and I thought she
was coming for prayer, but she turned around
and faced the audience,
and she came as a prayer warrior
to be like an altar ministry person,
which I thought was so precious. And I
mean, I just thought it was adorable because
it's so pure in innocence. Right? It's so
sweet. And, you know, and the Lord says

(09:06):
that, you have to have faith like a
child. Right. And so sometimes we over complicate
everything
when all we need to do is just
make it simple.
And so when I I then speak and
I write on a 5th grade level,
because honestly, that's what all of us have
to come to the kingdom as as a
child.
Mhmm. I don't understand, Lord. And this might

(09:27):
seem like a foreign language and I don't
really understand the Bible. I don't really understand
what it means to be an influence.
I don't know how to do it, but
he loves humility.
And he loves for us just to come
with an open heart and say, I don't
know what I'm doing, but I'm open for
you to teach me Right. And I just
wanna learn and I believe you like a
child. I

(09:51):
our 13 year old son, Samuel.
I have seen
really all of his prayers be answered.
And and and just it it and I
tell him, like,
Sam, like, the Lord answers your prayers. He's
like, I know. You know, he's got a
friend down whose, you know, parents are possibly
getting a divorce. He knows

(10:11):
exactly what to do
with that. He knows how to pray for
that. He he has prayed for his friends'
healings. He has prayed for things in our
family.
We have seen the answers Yeah. To his
prayers
again and again. It's all good. And the
sweetness is is that he believes god. He
believes.
And that's the key. And and that's and

(10:33):
and I think, you know, as an adult,
we're the ones that struggle with that a
lot more than till 10.
So true. You have another chapter in your
book that talks about being an image bearer.
Yes. That is
so close to my heart, you know, and
and my ministry where I, you know, I

(10:54):
talk to girls so much about, you know,
body image
and understanding what it what it means to
be made in the image of God. I
feel
like there is a weight
of importance Yes. Right now in this generation
on that particular I'm very bullish.
Right? Yes.
How do you teach that, Diana?

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How did what does it mean to you
to be an image bearer?
Well, when we get a picture
of who God made us to be Mhmm.
And how he formed us in our mother's
womb Mhmm. And we are fearfully and wonderfully
made Mhmm. And we're so unique. Like, if
we begin to see ourselves the way that
God sees us Mhmm. We do not struggle

(11:38):
with all of the influences of the world
trying to tell us who we are because
we read the word of God. And as
a young child, let's go back to that
growing up
where we can have an understanding
of this is what he says about me.
Mhmm. Then if I will believe what the
word of god says about me Mhmm. I
mean, I have so much confidence

(11:59):
in my identity of who I am in
Christ. And in that confidence,
I'm not searching, asking everybody, who am I?
Who am I? Who am I? Tell me
who I am and looking for approval from
everyone else because your father
in heaven, that the ultimate desire
designed you one of a kind and approved
of you and made you special and put

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his signature on you,
literally marked you with his power and his
presence, why would you need anybody else's approval?
And when you have that, you go about
with such confidence and boldness, and you bear
the image of Christ everywhere you go. You're
a beacon of light. You're a beacon of
hope. And people are attracted to you. They're
drawn to you like a magnet because it

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is the power of God in you and
you're unique. You're set apart. You're one of
a kind. And I think that when we
teach young girls that Mhmm. They have so
much
joy,
so much confidence, so much peace. It gets
rid of insecurity.
It gets rid of,
competition
and comparison and approval and all these things

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that just literally
take people in a downward spiral It's so
true. Of emotions and anxiety and depression and
all of these things.
If they could just understand
how valuable they are, how worthy they are,
their identity in Christ, if they will understand
that, then they have the confidence and the
boldness to rise up and do anything that

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God's called them to do. And they can
do it with just their unique flair, their
unique style. They don't need to be anybody
else. Right. You know, why are we always
trying to be somebody else when God made
us one of a kind and he loves
us so uniquely,
like we love our children. We love our
children. You can't even compare your children because
you love them so uniquely. Oh, yeah. Right?

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Right. But you love them all the same,
but all uniquely.
And that's how we are in the father's
eyes.
He made us such an imprint
of who he is,
depositing gifts in us before the foundation of
the world, he had paths for us to
walk on. Ephesians tells us that that he
predestined, like he planned, I'm gonna design you

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for this purpose. Right. You're born for this.
Right. And when we know what we're born
to do,
we can do anything and everything he's called
us to do with so much confidence and
boldness because we know it's greater is he
that's in me than he that's in the
world. We don't have to live in fear.
Perfect love casts out all fear. We don't
have to live in fear, and I think

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that's a message to generations
whether we're
10, you know, 6 years old, 10 years
old, 15, 20, 25,
35,
52. I just had a birthday last week.
What if we are, you know, in our
sixties or seventies or eighties, you know? It's
it's it's an identity
issue
that people are struggling with when they're searching

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everywhere
saying would you
put your stamp of approval on me? Would
you show me that you love me? Would
you tell me who I am? All these
things in God's all along going, would you
look at the word of God and just
let me show you how wonderful how wonderful
you are and how fearful and wonderfully I
made you and that I made you for
a purpose

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and I planned such a specific divine design
for you that you would be so
empowered
by me, by my spirit, that you could
be an influence in this world, that you
could be a light bearer. You could tell
the world how good I am, how great
I am, and what an awesome God that
you serve. Oh, I love it. Don't you
just want her to talk to you all

(15:29):
the time?
I'm like, can you preach in my ear?
It's so and it's so funny because it's
the same message
that I teach, but it's exactly like you
said that
you can do it with your own flair.
Yeah. You know what I mean? Yes. It's
the same message that he's given both of
us Yes. But our way of communicating it

(15:51):
is just slightly different. Yeah. I love the
way Genesis, like, if someone were to pick
up the Bible and obviously, God designed it
this way and, okay, well, I just started
the beginning. Yeah. You know, I'll just try
to read the first couple of pages. When
you read the first couple of pages, everything
you really need is in Genesis 1 through
3. And there's not
you don't have to get, you know, you

(16:13):
don't have to you don't have to get
through Leviticus. Yeah. Although, it's so rewarding to
actually get through Leviticus. Yeah. That's that's a
lot of hard work. I'm in numbers right
now, and I'm like, I am pressing on.
But you can just start with those first
three chapters or that first chapter to understand
the simple truth

(16:33):
that he made you in his image and
likeness.
I just did, you know, I have this
new book coming out called I Know Woman,
and I and and in this study, I
discovered that image is the word image in
Hebrew is masculine, but the word likeness is
feminine.
And he's saying, you know,
we, I, us, Elohim, which is what the

