October 10, 2025 • 17 mins
Bad news can sound final—until a stronger voice speaks. We start with an honest look at how health anxiety is fueled by endless searching... A powerful testimony hits home. A young woman moves from self-harm and hidden shame to steady joy! By the end, you’ll understand how to choose the voices in your life, face reports with courage, and practice a faith that turns burdens into breakthroughs. If this spoke to you, follow the show, share it with someone who needs hope today, and leave a review to help more people find these messages. Your voice helps spread faith, strength, and truth.
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(00:02):
What's cooking up in the kitchen?
Oh yeah, that smells like soul food.
Get ready, because it's time to eat the spiritual substance that
will feed your soul. A faith-based podcast that will
nourish your mind, body and soul.
Listen here with your main host,Bishop Barrett Joshua.
(00:23):
Don't let your soul go hungry. It's time for.
Soul food. Hello dear friends.
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.
We continue here with our seriesseries of message about the
(00:44):
voice of the deaf. And today I want to talk about
your body, your health, when yougo to see a doctor, physicians,
when you talk to friends about ahealth problem that you are
facing. And nowadays people do not even
go to see a doctor. They check it on the Internet,
(01:08):
over the Internet, because nowadays people can Google, they
are now asking questions to computers, robots, AI and they,
they drink this informations andthey become sick and sicker.
Well, I'm not saying doctors, physicians, they are not from
(01:32):
gods. God use doctors, physicians, but
I'm talking about you, the voicethat you hear.
You know, some people die not due to a disease, but they die
due to the words that they hear when they go to see a doctor and
they do tests, blood works, blood tests, CAT scan, MRI,
(01:57):
X-rays, they see stuff, they seevirus, they see lumps, they see
cysts, they see over there I sports a mass, something they
see. And when they bring this report,
this report to the patient, a person dies inside immediately
(02:25):
because they hear what the doctors I say or what the tests
are showing. Well, there were two sisters and
these two sisters, they, they had their mother.
Their mother was healthy, she was strong, she felt nothing, no
(02:45):
pain. And she went to do the annual,
the annual checkup. And the daughters were told your
mom have cancer, she has cancer.And they said how come she has
nothing, She doesn't feel anything.
And then the daughter said we are not going to tell mom she
(03:07):
has cancer because she's healthy.
There is nothing to be done. The doctor said there is nothing
to be done. But one of the daughters decide
to call their mother and tell her mother she had cancer,
though she felt nothing. From that moment on, she got
sick and sick and sick, and she died.
(03:31):
But the doctor had said she had the cancer for a long, long
time. So she did not die with the
cancer, but with the word that she heard.
Well, the Bible talks about gyres.
He had a daughter, a young baby,12 years old, a teenager, and
(03:54):
she got sick. Gyrus left the house and he
heard about Jesus and he went tobring Jesus.
Jesus said, I'll go there with you to your house.
Now, as Jesus was coming, there was a woman who had been sick in
(04:18):
the tumult at Jesus. She was healed from the disease
and along the way Jesus was assist many people borderline
when Jesus came on the way that says while he was still
speaking, someone came from the ruler of the synagogue's house,
(04:39):
from Jairus house saying your daughter is dead.
That was the voice of the devil.The voice of the devil said your
daughter is dead. Maybe you were told there is no
cure, you need the surgery, you are going to take medication for
the rest of your life. The voice of the devil, your
(05:02):
daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher.
Don't trouble the teacher. But Jesus heard it.
Jesus heard that voice, the voice of the devil, and he
answered him saying do not be afraid, only believe and she
will be made well. Only believe she will be made
(05:28):
well. When Jesus came into the house
and Jesus said she's not dead but sleeping, the voice of the
devil again they ridiculed him, knowing that she was dead, was
dead for them but not for Jesus.And Jesus took her by the hand
(05:50):
and said the little girl arised,I mean little girl arise and the
Spirit returned and she arose immediately.
Well, be careful. The voice that you hear
specially concerned your health OK If they found the disease
(06:13):
they found it shows on the on the tests the exams fine, go to
the altar personal you're healing because this probably be
your next testimony. Physically speaking, she was
sick, physically she died, but not for the faith, not for Jesus
(06:33):
and Jesus the word. Do not be afraid, only believe.
God bless you. Tomorrow again, we are going to
continue with this message. The voice of the devil.
Don't hear his voice, hear the voice of God only God bless you.
(06:54):
Bye bye. Thank you for listening here on
Soul Food Podcast. Stay tuned to listen to a real
life story. Make sure you don't miss it and
share with your friends and family.
We'll be right back. Soften up the mess, drop it in
the water. Let the daughter find an image
(07:14):
with the rest. You'll be learning how to
breathe. Spinning through identity.
Reveal another Pretty Little scheme.
Save her mind, hold her hand anddon't believe a lie.
You understand me? Either walk it down the valley,
(07:38):
pack a piece of heaven for the bottoms of your feet, teach you
how to jump in, how to stretch once you reach like the angels
do, and you go make it through. Now tell about the healer.
Greater is a boy there. Call him as a leader.
Teach you how to hold a pretty handle to the sky and ever wait
(07:59):
upon the giver. You'll deliver like a dealer.
High high fire Fire at the valley in the fire.
Take her higher fire at the valley in the fire train her
(08:32):
feet for running show her every door and how the windows that
the sun in. Copy out the key and tell her
this is for becoming even in thefever baby crying gets her
running and tell her that you better get your boot straps up.
You're with the Army ready when the truth act up.
Nothing can harm me yelling fromthe roof.
(08:52):
I'll touch put up a guard count to 10 lions dead speaking with a
higher pin can't be touched by fire then to the grown things
now I'm working on them so things now but giving all your
old ways but it's harder on the cold days all day never been a
(09:12):
product of it for all this environment never acted like I'm
higher than. And I still pray Won't you send
me your break, 'cause I, I need to get away.
Yeah. Dear God, won't you send me your
(09:34):
break 'cause I, I need to get itaway?
Yeah, 'cause I would rather be rather be running away.
I would rather be rather be running.
And dear God, won't you send me a break 'cause I I need to get
away now. It started when I watch ATV, I
(10:01):
watch the TV show and it showed a girl cutting herself.
And then the message, of course,was supposed to be you can't,
you shouldn't cut yourself because it's bad.
But then it stayed inside of my head how when she cut herself,
she got a lot of attention and that's what I wanted.
But then afterwards, because it left marks, it build more of a
(10:22):
low self esteem and insecurity. That was when I was maybe 1213.
And then when I saw that I left the marks.
And then you want to be, then you want to have boyfriends, you
want to be with guys, you're like, they're going to think I'm
weird because I have this. So then it turned into like
hitting like just like the wallshitting the doors, like with my
fists. And that was another way to not
(10:43):
leave marks. Since I was little, I always
remember having. That's the honest inside of me.
I can't, I can't tell you about time that I didn't have it.
Yeah, I always remember it having it.
So I thought that was normal. It was an emptiness.
But also it was like a pain thatlike, like it would.
It was like someone was squeezing my heart.
(11:06):
That's what it would feel like trying to get like count like
counseling. But I felt really embarrassed
when I had to tell, when I had to tell my mom what was going
on. I felt like like a really bad
child, like a bad daughter. So I decided to not do not do
any of the counselling my 20th birthday and I was alone in my
(11:29):
room and I was just really sad and I didn't know why.
And then that was that was when I decided to give my life to
God. I have an older sister and she
went to church after she was having problems in her life and
she decided to go to church whenshe was 1718.
I was I'm younger than her so I saw her go to church but I
(11:52):
wouldn't want to go to church. So when, after a couple of years
after I saw her testimony and how she changed, that's that was
another reason why I decided to go because I saw that she
overcame a lot of the a lot of her past.
I was going to church for a couple of months already, but I
(12:12):
didn't see a change because I was still, I was also addicted
to like technology, like I wouldhave watched a lot of TV shows
and so I wouldn't like, I wouldn't invest.
I really knew that like, OK, I needed to, I need to give my
life to God. First.
I would go on Sundays and then Istarted to go every.
(12:33):
I would go Monday, I would go Wednesday, I would go Friday,
and I would go Sunday. They talked about being a youth
of God and they said that a youth of God goes to YPG and a
youth of God has the Holy Spirit.
So then that's when I was like, OK, then I want to be a youth of
(12:54):
God because I don't want to depend on other people.
I want to, I want to be independent pretty much because
I was tired of needing people and things to be happy.
When I went to the chains of prayer on Fridays, I noticed
that it was easier to say no to my flesh.
(13:16):
I and I started to have a desireto do the things of God like
reading the Bible. It was really hard for me to
read the Bible to do a fast. I wasn't able to.
I wasn't able to fast. I always break it and then
starting to go on the Fridays for deliverance.
(13:36):
That was when I was able to, I was able to have that desire
inside of me to seek God. During the fast of Daniel I
always I would do the churches fast of Daniel and I will have
my own fast of Daniel. So even if the church wasn't
doing one, I would do 1 as a purpose for myself.