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the God, that we've we first discovered there
in Genesis 1, the creator. Elohim is the
creator.
Made us
masculine and feminine, male and female in his
image. Yes.
So good.
What
what's going on, Diana, with the world right
now

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telling children
that they are not
created,
male and female. The research that I did
for this book goes through, like, Teen Vogue.
I don't know if you've looked at once.
Yep. That's
it's wild. Oh, the messaging for Teen Vogue
is absolutely
unbelievable. I mean, with millions of followers

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telling girls, you are not they're like, binary
is not real.
There's no such thing as male and female.
There's no such thing as the binary spouses.
You know, a trans woman which is, of
course, a a man dressed up as a
woman
is
female is female. You know, the dictionary

(17:57):
has
changed the definition of male and female and
man and woman in the last few years.
How do you influence that? How do you
counteract that?
Is it is it is it just as
simple as as what you just shared just
now?
What is your message to young girls? Because

(18:18):
it maybe they don't buy into that. Yeah.
Maybe they don't quite, but there are a
lot
that are
or they're just struggling with so many jealousies,
so many and so are grown women, and
to be honest, so many jealousies, so many
comparisons, so much rejection Yeah. Especially
among
Yeah.

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Is so painful
and so difficult whether you are an adult
or you are a young woman.
What's your what's your strategy? Yeah.
You know, that's it's a huge thing. It's
huge, and it is massive around
America, around the world
of what's happening with this confusion

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of people not knowing their identity
and hearing the voices of the world tell
them that there's somebody else
when that we read in Genesis, you just
said male and female.
So
for them to be questioning their roles of
who the who God made them to be,
I feel like the answer is they have
not met Jesus Christ,
their Lord, because,

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I mean, they have not been touched with
love. So many of them are searching for
love. They're wandering around going, you know, who
am I? Would you love me? I need
acceptance. It's kind of what we talked about
a moment ago. So
my answer to that is that if they
would understand
if we can
train up a generation

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of the home
I I mean, I go back to the
home because, you know, everything flows from the
top down. So as women,
moms,
if we are not sure who we are
and we are not sure of the word
of God in our life and the final
authority in our lives of who we are
and securing
it, are securing our identity in Christ. How

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are we gonna teach girls? How are we
gonna teach our daughters that are in the
home? And so I think it flows from
the top down. Mhmm. So it starts with
us as women. Mhmm. That's one thing. Mhmm.
But the other thing is is many, many
girls as I have a girls ministry that
I don't get to reach all moms, but
we do invite moms to come to our
our events also, so it would be generational.
But I believe it's grandmother, mother, and daughter

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all coming together to,
really link arms to help this next generation
rise up and see truth.
That's a big part of it because there's
so much confusion, so many voices, which we
know Satan is the father of lies.
And so he all he does is lie.
That's all he knows to do. But if
we can have generations,
that grandmother, that mother, and that daughter come

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together and go, let's look at who you
really are, the who God says you are,
but let's position for you to receive love,
the real love, because even these people that
are confused if they are male or female,
they're just searching for acceptance. They're search searching
for someone to love them, but unless they
get a touch from heaven

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and a touch from the Lord Jesus Christ,
that they can begin to know
that he formed them and he made them,
and that he has a plan for their
life, and he designed them. And until they
encounter
his love, you know, I think of the
bible, the, you know, one of the most
common things that people know about the Bible
if they've heard any scripture at all is

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God is love. Mhmm.
If you go back to that,
you do not know the love of God
until you encounter him.
Exactly.
You can hear that all day long, but
until you get a touch from him and
he encounters you Right. You're like, what is
love? I don't understand what love is. Right.
But God himself
wants to touch

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this generation of women of all ages and
all the confusion going on and say, let
me show you love. Mhmm. The love of
the father
that melts off all this hard shell and
all the confusion and all the voices. He
definitely So I feel like for us to
this is such a large question to answer,
but for women to rise up

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and be that example in their home, to
get firm in their foundation
for women like you and I to use
our voices to speak truth and put on
the belt of truth, which is the word
of God in a mixed up world that
has so many ideas of what truth is,
but we gotta go into the foundation of
the word of God and put on that
belt of truth and tighten

(22:38):
tighten it with our voices and say, no,
we're not gonna listen to what the world
says. It's filled with lies because Satan is
the father of lies, But let's go back
to the beginning, God made female, and He
made us uniquely. And females will never be
males and males will never be females. We
have many emotions and many different things regardless

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if you change the outside. The inside can
never be changed. Infamous.
The heart and the emotions of a female
are completely different than a male.
So it's not even anywhere close. They can
pretend all they want, but it's not. It's
not. It will never be that way. It
will never be that way. And I think
that it it's it's it's been interesting for
me to see

(23:19):
many women in
ministry
that I've admired
for for many, many years
say nothing.
Yeah.
Say nothing about something that is, I always
say, so biblical it's ridiculous.
Totally. So biblical it's ridiculous.
And so when this when this,

(23:40):
gender movement become became
so so big for me for me personally.
I I kind of had a crisis of
influence because I love talking to you about
influence,
and that to me is your wildfire. Yes.
That's that's your sweet spot. That's something that
you understand
so so well and so uniquely.

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You have
a chapter in your book,
that talks about I think it's called trial
by fire.
Forged by fire. Yes. Forged by fire.
I I also went through a fire adversity
that drove it out of me to speak
Yeah. About this topic. It was just a
series of painful things that I went through

(24:24):
where the Lord showed me my identity on
a deeper level. Yeah. How were you forged
by fire? Because you have this wildfire.
Haley.
What's your story on that? What was the
what was the fire? What was the thing
that forged in in you don't have to
be over the personal whatever, you know, you
feel, but I know that

(24:45):
you're authentic, and I know that you're real,
and I know that you're honest, that it
these kind this kind of fire doesn't come
easily. Yes. Right?
Yes. You know, you can ask the Holy
Spirit for fire in your life and he'll
give it to you because he's a good
father. He'll give you that fire.
But when you're tested then
Mhmm. That's what I feel like forged by

(25:06):
fire.
That's why it's so valuable
because anything pure
and pure gold has to be tested. Mhmm.
And I thought about
the way that my I write a little
bit in in the chapter about my grandmother
was this professional China painter, and she didn't
even realize she had the talent until she
was in her sixties.
She went through her whole life and had