(13:56):
So during the fast of Daniel, I would read more in the Bible, I
would pray more, but I removed my head from wanting to be in
the world. So when thoughts came inside of
my head, you know, to, to, to want to go out.
I wouldn't, I wouldn't go out when thoughts came inside of my
(14:18):
head, you know, you know, go back to doing the things that
you used to do. I would say no.
I would try to I would read the Bible, but I wouldn't want to be
alone or as the the devil tried to tempt me.
So I would go I would be in the living room, I would speak to my
mom. I would do things with my
sisters. I would spend time with them.
(14:40):
I would try to just fill my headwith things that were of God is
and that would help me well whenI receive the Holy Spirit.
It was on a Friday and it was during a visual that the that
the pastor was, was having and Iwas so I had my I had my
(15:04):
encounter with God, my experience with God and God
confirmed inside of me that I received his spirit.
But then I left really happy anda desire that grew inside of me
was to is to save souls and alsoto to have a communion with God.
I think that's one of the the biggest thing that I saw the
(15:26):
change inside of me before I wasa person who didn't want
anything to, I didn't want anything to do with God and also
with helping other youths there went through the same situation
or even worse that I that what Iwent through, you know, to make
the to make, to show them that having a relationship with God
is not something boring, but it's something that that that
(15:50):
changes your life. Today I can say that I'm
completely different person and it was through all of the
sacrifices that I made. If I didn't sacrifice you, my
flesh. You know what I what I wanted to
do. You want to hang out, you want
to have friends, you want to go party.
You don't want to have rules. You don't want to live.
(16:12):
You know, a religion, but when Ilet go of that thought that a
life with God, that is, that's religion.
It's a way of life. It's, it's something more than
that is a intimacy that you havewith him.
You know, not with the pastors, not with the bishops, not with
the assistants, but it's just you and him.
And I don't come myself anymore.I don't need to have a
(16:35):
relationship with people to makeme be happy.
The people around me, they add on to my happiness, but they're
not my happiness and I don't need of of anything.
(16:56):
Bishop Berra Joshua's Soul Food Podcast is here to satisfy your
spiritual Humber. Get inspired and feed your faith
with this Bible based content for people of all backgrounds,
no matter where you are at home,at work or on the go.
You can listen anytime to these engaging messages of faith from
testimonies and real life stories to musical
(17:19):
entertainment. Feed your soul with more than
just physical sustenance, but with solid spiritual food, hope,
strength and truth and be uplifted with each episode.
Wherever you are. Don't let your soul go hungry.
It's time for some soul food.
What's cooking up in the kitchen?
Oh yeah, that smells like soul food.
Get ready, because it's time to eat the spiritual substance that
will feed your soul. A faith-based podcast that will
nourish your mind, body and soul.
Listen here with your main host,Bishop Barrett Joshua.
(00:23):
Don't let your soul go hungry. It's time for.
Soul food. Hello dear friends.
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.
We continue here with our seriesseries of message about the
(00:44):
voice of the deaf. And today I want to talk about
your body, your health, when yougo to see a doctor, physicians,
when you talk to friends about ahealth problem that you are
facing. And nowadays people do not even
go to see a doctor. They check it on the Internet,
(01:08):
over the Internet, because nowadays people can Google, they
are now asking questions to computers, robots, AI and they,
they drink this informations andthey become sick and sicker.
Well, I'm not saying doctors, physicians, they are not from
(01:32):
gods. God use doctors, physicians, but
I'm talking about you, the voicethat you hear.
You know, some people die not due to a disease, but they die
due to the words that they hear when they go to see a doctor and
they do tests, blood works, blood tests, CAT scan, MRI,
(01:57):
X-rays, they see stuff, they seevirus, they see lumps, they see
cysts, they see over there I sports a mass, something they
see. And when they bring this report,
this report to the patient, a person dies inside immediately
(02:25):
because they hear what the doctors I say or what the tests
are showing. Well, there were two sisters and
these two sisters, they, they had their mother.
Their mother was healthy, she was strong, she felt nothing, no
(02:45):
pain. And she went to do the annual,
the annual checkup. And the daughters were told your
mom have cancer, she has cancer.And they said how come she has
nothing, She doesn't feel anything.
And then the daughter said we are not going to tell mom she
(03:07):
has cancer because she's healthy.
There is nothing to be done. The doctor said there is nothing
to be done. But one of the daughters decide
to call their mother and tell her mother she had cancer,
though she felt nothing. From that moment on, she got
sick and sick and sick, and she died.
(03:31):
But the doctor had said she had the cancer for a long, long
time. So she did not die with the
cancer, but with the word that she heard.
Well, the Bible talks about gyres.
He had a daughter, a young baby,12 years old, a teenager, and
(03:54):
she got sick. Gyrus left the house and he
heard about Jesus and he went tobring Jesus.
Jesus said, I'll go there with you to your house.
Now, as Jesus was coming, there was a woman who had been sick in
(04:18):
the tumult at Jesus. She was healed from the disease
and along the way Jesus was assist many people borderline
when Jesus came on the way that says while he was still
speaking, someone came from the ruler of the synagogue's house,
(04:39):
from Jairus house saying your daughter is dead.
That was the voice of the devil.The voice of the devil said your
daughter is dead. Maybe you were told there is no
cure, you need the surgery, you are going to take medication for
the rest of your life. The voice of the devil, your
(05:02):
daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher.
Don't trouble the teacher. But Jesus heard it.
Jesus heard that voice, the voice of the devil, and he
answered him saying do not be afraid, only believe and she
will be made well. Only believe she will be made
(05:28):
well. When Jesus came into the house
and Jesus said she's not dead but sleeping, the voice of the
devil again they ridiculed him, knowing that she was dead, was
dead for them but not for Jesus.And Jesus took her by the hand
(05:50):
and said the little girl arised,I mean little girl arise and the
Spirit returned and she arose immediately.
Well, be careful. The voice that you hear
specially concerned your health OK If they found the disease
(06:13):
they found it shows on the on the tests the exams fine, go to
the altar personal you're healing because this probably be
your next testimony. Physically speaking, she was
sick, physically she died, but not for the faith, not for Jesus
(06:33):
and Jesus the word. Do not be afraid, only believe.
God bless you. Tomorrow again, we are going to
continue with this message. The voice of the devil.
Don't hear his voice, hear the voice of God only God bless you.
(06:54):
Bye bye. Thank you for listening here on
Soul Food Podcast. Stay tuned to listen to a real
life story. Make sure you don't miss it and
share with your friends and family.
We'll be right back. Soften up the mess, drop it in
the water. Let the daughter find an image
(07:14):
with the rest. You'll be learning how to
breathe. Spinning through identity.
Reveal another Pretty Little scheme.
Save her mind, hold her hand anddon't believe a lie.
You understand me? Either walk it down the valley,
(07:38):
pack a piece of heaven for the bottoms of your feet, teach you
how to jump in, how to stretch once you reach like the angels
do, and you go make it through. Now tell about the healer.
Greater is a boy there. Call him as a leader.
Teach you how to hold a pretty handle to the sky and ever wait
(07:59):
upon the giver. You'll deliver like a dealer.
High high fire Fire at the valley in the fire.
Take her higher fire at the valley in the fire train her
(08:32):
feet for running show her every door and how the windows that
the sun in. Copy out the key and tell her
this is for becoming even in thefever baby crying gets her
running and tell her that you better get your boot straps up.
You're with the Army ready when the truth act up.
Nothing can harm me yelling fromthe roof.
(08:52):
I'll touch put up a guard count to 10 lions dead speaking with a
higher pin can't be touched by fire then to the grown things
now I'm working on them so things now but giving all your
old ways but it's harder on the cold days all day never been a
(09:12):
product of it for all this environment never acted like I'm
higher than. And I still pray Won't you send
me your break, 'cause I, I need to get away.
Yeah. Dear God, won't you send me your
(09:34):
break 'cause I, I need to get itaway?
Yeah, 'cause I would rather be rather be running away.
I would rather be rather be running.
And dear God, won't you send me a break 'cause I I need to get
away now. It started when I watch ATV, I
(10:01):
watch the TV show and it showed a girl cutting herself.
And then the message, of course,was supposed to be you can't,
you shouldn't cut yourself because it's bad.
But then it stayed inside of my head how when she cut herself,
she got a lot of attention and that's what I wanted.
But then afterwards, because it left marks, it build more of a
(10:22):
low self esteem and insecurity. That was when I was maybe 1213.
And then when I saw that I left the marks.
And then you want to be, then you want to have boyfriends, you
want to be with guys, you're like, they're going to think I'm
weird because I have this. So then it turned into like
hitting like just like the wallshitting the doors, like with my
fists. And that was another way to not
(10:43):
leave marks. Since I was little, I always
remember having. That's the honest inside of me.
I can't, I can't tell you about time that I didn't have it.
Yeah, I always remember it having it.
So I thought that was normal. It was an emptiness.
But also it was like a pain thatlike, like it would.
It was like someone was squeezing my heart.