(25:28):
this hidden talent, but when my grandfather passed
away,
she was left with bills.
He owned a grocery store and left her
in debt and she had,
she was a hairstylist,
but she thought, how am I gonna pay
for my house and how am I gonna
live and, you know, he he died when
she was in her sixties. So all of
a sudden, she thought, you know, I have
this talent

(25:48):
and or it wasn't even talent. She had,
like, an interest, a hobby, but she didn't
realize it was this big talent. She started
painting and just let God develop this talent.
And I'm even speaking that right now by
faith for someone that might be listening and
going, you know, maybe it's too late for
me. Maybe it's over. And I feel like
I don't have any fiber. I don't have

(26:08):
any influence. I don't have anything to give.
I feel at the bottom of the barrel.
And I mean, I think we all could
relate to being at the bottom of the
barrel. Yep. That was my grandmother at that
time and I've been there too. But, she
just thought I'm gonna pick myself up and
I'm gonna ask God for answers. And she
started china painting,

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but she had this kettle in her living
room
that she would put 24 karat gold
on the china, put it into the kettle
and it would be forged in that fire
and it would never come off. It's permanently
on there, on the china. It's so beautiful.
And then she ended up being world famous
traveling in her eighties

(26:51):
all over Malaysia and Australia,
all over by herself
and paid off her house, left
up at the bottom of her
feeling like everything's over

(27:12):
and start again and begin again. And so
I feel like that fire, I remembered that
when I started thinking about her permanently putting
24 karat gold on China. And I thought,
you know what, Lord, that's what you're doing
with me in my heart.
Because as much as I love you and
as much as I've served you my whole
life, I've gone through some hard things,

(27:32):
some really difficult things. Sure. And I lost
my brother to a a sudden tragedy
and my world shook when I went through
that. I thought, how is this possible?
It was just overnight, he was gone. Oh.
And it was very, very painful because it
felt like everything was left in shambles. Like,
you know, your round is shaking.

(27:53):
And then I won't go into too much
of that. And then later on, I lost
my mom to cancer,
and that was very difficult. She was a
woman of faith and my best friend other
than my husband and the Holy Spirit,
and I watched her go through
really about 7 months of hospice, which was
extremely painful for me to watch. Very, very
difficult. So I kept thinking, Lord, what are

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you doing? Why? Now those were not him
doing that. Those are from the enemy. I
know everyone makes that up. John 10:10 says
the enemy comes to the thief comes to
kill, steal, and destroy. But Jesus came that
we would have life and life more abundantly
to the fullest until it overflows.
So I don't ever want to blame God
for something that enemy's doing to kill, steal,

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and destroy.
But in that process, God, if you give
him your heart and you give him that
pain, whatever you're walking through, the bottom of
the barrel that I talked about, and you
say, Lord, I don't understand,
I'm angry at what the enemy's done,
but I'm also giving you just the pieces
of my heart, and I'm asking you to

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heal me but put a fresh fire in
me. Mhmm. Make it make me even more
authentic and more genuine.
That's where I relate it to that piece
of China
with the 24 karat gold. Mhmm. Because James
talks about when you go through fiery trials
Mhmm. That your faith will be tested and
it will come out as pure gold. Mhmm.
And that's what I felt like it did
for me is it took me deeper,

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and I went even into more authenticity, even
into more layers
of identity that needed to fall off of
me, whether it's, you know,
just man's approval, fear of man, whether it's,
oh, I want I want the recognition or
whatever it might be. Right. It purifies your
heart. Right. And that's when God's like, now
I can really use you. I can really

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use your influence
because you have died to self. You've crucified
the flesh, and now you're pure pure gold.
I love that. It's so true that the
fire is about to self. Yeah. It is.
You and when you come out of the
fire and then you find opportunities
to die to yourself more Yes. Like, I
have to go do this thing. You know,

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I have to go serve these people or
whatever it might be. Something that you it
could be anything that you really don't feel
like doing. Right.
You can go, oh, lord. Thank you for
the opportunity to die to myself
because I know that it is in the
dying to self Yes. That you get to
rise at. That's exactly right. That that's the

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true life. You actually find the true life
if you let go of what you think
is life,
all of your own desires and your own
selfish ambition.
Yeah. If you'll die to that,
new true life is born.
It's so true. And I loved I didn't
mention this, but I love the way
your answer to the whole gender confusion question

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that's going on in our in our nation,
in our world was the home. Yeah. It
reminds me so much of Debbie Titus who
is very dear to me, and she was
my mentor. And her answer for women was
always the home. Yes. And it is in
the home that that fire is shaping us
because it's in the it's in the unseen

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Totally. That other people do not see except
our own families. And They're always watching.
They see everything. They see everything. And they're
looking at mom. Yes.
I had such an interesting time studying the
mother in Hebrew in the writing of this
book,
of being the spiritual light in the home
Yes. In Judaism and how she likes the

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Shabbat candle and how she is the she
is considered the one
that is the light in the heart of
the home. And it it it it's the
opposite
message of the feminist movement.
It's the opposite message of the pride movement.
It's the opposite message our girls are getting
on Instagram as much as, and it's the
opposite message that women since the seventies, since

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the sexual revolution have gotten that actually
your power and your influence
begins in the home. Amen. Yeah. That's exactly
right. It is such true.
Don't focus there first,
every influence outside of that
doesn't really matter and it crumbles
because your whole truth is what God's given

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you. He gave you those children.
He gave you your husband. He gave you
that place that you get to be the
most powerful. Mhmm. Your voice is the most
powerful voice your children will ever hear. It
is so true. And if they hear it
with authenticity
because you live what you say you believe,
That's the key. Because I watched my mom

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that's my that's written in my book. I
watched my mom live authentically
for Jesus Christ. She was not perfect. You
do not have to be perfect to be
authentic.
She lived pure and everything she did, she
truly
did what she said she believed. She would
say something and she would follow it up
with actions. So constantly, I never question,

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is it real, is she not real, is
it fake, what she's telling me? I believed
her Mhmm. With such purity Mhmm. Because she
was pure. She was a pure role model
for me. And she was a teacher.
She wasn't like a big influencer
in man's eyes, but she influenced kids in
the classroom,
but she influenced me in our home.

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And I think that that's what I you
know, when I got married and I had
children,
that's what she was my role model and
that's what I strive to be is follow
after her is I just want my kids
to look at me and say
Diana
is the real deal. Mhmm. Exactly. She says
it and she believes it and she follows
through with it. Exactly. That's what people are
hungry for. That's what kids are hungry for.