(11:06):
That's what it would feel like trying to get like count like
counseling. But I felt really embarrassed
when I had to tell, when I had to tell my mom what was going
on. I felt like like a really bad
child, like a bad daughter. So I decided to not do not do
any of the counselling my 20th birthday and I was alone in my
(11:29):
room and I was just really sad and I didn't know why.
And then that was that was when I decided to give my life to
God. I have an older sister and she
went to church after she was having problems in her life and
she decided to go to church whenshe was 1718.
I was I'm younger than her so I saw her go to church but I
(11:52):
wouldn't want to go to church. So when, after a couple of years
after I saw her testimony and how she changed, that's that was
another reason why I decided to go because I saw that she
overcame a lot of the a lot of her past.
I was going to church for a couple of months already, but I
(12:12):
didn't see a change because I was still, I was also addicted
to like technology, like I wouldhave watched a lot of TV shows
and so I wouldn't like, I wouldn't invest.
I really knew that like, OK, I needed to, I need to give my
life to God. First.
I would go on Sundays and then Istarted to go every.
(12:33):
I would go Monday, I would go Wednesday, I would go Friday,
and I would go Sunday. They talked about being a youth
of God and they said that a youth of God goes to YPG and a
youth of God has the Holy Spirit.
So then that's when I was like, OK, then I want to be a youth of
(12:54):
God because I don't want to depend on other people.
I want to, I want to be independent pretty much because
I was tired of needing people and things to be happy.
When I went to the chains of prayer on Fridays, I noticed
that it was easier to say no to my flesh.
(13:16):
I and I started to have a desireto do the things of God like
reading the Bible. It was really hard for me to
read the Bible to do a fast. I wasn't able to.
I wasn't able to fast. I always break it and then
starting to go on the Fridays for deliverance.
(13:36):
That was when I was able to, I was able to have that desire
inside of me to seek God. During the fast of Daniel I
always I would do the churches fast of Daniel and I will have
my own fast of Daniel. So even if the church wasn't
doing one, I would do 1 as a purpose for myself.
(13:56):
So during the fast of Daniel, I would read more in the Bible, I
would pray more, but I removed my head from wanting to be in
the world. So when thoughts came inside of
my head, you know, to, to, to want to go out.
I wouldn't, I wouldn't go out when thoughts came inside of my
(14:18):
head, you know, you know, go back to doing the things that
you used to do. I would say no.
I would try to I would read the Bible, but I wouldn't want to be
alone or as the the devil tried to tempt me.
So I would go I would be in the living room, I would speak to my
mom. I would do things with my
sisters. I would spend time with them.
(14:40):
I would try to just fill my headwith things that were of God is
and that would help me well whenI receive the Holy Spirit.
It was on a Friday and it was during a visual that the that
the pastor was, was having and Iwas so I had my I had my
(15:04):
encounter with God, my experience with God and God
confirmed inside of me that I received his spirit.
But then I left really happy anda desire that grew inside of me
was to is to save souls and alsoto to have a communion with God.
I think that's one of the the biggest thing that I saw the
(15:26):
change inside of me before I wasa person who didn't want
anything to, I didn't want anything to do with God and also
with helping other youths there went through the same situation
or even worse that I that what Iwent through, you know, to make
the to make, to show them that having a relationship with God
is not something boring, but it's something that that that
(15:50):
changes your life. Today I can say that I'm
completely different person and it was through all of the
sacrifices that I made. If I didn't sacrifice you, my
flesh. You know what I what I wanted to
do. You want to hang out, you want
to have friends, you want to go party.
You don't want to have rules. You don't want to live.
(16:12):
You know, a religion, but when Ilet go of that thought that a
life with God, that is, that's religion.
It's a way of life. It's, it's something more than
that is a intimacy that you havewith him.
You know, not with the pastors, not with the bishops, not with
the assistants, but it's just you and him.
And I don't come myself anymore.I don't need to have a
(16:35):
relationship with people to makeme be happy.
The people around me, they add on to my happiness, but they're
not my happiness and I don't need of of anything.
(16:56):
Bishop Berra Joshua's Soul Food Podcast is here to satisfy your
spiritual Humber. Get inspired and feed your faith
with this Bible based content for people of all backgrounds,
no matter where you are at home,at work or on the go.
You can listen anytime to these engaging messages of faith from
testimonies and real life stories to musical
(17:19):
entertainment. Feed your soul with more than
just physical sustenance, but with solid spiritual food, hope,
strength and truth and be uplifted with each episode.
Wherever you are. Don't let your soul go hungry.
It's time for some soul food.
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