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That's what every person watching your influence is
hungry for. Are you real and authentic, or
are you just
fake? You're just telling me this, but you
don't really believe it. Right. And if you
really sincerely believe it, people around you have
no doubt that it's real. That's right. They
have no doubts. That's right. When you talk
about the your voice being the most powerful

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voice, you know, your children are gonna hear,
That's
that is so absolutely true. It's so in
line with the word of God. It's very
much the subject of this new book that
I have because I discovered the power of
women's voices Yeah. And by studying the the
wise woman of Proverbs and the and and
the foolish woman.
And at the same time,

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we aren't perfect. No. And I'm not even
making
mistakes
as moms. Maybe our tone is off. For
sure.
The look on our faces up. Maybe we
didn't choose the right words. Yeah. How how
do
you course correct? Yes. So do you course
correct? Because you're right. We are the greatest

(34:43):
influence and yet
when we are in the fire,
sometimes
we're crumbling.
Yes. And as moms, we're not we're not
responding.
The the you know, we're not Jesus. No.
You know what I mean? No. So how
do you
how do you course correct when you know
that
when you make mistakes as a mom? I'm

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just curious. You know what I love? I
respect you so much. Thank you. I respect
you too very much.
You know what I love is when you
can have a heart to heart with your
child.
And if they are an adult child, which
I have a 25 year old son,
I have a 21 year old son that's
almost 22,
and I have an 18 year old daughter.

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And when you can be authentic with them
and you can be real
and you can say, humbly, I'm so sorry.
Please forgive me. I messed up.
I was wrong, and admit that you're wrong.
Mhmm. I think that goes so far and
they have great respect for you. You know,
so many times we wanna be the authority
and we're, you know, what our way or

(35:44):
our way of thinking was right. Many times,
you know, it's our way of thinking. Everybody
thinks they're right. So to come to our
child and, yes, you're still the authority, I
understand that, but even an adult child and
say, you know what? I wanna hear your
heart. I wanna hear your perspective,
and would you forgive me for saying that
wrong? Would you forgive me for my tone

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and my aggressiveness?
Mhmm. And even if you're having a moment
of weakness, don't be afraid to show that
to your children. Right. You know? Even this
past weekend,
I had 1
my 25 year old son was home,
and my 21 year old came in from
Florida, my other son came from Oklahoma,
and my daughter came from Waco, and we
were all under one roof, and I had

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a moment where I just felt like overwhelmed
with our emotion.
And it wasn't emotion, of course, emotion that
I love them and they're so wonderful, but
it was not even that. It was emotion
that I thought, you know, I kinda feel
a little overwhelmed right now. And I'm just
admitting that. Even as a mom at 52,
you have moments that you feel overwhelmed. Yeah.
Because we have strong emotions,

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and we love our kids so much. We
want the best for them,
but you have moments you're like, I don't
know what to do. I don't even know
the answer. But I think that simple childlike
faith that we started with, that you humble
yourself, and I literally went to the bathroom
and I just said, holy spirit, help me.
That's my greatest prayer,
is I don't have to know anything. I

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just say, holy spirit, I don't know what
to do. I need your help. Mhmm. It's
that easy. We over complicate everything. Mhmm. If
you will just cry out with a humble
heart and say help,
he will help you. Yes. And then he
gave me an idea of what to say,
an answer, a response when I felt overwhelmed.
Or even a situation where

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we're about to move to a new house
and we don't know where we're moving, and
I've got 3 conferences going on and all
these things at once. And I just said,
you know, I don't know. I feel a
little overwhelmed right now, but I let them
see me vulnerable. I let them see
me that, you know, mom needs the Lord
to help her too in this situation. And
I said, would y'all just pray for me?

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And so I think that humility and walking
in that Always. That you're just constantly saying
we're in this together. And I know at
a certain age that my mom became my
best friend. Mhmm. And we she began to
see that I had gifts and so many
wonderful traits. And we, as moms, we've gotta
call that out in our kids. And so
I even told my 25 year old son,

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I said, you're brilliant.
You're amazing. And God God has designed you
so wonderfully, and you know what to do.
He will lead you and he will tell
you. All you have to do is get
in his word and ask him. Read his
word till you renew your mind. You transform
by the renewing of your mind, Romans 12,
1 and 2, so then you know the
perfect will of God. Really? You don't know

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the perfect will of God if you're not
in the word because it's the only road
map.
The Bible says, he gives us the word
of God is a lamp into our feet
and a light into our path.
And every time the righteous the path of
the righteous gets brighter and brighter,
that we know the path, we know where
to walk. And here he was trying to
even talk through it, make decisions in life,

(38:53):
and I'm trying to make decisions in life,
and we don't know it all, but we
can trust the word of God to be
an anchor,
an anchor in a world that's gone chaotic,
a world with so many voices, a world
with so many opinions,
that we can bank our life on the
word of God, the sure
foundation,
the solid rock.

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And I just think it gives us so
much hope, so much peace. So good. So
good. Is you are just such a great
mentor, not just only for girls,
but for moms. You talk about in your
book
just,
I think you call it starving
the wrong thinking and destructive attitudes and not

(39:35):
feeding them anymore. I thought that was a
really good,
analogy
for you know, we're always talking about how
to reroute our thoughts and how to re
how you starve negative
thinking and if you had to do that
with your ministry
as well as your mothering because I know

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I have. When I tell people the negative
thoughts that I have had
about my
myself, my books, my ministry, but they're like,
it's not what others see. No. No. Others
just don't think those thoughts. Yeah. No. It's
I'm like Yeah. I can be my thoughts
can be my worst enemy.

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So I love that. I love that concept.
Will you talk about that? How do you
do that? How do you starve the negative
thoughts? Because that is also a very, very
powerful message Yeah. For young women. It is.
You know, and it's real.
It's very real. It's so real. Thoughts. Old
women too. They're funny. Yeah. Because of them,
I don't have a favorite choice. You're at.
Right. No. It's not an age thing. Sure.

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It is an enemy thing.
We have an enemy coming after us that
hates us,
hates our destiny, hates that we would reach
our destiny in God. The dream that God
designed for us, the enemy of our soul
hates it, and he will do whatever he
can to stop it. And there's a war
against our destiny.
There's a war against our purpose that we

(41:00):
were born to do. And I think that
when we're on the path of what God
has designed us to do, the enemy tries
whatever way he can to stop us. If
he tries to stop us through the negative
thinking,
it's like you're not good enough, you can't
do it, you're not qualified,
but here's what I found out.
He tells everybody the same story.

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He tells everybody the same thing. And so
finally, we just, like, laugh and we're like,
oh,
he thinks he's so smart, but he has
no new tricks.
His tricks are the same. And so once
we bring it to light,
then we go, oh, he's telling you that
you're not good enough. Oh, he's telling you
that you're not qualified. Oh, he told me
that too. Oh, the joke's on him.

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Because you just flip it around and you're,
like, liar liar, beer's on fire. Like, this
is so stupid. He's telling everybody you're not
enough.
It is so true. What dumb is that?
It's so true.
When it really comes down to it Yeah.
That really seems like everybody's goal. Like men
Yes. Women.
You know, you think that it's about,

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you know, teen girls are believing this and
then you find out no, you know, men
in their fifties or sixties. Oh, wow. In
their seventies or eighties. Yes.
And boy, it goes all the way across
the board his lies with Sam. So it's
really I love the way you say the
jokes on him like Yeah. Like I'm on
to you. Yeah. That's kinda like your attitude.
Then I'm on to that, then you get

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the upper hand. You get the edge. Oh,
so cute. You no longer listen to those
lies because you're like, I know where they're
coming from and he's the father of all
lies, and you begin to recognize it. You
recognize the voice as a lie. Mhmm. So
that's the first thing. Right. And the second
thing is you're like, that voice is not
my father's voice.
That is not my father's voice. Now you've
got to be introduced to the father's voice

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to start discerning this, but once you get
a touch of the love of God, that's
what you're talking about, and his compelling love,
He's wild for you. He's crazy about you.
He designed you just the way he wants
you. I I used to tell him that.
Lord, if you would have made me more
detailed, if you would have made me more
disciplined, if you would have made me more

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powerful or strong or, you know, I just
feel so weak or whatever I would feel
Yeah. Then I could accomplish everything you designed
me to accomplish. And he's like, no.
I made you just like I wanted you.
And if you discount that, you're literally slapping
me in the face because I'm the designer.

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Don't even for a minute try to tell
god that he designed something wrong
or that he and the other one is
it's not just that
I'm not enough because I think for me,
I
kinda got over that. Yeah.
It's also there's another enough. It's
I don't have enough. If I have this

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Right.
Then
I could be I would be then I
would have everything that I need.
Yeah. I've had such an interesting time going
through the old testament this year and seeing
you're exactly right about the slap in the
face and people do not realize Yeah. The
anger of God. Yeah. Right. And it is
actually
it's actually very real. Yes. He you know,

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we're made in his image. We get angry.
So I don't know why it's so surprising,
but he also gets angry. Yes. And he
really gets angry when his children complain.
Yes. You know, he's giving a manna.
They complain,
and they want the quail. Then they've got
the quail, and they don't have the water.
And then he finally goes, fine. You know?

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The You won't have another problem. You won't
get the milk. That's right. That's right. The
the milk the the land flowing in milk
and honey because you're so busy complaining where
I hear you're on your way to the
land flowing with milk and honey. Right? And
you're complaining that you have
no water.
How do you fight that lie that, you
know, here you've been called, right, to put

(44:52):
on all these bets. I'll I'll be I'll
be authentic on the I am a Woman
podcast. I've got this book coming out. I'll
just tell you. I mean, friends. And I'm
like, I should put on a vet. And
the immediate thing is
we don't have
you don't have the the the resource right
at it. You don't have the team to
do that. You don't have the this to
do that.
Yeah. How do you fight that? Because it

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takes a lot of faith It does. To
do what you're doing. Yes. It reminds me
of that that movie,
you know,
the one with the guy builds it with
the baseball field. Oh, yeah. Build it and
they will come. Yeah. Build it and they
will come. It takes a lot of of
faith Yeah. To say I'm gonna run out
this It's exactly right. In a place and
I'm gonna invite these speakers. Right. Place, and
I'm gonna invite these speakers, or we're gonna
invite people and say, we'll come. Yeah. How
do you how do you fight that those

(45:35):
negative voices? What's your
strategy?
Well, you know, I feel like the Lord
says that faith pleases him,
so I try to stretch my faith
because it's not easy. You have doubt trying
to stop you. But if I will keep
my eyes on Jesus and I'm saying, oh,

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he told me to stretch my faith and
believe him. Yeah. I'm gonna do it and
I know that that pleases him. So I'm
not gonna resort back to all the unbelief
and, like, you know, just what you were
describing about the promised land.
Going into the promised land, there's milk and
honey. There's all the rewards waiting for them,
but along the way, they found all the

(46:17):
reasons to stop, all the reasons. There's giants
in the land. Oh, we need this and
we need that. We don't have the resources,
all this stuff. But I know the Lord
has told me, if I complain,
I will stay the same. You could say
complain and remain.
Or if I will praise him, he will
help me be raised. It'll raise me up
to another level of thinking, come up higher

(46:38):
when I praise him and I get my
eyes off of the circumstances
Yeah. Get my eyes on the promise, get
my eyes on the vision, get my eyes
on what he's called me to do, and
and and look out in front of you.
And you don't see giants, you see grass
hoppers. You're like, oh, we're gonna take those
giants. Those giants are going down. Yeah. And
so it's all about
how you have replaced every negative thought in

(47:00):
your mind, digging it captive
according to the obedience of Jesus Christ, just
like the word of God tells us, literally,
you lasso it with a rope.
I can say that because I was a
cowgirl. I didn't really I I mean, I
grew up in Lubbock, Texas on, you know,
like a farm and had mountain horse and
that kind of thing. So, but you literally,
you could lasso that thought and say that
thought does not belong to God, it does

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not belong to my father, and I recognize
it that it is from the enemy who
is the father of all lies, not from
my father God. So I could take it,
and I'm gonna take it captive. I'm gonna
put it in a cage, and I'm gonna
replace it now with whatsoever things are honest
and pure and lovely and of a good
report, and I'm gonna focus on those things.
I'm gonna meditate on those things. But one

(47:43):
key is you don't know how to replace
that thought unless
every single day I have my Bible right
here, but every single day
you begin to read the word of God
and you replace it. And, I mean, even
if you only have 10 minutes a day
Right. It will change your life. It will
change your thinking. The word of God is
living and alive.

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It produces
life inside of you. When there's been
doubt and unbelief and seeds that the enemies
planted in you to stop your destiny,
the word of God is the answer. It
will literally cause everything to come back to
life inside of you. It's so true. Plants,
flowers, you know, everything grows and produces. So
what you feed grows.

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And if you feed doubt and unbelief, it's
gonna grow. It's
so true. Fear, it's gonna grow. Yeah. If
you feed faith
and you step out boldly in faith with
the power of the Holy Spirit, I'm gonna
do it. I'm gonna tell my feelings to
be quiet and silent in the name of
Jesus. You know, when y'all know what to
do,
Use the name of Jesus

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and say, feelings,
sit down and be silent right now in
the name of Jesus.
I'm gonna boldly do what God told me
to do, what he called me to do
regardless how I feel. Because if you wait
on your feelings, you're never gonna fulfill your
destiny.
You're never gonna fulfill your purpose in God.
You're never gonna have the impact and the
influence that he designed you to have. Really?

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Because you've gotta say, I live by faith.
I walk by faith. I don't walk by
sight, and I'm not gonna let my feelings
rule everything that I'm doing in life. I
wanna do great exploits for God. Like the
book of Daniel says, those that know their
God will do great exploits.
Don't you wanna be that person
that's known of doing great exploits for god?

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And you made a mark in eternity, you
made a mark while you lived here?
That's what we wanna do. Does she get
you fired up? Does she get you fired?
For what? You fired me up too. No.
And I I no. I love I love
your I love your passion. I know it's
like it's like,
I know these things. Yeah. I do these
things. Yes. You do. Right? I know. I

(49:49):
get this. Yes. Right?
But it's funny because a few years ago,
I'm feeling so deeply hurt. And I remember
thinking to myself, I wanna have lunch with
Diana first.
Yes. And I should've called you. Yes. But,
but I but it is it is really,
really true what you're talking about about feelings.
I think one of the most detrimental things

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going on right now with young people
is this sort of,
godlike thing
Yeah. That the world is teaching them about
their feelings. Like, for example, the transgender movement,
just studying this for the book, I discovered
how much they tell these girls Vogue. Teen
Vogue tells these girls,
I am who I

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well, who do who do we call you?
He says, I am who I say I
am,
and yet the enemy is using
that statement
Yeah. To put it in the mouths of
children. I am who I say I am,
so
my sexual identity
is who I say I am or my
gender identity or or whatever else. And then

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there's all these funneling of these thousands and
thousands of thousands of different identities. And basically,
it's all based on feeling. Totally.
Totally. If I feel
whatever. I'm saying sex attracted. I am
gay. That is sexual that is and and
and the world would say, well, that that's

(51:20):
that's true. But we know from the word
of
God, your feelings are not your identity. No.
Not at all. Your identity is so much
deeper than how you feel, your attractions,
your moods, or I am or the the
other one is anxiety and depression Yeah.
Is I
I am the way that I feel right

(51:41):
now. I am diagnosed with this. That's what
and
the power of those kinds of anxiety
thoughts? Well, you know what I wanna say
about that is is that there's so many
people
that if they say that about themselves,
they begin to believe their own voice.
Right. It's Yeah. A proverb statement. Yeah. You're

(52:02):
As I think it's so I am. Exactly.
So the more that outside influence is trying
to tell them who they are
and they're trying to plant this thought in
their mind, Without them planting that thought in
their mind, they wouldn't even think that. I
mean, boys and girls, their their brains don't
even develop till they're, like, 25. Fully developed.
Right. They they they can't even think clear.

(52:22):
Like, what are we talking about? Like, they
they can learn and they're smart, but it
doesn't fully develop their emotions in their brain
until they're older. We get it. And so
for them to decide whatever I think or
whatever I feel I am,
that's so foreign to what the way God
designed their bodies. And so I think that
the more that that is planted in their
mind,
they hear it and they repeat it and

(52:44):
it's this constant
cycle because they begin to speak it out
of their mouths. Mhmm. And so it causes
them to go in that path where they
would have never gone in that path before.
Mhmm. And we're seeing that. I don't know
if this is in your book. I'm sure
it is. We're seeing that that people later
wake up Oh, yeah. And then they think,
I didn't feel that way. I don't wanna

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be this way. And what I am so
depressed and angry and mad that I made
this decision. Right. And now they're trapped.
And so that's what's so sad is when
they do,
you know, become a different person, a male
becoming a female or whatever, transgender,
it's not it's not real. It was a
fleeting thought that the enemy planted there through

(53:28):
propaganda,
through media, through culture, through the world, through
voices,
and they wake up one day and they
regret it. And so I think going back
to identity of I am, it's so interesting
that they're having them repeat I am this
because I feel this or whatever when the
great I am
tells them who they are. Right. Tells them

(53:48):
who they are. And it's so solid. It's
so solid. It's so solid. It's so solid.
He formed them. They have
gender when they were were instantly still in
their mother's womb. They were able to they
were those it was defined in their mother's
womb. Right. It was so beautiful. You know,
you think about a sonogram. They can see
what was already formed on a baby. It's

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like but it's in their heart. It's not
just the outward appearance of them. It's what
the Lord is putting in their heart, in
their mind, in their emotions.
Every detail, he planned
and he put thoughts in them. He put
dreams in them. And, you know, let's go
back to that because that's what I feel
like so many people are searching for is
a purpose.
Right. And when when they're looking for identity

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and and even gender identity,
it's purpose. It's purpose.
Sure. Yeah. Well and what I love about
the story of your of your grandmother
is that
she
went back to okay. She went back to
okay. God,
what did you gift me with?
And I, and it was a talent. Yes.

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Yes. And that is where I believe, personally,
one of the greatest things that we can
pass on to the next generation is what
are you gift in, not how do you
feel today. No. Good grief.
We'll never fight. That's never gonna be a
healthy barometer for you. All over the place.
You feel all over the place. But if
you're looking for your what is my purpose

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in this time? It always begins with your
gifts, your talents,
the things that he has provided for you,
whether it's I gave you mayo or I
gave you a great team or a great
Yes. An assistant or I gave you a
husband who believes in your dream or Yes.
What did he gift you with? The talents
that he has given us and also the
the what's right in our hands. He gifted

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me with this home.
I opened my home to women, you know,
just recently for bible study. I was scared.
I had those voices. What if nobody shows
up in my house? And yet every time
I open my door, more women are coming
So good. Coming into my home, and I'm
like, this is what I have. I'm using
what I have. I'm using my home. I'm

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using my gifts. I'm using my talents, and
that is really all we have to do
So good. To be a good steward of
what he's given us and to find our
purpose. To find your purpose. Not really it.
And it grows.
It grows. I love that you said use
what's in your hand Mhmm. Because if you
don't use what's in your hand, it's never
gonna multiply
because he he gives you more

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until you use what he's already given you
and you're a good steward of it, and
you say, Lord,
take what little I might feel like I
have. Don't despise small beginnings of whatever he's
put in your heart,
and then say, breathe on it and help
it grow. And when you steward it, then
it gets bigger and bigger. The vision grows.
Your resources grow. And so so many times,

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the devil comes to us with all those
lies. You can't do this. You can't do
that. You know, like you said, you don't
have the resources, the people,
the provision, all these things, but the Lord's
not asking you to. He's the God of
the impossible.
Mhmm. And he makes all things possible for
the one who believes.
All things are possible for the one who
believes. All he's asking for is our faith

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and to take action.
Faith without works is dead. So we gotta
take action. If we say we believe him
and we have faith like a mustard seed
and then we take action on it, he
goes, that's a girl that I know believes
me and trusts me and I can work
with her. That's right. And I can work
with her. I'm delighted in her. She brings
me joy. She brings me pleasure.

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And if we only thought about how much
he delights in us Yeah. All fear would
go away.
It's so good. I love that. I love
just that simple truth, and I haven't thought
about that in a long time
that without faith, you can't please god. And
one of the simplest barometers for making any
decision in our life is, is this pleasing

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to you, Lord? Yes.
Would this please you? Well, if it would
please him and it's in line with his
words Yes. He does. And the people around
us are like, go, go, go, then we've
got the green light go. That's right. You
know?
Okay. This has been such a powerful conversation.
I
I invited you on the podcast
be and I'm I I'm picky about who

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I invited on the podcast. Yeah. Of course.
But I invited you on the podcast because
I believe that you are making a powerful
influence in the next generation, and I
I love that about your ministry.
I'm not big on ministries
that are not focused on the next generation,

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to tell you the honest truth, because
I believe that that is the that's a
a call
of women.
What's your strategy?
What's your strategy to
make a difference with the next generation?
You know, it seems like a daunting task
a little bit because there's so much negativity

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in the next generation,
But I think
it full circle back to where we started
where if you focus on 1 Mhmm.
1 by 1
and you begin to pour the love of
God, and I pray for our events or
anytime I have an encounter with a young
woman to be the liquid love of God
poured in their hearts,

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And it begins to break down walls. It
begins to melt off all of the hard
shell
of whatever hurt or pain they've been through,
whatever
they've come through. I mean, all of us
have different backgrounds, and I was so incredibly
blessed
to have an incredible home to grow up
in and wonderful mom and role model and
father that loved me and a Christian home

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that
I never questioned
that I was loved. I never questioned that
all things were possible. I really didn't. But
I also have deep, deep compassion
that most people didn't grow up like that.
Right. And I think when we pray and
we get the heart of the father,
his heart breaks
for all of the people that are so
alone and so wandering in life

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just
asking like where where who's leading me? Who
can I follow? Who's doing this? Who could
what what can I do that would be
truth that I could feel love, that I
could feel purpose, that I could feel passion
or zeal?
What what what am I they're just wandering.
They're so lost. And when we feel his
heart,
we will do brave and bold things. We'll

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step out of comfort zones even if we
feel afraid Yeah. Or we feel intimidation from
the enemy.
We will feel the fire of God stronger
and we'll step out and we'll boldly do
things to take the land, to put a
stake in the ground and say, this belongs
to Jesus. This belongs to God, and I'm
taking back what the devil has stolen. The

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devil stolen the generation below us. The devil
stolen the next generation
to try to form them into his mind
or his identity.
And God says, nope. I made them. They're
mine. And I believe Gen z has a
fire. I believe Gen z can change the
world. And I really feel like because
my children were born for sons and wonders.

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Mhmm. Isaiah 8:18.
And I feel like if we will see
with the heart of the father, if we
don't speak louder than the world,
if we don't use our voices of influence,
who is going to use it? If it's
not me, then who? And we've got to
rise up and we've got to get the
fire of God inside of us. And with
that humble prayer, say, Lord, light a fire

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in me. That's what wildfire is all about.
That's what the book's all about
is that, Lord, it starts with me. Revival
starts in me. The passion, the zeal, the
hunger for the word of God.
And literally, I have my Bible open right
now for Ephesians 3 20,
which you probably know this verse, but I
just gonna read it straight out of here
because I feel like when we get a

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realization
of that God wants to use us.
It's not like God wants to use this
missionary on the other side of the world
or that pastor that is on television and
has such a great audience. He wants to
use every single one of us. And we're
in a time period where it's all hands
on deck. It is. It's like

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nobody is left behind. That's right. We need
your voice. We need your voice to rise
up. We need you to get a hold
of your identity so that you have a
hunger for the word of God so that
the fire of God comes in of you
inside of you and spreads spreads with a
spark like a wildfire
over and over from person to person because
time is short, and we are in an

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urgent time clock, a timetable that only heaven
knows the end and the and the clock.
But I will tell you this, the the
time is speeding up,
and there's signs and wonders in the sky
that are showing that our time is
short and so I am challenging you and
so is Jennifer
to rise up with all that is within

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you with humility and just say, lord, I
don't know how, but teach me. And so
as I read Ephesians 3:20, I want you
to think about yourself.
Put yourself in this verse because it's not
just to me and Jennifer. It's to every
single person listening to this podcast
that he wants to use your voice. It's
not just our voices. It says, now to

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him who is able
to carry out his purpose
and do super abundantly
more
than all we can dare ask or think.
Infinitely
beyond our greatest prayers,
our greatest hopes,
or dreams
according to his power

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that is in us
and within us and through us. And so
when I began to understand that it was
his power in me,
but it's through
me. It's God's not just in heaven going,
I'll do it all.
He chose to come and show his super
abundant power
more than we could ask, think, dream, or
imagine in us and through us.

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And so when we get that, we get
a hold of it and say, god, I
believe you. I believe your word that you
wanna work in me. You wanna do a
fresh fire work in me and then you
want it to flow out of me to
others.
And we start getting others minded. Who could
I reach? My neighbor next door. Could I
go across the street? Could I knock on
their door? Could I invite them to bible

(01:03:59):
study? Could I invite them to a hot
cup of tea? Can I talk to them
if they know if they know God?
If they were to die today, where would
they go? Do they know for certain they
would go to heaven?
What kind of question? How many people are
going around asking someone that question, but eternity's
on the line.
And most people would say, oh, I'm a
good person.

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Well, that's not gonna get you to heaven.
The Bible tells us that a good person
you could be a good person and not
go to heaven. You have to be born
again. You have to surrender your life. You
have to see that Jesus Christ is the
son of God, that he died on the
cross, and that he rose from the dead,
and that he paid the ultimate price for
your sins, and he took it all away

(01:04:39):
because he loves you so much and that
he wants to be lord of your life.
That you have to give him your life
and surrender your life and let him come
in and take over. That's right. And then
you become a child of God. Yes. And
that's the only way. But if we don't
share the good news, the good news of
the gospel of Jesus Christ, who will tell
them? How will they know?
And then when they go to hell, and

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hell is a real place. And most people
don't wanna talk about hell, but hell's a
real place and time is urgent. So we
have to be light in darkness. We have
to be bold in our faith. We gotta
know our God. We gotta know our identity
and know that he wants to light a
fire inside of us and spread it to
everyone we know. And every one of us
has a sphere of influence,

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every single one of us.
Do you just love her as much as
I love her? I know you do.
Diana,
you are so
anointed.
You are so called. Your words just ring
with truth. I love
I love it when I can sit down
with a woman in
ministry like you and the 2 of us

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just talk, and I say, what's your strategy?
And she says, it's the strategy of Jesus.
It's love. Yes.
It's it's all about the one,
and it's all about that love
because it is always
an encounter Yeah. Because love that changes us.

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Amen.
Okay.
I always ask every woman who comes on
the show or I try to. I sometimes
I forget, but I wanna ask you, what
is a woman
to you? And what do you what is
this is where I wanna end. What is
the purpose of woman's voices in this tower?
Diana, because I feel like

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God is
raising,
the one of the pass all the passion
that you're pouring into these girls is because
they are you're right. They are born
for such a time as this. That's right.
It happens in the home. Everything that you
have have spoken about is my passion.

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What is a woman to you,
and
how would you
advise a woman out there who
has struggled with how to use her voice
at this very, very confusing time?
Yes. How would you tell us to use
our voices right now?
I feel that a woman is a reflection

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of God
because He made us male and female because
He had both facets in Him
and we are an expression. We're expression of
the Holy Spirit on the earth.
We are. Yeah. We have great discernment as
women.
We have a lot of intuition, which really
is a word for discernment, but we just

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know things.
We know things about our children. We know
the temperature of the home. We can know
if something's wrong with one of our children
without them even saying something. Mhmm. We can
know something's wrong with our husband. We know
how to read the room. We know how
to read situations.
It's a gift that the Lord gave us.
Mhmm.
And I think embracing that as a woman
that wants to be a mighty woman of

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God in today's world
is saying, Lord, teach me great discernment.
Teach me to walk in wisdom.
And the more that we're in the word
and he trains our mind
Mhmm. Goes back to our thoughts, the seeds
and that deposit that we're putting in. The
word of God is a seed that goes
down into our heart, and it produces life
out of us. So the more that we

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put it in, the more we think different,
the more we talk different.
So declaring
over ourselves
what what God says about us, and that
starts with us. If we're gonna declare over
our children Right. It starts with us first
by saying,
I am a worthy woman of God. I
am a powerful
woman of God. I am strong and confident

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and bold. I can do anything he calls
me to do. I can do anything and
everything.
And getting this fierceness
I've never wore a shirt today with lions.
I didn't really plan that, but I did
ask the Lord what
shirt to wear. But, you know, just like
get that fierceness back.
You know, we can be soft and tender,
but we can also be powerful and bold.

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And I think we need to see ourselves
again the way that God sees us. We
should. Because the enemy is constantly trying to
get us to see ourselves as weak
or powerless or, you know,
we don't have it's Sanjaf.
You know, we don't have enough influence. We
don't know enough people. We we our husbands
aren't gonna listen. Our kids aren't gonna listen.
Like, he just tries to downplay everything we

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do. But if we will see ourselves as
fierce
warriors,
warriors, warrior women, and the Bible talks about
there will be a company of women That's
right. Rising up in the end times
and literally herald heralding
the voice of God and literally speaking about
what he's doing on the earth. Yeah. Count
yourself in.

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Why do you have to count yourself out?
Why don't you just count yourself in? And,
you know, it sounds so funny, but you
would see it like on an old poster
on the wall. Like, you know, like, posters
where, like, when we were growing up, you
have posters on the wall like a cat
poster or something silly. But you you can
see this on a poster, believe in yourself.
It sounds so silly. Sounds like a little
phrase,

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but honestly, I believe that God is saying
in this day and time,
would you just believe in yourself?
Wow. Would you believe in yourself the way
that I believe in you?
Because I put greatness inside of you before
you were born. I knew the path. I
knew the destiny. I knew the purpose, and
I put dreams in your heart. I'm the
desire.
So if you'll just believe in yourself, you

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can do anything and everything I tell you
that you can do. And so that's my
message to women to rise up and be
the powerful woman of God that he created
you to be because you were born for
such a time as this or he would
not have placed you on the earth right
now. You could have lived any time on
the earth. You could have lived anywhere on
the earth and been born anywhere, but he
chose you and he destined you for such

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a time as this right in your sphere
of influence, in your family, in your community,
in your city, and in your state, in
your country, wherever you are so that you
can say, god, I want to make a
difference on the earth. I wanna make an
impact to my generation.
Use me. He will he will just take
it from there and he'll run with it.
It's so true. It's so true.

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You just touched me so much. I'm so
this was just a perfect moment to have
this conversation with you, and I know that
this has impacted all of you that had
been listening today.
I cannot thank you enough,
Diana, for coming to my home and for
being on the podcast with me, having this

(01:11:18):
conversation just friend to friend. I feel like
you
have challenged me today.
You've spoken truth into me today. Like, I
feel like
and I'm sure a lot of you listening
feel empowered to go out and to make
a difference in this generation. And don't forget,

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we are not afraid.
We are not afraid of anything. No. We
are not afraid of
the gender ideology
movement. We're not afraid of man's approval. We're
not afraid
of the lies being propagated by the mob
in our in our nation. We are women
who are called by god to, like she

(01:11:58):
said, herald the good news. And there is
nothing better that you can do but just
share the good news with 1 person Yes.
And share the love of God with 1
person because that will catch on like wildfire.
Wildfire.
That was a great place, DeLand. Thank you
again so much for joining me. Oh, my
goodness. You were such an honor, and I

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do honor you. I love you and I
appreciate you so much. I appreciate your voice
and I appreciate your fierceness and your boldness
to speak up and use your voice to
have an impact and to speak truth and
speak truth with love. Let's speak the truth
with boldness.
And so I honor you, and thank you
so much for having me on. It was
a true blessing to me.

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Thanks, Diana. Thank you guys so much for
listening, and we hope you have an amazing
day.
Remember, I am a woman and my name
means
life.